The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 6

: Published by the Comprodatly Publishing Co., Inc., datly, except Sunday, at 26-28 Union Page Six Square, New York City, N. Y¥. Telephone Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable: “DAIWORK.” Addrees and mail all checks to tke Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. ¥ : ' Centra] Organ of the Communist t’zriy of the = == “ a Daily 2: 0;.8.,4. mail e 9 Maubattan nd Bronx, New York City, and foreign, which are: Aes SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ywhere: One year $6; six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of One year $8; six months $4.50 THE VICTORY OF MRS. McCORMICK By SAM DON. = primary election laws and elections sup- posedly designed to democratic and perfect bourgeois democracy inevitably has become a source of the greatest political corruption and & means whereby finance and industrial capital is increasing its hold within the capitalist par- ties. It is no accident at all that in the two banner industria! states in the country, Illinois and Pennsylvania, every primary election ‘stands out at the height of election corruption and brings out very clearly the nature of the bourgeois state. (Vare scandals in Philadelphia and Smith in Illinois, etc.). The following quotation from a speech by +a well-known Chicago leader in the 1926 pri- mary elections to the precinct captains for the ward organization of which he was Committee- man, throws light on the nature and technique | of the primary elections: “I don’t want to scold, but I believe I’ve been as good to this ward as it has to me... IT want to say to you that if any man does not carry his precinct on the thirteenth of April, he'll be fired on the fourteenth. If a man means anything in his precinct, he can carry it. If he doesn’t mean anything in his precict, he has no business in politics and hold- ing a job. The reason that is on the ticket for municipal judge in spite of the fact that he is a new man in the ward is that he had the banner precinct. . . . I promise that whoever turns out the biggest vote in his pre- | cinct will be on the next county ticket, if I sit on the slate committee, and I think I will. “Whet is more, any of you that don’t get out the vote and have jobs, will lose them, and they’ll go to those who do work and have no | job. I’m looking at one right now that has no job and he'll have one that someone else now has unless you get out the vote. Don’t think I don’t mean this. I’ve fired the ward com- mitteemen and I’ve fired the president of this ward club, although he had a $6,000 job. “Victor Gets the Spoils.” “I believe that to the victor belongs the spoils. He who contributes most to winning the election ought to sit at the first table, and those who do less should sit at the second table. and show that he got more votes than someone else who has a better job can have that job.” This is so clear and obvious that it needs no comment. H While we speak of the 1926 Chicago pri- maries it is worth while mentioning that the | Senatorial investigation committee was com- pelled to establish that over a million dollars | was spent on the primaries. It has already been admitted by Mrs. McCormick that she spent over $250,000 in this year’s primaries Incidentally, we might mention that this was spent out of her own pocket. Poor dirt farmer! In an examinaion of the recent senatorial and local elections in Illinois it is necessary to as- certain the various groups and interests that the candidates really represented behind the fake issues. Since the republican party is the leading party in the state, naturally the primaries cen- tered around the two senatorial candidates— Mrs. McCormick and Deneen. Mrs. McCormick represents most clearly the interests of the industrial and finance capital in the state. The Chicago Tribune was her leading supporter and she was the candidate pf the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is the most outspoken leading capitalist paper in the country for American imperialism and for the most bruta! attacks on the standard of living of the work- ing class. The Chicago Tribune calls for im- mediate war against Great Britain. Demands War With England. In connection with the London naval treaty it has developed a campaign of open challenge to Great Britain, and states frankly that the U. S. needs the trade routes and colonies for its world domination. Any one of you who can come to me | The World Court, the out- | standing issue of Mrs. McCormick, was brought in in order to mobilize sentiment for immediate war preparations against America’s rivals in the world market. It is in connection with the steadily sharpening crisis in the country that the Chicago Tribune day in and day out whoops up war spirit for the conquest of the world markets by American imperialism and naturally against its main rival—Great Brit- ain. The Chicago Tribune also calls for im- mediate war against the Soviet Union. The other leading capitalist paper in the state that supported Mrs. McCormick because of her stand on the World Court issue was the Hearst paper, the Herald and Examiner. Here, too, the support to Mrs. McCormick was upon the conflicts at the London naval conference and the World Court issue. The primary elections were held at the time of the London naval conference and Mrs. Mc- speeches against the World Court. Ambassador Dawes is part of the McCormick faction and there is a class relationship be- tween her campaign against Great Britain on the World Court issue and Dawes’ ambassador- ship in London. The McCormick machine was allied with | the Thompson City Hall gang which is the most | outspoken anti-working class administration in the country. In no state in the country is the complete | fusion of finance and industrial capital so ob- | vious and thorough as in the state of Illinois. | Banker Dawes and the traction magnate Insull | symbolize that very well. Develop Fascist Methods. The state of Illinois, being one of the most industrial states in the country and the tra- ditional center of the agricultural middle west and west displays most clearly the effects of | the even deepening crisis. This crisis, which | leads to greater fusion of industrial and fin- ance capital in the state, combined with the growing offensive struggles of the working class, compels the bourgeoisie to develop fascist methods both in their imperialist aggressive- ness in the struggle for world markets and in their struggle against the working class. The nomination of Mrs,,McCormick, who represents the ever growing fusion and dom- | ination of finance and industrial capital, in- | dicates the growing fascisation both of the re- | publican party and the state apparatus. The democratic party in the state, not rep- | resenting finance-industrial capital is weak and holds minor positions. It is, however, in- teresting to note that in this. primary cam- paign the democratic party used unemployment as one of its main issues in the campaign. Fascists Urge Labor Party. As the crisis deepens, unemployment grows, conditions of the workers are continually de- teriorating and social fascism, fearing the growing influence of the Communist Party, is already propagating the idea of a labor party to keep the workers from fighting and chained to capitalism. The Chicago federation, when it discussed unemployment and attacked our Party, began at the same time to propagate the idea of a labor party as a safety valve. The Howatt-Muste group in the coal fields in southern Illinois is particularly loud in its de- mand for a labor party. During the primary elections the Party de- veloped a general agitation campaign bring- ing forward the unemployment issue and the struggle against the war danger. It also ex- posed the imperialist-fascist nature of the group Mrs. McCormick represents. However, the campaign generally was very weak—only a few leaflets issued and a badly arranged mass meeting held. Organizational the Party hardly participated in the primaries. The Party in our state must organize and develop a strong election campaign, mobilizing workers against the bourgeois parties and par- ticularly against the social fascists and their ideas for the organization of a labor party. Chicago Unemployment Struggle By BILL GEBERT. i the Chicago industrial area the economic crisis is deepening daily despite the fact that it is spring and production should be normally picking up in many industries. The number of unemployed workers is increasing while wages are decreasing and a general intensifica- tion of murderous capitalistic rationalization is in progress. This is recognized even by the capitalist statistics. Howard Meyers, chief statistician, in reviewing the industrial situa- tion in Illinois for the month of April, 1930, states: “Comparison of the index figures for April this year with those of a year ago indicates that’ factories in the state are employing 7.8 per cent fewer workers and paying out 15.3 per cent less in wages. For all reporting in- dustries the figures reflect losses of 6.7 per cent in men and 12.5 per cent in payroll amounts.” The Dept. of Labor states that in the per- iod of March 15-April 15 Chicago proper suffered heavily with a decline of 3.3 per cent employment and 2.5 per cent in pay- rolls.” The Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company, in reviewing the present situation, predicts the following for the future: “Factory employment may not return to normal before the end of the year.” John Parr, special Wall Street correspondent to the Chicago Daily News, in discussing the duration of the past economic cycles calculates, as he states, “scientifically” that the present srisis is “not going to end until May, 1931.” Forbes Gives Declines. Mr. Forbes, financial adviser of capitalists, discussing the present crisis, compares the figures of production for the first quarter of 1930 with 1929 noting the national decline in production as follows: “Pig iron—11.2 per cent. Steel ingot—12.5 per cent. Copper—18.7 per cent. Bituminous coal—4.8 per cent. Auto—32.6 per cent. ‘3 These reports from capitalistic sources’ come ‘t the end of Hoover’s magic 60 days which mdéd May 7th, at which time “business de- gression” was supposed to end and “prosper- ity” to begin at once. The capitalist class through its propaganda n its newspapers and other sources tried to foo] the workers that the present crisis will | be overcome and that there is nothing to worry about. But the capitalist dass does not want to fool itself. It is beginning to speak of the crisis as deepgoing and that their only hope is that it is only’a cyclical crisis. But capi- talist economists forget one little thing—that this cyclical crisis occurs in a period of general decline of world capitalism and is developing in the present 8rd post-war period of general crisis of world capitalist economy. H They Speak About It. To help capitalism in its attempt to fool the workers that it will recover from the pres- ent “business depression,” the fascisti and so- cial fascisti are very active.. The Chicago Fed- eration of Labor is beginning to.speak about unemployment. The social fascisti—socialist party and Musteites—also speak of unemploy- ment. The democratic party in Cook County in its platform has unemployment as its main issue, ridiculing republican prosperity. All of them, together with the church and other capi- talist institutions have one sole purpose in taking up this question—to draw the workers from the struggle for work or wages, for so- cial insurance for the unemployed, ete. All this together with many other factors which can be brought out shows very clearly the seriousness of the unemployment situation in the Chicago industrial area as welk as throughout the country. The Council of Unemployed in Chicago which is affiliated to the TUUL, is leading the strug- gle of the unemployed workers. The Unem- ployed Council presented to the City Council a list of demands. These demands are in the hands of the City Judicial Committee of which Alderman Oscar Nelson, floor leader of the fascist Thompson administration and vice ; Cormick continually referred to them in her , president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is head of. These demands have never been acted on and never will be until the Unem- ployed Council together with the working class generally will be able to mobilize sufficiently to force the bourgeoisie to grant concessions. Organizing the Jobless. The unemployed council has organized 6 lo- cals in Chicago and is carrying on wide prep- arations for the National Unemployed Conven- tion to be held in the Ashland Auditorium, July 5, calling a city conference of unemployed councils and working class organizations to be held on June 15th at 10 a. m. at Peoples Audi- torium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. The call for the conference was issued a few weeks ago and has already received response from a number 4§’NT HE JUST GRAND!” Mussolini: the Model Ruler for the Bosses HE 1930 election contest for seats in Con- ; gress opened with the Illinois primaries in April, and will continue until Nov. 4. On that day elections will be held in every state ex. cept Maine, which elects its senators and rep- resentatives in September. Thirty-five senators out of a total of 96, and all of the 435 members of the House of Rep- resentatives are to be elected this Fall. It is a “bye” election. occurring midway in Hoover's term of office. At present the republican party has a majority of 98 in the House, with five vacant seats which were held by repub- licans, and a majority of 41 in the Senate. Almost all the seats to be filled in this elec- tion will be contested by the members now hold- ing them. They were elected by capitalist backers where they are not outstanding capi- talists themselves and to be re-elected they will more closely than ever, in view of the crisis of capitalism, represent the direct spokesmen of finance capital. The salary of senators and representativ is “fixed” by law at $10,000, But these gent! men have more than one way of “fixing” their actual income at figures astronomically greater than that. Otherwise Mrs. McCormick of Il- linois would not have spent $250,000 merely on a primary election, ner the infamous Grun- dy have admitted spending $338,000 in the Pennsylvania primary. Besides the fat graft to be had, it must be remembered that as the crisis pinches big business it wishes to have its ablest’ agente in the seats of governmental power and so finances them lavishly as an in- vestment. | An idea of the “pin money” earned on the side by these capitalist henchmen, may be part- ly gained from the case of Congressman Aibrey Eaton of New Jersey. Eaton, by the way, re- cently denounced the Communists and praised “the church, the school, the home, great public minded organizations like the American Fed- eration of Labor,” etc. Eaton himself was formerly the preacher in John D. Rockefeller’s church; and now he is “head of industrial re- lations” for the National Lamp Workers of the General Electric Company, drawing in ad- dition to his salary of $10,000 from Congress, another $35,000 from the G.E. Co. to “keep the workers in a happy state of mind” in a company union. The “issues” raised by the capitalist parties, including the socialist party, are not vital to the working class, and the conditions of the workers would not be bettered in the slightest | no matter which way such “issues” would be | solved. The basic fact to remember is that | working class interests can be advanced only | by the action of the workers themselves acting as a class opposed to all other classes, by action outside of capitalist parliament and against it. | Hense the “issues” rised by capitalist politi- j | | cians are meant only to deceive the toiling masses and divert them from the basic issue which is Class Against Class. , capitalist The Congressional Elections Prohibition is put forward by most capital- ist politicians as the big “issue.” The fact that countries and peoples historically “dry” such as Turkey and Moslems generally still have classes, exploiters and exploited, rich boss- es and poor worke just as do the “wet” shows this to be a fake issue, of no importance to the workers as a class. The high tariff law passed by Congress will ue” from the capitalist side only with who opposed it because their par- ar interests were not served by it. While the tariff question is one exciting extreme antagonism within the ranks of the biggest of capitalists, Henry Ford and the General Mo- tors having expressed sharp opposition, finance capital as a whole demands a high tariff. And government though it represents ole will respond to the de- st powerful group, the great fina sed tariff certainly means higher prices, reduced living standards, for the working class, but there is no way that the workers can remedy this by elections and through Congr since Congress is a capitalist institution. So the workers must fight for higher wages to maintain their standard and prepare to abolish the capitalist class and its whole government machine. capitalism as a 1 The “World Court” is another fake issue used by Mrs. McCormick in the Illinois pri- maries. It is a fake because the bourgeois opponents of the “World Court” deceive the workers who are opposed to a new world war, by pretending that the only way the U.S. is in danger of war is by joining the World Court. Yet war is coming because of imperialist ri- valries and imperialist fear of the Soviet Union’s growing strength, and whether the U. S. is in or out of the World Court it will go to war just the same and all the capitalist “opponents” to the World Court will be whoop- ing it up for war when it comes. The issue of unemployment will be dodged wherever possible, and the proof of that is the action of all the capitalist parties joining to start a “Red investigation” to hide this real issue. Here and there some capitalist dema- gog will will undoubtedly “speak about” un- employment, but will never, never speak against capitalism, which is the basic cause of unemployment. Neither will any capitalist politician suggest any means that will effect- ively aid the unemployed. Many will talk about it, some will, like the “socialists” pro- pose that the unemployed be counted—but not fed. All kinds of evasive proposals may be made to make the workers believe that some- thing will be done—but not the slightest thing will be done by any capitalist politician or by capitalist government unless the workers or- ganize and fight in the sbops and in the streets for the demands raised by the Commu- nist Party, the only Party which represents the interests of the whole working class as against all other classes. of local unions of the Railroad Brotherhood | and of A. F. of L. who are electing delegates. | Mass meetings of unemployed workers have | been called and delegates will be sent to the City Council once again demanding immediate relief for the unemployed. Hunger marches to Springfield are being or- ganized in the coal field in connection with the July 5th convention and July 4th unem- ployed demonstration in Chicago. The C. P. fully supports the movement and is giving proper leadership and guidance. The incom- ing election campaign will make unemploy- | ment one of the outstanding political issues which together with the war danger, defense of the Soviet Union, work or wages and social insurance will be the outstanding demands and issues of the campaign. The question of sending delegates to the | | class. city unemployed convention June 15th and Na- tional Unemployed Convention July 4 and 5 must be raised in every working class organ- ization and particularly in unions. In every local union of the A. F. L, “independent unions” and TUUL, the question of electing delegates must be brought up along with a sharp and strong fight against social fascism which is already making every attempt to sabotage the coming convention as they are afraid of the mass movements of the working In all of these preparations and cam- paigns the Unemployed Councils must espe- cially pay attention to reaching and organiz- ing the Negro masses, the youth and women of the working class. i The National Unemployed Council has laid down the program of struggle against unem- ployment and the program of action is the real A LETTER FROM PRISON ON APPROACHING ELECTIONS May 21 1930. To the State Nominating Convention, Communist Party of U. 8. A. Dear Comrades: This nominating convention is significantly taking place at Schenectady, the home of Gen- eral Electric, one of the big international rob- ber industrial institutions and a savage ex- ploiter of the workers, male and female, and especially of young workers. It is occurring at a time when urgent and important problems face the workers of the state, of the country and of the entire world. The problems of unemployment, speed-up and worsening of the conditions of the work- | ing class, with power concentrating ever more in the hands of the capitalist class, with trus- tification proceeding to gigantic heights and profits being wrenched out of the lives of the workers—these problems have not been and cannot be solved under capitalism and are leading fast to a new world war. For this world war the leading imperialist governments are preparing with tremendous energy and speed, spending billions of dollars | each year to perfect their murderous war ap- paratus. The League of Nations, the Kellogg Peace Pact, the disarmament and naval reduc- tion parleys, Briand’s United States of Europe, all show how fast we are being driven into war. Unemployment Grows. The imperialist governments which can find unity on no front, do find and construct it on the front of war against the workers and poor farmers at home, war against the colonial peoples, war against the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the Working Class! Seven million workers are tramping the streets of America—more than one million in the state of New York alone. The workers still having jobs are working long hours at low wages and terrific speed-up. The end of the crisis is always “a few months away” and “conditions are improving,” say the capitalist and social-fascist politicians — but Governor Roosevelt is forced to admit that instead of unemployment decreasing it is on the increase. The government, national and state, raise no funds for the relief of the unem- ployed, and yet these governments are spend- ing billions for war preparations and together with the city governments are cesspools of capitalist graft and corruption. Workers Fight Back, The workers, aroused and mobilized by the Communist International and the Communist | Parties in the many countries, are beginning to fight against these shameful, unbearable conditions. In answer, the capitalist govern- ment and the capitalist class give us Whalen and Fish. These two flunkeys of the capitalist class represent the methods of the capitalist class to scramble out of the cris: Whalen with his cossack attacks on the unemployed workers and their demonstrations, Whalen with his shameless, brazen forgeries against the Soviet government and the Communist Party; Fish with his attempt to smother the discon. tent that is growing, by inaugurating a nation- wide hunt against the Communists, the rev- olutionary aand foreign-born workers—this is the method of American capitalism to solve problems which cannot be solved under cap- italism. The fascist leadership of the American Fed- eration of Labor with Matthew Woll and Wil- liam Green at its head; the social-fascist so- cialist party and Muste group, led by Thomas, Hillquit, O’Neal, Howatt and Hapgood, and aided by the yellow renegades from the Com- munist Party, Gitlow, Cannon, Lovestone’ & Co., not only lend a helping hand in these at- tacks on the working class, but, like their brothers in Europe, are in many instances tak- ing the lead in the attacks against the working class. They, too, are looking forward to, and organizing their black forces for the day when they may be the MacDonalds, J. W. Thomases, Zoergiebels, Pilsudskis, Blums, Mussolinis of America, murdering the workers in the streets. The Struggle Will Continue. Comrade Delegates of the Convention! Workers of the State of New York! Workers of the United States, colored and white, men and women, young and old! can | The crisis is not lifting—on the contrary, | with ups and downs it is bound to crash upon the workers and poor farmers with increased violence in the autumn of 1930. Our task is clear! Despite government and extra-legal violence (World War Veterans and American Legion, A. F. of L. and S. P. gang- sterism, the organized underworld, etc.), de- spite sharper attacks on the living standards | Actions of the Central Control Commission of the Party Re-instatement. of Oskar Rabovsky. yet Central Control Commission has approved the .recommendation of District Control Commission of iDstrict 3 to re-instate into the Party Oskar Rabovsky, of Baltimore, Md.. who submitted the following statement: “T hereby wish to denounce the differences which I maintained with the Party and which caused my expulsion. Time and events have proven that the line of the Comintern Address and its American Section is correct, and that I was wrong in maintaining disagreements. “T fully accept the line of the Party and C.I. and pledge myself to carry out all decisions of the Party and the C.I. I most vigorously denounce the Lovestone group as a bunch of renegades to the working class. I completely dissociate mys ‘f from these traitors, organiza- tionally and politically, and pledge to fight them to the bitter end.” Re-instatement of Mabel Husa. The Central Control Commission has also approved the recommendation of the Young Communist League Secretariat for the rein- statement of Mabel Husa (former Pioneer Di- rector of District 12, Seattle), who made the following statement in her plea for re-instate- ment: “On arriving in New York, I joined the Lovestone group, but outside of attending one class in their so-called ‘“Marx-Lenin” school, I took no active part in any of their activities, As time went on, I began to doubt and later to realize that their line is not a Communist line, but, on the contrary, is a line which fights beginning of development of a mass movement to unite the employed and unemployed work- ers in the struggle against unemployment and against the capitalist system which breeds un- ! of the workers, despite threats against the even now shamefully low standards of the poor farmers crushed by burdens of taxes and mort- gages, despite capitalist governmental fury against the rising working class and threats to take away more of their so-called rights and to persecute the Communists—the struggle will go on! Class Against Class. The election campaign must be the vehicle for mobilizing the militant workers of New York State for struggle. With the program of struggle and under the leadership of the fighting Communist Party, we must put up our slogan against all the enemies of the working class—the capitalist class and its government, the A. F. of L. officialdom, the socialist party, Muste and Communist renegade groups—the slogan of class against class! In this struggle we must pay particular at- tention to the masses of exploited Negro work- ers, women and men, The treachery of their bourgeois race leaders, their continued betrayal by the A. F. of L. and S. P., the unending ex- ploitation of these masses, discrimination, jim- crowing, etc., have awakened these workers. ‘Through the struggles conducted by the Com- munists throughout the country in behalf of the Negro masses, uniting them in struggle with the white workers, the Communist Party has demonstrated in action that it is the sole champion of the Negro race. Keenly remembering the demonstrations of March 6th and May Ist, with their issues and slogans, with their police terror and cossack- ism and capitalist persecution of the masses, we must go into the election campaign with the following issues coming from the struggle of the workers against capitalism: 1. For unemployment insurance. 2. For the 7-hour day, 5-day week. 3. For the unrestricted right of free speech, free press and free assemblage. 4. For the unrestricted right of the workers to use the streets and squares of the sities. 5. For the unrestricted right of all workers to organize, strike and picket; complete and immediate abrogation of the use of injunctions; abolition of the yellow dog contract. 6. Full economic andsocial equality for the Negroes. 7. Against the persecution of the foreign- born workers. 8. Immediate anarchy law. The workers suffering from the oppression of capitalism must be mobilized for the strug- gle for these issues and for their immediate enactment into law. Against Imperialist War. We must recognize, however, that the strug- gle against this oppression is also the struggle against the preparations of the imperialist governments for a new world war, particularly against the Soviet Union. Therefore our struggle against the capitalist class and its lackeys in the fight of class against class, in abolition of the criminal | the struggle against imperialist war and war preparations and for defense of the Soviet Union. Our aim must be the overthrow of the de- structive, life-crushing capitalist system and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government in the United States. Comrade Delegates and Workers of New York State. All forces must be mobilized in the election campaign. Every nook of the state must be reached with our propaganda and or- ganization. Our Party literature for workers and poor farmers, the Daily Worker, leaflets and pamphlets must reach every city and vil- lage. We must build up the revolutionary in- dustrial unions and leagues of the Trade Union Unity League. And above all we must build up the Communist Party and Young Com- munist League, drawing in young, militant white and colored workers, men and women, of city and land. Election campaign commit- tees—united front organizations —must be formed in every shop, factory, store, farm, ete., in every union (also of the A. F. of L.), club, fraternal organization, etc. The whole revolutionary working class must be mobilized and activized for and in the campaign. Forward, Comrades, to work, with the con- sciousness that only the Communist Party and the Communist International under the banner of Marxism-Leninism can free the working class from the oppressive power of capitalism. Fraternally, NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED DELEGATION Wm. Z. Foster, Israel Amter, Robert Minor, James Harold Raymond. all principles of Communism. This is proven by their alliance with the social-democratic, petty-bourgeois Halonen in the U.S.A., and with other renegades and enemies of the inter- national Communist movement. “T have made a complete break from their group some weeks ago. I know that my place is not with them. I know that my place and the place of every class-conscious worker is in the Communist Party, fighting under the leadership of the Communist International.” Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 Kast 125th Street, New York City. |, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name ...scoseseveeeee AdGreSE .,.00ecceeccecene Occupation ...ccsvscccccesce Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y. employment and misery and starvation for the workers and which is preparing for a new Lioody imperialist war and for war against the S, U