The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1930, Page 6

(Resolution Proposed to the Chicago Unem- ployed Convention by the National Committees of the Ur oyed Council an dthe T.U.U.L.) )0,000 throughout armies of vast f lying propaganda and ion has failed ut- shipping, textile, ng fluctuations in e. With the agging ther he: y increases sming winter will be , he working class. There Is Unemployment Why r n unemployment 's receive they create, and Hence vast in the hands , despite their on, cannot con- s “ove » and w cannot make the workers rapid growth and develop- s able to overcome these y shut down of in- w the periods of eri become er, and the periods of industrial and shorter. e development of industry in th more intense international rinkage of the colonial mar- endous speeding up of the nization of industries, rows more workers out of ving of millions of farmers from the farms by the in- work—the capitalist crisis daily erproduction” grows constantly, + permanent mass unemployment. tive capacity of capitalist industry ly outruns the power of capitalist And this basie contradiction, must go on intensifying it- italism lasts, with increasing ships and misery for the italist system is in a The Capitalist Offensive ts in the United States, as in all t world, throw the burden of the is upon the workers. While they eap fabulous profits and roll in and profligacy, they systematically lower the standards of the already impover- ished workers. The millions of unemployed y leave to starve without ahy unemployment insurance whatsoever. They shift the tax load onto the workers and poor farmers; the new tariff law will greatly increase the cost of liv- ing of the toiling masses. The workers still in industry are being speeded beyond human en- durance. And now, repudiating the lying of Hoover, the employers are slashing wages wholesale in many industries, coal, steel, auto, sho The American working class is now ncing the greatest attack in history upon ig and working standards, Whenever the workers attempt to organize to protest and fight against these conditions they are met by the fascist violence of the employ- ers, fully supported by their tool, the govern- ment. Throughout the country the gigantic March 6 demonstrations were attacked by pro- lice clubs, tear gas and jail—as well in the socialist-controlled cities in Milwaukee and Reading as in Whalen-ridden New York. Hun- dreds were arrested. The New York commit- tee of the unemployed was railroaded to the penitentiary after a farcial trial. In California 87 farm workers, seeking to organize the T.U.U.L. agricultural workers union, were ar- rested, held in ridiculously high bail, and 12 were sentenced to from 10 to 12 years in prison. In the South, the Gastonia defendants are thrown in the penitentiary for 17 to 20 years, a fresh and still more barbarous wave of lynch- ing is directed against the Negroes, and six Communist Party organizers are made to face the electric chair for simply calling upon the workers to organize and fight. The Fish Com- nittee now prepares new assaults upon the workers. Everywhere the workers, increasingly taking up the struggle against the intolerable conditions confronting them, face a sharpening employers’ offensive. The government takes no steps to releave unemployment. Hoover's program of galvaniz- ing the industries into activity has broken down completely. The Wagner Bills insult the work- ers, with their ridiculous subterfuges of em- ployment offices and unemployment. census. The workers demand relief and the government gives them night sticks, jails, breadlines, lying promises and fake statistics. The Impending War Meanwhile, the capitalist nations, with American imperialism in the lead, vainly try to bring their sagging industries into operation, and to bolster up their profits, enter into vio- lent competition and conflict with each other. They struggle desperately for new markets and control of supplies of raw materials. Weapons in this fierce international struggle are new and higher tariff walls, international wage cutting and speeding up campaigns, more in- tense exploitation of the colonial peoples, etc. All this is leading straight to a new imperial- ist world war, far more terrible than the recent one. The capitalist nations feverishly arm them- selves for war—the United States now spends three times more for armaments than in 1914, and the other powers accordingly. The break down of the London Naval Conference shows how immiment is the war danger. ‘The revo- lutionary uprising in India; the great victories of the Chinese workers and peasants, who now have a Soviet government imbracing 60,990,900 people, the upheavals in India, China, South Africa, Nigeria, Latin America, etc., show that world capitalism is now living on a volcano. The world capitalists especially direct their war programs against the Soviet Union. The Russian workers are successfully building so- cialism, scoring one great victory after the other. The flourishing socielist system of the Soviet Union, with its rapidly expanding indus- 8 Cable. “DAIWORK" wi By mail every whan uuare New York NY : Mactettan and Bronx Central Organ ot the sou. ike ot the US A. | sje a | tries and improving workers’ standards, throw | (Cnete us [tare J into glaring contrast the decaying capitalist \ SAFER uP! YOU } , t Sunday, system in other countries with its unemplo: ment, war and mass misery for the work The Soviet Union is an inspiration to the wor orkers and a threat to world capital- ism. The capitalis above all, w: to de- story this living symbol of successful prole- revolution and to secure the r and resources of the elves. Fake Leaders of Labor In all these att against American work- in the preparations for war, the employ- rs receive the full support of the fascist lead- ership of the A. F. of L. These str breakers, with a long record of betrayal of the workers, mar- Soviet Union for ther | and capitalist instruments for beating back the | M | ployment insurance, struggles of the workers, they applauded the clubbing and jailing of the unemployed on ch 6; they are bitter opponents of unem- they are sponsors of the they support every lie infamous Wagner ill | and trick of Hoover to deceive and demorulize the unemployed. They are tools for speeding up the employed workers and for separating them from the unemployed. They support every militarization plan of American imperial- ism, and they are the leaders in the counter- revolutionary struggle against the Soviet Union. The A. F. of L. leaders are fascist, enemies of the working class and their repu- diation is a first condition for successful strug- gle by the workers. The socialist party and the so-called Muste group have the same basic line as the A. F. of L. leadership. They are social-fascist. The difference is that they sugar their treachery with pretenses at radicalism and progressivism. They are the special agents of the bosses and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats,to hold in check the increasingly radical masses. Their record | in the South, in the textile industry, in the | have blazed the way that the v needle trades, in the mining industry, wherever the workers are in struggle, in one of unmiti- gated betrayal of the working class. The em- ployers, the government, the A. F. of L. and the socialist party are in one great united front against the workers. Unemployment Relief a Cure Unemployment cannot be cured so long as capitalism lasts but must become worse. It is inherent in the capitalist system. Only by the overthrow of capitalism with its private ownership of industry and its production for profit and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, based upon socialized industry and production for use, can this social scourge be eliminated. The Russian workers rkers of the world must go in order to abolish unemploy- ment, poverty, war and th eother great evils inseparable from capitalism. But under capitalism the workers, by firm organization and militant struggle, can miti- gate the disastrous effects of unemployment. The Trade Union Unity League, through its unions and unemployment councils gives the organization, program and lead for such strug- gle. The workers, under the increasing pres- sure of capitalism rapidly become radicalized and increasingly go on to the counter offensive against the employers. One of the sharnest | manifestations of this is the great March 6 | demonstration. Program of Demands As the principal measures for unemployment relief this convention demands the initiation of government unemployment insurance, together with a shortening of the work day and work week, increases in the workers’ wages and abolition of the speedup system in its various forms. The convention endorses and calls upon the working class to support the following general program: 1. Unemployment insurance. The govern- ment on the basis of work or wages to pay every unemployed worker at union rates of pay. All workers partially employed to re- ceive conipensation sufficient to bring their in- comes up to full wages. This unemployment insurance to be administered by committees elected directly by workers working in the shops, and by the unemployed through their councils. The fund to come out of the Federal State and City government treasury and to be raised by taxes on all profits and inheritances, by reduction of salaries of high officials, re- moval of tax exemption on church property, etc. Pending the adoption of such legislation, emergency relief appropriations to be made and to be administered as above by the work- ers. This unemployment insurance to be sup- plemented by state insurance against old age, sickness, etc. 2. Housing of Unemployed. No work, no rent. All evictions of unemployed workers for non-payment of rent to be prohibited. Public buildings to be thrown open and accommoda- tions made for emergency housing of the un- employed. Special appropriations to be made for building workers’ dwellings, which shall be rented at low rates, with preference to the un- employed, with no discrimination against or segregation of Negroes, 3. Free employment agencies to be estab- lished under control of workers’ committees and unemployed councils. Free lunches in schools and government maintenance of chil- dren. 4, The seven-hour day and five-day week to be established without reduction of wages, the six-hour day, with rest periods, for the youth and for workers engaged in unhealthy and dan- gerous occupations. 5. Abolition of the speed-up, abolition of piece-work, bonus systems and overtime. Con- trol of conveyor speed by the workers. Aboli- tion of night work for women and young work- ers, Abolition of child labor. 6. General increases in wages for the work- ers, with heaviest increases for unskilled work- ers. Strike against all wage cuts. Equal pay for equal work for women and young workers. 7. For the right to organize, strike and picket against the labor injunction. Against police terror, against strikers’ organizational activities and unemployed demonstrations. 8. Abolition of lynching, Jim Crowism and all discrimination against Negroes. For full social economic and political equality and the right of self-determination for Negroes. 9. For the immediate release of the New York Unemployed delegation and all other pol- itical prisoners. The fight for these elementary demands must be inseparably bound up at all stages with uncompromising struggle against the A. F. of L. and S. P. misleaders, against the impending imperialist war and to arouse the workers for defense of the Soviet Union. Program of Action The fight for these demands is the fight of the whole workingclass, The interests of the employed and unemployed workers are at 26-28 Unton Daily >: Worker - yo R VE RE SEF From the New York World, with ammendations. (STAN. Have UNLIMITED | The World “blames” the republican party instead of capitalism for “busted prosperity.” The State and the Jobless By HARRISON GEORGE HE “State” is the term used in political language to mean the “government” in general, no matter which political party or office holders run it. Too many workers do not think much about the State. They sort of take it for granted. They accept, without thinking, the ideas about the State which are given to them by all forms of capitalist propaganda, news- papers, preachers, capitalist politicians, movies, talkies, and the clever ways of influ- encing the way the workers think. By this means, the workers come to think that the State is “impartial” between the capitalists and the workers. But in fact there is no such thing as an “impartial” govern- ment, a “neutral” State. In America there is a capitalist State which takes the side of the bosses against the work- ers. In the Soviet Union there is a Workers’ State, which defends and aids the workers. Bullets—Not Bread As we write these lines, we hear the news of the death of the worker, Gonzalo Gonzales, the second worker shot down in cold blood in New York in the last three days—by police, who are supposed to be, in capitalist lying propaganda, the “protectors” of people. The police protect capitalism against the workers—that is their chief business, just as capitalist judges, capitalist legislatures, city councils, and the U. S. government as s whole. What has been the experience of the work- ers since the army of unemployment has grown from two or three million to eight million? They can starve for all the govern- ment cares! But in the Soviet Union under a Workers’ State, socialism is being built and unemploy- ment is disappearing. There, the jobless worker is taken care of. In a Workers’ State He gets money from the government— unemployment insurance at government cost, not his cost—he pays no rent yet can stay in his home without eviction. He gets additional money for wife and kids. He gets free medical and other attention. He does not have to worry himself insane—like the work- ers in the United States. In the United States, there is no such thing as unemployment insurance. And there will not be—unless the workers, you, the next fellow, all of us, in hundreds of thousands and millions, insist and keep insisting on it. ‘What has the Government, the city, state, or national government, done for the unem- ployed? Nothing but turn loose armies of police to blackjack, club, gas and shoot the workers who ask for unemployment insurance —for “work or wages.” That is because it is a capitalist government, a capitalist State. Blackjacks and B. S. But the present government, since it must try to keep up a pretense, as yet, pretended to do something. Hoover called a “council” and promised lots of work. He said the bosses promised not to cut wages. But neither promise was kept. Hoover did not intend them to be kept. He only wanted to quiet discontent, to make the workers believe something would be done, so they would not follow the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League in a fight to force the bosses and the bosses’ govern- ment to grant unemployment insurance. the same. The employed workers must make the demand for unemployment insurance a cen- tral point in all their program and struggles. The unemployed must give active support to all the strikes and other struggles of the em- ployed workers, The building of the Trade Union Unity League, the strengthening of its affiliated in- dustrial unions by drawing in masses of em- ployed and unemployed workers, the strength- ening of Labor Unity—the voice of the unem- ployed councils under the leadership. of the respective TUUL unions and local councils, are of fundamental importance. This convention pledges its full support to And when the workers came out to demand it on March 6, armies of police rained clubs, gas bombs and blackjacks on the workers’ heads! The governmetn, the capitalist State, is the watchdog of the bosses! Some fakers in Congress, some capitalist politicians, just to catch votes, made a noise about unemployment. A Tammany politician named Wagner from Tammany, New York where Tammany police are shooting down job- less workers and beating hundreds, proposes two or three fake “relief” measures; to reg- ister the unemployed, to open employment offices (when there are not jobs!) and so on— to give some more capitalist political ward heelers a graft. But Congress is adjourning without paying attention even to this fake “relief,” which the Tammany democrats put out in the first place just to make political capital against the re- publicans, but not to help the workers. “Let Them Starve,” Says Hoover Clearer than all, in showing what the cap- italist State is, was the speech of Senator Fess, who said he was speaking for Hoover, against doing anything at all for the unem- ployed. Fess insulted, in Hoover’s name, the unem- ployed by calling them “idlers” who don’t want work, and saying that the Hoover cap- italist government “would not spend one penny” to “subsidize” loafers, .That is the answer, along with blackjacks, of the capitalist government to the jobless workers. But at the same time, the government was giving a present of $160,000,000 to capitalists by reducing the income tax on the millionaires, At the same time, Mr. Huston is Hoover's choice as the head of the Republican Party National Committee. Huston is known as a crook, who is paid by big capitalist interests to use his influence as a lobbyist to help them grab the Muscle Shoals project. At the same time, the New York City and State government, rotten from top to bottom, answers the demands for “work or wages” with clubs and the railroading to prison of the March 6 Unemployed Delegation. Workers Can Win This is the answer of the capitalist State. But the workers do not, cannot accept it. Un- employment grows worse, millions are at the point of starvation. They must fight or actually starve. And by still harder fighting they can, yes, they can—force the capitalist State to give unemployment insurance. It is true that so long as the workers do not overthrow the capitalist State and estab- lish their own Workers’ State, the workers can not be sure to get, or to keep, adequate unemployment insurance. But the only way they can get anything, even more bowls of soup from the cheap “charity” organizations, is to fight and fight like hell, all together, in masses, protesting, demanding, demonstrating. Workers who are yet employed but whose jobs are not safe, striking and joining with the jobless in com- mon fight. It is this form of fight against the capitalist State, that is the only possible way of forcing the bosses and their government to disgorge some of their millions to the jobless. This must be the struggle of the Unemployed Movement now ‘meeting in convention at Chicago. all the struggles of the TUUL, to protect the workers in industry and the unemployed. It especially calls upon the working masses to make unemployment the central political issue in the 1930 Fall elections. It urges the work- ers everywhere to build election Committees of Action, to be made up of representatives of the unemployed, of TUUL unions, rank and file representatives of A. F. of L. unions, delegates from the unorganized, ete, These Committees of Action shall carry on an in- tense agitation in the factories, in the unions, and among the unemployed masses to mobilize the workers for the whole TUUL program and especially for aggressive action in the coming SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year $6; six months $3: two months $1; excepting Boroughs of New York City, and foreign which are: One year $8: six months $4.50 ‘ny | By MORRIS BACKALL LEFT Chicago Wedn: y, early morning June 18th, The city was then in turmoil. Chief of police Wm. Russell and the chief of detectives John Stege were forced to resign. They could not cope with the situation of gangsters, hold-up men, murderers. Ten gang- sters were killed in ten days, and in addition Albert (“Jake”) Lingle, the so-called Tribune reporter was murdered, Chicago was burning with the street car franchise situation. The general press, the bankers, the majority of the liberals agitated for accepting the franchise on July ist of the special referendum vote. This franchise, if accepted, would give the transportation and the city administration a bonus of $130,000,000 immediately of over-valuation and a possibility of ten of millions of dollars in graft in the future. It would mean heavier burdens of higher carfare, higher rent to the poor of the population of Chicago. Unemployment in Chicago was on the in- crease. Harvester just laid off 8,000 addi- tional workers. The city was full of unem- ployed. A great many workers were evicted from their homes. One district alone, the Lawndale district has 200,000 unemployed. Police brutality was also on the increase. Unemployed meetings were dispersed. Es- pecially the Negro workers were singled out. The blueblood and snobbish of the Chicago police could not stand the sight of colored and white workers meeting together. At the same time two investigations reveal the facts that the chairman of the election commissioners of Chicago was h'mself a mem- ber of the underworld, and that he appointed as clerks to the election-Judges, members of gangland that were working for the under- world, so that their friends should be elected. Another investigation brought out the fact that Albert Lingle, the so-called Tribune re- porter had a common account of a $100,000 in stocks with former chief of police Wm. Rus- sell, and they both together lost $400,000 in the last Wall Street crash, It also revealed the fact that captain Gilbert, the police cap- tain of the downtown district, received a ch of $500 from Lingle. And it is very easy to comprehend that the Tribune reporter was merely a go-between of the gangsters of Chi- cago and the police department, and that there exists a close relationship between the mur- derers, the bootleg men, the holdup men and the police department of Chicago, = But one force in Chicago is active in or- ganizing the workers and the masses of poor people against the brutality of police, against the crime situation, against the possibilities of the merger of the city administration, fin- ance capital, and industrial overlords, to put over the traction franchise. This would mean a perpetual monopoly by these interests of the transportation system of Chicago and higher carfare, more unemployment. and taxa- tion of the workers and citizens of the city. Organizing Jobless The Communist Party of Chicago is the only Party that is organizing the unemployed, that is demanding work or wages, that is arousing the masses to a struggle to overthrow the system under which poverty, unemployment, crime and corrupt politics is growing. When I visited Detroit, a city one third the size of Chicago, I read the local ne~ papers and talked to the inhabitants of the city, I found there a trust of active kidnappers, old gangsters who confess that they are con- nected with the ring of kidnappers, hold-up men, bootlegging interests, and the police de- partment of the city helping them, by receiv- ing graft. ‘ : Thursday the newspapers of Detroit featured the arrest of five Jewish boys and one young girl for kidnapping and their confession. Five banks were closed up, three in the Polish neighborhood and two in Detroit proper. Workers around the banks surrounded them, to. find that their last pennies were gone. Unemployment was at a high level. Tens of thousands of workers were out of work and the number is still growing. Not only the 30,000 workers that Ford threw out of work were still idle, but the Fisher body cmpany and all other automobile concerns were send- ing their men out of the factories and were leaving only women. The wages of the women were cut one fourth. The installment of the speed up system results in growing accidents among women workers. They hardly make a living. The situation of the city administration in Detroit is the same as in Chicago. The Mayor, Charles Bowles, by a referendum of 113,000 signatures, was voted to be unseated. Only 90,000 signatures are required by law enough to unseat the Mayor. After the election com- missioners saw the signatures they verified over 93,000 signatures as valid, and it is re- quired that 25 days after the election com- missioners establish the validity of the refer- endum, new elections must take place, What Boss Press Says The focal capitalist newspapers state as the reasons for the petition for the removal of the mayor, that the city administratrm was part of the bootlegging, kidnapping, and hold up underworld elements of Detroit, that the city administration was helping to increase car-fare notwithstanding the fact that city transportation is owned by the municipality, that fake contracts were issued by the city in order to increase the cost for operating the street car system and that the city administra- tion in the hands of capitalist mayors and aldermen is representing the interests not of the citizens, and especially not of the poor masses of workers, but the interest of finance, industrial overlords and criminals of the city. The workers in Detroit fee] that a change in administration with anotker capitelist elections. The convention pledges its full support to the candidates of the Communist Party, the only Party which represents the interests of the working class, employed and unemployed. To further the struggle for unemployment insurance and the other proposals of the un- employed, the convention decides to send a delegation to Washington to present its de- mands to the Federal Government. It also calls upon the workers in the various locali- ties to hold big demonstrations against un- employment and to send mass delegations to their respective state and local governments to present the demands of the local unem- CHICAGO, DETROIT, TOLEDC AND CLEVELAND mayor will help very little. Just as the re moval of Wm. F. Russell, chief of police, and J. Stege, chief of the detective Bureau, Chi- cago, will not change the crime situation of Chicago but is only a masquerade to hide the real issues and problems of the present system of society, so will another capitalist mayor not help to change the crime and corruption of the city “of Detroit. The Communist Party in Detroit is or izing the unemployed, is agitating for workers candidates, is carrying on a fight against crime, is appealing to the masses to unite with the workers all over the world to overthrow the present system. In the Auto Plants Because of the fact that Detroit has one industry of great power, the autcmobile in- dustry, the C. P. is concentrating its efforts to organize the automobile workers into the unemployed councils, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, for a real struggle against the terrific suffering and misery of the working population. Toledo is a smaller town. Life in Toledo runs slower. But Toledo is an industrial town. Also here unemployment grows immensely. Also here the city administration is trying its utmost to attack the revolutionary movement. Just as Mayor Bowles of Detroit was strong enough to crush every workers unemployment demonstration. The city administration of Toledo is also arresting every speaker who appears at an, open air meeting. The Communist Party of Toledo is carrying on an active campaign to organize the unem- ployed, to enlighten the workers @bout~the real issues of the present system, and is work- ing for the overthrowing of the present sys+ tem of society. Cleveland is a larger town. It has many tailor shops and clothing factories, but the unemployment in the city of Cleveland is grow- ing every day. 5 Monday, June 28, four factories closed down. 20,000 new workers were thrown out of jobs. The unemployment is felt in every corner of the city. = Cleveland has a commission form of gov- ernment. The city manager and commission- ers in Cleveland are just as corrupt as the city administrations of Detroit and Chicago. The police department of Cleveland is very “heroic” in its interference with the communist activi- ties, is very active in arresting speakers, ii attacking meetings of unemployed. But th city of Cleveland is full of corruption, crime prostitution, as are all other large towns in the country. In Cleveland The Communist Party of Cleveland is the only active revolutionary Party of the city in fighting against crime, against corruption, against unemployment, and is doing its utmost to organize the workers. The communist office on Ford near Euclid is very busy and is very active. We find there young com- rades in leading positions, Every one is energetic, full of enthusiasm. They are work: ers not long out of the coal mines, building trades, that really know the suffering of th. workers. be On the Prospect comrades are sellin bundles of the Daily Worker. Among the tw moil of the busiest corner of the downtow section of Cleveland, the cry, “Daily Worke Daily Worker,” sounds above everything. When I was in Cleveland Sunday, June 2 the installation of branch 124 of the Inte national Workers Order took place, Kinsman and 141st St. in the headquarte of the workers club, decorated by the co: rades.. It was wonderfully decorated wi symbols of struggle and revolution, Co: rades and friends crowded the banquet hs On the stage sat the Freiheit Mando Orchestra under the direction of Comrs Someroff. They played revolutionary mu of the worker struggles. The members the hall sang the revolutionary songs, \ heard greetings of the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, of the Fr heit, and other Party organizations. r Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland. Th all have the same problems. Capitalism wi its degradation of unemployment, banks cl ing, chaos, crisis, city administrations wi their corruption, crime, gangsterism, mergy of finance capital, city administrations s industrial lords to rob the people throu monopolies of all public utilities. But o force is fighting them all, fighting them the basis of class struggle; and that is t Communist Party. We find it all over, in: ee It is one America, the same Ameri over. =—— Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name ...seceeeee AddreS8 ..ccccsccecccrmmecce Ultysseccmeme Occupation ... eee Age.e. Mail this to the Central Office, Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. ¥, ployed. 2 This national Unemployment Convention called by the Trade Union Unity League, am held in Chicago, July 4th and 5th, 1930 calls upon the working class to rally to its program of struggle against unemployment, Let this monster gathering of delegates be the starting point for a gigantic movement of protest and struggle. Only by militant mass action can even the smallest concessions be wrung from — the capitalists. Only by revolutionary oe 9 5 can the als system be overthrown end 8 Workers’ Farmers’ Government be estab | | lished. Workers! Don’t Starve, Fight!