The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930 EDISON SPREADS BO"S. ‘ | Proof of Woll’s Attempt to Get Bribery BAD CONDITIONS PROPAGANDA IN TALK | Tries to Blame Workers For Contradictions of Capitalist Syster Dodges Unemployment Issue By Talking a Lot of Cheap Nonsense | throw the blame on the workers, d of his fellow parasites and system. | When asked: “What is the future the unemployment situation?” EAST ORANGE, N. J —Thomas * A. upon with great revi ventor by large American workers. July 30. looked as an in- ions of the Hence, on every) of in Edison en occasion the capitalist press spreads the “wizard” unburdened himself of his reactionary ideas with much of brilliance: “We are gusto. The latest publicity stunt ave depressions, no mat- of Edison is his meeting 49 boy perfect is our financial here Wednesday, especially pi standing. Men are natural born for the occasion, and answering rs and will always overdo their questions. Wherever these questions touch: matters of capitalism and the Edison exposes his tionary ideas and his hostility the worker: When asked: “Do you th e admitting that capitalism} tedly undergo crises, E to claptrap about men being) tural born gamblers” shows he| es the crisis was caused by a| stock gamblers on the stock ex- . CThe Mr. Te G. Grapfen, Seo. & Tr Antorg Trading Corporation 261 Fifth. Avenue New York city My dear Me, urapfens This will introduce Ur Union tabor Life insurance ¢ developnents of. the American designed to arouse the wnge insurance, As & prominent figure you permit Kr, Duffy to disc your insurance ne The union Labor Lito “Insurance Compr + area reserve life insurance goupany operating un* : yet of the State of New York approval of leadere of buc MATTIE) 3 may be well covored, +3 wo having you as a policy holder in our compeny « aid us in the great sorvice wo have underte IN A LAUNDRY ANY | WOLL, Parsipint. SIINGTON. D.G. ieee ; as | Washington Sq. Place NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker has from a Negro woman worker in the Washington Square Laundry, . West 23rd St., which shows very well what conditions are like there, and the necessity for all to ; Cleaning and Laundry Workers League of the T.U.U.L. The letter is as follows: “Dear Editor:—Please allow me space in your paper as I am a new reader and I have come to the con- clusion that the Daily Worker is the only paper that prints the work- ers’ messages as they send them from the shops, Speed. Less Pay. “The Negro wonien that are em- ployed in the Washington Square jlaundry are compelled to undergo some of the most brutal speed-up ever seen. During the month of | July and August they are compelled eas. P. J. Dufty, General Agent for thc one of the important sooial n of sabor and espooiaily earners as to the necessity of life in the business world ss the matter with {to work nine or ten hours continu- | Negro Toiler Exposes) received the following letter; eee ae CAN, ELECTIONS “WORKERS RELIEF HAS SHOW WAR NEARS NEW YORK.—AIl members and sympathizers of Workers’ Interna- Anti-Imperialist War Demonstra- Against Soviets TORONTO, Can. conservative party arper fight against the United | Friday afternoon, at 4 o’cloc! States, and a more independent | where banners and signs will position of the exploiters of Canada, | distributed and from which all will won the election to the Canadian | march in a body to the Square. House of Commons. The last ve speech of R, B. Bennett, conserva- L directed against the Soviet Union, | * sounding the same note as Mellon's | ee against Soviet imports. While Mackenzie King, leader of the liberal party, proved his antag- | Jonism to the United States by! |lopping off $300,000,000 trade, Bennett and the conservative party | were for even more drastic action. The conservatives stand for a high | | tariff as a retaliation against the United States, and at the same time a more independent position from Great Britain. But at the same time, they dicker for the highest price as an ally with either of these a part of the W.I.R. section. Mem- Upholds Repudiation SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July 29. -John MacDonald told the Supreme | Court justices today that he not |} only was lying when he testified against Mooney and Billings in their trial thirteen years ago, but | that “the whole pack of lies was SECTION AT UNION SQ. tional Relief are called upon by the Bennett Backs Plot! local office to participate in the tion, tomorrow at Union Square as July 30.—The! bers will assemble at the local | which stood for | headquarters, 10 East 17th St., on | HE LIED IN TRIAL | Before Supreme Court OF NAVAL RACE Tells of Subsidizing War Industries WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30.— Open admission thatthe London naval pact was regarded by the | navy department as an opportunity for a bigger navy, and that the navy subsidizes and develops the war industries as a matter of policy was contained in the radio broad- jeast last night of Ernest L. | Jahneke, assistant secretary of the navy, Jahncke says the treaty “dedi- cates us to an orderly and normal advance in furthering our national defense at sea,” and further, “We do not talk now of a ‘big navy’ or a ‘small navy.’ We all want an ‘adequate navy,’ and this I can as- | sure you the president has always sought and I believe has gained.” Subsidies to the war industries are described by Jahncke as fol- | lows: “The navy again and again underwrites the cost of new metals, depression? change, and not by the ever sharp- many prominent exvoutives of other life | Many times the girls faint , ™Perialist powers in the next war. packed into my head by District | new machinery, and new processes, “No, the w are scared and ening contradictions of U. S. and Bab over the mangel and the doctor vie kee a cee ee Attorney Fickert,” who talked to him) and pays high prices for the new- will not buy.” world capitalism, which will plunge} Yous eonaidereticn of cur-propasition co! to attend them. ainst he Soviet Union was clearly | eight or ten times before he went|est and the best. There is no branch of the country’s industry that the navy does not aid by its More idiotic and reactio tripe Durty will be personally ayprecisted by by Bennett's oft-repeated | pefore the grand jury and who also | could not be expected from a patri- declarations against the workers in| promised him the “biggest slice” of | The worst of it is that the work it into an ever deeper morass of | er with untold misery for the} workers. | ers in the shop can’t say a word | the U.S.S.R, otic high school boy. It is an at- tempt to make his hearers believe} that the workers are responsible for the crisis, or that the workers are loaded up with money that they do not want to spend. What are the facts? Over 8,000,000 workers have been thrown out of work by tt of capitalism and no ce tion, Trey have not e ¢ rva- gh money to pay their rent. They live on starvation rations or arve out- right. The crisis was caused by the fundamental contradictions of capi- talism, the prod of goods for profit, and expansion of the machin- ery of production beyond the possi- ole markets to dispose of the flood Also, he doesn’t say anything about unemployment at all, which was the gist of the question. This| was good capitalist propaganda, to} slur over this question, and leave it| hanging in the air. Every worker wants an answer to this, beeause he knows if he is not lready in the ranks of the jobless army, his job is none too safe. The answer is: unemployment will grow worse. The workers must prepare for this and strengthen the demand for unemployment insurance. Edi- son wants to protect his 2llow blood suckers from this shelling out unemployment insurance to their wage slaves, and so dribbles on in his nonsensical style. KIDNAP UNITY of commoditie. tries to} TWO GASES SHOW | pile | The above letter was sent by We big business intere profits for himself. Yours very sincerely, Yell Matthew voll ll, who tells of his connection with 8, to the Amtory Trading Co. in order to get some 3UILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS URGE PROTEST | | | NEW YORK. — The Building aintenance Workers Union calls its members to demonstrate Augus' LABOR DEFENSE READY TO SERVE ON AUGUST 1) NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense, New York district, has made full preparations to meet that the boss doesn’t know within a few minutes. I was trying to ‘speak to a few of the other girls about organization and they asked me not to in the place, and on pay day I was compelled to suit. “The girls are compelled to wear | white uniforms for which they must | pay what the boss sees fit, and the locker that they use also must be paid for out of the miserable wage of $12 a week at the most. Discrimination. “The white girls get from 2 to 3 |dollars more than the Negroes. If such things apply in New York, what can we expect of the southern | states? “As I am a member of the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress, I am at the wheel to do my best in draw- ing all Negro and white women workers in the A.N.L.C. so that they may be prepared for struggle. | | In the issue of “tariff” both the conservative and liberal party, as well as the so-called labor party befuddled the masses as to the more basic issues such as the sharpening agrarian crisis, growing unemploy- | ment, and the general crisis of cap- | italism in Canada. | | The Communist Party had nine | candidates in the election. It car- ried on its campaign despite the fascist terror drive against it, de- spite the beating up and arresting |of some of its candidates, and the smashing of Party headquarters, It brought the real issues before the |masses. The vote received by the Communist Party is not yet obtain- | able. Strike Against Wage-Cuts! | Demand Unemployment Insurance! |He was a $17,500 reward offered for con- | viction by the capitalists of San/ Francisco, “I did what I was told to do,” | said MacDonald, weeping, in his testimony today. “I told five dif- ferent stories five different times,” The justices tried to break down his story by reminding him that he was sworn at the time of the trial. Sworn today, also. He stuck to his repudiation of the old testimony. The supreme court recently re- fused to allow a pardon for Billings because “MacDonald does not ap- pear to repudiate his testimony.” Governor Young has promised to at consider the Billings and Mooney | cases together. His last excuse for refusing a pardon has now disap- peared. He still refuses to hear | orders, its research facilities and its high specifications for material.” % — | | Get Material Today | | | NEW YORK.—AII unit litera- | | ture agents are to report today! || at 6 p. m. atthe Workers Book | Shop, 26-28 Union Square, to get | | | the literature to sell at the Au-| { gust First demonstration. ee “For Alt Kinds of Insurance’ (CARL BRODSKY Velepbone: Murray Hau 555 7 Hast 42nd Street, New York Demonstrate August Ist! MacDonald’s story, however. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont pris tyes Faso ie plan Uganda the \offensive of tha bosses aud thet |Join the American Negro Labor | Hee CORUEAOEA ache ene Cant el bene the working class on} Congress, regardless of your creed | *AMUSEMENTS-> mal renee cree grow Stenauy August First, a statement is-| or color or nationality.” |“A TENSE RUSSIAN DRAMA’— worse. During the terrific unem- Bice bec eee ia TEXTILE WORKERS MEET AMKINO PRESENT LEAGUE LEADER GLASS “JUSTICE” Birmingham Workers Carrol Has Jury Trial;' to Demonstrate Aug. 1) Not Jobless Leaders industries flock to the maintenance work. The workers exploited in thi: industry realize that the U. S. im- perialist government has a war plan to: use up the man. power it can not use in industry, and that mean- | i iF while it is trying to make the work-| Dvring preparation for the Au-] zation meeting of all textile work- | ers carry the whole burden of the | gust First demonstration, many | ers will be held today at 7:30 p. m. | jease of the leaders of the unem-j industrial crisis. |Workers have been arrested. The) at the headquarters of the National ployed, Foster, Minor, Amter, Les-} All janitors, porters, elevator | POSses have made every effort to) Textile Workers’ Union, 13 West | |ten and Raymond, and the case of! operators, window cleaners, oilers, | St°? the mobilization of the work-|17th St. This meeting is to make} ons to give full support to defend| rkers arrested and persecuted for their struggle against imperial- | war and for the defense of the oviet Union, Parkway, Bronx ‘. Y. Times. AMERICAN PREMIERE “SHE LAW tH | SIBERIAN TAIGA” | The newest Soviet drama. A chronicle of the ployment, many discharged in othe calla ganen Law weoroat TODAY TO PLAN AUG. 1 BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 30.—| The campaign of terrorism directed | against the workers of Birmingham and their organizations reached a } imax late Saturday with the kid- napping of Harry Jackson, south- ara organizer of the T.U.U.L. NEW YORK.—“The methods by} which capitalist ‘justice’ are meted out can be shown in comparing the action of the courts in handling the} RATIONAL Vegetarian 5} RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE, JE Bet. 12th and 18th Ste. NEW YORK.—A special mobili-} Jackson had been arrested Friday right. He was released from jail}! Saturday afternoon when the police | found that he was already out on ond in another case; at least thi, s the story they tell. | He was evidently picked up lireetly after his release and taken ‘or a ride. There seems little loubt that the police arrested him fer one reason and one only, to re- ease him, after taking away his zun, at a prearranged time and) nlace where the Ku Klux Klan or yther agents of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, could pick him! »» with no danger to themselves. The cowardly rats were afraid to ry to get him before the police had jone their bit in relieving him of ais gun. | Up to the time this was written (Monday at 3 p. m.) nothing had yeen heard from. him. It seems | srobable that the “southern gentle-| nen” of Birmingham have added another cowardly murder to their dloody record. Leaders in Jail. Earl Carroll, who is up on charges of presenting an obscene show (dis- playing naked women, as if that is something new),” says the New York Communist Campaign Com- mittee, and continues: “Carroll is given a jury to pass on the validity of the charge, whether the show was obscene or not, according to a decision of Judge | Rosalsky, because this was a case that ‘involved the question of per- | sonal liberties of an individual. “The case of the unemployed dele- gation involved the question of! property rights.’ When you trans- gress the property rights of the capitalist class then you are in a worse category. This is not the first time that this sort of class = rule has been-displayed. The work- ing class cannot expect justice from the boss class. Justice under capi- talism is justice for the capitalist class. Why They Are In Jail. “In arguments before the supreme court, the attorney for the Interna- tional Labor Defense argued for a The situation is tense here. Joe jury trial for Foster, Minor, Amter, Jarr, organizer of the Mine, Oil and Lesten and Raymond, but it was Smelter Workers’ Union; and Gene | denied by the servants of the bosses. Braxton, Negro miner and leading |The working class can well under- uember of the Communist Party stand why the delegation of the sere, are in jail on a double charge | Unemployed are serving a three- of trespassing on company property Year sentence. They are serving it \firemen, handymen, apartment house superintendents, etc., are urged not only to demonstrate to- morrow for all war funds to be used | for the unemployed, but to build a strong Building Maintenance Workers Union, affiliated with the | Trade Union Unity League, section | | of the Red, International. They are also urged to take part | in the T.U.U.L. picnic, August 3, at Pleasant Bay Park. OFFICE WORKERS RALLY |AT 5 ON AUGUST FIRST NEW YORK.—The Office Work-| ers Union is distributing thousands | of leaflets calling upon all in those! trades to rally to the August First | anti-war demonstration. All office workers are called to be at union headquarters, 13 West 17th St., on August First at 5 p. m. from where | they will proceed in a body to Union Square to join the demonstration. Bernarr MacFadden still uses all | means to prevent organization of the exploited workers in his estab: / lishment. When H. Sterns appeared | with union leaflets yesterday morn- | ing, he was immediately arrested. | and vagrancy. They will come to csrial August 6. Frank Burns, Harry Jackson and Tom Johnson, | were sentenced to $50 fines and one ‘ear on the chain gang on similar vharges last week. Police are now again looking for Tom Johnson, listrict organizer of the Communist Party, but have not succeeded in) arresting nim as this is written. The white and colored workers of | Birmingham are determined that | chis wave of terror shall not smash | heir organizations, are determined o protect their organizers at all) rosts. Workers throughout this see- | jon are searching for trace of Jackson or the rats who took him| for a ride. Tae Communist Party | na leaflet issued today calls on the workers to build such organizations hat the bosses will be unable to smash and to immediately proceed | with the organization of workers| defense corps. Birmingham workers will rally in nass demonstration against the ‘ascist terror, and the imperialist war plans for which it is a prepara- sion, The demonstration will he August First, at 22nd St. and New) Market St. Call For August 1st Meet in Middletown The Communist Party will open ts election campaign in Middle- ‘own, Friday night, at 8 o'clock xt South St. and East Main 3t. This meeting will be part of because they fought in the interests and for the demands of the working class, This action in the case of Carroll must be a stimulus for the | creation of a tremendous movement for the release of our leaders and |for all political prisoners. “The unemployd delegation, Fos- ter, Minor and Amter, in spite of the fact that they are now in jail, are the leading candidates of the Communist Party in the coming elections. Foster is the candidate for Governor in the state of New York and Amter and Minor are can- didates for Congress. The work- ers in the coming elections will give their answer to the imprisonment of our comrades, “The workers in New York, in addition, must actively participate in the election activities of the Com- munist Party by aiding in the drive of signature collection, by selling the election platform of the Com- munist Party and by aiding in the collection if funds for the Election Campaign. The Communist Party —the only Party of the working class, can only deperd on the work- ers for their support. August must see the beginning of tremendous ac- tivities in support of the Commu- nist program and candidates.” March from factories, shops and mines directly after work on August Ist to the demonstrations against war and unemployment. danger. The speakers will be Ray he world wide August 1st demon- tration against the imperialist war | Sirby, Ragozin, Julius Fishman and Freda Strike Against Wage-Culs! | Demand Unemployment Insurance! | Labor and Fraternal! W.LR. Attention? All members of the W.LR, will meet at 10 EB. i7th St. on Friday, August Ist, at 4 pm. to march in a body to the Anti-War Demonstration. * # Yorkville I. L. D. Will have an open air meeting to- night at 8 p. m. at 72nd St. and Ist} Ave. Cae, NE: Office Workers’ Union Will hold a meeting today at 4:30) In front of the Metropolitan Life In- surance a auaine. * Workers’ Ex-Servicemen Will have an open air meeting to- night at the Waterfront—South Ferry, at 8:30. 1 ne) U. CG. W. W. Attention! All_ members’ and sympathizers of the U. C. W. W. are to meet Friday at 4p. m. in front of the office at 80 East 11th St., in order to march in a body to the anti-war demon- stration in Union Square. Communist Activiti New Jersey Pienics for the election campaign will take place in the following places this Sunday. Perth Amboy will have a picnic in Florida Grove Road Busses and cars will leave from City Line and New Brunswick Ave., Perth Amboy. Elizabeth will have its pic- nie at Wallicks Farm quinden, N. J. Functtonaries Training School All applicants for this school should come to a meetin Aug. 2, at 3:30 p,m, in the workers’ Ieleheaiatie ety heb) Square, N. Y, C. Bre Saturday, Section 4 All comrades must be present at the headquarters today at 5 p. m., 308 Lenox Aye. a, 138 BAST 110TH ST. LARGE, SMALL farnished rooms, convenient, near subway. Lehigh 1800, ing class. All arrested workers are | final preparations for the August being taken care of and need the| First demonstration and also to get assistance of every worker to con-| all members mobilized for the Trade tinue their fight. Union Unity League picnic, August The branches of the I. L. D. have|3. There will be a special speaker been fully mobilized to come ‘in a|tonight from the T. U. U. L. on body to Union Square and join the| the August First demonstration. militant working class in their] The N. T. W. urges all its mem- struggle against war, unemploy-| bers and all textile workers to be ment, speed-up and persecution of|at the August 1 anti-war demon- militant class fighters . stration tomorrow. Biggest and Best Workers’ Outing of the Season! Our Build the Baily Sa Picnic—Carnival Held im Co-operation with —All Revolutionary and Sympathetic Workers’ Organizations; —All Party Communist Papers; —All Daily Worker Readers; —All Workers from the Shops That We Can Reach. REMEMBER THE DATE SUNDAY, AUG. 17 PLEASANT BAY PARK INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER CALLS FOR THE FORMATION OF FIRST ENGLISH SPEAKING BRANCH A meeting will be held to organize the first English speak- ing branch of the International Workers’ Order on Thursday, (Tonight) at 7:30 sharp, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. The International Workers Order is based on mutual aid, fraternal and cultural benefits including insurance and sick benefit for workers regardless of race, color or sex. We call upon all English speaking workers to come to this first meeting held for the purpose of organizing an English speaking branch. We Meet at the— COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE FRESH FRUIT SODAS AND ICE CREAM U. S. S. R. CANDIES———-CIGARETTES Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty =s(; | Tungus Tribe in the frozen wastes of Siberia .. . Desperately battling for life... Fighting for food PRODUCED IN U, 8. 8. R. BY KINO-SIBIR LATEST SOVKINO NEWSREEL 42ND STREET | Now! and Broadway WIS. 1789 A Theatre Guild Production | THE NEW GARRICK GAIETIES W. 52d. Bvs. 8:30 GUILD Mts.Th.aSat.2:30 ADDED \UPRACTION ‘CAMEO LOBE oan te (CHARD DIX in “SHOOTING STRAIGHT” and Clark & McCullough Comedy Struggle Against Wage Cuts! All Out to the TRADE UNION UNITY COUNCIL , PICNIC in conjunction with the revolutionary industrial leagues at PLEASANT BAY PARK SUNDAY—ALL DAY—AUGUST 3 DIRECTIONS: Bronx Park or East 180th St. Subway to East 177th St. Station. Take Unionport Car to end of line. Our bus will meet you. TICKETS IN ADVANCE 35c AT THE GATE 50c Special Offer for the Picnic Only: “Labor Unity,” Official Organ of the T.U.U.L. one year $1.00 Regular rate $1.50. SUBSCRIBE NOW! EIGHTH ANNUAL MORNING FREIHEIT PICNIC & CARNIVAL Saturday, August 2nd AT ULMER PARK 25th Avenue, Bath Beach, Brooklye Over Fifty Workingclass Revolutionary Organizations Participating SPORTS, GAMES, DANCING AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS LARGE JAZZ BAND DIRECTIONS: —B.-M-0 West Gnd Line Trains to 25th Avenue Strictly Vegetarian Food —MELROSE — +? VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT jen U1 Always Find it fo Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx (near 174th st. Station) ON INTERVALB °B _ 9149. ipunrmersneee eee | HEALTH FOOD | Vegetarian | RESTAURANT | 1660 MADISON AVE. 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