The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1930, Page 3

-—_ VORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1930 Page Three UNEMPLOYED ARMYIN , GERMANY A TREMENDOUS PACE Boss Economists Admit Figures Will Show 5,000,000 Without Jobs Soon General Electric and Chrysler In Germany Lay| : Off From 10 to 25% of Workers Reports in the capitalist press in this country give some details of the sharpening economic and poli- tical crisis in Germany. Kendall} Foss, New York Times correspon- dent in Berlin, in a dispatch to his paper (Aug. 3) admits the stagger- ing growth of unemployment. He says: “The most serious factor at pre- sent is the steady increase in the numbers seeking unemployment re- lief at a season of the year when unemployment usually reaches its lowest ebb. The 2,774,000 who were hunting work on July 15 represent- ed an increase of 74,000 since June 80. Reports from England indi- cate only a slightly better state of affairs.” . Of course, the official figure of 2,774,000 greatly underestimates the fact. There are at least 5,000,000 now unemployed in Germany. Foss further on in his dispatch says that capitalist economic observers admit that the official figure will jump up to 5,000,000 this winter, which portends an unemployed army in Germany of around 6,000,000 to 7,000,000. In the July 25 issue of the Analist Sign Commercial Treaty In Italy With U.S.S.R. | ROME, Aug. 3.—A commercial treaty was signed today between Italy and the Soviet Union. Finance Minister Mosconi and Minister of GROWS AT there is an article by Emil Lengyel entitled “Germany’s Critical Econo- mic Position Matched by the Crisis in Government,” which gives some more details of the worsening crisis. He shows the rapidly developing! fascism, aided by the social-dem-| ocrats. “There is a cry for dictator-| ship even among the fairly moderate elements,” says Lengyel. Many big plants are laying off thousands of workers. A recent dis- patch to the Journal of Commerce from Berlin says: “The German General Electric Co. and the Siemens & Halske concern, the two leading electric- al enterprises in Germany, have given notice of discharge to ten per cent of their employes .. . “The Chrysler automobile fac- tory has given similar notice to 25 per cent of its employes.” Thus unemployment grows apace in the leading basic industries. These two companies, especially the Ger- man General Electric Co. employs tens of thousands of workers, and their drastic lay-offs will effect thousands and considerably add to the ranks of the unemployed. Communications Bottai, signed for Italy. Isidor Luibimoff, Soviet com- mercial attache, signed for the U.S. 8. RB. RAISE BAIL ON DAYTON WORKERS This Judge Afraid of Workers’ Rise DAYTON, O., Aug. 3.—The bail for Rose Clark and John Andrews arrested in the demonstration of unemployed workers before Mayor MacDonald’s office in Dayton was raised to $1,000. Saturday morning Clark and An- drew appeared in court. Judge Holdapp proved what a willing tool he is and the prejudice he has for the Communists or any worker. The request for a continuance was granted as the defendants attorney was not yet secured. Judge Holdapp however, wanted to determine “whether of not to raise the bond.” He called the two camrades to the witness stand and began firing ques- tions at them. When asked why they could not have a trial as any other defendant the judge said “he wanted to know all the details in the case.” After questioning the comrades and delivering a lecture about Com- munism that it cannot be brought | into Dayton, that we cannot try here } what we try in Cleveland or New York, he tried to get a promise from the two representatives of the unemployed that “they would do no more demonstrating in the city streets, shouting and singing” and he would not raise the bail. There is something sort of grim in the way the judge tried to make the workers who came to hear the outcome of the trial of the Unem- ployed Council Demonstration be- lieve that Communism has no place | in Dayton. Most of them had been at the demonstration and marched | along with hundreds others because | they were hungry. Dayton’s fac- | tories are shutting down one by one. Women are working for 7 and 8 | dollars a week. The women in the | cigar factories working 9 hours a | day receive two dollars a day. Men p. | with jobs as laborers on the Penn. | R. R. are working for $14 a week. | The National Cash Register is plan- | ning another cut after the workers | return from their “two weelts vaca- \ tion” which was forced on them be- } ginning Monday. CALL MASS MEET IN GASTONIA FRI. GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 3.—Ten thousand leaflets have been issued for the meeting that is to be held in Gastonia on August 9. The meeting | will be held on the old union lot, where the thugs of the Manville- , Jenckes recently burned up the old | Union Hall. | Mills here are running half time, _ and nine mills have recently closed | down for an indefinite time. The | bosses have announced that within the next few days, the mills will ‘ open up and run on full time, but the wages will have to be cut 10 per cent and the workers whose wages \now amount to goose-eggs after the boss deducts for the rent, grocery (bill and coal, after the 10 per cent | wage cut, the workers will be owing | money to the mill owners after | working 66 hours a week. The workers know that they will | have to form a solid block with the | rest of the workers in order to fight back the attacks of the bosses and the miserable conditions under FAKE OLD AGE SECURITY LAW Expose N. Y. Joker; Fight For Real Bill (Continued from Page One) is a mockery to expect them to starve for thirty years until they reach 70. And if they are phys- ically “able” to earn a few dollars, though they can find no job, the law denies them relief, also if a child exists or other relatives “re- sponsible under the law”—although possibly unable to find work them- selves, the state denies the aged worker any relief. Then the additional restrictions: The aged worker must be a citizen, a resident of New York State for ten years, and so on, This, al- though the aged worker may have toiled his whole lifetime piling up profits for his boss or bosses, and despite the fact that a non-citizen needs help and gets just as hungry as a citizen, But after all these bars are over- come, the aged worker of 70 or more years, will get, if he is lucky, a miserable $20 per month, a sum no one can live on. Compared to this, the Social Insurance Bill of the Communist Party proposed that all workers mentioned above as elig- ible, shall get “in no case less than $25 per week.” Worka’s should ex- pose this fake old age “security” law of New York, and should dem- onstrate on September 1, for the Social Insurance Bill, proposed by the Communist Party. BUSINESSMEN ON PENN, S, P, SLATE ‘PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.—The socialist party completed its Penn- sylvania state ticket by selecting 10 real estate brokers, wealthy doctors and dyed-in-the-wool A. F. of L. fakers to run forthe State Legisla- ture and Congress from Philadel- phia. With characteristic reformist treachery, among those selected were two men, posing as workers. This was done the better to deceive the workers of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The redoubtable labor faker, James H. Maurer, aged Reading councilman and chief of the state social fascists, was selected to run for governor. The very wealthy and “substan- tial” citizen of Philadelphia society’s Main Line, Miss Mary Winsor, was chosen to run for lieutenant-gov- ernor. Out of a total of twelve candi- dates only two are possibly workers. A goodly number of the twelve socialist candidates are high salaried officials of the various A. F. of L. unions, such as the Musteite United Textile Workers. ——— District of the I. L. D. is one of a series of anti-terror drive meetings, where the workers will be told about the terror that is raging through the country, the imprison- ment of workers, beating, kid- napping and lynching of Negro and white workers for their activity in organizing the workers into Left Wing organizations, unemployed councils, etc, in order to more ef- fectively fight the bosses. Speakers will include Jennie Coo- which they are forced to slave, This meeting held by the Southern per, district organizer; John Poer- ter, W. G. Binkle and Helen Lodge. Aug. 1 in New York THOUSANDS IN FACTORY TOWNS DEMONSTRATED August 1 Shows Wave of Revolt Spreads (Continued from Page One) whose factories and mines provide tens of thousands of workers with their chance to be expoited or un- employed. 2,000 in Grand Rapids. The furniture city of Grand Rap- ids, Mich., had an August 1 demon- stration of 2,000 workers which fought the police for over an hour for the right to meet. The demon- stration was broken up only after large sections of the crowd had entered the struggle to defend the speakers and the banners carrying anti-war and unemployment insur- ance slogans. 2,000 in Seattle. In Seattle, on the “skid-road” at Washington and Occidental Sts., a mass of 2,000 cheéred Communist and revolutionary union speakers. Many were veterans of previous demonstrations which had fought the police so hard that this one was not attacked. 5,000 in New Bedford. New Bedford, Mass., scene of the great textile strike of 1928, the town which U. S. Commissioner of Labor Wood boasts “has been cleared of Communist influence,” saw two demonstrations August 1. In the North End, 4,000 workers rallied to applaud Communist speakers, and to vote for the Work- ers Social Insurance Bill. Here world war veterans rose and showed the scars of wounds they received in 1918, urging the workers to fight for something for themselves in the next war. A similarly enthusiastic erdwd of 1,000 assembled in the south end of New Bedford. 3,000 in Iron Center. The metal mining centers, Iron- wood and Hancock, showed each a demonstration of 1,000, mostly min- ers. Police attacked the Ironwood meeting. Hibbing (previously re- ported) had about the same number demonstrating. This marks real progress of the Communist Party and the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union into the ranks of these terribly exploited metal miners. In the Philadelphia sector, there were a number of demonstrations. Instead of one single meeting, a demonstration of 750 was held in Kensington (textiles); a demonstra- tion of 1,500 took place on the Waterfront; and 800 demonstrated in Clifton Heights. In nearby Chester, a steel center, 300 demon- strated. In Allentown, coal and textiles, 150 demonstrated. A fine demonstration was held in Minersville, Pa., in the face of threats to smash the meeting made by Lewis thugs. Two attempts of these thugs to break up the meet- ing were vigorously repulsed -by the workers. This town has a mining population of 5,000. Most of the miners were there, and large numbers from their families. In Muskegon, Mich., 1,000 demon- strated and applauded the speakers. After the meeting a large group walked over to the Un- employed Council, jammed the place, and held another meeting. Fourteen joined. Negro Speakers, Indianapolis. Another thousand demonstrated August 1 in Indianapolis, Ind., the state capital, and John L. Lewis’ capital. The meeting was held at the State Capitol building, with Negro and white speakers. Indiana is one of the northern states most inclined to Jim Crow Negroes. Those joining the Communist Party at the meeting numbered 75. In Reading, Pa., a city with a socialist party administration, 500 workers took part in the August 1 demonstration, and the speakers as- sailed the socialist misleaders, who were present as observers. Many applications from former socialists were received, In Baltimore there were two demonstrations of about 300 each, one at the Plaza and one on the waterfront. In Washington, D. C., 250 came out. Hundreds are re- ported at the demonstration in Windsor, Canada, near Detroit—one of the border demonstrations, New England Factory Towns. It is now estimated that over 6,000 took part in nine New Eng- land cities: New Haven, New Brit- ain, . Bridgeport, Stamford, New Ae ndon, Hartford, Springfield, uth Norwalk and Waterbury. In New London, the naval police were called out to keep sailors away, the two },800” demonstrators. - we ary reas a SEO WP S .» ELECTION COM, “EE Ea EE Suffering Bad Conditions Circus Men Want Union) Daily Worker. Dear Com.: Please run this item for several | days. | Circus slaves conditions are ter- rible. Speedup, wage cuts, layoffs and half pay conditions is worse than ever before. What we need is a Red organizer. Please send us one. The boys want to organize awful bad. The bosses know that they can get lots of men nowadays. | The slave master is no worse than these hard boiled circus We open in Grant Park Saturday, Au- | gust 2 for 9 days. The Ringling, Barnum circus e ployees suffer under most mis affairs. Send us a good spe A CIRCUS SLAVE. YOUNG WORKERS | FIGHT TERROR Increased Activity Is) Answer to Police New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: Dear comrade—Again the bosses have come out openly and have shown their true fascist role and fear of the workers to learn the truth about conditions. They broke up an open air meeting Monday night, which was being held by the Young Communist League of Coney Island, | at East 7th St. and Brighton Beach | Ave. The meeting had been going »n/ for about 2 hours with police head- quarters permission. While ques- tions were being asked of the| speakers by the workers, a cop on a horse rode right into the large crowd and threw the platfrom over. But this did not dispose of the crowd. We stood on the corner and spoke in large circles to the workers who also stood around and listened and argued: against the cops. “Where is their democracy ?”— “Where is there freedom of speech?” The answer is—“it isn’t.” The dem- ocratic club around the corner un- derstood that we meant business and meant to organize the workers into fighting organizations against them- selves, the bosses. They understood and thought they could stop us by breaking; up our open air meeting. But they think wrong. It will| take more than a cop on a horse or} a whole troop of cops on horses to stop us from speaking to the work- ers and organizing them. The workers of Brighton Beach have not heard the end of that in- cident. We, the Young Communist League of Coney Island, will fol- low this incident up with literature, mass meetings and open air meet- ings on the same corner We will fight for the right of the streets to the last if necessary. And there won't be any last until every worker is shot down dead, and that will never come, not even in a revolution. We'll do some shooting also, then. Comradely, J. K.—Y.C.L. Coney Island Unit. POLICE CLUB INDIANS WHILE GANDHI PARLEYS Capitalist press dispatches from Bombay over the week-end report that the Gandhi leaders are con- tinuing their negotiations with the imperial government, but that on Saturday the masses demonstrated in Bombay in commemoration of the death, ten years ago of a nation- alist leader, B. G. Tikla, an dthat police attacking the demonstration injured by clubbing “between 60 and It is obviously another case, of which there are many in India, of the masses of workers ready to struggle against imperialism, and the Gandhi leadership trying to be- tray them. Vallabhai Patel, acting president of the Gandhi “Congress”; Mala- viya, president of its working com-| mittee, and four others have been arrested, an dtrial postponed. MONTGOMERY-WARD WORKERS MUST WALK GROUP SPEED UP "str, IN PIERCE ARROW) "rv sve HARD ON MEN Workers Want To Be Organized New York City. The Editor Daily Worker. Dear Editor: Please publish this in the Daily Worker the paper of the entire working class. Yesterday evening, August 1, af- jter the meeting broke up or ad- journed at Union Square and while some of the demonstrators were on | their way home I noticed a vicious attack (without the slightest pro- vocation on the part of the work- T am one of the slaves at the|ers) by New York’s finest weak- Pierce Arrow in Buffalo. The big| lings and cowards—the police are slave driving sweat and blood suck- | proclaimed heroes for beating young ers have specded up that burg 100|girls and children. These police Buffalo, N. Y. Daily Worker. Dear Editor: =| per cent. They put forth the group | heroes are devoid of manhood, and system, which is only another game | honor and are lower than the belly of put and take with the big fat-|of a snake, yellower than the yel- tened up bosses doing the taking. | lowest cur, slimy as an eel. In short New Speed Up. |they and their bosses are the dirtiest They explained we will make as scum of the earth. much as we ever did, so we figure} Yours for the overthrow the amount of work accordingly, but | dirty system. our figures and theirs is always dif- ferent. They brag that they are making more this year than last year. You can bet we won’t deny | that. Who is the loser? We, the | busy. We’re drove for from one to pluggers ,who get one third the pay | three days a week, then as a re- we drew last year. They told us| ward we get shut out for a week we will make as much as ever. Yes,|and a half. We drew a week p: just about if a 60 per cent. reduc- | last week, this week we get 3 day tion doesn’t make any difference. Fire All the Time. They fire men for no reason at all and when you demand some sort of explanation they have none to offer. Of c6urse we know every time a man is let go we will get of this A CITY SLAVE. pushed that much harder. They make the world believe they are eat, sleep or buy wearing apparel. We can sleep in the streets with the grumblings of our stomach for music. Why not send an organizer to the Pierce slave den? AN EXSERVICE MAN. Veterans’ Bureau Plays Gyp Game on Disabled War Vets Oklahoma City, Daily Worker: The Veterans’ some twelve years to adjust Amer- O.|not pay your claim. This is one of the greatest leverages that the Bu- reau has taken to disallow claims. Thousands of claims are com- ing under this measure of being Bureau has had Why should they care where we | HOLD Behind Party | fees | MILWAUKE — On Sun- | day, Q y Hall, the nating Convention of the W consin Section of the Communist |Party was held. The Convention was attended by 45 delegates enting 25 workers organiza- ions and many spectators, was op- }ened by Bill Clark, election cam- | paign manager, with the reading of | the convention call. Raymond Hansborough, candidate for U.S. Congressman presided at the convention. After election of all convention committees, Section organizer Dave Mates, reported on the Communist election platform. Fred Bassett, now serving 1 year for his leadership of the March 6 unemployed demons: ion and his | struggles for the wo: |nominated for | Kagan, now serving s | participating in the | onstration was nominated for $ |Senator. Twelve other can | were nominated by the conv: |Lieut. Gov. — Wm. Cl e—Edward Nehm ator — Wm. Ma: W U. S. Congress — Raymond Hansborough and John Kasun, Stat |Senate — Donald Burke and James | Burgess, State Assemb! |ton, Jack Schwab, Hen | Herbert Fredrichs, Fo ch 6 dem- lates ion. of ‘en- ior, Sheriff of Milwaukee county, John Mueller. After reading the acceptance | speeches‘ of the two militant work- ers from jail, the other candidates made brief speeches, pledging to carry on an intensive campaign in behalf of the Communist Party. After a considerable discussion of the Party election platform, resolu- | tions were unanimously adopted and an election campaign committee was elected. The convention displayed jthe militancy of the American work- }ers and concluded with a spirit of | determination to continue the strug- gle for the platform of the Com- | munist Party against capitalist sys- | tem of exploitation. Demand the release of Fos. x months for | ican veterans claims. They have one great alibi which they are using and that ‘is “misconduct” on the veterans claim, syphilis. Several hundreds of veterans are walking the streets and have not disallowed when it is passed on by| ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- some quack doctor in the Veterans | mond, in prison for fighting bureau, a quack that has not been | ; able to make a gainful occupation | for unemployment insurance. WISCONSIN I. L. D. LAUNGHES WAR CHEST DRIVE ~ \/To Rally Workers|Defense of Class War s Needed | Prisone | 1 entrated three months \¥ for the de- f r cases now Unemployment York, and the prisoners in Cali- to lissued ye by | dahl. “hese pr the Interna- tional La points out i its announcement today of the War Chest Campaign, “have deprived the | working movement of some lof its fo ers in all parts of the It is the duty and the responsi f worker for wh women uffering prison ltences and the possibility of lynch- ing or execution, to give help in the defense that the release of the |heroic working cla are | be secured.” | he Unemployment Delegation has been in prison for four months with- jout sentence bein, determined, hough the usual course is a dec ion after three weeks, The Jmperial” Valley defendants are in prison for 42 years unless res- cued by mass protest. heir crime |consisted in their efforts to organ- ize the exploited workers of the |fruit growing districts. | The Atlanta defendants face death because they tried to hold an | unemployment meeting. heir crime is that they courageously dare to |advocate social equality of the | Negro and white worker in the com- mon struggle against exploitation. | And the hate ridden South is clamor- | ing for their death! Not a cent for armaments: aN funds for unemployment insurance. FARM IN THE PINES Situated in Pine Forest, near Mt Laké. German Table. Rates: 816— $18. Swimming and Fishing. M. OBERKIRCH Box 78 KINGSTON, N. ¥ | R. 1, in civil life and is now employed | by the Veterans’ Bureau. CHICAGO, — Mongomery-Ward | workers have been ordered not to) ride in the company’s elevators if | the distance is not more than one| flight up or two flights down. The| cost of starting and stopping the, elevators is greater to the bosses) than their interest in the well-being of their miserably paid help. American Legion tried to smash the demonstration, the speaker, Ruth Fischer was arrested, and the hall for the evening meeting locked. A protest meeting will be held here during the week, In Kenosha, Ill, the meeting was smashed by police, There are some corrections of first reports. 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