The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1930, Page 1

DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. FORCES FROM CHINA The New York Unemployed Delegation Are To Be Released, Some of Them— and Maybe—October 21! Mass Action Forced Even This Miserable (iesture. , Onward, Workers! Forward to Sep- ‘tember First! Fight for Work- ers’ Social Insurance! Dail Central ae AY, n of ne Sdviuy unist Party U.S.A. the Communist [NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930 Percy wetianal) ATIONAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! EDITION Into whe ais With febieas Insurance BillChina Revolt Sweeps Capitalist J ustice AGRANCY laws are class legislation. They are directed against the. poorest of the poor, against the jobless, the moneyless and homeless workers. The outrageous character of the vagrancy laws is evident even when applied only to the intended victims. But capitalist justice is not satisfied with that. It uses its vagrancy laws as instru- ments »f scab herding. It uses them to hunt down labor organizers and political antagonists. In the state of Georgia the capitalist masters threraten the labor Organizers with the electric chair. In the state of Alabama the capi- | talist masters have found what they consider a better method to meet the problem of labor organizers. They arrest them and charge and convict them of vagrancy. In Birmingham, Alabama, the domain of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, the organizers of the Trade Union Unity League, of the American Negro Labor Congress and of the Communist Party have been arrested, charged with vagrancy and sentenced to one year on the chain gang. At the same time these organizers were told that if they did not leave the domain of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company they would be arrested every five days and charged with the same crime, The vagrancy laws make unemployment a crime. On the chain gangs in the South hundreds of persons may be found whose one crime is that capitalism could not provide them with a job. The gentlemanly and chivalrous Southern masters use the vagrancy laws in order to have their roads mended and tnei pubic pushed without touching their pocketbooks. The chain gang is the method of the Southern gentlemen to unload on the shoulders of the poorest of the poor the burden of taxation which otherwise would have to be insti- tuted in order to have the necessary public work performed. Yet, these gentlemen glibly talk about forced labor in the Soviet Union. In undisguised brutality the judges in the South perform their duty of providing slaves for necessary public work; and they utilize any pretense to get them. The crime of the “vagrant” is that he is homeless and moneyless. This crime is punished with twelve months on the chain gang. The boss who refuses the worker a job and who is annoyed at the persis- tency with which the worker asks for a job, gets rid of the job-seeking worker by calling the police and having him arrested as a “vagrant.” In the case of the organizers of the T. U. U. L., of the A. N. L. C. and of the Communist Party in Birmingham we have an application of the vagrancy law truly bringing out the real spirit of that law. It is a law against the working class. Anyone who dares to propa- gate organization among the workers falls under these laws. It is true that the mere letter of the law presupposes that a vagrant is homeless and without income, while the organizers who have been charged with vagrancy in Alabama are supplied both with home and income by their organizations; but such little things do not bother the conscience of the Southern gentlemen. Such little things do not bother the conscience of a capitalist. His God demands that he make profit; and the capitalists all believe in their God; they condemn enemies of their God, whether the letter of the law justifies it or not, They sen- tence labor organizers to the chain gang. They know that if not the letter then the spirit of their law justifies it, The American working class must unite to fight against all vagrancy laws. The millions of unemployed must make a struggle against vagrancy laws an immediate objective in their movement. The workers must stop the outrage of the ruling class in Alabama which maintains it power only by lynching. It does not matter whether this lynching is that of outright murder or whether it is the dry method of lynching by arresting and sentencing labor organizers and political antagonists to the chain gang for non-existent and non-committed crimes, The Tiger’s Heart AMMANY, New York’s example of capitalism, ulcerous with graft, cynical as a harlot, more brutal than any beast, slanders the com- paratively noble animal by which it is known—the Tiger. But the tiger has a heart! None other than that Tammany prince of underworld dudes, Mayor Walker, steps forth to prove it. He has written a letter to the Parole Commission, and, on the strength of it, this commission, which fills its pockets with graft from the victims of other Tammany grafters, has decreed the release of some of the March 6 Unemployed Delegation elected by 110,000 workers, who are probably, provisionally and with “all due caution,” to be released on October 21. Foster, Minor and Amter are “guilty,” of course, as Walker says, but merely of “bad manners,” of “unpatriotic statements.” And for these abominable offenses “pure and virtuous” Tammany gives them six months in prison, and they are to get out, maybe, on October 21. As for Raymond, he had doubtless been “bad mannered” before, at least he had been so judged by some other crooked judge whom Tam- many holds in sacred regard, and, therefore, although the first “crime” has been expiated, he must remain in prison four months more than the others. It is true that even this gesture, so hypocritical that, we repeat, no tiger would be so shameless as to make, was forced out of the cauldron of crooks known as Tammany Hall, by the pressure of the protesting workers of this couptry. The Tiger wishes to pretend, before election, that it has a heart. But it is careful not to release these revolutionary workers, these Communists, in time for their valuable service in rousing the workers in the congressional elections to Vote Communist! Again, no tiger would think of insulting its prey. Byt Walker, whose sales of offices, bus deals and endless other things stinks to heaven, decks himself out as a vestal virgin and urges the Parole Com- mission crooks to see that “the conditions of your parole will not give these men any license to repeat the offense.” Such damnable perfidy! What had they been doing, these Com- munist leaders? Walker hypocritically says: “The only injury they worked was to themselves or the cause they espoused.” Rot! If they had done only that, this slick mayorial crook would not give them even the miserable chance he does of “repeating the offense.” Of course, neither Raymond, Foster, Minor or Amter committed no crime. The criminals were exclusively the detestable Whalen, his successor in infamy, Mr. Mulrooney; the judges, in short, the whole capitalist machinery of class justice. To say that these working-class prisoners were guilty of “bad man- ners” and “unpatriotic statements,” and at the same time to demand that they stay in prison if and unless they are guaranteed not to “re- peat the offense,” not to be “bad mannered” or say “unpatriotic” words, is a mockery in itself. Under such rules, even by one so half-witted as Dancing Jimmy, any one of the millions of New York workers might be kept in prison for life. What is the lesson of all this? It is that the same masses of work- ers for which the Unemployed Delegation was railroaded must support more than ever the demands which that delegation voiced. The lesson is that every worker, employed or unemployed, must. rally to vote Communist on election day, to aid in breaking up the political machine of capitalist exploitation, and on September First come into the streets in militant demonstration for the Workers’ Socia’ Insurance Bill, which embraces in it the demand for “Work or Wages,” for which the delegation went to prison. Protest the class vengeance of capitalism! Demand the release, immediate and unconditional, of Raymond, Foster, Minor and Amter! Fight for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill! UNITY LEAGUE CAMPAIGNS FOR JOBLESS LEADERS ‘All Demonstrations to Demand Release of Four in New York NEW YORK.—The National of- fice of the Trade Union Unity League yesterday issued instructions | to all affiliated unions and indus-| ‘trial leagues to intensify the cam paign for the release of the delega tion elected by the March 6 demon stration of unemployed in New ork to carry their demands to the | government. The Tammany gov-, ernment’s answer to this was to | railroad the committee through a court where no trial by jury was | allowed, and sentence them to three | years indeterminate sentence, which | they are now serving. | One of the committee is the gen- eral secretary of the T.U.U.L., Wil- liam Z. Foster. The others ar | Harry Raymond, a marine worker: Robert Minor, editor of the Daily | Worker, and Israel Amter, New| (Continued on Page Five) ISSUE ORDER TO DEPORT SERIO All Witnesses Swear Inspector Lies NEW YORK. — Guido Serio, ar- rested for speaking at an unem- ployment protest meeting in Erie, Pennsylvania, and held under $25,- 000 bail, has been ordered deported to Italy by the United States Im- migration authorities, according to a wire received today by the Na- tional Office of the International | Labor Defense today “This verdict is an outrage that | marks a new high level of persecu- tion against the foreign born,” says the International Labor Defense. “The only witnesses whose testi- mony was used against Serio have signed and sworn affidavits brand- in,; the testimony called theirs as completely false and distracted by the Immigration Inspector Powers. “The International Labor Defense attorneys demanded another hearing of the case on the basis of repu- diation of testimony by all the state’s witnesses. “In spite of this, the U. S. Gov- ernment Immigration authorities at Washington have refused another heraing and have sentenced Serio to be deported to Italy. “Such a sentence for a class con- scious worker means death in fascist Italy.” The Serio case is only one in a general campaign against foreign born workers. Against this heartless campaign, the entire working class is to be mobilized. County of New York : ss.: State of New York HARRY RUPPRECHT, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am forty-six years of age. I was confined for the past fifteen} months to the New York Peniten-} tiary at Welfare Island, having been sent there on a conviction of | bigamy and having been released) Tuesday, August 5, 1930. While I was at Welfare Island 1 second section, fourth tier, with 45 convicts under my charge. I had plenty of opportunity to observe and.see what took place at Welfare Island, and the informa- tion which I give in this affidavit! is all true to my own knowledge. The convicts at Welfare Island are treated in the following man- ner; There are two convicts to a cell; the two bunks in the cell are hooked o» ta the wal! with springs; How Sc iol ‘Detend Jobless Worker From Eviction, Men NEW YORK.—Workers and un- employed of New York will demon- strate before the home of Mitto Manja, Monday, at 5 p. m. Manja jis an unemployed food worker, and |a member of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union Unemployed Coun- cil. He lives at 289 Fourteenth St., Brooklyn, near Sixth Aye. He is threatened with an eviction for not paying rent. When ordered. tovacate, Manje: refused to move his furniture out, and notified his Unemployed Coun- cil. Part of the program of the Councils of the Unemployed is “No evictions of jobless workers for non- payment of rent!” A worker has a right to a place to sleep, ana a place for his family. Capitalism shall not use him as a wage slave while it chooses, and then throw him out with his children (Manja has three children), like worn out horses to live or die as they may. The Unemployed Councils cam- paign for the Workers Social Insur- ance Bill, providing $5,000,000,000 from war funds and other appropri- ations of the National Government for insurance for the jobless, the money to be distributed through bodies elected by workers and un- employed. But meanwhile, they fight all cases of persecution through evictions. The demonstration Monday will be addressed by Sam Nessin, sec- retary of the New York Councils cf the Unemployed, by speakers from the Food Workers Council, and from the Food Workers Industrial Union. The Council of Workingclass Women will participate. The speakers will’ demand that the city declare a moratorium for rent owed by unemployed workers. Demand the release of Fos: ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, for unemployment insurance. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! in prison for fighting: SCHEME AGAINST ANSURANCE BILL | Toilers Must Fight For| | Social Insurance, Not | Boss Measures As the fight for the Workers So- cial Insurance Bill, advocated by the Communist Party, and published in the Daily Worker soome time ago, spreads among wide masses of workers, all sorts of fake liberal and Musteite schemes have cropped jup to mislead the workers in their fight for unemployment insurance. The main purpose of these tricky _schemes is to protect the bosses and transfer the burdens to the workers, who are already suffering | from huge unemployment and grow- ing wage-cuts. The Communist social insurance of the workers. It provides for adequate unemployment insurance for all workers, from whatever cause—old age, sickness, accident or lack of job—amounting to a minimum of $25.00 per week with an additional $5 for each of such unemployed worker’s dependents. The money for this jobless insur- anee, says the Workers Social In- surance Bill would come first out jof the billions set aside by the im- perialists for war. Secondly, there would be a levy on all fortunes of $25,008 and ever, and a graduated income tax on incomes of $5,000 and over. A fight is now being carried on by the Trade Union Unity League, Unemployed Councils, and the Com- munist Party, among the widest strata of workers, in the factories, mines, shops, offices, on the bread- lines—wherever the workers con- gregate—to force through the cap- (Continued on Page Five.) LL.D, TO COMBAT Fights Conviction of Yetta Stromberg LOS ANGELES, August 8.—On July 25, the California Supreme Court denied the appeal of the In- ternational Labor Defense attorney against the conviction of 19-year old Yetta Stromberg, sentenced to 10 years for flying a red flag over a Communist children’s summer camp on private property in the summer of 1929. The International Labor Defense will carry the appeal on this case to the U. S. Supreme Court, where the constitutionality of the vicious anti-red flag laws, adopted in 1919 by 28 states, will be tested for the first time. Demand the complete reversal of bill is based on the class interests | CALIF, RED LAWS | center of the Belgian and French out for wage increases and to mak ment insurance bill. The French se: TROOPS SENT 0 FIGHT STRIKERS More Join Big French Strike in North PARIS, Aug. Despite the shipment of more troops to the North of France, the general strike | here is spreading. Even though some workers have returned to worl having gained their demands, the n .mber still out is well over 200,000 In Halluin the general strike is | complete. All work has shut down. | except the food suppl In Roubaix a demonstration of strikers took place under the leader. ship of the Communist Party. It was on the initiative of the revolu- tionary leaders in the union’ that | the strike was made effective, de-| spite the class collaboration tactics of the yellow union leaders. | Under a heavy military escort, } 909 Belgian scabs were brought into | Halluin. Both the Belgian and French workers who are not within the strike area have expressed their resentment against the scabs, and | their police protectors. Yesterday | the scabs were turned hack, many of them being injured. Busses were | 8. overturned. The strike is for higher wages and against the fake jobless insur- ance bill, which makes the workers pay instead of the bosses. The Communists are demanding a insurance bil! with adequate rz —paid by the bosses and their stat the “guilty” verdict against 19 year! old Yetta Stromberg. “Justice” HIS is a story of hell, given Works! | Vote Communist! ® to the International Labor Defives| by a man whose trial lasted two minutes but whose term in| hell lasted 15 months on “Welfare Island.” talist hell, run by Tammany, wher gation was railroaded for figh' Now Walker and his parole boa with hypocritical “clemency.” ithe Connelly mentioned was Tarn- It is the same capi- | © the New York Unemployed Dele for unemployment insurance. | insult these Communist workers many’s president of Queens Borough, who got $10,000,000 in one chunk of graft on sewers. defense! And though Al Smith's the gout, his sojourn on “Welfare was a tier man in charge of the! clectric refrigeration shows that the $80,000 he gave to Smith's com- paign was well spent. Workers, Walker wanted the city to pay for his 1928 election drive made Connelly Island” in a three room flat with protest the insulting “clemency”. of Tammany’s Hell on “Welfare” Island Walker by fighting for the Workers Insurance Bill, by demonstrating Sept. 1 for Unemployment Insurance, by demanding release, at once and unconditionally, of the Unemployed Delegation, by voting Com- | munist.—Editor, pS when a convict comes in n he ‘gets twe old blankets, no pillow sheets, ne pillow, no towels, no linen, no soap— all of which he is really entitled to get, but most convicts never get it and I personally never got it, I dl ihe ASE spoke to my keeper about it, but he told me that he could do nothing about it. In each cell there is one drinking cup, to be used by both men; this cup is made of tin and is usually rusted. The two men in the cell use the same slop pail and have to dump it ;every morning; disinfectant is sup- | posed to be put into the bue levery day, but every once in a while |two weeks will pass at a stretch| without any disinfectant being put in, and the stink, especially in the upper tiers, becomes uribearable. The convicts are allowed one bath a week; they do not get clean un- derclothing, even though they are entitled to it; when they come back they tell the tier man and the tier man tells the keeper, but the keeper ys he cannot get them clean cloth- ing and they will have to do with- out it; the convicts do not get any soap, and if they want any they must buy and pay for it, even though they really are entitled to receive it, The result is that many con- victs cannot even wash their clothes (Continued on Paye Five) A Group of the 200, 000 Grench Strikers Picture shows food distribution ta fare Ky | 5 “| inces. jer: rikers in Halluin, tertic micetry. The workers are c the heeees may for an unemploy- ction of the Workers International Relief immediately organized a campaign for strile relief. They are getting wide support among the workers. 1,000 REBELS NEAR PESHAWAR Armed Peasants Ready For Big Battle Capitalist news services from ' Karachi, India, though heavily cen- sored by the British imperial gov- ernment, report wholesale armed in- surrection in the Northwest prov-} A force of 10,000 Afridi tribe | nts, who have been on the arch toward the British fortified y of Peshawar for’two days, were di within twelve miles of objective, with the British] | thetr land and air forces so far unable! to check them. Another battle in the barren ground north of the city | is imminent. The British have 5: airplanes. Peshawar is the military center of the Northwest and is part of the extensive fortifications along the Afghan boundary. The tribesmen for hundreds of jmiles around are very resentful of | British rule The government has for months tried to terrorize them by sending bombing planes to blow| up their groups seen together. Several weeks ago, two armed bands made headquarters in caves in the moun- tains and resisted British bombing and land attacks very successfully. The Youth Lead. British punitive columns have de- scended on several villages and burned them, making arrests of: the leaders of a militant anti-imperial- organization, “The Red Shirts.” The chief organizations behind’ the present renewed uprising are said in the capitalist press to be the Afghan Youth League and a newly organized “Youth League of Pesha- | war.” Peshawar itself was the scene early this year of a mutiny of Brit- ish Indian troops, who refused to fire when ordered by their officers to massacre those taking part in an anti-imperialist demonstration. DEAD WORKERS STRIPPED ‘TO STOP CLAIM ON BOSS DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 8.—Work- killed or fatally injured at work are sent to Detroit hospitals strip- ped of all identification and then sent to the morgue, hospital work- ers told Federated Press. “The hospital where I work,” said one hospital worker, “has a great many accident cases. These are brought in as ‘victims of hit and run drivers.’ Actually, we speak of them among ourselves as ‘fac- tory cases.’ In practically all the cases the men are in working clothes —but they never possess factory badges or any other means of iden- tification. In many cases | the worker is mangled beyond recog- nition. “No one seems to know just where these men are picked up—that is, no one but the hospital authorities | | | i EXPOSE FAKERS’ Forward as Warships Hasten to Intervene REVOLT INCHINA ‘SWEEPS FORWARD WITH FULL FORCE IU. S Ss. Prone in China Given Free Hand BULLETIN Associated Press dispatch from Hankow declares that as a result of mutinies among the national- ist troops ‘the situation was re- garded as critical here.” “Com- munist negotiators demanded $100,000 from the National City Bank, threatening to enter Han- kow if the money was not paid,” the dispatch adds. “Thousands of Chinese flocked into foreign districts for safety Of course, the detail about demanding $100,- 000 is the usual capitalist lie, but it does point out the fact that the Red Army is either at the gates of Hankow or that there is fight- ing now going on in the streets of that city. The Chinese bourgeois are fleeing into the imperialist sections for safety (Wireless by Imprgcorr) Sa ANGHAI, -- Aug. ~ & fhree more Japanese warships are steam- ing up the Yangtze River against the Red forces. The fourth wat- ship is expected tomorrow. Several machine gun companies of British troops have been dispatched to Hankow. The imperialist North China Daily News advocates a gen- eral truce to destroy Communisa in China. Na g is preparing to (Continued en Page Five) MOTHER SLOOR TO TOUR FARM AREA ‘Will Bring Farmers villages and scatter any|tas Fighting Program BISMARK, N. pe Mother Bloor, |the veteran labor fighter and the Election Campaign Manager of the Communist Party for the Northwest States, is now on a tour in the Dako- and Montana. Workers and farmers’ organizations are called upon to co-operate with Comrade Mother Bloor now on tour, and help in the arrangements of meetings, sale of literature, etc. The purpose of Mother Bloor’s tour is to organize the workers and farmers for the Communist election campaign. The Communist Party is putting up a full ticket in the states of North and South Dakota and Montana. No matter under what name the capitalists may appear be- fore the farmers, they will not be i> a position to prevent the present economic } ..ht of the farmers, the growing unemployment and the in- creased capitalist exploitation. On the contrary, the various Farmer- Labor Parties and progressive groups are only agents used by the capitalist class in order to mislead again the workers and farmers in the coming elections. The Communist Party standing on the platform of class struggle is the only force capable to organize and lead the struggles of the workers and farmers. The tour of Mother follows: August 10, District Committee— Belden, August 11, Wing, N. D., Au- gust 12, Bismark, August 13, Freder- ick, South Dakota, August 14, Aber- deen, S. D., August 15, Huron, S. D., August 16-17, Menno, S. D., August 18, Frederick, S. D., August 19, Wil- ton, North Dakota, August 20, Minot, N. D., August 22-30 incl. Montana, is as Bloor Great Falls, Round Up, Red Lodge, Butte. August 31, Williston, N. D., Labor Day Picnic, Sept. 1, Minot, N. D., Labor Day Picnic. and they're mum on it, When the men die they are then sent to the morgue where their relatives may be able sto identify them. Yes, it saves the factories a tidy bit of money.”