The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1930, Page 1

The Manufacturers’ Association, aided by Green and Woll, are opening a broad campaign in an effort to prevent the workers from winning their demand for the Workers’ Social pIn- surance Bill. workers to greater activity. September Ist! Vote This must arouse the Rally Communist! Dail Central Vol. VIL, No. 202 Lntered ay second tase matter at New York S ¥ auder the the Post Office March % 1879 Org Sissi ie~-€ @onfunict Communist U,. W eck the of bialahal YORK FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1930 Party tional) FINAL CITY SUNOS! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 —_ WOLL AND BOSSES ATTACK SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL Demonstrate Today to Save Others trom Sacco- Vanzettt’s ; Fight for Bread and Butter GASTONIA BLACK | cduabaasads; Gerard on September Ist! READ, butter, a bowl of soup, a hot cup of coffee, an occasional bite of meat, a place to sleep, and sufficient clothes to protect | himself from the winters wind and snow—these certainly are the jus- tified minimum demands of every Yet today in “prosperous” America 8,000,000 workers willing to work but unable to find jobs, together with their families, are deprived of these simple necessities. Every morning these millions of workers are out before dawn seeking jobs before factory gates and employment offices. where they find the standard sign: They go out in the morning without food, and after standing in line for hours, without getting a job, they return home, if they have one, without food, By borrowing ging for a little more credit, by picking up old clothes, or by borrow- ing a dime on the street, they manage, the devil only knows how, to live for another day. This is the discouraging, worker. Obviously these workers who disheartening worker. | who are Every- “NO HELP WANTED.” from relatives and friends, by beg- life of the unemployed are jobless, not because of desire, but because capitalism is unable to give them employment, mast be taken care of. Capitalism, as a result of its own incompetency, of its own inability to organize the production and distribution of the com- modities which the workers produce, , The capitalists and the government in Washington eri situation. has brought about the present which admittedly they control must be foreed by the masses of work- ers as a whole, employed and unemployed, to provide immediate and substantial relief for these 8,000,000 workers and their families. This the capitalists and their the pressure of the masses. They commissions to hide the true facts suffer rom which they ean scratch out henchmen will not do except under will appoint fake “investigating” about the present mass poverty and yg. They will appropriate millions of dollars for everything else graft or profit. But they will not xive one cent to the unemployed unless they are forced to do so by the hemselves. Plenty of crocodile tears will be shed by the capitalist news- papers, the preachers, and the “socialist” and “liberal” politicians. But x othe factories and the mines. Their one concern is bigger profits—more money for themselves vith whieh to buy automobiles, private yachts, country mansions, and luxuries too numerous to share these things, starve. Against this the workers must fight. lrade Union Unity League or in the unemployed councils. ght to force the adoption of the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill, which provides for regular payment to all workers when unemployed for any fi reason. Under the terms of the Workers’ : iu who is unemployed, sick or disabled shall receive a minimum of $25 per week and five dollars additional for each dependent member of his | The funis for the payment of this insurance is to come from | defended family. | this will have no effect on Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and fifty- capitalists who really control the government, the press, the | while the workers, who produce all They must organize in the | They must Social Insurance Bill a worker | /21.—The Gastonia | them to the woods, jening to burn their houses. |lice Aderholt last year with the in- jray strikers’ | yesterday led by a public official. It | beaten up and taken to the hos- two sources; first by transferring all funds now appropriated or to be appropriated for military or naval purposes to a new social insurance | fund, and second, by levying a direct tax against all wealthy persons having a fortune in excess of $25,000 and a graduated income tax against all persons with an income of $5,000 or more. This fund is to be administered by the workers themselves. With the adoption of this bill the present suffering of the masses to some extent can be overcome. families can be assured of the necessities of life. und suffering will increase. The issue before the workers, Che workers will not starve; they will fight. cities the workers, in great masses, This will be the beginning of the fight for this bill. September 1st the workers will continue the fight in the election cam- A fight will be made to expose and defeat the present political agents of the bosses and their social reformist allies, and to elect the candidates of the Communist Party, who alone among all the can- didates fight for the interests of the workers, Rally in the streets on September Ist! | bill. paign. Fight for the Workers’ Social Aid and support the Communist election campaign! Vote Communist! With this the workers and their Without starvation therefore, is either starve or fight. On September Ist in all will fight for the social insurance Following Insurance Bill! 19 RULERS OF AMERICA NAMED Capitalist Dictators Control Government NEW YORK.—The following are h: 59 big capitalists, whom ex-am- rassador James W. Gerard, has vamed as “the rulers of America.” While the Daily Worker cannot here zo into the whole web of connections | each one of these 59 has, every worker will recognize in one or more of them the slave driver who cracks he whip over his own back, and in oll of them the real government of the United States: The List of Fifty-Nine. The jist, as Gerard compiled it, follows: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, IR. \NDREW W. MELLON, Seeretary of the Treasury. P, MORGAN, iPORGH F, BAKER, chairman of the Pk First National Bank of New OHN D. RYAN, prosidesti>Anaconda Mining Company, ¢ < WALTER C. TEAGLUMjecgeéataent, Stondard Oil Company of New Jer- SHURICK of WEYERHAnusen, millionaire “jumber king,” Tacoma; Wa uy KON Cc. TAYLOR, shalroan of the Caan committee, U. 8. Steel Cor- vorath on. \MES A. FARRELL, president, U.S. Steel Corporation, ‘ARLES M, SOHWAB, thiehem Steel Corporatio NEG. GRACE, president, Beth (Continued on Page Three) CaMeman, TO PROTEST IN 4 U. S. CITIES s All Militant: Groups Join Demonstration NEW YORK.—Fifty-four cities, | | representing eighteen states throughout the country have sent announcements of their plans for | Saeco-Vanzetti_ memorial demon- |strations today, to the national of- | fices of the International Labor De- fense. A world wide protest on the third anniversary of the death of the two labor martyrs is taking ‘place and it demands that the many other worker prisoners held for | prison or death be released at once. | The following cities, a partial list, have announced meetings: New York State: New York City and Buffalo. Massachusetts: Boston, New Bed- ford, Lawrence, Fall River and Springfield. Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh, Cambridge, Avella, East Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Chester, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Minersville, and Allentown. Ohio: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Day- (Continued on Page Three) Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. | Great Britain.” |Literature Agents st? get literature for the demonstra- | tion. | made and disciplinary action taken HUNDREDS BEAT UP NTW LEADERS Led By Police Chief, Kidnap Three and Threaten ten Others | |Join Strike C ke Committee Bessemer - Strikers in Demand For Raise | CITY, Aug. black hundred | gang which murdered Ella May last | year attacked a meeting here, of the rank and file strike committee last night, kidnapped W. G. Binkley and A. Hader, organizers of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, took beat them terri- fically, then tied them and carried them along Main St. The workers resisted, but tae armed gang held control and intimi- dated the union members by threat- BESSEMER The gang, the same sort of mur-j derous crew partly hired by the mill owners as gunmen and partly local s, business men, ete. that marching behind Chief of Po- | wi n and kill in the Lo- tent colony, was also, tention to bi was commanded in their kidnapping and flogging expedition by Bill Hall, Bessemer City chief of police. W. Willson, a reporter, was also pital. Mill Press Mobilizes Lynchers. The Gastonia Gazette, mill own- ers’ organ which howled for tynch- ing of the Gastonia workers who themselves against th- (Continued on Page Three) BRITISH MP. ADMITS SEVERITY OF CRISIS) * CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., Aug. 21./ —“We are in the midst of the great- | est economic crisis and depression | ever known. There is no hope of | an immediate recovery.” Thus ad-| mits George Dallas, member of the | British House of Commons, in a} speech hére yesterday. In regard to the crisis in Great | Britain, Mr. Dallas says that) “Great Britain is looking forward | to one of its blackest winters, with | poverty and destitution rampant.” He also admits that “there is no | hope of any immediate recovery ib Report Today at 5 All section and unit literature agents are instructed to report to- day at 5 o’clock sharp at the Work- ers’ Book Shop, 26 Union Square, A complete check-up will be against any comrades failing to re- port. Vote Communist! They Died for the Working Class! Sacco and Vanzetti died for they working class. Their death was. not a miscarriage of justice. It was “class justice.” It was the in-| evitable class justice meted out to| class-conscious fighters who repre- | sent the vangvard of the working | class which will one day rise to, throw from off its back the burdens | of an exploited slave class. Sacco and Vanzetti went to death | knowing the realfeasons for their | sacrifice, | They must not have died in vain. | The six Atlanta defendants, the Gastonia defendants, the Unem- ployed Delegation, the Imperial Val- prisoners—all our class war vic- must be saved. It is the solidarity of the working | |firmly upheld by the Fish commit-| | tee, |named, “rule Names 59 Capitalists As Real Rulers of America Force These Dictators to Aid the Unemployed! Demonstrate Sept. 1 For the Insurance Bill! NEW YORK —What has become of “our democratic institutions” so He Rules Matthew Woll, Whalen and other forgers, when a leading capi talist. politician and diplomat ad- mits, as James W. Gerard, former | ambassador to Germany, admitted | Wednesday, that 59 men, whom he | America?” | These 59 “rulers of America,”| whose oligarchy Gerard admits, never retire from “office,” as Jo the politicians whom Gerard confesses they control, but rule the govern- ment, as well as industry, by their class power as monarchs of finance capital. While the capitalist press tries to make the masses believe that Hoover is at the head of the na- tion, Gerard not only puts John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at the head of the! list of rulers of this country, but | leaves poor fat-headed Hoover out | of the list altogether. J. P. Morgan. chief of the Hous: Who is this Gerard, that spilled] of Morgan and the real ruler of the beans? He is now a corpora-| the United States, gets top men- tion lawyer and has always been a| tion in the capitalist diplomat democrat (Tammany) politician of ean list of the rulers of (Continued on Page Three) SA HELP BUCK THE FORD LAYS OFF BOSS PARTIES! MEN; 3-DAY WEEK Join Tag Days Friday,| Other Plants Closing’ « Saturday, Sunday Down in Detroit DETROIT, Aug. 21.—Without That Rockefeller, Mellon, Morgan and other magnates rule this “demo- cratic” country, was openly admit. ted yesterday by the capitalist press | through one of the servants of cap- | ital, James W. Gerard, former am- | assador to Germany during the any fanflare in the capitalist press, thoasands of Ford workers were laid of: this week, and those left are to | be put on the three-day week in- stead of the four-day week. Pro- duction is falling off rapidly. Other jas other workers who have not as | |get the boxes: son regime. This has been no| secret to the working masses, who! | feel it on every occasion when they | come out to fight their employers | or to demonstrate against capitalist | terror. One of the means by which the | magnates rule the United States is their “war chest.” Millions of dol- lars are contributed by the various | corporations to all capitalist par-| COTTON PICKERS. ties in order to have the best ser- | SHREEPORT, La.—Fifty leading vants of the magnates elected to) planters here at a meeting of the | office and more and more they them- | Shreeveport chamber of commerce | selves are entering directly into! czaristically decided that workers government, | shall receive the pittance of 50 cen plants are running at even more severely curtailed schedules than Ford. More and more workers will be laid off in the near future, With the excuse that they are “working on new models” nearly all the other plants are closing down. Fight For Social Insurance! BOSSES MEET TO TRIM The Communist Party is relying) for picking a hundred pounds of | lon the working masses to supply | cotton! Worke rs throughout the} |funds for conducting the election| world are meeting and organizing | campaign, |for the purpose of determining just All members of the Party and the | how long the rotten regime of the Trade Union Unity League, as well | bosses shall last. yet any collection boxes, are asked | ers’ Campaign Committee, 131° W. to come to the section headquarters | 98th St., City. of the Communist Party or to any | Bronx—569 Prospect Ave., Bronx. of the following stations in order to} Harlem—308 Lenox Ave., City. Brooklyn—68 Whipple St, Brook- 27 E. Fourth St.,/lyn; 136 15th St. Brooklyn; 105 ian Workers’ Campaiyn | Thatford Ave., Brooklyn; Lithua- Committee, 17 E. Third St., City; | nian Workers’ Campaign Commit- Jewish Workers’ Campaign Commit- | tee, 46 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn. tee, 30 Union Square; 1179 Broad: | Long Island— 6-28 Jackson Ave., way, N. Y. C.; Needle Trades Work- Long Island City. ALL ON UNI SQUARE AT FIV PROTEST TERR |Atlanta Defe ndant ' in Danger of the Chair, to Speak | National Ass’n of d All Workers Demand All Be Free Masses At 23 tallies er Oley ere Ne Welie the gaacist Ie Last Night BH IS ESE WEES vgainst the unemployed worke |the Gastonia defendants, of the Im- | perial Valley prisoners; to Henpuns)| | lynching and the registration and| | deportation of to forge by \ their solidarity a pean hae will the Sneaieve F; and Sioeeail Two of the six At Carr, who will face death sentences Herbert Newton when they come to trial in Septem-| Form Council; to Dem-| aliens; ber, will be among the speakers at Pe ‘. the New York demonstration inj Onstrate Sept. Ist Union Square today. fea ee tia ICR NEW. YORK.—To prepare for | The International Labor Defense | scot, tet, a mass unemployed meet- a eaeneecneed PY EME- | ing was held Thursday morning by| Srna olan ‘IL, also the Unemployed Council of Greater lof the defense nreanizatin,.’ | New York in front of the Tammany | Tack Johnetonee will oak as|EFree” Employment agency. ‘There| senresentative of the Troe Unive | Were, 3000 workers in line, The eh Maar igh he Trade Union| meeting was held at the corner of Unity League, and speakers have|tatavette and Leonard. Sts. and | been he) _by the ¢ communist over 1,000 workers gathered sound Party ind, Manya Reiss, and the speakers. At first the cops {moved over to break up the meet- ling, but when they saw the firm | spirit of the unemployed workers, |they backed away. Jcbn Dewet, an unemployed mar- ine worker, opened the meeting. Sam Nessin, secretary of the Un- employed Council, pointed out the | Emanuel Levin. Other organizations which will be | represented by speakers will be the (Continued on Page ee) WORKERS OF 16 LANDS SPEAK AT RILU MEET nature of the “employment agency.” He called on the workers (Wireless by Inprecorr) to fight for the Workers’ Social In- MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 21.— surance Bill. “These Tammany The Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions continues here with many delegates | from the countries represented taking active part. Today delegates from the Red unions or revolution- grafters are trying to use you un- employed workers to cut wages. They do not have any jobs. The handful of ‘jobs’ they boast about are instances where workers have been fired and others hired at low- ary minorities in reformist unions | € wages.” in the following countries took | Negro Workers, Too. part: Arabia, Greece, the Soviet} yy, Williams, an unemployed Ne- Union, Switze id, America, tria, France, China, Japan, M New Zealand, ay, England and Aus-| gro worker, spoke, calling on the “0, workers to fight for social insurance Australia, | for all workers, regardless of race _zetti’s beautiful and terrible words | to the judge who sentenced him and Sacco to their deaths: “If it had not been for this thing, | T might have lived out my life talk- | men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are |not a failure. This is our career |and our triumph. Never in our full | life could we hope to do such work | for tolerance, for justice, for man’s |do by accident. Our words--our | lives—our pains—nothing! The | taking of our lives—lives of a good | shoemaker and a poor fish peddler j—all! That las: Save our class war prisoners! N. SACCO \ Demonstrate August 22nd. ,class which will make true Van-, j ing at street corners to scorning| understanding of men as aow we| moment belongs | to us—that agony is our triumph.” | Scotland. | or color. Copies of the Workers’ Social In. |surance Bill were distributed to all taining the bill also urged them to participate in the September 1st demonstrations on “Unemployment Day.” | Form Council. | After the meeting, over the unemployed marched over to the Manhattan Lyceum, where they formed an Unemployed Council. An {executive committee of ten was elected. unanimously to participate in the September 1st demonstration and fight for the Workers’ Social Insur- ance Bill. They decided to hold an- jother open air mee\ngeat the “em- | ployment” agency Friday, ana en- list other unemployed workers in | the fight for social insurance. They voted to participate in the Sacco- Vanzetti_ demonstration in Union Square, Friday, 5:30 p. m., and de- manded the release of the unem- ployed delegation, Foster, Minor, | Amter and Raymond, | Strike Against Wage-Culs! Demand Unemployment Insurance! | B. VANZETTL Manufacturers Woll’s Attack On Social Insurance the unemployed. The leaflets con-| 400 of} The jobless workers voted! Fate ALL OUT. SEPT. 1 ve IN “JOBLESS DAY’ ok MASS MEETINGS Approve Must Mobilize For Fight to De- mand to Pass Workers’ Social Insurance Bill f the A. F. of L. and their fight rs, the National Association of W YORKTe at 5 o'clock | Manufacturers has begun an attack on social insurance. Soon workers from shops and factories in| after the Communist Party published the Workers’ Social New York City will pour into Union| Tnsuran: Bill, which provides social insurance for all unem- Sune to demonstrate the peter -—— = cone boy ed workers, the A. F. of L. anzetti Memorial Demonstration B ee on the third anniversary after the Fight Evictions! [2nd the “socialists” increased death of the two labor martyrs. i | their propaganda against the Where three years ago thousands | | Real Social Insurance of men and women waited breath- | Now the Manufacturers’ As- lessly before the fatal sign flashad| |sociation, an aggregation of the news of the murder of Sacco} |the leading enemies of the workers, and Vanzetti, today ain great |mobilizes its forces against the masses will gather under the ban- |Workers’ Social Insurance Bill, nev of the International Labor De-] Wespectally tn View ok the huge Sep- fense to raise the cry of workers {tember 1st “Unemployment Day” against the increasing persecution {demonstrations being arranged na- of class war \ : tionally by the Trade Union Unity “No death! No prison sentences,” | | League. will be one of the slogans of to- | Woll. day’s demonstrations, not only in | It is no accident that Matthew ;New York, but in morc n half Woll is one of the chief stand-bys a hundred other cities throughout |of the manufacturers in their fight the entire country, where workers Organize to fight such evictions | against social insurance. If the will assemble to demand the free-| as above of helpless mothers, ‘bosses want wages cut, they rely on. dom of the six Atlanta defendants, wived and children of jobless | Woll and Green; when they stir up {of the Unemployed Delegation, of| workers. | war against the Soviet Union, the same fascists take front place. The latest service Woll renders the | bosses is against social insurance. In a pamphlet just issued by John E, Edgerton, president of the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers, | against any form of unemployment | insurance, Woll is approvingly | quoted as saying: “Unemployment |insurance does not put anyone to work, On the other hand, it seeks to overturn the ideas of government | here and make it paternalistic.” | They Work With the Bosses, | This is the attitude of all the lead- jers of the A. F. of L, regarding so- cial insurance. They want to pro- | tect the bosses’ profits, and, rather | than injure capitalism in any way, | much prefer to see the 8,000,000 un- jemployed starve. The A. F. of L. | readily approves of the expenditure jof billions for war purposes, and especially for an attack against the Soviet Union, but when it comes to social insurance, their voices min- gle with those of the scab exploiters (Continued on Page Three) FAKERS TRY TO SELL-OUT STRIKE Red Unions in France | Call For Resistance (Wireless By Inprecorr) | PARIS, Aug. 21.—The reformist christian trade unions and the em- ployers are negotiating with the la- bor ministry, trying to “settle” the strike in Northern France. They agree to the disgraceful bargain that the workers will resume work pro- vided the employers undertake to bring about a wage rise in October if prices rise. The Humanite, the | central official organ of the Com- munist Party of France, appeals to the workers i Teniain Siete |of France are striking*against the | attempts of the bosses to saddle them with the burden of social in- surance. At the same time, they ar demanding wage increases. On several occasions previously the | workers rejected attempted sell-outs | by the yellow leaders. The Commu- | nist Party and the revolutionary | unions are increasing their influ- }ence among the great mass of strikers. The French workers are striking against precisely the same type of “unemployment insurance” advo- cated by the “socialists” in the United States. What it really means is that the workers bear the whole burden. The Communist Party, U. S. A. is advocating a real social in- surance bill, known as the Workers? Social Insurance Bill, which de- mands that the bosses and their gov- ernment stand the burden of social insurance. Over 150,000 workers in the North |