The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1930, Page 1

‘his. the rist! not the the ra- Pa- list th- ity. jer- Red the ces zri- be- ing Ty- m~ vill | rODAY AND TOMORROW ARE TAG DAYS FOR C ora ap ELECTION CAMPAIGN: COLLECT FUNDS The 8,000,000 unemployed workers who are now begging for jobs, food, and a bed, have suffi- cient power if they organize themselves to force the government to pay unemploy- ment insurance. Organize in the unem- ployed councils! Demonstrate Sept. Ist! ees anon Dail Central (Sec fa VIL, No. 203 tion U; of he-Co Communist the munist irop ea, CP Interna NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, Who Does Rule’ America---? TAMMANY WILL ‘Mi ners & pian ‘ROOIN NEWYORK --- And How! X-AMBASSADOR GERARD, before blurting out his declaration that this country was ruled by 59 bankers and industrialists, obviously failed to recall the old adage: “Think twice before you speak.” He thought once about the serious economic plight of Great Bri- tain and proceeded to give what he thought to be the solution. But had he thought a second time before speaking he would have realized that his proposed declgration, especially coming just before the elections, might create wide-spread disillusionment among the American workers who until now have thought that they were living under a democracy and not a capitalist dictatorship. His oversight has stirred up a hornets’ nest. Dozens of capitalist apologists and all the capitalist papers are vigorously denying his con- tention that this country is ruled by J. P. Morgan, John-D. Rockefeller, Jr., and a few more Wall Street bankers. Even Gerard himself, under this pressure, today amends his original list by adding five more names. He adds three more bankers and Green and Woll of the American Federation of Labor. And why does.he add these names? Precisely because he has now thought the second time. He realizes now the explosive effect of his first state- ment among the workers so he hastens to add the names of the fascist labor leaders, Green and Woll. The names of three more bankers are merely added to make sure that his reason for adding the names of Green and Woll does not become too obvious to the workers. What are the arguments of those who attempt to refute the capi- talist-dictatorship theory of Gerard, and who assert that here in the United States we have a true democracy? They invariably point to the fact that in the United States all of- ficials, from the village constable to the president, are elected by the “people.” Those elected are responsible only to the “people,” they say. They are all ready to admit that Mr. Gerard’s “59 men” (now 64) exer- cise “great political inflfuence because of their wealth and power,” but, they ask, “What about the politicians, physicia: scientists, preachers, ete,—don’t they also wield great political powe Let us examine this question. Do these persons mentioned (poli- ticians, doctors, lawyers, preachers, etc.) play a role in the government of the country? The answer must be, yes aftd no. Certainly they play a very decisive role in the nomination and election of specific candi- dates, but their activities are carried on under the direction of power- ful political party machines which dutifully answer to the bidding of a few powerful bankers from among the list submitted by Gerard. These few wealthy capitalists lay down the policy, dictate the candi- dates, and then utilize all these others as able henchmen to insure the election of those who have been stamped with their O. K. After the election the victorious candidates are completely under the thumb of the big financiers. a eee ee eee ees Hoover, for example, is the president of the country; nominally, at least, he administers the affairs of government. But when a revolu- tion breaks out in China, as at present, Mr. Rockefeller informs Mr. Hoover that the property of the Standard Oil Co. in China is in dan- | ger, and Mr. Hoover immediately instructs the Navy Department to send a number of battleships to China to protect “American” property. Or another example. The workers in the automobile factories of Flint, Michigan, go on strike, as was recently the case. Mr. Raskob, the head of General Motors, one of Gerard's “59,” calls up the governor | of Michigan and informs him that the strikers are infringing on the “sacred rights of private property,” so the governor immediately sends _ in the state troopers, declarex martial law, and proceeds to smash the strike, War against the workers, against the colonial peoples, against the Soviet Union, etc., is therefore declared and carried through by the elected government officials, with the hilarious support of the lawyers, doctors, preachers, and the so-called labor leaders of the socialist party and the A. F, of L., but their instructions come from Mr. Gerard’s “59 men.” Mr. Gerard, therefore, recklessly told the truth; a handful of powerful capitalists (possibly not even 59 in the last analysis) are the real dictators of the United States. The view of Mr. Gerard seems to be supported by America’s “strong, silent man,” Mr. Coolidge. Certainly after eight years faith- ful service in Washington in the interest of Wall Street he should be accepted as an authority. He says: “The picture of an electorate eager and informed, going to the polls to defeat all that is bad and to elect all that is good has proven an illusion. . . Securing good government . . Tes quires . . , money.” There you have it! Gerard’s “59” furnish the money; in return they get good government; they control a powerful state machine with a well equipped army and navy and these they use against their ene- mies at home and abroad. This dictatorship of the capitalists must be overthrown; in its place the workers must establish a proletarian dictatorship. Support of the Communist Party in the November elections is the first step which the workers must take, Force the “59” to Pay Unemployment Insurance! AYOR CURLEY of Boston, who declared his intention of forcibly M preventing today’s Sacco-Vanzetti meeting on Boston Common, raises a very pertinent question in the discussion on “Who Rules Amer- ica?” He, of course, joins with all others in the effort to refute the ex- istence of a capitalist dictatorship in the United States, and vehemently asserts that here we have a “democracy.” But, allowing for the possibility that he might be mistaken, he eynically instructed his secretary to address a letter to John D. Rocke- feller asking him to call a meeting “of the other 58” for the purpose of arriving at a solution for the present mass unemployment. We would not advise the workers to address letters to a Morgan or a, Rockefeller in an effort to get unemployment relief, Not because we are against letters, are we against this policy, but because we know it will not get tesul These fifty-nine men, as the real rulers of the country, will only instruct their puppets in Washington to give unemployment insurance to the workers when they are forced to do so by the organized pressure of the masses, This is the only language they understand. By rallying under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League on September Ist, by rallying behind the candidates of the Communist Party in the November elections, by organizing in the shops and fac- tories, the working masses can force these gentlemen to sit up and take notice. With the development of the struggle on the basis of “Class against Class,” a point will be reached where these di¢tators will be damn glad to throw concessions to the workers in the form of social insurance in a futile effort to save their power—and their miserable hides. Demonstrate ‘on “jobless day,” September Ist! Fight for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill! Vote Communist in November! LEADERS TALK” | ae TUUL Demand to See Them Over Relief Program ‘Direct Blow at Hungry League Continues Plan For Sept. | 1 Protest NEW YORK.— The New York “Commissioner of Correction,” R, C, Paterson, has rejected the de- mand of the Trade Union Unity Council that a committee of five leading members of the T.U.U.C., affiliated unions and the Council: of the Unemployed in this city be | allowed to confer with the four rep- | Yesentatives Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, elected by 110-000 junemployed demonstrators here | March 6 and still confined in prison. | They are the elected leaders of the unemployed and the T.U.U.L. de- manded the right to consult with them on plans for the mammoth Unemployment I Demonstration here Sept. 1. Immediate Relief. ‘rhe local district organizer of th» /T,U.U.L. also demands that the its | | bloated Tammany city officials’ sal- | aries be halved, and that surplus in th. city treasury, half of the funds used for the labor hating courts and police, and all of the funds set aside for military purposes (armories, |ete.) should be used for immediate relief of the jobless. | As -leaders of the workers | organizations, the council also wish es to consult with them on the de tails of the present huge organiza | tion drive of the T.U.U.L., and the | campaign to accumulate an “Organ ize and Strike” fund of $100,000. Plans Go Forward. The Trade Union Unity Council is going ahead with plans to make effective demand for these relief |and insurance measures, and to | build the unions and the Counci linquish the demand to see the lead- ers of the unemployed and the mili- tant workers confined by a Tam- many court in one of the most bra- zenly railroaded trials in history. A Political Act. Foster is candidate on the Com- munist Party ticket for governor | of the State of New York, Minor is | candidate for congressman from the | Twentieth district, and Amter for congressman from the Twenty-third district. The commissioner’s letter, refus ing to let the T.U.U,C. visit Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray mond is as follow: August 21st, “J. W. Johnstone, Esq., Organizer, Trade Union Unity Council, 13 West 17th St., N. Y. “Dear Sir: *I have your letter of the 20th instant wherein you request that a | committee of five be permitted to meet with Inmates Foster, Amter. Minor and Raymend to take up with them certain matters in connection vith you organization, of which you say they are leading members. “We do not consider it advisable to grant this request. 193 (Continued on Page Five.) EX-SERVICEMEN WIN FOUR TIMES | Worker Veterans Score Over Wobs, Cops, C cians and” Garveyites. NEW YORK. After overcoming the opposition of the'I. W. W. and |a church at 125th St. and Fifth Ave. Thursday nigit the Ex-Servieemen’s | League finished their mecting and | constituted themselves a de“ense corps to defend a meeting of Se tion 4 of the Communist Party ‘rom a threatened attack by Garveyite sluggers. At 125th St. and Fifth Avo. | crowd of about 500 gathered the ex-servicemen speakers, Chairman F. Williams of worker veterans’ meeting garded police orders to quit a | Meeting went on, with the \cheering lustily. At the Section 4 meeting ‘ Simon of the ex-servicemer gro worker, got up and { a 2-ound the the wd | wrge | Ne- the Garveyites that they shov fight the capitalists, but if th ated to start trouble with this p ular | bunch of workers | instead, ey | would find it. “Trouble” © 1't | start. A considerable part ¢* O\e | | gantaries came ap to Sect’ . 4. headquarters after the mect’ wd eight new members, five wl d three Negro workers. ioit we ‘Communist Pa- | ofthe Unemployed, but will not re- | committee , | Mine, urea SCRAN1 TON, oe Aug. When Olga Gold, representi International Labor Defense |ap- peared and addressed the Inde- pendent Level Local, United Mine Workers of America, at old Forge, the rank and file stood behind a motion to donate $50 to the LL.D, to help it carry on its fight to save from electrocution izers in Atlanta, and many other: including miners faced with jail sentences throughout the country. The chairman of the local ruled the motion out of order on e tutional grounds, and made an at- tack on the “Reds,” claiming that “the law guarantees free speech,” ete, During the discussion, rank and file miners exposed the bureaucrat’s failure to fight rotten conditions in | the colliery. Though the chairman was able to injure the class war prisoners to the extent of depriving them of $50 de- fense funds, the sentiment of the miners, and their understanding of the situation shows they are ready for struggle, and an intensive or- nization campaign here by Oil and Smelter Workers In- dustrial Union (formerly Miners Union) will build a power- ful force against bosses the misleaders as well. Sse Revolt at Lansford. LANSFORD, Pa., Aug. —The U. M. W. sub-district convention broke up here in revolt against the rulings of President Thomas Kelly | that sub-district officials were to be elected as he said, and not as the miners wanted. Kelly threatened to call in the police, but the miners refused to submit, and he adjouri the meet- ing. The delegates continued to meet without him, atid voted that all locals should refuse to pay per capita or take orders from the fake officer: GET YOUR BOX FOR TAG DAYS! ‘Collect For Communist ne Workers in Havre DISCUSS FIGHT IN OLD ‘Campa ign Today, Sun. NEW YORK.—The Party and the worker nominees for state and national office have with them none of the 59 men of money whom Ambassador Gerard admits are the rulers of America, These are all for the enemy, in fact, they are the enemy, They are those who profit by the wage cuts, speed-up and mass unemployment of the worke| Workers who want their own rep- resentatives to make a good cam- paign and to carry the message of revelt into new centers of exploita- tion should help provide the means by coming out today and tomorrow to collect funds. Communist s Saturday and Sunday are the tag | days for the Communist campaign tin New York. The depart- | ment, as you are aware, permitted | City; U | from | Drive di: Come to the section headquarters of the Communist Party or to any of the following stations in order to | get the boxes: Manhattan—27 FE. Fourth St, krainian Workers’ Campaign Committee, 17 E. Thirl St. City; Jewish Workers’ Campaign Commit- tee, 30 Union Square; 1179 Broad- the six organ- | the ' National | and U.M.W. | NOT LET JOBLESS aly pd W PLEDGE TO SAVE ” GLASS PRISONERS Thunder ‘Defiance of | Terror in the Sacco Vanzetti Protest Prepare For Sept. Ist “Save Atlanta 6 From, | Electric Chair” NEW YORK militant New Yor fteen workers, singing, cheering, holding aloft the red ban- | ners of the’ Communist Party, the Young Pioneers, the Young Com- munist League, the slogans written in red and black on innumerable placards, of the International Labor Defense, the Je Union Unity |League, the class unions znd the workers’ fraternal, defense, sports jand other organizations, filled over half of the block-long space at the north end of Union Square yester- day, and pledged to fight on with new energy to save from the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti six worker or- |ganizers who will go on trial soon in Atlanta. They pledged to fight to free the leaders of the jobless, |to save from prison innumerable strike leaders and to wrench from their prison cells, to which they jhave been sent for 42 years, the Imperial Valley organizers of Cali- oy | These demands were embodied in a resolution adopted by a gi, tie shout of unanimous approval. telegram adopted at the demon: tion was sent to Foster, Mino Am. ter and Raymond through B. Sis- kind, secretary of the New York istrict of the+ LL.D. It read: housands of workers gathered iv Union Square to commemorate the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti de mand your unconditional release.” Police In Ambush. There were 200 heavily armed po- jlice lurking in the hallways and of- fices of 33-37 E, 17th The police on the square petty -persecutory —_ attitude throughout the first part »%f the (Continued on Page Five) “ut By Bosses | PARIS, Aug. —The Employ- Association of the port of Havre, France, has declared : lock- out today against the dock work- ers. The lockout is declared on the pretext that the workers have vio- lated collective contract which the | bosses made with dock workers, motor truck transfer men and long- ! shoremen, Lo-*-- ers’ way, N. Y. C.; Needle Trades Work- ers’ Campaign Committee, 131 W. 28th St. C Bronx—569 Prospect Ave., Bronx. Harlem—308 Lenox Ave., City, Brooklyn—68 Whipple St., Brook- lyn; 136 15th St. Brooklyn; 105 Thatford Ave., Brooklyn; Lithua- nian Workers’ Campaign Commit tee, 46 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn. Long Islan 28 Jackson Ave., Long Island City Demand the release of Fos (ter, Minor, Amter and Ray mond, in prison for fightiny for unemployment insurance. thousand | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Party U. S. A. tvomwal) EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘HOOVER FIGHTS SOCIAL INSURANCE; WORKERS DEMONSTRATE SEPT. 1 30 FINAL CITY Capitalist Press Hot About SPREAD BILL IN Expose That 59 Men Are. Suopg, MOBILIZE Real Rulers of the Country, wr crayon Demand “War Funds For Unemployed 9Y andful of Ri Workers Demonstr ate For Jobless ist ich Men Force Plone to Starve; Sept. 1 The YORK. capitalist weak press is all stirred up trying to John D. Jr. | With nation-wide preparations hush up James W. Gerard, the man for mass demonstrations on “Unem- who upset the apple-cart by openly | ployment Day” Sept. 1, to demand big capital whom | the passage of the Workers’ Social 5 America.” Insurance Bill, already perfected, Meanwhile, because on second the imperialist politicians in Wash- thought he concluded that the A. F. ington are redoubling their efforts of L, “labor” lieuten of big against the unemployed workers. business, Bill Green and Matthew A Washington dispatch from the Woll, ought to be included with the Federated Press states: “It is known other bosses of the capitalist dic- | | that President Hoover is opposed to tatorship, Gerard adds them,’ but social insurance. He does not be- in order to not attract too much at- | m Mi lieve in ‘coddling’ the workers. His tention to them, put in three mo “gee fee =6omanipulation of the unemployment bankers, which proves, as the we: -| a -~ census shows that this administra- ern saying would have it, that, : | tion will do what it safely can to “the tail goes with the hide.” | i . (Wee) cover up the facts as to the extent Every capitalist paper, the own- of unemployment ers of which themselves in the case | c , How drastic is the fight of the of Hearst, Ochs of the New York ie aa Hoover administration, representing Times, Howard of the Sc -How- He and a handful of fellow the bosses of the country, against ard chain, MeCormick of the Trib-| capitalists own the wealth an? | Social insurance can be seen from une and Patterson of the Daily rule the aountry. the fact that Senator Fess, who is News both of Chicago, are named) ——— now chairman of the republican na- among the original 59 dictators of ional committee, came out openly Aweriea, are spilling much ink to JOBLESS RESIST agaifist any=form of unemployment ery out that it isn’t so, and that insurance. Fess announced seme ven if it is, Gerard had no busi- | time ago, in the name of the ad- nese ‘to admit. ministration, that not one cent | Too Much Talk! COPS AT MEET ve be paid to the unemployed ho Me ¥. Timed for example; work although shortly before * says editorially that: “One would | ome : 0,000 was handed to the big have supposed that Mr. Gerard! 4 ns . bosses in taxreturns, and very soon Hiteelt is 0 olds Ran ct pollee Over 1,000 ‘Listen to | ehaneti tet congress passed che bil- jto have committed himself to ths} Demand For Relief lion dollar naval armaments’ pro- (Continued en Page tinued on Page Hive) TWO KILLED AT PA. SACCO MEET (Continual on Page Five) a Attempts by the | Tammany sluggers to break up an! aa mass meeting Friday, 9 a. m., in front of the “Free” Pa aleynaet Agency, where thou- sands were vainly waiting in line met with jeers, boos er one | NEW YORK UNIONS AT RILU MEET © for jobs, was and strong resistanee by ov (Wireless by Inprecorr) | MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 22.— thousand unemployed workers. 'In the discussion in the session to- When the’ co s 4 ps tried to drag Sam day of the Fifth Wo-ia Congress of | Nesin, secretary of the greater N S=™ 10,000 in “Boston At the Red International of Labor | yok Unemployed Couneil, from the Demonstration Unions, delegates from Germany, | speakers’ stand, the jobless workers } England, Denmark, Corea and Indo- | joved in and yelled out, “Let him Se China stressed the importance of |gneak!” “Get away from there.” a : peak! et away fro é 4 oa eS the revolutionary trade union frac-| Despite the efforts of. the cops to AVELLA, Pa. Aug,:.22-—Two itant miners, members of the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Indutsrial Union, were shot and killed at the Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ing here today by Pietro Pet- relli, an anarchist. The miners tions in reformist trade unions. The delegates emphasized also, the need of independent organization. The International Red Aid dele- gate reported on the enormous smash the meeting, the meeting was held. An Unemployed Coun- cil, composed of over 400 jobless workers who attended the previous | meeting, conducted. the demonstra- growth and good work vf the or- | tion. The speakers were Sundos, an _ + ganization. | unemployed worker; Philip Harri- Bey esti ee _ Sues Mina C24 > .8 |son, an unemployed ex-serviceman, lies Hanere = gs : Tanildses The International Red Aid the father of four children; H. in he eee ers and children (“Mopr”’—from the initials of the Williams, an od Negro| Chas R ords) i > international ‘vorker, and Sam Nesin, Russian words) is the international Canitallstc-piesnmnereeeit. trons The vicious lying of the boss press was exposed when Nesin read the organization which in every country fights for defense of ed and secures strike r des carrying on ducational wot! and operating camps for workers | children, ete. In America, two or | ganizations belong to it: the Inter Boston state that over 10,000 work- sounts of the previous day’s meet-|¢TS Sathered at Boston Common The unemployed roared with| Friday evening to comemmorate in the] the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti |by the bosses of Massachusetts. “ignoring the | Hundreds of police drove the crowds work ng. aughter when the report apitalist press was read about the nemployed workers ¢ sate away. Three workers who at national Labor Defense and th: meeting’; and that the speakers | : Workers International Relief addressed the crowd from “a motor | tempted to speak at various points - . pst car” in the crowd were arrested. Those tae | arrested are Fred Biedenkant Unmasking the Social F ascists The accompanying cartoon ‘by the famous Ryan Walker, for long years an artist that served to depict the protest of the workers italism in behalf of t ist” party, all that wa 2 old is one more proof that honest and sincere in the “socia arty of bye-gone days, is now disgusted with its covert servility to capitalism, and its attempt to save capitalism by attracting to it the growing mes of discontented workers with “rad- cal” phrases, but which is not really a socialist party. Ryan Walker, whose genius all, will acknowledge, herein expresses | the indignation of the masses of starving unemployed at the clown- ish demagogy of Heywood Broun, “socialist” candidate for congress the silk stocking Riverside ict and stalwart defender of whiskey and lots of it. The “socialist” party has no pro- gram for the unemployed, but un- officially approves of the same kind of social insurance against which 200,000 French workers are strik ing, the kind that makes the Work- gainst cap- | erg pay for their own, miseries, ‘The oly real social insurance bill is that proposed by tie Cotaritiat Party, the Workers Sucal Insurance Tot FOR Te UNEMPLOYED’ After repeated attempts to break the ireeting, on all sorts of fake| excuses, the cops again backed out! and let the speakers go on. All of the #peak demanded the passage of the Workers’ Social Insurance Israel Prager and Nathan Kay. Mayor Curley, who mowths many phrases about “solving unemploy ment,” had refused a permit to the International Labor Defense to hol: the demonstration. Despite the re . Lill. This was greeted with unani- SPeinsthen Posesie mous approval from the unemployed | fusal_ of the permit, the I.L.D | Piivosopny wuien workers in the crowd, They were | Called on the workers to deion | Soe ge ee told that the bill demanded socia] | Strate in Boston Common on th: j {a CONBAENT MEAS PEN ey) insurance for all unemployed work- | #nniversary of the murder of Sace: [Meee | |) Be MPA egy a ers; that the war funds be turned| and Vanzetti, According to th: 53 Vail REPEAG THE de’ eye “) j Tice over te the unemployed, and that) boss press, more than 10,000 re acre? Zs~ Wis d an fortunes of $25,000 and over be| sponded to the call for the mem« z levied on, s well as the demand rial meeting, despite the permi that a graduated income tax be) refusal. placed on all incomes of $5,000 and / over to create a social insurance fund, At the clo: | 600 unempl | Manhattan Ly | hundred Meetings Preparing Conn. for Newton Visi HARTFORD Aug. 22.+An out door mass meeting was held her« of the meeting about stered with the Unem- cereus ployed Council. last night at which 150 Negices an ress Dep Delegates were elected to the | White workers attende+. This p.eet Trade Union Unity Council. It was | ing was held in the Negro sector fi | decided to participate in a body in| on the corner of Pavilion und Ken the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration, | View. The speakers we made ah A ‘at. Richards and Bill Th ' and also to prepare for the Septem- | Nat. Richards and Bill Layloe Th do cf ber First “Unemployment Day”| ‘vorkers expressed their determina / demonstration to mobilize a fight| tion to fight against the lyne! for the Workers’ Social Insurance! terror and protested against th | BI. For this bill, which covers all! Bill, ‘Thousands of leaflets were | arrest of the speakers yest fh une: ployed, disab'ed and aged distributed and many copies of the) New Haven, where a meeting we wort ers, all workers should demon- | Deity Worker were handed out and! broken up by the *police in th. istrate on September 1, i sold, | Negro section