The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1930, Page 1

Rally in the streets on September First! Carry forward the struggle against the bosses’ government and its hirelings for unemployment insurance! Or- ganize and strike against wage cuts! Vote Communist in November! Dail; Central (Section of ey Entered a; wecond-cl; Vol. VII., No. 210 is matter at the Po at New York. N Vo under the ai Office ch. 1879 of M NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 r 1930 Vor! rade ae the-Co Runict Party U.S.A. the ok FINAL CITY EDIT ON WORKERS OF THE WORL/,, UNITE! Price 3 Cents JOBLESS, EMPLOYED WORKERS! DEMONSTRATE TODAY! ~ MASS IN UNION SQ. AT 12 FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! Don’t Starve! Fight! HAT even one worker, deprived of a job, should starve to death in the richest country in the world, is an outrage which the whole working class should demand be stopped. Yet every day in every city, among the millions of jobless seeking vainly for work, they are falling, here and there, these victims of cap- italism, murdered by capitalism just as surely as though a capitalist or one of capitalism’s police had shot him through the heart. It is a crime, that in a land of plenty, where food by the trainload is thrown into the river as in New York City, where the choicest fruits rot by millions of bushels in the western orchards, where milk, and meat and bread* abound, that millions of jobless workers and their families go hungry, while—in some places—hundreds desperately search through the garbage from the tables of the rich to find a bite of food. Yet this condition is here. And millions of workers, hungry, are desperate with the hell of worry over the insecurity of life under this system: How to eat? How to pay rent? How to get clothing? What is the government, this capitalist government, doing about The capitalist government is concerned only about “law and order.” So long as the workers starve to death peacefully, unprotesting, dropping here and there to be carried to the potter’s field, the govern- ment is calm, the capitalists feel mildly interested in seeing business pick up, and cut wages right and left to hold up their own profi but ‘have only scorn for the “bums.” The capitalists go on “vacations” and squander enough to feed a workers’ family for a week on one meal. Only when the workers, understanding that they are one class, with common interests, unite in protest against the misery thrust upon them, will the government give even a thought to the jobless, and that to crushing them. The “law” is the law that tells the worker, jobless and desperate, that he must answer “No” to the piteous pleading of his babies for food. The “order” is the order of the policemen to “move on,” when he looks too long through windows where the capital- ists are dining. To hell with such law and order! It becomes a question of power. The workers, massed in thousands and millions, can bring fear to the craven hearts of these parasites. What they refuse out of greed and scorn, they can be made to give by fear of worse to come. It is not a question of charity. Capitalists have no such instincts, as was shown long ago by the remark of the editor of the Chicago Tribune, when someone suggested that the jobless be given bread. “Yes,” he said, “Give them bread. But put poison on it!” The working class demands Unemployment Insurance, not charity. No bowls of weak soup; nor cups of vile coffee and stale bread. But a part of that wealth which has been robbed from.them-by the bosses in profits from their sweat. A swarm of fakers are trying to put over a scheme that the workers who are working should “pay part” of the insurance against unemployment. They hope to defeat any aid to the jobless by thus setting the employed workers against it, or at least to make the working class pay most of the bill. Against this scheme the Communist Party proposes that the cap- italists with incomes over $25,000 a year should pay taxes and all war funds be given to a fund administered by workers to give real insurance against unemployment, to pay at least $25 a week to all workers who are unemployed, disabled or aged. ‘The capitalists and their government are against it. And it re- mains for the workers to nfake the demand insistent by mass demon- strations, by electing Communists to congress and organizing them- selves in their shops to fight for real unemployment insurance. Workers! You have been humble too long! Out on the streets tévay to show the scornful bosses and their Walkers and Hoovers that you mean business. Onto the streets to express your support of real relief, not charity, to the unemployed! Onto the streets to tell the capitalist government thatjyou refuse to starve and see your children go hungry and in rags in the richest coun‘ on earth! Your labor has created all this wealth around you! It's Our Affair, Too! ‘O American worker can afford to be ignorant of the meaning of the revolts now going on in Latin America. And equally, no worker can look to capitalist papers to give any sensible explanation. After we see how the economic crisis in America has echoed through- out the world, none can be so foolish as to imagine that these revolts have no bearing on the U. S. A. and the workers here. In an article, “Latin American Revolts,” on the back page of this issue, is given in detail the forces at work and the direction they are taking. Every worker should understand these forces, and we particu- larly call attention to the complication in class relations resulting from imperialist pressure in these semi-colonial lands. The present revolts undoubtedly arise from the soil of capitalist crisis and radicalization of the masses. In so far as the masses arise as an independent force striving toward power, the movement is a part of the world revolution and is just as important as the colonial revolu- tionary movement for independence in India and the fight for Soviet China, Even aside from this, we see that these outcroppings of imperialist rivalry are bringing nearer the inter-imperialist world war, in which every worker is a potential victim, no matter where he or she lives. To the ante-diluvian opportunists, accustomed like the imperialis they serve, to regarding Latin American masses as helpless, and Amer- ican imperialism utterly invincible, both the possibility of a worker and peasant revolution and any defeat for American imperialism are equally unthinkable. This is, of course, all wrong. The present revolts certainly bring difficulties for American im- perialism, and awaken masses to action, though the immediate result ‘ms but a futile change. What will the impoverished peasant and arving worker of Latin America choose, once armed struggle is pre- uted as the feasible means of attaining something: A change of capi- tilist dictators without any benefit to him, of a struggle for a Work- cvs’ and Peasants’ Government that means land, liberty and food? The measure of attainment will then be, the subjective factor of revolutionary organization, of a Communist Party with sufficient masses behind it and a sufficient firmness and decision to carry through the struggle for power. So far as objective situations go, many Latin American countries are seething with revolutionary masses, but in all except Brazil) perhaps, the subjective factor is lacking or deficient. The revolutionary workers of the United States have a serious duty toward this movement. A plan of fraternal aid by the various districts of our Communist Party was approved by the recent conven- tion and should be put into ‘operation without delay. We must aid in every way possible the victims of American imperialism, and especially the oppressed masses of the Caribbean area. And with the prospects of revolutionary advance in all these lands, with the opening of the conscious fight for power of the Brazilian workers and peasants, led by our heroic brother Party, every revolu- tionary worker in the United States must stan} by just loyally to defend their victories, as he would the fatherland of the: workers —the Savint Unian) it? Don’t starve, CALL 10 BUILD - THE STRIKE FUND ‘Shows Immediate aa of Trade Union Unity League $100,000 Fund |For Shop Organization Battling For 7-Hour Day and 5-Day Week — The militant {unions of the Trade Union Uni | League, while mobilizing all possible workers of their industry for dem-| onstration today for the Workers’ | Unemployment Insurance Bill, are at the same time concentratin:: every effort on the great drive to build the unions, to organize and NEW YORK. | strike against wage-cuts and every | attempt to worsen conditions, and | to build, $100,000 fund. The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, in a ringing call, | published on the front page of its official organ, The Needle Worker, states: for this purpose, a great “Organize and Strike” “The union is beginning a cam- | $50,000 organization and | paign for a strike fund, as a part of the frade Union Unity League $100,000 or- ganization and strike fund. This | fund must be established as soon as \ possible. (Continued on eee aed Three) STEEL CO. GANG KIDNAPS WOMAN ‘Communist Organizer “Taken For a Ride” DULUTH, Minn, Aug. 31.—An |armed fascist gang kidnapped Irma | |lecting signatures to put the Com- |munist Party or the ballot here, |and “took her for a ride” in West Duluth Friday. She was forced into a car, her hands tied, questioned, threatened, mistreated in various ways and finally +hrown out half |an hour later, with further threats. ® She answered this violence by go- ing immediately to a street meeting in West Duluth, where she was scheduled t» speak, and telling the werkers of this latest attemr. made to keep Karl Reeve, Communist Party district organizer, from ap- | pearing on the ballot as nominee for | governor, R. Harju for senator and W. Herju for congressman. The wor ers showed much indignation *he crowd pledy 1 +o oipanize in tke steel plants jand to volunteer for the work of collecting signatures in the Com- munist election campaign. TWO YEARS FOR FIGHTING STARVATION. BERLIN.—Comrade Karl Lichev- ski was tried at Leipzig before the supreme court of Germany on a |charge of “preparation for high | treason,” for urging German work- \ers to organize demonstrations and strikes as a protest against star- vation, misery and unemployment. We call upon every work- | Martin, who is one of those col-|* (By a Worker Correspondent.) TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 31.—Thous- ands of workers here who cannot afford to rent houses, due to un- employment, are camping out in tents along the lake front. Few of them have money enough to buy the necessary food to supply thier families, and even now while the! | weather is warm there is intense | suffering among them. What it y| will be when winter sets in can ; easily be imagined. Every day you can see women and men with +baskets or bags roaming about hunting for weeds} |or perhaps a chance to steal some-| thing from a farmer’s field. Fifty of the children of these job- | less workers have died during the past few weeks from under-nourish- ment, while hundreds of others have | | been sent to tuberculosis camps as | |a result of exposure. And this hap- pens right between 38 “of the world’s | most progressive industrial cities” | |like Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland. | Many of these workers worked | at the Overland Automobile Com- pany which last year employed 23,000 workers but now has cut) |down to about 2,500. And of these | latter, many are on a cheap month- | lly (instead of weekly) payroll, and | |forced to work 12 and 15 hours a day, Saturday and Sunday inclu- sive, with the bosses constantly threatening them with unemploy- |ment if they dare to protest. “Close your mouth or join the bums on the lake shore” they. are told. Some of them average as low as 18 cents an hour. It certainly is a frightful situa-| tion here when you can see hundreds | of workers every day searching the city garbage dumps for refuse. With conditions as they are, the workers sure have to do something about i I read your Daily Worker and | hope to vote for the Communist | ticket next fall. LINE OF MARCH OF TUUL UNIONS, Meet At Headquarters Today; March to Sq. NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity Council, New York district organization of the Trade Union} | Unity League, and its Councils of | the Unemployed, has issued instruc- tions for the marching to the Un- employment Day demonstration at Union Square today. Needle Workers meet at 131 W. 28th St., and march from there to arrive in the square at noon. Food and Shoe Workers meet at 16 W. 21st St. and march from there. | Unemployed Council meet at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 W. Fourth St., and march to Union Square from | there. All the rest of the leagues and the unions will meet at 13 W. 17th! St., at 10 a. m., to march from ae to Union Square, LOGGERS GET WAGE-CUT Organize, Strike, Must Be Answer (By a@ Worker Correspondent.) SAPPHO, Wash.—I wish to write a few lines from the job over here; I am working for Bloedell-Donovan Logging Camps. At the present time, 13 men work in our camp, mostly Bulgarians and Macedoni- ans who hardly can speak the Eng- lish language and the boss drives them like a bunch of cattle, On another line a camp of Japanese workers are also being driven by | the bosses. These workers receive 25 cents a day than we for the same kind of w awn a Se “Koud Master I. an We call ou Lhe railroad, him ' He The head fore- | surely is a good slave driver. Rumors are going around at pres- ent, that we are going to get a wage cut soon, something like 12%% or 50 cents a day. This surely is giving the men something to discuss and talk about. Some of the men think that this wage cut is temporary, but now they seem to agree that this is a foolish idea; they are beginning to realize that we must resist this wage cut or else they will get’ another one | later. With revolutionary An Il. W. W. ivery long. gvectings, be who wou't one NEEDLE UNION IN Breen ian Henies, Toledo | Jobless Workers Camp by Thousands on Lake Shore | Starving, They Search City Garbage Dumps for Food—Children Tuberculosis Victims — | 1200 cab 10 SAY HUNGRY JOBLESS READY TO BOMB MILL WILMINGTO Aug. Letters, purporting to come from a group of unemployed, so des- perate from starvation that they are willing to resort to terror against the employers who loaf at ease over their misery, are published on the front page by the Evening Journal here, I day’s date. Handful of Rich Men. Living in Luxw Millions Star ve Got Rich ‘By Robbery; | Stay Rich By Ruling | the Government i One letter threatens the Journal with a bomb explo- sion in its plant unless it pub- lished the letters, promising to blast all big factories if they did not hire the pobless by “Sept. 15. The police are trying to fix the |Only Struggle Can Get {Unemployed Insurance blame on Communists, engaged NEW YORK,—With the jobless in organizing the unemployed }j army mounting daily from the fi here, although such acts of ter- ]| ure of 8,000,000, and millions fac- ror are not part of the Commu- || ing a winter of desperate starva-| nist program at all. |tiof, the 59 rich men who rule} America, as nemed by sador Gerard, are living quite com- fortably and even becoming richer. This is shown by the Bureau of ae Reyenue _which Tecently | that the big corporations have |cleaned up more profit in 1930 than lever before. These “59 rulers” in| Shake Fists At Squire) reality control all business by a few Who Lauded Killer \great “holding companies,” are, in turn, controlled by {enormous groups of AVELLA, Pa. Aug. 31.—Twelve| jess than 59. hundred miners came to the mass} funeral Tuesday, of Steve Mina and| employment Insurance Bill proposed George Harkoff, Communists and] by the SonmUneY Party, workers of the Mine, Oi1| Should never be kidded by capital- Industrial | ¢ papers aie athe idea that these militant memb ene Sne Ne shot. the|Tich menn “honestly earned” it, or ae ney had heen shot tel got it by being “wise”. They got it Friday before by an anarchist 1 awe > 9 +! by crookedness, thievery and open Pietro Petrella, part of an organ- i ee a. force and violence. ized gang of nine who had been urg-|°"° ‘ ; : jing miners to break the strike in| Today, Ex-Ambassador Gerard, Luquesne mine, brought in from | leaves Hoover out of his list of various points to break up she (Contimued on Page Three) j armed squad of state troopers under Marine Workers and the General | fists at him, |Saceo and Vanzetti meeting here. | But he wrote this knowing of the GOV'T ADMITS Petrella and other anarchists were | doing the work of the employers. | | Since their failure fone ache Ba to disrupt the M.O. National Miners’ Union) ee nad engaged in strike breaking activi- | ties. The police, who let Petrella escape easily, were present in con- siderable numbers at the funeral, revolvers bulging from the pockets of plain clothes men who mingled with the funeral crowd, and a large Census Head Blurts Out Facet On Radio WASHINGTON Sergeant Gleason, hidden in the cen- | plete verif ter of this little town. er’s Jigu on unemployment—in “Good Job” Says Judge. fact, additional proof that the Daily Squire Wigman, of Avella, ena orker’s figures of over 8,000,000} ,» Aug. 31—Com- ation of the Daily Work- pie) funerals procession. shook, their |/('7)-/Stenart says that “some days the number (of unemployed) The anarchists were afraid to} he 7,000,000 or 9 000,000.” show themselves, Earlier in the| Dr, Steurat’s speech was an at- (Continued on Page Three) tempt to cover up the evidence of! actual faking committed by the| census bureau to hide the extent of | unemployment. : BURN BOOK OF (Jobless Demand Relief, Ambas- | which | | a few bankers, much | In the fight for the Workers Un-| 4,000,000 JOBLESS may| BROADEN SEPT. 1 FORCE GOV'T OF “ PAY JOBLESS INSURANCE Dictator of the U. U.S J. P. Morgan, by virtue of the fact that he is the head of the greatest banking consortium in the United States, is the real dic- tator of the. destinies. of the mil- | lions of toilers in the interest of | profits for himself and his class. Sept. 1 Dope of A.F.L. OB’s Wage Cutting | WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Com- pletely glossing over the demand for unemployment insurance, Wil- liam F. Green, president of the A. and Prank Morrison, sec- y, in parate “Labor Day” messages issued today actually boast | of the strike-breaking activities of the A. F. of 7 Green’s message pointing out the | undeniable fact of a seyere crisis, tells the | bosses that they can thank officials of the A. F. of “no strike policy,” saying: “Fortunately the American Federation of Labor has fune- tioned in a most serviceable way in the distressing period through which we have passed and are now passing.” Green refers to the hundreds of iustances where the A. F. of L. of- of L. aided the bosses put them through. Fascist Green winds up his messaj | by asking the bosses to “seek a prac- had declared on the day of the mur-|U¢™Ployed were an underes tima- tical solution for the problem of pecan . ‘5 tion of the true extent of unemploy-| . |der: “Petrella did a good job, only| re in the present crisis ie con:| Unemployment.” he did not kill enough of them tained in the latest admission of| . Morrison, using the New York stood on a hill watching the funer William M, Steuart, director of | f@ke “old age pension” mill as his He was surrounded by a large body- ie adavation: eeneue, if a radio | Model, gives lip. ervice in the man- guard of armed thugs. Workers in| ech. |ner that the “socialists” do to a | request for (Continued on Page Three) | New York City spends $600, 000,000 yearly—the Communist Party demands relief for the un- | employed—vots Communist! HOOVER AGENT CLEVE. . JOBLESS ACTIVE Philippine dispatches Sunday told | of thousands gathered at the statue of Andrea Bonifacio, the worker | who led the successful revolution for petal : CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 31.— Philippine independence from Spain, Unemploymen. in Gisvelana. is denouncing the appointment by Hoo- ver of Nicolas Roosevelt as Vice- Governor General of the colony, and | ceremoniously burning Roosevelt’s imperialist book “The Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem.” really of quite serious dimensions. Not many workers gather in front of the shops in the morning because there is no general hiring. They walk however, from shop to shop with the result that fairly large The crowd shouted “Death to} groups are always in front of the| Reosevelt oosevelt’s book says|employment offices coming and| that the U. S, should copy the im-| going. perialist policy of the bloody sup- pression of the Dutch in Java. “The Dutch policy,” it says, “could be sunimarized by saying: ‘Keep their bellies full and their heads empty.’ ” Out of a group of 30 unemployed workers in front of the Corrigan McKinney Steel Co., 8 workers had |been umployed for 11 months, 12 | were jobless for over 6 months, the balance City WillR Resound with Demands Sept. L| & Foundry Co., where some hiring | job. Many of these workers hay. ing been unemployed for lang peri: ods of time. The morning shop | gate meetings at these plants were enthusiastically received by the un-| | Two branches of the Unemployed | Councils have been organized. Branch 1 meets every Tuesday and Friday at 2:30 p. m., at the Finnish Workers Home, 1303 W. 58th St., |near Detroit Ave. and Branch 2 jals either proposed wage cuts or | “unemployment insur- | was supposed to take ‘place, testi- | fied to the difficulty of finding a| FIGHT; 9” TO g, Faker Woll Cooks Up Insurance Racket Graft I Plan TUUL in “Baltimore to Fight R.R. Carmen’s Rotten Proposal Intensify the Struggle Fight For Jobless In- surance Speeded Up | Matthew Woll, one of the fascist | leaders of the A.F. of L. who sup- ports the Manufacturers Associa- | tion’s fight against unemployment | insurance, has worked up a scheme | whereby he expects to coin money | from the misery of millions of un- | employed workers. The Brotherhood of Railway Car- }men has come out with a proposal to the workers of the B. & O. Ri road in Baltimore to endrose their plan of “unemployment insurance.” This plan does not require the B. & O. magnates to go to any trouble at all. They can keep up the inhuman exploitation of tl: workers, speed them up to the high- est degree and throw them on the serap heap at will. The A. F. of L. leaders propose that the workers pay for social insurance. Through their plan, every worker has to pay five dollars a month into the | Matthew Woll insurance racket, from which they are supposed to receive insurance when unable to work. If this scheme is carried through, it will be a virtual wage- (Continued on Page Three) (USE BLUE LAWS * TO STEAL 1,000 GP, SIGNATURES Take Kensington List; Say They Are Invalid | KENSINGTON, Pa. Aug. 31.— |Outright robbery of a thousand workers’ signatures to the Commu- ist petition to get on the ballot jin Pennsylvania was perpetrated to- |day by the city officials of Ken- sington under the pretext of the blue laws when workers were ar- rested and their lists confiscated. The cops who jailed the work- ers for collecting signatures told |them that it was “against the laws” |to go from house to house and ask |the workers to sign the Communist petition on Sunday. The signatutes | were therefore declared to be illegal and invalid, This a deliberate attempt of |the bosses to keep the Communist |Party of the ballot. There is | widespread discontent among the workers who readily sign the Com- | munist 28 is known to the officials and hence the slimy cit new tactics, under the guise of the blue laws, to fight against the growing influence of the Commu- | nist Party and to use every means in their power to keep the work- Jers from voting Communist. As proof that the “blue law” Y-| episode is the purest fake is the |fact that the A. F. of L. has organ- | ized a meeting for next Sunday, when a lot of democratic politicians will “speak” against Injunctions. piers workers who recognized) The whole purpose of confiscating | that we are in for a hard winter. |of the signatures and declaring them invalid was to keep the Com- munists from getting on the ballot and appealing to wide masses of workers, This latest trick of the bosses to 2\attempt to keep the Communists tnass murders of starving workers in Jove by tha Dita in 1098, 4, and 2 month: being the minimum, Three hundred work- ers wailing at the Verro Machine meets at the South Slay Workers | off the ballot will not stop increased Hall at 5607 St. Clair, near E. 58th activities to get even greater nuine Street. hers of workers’ signatures