The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1930, Page 1

Carry the Struggle for the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill Into the Election Canipaign, The A. F. of L. and “so- cialist” Leaders Again Sabotaged the Struggle for Social Insurance on “Labor Day.” Only the Communist Party Fights for the Workers. Vote Com- munist! Central (Sec he-Co a / NO Entered Vol. VII., No. 211 second-class matter at the Bor at New Vork NY. under the act of March %. 1879 Office "NEW YORK, TUESD AY, SEPT Organize! Continue to Fight REFORMIST TALK Hungarian Workers Seize Budapest Streets, Stoning | Police; Cheer Jor Soviets for Jobless Insurance! ESTERDAY several hundred thousand workers throughout the country rallied in the streets at the call of the Trade Union Unity League to fight for unemployment insurance. These workers repre- sented the most conscious and determined sections of the working dass. Many of them had long been unemployed. All illusions about “permanent prosperity” in the United States for them had been shat- tered. For months in this land of plenty they have been jobless; they have gone without food; they have slept in the parks; they have reached a point where there is nothing left but sharp and continuous struggle against the bosses for relief from their present unbearable plight. These unemployed workers were joined in yesterday’s demo tions by many thousands of workers who are still desperately clinging to jobs, many of them only working part time and many of them only recently suffering heavy wage slashes, who also united in a vigorous demand for unemployment insurance, The September 1st demonstrations, following on the heels of those of August Ist, May 1st and March 6th, emphasize the large number of workers, both employed and unemployed, who are ready and even de- termined to fight. Police terror, arrests and long prison terms: have not deterred these workers. The reformist piffle of the party leaders and the Musteites and the open fascist declarations and activities of the A. F. of L. about “capitalist-labor co-operation,” “high wages,” ete., have not prevented the workers from rallying to the cal! of the Communist Party and the revolutionary T. U. U. L. union: Hundreds of thousands of workers during the past few months have re- peatedly shown a readiness to respond to a fighting working-class program. But this mass still suffers from a lack of organization. These workers come to a demonstration; they remain until the last word has been spoken and then they return to their homes (if they have one) not té be heard of again until another demonstration is called for. Demonstrations tend to become a thing in themselves and do not bring inereased organization among the workers which would make it pos- sible to raise the struggle to a stilll higher plane. These workers, because of lack of organization, are not drawn into active propaganda and organization work which would continuqusly keep revolutionary working-class demands before the mass of workers, and draw still greater masses of workers into monster political demonstrations for these demands. The Party and the revolutionary unions are still in- sufficiently rooted in the shops and mines and therefore do not exercise sufficient continuous influence and direction among the masses who daily become more willing to fight. The meagre reports available on yesterday’s demonstrations show already that there was a wide response to the demand for the adoption of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, for the 7-hour day, 5-day week, for strike struggle against wage-cuts, etc. The task is now the or- ganization of this support. There must be no letup in the work. On the contrary, all the forces of the Party and the T. U. U. L. must be utilized at top speed to build the various unions and leagues of the T. U. U. L. and the unemployed councils, This is not to be the work of a few comrades assigned for this purpose. It is, we emphasize, to be the work of the entire Party and T. U. U. Li—of every member, of all leading comrades. In the election campaign, which must be waged with the utmost zeal between now and November, with the Unemployment Insurance Bill as the central demand, while every effort must be made to win the votes of the workers, again the principal emphasis organizationally must be placed on the building of the revolutionary unions and the unemployed councils. By the proper co-ordination of the election campaign and the organization of T. U. U. L. and unemployed councils the maximum force can be generated for the struggle against the bosses. Concentrate on organization work in the shops and factories! Build the revolutionary unions and unemployed councils! Support the drive of the T. U. U. L. for the strike fund! Continue the struggle for the Unemployment Insurance Bill! Prepay : strike struggles against wage-cuts and the speed-up! Rally or the Communist Party election campaign! Hoover’s Accounting to the Real Rulers ‘WO years ago Hoover and the present republican majority in the Senate and House of Representatives were elected on the basis of the platform of the republican party which was dictated by the Wall Street bankers. Now with new elections approaching the repub- lican national committee renders a report to its masters in the hope that again they will be selected by the bankers and industrialists to dutifully carry out instructions for another two years. The report should also be studied by the workers. The first point to be dealt with is that of tax reduction. One of the real achievements of the Hoover administrstion was the reduction of one per cent in income taxes last December, according to the re- port, and there is every possibility, they promise, of another 1 per cent tax reduction this year. What does this mean for the workers? It means that the govern- ment during this period of crisis ‘s trying by every means possible to lighten the burdens of the big capitalists, while they refuse most em- phatically to relieve the suffering of the millions of unemployed work- ers. The workers do not pay income taxes. And instead of using sur- plus funds in the federal treasury to help the workers they reduce the taxes of the rich; they do not reduce the indirect taxes which are paid primarily by the poor, but the income taxes on large fortunes. This is achievement number one for the Hoover administration (or better to say for the capitalists). . The second achievement of the administration is the passing of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff law. Under this bill the internal market is closed to foreign competitors making it possible for the American capitalists to maintain monopoly prices at home (that is prices which greatly exceed the cost of production) and to dump American goods on foreign and colonial markets at prices below those charged by their competitors. It is plain that by the passage of this law the workers and poor farmers are again the goats; the big capitalists are the bene- ficiaries. This is Hoover’s second achievement. The third achievement is, of course, disarmament. The republican committee points with pride to the London Conference, but what was really accomplished there? The United States, which is feverishly preparing to gain control of additional foreign markets by force if necessary, succeeded in London in gaining “parity” with its most hated vival, Great Britain, and also succeeded in further strengthening its leadership in the imperialist united front against the Soviet Union. While limiting the expenditures of England and Japan, the United States gained the right to spend over +. billion dollars for new cruisers, destroyers, submarines and airplat® carriers—to strengthen its war preparations at the expense of its rivals. The Hoover administration, therefore, in this third “achievement” finds it possible to spend billions of dollars to carry through a war to protect the interests of the Wall Street vankers abroad, but again not a cent for unemployment in- surance. There are many other “achievements” dealt with which we will have occasion to refer back to at another time, but every “achieve- ment” is an achievement for those who dictated the republican plat- form and who have consistantly pulled the strings of the administra- tion since it opened business in Washington. No one of these boasted accomplishments could by the farthest stretch of the imagination be construed as beneficial to the workers or farmers. An examination of the report of the Hoover administration will convince every worker that the time has come to kick out that gang of hirelings. The workers must put a narty in power over which they will he the boss. That Party is the Communist Party. Vote Commu- nist in November’ SPREAD ABROAD ON ‘LABOR’ DAY * From Lore to Butler, Boss Supporters Spout Gas “We're All Socialists” ;Says Butler, Warning gainst Communism NEW YORK.—A bad smell hung over lower New York State yester. day as a result of the reformist speeches made on the eve of reform- jist Labor Day. It began with a “debate” between social fascist “socialists” up in the Brookwoods, with the “Left” char- latan, Ludwig Lore, attacking the clown, Heywood Broun for “uncon- sciously” supporting capitalism, and | Broun declaring that the support he | gives capitalism is conscious, not | “unconscious,” and that he was “de- | lighted” with the support the cap- {italists give him and other “social | ists” in return. | The Reverend Muste, issued « message to “organized labor,” b; | which he means the A. F, of L., say- ing that what American worker: | need is a “Labor” Party, forgetting | to mention that “Labor” parties 11 | Ergland and Australia have bees |busy helping the bosses cut wages | there and massacre oppressed col- | onial peoples in India, China, Africa | and a few other countries. Muste’s “message” was | name of the conference for Progres- | sive Labor Action, which supports the social fascist “socialist” party. He says that A. F. of L. leade: | most of whom are openly fascist. (Continued on Page Three) 00 IN OKLA. CITY - DEMONSTRATION Arrest 4; Police Break Up Meet An Associated Press dispatch from Oklahoma City states that a crowd of 800 unemployed and em- | plyyed workers gathered here under in the | ‘Despite Mass Arrests and Volleys From Army, _ Communis The “59” Go Socialist | | | The mug above belongs to Nich- olas “Miraculous” Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University, who says, “We're all socialists, now,” und advises the rich to fight Com- munism by helping the fake “so- cialists.” Butler wasn’t in the 59 rulers of America first named by Ex-Ambassador Gerard, but Gerard added him when he named Bill Green and Mattie Woll. So the rich men who rule America are all going “socialist.” Green Peddles ‘Holy’ Dobe to | Unembloyed | WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—As his |Sunday message before “Labor | Day,” the fascist head of the A. F. jof L., William Green, called on the bosses to feed the workers religioa | instead of giving them unemploy- |ment insurance, as a solution for | the growing militancy of the battles | of the workers against mass wage- cuts. Speaking together with a group the leadership of the Communist | of religious opium dispensers at the Party to demand Unemployment In- | Washington Cathedral Green’s sug- surance, and that on complaints of | gestion was that religious dope be business men that the crowd was | peddled to the workers as a solution “obstructing traffic’ four leaders | for their desire to fight and strike Take Lead; Battle Continues | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 1.— |With many factories closed by strike, masses of workers at 11 ja. m. today flooded into the center lof the city in unemployment dem- jonstration. The first collision oc-| curred in Theresa Ring. Workers |flung stones at the mounted police | |and stopped traffic. At 12 o’clock |the main street, Andrassy St., was | filled with tens of thousands of workers and jobless shouting, | “Work or Bread,” “Down with the |Bourgeoisie,’ “Long Live Soviet |Hungary.” The police tried to \drive the workers into side streets. | |By one o’clock the tramway service | |was partially suspended. The so- | cialist deputy, Peyer, attempted to | calm the workers and delivered an, |Anti-Communist tirade. There were | \continual collisions. At 2p. m. the | military were called out and arvived lin armoured cars. They fired vol-| |leys into the crowds, killing and| wounding many. The Communists | lare active among the ma: and | are taking over the leadership. The | ) disturbances are continuing. | Yesterday night the police made} |widespread arrests to block the | | demonstraticn today, but in spite of ! | EMBER 2, 1930 | Would Make $25 Worker munist Party U.S.A. the Communist International) Communist Candidate el Hart's Island prison, is candidate State of New demanded Jobless Di for governor of the York on the Cc Over 25,000 worker release at the N.Y. demonstration, COMMUNISTS IN. GET RELIEF NOW a Wk. For Each Jobless Man this, the workers’ quarters were) | Sao | flooded with Communist leaflets) NEW YORK.—That payments on | apealing to the masses to transform | the interests and redemption of jthe demonstration into a political! New York City bonds and notes, jone, with fighting demands. lepers to hundreds of millions | | Jobless Fought Cops in Hungary. | 0f dollars yearly, be stopped, and | ‘The social democrat leaders, who | that the wages of Mayor Walker | land other higher city officials be | |were forced by strong pressure from the ranks of the workers to call the demonstration, immediately | proceeded to betray the workers as | soon as the preparations for the | demonstration was under way. | Twenty-four hours before the dem- | onstration, |the Hungarian social | democratic party, through its organ, |the “Nepszava,” declared that the cut to a minimum the unemployed $ they can find jobs, is the demand put forward by the Communist Party Campaign Committee, thru its candidate for Lieutenant Gov. ernor of New York City, Comrad J, Louis Engdahl. City Pays 772 in order to pay a week until Millions to Bank jsocial democrats would suppress __ Corporations, jany “disorder” during the demen- Quoting the figures of Charles | stration. W. Berry, comptroller of the City | of New York, Engdahl points out Out of a population of 7,000,000 there are more than 500,000 jobless | workers in Hungary. This means | |tkat one out of every |fourteen | | Hungarians, including old and | young, is without work and facing | starvation. 10,000 IN CHICAGO that during 1929, the gross income | of the was $1,472,000,000, out | of which $772,000,000 was used for | payments on interests, and the re- demption of New York City bonds and notes. “While the bill for Un- employment Insurance proposed by the Communist Party for adoption jin Congress is pending,” Engdahl declared “an immediate relief fund for the over a million unemployed in the state of New York, out of nearly 800,000 which are to be FINAL i mand the pas were arrested and the demonstra- tion broken up. The day before Sept. 1st meeting, tributing leaflets. He was again | arrested when he attempted to ad- dress the workers on Sept. 1st: Others arrested are R. J. Pierce, J. C. Clark and T. Daughty. Protest Deportation of Serio, Wednesday NEW YORK.—Pretesting against the deportation of G. Serio to fas- cist Italy, and almost certain death at Manhattan Lyceum Wednesday, at 8 p.m. Among those partici- pating at the call of the Interna- tional Labor Defense will be the Communist Party and the revolu- tionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League. All are invited. Serio was arrested because of }i pointing out in a speech how the catholic church helps the bosses here and in Italy. All the witnesses the immigration authorities seek to use against him repudiate the translations made of their speeches, but on the basis of these transla- tions the deportation is being at- tempted. J. L. Whitter was arrested for dis- | at the hands of Mussolini’s agents, | the worker: of New York will meet | against worsening conditions. “Ir the pulpits and | churches,” Green said, “the relation | of religion and the application of of modern-day industrial problems are considered and presented in a | most sincere and logical way.” { “If capital and labor are to carry | on a relentless industrial class war,” this faker continued, ‘then religion has ceased to operate, and a sense of individual moral responsibility |has been destroyed.” | In short, Green suggests, that when wages are cut the workers meekly submit and go to church in- stead of striking. Green’s solution for the starva- tion of the 8,000,000 hungry unem- ployed is the same. He calls on the churches to fill them full of relig- | ious dope so that they will not wage loyment insurance, as advocated in the Communist Party Unemploy- rent Insurance Bill. As part of this campaign of the fascist heads of the A. F. of L. jagainst unemployment insurance, Green endorsed Franklin D. Roose- velt, democratic grafter, for re-elec- tion as governor of New York. Fight For Social Insurance! on Streets (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—Four hundred work- ers employed by the Chicago and North Western Railroad in its Chicago shops and roundhouses will join the ever-increasing army of unemployed on Tuesday, Septem- ber 2nd. This lay-off of workers affecting every craft is in direct violation of “promises” made by the company management and A. F. of L. fakers to the effect that if the five-day, forty-hour week was accepted steady employment for ment meant a wage cut, the work- ers were intimidated and coerced by their fake leaders into accept- ance of same to be effective August ninety days would be guaranteed. | Although realizing that the agree- | 400 Chi. Shiobines Thrown September 2nd Ast. Less than thirty days after the agreement went into effect the company posts notices announcing the mass lay-off. The workers have endured the most brutal speed-up and slave-driving in the history of railroading and this has resulted in their being thrown onto the streets to starve. Discontent is rapidly manifest- ing itself and the workers show that they are ready for a fight against lay-offs by the bosses and betrayal by their fake leaders. Open statements by the workers in- dicate lack of confidence in the eraft unions and many they are through with the A. F. of L. for all time. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! é 3 Cents UNEMPLOYED Mass At Union Square INSURANCE in “Jobless Day” Dem- or-tration in Fight For Jobless Insurance Workers Pledge Support to Communist Elec- tion Campaign in Fight on Capitalism NEW YORK.—Rallying for a determined struggle to de- age of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, advo- cated by the Communist Party, over 25,000 unemployed and employed workers gathered in ership of the Trade Union Unity League. hundreds of demonstrations called by the T. U. U. L. to initiate a drive for unemploy- ment insurance. While hundreds of A. F. of L. fascist leaders were swilling with the bosses on “Labor Day,” gloryfying American imperialism, its terrifie exploitation, speed-up, mass unemployment and wage-cuts, the T. U. U. L, called on the thous- ands of workers it mobilized for a broader fight for unemployment in- surance. All the workers present pledged to carry the fight into their shops and factories. The speakers stressed the point that the “Unemployment Day” demonstra- tions were just the beginning of the struggle that it was necessary to get down to the workers in the in- dustries, organize shop committees, unemployed councils to popularize and spread the Unemployment In- surance Bill, and enlist behind it millions of determined workers, to force the bosses to grant unemploy- ment insurance. The Tammany police, who were stationed in secret hiding places all around the square, as well as in jarge numbers right on the square, did not attack the main body of the demonstration, They went after 400 unemployed workers and sea- men who marched under the banner of the Marine Workers Industrial | Union from Manhattan Lyceum to] Union Square. They tried to break up the march, but were unsuccess- ful. However, they arrested four unemployed workers. A member of the Young Communist League was also arrested. The police kept diverting traffic into 17th Street in order to keep down the crowd, as thousands of workers had flocked around the en- tire square. Finally traffic was forced to suspend as the workers filed into the meeting place, march- ing in from their various union Union Square, under the lead- This was one of GALL CONF. ON UNITED FIGHT OF —-CLOAKMAKERS Registered, N Wis | Jobless Represented | NEW YORK—“What must be done now is to organize the mighty | wave of discontent against worse , conditions than in 1925 and against the betrayals of the Schlesinger company union,” says an appeal is- | sued yesterday by the Needle ; Trades Workers’ Industrial Union |to the cloakmakers of New York, | announcing the rank and file cloak- | makers’ conference for Saturday, | Sept. 6, at 1 p. m., in Irving Plaza | Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. | The conference was to have been held Aug. 23, but was postponed be- | cause of the heavy storm, which | prevented workers from attending. | The conference is to set up a real | united front for a fight against in- | tolerable conditions in the cloak | trade, company union, sweatshop conditions and unemployment. The N. T. W. I. U. call points | out that the cloakmakers, who have | been divided, kept in submission and | forced into wage-cuts, speed-up and unemployment by the combination | of bosses with Dubinsky, Schlesin- ger, and previously with Sigman, jare so filled with disgust at the trick played on them by the I. L. |G. W. company union that there is |hardly a word in defense of Schle- singer and company. The workers | Tegistered with Schlesinger, the un- | employed and the workers in the In- dustrial Union must get together. in the | religious formulae to the solution | “class warfare” to demand unem- | ‘1,000 Meet in Indiana! Harbor Sept. 1 | (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Sept. 1—Ten thou- | sand workers and unemployed took jpart in the “Unemployment Day | Demonstration” here, under the {leadership of the Trade Union | Unity League, while the fake Chi-| jeago Federati: of Labor Day af- fair, which was widely advertised | in the capitalist press and over the | |WCFL radio could not rally more} {than 15,000, most of them women and children who came to see the | games and stunts. | T.U.U.L. members distributed | \leaflets, demanding the passage of | |the Unemployment Insurance Bill) inside the gates of Soldiers’ Field, | | where the C. F. of L. held its slimy | Labor Day event. i At the Washington Square “Un- employment Yay” demonstration, | the 10,000 workers unanimously ap- | | proved of the Unemployment Insur- ; jance Bill, and voted to carry on a! {still broader fight to force the |bosses to accept it. A resolution | was passed demanding the release of all class war prisoners. i A committee of twenty-five was | elected to visit Governor Emmer- | {son and the state legislature de-| | manding immediate relief action on | the bill. The workers demanded | | ships from China, which are being | jused against the Chinese Soviets, | There were four platforms from | which workers addressed the crowd, | Speakers representing the T.U.U.L., Unemployment Councils, Pa. ty or- ganization, American Negro Labor | Congress and the Young Commv- | nist Leagne spoke. i A number of applications for | jmembership in the T.U.U.L. were received. At Gary, Indiana, the demonstra- tion was attended by 500 workers. |In Indiana Harbor, an important} steel center, over 1,000 attended. Thirty applications were received in| Indiana Harbor for membership in| the T.U.U.L. | DEMONSTRATION | found in New York City, must be established.. The hundreds of mil- (Continued on Page Two) 2,000 MEET IN NEW BRITAIN Demand Passage of Jobless Insurance yecial to the Daily Worle) SW BRITAIN, Conn., Two thousand workers pated in a militant “Jobless Day” | demonstration demanding the p: sage of the Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. The bill was unanimousl: accepted, and a committee of fiv elected to see the mayor. G the Communist candidate for gov ernor. Twenty-five a tions were handed in for members the Party. cessful despite the fact that the police smashed all prelimi: meetings during the past few days. 2,500 Families Month in (By « Worker Correspondent) the capitalist press is appeale: for help by the starving fa Here is what can be read in th Chicago Daily News today: | ae ae T have been out of work for ten months. My long overdue, cut off. Tam wife is ill, rent is | gas and electric is | up against it. | JAMES H, | icago Ave, | Ce RR T have ten children and we have | no shoes or clothes, Unless we can get something to wear at once children will n e able to go to school Sept. 2nd. MRS. K. CS pee | Here is a list of supplies from} | Communist League and Pioneers Great | enthusiasm greeting the speech of | stration, when free copies of the} |Daily Worker and other literature! ip in| The meeting was suc-! Chi., J obless Starve . tthe county to f CHICAGO, Il.—Unemployment is ; the withdrawal of troops and war | °" the increase here. Daily, even! mother again to! The Next Step. The call of the Industrial Union reminds the cloakmakers of the | power they have, as shown in the | 1925 fight of the Joint Action Com- mittee. It points out that the begin- registered and Industrial Union cloakmakers met in Bryant Hall and (Special to the Daily Worker) all expressed the same burning PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Sept. 1.) wish, the same aim, for a struggle —Between three and four hundred for union conditions. workers gathered at City Hall Park! ‘This conference Saturday is the here to partake in the demonstra- next step. “Let every shop imme- tion organized by the T.U.U.L. to diately elect delegates. Let the un- demand unemployment insurance. employed immediately organize and The crowd of workers, which in-| send delegates! Let every group of cluded a large number of Negro workers in company union and open workers, enthusiastically endorsed shops, regardless of how small the Unemployment Insurance Bill, | their number, send delegates, and, when it was read. Many copies of | together with the Industrial Union, the Daily Worker and Labor Unity| begin the mobilization for the vere sold. | struggle!” says the N. T. W. I. U. Towards the end of the demon- | call to the conference. os 5 was being distributed, the cops, ’ tried to interfere with its dissemi- = bid nation among the workers. They} La CONFERENCE were not successful, however, as | Bob Dunn Will Speak Evicted Each on Fish Committee headquarters. Groups if the Young marched in from all sides at 12:00 (Continued on Page Three) any workers were handed pieces | Representatives of many working ss organizations are expected to be present at the Friends of the Scviet Union city-wide conference which will be held Thursday, at 7:30 p. m., at Manhattan “Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., Harriet Silver man, local F.S.U, secretary an- Tomatoes, 9 pounds; can milk, 8 nounced Yearandaye A pounds; fresh milk, 1 quart a day; The conference will take up the syrup, 1 1b; flour, & pounds; rice, Wuestions of an extensive campaign 5 pounds; beans, 5 pounds; prunes, fF the recognition of the U.S.S.R., 6 pounds; rolled oats, 3 pounds; #/so mobilize the American work- Sugar, 10 pounds; pork slab, 5 in& class in defense of the Soviet pounds; lard, 8 pounds. ; Union from imperialist attacks, No fresh meat, no vegetables, no, Robert W. Dunn, of the Labor bread, no salt and pepper. | Research Association, will deliver a Ailer one week is past it is no Teport on the Fish Committee ex- longer possible to construct a meal|P0Sing some previously unknown from what is left. {facts of this fascist group. ny * + | Organizations electing delegates ‘Twenty-five hundred families | should immediately notify the local are evicted each month here. The | F.S.U. office, 799 Broadway, New Municipal Court handles hundreds |York City, of the name and ad- of cases every day. dresses of the delegates selected. eed an unemployed wife is due to be a in six weeks and has worker. His four children These supy nonth: were to last a