The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1930, Page 1

Carry the Struggle for the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill Into the Election Campaign. The A. F. of L. and “so- cialist” Leaders Again Sabotaged the Struggle for Social Insurance i on “Labor Day.” Only the | Communist Party Fights for the Workers. Vote Com- munist! me a (Section of he-C munist the Communist tered a. Vol. VII., No. 212 second-clans tter at the Post Office at New York. NY. under the uct of Mareb 3 “Give Us Work; Give Us Bread!” ONDAY’S events in Budapest, where the workers went into the streets to demand “Work or Bread,” are of the greatest sig- | nificance to revolutionary workers everywhere. These events, to begin | with, again emphasize the world-wide character of the capitalist cri fand the growing militancy and revolutionary determination of the | workers in resisting the universal efforts of the capitalists to make them | carry the burden of the crisis. Out of a total population in Hungary of 7,000,000, over 500,000 | workers are jobless. As in the United States these unemployed work- jers receive no unemployment insurance or any other form of relief. | In addition to those totally unemployed, there as here, there are many thousands who are working only part time at greatly reduced wages and with much greater intensity. It was these conditions, constantly becoming worse with the deepening of the crisis, that provided the basis for the September Ist events. Of most importance, however, is the turn which Monday’s events took in exposing the class role of the various political groupings, and the reaction of the working masses. The demonstrations were called, according to press reports, by the social-democrats (the Hungarian counterparts of Thomas, Hilquit and Broun) under the pressure of the masses. The workers, unable to stand the daily worsening of their conditions and determined to stop the bosses’ pressure, forced these reformist hirelings of the bosses, who control the trade unions, to issue the call for Monday’s demonstra- tions. The Hungarian dictator, Count Bethlen, immediately issued or- ders barring the demonstrations, whereupon the “socialist” leaders (true to form) immediately beat a retreat. The central organ of the social democrats, the “Nepszava,”’ twenty-four hours before the demonstra- tions, declared that they would suppress any “disorder” during the demonstration, which was already a warning of their bloody betrayal which followed. The Communist Party of Hungary, carrying forward the revolu- tionary traditions of 1919, got busy, warned the workers of the inevi- table betrayal by the social-democrats, and called upon the masses to broaden their struggle for “Work or Bread” into a political struggle against the Bethlen fascist dictatorship and its social-democratie props, On this basis the demonstrations went forward despite the pro- hibition of Bethlen and the sabotage of the social fascists. Over fifty thousand workers, according to press reports, gathered by ones, twos and threes in the public square and on the city’s main thoroughfare. Many of\these were employed workers who struck work in order to participate. Then eame the collision. The police attempted to smash the dem- onstration. \ The workers responded by stoning the police, determinedly holding the streets and square which they had won. When the police failed to break the workers’ ranks, the‘first reserve of the bourgeoisie was called; a socialist deputy, Karl Payer, was brought to the scene. He tried frantically to divide and confuse the workers by launching into a bitter tirade against the Communists, but for his pains, he was badly beaten by the workers and, after being rescued, “taken to the hospital with serious injuries.” He having also failed, Bethlen then orlered out mounted traops and tanks. By machine gun fire and sabre attacks, the streets were finally vleared after “two workers were killed, fifty-seven seriously wounded, some of whom are dying, and one hundred fifty less seriously.” Over 300 were arrested. But this is only the first skirmish. From it many lessons can be drawn. The capitalist press sums up the first lesson in the following terse sentence: “The moderate socialists did their best (for the Hungarian bosses—Ed.) but lost all control.” The second lesson equally well put is the following: “The most alarming feature ... was the extent to which the Communist extremists gained the ear of workmen embittered by economic distress.” The third most important fact to be noted is the quickness with which the Hungarian masses recalled their revolutionary experiences of 1919, when for 132 days they maintained a workers’ Soviet Republic, and threw up barricades in the streets and behind them heroically re- sisted the armed attacks of the police and the troops, fighting from 11 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon against the greatest odds before retreating. With the experience of the socialist betrayal of Monday added to the previous experience of the Hungarian working class it is safe to declare that more will be heard from Hungary. The struggle for “Work or Bread,” coupled up as it was with the demands: “Down with the bourgeoisie!” “Long Live Soviet Hungary!” will go forward stronger than ever before, this time with the leadership of the Hungarian Com- munist Party greatly strengthened. Another ‘Socialist’ Speaks RESIDENT JOHN BEARD, in his report to the opening session of the British Trade Union Congress, shows more clearly and brazenly than ever before the course that the social democrats of the world are following. He went out of his way incidentally to state that his speech was fully in line with the policy of the MacDonald “Labor” Government. “T still fully trust the Labor Government,” he said, “and in these times of tense danger (for cappitalism.—Ed.) stand by the captain—James Ramsey MacDonald.” | From this he went on to declare that there was ‘no present sub- ; stitute for capitalism,” and to ridicule the “Socialism in our time” slogan of the Independent Labor Party, He followed the line of the big bourgeoisie in declaring against the traditional free trade policy of British imperialism and for a policy of free trade within the empire protected from foreign imperialist competition by high tariff walls. “We might, of course, end capitalism,” said Beard, “but 1am not certain there is any kind of organization capable of working the change without tremendous dislocation of the social and eco- nomic life of the nation.” This, of course, if accepted by the British masses, would give capi- talism a permanent franchise on which to operate in Great Britain. But he goes even further than that, He declared that he was “not apvalled by the over 2,009,000 unemployed in Britain” and completely | called off any struggle against capitalist rationalization when he stated: j “Whether we like it or not, nobody can set up a claim to spend more time on a job than is required nor justify making goods not wanted.” This speech, which incidentally is the most noteworthy declara- | tion of any English labor leader since the Trade Union Council’s be- , trayal of the general strike, marks the complete abandonment of all struggle against capitalism there. and the open appearance of the British Labor Party as a Paviy of cavitalism. After such a speech it no longer requires any great mental effort to understand the shooting down of workers and peasants in India, Palestine or Egvnt, or the regular smashing of strikes of English workers at home. This repre sents an open embracing of fascism by the English “labor” leaders. Norman Thomas, Morris Hilquit, James O’Neal and their co- betrayers in the American socialist party, who have been busy trying to square their pretensions to struggle here with support of Mac- Donali’s mass murders in India can now attempt to explain aw speech of Beard, which very plainly was the policy of MacDonald. Without waiting, however, for their explanations the workers here will continue to rally around the election campaign of the Communist , Party and the struggle for the Unemployment Insurance Bill, | en NEW YORK, ‘WEDNESDAY, , SEPTEMBER 3 55 1930_ WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Party U.S.A. eC oaeeant Price 3 Cents ts FINAL erry ‘SOCIALIST’ FOR | ae : lieliaed Bill of the Communist Party. Under the leadership of the Trade S ~R « |Though Its Rottenness | Union Unity League tens of thousands of workers gathered in | Too Much For British | ‘militant demonstrations in ASO ee r imany industrial centers, en-| nd NEW YORK.—Seldom is a pro-| posal made and refuted so in-/thusiastically cheered the read- | stantly by facts than that of the jing of the Unemployment In- | “Unemployment Day” Sept 1st, saw the initiation of a | mighty mass movement throughout the country to broaden the fight for he passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill ated the police at demonstration continued ths |for an hour with great enthusiasm and cheering for dates and for the Party candi- the |“socialist” Louis Waldeman in ajsurance Bill, and pledged a ‘ Unemployment | Labor Day speech ling for thi ji Insurance Bill. % peech, calling for the | continued struggle for the demand . e i formation of a “labor”. party, and| of social insurance. In some. in- 10,000 in Mil MILWAUKEE, W thou- sand Negro and white workers and the news, printed on the same page | stances, the size and militancy of jof New York capitalist papers tell- jthe demonstrations exceeded even | ing how the delegates at the British} | those of the historic March 6th un- |Trade Union Congress, who are} employment demonstrations for (Contmued on'Cage Three) largely “ alists” themselves, re-| “Work or Wages.” belled against the outrageous capi-| The following are special dis- talist policy of the British “labor” | patches to the Daily Worker giving |party and “labor” government. details of some of the demonstra- FOSTER UNMASKS Waldeman spoke to several hun-) tions: dred at Unity House in Forest Park, | : FAKE “SOCIALIST” : labor party be organized in this| Over 3,000 workers attended the N. J., and urged that “a political) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. |country along the same lines as the | “Unemployment Day” demonstra- jlabor party of England,” said the| tion here. There was a larger and, | Waldman’s “ s “Proposal” Shown As Brazen o 8 Y. Times Tuesday. more militant crowd than on March | On the same page, dispatches | 6th. Police on motorcycles attacked | from Nottingkam, England, where|the meeting for over an hour, but the British Trade Union Congress | the workers’ splendid defense com- opened on Mon told how even) joreney of the hnndreds of delegates | of thousands of unemployed over- DEMONSTRATION speech touched a depth of vile eapi- (Continuea on Vage Three) 500 AT “FREE” the United States this coming win- ter, if unemployment relief is not inaugurated immediately, is the statement of Comrade William Z. Foster, head of the Communist New York state ticket, issued at Hart's Island Penitentiar Outdoors: September 8 NEW YORK.—In the midst of the last imperialist war, when the socialist parties the world over had betrayed the interests of the work- ers by becoming patriots of their ei Meret nae AGENCY MEET respective countries, in the city of | ates: aaied 1 a me = 7 Berne representatives of various So- | “'8" Bey admpitved “that she Un: employment situation is the worst nce 1893. At last a leading public official makes an admission of the fact that the Communists have been stating for months. The ‘socialist’ party, always ready to work with the capitalists, now proposes through Mr. Waldman that Roose- velt call an mergency session of \the state legislature for the pur- pose of putting across a fake un- employment insurance scheme. It {will mean but an since Waldman knows that no ap- propriation would have to be made during the coming winter, since one lis already up for vote at the No- (vember elections | orcs cialist Youth Leagues met and set i aside Sept. 8th as an international |‘ ‘Fascists Try to Break day of struggle against imperialist |? | . ‘wars by the working youth. This Up Meeting meeting laid the foundation for the NEW YORK Over 500 une. | YOURS Communist International. |ployed workers attended the open! ., The Young Communist League of | ogee 4 New York is calling a series of in- air meeting called by the Downtown se deities | Gromaloved Council in front af the ‘or demonstrations, which will pe Hid Penh held Friday, Sept. 5, in the follow- fake Tammany “free? employment nen tie Penge Tuesday morning. On the ing place Downtown, 66 E. Fourth | Ai phim crueal ine wie St.; Brot Prospect Ave.; Harlem, : i ie We" | Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox | broken un by the police and several | : iter pean okuaratienteioin Ave., in preparation for a series of i 2 Za outdoor meetings. These outdoor | The crowd of unemployed re- sponded enthusiastically to the de demonstrations will take place on Monday, Sept. 8, throughout the mand for the passage of the Jn-| city. ‘They will be held at the fol-| “This is a piece of downright jemployed Insurance Bill. lowing places: 120th St. and Lenox | treachery to the million workers in | In the discussion that followed | Ave., at 7 p. m.; Battery Park, at | the state who are out of a job. But j the meeting, an unemployed worker. | 6:30 p.m.; Adams and Myrtle Ave... Waldman has the explanation for Fdward Bradley, told of being ar- 8th St Brooklyn, at 5:30 p.m this act of deception which he pro- {rested in Atlantic City on a va-| and Southern Blyd., at 5:30 p. m poses. ‘The importance of such a grancy charge and held for six days | oung workers, demonstrate recommendation,’ he says, ‘lies in at the termination of which he was | against imperialist war and for the the fact that it would encourage given a farcical trial and sentenced | defense of the Soviet Union. De-| and convince the workers of our to a six months suspended sentence mand unemployment relief. state that the government is not bs iss in its duty.’ he Communist Party has pro- posed a Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill which provides jweekly aid of $25 for a jobless worker, plus $5 for each dependent. The fund is to be r: ernment and administered by National Committee of unemployed and employed workers elected at a national conference. The funds now used for war vurposes—five billion dollars—shall immediately Le di- AT STEWART & WARNER | Where La Layoffs Pile Up 1 Heavily (By a Worker Ubreenvontent.) , and 200 men that used to work | | CHICAGO, Ill.—Department No.) at the Auto Horns are walking 2 of the heavy punch presses laid, the streets looking for jobs. ,off the men and put girls in their, In general, the plant is now | place. | Very quiet. Out of 5,000 workers The pay of the girls is 35 cents) who were formerly employed, only about 600 are working now. | ahove surance fund and be capital I increased by | vies and taxes on income | $5,000. workers, telling them to come | one of the signs of our -resent back later, and when the workers | period of capitalist decay and of come back for their old jobs, the | rising militancy on the part of the bosses re-hire them back for workers the world over. In the lower wages. coming months many American cit- c ; What we ought to do is organ- | jes will witness bitter struggles for happen in department No. 45, for | ize a shop committee of the Metal | ‘work or wages.’ The headlines of the simple reason that this de- | ‘Trades Industrial League and put | the coming winter are already form- astinest is entirely shut down, | up a fight, ing.” x in that department. | ; | per hour as compared with the 80 | . | cents that the men received per! — Also, wage-cuts is not a new | «The workers will not starve, they | hour. | Occurrence in the Stewart & | will fight. The barricades on t | Only 40 girls are now employed| Warner. They are laying off the | streets of 3ucpest on. Monday is Department No. 45, While it might be gloomy in various departments, nothing can s RICE cecmaTiOn the social fascist alist” dele- | [gates booed and cried “Shame!” at Treachery the rankly pro-capitalist speech cf C L N John Beard, president of the f, U.| # #¥ehea The outbreaks on the streets of C., and remarked how that “only | Budapest last Monday, when tens | japplauded when he defended Pre- | ran the fashionable district of the | |mier MacDona!" against the labor) Hungarian capital and barricaded | party left wing.” | ~ themselves against the police, is a | It must be said that Beard’s| Indoors: September 5; forerunner of what will happen in empty gesture, for | ed by the gov- | a rected into the unemployment in-| COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN, JOBLESS CONFERENCE FIGHT FOR INSURANCE .| Will Carry Struggle For Heit of Unemployed Into Capitalist Legislatures New Wave of Wage Cuts and Lay-Offs; 5,000 Thrown. Out in: Studebaker Plant, South Bend mM-CROW. A Following the mass demonstrations of unemployed and militant workers Mond the drive for unemployment relief and insurance of the Trade Union Unity League, Councils of the Unemployed, Communist Party and many sympathetic workers’ organizations, develops in several w It is going forward under the impetus of AFLFAKERS WORK the mass demands voiced on = sil Unemployment Day, and the 150000 Clash desperation of ever new] , swarms of jobless workers. y y OVERTIME “LABOR acme“ cates [in Budapest laid off in the Studebaker South Bend, Ind, The fight is bound up with the struggle of the workers still inside the shops for efficient organiz plant at Enco unters DAY" FOR BOSSES, and for the T-hour day and 5-day), B ha Muste Has Scheme to) week under a general slogan, “Or-| ore aac ane en inact = igo ganize and Strike Against Wage! ere cee A EERE aE ee eT Fool Jobless Gute? endl aleo) 'azainat! all speed: | 1m We mess demos aoe ee —— up and worsening of conditions. hs i . mata - © Pe BAe ee : : the police and the arn are NEW YORK.—A. F, of 1. fascist The Workers’ Unemployment In- the police Tee gee peer cietes officials, from Green, Morrison and | surance Bill is the central issue in| ee ee ects Ryan, down to the Rev. A. J. Muste, |the Communist Party election cam-| 97000 Mt toy paign. The Communist Party pro- poses to carry the fight for jobless ef and insurance right into the worked overtime on “Labor Daj working up schemes to protect the | bosses against the demand for un- | T° the Communist slogans and the at- tempt of the reformists to emascu- by the Communist Party and the sands of street and factory (sia caw et aan a . Trade Union Unity League. meetings will hear Communist can-; The socialist leaders Garmi an | Z 3 . didates and other speakers outline} Peyer were beaten up by the ex- Joseph Ryan, president of the the struggle to win from the na-| asperated workers when they at- New York Central ‘Trades and/ tional government (the executive} tempted to prevent the demonstra- hence one of the nes | committee of the whole capitalist | tions, enchmen who said on March class) those billions of dollars now set aside for war and to use them for unemployment insurances The| bill provides that a total of $5,000,- | Allegations that the workers came our to plunder are totally unfound- ed. Several cafes were raided, the loungers ejected, and tables, etc., de- a little more vigorous clubbing | ae the unemployed would prevent revolution later on, devoted a good part of his “Labor Day” tripe 000 shall be raised for this insur-| molished by the demonstrators. to an attack on the Communist ance to guarantee at least $25 a! "yyy © pd Aa vreiaea a Party. week to each of the jobless. The! ee neds SS RALInOL | all industrial centers and further But the slimiest attack on the un-|insurance is to be distributed by b Ss ae yed workers came from Rev.|committees elected by the workers | demonstrations are expected. 's yellow dive in Katonah,|in a way outlined in the bill. In eek tos * "y. where all the petty-bourgeois | addition to war funds, the bill Pro- | Barricades. fakers and. social-fascists _from | vides for a capital levy and a tax} NEW YORK.—Capitalist press Broun to Gorman of the United|on incomes over $5,000 a year to| services tell of barricades erec- | Textile Workers had an enjoyable provide for unemployment insur-| ted in the ‘streets of Budapest |time “debating” the ills of the | ance. Monday, and of the practical defeat workers. | The Trade Union Unity League | °f the vicious Horthy government a result of this conference of | Made the Unemployment Day dem-| mounted police by workers armed the Musteite fakers in their pleas- | onstrations a means of bringing be- | only with stones and lumps of coal. ant summer retreat, a fake unem-|f0re the workers throughout the! The police charged the crowd with ployment insurance scheme was|Country its “Organize and Strike”| Sabres and fired on it. After the concocted in order to mislead the|Program, and called upon all, not| Tepulse of the police, the military fight for real unemployment insur-| nly to join the militant unions and | forces were called to attack the dem- ance which is being taken up by) (Continued o on Page Three) onstration, and used tanks and ma hundreds of thousands of workers. | chine guns. The fighting lasted The A | throughout the afternoon. WAS RTI) Lesa FSU CONFERENCE . The crowds shouted continually Hoe ven vans 28 (UOC Uemen cH ue fo: “bread or work,” and cheered NDGA, Et ee en for a Hungarian Soviet government who have had any experience with tri ike Reese ee compensation insurance, which is Bead aa one, Oa anit Soe Or anes Rec ey oon eey ee Aue WG, Issues State- | young, workers, peasants and para understand the real purport of the, ment Endorsing Meet. * Out of this, half a million Musteite unemployment insurance we ete jobless ute Novae scheme. Both are built along the| Im endorsing the Friends of the | Times special cable after describing same lines. In order not to hurt| Soviet Union Conference, 0. Fisher, | the extreme efforts made by the so |the imperialist war plans of the| Secretary of the Trade Union Unity | cialists to aid the police crush the ‘rich rulers | Council issued the following state- demonstration which had got out of government of the “ in Washington, the Muste scheme; ment: side-steps the issue of turning overy| “The conference of the Friends the war funds, amounting to a bil- | of the Soviet Union called for Sept. | their hands, quotes an (apparently official) eye witnes: “The moderate did their best but lost all control. lion dollars, to the unemployed. In-| 4, at Manhattan Lyceum, is of great pee . stead, Muste asks for $100,000,000| importance to the American work- The most alarming feature of by the federal government. ‘This ers. The capitalists of this coun-| ‘day's violence for those able to would last about a week and a half, , try are in every way possible trying | ‘ead the signs of the times was if the 8,000,000 unemployed were | to prepare the workers for the com-| the extent to which the Commu- nist extremists gained the ear of workmen embittered by economic distres: Clashes between police and dem onstrating workers are reported in the towns of Szeged, Debreezen Miskolez, Gyoer and Kaposvar. Sey eral persons weer injured in each | of these towns ing war on the Soviet Union, asked by Muste of $10 per week. “The same capitalists and their In the fight for the Unemploy-| agents are waging a war against | ment Insurance Bill, advocated by| the American workers. This ex the Communist Party, and being | presses itself in wage-cuts, unem- made one of the main issues in the | ployment, speed-up, the clubbing Communist election campaign, every | and ing of the workers, murder. worker should attack and expose! of the workers who fight for better these fake schemes which meet the | conditions, given the average mun ‘ient sum approval of the bosses. They have| “It is the duty of American work: | ae only one purpose-—to divert the|ers to prepare for the defense of | | militancy of the workers into chan-| the Soviet Union. CALL FOR FIGHT |nels which are safe for the cap-| “The Trade Union Unity Council | italists. endorses and calls upon its affili- | ated union and leagues as well’ as ‘Tammany grafters go free— | ‘he tank and file workers in the ’ F. of L. unions to send delegates to the conference of the Friends of | the Soviet Union.” | the Unemployed Delegation is in prison—vote Communist! NE YOR ~A_ tremendou mass protest meeting for the releas: | of Guido Serio and Rade Radeko | viteh, the militant workers who nave been ordered deported to Italy and |Jugo Slavia, respectively, wher: | fascist murderers wait to deal death | to revolutionary workers, will be | held on Wednesday evening at Man pata bye 64 East Fourt LAYOFFS IN HOUSTON Workers Must Not Starve Quietly! HOUSTON, Texas. — Conditions | ‘The ‘dredges doing government | tiongl Labor Defense. A. writ are rotten down here now, thou-| work here are working with one|habeus corpus for Guido Serio sands of men are laid off half the former crew and are doing | just been obtained by the Int Houston tool plant expects to lay | the same amount of work they for- | tional Labor Defen temporarily off a thousand workers on the first. | merly did with a full crew. delaying his’ deportation, Radeko They have laid off nine hundred The ILA. are scabbing on them-| yitch is. still languishing in jail and fifty workers already and have | selves (the jim crow LL.A.). The! where he has been since last Feb | eut wag per cent already. | Southern S.S, Co. has cut the work-| ruary. Both workers have been ¢ The Trinity Cement plant has! ing weeks two days Jaying off nied i's reht to choose a haver clesed down rot laid | hans. workers that much time. _ where thoy will be from 1 (This effects about six hundred —AL McBRLDI faseist murderer i