The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1930, Page 1

| Read the exposure in today’s Daily Work- er of the lying, anti-Soviet propaganda carried in the Hearst press and then pass your paper on to a friend. Increase the circulation of the Daily Worker! Dail ——a Central Orga (Section of the Communist i re Vol. VII., No. 213 at New York. N. Y.. ander the Entered a. second-class matter at the Post Office NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930 FINAL act of March 3, 1879 ane Not Sympathy, But Bread! APITALIST newspapers, politicians and welfare workers are daily being forced to give attention to the problem of the unemployed workers. In fact, if their promises and sympathies, which are now occupying many newspaper columns, were edible the jobless workers would already be suffering from over-eating. The reasons for this in- creased “attention” are not difficult to understand. The suffering and despair of the workers who have now gone for months without jobs have become so acute, and the number of workers both directly and indirectly effected has become so great, that it is no longer possible to conceal the facts behind daily promises about an early return of prosperity. Yesterday, for example, two unemployed workers in New York City killed themselves as a result of sheer desperation following weeks of fruitless searching for jobs. In Chicago 2,500 workers were evicted from their homes last month because of their inability to pay rent. A Toledo correspondent reports that there evicted workers have been forced to live in tents on the lake front, and are salvaging scraps of food from hotel and restaurant garbage cans. It is incidents such as these, now occurring on a national scale, which so sharply bring the misery and suffering of the unemployed out in the open that make it impossible to longer conceal the facts. Yorced to talk, Governor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, the New. York Telegram and many others are making lots of noise about the necessity of finding a solution for this problem. But what do they propose? Nothing tangible, but lots of discussion. Governor Roosevelt proposes to “study” the question. Norman Thomas and his “socialist” colleagues talk vaguely about the necessity of “unemployment insurance,” but they make no concrete proposals as to what this insurance should be or as to how it is to be obtained. The New York Telegram proposes “a system of state-supervised social insurance, to which employer, employe and the public (through the state) would contribute.” Incidentally they claim the endorsement of Governor Roosevelt for their plan, and, Iging from the usual approach of the “socialists,” it will be some such scheme as this which will also meet with their approval. But in the first place all this remains merely discussion. take no action themselves and they propose no action for the w With them, while they talk about the acuteness of the situation for millions of workers, the “solution,” so far as they are concerned, can a be arrived at in six months or a year—any time, in fact, that the bosses might find time to consider the question. The unemployed workers, however, who are being evicted from their homes, who are sleeping in parks or tents, who are going w out food, whose families are starving, think different about the ques tion. For them the problem is immediate. For them it is a matter of life or death, They want unemployment insurance now—immedi- ately. And they want an amount sufficient to feed themselves and their families. The provosed “insurance” of the New York Telegram is entirely inadequate and based on an incorrect premise. The responsibility for unempl¢yment, by this proposal, is placed on the workers by forcing them to contribute during periods when they are employed to a fund from which a small indefinite amount of relief will be paid during periods of unemployment. This is wrong. The workers ate not responsible for unemployment. They are ready and anxious to work. The big capitalists, though, who own or control all the banks, tac- tories and mines, as well as the government, are unable to organize the production and distribution of the commodities which the workers produce in such a manner as to provide steady work to the workers. Therefore the capitalists and their government are responsible for un- employment; they must provide either “Work or Wages” to those who are jobless. To accept the proposal of the Telegram would be the equivalent of accepting lower wages by the workers during periods when they are employed in order to care for themselves during periods of enforced unemployment. This proposal also fails to give considera- tion to the permanent jobless army, which, even assuming a “return to prosperity,” would be unable to find jobs. F Finally this proposal provides for the administration of this fund by the state. This also is mot acceptable to the workers. With the control of the insurance fund in the hands of the present boss-controlled state apparatus, not to deal at all with corruptoin and graft, it would be used as a strikebreaking, blacklisting instrument against the work- ers. When workers employed in a factory went out on strike against wage-cuts or the speed-up, the workers on the insured list would be in- structed to fill the jobs of these striking workers under the penalty of having their insurance payments stopped if they refused. Workers who struck or workers who refused to scab would then be blacklisted ‘o prevent them from ever getting a job. The workers will not assume responsibility for unemployment and they will fight against such strikebreaking, scabherding, blacklisting proposals. The Unemployment Insurance Bill, as proposed by the Communist Party, is the demand of the workers. This provides for the creation of an unemployment insurance fund which will be administered >y the workers themselves to prevent it from becoming an instrument to be used against them. The responsibility for unemployment is fixed on the bosses and their government through the clause which says that the insurance fund of $5,000,000,000 is to be raised through transferring the present funds expended for military purposes to the insurance fund, by a capital levy on all fortunes in excess of $25,000, and by an income tax on all incomes over $5,000 per year. From this fund all unemployed orkers, from whatever cause, are to receive $25 per week and $5 addi- tional for each dependent during the entire period of their unemploy- ment. The immediate adoption of this bill is the demand of the unem ployed. Not promises, not sympathy, not hot air, but only the $25 a week, as provided by this bill, will provide bread to the unemployed. To win this demand the workers must fight the fake proposals of the bosses and their agents, and carry on a continuous, organized fight for the adovtion of this bill. This fight the Communist Party alone will lead. Vote Communist in November! The Dollar Talks senators have just returne] from the Soviet Union. Re- urning from Europe on the same boat was the head of the Na- tional Security League, a bitter toe of everything red, S. S. Menken. one of them could by the widest streteh of the imagination be as- sociated with the revolutionary working class, yet each of them had something to say on the great progress being made in the carrying through of the five-year plan in the Soviet Union. Menken declared: “We are hiding our heads in the sand by not ng Russia. The American people have no true conception of going on in Russia. Nobody realizes the extent of the internal program Russia is carrying through.” Senator Barkley of Kentucky said: “What | saw was a great surprise to me. One must unburden himself of his prejudices, I have obtaine! information on this trip which softens whatever opinion 1 may have had toward Russia.” Senator Wheeler of Montana declared: “Russia is the greatest potential market for American goods in the world and we are just a bunch of suckers, to use a slang expression, if we do not recognize them, From a commercial standpoint we are losing millions.” No comment is necessary, They left the United States two months ago with the factories here closed and millions of workers walking the streets. They arrived in the Soviet Union where they not only found all the factories busy, but hundreds of new factories being | built. An examination of the machinery requirements of the five-year plan both in agriculture and industry quickly destroyed their preju- dices, They saw the possibility of additional markets and additional profits, It is the dolar sign which is now talking. But this very fact enbstantiates the progress in building socialism in the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet Photos | F “orged! - |Murderous Treachery of Russias Sinister Activities: of Dy aaitenist Police Agent 2 semsasmotnmencmtcnn, in England and France, | ; "Which Have Opened { the Doors to the Bolsheviks Hearst Papers Forge Photos | of Atrocities as Propaganda — for War on the Soviet Union N. Y. American’s “Executions By Cheka” Are War Hangings of Slavs in Austro-Hungary NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker publishes today, on this page, photographic proof that the papers of Wm. Randolph Hearst, are engaging in a campaign of forgery and news fak- | ing, to aid the Fish Committee program attempt to outlaw the Communist Party _and to work up war sentiment against the ae Soviet Union. OF WORKERS 10: FASCIST DEATH Se Worker sok (above| this story) a photographic repro-) LL.D. Leads Fight to the heac nst the Sov Above photo shows told in today’s Daily Worl by Austro-Hungai ‘Ogpw’, Russia's Mercile Which is Busily Engaged in out the World. Note th booklet by Czecho-Slovaks, forged the above photograph, is pictures shows Hearst's forgery, gust ans du and Utteriy agunda T preading the The 1 Hearst of the tched. two Sere he-EdRMuniet Party U.S.A. ' WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ‘Price 3 Cen ts CITY EDITION BOSSES FOLLOW UP “LABOR DAY” WITH MORE WAGE CUT; T.UULL. LEADS MINN. STRIKE | Northwestern ion Co. Ww orkers Strike Against | 10 Per Cent Wage Slash es agenknecht to Start TUU L Tour for $100,000 [ “Strike Against, We age Cuts” Fund A new flood of ge cuts descended on thousa workers immediately after “Labor Day.” The bosses, ng their cue from the A. F. of L. misleaders, who assured the ex ploiters they would do all they could to insure “class peace, have again slashed wages ZH all Youngstown, Ohio, tin mills This is the third wage cut * tak e place, unuet the elbeee to ro, tel and Tn Workers "FOR CONFERENCE of Iron, Steel aa Tin Worker under a ing-seale agree- ment. | In Minneapolis, Minn., 50 workers SEPTEMBER 8 {in the Northwestern Box Compan} a & U struck Wednesday, under the lead lership of the Trade Union Unity Le League, and are out against a ten) Immediate, Concrete per cent wage cut. All of the a Organization Needed workers joined the T. U. U. trike committee was elected by the workers at a meeting in the (2 Uses hall. The strike unem pl demanding a ten per cent raise, eight-hour day, no discrimination against young worker Many workers are taking part in picket- ace onday with a call |ing the factory where big mass Jnited front employment cor meetings are held daily, The Daily, ferences on ional scale Septen | Worker and Labor Unity are dis-} be is the immediate of th tributed among the strikers. ve Councils of the Une 3,000 More Get Wage Cut. ploye res a statement issuec Oy 3,000 textile workers em- venue rom its national office ployed in the 12 plants of the Caro-, , “Detailed and concrete organiz lina Cotton & Woolen Mills, owned| tion is now the immediate | and controlled by Marshal Field Co. the National Unemploye f Chicago, have been handed an 11| the Trade Union Unity League ar per cent wage cut. This affects the| it* affiliated unions. The Septer workers in.the 1». Leakesville,| bet Ist demonstrations placed def | Draper and Spray, n Carolina,|Mitely before the large masses 0 and two mills in Virginia. employed and unemployed kers the unemployment insurance _ bill,” says the T. U. U. 1 $25 Each For Jobless. That more wage cuts will follow for other workers is clearly evident from the tone of the bosses in all (Continued on Page Three) YCL MEETINGS ON The unemployed insurance bill is proposed by the Communist Pa It provides that $5,000,000,000 hal be set aside from the national trea for insurance of jobless work Payments are to be not less than $25 a week, and are to be ad- story against the Soviet Union, Exposing the fact that the United | put under this picture, of four men ‘tan Lyceum, 64 &£. Fourth St., last (Continued on Page Three) | His only crime is that he spoke at IN ELECTION MEET ministered by county, state and na which was published in He States government has adopted a|and two women hanging as corpses, night (Wednesday) called for the WORKING WOMEN |a mass meeting of Italian workers duction of the headlines of a lying |paper, “The New York American, of August 31. Together with it | (under the headlines to the right) is the picture Hearst’s paper gave Save Serio along with the story . ea The caption which Hearst's paper | definite policy of deliberately de-} hears Hearst’s lying caption that | porting radical workers to fascist! these persons were victims of the jcountries, where they face instant | “Cheka.” To be exact it says: death, J. Louis Engdahl, Communist | “An Execution by the Dreaded candidate for Lieutenant Governor |‘Cheka’, now the ‘Ogpu’, Russia’s ot New York, speaking at Manhat-| Merciless and Utterly Unprincipled | widest possible protest to save the ‘life of the Italian worker, Guido | Serio, now being held at Ellis Island. | “All workers must demand that | Serio have the right to remain) in this country,” declared Engdahl. | |in Erie, Pa., on Sunday night, May e |11, He is sent to death by the|Conference Will Take | United States government purely on account of his political views. Place Sept. 20th | “In similar cases the Internation- | val Labor Defense has fought for That the so-called investigations | | of food racketeering were only a parture,” continued Engdahl. “This | Means of covering up the racketeers, | privilege is now being denied to] is now clear to every worker, par- | Seri The government plans t0/ ticularly to every working woman) send him to fascist Italy, to become and working house-wife who has to another working class victim of the| pay higher prices for the food she| Mussolini terrorist regime. Thus buys. The noise is over, Tammany Washington tightens its grip with | has “investigated” and now the the Fascist murderers of Italy. profiteers can go about their busi- “The Department of Labor, ness, stronger than ever. through J. L. Powers, U. S. immi-| According to the census there are gration offices, also made new meee million working house-wives in, tory for its deportation tyranny in|the United States. These house-| demanding $25,000 bail for Serio, | wives particularly feel the burden | the highest ever demanded. It was! of the present wave of wage cuts, \impossible for workers to provide | unemployment and, in addition, of this bail and Serio has remained in| food racketeering. The millions of | prison ever since his arrest!” | working house-wives in New York | Protests from workers’ organiza- | City feel every day the effect of | tions in all sections of the country | the Tammany “investigation,” which | against Serio’s deportation are be-| has given the racketeers a clean ing rushed to the Commissioner Gen- | bill. |exal of Immigration, Department of | Now that the election day is ar-| | Labor, Washington, D. C. | proaching all working women, | Engdahl announced that a writ of | whether working in shops or at |e corpus had been secured re-| home, must mobilize to give their turnable Sept. 9, before Judge Rob-| answer to all the three capitalist | | ert P. Patterson, in the Federal Dis- | parties—republican, democratic or | trict Court. | “socialist.” Engdahl declared that a similar) py Saturday, Sept, 20, 1930, a j fate faced Rade Radekovich, a Jugo- | big Working Watianta Election Con-| | Slav worker, now being held at Gal-' ference will be held at the Workers veston, Texas. 4 Center. All working women’s or- | “Serio and Radekovich must be ganizations must send delegates to |sav.d from the hangmen of Italy| this very important gathering and | and Jugo-Slavia,” said Engdahl.| mobilize around the Communi “This can only be done through) party and its candidates in the com- | working class mass protest against | ing elections. The Communist Par-| this action by the Washington gov-| ty alone is fighting for real relief ernment.” | for the unemployed and has intro- duced the Unemployment Insurance | | Bill which provides for the pay- , ment of $25 weekly to all worke' | out of jobs and $5 additional to! |every dependent. The Communist | | Party demands that all funds of the! government war chest should go to! ‘help the unemployed. The Com- | munist Party fights against wage! cuts, against food profiteering, it | fights for equal pay for equal work for women and men, Negro and white. All working class women’s organizations must be represented at the election conference, Sept. 20. ‘and won the right of voluntary de- FORCE GOVERNOR: ‘TO SIGN DEMANDS PARIS, Sept. 8.—A new evidence, iclearly indicating the forward sweep of the revolution in French Indo-China, is furnished by the | French Ministry of Colonies, which announces today that 1,000 revolu- | tionists had invaded Nandang, a | very important town in Annam, and | forced the French governor to sign ‘an order approving certain demands ‘drawn up by the revolutionists, Prisoners, then, were freed, | i saloons and imperialist stores en ey tacked and communication 9 severed by the revolutionists. | The authorities charge that the | at- revolutionists are Communists, |Pr eparing » For Inter- | national Youth Day NEW YORK.—The Young Com- munist League of New York City is organizing a series of indoor meetings which will be held friday, Sept. 5, in the following places: Downtown—Manhattan Lyceum, 66 KE. Fourth St. Harlem—New Harlem 116th St. and Lenox Ave. Site, ued ok Casino, cased of Germar ruelties are yet to be d usher Magyar authorities. They virtually es around their necks. Orders were given ‘angatian Command that no Czecho-Slovak ide. They were hanged as traitors of as not theirs and whose war they had no Austria-Hungnzy was determined to de- German atrocities diss tars” Me Austrothinze 569 Prospect Ave. Programs containing dances, sing- ing, as well as speakers from the | district committee, will be part of Bronx sscan be seen onthe acc, procured from the The hesti » Government catnmitted is such thut additional explana Cxecho-Slovak nation. There are an re- work out into eulogies for the murderers, | these meetings. These meetings ancl (60,000) eaceutions of Slav civilians speak for themselves, they ave imended ta | #"@ Preparatory to the outdoor dem- and one half years of the war, This is the of the story. jonstrations which will be held on £ Austrian suavity and Magyar pseudo-tib- We don’t intend writing the history Monday, International Youth Day, nfy reason far these executions is that the credible heroic strugéle of the Crecho-Stov |at Battery Park at 6:30 p. m., 120th Ws inst every battlefront, Others will take’ | St. and Lenox Ave. at 7 p. m., 138th St. and Southern Blvd. and Adams ‘and Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn. Mr, Hillquit and the socialist The above is a photographic reproduction from page Twenty of a | Party Has Brora 520: the: bosses be booklet called “The Trail of the Hun in Austria Hungary,” published |'r@_ the entrance of the United | after the war by Czecho-Slovaks in Pittsburgh, showing Czecho-Slovaks | pyates in the last world war that | hung by the Austo-Hungarian army during the war. Part of the read. \the¥ Will offer no interference in ing matter is shown belfow the picture, which the reader will note is ° form of strikes or any other the same as published by Hearst's N. Y. American last Sunday as “An |"°228 The same attitude wi Execution by the Cheka” i Sovict Russia (See and compare with the \'t8en by the Socialist parties all ! over the world. photo above this one). oe Now, the socialist parties are} again working in co-operation with : 3 the bosses, preparing the youth for ; War against the only workers’ gov- ernment, the Soviet Union. At the same time the conditions of the young workers are growing worse every day. The Young Communist League calls upon young workers at this time to rally to the defense of the Soviet Union, for The Trail of the Hun 1N AUSTRIA-HUNGARY A Pew rxasny AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN “24 the demand for i unemployment insurance, for the i six-hour day, five-day week for all i young worker I f | ° . Bruening For Aboli- f tion of Jobless Relief, 4 Pend bye ah Sk ra Comin (Wiretens by tnprecorr.) ii i y BERLIN, Sept. 8.—The Bruen-| crane aes . : 2 ing cabinet has published its de- tee ¢ a veproducion of the front page of the boc “The Trai ‘cisions and consultations. An im- of the Hun in Austria-Hungary,” wit’ the sub-title “A » Examples | portant item states “the state bud- of Austro-Hungarian ‘Kult’. The reader:will note at the lower | get must be secured aguinet hith right, that it wae: “Published by the Czecho ak Arny wnd Relies | erto unrestricted and unforseeable Committee of Pittsburgh, Pa. This front 1 also carries a picture unemployment aid.” and the caption in small type: “Mass executic j Slav civil. e Le, ke by Magyar soldiers (honyeds) Fre 1 his book Tammany grafters ae free. et Hearst forged the anti-Soviet picture ished he N.Y » Unemp ligation’ ta fn See hay i. i i ‘ ; the Unemployed Delegation is in August $1. ‘ son—vote Communist! SEPTEMBER STH tional commissions elected by the workers and the unemployed. The fund is to be made up by taking all money appropriated for war, by a | capital levy, and by special tax jon all incomes over $5,000 a year The drive for this bill is a principle task of the Communist election campaign, Following are the reports already sent the T. U. L. national office from different sections of the coun- try on the numbers taking part in the September 1st Unemployment D demonstration. New York | City, 25,000; New Haven, 700; Hart- ford, 10,000; New Britain, 1,500; (Continued or. Page Three) DEFEND SOVIET MEET TONIGHT To Expese Fascist Ac- tivities city- The ide conference of the | Friends of the Soviet Union will be held tonight (Thursday) at Manhat >| tan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., at 7:30 p. m., which will be attended by delegates representing industrial and trade unions, labor fraternal organizations. The conference will open a cam | Paign for the recognition of the {U. S. S. R. and against the red- baiting att of the Fish Com- mittee and the offensive of world- wile imperialism. The conference will be addressed by Vern Smith of the Daily Worker editorial staff, Prof. Horace Davis i Norman Tallentire of the nds of the Soviet Union, | Organizations electing delegates should send credentials at once to the district F, S. U. office, 10 East 17th St., New York Ci | Bazaar Exec. Comm. Meets This Evening |Committee elected at the la. bazaar conference will be held te night at 7 p. m, at the bazaar | office, 30 Unic Sq. (Freiheit | | Building), third f All comrades must be present ‘ gt this very ing. y important me +.