The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1930, Page 1

‘The boss-class politicians will put forward many tricky substitutes for the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill as proposed by the Communist Party. In this way they will try to confuse and divide the workers. Be on your guard! Vote Communist! Central ally (Section of the Communist International) J ‘the-Co Entered a. at New York NY. under the act of March 3. 1879 Vol. VIL, No. 214 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 19 A Thirty Year Fast prsswent GREEN of the A. ¥. of I the record of Roosevelt as governor of his re-election. ‘This action was supposedly based on Roosevelt’s good “labor? record. One of the proofs of this “good” record particularly emphasized was the adoption of the old age pension law. This law is to become operative on January Ist next year. Yesterday the filing of applications for pensions by aged persons began. BIRMINGHAM 1 few days ago, endorsed New York State and urged — COMMUNIS Drive 500 From Sept. 1 This, then, is a favorable moment to make our comments on this law which Green considers such a credit to Roosevelt as to warrant his re-election with the support of organized labor, We will contrast this ew York State law with the Unemployment Insurance Bill as pro- posed by the Communist Party which also provides insurance for per- sons unemployed because of old age. | The first weakness of the New York law is, of course, the fact | that it is confined to New York State, whereas what is n€eded is a | federal law to care for all aged persons everywhere who are unable to | work. The Communist Party demands the adoption of its Unemploy- ment Insurance Bil a federal law. But even if for the moment we ORDERED 10 MURDER T ORGANIZER to Prevent Other Hundreds Attending Campaign to Build Communist Party, T.U.U.L. | and Council ef Unemployed Continues POLICE ARE 9 ®vax Walker to Draw Cartoons for the “‘Daily”’ Ryan Walker, internationatiy known cartoonist, whose work ha been reproduced in e country on the globe, who formerly drew for the publications of the old socialist party, also for Life, Judge, th New York Tim and the Herald Tribune, has joined the staff of the Daily Worker with the re “the socialist party is now a cap- italist party. There is no hope for the workers of the United States Demonstration But Fail nark, A 7 : Seamer ave | ? ce ree: : except with the Communist Party. waive that point, the New York law is still unsatisfactory because to | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 4.—Birmingham police are |The Communist Party leads the cates Oa oni deal ie me a oe nee ete ne me looking for Tom Johnson, Communist Party district organizer | workers today.” nave been a resident of the state for not less tha consecutive : . A ee 4 | a yeurs, Under this provision thousands of persons, now established | here, with the avowed intention of killing him. They have the ee hen pecnheae eel esidents of the state, are denied a pension. ; full consent of the city authorities. They say they are ordered agile nically t t the number of the is that which requires This While there are many provisions which res beneficiaries under this law, the most serious that the applicant for pensions must have reached the age of 70. is entirely out of keeping with the present pr: Ses. Che factory, mill and mine owners refuse to hire a man after he reaches the age of 40 or 45. This is substantiated by the experiences of the municipal free employment bureau. Today’s papers announce that out of the more than 25,000 unemployed workers who have regis+ tered at the city bureau “it is a conservative estimate that more than 25 per cent,” said the director, are men and women above 40 for whom there is “little or no demand” by the employers. THROW JOBLESS OUT OF BRITISH UNION CONGRESS AF.L. Visitors Stab U.S. Unemployed (Wireless by Inprecorr) LONDON, gland, Sept. 4.— | The unemployed created a disturb jance at the Bri Trade Union {Congress session yesterday when Clynes spoke defending the Mac- Donald government program on un- employment. The police ejected the ‘unemployed from the audience | (Clynes is MacDonald’s Home Sec- | retary, and he states that he ap- peared at the direct request of the Premier, and as his representative. | —Rd.). | Clynes_ declared | wait until millions jcome socialists, H ' gretted” the atrocitie: | police but avoided mentioning ‘that | MacDonald, prime minister and head of the British labor party, is di- | reetly responsible for these atrocities | against the workers and peasants of India. Workers, according to Mr. Rybicki, the bureau director, cannot be placed in jobs after they reach the age of 40, yet the state old age pension law does not become operative until they ch the age of 70. It is our opinion that a thirty year fast will be a trifle more than the average worker can stand. We have heard of hunger strikes for thirty lays, but we have yet to hear of a man who could go thirty years without food, clothes, or shelter, nor have we found any way to pro- vide these necessities without money. . ing these things into consideration the Unemployment Insur- a 3il] as proposed by the Communist Party provides that every worker who is unable to find employment because of old age or any other reason shall receive insurance. Furthermore it provides that every worker upon reaching the age of 55 shall be permitted to retire and thereafter he shall receive full insurance payments as long as he lives. Certainly every worker who has produced profits for the bosses for say 87 years—from the time he is 18 until he is 55—is then entitled to retirement with pay. The next objection to the New York law is on the amount of the pension payments. It provides for pensions ranging from $150 to $600 per year, The many restricting clauses in the law make it evident that the majority of those few who finally are awarded pensions will receive the minimum of $150 or close to it. Who, whether he be old or young, can live on $150 or so a year—on less than 50 cents per day? Obviously it cannot be done, Obviously, even for those over 70 who are awarded a pension under this law, fasting will become a habit. Aereag..| socialism must more have be- said he “re- The Communist Party’s proposal, on the contrary provides for an amount sufficient to maintain a person. It does not make a cynical joke out of the question of old age pensions. It provides that every worker who is pensioned upon reaching the age of 55, as well as for all other workers unemployed, shall receive a minimum of $25 per weck and $5 additional for each dependent. This is an amount to which every worker who has slaved for capitalism is entitled and it is sufficient to provide him with life’s necessities after he is forced by age (or the capitalist’s love for profits) to retire. T vomparison proves that the New York State Old Age Pension Law, for which we are ready to give the entire credit to Roosevelt and his good friend Green, is uttérly worthle This law was not adopted to provide for the aged. It was adopted to quiet the demand for a real NEW YORK.—The resentment of the unemployed against a defender of the MacDonald regime is under standable. MacDonald not only con demns over 2,000,000 British unem- ployed to slow starvation, permits {a campaign to reduce their dole. | throws tens of thousands out of the | groups receiving relief, but uses his at | insurance Jaw. It was adopte to deceive and confuse the | police to smash strikes against wayre | reductions and sped-up that will In the election campaign this law as a symbol of Roosevelt’s | ™ake even more jobless. MacDonald is also the supreme jcommander of the British Indian | police who club and murder pickets | and anti-imperialist demonstrators, and of the army, which sends air- planes, tanks and artillery to blast Indian villages. * | Capitalist press dispatches report | fhe speeches at the congress of two ‘fraternal delegates from the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor, J. J. Man- “good” labor record, must be exposed. The workers must be rallied to fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party. The candidates of the Communist Party, particularly William Z. Foster for governor, must be opposed to the Roosevelts and Waldemans who with such fakes regularly betray the workers. Southern Bosses’ Murder Pl | ning and T. E. Malvy. ans | Manning put the number of un-f employed in U. S. at “three and a | half to five million,” although the director of the census several days HE entrance of the Communist Party into the South has caused the Southern bosses and their bootlicking henchmen holding down political offices many sleepless nights. Very frequently during the past fourteen or fifteen months their feverish nightmares have re- sulted in frantic and drastie actions to try and drive Communist or- ganizers gut of their semi-feudal domain, They first tried this in Gastonia and miserably failed. Today a | district office of the Communist Party is established there and the southern workers in the Gastonia territory are steadily being won for revolutionary struggle under Communist leadership, Failing there, after a few minor skirmishes in other parts of the South, they made their next attempt in Atlanta with the arrest o/ Powers, Carr and four others whom they charged with “inciting insur- rection” anJ the “distribution of insurrectionary literature.” These workers are now facing the electric'chair, But even this did not deter the Communist Party. The Party eyen more energetically extended its work in the South, establishing « new district headquarters in Birmingham and sections in many othe: cities. Additional workers were won for the Party enabling us severai weeks ago to Jaunch a weekly paper—The Southern Worker—in the South. A southern Party training school is now being conducted to train Party agitators. Birmingham, Alabama, the steel center of the South, in these increased activities, has become the most important center for our work. Naturally every gain has been made in the face of tHe most stub. born opposition from the bosses’ hirelings. Many workers have beet arrested and beaten in an effort to strike terror into their hearts. Fiery crosses have been*burned by the Ku Kluxers; open threats oi lynching have several times been made, But it remained for the head of the City Commissioners, Jones in Birmingham to officially declare that Johnson, the organizer o the Party in the Birmingham district, and Jackson, the organizer o1 the T. U. U. L., “would be driven out of town or put permanently ou: of the picture.” This is plainly a declaration to the effect that the southern bosses no longer intend to rely on even a boss-class constitu tion, but are about to resort to open murder. This declaration came after Johnson had been taken “for a ride by city detectives and was made to his attorney when he called to pro test against their order barring Johnson from returning to the city. The Communist Party will remain in the South. The work ot organizing the southern workers and leading them in struggles for decent conditions will go forward. The w orking class, however, of the entire country must keep their eyes on the fascist terror preparations in the South. They must arouse such a storm of protest against the contemplated murder of their organizers that the bosses will not dare Malvy stated that “the unemploy- ment problem in America is being solved (1) without dragging it into polities,” ; workers to follow the American éx- ample. The American socialist party which regards the British labor party as : paigning for exactly the same dole system MacDonald uses, and agains: which the British jobless revolt. “PEED CAMPAIGH -ON S-YEAR PLAN Bolsheviks Determined to Make It in 4 Years (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 4. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union has issued an appeal to con- ventrate on the drive to carry out the revised figures of the Five Year Plan, (These figures provide for the Five Year Plan to be car- vied out in four years.—Ed.) The drive is in connection with the opening (October, 1930) of the new economic year. (The third of ;the Five Year Plan.) The appeal sums up the successes, | ineluding the fact that the increased production totals the sum of pre-war production. But it points out that the plan provides for the yeamhow to go through th they ners Deniayt the freeing of Powers, Carr. nearly finished a 32 per cent in- praic omer nt Nn Hulak inthe Attinta enses, Serve notice crease in protu-tion, while so. far mat the work or ‘ ‘ Jobnson, Jackson and theiv co-workers in only 7 per cent increase has been fae South to (ae iol dun (occured seus to shoot on sight both Johnson and Jackson. oe of the Indian | | ago admitted publicly that the num- | | ber out of work is about 9,000,000 | and he advises the British | its model, is now car- | drawing, Ryan Walker will marshal , T. U. U. L, organ-| 130" forees’ of satire. and. humor izer here. Jones, head of the! against the fat bosses and their city commission, with the) archaic econgmic system which has chief of police standing by,| brought starvation to the working flatly told Johnson’s attorney | ¢l@s He will satirize corrupt "7 as to| Tammany, imj stent Hoover and j esay, wage Johneon hes 10 | ridicule the anties of the socialist Rane Gas ae tiey ann sae | candidates in a daily 8 column strip | and the police chief laughed at all | {ted vt real une tale cee about | orystalize worker sentiment in the constitutional rights,” and Jones | Communist Party election cam- repeated that Johnson was to be | driven out or “put permanently out | o | paign. hundred | “Heywood Broun, Morris Hilquit i eaders of |steadily growing police terror in- |P? leaders 0 |to every means to stop the drive Union Unity League to build its DEFEND SU, CONF. | Both the Party and the T.U.U.L, ae (Continuea on Page Three) NEW YORK.—One and shop cc tees las$ night registered emphatic pro- he picture.” | 0 | pte eee hase of a | and Norman Thomas, socialists, are is is the latest phase of a}| the workers. They igated by the iron and coal mas- ROUninee Ce eaeent ree) |ters of this city who are resorting a sie | of the Communist Party to organ- | 160 DELEGATES IN ' ize, and the campaign of the Tyade | | militant unions and to organize its Councils of the Unemployed. are fighting for the Workers Un- | employment Insurance Bill, provid- Arran ge For Mass Meet, Sept. 14 | ganizations test agains and imperialist preparation for v the fascist provocati OUT ON STRIKE \Stove Workers Fight) Hunger Wage conference at Manhattan = |66 East Fourth St. KALAMAZOO, Mich., Sept. 4.—| pate : Refusing to accept a wage cut, over} Most significant, demonstrating six hundred workers at the Kala-| the growing revolt of the A. F. of 1 mazoo Stove Company yesterday | Tank and file against their bureau- ar against the Soviet Union at the city- wide “Defend the Soviet Union” Lyce declared a strike against the | Crats, was the presence at the con- worsening of already miserable|ference of. three delegates from conaitlona, |large A. F. of L. locals: Painters | No. 905; Carpenter: 442 and The bosses, finding the workers | *\' out of agreement with the treach-| No. 2090. erous policy of the A. F. of L.| Altogether there were forty dele- | bureaucracy of no strikes during the gates from unions, 17 from shop economic crisis of American capi-| committees, 32 from fraternal talism, have announced their inten-| ganizations, 4 from the Communist tion of closing the plant “until the| Party, 4 from the Councils, 15 from workers are starved back to their! workers’ clubs, 8 from ex-s : senses.” They have called upon the | men organizations, city government to furnish them, schools, with police to guard the plant, and) already there have been several; clashes between the police and the frat # Se js mobilization for a mass demonstra strike pickets. These police at-| tion Sunday, Sept. 14, at 2 p. m. tacks upon oa picketing shows | the Bronx Coliseum, in defen: that in spite of their declaration | the Soviet Union. that the plant will be closed indefi-| A resolution was adopted and will nitely, the bosses are preparing the | be carried to their organizations by ground for the importation of scabs. | the ooze reciting the war prep- The strikers are determined to fight *”ations and anti-Soviet actiy the imperialists. It declares any effort to reopen the plant until) «never before was the danger their demands are met and the wage|an open rupture so menacing as cut is recalled. it is at this moment.” or- 2 from the The purpose of the conference was to work out a program for a-mass The forgery of photographs against the Soviet QUnion by Hearst’s New York American as ex- posed in yesterday’s Daily Work: ., has aroused great indignation among the workers, In New York the exposure of this criminal war provocation against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Govern- ment aroused new interest in the j conference of the Friends of the Soviet Union, held last night at the Manhattan Lyceum, and brought about new support for the Soviet Power against imperialist war |} provocatiéns, Fi The forgery, as published ye: ‘er- |) day exclusively in the Daily Worker,ewas that of a photograph taken in Austro-Hungary of Czecho- Slovaks executed by the Austro- Hungarian army, which the N. Y. | American, a paper of William IRan- | dolph Hearst, retouched slightly to bring out the figures, and publghed over a caption asserting that the | pieture showed “an execution by the |‘Cheka,’ Russia’s Merciless and Ut- | terly Unprineipled Secret Service.” The photograph was exposed by Neuse Mee Spires Mervin snes Tie hye. SY. 1 sein by she. Yicaubed Ch er ‘ Woo The above picture is a section of a photo appearing in the N. Y. American, a Hearst paper, on Aug. 31, with the caption saying saying that it was “An Execution « ithe Daily Worker as having been by the Dreaded ‘Cheka, Now th: ‘published in Pittsburgh, Pa., in an ‘Ogpu,’ Rus iless anc illustrated booklet depicting the) Unprincipled, Secret. Service massacres of .Czecho-Slovaks by | Compare this with the picture ap Austro-Hw garians, entitled: “The pearing on page 3 of today's Deily a of the Hur in Austes-Hun- Worker, whic sows from where gar It was issued after the) Heorst got the oriyinal of this world vat was over by the “Czecho- | forgery. HIT HEARST ANTLSOVIE Vorker munist Party U.S.A. NOD 30 “God and Bombs” ILD OPENS DRIVE TO FREE GLASS Many Cases Come Up This Month 0,000 workers ports ind particip: Sacco-Vanzetti de ghout the 65 thre rust 2 tions ec on mation in- ion in i dicating Sept. 1 Internation: day announced plans mobilization its struggle against the e which resulted in nearly five sand arrests during the first months of the year. the for the forces future in the anti-labor wa of for their ready underwe justice will continue grin long prison entenc militant work- : tement issued by ional Labor Defense court attacks must be fought back not only by legal de- fense, but especially by the mobilization of wider sections o{ the working class than have been (Continued on Page Three) DEFIES POLICE Workers ‘Sh ow They Are Ready to Fight YORK. tions, the Council Defying police Downtown Unem- eld a successful NEW ruc meeting before Tammany’s fake employment bureau, amid the en- ithusiastie support of hundreds of jobless workers. | The crowd of 1,000 had swelled greatly when Cipriani, an unem- ployed worker, took the speak. to break he police in a futi up the meeting arrested , Christenson, the chairman and tried all petty tricks, Blanch- ing, . in the face of the angry shouts of the workers, the police beat an uneeremonious \treat with due haste, T FORGERY! Slovak Arwmy and Relief Commit- tee of Pittsburgh, Pa.,” to stimulate of funds supposedly for relief of the Czecho-Slovak victims of the war, with cautiously worded indications that showed the funds were to go to aid the Czecho- Slovak troops then still fighting on the side rist. counter-reyolu- and alist intervention gainst the Red Army of the Soviet Union. 4 In an introduction to the booklet, a sorts of howeve re- collection also of cz, tion imper written by Joseph Buffington, sénior United States circuit judg: af the third circuit, Buffington says of the k. troops in Siber » now the only substan- in holding Siberia ‘for ideals and rking Ger- y from getting the whole coun- 'y from Russia to the Pac base of supply in that orld inion that burns sullenly and 1 Germany’s unchan, ant hear i will be saved by the Czecho--Slovak army.” The above « even was w ast be remembered, after lany was ende reck] y Buffing! disposed the ia to the Pac hat he considered © ja, chen oc- cupied by Koltchak, aided Sy the Czech t° 4.3 commanded by Gen- (Continued on Page I'hiee) phri “from as showing i FINAL CITY EDITIC WORKER. OF THE WORLD. UNITE! WORKERS OVER 40 FACE PERMANENT LACK F JOB, CAPITALIST TOOL AD HITS Rotten “Old Age Pension” Laws Show Need for Qe , rper Fight for Unemployment Insurance More Mills Close Down; Communist Campaign Pres NEW YORK.—That ¢ ers who apply for work are over 40 y there is not the slightest cha admitted Thursday by Edwarc Tammany facing those 40 said Rybicki, “is shocking. The few jobs that tric the “free” employment agency y that men of 40 years of age or older are not wanted, as the speed-up system is being intensified as a result of the present severe crisis. In other parts of the country the situation is much worse for these workers, whom capitalism is now putting on the “permanently unem- ployed” list. The auto industry, the steel mills, the packing houses and the railroads deliberately fire the older worke: who have been broken down by the terrific stretch- out and speed-up. These workers, as well as all other unemployed workers—the sick and disabled, and those who cannot over* kle into spec find jobs: e included in the de- mand for immediate relief tained in the Unemplo surance Bill, advocated by the Com- munist Party. While the Tammany faker (Continuea on Page Three) TAMMANY BURO CUTTING WAGES Communist Candidate Exposes Aid to Store | NEW YORK.—The announce nt in the capitalist papers that the department stores of greater New York have promised to engage their help through the so-called city un- employment agency, proves that the employment bureau created by Tammany with the assistance of Norman Thomas, is not only a fake as far as helping the unemployed, but is also a means of cutting the wages of those employed, is the statement of Comrade J. L. Eng- dahl, communist candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of New York State, | “Abra L0ese m & Strauss, Frederick Ludwig Bowmann, Blooom- ingdales and other department stores were given free publicity yesterday for their benevolent prom ” Engdahl said, “but these prom only mean that instead of re-engaging their own help for the coming autumn and winter months, the department stores will try to get their help through the Tam- many Bureau, at still lower wages then they are paying now. Only to Cut Wages. ‘ “The department stores are known to be paying the lowest wages possible for 10 and 12 hours’ work per day. Any employment fgeney that can supply “cheap labor” is always welcomed by the managers of the department stores. The fact that the few jobs that are handed out by the so-called Tam- many Unemployment Bureau offered at frightfully low ages has made the department stores out with th promises and get publicity in addition to low paid help. “Over 6,000 work the Tamman Wednesday, to whom are come rs were Bureau on jobs were before ‘offered. No mention of wages or working conditions, which is all understood. A grew nber of the unemployed in line are workers abovg 40 years old, who are unable to get any work on account of their All this demonstrates the acter of the Tam cha ployment Bureau. It is a fake. It cannot help the unemployed. Un- employment bureaus don’t jobs under and particu for workers over 40 ye d, who are cast out on the streets by cap- |italist industry. The fev jobs th offered by w employers wages™of thc The wo: papit ! } rs ol his bureau who are culti ‘om either of the an or socialis munist, Party demands real relief and fights the capitalist system (that breeds unemployment,” employment agency. years,” ? in line any Unem-| can never | ties, democratic, ! The Com- | Election ill 2 1S, > Fight For B 5 per cent of the unemployed wor nce for them t t jok We iC. Rybicki of the fak The em PA GROW ST War Lord Asks ‘Unity’ Against Communists and armed hold the The towns of anfu on the fr Kwangtung have beer the Red armies. troop: | NEW YORK n announcing the three of his to the Peki Chang Hsueh-liang said his intentior to bring about a compromise between the f reactionary “in groups save the country whelmed by Of course, such~a compromise, even a temporary one, is almost next to the impossible, because of the intensified hostilit netween the various bourgeois groups but the different imperialist However, the very fact question of the suppre revolution is not only semi-feudal so between powers that the ion of ised as the main issue by the militarists is a clear reflec tion of the insecurity of the posi- tion of the ruling class and the growing strength and influence of the forces of revolution. TO HOLD YOUTH RALLIES TONIGHT Prepare for Int’l Youth | Day, Sept. 8 YOR Tonight at the Young Communist League ew York City is holding indoor lies, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 4th St. at the New Harlem Casino/ 116th St. and Lenox Ave., and at the Bronx, 569 Prospect Ave. These ralli a to prepare the young workers in the U. S. to dem- onstrate together with the young workers the whole world over on International Youth Day, Septem- ber 8. The International Youth D. originated in the midst of the last world war, is of utmost importance to the young workers in New York City today. We find that the con ditions of the workers are | ing worse. The NEW p.n of com- average the young workers is $12 to $15 per Duc week when they | to the young work steady. severe unemployine workers are lled with | their miserable to become supporters of their entir At the same tir effects the young w« worse than the a v September 8, the Y ymmunist League in a seric ft op r dem onstrations 120th St. a which will \d | Battery i .» Adams and M oklyn, 6:30 rn Blvd, the young against to sup- Pp. those port and ¢ defend Union, vhow Tonight Movies | of Perhonstrations | b | The big enter nt and dance of Sections 2 and 3 takes place to mor toa Po Work er s m has beer x the first showing Minor and Amter in jail. Movies | be shown of the recent will a demonstrations | am a vii