The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1930, Page 1

The boss-class politicians will put forward many tricky substitutes for (he 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! Dal Central O No. 215 “A Terrifying Problem” ESTERDAY we commented editorially on the bosses’ practice ot throwing men into the streets as soon as they reach the age of 40. We quoted Edward ©. Rybicki to the effect. that there were more than 25 per cent of those who had re ered at the municipal free em- ployment bureau in New York City over that age. For them, Rybieki said, “there was little or no demand.” He declare: that thei was “a terrifying, almost hopeless, problem.” “Most middle-aged applicants,” Rybicki declared, “are skilled workers who have been superseded both by youth and machinery.” “Youth” and _ “machinery,” ompanied by the killing speed-up, mass la and wag these represent the efforts of the bosses to maintain their own high profit rates while attempting to solve the present ¢: the expense of the workers, And the proposed conference, ,eported yesterday, to see what could be done for these older vietims of apitalists’ profit hunger, has apparently failed to materialize. Frank J. Taylor, the Tammany- appointed Commissioner of Public Welfare, who supposedly was spon- soring the conference, is quoted by/the press as saying that: “Finding employment for idle of all ages keeps the Depart- ment of Public Welfare too busy to make a special effort in be- half of the men over 40.” most From this one might gather that while they could do nothing for those over 40, for whom life is a “terrifying and almost hopeless prob- lem,” at least they were finding jobs for the others. Unfortunately, this also is not the case. Over 30,000 have so far registered at the municipal bureau totally unemployed. Four or five thousand are lined up there daily trying to register. Yet to date only 3,000 have been placed in jobs, even if we accept their official claims. No doubt a check would also show that the do not represent 3,000 new jobs; probably in most cases these jobs represent the laying off of men and their replacement by men from the city employment bureau at lower wages, or by younger men who ean work faster. These fac’ s show the impotency of Tammany’s much-heralded “re- lief” measur The problem of unemployment, which is now, without doubt, “terrifying” for all the jobless, the young as well as the old, and all their dependents, can be, and must be made equally “terrify- ing” for these corrupt, graft-seeking, Tammany polit Se The unemployed workers, by fighting together with the workers still in the shops who g also being aroused for struggle by wage- cuts and the speed-up, can force the granting of immediate relief and the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill as pro- posed by the Communist Party. A little “terrifying” mass struggle by the workers alone will force the bosses into line. A Conterence of Fascists TLANTIC CITY, quite an appropriate place for a meeting of fa: ists, is this week entertaining the executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. The purpose of the meeting, according to press reports, is to prepare the report for the A. F. of L. convention, which will convene in Boston on October 6th. In the first session Green is reported to have scored a victory in one of the petty internal squabbles which are constantly going on over the relative slice of each in the division of the spoils, the method to be used in serving the bos: and personal struggles for positions, The apparently unanimous selection of G. M. Bugniazet of the electrical workers as eighth vice-president, a compromise candidate, has sup- posedly smoothed over the differences in preparation for the Boston convention. These differences are not worth a moment’s speeulation, however, as they do not represent any difference whatsoever in the policy of the Federation. All of them—Tobin, Huddel, the original contenders, as well as Bugniazet—are equally reaction All of them have consistently followed a strikebreaking, class-collaboration policy. The importance of the present Atlantic City sessions lies outside and above these petty squabbles. The announced agenda includes “the further restriction of immigration, unemployment, Soviet Russia, old age pensions and injunctions.” A!] of these questions are of vital in- terest to the working class. But what action can the workers expect on these questions at Atlantic City and later at Boston? Only action which completely harmonizes in all essential features with the program of the bosses as represented by the Hoover administration can be expected! On the Soviet Union, in addition to a continuance of their oppos tion to recognition, we can expect more propaganda—ideological prep- arations for war—about “dumping,” “forced labor,” ete. They will re-state their proposals fo! riction of immigration, again particularly emphasized the restriction of immigration from Latin America and the Philippines. On injunctions they will repeat their sterile pleas about their abolition in labor disputes without taking one concrete step to organize the workers to fight and re them. On unemployment insurance, which today is the most burning problem confronting the workers, effecting at least 8,000,000, many of whom are too old to ever work again, they will do nothing but talk. But even their talk will be harmful to the workers. They will mini- mize the seriousness of the problem by accepting the lying figures of Hoover's census bureau on the extent of unemployment. They will oppose unemployment insurance under the guise of opposing “doles.” They will endorse proposals such as the New York state old age pension law and other fake schemes to confuse and divide the workers, At Atlantie City, Green, Well and company will formulate the labor phase of the bosses’ war plans. They will include the prepara- tions for war against the militant workers at home, against the Soviet Union, against the peoples of Latin America, the Philippines and China, and against Wall Street’s imperialist rivals. At Atlantic City the fascist strikebreakers will formulate the program which Hoover will ratify when he addresses the Boston A. F. of L, convention on October 6th, On the basis of this program all militant workers must ener- getically develop a struggle to expose these fakers and to win the workers away from their influence and for a policy of revolutionary struggle. Wherever possible revolutionry groups in A. F. of L. unions of city central bodies should elect delegates to the Boston convention for the purpose of fighting the fakers’ program and exposing their alliance with the bosses on the convention floor. A Worse Hurricane Ahead Nore calamities, such as laid waste much of Santo Domingo on Thursday, arouse sympathetic response everywhere. The toll of more than 800 dead and as many more injured, according to press reports, is a terrific blow at any nation, not to speak of the general destruction which took place. The greatest suffering, howeyer, is still to come. The crops of the country have been almost completely destroyed. And this comes after the country has already been effected for a long period by the economic Even before this national calamity a large portion of the workers were totally unemployed and in dire need. The effect of the hurricane will be to greatly increase the suffering of the masses. The Dominican Republic, cidentally is completely under the domination, politically and economically, of United States imperialism. The finances of the country are supervised by Wall Street bankers. The sugar plantations and refineries are owned by American capital- ists, The same is true of ihe cocoa and coffee plantations. The na- tive population are practically the slaves of foreign exploiters. The relief proposals of the Red Cross and Hoover’s administration are not designed to help the masses. These are only temporary palli- tives. The real burden of the hurricane will be placed upon the planta- tion laborers, just as were the real burdens of the econ»mie crisis, They will be driven at a harder pace for longer hours and less wages, While the masses suffer, Wall Street will endeavor to extract its pound of flesh, Workers’ organizations must demand that real and continuous re- ] lief be extended to the Dominiean people, without need for repayment, | until their country is rebuilt. Workers must prepare to support the struggles of the workers there which must inevitably result from the efforts of the imperialists to force them to bear this additional burden. Workers on the breadline in front of St. of thousands. | than e Vincent’s Hospital, During the summer, the bosses cut them out, to hide *h The demand of every worker should be “not breadlines, but General Motors, Lincoln | Shut Down; TUUL Carries | on Fight for Unemployed ;Campaign For Unemployment Insurance Bill | and Sept. 28 Conferences Answer Fakers | NEW YORK.—Unemployment grows, hitting particu- larly now into the automobile industry. While the Trade Unity League goes forward with its campaign to build its | unions and councils of unemployed for a united fight for the | seven-hour day and five-day week, to organize and strike “against wage-cuts, to accumu- | late a $100,000 “Organize and | 5 Strike Fund,’ and to hold | great unemployment confer- PROVOCATEUR \ with fake solutions. | CAUGHT HIMSELF In Detroit further new lay-offs ‘are announced, A General Motors | | Unit has closed for a month, the to last at least six weeks. But} Henry’ Ford, big auto czar, isn’t admitting that these crises are in-| herent in the capitalist system, that tem, with the workers getting the value of the product without any- | thing being left for profit to mil- (Contmmued on Page Five) |Weixss Now “Exposes His Own “Plot” NEW YORK.—Irving Weiss, stool pigeon sent into the Commu: Party and the Workers’ Ex-service- men’s League, working for the Na- | tional vie Federation, the socia! lists, and no one knows how many other employers, yesterday “re- | vealed” in the New York Times the very “Communist Plot,” the concoe- jtion of which by Weiss first drew |suspision on him and got his ex- | pulsion from Party and league. He \claims the Couuuuist Party hired a ences in all the large cities Sept. 28, the capitalists redouble their efforts to fool the workers 3)| Lincoln plant closes in October. The Ford River Rouge officials are pay- | ing the way for a new shut down! only higher wages and shorter hours with unemployment relief can al. leviate them, that only a Soviet s: STRIKERS CLASH RENTARIA, Spain, Sept. 5 — «Workers in general strike here clashed with the police today. The | strike grows out of the report that | a committee representing striking | iron workers in San Sebastian has {him to plant forgeries on Woll and | been arrested for attempts to see | Easley. the civil governor and present the Weiss came in July to the Com-| demands of the workers for higher munist Party which he had already | wages. eon Weiss Vote Communist! joined as an | The strikers are very militant. } (Continuea on Page Five) houses in the city are closed, and town in the neighborhood of San | a FORGERY All Workers Must Be} unemployed worker, | and told a story about having been | As a result of the clash, all business SS martial law has been declared. N D IVE FOR Rentaria is an iron manufacturing | Fl AL R Sebastian. | SIGNATURES ON Mobilized | The Hearst press forgery of | NEW YORK.—The New York | atrocity photos against the Soviet, | District of the Communist Party|as exposed exclusively in the Daily | of the United St*tes of America has| Worker on Wednesday, is creating issued a call to all Party members| wide response among the worker: | and members of revolutionary fra-|not only in New York, where they | ternal organizations to mobilize for) appeared in Hearst’s paper, “The the final drive for signatures to put) American,” but throughout the | the Communist candidates on the|country. The workers of New York ballot. | will protest at this forgery at the There is only one more week left Bronx Colesium, Sunday, Sept. 14, |for filing the petitions and there|#* 2 p.m. are a number of districts in the) The forgery is being duplicated | Bronx, Harlem, Downtown, Wil-|in other Hearst papers, it is under- liamsburg and Brownsville where| stood, in the feature sections of | |the local Communist tickets are/ Sunday issifes, | short of signatures. There is great danger that in some very important working-class districts the Commu- nist candidates will not be able to) appear on the ballot, due to a short- There is little doubt but that the Hearst forgery was prepared with | the aid of the czarist white guard |Spy organization, whose chief, Djamgaroff, is working with the "ge of some few hundred signatures | F's. Committee, Matthew Woll and in each case, Ralph M. Easley, both of the Na- The Communist Campaign Com-| tional Civie Federation, Woll bei mittee is determined to obtain the | also vice-president.of the A. F. of L. necessary amount of signatures Executive Council, | All members of the Party, all Try to Get Out of It. members of revolution*ry fraternal! To offset the Daily Worker ex-| organizations, must report tomor-| posure’ the best they. could, the row (Sunday) morning between 9|New York capitalist press Friday and 10 o'clock at the following cam-/| ran a cock and bull yarn furnished | paign headquarters: Bronx, 569) by a fellow named Irving Weiss, Prospect Ave.; Harlem, 26 W. 115th! who was expelled as a spy from the St. and 808 Lenox Ave.; Downtown, | Communist Party. Weiss’ story was! 196 E. Broadway; Willi*msburg, 68 | that the Communists were trying to Whipple St.; Brownsville, 105 ‘That-| “plant” anti-Soviet forgeries on ford Ave. poor Mattie Woll, in order to get pect "NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 193 Not Bread Lines But U WITH THE POLICE IN WAR PLOT 0 nemployment Insurance York. Le extent of Veu st winter the bre York ran into the unemployment insurance! | After a Life of Work They Get This Two aged workers eating their bitter bread and slop coffee on the | breadline. This is the blessing of capitalism for the workers about which Green and the A. F. of L. fascists boasted on “Labor Day.’ On the job, starvation and speed-up and at 40, disease and starvation— this is the protest that faces every wor An Byes Fised On 1LD 40 099 PED TROOPS Bay Park Tomorrow NEAR CHANESHA Bay Park tomor- , Sunday, Sept. 7, both for the purpose of enjoying the picnic and outing provided by the International Labor Defense and to support the demands for the release of William to Pleasant printed in a New York Chinese paper reports that Red armies are converging on Changsha, the cap- Z. Foster, Communist candidate for ital of Hunan province, from three governor of New York state, and | directions. of the other leaders of the Unem- An ssociated Press dispatch ployed Delegation, Minor, Amter|from Shanghai confirms the above and Raymond, now in prison. report. It says that “Communist Pleasant Bay P. ean be reach- legions numbering 40,000 men had ed by West and East side subw: virtually surrounded Changsha. Take Lexington Ave. or Bronx Park Within the city wall were only 30,- trains and get off at 177th St./000 defenders. Attempts to obtain From there a Unionport car to the reinforcements from the Nanking last stop. Buses will wait at the/| government had failed. The situa- end of the car line for the pienie-| tion was described as dangerous in ers. Workers! Help build the I. the highest degree, and the Reds L. D. by making this pienic a huge | were expected to attack momentar- success. sily.”? ON U.S.S.R. | him in trouble if he should use them as genuine. But how the diabolically clever Communists could have “planted” a forged photograph in the Hearst papers, something that these spies and anti-Soviet forgers do not explain, is That photographs may be forged something most people do not know. Yet such an authority as George Sylvester Viereck, an Amer- ican citizen who was in charge of pro-German propaganda and spying in this country during the vorld is of Hate,” has the following to sa: “Not only’ pens and pencils di venom under the influence of war sychosis, Even the camera lies! ‘it tells the truth, the picture is ‘storted by mendacious captions v it is cunningly retouched by Aperts to era ~ tell-tale marks. then the picture is re-photo- eraphed and the camera does its Above is a section of the picture share to perpetuate the false- published by Hearst's N. Y. . hood.” American on Aug. 31, with caption saying that it the “an How Hearst- Forged Photo. was This is pr y what Hearst did. } FINAL U. the-EdBirunist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) | ter, | | U EDITION CITY WORKERS OF THE WORLD, NIEE? Price 3 Cents 100,000 JOBLESS EVICTED FOR 237 Workers’ Families Evicted ‘ LACK OF RENT | Boss Court Admits Jobless Can Be Thrown on the Streets Kz ly NEW YORK. ers are taking place in all cities less and their __| Starve to death and die of exposure. sand unemployed workers and their families have courts during the present crisis because of non-payment of rent. This winter a frightful situ- ation confronts all of the 8,000,000 unemployed, and those who will be added to their ranks. The capital- ist courts admit that the landlords | are the absolute bosses in this TBs | and with a five-day notice, can throw any worker on the streets, | if he is unemployed and does not! | pay his rent. | | | when there is none to be had. Of York Telegram | this number, two millions are young | workers who have been also thrown | | out on the streets. | war, in his book “Spreading Germs | | hungry and crying women that the Y.G.L. TO HOLD 4MEETS MONDAY ‘To Mobilize Youth| | celebration of International Youth | | Day and to rally the young workers | \for the struggle against unemploy- | Cable dispatch from Shanghai! ment and for the demand of Social) In Chicago, on “Labor Day,” while | Fitzpatrick, Nockles, and the other | fascist A. F. of L. leaders were} glorifying the Thompson gangster | regime and capitalism, 2,287 unem-| ployed workers’ families were | evicted by deccision of the “Renters’ | Court.” “I have No Choice” Judge Samuel H. Trude who sits} in this court was busy replying to| (Continued on Page Five} Against War, Ete. Eight million workers are today walking the streets looking for work | On Monday, September 8, Inter- | national Youth Day, the Young Communist League will hold a ser-| ies of open air demonstrations in Insurance. These demonstrations will take place at 120th St. andj Lenox Ave. at 7 p. m., Battery Park, 6:30 p. m., Adams and Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, 5:30 p, m., 138th St. and Southern Boulevard, at 5:30 p. m. On Friday, September 12, at 8 p. m., the Young Communist League will hold an indoor demonstration against war at the Central Opera House, 67th Street and Third Ave. Play songs as well as a Negro quar- tet will be some of the features. Tickets can be obtained now from all league units and at the District Office, 26 Union Square. PRES, IRIGOYEN QUITS HIS JOB Declare Martial Law in| Buenos Ayres BUENOS AYRES, Sept. Street fighting and martial law fol- | lowed the announcement of the re: ignation of President Hipolito Ivi- | goyen, who has been practically in| a state of siege in his palace for the past week. Irigoyen’s resignation, and the growing class ferment in Argentina | is due primarily to the worsening economic crisis and the struggle) between British and American im- | perialism for a greater share of the | Argentina markets. | Rioting occurred on the main/ street in Buenos Ayres, Avenida de | Mayo, when Irigoyen’s resignation | was made public, and a state of siege was declared. | Fighting occurred near the build- | ing of La Prensa, an opposition paper, which has been favorable to American imperialism. A _— rigid censorship was clamped down on all 5.—} outgoing news by the new presi- | | dent, Enrique V. Martinez. execution by the ‘Cheka, now the |He took from the booklet, “The | ‘Ogpw’, Russia's secret service.” Trail of the Hun in Austro-Hung Compare with picture shown o published by the Czecho- | page 5, which was taken from « ak “Army and Relief Commit- Cxzecho-Slovaks by Aust avian picture from pa of Czecho-Slovaks ‘ (Continued on Page wed war. The political crisis in Argentina | is symptomatic of sharp class} ‘burgh, Pa., about 1920, | battles which are pending through- | ze 20 showing the | out South America, due to the se- by | ver erisis ever experienced by | atin American countries, families are being dumped on -Wholesale evictions of unemployed wor of the United States. The job: Seve been cast out by the capitalist @— U.S. IN VICIOU ATTAGK QN Tt FOREIGN-8 Arrest Four More in Portland PORTLAND, W Attacks on the f ign-born work- ers received additional impetus yes- terday with the of four foreign born worke the militant labor movement. The four, including T. Mitseff, are heing held incommunicado without bail for deportation. Norene, head of the immigration office here, threatens to depoort every militant foreign born worker in Portland in an effort to stifle the growing protests of Portland’s | thousands of jobless and starving workers. The arrests yesterday follow slowly on the heels of the organiza- tion in Seattle of a movement aimed at the foreign-born workers, calling itself the National Anti-Immigra- tion Association, Inc. The attor- ney of this organization, F. B. Car- penter, is aso an official of the United States Immigration Service. This organization is circularizing a petition to be presented to congress and calling upon that body to de- port all foreign born workers in the United States. The International Labor Defense is calling a protest mass meeting in Portland to mobilize the workers against these attacks on the foreign-born and against the de- portation of the four arrested yes- terday. NEW YORK, — The National Committee for the protection of the foreign-born is calling a District Conference here on Sept. 21, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., to mobilize against the increasing attacks on the foreign-born work ers. Working-class organizations are urged to send delegates and participate in this conference. Red Dance At Harlem Saturday, Sept. 6th There will be a Red dance at Harlem Section 4, 308 Lenox Ave., |Saturday, September 6, 8:00 p. m. The dance is arranged for the benefit of the Di.trict Functionaries Training School. Vote Communist! Gr-r-r’s and Ha-Ha’s! HE 8S. P.-ites gnashing their false teeth and thinking up polite curses, in their Al- gonquin Hotel Election Campaign dugeuts. Many a soprano grow! of “Dear Me!”, “Oh my!”, and “Do Tell from the gloomy satellites of the cap. third party! are Spread the secret! Ryan Walker who knows his pen points and ink spots has carefully informed the P.-ites he has seen the light. He has joined the staff of the Daily Worker. Every day he will bounce the bourgeoisie on a pricky pen point and tat- too comics over the odd map of the socialist party in a six column srtip on the elections, on every- thing! MONDAY ‘S Renew your sub! the bundle. THE DAY! 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