The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1930, Page 1

ui Read how the poor N. Y. priest filled his sock with $2,000,000 for a rainy day. Tammany exposes in the Daily Worker soon. Dail Central Orga Kotered a, second-cli at New York N Y. ander the Jol, VIL, No. 217 matter act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930 Organize! Fight Evictions! STIMATES compiled by the Daily Worker indicate that several E hundred thousand workers and their families have been evicted from their homes during the past few months. This number increa: from month to month with the continuous deepening of the economic crisis. As we approach nearer to fall and winter, evictions, if they are not stopped by the working ma will greatly increase in num- This numerical iner coming as it will under extremely ad- verse weather conditions, will be accompanied by a many times greater increase in mass suffering. landlords organized into powerful associations are be- hind this eviction orgy. It is no longer a case of dealing with the owner of one or two small houses, Today mighty real estate com- bines control many tenement or apartment houses and sometimes whole sections of a city. The shareholders in these great real estate corporatio: re also shareholders in factories, mines, railroads, and banks. The big Wall Street bankers (Gerard’s “59”), by means of interlocking directorates, control these gigantic real estate enterprises as effectively as they do the other enterprises of the nation. With them are allied the governors, mayors, judges, and all other state and city officials. The control of the courts by the landlords is shown most clearly by the declaration of Judge Trude of Chicago: “Tam forced to break up homes,” he said, “destroy the fun- damental ba: for civilization, and J have no choice. The odds st the unemployed.” ii ctions are merely another phase of the bosses’ efforts to ple burden of the economic crisis on the workers’ backs while main- ling their own high profits, Evictions go hand in hand with mass ay-offs, the speed-up and wage cuts in the bosses’ offensive. These s of the bosses—their efforts to worsen the workers’ conditions _will continue until they are stopped by the organized mass power of the workers! Unemployment, with its resulting mass suffering, will continue so as capitalism continues. The only solution for unemployment is the overthrow of capitalism, the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government, and the building of socialism. But even now the workers are by no means helpless. Through or- ganization, and determined, continuous fighting many concessions can ing from the capitalists and their government. The workers on Je in Seotland, for example, stopped evictions in 1916. The from the shipyards and huge engineering establishments there quit work and marched in mass to the court where the evictions were >. They served notice that, unless the evictions were im- stopped, work in the industries on the Clyde would stop. ber. mediately After consultation with Lloyd George, then British Prime Minister, the judges in the Glasgow courts dismissed all the eviction cases on the calendar, The workers here can do likewise. Mass demonstrations before the courts, supported by sympathetic strikes in the factories and mines, will stop evictions. Through the organization of shop committees of the T. U. U. L. in the factories to prepare the workers to strike, and through the organization of unemployed councils, great masses of workers can be brought into the streets before courtrooms on days when eviction cases are to come up. A committee of the workers should then be sent into the court to demonstratively demand a cessation of all evictions. By such methods, supported, of course, by many thou- ands of workers, the bo: vill think twice before they con- tinue their present practic ing 2,500 workers a month as is now being done in Chicago alone. The struggle against evictions, outlined above, must be made an important phase of the struggle for the adoption of the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party. The bosses and their hirelings must be told: “Stop evictions! Pay us the $25 per-week as provided by the Unemployment Insurance Bill!” e Get in touch at once with the local secretary of the Trade Union Unity League! Organize in shop committees of the T. U. U. L, unions! Join the Unemployed Councils! Fight against evictions as a phase of the broader fight against the bosses’ attacks! Rally behind the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party! Vote Com- munist! A “Monroe Doctrine” Revolt ITH open enthusiasm the Washington State Department wel- comes the revolt—which it prepared—that has overthrown the government of Argentina; that has ousted Irigoyen, friend of Britain and foe of American imperialism and its Monroe Doctrine. “Tit for tat,” says Wall Street. Thus partially evening the score; revenging the overthrowal of Yankee lackeys by British intrigue in Bolivia and Peru. British domination of Argentina has long been a thorn in the side of American imperialism, And Washington dispatches reflect the undisguised glee that Yankee intrigue has done its work: That 1,000 people were at first reported killed made no difference to the hypocritical scoundrels who refuse to recognize the Soviet Gov- ernment because it “murdered the czar.” Irigoyen, foe of the Monroe Doctrine, is overthrown, and Washington rejoices. With equal emotion, only, that of sorrow, London is stricken with gloom. But does this end matters? It does not. Firstly it incites counter attack by British imperialism which may at any moment engineer revolt in Central America, and even in the heart of what has become a Yankee colony, Mexico. Secondly, Wall Street is not satisfied, and will strive to regain its lost position in Bolivia and Peru, and try in Brazil what it did in Argentina. And England will fight back in the same manner, Thus the flames of a new world war are being kindled by those who chatter about “peace” and “disarmament.” And it ought to be clear to every worker that these symptoms of approaching war are his business, no matter where he lives or what language he speaks. He— all of us—are prospective cannon fodder for imperialist war. The fabric of imperialism is being torn. The bourgeoisie cannot govern in these Latin countries. The situation, as explained in the Daily Worker of Sept. 1, is objectively revolutionary. Aside from the fact that these revolts settle nothing final between imperidlism, they also leave unsettled the problems of the economic crisis, and in the first place the growing misery of the masses. That this misery is deep enough to have thrown great masses into action against the governments is proof that the situation is objec- tively revolutionary. This is true, even though those masses, due to the weakness, and in the cases of Bolivia and Peru to the practical absence of a Communist Party, have been attracted into the following of the rebellious bourgeois militarists. These militarists cannot solve the erisis, and already in Bolivia we see a rising class movement marked by the strike of 15,000 miners. In the case of Argentina, which has considerable proletariat of revolutionary tendency, we may soon hear of the independent action of the workers against both gangs of native exploiters and their re- spective imperialist overlords. The Argentine Communist Party nas for years, however, been weakened by factional fighting rooted in opportunism much as was our own Party. It has been, in our opinion, unable to understand that “The Left is the shadow of the Right” and the necessity for a struggle on two fronts and has been unable to uproot the Right opportunism because of this preoceupation with the “Left.” Of a serious nature, we must note that in its current literature the conflict of Yankee and British imperialisms within’ Argentina itself is not given concrete’ attention. In practice this means that the dis- integration of bourgeois government resulting from this imperialist conflict, is not seen; that such revolts as the present one are not foreseen; that possibilities of a successful struggle for power by the workers and peasants are ignored. In spite of the openly fascist rule set up by the big feudalists and bourgeoisie headed by Uriburu, in spite of the arrests of Communists t is reported to have made, and in spite of its weaknesses, the Com- munist Party of Argentina will live and grow. Already on August 1, in Buenos Aites, 20,000 workers marched under the banner of the Communist Party in protest against war. This is a sign of growing strength. And that strength, which we, here, must always stand ready to aid, will one day not far distant, make a real revolution in Argentina, will esiablish a Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. ‘ LONGSHOREMEN * Nov Sori Snaps CHINESE “REDS” bcp SURROUND SHASI, _YANGTSE CITY HOLD CONFERENCE PREPARE STRIKE ‘Meet in Philadelphia Sept. 20-21 to Fight Cut, Unemployment ILL.A. Tries to Kill Will Elect Delegates Right From ILA Hall NEW YORK.—In preparation for wage cut and sell-out of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Associa- tion and the I.W.W., who have both lined up with the stevedoring bosses, the Marine Transport Workers’ In- dustrial Union is calling a district United Front Conference of long: | shoremen in Philadelphia, Sept. and 21, at 121 Catherine S Word is received from Philadel- phia itself that the longshoremen at the Canton docks have invited the M.W.I.U. speakers to come down to a big meeting to be held in the | LL.A. hall and explain the purposes |of the conference. These workers | propose to elect delegates to the conference right from |hall, in utter defiance of Polly Ba’ jer, LL.A, czar in Philadelphia. The revolt of the longshoremen |has gone so far that after a success- {ful meeting on the waterfront, in | which veral longshoremen defied |the intimidation tactics of Polly Baker and mounted the box to de- |nounce the ILL.A. and I.W.W., an | LL.A. organizer ‘tried to kill the j (Continued on Page Three) ‘1,000 AT “FREE” “AGENEY MEETING | Expose Tammany Fake Job Racket a strike for better wages and con-}| | ditidhs and against the attempted the I.L.A.) | Jobless and homeless—one of | the hundreds of thousands who | share the same fate throughout the country. Celebrate Int'l Youth Day in | Many Lands (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 8.—Police dis- persed an International Youth Day demonstration here because of al- leged singing of prohibited reVolu- tionary songs. Fine International Youth Day demonstrations held throughout Germany. * - 8 SHANGHAI, tional Youth D Shanghai were dispersed by the po- lice who were specially concentrated and armed for the occasion. Many arrests were made, and sharp col- Sept. 8.—TInterna- lisions took place between the revo- | is circularizing the localy of the lutionary youth and the. police. Ce ae Gunboats. Intervene 15 y demonstrations in [LD Cireularizing AFL Nanking, including two women, five | | | Fifteen workers were executed in| 4 tanta soldiers, and one soldier for allege: | membership in the Party. Communist * . . Joe Carr, Ann Burlak, Henry Story, | International Youth Day was cel- | ‘spoke about the united front confer-. NEW YORK.—Over 1,500 unem- ployed workers participated in an} i open air meeting called by the Slovakia, etc. Downtown Unemployed Council in|} pad front of the grafting Tammany | 5 “free” unemployment agency where Y L 35,000 workers have applied for jobs and only a handful have been given | wage-cut jobs at the expense of oth- | Nearly every day since the agency | opened, the Unemployed Council has conducted its meetings, calling upon the unemployed to unite behind | demand for unemployment insur- ance. Friday, Sept. 12 NEW aan ae par aa pose mora (dreds of young workers demon- ee as eis soeathg Sttatedsat the call of the Young eas batap inet ey ee Communist League at a series of nave, and the creahors continued, |Cutdoor demonstrations against war. Thee 100 tec tier the nea; |__ Tn the year 1915, when the social- SUOUE ia. Weemene 4 erie Mo. | ist parties of the world betrayed the EEL SESE) fo Nan: | workers of the world by becoming nee 4 | patriots, in the city of Berne was meeting of the Unemployed Council. held a conference of Socialist Youth |. The chairman of the meeting in|Teagues that have set aside Sept. |front of the unemployment office |g a; International Youth Day, a was H. Williams, a neers worker. |day of struggle against imperialist |Sam Nesin, one of the speakers, wars. In New York City, the - Young |Communist League, besides the out- | door rallies, will hold an indoor dem- jonstration on Friday, Sept. ‘12, at 8 p. m. at the Central Opera House, |67th St. and Third Ave. At this |demonstration prominent speakers, including Comrade J. Kling, na- tional youth organizer of the Needle YORK.—Yesterday hun- |ence which was being called by the | Trade Union Unity League on Sept. 28, to spread the fight for the Un- employment Insurance Bill, advo- eke by the Communist Party. At the indoor meeting of the Un- |employed Council, several members jof the American Federation of La- | bor exposed the fascist activities of | Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, the leaders and told how they help | as well as Comrade Hathaway, cd- the wage-cutting scheme of the boss-| itor of the Daily Worker, will speak es, and fight against the interests |on International Youth Day and the of the unemployed workers. |present struggle against imperialist A good many copies of Labor|wars and for the defense of the Unity were sold at the open air! Soviet Union. |demonstration. The Unemployed! Now, more than ever, is it nece | Council will continue its meetings, | sary for the young workers to jdespite the repeated attempts of behind the Young Communist | the cops to prevent them. League. Young workers are urged |to come down in a body. All youth organizations are urged to come i with their banners. TRICK CAL. CANNERS Need Permit to Leave Town | Organize and strike | against wage-cuts! (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN JOSE, Calif.—Jobs can be | bought out here in San Jose. That jit, all cannery workers except the jgirls in the “Garden Valley Can- nery” must buy ten shares of stock \and suffer a 50 per cent wage-cut. | Consequently, as they are laying off help all the time, they lose their money by this rotten, hypoeritical \trick, Need Permit to Beat It. | Did you ever hear of anyone need | ) ing a permit to get out of town? A comrade walking on the highway outside of Los Angeles, intent on |getting away from this hell-hole of | oppression, was arrested for wear- jing out the pavement. He was taken before the judge and given 30 days. However, the sentence was sus- pended on condition that the worker get out of town. But before he went he had the judge give him a permit to walk the roads. ebrated by large mass meetings in | the Soviet Union, Germany, Czecho- | |er workers who were fired, | YOUTH DAY MEET Capture of City, Now Under Seige Expected Any Minute Communists Bombard Imperialist Ships | Capitalist newspapers today carry a report from Washington, D. C., quoting the State Depart- = ment as receiving information of New Military the capture of the city of Shasi os by Communist forces on Sept. 5. Hae * The rapid growth of Communis forces and influences so seriou threatens the robber interests of th imperialists and their native mili- A dispatch from La Paz, Bol ed deep in the back page |the N. Y. Times of Monday, of veals : mili- that 15,000 Bolivian miners, un- tarist tools that yesterday British | qoubtedly the most of them from and Japanese naval forces again the oppressed Indian nation, are tried to intervene against the Com-| striking against wage-cuts at the munists, the British destroyers Sir- dar and the Japanese armed steam- er Tanyang Maru opening fire on biggest. mining center in Llallagua, striking against the Patino Mines corporation of New York bankers. the Communist forces before Shasi. Tin mining is one Bolivia’s big The Communists replied with “alresources, and the price of tin has heavy bombardment” of the impe~| been going down. rialist war vesse WORKERS MUST ment i thé er mines to close down. The Military Junta (council), backed by British imperialism, which took control re- were | cently after the masses had by five | days of fighting overthrown the government of Siles, a Wall Street =o clearly cannot solve the nor prevent the rising di: ent of teh worker and peas sses. The Milita Rank and File The International. Labor Defense Junta has copied the ‘set up in Peru \to oret Porty U.S.A. ction of the Communist International) FINAL CITY EDITION ,000 Bolivian Miners Strike When U. S. Firm | Tries to Reduce Wages : ; Employed and Jobless Dictatorship Unable to Solve the} Crisis; Class Struggle Rising It is also revealed that unemploy- | masse rapidly growing because |in all thes» ountries has caused the small tin | the rising struggl made when the n ili- atorship took power in Bolivia, that it could not settle the s and hence not stop the rising of the masses. The same may be said for the regimes of militery dictators now nd in Argentina. The situation is objectively revolu tionary. Only the subjective fac- tor, the weakness of the Commun Parties, prevents immediate pass: power of the revolutionary But the Communist [arty FASCIST RULE | IN ARGENTINA, Washington Crows | Over British Set-Back fake jobless “remedy” of Jimmy | Walker, mayor of New York, in American Federation of Labor as |“opening employment offices.” But! part of its campaign to save the H. Powers, |Ployed are scornful of the “offices,” . “' not even going there to register. i | The big min which are still Herbert Newton and Mary Dalton|running, are trying to cut —from the electric chair. |The dispatch to the Times com- In the heart of the South itself, {plains that wage-cuts “have not sat- aa i ~" isfied the workers” and the idea i right in Allania, Ga, the mass dis-l ue ee idea 3s workers—M. jthere are no jobs and the unem-| Argentine dispatches, the imperialist will grow with | leading boss ne coupled | with those from Washington and} London, show with crystal clearness | to give some facts (to other b struggle between | as a guide for further wage-cutting) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents BIG INCREASE IN WAGE CUTS; PREPARE SEPT. 28 JOBLESS CONFERENCES Boss Sheet Says Wage Cuts Have Increased At Rapid Pace “Organize and Strike” Must Fight Together M wide-spread wage he Tra Unity League prer employm in all s rep Union rence take up plans : diate unemployr wt spreading the f Une ployment Inst Bill, and m ilizing both employed and uner wage-cut rt on whol ‘om one of wage-cuts come | 21 of Commerce. The chief edit- orial in the Monday issue admits | that “the evidence shows that wage de have been multiplying rapidly in recent months, affectiny a large number of and an_ increasing workers.” In contrast to William F. Green's recent statement to Hoover, thank ing the imperialist chief for keep ing wages from “being cut,” latest expression of the leading ploiters should be enlightening to all workers, The Journal of Commerce goes British and American imperialisms | on the wage slashes which have al- a new world war. It is equally clear that the new| military dictatorship is openly and content forced even the Atlanta Federation of Trades to half-heart- ed resistance to this persecution, in spite of the fact that part of the officialdom was openly allied with the prosecution, and in the neigh- boring state of Alabama, the A. F. of L. leadership was openly calling for the lynching of militant workers This protest, weak though it w: is pushed through the leading City of L. in the South in spite of the | fact that A. Steve Nance, its presi- dent, had previously ordered the ar- rest of Mary Dalton, one of the de- fendants, organizer for the Textile Workers’ Union, when she tried to ask a question of President William Green at a mass meeting. Nance was the chairman of the meeting and called the police when the | T.W.L.U. organizer raised her voice. | Nance was also exposed later as|peech St: [To Hold Indoor Rally Central Labor Body of the A. F.|Spur Efforts to Put | the assistant secretary of the grand | | jury that returned the indictments | Dalton, against Newton, Story, Burlak and and chief Green-Woll agent in Georgia as an “assistant” in the office of the prosecutor, Boykin, in whose office istant So! | prepares the prosecution, | | Hushed Secrets of Tammany for Daily Readers a how Al Smith ept the wolf away from he brewery door. Read about Jimmy Wall: ers piece work pay £500,000 for 15 minutes speed-up in the Equitable bus steal, Read the eye witness re- ports of the Daily Worker reporter gathered at the risk of life in the vicarage behind St. Patricks where The I.L.D. exposed Louis | 43rq St. | F. Marquardt, the secretary of the |géth St. | Georgia Federation of Labor, | | tor General Hudson | plenty of literature and campaign | Colorado. | |Downtown, 195 E. Broadway; Wil- | unworkable.” This is proof of the Daily Worker MANY MEETS FOR ELECTION DRIVE General Uriburu himself owning some 300,000 square miles of an estate. The fascist character was also shown when, in spite of Uri- buru’s speech about “demoerati rights,” the military arrested “a large number of Communists,” ac- cording to report. That the Communists should. be | active in such a period is to be ex- pected. The reports state that “pamphlets intended to incite the people to revolt” were confiscated, (Continued or Page Three) Communists on Ballot NEW YORK.—The Communist campaign is getting into full swing. This week dozens of open air meet- ings in workers’ sections, at fac- tory gates and in the needle mar- ket will be held. Tonight, meetings will be held at 7th St. and Ave, A, 52nd St. and 10th Ave., N. Y., and Cedar and Paterson, N. J. Tomorrow's meetings will be held SLAVE CHILDREN ‘Deportation Its Cure at 14th St. and University Place,| For Sugar Beet Evils 39th St. and Ninth Ave, N. Yu and 13th Ave. Brooklyn;| ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 8. and 21st Ave., Brooklyn;|—The A.F.L. executive counci! Bleecker and McDougall Sts., N. Y.| meeting here yesterday took up dis- ©. and Mills and Grand Sts., Pat- | cu: sion of the child slavery of Mex- erson, N. J. ican and other Spanish-speaking Comrades must be prepared with | children in the sugar beet fields of After hearing a de- buttons in order to reach the crowds ; tailed report, the council outlined a that gather to hear the Communist | policy to be machined through the speakers. | A.F.L. national convention in Bos- The Communist Campaign lead- | ton, Oct. 6. It is exactly the policy quarters again calls upon all Party of that certain rich man who said members tionary, fraternal orga beggar out, he is so miserable report tonight and every night at|makes me cry.” The A.F.I, 5 p. m. to the following campaign | poses that all immigration of F headquarters for an hour or two of | pino workers be prohibited, that t work for the Communist campaign: tions to he sharpest quota laws be applied to wages, | that are heading inevitably toward ready taken place. purely fascist, with the installation | in power of the great landowners, AFL WOULD EXILE and members of revolu-|to his butler, “James, throw this | 0f taking part in the shootin pro- Bronx, 569 Prospect Ave.; Harlem, |Mcxican workers, and that recent | 26, W. 115th St. and 808 Lenox Ave.; | immigrants be deported. liamsburg, 68 Whipple St.; Browns- |s nted by C. M. Idar, a special in- ville, 105 Thatford Ave. : i" (Continued on Page Three) SUICIDES INCREASE the church dignitaries, the gangland kings and the. Tammany sachems split the boodle. Read of Waller's touch ing romance, hasty fish ing trips, ete. ete. Tammany Exposed— Coming Soon Jobless workers continue to. be | driven to suicide by the unbear- able miseries facing them. The body of an aged jobless worker of Paterson, N. J., was recovered yesterday from the Passaic River. He left a note be- hind which ‘read “My name is W. Fisher. No ! work. Nothing to eat. place to sleep. So I think this is the best way. An old man can't get work any more.” Andrew Hopkins, a war yet- eran, unemployced and despondent Subseribe This Minute | Jobless: Not Suicide, But. Fight: | because of his plight, attempted suicide by jumping from the roof of the Moore plant of the Beth- lehem Shipbuilding Co. ‘n Bal more. Harry Coynee, 42, a jobless worker, tried to commit suicide by jumping from the Clark Si, Bridge in Chicago. The sight of his tine children slowly starving was too much for John Shariskey, a jobless worker of Sharon, Pa., who shot and killed his wife and then commit- ted suicide. f , The facts in the case were pre- They state: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (Continued on Page Three) NEGRO LYNCHED IN PRISON CELL And, As Usual, Mur- derers Are “Unknown” DARIAN, Ga., Sept. &—More openly showing their hi as the economic crisis deepens and the Ne gro and white workers re against unemployment and starva- tion, the bosses and their state ma- chinery today dispensed with such camouflage formalities as a “mob” and staged their own private lynch- ing in a cell of the McIntosh county jail here. John Tandell, a 30-year-old Ne- gro worker, arrested on suspicion of having taken part in a gun battle this .morning of Negro workers against the police, in which one cop was killed, was “shot to death” in his cell soon after he had been cap- ‘tured. And none of the jailers could tell how it happened! Sheriff Poppell was “utterly mystified” and “un- ‘able to explain how Tandell was | killed.” |. Another lynching will no doubt |be stayed here within a day or two, jas police are confident of capturing another Negro worker “suspected” He has been located ir a marsh nea Darien and will soon be captured. they boast. DARIEN, Ga., Sept. 8.—A second Negro worker, George Grant, aged 40, was taken from the MeIntosh county jail this afternoon by a mol and lynched while National Guards- | men, under the command of Colene! Roy Neal, idly looke oat The Negro worker was accusec jof being one of a group who, at |tacked by the police this morning jas “suspicious characters” because they happened to be walking along jon the same block where there is ¢ |bank, returned the fire and fled tc }@ nearby swamp. One cop was |killed in the first clash and three | deputies wounded when a posse pur |sued the workers into the swamy with the intention of capturing them for a lynching bee. CUBAN UNEMPLOYFD WORSE HAVANA, } the Cuba, —Wh sugar season cl here it is esti mated that at least 500,000 of the million rkers uba will have been thrown out of work, Communist Party fights —vate Communist! | The lynchi | ————