The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1930, Page 1

Jimmy Walker, the perfumed mayorette, learned how to behave from his papa. Old man Walker spent $6,500,000 on an official job. 50 per cent of this was gravy for his sonny boys. Don’t miss this Tammany true story. Coming soon in the Daily Worker. Dail Central lida Orga on of the + ay aoe Untered v., necond-claaa matter Vol. Vu, No. 218 at the Post Office at New York NY. ander the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESD AY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1930 More Looms, Less Wares! HIS is the perspective—more looms, less f the plans the Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturer ciation are per mitted to materialize. A sub-committee of this association is now in session, according to the bosses’ paper, the Journal of Commerce, to “consider a new list” for cotton weavers. They want a new list, the report says, “which can be applied to the conditions resulting from the more looms per weaver system of working.” More looms per weaver for less wages—which in turn means more unemployment. Speed-up, wage-cuts and a continuation of mass lay-offs is clearly the policy of the textile bosses, as of the bosses generally, in their efforts to hold up their own profit rates during the crisis period. The work- ers, they expect, will carry the burden. The sub-committee, according to the plans announced, will com- plete its wage scale adjustments within a‘few days. A report will then be made immediately to the Central committee of the association. Negotiations will then be undertaken with the officials of the Opera- tive Weavers’ Association, a company-controlled, independent “union,” who without delay will ratify the wage-cuts “in the name of the workers.” There is plainly no time to be lost. The revolutionary unions can- not wait until the wage-cut notices are posted. They cannot wait until still more looms have been forced on the already overburdened workers. They cannot wait until more mass lay-offs take place. Now is the time to act. Now is the time to energetically push forward the organiza- tion work in preparation for striké struggles to prevent these wage- cuts and mass lay-offs and the increased speed-up from being put over. The National Textile Workers’ Union, supported fully and aggre sively by the Communist Party in all textile districts, must immedi- ately undertake a wide propaganda campaign among all textile work- (as the attack will not only be made on the weavers) to prepare them for a strike struggle. The company-union officials must be ex- posed. Shop committees of the N.T.W.U. must be quickly set up. These must be followed by the establishment of the broadest possible strike committees to prepare and lead the strike. Prepare now! Organize and strike against wage-cuts More Murdering of Negroes ARIAN, Georgia, was yesterday the scene of two more Negro D lynchings. This makes a total of at least twenty-three who have been “officially” murdered by white mobs this year. We say “offi- cially” and “at least” advisedly because the number of Negroes killed under very suspicious circumstances greatly exceeds that number. George Robinson, for example, was killed in the Raymond, Miss., county jail, where he was being held for “safe keeping,” by a deputy sheriff on the pretext of “preventing his escape.” Lee Townsend, of Charlotte, N. C., a Negro taxicab driver, was mysteriously killed, his body being found in a well. A federal prohibition agent in Texarkana, Texas, a few days ago Herbert Richardson, 2 Negro, and then cleared himself with the usual stock argument of “self-defense.” In Chattanooga, Tenn., a policeman, with the fake excuse about isting arrest,” shot and killed Milton Dorch, a Negro. . S. Mine of Mount Vernon, Ga., long a thorn in the side of nocratie politicians there, was beaten to death by a mob after being | abducted to another county. In New York City, a Negro was “accidentally drowned” while ng to escape from Welfare Island, according to the report of the ards. All of these cases have occurred in addition to the acknowledged | lynchings during the past month. And these are only a few that have come to our attention. Many more Negroes, under one fake pretext another, are viciously murdered monthly, victims of the lynch law of the white capitalists. There is alw an “open season” on Ne- groes; the bosses’ courts regularly accept any excuse as justification | for clubbing them to death, shooting them down, stringing them to the nearest tree or burning them at the stake. There is no method too barbarous, when a Negro is concerned, to influence the boss-class hirelings of either the North or South. These practices can and must be stopped. The Negro masses, fighting together with the white workers against the big landowners, the capitalists and their willing tools—the lynch gangs and the col- laborating city, county and state officials who so obligingly open jails —can wipe out lynchings. Organized defense corps and unflinching struggle are immediate burning needs for the workers as a whole, and especially for the Ne- groe By building up such organizations and by meeting the lynch | mobs with an organization prepared to defend the Negroes by foree— the only language an infuriated mob can understand—many lynch- | ings can immediately be stopped. In the course of the struggle to prevent lynchings and Negro mur- ders generally the Negro and white toiling masses will create the revo- | lutionary force which alone can wipe out lynching, and social inequality by wiping out the capitalist system which is responsible for and main- tains lynch law. The Communist Party, of all the political parties, alone fights against lynching, for equal! for self-determination, and against capitalism. Vote Communist! Organize to fight lynchings! SEEK TQ HUSH FINAL DRIVE FOR ARGENTINE CLASH SIGNATURES ON Break Into Armories;. 'Women’s 8 Conference! Navy Bombards To Be Held Sept. 20 | | | | | Social Insurance Bill as MARY DALTON TRIED TODAY IN ATLANTA Charged For Exposing, A.F.L. President At His Fascist Speech Death Trial Is Next | | A.F.L. Locals Endorse And Aid Defense ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9.—Mary | Natinal Textile Wrkers’ Union goes on trial in this city tomorrow right in the midst of the murderous at- | mosphere created around the lynch- | ing of two Negro workers: John Tandell and George Grant, at Dar- ian, Ga., and wounding of another. The tactics of the Sacco-Vanzetti case are to be used again. | the trick of railroading a defendant | on a lesser charge first so that in| |the more important case, involving | the death penalty, the prosecutor is able to call the defendant “already |a convict” and call the others on | trial, “associates: of an already convicted person.” Dalton’s trial is being rushed, and (Continuea on Page Three) UCIN CALL FOR JOBLESS MEET | Asks Organizations to Send Delegates The Unemployed Council of New | York City has issued a call to the | members of all workers’ organiza- | tions to send delegates to the Un- \employed, Conference to be held on Sunday, Sept. 28, at 10 a. m. sharp, at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., on the following basis: Shop Delegate Council, 5 dele- | gates; Shop Committee, 2 delegates; Workers Fraternal Organization, 2 delegates; A. F. of L. local males 2 delegates; Unemployed Council, | 10 delegates. The conference will discuss and map out plans how to bear pressure upon the bosses and the government | to stop the wage cutting campaign, | ‘and to grant unemployment relief, on the following basis: 1, Enactment of the Workers’ proposed | | by the Communist Party and en- |dorsed by the Unemployed Councils. 2, the city treasury for relief mea- sures until such time that the} Workers’ Social Insurance Bill will |be passed upon and applied by the} | Congress and Senate. 8. No eviction of the families of} |the unemployed for non-payment of rent. 4. Feeding and clothing of the children of the unemployed. The unemployment situation is | the concern of the employed as well las the unemployed workers. Only through the unity of the employed and the unemployed can we stop the wage cutting and speed- up campaign of the bosses, and de- mand higher wages and hours. Only through the pressure of the This is | Immediate appropriation from | shorter} | workers themselves will the bosses NEW YORK, N. Y.—Press dis- patches from Argentina try to be- little the counter-action of Irigoy- en’s supporters, which “ared up in a serious armed struggle on the| NEW YORK.—At At this week’s jcampaign meetings, which will be held every night, as well as in the needle market during day time, the streets of Buenos Ayres, involving| final days of the signature drive | bombardment from war vesseis. The | 4nd the working women’s conference Associated Press story distinctly |0n Sept. 20 will be stressed. All colored to favor Wall Street inter- | Tevolutionary workers will be urged ests, pooh-poohs the entire affair| to. report to the Communist cam- by claiming only “seven persons haa | P-ign headquarters in their respect- been killed, and fifty-six wounded |ive districts in order to help suc- }and the government be forced to | grant relief to the unemployed. On to the mass unemployed con- | ference, September 28, at 10 a, m. | sharp, at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. The Communist Party fights lynching—vote Communist! Vote Communist! and looting and burning had held| sway.” Later on the story gives a single instance of seven being burned to death in one store and fifteen executed at the post office for armed resistance to the Uriburu forces, The pitched battle between var- | ious companies of the regular army were termed “confus' ra “ser. ious mistake.” sion,” says the Associated Press story, “reports spread that the Argentine Navy squadron of thir- teen vessels lying in Bu~»s Aires Harbor had begun to bombard the capital.” They admit, however, that the government artillery re- turned the fire, one 75 MM shell exploding on the decks of the de- stroyer Mendoza, instantly killing a petty officer. Many instances of men breaking into armories and arming them- selves were reported. In spite of the fact that the Uriburu govern- men, and American imperialist in: tersts in Argentina, want to spreac | a report of “quietness and complete: “During the Cah \cessfully wind up the signature Jdrive which terminates this week- | end, Campaign meetings will be held | today: | Manhattan—14th St. and Univer- |sity Pl, Seventh St. and Second Ave., 37th St, and Seventh Ave, (noon). Bronx—Philip-Jones factory gate, 138th St. (at 5.30); 174th St. and yse Aye., Claremont Parkway and | Washington Ave. 149th St. and} Prospect Ave. Brooklyn—43rd St. and 13th Ave. 86th St. and 2ist Ave. ness,” the situation shows that the conflicting imperialist forces will spread the fighting and counter - intrigues to a greater extent than even at the present time. The present fascist government, j composed of the leading bourgeois and landowning forces, does not have a solid mass srpport. Vight For Social Insurance! LUMBER BA Arrest Organizers ber barons of this city, fearing the organization of the lumber workers | into the National Lumber Workers | [Industrial Union, made use of their | legal machinery by having arrested | three of the active organizers— | | Cannelle, Ryan and Ady. This was | an attempt of the bosses to prevent the mass unemployment demons tion, which was held in this city on September first. These workers were arresteJ while selling Daily ‘Vorkers and dis- tributing leaflets; they are charged | with vagrancy (a state law) which | states in part that: “Any person, | who is unemployed and retuses a| | Job when offered (regardless of | how low the wages may be), is con sidered a vagrant.” These arrests BELLINGHAM, Wash.—The lum- | and this law are a direct attack on ! | | | THE ‘ By HARRISON GEORGE HE best minds of Amer- ica have spoken. And things are mixed up as never before. That is to say, that Bill Green of the A. F. of L. has | emitted some opinions about | unemployment. And that Cal | Coolidge has added some more in endorsing what Green says. | Dalton, southern organizer of the | With good reason the Fed- | erated Press correspondent at Washington remarks that — “Trade union officials as well |as government experts on un- employment problems were puz: ment by President Green.” use of terms increased”— | wilder. sense, A Undoubtedly Green labored that statement. difficult to lie in the face of facts, than to tell the truth. For example, Green tried to make the workers, 8,000,000 of whom, families, are jobless and starving, and norfe of whom have even the scanty security of chattel slaves, believe that “compulsory” unemployment insurance—which the Communists propose shall | be compulsory as forcing the bosses and the bosses alone, to, What Is “Compulsory” Insurance? Who Is “Compelled”’? “MORALITY” zled when they read the state- And he goes on to say that—“Bewilderment at Green’s and so on. ; government experts, then Green has attained his aim—to be- More particularly to bewilder and betray the work- If it works that way on ers, who have none of the insight of government experts into oe “AINST aly Green’s awful jumble of trickery and non- n Over-Worked Liar. hard over Because it is much more with their Norker he-ESRMumiet Party U.S.A. ND “DIGI U tional) DRaANOAeHE { | NITY” OF STARVATION provide the workers with) wages if they fail to provide | them with jobs—is “compul-| sory,’ in some way, A) these workers. Green adds that it “pa- ternalistic’? and “demoraliz- | ing.” Deep stuff! And the| ex-presidential jackass bray from Northampton, M: chu- | setts, the approving comment | that Green is “in a sound posi- tion,’ and that “our’ wage earners “have been raised to} new dignity.” Let us give a few instances: At Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where “white supremacy” is an added “dignity,” is white girls of 18 and 14 years, with patched calico dresses and torn cotton stockings, are approaching men on the river docks, offering themselves, “dignity” and all, for ameal. And explaining simply that they are hungry! At the New York “employment” office on Monday, the capitalist press headlines sé ‘Crowd of 8,000 Applies; 282 Get Employment.” And a line is given to a man who declares that “if he does not | find work, he will commit suicide.” The Dignity of Eating Garbage. Readers of the Daily Worker will recall the story recently, that over on Long Is- land, at the edge of the colony of milion- aires’ great estates and sumptuous palaces, hundreds of jobless, men, women, children are searching the garbage for food. This is not “demoralizing,” according to Bill Green! That half-starved little girls of the workers ate submit themselves to prostitution for a square meal—this is what (Continued on Page Three) FOOD AND NEEDLE UNION BACK UP THE TUL. DRIVE loins Programs, Will | Build $100,000 Fund | | NEW YORK.—Particularly stim. | ulated at present by the object les- son of the 50 workers in the North | Western Box Co. at Minneapol! who have gone out on strike against ja ten per cent cut in wages under T.U.U.L. leadership and certain that | there will be many more such rebel- | lions against the present unpre cedented series of wage cuts in zu industries, the T.U.U.L. national of- fice and unions now intensify their campaign. The T.U.U.L. campaign | fcr more members and unemploy- ment organization and relief, pro- ceeds under the slogan “Organize |and Strike Against Wage Cuts.” An | es.ential part of the building up of a $100,000 central “Organize and Strike Fund.” The Marine Workers Industrial |Union has already endorsed this | campaign, and set in motion a drive te raise $2,000 of it. Now the Food | | ard Packing House Workers’ Indus- | trial League and the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union are in- creasing their activity. Food Worker Program. The executive council of the Food and Packing House Workers’ Indus- } trial League has worked out a com- rlete program of action with the | main emphasis laid on organization of strikes. The campaign will be taken into | the shops. One of the outstanding | (Continued on Page Three) RONS FEAR On “Vag” ” Charge | the workers, employed and unem- ployed. In spite of these arrests, the Un- employed Demonstration was held | as planned, being attended by more | than 500 workers; it was the lar- gest meeting of workers held here | in the last few years. The meet- ing was not broken up, probably of the fact that the bosses were sur- prised at the fact that they had not arrested all of the active workers and because of the fine spirit and solidarity of the Workers at the meeting, It is hard to get lawyers in this city. They all seem to be afraid of what the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Company will do, as these | | local bosses are the supreme dic- ‘tators of the local governicent. AFL GETS INJUNCTION | AGAINST FOOD STRIKERS NEW YORK. The A. F. L. yes- terday got an injunction and began scabbing in the public market at 8615 Twentieth Ave., Brooklyn. strike started there under the Iteadership of the Food Workers’ In- dustrial Union on Monday and the workers who had joined the union responded 100 per cent. The A. F. L. asks nothing for the worke It merely sells its sign to the boss, and gets an injunction prohibiting any industyial union member from |approaching the place. Yesterday four pickets were arrested there: J. | Cohen, Sol Roseman, Louis Preseto, and Louis Flann. They were taken to Gates Ave. court, and a union at- jtorney is trying to get immediate trial, The regular meeting yesterday | before the National Biscuit Co. gates was successful in spite of po- |lice who tried to interfere and to | prevent the sale of Daily Worker and Labor Unity. Mectings are held here by the F. W. I. U. every | Tuesday and Frid The Communist Party fought for Sacco-Vanzetti—the Commu- nist Party demonstrates on Sacco- Vanzetti day—vote Communist Scooping the Scoopers B DWYER is the general kick-up and big smell of the New York booze, hair tonic and fusel oil racket. New York out-poisons Chicago 19 to 1, and the speakeasy turnover nets Bill enough every 10 seconds to pay the back wages of the Daily Worker staff. Al Capone walks through New York on fip-toe, looking backwards, Bill had his chief slit- eye dust off the family machine gun, set it up on the arm of the morris chair and spill a boquet of lead forget-me-nots out of the window into the bil- lowy tummy of a business competitor ambling below. The police raked up the T-bones and pork chops and pronounced the man as dead. Not a line in the jump- ing Jack journals, 1,000 and 1 tales IN THE DAILY WORKER SOON, Don’t miss a minute of these blasting secrets. ‘Tammany Bazaar Conference DISMISS SKLAR AND SPECTOR T0 GAG THE DEFENSE Fear Able s Speeches Of, ‘Men Serving 42 Years LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 9.— | Not content with barring the public from the retrial of the-ten workers arrested for the April 26 Unem- ployment Demonstration here, Judge Wood yesterday barred two of the defendants, those who presented the case for the defense and the Com- munist principles in most. vigorous | and able form at the first trial. | These are Frank Spector and Carl Sklar. Both « erving 42 years already on sentences following their cenvietion under the criminal syn-| dicalism Taw for organizing the ex- ploited Imperial Valley fruit and vegetable workers into the Trade | Union Unity League. Judge Wood made sentence the excuse them out of the trial. the case against them, ng: “Any | dition to your 42 sentences can not hurt you anyway, and you are using this trial only for propa- ganda.” The judge's fear of the words of his Communist victims went so far on the fourth floor of the Workers’ Center, 26 Union Sq. who were present at the first con- jocues should be present tonight. It is the revolutionary duty of or- | Peto to have representatives Jat this conference. Help us make | the Daily Worker-Morning Freihcit | Babaar a earns success. COLUMBIA SILK MILL ON STRIKE Lead of N.T.W. PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 9.—The picket line is out 100 per cent at| the strike of the Columbia Silk Com- |pany’s mill here, It started last | Monday under the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union. The workers quit their looms and | demanded an eight, instead of ten hour working day, and a twenty-| five per cent increase in wages. Up until this morning thirty. one of the forty-four mill-worker: ;were out on strike. Early today |ten girl workers joined the strike, | this 42-year for throwing He dismissed | Holds Meet Tonight | The second bazaar conference will | be held tonight, Sept. 10, at 8 p. m. | All delegates | All But Three Follow]. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, NITE! Price 3 Cents TRY 10 OUT LAW DETROIT COM. PARTY Re- Arrest. ‘Bleven On Charge Of Criminal Syndicalism Sekt Stachel’s Warrant Out Also For Phillip Raymond Arr DETROIT, Sept ie rapidly luence of the Communist Party here, as |shown in the mass election eam- |paign and the 20,000 sign: ob- ur |tained for the |for Mayor, the 1 | ties.) are incre: against the Party, wi | driving it into illegalit | Eleven workers workers’ camp ne: | bail, have been re-arrested ane put junder new and heavier bail « charge of criminal syndic | They face sentences up to 2 jin the penitentiary. Warrants also arre r here, |have been issued for Jack Stachel, |District Organizer, Phillip Ray- |mond, Communist candidate for | Mayor, on the same charges. The mayoralty election, In which {Raymond is running, took place |today, the very day on which the |warrants were issued. The bosses realize the tremendous influence jexercized by the Communist cam- |paign, whch exposes the bos n= didates, and puts the real ues | facing the working-class to the fore. | BOSS MOB ADDS THIRD LYNCHING IN DARIEN, GA, Latest Victim Mur- | dered By Police | DARIEN, Ga., Sept. 9.—Another | Negro worker was lynched here to- |day in the bloody terror instituted by the bosses and their police agants against the Negro workers. The latest victim of this terror is Frank Bryan, who is “suspected” of jase been one of several Negro orkers who shot it out with Darien Bolles when they were fired on be- | cause they were approaching a bemk and “looked like suspicious characters.” With the latest lynching, the | bosses feel they no longer need the eae detachment which was sent here ostensibly to “protect” the Ne- gro prisoners, but actually to intimi |date the Negro population from in- | terfering with the terror against Ni jthe Negro workers under ‘ picion” of daring to fire back at police officers who wantonly at | tacked them, a| The lynching o j within two days, the Press yesterday reporting John Tandell was mysteriously shot {in his cell by “persons unknown” | shortly before the lynching of | George Grant, who was taken from {his cell by a mob while the militia nis th oviated that as to refuse to allow them to make |/eaving only three to run the mill. | jooked on, Police officers had iden- a statement to explain their demand | TWo of the men who are remaining | tified Grant for the mob. Bryan, | that they go on trial with the eight |0n the job are warpers, members| the third victim, was lynched by po- |others. Spector called the state|°f the A. F. of L. union. lice officers after his capture in a forces cowards as bailiffs aaa The bosses agreed upon an eight | eae avery: ae ‘O00 SEEK FAKE . Pp” DISCRIMINATION JOBS IN ONE DAY Tells of Camb Eden Exploitation — ©°?® Try to Stop U. G, NEW | force. | than half of the 25 per cent oon The other 42-year man on trial |demanded by the strikers. The (Continued or Page Three) | workers refused to go back. YORK.- What is said to be While the Muste|he was thoroughly disgusted with | | | | NEW YORK socialists were finishing their ses-|what he saw there and is now de-! » the sion in the socialist-owned “Camp | Nouncing the socialists and joining ment Eden,” near Cold Spring, N. Y., fur-|the militant Food Workers’ Indus-| agency the ther revelations were made of the trial Union, doors early T There brutal oppression and discrimination; He tells of the rankest discrim-| were over 10,000 workers waiting against the common workers hired | ination among the workers. Social- by the social fascist management to) ist party henchmen got good jobs, serve the diamond and _ silk-clad| with salaries of $30, $35 and ap to “S. P.” business men who loaf in| $100 a week. They also got the the camp. The revelations were not | best jobs. The non-socialists were | |made by the Musteites. They were| treated as a lower class of workers brought to the Daily Worker py an!and in the hardest work for almost for the jobs that keep on decreas- ing and in fact were never more than.a handful at most. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil again held its daily meeting in front of the ager Declaring that | 4 the warden of the Tombs, just across (underpaid worker, who adds a few! nc pay. This worker, not being con- |the street, objected to the unem- |facts to the exposure made in the |s: ered oue of the gang by the go-/ ployed meetings, cops again tried | Sept. 8 issue of the Daily by 1 K.l¢ sts (perhaps because they {to break it up, without suece: Mueller, another worker at the | sa jon to the whole thing) |wren the crowd’ increased around camp. He vouches for the truth of | g for the two months’ | the platform the police ordered the the Mueller article This worker had the socialist | party idea, unlike Mueller, who en- , one of the speakers a former post of- fice worker, told the crowd uot to move, and the meeting continued on the spot where it first started. Socialist propaganda is very sen- | timental about the poor workers, but the conduct of the camp was on a basis of keen, capitalist selfishness. | tered the camp employ in ignorance bot its ownership. But, like Mueller, , cia