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Liff! Jimmykin, the doll mayorette, in’ big peeve with his current actress! Needs snookum peace jack! City-doctored sweepstakes on! Thousands of bucks carried to address in Greenwich Village. Name on door: J. Walker, Tammany undressed. In Daily Worker soon. | Dail (Section of the Entered a. sec: V ol ¥ , Ne 219 d-class matter at the Post Office at New York NY, ander. the act of March 8. 1879 Norker he-Cod Rrunict Party U.S.A. Communist ee ees ap) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER vrs 1930, A L WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! “Price 3 Cents erry EDITION The Detroit Election Ro ER circuit court judge, Frank Murphy, according to capitalist press reports, was’ yesterday elected mayor of Detroit to suc- sed Charles Bowles who was recalled. While the election outcome causes no surprise, a careful study is necessary to determine the rea- ‘ons for the relatively poor showing of the Communist candidate, Com- ade Raymond. Such a study is necessary in order to strengthen our Party’s work for the state and congressional campaigns throughout the country. The Detroit comrades, by carefully drawing these lessons and by bringing them to the attention of the entire Party through the columns of the Daily Worker, can render a real service to the Party and the workers. Krank Murphy, the victorious candidate, had the support of the Detroit Federation of Labor, the American Legion and the Hearst press. He waged his.campaign largely on the issue of unemployment. This was demigogically exploited to win*the votes of tHe workers. Comrade Raymond, the Communist candidate, received slightly over 8,000 votes, according to the unofficial tabulation made by the United Press, From past experiences in election campaigns we know the difficulty in getting a tabulation of Communist votes. By theft, fraud or failure to tabulate, the vote is kept down to the minimum. We also know that the Detroit campaign was conducted in the face of the sharpest interference by the bourgeoisie and their agents. Many omraé:s were arrested; meetings were broken up; criminal sm warrants were issued for Comrades Stachel and } oris are plainly being made to drive the Party underground. Many vorkers, who would also have voted for Raymond were disfranchised under one pretext or another. Liat after taking all hindering factors into consideration, when id the present objective situation (crisis, unemployment, wage » we can only conclude that the gains made in this ction as compared with past election results in Detroit insufficient. We have to ask ourselves the question, “Why was the faker, Frank with only general phrases, able to capitalize the issue -of syment, while we, who led the great mass struggles of the rch 6th for unemployment relief and who now fight on a concrete bill—the Unemployment Insurance Bill—were able to do so?” The answer, in our opinion, lies not in a weakness in our program, t rather in our own inability to bring this program to the masses J to actually organize a movement of workers around it, Reports om Detroit tend to bear out this supposition. According to them great agitational and propaganda activities were carried on. A daily campaign supplement to the Daily Worker was put out locally. Thou- ands of other leaflets were distributed. Many meetings were held in all of these activities the main issue emphasized was unemployment. fhe Unemployment Insurance Bill was the chief election plank. Yet, while many thousands of workers in Detroit are unemployed, we some- failed to stir them to support the Party’s struggle for this bill ; against the fake proposals of Murphy. The reasons for this must be examined. Linked up with this is our organizational weakn tion activities, as well as our other campaigns, bi Murphy snempl th he basis the es. Our elec- all suffer from our to actually organize the workers into the unemployed councils, | evolutionary unions, and the Party with sufficient rapidity. Those wht are organized are not sufficiently drawn into the day to day of these organizations. Too much reliance is placed on the acti and speeches of the candidates and a few full-time functionaries, while the systematic development of new forces, rank and file committes, united front committees, etc., is neglected. A clue for the weaknesses in the Detroit campaign, for instance, is given in a letter of one of the leading comrades who complains that they were so busy with the ‘Jegtion campaign that no time was available for the building of the rn trade unions Obviously if no solid, permanent organ- ization work is done our ability to rally votes for, our candidates, and to develop struggles for our program, will be greatly limited. These weaknesses, both political and organizational, must be fur- ther examined. Concrete measures must immediately be taken, on the basis of the Detroit experiences, to carry forward the state and congressional elections with greater energy—and with greater success, “33000 VOTES FOR COMMUNISTS IN DETROIT POLL 'Faker Murphy Wins in | Election With Gang \ Support | Expose AFL Fascists | Continue “Fipkt For| Jobless Insurance DETROIT, Sept. 10.—Frank Mur phy, tool of the auto bosses and | gangland in this city, won the may- oralty election, gaining a plurality |. }of 1,000 votes over ex-mayor I” _wles who was recalled by a! special referendum. Murphy re-| ceived the support of all the fas- | cist elements in the city, including | the American Legion and the fak- {ers in the A. F. of L, His blah about unemployment insurance was forced on him by the fight by real unemployment insurance carried on by the Communist Party. Phillip Raymond, Communist can- didate for mayor, against whom a warrant was issued ona criminal syndicalist charge the day before | election, obtained 3,500 votes, ac- cording to the capitalist press. With the corruption which is rife in. De- troit, there is no doubt that thou- ‘sands of Communist votes were not even counted, and the real number jcast is very much greater. Fur- \¢ Socialists” Use Boss Paper fo JUMP IN SPEED-UP Tell How Harmless They =a Broun Begs Wall St., Brokers For Funds Look at the cut to the right. It is taken from the N. Y. Herald Tribune. It is an advertisement of Heywood Broun, the “socialist.” What is the Herald Tribune? It belongs to the Ogden Mills and Reid families. It is more Wall Street than even the N. Y. Tim Its | readers are the aristocrats and would-be aristocrats of Park Ave. and Westchester, the Berkshires and Long Island. It is the organ of the “Social Register.” To get mention in the “Society Columns” of the Herald Tribune is the ambition of every broker’s. wife. It is also the ambition of the “socialist,” Heywood Broun. He uses the Herald Tribune to notify all the aristocrats that he is “not a Communist.” Readers of the Daily Worker al- ready know that. But readers of the Daily Worker are workers, and not brokers, bootleggers or pro- curers. Readers of the Daily Worker know that Communist Party leaders, candidates in the election, have been railroaded to prison by Tammany for leading the fight for Unemploy- ment Insurance, on March 6—and since, while Heywood Broun was still trying to make workers be- | thermore, thousands of workers had | |been evicted and were prevented | (Continued on Page ra cence 2 ce) them along with his idiotic “Give a job till June” bunk. Readers of the Daily know that it “sneers” \ing to «Tepresent the workers.” is his “ | insult the workers. reproduces from the Daily Worker MEETING SEPT. 12 | shows “what the Communists think \of him.” It doesn’t tell half! | With Games on. 18th to) We have slandered the monkey! | Wind Up Youth Week And the workers will take notice! that right under the Daily Worker On September 8th all over the cartoon which shows Heywood | world demonstrations were held |under the auspices of the Young |Communist Leagues protesting paign contributions—from the cap- against the bosses preparations for italists who read the Herald Trib- | another world war and pledging | Une | support to the Soviet Union. the capitalists, Broun asks for cam- lieve that Hoover would have pros- | perity back in 60 days, and kidding | Syorken! at such an} animal as Heywood Broun pretend- | It} “socialist” pretensions which | Broun says that the cartoon he| Broun begging at the coat-tails of | ‘opponent will adopt the so-called Tam not.a Conununist This is what the Communists Think of me While we are building for a cooperative Common- wealth, we are not callous to the immediate suffering of the unemployed. ‘Workers can answer this sneer at their lot by voting ” “\nernood BROUN for CONGRESS pyenteenth District, Manhattan ‘Lam a Socialist y headquarters are at the Hotel Algonquin, 29 West 44th St. Campaign contributions may be sent tq Morris L. Ernst, Treas., 285 Madison Ave. In other words, he admits it. He unemployment program of the * asks the capitalists to help him be- | cialists.” | cause he is not a Communist. He} ther the “socialist” program is jisn’t. We admit that. We are proud | not socialist at all, not a program | of that. He only uses the word | of the working class as a class. Or “socialist” to get worke: tes,| the “socialist” party is fooling the while through the Herald Tribune | working class into thinking that he assures the capitalists that he | capitalist political parties will ever is perfectly harmless to their inter- | carry out a program that is in the ests. interest of the working class. In order to prove that the fake Both are true. The “program” is, “socialist” program is harmless to | not socialist, not for the workers. the capitalists, Heywood Broun! And the fake “socialist” party is offers to quit, if his republican party | trying to fool the workers. It is a | capitalist party in disguise. LOCAL 38 CLIQUE HELPS CUT WAGES Lets Bosses Ba Divebakes:| NTWIU Call to Action NEW YORK.—The agreement of Local 88 (ladies’ tailors) of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers expires Sept. 15, The I. L. G. W. heads are doing nothing. It is well i:nown that with conditions growing steadily worse, with the employers preparing wholesale discharges even with the season soon beginning, only a strike will help. The officials of Local 38 talk strike, but the mem- bership is not even called together to prepare for it, and no prepara- tions will be made. Apisdorf has locked out the work- evs, Verzimer locked out the wh ers and demands sweeping dis charges. S. Forman has locked out the workers and employs non-union workers. But all this does not make the officials of Local 38 fight for the members. These officials are hand in hand with the bosses. They are deliberately letting the bosses discourage and demoralize the mem- bers to force them to submit to re- organization. Hattie Carnegie Discriminating. The firm of Hattie Carnegie, with the aid of the police force, threw out of the shop Sloninsky, one of the workers, because of his union activities. The workers of the shop immediately declared a strike for his reinstatement. The officials of Local 38, in the name of the 1. L. ,G. W. U., ordered the striking work- ers back to work, threatening them with scabs. Moreover, they even called the chairman, the chairlady and the shop committee before the grievance board because they dared to make a fight for the discharged worker! Instead of forcing Car- negie to reinstate the discharged worker, the officials of Local 38 gave the case over to the so-called impartial chairman, Ingersoll, to le- galize the discharge. In this manner the treacherous officials of Local 88 encourage the bosses all over; already Carnegie again threatened to discharge two more old-time workers if they didn’t subi to his degrading order This is how Local 58 is betraying you and preparing, together with the bosses, to curry strike that will uph a fuke venuer you URGE HELP FOR PRESS BAZAAR Must Keep Communist Press Going Out of town comrades are not responding sufficiently to the call of the National Bazaar Committee charged with making « success of the Daily Worker-Morning Freiheit Bazaar October 2 to 5 at Madisun Square Garden, the committee de- clares. The committee urges upon all comrades, out of town as well as the New York. district, the impor- tance of the Communist Press Ba- zaar and stresses that the bazaar is not the affair of the “‘:w York comrades alone but of every com- rade in the Party. Neither the Daily Worker nor the Freiheit are local papers. Both are Communist papers which serve the cause of the workers throughout the United States, and indeed the workers of the world. It is the duty of the militant, class conscious workers of this country to kee '* -m go’ng and strengthen their fighting power and influence, The time is now very limited. The bazaar opens in less than a month, on Thrusday, October 2, to run until Sunday night, October 5. It is most essential that every com- rade and workers’ organization come forward in support of this bazaar, by contributing goods that can be sold at the bazaar, by col- leeting money, by soliciting adver- | Young Communist League will fin- ers’ The New York district of the| ish International Youth Week with two important events. On Friday, September 12, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., a demonstration against imperialist wars will take place. An excellent program including a tableaux, pic- turing the first conference in Berne, Switzerland, in 1915, as well as the Freiheit Mandoline Orchestra, con- ducted by S. Firstman are some of the features of this meeting. The speakers will include for the Communist Party, C. Hathaway, | editor of the Daily Worker, Com- | rade J. Kling, Youth National Or- | ganizer of the Needle Trades Work- Industrial Union, Comrade Mabel Hussa, one of the two leaders arrested at a W.LR. ramp in Van Etten, as well as Comrade Brown, an active young Negro worker. On Saturday, September 18th, the | Labor Sports Union of this district jointly with the Young Communist League is running a meet and affair at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn. Athletes from all eastern states will partici- pate. In the evening a dance will be held in the same park, IS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE HOOVER NOW ADMITS CRISIS But Increases Attack on Foreign-Born WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Hoo- ver and the imperialist exploiters not only prepare an especially severe attack against the foreign-born workers in the United States, but {as the crisis grows worse, Hoover | orders complete stoppage of immi- | gration on the ground that those permitted into the country now “may become public charges.” Nothing is said, of course, about the 8,000,000 workers in the country who face starvation. prevented from coming into visas to foreign workers who want to come to this country. The Lee Hoover ret step y which is | | open-air demonstration this week in | | Whipple St., ‘Brooklyn. ers are urged to attend these meet- | Ps ings and register their protest | St. and 6th Ave. (in connection with |} against the bosses attempt to elec- Not only are Mexican workers | the | country now, but over 7,000 have | been summarily deported. Al] con- | suls have been notified to refuse | ANLC Hold Atlanta Protest Meeting in Brooklyn This Week This evening at Myrtle and areyi| Aves., Brooklyn, the American Negro Labor Congress will hold its second RED NIGHT IN | CITY TOMORROW Many Campaign Meets) in New York ‘OW demanding the unconditional release of the six Atlanta defendants who the bosses are trying to send to the} ~ . blac chant fon che “crime” OF of: Communist Campaign greater ganizing southern white and Negro} New Site Numerous Peeodary y ea cicars | will be held all over the city. There On Friday night, the A.N.L.C. will i pevaizery mecdiner at tusy fol: hold a mass protest meeting at 68 | gE (CORRETE: Manhattan, 29th St. and Seventh All work- | Ave.; 38th St. and 8th Ave.; 38th (Friday) evening will in womens Communist election and | campaign). All these three meet- trocute six militant Negro . ings will be held at noon, white leaders of the working-class. | | In the evening a meeting will be held at Houston St. and Avenue C. supposed to “help” the unemployed, | will do nothing of the kind, as the| 174th St. and Vyse Ave.; Clairmont 8,000,000 jobless will continue to | Parkway and Washington ‘Ave.; a! as hehe crisis grows worse. pwet St. and Prospect Ave. “< DOLE” Fight For Social Insurance! , Bronx, meetings in the evening at Why Bull Green Lies When He Says He Opposes “A Dole’’ By HARRISON GEORGE. Bill Green of the A. F. of L. says he is against Unemployment Insur- ance because it is “one step from the dole.” He adds that “the dole” is a ter- rible thing, “demoralizing” to work- ers, causing them “to sink into a) tisements for the Bazaar Magazine, ; State of satisfaction with mere sub- ete. All articles should be sent to 30 Union Square. Working class organi ations in| New York City and vicinity are | urged to send representatives to | help in the work of preparing the | bazaar, putting up the booths, ete. | more helpless than you are now! | The hope of the ladies’ tailors | and private dressmakers is aot in Local 88, but in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, which is preparing for a real struggle for union conditions. Organize a rank and file strike | committee to take over negotiations ; conduct the strike. e the matter out of the hands | ’ officials s onion eyey of iocal 38 | sistence.” From his comfortable quarters in }one of the finest Atlantic hotels, he became enthused, poetic, | declaring that workers are “entitled | | But it becomes aj to the better and finer things, to | complete lives.” Which is true. lie in his hypocritical mouth. Be- cause Green does nothing to show the workers how they can get what they are entitled to. And he does everything, possible to keep them from getting it. What the hell is a “dole,” any- how? | dole” is—“a distribution, especially | of gifts of charity.” Unemployment Insurance, the | kind peop . Party, is d not by the Communist | “charity,” | City | H Tn the dictionary it says “al | “dole, nor “a step trom the dol |“What persuaded Green to make this attack (on unemployment in- shall mot depart trem thee, either iBall the covenant of My peace be removed. + Exangebest Crech, Coenen Tomorrow et wa he pen bythe hee Fo. ym surance) may have been the fact | that the Communists declared re-| cently that the unemployed must be i pleture wupposed to show things ew thay ARE. ight Pvt mylene ry (dae rom thie coumryt “Watch Your Step. ‘people know that the country needs brains ‘The tele ‘4:4 at bain ate ete to thelr share and BUG SHARE. Nobody in Amerce will pay serious attention + semegnemativen of Kuss on the oep box, peng an ided the t about, then? att "| ployment What the hell was Green talking | Make no mistakes. | not a! He was talking about the Unem- | dent supported by the state through an unemployment insurance fund.” And Bill Green is against that. He claims that is a “dole” and he workers are “entitled The dictionary also gives the verb-—“to do! out”—-as meaning to “deal out in small portions.” But is Green against the smal! | wages being doled out to the wor ers, even the ones who are working? Hell, no! He does everything pos- sible to stop the Communists fre organising, them me to prevent and} to.” Mellon, Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Baker, America’s and ve | eels fou richest me, it weuida' give toe tatoo: Imago apne and we coun Une ong on th However, there 18 fa bur aystem « | Daily Worker. You how 600 Negro women working in ¢ mill a J t Insurance ; South Carolina, ‘10 and 12 hours a Communist Party, |day, for a miserable $4 a week. The Vederated Press correspon- | That the workers there live mosily in Washington says that— | (Continued on Page Three) _ Bill of the < AND ACCIDENTS SHOW NEED FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE Ten Workers Killed By Speed-up and N ligence of Railroad Bosses leg: | Unemployment Insurance Bill Provides For Weekly Payment for Disabled and Jobless NEW YORK.—With intensive speed-up being introduced by the bosses along with the growing crisis, industrial acci- dents are becoming more frequent and deadly for the workers. Yesterday within a short radius ten workers were killed, be- ause of the speed-up and negligence of the | Seven —®railroad workers were blown PLANS PARADE 10 to bits in the roundhouse yard ci of the Reading Railroad, at Third St. and Erie Ave., Phila- r 0 0 L WORK F R § delphia. Nearly twenty were Fi severely injured and some were crippled for life when an engine exploded. The engine was used in pushing heavy freight over grades between Ewing and Neshaminy on AND UNEMPLOYED ee the New York division near Phila- delphia. It is the usual custom to Victor to Put On Fake) inspect’ the in the morn- io but the railroad had ed or- Prosperity Stunt ders for greater speed-up and the engine was not inspected. The re- sult was the murder of seven work- ers and the crippling of 20. CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 10.—On| September the 19th, the RCA, fam- | ous manufacturers of Victor radios} Due to the negligence of the and a well known slave-driving | bosses, the Lamond and Robertson |of Camden, N. J. Recently Victor’s laid off almost | duction, and for a number of months | was standing idle. Today all the former workers, among whom were | many adult, are being replaced by | others, mostly young men end girls. | However, in spite of this sudden new employment, the line in front | of the employment office instead of | decreasing is _ steadily getting | larger. From all parts of Camden, Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, workers are flocking to} the gates of Victor’s in the hupe of getting a job to solve the starvation problem that is facing them. The | factory will put over a fake seheme| carpet mill in Paterson, N. J. was to hide from the masses the huge crisis of unemployment and _ star-| vation facing the working class.) This fake scheme will take the form of a mass parade of recently hired | Victor slaves down the main streets | swept by fire. Three workers are ing and are believed to have rished in the. flames, and many were severely burnt. & The families of the dead and in- jured workers will now have to go through a tortuous process of beg- ging the bosses for “compensation.” ‘so-| all its old help because of overpro-|The Unemployment Insurance Bill, advocated by the Communist Party, demands a $25 a week minimum for the families of workers injured and killed in such accidents. The same amount is demanded for all unem- ployed workers. The so-called workmen’s compensation laws are a great boon to the bosses in these cases, as they can easily squeeze out of paying anything to the injured or their families. The A. F. of L. fakers approve this kind of law, be- evves it benefits the bosses, just as ronal ly as the same fascists fight against the Unemployment Insur- ss the first Red Rally of thej{ has beautiful visions of what the! | workers, working inside the factory | lean because it effectively de- jare getting less pay than last year,|™- -¢s that the bosses pay for all |doing the same operations at a|U"employed, whether they lack |killing rate of speed even greater | Jobs, are too old to work, or be- | than that of last year, working long | @US¢ they have been disabled by hours both day and night shifts. aoe or incessant speed-up in As a result this last week 3 work- | | ers were killed and a young girl | worker is expected to die (having | To Denounce Polish an arm pulled off by a belt). The | slaves of Victor’s are easiy marked | Fascism, Sept. 12 (Continued on necro age Three) | I, papevennetny, Polish fascism and its rture of seven thousand militant | ween in Polish prisons, the com- mittee for Struggle Against Polish | fascism is calling a protest mass ; meeting for Friday evening, Sep- WITHIN ) DAYS! tember 12, at Finnish Hall, 15 West ‘Two More Negr O€S/and Finnish, and all workers are Murdered by Bosses, | urged to turn out and demonstrate their solidarity with the oppressed SCOOBA, Miss. Sept. 10.—Two, workers and farmers in Poland. Negro workers were ynched here} today, making five lynched within es’ lynching terror, Pig Lockett and | Holly White, were surrendered to a! mob of offigers who were transfer- | ring them from De Kalb to Scooba | fo: a preliminary hearing on charges | of highway robbery, even the capi- | es’ mobs. The mob tied the officers to a tree “for appearances’ sake,” i would look bad if it appeared t | had willingly surrendered their p: joners. It is an interesting fact t § | 126th St. | There will be speakers in English, two days and a total of 25 for the first nine months of the year, talist press eliminating this time the‘ usual lying charge of rape against | - | the officers were liber inutes after the Facts on Flatfoots H I foots, with pancake faces, known as cops, are hired to crack open the skulls of strikers. For pastime they shake down gamblers, prod pimps and play Mussolini before push-cart peddlers. | Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian The two latest victims of the boss- | | Negro workers lynched by the boss- | 1 2 ed 2 outrage. | Nerro Victim of | Tynchi ne Not the One Roosses Wonte? i DARIEN, Ga, i Gangs ci the porky nit- !hosses and their city Wits, once gunmen in pri- \ : a vate practice, now regu: today admitted that Willie Bip lacly. ditathy” Aber HOR st the third of the trio of Negro work Elba lynched here on Tuesday, wa as one of ce fire e that “they doors of 2x4 candy stores and rob the tills while the fammany 300 - sluggers are peddling R. R. fran- chises, ere suspicious ¢ Tammany exposed! In the Daily soon! Organize and strike against | wage-cuts! 1