The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 1

DN TO INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT, 8 P.M., AT CENTRAL 0 ‘Tammany short-circuited and Owney ler) Madden snapped, accidentally into <, who yanked him right out? None r than the boss nest-egg Cardinal Hayes, head yarbage dispenser of the Catholic church. See Tammany cracked open soon. More fun than throwing a brick at a cop. Central (Section of the Communis > Entered a, Vol. VIL, No. 220 second-cinas matter at the Post Office at New York. NY. under the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER International) 12, 1930 munist Party U.S.A. INAL CITY EDITION , x fk y PERA WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! He 3 Cents Complete theSignature Drive! there the n ry amount of collected | s, in order to put the Com- State ballot, must be wound ‘ort. Meanwhile, in a number dangerous gaps. Here and on the petitions has not been mobilizing all revolutionary rder to cover the shortage nd the drive for signatur s on the New Yor here a ut in these last fe putting the Communist candid on the ballot which is iportant, because without these can s we will not be able | et the proper campaign, there is another very important | to the activity 97 collecting signatures. In visting the workers { members of the Party an' all members of the cevolution ir; 1izations bring our revolutionary slogans to the masses and are in the position to conduct very effective propaganda among the workers, { Wind up the signature drive in Bolshevik fashion. Report to the | Communist campaign headquarters in your district or section, Devote an hour o- two of each of these last few days to visiting the workers in their homes. Put the Communist Campaign on the ballot! Time to Act! WENTY-SIX lynchings so far this year! This 1s now the total ollowing the lynching Wednesday of Pig Lockett and Holly White in Seooba, ., and of Willie Bryan the day before in Darien, All together five lynchings in two days! Three in Darien! Two Seooba! This is a new record for even the United States, the infa- and of lynch Jaw. In Scooba, the usual rape charge was varied; this time Lockett and White were being held on the charge of “highway robbery.” They had not been caught in the act of robbing anyone.. A robbery had been committed and they were being “held on suspicion.” They denied the charge. But what did that matter to the law enforcers of the South. Victims had to be found, so they opened the jail doors for the lynch mob! In Darien, Negroes were charged with firing’ on the police. Two were lynched Tuesday morning. A search for additional victims started. Willie Bryan was found—and lynched! The next day—after Bryan was dead—the local press and city off s admitted that Bryan was the wrong man, that he had not participated in the shooting. But what does a mistake like that mean to white bosses who build up a tem of lynch law? Not a damn thing! Burning a Negro at the stake, or stringing a Negro from a tree, according to their law, means only one Negro less, while it strikes the fear of death into whole Negro communities, causing these oppressed black masses to accept persecution, segregation, Jimcrowism and all forms of inequality for another period. Lynch law is the law of white supremacy; it is the means by which the white capitalists and land- lords, striking terror into the hearts of the Negroes, continue their ruthless exploitation of Negro workers, tenant farmers and agricultural laborers. By lynching, «and by the anti-Negro, mob fury which the white ruling class stirs up, the capitalists consciously try to set up an insur- mountable barrier between the white and Negro workers. By tales of rape and robbery they try to poison the white workers with their theories of white supremacy; they try to draw the white workers into their murderous lynch mobs; they try to create such mutual hatred between white and Negro workers as to make united organization and struggle impossible. a With such plans and aims what difference does it make if lying charges have to be made, or if “mistakes” are made in lynching the wrong Negro? With them it is all part of the vicious, murderous system of white, landlord-capitalist rule over both white and Negro workers and poor farmers. Twenty-six Negro lives are already the toll this year for the preservation of this system, Many more Negroes, not recorded as “lynchings,” have been killed in addition. The lynching of five in two days at Darien and Scooba emphasize the rapid increase in lynchings this year as compared with last year. Last year there were eleven! This year there is already twenty-six! And now it is only September! The bosses’ offensive against the workers includes, especially, sharper attacks against Negroes. Unless drastic steps are taken by the workers the remaining three and one-half months will see a still more rapid multiplication of lynchings throughout the entire country— in the North, as well as in the South, Now is the time to act! All Negro and white workers’ organiza- tions must be rallied. The broadest possible anti-lynching conferences must be organized in all cities. The Communist Party, the revolution- ary unions, local unions of the A. F. of L., workers’ fraternal organiza- tions and workers directly from the shops and factories should unite in these conferences, which should be called by the American Negro Labor Congress, to work out concrete plans of launching a nation- wide campaign against lynching and organizing defense corps of Ne- groes and white workers—both with the specific purpose of stopping lynching or ending the system which breeds lynching. In the election campaign of the Communist Party in all districts the issue of lynching must be dramatized in the most powerful manner. Special meetings, leaflets, parades, demonstratons, ete., must be utilized to arouse the toiling masses against lynching and all forms of persecu- tions and inequality. The struggle for full social, economic and political equality, and the right of self-determination must be developed in a sharper and more determined form than heretofore. Fight lynching! Vote Communist! Our New Headquarters ITHIN the next few weeks the headquarters of the New York District of our Party will be moved from 26-28 Union Square to 50 E, 18th St. The constantly increasing activities of the Party, as well as the gradual extension of the work of the Daily Worker and the Freiheit, have long demanded more space and this demand has increased from day to day. The extension of the activities of the Workers’ School was con- stantly hampered by the lack of space. At the same time it was inad- DAY CELEBRATION | ALLOW ONLY. 1 QUESTION. Angeles Case Judge Threatens Contempt of Court Charge \Jail Threat at Jurors Who Don’t Convict 26 Unemployment Demonstration here, yesterday made several vicious nioves to cripple the defense. He prohibited defendants who are their own attorneys from asking more than one question each of eeenee | tive jurors. He threatened Defend- | ant Kreitzberg with contempt of | court if he persisted in asking jur- ors about their attitude towards the class struggle. He cut short the | questioning of jurors by Attorney (Continued on Page Three) Indoor Meet in N. Y. | Sept. 12th | CLEVELAND, Sept. 11.—Close to four thousand young and adult workers demonstrated on Interna- manding that the city government provide unemployment insurance to the thousands of unemployed, and free supplies for the children in the schools. At the same time throughout the | world, young workers demonstrated | their determination to struggle | against imperialist wars and to de- | fend the Soviet Union with their lives if necessary. In Jersey City 800 workers dem- onstrated at the call of the Young | Communist League in spite of the | threats of the police that no Com- munist meeting will be permitted. It was only through the deter- mination of the workers that com- pelled them to grant a permit. The Young Communist League in New York City will finish the In- ternational Youth Week with two great demonstrations. One will be an indoor demonstra- tion, Friday, Sept. 12, at 8 p. m. at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. An excellent pro- gram including a tapleux, a Negro quartet as well as the Freiheit Man- dolin Orchestra, conducted by S. Firstman, has been arranged. Well known speakers, Comrade C. Hath- away, editor of the Daily Worker; J. Kling, National Youth Organizer of the N.T.W.I.U.; Sam Brown, a young Negro worker, as well as Mabel Hussa, one of the two lead- Trying to Pack Jury) | 6, | | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 11.— | hungry!” Judge Wood, trying the case of | | eight workers arrested at the April | {to keep quiet. | since he get $2 a word for Green’s; | Remedy tor Against Unemployed Insurance | By HARRISON GEORGE. “GIVE them beer and let them | chase butterflies,’ says Bill Green of the A. F. of L., not being so “radical” as He: wod Broun. “Nothing weak than gin,” Broun protest: will make *em forget they’re But let us not forget Cal Coolidge. He did not choose No wonder, talking. Cal says “position” on unemployment is “sound.” But Green has so many “positions” in his statement) attacking unemployment insur- ance, that we’ve neglected Cal and not exposed half of Green’s “positions.” He even puzzled had to begin: “What Mr. Green seems to mean... .”—and so on.| “look to industry to stabilize employment by balancing produc- “Beer and Butterflies ” Ts Green s Unemployment DETROIT AFL Sitwation HELPS ELECT a me | | | | | TORCH 6 Joc fA What Green meant was to so tangle up the question of un-| tion with demand.” at which Green, intends to turn thumbs down on real insurance. “Stabilize” Employment. Green solemnly suggests th: |employment insurance that behind the mystification of which | | at the jobless should spend the | tional Youth Day in Cleveland, ¢e- | Winter chasing butterflies. Not in so many words, but that is! The New York World observed, cautiously was which and what was what, the good old steam roller in the} economists have considered this remedy, but the problem of | locals and central labor unions of the A. F. of L. could choke! operating it presents almost insuperable difficulties.” Green | any rank and file protest at the coming action of the Fat Boys’ | | Machine at the Boston Convention of the A. F. of L. on Oct. 6,| not deny flatly that capitalism cannot “organize” itself, cannot | jobless | balance production with demand, and hence cannot “stabilize” | has the other apologists for capitalism over a barrel. They dare} employment. Why? A simple example: there were, all making differen (Continued On BOSS MAYOR Communists Vote in Negro Sections Is Big Gain {GIVE Us BEER AGAIN AND THAT Wik SOLVE Intensify Activities Will Show Up Lying Promises of Murphy | (Special to The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, 11. — Phillip | Raymond, Ci andidate for | mayor, polled clos 500 votes | out of a total of approximately 300,- | 000. Unquestionably wholesale fraud \ as practiced as indicated by the forcible of Communist | watchers in many precincts, | This was the first time the Party | participated in a mayorality elec- ; tion. The present vote is four times | greater than the highest Communist | vote ever obtained here. The vote | was well distributed throughout the eviction \the Negro districts. Raymond top- | ped Bowles, the ex-mayor in ten | precincts; he had a greater vote than Engel in three precincts, and greater than Smith in eleven pre- cinets. 4 | Cal, who in trying to talk about just one of Green's “positions,” | the essence of his pompous declaration that the workers— | workers’ sections, and especially in 000 AT YOUTH “A host of Judge Murphy was elected, re- ceiving thirty-seven per cent of the vote. Murphy promised “unemploy- ment insurance,” race equality, municipal ownership as well as many other demagogie phrases. The election unquestionably reflects the growing dissatisfaction of the mass- es who were more easily fooled be~ cause Murphy ran on a “non-par- Suppose ten workers were all it things that each other needs, Page Three.) CONTRIBUTE ELLA MAY MONUMENT AFL. Local Honors Heroic Fighter WEST CONCORD, N.H., Sept. 11. —During the past two months the stone cutters of the Stone Cutters Union of West Concord, New Hamp- shire, have been busy building a monument which will be their trib- ute to the memory of Ella May, the heroic woman fighter brutally mur- dered last year in the struggle of the textile workers of North Caro- lina against the starvation and wretchedness which is their lot un- der the crushing regime of the southern textile mill owners. Donated by the Union, materials | and labor, this monument by work- ers built in respect to a comrade | worker will be sent to North Caro- lina in time to be unveiled at the grave of Ella May on September 14th, at the mass Ella May Mem- orial meeting to be held at Besse- mer City under the auspices of the | International Labor Defense. | The Ella May Memorial in New York will take place-on Thursday, September 18, at Irving Plaza Hall, | at 8 p. m. The program arranged by the) New York District of the Interna- tional Labor Defense for ‘this event in tribute to the memory of the valiant working class leader, mur- | ers arrested at the W.I.R. camp at Van Etten, New York, for teaching the workers’ children to fight for ithe workers, will address the meet- ing. Attention! All members of Section No. 4 must report at 308 Lenox Ave., at 6 and 8:30 p. m. to go out and visable to split up the central school. Our old headquarters on Union Square made impossible the cen- tralization of the technical equipment for the publication of our papers. This resulted in waste because of the necessary duplicate expenditures; for example, certain necessary operations, like mailing, had to be carried on separately in the Daily Worker and in the Freiheit, although one outfit could very well take care of both. It became the duty of the Party District to reorganize its central headquarters as well as the technical arrangements of the publication of our papers and to secure headquarters which could supply adequate space for all of these institutions. This space was secured in a new ‘headquarters at 60 E. 18th St. The new headquarters puts nine floors at the disposal of the Party. as against six on Union Square. The floor space per floor in the new headquarters is about double that of the headquarters on Union Square. This change of headquarters is the result of the rapid growth of the Party and of its activities. The new headquarters will provide the possibilities of further expansion. It will enable us to concentrate our institutions more than in the past and thereby reduce the administrative and other expenses. It will be necessary to call upon the Party and its friends to help the Party financially in order to secure the new headquarters and in order to enable the Party to prepare the new building for occupancy. With this removal of the headquarters of the New York District of the Party from 26-28 Union Square to 50 KE. 18th Street, the Party does not in the least intend to abrogate its right to use Union Square for political mass demonstrations. Union Square has been the gather- ing place for protesting and demonstrating workers in New York City foi many a decade. Transportation facilities, tradition and its location in a working-class district, make it the most ideal gathering place for the demonstrating. working masses of New York. Party will maintain this tradition. The Communist Hereafter, as heretofore, it intends dered by the textile bosses’ thugs in | North Carolina, will stir every | worker who remembers the ‘bitter | struggle of the textile workers in the south. collect signatures in order to put our candidates. on the ballot. SECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. © EGION MEET ORGY | Boss Outfit Whoob It Ub (By a Worker Correspondent.) SHEBOYGAN, Wiscon. — Thet American Legion Convention here has just ended the state convention. The news that happened here should be told to the workers and they will know what the American Legion held their conventions. The time | was one week. Depraved Bosses. Every night if any one should have passed through the uptown district, sights could be seen like the following: A group of men | = dressed in only a pair of gi bloomers, men drinking moonshine , right in front: of people and cops. | The streets were so full of these uncivilized men that no cars could | go through. The delegates were big | business men and had the finest | hotels in the city. The whole town was given to the delegates. \ Anyone who disagrees that Boy | Scouts are another preparation for war will also like to learn that they themselves marched in the parade and took part in the convention. | to disturb the tranquility of the merchants on Union Square by dem- onstrating the revolutionary will of the workers of New York to the 1 ruling class of this city, STONE CUTTERS. ‘Chicago I. L. D Exboses Official Guilt in Marion, Ind., Double Lynching Sheriff Incited Mob; Jail Doors Left Open; | Governor Refused to Intervene CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Startling revelations on the lynchings of Tom Shipp and Abe Smith, Negro youth workers, in Marion, Indiana in August, are contained in the re-| port made public today of a special | committee headed by Attorney Ben- tall of Chicago. This committee has just returned from Marion, Indiana, where it was sent by the Chicago International Labor Defense to in- vestigate the lynchings. The report establishes beyond question the active guilt of state and city officers for these brutal crimes. It reveals that: 1. Before the lynchings, several Dirt on Al, 1 Carload. HE Jim Jam Jem Mayor Jim, sleight of hand ham, trained his fingers in the movie steal and headlined himself in the Equitable bus act by pulling a half million out of the hat. Ge WP, BY at Cy Pel WEDS, oy L SMITH? His parlor trick is to soak the city enough kale for of- fices in his Court Square Building to dam the Hud- son. Al doesn’t play base- ball but he played the Albany baseball pool for an ice-cold hundred grand. Did he kick the power interests in the shins? No, comrades! He 0.K.’d receipt of every boodle- filled carpet bag. ‘The Daily Worker chops ‘Tammany into Chowmein. i Negroes secured the promises of Chief of Police Smith and Sheriff Campbell to protect the Negro prisoners from lynching, but when the mob began to assemble without interference they attempted to get in touch with the Governor of In- dianapolis. The governor’s secre- tary hung up the receiver, refusing to talk to them. 2. Sheriff Jacob Campbell elec- ted with strong Klan support) after arresting the three Negroes, Smith, Shipp and Cameron, hung the bluody shirt of another Negro (shot in a quarrel between himself and Smith) in one of the jail windows facing the Court House Square; he then circulated the false report that ; Mary Ball, a white girl, had been raped by a Negro. 8. The substance of the Sheriff’s false statements quickly spread and a mob began assembling before the court house, staring at the bloody shirt. 4. ‘Chief of Police Smith, observ- ing the lynching manoeuvres, ordered the Negro policeman on duty to go home. 6. Sheriff Campbell arranged that the doors of the jail and of the cells of Shipp and Smith be un- kcked. 6. When the organized mob were ready to get Smith, Shipp and Cameron, Sheriff Campbell was on hand, and backed in front of the (Continued on Page Three) ~ FORCED (By Special Correspondence) NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 11— “Twenty-five workers, at the point of guns directed against them by guards at the Essex County Jail, are building a park here at High St. and Springficle Ave., while 75,- 000 jobless workers are tramping the streets vainly seeking work, their wives and children slowly starving,” declared Dominick Flai- ani, Communist candidate for con- gress from the 9th congressional district of New Jersey. Mayor Congleton of Newark and City Commissioner Murray, Soon. tisian” ticket, since in the city elec- tion sy&tem no parties run under their party names. The coming months will open the eyes of the masses who will turn against Mur- phy because his promises are fake ones and nothing will really be done by these boss tools. The Party will intensify its ac- | tivity, and not only expose Murphy and his entire administration, but also organize the unemployed, pre- pare strikes against wage-cuts and increase its activities in the con- gressional and state elections. PENCIL FACTORY 10.6, WAGE CUT Shop Gate Meet Calls for Strike NEW YORK.—That the bosses are trying to use the unemployed in PATERSON SILK STRIKERS WIN EVERY DEMAND All Strikers Jon NTW; Form Shop Comm. PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 11.— Led by the National Textile Werk- ers’ Union, the strikers in the Columbia Silk Mill here have won a complete victory. The boss today granted the 20 per cent wage in- crease and the eight-hour day and other demands, The strikers, meeting before go- ing back to work, joined the N.T.W. in a body and accepted completely the program of building a live and active shop committee. This strike started Monday, and was character-|a big wage-cut scheme and that the ized by mass picketing and deter-| capitalist parties, republican, demo- mination. Two A.F.L. scabs were) cratic and “socialist,” are now mak- the only ones left in the mill, and|ing use of the unemployment issue the strike of he winders forced the|in order to mislead the lworkers warpers to quit. | with fake remedies, was pointed out The effect of this’ victory on the | yesterday morning at two crowded | | LABOR AT 50c While 75,000 Tobless Walk Streets | thousadns of others working in sur- rounding mills, at an average wage of $20 for a 50-hour week, but with hours often running up to ten, twelve or fourteen hours a day without increased rates for over- time, will be very great. Hundreds of these other workers cheered the Columbia strikers when they marched from the picket line. The N.T.W. cals on workers in all mills to form mill committees and get in touch with the union for a more ex- | tensive struggle soon against the |intolerable conditions. “Organize ‘and Strike Against Wage-Cuts” is the slogan of ‘today in Paterson. forcing the workers arrested on all pretences to work for the city at the slave wage of 50 cents a day, Flai- | open-air meetings, one before the |Tamamny fake unemployment | agency and another at the factory | gate of the Eagle Pencil Co. | J. Louis Engdahl, Communist | candidate for lieutenant-governor of |New York state, in speaking before | the gate of the pencil factory, as- | sured the workers of the Eagle Pen- |cil Co. that the unemployed will |help them fight the attempts of | their bosses, who are trying to in- troduce the 10 per cent wage-cut, with the assistance of the Tammany and other fake employment agen- cies. While Engdahl was speaking, | the Unemployed Council, after told- ‘ing a big meeting in front of the | Tammany agen me marching ;down 14th St. u r its own ban- ners and joined in the meeting at | the factory gate. | 2.75% A. F. of L. Beer Won't | Retire Unemployment. Sam Nesin, of the Unemployed Council, and Philip Harrison, of the unemployed ex-servicemen, pointed out to the unemployed and to the workers of the pencil factory that the capitalist parties and the A. F. who | daily are evicting unemployed work- ers for non payment of rent are ant further stated. | of L, who before were trying to be- Dwight Morrow, the bosses can-| little the unemployment problem, didate for senator from New Jersey | are now trying to use this problem gives his tacit approval to the|in order to fool the voters, forced exploitation of arrested | Only an organized fight on the part workers, and the forced starvation|of all unemployed and employed of the jobless. | workers, only the organization of The New Jersey State Election | the unemployed councils and a fight Committee of the Communist Party | around the slogans of the Commu- in a renewed spurt is bringing the | nist Party, which is demanding un- issue of the unemployment to the! employment insurance and immedi- workers, bringing forth the Work-| ate relief for the unemployed, will eis’ Unemployment Insurance Bill | bring results. as a concrete measure on which to rally. ‘ Fight For Social Insurance!