The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1930, Page 1

~4 a When Judge (as it were) Macready let his pay- mcnts lapse and refused to remit the last in- stallment on the market price of his job Tam- had a rough-and-ready haze the old so roundly he retired to a doctor's office and croaked, Get the gas mask! Daily Worker can-opener rasps_ inte Tammany soon. many hoy Central ———e NO “é unist > (Section of.the Communist International) Vol. VIL, No. 221 ne act of March 3, 1879 DAY, NEW YORK, SATU Mobilize tiie Workers for A Real Fight! HE rivalry between the imperialist powers grows more acute every day. The present economic crisis is aggravating the general risis of the capitalist system to such a degree that the imperialist rovernments are frantically looking for a way out. The present “revolutions” in South America are the result of the g intensity of the British-American rivalry. The economic ing the imperialist government of Great Britain to des} measures for the extension of British trade, that is, for the establish- ment of new markets for British goods. In this endeavor, British im- perialism collides at every step with the interests of American im- perialism. The South American revolutions are mainly the present form of the crystallizing war between the United States and Great growin Britain. Both of these imperialist groups try to oust the puppets of the opposing group from the governments of these South American repybles. on the Communist Parties in these countri and upon the A. falls the duty to organize and develop fountries. Only be- revolutionary prole- lies is it possible for will and without great ich replaces_ the agents Commultist Party of the U the elements of proletarian revolutigns in these cause of the ogee a s and wegkn tarian movement in these South An the opposing imperialist forces to grganize a danger, these repeated palace lutions of one foreign imperialist power with the gfents of another # At the same time, the Commgnist Yarty of the ™"S. A. must clearly see that the sharpening rivalry/between British and American imperialism is rapidly nearing the fotm of an actual state of war be- tween. the two. In the meantime, French imperialism is making strenuous efforts to establish its hegemony in Europe. Briand’s plan of a United States of Europe, with the e: sion of the Soviet, Union and under strict acceptance of the Versailles and all the other robber peace treaties, is nothing but an attempt to organize capitalist Europe under the hegemony of French imperialism. The United States of Europe is con- ceived as the instrument of French hegemony in capitalist Europe. British imperialism is trying to counteract these efforts by insisting that Briand’s United States of Europe can be realized only within the confines of the League of Nations. The League of Nations is the instrument of British hegemony. The efforts of Briand to achieve an imperialist war object under the cloak of an instrument of peace are so clumsy that even ure sv: = minister of the imperialist government of Great Britain, the social democrat, Arthur Henderson, can pluck some pacifist feathers out of Briand’s peace bird and decorate his own cap. Yet neither of the imperialist lackeys, Briand of France, or Hen- derson of Britain, dares to expose fully the aim of his opponent. Both hope that they may finally succeed on the one hand, in thwarting the opponent, and on the other hand, in accomplishing the unification of capitalist Europe as an imperialist war measure against the Soviet Union, Thus the very antagonisms between the imperialist groups fighting for domination becomes an aggravating circumstance in the antagonism of the imperialists against the Soviet Union. With the acute rivalry of British and American imperialism in South America, with the growing rivalry of French and British im- perialism in Europe, and with the increasing efforts of an attack of the united imperialists of the world against the Soviet Union, the war danger becomes more and more acute. The Communist Party of the U. S, A. must utilize the present election campaign for the broadest-mobilization of the working masses against this imminent war. The struggle against military and naval appropriations and for a universal system of social insurance is one of the most promising forms of mobilizing the masses against war. To accomplish this mobilization, however, it is imperative that the Party reach the working masses in the shops and factories. If the actual problem of penetrating the shops and factories with the election campaign is not taken up and solved by the Party districts and sections and units, then the Party is guilty of neglecting its duty in the struggle against war. To the South Slav Workers in the United States HE Servian, Croatian and Slovenian fascist leaders in this country are working hand in hand with the American ruling class against the Servian, Croatian and Slovenian workers in the United States. The leaders of the Croatian Fraternal Union just recently received medals in Washington for the anti-working class services rendered by them to the American bosses. These leaders are the agents of the American exploiters who threaten the Jugo-Slavian workers here as well as the other foreign-born workers with finger printing and mass deportation. They are beaten up in jail as the rest of the American workers when they fight against unemployment, for the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill, against wage cuts and against speed-up. At the same time, these leaders of the Jugo-Slavian mass organ- izations are serving the military fascist dictator in Jugo-Slavia also, where, since the fascist dictatorship, over 10,000 workers and peasants have been arrested, four thousand still in prisons, scores of them murdered, or “legally” executed. Torturing the class war prisoners and the Croatian nationalists as well as fighters of other national minori- ties, is increasing, especially since the growth of the economic crisis, unemployment, the strengthening of the Communist movement, makes the Pan-Servian bourgeoisie tremble with fear of the approaching prole- tarian revolution. The same military-fascist dictatorship is feverishly preparing for the coming imperialist war in which Jugo-Slavia would be the battle- ground in the predatory war between Italy and France for the hegemony of the Balkans, Although the antagonisms between fascist Italy and Fascist Jugo-Slavia are sharp, they are one against the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. Spalatto and other Dalmatian harbors are open before the arms and munitions shipped from Italy up to the Soviet border. The “Radnik,” organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A., in the Croatiah language, rouses the Jugo-Slavian workers for struggle against the unbearable conditions they suffer in this country, against the fas- efst leadership of the Croatian, Servian and Slovenian mass organiza- tions and to help the struggle of the ‘kers and national minorities of Jugo-Slavia, against the military-fascist dictatorship for the self de- termination up to the point of cessation, for a federated Balkan Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Republic. The “Radnik,” which leads the struggles of the Jugo-Slavian work- ers in America, is now in danger unless substantial financial support is immediately forthcoming and will cease as a daily fighting weapon in the hands of the workers. Jugo-Slavian workers! Rally to the support of the “Radnik,” the fighting organ! Save it with your support to carry on your fight in the struggle of the entire working class! . CENTRAL COMMITTEE, Communist Party, U. S. A. day to day, Canada is sharply af- fected by the world agrarian crisis; but its industries as well are hard hit. According to the New York Times Annalist, last week showed a further downturn in all business ac- tivities in Canada. A bill was passed providing for a $20,000,000 expenditure to “re- lieve unemployment.” The money will be used for a public works building program, and will not be- gin to cover the needs of the 400,000 Canadian unemployed. “DEBATE” JOBLESS IN CANADA Fake Relief Measures OTTAWA, Canada, Sept. 12. — Having won power to a large ex- tent by its demagogie promises for “unemployment relief” the Bennett conservative government opened the debate at a special session of the House of Parliament ostensibly to consider unemployment but in real- ity to devise means of fighting against the demand of the jobless ‘Tammany grafters go f workers. The Canadian the Unemployed Delegation is growing much more severe from) prison—vote Communist! colsis is WON'T ALLOW Must Negro Workers Ever be LAY OFF THOUSANDS IN RECORD AT| Victims ot Boss Mu Lynched Within! TRIAL OF 7 2 sonics eee 1 Week! By CYRIL BRIGGS. WENTY-SIX tortured, shot-| ridden working class vic- | s. tims of lynching during the} Brazen Jury Packing first eight and a half months| ‘Sklar Tells of Expose’ of the year offer grim testi- | J siaas |mony to the extent and effec- of Prejudice tiveness of the bosses’ lynch-| | tos ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 12.—| ing terror against the Negro; workers. Judge Wood steadily becomes more | viciously unfair in the re-trial of| The bosses spare no horror these revolting | the seven remaining workers ar-| in staging | murders of workers. The hor- rested for taking part in the Un- jemployed Demonstration in Los An- | rible roasting alive in his cell geles, ! Yesterday he ruled that neither | Sherman, Texas, of George Attorney Gallagher, representing | Hughes, is typical of the grue-| five of the defendants, nor defend-| some savagery with which the ants Horiuchi and Kreitzberg could | bosses carry out their lynching! Libs MAGNE ut) cid questions | terror, This was accomplished whatever exce>’ about their ocupa- with the Texas Rangers look- tion, ete. The judge dismissed the} - : court reporter to insure that there|ing on, and with Governor Threaten Jail If De- fense Takes Notes would be no official record of this| Moody of Texas instructing that the mob of part of the trial on which an ap-| business men and planters was not to be peal could be based. The public is| molested in its murderous task. already practically excluded from | the court room. The judge refused then to allow 5 : Gallagher to write down the an-| more revolting lynching was swers of the prospective jurors to| days later, when George Johnson, a Negro) agricultural worker, was burned at the stake| the agony of death by strangulation. with the most blood-curdling cruelty, planters roasting him by a slow fire after ty- | the very liited number of questions | which he still allowed them to be| asked. When Gallagher wrote down an (Continued on Page Fwe) HOOVER TO SPEAK TO BANKERS, AFL Prepares Further At- Determ ing him to the stake. flames and have it over with. in his death agonies. Torture Negro Victims. him to the utmost they time and again | thwarted his efforts to throw himself into the of burning wood into his flesh they laughed | with fiendish glee at the agonies of his tor- | tured body. To the very end they mocked him Then they used the SEPTEMBER 13, 1930 Party U.S.A. NATIONAL “WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Cents Price 3 vder Lu | laughed at the staged a few} fore the crowd the ined to torture | the deed. Sticking bits At Marion, open, as was th (Continued on Page Five) | youths who were victims of that double lynch- | ing. The two youths were subjected to a brutal At Honeygrove in the same state an even| beating before they were strung up. bodies were riddled with bullets, but not be- | bosses’ hate of their Negro victims makes | them stretch out the torture as long as pos-)| | ible. The volley of bullets are usually reserved | ers admitted that the Young Plan | for the dead body, and as a celebration of | could not have been fastened to the Capitalist State Cooperates. charred remains in an effort to intimidate other Negro agri- cultural laborers in the coun- ty. For the rich planters had| a bitter grudge against John- son. Johnson had been mili- tant in demanding his wages. He had revolted against the GERMAN BOSSES, 5 frightful oppression to ‘ SOCIALISTS UNITE: the Negro masses are sub-! | jected by the white valine’ AGAINST JOBLESS class. So the rich planters de- | cided to make a horrible exam- ple of Johnson. It would never | do, they figured, to have other Negroes follow in Johnson’s| ees oun Goma Te SO LUCI | mat tre! Getannieapitalists. look wages and fighting against) +, the social democrats (“social- | the actual slavery in which) ists”) to carry into effect the fas- | they are held in many sections | cist program now being prepared | of the South. | against the German working class | | and to be put into action after the | Women and Children Enjoy | Pave the Way for Open Fascist Regime | contained in a New York Times dis- patch from Berlin dated Sept. 11. “Negotiations are now going on Women? | between the moderate party groups ‘Torture. At Marion, Ind., the crowd lot lynchers included and children who, the capitalist press reported, | (capitalist) and the socialists for the formation of a ‘socialist-bour- geois’ coalition government,” sa this cable, “in anticipation of the rm, -,, | Moderates and socialists together ob- Their taining a majority.” - It was precisely this coalition that had enjoyed to the last drop | put over the Young Plan for the The | imperialist bandits just before the |dismissal of the Reichstag. On | more than one occasion the social- fascists and their capitalist support- sufferings of the two Negro necks of the German workers if it were not for the aid of the social- democrats. The social - democrats as elsewhere, the capitalist! sonned out of power in order to authorities afforded the lynchers the fullest | permit Bruening to institute the dic- possible co-operation. The jail door was left) tatorship and cut down the unem- e cell of the victims. At Taboro, | Pluyment insurance, as well as to | Prepare a general attack against the workers, tack on Workers WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Hoo- yer, before going to address the fascists assembled at the American Federation of Labor 50th conven- tion in Boston on October 6th, will have a conference with the leading bankers at a convention of the American Bankers Association to be held in Cleveland from Sept. 29th to October 2nd. Hoover will start from Washing- | ton on Oct. Ist and address the bankers on Oct. 2nd. He will de- liver his speech in the Cleveland Public Auditorium. Afterwards he will hold a meeting with the leading | bankers where he will talk over, what to say to the labor fakers in Boston, The recent attacks of William F. Green, fascist president of the A. F. of L. against unemployment in- | surance emanates from Hoover and | the Manufacturer’s Association. |There is little doubt that Hoover's TO HINESE REDS Imperialists Again Are Bu y Intervening “~NEW YORK, tan, impottant Nunapese city, has been captured Chinese Commu- nist ied, acgordipg to capitalist press dispgtches received in New York today, -/ SiangtaW™ is thirty-five miles south of Changsha, which, accord- ing to latest reports was still sur- rounded by Communist armies. The British gunboat Tern is re- it. 12.—Siang- |speech at the A. F. of L. conven- _ tion will prove this, as Hoover will bolster up Green’s arguments for ported to have left Changsha, where British, United States and Japanese naval forces have been actively sup- porting the Nanking murderers in their defense of the city from the Communist forces and in murdering thousands of Chinese workers sus- }the bosses that they do not pro- |pose to “give” the workers any | | doles,—a name by which the bosses | seek to discredit real unemployment | insurance demanded by the Com-| pected of sympathy with the Com- munist Party, to come out of the | munists. The gunboat is reported profits of the bosses, as well as out | rushing full speed for Tiangshan of the billion dollar war fund of the imperialist government. The Manufacturers Association has already widely spread a declar- ation by Matthew Woll opposing any form of unemployment insurance. |The policy of the bosses in opposi- tion to the Unemployment Insur- ance Bill will have such speakers at the A. F. of L. convention as Hoover, Green, Woll and a slew of other boss tools. with the evident intention of inter- vening in that city in helping to maintain the hated rule of Nanking. The Communists are reported to have established a Soviet Govern- ment at Siangtan. Meanwhile, the white terror con- tinues to run its bloody course in Hankow, where twenty Communists, including two women school teach- ers, were slaughtered by the Nan- king militarists today. 3 DAYS WOR (By a Worker Correspondent) MARINERS HARBOR, Staten Tsland.—The United Drydock Co. recently employed from 900 to 1,000 workers at the wage scale of 50 cents per hour, and worked them like horses for 8 hours. Sometimes they wouldn’t allow us one hour for | lunch but work the 8-hour stretch without having a bite to eat. Cut Down Workers, Now they reduced the number of workers to 300 and still we only work two or three days a week at $4.00 per day and the conditions are worse than ever before. This week we have launched the ferry-boat called “Tompkinsville” christened by the so-called promi- nent people of New York, followed \by an cratorical speech from our fancy dressed, vacation taker Mayor Many Men Laid Off to Starve K ON DOCKS Walker. Jazzy Jimmy's Gang. Later on, all of these started to inspect the boat with great approval and merry making, as if they had built it. While this was going on the workers were sent home not with their usual day’s pay with, instead we had been docked for one hour and a half which meant $3.25 for the day of festival. Must Organize. The workers for the lack of or- ganization are driven like slaves and yet tliey have the nerve to bring their families to visit the ferry- boats. What we need is not visitors seeking curiosity but visitors to or- ganize us and help us have better wages and social insurance, —UNITED DRYDOCK WORKER. Oe ee Didn’t Let Workers Vo Them Republican and Democratic Ballots To the Daily Worker: 1 Comrades:—I went to vote this| morning in Detroit. I presented my registration card to the woman| clerk. She asked whether 1 wanted | the democrat or republican ballot. I said neither, I want to vote for Raymond for mayor. She hemmed and hawed and stalled around and | finally she said to one of the men! who pass out the ballots to give| me a socialist ballot. I then got mad and said: “If you don’t know | what I mean, find out. I want. to vote the Communist Party ticket.” I finally got the Communist Party | blanks, wrote Phillip’s name on it| and put a mark in front of it. I also voted for Raymond for mayor. Here is the point I am getting at. | They seemed to pretend they did | not know who Phillip Raymond ws end had never heard of him or what party he represented. And it seemed nearly impossible to get the Com- munist Party blanks. But they asked me democrat or republican as | scon as I showed my registration card and then offered me the so- cialist ballot. My sister had nearly the same experience when she went} We voted at Ward No. 1,) to vote. District No. 19, I will never vote DISTRICTS, RUSH SPECIAL EDITION SHORTS, PICTURES A special, eight-page, election campaign edition of the Daily Worker, to mobilize the masses against the unemployment and speed-up of the capitalist crisis, will be issued Sep- tember 20. The edition will sparkle with short, exciting stories from each district, : giving incidents in the progress of the campaign. It will be an excellent edition for dis- tribution. Material for this edition must be rushed from each district to be on time. Or- ders will be received at $8 a thousand. Cash must ac- company each order. rn , f \ While world unemployment has reached the greatest heights in capi- RUSH GUNBO AT AS Detroit Worker Tells How isis tistors the capitalist govern Boss Parties at Polls Stole SIANGTAN FALLS Votes trom Communist Party ments are preparing an attack | against unemployment The socialists in all lands are the most pliable tools of the bosses in effecting the onslaught. In ‘the United States, the “socialists” are | ojenly calling on the bosses to unite | with them (Heywood Broun) as te for Raymond; Gave | against the real demands of the un- employed for unemployment insur- | ance: In Germany and Great Brit- ain the “socialists” lead in cutting down on the meagre unemployment doles which these countries hand out. for any party but the Communis' Party. But are the votes always | counted? I doubt it. But we must! go on and organize and educate the | GIANT OIL .MERGER PLANNED workers, and finally overthrow this | WASHINGTON, D. C.—One of bosses’ government. | the biggest mergers in the history | Comradely yours, |of the petroleum industry is now | W. N. AND M. 0, | Supposed to be planned. The total | mies rae * ~* | assets involved in the rumored con- (P:8.—When my sister presented | solidation of the Standard Oil Com-| her registration, they asked her,‘ pany of New Jersey with the Stand also, “Democrat or Republican?” ; i C f Cali aul She said: “Neither.” The woman ard Oil Company o: ‘alifornia | then said: “Well, you will have to take one or the other.” And the [age to about $1,700,000,000! Sept. 14 general election is the fact} insurance, | | sought relief from st? AUTO AND TEXTILE PLANTS JOBLESS INCREASE IN N. Y. Must Increase Fight / for Unemployment Insurance Bill Bosses Fake Figures Salvation Army Insults Unemployed Workers DETROIT, Sept. 11.—Big shut- downs are proceeding in the auto industry, which for a long time now has been running a short-time sche- dule. The Brigg plant shut down completely, three thousand workers being thrown out on the streets. | Many other plants are expected to ; close, as August auto production howed sharp curtailment, with the bosses admitting for the rest of | the year, the output will diminish rapidly. This seriously intensified the unemployment situation in De- troit. The Unemployment Council is mobilizing for a sharper struggle to demand Unemployment Insur- ance, GREENVILLE, S. C. Sept. 9.— Woodside mill, which normally em- ployes 2,500 workers, and krown as the largest mill in the South, has just laid off 700 men and women. Today 800 are tc be fered working in the mill, under terrific speea-up | and with wage cuts. Notice has | been served on all married vomen, | old men, and night workers that | they too would be laid off within the next few days. The National Textile Workers | Union is on the job organizing the | men and women, both employed and | unemployed, The union’s demands jare seven-hour day, five-day week; against the stretch-out and speed- | up; for the recognition of the N.T. | W.U., and mobilization for the pas- sage of the Unemployment Insur- | ance Bill. | Exposes Starvation Army. Telling how the Salvation Army | insults and mistreats the unem- pleyed workers who apply to them |for their miserable “relief,” an un- | employed cabinet maker, 52 years | of age, came into the office of the Daily Worker and gave his story of how he and his wife have been forced to sleep in jails and tramp | the streets for work. |’ Hungry, tired and jobless, this | old carpenter walked all the way to Albany, N. Y., sleeping in jails at night, until he had covered the | journey of one hundred and fifty miles. But the same unemployment situation prevailed in Albany. There he found no job and was forced to spend his nights in the po- lice station. Returning to New York City he the Salvation Army on West 1th St. This morn- ing they told the old worker and (Continued on Page Five) man said: “Take these,” offering | her the republican blanks, and said: | “Tf you don’t want to vote for any | of thé candidates you can just fold! them and hand them back unvoted.” | However, she finally got the ballots ot the Communist Party. I forgot | to state that when they gave me} the socialist ballots the woman put me down in the book as socialist | j and the number of the socialist bal- | | lot. When I demanded the Com- munist ballot, they argued about | | whether they could change it. I got the Communist ballot, but 1 suppose that my vote will be thrown out, through no fault of mine.) IDovT ) | BELIEVE I The Deily Werker is the Party’s | best instrument to make contacts among the masses of workers, to j build a mass Communist Party. | CUT CORK WORKERS PAY Men Must Organize for Fight! (By « Parmer Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N, Y.—At South 1th and Berry Sts. is locafed Mon- recently their wages were cut to $20 a week, The workers be¢ame very indig- were thrown out of work into the| wages have ben slashed, So the ranks of the unemployed. | workers are ready to fighl against The wage slaves at this factory|this brutal attack of the are forced to work over 9 hours aj against their standard of living, day. | which even up till now were on a Wage-Cutting Campaign. very low level. But they can not At the present time the bosses | effectively resist because they have began to slash the wages. Particu-| no organization, larly the wage-cutting campaign Latin-American Workers. started when the boss by the name Most of the workers are Span- of Bufalano was promoted to higher| ish, Porto Ricans and other Spanish- position—when he became a boss of | Americans, two departments. In these five de- | I would advise the T. U. U. L. partments the workers’ average) to begin to do organizational work wages were only $26 a week, but| among these -yorkers { ‘ Se | det and Sons’ cork factory. Ati nant. Many rkers for a long |normal times it employs 1,500! time were working for miserable | | workers. Recently many workers| wages and now. even those small bosses | i G00 CHEER FOR MWA, CONF. Philly Longshore men Preparing to Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail). Wednesday morning 800 long- horemen, both Negro and white vorkers, held a splendid ‘meeting on the waterfront at the call of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. There was no exgeptional situation, just the regular miserable condi- tions, unemployment, speed-up and the treachery of the International Longshoremen’s Association and of the L.W.W. | These men know that when the | LL.A. contract expires, Oct. 1, there | will be worse conditions and wage , either openly admitted or dis- | cuts, | guised. Speeches by Hudson, Jo- | hannson, Soderberg and Pelazonni/ | of the M.W.I.U. outlined the need of strike against wage cuts afd | calling for organization of shock | committees which will send dele- | Rates to the Atlantic District United | Front Conference here, 121 Cathe- rine St., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. | 20 and ‘The conference is called by the Marine Workers Industrial | Union, and, will take up discussion of strike action. Delegates will certainly be el- ected by the rank and file of the LL.A. Polly Baker, czar of the I.L.A. in this port, was at the meet- ing Wednesday, and got so mad he swallowed his chew of tobacco, | After the meeting was over 16 | Russian longshoremen came up to the N.W.LU, hall, Members are ; ‘ ¥ \ ——_