The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1930, Page 1

Read how Ex-Police Commissioner Enright divided up a million smackers he was awarded for haying a hasty lapse of memory regard- ing the murderers of Dot King, Broadway show girl, Tammany burn-em-ups start September Dail Central — Orga CN J A second at New Vark NOY, 223 Vol. VIE. No. utter at under the Post Office March #. 1879 ah The German Elections The results of the elections to the German Reichstag held last Sunday are indicative of the ecedented sharpening of the class struggle in Germany and of tremendous radicalization of the working masses. The Communist Party of Germany emerged from the elections with a gain of over forty per cent in votes and in seats. The Com- uist Party in the old Re’ tag had 54 deputies which were elected by 8,280,000 votes. It will have 76 deputies in the new Reichstag elected by 4,588,000 votes. These Communist votes expressed the determination of over four and a half million German workers to fight against and to end the Youg Plan slavery by an uncom- promising revolutionary fight agaist the bourgeois rule. The election campaign was carried through by the Communist Party as a recruiting campaign for a decisive struggle for power. In its progmatic declaration of August 24th it stated: ‘The Commu- the nists are against all cooperation with the bourgeoiste and are for the revolutionary ovedthrow of the present capitalist order, for the discontinuation of all bureaucrats of the ruling class and for the abolition of all exploitation. The statement further clared: “We will shatter the state apparatus which is only signed to oppress and enslave the toilers.” This progmatic declaration of the Communist Party was born of a perspective of revolutionary struggle. Giving this per- spective a purposeful aim the Communist Party stated: “We de- clare solemnly before the peoples of the world, before all the governments and before the capitalists of all countries that in the event of our taking over power, all of the duties growing out of the Versailles treaty will be declared null and void; that we will not pay a penny of interest for the imperialist loans, credits and capital investments in Germany.” It is clear thatthe Communist Party carried lutionary campaign, recruiting workers, not only to vote for the Communist candidates, but to enter the ranks of the revo- lutionary army that is to overthrow the bourgeois rule in Germany under the leadership of the Communist Party. This declaration also shows that the Communist Party of Germany sees very clearly the rapid revolutionization of the working mass The election justi- fied this analysis. The present Bruening government was decisively defeated. The Social Democratic Party emerged from the elections with a loss of approximately ten seats. The only reason why this party did not suffer a greater loss is the fact that the exodus of masses of work- ers from its ranks over to the Communist Party is made up by ad- ditional support from the camps of the most reactionary section of the petty bourgeoisie. Part of the big bourgeoisie on the other hard has lost more and more its confidence in the ability of the socialist party to further mislead the working masses. This sector of the big bourgeoisie is therefore throwing the weight of its influence toward the fascist National Socialist Party. The tremendous growth of this latter party, the Hitlerite Na- tional Socialists, opens a perspective of increased street battles. With the definite fascization of the reactionary forces of capital in Ger- many, the battle ground of the political forces is more and more moved out of the halls of Parliament into the streets. Parliamentary debates will be more and more replaced by barricades and parliamen- tary speeches by machine guns. This development is inevitable. The * growth of the National Socialists points to the policy of the bourgeois reaction in Germany. This policy is the complete suppression of the working masses and the establishment of fascist dictatorship. The Natioal Socialists are ‘trying to cover their real aim with a lot of phrases. With these phrases they caught many votes from peaople who feel that the burden of capitalist rule in Germany be- comes more and more unbearable every day, but who do not under- stand how to shake off this yoke. But the experiences of the Ger- man wodkers will qui enough disillusion these supporters of the National Socialists in the last elections. Although the National So sts are utilizing the hatred of the oppressed, under-paid and ses agajnst the Young Plan, in Thuringia where the National Sociali lead the government, they are the most brutal in the collection of the unbearable Young taxes. The Communists, who alone fight against the Young Plan and who, through Communist communel officials made successful efforts to orgaize a tax strike, are being persecuted by the National Socialist government. See The elections of las nday have clarified the class divisions in Germa and at the same time they indicated that a further clarifica- tion is proceeding rapidly. The elections were an advance skirmish, indicative of the coming revolutionary battles in Germany. de- de- on a revo- ass Work and the Elections The present Congressional and Senatoriai election campaign must be made into a‘ Bolshevik test to what extent our Party is orientated towards real mass activity. It will be a further example of whether we really understand what actual mass work means. Up to the pres- ent time, the Party is largely engaged in this election campaign through the distribution of gencral leaflets, gathering of signatures in the working class districts, meetings, both open air and before fac- tory gates and other similar activities. All this, of course, is of fundamental importance, but is by far not su ient both from the organizational and political point of view Because the Party up to this Jate hour in our election campaign has failed to penetrate into the shops, into the factories, mills and mines and among the masses of unemployed workers. This basic and fundamental shortcoming is a result of the Party's ‘failure to actually mobilize the revolutionary unions for the parlia- mentary election The T.U.U.L. and its affiliated red unions and leagues must be made the revolutionary driving force among the ma: of workers in their respective industries. The revolutionary unions must actually organize the unemployed councils and drive them into the polit immediate den called. for al election campaign based upon the program in the unemployinent and The fascist and social fascist leaders « time in order to sell out the work and socia In all of the st we witnessed i tional Conv in the cit by the misleader the bosses’ program as advocated All this being done under the skies Iready endorsed mmunist Party. of the revolu- unemployed work- of labor rtisan policy. The T.U.U.L. and its af the election platform and the iThis endorsement must be tionary unions and to the m ers in the industries. The Trade Union Unity f aggressively wage the cl tbe brought into the class struge’ supports the revolutionary anization of the working class, th Our membership in the T. program of the revolutionary program of our election ¢ its major task the mobi ri iployed an + organize the workers and heir maximum power may t the capitalist class. It le and the political or- 4 Party. st be able to connect the th the demands and with the Our Party membership has as non-Party members in both the T.U.U.L, and the in the A. F. L. for the srogram of our Party in the election If we fail to carry yut this task, then we will not be able to actually carry out effec- iyely mass work which only can be applied in a revolutionary, or. ganized manner through mobilization, organization and activization £ the economic organizations, the revolutionary trade unions t 500,000 WORKERS This city, made famous throughout | |the country as one in which the {ment in the cure of unemployment, | | 1 { ! i | | FIGHT LYNCHERS, T Jobless Expose Cincinnati Unem ployed) Wait Hours for Some Weak Soup Mass Misery Is Capitalized Starve in City of the Now Famous “Cincinnati Plan” Run by AFL Police Chase Men , From Employment Agency | ' TEXAS qu "Of JAN, CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 15— bosses are supposedly setting an example of magnificent manage- AFL. Wage Cutter War Monger NEW YORK.—James socialist party pundit and editor of the New Leeder, stood side by |side with J. Ham Fish, head of the “Fish Committee” appointed by the U. S. House of Represen- tatives to prepare the way for war on the Soviet Union, in a fake debate between the two Sunday night, at Azure Temple, Boston Road and East 172nd St., Bronx. The meeting was sprinkled with James Wilson, vice-president under cover men for Fish and of the American Federation of members of the New York police Labor, and head of the Cincinnati bomb squad. The New York Plan. Times reporter publicly identifies pe —— aa as one of the bomb squad the is revealed by a worker correspon- | member of the audience who dent as a sink of oppressibn and! a.:eq the leading question of swindling of the jobless. Geel 8ts nob Communist i eo 4 is | O'Neal, a rack- ‘aa ee eae Resident James | et? Fish had been saying it was i ay nana 3 , ae f. + and O’Neal said it was, forming a notorious ‘Cincinnati Plan.’ The | complete and public united front plan is for all empolyers now ; oy ‘with the war monger and Mul- orking to cut down to six hours | yooney. a day and to cut wages at the same time to two-thirds of the present ; daily wage. This means not only a wage-cut by the day, but a wage- cut per hour, and is not the slight- est help to the masses already job- less. Relies on S. P At one point in the remarks of Fish mentioned the socialist party (looking meanwhile at O’Neal) as one of his sources of information about the Communists. Fish em- phasized that the socialists “did not recognize” the Communist Party. At one On the Bread Line. Cincinnati is a brealine city. The treatment of the hungry workers in this brealing is described below by a worker correspondent: “Just a few days ago in Cincin- nati, where there is a little over 25,000 unem ‘ed workers, the big bosses of t town opened up a soup line for the unemployed. The | : soup line was opened up right in | another moment he told of wide the center of the town, where thou- | T@mifications of the Communist sands of workers pass daily, to |Party and of their determination moment Fish declared |the Communist Party did not ‘exist in America though there was “a section of the Third In- ternational” here, and that vthere was no dictatorship of the prole- tariat in the Soviet Union. At show them that the unemployed | to establish the dictatorship of the are taken care of. | proletariat, “Tt was located there for four Dodge Question. days and it wag used as an adver-| Both Fish and O'Neal, during tising scheme. Many of the lead-|the question and discussion period ing chain store robbers of the town were much on the defensive, and wave all kinds of food for the pur-| very evasive. The workers asked pose of misleading the wage-slaves.|Fish why he talked about foreign (Continued On Page 8.) influence in U. S,, when this same NEW YORK, TUE Fights Ahead New Leader Editor and Flout Unemployed Workers Crowd Walks Out When Discussion Is Barred; orker he-Communist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Q SDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930 This Winter; “Cincinnati Plan Confers With Lamont the “59° Rich Rulers on A | Depression | Output in Wall Street Newspaper Says That Fall ‘‘Revival” | Complete Flop Terrible Winter Ahead for | All Workers NEW YORK.—Fearful inability by optimistic phrases to hide the fact that the economic crisis is growing, the Hoover im- perialist government has sent Sec- retary of Commerce to |Wall Street to confer with the leading “59” rich rulers of the United States. The Journal of Commerce, in its Monday’s issue, states that Hoover is now under- |taking a campaign under the slo- of its Lamont Fish Unite to Fish | 4" of “Make Business ’Better,” ys and that Lamont is to confer with Flees From Masses Waiting Outside the textile industrial leaders well as other bo: ikea iro maaseintervennewahirie| eo te He tary force in a long list of coun- aaliks in itself is an admission }of the fact already contained in tries. Fish said it was necessary ,to sen] troops to “save” those j countries. They asked him about the millions of jabless, and Fish | said, “The American wage earner is the best fed and clothed in the | world.” They asked him where} jhe got the mos’ of his evidence, | from the Whalen forgeries or the | Russion white guards, and Fish | muttered, “Neither.” the Daily Worker that the baloney about an improvement in the fall land a lessening of the crisis has fallen flat. On the contrary, the crisis is continually growing worse. That the bosses are becoming alarmed is also admitted by the special dispatch from Washington to the Journal of Commerce, which say “The Hoover administration has viewed with great alarm the | O'Neal on being asked what he|downward trend of commodity | was doing about the unemployed|prices and slackening demands.” | said “That would take an hour|Lacking the powers of a magician jand a half to explain, and even then you .wouldn’t understand it.” Then O’Neal and Fish held a to provide new or extended mar- kets, thereby to make operative the law of supply and demand (a usual capitalist bogey), they also point out that Hoover admits he lacks | (Continued On Page 3.) “the powers of a magician to pro- vide new or e tended markets.” \ 4 Pittsburgh show that steel produc- Y tion, which is dropping below 55 | ELLA MAY MEETS per cent of capacity, will go down still further in the very near fu- | Sees ture. The Wall Street Journal re- Thursday at Irving Plaza|ports that the Sharon Steel Hoop | bates & Co. operations next week will drop in New York to 60 per cent, as against 65 per | cent; and that the Newton Steel | The New York District of the|Co. plant at Monroe, Mich. will [International Labor Defense holds {Continue closed. The New York ier wilde May Menocial ieadn Times story from Pittsburgh is Ne ee ®iheaded very gloomily, reading: Thursday, at Irving Plaza Hall, at) “Steel Trade’s Rise In Autumn In 8 p.m. Olgin and Engdahl will | Doubt.” | speak. Exploding a Myth. The myth of even a seasonal re- | Remembering Ella May, workers|\i.a1 in fall trade, which iw iteclt jof New York will express their|would not affect the downward solidarity with the struggle that|trend of the general crisis, has Ella May died for. This meeting |been exploded by recent facts. | Jules I, Bogen, a leading writer in the boss sheet, the Journal of Com- merce (Sept. 15), writes: “The signs of an autumnal re- covery in business have thus far been slight and obscure for the most part. In various basic lines trade reports speak of an im- (Continued On Page 3.) will voice Labor’s cry for the re- |lease of class war prisoners | | throughout the land, and labor's | Protest against lynchings, persecu- | jtion of the foreign-born, and all) \the examples of “class justice” that threaten the lives of workers in the class struggle. By CYRIL BRIGGS. The speed at which a lynching mob is owganized is a matter of genuine mystification to those who do not fully understand the eco- nomic factors back of lynehing, the class responsible for lynching and the role of the capitalist press in inciting to lynching and organizing the mob. which is to be the instruments of the bosses’ vengeance against the rebellious Negro worker who dares to challenge the brutal exploitation and virtual slavery to which he is subjected. | But there is nothing mysterious in the matter when once it is realized that lynching is the bosses’ weapon against the Negro masses, that most lynching mobs travel by automobile, and that the capitalist news- papers not only incite and organize the lynching mob but often actually advertise the time and place of a lynching. Lynching of Henry Lowry Class Example. A classic example in this connection is the lynching of Henry Lowry some years ago in Arkansas. The conditions under which Lowry was lynched typify the practice in the United States. Those con- ditions still exist. Lowry’s is quoted here simply because of the wide publicity given itseven by the bourgeoisie. There are any number of lynchings in which the capitalist press is clearly shown as an inciter and advertising media. The bosses’ press gleefully carried the news that Lowry had been | “taken away” from the deputy sheriffs by whom he was being brought HEIR GOVT lynching | 9 . | back from El Paso, Texas, whither he had fled after shooting his boss in a gun fight over wages. Lowry was seized in Sardis, M a town | near the borders of Tennessee and Arkansas. states participated in the vengeance meted out to shim, After his “seizure” by the mob from two not too reluctant deputy sheriffs, the | bosses’ newspapers let loose in a frantic drive sentiment. And hours before the lynching, the Memphis News Scimitar carried the ans, nouncement, brazenly flared in big head- lines across itg front page: “Lowry Lynchers Announce Program: Negro To Pay Mob’s Penalty For Crime,” Incites to Widening of Terror. The Memphis Press on the same evening carried a front page scream headline: “May Lynch Three To Six Negroes This Evening” ~—a direct incitement to the widening of the | terror. The leading story which occupied the center of the front page was captioned: |“Lowry Nei Tree On Which It Is Planned To Hang Him; Taken From Memphis Today.” he story began: “While five of their number detoured around Memphis in a closed automobile with Henry Lowry, Negro murderer, who is to be lynched at Nodena, Ark., tonight, other alleged members of the mob which took him from officers at Sardis, | Miss., ' toda \Continued on Page 3° i "2 ca He FINAL CITY EDITION CAST VOTES FOR SOVIET GERMANY BIG FASCIST GAIN WILL »5 SHARPEN CLASS BATTLES: | nists, | | | | The bosses of three | to build up lynching "broken on principle, | tate” business was confined almost Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS THIRD PARTY | “Socialists” Lose to Communists in Many Important Industrial Centers = ; ee ee Steel Drops Berlin Votes Red By 738,986 Votes; Communists Now Strongest Party in That City ’ (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 15.—In the German general elections the “so- cialists” lost 700,000 votes and ten seats; the Nationalists lost 2,000,000 yotes, and 32 seats; the Center Party gained 500,000 votes and 7 seats, and the Communists gained 1,300,000 votes and 22 seats. The People’s Party lost 1,000,000 votes and 16 seats; the State Party lost 200,000 votes and 5 seats; the Economic Party gained 35,000 votes and maintained the same number of seats it had in the last Reichstag; the Bavarian Catholic: gained 200,000 votes and three “SOCIALIST” iS seats. The fascists gained 5,600,000 votes and 95 seats; the Agrarian party gained 1,000,000 votes and five seats. The present strength of the “socialists” is 8,572,060 votes and 143 seats; Fascists 6,-| 401,210 and 107 seats; Commu- 4,587,708 votes and 76 seats; Catholics, 4,128,929 votes | and 68 seats; Nationalists 2,458,- 497 votes and 41 seats; Peoples} EXPOSED AS SPY AND RACKETEER Moore Hits Tammany and Party, 1,576,149 votes and 29 Fake Leaders seats; Economic Party, 1,360,585 = votes and °3 seats; State Party, The racketeering of William 1,322,608 votes. , | Karlin, “socialist” candidate for Red Berlin. Attorney General of New York The Communist Party is now| state, was dealt with in a state- the third strongest Party. Com-}| ment issued yesterday by »Com- munist gains were especially| rade Richard B. -Moore, Commu- heavy in the industrial centers| nist candidate for Atorney Gen- eral of New York state. “The capitalist press, which is ever ready at giving publicity to “socialists” on the same basis with democrats and republicans,” Moore (Continued On Page 3.) declared, “has published yesterday a statement of Mr. Wm. Karlin ‘assailing’ the republican attorney general of New York state, Mr. Hamilton Ward. In accusing Mr. JUDGE, REDBAITER of complicity with Tam- |many, Mr. Karlin has. said noth- LINKED T0 THIEF ing new. The Communist Party | has always pointed out the crooked business done by Tamany and the where the “socialists” were pushed back, The Communists in Berlin} polled 738,986 votes, beig the | strongest party in that city. In| Wedding and Neukoelln, import-| : «wt «2 republicans, whether in New Salomon Is a Director in ayo" Chicago or elsewhere. But, “Realty” Company |Mr. Karlin hasn't taken the |trouble of pointing out the “so- The notorious Judge Max Salo-|Cialist” graft and — crookedness mon, who has viciously jailed mili-| Where he himself is playing a ma- tant workers without the bat of an| Jor rule. : s revealed yegterday as| OM duly 22, the Daly Worker re nee acct published a five-column__ story, being an accomplice of artin Healy | ; 3 é (the Tammany crook who sold. a |Substantiated by phitastatic docu- * ship to Ewald f 10,000 ments, proving that Mr Karlin, ane ea ter eto sha | together with other leading mem- Read how Bill big plug of the N. Y. gin racket, had a huff with a) Cayuga Holding Co, a “real es- | bets of his party, like Jos. D. Can- Judge Salomon, a vicious hater | tain money from a group of Swis: Minor, Amter, Lesten and Raymond | for alleged protection in order to the uniformed thugs led by Whalen} mon rendered his decision to jail )} ee | | Burning Up the officially ended, thereby offering | gation before they actually came ||} Salomon, it will also be recalled, for mass picketing in front of Ben- workers on the advice of Commis- | | with Communists ought to be, | Food Workers’ Industrial Union to | Deven! The purpose of the Cayuga Hold- | and transact real estate business” | Pd ares too nany Mave en non and Samuel E. Beardsley, had a organized a racket in order to ob. of the working class, was the judge | watchmakers, working for the who presided in the care of Foster, | Bulova Watch Co., 580 Fifth Ave., and ruled that no testimony could prevent their deportation, and, at be offered which would prove that| the same time, to get money from | the labor department in Washing- started the disorder. In that see (Continued on Page 2) it will be remembered that Salo- the leaders of the unemployed derh- onstration even before the trial had | additional proof that it was decided ||) Boodle Boys to imprison the unemployed dele- ||| {up for trial. wh Jailed Shoe Workers. | was the judge who recently sent ||| | 36 shoe workers to jail for 30 days | | jamin & ‘Schwartz, one of shoe! | manufacturers who locked out the sioner Wood of the Department of Labor, who said that a contract Salomon also has been sending members of the | long prison sentences at every op- | | portunity. | : . : | booze buying gent and) ing Co., according to the incorpora- wanted him shot to pieces. | tion papers, is “to buy sell, assign Hngeth : | so he called up the U. S. in New York City, Actually the | coast guard who bumped main purpose of the company waS the hb ersonal | to collect the graft deposited by ava rid Bill, ila various Tammany officials for, Riad how. Wanamaker| é ” “ favors performed.” The “real es- and his right hand gazick,| Whalen, hi-jack the speak-| easies for millions by clos-| ing up joints that refuse to, sell Silver King Ginger) exclusively to buying property that the company knew the city wanted, and selling it to the city at a profit early this morning, came to Memphis and dine: at Hotel Peabody leaders to jail. of several hundred per cent. These are the “righteous” grafters who send militant workers and their Ale. (Wanamaker-made.} | Scorching series starts in the Daily Worker Septem- ber 2: | | | VOTE COMMUNIST! iy