The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1930, Page 1

TF . The Black Marias and Pie Wagons of the po- lice department, built to trundle strikers to the barred bungalows, are also used by Tam- many to wheel around the smack-eye on its private carrier routes, and deliver the booze bundles shipped to N. Y. on city garbage scows. Exposures start September 22. (Section of the Communist International) NC Vol. VII., 224 at New York. Yn ander thi Entered ay second-class matter at Post Office arch 8, 1879 je net o! ‘Toward Soviet Germany [JNEMPLOYED | “We solemnly declare before all the peoples of the world, before all foreign governments and capitalists, that in the event of our seiz ing power we shall declare null and void all obligations arising out oi the Versailles Peace; that we shall not pay a penny of interest on the imperialist loans, credits and capitalist investments in Germany.”— From the Programmatic Declaration of the Communist Party of Ger- many, August 24th. ‘ The gains of the Communists and the losses of the “socialists” in the German elections are more than merely bad news for German capi- talists. They are heralds of an approaching catastrophe for the world bourgeoisie. With equal force, they are a signal victory for the world prole- tariat. They are a splendid confirmation of the line of the Communist International and its German section, just as they are a resounding refutation of the clamorous calumnies of the Brandlerite (Lovestone) Right and the Trotskyite (Cannon) “Left” opportunists. The advance of the Communist Party of Germany and the obvious loss of worker votes by the fake “socialist” party, marks a step to- wards a revolutionary solution, the only kind of solution possible, of the enslavement of the German masses to the insatiable reparations demands and the dismemberment of Germany by the vultures of Versailles. “The whole world bourgeoisie (said Comrade Heinz Neumann re- cently) whose fate is bound up with the fate of German capitalism, is following with bated breath the course of the class struggle in Ger- many.” The defeat of the parties which championed the Young Plan with its toll of $900,000,000 yearly from the sweat and blood of the German workers, is clear, even though, by the perfidy of the “socialists” and the demagogy of the fascist “national socialists,” millions of the toil- ing masses are yet temporarily diverted from following the sole cham- pion of social and national emancipation, the Communist Party of Germany. In the course of the coming struggles these masses will move rapidly to the Left—the only road to attain the aims they voted for Sunday. “That the German proletariat, living under the double yoke of its ‘own’ and ‘foreign’ bourgeoisie,” said Comrade Stalin at the recent congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “will permit these billions to be squeezed from its veins without serious struggles and convulsions, is to believe in miracles.” The American bourgeoisie cherishes a belief in this miracle. It has loaded Germany with innumerable loans. Its finance is woven into the Young Plan. Its “best minds,” including Dawes, Owen D. Young and Morgan himself have labored to construct the edifice of ex- ploitation upon the backs of the German workers in the effort to bolster up the structure of international capitalism, As the N. Y. Times of Sunday pointed out, German capitalism is dejiended on “to provide urgent relief for the Reich budget.” That is, +> cut off the growing army of jobless from even the present inade- e compensation for unemployment. It is depended on to “lower the costs of production’—by a general nation-wide wage cut of every German worker. With indirect taxes to further reduce real wages. The “socialists,” who have approved, aided and eyen initiated every capitalist and imperialist scheme up (o and including the Young Plan, in the last few months made some pantomine gestures of empty “opposition” to the logically consequent measures necessary to put the Young Plan on a “sound basis.” But that this was designed merely to hold working class follow- ing, that it was mere shadow boxing, is genially admitted by the N. Y. Times. It freely Geclares that a bourgeois-socialist coalition on the basis of carrying out both the foreign and domestic policies of the German capitalist class is “practically assured.” The fascist “national socialists” likewise have no basic quarrel with the policies of German capitalism as expressed by the Bruenning cabinet. This is true despite their incredible demagogy about “per- sons who have made large (!) profits out of their fellow men,” the “discontinuance of reparations payments” and chauvinist oddities such as deportation for all foreigners and all Jew: German capitalism is using both the fascists and the social fascist “socialists” against the German workers. In spite of their noise, the fascists do not attack the capitalists, but are armed and protected by them to attack the workers. They are encouraged and aided by both the Catholic Centre and “socialist” parties (in spite of formal “dissolutions” and “disapprovals”) in whole- sale murderous attacks on the Communists. In spite of their public “pain” at the dismemberment of Germany, the fascists have an “un- derstanding” with Mussolini and say not a word at the oppression by Italian fascism of the German peoples of the South Tyrol. The only party of both social and national emancipation is the Communist Party of Germany. That it won about 4,600,000 votes is the more of a victory in view of the fact that the reformist unions, for the first time in history quite openly threw aside the mask of “trade union neutrality” and officially fought the growing Communist influence in the unions in an effort to divert the workers to the “so- cialist” ticket. Because of this, the N. Y. Times correspondent had it doped out that—“the socialist vote will range well above 10,000,000.” Also the “expectation” was that the “socialists will gain at least ten seats.” Alas! The radicalization of tie German magses upset the apple cart of world imperialism. The “socialists” got a scant 8,500,900 votes and lost 15 seats instead of gaining ten. While the Communists, about whom the N, Y, Times was too uppish to say much, won 22 new seats to add to its present 54, The elections, of course, are not a final determination of class issues. They were a “parade of all the fighting class forces, a forma- tion of the social fronts.” German capitalism, with most probably a “socialist” at the head of the cabinet, and making more and more open use of fascism, will strive to enforce the robbery of the unem- ployed and the wage cuts of the employed upon the workers. This will precipitate a conflict whose scope may not yet be measured. Obviously, if a general wage cut in Germany is successful, American bosses will immediately attempt the same thing here. Thus American workers have every reason for intc:national solidarity with their German comrades. The attempt to cut wages in Germany, to openly attack the whole working class, will be made, it must be remembered, by the “social- ist” brothers of Norman Thomas, Ecywood Broun, et al., American workers may show their class anrveciation of “socialist” treachery in Germany by voting Communist here in the Movember elections, And in organizing here in their own Coys7 Terty end revolutionary unions to support the coming strogz!2 for a © ermany. SERIO HEARING IN Bosses Anxious to Deport ‘ Pee a ban a1 ci ee ing over the life of this worker to Militant Auii-Vascist the death-hungry hands of Italy's 5 "i fascist government. Sept. 23, i one Anton (ME ee da peat Workers Must Protest Deportaion. Court at the post office building This trial must sound the alarm Park Row before Judge Alfred to all foreign-born workers who, if Coze, on the case i Guido Seriv, Tuesdey’s triel resuits in a cesision prominent anti-ftscist worker, now ®ainst Serio, will face the same on Ellis Island awaiting deporta- threat of death ia fascist countries tion by the immigration authoritics ‘%#t looms Oe en eee: today. to fascist Italy. Carol Weics King will conduct Thedecision to be made by Judge the defense of Serio for the In- Coxe will se. the precedent for the | ternational Labor Defense. policy of the United States Depart- All workeers and workers’ organ- ment of Labor in granting the right; ipations are urged to send wires to of voluntary departure to aliens President Hoover and Jame J. D: who are ordered deported from this vis, secretary of labor, demanding country. | Serio’s freedom and protesting the Until recently, this right of vol-’ denial of political asylumn to Serio uniary departure has been allowed, but the government, increas- ing its attacks against te foreign- ‘oon, has denied the dem n the International Labor Defevse attor. for Serio’s voluntary depar- SHOW A BIG INCREASE Uept. of Labor Figures Admit 1.4 Per Cent Decline in Work Wage Cuts Also Shown Bigger Battles Loom for the Winter WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—A big increase in the jobless army is! again recorded by the U. S. De-} partment of Labor figures for Au-| | gust. As we have pointed out) ;time after time in the Daily} H Worker, the figures of the Depart-| j ment of Labor are to be looked | | | upon with extreme caution. On| | many occasions we have proved | | their deliberate faking. Yet even} ; these ptuned, clipped and juggled | | figures show a decline of 1.4 per | |cent in the number of employed | | workers. More important still, out | | of 39,828 manufacturing concerns | | reporting payrolls were cut 2.6.per/ | cent for one month. In one in-! stance, where employment increased the infinitesimal sum of 2-10ths of lone per cent, payrolls in these| plants dropped over one per cent. The much-advertised “opening” of | | the auto plants in August resulted | ‘in a further drop of nearly four) | per cent in the working force. Sep- | | tember will show even greater drops! | in employment’ than August, as/ there will be a big drop in: steel, | auto and building construetion. For over a year now employment | | has been steadily dropping, from | day to day; week to week, and/ | month to month. The figure of | | total unemployment is well over! | 8,000,000 and by winter will reach | \of the figure of betwen 9,000,000 | and 10,000,000. | There is no indication whatever | of any funcamental upturn in the | { i EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER i faumniet Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 7, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Workers, Look Over the World, and See How the Bosses Starvation and Wars On Every Hand; Jobless Armies Growing Fascism or Bolshevism? | Only in dhe Gude Union Is Peace and Bread for All Workers Headlines! More headlines! Read them! Think of what they mean! “A World of Unrest Confronts the League,” said the N. Y. Times of Sunday. “Clouds Over Europe Cause Lo: don Gloom,” said the Times on Tuesday. “Rumblings of War,” is th N. Y. Telegram headline over 2: editorial, The capitalist papers dan’t seen: to think much of their world. It’s all cock-eyed and getting more so. But it’s their world. They run the darn thing. They’re responsible for it. Don’t forget that, workers! The capitalists are responsible for what you see in sucl F): TAL EAT Any | 1 way Tay EAB | kill the 10,000,0 sheviks are Look ’em o Spanish making slaughter in Sy! Vilna. of imperialist ri in the Near Hast. This is “peace” under capitalism. trying to hold down some oppressed people fighting for independence. not “Peace” of robbery and plunder The capitalists, not the “Reds, of Nations, under the benign jurisdiction of which | war has never ceased. harassing of the Soviet Union. Bolivia-Paraguay. h headlines as quoted above. The} 00 men that died responsible for it. the in The Bol- | Versailles run the League | | French and | The French The invasions and continued | Poland's seizure of constant fighting | The dozens of wars | And this is not half, | Wars by the big imperialist powers | ver, workers! The war on the Moors ria. The vals in China. | present severe economic crisis not| their sidé in and the other imperialism out. | | only in the United States but on a world scale. i That wages are being cut whole- ; Sale and that unemployment is | growing more severe cannot be de-| nied any more at this time by the! | capitalist soothsayers. Even their | optimism is fading before the} spectre of blackening crisis and the | most miserable winter ahead for the workers yet known. There must be a big upward ‘sweep in the crganization of both employed and unemployed for the} demand of the passage of the Un-| employment Insurance Bill, advo-! cated by the Communist Party. In} theelection campaigns, the Commu- nist candidates are tearing away | the lies of the boss parties and) bringing forward the real issues tf; unemployment and the g-owing war danger. Every worker must rally | to the “Vote Communist” campaign | and for the unrelenting fight for! unemployment insurance. MEMORIAL FOR ELLA MAY THURS, LL.D. Mass Meet to Honor | Murdered Comrade | NEW YORK. — On Thursday, September 18 at 8 p. m, at Irving! Plaza Hall, workers of this city! will gather under the leadership of the International Labor Defense. to honor the memory of Ella May, chot to death a year ago by com- pany thugs on her way to a strike meeting in Gastonia, N. C. Fight-' ing for the things for which she died, the workers will express in their tribute to a martyred fellow | worker, their determination to, carry on the struggle. “We never thought,” writes Margaret Larkin, “of Ella May as a heroine until) she was a martyr. We thought of | her as a faithful worker, as a de- pendable organizer, as a leader of her fellow workers. | “The union in Bessemer City | knew her for one of its most active’ members, With all the hard, con- | “scientious work that she did for, the union and the strike, she still’ had energy and militant spirit left) over, and she poured it into her songs, whieh her fellow’ workers | ag and the whole labor movement igs now.” Every worker In New York City ould be at Irving Plaza on Thurs- day of this week. A stirring meet- | ing will pledge workers’ solidarity for the day-by-day struggle of the, working class movement, 4 | VOTE COMMUNIST! ROOSEVELT SAYS. FOREIGN-BORN MUST BE FIRED Preliminary to Attack on All Workers NEW YORK.—From all sides a series of attacks are being levelled against the foreign-born workers. The Tammany governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, supported by the A. F. of L. fascist officialdom, has written a letter to all con- tractors on state working ordering them to fire any foreign-born workers who might be employed by them. Roosevelt who is being praised by the A. F. of L. as a “friend of labor” hopes to gain votes by dividing the foreign-born and the native born workers. This at- tempted division of the workers on fake race lines is the preliminary to a general attack on all work- ers and their standard of living. It must be vigorously fought. Coupled with this is the declar- | ation of Harry E. Hull, commis- | Sioner general of immigration, in a radio broadcast, that. tmmigra- tion must be tightened. This will produce jobs for nobody VOTE COMMUNIST! Judges, Gunmen and Police Aid Labor DEMONSTRATE Youur solidarity with the Ger- man _ revolutionary proletariat. Come to Central Opera House, Friday, Sept. 19 at 7.30 p. m. and. hear Max Bedacht and J. Louis Engdahl discuss the sig- nificance of the Communist elec- tion victory in German Preparation for Daily | | Worker and Freiheit Bazaar Is Under Way NEW YORK. — All workers’ organization in New Yor} and elsewhere are feverishly pre- paring for the Daily Worker and Morning Freiheit Bazaar which will take place at Madison Square militant Garden, New York, on Oct. 2, 3, 4 and 5. The “Freiheit Gesangs Verein” will have a special booth in the bazaar and furnish the workers present with excellent revolution- ary songs. The “Artef,” the “Freiheit Mandolin orchestra” and other organizations will give stim- ulating revolutionary music. The various branches of both the International Workers’ Order and the Womens’ Councils are arrang- ing booths for the Red Press Bazaar. The Bazaar Journal is already ready for publication, all shops must send greetings to the Journal. The needle workers are also doing their best to prepare for the bazaar. Union, Everybody who can talist country. pes oe up 3 munists are responsible for things. went down 20 per There are 5,000,000 unemployed in Germany to: The capitalists who sent you workers to war “to get the Kaiser” weren't at all interested in getting him when they had him. the Kaiser and s sent to the battlefields, they are “reparation! day. Misery everywhere. But the German workers whom German capitalis supposed to pay billions of dollars. and pay The Kaiser and a lot of princes are living fat Owen Or | and Morgan, the Americans who fixed up the Young Plan, say that the |CaPitalists of Germany and the en- wars and revolts in which the lackeys of rival imperialisms fight to get | Kaiser's pension is ajl right, but that the German unemployed have to |tire world fearful of the open cla! on big pensions But Manage Things | | Bolsheviks didn’t make the last World War nor| dustry building faster than it ever did in any capi- While production in the “Good ol’ nt last year, it went per cent in the Soviet Union where the Com- t Ano war isn’t all. You know that already. More than twenty million jobless workers, multiplied by their wives and children they make about 100,000,000 people. These are stary- ing to death today, this minute, in all the countries where capitalism rules. Not in the Soviet Union! Hell, no! Far East, Near East, Latin Amer ica, the Balkans, The whole thing is a barrel of powder ready to ex. plode in a new world war more bloody than the last But that, workers, is the capitalist world. The capitalist world that sneered at the Soviet Union a cou- | ple of years ago’ when it proposed | that the word “disarmament” meant to disarm, to sink all the battle- ships and disband all the armies. Instead of doing anything like that, Hoover and MacDonald had a “‘dis- | ‘mament conference” and the re- It it that America is spending a billion dollars for new warships!’ ‘That's capitalism. The capitalists | are responsible, workers, if a new | world war breaks out and you are | called on to die miserably by poison | gas or get blown into small pieces with high explosives. Nice time the capitalists are fixing up for you! Nobody starving in the Soviet work has a job, In- RV, ie Me, orem A 5 x Dawes,/ endless D. Young and (Continued on Page 3) COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE Need More Petition Signatures The party membership of the New York District and certain sec- tions of the revolutionary workers organizations and trade unions after an intensive drive has suc- ceeded in gathering over 30,000 signatures in order to place the Communist Party and its ticket on the ballot in the coming elec- tions. This job was a tremendous achievement. In spite of these excellent re- sulis we are still short 3,600 of the amount requirec The District Committee of the Communist Party calls upon 100 Commu and revolutionary workers to volunteer as a shock to brigade. Within the next few signatures must be secured in Wil- days 1,000 liamsburg and Brownsvilly and 1,600 in Long Island. Volunteer at quarters: Williamsburg—68 Whipple St. Brownsville—105 Thatford Ave. . Long Island—26-28 Jackson Ave., the follow wig head- Fakers In Looting Cab Drivers Union BY GENE HOUSE, ‘ The endless chain of graft and! 1,200 members enrollel on _ its books. | As the union grew it ac- efit, and both officers and gang- sters were soon in league to sys- corruption that links judges, gang-| quired all the characteristics of the! tematically rifle the treasury. sters, the police, Tammany higher- | ups and crooked labor leaders was | again revealed the other when more than 150 gunmen,; aided by police, broke up a regular) business meeting of the Amalga-| mated Taxi Association, held at! Teutonia Hall, 16th St. and Third! Ave, | Two Supreme Court judges, a for- mer Tammany district leader still active in politics, $146,000 in “miss- ing” dues and the attempted murder ‘of a member of the union, are al- ready involved in this latest ex- ample of labor fake: ‘Tammany— gunmen solidarity, and the end is nowhere in sight. The Amalgamated was started cight years ago by a few cab drivers who owned their cars. ard has grown so that it now has about | typical A. F. of L. local. The treasury grew fat, the officers be-| I a appe: i measures thet ¢ , passed for their own financial ben-| aap the Accounting of Funds Demanded. A factional fight, which devel- night | came corrupt, gangsters began to| oped among the officers over the manner in which the organization’s mutual insurance company should be run, led to a demand by the vice-president, Attempts of the remaining officers to quash the request resulted in Donnella’s demand being backed up by about 95 per cent of the mem- bership and a meeting was ar- ranged for July 7, at which the resolution v.as to be offered, At the meeting, which was held at Prescott Hall, 247 E. 53rd St. it das voted, after a bitter fight, to choose a firm of certified pub lie acco s at random from the telep one go the (Continued On Page 3.) book to ever EEE ETeT ae al Mike Donnella, for} an accountin : of the union’s funds. | | | UNDER THE DOOR | One of the poodle pups being led around by old madame Tammany is the capitalist press. Bribery is |) a disease, a boss paper tries || to keep below the collar so it won’t show on the neck. Therefore this up-to-date hush gag. Silence is pur- chased by millions in un- paid taxes on assessments || cut down by Tammany. By day the capitalist press tries to appear like a high toned lady to the pa: sers-by but the Daily Worker will tell how the money is slipped under the old gal’s door at 1 a. m. Every day, Sept. 22 on. Three cents on stands. Sev- enty-five cents monthly, Manhattan, Bronx. Fifty cents elsewhere. | SILK DAY SHIFT MAY WALK OUT Shift Strikers Picketing Mill Night Are NEW YORK.—Active organiza- tion of the day shift of 275 at the Astoria Silk Work Astoria, Long Island, is process and it may join the strike of 50 night’ weavers at any time. The night shift has been striking for several days now under the leadership of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union for a raise in wages and shorter hours. ‘They demand the eight-hour day and five-day week and improved conditions on the job. ia Youth Conference to Be Opened By a Big Dance and Concert NEW YORK.—The Youth Com- mittee of the Needle Trades Youth Conference has arranged a big {dance and goncert for Saturday, Sept. 20, at the New Harlem Casino Hall, 100 West 116th St. A special program has been ar- ranged for the evening. There will be an excellent group dance by some famous dancers. Also an xcellent Negro jazz band. Admis- sion is thirty-five cents. This danee the Youth Con ce Which v he held on f 11», ry pt the New opens in et Casino Hall alsoe | Harlem STRUGGLE IN GERMANY IS SHARPENING Stab Worker Fascists “Socialists” Aid the Bosses War Danger Is Greater Communists Call for Soviet Germany a (Wireless By Inprec BERLIN, Sept. 16.—Fa stabbed to death a Commun , Comrade Kiessling, nea The Communist fractic Prussian Diet, Berlin town demanded dissolution of the Diet and a re-election as the present com position is not in accord with the wishes of the masses of the torate, Today the Bruening obtained the necessary permission from President Von Hindenburg to carry on until the Reichstag meets on October 13. the council, in elec government A conference of the military lead: ers in the Reichswehr (Republican army) ministry discussed measures for supporting a possible dictator- ship. NEW YORK.—A socialist-bourgevis coalition governemnt is being pre- pared against the German working class as a result of the electio: which gave the fascists a huge gai’ and in which the Communist Party made tremendous advances. Hitler ani other leaders of the fascist party have declared their desire to join this coalition, provided they are given important cabinet posts, and especially control of the army and police. The rapid growth of the fascists in Germany, as well as the advance of the Communists, is making the battles which impend. Not that they are opposed to fascism, but they dread the clear-cut issues which the fascist victory presents to all the workers in Germany, and particular- ly to the workers who voted for the “socialists.” With the struggles be- coming more and more open clashes and extra-parliamentary battles there is little doubt that huge sections ef the workers who have been iis. led by the social-democrats will cast their lot with the revolutionary work- ing class Party, the Communist Party. It is this abrupt division and the (Continued On Page 3.) WOMEN WORKERS ELECTION RALLY 16 Radium Deaths Attention to Evils Call NEW YORK.—The death of 8 woman worker, Mrs. nna Stasi, of 515 Morris Avenue, Orange, N.J., the sixteenth victim of radium poisoning, must again sharply bring to the attention of all women workers the necessity of organizing against exploitation. According to the United States census, of the 37 million girls and women of 16 years of age and upward, more than one-fourth are engaged in work in stores, shops, factories and offices. These ten million women workers are miser- ably underpaid, working as much as 12 hours a day in the mills. offices and department stores. The Communist Party is the only Party in the present election campaign which demands equal pay for equal work, protection for women workers as well as for all workers, special privileges for mothers before and after birth, as in the Soviet Union. The working women of the shops and factories, offices and stores, must organize around the Communist campaign and for that purpose a conference will be held the com- ing Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. Elect delegates from the shops and factories, offices and stores, all working clas swomen of Greater New York must be rep- resented at the Conference, Sept 20. DAILY WORKER REPRE TATIVES, AT TION! Important conference of all section and unit Daily Worker representatives in District 2 will be held this Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7 p. m. sharp at the Work ers’ Cenier. Every unit must be | represented.