The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1930, Page 1

Why did Supreme Court Justice Sherman have to Sneeze up $150,000 for his judgeship when the Regular store price is $75,000, cash and carry, with $50,000 on bargain days, no exchanges? Stand in line at your newsstand Monday and see ‘Tammany Dail see tect | Central se ly,.< the Comn of SEND DELEGATES TO THE CONFERENCE OF ag BORN WORKERS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 LUnest Interna Norker he-Cod Rrunist Party U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! tntered a sey Vol. VII, No. 225 at the Post Office at New York NY. under the act of March & 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SE PTEMBER 18, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Theke. i No Short Cut! There is no easy escape, no simple solution, for the working masses who increasingly are being forced to suffer from hunger, privation, and disease as a result of mass unemployment, wage-cuts, the killing speed- up, and other-forms of boss-class oppression and persecution. Likewise, there is no ea imple way out fér the Communist | Party and the revolutionary trade unions which alone are responsible for organizing and leading these workers in the struggle for emanci- pation from capitalist exploitation and misery. Solid organization and continuous, determined struggle is the only way out for the masses. Therefore the establishment of powerful workers’ organizations | and the development, and persistent carrying through, of revolutionary struggles is the major task of the Communist Party and the revolu- tionary trade unions, By means of strikes, protesis and demonstrations against wage cuts, for the 7-hour day. lay week, against niasb lay-offs, against evictions, for unemployment insurance, against injunctions, against lynchings, for full social, economic and political equality and the right of self-de- termination for the Negroes, against police brutality, etc., every pos- sible concession must be wrung from the capitalists and their govern- ment today. In the course of such struggles and by means of our election cam- paigns the A, F. of L. and socialist misleaders and all other liberal and reformist elements must be exposed as betrayers and enemies of the workers and the independent leadership of the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions must be established. The role of the government as an oppressive instrument of the capitalists must be made clear to the workers, all illusions about | “democracy” must be overcome, and the masses must be prepared, politically and ‘organizationally, under Communist Party leadership, to hurl their full mass force into the struggle for the overthrow of the | capitalist government and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government at the first favorable opportunity, This course has been clearly charted and accepted by our Party. As Comrade Lenin stated in his article, “Where to Begin”: “It is not a matter of choosing the path we are to travel but of the practital measures and methods we must adopt on a cerain path.” And in our Party the organizational forms—the building of Party units in factories,. mills and mines, the setting up of revolutionary T.U.U.L. unions, the establishment of a national revolutioary organiza- tion among the Negroes, ete.—have also been clarified. But, again to quote Comrade Lenin: “We must not only be clear in our minds as to the kind of organization we must have and the kind of work we must do; we must also draw up a definite PLAN of organization that will enable us to set to work to build it from all sides.” This is where we are woefully weak. Our Party has a correct political line; we have worked out the necessary organizational forms, but we have failed to develop planned, continuous activity “that will | enable us to set to work to build it from all sides.” We hear comrades speak about “too many campaigns,” “too many demonstrations,” and “the impossibility of building the revolutionary unions” because of election campaigns or other Party activities, And these “other campaigns,” which occupy so much attention in our Party, are almost exclusively agitational and propaganda campaigns. Syste- matic organization work is given altogether insufficient attention. In this same article of Comrade Lenin, he warns against two wrong tendencies in the revolutionary movement; first, the tendency “which strives to curtail and restrict the work of political organization ang agitation” (pure and simple trade unionism), and second, the tendency of those who are “incapable of distinguishing between the require- ments of the moment and the permament needs of the movement as a whole.” Both of these tendencies exist in our Party. Both must be corrected. The second, however, the failure to distinguish between the re- quirements of the moment and the permanent needs of the Party, is today the greatest danger, It is the outstanding characteristic of op- portunism in practice in our Party. Everywhere, in practically all our work, the basic tasks of rooting ourselves in the shops and factories, the building of the unemployed councils, the building of the revolu- tionary trade unions, ete,—which constitute the permanent needs of the Party—are side-tracked. Demonstrations, election campaigns, etc., instead of becoming instruments in establishing a firmer organizational basis among the masses, too often become things in themselves, In practice, if not in theory, there is a tendency to rely too much, or even entirely, on spontaneous outbursts. Our calls for strikes and demon- strations are insufficiently backed up by organizational preparations. And on this also Comrade Lenin issues a warning: “But no political party, if it desires to avoid adventurist tactics, can base its activities on expectations of such outbursts and complications. WE MUST PROCEED*ALONG OUR ROAD, AND STEADILY CARRY OUT OUR SYSTEMATIC WORK, AND THE LESS WE COUNT ON THE UNEXPECTED, THE LESS LIKELY ARE WE TO BE TAKEN BY SURPRIZE BY ANY ‘HISTORICAL TURN’.” The immediate and chief task of cur Party, then, at the present time is the development of planned, systematic work. The practice of looking for short cuts, of trying to find some less difficult path, must be stamped out. A careful study of our forces must be made. The permanent needs of the Party must be kept in the foreground, All other activities must be made, not a hindrance to, but a means of strengthening the carrying through of the Party’s basic tasks. Only in this way can our Party become a mass Party of the American work- ers capable of independently leading them to victory over the American | ELLA MAY MEET revolutionary | ; : ] ) q : ‘Pencil an X ‘Over Monday | truck.” Organize; Fight; the Boss Laughs at A The Long Roll of Suicides! Shows Despair of | Unemployed By MYRA PAGE, Another suicide! “Mrs. Ella} Kiertwehm of Chicago, who cannot face any longer her three small children for whom’ she cannot ob- tain food, ends her life by hanging | herself to a beam.” “Jobless and} starving worker in New York City ends life by jumping in front of Sales clerk in Grand Rap- ids, Mich., unemployed, was found in the park last Sunday, dead from self-poisoning. Father, in Rich- mond, Virginia, 55 years old, shoots self when fired from job he knows will be his last. Middle-west farmer, losing farm, hangs self in barn with cow rope. Suicide! Day by day the grim toll mounts, tragic evidence of the straits to which unemplo: nent and the present c: are driving mem- bers of the working class and farming poor, in all parts of the country, Despair. In a few words the story is told: No work, hunger, worry, fatigue, leepless nights, muscles and nerves that cry for rest. Tramp, tramp. Searching the “Help Wanted” col- umn, knocking at factory doors. Gas and light turned off. Children crying for bread, No shoes for Mary to start back to school in. Tramp, tramp. “Please, mister, I’ll do any kind of work.” Turned out by the landlord, so where will his kids sleep tonight? Tramp, tramp. Fighting in line, to get near the boss, the powerful boss who holds the magic of life in his hands. “Kind boss, my wife’s milk run SPUR FIGHT ON DRIVE. AGAINST FOREIGN BORN Conference, Sund: Sept. 21, 66 E. Fourth St. Spurred on by Governor Roose- |velt’s recommendation, urgirg dis-) crimination against employment of | foreign-born workers, the First District Conference called by the new Provisional National Commit- tee for the Protection of the For- eign Born will open at 10 a, m. on Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., prepared to discuss the increasing number of problems facing the for- eign born workers in this country today. The conference will lay the basis of a national organization and pre- pare for a national conference to be held in Washington within th next few months. represent organizations of Hungar- jans, Lithuanians, Italians, Jews, Finns, Japanese, Scandinavians, ~— | Bulgarians, Slovaks, Esturians, Ar- menians, Chinese and Letts, Many Trade Union Unity League and American Federation of Labor | Unions will also send delegates, as well as the International Labor De- TONIGHT, 8 P. M sented at Memorial The Ella itiy Memorial meeting | | |in New York City> opens tonight | at S p.m. at Irving Plaza Hall. A notable program arranged for | | the occasion by the District Office ||| of the International Labor Defense! ' include amo ; the speakers Anna Al Capone, bad hombre of |) Burlak, in New York for the day Chicago, is itching for the ten | only; preparatory to going on trial | times sweeter millions of tie ; :n Atlanta, Georgia, where she! N. Y. gin act, but he has no || zaces n death sentence for leader-' more chance of grabbing the | marbles than a ark Ave. boy!{) in a T nth St. free-for-all. Read how Bill Dwyer’s per-, J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, and ‘|| J. Louis Engdahl, general secretaty of the International Labo. Defense. sonal pugs draw pictures on| Arteff will present its members the walls of their headquar- |) ;, Sacco-Vanzetti declamations and | | ters in Watt St. garages with] Ja recitation of “Water Boy.” \ i ket | | ie we Cui SA ial | f Under the direction of Schaeffer, ecrets Tammany p: mil- the Freiheit Gesangs Ferein will) lions to keep out of the boss s press start Monday in the! | days, revolutionary Daily Worker; 75 cents. a i month Manhattan and Bronx,|]! A member of the John Feed Club by mail; 50 cents elsewhere. pe deliver some of Ella May’s poems, Noted Speakers To Be Prev ship of Southern workers; Moissaye | fense, he Anti-Horthy League, and jother national organizations. The committee declares that President Hoover’s suggested new | measures to restrict immigration as ‘a remedy for unemployment is |simply a means of distracting the | attention of workers from the real | source of unemployment, creating Resa between foreign born and ‘e worker without solving’ any- | thing. | The organization will launch a nation-wide campaign to combat registration and finger-printing of. ‘aliens which would place foreign- j born workers in the category of leriminals, and will fight against the measures being advocated by Hamilton Fish to remove’ so-called “undesirable elements” back to their native lands, thus placing the alien worker at the mercy of every vtejudice. Working. organizations who jhave not yet sppointed delegates are urged to do so at once and in- sure their representation at the | conference on Sunday. Delegate’s | evedentials may be presented at the conference hall. VOTE COMMUNIST! Delegates to the conference will | ians, Roumanians, Russions, Ukran- | orker dry, and doc says the baby’ll die. I gotta have work. For God’s sake a job.” Everywhere turned away. Signs up “No help wanted. Keep out.” Useless, discarded. Just a hand cast c. the dump heap. Tramp, tramp.’ Brooding. Use- less. Discarded. Just a “hand”! whom the bosses no longer want. Hellevacount y where a man is not) allowed to work for a l' ving. Life} not worth living. Starving, any-| way. Why :ot end the agony and} make it quick? Udi! Here are a few lines culled from a single day’s reports, and the same | story is true of the entire country: | Br ie DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13.—An unidentified, penniless man today took his own life here by lying across the Grand Trunk railroad tracks before an onrushing freight train. The only clue as to his iden- tity was a letter written in what Mrs. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 1 | Alma Graether, jobless und penni- less, aged 39, was rescued here to- day by a N: gro worker when she attempted to end her life by drown- ing in the Detroit River. Mrs. Graether is now in the hospital. e 8 DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13.—The body of George H. Campbell, 55 years old, was found hanging from a rafter in the garage at his home here today. He had been brooding over inability to find work, his sis- ter told the po.ice. hi ee These are the acts to which mis- ery and desperation is driving un- told member of America’s laboring masses. In New York City alone the suicide rate for 1929 was over dred than it was for 1927, while the highest in its history. Soon in is thought to be Russian and a belt buckle bearing the initial “G.” America it will be like’it is in Austria and Hungary, where ever 1,300, higher by nearly three hun-| jthe rate for 1930 wil lbe by far} since the war they have had to sta- ube and other rivers to prevent if |they can the daily suicides by drowning. Suicide is the final act of men driven insane by their plight and the misery of their loved ones. Ig- norant of tle ways of meeting cap- |italism’s ruthlessnes: they take this way of escaping in one last act of revolt. At the same time larger and larger numbers of la- bor’s ranks, harrassed by the same conditions, are having their desper- | ation directed into organized and, constructive channels of revolt. Trade Union Unity League ELIZABETHPORT, are effected. | ‘SOCIALISTS SUP. “Don’t starve—fight!” says Communist Party. “Don’t kill reat | self. Kill the capitalist system. | You mzke everything that is of| value in the world, and it belongs | to you. Organize and take it!” 6 OVER N ME N T It is cowardly to seek death while millions of workers are be-| ginninf to revolt. If you are still) War Danger Sharpened by| employed, organize and _ strike! A jagainst wage-cuts, against long} German Election hours, against speed-up. That pre-) vents more from losing their jobs.,; NEW YORK. The German- If you are jobless, organize in the| Social-Democrats have told Chan- Councils of the Unemployed. March | cellor Bruening that they will “indirect support | on the seats of capitalist govern-| give him their | ment. Demand work or wages. De-|0F benevolent neuTtrality, so that | mand immediate relief from the| he is assured of the needed ma-| city treasury. Demand no eviction | Jority for his various measures for non-payment of reit. Fight for|When these are submitted to the the Workers’ Unemployment Insur-|"¢w Reichstag.” The main items ance Bill to cuarantee every jobless | |under the so-called “various mea-/ man ‘at least $25 a week insurance. |sures” of the Bruening program The bosses tr to throw the bur-| With financial and economic mea- den of the crisis due to their own| Ure» including the cutting down exploitation on your shoulders. Or-|0f employment CU leis ganize and fight them! To die | brought about the dissolution of} | willingly is just what they want of | ‘Me last Reichstag. you when they have no use for| By this cirtuitous route of “in-| | you. | direct support or benevolent neu- > Central Opera The Communist victory in t cause for a demonstration of the Opera House, Friday evening. The outcome of the German Party polled over four and ‘a hal! the world over, strations. ‘In the United States t a number of meeting-demonstrati of the German elections. p. m. sharp Friday evening. and J. Louis Engdahl, Communi: Come to the demonstration! ernor of New York State, will be the main speakers. to Central Opera House on Friday evening right after work. 6 Greet the Communist Party Election Gains in Germany, House, Friday he German elections will be the workers of New York at Central elections, where the Communist f million votes, gaining 1,300,000 above that of the elections of 1928 and securing 76 seats in the Reichstag, instead of the 54, previ iously held, has shocked the capi- talist world and has overfilled with joy the revolutionary workers In France and other countries, the workers have expressed their rejoicing and fighting spirit through street demon- he Communist Party is arranging ions in connection with the result The demonstration at Central Opera House will start at 7°30 Comrades Max Bedacht, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., ist candidate for Lieutenant-Goy- Bring the workers of your shop | | conference of working women is — | trality, ” which will no doubt as- [MASS CONFERENCES FOR | he German socia-fecsts hope. to | avoid a sharpening of the class Women Delegates Meet Saturday. | struggle in case the Fascists |should form the government. Since a sharpening of the strug-| Yesterday thousands of workers| gle between the Communists and| all over Greater New York at-|Fascists will place before those tended the numerous Red Campaign | millions of workers still support- meetings held in the various dis-|ing the “Socialists” the clear cut tricts. The Communist slogans| alternative of Fascist Germany ory about unemployment, wage-cuts,| Soviet Germany the “socialists” sped-up and other burning prob-|are trying their best to prevent | lems, were met with great Fel such a development in short, are! sponse by th> workers surrounding | (Continued On ntinued On Page 3.) every Communist speaker. The working masses of Greater | |New York are being mobilized EXILE WORKERS; | |the Communist Campaign. The SHIELD FAKERS | called for Saturday, Sept. 20, at) Irving Plaza Hall. In every shop | and factory, office and department store the women workers must be| organized to send delegates to this! Fake Evidence on One; Let conference. Another conference, in Other Break Law order to organize the Negro masses | | around the Communist ticket, is| NEW YORK.—Deportation to fas- | called for Sept. 28 at 308 Lenox/cist hangmen abroad for militant | Ave. |foreign born workers, even if the| evidence of violation of immigration | laws has to be faked is a policy of | Moved Communist! { | The U. S. "Post Office is peng | put on a “sound business basis” and America’s 64 are satisfied—a | little bit. | The Postal Inspectors’ and Speed ’em -up Commission by Postmaster Gen. Brown last Spring} to introduce “economy, efficiency | and sound business methods” in the Department, is producing re- sults in a hurry, even before they barely get started. a ports are reaching the Department from all parts of the country, in. dicating that lick-spittle local post- masters, anxious to curry favor! with their superiors, are cutting | their carrier, clerk and laborer | forces to the bone. “The remain-| mail service schedules are cur. residential districts, one daily de- livery and 4 collections on Satur- days and Sundays being dropped. This affects the poor working- masses only. Thus, some 400 letter-carriers and as many clerks were laid off in New ‘York, 150 in Grand Cen- tral Station alone. Half as many Philadelphia, Baltimore and so on throughout the country. Al! this —in anticipation of the Commis- favorably. Survey | Already re-| ing force is speeded brutally. The! tailed on week-ends and in the poor) jor U. S. government. Deliberate | Post Office Brutally and Mlegally 22s" Speeds and Discharges Workers government stoolpigeons, is part of the same policy. RadeRadecovitch, Jugo Slay work- | ler has been deported. Guido Serio lis on Ellis Island, waiting deporta- | | tion to the fascist murderers in Italy, | GN [ US Posroanes | Post offic ore. LAID were laid off in Brooklyn, some in| sion’s visit, so as to impress them speeding-up is as underhanded as | ae Laainey ocala: Spcoraiey aie to this country fHegally. | As postal employees are ube Ciel Mi Saat abd Biectlded Meetings protesting the deporta- posedly protected by the C! be provided ‘tion of Vikulel and Serio have ben | Service-Act, the laying off and} L ‘ te held in New York, New Brunswick, wetter carl.c.s Uctiviery routes |Newark, Persh Aniboy, Bridgeport it is — vicious, Thousands of younger clerks, carriers laborers, | from whom he has been given the substitutes newly-appointed 2 ot|C@8tor oil torture several times al- 3 years ago, are not promoted to|e@dy and by whom he is already | regular positions as vacancies oc-|U0der sentence. Frank Vikukel, on | cur through death, retirements and|*4000 bond, has been told to “hold | removals from the service, or himself in readiness for deportation” through increasing the staffs with |‘°{ne merciless Horthy In Hungary. the increase of the country’s popu- \ LOneEsS no auenes: agate any, lation by 20 million and the re- sultant increased volume of mail. | “These vacancies,” Brown declares, by the pati will be “permited to lapse,” con-| trary to the Civil Service Law. These men are continued as sub- i stitutes for years at the hourly | "*Y ae Dopester’ Bat eae iat ie ark A Hone and are| On the lsee had oth Oklahoma given or jours work a day, % though they are compelled on 9 | city, Gregory Anyschenko, a religi- time card to hang around their |°'S dope Peddler, priest of the stations 10 and 12 hours a day without pay, in shifts determined by the will or willfulness of their supervisors. Or else, they are put back on the list of those eli- gible for apointment and are ‘fur- loughed’—told to shift for them- selves—as was done recently with 150 letter carriers in Philadelphia and with 50 in Baltimore. Similar condtions prevail in other cities. Young regular employees, with 6 the witnesses utilized mits coming here illegally, is to be allowed to stay; he'll tell the work- ers not to striwe, he is the kind of foreign -born the capitaist govern- ment of the United States likes to have here. At the Fish Committee hearings in New York, a perjurer for the com- mittee and against the Soviet Union was publicly assured by Fish that “The U. S. government will protect (Continued On Page 3.) and Fairfield under auspices of the tion special guards along the Dan- | 1 300 Fired From Greet Mill; ports; Leads to World War of these workers except that they or- | / ganized labor inthe United States. In | the immigration officers in their | deportation case all swear that they | did not say what the officials claim | Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who ad-| you” when he admitted that he came | 3,000 ‘MORE LAID OFF IN R.R. SHOPS; FIGHT Who Kills Himself! Fox insRANCE BILL! Hoover Urges More Ex- Calls for Support for On- employment Conference, Sept. 28 ‘. J., Spt. 17.—Notices have been posted in the New Jersey Central railroad shops here that another layoff will go into effect this week until the end of the month. Three thousand workers One official, in an unguarded moment, admitted that the layoff was for the purpose of cutting down the operating expenses. All engines that. should have pone to repairs are now being piled up and such |men as are allowed to return will | be put on piece-work to speed them joan the next lay-off. The shopmen had been working on a 4-day basis. Section hands on the same railroad are working only three days a week, the first time this has occurred in twenty years. - ve oe WHEELING, W. Va.—The Ben- | wood mill of the Wheeling Steel | Corporation has completely sus- pended all operations and thrown over 1,300 workers into the streets for an indefinite period. Hoover has shown himself to be a liar on many occasions. He is at it again. In March, when 1,250,000 workers fought under the leader- ship of the Communist Party for “Work or Wages,” his lie factory | worked overtime trying to dispel the truth about the economic crisis. - The efficiency engineer is now using his efficiency #0 lie some (Continued On Page 3.) CARPENTERS HIT WOLL’S LIES |Mass Demonstration Sun- days Sept. 28th Local 2090 unani- Carpenters’ | mously voted to accept the Friends of the Soviet Union Resolution adopted at the recent conference of the F. S. U., calling for Defense and Recognitiong of the Soviet Union. According to a statement | just issued by the local secretary of the F. S. U., Harriet Silverman, the action taken by Local 2099, an A. F. of L. local, is a fitting an- swer to the brazen lies of the fas- cist Matthew Woll regarding “forced labor” in the Soviet Union and an indication that the rank and file of workers are against the slander campaign of the fascist | leadership. Local 2090 pledged its support to the F. S. U. in spreading the true facts about conditions in the U. S. S. R. to forge the bonds of inter- national working-class solidarity between the working class here and the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. All working-class or- ganizations are expected to take favorable action of the resolution and to turn out for the mass dem- | onstration, Sunday, Sept. 28, at the | New Star {isino against the Fish Committee, which renews its “red” | baiting investigation in New York a day or two before the meeting | of the Friends of the Soviet Union. | Speakers at the mass emonstra- | tion: incuded Max Bedacht for the Communist Party, and M. J. Ol- | gin, editor of the Freiheit. Tic- kets for the meeting are 35 cents in advance and 50 cents at the door, | ) Irregularity of ||| Daily Worker Due to Moving ||| The Daily Worker is now in ||] the process of moving from 26 Union’ Square to 50 Hast 13th St. This will require a couple of weeks. During this time the paper is written in one place, the type is set up and the mats made |||{n another and the paper printed ||}in a third. Lateness and irregu- ||| larity of delivery are unavoidable during this period because the Daily Worker cannot afford to pay thousands of dollars extra to make the chane in the most | efficient and most expensive man- ner, The typography of the paper, blurred spots, ete., must also be {pardoned as due to the same | |] causes. {L.L.D. and Anti-Fas: teen more will take place in various sities neat week,