The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1930, Page 1

a SEND DELEGATES TO THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN: BO Vaccarelli was so careless a gunman he got himself convicted. He threw a gay feed-all. Whose smiling faces could be made out in the beaks, erackeyes, and Frank- ‘ov. Roosevelt’s and J. Walker’s! Subscribe. sea of curved furter ears? Why? Central (Section INN eat oj sthe Communust Interna Entered Vol. VIL, No. 227 second-class matter a at New York NY. ander the act of March 3. 18% THE ELECTION STRUGGLE It is a pleasant capitalist fiction that election struggles are “peace ful.” True it is also that many workers re this illusion, The anarcho- syndicalists add that elections are not only too peaceful for their turbu- lent “revolutionary” souls, but that they are useless besides. But it has turned out in recent years that whenevre the struggle tor power changes over ‘rom voting to fighting the avarcho-syndicalists are not to be found at all, have retired into a perfectly safe pessimism, a found on the ot side of the barricades fighting for fascism. That election struggles are far from peaceful can be seen even in the bitter and often bloody contents “going on between rival sections of the bourgeo! itself, And in the present election the outrageous Violence being reported day by day against the Communist campaign ; activities by capitalist authorities is enough to dispel any notion that the capitalist class regards the adva‘ze of the proletariat on the parlia- mentary field with indifference. It is eciseiy because the Lourgecis elections are useful to the revolutionary workers that the violence of the ruling class is striking ever more sayagely at the campaign of the Communist Party. This violence will become greater and not less as the capitalists grow more and more alarmed at the mobilization of the workers outside of parlia- ment to fight in the shops, mills and mines for what the capitalists and their parliament refuse to concede to the starving and discontented masses. e it is an anarcho-syndicalist error, bowever, for any revolutionary worker to conceive that the shop struggle, the fight outside parliament is all sufficient, or that it ludes the need or the possibility of a fight within parliament itself, And this error is related to the i] rooted in our Pariy as a result of the Right opportunist disbelief in the mass radicalization, that we cannot hope to elect our Communist candidates to Congres: Such an antediluvian notion among the Party members, and not among the masses, is one of the present great obstacles to really elect- ing our candidat a “justification” for a passivity and a holding bi ching other workers with the Party appeal that they vote Communist. This sabotage of the election cam- paign may be unconscious, but it ‘one the less sabotage. All of these tendencies working against the success of our election campaign find shelter in the general tendency to consider mass work as consisting of mass meetings and demonsirations. Party members get the idea that it is not necessary, that it is a “waste of time,” for them, individually, to approach individual workers, to talk to them as not from lofty pedestals, and to stay with that particular worker until he is not only convinced—but ORGANIZED. re is too much of a tendency to treat the workers as abstrac rather than as, so to speak, human beings, with individual prejudices and erroneous ideas which ave not to be removed by ridicule or “Communist snobbery” as Lenin called it, but by fraternal argument and proletarian sympat! ‘shis concept that conceives mass work as ladling out leaflets call- 4 a meeting, at which a stereotyped phonograpbic speech is sprayed v the assemblage, a mechanieal petition for support made and then the curtain drops and the Communist Party retreats out the stage door into abstraction again, must be stopped. The Party, through its individual member approaching a worker must come to appear before that worker as a conerete expt m of his own and other workers’ demands, as a trusted and intimately understood leadership of his class. The Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is the center of our Party's election campaign, Every worker is either unemployed or threatened with unemployment. Every worker should be made deeply to feel that only by electing Communists to Congress can a real battle be waged for unemployment insurance. But we cannot get lopsided and forget that, thodgh millions are jobless, yet a big majority of workers are still working. Nor that the right for unemyloyment insurance itself is bound up with, a part of, the great struggle which the working class, led by the Communist Party, is carrying on toward the goal of a Workers’ aad Farmers’ government. The whole program of the Communist Party, with the entering wedge of Unemployment Insurance, must be made clear to each worker approached. Recruiting for the revolutionary unions and the campaign for an “Organize and Strik eAgainst Wage Cuts” fund of the T.U.U.L. is an organic part of the appeal] to vote Communist in November. Our Party is stronger today than ever before. It is strong enough to rid itself of weakening errors, strong enough to battle effectively against attempts to strangle its election campaign by violence, stroug. enough to win enough votes to. place a Communist fraction in the bour geois congress. Forward to that aim, not us an ultimate end, but as a means of pushing still further the revolutionary struggle for power of the Ameri- can proletariat, for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government! 1b A TOO LONG NEGLECTED TASK The U. S. Census shows by statistics what the Communists have long perceived—the growing percentage in industry of woman labor. No less than 9,000,000 women and girs are engaged as wage workers in the industries of the United States. But while Communists have seen this development, it must be admitted that little has been done to bring to these women workers the message of Communism, the organization and firm class leadership necessary to serve as the chanuel for the revolutionary aspirations which they have shown in every great class battle. Women workers have special demands as a particular category of the working class, and they require special attencion, special approach. tue “Working Woman,” now making a campaign for subscriptions and funds, is the organ of the Communist Party devoted to this special work Yhe “Working Woman’ deserves the support of the whole Party aud every worke. outside it in botu making the campaign a success, but in improving the quality of the paper poli ily, making it more eifective and appealing to the great mass of tae female proletariat, Communist women and girs ave righttully coming .orward in ever ater numbers to active and responsible work in the workers’ move- Brave and persistent fighters, these women and girl workers are inaking a real contribution to the Communist Party's election campaign in ali districts of our Party nferciie yuriing women to aid the Party's elec g held today at 2 p. m. at the Irving Plaza Hall. 1 Mut the election campaign ot Ncw Yors, but also should rally suppo:t Mase lie * Woman Worker’ a mass paper! in New York a ¢ tion campaign is b duis lueeling shuwe amoby the women worker tor the “Woman Worker.” Columiunist NEEDLE YOUTH | MEEL SUNDAY , groups, shop committees, ete. conference opens tonight cance and concert in New The N. T. W. 1. U. und Youth Committee urges needle workers to come in masses and wel- come the conference, The with 2 Laviem Casino. ( IS GODAyS ME Win, ra! | Busy BE Very a TRIPS VAAS New Dist. Offices Will Gpen Monday at 48-50 East 13th St. The district office of the Com- munist Party and the Young Communist League will move to its new offices at 48-50 FE. 13th St. The new offices will open Monday, Sept. 22. The new telephone number— Algonquin 5707-08—is already in operation. All meetings sched- uled for 26 Union Square on Sat- urday, Sept. 20, will be held at 26 Union Square. Due to general remodeling, re- pairs and adjustments, only com- rades with urgent problems should | come to the new offices for. the | next few days. TODRAW WORKING WOMEN INTO RED ELECTION DRIVE ‘Women’s Conference ' at Noon Today Berlin ;that 68 percent of the Communist vote recruited from men. whereas the voters of the other par- ties consisted of a majority of | women, the Catholic party recruit- jing almost two-thirds of its vote | from women voters. | Cable reports ‘from state was While the Ingn percentage of the yotes trom men-in the to.ai vailol cast for the Communist ticket is an indication of the solidarity of the Communist vote and of the fact that the majority of the workers in the factories and mines yoted for Communism, it might serve as a lesson that the Communist move- ment must pay more attention to the women voters and see that alf | working-class women of the shops |and factories, offices and stores, |well as working-class housewives, | should vote Communist. | Today at noon, the working wo- | men of Greater New York will hold |a conference at Irving Plaza Hall, } 15th St. and Irving Pl., in order to mobilize the women workers for lour Communist- campaign. The delegates will map out plans of {how to combat ainong the women \workers the influence of the capi- talist parties and of religion which is holding them back from voting Communism, just as it happened in Germany. There is an enormous ‘amount of propaganda work to be done and not much time left. All | class-conscious working = women must mobilize to make today’s con- ference a success that will prove its results on election day. Part of the discussion will be on raising the $100,000 “Organize and Strike Fund” of the Trade Union Unity League. JOBLESS W ANT GROWS | More Fight tor Workers Bill an el he on | (By a Worker Correspondent) MEEFE TO SHIELD §=Unemdbloyment Increasing Mental and Other Diseases; Hostiials Are Now lammed | seale, at the same time laying the! 360,000 Thrown Out of Jobs In Aug. Don't Starve, Fight, / YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1930 he-Coamunist Party U.S.A. tuo mal) ‘Boss Treasury G ] Billion, But Jobless Communist Candidates in *a veritable N Maryland Get Nothing Cold figures do not teil the whole | story of the ravaging, deepening | crisis. When the Wsll Street Jour- | nal, the organ of tie parasive cou-| pon clippers and big exploiters tells | lits readers: “Employment off 1.4] per cent for August. Bureau of| Labor Survey of 15 Industrial} iroups Shows 2.6 per cent Drop in Earnings,” what does it matter to| them? Their profits still pile up. lasn't. the boss government re-! turned them $300,000,000 in income | tax? Isn’t their government doing} ‘its utmost, with the aid of the A. F. of L. officialdom to transfer the burdens of the crisis onto the backs of the workers? Look what it means for the work- ers! More suicides, thousands more of evictions, millions more on the breadlines disease, desperation, misery. Day after day we have re- | ported suicides and evictions. But they grow worse all the time. Here are a few flashes gleaned from the news of the day which do not hegin to piece out the whole picture of what the 8,000,000 unemployed are faced with: petite PONTIAC, Mich.— Garrett W. Hardenburgh, 49 years old, out of work for more than a year, walks| out into his back yard and shoots| Fimself dead. < GohoRS i DETROIT.—Out of work, des-| pondent because he faced starva-| tion, Sam Sadoway, 35 years old threw himself in front of a Grand} Trunk freight train. * * * LORAIN, Ohio. — Unemployed, | with no chance for work, because he had been told by boss after bo: that he was too old, John Rocher,, mad because he has been out of 62, ended a life devoted to making| work since November, Walter Kel- profits for the bosses by leaping ler, 30, a photographer, began to into the Black River. smash the furniture in his home. i. e ss He could not bear to see his wife CLEVELAND. — Driven stark! and small children starving. Capi- SAMUEL PARKER LENA LIPMAN talism drove him mad Capitalist editors have standing instructions to cut out a news of jobless suicides. The few that get ‘mistak in are edito A there is| They just go to pr just t FINAL Vote Communist! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents JOBLESS 10. START TUUL ACTIVE WEEK 28 Conferences Begin “Solidarity Week” Everywhere CITY EDITION suicide wave in the United States of workers who haven't got the guts to fight capi- Sept. talism and instead eliminate them- selves as a favor to the bosses whe would like to see thousands gotten rid of this way so they won't fight for unemployment insurance. M This winter is going to be plain hell. There is no more talk by the big imperialist masters, the “59”) Mass Coll ections to and their office boys Washing- f View = fon; about the “inprovementstiin| Build strike Hund the fall. These have failed to show up. August alone, ording to the NEW YORK. sa Labor Department figures, added) item in Solidarity W Sept. 3 0,000 jobless to the 8,000,000 out to Oct. 5) tt l work at the end of Ju By | emple and the Trad Unt inter 10,000,000 men and women’ Unity League announce ¢ ¢ will be roaming the streets looking ; conferences on uner york. For wee posed the fo They will not find it. the Daily Worker lies of the bosses about | mar point i an upturn. Now we have more! for or proof. Friday's issue of the An-| unions nalist bluntly says there was a drop; Councils of tt of 2'% per cent in the Annalist| will be featured by Business Index for August, and no| and mass collectic signs of upturn. 000 organize and A personal letter to a staff mem- T. U. U. I ber of the Daily Worker from a typical industrial town, Columbus, Ohio, tells what’s ahead for the workers, employed as well as un- employed. Here are some extracts: Immediate The Nationa U. L. outlines t ings during this 3 Tasks. eek as follov “All shop, mine and mill gate ‘The auto parts, where Myron’ meetings, all shop papers, all leaf- works, will close for six months. | Jets, ete., issued previous to Dad does not expect work more | darity Week, must announce a gen- than a week, and Harold says he/ eral mass meeting inviting unor. hears their factory will elo: for| ganized workers from all in ries three or four months, also, so can| io attend. you tell me what we are all going to do?” Even when some of the! family get a few weeks’ work, there is not enough earned to live The same letter says: “Dad meeting. working his fifth week now. Up|eral muss meeting. to date he got $4.50 the first week; | steps to strengthen $17.50 ii Besides the speaker short speeches ed workers from the s be had. Meetings of On.) each industry should is | mobilization principal Le All our organ ‘full’ pay for the second tion, our shop contacts should week; $14.40 the third week, and/ taken at those meetings. The ne full pay for the last two weeks.| for the $100,000 fund should ly Now out of work again.” stressed. The poor farmers are in for it,! too. Another Wall Street sheet, | the Journal of Commerce, tells us SY™Pathetic organizations 2 nece “All affiliations and ail wo: id thei FOREIGN BORN Conference Sunday at) Manhattan Lyceum | Death Rate for Infants Higher Than for the NEW YORK.—Tomorow morning at 10 a. m, the First District Con- ference of the Provisional Commit-| NEW YORK, 19. tee for the Protection of the For-| ental and other cases have come eign Born opens at the Manhattan) “ . fi eum, 66 E. Fourth St. New, t New York City hospitals this York City. year than ever before, announces The immediate tasks of the con-/Comm. J. G. W. Greeff. ference will be: 1.-To organize Sept. More! Greeff said his only explanation for the in- ee district | crease was that “the fear of un- foundation tion. 2.—To meetings. ac. for national organiza-| employment in hard times tually driving people to worry until mass rotest ‘ i they become mentally or physically tions against | the proposed anti-foreign-born mea-j sures now in preparation. Be Patient! A Few More Hours: The conference marks the begin- ning of an immense campaign to unite all workers against the capi- talist aim to divide the ranks of the workers by pitting them against [THREAD. Two | ANSLES Oven each other—fozeign-born against, if native workers; Negro workers 7) against white workei The con- ’) ference fights all attempts to legis- late against the foreign-born with laws that place them in the cate- gory of criminals, demanding regis- tration, finger-printing, deportation and other restrictive measures. \ WHALEN \ _—_— vith the cartoon face) was a Wanamaker floor-walker so NEW YORK.—A_ porter at 120 that when he : . ; 4 Pee Cacia I ong beeame Conference Starts at. The voutn Ra geauecielly in the WEST ALLIS, Wiscon—The | Broadway had slaved for the head pulicdoaar of ihe. partes |f : (shops. "The company E Outdoor Relief is helping. over — superintendent for five months he treat.4 his cop-thugs as so 4 Dance Tonight nothing for them. ate old needle 5,600 fam in Milwaukee | For the meager $26 he had many customers. eae wi even tried to organize wnty or as many as they had | worked hard day in and day out, It wor'l take . army of NEW YORK,—Remedying tie ‘hem. When the young workers or- tg help at any time last winter. being known throughout the build- surgec:3 and landscape pain. old nis-ake of uegiecang to draw ganized Local 43, that local became ‘his winter th will be forced to ing as a reliable worker. ters to do anything with their a. great hindrance to Zaritsky’s plans to transform the millinery workers into a company union, To- day these young workers crushed young workers into activity and leadership of struggles, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union issues a call for all young eneedle help twice that many, They are efusing aid to many right no aying tha, they are at the limit. When cold weather comes, warm workers, organized, unorganized or out by Za continue their jothes and fuel will have to be in company unions, to support the struggle under the lead of the N. veyided, or people will perish Needle Youth Conference which T.. W. I. U. Our only salvation is unemploy- goes into session Sunday morning! The conference is to work out) ment insurance, while we organ: at New Harlem Casino. Send dele-, gates from | all locals and shop amdng the young needle workers. plans for an organization drive ize for the proletari tion. revolu- | The buildi-g boss wanted tocut | faces, but he did unload a _ expenses. He would fire the por- trainload of uniforms, (Graft, ter, But ' > dare not do iter: ">. $109,080.) He also ordered Tey ai’ Wonk tanwan tn the! ikke his paid gunmen haited with the latest thing in cop ben- nets, for sale only over the Wanamaker counter. | Tammany secrets’ Monday. At stands or subscribe. ment,” he told the porter, The worker knew what it meant. The boss had gotten an- | other porter for less wages. He | would fire him lator Past Three Years ill.” thi pathic ps division a Or more patic were admitted in the fi six months of 1930 n in the same period in 1928, re been overcrowding in all divisions, par- ticularly in tubercular eases, ported Dr. Caroline Ma charge of the hospital cen Similarly the ‘state health depart ment reports, “Tha health of the people of Nev in July was less satis the same month NEED SIGNATURES io that “Logge says farms face hard|™embers in all citi t be mol ~— | factory gate collections collections Sunday, September ization preparations th Shock Brigades to Go ences with which the olidar | uries. members of the Party and all mem- | tion existing in a few of the dis-| MAYOR ON GRAFT sland. year.” But Hoover hands the rich ilized for mass collections (tag + points where work, go to and lurday and unday, October i result in mass p M43 begins will issue 1 ; i 2 2 sue demands After More Signers The Commun mpaign Com- 3 bers of revolutionary fraternal or- ts in Greater New York, namely, The drive for signatures on the| (Continued on Page Seven) days, house to house collections ai come from work) cn IK WILLIAMSBURG. teres ae iy ‘ The City Unemploye: Lor mediate relief from the city tr mittee is calling the atetntion of all W j a : E'LL ANSWER ganizations to a very serious situa- | 5 amsburg, Brownsville and Long petitions to place the Communist | Jimmy Asks Where It andidates on the ballot was sched-' Is; Read the Daiivy uled to terminate last we After mA : summing: up the total amount of| J. Wa nead signatures obtained it was dis-| the big » has ju ‘he cov 1 that in the above sections! capitalist press ‘ os here is a shortage of signatures! lons of hok rie ich puts the loca! Communist, wil! chop lates in th in a! off it srigi W th aid go ious danger vol ers arm by of 9 t will blasting ou July death on the next few days an hour) all graft the has been or two each day and obtain the’ rery m past ten years- ne amou of signatures,! Its addres fant mortality wa thar this danger may be overcome. , is called to fhe rast 8 years and the birth rat Volunteers must report to the) ” ; ;, following places atter he LS recorded for the month. Williamsburg—68 Whipple St. He pr Brownsville—105 Thatford Ave. sed in a 2TE COMMUNIST Long Island 28 Jackson Ave. ur ba uno pee, uy ~ivrage of, - ooth + BEGS FOR JOB-BEATEN = e his eS “ istration : oa , 5 any “dirty Clerk Thrown Out to Starve gain tht he can put hi NEW YORK.—For ten long years he had clerked for a boss who had ffice on the 36th floor ai 120 Broadway. He shunned unions and con- cluded if he would stick to the boss he would keep the job. For at home his wife and children looked to him to bring home the wages wherewith they out a tolerable existence. But the boss's bus eked ss was hit by the severe cri He would reduce oyerh and fire his clerk, No thought of what the clerk would live on. But the clerk thought of the little wan faces that would greet him when he would return night. He knew the frightenc telephone booth look that would steal into his wife's eyes. mito. 28 “You cannot fire me, M-. ” he almost pleaded with th@ boss, but knew it was hopeless. But he pleaded. The boss ered and called the building policeman, Together with another policeman the tw thugs proceeded to beat up the worker, The punch of the Mayor's “He's crazy,” the boss shrugged wat we'y his shoulders as he watched the vow slicemen “ug the worke:. Be- > hors wildered, groaning, th worker nkets sank to the floor with a sob. bie Five minutes later an ambu- talk owgral lance clanged up to the building 0) Ao iad Chicago and 1 (Continued on and the keaten clerk was carted away. The boss chuckled. |