The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1930, Page 1

d 4 1 Srna se nt de he nt, v= ich in pt Secrets Tammany paid millions to keep out of the capitalist press start today in the Daily Page 1. Worker. Daily, (Section of the te SERN ae Vol. VIL, Entered a; second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3. 1879 ATM EPTEMBER tional) 22, 1930 Norker he-SDRuniet Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! FINAL CITY EDITION “WAR NEARER THAN IN 1912” SAYS CONGRESSMAN Hyde, Hoover and Hokum Mr. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, after a conference with Hoover, has opened up a new barrel of hokum. With much flurry of trumpets ana beating of tom-toms, Hyde is calling upon the American farmers to mobilize for war against the Soviet Union; a pleasant way of trying to hold the farmers for the republican ticket in November, but apt to be a boomerang. Hyde demands that the Chicago Board of Trade stop being the world’s wheat market—at least for the Soviet Union, and declares that the Board of Trade provide a “free market for the American farmer.” This would make a horse laugh. Since when did the “American farmer” have anything to say about the Chicago wheat pit And the wheat pit, where the gamblers in the farmers’ products sell and buy back and forth in the course of a year more than twelve times the amount of wheat grown, where is it to find the self-righteous attitude to say that none shall play the game but the sanctified speculators who are born and raised in our own backyard? Actually, the Soviet trade organization, the Textile Syndicate, has merely protected itself against these speculators by using their own gambling machine. It has bought $250,000,000 worth of cotton, some of it recently. Lest it lose money to the cotton speculators by paying at the present price when it might get cot- ton cheaper later on, it has merely done what others do every day on the market, it has sold wheat—American wheat, not Rus- sian—but just wheat, on the idea that if cotton falls wheat would also. 4 When it has to “deliver” this wheat months hence, which it sold without actually holding, it can buy it at a price lower than the price it sold it for at present, and thus make a profit ap- proximately equal to what is lost by buying cotton at the present price, which also might be purchaseable at a lower . price before that cotton actually is delivered to it. It needed cotton, but it did not need to get swindled by the cotton speculators. So it made up in wheat what it loses In cotton and thus “hedged,” as the market term calls it. The fact that Hyde admits that only 5,000,000 bushels of wheat were thus sold on “hedging” by the Soviet concern since the first of this year, while ten times that much or more is sold every day on the Chicago wheat pit, is enough to show that it could not have affected the price of wheat, and that all Hyde’s blah-blah is mere hokum. But the Hoover administration is trying to lead the world in anti-Soviet war propaganda. It is clear that Hoover, Hyde and the despicable Fish are united on this angle. Absurd as Fish and his actions are, they have the backing of the American imperial- ist government, Let there be no mistake on that. It also, as noted, gives the American farmer, robbed by bankers, landlords and a swarm of market monopolies, an “enemy” in the form of Bolshevism, thus to distract his attention from fighting the said landlords, bankers and monopolies. If the Farm Board has failed to do anything to “stabilize” farm prices; if it has (and it has sure enough) aided the banking interests against the farmers, Hoover hopes to get out of the pickle of discontent by crying out—“Bolshevism is to blame!” Only on Thursday, Sept. 18, Mr. Legge of the Farm Board, speaking before the Mortgage Bankers’ Association at Detroit, urged that bankers refuse loans to any wheat farmer working less than 300 acres, insisted that small farm- ers be driven out of business and their holdings “consoli- dated” for the benefit of these same bankers who would have “one borrower a good credit risk, where you now have two or three bad ones.” After such deliberate and calculated attack on the poor farm- ers of this country, it is the rankest hypocrisy for Hyde and Hoover to cry out that the Soviet Union is the great menace to the farmers. True, this Soviet Union, which Hoover was fond of calling “an economic vacuum,” and which he scorns to “recognize,” per- sists in existing, and even. thrives. It even comes over and beats Americans at their own game jn selling and buying, and refusing to be swindled in the accustomed way. Doubtless it is a deep, dark and mysterious conspiracy, but it can hardly be stretched into a plot against the American farmers, When Hoover is not malevolent, he is ridiculous. In this wheat business he has magnificently succeeded in being both. The Center of the Election Campaign Is In the Shops The Communist Party is conducting its election campaign not separated from the daily struggles of the workers, on the contrary it is part of their struggles. In the present elections we raise before the workers in addition to our genera] revolutionary program also the concrete problems the workers are faced with immediately in their factories. What are these concrete problems facing the workers to-day? In the present period they are the struggle against wage cuts speed up and for social insurance. These are therefore the basic key questions upon which we can mobilize the workers for the support of our elec- tion platform and candidates. The workers in the factories shall feel not only the correctness of our genera! revolutionary program, but alse that the Communists express the interests of their daily bread and butter. “Vole Communist” shall therefore mean to the workers to yote @gainst wage cuts and for unemployment relief and social insurance. Only by setting masses of workers into motion on the basis of strug- gle for their immediate economic demands will we be in a position to broaden our general revolutionary frdnt. To achieve this the election campaign must be centered in the shops. It is in the shops where the workers face these problms. Simultaveously with the intensification of our agitation on the streets working cl neighborhoods and mass organizations we must also intensify many fold our campaign in the factories. The issuance of leaflets addressed to workers in: special factories, shop papers, sale of our literature, gate meetings and above all to increase our individual agitation to convince the workers that not only their general reyolutionary interests but also their immediate economic demands are best and only expressed by the Communists, The development of the election campaign along these lines will not only win the support of large masses of workers for our platform and candidates but it will also bring for us definite organizaticnal results. Wlection campaign committees in the factories can only be established when the workers will feel that the candidates of the Com- munist Party represent and know how to fight for their immediate eco- «omic problems no matter how small they may seem, The bosses are conscious of this situation and that is why they break up most of our factory gate meetings, that is why they are trying to destroy the base of the Communist y in the factories, This also explains why this year the capitalist parties under the direct super- vision of the foremen and the bosses are holding meetings in the fac tories during and after work. They know that once we get the support of the workers in the shops, mfpes and mills we are sure to win, n the forty four days left till election day the campaign must be intensified and conducted with more vigor and enthusiasm. Every unit of the Communist Party. every revolutionary mass organization must check up thoroughly on their work in the election campaign and see their shortcomings which are to be corrected immedittely. BRING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN INTO THE FACTOR'ES! PVERY GRIEVANCE AGAINST THE BOSS, EVERY WORKERS’ DE MAND MUST FIND ITS EXPRESSION IN VOTE COMMUNST! | of Millions By ALLAN JOHNSON ‘New York City is, in a sense, a nation. Close to ten million people | throng its streets. | The world’s greatest seaport, |center of finance and commerce, a |great parasite like unto Rome of jthe Caesars, its kings of capital suck the blood of profit from the sweat of the werkers of the entire United States, and the misery of masses beyond the seas. Hence it follows that no workers wherever he is or whoever he m: be, can be indifferent to the gov. ernment of New York. | Tammany rules New York. Thei justice, no morality, no democrac bourgeois abstraction which Tamm. | at and violate a million times has been doing this for a century. | Benefit to Extent ie | n Vitale uv. a THiS TAXI Busine 5) ie A PROFITABLE 05, polities, sti In fact, v day, the D: organ of itself in ons every day. Why do they not tel Tammany? Why do they not go Tammany Expose Sho How the Boss PressisBribed °° |N. Y. Times and Hearst] a day. Tammany Is Capitalisy from the sewe continues to rule? Party, finds the field all to! uncovering credible corruption: ara news-gathering, dozens of pages and , surface? Why do they always man- jage to restrain their “exposures” to those whom Tammany has cast out ter too raw a deal, or keep their iticism” on the “high level” of generalities which break no bones? = It is Veause they are capitalist pap (9 ers, and Tammany represents cap: ital. Graft, corruption, vileness, arc inseparable from capitalism A st press of New York is ‘able from Tammany Y (& \ JS Ni I thus insaparable from ‘ J & ( | Only Sou f Truth, ‘y an | Thus it remains for the Commu of Truth Party, the Party of the, workers, t | Party that is opposed to capitalism Ie and i out to overthrow it and not \ [to “reform” it, that the truth about a3 | Tammany must come. | Let us see what concrete corrup- jtion links Tammany with the cap- re is no law, no|{ italist p ‘Then the workers, not only of New York nothing of any) but of all the country and the world, can see how y does not laugh | necessary the Daily Worker is, can s hy it is tha And Tammny | the despicable Fish Committee is aided in its cam- paign to suppress the Daily Worker, by the great it capitalist dailies of New York How does it happeri? Why is it that, although| Until relatively recent times, Tammany bribed the everyone knows that Tammany rule is rotten from | press with money, directly paid. Sometimes Tainmaay | top to bottom; that although there are from time to! gwned one or two papers. But the bribery of the time lumps of carrion like a capitalist press has become n Ewald cast up of Tammany ! less direct and more subtle, though none the less concrete 1 Tammany con-| And now we wish to chal lenge any of the capitalist why is it that to- pl s to contradict what we aily Worker, the assert. Untold millions of the Communist dotars are given by Tammany York fae to the leading New newspapers by means of ortism on tax assessments. in- vile the despotism that Tammany re- Let us take the New Yo: presents? American, a Hearst paper, There are other newspap-| the one who forges photo- ers in New York Ci graphs and lies brazen aula of them. They ha against the working clas millions of dollars, great presses, a vast network of | here and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of the Soviet Union. But how cautious the N. Y. Amer- 1 the truth about | ican gets when it touches Tammany! Why? beyond the mere| Because the N. Y. American property is assessed Continued On Page 3.) scores of editi JOBLESS MARCH ON HOOVER ANG BANKERS OCT, 2 Cleveland Prepare Sept. 28 Conference CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 21.— The Ohid District Trade Union Unity League and Unemployed |Councils have issued a call to all | workers and workers’ organizations |to attend a mass demonstration to |be held on the Public Square of | Cleveland on Oct. 2, the date of “Prosperity President Hoover’s” visit to the city for the purpose of addressing the fifty-fifth annual | convention of the American Bank- ers’ Association. s Preparations are going on ‘throughout the entire district for the sending of delegations from the Unemployed Councils and the | | Industrial Unions of the Trade | Union Unity League, as well as from many other workers’ organ- | izations. These delegations have been asked to bring their own banners. ‘and signs voicing the protests and | demands of the working class, as a parade will be held from the | Public Square to the place of the | bankers’ meeting, where a commit- | tee elected by the workers will pre- | | ( | (Continued On Page 3.) i} | | SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The Cali fornia Co-operative Producers Canning Co. went on the rocks and 600 workers were made vic- tims of Heover's “everlasting prosperity” by losing $25,000 in back wages. The officials of the company made a clean job in robbing the workers out of their wages, while the labor commission here states cynically that the workers are “out of tueko’ Mr. Johesen the | altorney for the State Division | (By a Worker Correspondent) | | ! ‘OUT OF LUCK’ IS SNEER 600 Cannery Workers Gypbed of Pay Acuat 160s srortersivenleieand| Cabitalist Economist Tells Of Permanent Unembloyment And Incurable Depression teviewer of Hobsei’s Boos Says “Stalin Was Right,” Lovestone Wrong, on tS. Prosperity ETROIT JOBLESS FIGHT EVICTIONS Workers “Carry Back Furniture of Evicted (By @ Worker Correspondent) The economic crisis is fast ap-, proaching lower levels than at any, time in 1921, At that time the bosses admitted there were 8,000,-| 000 unemployed. The number now unemployed is quickly going to, 10,000,000. The 1921-22 crisis at about thi stime, after 14 months of depression was beginning to let up, but the present crisis is getting worse. This is shown by reports from) every basic industry, and the cap-j italist press cannot hide it any) DETROIT, MichThe Detroit more. It is beginning to admit the Unemployed Councils have been jalarming continuation of lower; very active, especially on the lower level. sof crisis, For the workers, East Side, where most of the Ne- gro working-class population lives. The council on East Ferry Ave. Many of the boss economisis nre| ‘has recently distinguished _ itself beginning to realize the world-wide, by carrying back furniture of the it portends tremendous unemploy-! ment, starvation and misery this winter. seriousness of the present crisis evicted workers into the house. and the shattering blows it gives! cae gives’ W. HL Harris, a man with two to capitalism. : " F ais E children, was evicted by the Cir- A new book written by J. cuit Court constables on Sept. 16 Hobson, the liberal British econ-| He has been unable to pay his omist, entitled “Rationalization and Unemployment,” admits that (Continued On Page 3.) rent for a little over a month, be- ause of being out of work, His | furniture has been thrown into the street. This was reported to the | Unemployed Council, which imme- diately issued a leaflet to the work- ers in the neighborhood, calling | the workers to a protest meeting jat the house. cap- colored, responded, and under the “of Taboks Statistics takes his time in pressing charges against the firm. In the meantime 600 workers are starving to death with their kids and families being deprived of even their starvation wages. The Food and Packinghouse Workers Industrial League is in the field organizing the work- ers into the organization to fight for their demands, for the fight council, Frank Kerchel and J. La- | Verne, the workers got hold of {the furniture and in five minutes time it was all back in the house again, A meeting was held after the furniture was in the house, at which Comrade La Verne explained ‘the activities of the Unemployed | Councils in getting the furniture of the evicted workers into the house again. He explained that against wage-cuts, against long | organized in the Unemployed Coun- hours and speed-up, against un- jest white and colored, it pos employ ment (Continued On Page 3.) leadership of the secretaries of the | {only with the help of the workers, | | <a Layoffs, Wage Cuts! Continue Thruout Uss cA: Cal. R. R. Shirt Workers to Figh W 3 Cuts in ‘Penna. Mine Towns Layoff t ao ag t Time Spread Many Piant Shor One of the larg- in Mi.wau el and bric tha jest | struetu {served a | week the jrunning onl a week. Representatives of the | Bridge & Iron Co. have been structed not to slack on effort get bu but to be careful in |the promi early deliveries |'The number of: days of course have not been determined, but as_ the company has all y the signs do not promising notice pl nt v Wisconsin in- to ack” been “s look The plant has 300, but only a portion have been work- ing up to now—this promises to be a capacity of a.complete shutdown in the “mod- est” sense of the word. _ Idaho Jobless Act to Get Food (By a Worker Correspondent) KAMIAH, Idaho. rom what | have been told from the workers in here for the harvest, there have been real committees of action at Potlack, Idaho, where women, wives of the unemployed went to the com- pany (Meyerhauser) store and helped themselves. One clerk tried to prevent them and they beat him until he left them alone. At Butte, the unemployed deci not to starve and helped themselves at the wholesalers warehouse. The capitalist press does not report these things. Big Layoff Looms For Cal. RR Workers (By a Worker Correspondent} SACR TO, Cal—Here in the shop where the bosse are mak s for a ensive layoff an wage reductions by the wholesale. Sixty workers are to be laid off tonight as a start. departments are to be effected car shop, steel foundry and ima- chine shop. Spray, N. C. Mill Workers Get Pay Cut SPRAY, N. C., Sept. 21.—More han 3,000 textile workers in the Carolina mill here were given a sweeping wage-cut of 11 per cent. The Virginia plant of the com- pany at Fieldale, Va. employing 800 workers also received a simi- lar wage reduction, The manufacturers’ trade paper reports that the workers accepted) (he the slashes “philosophically.” Reports received from workers. however, indicate that many are waiting for the National Textile Workers’ Union organi to start an organization drive. 58-10 (By a Worker Correspondent) MANCHESTER, N. H. — The unemployment situation here is growing worse from day to day. Hundreds of workers are heing tid off dcily in the’ textile in- dustries. The bosses «re taking adyan- tage of th» une ployment situ- ation by forcing upon the em- ployed workers continuous wage cuts and the strech out system. The Amoskeag Co., the ™ gan concern, has cut wages so low that the average worker is HYDE AND FISH IN NEW ATTACK NTHE U.S. S.R. a to Use “Shoxt- As Propaganda WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. The Depar ent of Agricu fuze; s nder the coloss ailure rm Board to do! ng for the farmers, moved | steday to throw all the blame on “short selling” of wheat by So et Union commercial agents in the | United States and collaborated with | the Fish Committee to launch ane propaganda attack on the F Workers’ Republ heat at 81 cen With September on the Chicago market, with a de- | cline recorded of cents during the last month, with the farmers, in spite of curtailment of product six due to the severe drought geeting for their flood of 1980 grain only promises of still lower prices, S retary of Agriculture Hyde seized on the insignificant sale of 5,000,000 1 ort in Chicago by the All- 1 Textile Syndicate as the of a grat propaganda cam- basis |paign which tries to convince the United States farmers that their troubles are due to “Soviet attack on grain prices” and to thus excuse the Farm Board in the eyes of the farmers while that institution con- tinues to worsen things for them. Charge Is Foolish. An immediate statement by the All-Russian Textile Syndicate points that it is o ridiculous to charge the U. R., which has wheat to ee ate therefore de- sires a high world market to try to beat down the price, and (2) with (Continued On Page 3.) BIG FSU MEETING SUNDAY, SEPT. 28 Fish W ill Workers’ In answer to the attack of Hamil- ‘Be Given Answer at the meeting held last Sunday where the fascist investigator had to be escorted out of the back door in fear of the Communists in the audience, the workers of New York will give Fish the rig! wer on Sept. 28th, at 2:30 p.m. Star Casino in a demonstra- tion to put “red” baiters out of business. Ac- cording to the report of the Friends | of the Soviet Union, New York Distriet, Mr, Fish and his Bomb Squad protectors will be compelled to reckon with working class re- sistance against this new attempt of the imperialists to finger print ds, deportations fascist terror for the Fish Committee w called into existence by the W: Street government. and inere which l Working class organizations are urged to attend the demonstration, MOSKEAG WAGE Tobless Ranks Swell Daily in N. H° forced to work 54 hours a week for $8-10. As are ult of the unemploy- ment, the (‘ls are overcrowded th .workers, .especia”y young workers, They are charged with minor offences, larceny of food and clothing. Ninety per cent of the cases that come up in cent The National Textile Workers Union is carr)’ag on a drive to organize the textile workers against these inhuman condi- tions, J. KRANTZ 50,000,009 to 60,000.000 bush- the Fish Committee} Ws FIGHT AGAINST BLOOD BATH THE SES OFFER 'NSTEAD OF FOOD VAGES: VOTE COMMUNIST: “Big Navy” Britten Back From Europe Reports T Tension “ Armed and | Sensitive” *6 ,000,000. a Day for Var in fags tte Hide U. S. Billions French and Mussolini Mass on the Border NEW YORK.—A world war is closer today than it was in 1912 two years before the outbreak of the last World war. Congressman Fred . man of the House who is That is what Britten, chair- val Affairs doing his ut- for the American bosses to push and prepare for this aid when he arrived froma “tour” Europe. “}L Europe is more precarious} | poised today than it was in 1912, two years before the war that shocked both hemispheres,” de- clared Britten. He purposely does not mention the billion dollar na- val program of the United States, and the equally rapid war man- euvres between Great Britain and the United States in Latin Amer- oa. Britten went on to say “world is much more heavily armed and much more sensitiv While the Congressman’s admis- (Continued On Page 3.) JRGANIZE 10 FIGHT BLOW AT FOREIGN BORN | Committee, | most of that the First District Meet Prepares Struggle NEW YORK.—Plans were laid for the building of a powerful mass movement to fight legislation against foreign-born workers when delegates, representing 163 or- ganizations with a combined mem- bership of 30,422, met at a con- ference called by the Provisional Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-Born yesterday. The conference, held in Manhat- The followng ton Fish against the Soviet Union tan Lyceum, unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the Fish Committee, Jim-Crowism, lynching and the bills proposed by Senators Blease and Heflin and Congress- men Cable and Ashwell calling for registration, photographing and finger-printing of foreign-born workers. At the same time speak- ers at the conference exposed the |purpose behind these attacks and showed howe these proposals, if enacted, would be utilized as addi- tional weapons with which to jail, deport and murder militant work- ers, This was the first of a series of national meetings to be held in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Buffalo, Los An- geles and San fF cisco, to cul- minate in a national conference \in Washington at the opening of | Congress. Elect District Committee. A district committee of 25 elected from the fle This will organize confere protest meetings and | organizations not yet affiliated in the metropolitan area. | At least half the time of the | conference was taken up with d {cussion from the floor, Pa | pants ranged from young wr |to veterans of many yes’ jing in the militant lat ment. Among these was ness, 66, a knig goods worker, made a stirring gates. Wainess, of work for the pa appealed to the delegates to mob- ilize all workers—Negro, white, | foreign-born and native for the building of the organization. Elect Jobless | The conference, wh inated by a fighting | (Continued on Page speech to the de wh ohas been out months, ich was dom- through 2)