The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930 ae AKRON RUBBER WORKERS STARVE BY THOUSANDS Mayor Says City Is Bankrupt Akron, Ohio. Daily Worker: | Here in the city of rubber barons, bootleggers, grafting politicians flaunts its dirty hand in the face of the starving rubber workers. The air is charged with an atrnos- phere of gloom. The rubber workers’ standard of| living is falling lower and lower. ‘These once proud rubber workers can be seen lined up in the res-| taurants (both unemployed and employed) making a meal of a few doughnuts and a cup of coffee. | Wolf Of Hunger | The wolf of hunger keeps prowl- rarer ; Jersey Central Workers on Short Time In ing around the homes of the few that are lucky enough to have one, and is snapping at the heels of | thousands out of work. | The clothing the workers wear! is the flimsiest. Misery and hope- | lessness is written on their faces | as they drag their weary bodies | along the streets. Every day more workers are laid off and “adjustments” made to keep them from rising in open revolt. The conditions are no better in the other industries located here. In order to head off any de- mand of the unemployed workers for relief the Mayor has made a statement thru the press that| shows the city is bankrupt. | TAMMANY IS ROBBER ALLIANGE Continued From Page 1) to feed the poor. Aaron Burr became Tammany boss in 1800. Burr was, all history shows, a traitor to the republic. He tried to raise an armed force to split the nation and found a monarchy in the lower Mississippi region. He was as vain and as unseripulous as Grover Whalen. Tammany Hall is governed sinco its foundation by Mooney, by 13 “sachems,” a “grand sachem” and an executive officer called a “sec- retary.” Tammany is not exactly a political party. It is a “racket,” a criminal business organization, the function of which is to act as the connection between the capital- ists and the gangsters, the inevi- table companions of capitalist rlue. The function of the alliance as} a whole is to rob the workers; the capitalists robbing them as wage slaves, while the gangsters take} their share by cornering the profits of the underworld of crime and vice. Of course, the robbery is to be made as painless as possible, the attempt is always made to keep up the appearance of things. Wage slavery is legal under capitalism. Tt is customary and workers are taught to think that it is “right.” Similarly, Tammany (capitalist) politics is always disgused as “civic virtue”, “honést government” “de- mocracy” and what not. For keeping the masses deluded with “democracy”, the capitalists permit Tammany to engage in the ich» business of the underworld.| There is no form of vice or corrup- | tion which it doesn’t actively en- gage in. Just a partial list will give an idea. It has included mur- der, arson, provoking race riots to insure the election of its candi- dates, the setting up of “promising young men” as pimps, procurers proprietors of brothels, gambling houses and opinm dens, the sale and purchase of judges, prejury, bribing of the newspapers, acting as “fences’ dealers in stolen goods), white slavery, strikelbreaking. Tammany the Strike-Breaker The gangsters are particularly useful to the capitalists as thugs during strikes. Although not all, perhaps, of the Tammany leaders directly engage in those crimes, they know of it and protect it be- cause it fills their pockets with trtb- ute from the actual criminals. On the principle of mass produc- tion, Tammany wants more crime, because the more crime, the more money for Tamany. ‘And since money rules capitalist society, and even poets as well as prostitutes are for sale, there is always a chorus to laud the administration and defend it as a system when it is attacked or suffers some trouble by internal quarrels over sharing the spoils. Of course it is beneficial now and then for some Tammany leader to pretend to quarrelwith Tammany in order to assume a virtue he has none of. Such a hyocritical scheme was the recent well-advertised he was having “Tammany “hint” of Gov. Roosevelt that he was having “Tammany trouble.” Simple boloney. Tammany is not just Walker and Smith.It is capitalism work- ing through Tammany leaders A ~A Story of Soviet Youth A Written Version of the Russian Movie For American Working Class Children (Continued.) | “Gurk, wherever have you come By MYRA PAGE. |from? Quick, Nick, follow him. A shop group of worker correspondents in the Soviet Union writing in to their papers. The worker c in the forefront in pushing the Fi and in the field. The first city gr oup meeting of Spondents in the Soviet Union are ve-Year Plan program in the shops worker correspondents in the United States will take place in New York, Sunday, October 5, at 50 Hast 13th St. A Jersey City Shop (By a Worker Correspondent) JERSEY CITY, N. J.—In yester- day’s issue of the Daily Worker I read thé news about the layoff of the three thousand workers in the Elizabethport, N. J., shops. Well, right here on the Jersey side | opposite “Liberty Statute” are four hundred workers in the Jersey Central Railroad Marine Repair Dept. Here the workers are engaged in repairing various kinds of float- ing equipment from car floats, ferry floats and tug floats down to floating pleasure palaces. Not long ago, in August, we had Hundreds of Workers Laid Off on Southern |to the Russian sales. more than two weeks’ vacation and of us carpenters, machinists and iron workers will be laid off two days evéry week. Of course th> usual explanation, “must save operating expense.” Well, the head of the marine de- | from starvation. By no means. The company will not lay him off But we workers in order to fight such to save operating expenses. Railroad Workers National League, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. Railroads (From the Southern Worker) — (By a Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala—The hard times that are hére now are making a lot of workers wake up. Here in the Findley shops of the South- ern Railroad, where I work, condi- tions have in the past been better than in many other shops and the men have been more or less satis- fied, but no longer. August 1, 304 men were laid off in this shop alone. Now there are less than 300 of us and we are doing about 75 percent as much work as over 600 did before us. In other words we are speeded up and forced to produce about one fourth more work if we want to keep our jobs. The skilled mechanics like ma- chinists, boilermakers, etc., are all organized in the A. F. of L. unions. Not one of the unions made any | kind of protest at this mass lay- off and they are doing nothing to help the unemployed members fight for their rights. No Negroes are allowed to be- | long to these unions, s0 our help- | ers are non-union men (mostly col- ored). Many of them are as good mechanics as we white men but the bosses won’t let them have a me- chanic’s job. As @ result the bosses have scores of good colored mechan- ies they cah put in our places if we éver went on strike. The unions have refused to take in the colored them if they told the union go to hell in case of a strike. This shows clearly that the T. U. U. L. with it program of full equality for the Negro workers is the only organiza- tion which can ever really fight the Southern bosses. Negro greasc wipers get only 28 cents an hour in this shop. We are going to build the T. U. U. L. fast in this shop with such conditions. The L. N. Railroad has laid off over 1,800 shop men on their sys- | tem since July 1st I have given sey- eral of them the Southern Worker to read and they sure like it. I will write more for your néxt issue. —A RAILROADER. past and present, Tweed, Murphy, Croker and Kelly, the “Forty Thieves”, et al. Whenever an in- ternal row brings some graft to much in the open, Tammany makes haste to get a “reform” candidate, Ts Tamany, to New York capi- talism, such a candidate is known as a “show window.” There is al- ways an over-supply of cultured and most respectable bourgéois to run for office. If they don’t themselves take graft before they get into of- fice, they do afterward. They ac- cept capitalism, which is graft in- carnate. With graft all around them they remain silent or at most salve their con-ziences with such “criticism” as Tammany merely laughs at. Crisis Affecting Tammany. Since the March 6 demonstra- tions of unemployed threw a fright into New York capitalists, a sec- tion of them began to feel that Whalen and his plain-clothes black- jackers were carrying things too far, and that Tammany not only néedel a new police commissioner, but that with increasing crisis and macs discontent the Walker gang would have to go through a “white- washing” to maintain its prestige, or the capitalists would have to get a new political “show window.” Since that time, this movement to give Tammany an enema, to rid it of a few Ewalds, Healys, Tom- maneys, and so on, to make it more presentable, has been going forward on one hand, while on the other a brand néw “show window” is being brought forward in the form of the fake “socialist” party, to serve as a safety valve, +; Roy Howard (one of “the 59”) of the Scripps-How- ard papers recently said, against mags discontent. It is for this reason that we see the great capitalist papers, who would not think of doing anything really hostile to Tammany, who are in fact bribed to do what Tam- many wants, giving generously of both space and approval to the fake “socialist” party. Norman Thomas, with his careful sepatation between Tammany corruption and capitalist rule, makes precisely an ideal “show window” for the capitalists behind Tammany. Tomorrow we will tell seme de- tails of the érimés and corruption of Tammany leaders, the astound- | ing history of the “Forty Thieves.” | BOMBARD CHINA RED VILLAGE Seclicachs French Gunboat Destroyed Part of Village PARIS, Sept. 16.—According to dispatches from China, the French gunboat, Francis Garnier, bombard- ed the Soviet village of Kulang San near the Yagt~> River. Armed workers and peasants bravely answered fire, and repelled the attack, but part of the village was destroyed by the bombardment. Another French gunboat stationed in the Yangtze River, by the name of Algol, also bombarded Com- munist forces on the shore. Organize and strike against wage-cuts! VOTE COMMUNIST! }——__________] Have You? SOLD TICKETS To The Workers in Your Shop for the DAILY WORKER FREIHEIT BAZAAR which will be held in the Oct. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Madison Square Garden Sell your tickets, settle for them at the Bazaar office, 30 Union Square, at once! And get another batch of tickets to sell. today we received notice that half| had torn himself in getting through, | | | partment, Mulligan, will not suffer | IS A WAR MOVE | | A | | | ouerating expanded must iain’ thal ide and Fish Start|Must Fight for Relief workers so a man couldn’t blame! Russian Upstairs the show was in full) Sométhing must be wrong.” Mean-| |swing. “Let’s see, how is this thing, while, the last scene of the show \ worked” and the older ones in the’ must go on. Nick and two others | audience tried to figure it out. The, ran rapidly after Gurk down the ‘comrade inspector from the Society | basement stairs, and tried the door. |eame behind scenes to confer with| It was fact. Fatima must be in- | Vanya. There was still no news of | side, and the sound of gushing \Fatima. Maybe she had left the | water told Nick what had hap-| | city. A search would be started pened. “Quick, get the care-taker.” |for her at once in the neighboring | Would they be in time? | country-side, and word sent to Mos- | |cow to keep a watch-out. | Meanwhile Fatima pulled at the slats and ran back to beat on the door calling again and again, “Help! Help” and Gurk barked with all his might. But no one could hear them. The water had reached up \to her waist. Fatima climbed with |Gurk to the sedge by the closed window and watched the water | ¢élimb higher and higher. Comedy and Tragedy. Overhead, in the courtyard, there | were sounds of laughter and hand-| ; |clapping. Below, in the basement,|,. This settled the whole matter. Fa- |the water crept nearer and nearer| ‘ima went to live in the Pioneer |to the window sill, just as Gurk|°@mp for the rest of the summer, | wriggled himself through the slats 4" in the fall she joined one of |and into the street. Barking and the children’s colonies and as a |shaking water, with little trickles ee ti Onne oan Pare Foes UI | A MUSOU net eNO | ac oe atts ail Ai GE the Children of the New Day. (To Be Continued.) WHEAT CHARGE “WINTER TO BE WORSE THAN 1893" | very white in the face. As he un-| locked the door, a river swept out over his feet. Gurk started swim-| ming toward the window and Nick, shedding his shoes, started after him. “Fatima, we’re coming” he called. Only Fatima’s head was above water. She slipped and dis-| appeared into its flow. As she jcame to the surface Nick grabbed |her in one arm, and holding her head above water, swam back to the entrance and safety. |he ran straight up to Vanya. It | was between scenes. 1 | iting e 3 is 2 ; Investigations Thru Class Action (Continued from Page One) | wheat price in September was due ficiency” —new machinery. This shows that even if an upturn comes about, it will create unemployment. a| Nearly half of the unémployed in | Boston had families, averaging three jdependents. The average age was 35, and the group of jobless from and therefore|20 to 30 years was far the largest. | dares to eliminate the boss class| ete | propaganda in its pages in the in-| In Washington, D. C., the coffee- |terest of clarity and understand-)2"@-slop charity institutions are ling among the masters, runs an|°°™Plaining about the big increase eile ; re in unemployment and that they ex- editorial today entitled, “Another | pect worse this winer, John Ben: hee Nanas nett, superintendent of the Central . ae Mission said: “For the first time in authorities in Washington must 15 years’ experience, office workers laa hard Heed Bay ele are appearing. The number of plain the failure of the farm re- : x lief Program to hold wheat prices ape Me hee is ae adnan in line. Or else they must feel| 5 a ‘e (tt scented “e y , urgent need of justifying some of | ustrial cities, such as the textile | the anti-Russian agitation that/2d shoe towns of New England, is has recently been occurring. . . ./ especially noticeable.” Possibly some politicians eee ae been driven to desperation have | | of A Federated Press dispatch from grasping at straws | deavor to keep their heads above! in their en-| Youngstown quotes a gray-haired| veteran at the mills as | water in the coming election.” | “They say things can't get no worse. British Sold More. | But they've been a-tellin’ us that all| | The editorial goes on to say| Year now. I hate to think of what's | |that the clamor would lead one|£oing to become of vs this winter.” |to suppose that several hundred| pe erat | million bushels of Russian wheat| Latest figures from Illinois, doc-| jhad been sold, and accuses the|tored as they ate by the Iilinois| officials of insincerity. It ex-|Department of Labor, confirm the| plains that the practise of “short”'story of constantly increasing unem- selling as a means of “hedging” | ployment, and the promise of the (eliminating the speculative ele-| worst winter in the history of Am-| j;ment in sales) is common among /erican capitalism. Employment in| foreign customers as well as|{ilinols was 16 per cent léwer than | American and sums up, “One| in August of 1929, * strongly suspects that if our offi- meee cials at Washingto nwished to dig) The same cry evérywhere: “The deeply enough, they could easily| worst winter ahead tor the workers | find short sales of much larger! ever experienced.” Certainly the) (Continued from Page One) | Among Themselves, The Journal of Commerce, |paper of and for big | which has | workers business, no circulation among whatever, editorial | saying: | Steve Okicich, @ Uriburu Picks | Agent to Aid| Co Bankers BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 22 —As| a pledge to American imperialism | that it intends to cooperate with it,| as against the pro-British policy of Irigoyen, the Uriburu govern- Soon, he came lumbering down,|™ent has appoitited Don Manuel E.| lands Malbran ambassador to Washing-| ton. Irigoyen when he became} president refused to appoint any| ambassador. Malbran, who was ambassador at the time, got into| a rift with Irigoyen over the pro- posed trip of Hoover to Latin| America, and particularly Argen-| tina, just after Hoover’s election in| 1928. | Trigoyen started out his regime| with direct offers to British imper-| ialism in its fight against the Yan-; kee invador, who was rapidly eap- | turing the Argentine markets. Hoo- | ver’s trip was proposed to win away | British trade. This did not meet | with Irigoyen’s approval. Hence he} | refused to invite Hoover and put! all sorts of obstacles in his way.| | Now with Irigoyen out of the way,| and Uriburu promising Wall Street| close support, the first step after recognition was to put Malbran back into the Washington post, so| he could continue the work with| |the American imperialis Mal- | bran has always been a close friend jof the big American exploiters. His appointment shows that the Uriburu government is following up its words of “cooperation” with] | deeds. There will follow a sharpening of the rivalries of the British and American imperialists not only in Argentina, but in all Latin Ameri- | can countries as well, JAIL AND EXILE OREGON WORKERS Continued From Page 1) | workers nearly mobbed him as he | fled from the scene. | The speakers at the meeting were R. Futter, Fred Walker, district or- gainzer of the Young Communist League, and Anna Frommer, district jorganizer of the International La- bor Defense. Walker was arrested Sept. 19, on a vagrancy charge and held on $1,000 bail. Edward Krause was arrested Sept. 18, rushed to trial and sentenced without being allowed to consult the IL L. D. at torney. Those held for deportation are: Jugo Slav; Miro | Lucof, S. Jafer, Bulgarian; L. Mit- seff, Bulgarian; V. Gosheff, Bul- garian; (all these arrested on the street coming from a meeting and first charged with vagrancy) Tom Evanoff, Bulgarian; Dan Stoeff, Bul garian, Pete Melish, Austrian; Hn- gelbrecht Nillson, Swedish Clause Struve, German; and George John- son, Swedish (all these last six ar- rested in the raia on the Workers Center). All deportation cases have bail set at $3,000. Those held on criminal syndical- ism chargés are‘ John Moore, Paul Munter, Ellis Bjorkman, R. Sand- strom, M. Levitt, William Worsel, John Torio, P. Howell and one other. Proportions for the cccount of| workers won't expect the bosses or | British groups during the same|their take charity organizations to| period of time, transactions, more-| go anything about it, The fascist | over, that were purely speculative leaders of the A. F. of L. have al-| in characte | ready made it clear where it stands | _The editorial ends: “Has the| with the bosses against the work- time not come when in the in-lers. only the united action of the terest of self-respect we ought to} employed and unemployed, demand- shed some of this arrant hypocrisy ing unemployment insurance and They weré artested in the raid on the Workers Center and bail is fixed at $3,000 each. cities, will be able to save them- selves from the bitter winter that faces them, with its starvation and| evictions. Organize for Unemploy-| ment Insurance. In the coming about Russia and all thines|emergency relief in the various Russian?” a elections, Vote Communist! Chicago Petitions. Must Be In On Weé. rot | CHICAGO, Ill—All Chicago| petitions must be turned in to BUILD! 2019 West Division St. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, without fail. The miling of the peti- tions will be made on Thurs- day. See BUILD IT! 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Children of the New Day) INTE RNATIO UNEMPLOYED ARMY IN-ENGLAND GROWING; 2,139,571 ARE JOBLESS “Labor” Government United With Bankers and Bosses Against the Workers LONDON, Sept. emplo} ment is constantly growing worse here, as well as in other capitalist The slimy British Labor party, which came into power with all sorts of promises about alleviat- ing unemployment by supporting |the Mond rationalization schemes is now foreed to admit that unem- ployment is worse now than ever before, When the figures several months ago hit the 2,000,000 mark the bosses, as well as their lickspittles in the Labor government became alarmed. They called all sorts of conferences to “solve” the unem- ployment problem. What was the | affect of these conferences? Merely plans to attack the unemployment insurance system v¥ rapid- ly being depleted because of the due to wo ow the late heavy drain employment show a the very big increase in joble: This week's return show: unemployed. As. an the MacDonald regime ent is world-wide,” and because it is not their fault if their class collabora- tion tricks fail in the least to lessen |unemployment. T! point out} they have tried their best to speed up the workers, lengthen hours, cut wages, but they blame the world crisis for unemployment BEGIN TO SPEED Continued From Page 1) the $100,000 “Organize and Strike” fund by affairs and mass events for which it shall mobilize the workers which it will organize and lead into struggle “Special attention must be given to the problem of winning Negro and youth workers for participation in all aspects of this campaign | More Shop Meetings. | “The number of mine, mill or | shop meetings must be greatly in- creased, so as to acquaint all work- ers in the industry with this cam-| Paign. The number of shop papers must be augmented. The campaign must be carried right into the shop, | mine or mill with the definite object of securing contacts, organizing | committees of action, etc. Every! wage cut, every measure of oppres- | sion by the bosses must be con- nected with this campaign. Gen- eral mass meetings of workers in the industry of the national union or national lea :e must be called upon the basis of the situation in| the industry, to win new members | and broaden the collections for the| $100,000 “Organize and S$trike”| fund, these meetings to be preced- ed by factory gate meetings, shop Papers and leaflets. “The campaign must be so wide- Spread as to involve every affilia-| tion, every shop committee and| contact, every member, and actu- ally masses of workers in the in.| dustry.” | Unions Respond. All the unions and leagues are responding to some degree to the| call of the’. U. U. L. 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GALION, OHIO Anything, in fact, but to blame their best friends, the British im- and their rotten system, “Morning Post” ‘ ),000 unemployed The figure will poss higher by that time. The interest ing fact is that this capitalist sheet ; unemployment will worse later rea admits grow on, When the Labor party took power there were 1,000,000 unemployed, Since their assuming power in the interest of the British bosses, they have a over 1,100,000 to the ranks of the vnemployed. The in all basie industries is ¢ tly worsening, Very soon the imperial conference will take pl and the attempt of the Beaverbrook bnch, together with the Labor party and trade union lackeys, to put over an “Empire Free Trade” plan will be made, The action of the Canadian bourg 5 which is reaching out for itself, as an independent imperialist pow- putting somewhat of a crimp e nicely turned plans of the British banke: and their Labor Party supporters, The contradic. tions within the empire are growing worse, and the British threat of empire free trade” and tariffs for other countries is arousing the ire of the Argentine and other bour- countrie: milarly situated, Canton Workers Get 40 Per Cent Wage Cut (Continued from Page One) ers i nthe Wisconsin Bridge and ron Co, plant have been handed a 10 per cent wage-cut. Besides, the bosses are sharply reducing the working force and placing many on part time work. + 3) 2% RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 22— Wage-cuts in Southern cotton mills run to an average of 25 per cent, declares a mill worker, H. B. Marks, in a letter to the Raleigh News and Obesrver, and over 50 per cent are out of work because of stoppage of night work, while others are on short time, + 2 6 GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept. 22— Wage-cuts of per cent have been given all workers at the Issa- queena Mill. 2 NEW YORK.—Wages of office “ workers in New York City have dropped $5 to $10 a week in the past four months. land unemployment conference on Sept. 28 will lay special stress on a hunger march on President Hoo- ver, Oct. 2, when he addresses the national convention of bankers there. The Needle Trade Work- ers Industrial Union has taken over Camp Nitgedaiget for a week to raise funds for their $50,000 quota of the “Organize and Strike Fund.” The N, T. W. I. U. has worked out an elaborate system of leaders and comimttees to take charge of the campaign in all its locals and dise tricts, The Food Workers Industrial | Union and the Independent Shoe Workers Union are moving in the same direction. Greater activity is required, 247 pages; twenty-five cents, John Day Company, price $2.00, pages each; twenty-five cents ‘amps or coin. from the viewpoint of the Trial, Sdciology, Vol. VI. out twenty pages in each book. been published. The third volume the other three at intervals of months, ianism ESY magazine, Each number consists been as follows: January, 1930,