The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 1

No Patent Medicine Boost! “I really think life is beginning to be worth- while living since I got the Daily Worker.” Gus Uth, Oxford, Mississippi. One of dozens! Renew! Subscribe! Dail GSeactvon.of the as Daily, Worker Communist International) WORKERS © OF THE WORLD, UNITE! at New York. N. Y.. ander the Wol. VII., No. 23 Entered a. second-class matter at the Post Office act of March 8, 1879 Ea NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION CHICAGO POLICE MURDER UNEMPLOYED NEGRO W Losovsky Said It In his report to the Fifth World Congress of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions last month, General Secretary A. Losovsky | said: | | “The international bourgeoisie hopes to surmount all these dif- ficulties (colonial uprisings, intensified class struggles at home) by putting the blame on the Soviet Union.” In the ludicrous yowls of Secretary Hyde (after his conference | with Hoover) about Russians selling wheat “short” on the Chicago | market, there can be no doubt but that Losovsky’s words were correct. It is interesting to note the reactions of the American capitalist press on the subject. The N. Y. Times, which openly plays the counter-revolutionary game to the limit, did not venture an opinion | editorially until y but it featured the ravings of Hyde to the | utmost, and “played down” all statements which puncture Hyde’s bombast. | The statements of Senators Dill, Frazier and Brookhart char- | acterizing Hyde's accusations as an “alibi,” the Times belittles as | coming from those—‘“who have leanings toward the recognition of the Soviet regime.” As if these thoroughly capitalistic political fakers were bearded Bolsheviks of the deepest dye. It is, for the capitalists, an unhappy coincident of the capitalist | crisis, that it provokes the bitterest kind of family quarrels among | them, with every wolf trying to eat the other and all scrambling | ferociously over the profit bone. It isn’t our fault, however, nor “Moscow So we can afford to be a bit amused at the exhibition of clamorous criminations and recriminations—meanwhile, of course, not forgetting that the substance of their ravings finally crystallizes in a genuine threat of war against the fatherland of all workers, | the Soviet Union. Among the capitalist press which is not so interested in hyster- ical lying as the Times, and especially the papers which the capi- talists publish for themselves and not for the masses, the response to Hyde’s anti-Soviet blather receives the deepest scorn. The “Jour- nal of Commerce” for example, treats Hoover and Hyde to a sar- castic lashing that is worth a few quotations. In part it says: “Government authorities in Washington must feel hard pressed indeed to explain the failure of the farm relief pro- gram to hold wheat prices in line. Or else they must feel ur- gent need of justifying some of the anti-Russian agitation that has recently been occurring.” Of course, this “either, or” is wrong. The Hoover administration is trying to kill two birds with one stone, both “explain” its own failure, also to give something to chew on to the counter-revolutionary jackass, Mr. Fish, so that he may bray convincingly when he comes hack to the Augean stables of Congress for-repressive legislation against the Communist Party and anti-Soviet war propaganda. The “Journal of Commerce” cynically remarks that: | “It certainly would be impossible to find any rational reason for the recent utterance of the Secretary of Agriculture . . . calling upon the Board of Trade authorities to make provision ‘for the pro- tection of our American farmers from such activity.’” The “protection” of American farmers is farthest from the mind of Hyde and Hoover, as the poorest farmers have themselves cer- tainly found out by now, though they may not perceive yet that the “farm relief” program of Hoover was not only deliberately de- signed against them, but was meant to aid the rich farmers, the ! marketing monopolies, and bankers interested in them, in a definite | and positive way. “It is difficult to see,” says the Journal of Commerce, “how well-informed government officials can keep their faces straight when they mention the amount of wheat that has al- | legedly been sold in the form of future contracts by the Rus- sians. One must also wonder if these same authorities do not have their tongues in their cheeks when they say that they find themselves utterly unable to explain such sales on grounds | other than a desire on the part of Russian iconoclasts to in- | crease the misery of our farmers and thus to spread revolu- tionary Communist doctrine.” The theory, weird as it is, of Hyde and Hoover, is that the | NEWTON, STOREY ATTEMPT LEGAL LYNCHING OF Two Negro Defendants In Atlanta Separated From Others for Trial Trial Date Sept. bagi Pic Defense Calls World| ‘u's 2 . Wide Protest a NEW YORK.—Judicial lynch law swings into action again in At-| Havey | { UT ONA Son! BicHnan)| | hee ti Oy (|Nores Is ToSer| lanta with the announcement yes-| terday from Solicitor General Boy- ton’s office that Herbert Newton and Henry Storey, two Negro workers, will be the first of the six| 5} Atlanta “insurrection” defendants| to go on trial for their lives, and | | that they will be tried together on} Tuesday, September 30. | The separation of the cases of| the two Negro defendants tom Huge Mass Meet at Madison those of the two white girls, Ann| Burlak and Mary Dalton indicted to- gether with them and the two white men, Joseph Carr and H. M. Powers, also charged with “insur- rection” is a flagrant attempt to carry a legal lynching, and the In- ternational Labor Defense is today Greet March Square Garden Oct. 21 to 6 Delegation UNITED BOSSES’ f~ ATTACK ON USSR Friends of Soviet Unien -|of Nations, resulting in a united) conferring with its three attorneys) Workers to Rally By Thousands to Hear Red| to prepare its defense struggle against the threat to the lives of the Negro defendants. The International Labor Defense is demanding that all six of the defendants be tried together. NEW YORK.—With a huge dem. onstration at Madison Square Gar- den, the workers of New York will | purely farcial, Lynchers Organize Charging that the lynching at- mosphere of Atlanta, which has been excited to higher pitch by the recent organization of the Amer- ican Fascisti, the Order of the Black Shirts, the Caucasion Crus- ade and the recent lynchings, makes any attempt at holding a trial of ..egroes in that city the International Labor Defense attorneys will de- mand a postponement of the trials of all six defendants. Should postponement be denied, Attorney O. C. Hancock, of At- lanta, Attorney A. McClelland of Macon, and Attorney Joseph Btod- sky of New York, will move for a complete dismissal of the cases of these six workers who are facing death because they attempted to hold meetings protesting unemploy- ment. World Protest Today the International Labor country to organize international demonstrations against this at- greet their candidates, Foster,| Minor, and Amter, on October 21st, | the day of their release from | Hart’s Island Penitentiary. \ Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray-| | mond, were arrested and sentenced |to prison for leading the demon- stration of over 100,000 unem- ployed and employed workers on Union Square, March 6th, when they appeared at City Hall with a resolution adopted by that demon- stration putting forward the de- {mands of the unemployed workers 'to the Tammany administration. Hart’sDtheyRloyedpoon v The delegation of the unem- ployed was refused bail and later sentenced to a maximum term of three years at Hart’s Island Peni- tentiary, the Tammany Parole Commission changing it to a term of six months for Foster, Minor |and mter, and ten months for | Harry Raymond. | ‘The Parole Commission, in hand- | Defense is calling every European ing outa term of six and ten months for the “crime” of “unlaw- ful assembly”, is at the same time Soviet Union is “an economic vacuum,” and has no business selling | tempt at a new judicial lynching of trying to hamper the activity of wheat or anything else. If fact interferes with this fancy, so much | the worse for fact, is their idea. Hyde tries to bolster up this thin yarn by another one. Beginning with the statement that—“It is not my province to pass judgment upon policies of foreign gov- | will see demonstrations in every) ernments”’—he promptly goes over into passing such judgments. ‘And among other things he says: } “If they elect to sell wheat abroad at a time when they find it necessary to ration their own people, and to shoot men for forging food cards, that is their business.” | It is their business, exactly. But Mr. Hyde “forgets” to add that if the United States only would “find it necessary” to have such a ration card system as the Soviet Union has at present, there would not be millions of workers starving, tens of thousands of them desperately culling the garbage of the rich for fragments of food, while such worthless parasites as Mr. Hyde are living on the fat of the land. The ration card system of the Soviet Union is precisely designed to see that the workers get enough to eat, and to stop, and stop effectively all the gambling and speculation that remains under the New Economic Policy from taking a robber's toll of the toiling masses! The ration card system in the Soviet Union does not per- mit the gigantic crime that we see here before our eyes in the fact that while millions of jobless workers are starving, beg- ging pennies to buy bread, stealing crusts from garbage, the farmers are told to “reduce production.” It does not permit all the monopolies, from. the grain elevator where the farmer sells his wheat for around 65 cents a bushel, to the chain store grocery, to take a monopoly price and keep the price | of a pound of bread over twice as high as it is in Moscow. Under Soviet rule there is no Borden’s milk trust, paying the farmer four cents a quart for milk which it sells for sixteen. Under the Soviet ration card the workers eat and cpecitr | are shot. Under Hoover's “beautiful” capitalism, the workers starve and the speculators live on the fat of the land. Under Soviet rule, as Senator Wheeler (who says he hates the | Soviet Government) admits, the Russian peasants are getting more to | eat than they ever did before, while under capitalism with Hoover | and Hyde, the vast majority of American farmers are being either | driven off the land or into the same sort of desperate poverty that- the Russian peasantry put an.end to when they overthrew the | government of landlords and capitalists. | And soon or late, the American farmers, united with the work- | ers, will put an end to the rule of landlords, bankers and capitalists of this country,,establishing a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, which will see **- + all who toil may eat, and those who don’t may not. When that time comes we pens advise Mr. Hyde that forgers of food cards will be, shot and Il _grafters come to a similar sad end, That's what workers’ and farmers’ rule means, _ six young workers. A National Protest Day, date of which will be announced shortly, city in the United States. WILL HOLD SEC, MEETS THIS WEEK To Mobilize District for Election Campaign While the Party membership of sections in Brooklyn and Long Is- land are making their final drives to complete the signature campaign the Party membership in Manhat- | tan, Harlem and Bronx are being mobilized through a special section -the four comrades by having them report to the Parole Commission in | the course of three years time. Workers Demand Release of | | Delegation , | Ever since the arrest of the |March 6 unemployed delegation, the workers all over the United} States, through numerous mass meetings and demonstrations have demanded the release of Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond and all |other political prisoners. It was |because of these demands that the) Tammany Parole Commission had} jchanged the term from three years | | t | Candidates On Release From Jail | three years “parole” hanging the heads of the four comrades. |lapsing wheat prices here, Virgile only five days away, the national! Work Rumanian Minister) = Leads Landlords’ | Plan Protest March and Embargo Plot | Calls Mass Protest Capitalist CHICAGO, Sept from press indicate that Secretary | Agriculture Hyde in his attack on the reports lice Saturday mortally wounded Mit of Negro worker. Gray, who was a member of th »» ployed Councils, was shot dow abroad Union “short in Chicago timed! s blow ‘to coincide with a de- mand from the big wheat monop- olists of Europe for embargo and! high tariffs ‘cough the League| Soviet over CONCRETE TASKS OF SEPT, 28TH ARE wheat movement of landlord and capit-) alist countries against the first Monday, while Hyde and Fish were being ridiculed even by cap- italist authorities in U. S. for their Conferences Must Lead absurd charges that the routine . “short” sale of even 7,500,000 to Organization bushels of wheat by the All- Russian Textile Syndicate in Chi- NEW YORK.—With the Sept. 28 cago could affect the already col- city conferences on unemployment |Madgereau, minister of commerce office of the Trade Union Unity = 3 | of Roumartia, to six and ten months, leaving the! of Nations’ over| mission for the embargo of all |European countries against Soviet} & tai | e | | ployed, emphasizing that thesecon-! murder by the minions of On Octoher 21st, the thousands | wheat, on the grounds that the ferences are not debating societies! bosses and plan to of workers of New York at Madi-| landlords spoke in the League| Teague yesterday issued instru Assembly second com-| tions to all its affiliated bodies, in- cluding the Councils of the Unem-, and rich peasants of nor places for making reports son Square Garden will demon-|Roumania, the dukes of England's merely, but active organs of th| strate against Tammany which is/ great estates, the Hungarin land-| class struggle as it particularly af- arresting revolutionary be left at Hart’s Island Peniten- tiary, as well as all other political prisoners. Madison Square Garden will be one of the high spots of the Red cam-| paign in New York. Comrade Fos-| ter, candidate for Governor of New York Staate on the Communist ticket, will leave for a statewide tour in a day or two after. Com- rades Minor, candidates in the 20th Congressional District, Bronx, will| Congressional District, Manhattan, | and Amter, candidate in the 28rd | Congressional District, Bronx, will address many Communist rallies in their district and in other sections | of Greater New “York and New! York State. | a | Hold Bazaar Conf. Tonight All delegates to the Communist Press Bazaar Conference are urged to attend the last and most impor- night, Sept. 24, at Manhattan Ly- eum, At this meeting the final plans | for the bazaar which is to raise money for the support of the Com- munist press will be taken up. VOTE COMMUNIST! workers | owners and wheat producing land- while the crook judges go free. The | lords in Europe in general could) workers will greet Foster, Minor not compete with the efficient state) out for and Amter and will show solidarity | and collective farms in the Soviet with Harry Raymond who will still| Union. | tant meeting of the conference to-| Young Plan payments is influenc- fects the unemployed. | The slogans the T.U.U.L throws the conference “Don’t | Starve! Fight for the Work |employment Insurance Bill!” | pel the City and State Governments .R. has) to Grant Emergency Relief” are Cheaper Bread. It is known that the The demonstration at contracted with British owners for not empty propaganda challenges, but are to be made the ba actual struggle and organ The unempl ent conferences Sept. 28 are made up of delegates elected by all unemployment coun- cils, by groups of unemployed workers, mass meetings, shop com- mittees and locals of the militant unions and leagues. Force Them To Feed You! Each conference is to work out a method for immediate relief for the | starving jobless from the city | treasury and the demands already 5 worked out by the Trade Union Uiaealens oy Tnprecers) Unity Council in New York for BERLIN, Sept. 23.—Cabinet con-| presentation to the Sept. 28 confer- sultations, under Bruening, discuss| ence here are suggested by the T. the government program. The new| U. U. L. national office as a work- proposals have not yet been pub- ing basis for demands in other lished, cities. These demands are to set 3 aside the whole city treasury sur- elie Ee En ern for’ plus, all the sinking fund intended er MIR CIE Ce) cea mee © to pay interest to bankers, half the bloated salaries of Tammany graft- \ers in city office, the funds for armories, the funds for increase in In the re-election for shop com-|size and equipment of the strike- mittee of the machine compositors | breaking police—for the jobless re- union in Berlin, The Red Tradej lief at the rate of $25 per man per Union supporters gained an abso-| week with $5 more for dependents, lute majority of 672 votes against and to be administered by commit- the Socialist-democrats 627, tees of the joblesss and workers. s of (Continued On Page 3.) ; ition. BRUENING GOV'T PLANS NEXT STEP Communists Call Halt On Young Plan ing the proceedings. ee we Tammany, Which Defended Negro Slavery, Is membership meeting to intensify | the election campaign activities By ALLAN JOHNSON. | throughout the entire city. | The present Tammany swindle of Representatives of the Central the ynemployed, by starting an “em- Committee and the District Bureau | will be present at the membership meetings of Sctions 1, 2, 4 and 5, thig week to outline the significance of revolutionary parliamentarism vai thé plan of actvity for the re- maining period of the campaign. ' Improved and new methods of conducting. our election campaign will be outlined and discussed in de- tail as preliminary to the discus- sions iy all the Party units on Mon- day an? fuesday, Sept. 29, 30. The iHext great objective in the election campaign activities will be the mass mobilization for the huge Madison Square Garden demonstra- tion to greet Foster, Minor, Amter and*Raymond who are being re- lea: , from jail on Tuesday, Oct. 21. All Party members in Sections 1, 2, 4, and 5 shall get in touch with their functionaries to find out the time, date and place of their section embership meetings, —- - ployment office’—minus any em- ployment, is not the first time Tam- many has deceived the starving workers, | Pretending to sympathize” with |the unemployed it has always— lwhen foreed—made an empty ges- ture. In 1837 the country was go- ing through a business crisis. The unemployed were starving. Bread was expyypive and coal utterly be- yond reach of poorly paid | | workers. At a mass meeting of the jobless lin City Hall park, it was decided |to break down the doors of whole- |sale houses and seize all flour. And |it was done. {2% capitalists saw the danger and had John Bloodgood, | a Tammany leader, go among the starving jobless with basketsful of | pies, cakes and bread—and prom- | ises. was headed off. fake “Socialist, day, with his appeal for sloppy charity and opposition to real un- employment insurance. Tammany calls itself a charitable i tution, a “benevolent society.” It gives an occasional pail of coal to the widow of a man who is killed in a factory because the owner of the factory bribes Tammany “in- spectors” to disregard the law re- quiring safety devices. Tammany’s first absolute “boss” was Fernando Wood, who first achieved prominence by breaking a chair over a state senator's head. He later got 8,000 from a friend under false pretenses, but escaped trial by one day’s leeway under the statute of limitations because one of his friends was Recorder of New York and fixed up the dates for him. Wood was elected mayor. Then Thus a more serious uprising | when he ran for re-election, he or- ; ——————_— — nena dered all cops to take a vacation would vote all day for a dollar. ag. J Tt is this role of a pacifier of the | election day in 1856, There were| Already before the Civil War, , Today Attacking the Emancipation of Labor | masses which Norman Thomas, the | then in New York 30,000 gangsters!Tammany had secured its basis aspires to play to-|on “full time,’ and any one of them | among the gunmen that makes it wealthy and powerful today. first notable manifestation of this occurred in 1834. Ninety-three per cent of the known criminals ar- rested were always freed at once. Tammany had formed an organiza- tion of gunmen called the “O’Con- nell Guards” to overawe voters at the polls. | “Democracy” in Action. The same thing goes on today. last year, when La Guardia was running for mayor against Walker, gangsters and cops united in the districts where La Guardia’s Italian following was strongest, to beat up and even mur- der the republican’s election work- \ers. And the capitalist press said | not a word about it. Nor did the | republican party itself or La Guar- be expose it. Why? Because the For example only republican party is as much a part {Continued On Page 3.) ‘ 4 aaa AN 23.—Continuing their open support of the lynching terror against the Negro masses of this country, Chic The | 3 Cents Price ORKER SUPPORTING LYNCHING TERROR, BOSSES’ TOOLS KILL ANOTHER VICTIM Demonstration Friday | On City Hall Would Starve Workers Workers Aroused Over Latest Outrage, the oy Third In Recent Months chell Gray, 29-year-old une’ e Communist Party and the Unem- in cold blood by a Negro policeman in w streets seeking r s had sought to get some « He died. the following day. He is the third we to be murdered in this city within recent months by the police thugs of the bosses and their racketeer allies of gdom. The other tims of police are Albert Weizent Lee Mason, Negro Cc didate for Congres nist can- e funeral held here a few ago was attended by tho of in the Odd Fellows Home and with over 500 Negro a workers marching be The wo! of ago thoroughly aroused over this latest the h to City Hall on Friday of week to protest against these murders of working-class fighter nd to de- mand social in the hun- dreds of thousands of and white unemployed workers in this city. Negro and white working- class organizations are mobilizing their membership for this march. A statem issued today by the di of the American Negro Labor Congress denounces the murder of Gray, points out that the Negro tools the bosses are no better than the wh tools but will shoot down Negro workers just as quickl, 2,000 AT JOBLESS COUNCIL MEET Macy’s Are Laying Off Many Workers. NEW YORK.—Turning from the line that led to the Tammany “Job” Bureau to hear the speakers of the Downtown Unemployed Council, a crowd, estimated at 3000 jobless showed their workers, determina- tion to fight for the Workers Un- employment 200 Insurance Bill. More workers followed the Chas. Alexander and , to Manhattan Lyceum |where Jack Johnstone spoke on the unemployment. situation than | Many of the jobless workers told |of the increasing brutalities of the | police, in beating and slugging }and maltreating in all ways pos- sible, jobless workers. | | Bryant Park. In Bryant Park where over 300 jobless workers are wont to sleep each night, the police chased those that were sleeping in back of the library. They were driven into the park and the sadist police made it a point to prod any worker that dozed off. About midnight the jobless are awakened by the cries of a man in agony. Through the darkness they could hear the thick brutish | voice of the cop. “If you got up |the first time I hit I wouldn't |have to hit you again.” The man groaned in great pain, and soon an ambulance up. He was taken away. | drew Boss Press Lies. The slimy tricks of the Tam- many “Free” Bureau and its ro% las a wage cutting agency were further exposed when a worker told that the Koch's Department | Store had closed down. Ten days }ago the capitalist papers had | grown lyrical when the “Free” Em- ployment Agency sent 50 women to Koch's