The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 1

| George Rings Bell “For many years I have read with interest the Daily Worker, but never before have I seen as cleverly written an item as was ‘Burlesque.’” Carl H. Rubin, Boston, Mass. George writes every day. Subscribe! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail: (Section of the Communist International) <= Butered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥.. ander the act of March 8, 1879 Vol. VII., No. 233 1 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents JOBLESS CONFERENCES TOMORROW DEMAND RELIEF | Cowardiv Betrayals FIRST TASK | DEMONSTRATE TOMORROW TO BUILD UP. | 1 TO PROTEST FISH WAR Do As the German Pious good wishes and flowery phrases are not worth a damn in the fight against lynching. Much stronger methods will be necessary before the theory and practice of white superiority, examplified best by the acts of depraved lynching mobs, has been stamped out in the United States. Only hard, determined fighting against lynch mobs and their accomplices in public office w ill give protection to the Negro. This is proven most conclusively by the facts brought out following the lynching of Willie Kirkland, a 2 ville, Georgia, on Thursday. year-old child telling of an alleged accepted. A lynch mob, poisoned superiority propaganda, hastily formed. veniently “transferring Kirkland to the prisoner was easily captured bh; tree, and then tied behind an aut town. Without year-old Negro youth, in Thomas- question the story of a nine- attack upon her by Kirkland was by years of the bosses’ white While the sheriff was con- a nearby town for safe keeping,” y the mob, hanged from a nearby mobile and dragged through the Before Kirkland’s mutilated body was hardly cold, however, facts came to light which show the bloody cruelty of American lynch law. The warden of the local prison camp admitted that Kirkland, who was serving on the chain gang for what was most likely a faked-up charge of horse stealing, could not have been guilty of the alleged attack on the givyl because all that day he ha with the other prisoners. dered for a crime which he had not The coroner’s jury, in the face iff for peacefully turning over his prisoner to the mob. commend the sheriff,” the jury said, in which he handled the angr crofw the prevention of other bloodshed. d been at work on the chain gang This shows clearly that Kirkland was mur- committed. of such evidence, praised the sher- “We wish to “for the quiet and orderly manner vd at the jail and stockade and for Even knowing that an innocent Negro had been murdered, this southern white jury was only inter- ested in covering up and protecting the white mob, Under such circumstances it should be clear, even to the petti- bourgeois, pacifist, boss-serving Negro press, that phrases and pious protests are useless. is not merety a fight against a f against a well established system signed to make possible the cont! masses by the white bosses. Yet what do we find? energetically supporting our efforts It should be clear that the fight against lynching ew depraved individuals, but one of persecution and oppression de- inuous exploitation of the Negro We find that but a few Negro papers are to rally the Negro and white work- ers in the struggle for social, economic and political equality and for the right of self-determination. Noteworthy among these is the Lib- the official organ of the American Negro Labor Congress. The majority, however, of the Negro papers are betraying this struggle in the most cowardly manner. It is impossible for them, in vii ings and the growing support of the Negro masses lynching campaign inaugurated by the Communist Party, silent. All of them are forced to ew of the rapid increase in lynch- for the anti- to remain editorialize on the question. But do they call upon the Negro masses to support the struggle against lynching? Decidedly not! On the contrary, they direct their appeals to the white bosses, who are only interested in continuing lynch law, and to the Negro preachers, intellectuals and capitalists, who in most cases have long since served as th The Chicago Defender (save the example, concludes its editorial with “would make Communism far less deavor” to do something to help the Negro. too frequently follow the same line. This kind of “support” is usele: the masses into believing that the: e mere tools of the white bosses. Negroes from such defense), for the statement that these elements glamorous” if they would “en- Other Negro papers only ss. It is designed only to fool se papers are fighting in the in- terests of the Negroes, while in reality they are trying to liquidate the struggle by diverting it into petty-bourgeois, pacifist channels. But the Negro masses are increasingly seeing through this cow- ardly fakery. really expresses their demands. the program of the American They increasingly are turning to the Liberator which They increasingly are rallying behind egro Labor Congress and its prepara- tory campaign for the St. Louis convention on November 15th. They increasingly are rallying behind the Communist Party, the and leader of the militant struggle oppressed peoples against capitalism. year’s election campaign. initiator of the Negro masses and of all This will be shown in this SOCIALIST ‘AD’ IN TAMMANY PRESS, Vladeck Appeals to Tammany for Votes B, C. Vladeck, manager of the | salacious yellow sheet, the Jewish | Daily Forward, “socialist” candi-{ date for congress in the 8th Dis- | trict, Brooklyn, is advertising for) votes in the Tammany press, hiding his identity. | Vladeck, whose nomination for | congress has called forth so much | praise from the bosses’ open-shop | magazine, “American Business World,” was having his candidacy ratified at a meeting in Coney Island last Saurday. In connection | with that meeting, advertisements | were printed in all Jewish capital-| ist papers, the Jewish Day, organ) of Tamamn,- Hall, amongst them.| In his advertisements, however, Viadeck, was careful not to mention! the word “socialist” or the name of | his party. This is the first election cam-| paign in the history of the “social-| ist” party when its candidates go| out buying space in the capitalist press, in order to advertise for} votes. Heywood Broun was first with his “ad” in the Herald Tri-| bune, proclaiming that he is a “so- cialist” and not a Communist. Vla- deck goes Broun one better and ap- peals directly to the Tammany vot- ers, entirely hiding the party on whose ticket he is runoing. Now that the “socialist” party | has been officially recognized by| the capitalist class as the third party of capitalism, there is no use sticking to old traditions. The “so- cialists” are serving Tammany and o— DAILY WORKER’S NEW _ OFFICE | The new address of the Daily | Worker is 48-50 East 13th Street, New York City. Tele- phones: FF siness Office — ipipeaatn 7956; Editorial Of- | fice—Algonquin 7957. > & REGISTER, SO YOU CAN VOTE Registration Begins October 6th Every voter must register, in order to be able to vote. Every worker while agitating for the Com- munist ticket, must remind his fel- low workers that between the 6th and 7th of October, they must reg- ister. Do not wait for the last day. Find out in time where the Board of Registry is meeting and have your name entered in the regis- tration book with your signature against it. If you do not register or if you | do not register on time, somebody else employed by Tammany or the other capitalist parties will register for you and vote for you as well. th republicans and is in turn served by them accordingly. The workers have learned of the services of the “socialist” party to Tammany Hall jand ‘the capitalist class long ago and will in this campaign com- pletely demask the party of the social-fascists. Agitate for Com- munism! Vote for the hammer and sickle. MOVEMENT | Base Councils on the TUUL Unions for United Struggle Communist Candidate Speaks in New York NEW YOR.—A number of unem- ployment, conferences on a city scale are being held tomorrow to adopt de- treasuries, to formulate the further Policies to enforce granting of these demands such as demonstrations, hunger marches, etc., and to mobilize support for the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The bill de- mands that all war funds and enough of the appropriations for mis- government of U. S. already made, plus more to be realised on a levy on all shall be set aside by the national government to establish a $5,000,000 fund to give $25 a week with $5 more for each defendant to every jobless worker. It provides the insurance shall be administered by committees elected by the workers and the job- less. City Must Gove Relief The demands for relief to be} granted immediately from the city treasuries will undoubtedly follow more or less the suggestions for such demands already submitted by the} Trade Union Unity Council in New York, The jfbless will demand that surpluses in the city treasuries, half the swollen salaries of the political | | henchmen of big business who hold |city office, funds set aside to en-| large the frame-up machinery, the | courts and police forces, be given to the starving unemployed. The conferences have a further task. They are organizational cen- | |ters, and proceed under the slogan, | “Build the Councils of the Unemploy- | ed around the Red Unions.” The building of the Trade Union Unity League Unions, the accumulation of a $100,000 “Organize and Strike Fund,” the campaign for unemploy- ment insurance and unemployment relief and the campaign to “Organ- ize and Strike Against Wage Cuts” go'ahead as a single struggle, waged by the starving unemployed and the workers still exploited on the jobs. New York Conference The New York conference will be held Sunday beginning at 10 A.M., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St., and Irving Place. A large number of credentials from Councils of the Un- employed have already been received. This conference will be addressed by Richard B. Moor Negro worker and Communist Party candidate for at- torney general of New York state. The conference in Philadelphia will be held today and tomorrow at 39 North Tenth St. It will be com- bined with a T. U. U. L. district conference. Other conferences in other cities will also take place. MUNICH DAILY 1S SUPPRESSED Berlin Mass Meeting of Red Supporters BERLIN, Sept. 26.—The Munich daily organ of the Communist Party, the Neuezeituhg, was suppressed yes- terday till the fourth of October on charge 6 treason. The fascist uniformed parade sup- posed to take place last Sunday was called off at the last minute by Hitler without assigned reason. It was sug- gested that Hitler probably felt that a display of force would scare the banks, bourse (stock exchange), etc., which would affect unfavorably the fascist chances of participating in theh government. The Communist Party calls a mass meeting of its Berlin supporters Sunday at Lustgarten, The Bruening cabinet is still con- ferring secretly about reported vio- lent differences within the cabinet. The finance problem is still very knotty and a five percent wagé cut for lower officials, and ten percent cut for higher officials plus an in- crease in unemployment contribu- tions are suggested, \ Back Insurance Bill mands for immediate relief from city | incomes over $5,000 per year, | ‘WORKING WOMAN |AN APPEAL OF THE IMPRISONED NEW | DELEGATION | ! Workers Have D one. YORK UNEMPLOYED | Four and one-half million German | Workers and poor peasants have cast | their votes for the Communist Party and a German Soviet Government! | ‘The German workers, millions un- employed, millions facing sharp wage-cuts, working like machines in | | the shops, suffering through 12 years | at the hands of the victorious im-| perialist powers and their associates, | the German capitalists; suffering | jfrom the crushing burdens of the | Dawes and now the Young Plan; be- trayed by the social-fascist social- democratic party and trade union leaders—the long suffering German workers and poor peasants who have | {been shot down by social-democratic | police and fascist gangs—have 4,500,- | 000 broken from the control and in- | fluence of the capitalist and social- fascist parties and voted for the | Proletarian Revolution, A large section of those votes came | from the organized workers who are | fighting against the treacherous s0- | cial-democratic policies of class-col-|to bind them fast to the capitalist laboration with the bosses; another, | regime and to protect capitalism. perhaps even larger, section is from| A large part of this army of revo- the midst of thhe unorganized un- | lutionists is made up of young work- skilled and semi-skilled, all of whom | ers who refuse to accept hunger, mis- the Communists have led in stru; against the bosses and their lackeys, the social-democrats, who have tried gle Al 1 Tt Saat SUT, , jery, unemployment. They look ac the border to the Red Soviet U and see the wonderful socialism collectivi and they declare: So we nion building d farmi: buil of and Another section of the population, petty-bourgeosie, including pi ants and even some workers, di gusted with the scoundrelous social- |democrats and deceived by the “rad- jical” phrases and promises of the Nataional Socialists—the fascists— rned fascists. Many of these ele: ments will be soon disillusioned and will march to the left—to the Com. munist Party. Today, the struggle becomes shrp: er. “We are on the offensive,” de |clares the Communist Party, leading | 4,500,000 revolutionary workers and |Peasants. The struggle sharpens be tween the workers and the capital- jists who are openly discarding par- |liamentary democracy and are ready with the aid of the social-fascist so- cial-democracy to establish a fasci dictatorship in Germany. The Com- munists place the Proletarian dictat- | (Continued on Page 5) AFFAIR SUNDAY Plans Fine Program; Appeals for Aid NEW YORK. Night in Red Russia,” a very unusual proletarian will be greeted on the day of the among the workers. The tens o! demonstrated March 6th on Union Minor, Amter, Raymond and othe gation of the unemployed in their affair, will be presented Sunday t evening, September 28, at Irving | !utionary workers to mobilize the Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving|] Office and store, to appear at Mad Place, for the “Working Woman.” the Communist organ of the work- | against wage-cuts and sped-up. ing women of this country. Among the many delightful num- bers on the program will be songs of the Soviet Union, Negro work songs by Charles Burroughs, revo- lutionary dances by Lily Mehlman | and a group of children dancers from Kinderland, mass_ singing, workers’ movies, etc. There will also be dancing and refreshments. Admission is fifty cents. The affair is held in connection with the drive of the Working Woman for a $2,000 Sustaining Fund and for 1,000 new subscribers. Mobilize the workers of your October 21st demonstration 100 per BAZAAR COMMITTEE MEETS SATURDAY. There will be a meeting of the Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Com- mittee of Cloak and Dress Makers Saturday, 1 p. m., at the office of the U. T. W. I. U., 131 W. 28th St. All active cloak and dressmakers are welcome. many women in the shop where you work, who receive less wages for the same work, understand the need The folowing appeal was issued yesterday by the Working Woman: | gle? How many have of your! and spoken to on the basis of their mothers | special problems? share your views about the capi-/ We can win the women of talist system and the, establishment | United States for our movement, of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov-| just as the Russian women were ernment in the United States? How’ won for the revolution sympathizers, how many wives, sisters, daughters, Organize Welcome of Foster, Minor, Amter| NEW YORK.—The announcement that Foster, Minor and Amter for organization and militant strug-| you ap-| Communist Party members andj proached with the Working Woman, | the | ir release, October 21st, by a dem- onstration at Madison Square Garden has aroused great enthusiasm f thousands of workers who have Square and have listened to Foster, | rs, will joyfully welcome the dele- midst. It is now time for the revo- || workers of every shop and factory, || ison Square Garden in a body, with flags and signs, voicing the demands for unemployment insurance, shop in order to turn out to the cent. |N.T.W.LU. LAST 2 | DAYS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union an- nounces special features for Satur- day and Sunday at Camp Nitge- daiget. These are the last two days of a ten day management of this workers’ camp by the industrial | union, all proceds going to the} union’s quota of the Trade Union Unity League “Organize and Strike Fund” of $100,000. The union reports some 800 work- | ers attending Tuesday and Wednes- | day, and expects at least as many | |on the last two days, today and to- | morrow. Tammany Leader, $15,000,000 Thiet Rules Queens from Luxurious Cell By ALLAN JOHNSON Jof his former constituents. | _ It is not in Tweed, or Kelly, or| The fact that Harvey is nominal- Croker, or Walker, or Roosevelt,| or Smith that the Daily Worker is interested. It is only in what they) stand for an] the manner in which | they and their masters combine to! exploit the masses. An expose of | | Tammany Hall is in reality, then, a| description of how a capitalist gov- | ernment functions when the work- ers have been “allowed” the right to vote; of how’ it utilizes the press | and the church and the schools and | | corrupt “representatives of the peo- | ple” to create the illusion that the masses are being given the right to elect their own officials when they, vote for such hypocritical theives as Al Smith and Jimmy Walker and others of their ilk. | Convict Still Rules Queens Tammany leaders, but their methods remain the same. Today the honorable Mr. Connolly, who was formerly borough president of | | Queens, resides in his palatial cell, |in an East River island jail, where | he was sent for one year after) stealing more than $15,000,000) from Queens residents. Mr. Con- = nolly is provided with all the luxu-|ly borough president of Queens ries of a Park Avenue parasite.|doesn’t mean very much, even From his very comfortable cell,| though Connolly is a democrat and > IFTAM SAFE 1 DOW7| CARE Alto DROWNS! | ———— | rob together, as the republican and ' democrattic parties have long since learned to do. Foster, Minor, Amter, Lesten and Raymond were, unfortunately for Connolly, put in the same jail as| the Queens Tammany leader, and workers in New York had an op- portunity to see close at hand how capitalist class-justice operates. Connolly was given a year for stealing $15,000,000. The represen- tatives of 100,200 unemployed:~"~*- | ers were given minmum sei |of six months for demand) { effect, that some part of af | $15,000,000 as well: as the other | untold millions stolen by Tammany, be given to the workers in the form of unemployment insurance and im-| | mediate relief. | Wealthy Prisoners Pampered | Fifty years ago the same story | could be told. The treatment given| to wealthy prisoners was an impor-| PLOT AGAINST U.S.S.R. Bare Frauds of Congressional Committee on Day After Its New York Sessions Kopman, Anti-Soviet Liar, a Swindler; U JURY COMMENDS THE FAILURE T2 STOP LYNCHING Dicks Protect Him Fi ,Accusation of Rape Falls Flat THOMASVILLE, Ga., Sept. 26.— Two new developments occurred to- day in connection with the lynching yesterday of the 20-year old Negro youth, Willie Kirkland, which fur- ther serve to expose the role of the bosses and their state machinery in the lynching terror against the Ne gro workers The first development came with the forced admission of city officials that Willie Kirkland was confined in a convict camp and worked on the chain gang every day and that he therefore could not have had the | opportunity for the alleged attack on | a nine-year-old white girl. Even the | warden at the convict camp reluct- ently admitted that Kirkland was in sight of the guards druing the en- tire day on which the attack was supposed to have been made. The second development, offering (Continued on Page 5) GIN BEFORE FISH COMMITTEE. Defends Communist) +s “om Summons Server NEW YORK ouncing the mperi r plotters and their Fish Com ee hearings which re- opened here yesterday as a confer- ence of stool pigeons who are out to app’ ate another five million dollars in graft under the cloak of tigating “red” activities in or- der to increase t campaign of fascist terror against the workers’ militant organizations in this coun- try de by with the attack against the Soviet Uni the ends of the Soviet Union, New District, is making final prep- arations for the monster demonstra- tion in defe f the Soviet Union which takes pl p. m. at Star ( and 107th J. Olgin, editor St he Morning Fri heit; Dr. E. Reed Mite and Prof. L. Carey, who have just returned m the Max Be- acht, tee of the Commur lentire, and o' includes the full Fre: Verein, whict and Ri n, cartoons Gropper, Burck, The Friends of the Soviet Union, New York Distri requests work- ers from the shops and unions to come in delegations and bring their banners which will be g in the hall. program eit Gesangs will sing in Engli by Gellert, The Fish Committee sessions be- gan yesterday with a long wait, the igned in the Department of Justice Building at Lexington Ave. and 41st St. gradually filling with subpoenaed White Guard Russians us to tell more lies against the cers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, but with the four chairs set for the F Committee significantly empty for hours. The room is the same tiny one | used in the last sessions here, but Position NEW YORK.—M. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, Jewish language Communist paper, was subpoenaed and appeared yesterday! for over two hours’ testimony be- fore the Fish Committee. Olgin started to read a prepared statement, but got only as far as “There are 8,000,000 unemployed! workers in the United States .. .”| when the committee stopped him.| They didn’t want to hear about the mess capitalism has made in the United States. Instead they tried to get him to “answer yes or no,” to such questions as: “If there is a Communist Government in the United States will the American flag be abolished? Will it join the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-| lies ? To these Olgin replied that was up tothe workers. Another series of questions was along a line to deprive Olgin of citi- | Connolly still controls the fortunes| Harvey is a republican. They both| Zenship; such as, “Oo you defend the Red Flag or the American flag?” Olgin refused to answer, saying that these were only propaganda ques- tions, and his citizenship was not on trial at present. Another series of propaganda questions took the line of: “Is it true that a Russian worker al- lowed only 30 wives?” Olgin ex- posed the fraud here, and told the committee soething about capitalist morality in the United States be- fore they could stop him. Communist Position. Olgin managed, under difficulties, | ' to'set forward the Communist posi- tion on abolition of capitalism, for- mation of militant unions, waging of a struggle by jobless and em- ployed workers for unemployment insurance and lower wages and shorter hours. | Before Olgin’s testimony a rep- | resentative cf William Green, presi- dent of the A. F. of L., told a wild story about Moscow gold, and said/ the number of chairs set for the public at what is reputed to be a public hearing has been increased from 12 to 27. When the session finally got un- der way, a shady character named Aaron Kopman was inside to “tes: tify” against the Soviet Unions The Department of Justice men chased out of the hallway a man with a summons for Kopman who, accord- ing to the summons server, had left suddenly for Europe after having swindled several thousands of dol- lars. Kopman has three daughters, according to the summons server, who are so disgusted with his rot- ten actions that they refuse to rec- ognize him and have changed their names. Kopman was of such @ character that the workers of the Soviet Union had to put him in After his release, he sold ng series of articles to the Hearst papers. Kopman was ob- served by workers barred from the to be fraternizing with discredited former Am- 2 FOOD WORKERS ARE SENT TO JAIL; HOLD BIG: MEETS NEW YORK.--In Special Ses- sions Court yesterday in the Bronx two workers of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, John Mirable and Matulick, were sentenced to 20 days’ imprisonment on an assault charge. The case had been post- poned repeatedly until today. This was the outcome of a demonstra- tion in front of a bakery on Aller- ton Ave., Bronx, late in May, where a strike conducted by the Food Workers Industrial Union was in progress. A very important meeting of the Bronx and Brooklyn Sections will take place Monday night, Sept. 29, tant source of tribute for Tam- | he knew his facts because an A. F.| at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and many. There was a xed scale of | | prices for those convicts who could} | afford to pay for special privileges. | They were fixed by that same “re- form” mayor, Hugh Grant, who gained such a wide reputation for | honesty when he turned down a| (Continued on Page 5) of L. representative was allowed by the department of justice to sit for| ix weeks in their rooms and take down all the D, of J. data. Djamegaroff testified, reporting| that Sen Katayama is head of the| American Section of the Communist | International. Trving Place, at 8 o’clock sharp. Theer will be a membership meet- ing of the Manhattan Section, Cafe- teria Department, of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, at | 8 o'clock sharp.