The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930 Page Five INTERNATIONAL | YELLOW UNION LEADERS IN FRANCE 2.000 at Cuba Meet Protest SPEED BETRAYAL OF MASS STRIKE Mee! Protest Unite With Employers Against the Workers; | Communists Expose Sell-Out | HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 25 | More than one thousand workers | ot a mass-meeting against the PARIS. — The reformist trade, ward by a group of employers Machado bloody terror passed a union leaders wanted to liquidate; the reformists even dared to talk) resolution demanding that all Ehecain, akon taehiaoe cs of a breach in the front of the| workingclass political prisoners Rpm He al Sores | employers as the result of the! jailed by the Cuban Wall Street By BOT pete 5 Niwas Be Ny A stoke, | government be released. It also possible without revealing their) The fact however is that the pro-| protested against deportations, treachery and without appealing to | posal is favorable to everybody, to| and demanded that the Cuban sec- the workers to return to work. In the employers, to the government,| tion of the Int‘l Labor Defense jand peasants, and the preparations | semeste: | Soviet Union. Lille the reformist leaders declared the strike off in return for a vague promise from the employers. How- ever the result of this treacrery was unfavorable to the reformists and to the reformists, except the be permitted to function legally. workers. In order to throttle the) The resolution also denounced strike the reformists have caused| Yankee imperialism and called { the proposal to be adopted by the) upon all workers and peasants trade union officials although it| to unite in a struggle against the Youngstown Workers School Opens Oct. 13, at the Workers Hall YOUNGSTOWN, O.—With the development of the revolutionary movement, with the continual in- crease of the demand of new cad- res of revolutionary leadership, it was necessary to establish a per- manent workers school, where we will be able to give the necessary theoretical training to the revolu- tionary workers, who will take the leading part on the more and more wide importance. They show not on- | developing class struggle. ly the radicalization of the workers} ‘The school is divided into two rs. First semester will start the capitalists are making for their | classes Monday, Oct. 13, 7.30 p. m. fascist dictatorship, but they also! at the Workers Hall, 34 E. Federal sharpen the international conflicts | and will continue to hold it every and the danger of war against the| Monday once a week until the A revision of the) middle of January. ? Versailles Treaty is demanded, a re-| he second semester will vision of the reparation payments 15| +. first of February on the order of the day. German| “An workers who want to mien imperialism is determined to reestab- | 446 school can register with Com- | rade Fradin every Monday night at the Workers Hall. DO AS GERMAN WORKERS DID! Appeal of Jailed Job- less Leaders Continued From Page 1) } orship against the fascist dictator- ship! The German elections are of world- start lish itself; it is demanding colonies, | the wiping out of treaties, the clear- ing of the debts, so it can build it- Self again into a mighty power by inf series of forums, the first of retaining for itself the billions that Cs Latin which will be held Sunday night, The school also is arranging a|) PROVES EAST COAST CONFER. CE SHOWS REVOL OF LONGSHOREM (Continued. A worker sums up the discussion | for the National Committee, and the | i following demands and points in the| program of action are unonimously agreed to: came in a commendation by the cor-| Larger gangs, at least 22 men to oner’s jury of the sheriff for not |* 8878; smaller drafts, size to be JURY AP GA.LYNCHING “ LL.D. Investigator in| Thomasville ca a if | there was the and Continued From Page 1) more conclusive evidence tle or, | workers they want steps mus’ even against the bosses and their state, Ww SAT E N set by dock e ittee; s up out | Ship commi derendines tuaeNeerooriionst set by dock committee; shaps up out) ship co of union hall, insuring work for | coastw “We wish to commend the sheriff |every man; equal pay for equal | to enforce 2 for the quiet and orderly manner in | Work for deep water and coastwise| called at a men; increase in wages, $1 minimum | workers wa wage per hour; double time for all| ready to s work over 8 hours; special rates for! Imm | dangerous cargo; for unemployment| made tc and old-age insurance. lon str er incitation to lynching, no clearer | _1—The mobilization, organization | from y ruction to prison officials that | 8nd preparation of the longshoremen| deep water y are not to interfere in the | for strike through the formation of | of Philad lynching terror against the | dock committees and committees of| tee of ac > workers! This notorious in- | action. citement is in line with the official, _2—Concentration and intensifica- sanction of lynching by the govern- | tion of our activities on docks where | which he handled the angry crowd at the jail and stockade and for the prevention of other bloodshed.” ne Than this there could be no plain men on t e/a |to prepare for it must pay to the Allies and that it Oct. 12 at the Workers Hall, 334) ment of the State of Arkansas which the situation is ripe for struggle to| 3 basis or so that they were unwilling to do this again. | Laval and a number of other textile employers have come for- ward with a new proposal which yas undoubtedly been worked out cogether with the reformists. Ac- cording to this proposal there shall be no wage increase and only a slight increase of the so-called “loyalty premium“ against which the workers have fought so bitter- includes none of the demands of| Wall Street regime of Machado. | the workers. It means a demago- | gic betrayal of the strikers. How |a captaincy for one of their friends. the strikers will take this peice of | Citizens who complained of being treachery is not yet clear. In any} £ ., conics ‘case the workers have realized the | robbed were | Given: @ beating ae | necessity of a revolutionary strug- | lice stations for complaining. A gle against the bourgeoisie and| small group of Tammany leaders, against the reformist leaders who|including State Senator Sullivan and Chief of Police Devery, col- are the most loyal supporters of |lected more than $3,000,000 from ~ i | | | | the bougeoisie. The task of the French Communist Party will be to takes out of the hides and lives of the workers. Italy, Hungary and Lithuania are not satisfied. New alignments are taking place and a new imperialist war will soon break out along the path of the overthrow of the Soviet Government the im- perialists will try to hold the booty of the last war and grant new spoils to the dissatisfied imperialists. The German Communists declared for repudiating of all war debts, for E. Federal St. JOBLESS FORCED TO EAT GARBAGE Continued From Page 1) | recently offered $300 apiece, dead or | €force our demands. alive, for two Negro workers who| 31M preparation for strike to had escaped the mob that lynched | ise the $2,000 “Organize and Strike ; Fund” of the Marine Workers’ In- | dustrial Union, as a part of the| Rhe aan ce $100,000 fighting fund of the Trade| to the Texas Rangers forbidding | Union Unity League. | them to shoot to protect George, ,4—Preparation to broaden out Hughes who was roasted to death| Strike, to involve other docks and| in the Sherman jail, and with the|Ports and the developing of the| action of the officials in Marion, | UMited front from below by drawing| conference will tions must be made the pc shoremen employed MacCormi Philadelp! Our union in neglecting the seamen. at once be re taken to draw the union, three members of the Robinson fam- ily on July 5 and 6. It is in line with Governor Moody se ly. In order to support the pro- | posal the rumor was spread that the 10,000 workers of the combing | | gambling houses alone in a short time. strengthen itself organizationally as the result of this great wage movement and to work in the fac- During the period when Ameri the others. He is tipped off, so the| Ind, of first inciting the mob|in the rank and file of the reaction-| story goes, by a friend who works] against two Negro youths held in|@‘Y Unions. | on a garbage truck, where the best | prison, and then leaving wide open e haul may be made. This is usually| the gate of the prison and the|/+ L. A. and I. W. W. leadership. annulment of all treaties. Leading 4,500,000 revolutionary workers and peasants, they are ready with their All available forces 5.—Expose the fascist role of the|centrated in Phil: the most As the proposal had been put for- and the reformist leaders. thought of the new development. | TAMMANY BOSS STEALS $15,000,000 Continued From Page 1) $22,000 bribe and later was proved | to be as crooked as his colleagues. | For $40 a prisoner was alowed to| }go to a theater. For $15 he could }bet clean sheets every night, The| h right to leave a jail for an entire | day cost a little more, $100. For leaving the prison from Friday to| the following Monday, the cost was $1,000. A certain Ivins, who spent a week in the Ludlow St. jail be- cause of an unusually crooked busi- ness deal, later admitted that his | week in jail cost him $10,000. Those workers who are today) throwing bricks through windows in| order that they may be sent to} jail and be certain of a lice-infested bed and garbage-food, had better reconsider. It takes money to live decently in a capitalist jail: “Legal” Graft and $5,000 Bulldogs In 1886, Richard Croker, Tam- many boss for 20 years, was a pen-| niless gangster. Seven years later he had a $250,000 stock farm of} race horses, an $80,000 Fifth Ave. | house, a $5,000 bulldog, paid $12,-) 000 yearly to one of his jockeys and traveled to California in a private! car. Among Croker’s “clients” were the New York Telephone Co., the Flushing Gas Co. and numerous million-dollar contracting com- panies. Contracting was just then becom- ing the great source of Tammany) | Croker replied that he liked it and that he was in favor of having |everyone shot who couldn’t speak English. Much like the Greens and Wolls of the A. F. of L. Croker | was accustomed to blood. While he | was serving his apprenticeship as a gangster, the only man who ever beat him in a fight was found two | days later in a railroad tunnel with both legs cut off. dens, and criminals was discontin- ued. Far from it. But graft from jcontracts wis more “legal.” And there was much less of a scandal when a disgruntled politician would “squeal” in revenge. Today the “illegal” graft that Tammany exacts would amount to no more than $100,000,000. And Tammany Hall would starve to death on that. Why bother with tribute from 1,000 brothels when | | Croker finally died, and was suc- ceeded by Charles Murphy. There| is little to differentiate him from one contract such as the Equitable | 11. poss who preceded him. He! Bus deal, can yield as much. A ‘, ck : jsplit graft with the republicans, Al Smith has learned a good/ ran several “reform” candidates | deal from Croker, his political g04- | who father. Today Al and a few of his}! friends own the Court St. Building. | It is filled with city and state bureaus. They pay from three to five times more for rent than the other’ tenants, Croker likewise} From Murphy on, Tammany Hall owned a building occupied in large} has permitted more and more of the part by city and state officials.| “petty” graft to be collected by its They also paid several times more} P0lice force and has concentrated for the space than it was worth.|0m obeying the orders of finance This is what Tammany calls “le-| capital. But this “petty” graft is gal” graft. |not despised. Murphy himself Again like the present occupants|°W"ed one of the most expensive of the Hall, Croker and his repub- houses of prostitution in New York licean “enemies” carried out many and Tammany judges are not un- of their operations in common. acquainted with the 1980 variety, Croker had always opposed the which pay heavy tribute to police turned crooked the moment | they were elected, and made mil-| lions out of water, gas, railroads, subways, schools, and garbage con- tracts, with them in smashing the Young Plan, in annulling the war debts! Do as they did on Sept. 14. On November 4th we American revolutionary workers, suffering from unemployment, hunger, wage- cuts, speed-up with our starving chil- dren looking into our faces must march to the polls and cast Commun- ist votes. Pile up so many votes that the capitalists and so-cial-fascist so- cialists will know that the American workers are beginning their march, their hard struggle towards the goal that the revolutionary workers and peasants of Germany are approach- ing—the establishment of a Soviet— @ Workers and Farmers Government of the United States. Vote Communist! tionary class! Join the revolu- struggle of class against Join the Communist Party! WM. Z. FOSTER, IS. AMTER, ROBERT MINER, HARRY RAYMOND, captains. But on the whole Tam- many has kept abreast of tl.e ex- pansion of capitalist industry and “puts over” deals today that would have amaze! the more uncouth rob- bers of the Tweed era, (The next article in this series will deal with corruption in New York at the present time.) building of a subway in New York because he owned stock in the “L” lines. Platt, republican boss of} New York State, wanted the sub- way because of the fat contracts it would provide. Croker refused to budge from his position until Platt promised him some of the con- tracts. When Croker got them, the subway was built. Under Croker, cops paid $300 for| their jobs, sergeants paid $1,500) are giving their VINTAGE F graft. Not that the plunder from houses of prostitution, gambling and captains $15,000. Criminals} often collected $15,000 and bought | Comraades Come Tonight For the Benefit of Jewish Colo; Saturday, Septemb TOWN Tickets for Sale After 3 o'clock “ICOR CONCERT” 113-123 West 43rd Street, New York Tickets 75 cents; $1.00; $1.50 and $2.00, “ICOR,” 799 Broadway, New York to the Moving Pictures Will be TIONAL COSTU in Biro Bidjan, U. S. 5. RB. THE UJ ELORE CONFERENCE, THE NEW YORK HUNGARIAN WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH in the Bohemian Hall Second and Woolsey Avenues, ASTORIA, L. I. FIRST CLASS ENTERTAINMENT! BOWLING MATCH—NA- oMES AND DANCES — MUST — GRAPE STEALING AND OTHER INTERESTING DOUBLE UNION ORCHESTRA Tickets in advance 0 cents—at the Box Office 60 cents, annual great ESTIVAL Taken of the Festival FEATURES way to Hoyt Ave, Station. The Hall is ‘rom there. or Sut two blocks f ARTEF Freiheit in Mandolin “Luftmenchen” Orchestra a una tame serve’ | sca gaeueeh a SHAE by STE Ry Conductor MUSIC EDITH SEGAL ae ALL INSTRUMENTS Music by and | SINGER apes AH? AN LAHN ADOUMY. prdaitam is NEW ‘SONGS Instructors to be announced er 27, at 8:15 p. m. HALL Branch Schools in Bronx, Harlem, D REGISTRATIONS at the Town Hall Box Office. 10 East 17th Si W. I. R. Workers School of Music and the Dance Courses Classes Begin October 15. Lowest Proletarian Prices WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF, Local N. Y. DANCING Dancing in all its forms. Music Appreciation Eurythmics Instructors: EDITH SEGAL NADIA CHILKOVSKY LILY MEHLMAN jowntown, Manhattan, and Brooklyn RECEIVED AT t., Manhattan | his class, these workers are bums | sites, departments had put it forward.| tories to see that the lessons of} i ae se |lives to defend the Soviet Union| at a certain club in the city. doors of the cell in which the| 6—Secure the support of the! strike the ons Here the reformists stepped in,| the present defeat are utilized to)C@n imperialism was beginning tojagainst all attacks and to set up! “The rest of the boys heard! victims were held. jseamen and unions of the Trade|a grave mistake to 1 took up the proposal and present-|lead the proletariat to final vic-|CTush the life out of the Latin|their own Soviet Government, about it, and yesterday morning a| LL-D.. Issues Statement i LCRAU ive eaeu, pentose Le Dor ed it as extremely favorable and a/ tory against the trinity of the) American republics, Croker was) American Workers! Follow the| group of six waited for the cans| phe nationst wifing te inn “Int Agen oneemieshon Ob Wie Wenge) Boreau musty CoN moral victory for the workers.| bourgeoisie, the bourgeois state|asked by a reporter what he|path of the German workers! Unite|to be carried out. But the gar ‘abor Defense annoumess |Storemen unemployed for months in-| and take the neces 3 |national Labor Defense announces bage truck arrived at the very mo-| that Jennie Cooper has left Atlanta ment that the cans were put out.| go Thomasville, Ga, to make a For half an hour the men argued) fut] investigation of this latest it out on the curb, protesting what! jynching. It also declares its full they considered bad sportsmanship.| support of the anti-lynching week “Then, since there was nothing) announced by the American Negro to do about it, they took up less! Tabor Congress for the week of fortunate positions near less im-| Sent, 27 to Oct. 5, and calls upon Posing restaurants, turned up their qj] workers to rally to the struggle suit coat collars, and waited.| against lynching. The statement Finally the cans eame clattering) follows in part: out. Men ripped off the covers and began delving.” This bourgeois writer dares to tell the workers thrown out on the streets by the bosses to starve that they cannot be “too fas- tidious.” To him and the rest of Negroes and white workers; Or- | ganize self-defense corps against the b s Iynch mobs! Defend the Negro workers against the bosses terror. Support the convention of the American Negro Labor Con- gress called for St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 15 and 16 to mobilize the | working class for the struggle against lynching! Support the local | anti-lynching conferences now Workers! Don’t starve! Fight!|ing held by the A.N.L.C.! Rally Assert your right to live! Sup-| to the defense of the six Atlanta port the Communist demand for| defendants, two of whom go on social insurance of $25 a week to) trial next Tuesday in an atmosphere every jobless worker, with $5 addi-| of lynching terror! tional for every dependent! Vote) struggle for full political, economic Communist in the coming elec-| and social equality and for the tion! Make the September 28 un-| right of the Negro masses in the employment conferences the starting| South to have their own form of point for the organization of mili-| government! Vote against the boss- tant dmonstrations in every Amer-jes and their lynching terror in the ican city during the coming coming state and municipal elec- months. Don’t starve! Fight! tions! Vote Communist! | “ARMORED CRUISER POTEMKIN” WORLD FAMOUS FILM scrambling for the filthy, germ- laden leavings of the rich para- | FOR BETTER VALUES IN MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S —— Suits and Overcoats go to PARK GLOTHING STORE 93 Avenue A, Cor. Sixth St. { Also Comedy and Russian Newsreel | Sunday, October 5 — One Day Only! CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P. M. ADMISSION 50c, Children 15¢ Ukrainian Labor Hall, 57 Beacon St., Newark, N. J. DEPATMENT OF CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, W. I. R. } Auspices: WORKMEN’S SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1881—INCORPORATED 1890 Main Office: 714-716 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood Sta., Brooklyn, N. Y. Over 61,000 Members in 348 Branches Reserves on December 31, 1929: $3,158,239.43 Benefits paid since its existence: Death Benefit: $4,399,910.97 Sick Benefit: $10,776,619.01 Total: $15,176,529.98 Workers! Protect Your Families! In Case of Sickness, Accident or Death! Death Benefit according to the age at the time of initiation in one or both classes: CLASS A: 40 cents per month—Death Benefit $355 at the age of 16 to $175 at the age of 44. CLASS B: 50 cents per month—Death Benefit $550 to $220. Parents may insure their children in case of death up to the age of 18 Death Renefit according to age $20 to $200. Sick Benefit patd from the first day of filing the doctor's certificate. $9 and $15, respectively, per week, for the first forty weeks, half of the amount for another forty weks, Sick Benfits for women: $9 per week for the first forty weeks: $4.50 each for another forty weeks, For further information apply at the Main Office, Willlam Spuhr, National Secretary, or to the Financial Secretaries of the Branches. be-| Support the) to the unemployed councils to sup-| cannot now fool around. port strike and for a struggle for| ganization of t unemployment relief. the strike must be t 8.—The establishment of Workers’| most in our min efense Corps. | must be of 9.—The utilization and support of | The preparation @ workers’ press—Marine Work-| Philadelphia wat D | th secor \ers’ Voice, Labor Unity and the| forst des ing else, If we Daily Worker—as instruments for} fail to realize this we fail in our mobilizing support of all workers. | duty to our union and our n Our Tasks. bers and on our shoulders rest This conference, although guilty! the responsibility. of many shortcomings was never-| All available forces to Ph la- theless a genuine rank and file con-| delphia. ference. The opinion expressed (THE END.) { IN MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD The October Revolution and the successful completion of the first two years of the Five-Year Plan will be celebrated by Red Army Parades and Demonstrations of many hundreds of thousands of workers. The groups sent by the World Tourists on a Five-Year-Plan-Tour across the Soviet Union will witness the celebrations and will see the third year of the Plan get into swing. Sailing: October 15 on the MAURETANIA and October 15 on the EUROPA. SPECIAL PRICES for particulars: WORLD TOURISTS 175 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. Tel. Algonquin 6656 (Tickets to All Parts of the World) ‘A million and one PROLETARIA Don’t buy now, you will get it articles sold at N PRICES at the Bazaar MADISON DAILY WORKER--MORNING FREIHEI1I BAZAA QUARE GARDEN Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, October 2, 3, 4 and 5 ’ ORGANIZATIONS SPEED UP YOUR WORK IN THESE LAST FEW DAYS!