The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 6

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(Imprisoned Member of the Unemployed Delegation.) itely linked with the industrial crisis, has thrown 8,000,000 out of work to s the agrarian crisis, which has ruined hundreds of thousands of poor farmers. 1 over America poor farmers are either re to the most destitute circumstances or driven from their farms into the ranks of he unemployed industrial workers through re to market their products at a price at will cover rent, taxes and living neces- sities. The number of farms in Iowa alone has de ereased 20,000 since the census ten years ago, tn the South, where the effects of the indus- trial and agrarian crisis have been felt heav- jest, there has been for some time a general exodus of ruined farmers to the new indus- trial centers, where only a small section of the working population can find work under the most miserable conditions, for wages of the lowest existing level. Hoover “Admitted” Farmers’ Plight. Hoover's Committee of Recent Economic Ch reported, after making a study of @ ection of poor tenant farmers, that the income of tenant ayer yearly net cash farmers in the United States is $204. This re- po: however, was made before the crisis reached a low level. And then, too, Mr. Hoover saw to it that the figures were juggled to favor the bosses for whom he is the chief lackey. The present average cash yearly income of poor tenant farmers in the United States is now much lower than $204, b How Many Farmers Have Tractors? F’ The cause of this situation is to be found | im the capitalist system of production and dis- tribution. The new means of farm produc- tion—machinery, tractors, etc.—are now en- tirely in the hands of the rich capitalist farm- ers. Only one-fifth of the farmers in America *-the rich capitalist farmers—own tractors, The introduction of this machinery has in- creased the productivity of the agricultural workers working on the capitalist farms and reduced the cost of production for rich farm- ers. The price of farm produce has there- fore dropped and a tremendous overproduction of farm commodities has clogged the market. The American carry-over of wheat has piled up to a record height of 265,000,000 bushels. Few farmers can produce wheat and other farm products to sell at the present prices and escape ruin. Only the rich capitalist farmers, who own the machinery and exploit the agricultural workers at miserably low wages, reap the profits of agriculture. Forced To Sell Below Cost. Four-fifths of the farmers—the poor farm- ers who work with their own hands and own little or no machinery—are forced to sell their products below the cost of production. Four fifths of the farmers in the United States, therefore, face ruin, misery and starvation. In the Soviet Union, however, where the workers and farmers rule, we have quite a different picture. There the tractor is within the means of the great bulk of peasants (poor farmers) combined in collective farms, and only the Kulaks (exploiting farmers) cannot afford it. The peasant in the Soviet Union is being rapidly raised to the new and dignified position of a collective and cooperative agri- cultural worker, There is no problem of overproduction in the Soviet Union. The peasants on the collective farms, which are the basis of Soviet agricul- tural economy, are producing for cooperative and collective use and not for the speculator’s profit, as in the U. S. A. In the Soviet Union the bulk of peasants benefit by the new farm mechanization and not the rich few as in America and other capitalist countries. Planned socialist production and distribu- tion is the basis of industrial and agricultural economy in the Soviet Union, whereas indus- trial and agricultural anarchy and all its dire consequences exist in every capitalist country in the world. The peasants, like the indus- trial workers in the Soviet Union, are building up socialism and marching toward Communism, where each will give according to his ability and receive according to his needs. The poor farmers of America have a lesson to learn from the peasants in the Soviet Union. They must join with the industrial and agri- cultural workers to fight for immediate relief and for a Soviet Government in America. What's This Cry About Moscow? Tn the face of the above facts showing that the farmers have been ruined by the banks, corporations and grain speculators, and by the capitalist system as a whole, it is ridicu- lous to hear the new cry against “Moscow.” Moscow” is “ruining” the farmers of the United States, who otherwise have enjoyed prosperity and happiness. . . . “Moscow” did it all with the aid of seven million bushels of grain! Just as the red baiting of the Fish Commit- tee is one of the means to draw away the attention of the unemployed workers from the issues of unemployment, wage cuts and speed- up, s0 is the Washington administration now trying to make the farmer believe that every- thing is O. K. under capitalism and that all his troubles have begun on Sept. 9th, the day “Moscow” decided to “ruin” him. The Wash- ington administration knows that the farmer who has been suffering all these years and who has been fooled at every election cam- paign is now beginning to see the light. The farmer is learning about collectivization in the Soviet Union. He is learning how the Soviet Government is supplying the farmers with tractors and other machinery and is helping them to raise their crops which belongs to them. That’s why Mr. Hyde, Hoover’s secre- tary, “for” agriculture, has raised the ridicu- lous issue of the “reds,” and the Fish Com- mittee which has wound up its first act last July with very little publicity among the work- ers, is now trying to influence the farmers of the United States. The Communist Party and the United Farm- ers’ Educational League must now strengthen their propaganda among tarmers in order to combat the vicious propaganda of Hyde-Fish and their like. The Communist Party and the United Farm- ers’ Educational League are organizing the poor farmers to fight with the industrial and agricultural workers for immediate relief from suffering brought about by both natural or economic causes, to fight for unemployment in- surance and against the whole capitalist system. The Communist Party has put up working class candidates for the coming elections. They are all tried and proven fighters for the work: ing class and poor farmers. These candidates will fight for the farmers, Farmers! Vote for them! Join the United Farmers’ Educa- tional League! Vote Communist! The Election Campaign in Wisconsin as ’ “seers By LEO FISHER (Written in Milwaukee county Jail) In the republican primaries in Wisconsin, held September 16, Phil LaFollette was se- lected as the party candidate for governor by a majority of more than a hundred thousand votes over Kohler—which marks a decisive victory for the so-called progressives over the regulars. Governor Kohler, himself a big manufac- turer, was backed by the bankers, manufactur- ers, public utility corporations—in short by big business. He campaigned under the out- worn slogan of “Hoover prosperity” para- phrased in “Kohler prosperity.” His over- whelming rejection by the voters proves that more subtle arguments are necessary to fool the workers and poor farmers in these “pros- perous” times, with scores of thousand of workers unemployed, and farmers bankrupt by wholesale. His victorious opponent, Phil LaFollette, failing under the so-called “progressive” ban- ner, put up all the Don Quixote pretences of “fighting” the monsters of the trusts, the money-powers, the public utility corporations, etc, who in his eyes are choking the “dear people.” With the growing misery of unem- ployment, the ruthless wage-cutting campaign, the ruining of the poor farmers, and the bank- ruptcy of the urban petty-bourgeoisie as the effects of the fierce economic crisis, it was not a difficult task for LaFollette and his cohorts to prove that the noise about prosperity was nothing but pure bunk, a sheer mockery in face of the growing misery and poverty of the masses. But his own program had nothing to offer to the unemployed workers and impov- erished farmers. To the hard pressed urban petty bourgeoise, he held out the bubble of legislation “against chain stores,” against chain banks,” against the trusts,” against public utilities, corporations,” etc. With this prtence of fighting the trusts and the bankers, with his fake farm relief prom- ises, promises of tax-reduction, and fake promises of unemployment relief, he was still able to fool a large portion of workers and poor farmers. The trade union bureaucrats split on the question of supporting LaFollette. Bill Green himself leading that section which is supporting him, while the Socialist Party is towing that opposition which is supporting the socialist candidate. Within the S. P. itself, a struggle took place between the “right” and so-called “left wing,” over the question whether they should form a coalition with the “progressive forces,” that is the bourgeoisie, or whether they should put up independent candidates. Hoan (Hokum), mayor of Mil- to ditch the name of socialist, and merge com- pletely with the bourgeoisie. The so-called “left wing,” led by Benson and others, con- sidered that in these times of acute crisis and general radicalization of the working masses, the workers and poor farmers could most ef- fectively be fooled with radical phrases and pseudo-working class program. These fakers, who themselves helped suppress the working class demonstrations, are now holding forth promises of fake unemployment relief. Under the circumstances, the Communist Party is called upon to discharge its revolu- tionary duty. It has a tremendous role to play. Its task is to rally the workers and poor farmers everywhere in the general strug- gle against capitalism all along the line. The test of its political maturity will be shown in its ability to unmask successfully both the social fascists of the S. P. and the fake pro- gressives of the LaFollette movement. Will the tens of thousands of workers who fought under the revolutionary banner of the C. P. in the unemployed demonstrations that were held repeatedly in Milwaukee and other indus- trial sections of the state,—will they now vote for the gang of fascists and social fascists that have attacked and suppressed these dem- onstrations, and sent many workers to prison? Or will they rally to the support of the only party of the working class—The Communist Party. This question will put the party to a real test, will show its ability to go among the masses, lead them in their struggles, and infuse them with the consciousness of their own class. To fail in this respect will mean that we are too amateurish to take the proper advantages of our influence among the work- ing masses. That the Party’s influence has grown tremendously, to hitherto unheard of proportions, in this state, is beyond all doubt. Instances could be cited, especially among Negro workers, where the workers spontane- ously defended the Communist Party from the attacks of the enemy, and booed the socialist, democratic and republican speakers, The immediate thing to be done for every Party member and sympathizer is to go out and gather signatures to put on the ballot. Failure to put the party on the ballot, would be a disgrace to the Party, and a disappoint- ment to the workers, who look to the C. P. as their own. It would be a criminal neglect of our revolutionary duty to the working class. There is not much time left for this, so it is up to each Party member and sym- pathizer to go out and hustle for signatures. By no means can we afford to lose such an excellent opportunity as the election campaign leading the right wing, even wanted | to consolidate and strengthen the influence a ee Save Newton The Maryland Election and the Unemployed The workers of Baltimore are confronted with serious issues jn the coming elections. The attacks on the standard of living of the workers by the steel magnates of the Beth- lehem Steel Corporation, the railroad barons of the Baltimore and Ohio, chemical bosses, ete. are growing from day to day. In the steel mills wage cuts are taking place regular- ly almost every month with the speed up in- creasing to as much as 20 per cent. Thou- sands of workers are being continually laid of at the B. and O. In the chemical in- dustries wages are as low as 35 cents an hour. Unemployment in the city of Baltimore has reached to over 50,000, with the number in- creasing daily. Hundreds of evictions take place weekly. The misery of the workers, particularly of the Negro workers, is enor- mous. Lay on Burdens. In face of this, the city politicians who fear that the workers will turn away from the po- litical parties of the bosses, are proposing quack medicines for the unemployed. Eight measures are proposed to receive the unem- ployed situation, all of which will only re- sult in putting more burdens upon the work- ers. The committee which consists of Rabbis, politicians and Mr. Willard, president of the B. and O. R. R. (who, by the way, receives the full support from the A.F. of L. fakers) to solve the unemployed program. Some of the wonderful recommendations of this com- interests of the jobless!) are the setting up of “the principle of part-time employment” which will onty mean more unemployment and lay-offs, the “rousing of public conscience by press or pulpit” the aim of which is to keep the workers from struggling against present conditions, and finally the “organiza- tion of a commission” to study the unemployed situation and an “annual appropriation for the work of the commission.” The 50,000 jobless will keep on starving while the commission will be studying the “unemployment problem.” The fakers of the A. F. of L. are not only supporting these fake programs of the bosses but are even more brazen in trying to put the burden of unemployment on the backs of the workers. An outstanding example is the proposal of the A. F. of L. leaders to the rail- road workers in the B. and O. shops to pay one dollar a month from their wages to the Woll insurance agency. For a Real Fight. The Communist Party alone brings to the workers a genuine program for unemploy- ment relief through the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill which demands a min- imum of $25 per week for every unemployed worker and an additional $5 a week for every dependant of the unemployed worker to be paid by the government and bosses. The Communist Party is calling upon the workers and poor farmers in the State of Maryland to support the Communist program for the unemployed and to vote for the Communist candidates who are the only ones to fight for the program in the legislative bodies. A huge election rally is arranged by the Communist Party for Friday, Oct. 8, 8 p. m. at the Lithuanian Hall, 853 Hollins St. Com- rade Richard B. Moore of New York and the local candidates will address the meeting. The workers of Baltimore are asked to come to this rally and show their support to their Party in the coming elections. of the Party, by neglecting to get the neces- sary number of signatures. In this election campaign, the Party must come out stronger and firmer than ever before as the undisputed and only leader of the workers and poor farmers, “ mittee (which has very much at heart the | IN THE SHADOW OF THE GALLOWS BY BURCE. and Storey From the Lynch Terror of the Southern Bosses! Another Negro Paper Forced to _ Admit Sincerity ot Communists By CYRIL BRIGGS Another newspaper of the Negro petty bour- geoisie has been forced into an open admis- sion of the leftward tur: of the Negro masses and the whole of the Communst Party as the most fearless and consistent champion of the Negro masses in their struggle against the frightful oppression and lynching terror of the American bosses. Hails Expulsion of Chauvinists Hailing the expulsion from the Soviet Union of the two white American chauvinists, Lewis and Brown, for attackng a Negro worker in the mess hall of the Stalingrad tractor plant, the Chicago World admits that the Commu- nists “practise what they preach,” and that as a result the Communist Party of the U. S. A. “is gaining recruits throughout America wherever it is possible by preaching the doc- trine of equalty of all workers.” Ths admis- sion by the Chicago World is all the more significant in view of its record as one of the most vicious supporters of a few months ago of the bosses’ attacks upon the workngclass and upon the Communist program of militant struggle against the action of the bosses in throwing millions of workers on the streets to starve. Typical Petty Bourgeois Attitude. In its praise of the Communist program of full equality and freedom for the workers of all races, as against the imperialist policy of oppression of minority groups, the Chicago World adopts a typical petty bourgeois atti- tude. An attitude based on the cold fact that the Negro petty bourgeoisie does not seek lib- eration from oppression for the Negro masses, but simply a larger participation for their group in the brutal exploitation of these mas- ses. Praising the Communist world movement for its stand on full political, econmic and social equality for the Negroes, openly ad- mitting that the Communists “practise what they preach” and that “they have carried the fight into the heart of the Southland as wit- nessed in North Carolina, Georgia and Ala- bama,” the editors of the Chicago World hasten to crawl on their bellies before the white oppressing class with the assurance that “we do not preach the doctrine of Commun- ism.” Snivel on Boots of Oppressed These petty bourgeois editors then proceed to snivel upon the boot tips of the white op- pressors, wailing “why keep us down,” and peddling before the Negro masses the Booker Washington bunk that “you can’t keep the Negro in the ditch without staying down there Hail the Chinese revolution! A population of over 60 million people in China is already uncer the rule of the hammer and sickle. The Red Army is marching on. But the imperial- ists are planning intervention. American, Brit- ish and Japanese gunboats are “active” in China. The Communist Party is rallying the workers to the defense of the Chinese revolu- tion. Vote Communist! yourself.” In the meantime, on every hand, the white bosses are showing that they can damn well keep the Negro masses in the ditch while they live in luxury. The only ones who have to stay in the ditch alongside of the Negroes are the white workers, and it is the realization of this fact that is helping to rally tens of thousands of southern white workers to the Communist program of race equality and united struggle. In addition to the Booker Washington bunkum, the Chicago World ped- dles the usual religious illusions with which the bourgeoise always seek to weaken the struggles of the workers, offering pie in the sky when they are dead in “compensation” for being bled by the bosses with the aid of the preachers and other bunk-dispensers. Nor is it surprising to find the Chicago World referring to the Communist Party of the U. S. A. as “this foreign organization.” The Negro petty bourgeois traitors take their policies and orders from the white imperialist oppressors. The slander of a “foreign organization” is spread by the same boss press which slanders the Negro workers as “rapists” and Lrands the Negro race as inferior, but this means nothing to the Negro petty bourgeois misleaders who in carrying out the bosses policy of isolating the Negro masses even go to the extent of joining in the bosses attacks upon another oppressed group: the foreign born workers in this country. Negro workers! Repudiate the misleaders who, knowing the source of your oppression, treacherously refuse to fight the oppressors! Vote against the imperialist bosses and their oppression and lynching terror! Vote aganst high rents and unemployment, against dis- crimination and jim-crowism! Smash the lynching terror! Vote Communist in the ap- proaching state and municipal elections! Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond are in pri- son because they lead the unemployed demon- stration on March 6th, because they were trying to present the demands of the unem- ployed to the city administration of New York. Vote for Foster, Minor, Amter, Candidates on the Communist ticket. Vote Communist! Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. ROMO csacenscons. cuca Address ..ssscsseeeseecameces UNRYscsseceee Occupation Age...oee Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y. Tammany grafters go free—the Unemployed Delegation is in prison—Vote Communist! By JORGE The Nut Crisis There seems to be an over-production of nuts this Fall. Anyhow, we'll let you read our mail and see. We picked up a letter— better said a young pamphlet, of eight closely typed sheets, and felt rather pleased at the beginning, which began: “Editor Daily Worker: Dear Sir—Real- izing that you are one of the world’s fore- most thinkers . . .” This fellow knows what he’s talking about, we think. But he adds an annoying—“within a certain realm.” Which offends our monistic omniscience, s0 we look down to the foot of that page and see: “Space is cold and is shrinking to a very marked extent and matter is formed from space that shrunk to a point of heavy va- cuum and then flapped over trying to fill itself, with the unfilled space drawing it out, forming a lock known as the ‘atom’” This, we'll say is astonishing! So we turn to sheet 2, and read: “I have the earth cornered and it cannot get away. The reasons are those of space and quite apart from me, but it occurs to me that seeing as I think space thinks, it\ peculiarly enough seems exactly as if I were thinking with the suctions of the vast outside spaces, whose powers are those of things so much less than nothing that they draw and become gravity in earth and ‘wants’ and ‘boundless hungers’ in the things evolved so as to be able to walk.” Well, we quit! While we’re able to walk. Anyhow, if he has the earth cornered and it can’t get away, he’s doing better than the Business Office trying to collect for Daily Workers from District Organizers. . * . A Note Due Sept. 27 From York, Penn., the wires tell us that 8 merchant, visiting the farm of Harry Dietrich, to find out why Dietrich had not delivered some potatoes the merchant had bought from him, found a human sham- bles. Dietrich has strangled his wife and four children, battered their heads in with an axe, and then hung himself from a rafter in the barn. Now Secretary Hyde says that American farmers must be protected from “Russian dumping.” But it is not on record that Rus- sians are dumping potatoes. And Dietrich was not growing wheat, and had not been driven to insanity by those supernaturally tricky Russians. What drove Dietrich insane was, the papers tell us, “a note due Sept. 27.” And he left a note saying, “Financial worry.” No, it is not the Soviet Union that drove Dietrich crazy and caused such a horrible family tra- gedy, but the capitalist system, concretely expressed in the bankers who have some- thing like $20,000,000,000 mortgages against American farmers, on which they each year pay about $1,000,000,000 interest. Farmers, if you want to lay hands on your enemy, you'll find one at least in the nearest bank..And using axes is a bit crude, . * . Something to Look Forward to Every day, or about that, as long as the districts hold out, we are going to pay some long neglected attention to our D.O.s. What is a D.O.? A D.O., children, is the representative of the Central Committee in the district. D.O. stands for “District Or- ganizer,” and as Central Committee rep he is entitled to the respect with which the C.C. clothes him. Our function, however, lest bureaucracy wax fat and the clothes become misfits, is to do a little repair work; either on the clothes or the wearer thereof. If we can’t enlarge the hat, we may have to shrink the head—and so on. D.0.s are given to taking themselves most seriously—which is always dangerous. Mere- ly because he provoked it, and not because he’s any worse than the rest, who shall in due time be attended to, we shall endeavor today to find out how seriously the District 9 D.O. in Minneapolis is to be taken. On Sept. 10, we got a letter from the Na- tional Office, which at least knows the Daily Worker address, relaying the news that the Minneapolis D.O. has wired: “We protest fact Daily not printing our telegram strike news. Sixteen arrested last four days.” The strike, gentle reader, began on Wed., Sept. 8, and apparently the Minneapolis D.O. had just received the Daily of Sept. 4, which gave the news of the strike, whereupon he sat down and dashed off his telegraphic pro- test against the “fact.” As to the arrests, his wire on them, dated Sept. 7, was published in the Daily of the 8th. But he couldn’t wait till the paper got there this time, so protested in advance. Possibly he was placated when the Daily of the 9th not only gave further strike news, but carried the name of the D.O. True, it costs money to put in the telegram the name, and the title—“District Organizer of the Communist Party,” but then it looks nice in print and how else would the toiling masses of Minnesota become aware that a D. O. was in their midst unless the Daily publishes it? Before we got his protest against the “fact,” we had actually published a fourth article on the strike in the issue of the 9th. We wonder, however, what sort of pro- tests we would get if we published along side the strike news the fact that the D.O. has received $167 worth of Daily Workers since April 29, on which date he paid $24, but has paid only a lousy $3 since—on July 24. Not to speak of various bundles for which the D.O. is responsible in his district, like that of St. Paul, which has received a daily bundle since May but can't get a postage stamp to tell us how ornery we are. D.O.s all over the country are like that! )-