The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1930, Page 1

Masterpieces Every Day “Burck’s cartoon ‘Camouflage’ in today’s issue is Detroit, Mich. Subscribe a masterpiece."—A. Gluck, Burck draws every day. Renew. Dail Central Orga Norker Rfnuniet Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist diy helene ee WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! [ Vol. VII. No. 235 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 SE NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930 ~~ CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Broken Promises H® efforts of Frank Murhy, Detroit's new mayor, to evade his many Ay election promises are of interest to workers in other cities as well as Detroit. His promises were typical of those now being made by Roose- velt, LaFollette, Norman Thomas, Lewis and political demagogues every- where. Murphy freely promised, if elected, to open up free lodging houses, soup kitchens, neighborhood relief stations, extensive public works, jobs with the city, ete—all of these to be temporary expedients until unemployment insurance could be secured. In addition he promised full equality for Negroes, the elimination of police brutality and a “clean” administration. All this was promised prior to his election! But what of these promises now? Byen before taking office he appointed a citizens’ committee to deal with unemployment, This committee is composed of the workers’ bitterest en- emies—Culver, the manager of the Employers’ Association of Detroit; Lovett, manager of the Michigan Manufacturers’ Association; Sorenson, of the Ford Motor Co.; and others of the same type. This scab-herding committee has now given out its program. It pro- vides for (1) a city unemployed census; (2) an appeal for donations of cast- off clothing and shoes; (3) a city employment office subordinate to those of the bosses; (4) stopping of migration of unemployed to Detroit; and (5) an “inquiry” and “‘investigatién” of the feasability of unemployment in- surance. But of even more importance is the execution of this program. They de- cided, first, that all unemployed workers must register with the police, and second, that only workers who had lived in Detroit for a year or more were eligible for relief consideration. The Ford Motor Co. goes still a step farther and registers tax payers, home owners, and Ford Car owners, mak- ing it plain that those not in these categories would be cleaned out of the plant. Already these acts make Murphy’s program clear. All his talk of imme- diate relief is abandoned. Unemployment insurance will be “Investigated” indefinitely. But what the workers will get immediately is a reign of police terror, With the ¢ompletion of the present census and the registrations in the factories they will try to placate the property owners, the old residents, and the car owners by giving them part-time work at lower wages and the mass of the unemployed will be hounded out of the city, persecuted with vagrancy charges and forced by the police, supported by the underworld and the A. F. of_L. gangsters to accept the wage cutting, mass lay-off program of the bf automobile manufacturers. Those workers who voted for Murphy in the mayoralty election will soon see through his fakery. Thousands of them will rally around the candidates of the Communist Party on November 4 and their program for real struggle for immediate unemployment insurance. The broken promises of Murphy in Detroit will also convince workers of the similar fakery of the Roose- velts, LaFollettes, Lundeens, Shipsteads and Waldemans. Vote Communist on November 4! Expose the lying promises of the capitalist parties! Mutual Exposure with the charge that the Republican administration, during the past four years, has remitted $126,000,000 in tax reductions to 17 indiv- iduals and corporations who contributed $10,000 or more to the Republican campaign fund. Very plainly Representative Garner has the goods on the Republicans! Hamilton Ward, the Republican Attorney General of New York State, and Charles H. Tuttle, the Republican candidate for Governor of New York, are busy exposing the grafting and corruption of the Democratic Tammany machine. Here also it is proven beyond doubt that selling judgeships, col- lections from taxi and bus monopolies, and a thousand other grafting activi- ties are daily carried on. An examination of ex-judge Pancken’s record or of the “socialist” ad- ministrations in Milwaukee and Reading would show the same intimate acquaintance with the underworld, with graft and corruption. We recall for example, the willingness of both the Republican and Democratic ma- chines to endorse Pancken for re-election. And devils are not in the habit of associating with angels, Graft and corruption go hand in hand with capitalism. Before this cam- paign is over the workers will learn some of the details. Republicans will expose Democrats. Democrats will expose Republicans. The “Socialists” will attempt to expose both. But in doing so they will all expose the rot- tenness of capitalism. The workers will learn that all this mutual exposure is done only in the hopes that by exposing their opponents the other will get into office where they can get their own hands on the graft while carry- ing out the bosses’ war preparations, the offensive against the Soviet Union, R wits the charset GARNER, Texas Democrat, rushes into print today and the attacks on the living standards of the workers. The Teapot Still Boiling S ECRETARY OF INTERIOR WILBUR in saying “Nonsense” to the charges of Ralph S, Kelley of the Land Office that $40,000,000,000 of Colorado oil fields are being stolen by the oil interests in violation of law with the support of the Hoover administration, speaks with that gay abandon of.Mayor Walker in brushing aside all the intimations that Tam- many is not exactly honest. It is evident that the great noise about Teapot Dome and the grand gestures of “implacable justice”-for the oil robbers was merely whitewash, while the robbery goes on—and upon a greater scale. Undoubtedly, as in the case of Tammany graft, and the exposure of great fortunes refunded in taxes to the rich supporters of the republican party, there will be an outcry of “purifying” capitalism. But graft, great and small, is a part of capitalism, And Hoover was put in the presidency not only to jimmy the safe of national resources, but to carry out still more important decrees of imperialist capital. Hoover is the president of wage cuts and speed up, of the stretch-out and war preparations. He is the boss of reactionary capitalist forces fighting against unemployment insurance and of taking the lead for U. s. imperialism in the fight for foreign markets and the war on the Soviet Union. Oil only greases the machinery of capitalist robbery of the workers. PROHIBIT RED ELECTION MEETS LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.—Con- tinuing the bosses’ anti-working class terror, the city council today, acting upon the orders of the Cham- ber of Commerce, refused a permit for a Communist Election Campaign parade on October 5. In San Pedro the terror manifested Itself in the arrest of William Simons, Communist candidate for governor of California, while ad- dressing a Red Election Campaign meeting. Police attacked the crowd and arrested Simons, Elmer Gibbs and Patrick E. Chambers. They are charged with indulging in the right of free speech without a permit. In the meantime, the Southern California Election Campaign Com~ mittee of the Communist Party is soing ahead with its plans for an election parade demonstration on Sunday morning, October 5, and calls upon all workers of Los Angeles to rally to the support of the right of the workers to use the streets and to put up candidates on a working class ticket. After the parade the workers will go to a Communist Election Rally picnic at Plumbers Park. TUUL Organizing Furniture Workers In Rockford, Ill. ROCKFORD, Ill, Sept. 29.—The T. U. U. L. of Rockford has now established itself in their new head- quarters at 431 West State street, and is engaged in a drive to organize the furniture and metal workers. At the Rockford Cabinet, the big- gest furniture factory in Rockford, a 10 per cent wage cut took place September 15. It was the second wage cut since last spring. Rockford Cabinet is not the only place where the workers get Hoover's “pros- perity’—a form of wage cuts. In every furniture factory in Rockford the workers face the same conditions unless they organize and STRIKE against wage cuts—working and starving at the same time. The city administration is falling in line with the fascist tactics that the capitalists all over the country, and all over the capitalist world, use against the workers’ revolutionary organizations—arrests and jail terms. Three comrades, the organizer of the Communist Party, Young Communist League, Trade Union Unity League, and three other workers are now facing from three and one-half to seven months in jail because they dared to hold street and factory gate meetings in order to organize the workers. “Socialist” Broun in Stunt Arrest Finds Cops “Pleasant” By HARRISON GEORGE Heywood Broun and J. Ham- ilton Fish, Jr., were college classmates. They are still }mates in the same class, the capitalist class. Fish has said that “Communism is a racket.” In the capitalist paper for which the “socialist” Heywood Broun writes, Broun, on Sept. 19, re-| peated the words of the fasci Fish: “Communism in America is merely a racket.” Broun’s fascism comes natural to him. So natural that he has a difficult time, though “thrill-| ing,” establishing himself as a social fascist. By pre-arrange- ment with a friendly cop, who would do anything for $5, he has | himself “arrested on the picket | line.” The cop doesn’t take him to} jail. Oh, no! Broun takes the} cop to jail in a taxi! And the desk sergeant is all politeness. Put the “socialist” who gets his economic ideas from the Four Marx Brothers and Texan Gui- nan in a lousy cell? Never! The newspaper men—from capitalistic newspapers, tipped How to Go to Jail Without Hurting Anybody’s Feelings + \LF you DONT BELIEVE Taar IA TAG FRIEND OF Tete = | | WORKING Man { JusT WATCH ME. 5 | Make A FACE — AT MY Good Pat r off in advance, were, of course, present. Also photographers. Did the police put any obstacles in the way of getting a photo for the early edition? Not they! Broun “asked for a comb.” A Mountebank—But Properly Manicured Photo Number One was taken after he combed his raving hair and put on his coat to appear re- spectable. It would never do for a “socialist” candidate to ap- pear before the eyes of capital- ist newspaper readers uncombed and coatless. Somebody might think he was a worker! An attorney arrived before he had time to take his coat off again and one of those Magis-| trates who had parked his chorus girls outside and left his indictment at home with the latest receipts for installment payments on his job, summoned the “prisoner” to the bar. He was charged with “refusal disperse.” Broun contended that he was} “discriminated against,” since| the cop had not asked the other | pickets to disperse. Of course the other pickets had not paid the cop to be dispersed. So the} case was clear. But, evidently, to had the cops | demanded that all strikers dis-| , perse, Broun would have been| satisfied that justice was done. All should be equal before the} law, in his idea. Millionaires] should be shown no favors if} they go on strike and form a picket line. But highly paid columnists for capitalist papers | should not be “discriminated against.” If he was arrested,| the workers should be arrested, too. “Why pick on me?” What a “socialist” defense of | the rights of the working class} to strike and to picket! | But is this not a “racket”? This miserable clown mimicking | the part of a worker who bat- tles for bread and is clubbed and jailed for heroically standing his ground against police repression of his clas: A Touching Scene, of eneece| Let the capitalist paper for| which Broun writes tell how it ended, with the case dismissed | (Continued on page 3) BERLIN WORKERS MAGS FOR FIGHT ON THE FASCISTS Organize Anti-Fascist to Fight League . (Wirel by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 29.—A magnificent anti-fascist demonstration took place yesterday at the Lustgarten. Minor collisions occurred. Forty-eight were arrested. Following the meeting an anti-fascist league was formed. An appeal was issued to tho workers to form branches everywhere, A spe- cial appeal was addressed to the socialist workers to join the anti- fascist united front. Fierce collisions took place in Bermsbruen and Erzgebirge yester- day noon between fascists and workers. Forty were injured and four fascists were sent to the hos- pital. STITT WILSON FAKES AGAIN FOR SOCIALISTS BERKELEY, Cal., Sept. 24.—J. Stitt Wilson, a preacher who was once mayor of this city on a pink plat- form, and who split the socialist party by right deviations even from that, is now campaigning for the social fascists again, after a long period in England, where he aided in placing the bloody MacDonald regime in power. i Wilson, who hasn't worked for years, if he ever did, has a fine home in the aristocratic section of this university town. Greenville, S$. C.,° Sept. 29,—Re- cently a bread truck passing through a@ South Carolina mill village, near Rock Hill, was stopped by three mill workers and emptied of its contents. The driver was told that the “high- waymen” were not after money and would not harm the driver, but that people were starving in the mill vil- lages, and that they were going to have the contents of that truck. The driver, seeing that the men were serious, surrendered all of his bread, pie and cake without a mur- mur, and returned to the bakery for another load. Meanwhile, these mod- ern Robin Hoods were distributing the food to hungry mill families, whom the mill owners now deny a Hoover Outfit Handing Out © $40,000,000,000 In Oil Lands | To Rockefeller, Sinclair Co. \ Kelley, One of Hoover’s Tools, Admits Graft, Worse Than Teapot Dome Scandal WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—While millions of unemployed starve, the startling news leaks out that the Hoover government is handing the Standard Oil Co. and the Sinclair Oil Co. $40,000,000,000 worth of oil lands in Colorado. This information comes from Ralph S.} Kelley, who just resigned as chief of the field division of the United | States General Land Office. The very same oil lands that the Harding robber administra- tion handed over to the grafters and bribers in the Sinclair Oil Co., and which was exposed in the Teapot Dome scandal, is now being turned over to other oil trusts. Hoover and his gand can readily find $30,000,000 in tax returns for the bosses; $11,000,000,000 for war preparations, and now $40,000,000,000 for the rich oil trusts, but not one penny for the unemployed. Hoover and his gang can readily and ask the workers to vote for them in the next election. The grafters in the Democratic Party, as well, who were mixed up, not only in all the Tammany graft in New York, but in the Sinclair-Doheny oil grab,, try to get the workers to vote for them. A vote for these boss parties, and their supporters, the socialist party, is a vote for wage cuts, and approval by the workers of the bosses’ graft- ing to the: extent of billions. The Communist Party demands that these billions that the bosses are putting into their pocket, or using for war purposes be turned over to the unemployed. A vote for the Com- munist Party is a blow against capi- talism, HUNGRY ROB TRUCK S. C. Gov't Guilty of Mass Starvation chance to earn their livelihoods, by closing the mill gates, While starvation is spreading like a plague among the mill hands and poor farmers of South Carolina, Blease and the anti-labor boss, anti- Negro Democratic party rule the state with a high hand. In the re- cent elections, the masses registered their disatisfaction by voting Blease out, but the shame of it is, that they simply replaced one Democratic faker by another. There is no Communist Party ticket in South Carolina, so the white and Negro and poor farmer workers of this state should get on the job and see to it that they make the chance to vote for men from their own ranks who will really represent their interests. ROCHESTER IS BEHIND IN DRIVE Comrades Laying Down on Election Camp ROCHESTER, Sept. 29.—Immedi- ately after the seventh convention of our party the membership of Roch- ester section, District 4, heard the re- port of this convention and unani- mously approved its decisions and political line. How does the mem- bership of the Rochester section carry out the work that the seventh convention planned for it? It is only necessary to call atten- tion to the fact that with a member- ship of about 50 the Rochester sec- tion has up to the time of this writ- ing, been unable to gather the 1,500 signatures necessary to place 50,000 unemployed who are today more re- ceptive to our propaganda than ever before, is in danger of not having a Communist candidate on the Con- gressional ticket unless the member- ship within the remaining few days is aroused to energetic work in col- lecting these signatures. Some indi- vidual members have proven that this task is a simple one and could be achieved. One instance: A Ne- gro comrade having joined the Party less than two weeks ago, set to work and in a few days gathered in the neighborhood of 50 signatures to the shame of those “old Bolsheviks” who are looked up to because of their many years of membership in the Party. The Section Committee of Roch- ester is now preparing plans to check up on=the activity of every member and to involve the entire membership in day to day work. All Party forces in Rochester, as well as sympathizers, must be mobilized for the election campaign and specific- ally to collect the necessary amount of signatures to put our local Con- gressional candidate on the ballot. Comrades: Heed tho eleventh hour call of the Party. Get your lists and make it possible for the workers of Rochester to be represented on the ballot by a Communist candidate, These signatures must be in not later than October 3. Chl. WORKERS TO PROTEST NeW ATTACKS ON USSR FSU to Hold Mass Meeting October 3 at People’s Auditorium CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—The Chicago | Local of the Friends of the Soviet | Union will hold a mass protest meet- ing against the recent renewal of the attacks upon the Soviet Union, as expressed in the accusations con- cerning the alleged flooding of the Chicago wheat market and price manipulations. The meeting will take place on Friday evening, October 3, at People’s Auditorium, 2457 Chi- cago avenue. Speakers will represent the Friends of the Soviet Union, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Com- | munist Party, Admission will be 25c., and overy worker in Chicago is asked to help to bring as many of his fellow-workers to the meeting as possible, so that the working class can learn what this new attack upon the workers’ fatherland means to the world working class. CONNECTICUT BOSSES ; TRY TO BAR C. P. NEW HAVEN, Sept. 29. — The bosses and their state machinery are resorting to every trick on the cal- endar to keep the Communist Party off the ballot in this state. In Hart- ford, they are trying to throw out 1,000 signatures, refusing to accept the petition lists and check them as required by their law. The Communist Party calls upon the workers to answer these attacks by mobilizing our forces to collect more and more signatures and to turn in one thousand new names for every hundred thrown out by the bosses, This is the last week to get sig- | | past year to fool the wor | Wagner, who is now a big shot in the | the fake issues of the Republican- | bill for real Unemployment Insurance | 17 BIG BOSSES PAY HOOVER $10,000 EACH; IN TAXES OF GET RETURN OVER $10,000,000 Boss Government Finds but Unemployed Billions for the Bosses, Millions Starve Must Support Communist Election Campaign in Fight for Unemployment Insurance Bill WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. —Seventeen big bosses who contributed $10,000 each to the Hoover election campaign were given in return by the Hoover administrations over $100,000,000 in tax returns. These facts were brought out today by the representative of another grafting boss party, + AOOGEVELT 10 RUN FOR GRAFT RIDDEN TAMMANY s Neck Deep in Mire of Robbery; Tries to Fool Workers SYRACUSE, Sept. 29.—The entire | pig-pen of Tammany Hall grafters | will go through the rigamarole of | nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as | Democratic candidate for Governor of | the State of New York to run against Charles H. Tuttle, Hoover's tool. Roosevelt and Tuttle have already| opened a sham squabble as to who| put over the fake bills that were passed in the Legislature during the| | Roosevelt, who now has the sup-| port of the A. F. of L. fascist leaders, is a glib faker. He is counted on by the bosses to do giant service in mis- leading the millions of unemployed into the belief that the boss parties can do something for them. Realizing that he stands neck deep in the Tammany mire of graft and scandal, Roosevelt went through | sowe shadow boxing today to extricate | himself. He sent a letter to Jazzy Walker, mayor of New York, criticiz- ing his fellow grafters for being so crude as refusing to testify before the grand jury. Roosevelt and his party are build- ing up a whole series of fake issues to bring before the workers. Senator Democratic party, will bill for “counting the unemployed.” Roosevelt will stress his “old age} pension”, bill, and the support of the} best scabbers in the A. F. of L. No jobless worker can fill his stomach by being “counted,” and the millions of older workers who should get a pension now may die of hunger a| thousand times before they reach the age of 70, as specified in the Roosevelt bill, when they are supposed to get a| few pennies. The Communist Party, with Wil- liam Z. Foster as its gubernatorial | candidate, points out that the Com- munist leaders have been jailed by the Tammany grafters for fighting for the demands of the unemployed. Time after time, Foster has exposed hold up his rat-Socialist outfit. It is only mmunist Party which has a and carries on a relentless fight, | rousing the workers to force it through. natures, and the Party here needs hundreds more in every city to file| not later than Monday, Oct. 6. The Party appeals to all members and sympathizers to drop all other meet- ings and activities for the next few days and help on the signatures cam- paign, especially to give all day Saturday and Sunday in a final drive. Workers! Rally to your Party! De- feat the attempt of the bosses to keep us off the ballot! Defend the right to vote for your class against the bosses! CAL. BOSSES FEAR MARCH Jobless to Demonstrate for Demands SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 30. —Panicky in the face of the Preparations of the jobless work- ers of northern California to ate capitol and demonstrate for their domands in front of the Governor's hou press here let loose is, “Uprising is Scout- thus raising and calming their fears momentarily, and dis- claiming any unemployed gather- ings in this city. Thousands of jobless workers are expected to gather either here © or in San Francisco for a march upon the state capitol. Thou- sands more will join the march on the read. T ‘ations for ir, the local press, quoting a San Francisco says: with the march upon the state capitol, Commun- Representative John N | a small way. jing the cr! Garner, Democrat, of Garner's little fling at the Tes a Hoover administration is just his Hoover bunch that the Democrats aren't way of reminding the the only grafters. The $100,000,000 tax-return graft | exposure comes on the heels of the exposure of one of Hoover's own men that the big oil trusts are being handed $40,000,000,000 in Colorado oil lands. During present, while 8,000,000 workers face starva- this winter, decide that th the crisis, tion the boss grafters won't do things in They stick their hands deeply into the U. S, Treasury and pull out billions. The Communits Party, in its elec- tibn campaign, is pointing these facts out to the workers. It demands that the bosses, have been handed billions the Government, as well as those whose profits continue dur- is, be forced to pay for unemployment insurance. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote gainst the capitalist grafters and a truggle for a workers’ and poor farmers’ government in this country. ANSWERS BOSSES HOWL ON SIGNS Workers’ Action Scares Grafting Bosses who by NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—“The gen- eral alarm sounded by the capitalist press against the appearance of ‘Vote Communist’ on buildings and sidewalks in the so-called silk stock- ing district and Central Park, is both an indication of what the Communist ticket in this election campaign means for the capitalists and for the workers,” was the statement of the Communist Campaign Headquarters, issued yesterday. “The fact that groups of workers have taken upon themselves to break through the conspiracy of the capita- list press which is trying to hide from its readers that there is a Communist ticket in this election campaign, is a sign of the radicalization among the workers and of the support Com- munism has among the working masses. During the German election campaing which resulted in an over- whelming victory for the Communist ticket, the workers truly painted Ber- lin red, through signs and posters of all kinds. The streets where workers live were lined up with flaming red banners, calling the masses to vote for Communism. “The American works, particularly those suffering from wage-cuts, speed-up and unemployment, have taken the cue from the workers of Germany and have shown what they intertd doing during this election campaign for the Communist ticket. The Communist Campaign Committee calls upon all workers of the city and of the State of New York to follow the example of those workers that have painted the silk-stocking district red on Saturday night and to display the ‘VOTE COMMUNIST’ call on their headquarters, club rooms, in front of their homes. * sa side the shop: everywhere th assemble, or “In New workers placin the b offic’ be pr y walked San Francisco streets shouting, ‘Why are we starving?’ and selling copies of the Daily Worker, New York newspaper, ‘central organ of the play ist party in the United ita! WE AGITATE IN THE SHOPS For the Communist Ticket! Fo: Against Mass Layoffs and Wage rialist Attacks on the USSF ———