The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1930, Page 1

ORGANIZE YOUR SHOP MATE Dail Central © Orga SUPPORT THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN OF BUILDING SOCIALISM WHICH BEGINS ITS THIRD YEAR TODAY, of All Capitalist Parties! Against ie Crow Tactics of the Bosses and the AF.L.! To Vote Communist and Strike a Blow at the Lynching Policies (Section of eS Yorker the Communist International) S WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second-class matter Vol. VII. No. 236 at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 at the Post Office — NEW YORK, WEDNE SDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 fa Some Horse Trading HERE was a little resistance to begin with to Hyde's efforts to place bb the blame for the farmers’ difficulties on the Soviet Union. : The heads of Chicago’s Board of Trade, and practically all the newspapers, for a time, thought Hyde was a little bit nutty. But this resistance arose only from some slight misunderstanding. And Hyde, unfortunately, could not make himself entirely clear as to the administration's motives. But now everything is cleared up. There is complete understanding all around. Hyde made a trip to Chicago and talked confidentially—and firmly —to the gentlemen of the Board of Trade. These gentlemen then sent a committee to Washington to confer with President Hoover. He also ex- plained what the administration expected and why. The conversation ran something like this: “Gentlemen, the administration, just before election, is in a difficult situation. While we, through our various farm relief activities, have aided you gentlemen in cleaning up on the farmers, this has not been done without enraging the farmers, Our (i. e. your) agents in the farm districts report the rapid growth of anti-administration sentiment. “Furthermore, you know, the discontented workers in the cities are beginning to give leadership to the farmers and this winter may see the unity of the farmers and workers in struggles which may cause all of us some difficulty. “Then, this movement, you know, is inspired by the damn bolsheviks of the Soviet Union who, according to our agents’ reports, are going through with their drive to complete their damnable five-year plan in four years. “This, gentlemen, is the situation! In order to continue to serve you effectively, we must have your co-operation.” Following this little conversation the committee returned home. And following a little explanation there, the Chicago Board of Trade barred the Soviet Government from any further trading on the exchange. Now the Chicago Journal of Commerce, speaking for the grain mer- chants, expects a little better understanding in the future—and more help in fleecing the farmers. “It seems,” they say, “to be a fair sssumption that, having con- tributed its part to a little drama that is to distract public attention from the failure of the Farm Board, THE BOARD OF TRADE MAY EXPECT A LITTLE LESS OF BELLIGERENCE AND A LITTLE MORE OF ECONOMIC SENSE FROM THOSE WHO POLICE IT.” Apparently, in addition to aiding the administration in their attacks on the workers and farmers, and in its war preparations against the Soviet Union, the grain gamblers laid down some terms of their own. Atyany rate, it appears to have been a fine horse trade. Rooseveltian Promises OVERNOR ROOSEVELT, speaking before the convention of the New York State Federation of Labor five or six weeks ago, declared his intention cf studying unemployment insurance. Yesterday the Dem- c state convention, meeting in Syracuse, again declared that Roose- 1 ministration, if returned to office, would make “a scientific study” of unemployment insurance. When, we wotild like to ask, are these “studies” going to begin? When are they going to end? How long do these political fakers think the un- employed workers can fast? Roosevelt. has been, in office two years already. Thousands of workers have been jobless during this entire period. Since the stock market col- lapse last fall the workers’ suffering has been particularly acute, Thou- sands, together with their families, have been actually starving; workers have gone without clothing and shots: unknown hundreds of families have been evicted from ‘their homes; the number of suicides have mounted alarmingly—yet ROOSEVELT AND THE LEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRA- TION HAVE NOT RAISED A HAND TO RELIEVE THE MASS SUF- FERING With new elections approaching Roosevelt comes forward with lying promises. His promise before the State: Federation of Labor was a brazen lie to get:votes. After making this promise he did nothing. Yesterday's platform promise is another lie inserted for yote catching purposes. He ‘will do nothing now; he will do nothing later. These promises are made only to tide the bosses through a difficult period, and to return the bosses’ "Tammany henchmen to office. Roosevelt must be exposed as a lying tool lof the bosses, The masses of unemployed workers must rally behind the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party. Work for the Communist Candidates! Vote Communist November 4! Anti Lynching Week ILITANT workers, organized in the American Negro Labor Congress, have set aside this week to intensify and organize the struggle against G M lynching and for social, economic and political equality and the Tight of self-determination for the Negroes. The Daily Worker and the Communist Party fully supports this effort of the A. N. L. C. We join with them in calling upon all Negro and white workers to utilize this week to rally additional thousands of workers against all boss-given, white-superiority theories and especially against the white bosses’ lynch law. Iyynchings already this year have numbered twenty-seven. This is almost threé times greater than last year. In addition, dozens of other Negroes have been murdered by other means than those described as “lynching.” This is due to the economic crisis and to the efforts of the capitalists to place the crisis burden on the workers’ backs. With the con- tinued deepening of the crisis the number of lynchings will rapidly mount— unless they are stopped by the workers. Anti-lynching week is set aside to acquaint great masses of workers with the basis for lynch terror. It is set aside to arouse the workers to fight against lynching. It is set aside to concentrate the united efforts of all revolutionary workers’ organizations on the task of organizing the Negro and white workers for militant defense against lynching. It is set aside to prepare for the big anti-lynching convention of the A. N. L. C. to be held in St. Louis on November 15. The Communist Party urges all workers to join with the A. N. L, C. in this work. Take up the fight against lynch- ing! Vote Communist! pe Senator Nye, Republican, has come to the rescue of the Hoover admini- WORKERS RALLY IN CHICAGO TO DEFEND USSR Counter Blow to Fish’s War Mongering; Good Speakers Friday BROKERS WON'T HELP Call Vote Against War Mon- gers Nov. Prostitution on Boss Press Proves Broun the Racketeer There is but a tissue paper partition between J. Hamilton Fish, the fascist, and Heywood Broun, the social fascist. That partition is the difference be- tween fascism and social fas- cism. Fish is against the Com- munists and doesn’t find it necessary to get himself ar- rested to make believe that he can be an enemy of Communism ‘Socialists ”’ Should Not Write of “Rackets’ viet Union calls a mass protest meet- ing against the attacks of the Fish Commission and the U. S. Farm Board upon the Soviet Union. The October 3, 8 P. M., at People’s Audi- | torium, 2457 West Chicago avenue. Capable speakers will expose the (Continued on page 3) REGISTER BY OCT. 4 IN PHILA. Mobilize for Polls at Oct. 19 Conference PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. The last day of registration being | Saturday, Oct. 4, the Communist Party calls upon all workers to regis- ter—and to urge others to register. | The fullest mobilization of workers | and a considerable vote must be the | answer to the bosses who are trying: to ridicule Communist. candidates. The . Inquirer states that the “nomi- nees: are scarcely known to the gen- eral: public.. They lack political ex- perience and the most elementary forms of statecraft,” while at the 8 time the Socialist candidates are getting favorable comments. In spite of this, the workers will sup- port the full state ticket of 7, the 6 candidates for Congress, 2 for State Senate and 12 for General Assembly, the most representative ticket the Communist Party ever had One of the most important means of rallying the workers and workers’ organi: ions for the election cam- paign will be the Conference of Oc- tober 19 at the Workers’ Center, 567 No. Fifth street, Philadelphia, where the mobilization for the last weeks of the campaign will be taKen up, in- cluding committees to wateh at the polls. Calls have beeh’ sent out to organizations, speakers are going out to the meetings, but those which were omitted, due to oversight, shall elect delegates and send in the cre- dentials to the campaign committee. At the same time, all organizations and individuals are requested to send in their donations, to settle with the outstdnding collection lists, platforms, buttons, etc. The lack of funds is a great obstacle. 20.— meeting will take place on Friday, | and a “friend” of the workers at CHICAGO) Tb Bent./0-—The Chi" the same time. Broun finds cago local of the Friends of the So-|that hypocrisy is necessary. So he gets himself harmles: rested to show that he’s ent” from Fish But the two meet on the com- mon fascist ground of open hos- | tility to Communism, which both agree is a “racket.” And| both are against the workers as a class, Fish openly, Broun as a sneaking “socialist.” ar- “differ- jover the country and who re- Who Boost Bosses eee their class, are engaged in a “racket.” You have a cursed lot of gall | to talk about “rackets. wood Broun, “socialist | flusher and scum of the underworld Walter Winchell, who,-as per- haps the highest paid purveyor of capitalist dope among New York columnists, says that you are the “third highest paid col- umnist in New York.” You say you are against cap- italism, but you prostitute your- self for the money there is in it and write stuff-to support capi- talism (your boss said so in your own column!) and get paid for| it. And highly paid. Winchell has recently signed a contract for $1,000 a week for five years and he gets a 50%| Hey- | four- | “upper” plit in addition from the King Feature Syndicate, besides ar- jticles for light-minded maga- zines. Winchell is a top-rater. But he makes no bones about being in it for the money But let us hear, Heywood wood Broun, if the Communists | who are railroaded to prison all main in capitalist prisons for leading real fights for the work- | ing class, who are serving 42] year sentences in California and Let the workers judge, Hey- facing lynch mobs in the South (Continued on page 3) Work Hard For Salvation Army Slop, But Can’t Eat Food’; Unemployed Protest Clean Up Garbage Dumps for Three Meals a Day, but Get Sick from Rotten Grub SPOKANE, Wash., hundreds of unemployed workers, them is rotten food that even these An article in the “Spokane Press” line, “Men Kick About Food from “They work all morning clean-+ ing the city garbage dump. It’s hard work. And it’s dirty work. Four hours’ work in the morn- ing brings four punches: on the red card. That entitles a man to — three meals and a bed at the Sal tion Army. But after four hours’ work Tuesday morning some. forty men went to the Salvation Army for their. lugch “They said they couldn't eat the food that was given them. They gathered in 4 crowd in front of the office and protested against the treat- ment they have been getting. “‘We couldn't eat the grub today,’ said one unemployed worker. ‘What have they been feeding ys? Lots of the men couldn't eat it. Some of them got sick frdm eating it. The Communist Party calls on the workers to fight against th of thing. “Vote Communis for the Unemployment Insurance bill, and force the bosses to pay so that the unemployed can eat decent food. Sept. 30.—The Salvation Army is exploiting THOUSANDS 70 GREET FOSTER March 6 Delegation Out October 21 NEW YORK.—The demonstration at Madison Square Garden, October “« 5 : 21, on the day of the release of Com- he only “payment” it gives | SORE TOT Yih De CH Ee HRLES (ace moaters MONTE oe vuractarsdzore:| starving men refuse to eat prison, will bs one of the biegest | of September 23, aae the head-| demonstrations in this election cam- | | paign. It will be a demonstration Salvation Army,” against the Fish-Committee and for the defense of the Soviet Union. It | will be a demonstration for a Soviet | United States. | The tens of thousands of New York workers that will greet Foster, Minor and Amter at Madison Square Gar- den on October 21, will send their | sa Family Starving Found Near Death in Ha!lway NEW YORK.—Homeless and | greetings to the workers of the Soviet | starving, Mrs. Julia Angelonie, Union, which is forging ahead ‘on 25, and her two children were |the road to establishing a socialist ae | society, and will demonstrate for a found in a doorway at 33d street | Soviet United States where the work- and Sixth avenue Monday night. ers and farmers will rule Her husband lost his job, and Mobilize the workers of your shop z é and factory, office and store, to march they were evicted by order of | 14 the Madison Square Garden. Fol- the Tammany grafting courts. low the example of the German work- Neither the children of Mrs. |ers who, during the election cam- Anteionie had eaten for days. | Paign, had marched in a body from They were taken to St. Barna. | the shops and factories to the dem- bas Home and given some slop in lieu of food. There are thou- onstrations of the Communist Party. sands of jobless and their fami- lies who starve right at home, or in some out-of-the-way door- ways. This winter conditions will be much worse. Fight for Unemployment Insurance, work- ers! Vote Communist! Bazaar Work Assigned |: All Bazaar volunteers, committees and Daily Worker and literature agents must be in the Garden to- night at 6 p. m. to be assigned for various work, Facing the Fish Committee HOOVER WHITE- WASHING GRAFT WASHINGTON, Sept, 30.—Hoover| and his fellow grafters are alarmed at the exposure of Ralph S. Kelly, chief of the Field Division of the General Land Office at Denver, that the Hoover administration was turn- ing over $40,000,000,000 in oi] lands to the Standard Oil Co. and the Sinclair Oil Co. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior, successor to the notorious crook A. Fall, is now build- ing up a white-washing machine to hide the facts of the big oil steal. Hoover himself retains his usual quietness, such as he did before when the fact that the chairman of the Republican National Committee was getting graft from the Cyanamid Co., was brought out. ena stration by ordering a Congressional “inquiry.” This will give Hoover time to hide the facts. Kelly, who made the exposure, re- plying to Secretary Wilbur said that the information Wilbur was print- ing in the capitalist press to cover up the steals “in no way applies to the public oil shale domain in Colo- rado.” He added, “I wish here and now to repeat in specific terms the charges outlined in my letter,” The Hoover government, which hands over billions to the bosses, while the unemployed starve, refuses to give out the names of the oil com- panies, which are getting the $40,- 000,000,000 oi] land present. The Daily Worker is the only paper that ex- posed the fact that the Standard Oil Co, and the Sinclair Oil Co. are the two leading companies getting away with this robbery. The Communist Party in its elec- tion campaign will point these facts out to the workers, and push the de- mand for the Unemployment. Insur- ance Bill. DAILY WORKER -MORNING FREIHEIT By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN They are supposed to be a congressional committee investigating Com- munigm in the United States. They do not investigate. They know noching about Communism. They do not want to know. They want to make silly and stupid propaganda against Communism. They want to arouse a mob spirit against the revolutionary workers. This they showed moe clearly than ever when they had me on the witness stand. Here they are confronted with the first member of the movement they are supposed to study. Did they ask anything about the origin of Com- munism, the social forces making for Communism, the doctrine of Com- munism, the organizational and agitational methods of Communism, the economic and political activities of the Communist Party, the relation. be- tween the Party and other working-class organizations, the relation between the Party and the Comintern? Were they really interested to know how the Communists fight against capitalism and in which way they propose to destroy the capitalist state? Nothing of the kind. They were alarmed whenever I touched upon a political or economic question. They stopped me every time I was speaking about industrial unions or the unemployed or the state as an executive com- mittee of the big trusts. They would not tolerate my speaking ‘about our attitude to the A. F. of L., about organizing the unorganized, about the cause and extent of the present crisis, about the inability of capitalism to cope with its inner and outer contradictions, about the refusal of the capi- talist government to do anything for the unemployed. They were supposed to invesigate a world-wide socio-political phenomenon, but they shunned social and political problems. They acted so on. purpose, because they did not wish our views to be broadcast through their press. They were afraid MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday they might influence the masses. Instead, they were trying to make cheap and vulgar anti-Communist. propaganda, and-it was my duty to expose their tactics as far as I could. They pretended great surprise that I was not religious, that I did not believe in god, not even in a “supreme being.” They were chewing the rag about the Communists “destroying all religion” and “tearing down all churches,” and they wanted to.state categorically that when we are in power we will tear down all churches. They were not satisfied with my declaration that we maintain with Marx that religion is opium for the people, that we fight against religion as enslaving the minds of the masses, that the chur¢hes are agencies of the bosses. They wanted to be alle to come before the public with a quotation from a Communist saying that the Communists would “tear down all churches.” They needed it badly for propaganda purposes. They did not stop this idiotic heckling until the witness hit back by saying to their faces that they were making propa- ganda and that even from the point of view of their own state they had no right to pry into a man's religious beliefs, since state and church were sup- posed to be separated, and they, the committee, were an official agency of the state. Next came morality. Would I “destroy all morality?” “Would I prefer the Soviet marriage to the American marriage? Wasn't the Soviet limit of “thirty wives in ten years” tantamount to complete immorality? It was again my task, first, to expose their tactics as utilizing the rostrum of a congressional committee to slander and malign the Soviet Union; second, to explain the difference between the union of free people based on mutual understanding and love, and a union in capitalist society prompted by NATIONAL ANTI-LYNCHING — WEEK BEGINS AS NEW MURDER ATTEMPT 1S MADE IN SOUTH | Troops Hold Alabama Negro for Legal Lynch- ing Against — Trying to Hasten Process Mass Meetings, pine Organization for Defense Urged by Negro Labor Congress NEW YORK.—Anti- Lynching Week, Sept. 27 to October 5, is ushered in by another attempt to murder a Negro worker in the South. As the result of an unsolved burglary in Huntsville, in the course of which a white house owner was killed, the sheriff's deputies cheer- fully arrested the most available Negro worker, who happened to be - DEMOCRATS PUT \U. REPUBLICANS, OUT LIES BY TON Start Campaign to Get the Workers’ Votes WASHINGTON, Sept. ing the mass discontent of the work- ers, due to the worsening economic crisis, the two leading boss parties, the Republican and Democrat, have started their election campaigns by issuing tons of. expensive literature to.fool the masses. The Democrats, with their treasury well filled by Wall street, aps trying to win votes for capitalism by “at- tacking” Hoover. The Democrat campaign book gives the key-note of their. bunk campaign. It says: “The dominant issue in the Con- gressional campaign of 1930 is the failure of the Republican administra- tion, now well on in its second year, to fulfill the promises on which it based its claim for election in 1928.” Wherever the Democrats or the Socialists (as in Reading) are in power, unemployment is just as bad, 30.—Realiz- if not worse, than where the Re- publicans hold sway. Democrat and Socialist police clubs (as in Mil- waukee) fall just as heavily on the ulls of the jobless, demanding read, as when wielded by a Re- publican cop. The Republican Senator Hatfield, one of the leading Republican propa- gandists in this campaign, decries “the instilling of fear into the minds of the people as to unemployment ex- tent.” The workers should not be fooled by the shuttle-cock campaign of the boss parties. Capitalism must be de- stroyed to end the exploitation by the bosses and ever-increasing unem- ployment. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote against the rotten system of capitalism. It is a vote for the struggle to achieve a workers’ and poor afrmers’ government in the s CLEVE, JOBLESS TO ‘GREET PRES. Big Demonstration Oct. 2 in Public Square CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 30.—While the capitalist papers here continue to shout about the coming of Hoover to this city, the unemployed workers are | preparing to meet Wall Street's president with a great jobl demonstration Thursday, October 2, on the Public Square. Thousands of leaflets blazoned with the slogans of the unemployed workers: “We refuse to starve midst plenty! We don’t want garbage or charity! We don't want fake figures and promises! We don’t want wage- cuts and speed-up! We demand work or Unemployment Insurance!” were broadcast throughout the city. And the Communist Party is calling upon the workers to vote Communist and against the boss parties of un- (Continued on page 2) * G. H. Henderson. The murdered man’s wife varied the usual con- | duct of such cases by refusing to recognize him, and the state | stowed him away in jail to await | legal lynching, which, when a Negro’s |life is at stake, requires only judge and jury, but no evidence. An attempt of the usual gang of illegal lynchers to hasten the process was defeated by calling out the mi- litia, and Henderson is still held, Many Murdered This is but one of the vast number lynchings, several every month, 26 so far since the first of the year, ich the bosses’ terror rages st Negro workers and seeks to substitute race war for a united struggle of Negro and white workers and farmers against the system of the terrorists. Against open lynching, legal lynch- ing, and the railroading to the elec- (Continued on page 3) UTW ALREADY SELLS STRIKE IN DANVILLE Militants Urge 4,000 Seize Control DANVILLE,, Va. thousand textile the Riverside and Dan River mills here have finally forced their reactionary United Textile Workers’ Union offi- cials to call a strike against intoler- able conditions. Gorman, chief be- trayer of the Marion workers, is here to mislead this strike, At a mass meeting yesterday he spent his time denouncing the Communists instead of the bosses. The strike was voted unanimously |ten days before the bureaucrats of | the U. T. W, allowed it to start, and Jat the first mass. meeting after the | strike the U. T. W. put up as princi- | pal speaker Chief of Police Hannibal of Sept workers 30.—Four in Martin. With him spoke also H. W. Furlow, assistant state commissioner of labor. The police, the state officer and the U. T. W. chiefs vied with each other in urging the strikers to be conciliatory. Politeness Reigns The bosses are so s able to use the U. T. W. men to sell out the strike that when they ordered their office force to report in the mills for work they instructed the white collar slaves to retreat if the pickets offered to argue with them This actually happened when the office men approached: yesterday, and through police as their spokes- nien, politely asked to be allowed to enter the mills. The National Textile . Workers? Union warns that this situation will last only until the betrayal is ready, that any attempt to gain real de- mands will have to be a fight, and calls on the strikers to take the strike into their own hands and wage it to a successful conclusion against the same gang of owners who murdered the Marion strikers, who shot Ella May, who poisoned the water of the Gastonia strikers, tried to lynch them wholesale, and finally railroaded through to 20-year sentences the of being employment and starvation. strike leaders. 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