The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1930, Page 2

Page Two ica WORKER, NEW YORK, MEONESD AS: Mes cos 1, 10 ANTI-TERROR CONFERENCE OK’S C. P. PLATFORM To Wage Fight on Vicious | Flynn Sedition Law nizations, the Anti-Terror Conference ca by the Anthracite district of the Inter- national Labor Defense. fraternal working discussed the Conference was the m the campaign against ition Law of Penns: der the provisions of this | ailitant Anthracite rial on Wednesday, Oc reed with “sedi for Phil Fr organ Slinger, orga Smelter Tul © arrested in es Of these orsaniza- ‘error Conference held y rmulated plans for the mo- k tion of the Anthracite we for the fight against the jail. Reports on the general n and tasks of the I. L. D. were made | by L. Scott, Philadelphia distriet or. | ganizer of the I. L. D., and Olga Gold, | Anthracite I L. D. organizer Conference was greeted by organizer Communist Party. ing the élection platform o nunist Party and its can for > the releasé of all victims of the ion Law, against ty the foreigneborn ¥ nizgtional tas: acks on and on the org: the Conference were adopted. NO COMPENSATION BUT DISCHARGE FOR BAD INJURY Downtown Unemployed Council Has Good Meeting NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—For four- teen years Fred Byams, a Negro worker, had toiled at the hardest and dirti jobs for the Cushman | Bakers, 517 West 59th street. One| day he cut his hand on a Wire, a a dangerous gash that required treat- ment. The company doctor got By- ams admitted te a hospital to have his hand operated on. The swollen hand 4jan't heal after the operation, and the Cushman bosses had no further use for a worker who had worked 80 long and | as they had to admit, was so in- dustrious and conscientious. Witlfeut a second thought they fired Byams. They made no mention of compensa- tion to pay for that injured hand that caused them to fire him, but simply turned him loose to join the growing army of the 8,000,000 jobless | to starve. Th spite of the triek in tearing up the street, the Downtown Unem- ployed Council held a goed meeting before the Tammany Wage-Cutting Employment Bureau with M. Stone, a former post office clerk, as ehair- man, More than 100 ynemployed workers responded to the dall to come to an indoor meeting at 27 Hast 4 street and > ga up for the Unemployed Coun- cil, CLERICAL HELP WANTED YL. Volunteers for clerieal work in connection with the Atlanta cases are urgently needed by the International Labor Defénse, 50 Bast lith street, room 430. Telephone Stuyvesant 4552, LITERATURE AGENTS MEET A special meeting of all section and unit literature directors will be held Wednesday, October 1, at sec- tion 1 headquarters, 27 Bast 4th street, at 8 p. m. Communist Activities Avspicer of Rinire Sonce for ot Italian Harlem, tor beneht of See. 4 Tealjan a Works erp: Club, gull ‘Third avenue, Saaz bang. ontributlon BSc. BANQUET su) NDAY, OCTOBER 12 Ana Rit um 2 anes will Tallow nf Aa 25e to the dance, Thea’ avenue Labor and | Fraternal RERCIAL, M iD were EETING | Thursday, or PRINTING Pyeyy Si oel “4 ni held let Btrect. be, reid CCO-VANZETTI BRANCH, ¥. H meeting will be held W Vetiiy, Po, ati 4 WLR, Workers Sc Schoor, OF MUSIC Morkers and workers ‘uaren, fe now u registrations, Classes open 1 ber egister at the following branch ot IR, :=10 E. Feet, 1800 Se A nx Co-operatives 2800 Bronx Pt at| The dele- | ways | Conve putting more stre on the es of the economic crisis jin Great Britain, and overlooking the sharp crash at home, R Gram Swing, London | nat | there ig war t | other. THE ADVE TU RES OF BILI , WORKER — Holy Hokum THIS Mass (5 HELD BEFORE THe OPENING OF THE SUPREME Courts Yo PerrtioN DIVAS GUIDANCE for THe ADMIAI es Sustie ISTRATION OF WE PROTECT YoU NSIT S APTALL So By RYAN WALKER MASS PROTEST AT TREASON | POLICY OF AFL TUUL Calls Meeting in Con- | vention Period | NEW YORK.—Thg AFL executive committee's program for the Ameri- |can Federation of Labor convention meeting Oct. 6 in Boston was ex- DS: y ona > of the LS He “A ig the national anes ra Inion League yesterdsy as a ING FoR rade Union For ASK ¢ fe further move in old trickery against the worker: The AFL prog: inuation of the pr y adopted at the last’ convention, Jthe 'T. U. U. points out UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF FoR THE WORKERS: . s for a m and pol- BRITISH CRISIS SHAKES EMPIRE U. §. Boss Writer Tells His Fears lent for the New York a dispatch on Monday points remendous shaking of the Empire. is the twilight of a great ion?” asks Swing in awed tone. He points out that the 2,000,000 un- employed is constantly being added to; that India is in revolt; that civil war is near in Egypt, and that the ish are meeting stern competi- the world markets. Swing niently does net mention that reatening between the cony British and erlcan masters for these very markets, and that the erisis which grips British imperial- n hgs a toehold on the entire capi- talist world. ‘The theory that the British had reached the twilisht stage was dis- | seminated both at home and abroad,” writes Swing. “Men in their London clubs repeated gloomy figures to each In the dominions anxious and sympathetic friends of the mother- land wondered if it could be true— What se many sons and daughters have had to ask themselves secretly about their aging parents. “And then came the present world slump, hitting Britain harder (it was assumed) than the rest because of the heavy blows which already had preceded it.” Left out of the picture completely | by Mr. Swing is the yeoman service | that the British Labor Party leader- ship is rendering to British perialism, What bothers Swing so much, and of course the class for whom he writes, the American bosses, is that in the distance instead of seeing Sreener fields they foresee the doom of capitalism. im- | All Workers Must Register to Vote Communist Ticket NEW YORK. The coming will be registration week. voter will have to register between October 6 and October 11 in order to be able to vote on election day. While agitating for the Communist ticket, do not fail to draw the atten- | tion of the workers that they must register without waiting for the last If you do not register, some Tammany tool will do it for you and will vote for you as well. Find out in your néighborhood where the Board of Registry will pes and bisa edi sure to ister on time. Honig to Report At Worcorrs Meet “ |Correspondents Will Be | | Mobilized for Election NEW YORK.—The New York City and Vicinity Worker Correspondence Conference called for Sunday ber 5th, will be held at 1179 Broadway at 2 p. m., it was announced today. “The Role of Worker Correspon- |dents” will be the main report to be |siven by N. Honig, editor of Labor Unity. Supplementary reports will be given by Peter Chaunt, Agitprop Director of District 2 and F. Vigman of the worker correspondence de- partment of the Daily Worker. Diseussion from the floor will ‘oc- ecupy a prominent place fh the agend Concrete immediate tasks will be assigned the worker corre- spondents, especially in connection with the election campaign. Among the resolutions to be introduced will be one calling for the organization of a class in worker correspondence in the Worker's School. who want to do volunteer thelr work early this morning to help in the construction of the booths. Hemingway's “Farewell to Arms” Stirring Play at National Theatre Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, “Farewell to Arms,” stage by Laurence Stallings, is now playing at the National Theatre, where it is being presented by A. H. Woods. While many who read the book may find the stage version of Herningway's story flat at times, on the whole it is a stirring play and is worthy of earn- est consideration. The main fault that can be found, as with many novels that are later presented on the stage, is the difficulty ef crowding into three acts the essential and important parts of @ full size book. “Farewell to Arms” suffers a great deal in this respect. As a@ result many of the only meré flashes that the opportunity to develop due to the lack of time. There is no need to go into details here as to the story. It tells of Lieut. Henry and his love for Catherine. How he is wounded and she nurses him back to health. Later she gives birth to his child. Shortly afterwards both the mother and child die, As in the novel, the love of the American for the English nurse is moving. Stallings, who will be remembered for “What Price Glory” and “The Big Parade,” is not afraid to call a spade a spade and, as a result, there is no little plain talk during the prog- ress of the play. While the profanity may shock some of the more tender theatregwoers on @ whole, it is a nec- essary part of the production. Glenn Anders gives & moving pér- formance as Lieut. Henry, while Elissa Landi, who is well known on the British stage, is very satisfactory as Catherine. Others in the large cast include Crane Wilber, C. Sager +) Cazaja, Armand Cortez, and Rene Roberti, Kleiber Opens Philharmonic Season Thursday The eighty-ninth season of the Philharmonic - Symphony Society opens this Thursday evening ut Cor- negié Hall. The orchestra, under the direction of Erich Kleiber, will play the Weber Overture to ‘“Freischutz,” the Mozart Serenadé No. 9, Beetho- ven's Eighth Symphony, and Strauss’ ‘Till Eulenspiegel. This program will bo repeated Friday afternoon and Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon Carnegie Hall concert consists of the Weber and Mozart works, followed by the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony. For the following week Kleiber plans the performance of Goldmark's Springtime Overture in commemora- tion of the centenary of the compos- American composl- er's birth and an arranged for the} tion, Louis Gruenberg’s “Enchanted Isle.” |People’s Symphony Artists’ Recitals and Chamber Music The People’s Symphony announces a series of six chamber music con- certs on Friday evenings and a series of six artists’ recitais. ‘The schedule for the chamber music series is: Oct. 24, Gardon String Quartet; Nov. 28, Stradiyarius Quartet; Dec. 26, Rus- sian Symphonic Choir; Jan. 20, Es- ardy Trio; Feb. 20, Musical Art Quar- tet; Mar. 20, Martha Graham, dancer. The artists’ recitals will be given by the following musicians: Oct. 25, Mischa Levitski, pianist; Nov. 21, Joseph Szigeti, violinist; Dee. 5, Mieczyslaw Munz, pianist; Jan. 23, Hans Kindler, cellist; Feb. 27, Max Rosen, violinist; Apr. 17, Denishawn School. Both series ta place at Washington Irving High'School. A club subscription for students, work- ers and artises, for each eries, $1; for both courses, $2. Tickets are ob- tainable at the office of the People's Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Square. W orkers Patronize D. HELLEN Bakery and Dairy Restaurant 116 University Place Corner 13th Street NEW YORK CITY fies tang HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON. AVE. Phone: UNIversity 6868 Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE, UE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetariam Food | RATIONAL / week | ¢ Every | Octo- | |Notice, Bazaar Carpenters | All carpenters who volunteered and | for the Bazaar must be in the Garden | Facing the Fish Committee (Continued from page 1) economic motives and partaking of the spirit of buying and selling. The sians forming the majofity of the committee nodded their heads i expression of plous horror. | Most of the questioning was centered around the w “flag.” Of a sudden I s transferred from a committee of alleged legislators of the mightiest world into the lower classes of grammar school. Am I “loyal ? Do I “owe allegiance to the flag?” Would I “replace the Ame ag with the red flag?” The trick was as obvious as crude, | Those Red-baiters were afraid to discuss economic and political realities, | but they knew that the unenlightened populace has a reverence for the word “flag,” a reverence bred by the capitalist school and the church. They wanted to wrest from a Communist a straightforward and unequivocal declaration that he would tear flag in its place. With this phrase—they were conctrned only about the phrase—they would come to the public with a new tale of horrors and to Congress with a proposal of new anti-Communist laws. task of a Communist witness to make clear that the flag is only a symbol ot a certain economic and political system, that “allegiance to the flag” in reality meant allegiance to the big trusts, to the system of exploitation of millions, to the imperialist plunder of colonies and subject peoplés, to the sy n that breeds unemployment, militarism, war; that allegiance to the red flag meant allegiance to the revolutionary struggle of the toiling masses for their liberation from the yoke of capitalism, xaS was around this point that the hottest combat developed between the “s und the committee. The petty lawyers of the committee wanted sions”: yes or no. [ quoted political facts. The lawyers wanted words. I insisted on realities. I was forced simultaneously to reveal their ves and parry with political statements. t Grammar school concepts were just mentioned. Buyt the Fish were no schooln 's. Rather, they were dicks. They were not gathering infor- mation; they were questioning a culprit. Phey would use the third degree if they could. They threatened with contempt proceedings. They con- sidered it an affront if I chose to speak of social and political systems, of social forces making for a revolution and a new order, rather than to stoop to the level of cop conceptions. I was forced to tell those gentlemen that | they were not acting like a parliamentary committee, that they were using the methods of a police court. My being an “alien” came in for a great deal of bickering. Was I loyal to my adopted country? I had to explain that “my country” was neither Hoover nor Morgan, but the American toilers. Was I a Communist when I was being naturalized? One of the Fish was particularly anxious to prove that I took out naturalization papers while already a Communist, and I had | to remind him that the committee was not a court trying my citizenship. | How was it that I changed from Socialism to Communism? I had to men- | tion post-war America, itchell Palmer’s and Burleson’s America, and the way American imperialism made the world “safe for democracy” as one of the contributing factors that opened the eyes of honest Socialists to the necessity of a prolterian revolution. Why did I not go back if I did not like this country? I had to establish the fact that I liked this country, though I hated the incubus of capitalism squeezing the life-blood out of | the country; that I was proud to identify myself with the American work- ing class, and that we were fighting under the red flag to make our country free from capitalist slavery. The gentlemen feigned astonishment when} they heard that we “aliens” do not consider ourselves “guests” or recipients of charity; that the country belong to those who work in it and create its wealth, whether they are native born or immigrant, and whether the rulers | liked them or not. The gentlemen were particularly grieved to hear that we Communists are in favor of complete social equality between white and Negro workers, “including intermarriage.” | “uoree and violence” was one of the questions raised. Here I had occa- | sion to mention the continuous and systematic force and violence practiced st Boy ernment against the strikers, against pickets, against st the Negroes, against the colonial masses I mentioned the numerous murders of workers | sta > in the | by the im | in Cuba, the Philippines, ete. | for participating in the class-struggle, and the lynching of the Negroes. L also mentioned the force and violence methods against immigrant workers | espoused by this committee, | Altogether the hearings proved once more that these so-called “investi- gators” are not only absolutely ignorant as to the meaning and the aims of Communism, but that they strain every effort to keep the masses ignorant by polsoning their minds with the most insidious, petty and foolish insinu- : kets and their Party. Incfdentally, the hearings show the low level of political thinking and political practice of American capitalism. These congressmen are not statesmen, not political figures ordiag to bourgeois European standards. They have the political wisdom of a plain-clothes man and the outlook of a bright police lieutenant. ‘The workers will give those gentlemen their answer at the next election by voting for thé Communist Party, Phone: atuyvesent ais John’s Restaurant i SPBUIALTY: (ITALIAN viISEES, A place with atmosphere where al) radicals meet 5 02 6. 12th St New York (DR. 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Forms INSTRUCTO} Edith Segal Lily nana Chilkoveky CLASSES BEGIN bia aa 18, LOWEST PROLETARIAN PRICES ister Now at WORKERS’ i. ERNATIONAL RELIEF 5 aie, Reentry LOCAL NEW YORK, 10 East 17th Sttreet, Manhattan down the American flag and put the red} HOLDS TO POWER It was, then, the} YCL Needle Trades Workers Meet Thursday A meeting of all ¥. C. L. members working in the needle trades indus- try will take place on Thursday, 3 p.m, at 1179 Broadway. All com- rades must drop everything else and come. to this meeting. The Youth Conference was post- poned for October 11 and we must organize our work for the coming week. BRUENING GOVT | Will Go Gn as Dictatorship for Winter (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 30.—The Bruen- ning government is planning to govern throughout the winter with- out the Reichstag, should the latter give the government program a general to take over the Reichswher minority. It is reported that President Von Hindenburg has requested an active (republican army) ministry, probably General Von Schleicher. The government program was sub- mitted by Ambassador Sackett yes- terday. Negotiations are going on with the Socialist Otto’ Braun, pre- mier of the Prussian government. NEW YORK.—According to capi- talist press reports, the Bruening government program includes cutting down of international expenses in order to aid Young Plan payments and the floating of a loan of $125,- 000,000. Wage cuts are proposed for all government workers, as well as other economies in order to save taxes for the bosses, and thrust “One of the issues decided at its last convention was the campaign to nize the southern textile worker,” CARPENTERS TO jeontinues the '. U. “Yes, the |AFL misleaders of labor made a | serious attempt to go into the | but not for the purpose of | ing the Southern workers, not | purpose of fighting against eS |wage cuts, the stretch out system | and all its consequences. They did L Call: All h S |not go*into the South for the pur- TUUL Calls All to the Strag- |, 20r eee Nearer ers and the white wort but they gle in 2090 be went there for the purpose of help- to force upon the workers in the | South the program of the bosses and ized a united front with all of orga NEW YORK.—The Trade Uni a we sa | the enemies of the southern working Unity League group off carpenters in Py igh tha eevalutlcnedy, up: Local 2090 of the United Brotherhood | g of the southern masses. of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer- AFL for Low Wage “Their program no Wage in- crease as well as their open alliance members of the loeal exposing the | e | with all the capitalist state institu- treason of John Morelly, president of | tions to fight against the demands of the local and a group around him.| the unemployed is just another ex- Morelly went into office'on a revolu-| ample to the extent these misleaders ica, has issued a statement to the oF tionary program which he now be-| of jabor are ready to go in order ac- trays within two months after tak-| tuaiy and openly sérve as the re- ing office, sponsible agents f the complete program of our class enemies. “More than that. Mr. Green, presi- dent of the A.F.L., as well as Matthew Woll, are acting as the organizers for all the counter revolutionary dukes and princes, as well as the Russian counter revolutionary white guardists in this’ country, in order to bring about an attack against the Soviet Union.” The T. U. U. L. is preparing a further statement exposing in detail the treachery and Fascist progress of the A. F. L., which will be given to a@ big mass demonstration of Boston workers during the A. F. L. convene tion. This mass demonstration is called by the T. U. U. L. to meet in Frank- lin Union Hall, Boston, Oct. 9. Gen- eral Assistant Secretary John Schmies will be the main speaker. In the election program there was a demand for social insurance. But when the T. U. U. L. sent a com- munication asking the local to en- dorse the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, Morelly refused to al- low a motion to endorse and made an attack on the T. U. U. L. Fake Vote Morelly conducted the last special meeting so that instead of the mem- bers* having a real opportunity to discuss the report of the Action Com- mittee, which was elected to adopt @ program of independent economic struggle, the meeting ended in tur- moil and only a fake vote was taken The T. U. U. L. Group calls on the members to stop this betrayal of the. local to Hucheson in the guise of “saving” it. All members must be- come active, attend meetings and smash all attempts to make it a pure reactionary local. Local 2090, since the overthrow of the Berenzy-Mor- tan machine six years ago has been known as a progressive local. It must continue to be in the front of the struggles of the carpenters “For Alt Kinds of Insurance” more burdens on the backs of the workers. A Theatre ical iN ahas THE Garrick Ciiitine GUILD: 52d. Evs. 8:30 Mts. Th.&Sat.2:30 ARTHUR HOPKINS Presen' ROADSIDE A New Comedy by Lynn Riggs LONGACRE #4. 48 st. w. of B'way. Eves, at 8:40 Mata, Wed. & Sat. LYSISTRATA ‘The Comedy Hit’ You Hear About 44TH STREE THESE of Bway Eves. 8:80, Mats. Wed. & Sat, 2:30 ARTHUR HOPKINS Presents TORCH SONG New drama by Kenyon Nicholson THEA, 45th § Plymou th wat. or we Eves, 6:50. Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30. ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S BEN HEMINGWAY'S “A FAREWELL to ARMS” | NATIONAL ba 4lst W. of 7th Wodnesdey and’ Saturday’ 2:80 ° LOBE “assets? ious As AFRICA SPEAKS ALL TALK AND SOUND The Strangest Picture Ever Filmed scale || UP POPS THE DEVIL” & Genuine Comedy Hit with ROGER PRYOR MASQUE 45th Se. Tiga." of Bray Evenings at 6:50 Mats. Wednesday and Saturday 2:50 “WHITE HELL PITZ ‘PALU” with 0 ies a valet Second Big iiack Popular Demand! RASPUTIN THE HOLY DEVIL A chronicle film dealing. with the debauchery and downfall of the Romanofts. NICOLAI MALIKOFF as Rasputin —and on the same program— “THE GREAT UNKNOWN” Based on Edgar Wallace's mystery “THE SINISTER MAN” ACMETHEA. ugainst the reactionary leaders and ageinst the capitalist system. 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