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

SUPPORT THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN OF BUILDING SOCIALISM WHICH BEGAN ITS 3D YEAR YESTERDAY, Dail Central . Orga 1. unist Party U.S.A. ‘ (Eos btéa of the Communist International) Norker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered a second-class matter at New York, N. Vol. VII. No. 237 , under the act of March 3, 1879 at the Post Office NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LYNCHING NOW MAJOR POLITICAL ISSUE AS Drive Out the Lynchers! ¥NCHING has become a major political issue in the present election As campaign. The brutal murder of twenty-nine Negroes, three is. the past week, cannot be evaded by the capitalist political parties. They are responsible for the lives of these Negro workers and poor farmers, They will be forced to answer to an enragéd working class. Their stock argument has always been: “The Negro was guilty of rape,” and the fine frenzy of Southern capitalists who advertise that Southern white women will work longer hours at lower wages than anywhere else, is invariably aroused at the word “rape.” How false as hell is this lie of the white exploiters and oppressors of both Negro and white workers is shown by the fact that because Lacy Mitchell of Thomasville, Georgia, testified ‘in court against two whites who raped a Negro woman, a masked mob murdered himgupon his return home. It is not the “protection of womanhood,” white or black, that concerns those who incite and lead the lynching mobs. What these white exploiters want is to terrorize the Negroes, & terrorization that is also reflected in the vicious hostility to the class organization of the white workers This terrorization of the Negro masses is spreading everywhere. In Detroit's Negro district, police cars continually run through the streets arbitrarily and violently breaking up any group of Negroes however small that might gather. The same terrorization is being adopted as a system in Chicago and other cities, even of the North Undoubtedly it was the justified resentment at such terrorization by police that resulted in the police chief of Cartersville, Georgia, being killed by a Negro who would not tolerate such police brutality that flies in the face of all the so-called “rights” of capitalist law. And tW@ Negro was at once lynched, to uphold the flaunting of such “rights” by the capitalist police. While various wishy-washy reformists are talking about “investigating” lynching, this only covers up the direct complicity of the capitalist political parties in the murders of Negroes, They are responsible and must ‘be held to answer. { Only the Communist Party challenges the lynchers, with its insistence that white and Negro workers unite in physical defense against the bar- barous lynchers of Negroes. Only the Communist Party fights for the social and political equality for the Negroes and all other oppressed. Only the Communist Party raises the banner of self-determination for the Negroes of the regions where they are a majority, as the sole guarantee that real equality will result. ‘The capitalist parties are lynch parties because they are boss parties. The Communist Party is fighting lynching because it is the only working class party. Drive out the lynchers! Vote Communist! “Socialist” Traditions ORMAN THOMAS, “socialist,” has burst forth with what the capitalist N press calls “attacks” on the oil concessions revealed by the Land Office Chief at Denver, Ralph as a steal of $40,000,000,000 S. Kelly, by fraud and violation of capitalist law. What is the content: of Thomas’ “attacks”? He s that the Hoover ration is being “true to the traditions of Harding, Fall and Sin- clair.” Undoubtedly. But this 18 because Hoover is true to capitalism, without which all the Falls and Sinclairs and the preserit thieves could not loot the natural resources. And though Thomas may utter a lot of tall talk about Harding, Hoover, Fall and Doheny, he conceals the fact that the fake “socialist” party is firmly in support of the capitalist system which produces such grafters just as filth breeds flies. Thomas deceives, the workers when he implies that graft can*be ended without putting an end to capitalism It is, moreover, an insult to workers’ intelligence to hear a leader of the “socialist” party condemning the other capitalist parties for being “true to the traditions” of capitalism. It we look at England, where the “socialist” ment in the interest of capitalism, we see that it is “trué to the traditions” of capitalism. It cuts wages in Lancashire textile mills. It massacres Indians and sends warships to loot China an@ Egypt in the best Tory capi- talist style. In Germany the “socialists” have been the bulwark of capi- talism against the workers, as “true to the traditions” of capitalism as the Kaiser himself. ‘We could go on, but the workers will understand that all the “attacks” of the fake “socialist” party are not aimed at destroying capitalism, but in protecting it by pretensions that it'can be “purified.” There is but one party against capitalism—the Communist Party. Vote Communist! party controls the govern- Breaking Up the Home OMMUNISTS are frequently charged with the desire to break up the C home. But figures just made public by the census bureau show that the American bosses require no help. Two million additional women and girls have been drawn into offices, stores and factories during the past ten years. In 1920, 8,202,901 women and girls were so employed. Now the number is in excess of 10,000,000. In other words, according to these figures, over one-quarter of all American women and girls between the ages of 16 and 64 (!) are engaged in occupations outside the home. But these figures are admittedly deficient. They do not. include the thousands of housewives who are compelled to take in sewing or do other part-time work to supplement the family income. These figures fail to differentiate between the wives and daughters of workers and those of the capitalist parasites. Actually wage cuts, unemployment and speed-up in the factories, with the resulting impoverishment of the workers, have forced the great majority of the wives and daughters of workers into stores, offices, factories and domestic service in an effort to keep the wolf away from the family door. The present crisis is accelerating that process. ‘These women workers’ are exploited even more ruthlessly then the men. While during the more prosperous periods for which figures are available the average wage for men ranged from $23.00 to $25.00 per-week (includ- ing, of course, the highly skilled workers), for women the figures ranged from $12.00 to $15.00 per week. Negro women and girls in the South averaged only from $4.00 to $6.00. It is also necessary to note that it is the highly rationalized industries (radio, electrical equipment, shoe, auto, etc.), where the speed-up is most killing, that are now replacing men with women workers, THE WOMAN WORKER, the fighting woman's paper, must be circulated widely among these women workers. They must be drawn into the revolu- tionary trade unions and into the Communist Party. They are new pro- letarian allies who will aid the working class in its anti-cdpitalist fight. L FASCISTS GET POSTS IN NEW AUSTRIA GOVT ) 4 VIENNA, Oct. 1—The newly- formed ‘minority cabinet” here of Schober and \Vaugoin, is the, prep- aration for an open fascist dictator- ship here, {he Heimwher, the Aus- trian fascist army, forthe first time is directly represented in the govern- ment. Elections are set for Novem- ber’ 9, but the fascists are rapidly consolidating their forces, @nd utiliz~ MORE MACHINES AND SPEED-UP KILL MEN WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. 1. Serious industrial accidents measured in xelation to hours of employment are steadily increasing, according to the statement of W. O. Stack, presi- dent of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards. In an address before his association, Dr. Stack* stated that there were 23,000 industrial deaths and 3,125,000 non- fatal accidents in the United States in 1929, Stack reported that while tempor- ary injuries*have decreased in recent years fatalities and permanent in- juries have increased. He listed as possible , causes of this alarming condition the increased mechaniza- tion of industry, the unemployment situation and concentration on minor hazards to the neglect of major ones. ing the aid given them by the Scho- |_ ber-Vaugoin cabinet are becoming more open in their attacks on the workers. The “minority cabinet” with its fascist support, intends to follow the policy of the Bruening Government. of Germany and rush through anti- working class legislation. The Aus- trian Socialist, by all its action, is aiding the development of a. fascist ictatorship in Austria, }F JOB HUNT MADDENS YOU MONROE, La, Oct. 1—Beaten with a three-inch strap by a keeper, W. L, Cleveland, inmate of the Central Louisiana Hospital for the Insane, was found critically injured by C. W. Furman, a relative, when he went to visit him. The man’s body was a rhass of bruises and clotted blood. He was fdund in tes ‘ittle,room which apparentl) had apes. cleaned in months, the unemployed.” millionaires who refuse to part with any of their profits for un- employment insurance, as de- manded by the Communist Party, that Murphy called: in, were Edsel Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Charles T. and Lawrence P. Fisher (of the “59” rulers of the U. S.), and Alvin Ma- | cauley Eyery one of these bosses has cut |wages and fired thousands of work- ers during the past few weeks. Yet Murphy invites them to discuss “ lief for the unemployed.” In his conferences with the bosses, Murphy has the support of the So- cialists and A. F. of L. fascist lead- ers, who backed his election cam- paign. Murphy, kingpin of dema- gogues, knows that as winter comes on the jobless prepare for a sterner fight for relief. Hence he jacks up every rotten charity outfit he can lay his hands on, as well as arouses the bosses for a fight against real de- mands of the unemployed, so that the bosses can be mobilized for “trouble.” In his “plan” Murphy simply, ditches his phrases about “unemploy- ment insurance.” Instead he plans to establish a “municipal free ‘em- ployment bureau.” In New York the same thing was done. Result? Over 35,000 workers applied for jobs; a few hundred got work for a few days at cut wages. “We cannot live on promises!” ex: | claims a leaflet issued. by the Com- | munist Party of Detroit, exposing | Murphy's fake program. “They want to ‘investigate,’” the leaflet goes on to point out to the workers. “(Can you eat investigations? Can your family satisfy their hunger with in- vestigations? What you need is | bread! What yon need is work! “Murphy's program is a program of charity. The committee did not mention a single word about taxing the rict (whom Murphy consulted), who made fortunes out of your sweat and bl6od. Murphy promised bread —demand it! Murphy promised re- lief—fight for it! Reject charity— demand immediate unemployment relief from the city. Vote Communist in the State and Congressional elec- tions! For a workers and poor farm- ers’ government - PRESS BAZAAR OPENS TODAY Textile Union Pledges Sup- port; Calls Workers to Aid NEW YORK.—Tens of thousands of workers are preparing to invade Madison Suare Garden for the Daily Worker - Morning Freiheit Bazaar, which opens today at one o'clock and will continue until Sunday midnight, October 5. Everything is in readiness for a gala opening of what all signs indi- cate will be one of the greatest af- fairs ever staged and supported by militant workers, jHundreds of work- ing class organizations have gone on record as supporting the Red Press Bazaar and its purpose of raising funds to support the Communist Press and make of it an ever more effective wer yon against the attacks on -the working class by the! Fis! committee and other enemies of th workers, Over 48 booths have been set up by various organizations, and a’ huge assortment of articles will give work- ers an unequalled opportunity of eco- nomic buying. Workers can go to the bazaar direct from work and eat the tasty meals that will be served them. re- MURPHY, DETROIT MAYOR, CALLS IN THE AUTO BOSSES FOR FIGHT AGAINST DEMANDS OF JOBLESS Offers Charity Slop, but Refuses Insurance; Communists Call for Struggle DETROIT, Oct. 1.—Realizing-that the unemployed are becoming aware of the fake nature of the promises on which he was elected, Mayor Murphy called a conference of 21 Detroit millionaires today |to discuss means of combatting the demands of the jobless. Murphy announced the conference as one of planning “re Among the+ lief for INDUSTRIAL NEEDLE UNION MAKES DEMAND Real Dress Strike Soon Against Piecework NEW YORK.—The Executive of the Shop Delegates’ Council of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has adopted demands to be proposed to the Shop Delegates’ Council meeting for approval. They are directed against the most out- standing evils in the dress trade. The long hours, and particularly the piece work system, has been op- pressing the workers to such an ex- tent and has subjected them to such merciless exploitatiow that the dress- makers are miore than ever before confronted with the necessity of un- dertaking 2 struggle. The demands for shorter hours and for week-work are becoming the dominant demands of the dressmakers at the present time. Struggle Near The members of the Shop Dele- gates’ Council will be called upon to thoroughly discuss the dress situa- tion and the proposed demands, and also concrete measures to. develop the preparations for the dress strike on a mass scale. The Union will also call upon the active dressmakers to come to this theeting of the Shop Delegates’ Coun- cil to listen in and familiarize them- selves. Prepare Strike Beginning with the coming week, the entire machinery of the Industrial Union will be directed mainly toward the preparation for the dress strike. Special shop meetings, building meet- ings and street meetings will be; called for this purpose. Special dress | strike leaflets and bulletins will be issued. Open-air meetings will be held in every section regularly for the preparation of the strike. Con- ferences and mass meetings are scheduled to take place for the mo- bilization of the dressmakers, All the forces of the Union will be thrown in for the building up of shop com- mittees and contacts in open shops, as well as company union shops. * fRcaN FEED | Me Fist WD vibes with Babies in T heir | Arms Ask for Shelter; Many Jobless Committing Suicide Workers, Employed and Unemvloyed, Must Not | Tolerate This Any Longer By 1. AMTER (Prisoner No. 52351) (Communist Candidate, 23rd Congressional Dist The League of Nations, fearful of the situation in the capitalist and colonial countries, has appointed a committee to “study” the | economic crisis, It recognizes that this cannot be completed dur- ing the winter and therefore fears that with the hardships certain to face the wofkers and peasants there may be revolution. At HIDE OIL STEAL caplaas and devatition is: on the order of the day. Covers Up $40,000,000,000 | Present te Oil Trusts Nevertheless, the capitalists of this country do not hesitate to flaunt their wealth before the faces of the starving workers. The Free Employment Bureau of New York has proven to be a fake. It could not create jobs; but it was supposed to make the workers believe that the city was doing ‘something for them. Babies Without Shelter We witness, therefore, suicide after suicide. The: jails and insane asy- (Continued on page 3) “VOTE COMMUNIST” PLEDGE. UNEMPLOYED | WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Secretary | Wilbur, Hoover's secretary of the interior, whose function is to cover up the $40,000,000,000. shale oll land graft, while appealing for an “in-| vestisation,” already resorts to the old trick of branding Ralph S. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 1—| Kelly's proof as “reckless and false.” Forty delegates from different work-| Kelly, former chief of field division ing class organizations, includins| of the General Land Office at Denver, Unemployed Councils, A. N. C. Le! published facts (i showing the Standard Oil Co. and the Sinclair Oil Co. were given a $40,000,000,000 “present” by tite Hooyer. administ tion | Immediately Wilbur and Hoover | tried to cover up this wholesale graft, | which topped the Teapot Dome scan- branches, Language Benefit Organ- | izations, Negro Clubs, I. L. D., Com- | munist Party’and Y. L. C., repre- sented their organizations yesterday at the September 28th Unemployed Conference. The conference started at 11 a. m, with Joe Carr, one of the Atlanta prisoners, opening the con- feneneeichesae atinriscadiehe dal of the Harding robbers. While Comrade Bimbow, a young Negro | Wilbur called Kelly's statement | worker, was elected chairman. A okiess: end ® false," another «good | disccussion followed the report by,| SUPPorter of the Hoover regime. Senator Nye, chairman of the Public Lands Committee, in a letter to Kelly | greeted him in quite a different tone. | He wrote: “However, you have been so long in the service and your repu- | tation, as Tyhave known it, has been so fine that I feel in’ duty bound to request you to furnish me with as/ Jack Karson for the section. The conference recognized the fail- ure to get delegates from locais of the A. F. of L., and more mass or- ganizations, and disccussed plans to reach those workers. Plans for ‘or- ganizing more unemployed councils on the basis of fight against evic- tions of unemployed, for immediate | much detailed accounting of wron relief of unemployed and for the | doing as you may be able to afford. Unemployment Insurance Bill, were | Which is just a more glib way of laid out. | glossing over the $40,000,000,000 steal. | WORKERS ! prove that the economic crisis, with unemployment, ever. facts they should remember: “At the levels touched during July tically the bottom levels of 1921.” not been very encouraging.” ‘hen he-said it wasn’t a bad crisis. were out of jobs. All of the boss economis: downward turn in the crisis. now only 33 Points, DAILY WORKER -MORNING FREIHEIT REMEMBER THIS NOV. 4! As the election draws near, facts begin to pour in to bitter misery for the workers, well into its second year with the future blacker than When the millions of workers go to the polls in No- vember with the three boss parties (Republican, Demo- erat and Socialist) enticing their votes here are some | October 1st issue of the National City Bank Bulletin informs us, “composite indexes of business equaled prac- Worker pointed out two months ago is now grudgingly confirmed by the National City Bank, namely “that it must be admitted that the showing for fall so far has Hoover told the workers last year there was no crisis. tell us that it is just as bad as 1921, when 10,000,000 This winter 1921 will be like a “pros- perity” period in comparison with the conditions. the workers will have to face and fight against. are resorting to a trick to hide the extent of the severity of the present sharp For instance, the Guaranty Trust Co. “Survey” for October says that the August business index stands at 73.0 per cent. of normal, as, compared with 75.9 for July and 106.3 for August, 1929. This would indicate that the drop from last August is But last August the crisis was already upder way, is much greater. One of the best indexes of the development of the cr! is freight loadings. Even during crisis years, such as 1921, 1907 and 1893, in the fall there was a seasonad upturn in ear loadings. This time things are the reverse. The New York Times informs wu “The revised index of freight car loadings (for the | week ended September 20) consequently shows one of the sharpest weekly declines registered thus far this | yar, the figure for the week ended September 20 being | 81,7, as compared with 84.8 for the week ended September | 13, and 100.3 for the week ended September 21, 1929.” | These are facts that the boss politicians are silent about in their election tripe. A vote for the boss parties is a yote to allow the bosses to transfer the yoke of the crisis onto the necks of the workers. It is a vote of confidence in capitalism, and its system of exploitation. It strengthens the capitalist re- action and their brazenness in wage cutting. A vote for Communism is a vote against the' capitalist system, which is the cause of crisis and all the misery it brings in its train for the workers. Capitalism can never ultimately do away its contradictions nor the crises that grow out of them. Any upturn that may come about will be squeezed out of the workers’ hides, unless they fight against it. Voting Communist is not enough, though vitally neces- sary. A yote for the Communist Party is serving notice on the bosses that the workers intend to back it up by organizing to strike against wage cuts; that the workers will mobilize in every shop to demand unemployment in- surance, and that the workers are mobilizing to end the and hence the drop from “normal” all its increased enters and August,” the What the Daily Now the bankers ‘LAYOFFS GROW | Kafkaleff and Joseph O'Dell, | So they could distribute such in the Lh. Knowing that the strike is being prepared, the bosses are planning to import scabs. They are opening restaurants in the mills, bringing in Asai Mine Cuts Wages Another Tenth} GEORGIA BOSSES 3 ARE LYNCHED KILL 3 MORE NEGRO WORKERS, SENDING TOTAL T0 2 Definite Attempt to Create Lynching Atmos- phere for Atlanta Communist Party Calls “Insurrection” Trials on Workers to Strike Blow Against Lynching and Vote Communist , Oct. 1 issue was bro THOMASVILLE, Ga ers as an electior —The lynching of Negro work- ught more sharply to the front | with the lynching of two additional Negro workers in Georgia, making three lynchings in this state inside of one week. No sooner had the Georgia bo: IN YOUNGSTOWN AND MICHIGAN Red Union Mobilizins for a Struggle YOUNGSTOWN, Oct, 1—As the elections draw near lay-offs and wage cuts increase in the steel industry. Last week Sheet & Tube Co. fired a big number of workers by open-hearth were sent fi the Youngstown closing down six more furnaces, The workers t into the labor gang for a day and then sent home The newspapers here announce] that the Sheet & Tube Co. will cut production another 5 per cent. A decline of 5 per cent in this largest mill in Youngstown will throw addi- tional hundreds out of work. The Sharon Steel Hoop Co. will cut its or cent—mor ations from 65 per cent to 40 per @ unemployed STRIKE SENTIMENT IN YOUNGSTOWN INCREASES | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 1—A| strong sentiment strike is de- veloping amongst the steel workers for A general wage cut is expected in| the Youngsiown Sheet & Tube, and | the work are determined to fight | it. In the discussion among the steel | workers one can hear: ‘he reds are going to lead this str! The work- ers realize that only the revolution- | ary unions are able to fight against | Wage cuts at the present time. The Metal Workers’ Industrial League issued a leaflet calling upon the workers to immediately set. up| mill committees, raise a strike fund, | and prepare for strike. The bosses arrested two comrade: for dis. tributing the leaflets. The workers were eager to get this leaflet, in many instances asking for a bunch of them mills The M. W. I. E. must immediately step on the gas. More leaflets, more gate meetings for organizing mill | committees will be undertaken. The | Sheet & Tube workers need leader- | | ship and érsanization, which con and | Conference Board as must be given to them by the M. W. cots, and replenishing their guns and ammunition machine BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 1.—The Bankhead mine near Jasper, Ala., has cut wages 10%. The old rate was $3.35 for nine hours. The mine has been working two and three days a week for several months. At Hull, Ala,. miners work 10°hours for $2. The. Neitona and Beltona mines near Warrier are working one day a Week. There has heen a soup kitchen there, but has been discontinued be- eause of lack of funds. Coal miners are helping to pick the very sorry cotton crop entirely without pay-ex- entire rotten system of capitalfsm. cept food. sses got the riddled body of 20+ +year-old. Willie Kirkland out of the way than they proceeded to further intensify their lynching |terror against the Negro work- | ers. this winter resort of the idle the second lynching within a last Saturday night when Lacy Mitchell, a Negro worker, lynched by a band of masked men. His crime was testifying in court against two white men accused. of raping a Nego woman, Today, three days later, another Gocrgia town contributed to the rap= idly growing number of lynchings, as John Willis Clark, a Negro worker who dared defend himself against a vicious attack by Police Chief Joe Ben Jenkins, wag lynched in Carters- ville. Clark was taken from the jail by a mob of 100 men traveling in au- tomobiles and, having the usual free access to the jail, Clark was hanged to a telephone pole less than a mile from the jail. These three lynchings send the number of mab murders this year to 29, with every indication of a further intensification of the terror. “Occur- ring within a week of each other, these three Georgia lynchings “are clearly designed to create a lynchitg atmosphere for the trial of the ai In rich, week occurred was Atlanta “insurrection” defendants, which is scheduled for this week in Atlanta, Ga., as well as to terrorize the Negro workers into working for nothing. since any demand for wages is instantly met with a lynching mob. In the meantime, workers through» out the ‘country are rallying to the Anti-Lynching Week designated by the American Negro Labor Congress for the week of September 27 to Oce tober Protest mass meetings are being held in hundreds of centers throughout the country, with the Ine ternational Labor Defense and other class struggle organizations co-ope | erating in the mobilization of the ene tire working class for the struggle against the bosses and their lynching terror. On November 4 the workers will have’ the opportunity of delivering a smashing blow to the capitalist sys- tem, which breeds. race hatred ‘and lynching, unemployment, wage cuts, speed-up, imperialists’ wars, etc, Workers who are opposed to lynching and the starvation policy of the | bosses in throwing. millions of work- ers on the streets to starve will vote | ageinst the bosses and their -parties by voting for the only working class party, the Communist Party, Land Stock Sale to : Labor; “Can’t Control” NEW YORK.—Employe stock pure chase plans are recommended. to bosses by the National Industrial “an equitable | but less expensive substitute” for old age pensions and insurance. Reas- suringly the’ board states that “the spread of these plans has brought no tendency toward workers’ control of the business. In 1927, it reports, there were more than. 800,000 employe stockholders in 315 companies, and the market value of their holdings was over a billion, but this was only 4%%_of the total: outstanding stock in. those companies. BUILD JOBLESS COUNCIL The Unemployed Council of Boston, which holds a meeting every day exe cept Saturday and Sunday, has already held four meetings. which have been very successful, securing 31 members that are dues-paying members. At today’s meeting we got seven new members. Two of these are Negroes. The workers have pledged themselves to carry on. this work and build a real mass employed and unemployed council to carry on the struggle for unemployment insur ance. OPENS TODAY AT 1 P.M. And Friday, Saturday, Sunday, October 3, 4 and 5 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | A million. and one articles sold at PROLETARIAN PRICES Don’t buy now, you will get it at the Bazaar