The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 1

| | Vote Against the Bosses’ Lynching System! N N ; f ] T 4 And Fight Against Lynching! Agair sses’ Lynchi L Y, CHL G M S GG! Vote Communist Deferse Squads! Mobilize Negre and White Workers for the Fight! Organize Self MANY WORKERS FACE DEPORTATION TO EXECUTION ABROAD SAVE THEM! Dail Central Orga Gwection of E he-Cod the Rsk rad International) Norker Rfruniet Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Hnteeed ne, vheond-cfaes, matter at New York, bios VII. No. 238 Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 120 at the Post Office a NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents The Five-Hour Day EPORTS from the Boston convention of the A. F. of L. metal trades’ RB conertmens might, at first glance, cause some workers to believe that a revolutionary change had taken place, within the A. F. of L. And, in fact, O’Connell’s and Frey's proposals for the five-hour day and five-day week, with a continuation of the same wage rates now paid for eight, nine and ten hours, do constitute, either a revolutionary change in policy, or a degree of fakery and deception never before reached, even by the fascist A. F. of L. leaders, The latter, however is the case as their own reports clearly show But. first, before we examine the motives or intentions of O'Connell and Frey, are these proposals feasible? They most certainly are! They are not only feasible but necessary! The feasibility of the five-hour day is shown by the very great increase that has taken place in the produc- tive capacity of industry as a result of speed-up and mechanization. The necessity for the five-hour day is shown by the break-down in the workers’ health under the killing speed-up systems and by the existence resent of a jobless army of well over 8,000,000 workers, which, even, rosperous times numbers several million. The workers of the United if fully employed for five hours every day for five days every week (and possibly in even less time), could easily supply the needs of the country But the American capitalists are not impressed by arguments about r and “necessity” (for the workers!), Their only concern is profits—ever greater profits with which to provide themselves with more luxuries while greater masses of workers starve industry and speed up production through any working day and improve the lot of the worker. They mechanize in- dustry and speed up production only in order to wring more profits out of the workers. Obviously, then, the bosses are not going to the five-hour day, five-day week, and increased wages.as a gift! They will only grant a they are forced to do so. They do not mechanize desire to shorten the Christmas shorter work-day and -increased wa ’ The eight-hour day was won after bitter struggle. Likewise, the five-hour day, five-day week will be won when the workers organize sufficiently powerful strike movements to force the bosses to grant this justified demand. And right here is where the shoe pinches! Do O'Connell and Frey issue the slogan: “Organize and strike for the five-hour day and five-day week?’ Decidedly not! On the contrary, still following their fascist, class-collaboration policies, they pratt about the five;day week being “more profitable to investe: and “of greater advantage to the public.” 1 pretend to think th ges when years of | out a struggle But the A. F. of L. leaders are not stupid. They are following quite ® conscious policy. Their real object in bringing forth this proposal is to-use it as a smoke screen to cover up their failure to demand and fight for unemployment insurance. They shed crocodile tears about the growth of unemployment. They piously talk about shorter hours ‘as a solution for unemployment. But they have no intention of fighting for shorter | hours. This talk about shorter hours is going to be their method of Justifying their support for the Hoovers and Roosevelts and of fighting ainst the Unemployment Insurance Bill as proposed by the Communist rty The Communist Party, however, calls and fight against this A. F. of L. fakery and for shorter hours and for immediate unemployment insurance. We propose, not idle talk about a five-hour day,’ but immediate strike struggles for the seven-hour day, five-day week as a real step toward winning the five-hour day. We Propose mass demonstrations everywhere to force the immediate adop- tion of the Unemployment Insurance Bill. This is a program of struggle which will get results!’ This is not mere talk! Don’t starve! Organize! Fight! Strike against wage cuts! Strike for_the seyen-hour day, five- day week!” Demand ‘the adoption. of the Unemployment Insurance Bill! ‘Vote Communist! upon all workers to organize : , Down With Lynch Parties! STORY from Thomasville, Georgia, printed on thi& page, A graphic colors the class nature of the lynching mobs which have been murdering Negroes there and in other regions to the atrocious total of twen nine so far this year. The picture of the mansions of the rich, Northern bosses, compareg with the hovels of the poor “white trash” and then the horrible shacks of the oppressed Negroes, is a picture that should sink into the mind of all. It should likewise be graven on the minds of the workers how the society | matwigns meet to set the wage scale of their servants, as the mill bosses do tO set the wages of their textile slaves—white and black And all should be understood as a background of the violent terrorization of the exploited and oppressed Negro workers and poor farmers which is calling lynching. These lynching mobs are, in the main, by no means a “popular uprising, it the work of masses, but the work of a comparatively small band of cl ‘atorial murderers of the ‘ r" vhose i n S are to keep al loited and oppressed clas st exploitation. These capitalist conspirators, of course, pla upon the prejudice they have instilled into the white workers and farmers whom they exploit as wage slaves and share croppers, counting upon @his prejudice to prevent these white victims of theirs from uniting with their Negro class brothers in resistance to the boss class terror. But the bosses and their hangers-on ot lawyers, merchants and doctors, make up the decisive part of the actual lynchers. In other words, lynching is a capitalist affair, by the bosses and for the bosses. And all the capitalist parties, republican, democrat and fake “socialist” alike, either practice it or excuse it in one form or another, and only the Communist Party, the party of the working class. the whole working class, comes out as an active force against it. The workers and poor farmers of the South—and North—have a-vommon interest in uniting to stop this murder of the worst exploited and oppressed of their class. Not by kind words, which will have no effect, but in joint physical defense to deal with these boss class murder gangs in the only language they understand. And since only the Communist Party is waging a fight against these conspirators against the lives of workers, against this terror which is aimed to force the working class to accept still worse conditions, every worker and poor farmer, Negro and white, should Vote Communist in the elec- tions—and vote against the lynch parties, wes at “AT ON GARBAGE DOM MILWAUKEE, Oct, 2.— Twelve more workers were fired by the Andres Stone and Marble Co. in a new speed-up drive, Some of these men have been working in this place NEW YORK.—A resolution declar- | for 10 or more years. In all plants ing that the cause of the foreign born workers, like that of the Negro workers, the unemployed and those suffering wage cuts is the cause of in “Socialist” Milwaukee, workers are being laid off daily, and the ranks of the whole working class, and pledg- ing the organizations adopting it to the unemployed grow. Those left on support the national conference for the job are being speeded up Jobless men and women can be seen the protection of foreign born ahd to assistance in all demonstrations, searching the city dumps for garbage meetings, and every part of the cam- to keep them from starving. The Communist Party, in its election cam- paign against finger printing, de- portation, discrimination, registering, paigh here, is exposing the Socialist fakers who send the unemployed to etc., is being circulated through local unions and other workers’ organiza- the city dumps when they demand unemployment insurance. i skit CR oh selva BONN tions by the Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born. Drawn Up at Conference The resolution was drawn up at a New York City conference held Sep- tember 21 in Manhattan Lyceum. It was voted unanimously by 233 dele- gates, representing 163 workers’ or- ganizations with a total of 30,422 membership. The National Conference will be held in Washington, and demonstra- tions will be arranged when Congress meets and when it takes up the mass deportation, registration, finger printing, etc., bills now before it or to be introduced, hand out | shows in/ some of them the homes of | | the wo Walker MASSES MUST SAVE 18 HELD FOR DEPORTING More Frisco Workers Seized Every Day—Ten Face Death SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Oct. Eighteen workers are under deporta- tion charges here, for execution awaits them if the masses exile to fascist countries where rest them from the clutches of the immigation authorities. Most of these workers were taken }up in the campaign to drive under- ground the Communist Party; to in- terfere with its election campaign and th. outlaw the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League. More are being picked up dail Those already arrested require an ex+ pense of $5,000 to put through their peals from adverse decisio: immigation authorities. Help |these workers is urgently for International Labor Defense, 80 East llth street, New York C CARTOONISTS T0 Thousands Crowd Garden for Opening Day Loyally supporting the Red press | against the attacks of the Fish Com- | mittee and other fascist forces, thou- | sands of workers yesterday poured into Madison Square Garden for the opening of th® Daily Worker-Morn- ing Freiheit Bazaar. The huge hail decorated — in with the booth: was brilliantly revolutionary colors, crowded with a huge variety of articles, the restaurants going full blast feeding hungry workers, who had rushed to the Gar- den directly from work, and every- | thing testifying to efficient prepara- tion working Class to the call for support of the Red press in its work of de- fending the workers against the at- tacks of the bosses and their govern- ment. 5 An added attraction is announced by the Bazaar Committee, which has angen to have the cartoonists of the Daily Worker and the Frehett on hand, with Gomrade Burke of the Daily Worker drawing proletarian cartoons lampooning the enemies of nz class tomorrow. Ryan and Gropper will do stuff on the following days. ten of them slated | do riot rally to their support here and | by the | needed. | anta, | Contributions should be sent to the| the profit-hungry capitalists can*be persuaded to grant this demand with- | DRAW AT BAZAR and the deep response “of the | their | Red Demonstration in Harlem Tomorrow to Hit Outrages NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Lynchings of Negro workers in the first nine months of this year must arouse the working’ masses to a militant fight against the lynching mobs, as well |as against the capitalist partjes. The | Democrats and Republicans tolerate lynchings wherever they are in power. The “Socialists” are spread- ing anti-Negro propaganda. Only | recent organ in New York, declared that Negroes aro attacking white women and that Negro women hired for house work, veally engage in stealing. Thirty meetings vill be held in Harlem this Saturday evening and will terminate in two central rallie: one at 146th street and Seventh ave- |nue and another at 110th street and Fifth avenue. Thousands of work- ers from all sections of Harlem will march towards the central rallies The meetings will be held at. the | following places: Lenox avenue—4l4th, |130th, 132nd, 134th, 142nd and 144th streets Seventh avenue 126th, 128th, 132nd, | 145th streets. | Fifth avenue and | Amsterdam avenue and and 145th street. Highth avenue, 124th street and | 150th street; Bradhurst avenue and 144th street. th, 138th, 128th, 140th, 117th, 134th, 122nd, 144th and ‘113th street; 125th street Nicholas avenue and 111th street; Lexington evenue, 86th and 99th streets; Park avenue and 103rd street; Second avenue and 106th | street. |. Register on time! Vote Commun- ist. Meet Oct. 10 on Mass Violation Of Injunctions NEW YORK.—“It is futile and a lost cause to fight the battle against injunctions. and section 600 on a purely legal basis. There is no re+ dress by law for the workers in this fight. They must smash the injunc- tions and, along with it, the applica- | tion of section 600 of the Penal Code. | This can be done only by uniting all working class forces, the deliberate selection of one or more shops or factories for organization, for strike against wage cuts, and for mass vio- lation of the injunction.” This is part of a statement from the Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York through its organ- izer. Jack Johnstone. The whole statement will be published soon on the back page of the Daily Worker. | . The council calls, in the same state- | | ment, a conference to be held in Man- | hattan Lyceum, Oct. 10, at 7:45 p. m., © outline plans for smashing of in- + Lynching Election Issue As Bosses Terror Grows Photograph of the lynching by Georgia bosses of John Willie Clark, year-old. young Negro worker, on October 1, in Cartersville, Ga. Clark was taken out of jail by a band of unmasked men who traveled’ in auto- mobiles and simply strolled into jail and took out their victims. The sheriff says he was asleep at the time. Carter had been locked up for defending himself when wantonly shot at by Police Chief Joe Ben Jenkins. Carter is the 29th victim, so far this year, of the bosses’ lynching terror. Negro Workers Are Bitterly Exploited in Thomasville, Georgia City of 2 Lynchings By JENNIE COOPER (Southern Organizer, |. L. D.) THOMASVILLE, Ga., Oct. 2. — When entering the City of Thomasville, one’ gets the impression that every one lives in splendor and in peace there. beautiful and very odd mansions surrcunded by gardens of flowers. Ga., |junctions by mass violation However, it does not take very long to find out that those living in NEW YORK. — Otto Berkhan, a seaman, in the prime of his life and lots labor power to ,sell, fainted from hunger on Sept. Nana was wheeled to the city hospital by the police department, which has as one of its functions the clearing of the streets of the broken down ma- terial on which capitalism bases its profits Th with of sands have-encountered a like fate, and, when possible, the hos- pital records them under any con- venient disease the man may have contracted in his hungry and weak- ened condition, In this case nothing could be found wrong except that Berkhan, able and willing, in fact, frantic for work, had been unable, under a capitalist system suffering from “overproduction” of food, scared to death that the Soviet Union will send food here, to get a job and provide himself with enough grub to maintain life. The hospital kept him only five days, but was honest enough to write in bold letters on his discharge certificate, | “Suffering from STARVATION.” Now he is free—to go and starve some more. So are 8,000,000 other workers. This cannot go on! Vote Communist, for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill! Make the capitalists and their government feed their wage slaves who have not been paid enough wages when they worked to buy back the food they produced! workers of the| te [Bartha “STARVATION!” HOSPITAL ADMITS IT! Tis 13 to Centiry that: the records of this Hospital show that Sully aiasaraanicahcuics oe Pa dade a ‘4 the beautiful mansions are the idle rich who do nothing else but go to their summer homes in the sum- mer time, and to Thomasville when it gets cool. aA few blocks away from these into the section “white trash,” and then to the ction where the Negro workers Then you get an entirely differ- ent pictur “City of Flowers.” Here workers live in horrible look- ing shacks, their walls pasted up with they pay $5 per month ee for rent. (Of course, it goes without saying that the rich ladies would not keep their dogs there.) Over mills from 6 in the morning till mansions one gets called Hospital AVENUE live. of the New vou hd, C4 600 colored men work in the Z years of age, a native of in the evening for $1 per day. a y | ot work in the cotton fields for ng ai 50 cents per hundred pounds. The omen and girls work in the homes | of the “fine ladies”; $5 a week is the highest any worker can make for ning the cooking, washing, scrub- and taking care of the children. ven with all members of the family working for “the white folks,” it is impossible to make ends meet Gn these mesgre wages, with the re- sult that many wives and daughters are forced further to pander to the lusts of the bosses by prostituting themselves. The workers, Negro and white, are beginning to talk organization against these unbearable conditions, and are beginning to realize that only by militant action and united strug- gle can they overcome the terrific exploitation to which both white and Negro workers are subjected. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN A million aaa one articles sold at OPEN TODAY And Saturday and Sunday, __ October 4 4and 5 PROLETARIAN PRICES Buy your things now at the Bazaar For in this town you can see the most | [DETROIT GOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT WORKERS “GET” WHEN | VOTING FOR BOSS PARTIES |Mayeor Murphy ae “Counts” 250,000 Job- less, but They Still Go on Starving DETROIT, Oct. 2—Mayor Murphy of | demagogue of the capitalist parties in the present economic cri: Detroit, the champion et ey can expect from the boss to the workers what amply proving relief Murphy issued glowing promises by the hundreds about what he promises about unemployment Twould do if elected. He got the | support of the Socialists and 50 CARNEGIE | A. F. of L, misleaders, What | has been the result for the un- employed? Not one jot different WORKERS DEFY om the Hoover pro: | In every part of the country there L L T| sie ein Murphys asking the ATARI workers to vote for them, with prom 3 es to unemployment, or to Taare aot | them relief. industrial Union Urges the | ...0cr 0 sone ons ot tne beet | means of the bosses to fight against the demands of the unemployed, The registration of the unemployed worke! in Detroit, which was care | ried through by the fake unemploy- ment committee organized by Mayor Murphy, -has-revealed the fact -that there are around 200,000 unemployed workers in the city of Detroit, and around 250,000 in Greater Detroit, in- cluding Hamtramck, Highland Park, Dearborn and Fordson, which are in- Strikers to Control . NEW YORK—Open revolt of the militant shop against the sell-out of their part | of the strike by Draisin, and Dubinsky is the order of the day. The Carnegie shop ik 450 strong, through their shop committee, have rejected the pact made Wednes- workers of Carnegie dress Schlesinger | day by Draisin with the boss for no] gustrial towns. According to the | raise in wages, no agreement, a divi-| registration, 79,000 families have |sion of the men’s shop from the registered, and the capitalist press is compelled to admit that this includes approximately over 150,000 unem- ployed. This does not include the part-time workers and the workers who are temporarily laid off from the factories. The. number of unem- ployed workers is much larger than expected. According to the registration, over | women’s to do away with the divi- sion of the: work and to take away the shop chairman's rights. Draisin appeared before the bosses in the of a mythical “Strike | Advisory Board” and signed the sell~ out. The “terms” outlined above are openly admitted by Draisin. The| Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has information, which it pub- h ub- | 50,000 unemployed demanded im- Yshed in leaflet form, that Draisin| mediate relief—bread. clothing and also secretly agreed to reorganization The Murphy committes and discharges, which he does not | dare admit to the membership. |. L. G, Strikebreaking Draisin & Co. have taken down the strike signs, ordered the strikers back openly admitted that it will be. im- possible to take care of the great number of the unemployed. The capitalist press, while changing their attitude toward Murphy, openly to work, industriously circulated | admits that lots of trouble can be ex~ rumors that they are all going back, | pected from the. Murphy promises, and this after the strikers them-| Which cannot be carried through and is beginning to prepare the uneme ployed workers that they should not expect too much, because they will be disappointed. selves, through thei repudiated the sell-out. strikebreaking by the officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers and its Local 38, by whom the strike is misled. The Industrial Union both before and during the strike pointed out that. the L L. G. W. officials had | allowed no discussion by the mem- | bers, that’ they sought to prevent the spread of the strike, that they were shop committee, This is open Negro Worker on Communist Ticket For Mich. Governor DETROIT, Oct. 2.—The Communist secretly negotiati even before the| Party has nominated in addition to strike, for its betrayal the congressional candidates, a full Run Your Own Strike slate on the state ticket. The rati- “Hold your own strike meetings; | ation convention has unanimously | approved the Communist candidates and pledged full support to the Com- munist Party in this election cam- paign. For the first time in the history of Michigan a Negro worker has been | nominated as candidate for Governor. | Comrade J. Billups, Organizer of the A. N. L, C, of Detroit, who is well | known to the Negro Workers, is the Communist candidate for Governor. Comrade B. Faulkner, a farmer in Kent County, is nominated for Lieu tenant Governor. Comrade George E. Powers, former T. U. U. L. Secretary of Michigan, is the candidate for U. S. Senator. Comrade Yonik, a woman worker, is candidate for Secretary of elect your own rank and file commit- tees to take over the strike and lead it for your own interests,” urges the Industrial Union. The N, T. W. I. U. pledges full support to any move- ment to convert the strike into a real one for real gains ‘JOBLESS WORRY A. F.L. SESSIONS State. Comrade Rojala, a miner BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 2. — Labor | from the Upper Peninsula, is candie racketeers are assembling rapidly | date for State Treasurer; Comrade here, in preparation for the A. F. L.| Wm. Pharr, a Negro worker, candi- convention, Oct. 6, which they, will attend as “delegates,” pretending to represent the something over 2,000,000 date for Attorney General, and Sarah Victor, candidate for State Auditor, Congressional candidates are on tue workers still in the craft unions they} ballot in a series of congressional | mislead. Unemployment is the main | districts. |\topic of discussion. It rouses the] The campaign in Michigan is in jrank amd file to a recognition of the | fact that something is wrong with | the capitalism bureaucracy is sup- | porting, and that class collaboration agreements do not feed hungry stom- achs, and the convention must do something to fool them. President Hoover will be a. main speaker and will be cheered to the echo by fat hands as he again makes the ‘usual quarterly prediction of “prosperity within 90 day The convention of the metal trades department, where Frey and O'Con- | nell preside and in one of the unions full swing. The Campaign Commit- tee has decided to print a quarter of |a@ million of the State platform; spe- cial Negro, women and farmer leaf- lets and organize a series of tours in the farming region, as well as in the industrial cities of Michigan, Smash Lynchers And Lynch System Three times last week Geor- “ * bosses, sub-bosses, ex- of which the “B, & 0.” plan origi- || ; x nated, has led the way. It calmly || D0sses, pinhead flunkies, wives, neighbors and concubines declares that “union wages have not been cut this time as in other crises.” After this monstrous lie, however, it goes on to admit that a shorter work day will help the situation and pro- | poses, without making a single prac- | climbed into Lincolns and Pack- ardsafor a big evening, Three Negro workers were lynched. A handful of fatties waddled tical suggestion for a struggle to ob. || {#0 the jail at Cartersville and, tain it; that a five-hour day. and SERtes,: YoMama rer s in} five-day week be instituted. Sat-heavy guards by raising The masses in Boston, the exploited || thelr forefingers. A black and and jobless workers, are called by the || White fist on the boss’ double chin is the workers’ answer. Trade Union Unity League to meet and lay down a real program of un- employment relief, of “Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts” policy, during the fake convention of the A. F. L. The meeting will be at. Franklin Union, Hall, Oct. 9, with Assistant General Secretary Schmies of the T. U. U. L. as the main speaker. The anti-lynch party is the anti-boss party, the Communist Part Vote Communist! Distribute dailies. 1 cent each for 5 or more. Election edition October 18 in New York, October 45 nationally