The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1930, Page 1

And Against the A. F. L. Conven- tion Plan to Deliver Your Vote to Capitalist Parties! (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second-class matter Vol. VII. No. 239 at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 at the Post Office <—S NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents HOOVER ORDERS CLUBBING OF JOBLESS WHO ASK FOR READ Boston Workers Will Reply When Capitalist Pres. Speaks To AFL Convention “Temporary Misery” ESIDENT HOOVER'S campaign managers showed good judgment ment in sending the President to the American Bankers Association's convention in Cleveland yesterday to open the campaign to retain Rpublican control of the House dnd Senate. It was the big bankers, primar- ily, who brought about Hoover's election two years ago. It has been the big bankers that Hoover has well served during these two years. It was quite appropriate, therefore, that he should render to thm an accounting, whil at the same time submitting for their approval—or amendment—his \dministration’s future plans. His future meetings are equally well planned. From Cleveland, , after aving received his instructions from America’s real rulers, he is going to Boston on Monday to address the conventions of the American Legion and the American Federation of Labor. His public speech in Cleveland was only incidental. The things that were real were the conferences behind the scenes; there the big bankers laid down the line: more lay-offs, more wage cuts, no unemployment insurance, more war preparations, more pressure on the colonies and the iron heel. With these instructions tucked away in his pocket he will journey to Boston. These instructions will be transmitted to the fascist leaders of the Legion and the A. F. of L., who, together with the government, are charged by the big bankers with the task of carrying them through. This whole procedure well illustrates the trend toward fascism in the United States—the merging of financiers, the legionaries, the A. F. of L. leaders and the government in the preparation of prepressive measures zainst the workers, and for war against the Soviet Union. eee Hoover's Cleveland speech was overflowing with optimism—FOR THE ANKERS. But for the workers he was forced to admit a “loss of savings, unemployment, privation, hardship and fear.” He completely dodged, though, the existence of an army of over 8,000,000 unemployed and lyingly claimed chat the administration’s business conferences had “sustained wages,” “dis- tributed unemployment” “expedited heavy construction,” “expanded public works,” “assisted in credit to agriculture,” and “maintained a higher de- gree of consumption.” CLEVELAND WORKERS ON THE MARCH TO “GREET” oc Is, 000 Unemployed Storm «Al oe wh IN ae MOUS, conMUnt | ULALUE Every worker, on the contrary, knows that Hoover is a liar—that wages | have been cut, that unemployment has steadily increased, that despite re- peated demands no work has been provided, that the agricultural crisis has steadily deepened, and that any “higher degree eof consumption” has been xy the parasitic rich and not by the workers. Cleveland workers, for ex- ample, have been forced to put up with a miserable “higher degree of consumption” from the city’s garbage cans. And what did Hoover have to propose? only the following: bankers in determining the policies of government and industry. at there was no other group that, as “the economic advisor of American business,” as the ones who controlled the credit, and as “the one great line of American business that is in itself interconnected, that can exercise veal control in this situation. To still further strengthen the bankers’ con- trol he proposes to discentinue “taxes on capital gains,” and to ease up on the “regulatory functions of the Federal and State Governments,” es- pecially with regard to railways and utilities. “Ease the way for the bankers to pile up still greater wealth at the workers’ expense”—that is Hoover's real, though concealed, program. his whole speech he did not say a word about relieving the suffering and misery of the workers and poor farmers; he evaded unemployment; he denied wage cuts; his was a speech only for the bankers. eee Torn of all ambiguous phrases And the workers of Cleveland, 5,000 strong, speaking for the working class of the gvhole United States, gave their answer, They saw through the unconcern and hatred of Hoover for the workers. They saw through his open belly-crawling for the bankers. Under the slogans: “We want work!”, “Give us Jobs!”, “We want Unemployment Insurance!”, “Stop Wage Cuts!”, “Hands off the Soviet Union!”, and “Down with Hoover!” the workers rallied in the streets under the leadership of the Communist Party. This was the answer of workers who, under Hoover's “prosperity” have been forced to eat from Cleveland’s garbage cans. Even the Haover controlled press was forced to admit that the re- ception was rather cold (or warm, if you wish). The New York Telegram says: “There was very little applause as he (Hoover) marched through the lines of police in a two mile ride to his hotel, and later the police had difficulty stopping a Communist demonstration.” The most extreme terror was used to smach the counter demonstration of the workers, Several thousand police battled with horse, motorcycles, tear gas, smoke screens, clubs, and blackjacks before the crowd was finally dispersed. “The din,” the papers admit, “from the struggle in the streets reached the convention hall”—which will serve as a warning to the capital- ists as to what stands before them. Hoover in his speech spoke of “tem- porary misery.” The working class, rallying more and more under Com- munist leadership, and in answer to capitalist program of Hoover, will see that their present misery is very temporary. They will arise In their revolutionary might, overthrow the present capitalist regime in Washington, and establish a government of workers and poor farmers. Increasingly now the workers are rallying behind the Communist Party. Many thousands will reject Hoover and vote Communist on November 4th. The demonstration yesterday was only the beginning—the example for the workers of Boston and throughout the country. Starvation Proposals AYOR MURPHY of Detroit, with the help of the automobile manu- M facturers, has dug up a couple of new “solutions” for unemployment— both of which are new efforts to place the burden of unemployment on the workers, The first is merely a wage-cutting proposal—a proposal to lower the living standard of all Detroit workers. A “rearrangement of schedule” it is called. Under this proposal all auto workers, who are already working only part time, will work even fewer hours per week, with a corresponding reduction of wages, in order to make room for an additional 25,000 workers in the factories. Under this scheme all workers will work two or two and a half days per week with weekly wages of about $10.00 to $15.00—that is, all Detroit families are to be reduced to the point where they will have to pay rent, buy food, clothing, coal and satisfy their other needs on such miserable wages. All this to avoid interference with the profits, wealth and luxuries of the bosses. The second proposal increases the profits of the big bankers and the graft for the Murphy administration. The proposal is to ask the voters to authorize the issuance of $18,500,000 worth of new bonds for public works. ‘This new bond issue, if endorsed in November, plus $8,800,000 in bonds al- ready authorized, would then be taken up by the bankers and manufacturers at high interest rates. The workers, in one form or another, would ulti- mately be forced to repay both the principle sum and the exorbitant in- terest. But would this help to relieve unemployment? Practically, not at all, if we can take the experiences of other cities, Buffalo, for example, appropriated well over $10,000,000 for public works—but with this vast sum work was only given to 471 workers. Detroit's $27,000,000, then would supply jobs to a maximum of a thousand workers, The real beneficiaries would be, not the workers, but the bankers and the grafters. This is only a proposal to provide “work” for the bosses’ unemployed capital at the workers’ expense, These proposals will not fool the heavily exploited and starving auto workers. They will see through Murphy’s fakery, They will rally under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League to defeat these boss-dictated proposals, to stop the attack on their living standards, and to force the granting of immediate unemployment insurance. DAILY WORKER -MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAR First he publicly recognized the dominant rule of the | He stated | In ce “<u TREACHER, 4 SOCIALIST} Ob WE REF Ws TO STARW og ADS TPH Bankers Relie Bankers with Bellies Full Listen to Hoover Lies “UNLOAD ON WORKERS ANTI-LYNCHING MEET CALLED BY ANLC FOR NOV. § 36 Lynchings Already for Year—Workers Urged to Smash Terror CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct.3.—A call has been issued by the Southern Provisional Organizational» Commit- tee of the American Negro Labor Congress for a Southern Conference against lynching, to be held in Chat- tanooga, on November 9, at the Odd Fellows Hall, 124 E. 9 Street. ‘The call is being sent to fraternal organizations, labor bodies, lodges and workers’ organizations, asking them to elect delegates to the Chat- tanooga Conference. The American Negro Labor Congress Committee points out that only with the full co-operation of the white workers in the South can a struggle against lynching be effective, and is making every effort possible to have repre- sentatives from the A. F. of L. unions and locals and other white workers and interracial groups in the South. Boston Jobless -Crash the Bosses’ Fake Conference BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 3.—General E. Leroy Sweeser, state commissioner of labor, and his fake conference on unemployment was forced to listen to the demands for unemployment re- lief presented by the Unemployed Council. The general had called to- gether the representatives of the most reactionary employers’ organizations, as well as the fascist labor fakers of the A. F, L., in order to make a pre- tense at solving the unemployment situation. The delegation of the Un- employed Council consisted of Fred. Biedenkapp, representing the Trade Union Unity League; Nat Kaplan, district organizer of the Communist Party; Johnson, an unemployed marine worker, and Brown, an old Spanish War Veteran, now unem- ployed, forced their way into the conference, Expose Fraud After denouncing the conference as a fake body, the unemployed dele- gation walked out. In the meantime, the Unemployed Council of Boston is gaining new members every day and is carrying on the struggle against evictions, against the fake employment agencies and for imme- mediate unemployment relief, Workers Register to “Vote ~ Communist’’; Expose boss | Democracy, Fake Primaries Watch Registration Date in Your State and} Be Sure to Register to Vote Unless you register, you will not be able to vote November 4. is one of the manipulations of capitalist democracy to prevent th | working mass from voting for their class candidates. | In all the 48 states, beginning next month at dates states, all citizens will have to register at the same polling place where | tthey will cast their LYNCHINGS 1930 Lee Ivy, Rockford, Miss., Jan. Jimmie Levine, Feb. 1, Laura Wood, Salisbury, N. Cy March 6. John Wilkins, Locust Grove, Ga., April 5. Allen Green, Walhalla, S.C. April 23. David Harris, Rosedale, Miss. April 28. John Hodaz White, Tampa, Fla., April 28. Clarence Hayes, Kansas City, Mo. May % George Hughes, Sherman, Tex. May 10. George Johnson, Honeygrove, Tex., May 19. Henry Argo, Chicksha, Okla, May 30. Dan Jenkins, Union City, S. Cy June 21. Bill Roan, Bryan, Tex., June Occila, Ga, 22. Jack Robertson, Austin, Tex, June 28, Morehouse, Atlanta, Ga., July S. S. Mincey, Mt. Vernon, Gay July 30. Essau Robertson, John Henry Robertson, John Newton Robert- son and another Robertson, Emelle, Ala., July 4. Thomas Shipp and Abe Smith, Marion, Ind., Aug. 6. Oliver Moore, Tarboro, N. Cy August 19, George Grant and Willie Bryan, Darien, Ga., Sept. 12. Lockett and White, Scobey, Miss., Sept. 9. M. C. Wy! Sept. 12. Will Harris, Warrenton, N, Cy Sept. 18. Willie Kirkland, Thomasville, Ga., Sept. 25. Lacy Mitchells, Sept. 27. John Willis Clark, Thomasville, Oct. 1. Eastman, ae Cartersville, your political parties in next yea Thi | set in the various | Communist Party in November. To register in some states the | native born have to bring their school certificates. The naturalized | first voters have to bring their school | diploma, to show they passed “qiteracy test." A few days before registration, the Board of Education designates a number of public schools to be open evenings to naturalized | citizens who have to pass the literacy | test. There is no great difficulty in this, | just reading a printed page from a | book or paper. Those who voted in the past do not have to have this test, nor must they bring their citi- zenship papers. They must state | when they voted last. Those who vote for the first time must have their naturalization papers with them. If you have lost your papers, you | can get a duplicate at the Federal Court where papers wero first ob- tained. In a number of states, after you have registered and signed, you will | be given an enrollment blank on which is printed the names of the legally recognized political parties. This is done in order to designate the | election. This has nothing to do with registration or voting Nov. 4. It is only a scheme of the boss class for the purposes of the primaries, in which the boss parties take part. The Communist Party boycotts the capi- talist primaries. Turn the enrollment blank back unmarked, To vote Nov. 4 be sure to register. Watch for the date in your state, and registe RED SUNDAY NEW YORK.—All comrades as- signed by their units for Red Sunday to establish a carrier route in Section 4, must report at the Section 4 head- quarters’ at 308 Lennox Avenue, at 10 a. m., Sunday morning. many Hall, will be found on page three. vote for the |e | policy, |p. m., at Polish Hall, 325 Billions of “Relief” for Big Bosses, but Nothing for Jobless CLE with ND, Oct. 4. Bankers bellies full listened to their Hoover yesterday while outside police | armed wit clubs, te s bombs billies, on ord: s from the imperialis clubbed women and ch d. Inside the chief, vicious! down men, dren hall Associz convention of the American Bankers’ ion, a group of fat exploiters their diamond-bedecked wive: sweat billions of dollars in profits out of the exploitation of the worke listen to Hoover call on them to save pitalism small and whole army of police on motorcycles, horseback and on foot. Hundreds of women and children were trampled and beaten so that blood flows freely on the streets. Hundreds of men, valiantly fighting | back inst the armed boss thugs, are beaten down with clubs. Communists Lead The vast majority of the unem- ployed who marched on Public Hall, where Hoover spoke, were not mem- bers of the Communist Party. They jwere led in their demand for unem- ployment insurance by the Commun- ist vanguard who had called for a demonstration at Public to “greet” the | mighty This is what you mean by “relief,” scoundrely Hoover, when the unem- loyed demand bread? Thi: the policy of the (Continued on page 5) TORALLY MINERS FOR ELECTIONS | Wilkes-Barre Meeting to Be Held October 8 WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Pointing out that more miners in the anthracite alone are permanently jobless, and that least s five per cent. are working two or three days a week, the Com- munist Party has distributed leaflets calling for a vote Communist election rally, Wednesday, October'8, at Market Oct. 4.— than 12,000 street. Conference O. K.’s C. P. The recent Anti-terror Conference |called by the International Labor De |fense are planning a concerted drive on the vicious Flynn Sedition Act, |tion platform and called on all miners |to fight the act that the bosses use in trying to terrorize workers by vot- ing and support the Party. Only 2 Days | Left for ~» Signatures in Conn.| NEW HAVEN, Conn.—With only 2 more days to collect signatures to put Communist candidates on the Connecticut ballot, it will require the utmost efforts on the part of every member and sympathizer to go out Saturday evening and all day Sun- day to collect several hundred more signatures in each city to have suf- ficient to get on the ballot. All other meetings in Connecticut have been cancelled Sunday, as this is the final Red Sunday of tho signature drive. TODAY AND SUNDAY OPEN AT NOON EAT YOUR LUNCH HERE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN A million and one articles sold at PROLETARIAN PRICES Buy your things now at the Bazaar + 5,000 | asking for | who | , de, 5,000 unemployed men, r wives and children demon- strating for unemployment insurance, | for bread or work, attacked by a] imperialist endorsed the Communist Party elec- | Communist | Confab, Demand ; Communists Lead BOSTON MASSES | GREET HERB AS IN CLEVELAND Protest Anti-Strike A. F. L.) f Red Speakers Call on the Workers to “Vote Com- munist’! HUNDREDS ARE BEATEN | Machine ay Mounted on Roofs to Shoot Down Boson Masses Like Gleveland Hoover |e », Oct. 4—With the | leveland on Hoover | ,;,, o¢ sland. workers: denial Tees ing work or mployment. insur- | BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 3.—“We will ae oa cea als sabe: aes ter¢ s banker bosse prevent strikes,” the fascist leaders = s Pie at ition o} |of the A. F. of L. promised the busi- : a : American iation, in |mess men and President Hoover.| 0°. | Monday the A. F. of L. union chiefs}, : |will gather in national convention| The chief imper 2 Are eee and Hoover himself will come down |#bout his of an to see how well they have kept their |end to the His | promise. He will be met with the| Whole speech defense of lsame reception from the ton italism “and: the minery it see lee : 4 RE ACIRE Gas c to. He exposed where 5,000 unemployed stormed his : seho! US eee fegt, never to brook de- promising to throw the entire rden of the crisis on the backs of meeting and demanded relief. The number of jobless has grown | by millions, wage cuts have swept over the country, starving men drop ee me in the streets, but the AUF. of L.}) oP efor exposing Pigs bing ye chiefs have remained loyal to their | Su) v2! go eellaarse tia ber promise to the enemies of labor. | 3 fe os ae See ne More tha nthis, the A. F. of L. bu- minis amismeehye soe - # : the standard | reau have themselves waged se rages | at and warn- war on the workers to keep them i as immediately ( age 2) last | s pronouncement {of the same phrases, 48 major plants Sontinued on throughout the United States cut | wages from 10 to 40 per cent. | Relief for Bosses “We have all been much engaged | ith me s of re f from the ef- | ct’ of the collapse of a yez le|said Hoover. What “relief” ha | 8,000,000 jobless obtained? Outside | Cleveland cops, on orders from | sacar cs | Hoover, were battering down men, | — women and ch n for demanding ou:| Rush Drive to Put Ten More "23 Ball Yes, Hoover did give the bosses on Ballot relief. He handed the Standard Oil |Co. and the Sinclair Oil Co, a $40,- aonb gaa geo 000,000,000 present in Colorado oil MILWAUKEE, Wis. Oct. 3.—The ee ruttied: ever: tool aaa four Communist state candidates i the t i Steel Corporation, vere accepted by the Secretary of |i! Which he and most of the bank- State after almost double the s badger fe arate neve ee natures for these candidates were] 919 599. oe ae oF over SEU handed in. ‘The Communists now on| 000.000; he and his A eae the ballot are: Fred Bassett Biair,|Passed the Naval Treaty providin Boe Gevaert ae aay vas |for the expenditure of $1,000,000,000 | sentence in Milwaukee County jail in jfOT Wa" Preparations. | the city of “Socialist” Mayo: Hoan, | |, ie ea kets epee for leading 25,000 Milwaukee work- | f7ONS eine: the Dossse wile ers in the March 6th struggle for | *° ie’ attekke baat work or wages; William Cla watppentnman ste | the s, and by every means at- | Lieutenant-Governor, former work, in the big shops in Milwaukee, such as International Harvester and Har- nishfeger, and now Wisconsin secre- tary of the T. and I Committee member of the Com |tempt to avoid pa mployment insurance—unless f to | m r of a militant working y leadership. Party; Ed. Nehmer, for Secreta Ee ees for 200 NEEDLE WORKERS esi, canaiaate for At-| FIRED IN BALTIMORE tilla of Superior, candidate for At-| torney-General. | In @ few days a mass delegation| BALTIMORE, Md. Oct. 3—The of workers will officially inform Fred|Goldman Co., employing 500 needle Bassett Blair of his acceptance in the | Workers, has laid off around 200 in county jail, and Bassett Blair will|the last two weeks. These are added end out a statement to the Milwau-|to the 40,000 Baltimore workers al- | ready out of work for ae e Goldman work ee workers through the delegation that jail has only intensified his revo- a long time. y No means lutionary spirit, and urging all work-|represent a well paid group which ers to carry’ on the fight to elect|can afford a vacation. Wages avers | Communists in November. jaged $6 to $1 ssers, speeded al- With only a few days left to file|most beyond endurance, got $18 to |the nomination papers for ten oth 24 a week. They never knew how candidates in the county and city,| many hours they have to work, and 3,000 more signatures needed, the | often from 6 a. m, to 7 p. m. | Communist Party is putting on a big | drive to have more than 24,000 signa- | . | tures ready by the end of the week | Dynamite for to put all our fourteen candidates on | : | the ballot in the State of Wisconsin, || Boss Parties | Stimson, head-herder of Marines for the U. S. empire, instructs his colonial forces to “maintain a strictly neutral attitude” in the Haitian elections, Oct. 14, The way American neu- trality is revealed is that a poor Negro worker who re- fuses to vote a few times for U. &, puppets is presonted with a neutral bullet, fired by a disinterested marine, into the workers’ impartial pants, Neutrality is as dangerous to the Haitian Negro as democracy is to Negro workers in the U. S Destroy lynch parties! Boss parties! Vote Communist! Spread the Daily. Order a bundle. 1 cent a copy. Ram the boss system with Special Election Campaign Editions. National, Oct. 15 and 30. City, Oct, 18, SS 4 BUFFALO MU HUST HA HAVE MORE VOTE SIGNATURES BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 3,—The cap- | fitalist law requires 1,500 signatur to put the candidate of the Com munist Party in the Fourth Assem- bly District. The Party members collected in the last two weeks 1,300. | In order to put our candidate on the ballot we must get in the next | two ‘days 400 more signatures in or- | der to have 1,700 signatures, making | {t impossible for the capitalist hire- lings to have any excuse for refusing to put Comrade Homér Simmons, Negro plasterer, as a standard bearer of the Communist Party program. The collecting of these 400 signa- tures can be accomplished if each and every member of the Party in Buf- falo will report for duty Friday and Saturday, October 3 and 4, at the District OMice, 200 Ellicott streat. i]