The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1930, Page 1

And Against the A. F. L. Conven- tion Plan to Deliver Your Vote to Capitalist Parties! cea (Section of the Communist Norker the-ESRMnuniet Party U.S.A. International) wo Ti RKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! . 240 Vol. VIL Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MO? DAY, OCTOBER 6, 193 0 = Price 3 eeaell ‘Take Up the Struggle! small town paper in the wheat district of Montana insults the in- A telligence of the farmer readers by a screaming headline: “Soviets canger Our Prosperity.” Which “prosperity”? we ask; and how as “endangered’, it? Under the headline is one of the worst pieces of writing that it has becn our fate to look on, both as to the half-witted construction and even ideas. “Our Prosperity” indeed! What prosperity have the poor bankrupt farmers got that can be “endangered” by the Soviet or anything eise? Like the wage workers, millions of whom are jobless and starving while the rest are driven like demons at reduced wages, the poor farmers, y, the mortgaged,,the renters, the tax-ridden non- sly different from the rich capitalist 1 labor and modern machinery, have nothing to lose Why should they be fearful of Soviets, Bolsheviks, of farmers with hi hains. at Hyde and Hoover and the fascist Fish, by the dumping” and “short sales,” are merely cket in the elections and kill two birds attention to the Soviet as the “enemy,” ¥ attacking the poor farmers on all fronts. What : the drop of wheat prices before the Soviet hedsings sal Hyde is silent! There is a real conspiracy Farm Board bought 60,000,000 bushels last year at $1.25, and an selling it by the millions of bushels—depressing the price that When protest was made in some quarters, the Board innocently said it was buying “other wheat.” concealed its anti-farmer maneuver of ee selling and at a lower price, which at the expense of the farmers, by the bland 60,000,000 bushels.” A(ter it has iS its wheat when the price was around a dollar per bushel, it issued its famous statement that “the prices of all farm prod- ucts would be lower, instead of higher, for several years to come.” Then when that had essed the price again, it bought at a lower rate, cleaning up perhaps $6,000,000 at the expense of the farmers on the difference. Since its deals are secret and no Fish committee investigates it, the exact figures are difficult to ascertain, but brokers before the Fish com- mittee frankly admitted that they had sold wheat a for the Farm Board. Certainly it required a lot of gall, after such hypocrisy, to point at the Soviet Union and»sa “Farmers, ther your enem, But the Farm Board; which was especially established to swindle the poorer farmers with “relief through co-operatives”’—that were designed to aid the bankers and the few rich farmers who control the so-called “marketing co-operatives” through acomplicated system of finance con- trol, is capable of any hypocrisy. The capitalist government is anxious to offset the rapid advance among the farmers of the only-correct policy: Struggle against capi- talism. y ; The poor tenant farmers and share croppers are beginning to learn that they must unite in TENANT STRIKES to reduce the enormous robbery of rent paid to landlords. The mortgaged farmers faced with bankruptcy have to unite and not only demand a moratorium on their debts, but enforce it themselves by mass refusal to pay interest on principal and rally in masses to prevent any one of them from evictions or forecloseures. The burden of taxes will only be lightened when farmers band together _ over big areas and positively refuse to pay any taxes at all until they are cut in half. And all of these actions, linked with a fight against robber freight rates, machinery prices, etc., should be given permanent organized form by the farmers building up in all states a section of the United Farmers League, the only militant organization of farmers. All interested farmers should write to the United Farmers League, New York Mills, Minnesota, tor advice on how to organize and struggle against their real enemy, the big-monied class of banker's ‘who rob both farmers and workers. Farmers, unite ‘with the revolutionary workers, the Communists, against those who rob’you! Vote Communist and organize in the United Farmers League for tenant and taxpayers’ strikes, for a battle against the pirate bankers, the whole Wall Street crew, And never stop until capitalism is overthrown, as only under a Work- ers and Farmers Government can those who till the soil be free from robbery! _———————————————————————————————— Stock Yards Workers’. C.P, FILES FULL TICKET IN IND. Negro Workers Giving Fine Support INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 5.—The! Communist Party yesterday filed petitions for candidates for the No- vember 4 electioris. Each of the eendidates received a large number of signatures, more than necessary to place them on the ballot. The capitalist politicians are afraid of the success of the Communist Party, M;. Hutse!l, member of the Board of Commissioners, declaring after the filing of the petitions of the Communist Party that he “will call a meeting of the board immediately to consider the petitions.” This statement is in line with the aitempts of capitalist politicians to prevent the Communist Party from placing its candidates on the bailot in Marion County, Indiana. The Communist Party is aware of this and is mobilizing the working ciass and demanding the placing of the Communist Party candidates on the ballot. The following candidates have; been nomiated:n U. S, Congress-! man, Morris Porterfield, Negro bricklayer; State Senator, Messey Noon, Marion County; State Rep- recentatives from Marion County, Joseph B. Jones, Logan A. Harner, Carl Daugheitv, Joseph Campbell, John E. Irvin, Childs W. Burton and Virgin Robinson; Joint Representa- tives from Marion and Jackson Counties: Prosecuting Attorney, Perry S. Wyatt, Clerk, William F. Jackson; Auditor, Allen “Puckett, Treasurer, Mildred Hicks; Sheriff, Robert Hicks; Commissioner, G. Wm. Hicks; Councilman at Large, Sndianapolis, Sherman Long. Among the candidates are a large number of Negroes and about half of the’signatures secured to put the Communist Party on the ballot were gecured among the Negro workers. The Communist Party receives this support from the Negro workers Support C.P. Demand for Social Insurance CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—The Unem- ployed Council in the Stock Yards District held a mass meeting on October 1 at which more than 300 employed and unemployed workers of the Chicago Stock Yards were present. The workers unanimously en- dorsed the ‘decision of the Chicago Unemployed Conference of Septem- ber 28 which demands the passage of the social insurance bill and de- clares a fight for securing the 75 millions of dollars for unemploy- ment relief. Bill Gebert, the District Organizer, discussed the issue of unemployment. and the struggle against it, link- ing it up with the present election campaign, urging the workers to Vote Communist. The other speak- ers were Domanaska, in Polish, and Aimen, in Lithuanian, OHIO MEET GN FOREIGN BORN NEW YORK.—The National Pro- visional Committee for the Protec- tion of Foreign Born has received resolutions passed at a successful district conference just held in Ohio. The delegates endorsed the national committee, the American Negro La- bor Congress, the Communist Party election campaign, and called for continued united struggle against the terror against foreign-born workers, against criminal syndical- ism laws and deportations. It urged the building of shop committees. The committee announces district and city conferences as follows: Buffalo, Oct. 12, 2 p. m., at Inter- national Workers Hall; Detroit, Oct. 19; Pittsburgh, Oct. 19; Chicago, Oct. 26; Duluth, Minn., Oct. 26; date Philadelphia and California, and place announced later. Judge Crater’s “Disappearance” Tomorrow's ; achele in the series on Tammany Hall will ex- plain the “disappearance” of beenuse of its activity in. pace eng ree Neem and in the Judge Crater. UPRISING IN BRAZIL Bosses Use Discontent to Aid Wall Street Against British Communists Active Crisis Very Severe; War Danger Greater Armed uprising and fighting \against the pro-British Julio Prestes regime in Brazil has broken out in those states in which American capi- tal predominates. Cable reports to capitalist news- papers here which dodged the censorship clamped down by Presi- dent Prestes state that fighting is | going on in the States of Rio Grande do Sul, Parena, Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro. As in Argentina, the “revolution” against the Prestes government is backed by American , imperialism, with the exception that it is the “liberal” bourgeoisie instead of the conservative, as in Argentina, who support American imperialism. In Brazil, there is a larger mass move- ment against imperialism that must be reckoned with, as well as a strong and determined Communist Party, with its roots in the masses. In no other Latin-American coun- try, with the possible exception of Argentina, is the struggle between Britain and the United States-so sharp. Recently the United States Steel Corporation declared it would (Continued on Page 3) “OPTIMISM” OF HOOVER GETS fconomic Crisis Grows Worse All the Time Hoover and Klein’s election clap- trap about conditions bettering soon are given a knock-out blow for the thousandth time by the latest re- ports of activities invall basic in- dustries. When Hoover unloaded his “op- timism” about American capitalism at the Cleveland banker’s conven- tion he meant to reach the workers too and get their vote for the boss parties. But here ‘are the facts the work- ers must know and according +o which they ‘should vote and fight. The economic crisis....is,, getting worse. With it will come increased wage cuts. Unemployment this winter will be the worst in the coun- try’s history. Even fascist Green now, admits that, though he holds out the mirage of a better spring. The latest dope from the boss fi- nancial press shows that the condi- tions now are getting worse than the worst period in the terrific 1921 crisis. The New York Times (Oct. 5) says that the figures from all industries “failed to indicate any marked revival of industry and trade.” They did, in fact, just the opposite. The Times tell us the fol- Jowing about the major industries: *. “Demand for steel was reported slackening. The Iron Age esti- mated the rate of operations at 61 per cent of capacity unchanged from the previous week, but other estimates indicated a decline in steel operations. . . . “Automobile production for the last week in September was sharply lower as the result, prin- cipally of the curtailment of Ford operations to three days a week. Car loadings for the week ended on Sept. 20 were 952,512 against 1,167,395. The adjusted index showed a marked decline.” The latest Annalist says that the decline in car loadings is the most discouraging factor. Quoting the Standard Statistics Co., which gives a pretty black pic- ture of all industries, the New York Herald-Tribune says: “Survey of Industry Reveals Little Hope of Early Revival.” And the same is confirmed by the Journal of Com- merce which headlines its story on the latest news of the crisis with these words: “See General Recov- ery Delayed.” For the workers jobs and food will be delayed as long as they per- mit the bosses to hold on to their profits, and do not fight for unem- ployment insurance. The immediate task is to fight behind the Commu- nist Party in the election campaign. Vote Communist! And broaden and increase the fight for unemploy- ment insurance. IS GROWING BLOW BY FACTS Jobless Score Hoover, A. F. L and American Legion Trickery Above is the “Red Menace,” Campaign in Denver. Comrades Reskin and Christensen shown above | | | | auto used in the Communist Election | i . M | President Green that everything is are touring the state of Colorado selling the Daily Worker and mobil- izing the workers for the Communist Elect*»n Campaign. Wherever they go they urge the workers to register and to Vote Communist! | Watch for Registration Date | In Your State So That You Can Vote Communist Ticket Bosses’ You cannot vote Communist unless you register. ing is as much necessary in the present campaign against cap-| italism, for unemployment insurance, and aganst wage cuts as voting Communist. The bosses, to preserve their dictator-| ship, put all sorts of obstacles in the way of the workers. Their | “democracy” is an instrument workers who would vote Communist, fail to register. for the Communist Party candidates is a vote for an unre- ienting struggle against capitalism. first register, to permit him to The dates for registration workers should watch for the registration period, look for the nearest registration place in the neighborhood—and register. A huge Communist’ vote is American workers will not stand by idly and permit wage cuts to go on; that the workers will pledge themselves to carry on the fight for unemployment insurance into every shop and factory; and that an ever-increasing number of workers are | lining up for the overthrow of the rotten capitalist system, } with its perpetual unemployment and misery for the workers. Do not permit the bosses to keep you from recording your vote } for Communism. Register. “Democracy” Is Aimed Against the} Workers in Their Struggles Thousands of A vote of suppression. But every worker must vote for the Communist Party. in various states differ. The notice to the bosses, that the; or criticism. In Massachusetts the last day for registration is October 15. While Fat Boys Cheer Hoover Convention BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 5.—The American Federation of Labor “golden jubilee” convention opens here tomorrow under the shadow of unemployment and with the cries of misery ringing in its ears, with de- pleted membership and influence but greater complicity in fascist in- trigue than ever before. The workers of Boston, under the leadership of the Trade Uniop Unity League and the Councils of the Unemployed will demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the an- nouncement yesterday of A. F. L. all right and good times are return- ing in the spring. They will dem- onstrate their dislike for the A. F. of L. “no strike during the depres- | sion” agreement with Hoover and the big corporations which sent rep- resentatives to Hoover's con | this spring with the A. F. L. heads. Hoover Speaks. Hoover appears tomorrow fresh lies and soothing optimism before the A. F. L. where he will meet with no rebuff He comes to compli- ment the labor lieutenants of capi- | |talism the A. F. L. leaders on hav- | | ing prevented strikes as far as they | are able, and thus having carried Register- | out the plot to shift the burden of | the depression onto the 8,000,000 | unemployed workers and the mil- */ lions still at work. Hoover comes to applaud the re- newal in this convention of the old A. F. L. policy of non-partisanship in elections, which means in prac- tice the sale of the labor vote by the international ynion heads for jobs and concessions, not to the workers but to the A. F. L. offi- cialdom. Green Admits Cuts Green in his press statement yes- terday has to admit that: “A dangerous tendency now threatens the prospect for better- ment. Wage cuts have increased in the past two months. In July, according to reports to the Depart- ment of Labor, 20,000 workers were forced to take wage reduc- tions—double the number in any month since the depression be- (Continued on Page 3) with | convention, | Every Massachusetts worker should register before this date. Watch for the registration date Communist without being registered. in your state. You cannot vou Register ! Burlak Speaking in N. England Factory Towns for Atlanta 6 “ BOSTON; Mass. Oct. 5.—Anna Burlak, one of the six workers’ or- ganizers facing electrocution in Atlanta because they tried to or- ganize Negro and white workers together against low wages and lynching will speak under auspices of the International Labor Defense |~ FEAR AGRARIAN REVOLT IN EASTERN EUROPE PARIS, Oct. 2A deep-going agricultural crisis is developing in France, admits Fernand David, Minister of Agriculture in an inter- view yesterday. To “save” the situation a stiff tariff is proposed against the importation of agrarian products. This won’t help the world agrarian crisis any, as the growth at Peabody, Mass., +10 Lowell St.,sof tariffs against farm products is at 10 p. m.; Norwood Oct.8, at| 8 p. m., 37 Chapel Court; Woon- socket, R. I., Oct. 9; Providence, Oct. 10, at 1757 Westminster Ave. In Boston she will be greeted with a demonstration at South Station at 2:30 p. m. on Oct. 11 and in the evening will address a meeting at Tremont Temple: She will speak at Brockton, Oct. 12, at Lithuanian National Hall in the evening, and at Worcester the evening of the 18th. All workers should come. and take part in the campaign for the re- lease of the Atlanta six. rapidly increasing in all countries. “The agricultural crisis in this country,” Minister David stressed in arguing for a tariff, “is profound and is spread throughout the nation. The sale price of farm products is insufficient to compensate for the production costs—labor, transport and agricultural equipment.” He also attacked the Soviet Union be- cause it is raising the standard of living of the masses and increasing its agrarian output without paying profits to the bosses. JAIL MURDOCH ‘ Called Strikers to Ig-| nore Injunction tie with rage at the increasing de- mand for mass violation of the in- junction against the strike here of | 4,000 textile workers of the River- | | side and Dan River mills, the bosses jand United Textile Workers leaders have brought about the arrest of | William Murdoch organizer of the | National Textile Workers’ Union. | The N. T. W. shop committees were centers of agitation for the stri against cuts and bad conditions, which the N. T. W. chiefs are now misleading. The occasion for the arrest of Murdoch was distribution by mili- tant strikers of 2,000 leaflets call- ing for violation of the injunction, | and exposing the sell-out policy of | Francis Groman, U. T. W. betray- | er, who is trying to da with this strike as he did with the sold out! Marion strike. Murdoch is charged with libel and attempt to cause a breach of peace and may be charged also with con- tempt of court. o Exbose Boss’ Courts, Police in Lynch Terror How the bosses instigate and carry out the lynching of Negro workers, how capitalist courts and police co-operate in delivering the victims aver to the lynching mobs or in railroading them through to a legal lynching, when that seems most feasible, is sharply exposed in the latest developments in connec- tion with two of Georgia’s ten lynch- ings for the past nine months. Grant Killed in Cell In the case of George Grant, one of the victims of the double lynch- ing at Darien, Ga., on September 8, spectacular developments have oc- curred as a result of the militia and sheriff trying to pass the buck to each other. Forced to admit that there was no mob involved in the lynching of Grant as war reported by the bosses’ news agencies, Col- onel Neal, the commander of the]. militia detachment which was on guard at the time, supposedly to |i prevent a lynching, declares Grant was killed in his cell He further i Q declares that he had guards in the yard of the prison and that no one could have entered the cell except through the sheriff's office. The sheriff retorts that he “does not know who did it, and does not give a damn,” and adds further that ‘if you want to know, ask the Savannah National Guard officers who were down here.” One Victim Wrongly Accused Out of this passing of the buck, two facts develop: 1) that there was no mob involved in the lynching of Grant and 2) that the capitalist press deliberately created a mob in order to cover up the additional fact that the capitalist state officials not only hand over Negro workers to the mobs but themselves participate in he bloody lynching terror of the bosses against the Negro masses. Grant, with another Negro worker, Willie Bryan, was accused or return- ing the fire of police when the lat- ter opened up on them without warn- ing “because they looked like suspi- cious characters and were approach- ing a bank.” his cell. Bryan was lynched by a posse, police later admitting that Bryan had had no part in the fight. More Startling Developments In the case of the lynching of John Willie Clark Saturday before last in Cartersville, Ga., there are even more startling developments. The lynching of Clark was one of five days of September 25 to Sep- tember 30, a period when the bosses of the entire South were busy in- tensifying their lynching terror in order to create a lynching atmos- phere for the trial of the six Atlanta “4nsurrection” defendants whose trial, set for September 30, was post- poned as a result of a sharp fight on the part of the International La- bor Defense. Delivered to Lynchers Clark .was lynched for defending himself against a drunken Chief of (Continued on Page 3) AT DANVILLE DANVILLE, Va., Oct. 5.—Fran- | Grant. was lyriched in| three staged in Georgia within the) {/STARVING, SLASHES WRISTS; IS JAILED BALTIMORE, Oct. ving, cold and homeles: Dooning, ear-old une: worker, slas a razor blade so th be taki and fed. Harry tar- Joseph ployed ts with with his bleeding him told a =tramping the streets, vainly ooking fo r work or food. He was taken to the hospital and later ar- rested on the charge of vagrancy because he had no job and could not find one. This winter, the 9,000,000 unemployed will be faced with the same situation that Booning was faced with, except instead of slashing their wr and being arrested on vagrancy charges, which is capitalism’s way of dealing with the unemployed, they should fight for the Unem- loyment Insurance Bill and against capitalism. Vote Com- munist! | | | | i WORKERS SCHOOL TO OPEN CGT. 15, | Must Register N Fall Term NEW YORK—T —The Ts jeetee, director announced aoa | day that everything is now com-| | pleted for commencing the fall term. Teh school executive has made | | strenuous. efforts to open classes be- | fore. Nov, 1, the. date announced after the* postponement forced by moving the school to its new build- | | ing. The committee now announces | that most classes will open on, Oct. | | 15. All classes will run the full | | schedule term of three months. The proper functioning of every class} |and proper attendance of each in- structor is assured by the School | Committee. | Registration ill continue at the of- | fice of the school in its new location j at 35 E. 12th St. ninth floor, tele- |phone Algonquin 1199, only two| weeks longer. All workers are| urged to register at once in the many courses that are of the most | immediate vital interest to every militant organization and each rev- | olutionary worker. | | Workers in mass organizations | | ow for and trade unions particularly should register without delay in the care- |iully graded courses in English, | Revolutionary Trade Unionism, His | tory of the American Labor Move- ; ment, Fundamentals of Communism, | Marxian Economics, Public Speak- ing, Marxism-Leninism, ete. Duluth Toilers Protest Police Attacks on Red |Election Camp. Meets | DULUTH, Oct. be b—The following | evsolution was passed by a mass | meeting of. workers in this city: | We, the workers of Duluth, who are assembled at Court House| Square on this day of Sept. 30, 1930, | demand the immediate release of |the class war prisoners »f Duluth, | § |Irma Martin and Ben Gardner, and | others, and also sharply protest against the actions of the police of the city of Duluth for interfering | and destroying the eleciion cam- paign meetings of the Communist } Party of the United States of Amer- | ica, and, furthermore, we demand |the right to use the/ streets for working-class political mass meet- ings. Also, we protest the brutal at- ks on the foreign-born workers king place all over the country, | |as, for example, the imprisonment |of the nine Norse sailors in Duluth for legal entry. We demand their imnediate release and the freedom tc 1emain here, He Got 3,000 Names MILWAUK..E, October 5.—The record in Milwaukee for the collec- | tion of signatures to put’ the Com- | munist Party on the ballot goes to! Comrad2 J Johnson, who has col- | lected a total of 3,000 out of the} 25,000 signatures needed. | Comrade Johnson says that the | way to get signatures is to go out and get them. The workers are ready to sign for the Communist | Party because the rotten conditions are making them think and they see | that. the Communist Party is me only party that fights for the work- ing class, | ington FOOD UNION IN FIGHT ON INJUNCTIONS Rally. to Trade Union Unity Council Meet on October 10th Us No Remedy in Courts; Hundreds Jailed NEW YORK. e 2 Mass Violation —Responding to the call of the Trade Union yt Coun- cil to the October 10 Conference, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union will rally its entire membership in en- ergetic support of the drive to smash the v s injunctions,” declared M. Obermeier, general organizer of the union, in a statement today. The T.U.U.C. calls this conference of unions and workers’ fraternal organizations to work out strategy workers for mass viola- tion of injunctions. Obermeier continues: “Blanket injunctions covering practically every grocery, butcher shop, bake shop and cafeteria have been issued by the bosses jointly with the labor fakers against the Food Workers Industrial Union since April 1930. Every member of the union is enjoined. Not only do the injunctions prohibit our members arom organizing and picketing but leven from approaching workers to |talk to them about the 12 hour day, tke unsanitary. and other miserable | working conditions eonfronting the cConbinasdson Bee on Page 3) ‘NAVY SPEEDS ITS PLANS FOR WAR Spend Billions But the Jobless Starve WASHINGTON, ‘Cet. 5.—Hoover and Admiral W. V.. Pratt, chief of naval operations, have ordered the navy to increase its efficiency for war purposes, and to raise its fight- ing strength as provided for in the London naval treaty. Specific orders have gone out to all navy commanders to rush the improvements in the navy, to put the fleet on a war footing, and to utili its maximum military str th. War preparations in the Orient are eing rushed. Orders were re- ceived at Pearl Harbor Friday to send two divisions of R- type sub- marines to Atlantic ports in Decem- ber.’ With the war danger growing in Latin America this is an impor tant step of American imperialism, Everything is being done in Wash- to “modernize” the war strength of the navy in preparation for the growing struggle for world markets, as well as to “suppress” revolts in Cuba and other Latin- American countries that conflict | with the interests of Wall Street. The whole “reorganization and ef ficiency” plan is being carried on under the guise of “economy” to keep from the workers and unem- ployed the fact that the government is spending billions for war while it refuses one penny to the 8,000,000 starving unemployed. This is what capitalism does dur- ing the present sharp crisis—pre- pares for war and suppression of mass uprisings, as well as to attack the Soviet Union. It uses billions for this purpose while the unem- ployed millions and their families starve. Demand the war funds be turned over to the unemployed! Vote for Communist candidates who will carry on the fight against the war preparations and for the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill! New Role for Negro Workers Negro workers will begin re- hearsing for a new role at the Chattanooga anti-lynch meet, Noy. 9. The next performance, now being prepared, will pre- sent the old lynch theme with variations. Again the Negro worker will be at one end of the rope and the boss class at the other. The only difference in the next act will be the boss’ patent-leather dogs will be toe- dancing on a breath of thin air. Smash the boss lynch system. Vote Communist! Plant the hurricane with Special Election Campaign edi- tions: National, Oct. 15, City, Oct. 18.