The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1930, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Daily. Al Central Orga Before You Can Vote You Must Register. Do It Today! Yorker he-Communist Party U.S.A. ‘ (Section of the Communist International) Vol VIL No.l a. SES ST as NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 8 Cents Every Worker, Register! In New York City registration for the November 4th elections is already begun. In many cities throughout the country it is also nec- essary to register in order to be able to vote on election day. Communists have no illusion about capitalist “democracy,” but by | no means under-rate the value of using the elections and the tribune of Congress if elected, to forward the revolutionary struggle of the working class, To fight for our candidates and to elect them, as well as to arouse workers during the election campaign to struggle in the shops and | «¢ ” | streets, is the immediate aim of the election struggle naturally as a Rebels Have 40,000 part of developing the mass struggle of the workers every day and everywhere for the revolutionary goal. To get every possible vote, to rally every worker possible to the Registration Begun in GVIL WAR IN Registration Begum in’ __|¥OTE COMMUNIST” BOSTON WORKERS BRAZIL LOOMS | "Vino Sciesegister Now! ANSWER’ 10 HOOVER, LEGION, A. F. L. ON BIG SCALE PLOT AT TWIN FASCIST CONVENTIONS the Communist Ticket ! | i Hoover Addressing the} PRINTS PROOF |Governor, Mayor, Laud $ - a | nv * . poll x a awed 4 Every worker must register in order to be able to vote| eae — | ae ae Treat acy is on*November 4, it is necessary to see tha’ ese workers, every wi one ote eee Ripe SS EY: PR SA1S Vig S 7 w ¢ worker eligible to vote be registered. Make the period of registra- NEW YORK.—Civil war on COU aia On Nov. 4. Every® apcis ous: | OF Aj hi ILLION | 2 “e ues Age tion a part of the campaign drive of the Communist Party! huge scale threatens throughout| revolutionary worker must see] T0 fi ARCH FROM | a i Everywhere, in all cities and towns throughout the country, get | Brazil, as the “liberal” forces, heav-| that all his, or her, shopmates |Shoots Peace Bunk) Hoover Tells Big Lies Registration for the election on Nov. 4 has begun. In New York, registration began yesterday and will last the en- Troops in Field; «| tire week until and including the coming Saturday. In Massa-| Revolt Spreads chusetts, the last day of registration is Oct. 15. your fellow workers and the poor farmers to register. And show them lily backed by, Wall Street, claim| register. ee | at the same time why they should Vote Communist on November 4! The Boston Swindlers Rarely have so many swindlers and criminals gathered in one spot |that the Brazilian navy has muti- as met yesterday at Boston. Hoover, the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the American Legion. Presaged by press dispatches from Boston, assuring Hoover of | American-trained, and is greatly in- “a warm and friendly greeting” from the A. F. of L. and lots of po- | fluenced by American navy officers. lice to blackjack and gas any workers who demand work or bread, who demand unemployment insurance for the jobless slaves of capitalism, jdeo and the Uruguay-Brazil border | the whole concourse of crooks, fakers and fascists are preparing to | cower up the starvation of the masses with a deluge of pretty words. Knowing that the “program” proposed by his Executive Council | portant states of Brazil. offers nothing at all to the starving masses of jobless, Green of the A. F. of L. on Saturday issued a soft-soap statement that “things will be better next spring ” much after the fashion of Ford, who tells the 250,000 starving jobless workers of Detroit that in 1950 he thinks workers will get $27 a day. Such bunk is nauseating. | The “program” of nine ‘points proposed by the Executive Council NEEDLE COUNCIL | is a mess of deceitful words, designed exactly to help Hoover and the whole capitalist class in the refusal to do a single thing to aid the unemployed. Exchanges where unemployed “may register”; “statis- tics”; “special study” by Hoover and more “study” by the A. F. of L, itself—and so on. Point 3 recommends “reduction in the hours of labor and the in- troduction of the five day week.” But what is the point of gabbing ke } about these things, when the A. F. of L. has not the slightest intention Potash Winogradsky of fighting for these things? The point is to make workers believe it will, and thus get side- tracked from organizing in the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, the only national trade union center which is | gates council of the Needle Trades fighting, and striking for shorter hours. But if the Executive Council “program” is thus designed to dove- | with many mliitant needle workers | tail exactly into the demagogy of Hoover about “sustaining the Amer- ican standard of living,” etc. the fake “opposition” to the Executive Council is aimed to furnish the necessary stage play of “difference of | worked out plans for the coming opinion” to cover up the alliance of the whole A. F. of L. bureaucracy |dress strike, and adopted demands they have 40,000 armed men in the| field against the Washington Luiz and Julio Prestes, pro-British gov- ernment’ Reports from Monteevideo state nied and is backing the insurgent) | forces. The Brazilian navy is} Cable dispatches from Montevi-| state that there is tremendous mass | discontent in all of the most im- Washington Luiz, the present (Continued on Page 3) PREPARE STRIKE. Retrial Wednesday NEW YORK.—The shop edie-| Workers Industrial Union last night, no membecs of teh council present and taking part in the discussion Find out where the Board of Registry in your district meets and register with that board today. Every voter living the last 30 days in teh same district has a right to register in order to vote on Novem- ber 4. Rules for First Voters. Naturalized citizens must first stop in at one of the public or high chools in their neighborhood and pass a literacy test (which is very easy). With a slip from the lit- eracy test commission, they will be able to register at the Board of Registry. They must bring their citizen papers along. Such natur- alized citizens that may have lost their citizen papers. should get a copy of their papers*in the Federal | Building (post office) immediately. Naturalized citizens that have voted before do not need to bring | any papers along. Native-born workers voting for the first time this year must bring along birth certificates, or school diplomas in order to be able to regis- ter. Go to register today! If you leave it for the last day, it may! become too late in case you will | need some additional papers. If you wait for the last day somebody else may register for you and vote for you on Nov. 4 as well. Register today! | Lynchers linge the fascist role of the Legion- foster, Minor, Amter'| naires as defenders of the capital- Chief Speakers Jist system of exploitation, and mob- jilizing this fascist organization for | NEW YORK.—New York work- | the new imperialist slaughter, Presi- lesr are actively preparing the big|dent Hoover today warned the Communist Rally and official ratifi-| twelfth annual convention of the cation meeting for the Communist| American Legion that the founda-| tickets which will take place in|tion of the capitalist government Madison Square Garden Oct. 21 at|lay in respect on the part of the) 7.30 p. m. |broad masses for the bosses’ law— Chief speakers will be the stand-| that is, on the ability of teh bosses ard bearers of the Communist Party,| and thei rtools to fool the workers released on that date from six|into acquiescence in their exploita- months’ imprisonment for leading| tion. |the masses of unemployed March| “We need the teaching that the 6 in a demand for work or wages. | foundation of government is respect These speakers are: William Z.| for law,” Hoover pompously de- | Foster, for governor of New York;|clared. The role of the Legion, he Isarel Amter, for congressman and | stressed, is to defend the capitalist Robert Minor, for congressman. Aj} government and to “impress upon fourth member of tHe committee of| the citizens that the road to self- | the jobless, Harry Raymond, unem- | government is through the discharge | ployed marine workesr, is being} of our obligations at the ballot persecuted by a further four months | pox,” in prison. | Other speakers will be put up by| to the unions, workers fraternal or-| tarvation, mass wage-cuts, ete., to ganizations or Communist Party} ig m i 7 . * | casting their votes for one of the units which make the best show-| tice bosses’ parties, If under 2 ing in the competition to sell as| r3 er H “ nO a jrepublican administration workers many 8D pensyataniesion vckalt td are thrown on the streets to starve, That is, workers must be taught confine their protests against HOOVER GRAFT Kelley Writes of Big Oil Land Steal NEW YORK.—That the Hoover regime is handing $40,000,000,000 in oil lands over to subsidiary cor- porations of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana in a graft scandal which make the Sinclair and Doheny Tea- pot Dome steal “a trifling prize,” is proved in a series of articles running in the New York World, and written by Ralph S. Kelley, until Sept. 28 head of the General Land Office of the Departr-nt of the Interior in Denver. Kelley tells of how Work, former Secretary of the Interior and the present Hoover incumbent, Wilbifr, deliberately aided the oil trusts in grabbing the largest slice of oi! lands in the world. Over 800,000 acres of government oil lands in Colorado are being given to the big oil trusts in huge chunks, for the mere asking by the Hoover regime. Over one-sixth of this tremen- Urges Fascist Program Workers Meet on October 9th BOSTON, Oct. speech to the A. Convention here this afternoon at 8 o'clock was a monument of falsi- fication and filled ith slightly veiled threats of continued exploit- ation. He did not specifically men- tion the election campaign, but it breathed through his ev Hoover came here to review the labor lieutenants of capitalism, who are pledged already against labor’s speaking through its class party, bitter enemies of the only work- ers’ par the Communist Party, and by his portly presence to re- mind them that the biggest big business is republican, anc they should deliver the vote accord- | ingly. Plain speaking will be | done in the caucuses and in private | meetings with reactionary leaders. | At 11:30 a, m, he addressed the jtwin convention of the American | Legion. | Mass Protest Oct. 9. Against this conspiracy of legion, | government and labor misleaders to | dous oil wealth, says Kelley have | make the exploited workers and the | already passed into the hands of | jobless carry the whole burden of the oil companies, mainly the|the crisis, to build a big vote for | Standard Oil, thanks to the Hoo-| fascist measures and governmental | ver regime, which greases the road| terror, the Trade Union Unity for them. League calls a mass protest meet- with the capitalist class against the workers. the meeting as possible. iheysehouldialinply-vate ont the re-| Thus we have the New York State Federation's supposed “fight” | day by the executive of the council. scheduled over the fake “unemployment insurance” scheme of Gov. Roosevelt, and the chatter from the side-lines of the Musteite social fascist Budenz—all of which is aimed only to distract attention from the only trade union organization leading real struggle, the Trade | the speed-up in the dress trade, Union Unity League. Workers will not be fooled by this array of capitalist liars, crooks |a seven-hour, five-day week’ and fakers. They know that the Communists are the only ones ready to lead a real fight for effective Unemployment Insurance. know that the T. U. U. L, is the only national trade union center with | administered by the workers and a program of organizing for strike battles, the only way the workers | jobless. can gain shorter hours and higher wages. Expose the demagogy of the Hoovers, Greens and Budenzes! with the mass fight for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill! Organize and strike for the seven-hour day, five-day week! Another “Little War” The civil warfare beginning in Brazil is an example of what the | body in the Anti-Injunction confer-| Communist International termed as one of those “little wars” reflecting ‘ n a the intense rivalry between British and American imperialist interests | Trade Union Unity Council. and serving as rehearsals for the onrushing imperialist world war. i In particular, Brazil furnishes an example with many similarities | Struggle, or when the company| to China, the state governments being practically independent of the | union is preparing some fake stop-| «, : 7 age the police and courts are ac-| ‘ federal government, and held as “spheres of influence” of one or the | pag Pp a | candidates, against wage cuts and other imperialist power. Differently than in the cases of Bolivia and Peru, where there | Union. was practically no Communist Party, and differently also from Ar- gentina, where the Communist Party has been weakened by its own |ganizers of the N.T.W.LU. tied up} incorreet perspectives to a point where it was completely confused by | in serious court cases. the rapid development of the Uriburu (American) revolt, the Com- munist Party of Brazil is a force to be reckoned with, with roots in | out a letter to all shop chairmen the masses, experience in armed struggle and with a correct policy. No one can foresee precisely the exact outcome. peasants. “Tomorrow will be another day,” is a Spanish saying that may well apply to any quick “successes” of the Yankee-supported revolt in Brazil. For not only will the forces behind which British imperialism is standing refuse to accept the issue tamely, but the Communist Party, looked to as their leader -by great masses of Brazilian workers and peasants, will enter as a third and—ultimately, as the decisive factor in the struggle for power. The disintegration of imperialist rule is begun and with it we can be sure in the case of Brazil, a rising of the revolutionary masses in , a struggle for a Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet Government. Long live the Communist Party of Brazil! ary masses in their independent fight against feudalisni, imperialism and native exploiters! 4 They | funds put up by the employers and On But while it may | has endorsed the Communist Party be that the American backed revolt now led by the “Liberal” Brazilian | candidates in this election, and urg- politicians and generals will reach an easy and quick victory, this fact | ing them to mobilize needle workers will settle nothing for the starving and angry masses of workers and | to vote for them and for the Work- Defend the revolution- based on those drawn up last Mon-| Prominent in the demands aré: 1. Fight againts piece work and and substitution of week work, with 2. Unemployment insurance with | 8. Minimum wage scales cover-| ing every craft. There are other demands against | the unbearable conditions in the} |dress trade. Fight Injunctions. | The shop delegates council made | arrangements for participation in a/ ence called to meet Friday by the As always when the workers plan| tive trying to cripple the Industrial They now have four leading or- This week the union is sending reminding them that the N.T.W.1.U. ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Register Today! Judge Crater Alive! Today’s article on Tammany Hall Discloses Why Judge Crater Disappeared. — Page 3. ELECTION DRIVE jcarrying their own slogans, sepe-| NE FU D cially for Unemploymnet Insurance, : jto the meeting. Boss Parties Have) Plenty of Dough NEW YORK.—The socialist party has its rich friends and boss sup- porters print lavish posters for Heywood Broun and its other can- didates, in which the name “social- ists” is eliminated. The two other boss parties the republican and democrat, get big gobs of dough to) Troy Workers Hear conduct their campaign of befog- ging the real issues before the workers. In its election campaign the Com- munist Party needs funds imme- diately to print literature, tour can- didates, and carry on work in the shops and mills for the Communist for unemployment. insurance. There is little time left. These funds must come in immediately. With the workers hit severely by) unemployment, those who can sacri- fice must do so now, to broaden the Communist election campaign. Every worker must contribute as much as | he can, and do it right away. Send your contributions in imme- diately to the office of the New York State Campaign Committee 50 E. 13th St., New York. All con- tributions will be published in the press. Besides, solicit your fellow work- er in the shop not only for his vote, but his active support for the Com- munist Party, and a contribution to ; the election campaign fund. The militant workers of New York are organizing to march in groups from the shops and factoreis, Register Today! ENGDAHL SCORES ATTACK ON USSR Expose of Fish Comm. | TROY, N. Y., Oct. 6—Workers |from Schenectady, center of the Gen- | eral Electric Company, from Albany, | the state capitol and from the fac-| | tories of Troy, greeted the Commu-| nist candidate for Lieutenant Gov-| ernor, J. Louis Engdahl, speaking | here on the issues raised in the elec-| tion campaign by the Communist! | Party. Engdahl denounced the so-called} Fish Committee of the national con- | gress, “for the investigation of Com- | munist activities before which he recently appeared as witness. “The Fish Committee has made} the question of America’s attitude| toward the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics an issue in this cam- paign,” declared Engdahl. “This is- sue is raised as an attack on the Soviet Union. Exactly in this sit- uation, however the Communist defense and recognition of the So- publicans and vote in another set of jailers, leaving the bosses in con-| swoop, and when Kelley objected, trol and in position to throw more millions on the streets. As to what the Legion could do to support the bosses, Hoover left no doubt: “You have a post in every town or village. These 11,000 posts are organized into divisions with state and national commanders. You are already an army mobilized for | unselfish and constructive en- deavor.” The preparation for the onrushing imperialist war is thus clearly formulated. In a brazen effort to cover up the |feverish war preparations against competing imperialist governments and against the first workers’ re- public, the Soviet Union, Hoover |glibly declared “the peace of our (Continued on Page 8) Needle Trades Youth Preparing for Youth Conference, Oct. 11 NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades | Youth Confreence will be held Sat- urday, Oct. 11 at 2.30 p. m. at Irv- ing Plaza Hall, Irving Place and} 15th St. Preparations for this conference are going on all over New York and New Jersey. Paterson is pre- paring to send a good delegation. Passaic will hold meetings in front of shops and will also send dele- gates. The Youth Committee of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Party, in the election campaign, will Union is holding open air meetings | tribution for the defense of the six | win new masses of workers for the|in the market, in front of big fac-| Workers to the International Labor | tories in preparation for the Youth One oil company was given oil|ing in Franklin Union Hall on Oct. lands forth $1,750,000,000 at one|9 at 8 p. m. | “Vote Communist against the | for reasons of his own, Secretary} Hoover plan to fool the workers | of the Interior Wilbur, ordered him | with lies of approaching prosperity, to Washington to make things /|the bosses’ rationalization plan an- easier. | nounced today through Hoover, the Hoover’s presents to the tSand-| bold conspiracy of the murderous ard Oil ompany were engineered | legion and the class collaboration A, through the law firm of Dines,|F. of L. bureaucracy, the A. F. of L. ines and Holmes, acting for the | agreement not to strike during fhe Midwest Refining Co., a subsidiary | crisis no matter how much wage- of the Standard Oil of Indiana. cutting and unemployment there is, the support of republican and dem- | ceratie party terror against the ‘DEMAND LE workers, by Green and company,” | will be the theme of speakers to | the workers. For Unemployment Insurance. | “Vote Communist,” for the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, (Continued on Page 3) OF ATLANTA SIX A.F.L. Council Raps Southern Boss Terror CUMBERLAND, Md., Oct. 6.—| | Demanding the immediate release ‘of | the six defendants in the Atlanta “insurrection” case, the Trades | Council here passed a resolution | | couched in a language which leaves | |no room for doubt as to the soli- | darity of the workers against the | Southern bosses who are trying to| railroad the six organizers to the| | electric chair. | | Calling upon the workers of | | America to join them in the struggle |for the right to organie, picket and | strike and defend their rights of speech, press and assemblage, the | council ordered its secretary to for- ward this resolution with a con- “Wiping Out” Boss . Crisis By Magic Hoover’s method of driving out the boss crisis is by throwing a speech at it. The A. F. of L. trick is to set up agencies to pass out the jobs which there aren't any of. All fake crisis prescriptions torn to shreds in the Daily Worker Election Campaign Edition. Starvation has whipped the masses into a hunt for a way out They wander knee deep through the election lies of the boss press, The Communist program — will flash like a white light, Register! Vote Communist! | Defense. viet Union. Conference. A special call is out to all the Young Workers of the needle trades calling upon the young | workers to form shop committees in| their shops and elect delegates to| the Youth Conference’ | Vote Communist! Register Today! Reader! Buy and sell 100 copies of the Election Edi- tion. 1 cent per copy. October 18. | | | |