The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1930, Page 1

Before You Can Vote You Must Register. Do It Today! Dail Central Orga [e he- SO os J . Dy Communist D (Section of the Communist WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! International) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the uct of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, 0C m0 be) LUD Price 3 Cents % See That Every Worker Registers! J. ae three capitalist parties—republican, democratic and socialist—are now busy in an effort to insure the registration of every one of their supporters. In addition to using the capitalist press they are canvassing their supporters in the neighborhoods where they have strength, in the lodges and clubs, in the churches and, in short, everywhere. None of these parties are interested in the registration of their | class opponents. On the contrary, by various means made possible by “democratic laws,” they systematically bar thousands of workers, espe- cially the Negroes, from registering and voting. By means of precinct, ward city and state residential requirements; by illiteracy tests; by poll taxes; by “grandfather clauses” in state constitutions; and by a hundred other local and state regulations, militant workers are dis- franchised. These regulations must be carefully studied by the Communist ~ Party units and by the revolutionary workers everywhere. Ways must be found, despite the efforts of the capitalist politicians, to register all workers. Sin:ple directives must be given to the workers explaining the legal requirements and instructing them how to proceed. The campaign for the registration of the workers must especially be taken into the shops and factories. All those who signed petitions for Com- munist candidates must be visited. A real drive must everywhere be launched among, the workers under the slogan: “Register now to vote Communist on November 4th!” A Plea for Vislencs RESIDENT HOOVER’S Boston speeches were the speeches of a fascist. Talk of “liberty,” “freedom,” “justice,” “democracy” and “peace” but thinly disguised his very evident desire to emphasize the need for imperialist war and for mob violence against militant workers. “We have become ” he said, “a dominant economic power. Our citizens have spread their trade and finance into every corner of the world.” From this as an introduction he proceeded to describe America’s preliminary efforts toward military domination through the medium of so-called “peace conferences” and concluded with the assertion, evi- dently aimed as a challenge to Great Britain, that we “have safeguarded our defense (!) by parity with the greatest naval power in the world.” In other words he warns Great. Britain that imperialist United States is not only driving them out of the world’s markets but is prepared to “defend” these newly acquired gains. In his speech before the A. F. of L. convention he goes even a step further. There he openly states: “No one would invite either war or business depression, but from them may come some new inspirations.” By “inspirations” he means profits and wealth for the big bankers and industrialists for whom he rules. The combining of “war or busi- ness depression” was merely his way of bringing out the necessity for simultaneously preparing for war against imperialist rivals and for attacks on the living and working conditions of the workers at home. Due praise was handed out to the fascist leaders of both the A. F. of L, and the American Legion for their help in putting through the bankers’ program of wage reductions, mass lay-offs and the murderous speed-up and stretch-out systems. But he warned of the growing revo- lutionary mood among the masses. “Nearly one-half of the population of our globe,” he said, “is in a state of great unrest or a state of revolution.” Then he showed what the bosses really expect from the American Legion as an instrument for suppressing the growing revolutionary struggles of the American workers, as well as in the war mobilization. “You have a post in every town and every village ” he said. “These 11,000 posts are organized into divisions with state and national commanders. You are already an army mobilized for unselfish (2) and constructive (?) endeavor. . . . You have an exceptional interest (to) preserve the fundamentals of our republic.” This is a call to the Legionnaires and to the fascist A. F. of L. leaders to rally to the defense of the American bankers and manufac- turers in their attacks on the workers’ conditions of life. It is an endorsement of the past murderous Legionnaire-A. F. of L.-gangster attacks on revolutionary workers and a call for bloody suppression of the growing struggles. Against this the workers must rally. By organizing defense corps the workres will prepare for the attacks of the bosses’ fascist tools. By building the revolutionary T.U.U.L. unions the workers will prepare strike struggles and mass demonstrations against wage cuts, speed-up, lay-offs and the bosses’ terror. They will go forward to strikes and dem- onstrations for the 7-hour day, 51day week and for immediate unemploy- ment insurance. They will rally against the capitalist parties and vote for Communist candidates on November 4th. The fascist speeches of Hoover snd their enthusiastic acceptanee by the A. F. of L. leaders will only strengthen the determination of the workers to defeat the capi- talist candidates and to “Vote Communist” November 4th! Special Election Editions | Minor, PREPARE MASS MEET OCT. 2 FOR LEADERS Minor Suffered From Revenge for Exposure} of Prison Graft NEW YORK.—Robert Minor |faces an emergency operation to save his life; at last accounts physi- cians were deciding whether he should go on the table at once. Ap- pendicitis, made acute by his trans- fer several weeks ago from the hos- pital on Welfare Island to Rykers’ Island and hard labor on rotten food, is the cause. His condition is very critical. Minor was transferred in retalia- tion against the International Labor Defense and Daily Worker expos- ure of horrible treatment of com- mon worker prisoners on Welfare Island while Connolly, millionaire grafting president of Queensboro, lolled in a refrigerated apartment with convict slaves to do his bid- ding. Most of the details of Minor’s turn for the worse are lacking, but it is known that he has been ill.and | |on a special diet before arrest, that he collapsed when taken from the hospital and sent to Rykers’ Island, and that he was sent back, danger- ously ill, last week to Welfare Island and placed in the Correction Hos- pital. 4 .. Release Him. The Communist Party demands his immediate release that the neces- sary operation may be performed in better surroundings outside of prison walls. - Minor is editor of the Daily Worker and Communist Party can- didate for congress from the 20th Congressional District. Workers campaignig for his re- lease will nadvertize ad mobilize for the mass ratification Commu-| nist campaign meeting in Madison | Square Garden, Oct. 21, to greet Foster and Amter, jailed members of the March 6 unemploy- ment demonstration committee, on | their release, and start them on their speaking tours. Foster is general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League and Communist candidate for Governor of New York. Amter is candidate for Congress on the Communist ticket. 1. 9 AG | | By A. B. MAGIL. BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail). Fascism is in full flower in Boston, With the pot-bellied booze-swilling bureaucrats of the American Fed- eration of Labor meeting in the scab Hotel Statler and the equally | pot-bellied members of the Ameri can Legion holding forth in the Bos: |ican culture” simply reeks of black shirt reaction. The city where Sac- eo and Vanzetti were murdered in- to which flows the backwash of all that is most stagnant and reaction- ary in American life, is the proper | place for teh conventions of these twin stars in the firmament of American capitalism. Booze Loosens the Tongue The fact is that the Legionnaires enthusiasm for the stars and stripes jisn’t nearly as great as their devo- tion to a brand of liquid refresh- mnets put out by the well-known Mr. Gordon. Nothing stimulates the thirst so much as Prohibition. These conventions are a wonderful opportunity to run wild and get cockeyed drunk, But many of, “the boys” are pretty cynical about the war .and the patriotic bally-hoo. Get Drunk, They Talk) | booze-swilling though not quite so} |ton Arena, this “capitol of Amer-| Fascism, Booze, Flag Waving Orgy in It’s War Convention Bill Gropper, staff cartooyist of the} know, Though When the Boys) do some drawings of the two Boston they useed to give us planes se wires were corroded to fly them with- | it a wonder that] were smashed to ig cop told Grop- litions in the police ree were the same—bum i no inspection. “Why, ellow in charge of us never y a plane in his life,” he said, vent only once as a nger. e police aviation racket | jis y a deal that Whalen put} }over to help the plane manufac- | tur aybe he got his share of | the spoils too.” Freiheit, who came up with me to/to fl. BOUT DOE CIRE ABour INE PAPA 2/75 = eg WG [ee ITS [300 Zt } pl A War Convention year’s convention marks the ni jubilee of the A. F. of L, 2 convention of 100 percent la- They do not represent of the United States; resent the rank and of L. High on the this convention is Imperialist War. it, but this is the It is no mere coincidence . F. of L. convention and | n Legion convention are | ing held simultaneously in the pens to be a member of the avi-|Same city, with the Hotel Statler, ation police created by the late la-|where the A. F. of L’ is meeting, mented Mr. Whalen. “You didn’t | 2!so serving as a headquarters for miss much if you weren't in the|the Legion. And it is not as a whim} ir” he said. “What the hell did/“? because of his” passionate inter- we get out of it anyway? You (Continued on Page 3) of Towards nailed: No one mentions 1 goal. the Aforl Chain Gang for Negro Toiler Who Stole Food \for Starving Family ATLANTA, Oct. 7—Out of work for months, with his wife and chil- dren starving, Loyad Clemant, a young Negro worker, went into a grocery store and picked out what | he needed to eat, which included six |cans of salmon and half a ham, and walked home with it. Upon reaching his home he was at once arrested, hauled into court | and sentenced to five years on the) chain gang. Organize and fight for work or, wages. Down with the chain gang and lynch system. Parasites Put on Big Blow Out Register and Vote Communist | Daily Gives List of Dates for Registration; Be, Sure to Register! Registration is now on in many states, and every worker | must be sure to register in order to vote Communist. The! bass political machinery puts all sorts of obstacles in the way of a revolutionary party, seeking to mobilize the workers dur-! ing an election campaign for a struggle against capitalism. ene ee , | This trickery of the bosses} Fy FILE COMMUNIST must be defeated. steRe Eva Reports coming in to the A Daily Worker show that regis- F Ii (J )\.4Qq/ tration is now on in the follow-| jing states, and on the dates given. | —_—— | But watch the papers in your city | 11th to make sure of the time and place | z where you should register: | Register October FL, TREASON < Immediate Release to Save Minor’s Life; Faces Operation at Once in Jail | the struggle for the defense of the in Florida As 9,000,000 Starve Feast and Guzzle on Their Huge Profits; Pre- pare More Wage Cuts for Workers This news of how the “59” and their fellow millionaires wine and dine and while away their idle days at Miami Beach won’t fill the empty bellies of the nine million unem- ployed, but it will give them food “The Venetian Ball” and cost ap- proximately $30,000 in decora- tions and enerttainment features. It is planned to make the North- ern dinner an annual festivity. Among the members are Wil- of another kind—food for thought” Here is the story of their mouth- piece, the New York Times, huns it in Tuesday's issue: MILLIONAIRES TO DINE liam K. Vanderbilt, the railway magnate, Col. E. H. R. Green, William A., Charles T. and Alfred J. Fisher, autmobile manufactur- ers; Jorge B Sanchez and H. W. to 18th Without Fail | 3, -youngstown, Campbell and seat Struthers, Ohio, the workers must (By Special Wire) |register on Friday, Oct. 10, or Sat- NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct, 7—/urday, Oct. 11. The first registra- Six thousand, five hundred certified| tion date in Mahoning County was | signatures will be filed with the held Oct. 2. Only 10,000 ont of 60,- secretary of state at Hartford, 000 who voted in teh Thursday, to put the full e| tial election register Communist Party ticket on the bal-| lot. | alas, F Resmus Kling, candidate for Gov-| New Jersey, first voters register at ernor on the Communist Party) office of office of Board of Elec- jticket, will head the delegation to|tions in respective cities—address of the state capitol. Board of E ms in Newark is 124 The Stamford candidates on the Brantford Pl.; Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. municipal ballot are headed by|10, 11 and 17 (from 10 a. m. to 10 Isador Wofsy for mayor. p. m.), Minnesota, Oct. 18; North om 9 to 5, until Oct. 25; MEET TO PREPARE FOR MASS DEMONSTRATION AT A. B.L. CONVENTION Urge Workers to Vote Communist Against Fascist Bodies’ Plan to Starve Unemployed Green Adjourns Sessions to Jcin Legion March; Hoover Tells Legion to Prepare for War BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 7—Boston workers, led by the Trade’ Union Unity League, the Councils of the Unemployed and the Communist Party, are rushi preparations for their mass protest meeting Thursday against the fascist conspiracy for lower wages and the new SOUTH DEFENSE LETS: OCT, 21 I.1..D. Calls for Stern Fight on So. Bosses NEW YORK.—Carrying out the program adopted by the National Executive Committee of the Inter- national Labor Defense, to intensi > six workers in the Atlanta “insur- rection case, J, Louis Engdahl, gen- eral secretary of ‘tke ‘organization, issued a call to all branch secre- taries and district organizers of the \I. L. D. for Oct. 21 as a day of pro- ‘Get Your Shop Mates Out to | te! As the day of the trial approach the lynching spirit in Atlanta i creasingly intensifies. The two N gro workers, Herbert Newton and Henry Storey, two of the six de- fendants who were picked by the bosses of Georgia as the first vic- |tims for the electric chair, face a separate trial,'and are certain of a conviction unless the workers of America organize and fight vigor- ously for their defense. The call furthermore points out that these mass meetings must be- come an effective contribution to the United Front Election Campaign of the Communist Party, which is strongly emphasizing the demand) for social insurance and the program of the International Labor Defense ) calling for the unconditional release of all workers. now in jail for mili- tant activity. Detroit Conference for Protection of the Foreign Born DETROIT, Oct.” 7.—With the growing attack of the bosses upon the foreign born workers—deporta- eign born workers, discrimination, to take steps to fight back this of- fensive of the bosses For this purpose the Provisional imperialist war outlined by the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion, | both in convention here. The twin conventions have again showed their unity by combining for the jingo parade of the American Legion today. After a short session this morning, the A, F. of L. convention adjourned so (Continued on Page 3) COMMUNISTS ON DAKOTAS BALLOT |Mother Bloor Making | Tour in Both States NEW YORK. — The National Election Campaign Committee of the Communist Party has just re- | ceived word that the Party ticket in | both North and South Dakota have | filed their petitions for nomination and have received official notice that the Party will appear on the ballot. | Ella Reeve (“Mother”) Bloor, veteran labor fighter, will tour the states of North and South Dakota for the State Election Campaign and will cover practically every city in both states. | Dates in Dakotas. Her dates in North and South Da- kota are: Amidon, Oct. 10; Open, Oct. 113 c > |New Rockford, Oct. 12; On The | Way, Oct. 18; Parshall, Oct. 145 | Sanish, 15; Battleview, 16; Com- House (near Blaisdell), Oct. rrison, 18; Douglas, 19; Bow- | is, 20; Grenora, 21; Alamo, 22; Williston, 23; Tioga, 24; Stanley | Courthouse, Belden (District jaebuing), Oct. 26 at 2 p. m.; Belden | (Mass Meeting), Community Hall, | Oct. 26 at 8 p. m. | The remaining dates of the cam- last presiden- | tions, proposals to finger print for-| Paign will be decided upon at the | commitee meeting at Belden on Oc- Colorado, ‘Oct. 9 and 16; Wiscon-|etc., it becomes ever more necessary | tober 26. Mother Bloor is one of the most | successful speakers, and the farm- ers will assemble from miles around Committee for the Council for the| at her speaking dates. Protection of the Foreign Born is} calling a city conference to take up} these questions Oct. 19th at the Ferry Hall, 1843 E. Ferry, to which} Hoover Admires Chadbourne, Webb Jay, Harvey S. Boss Crisis ' Registration in Connecticut will (avolina, from.now on to Nov. 4;|al! workers and workers’ organiza- | Firestone, rubber king; J. C. Els- To special election editions of the Daily Worker are being planned be held from October 11th to 18th. , from now on to Nov. 4; Ohio, | tions are urged to be present. This) to aid in mobilizing the workers for the Communist candidates and Men Who Own Homes in Florida Will Hold Meetings Here conference will be Oct. 10-11, for struggle against the bosses’ offensive. Each of these editions will be put out on three different days to enable us to print the large num- ber for Which orders are expected and for them to reach all sections of the country for use before the elections. The Pacific coast editions will appear on October 15th and Oc: tober 27th. ‘The Midwest editions will appear on October 17th and October 30th. The Eastern editions will appear on October 18th and November * Ist (excluding New York City which will have its own editions). Putting the paper out in this form will also ible us to d fully with the election issues and candidates in all Tahoe of the ecg try, with the particular forms which the bosses’ offensive is taking in each section, and with the sti les of:the workers. To make these editions a success the Daily Worker wants imme- diate help from its readers. We want short-articles, letters and photo- graphs from our readers dealing with the actual conditions in the shops, mills and mines and among the unemployed workers. We want letters dealing with mass lay-offs, wage cuts, evictions, lynchings, segregation and discrimination against Negroes, discrimination against the foreign born, ani with war preparations, ~ ‘ Finally we want a real distribution of these editions. Our plans are for 250,000 copies of the early editions on October 15th, 17th and i 18ih and for 1,000,000 copies of the later editions on October 27th, 30th and November Ist. Our readers can help by ordering a bundle and by distri'iting it among their fellow workers. The price will be 80 cents per nundred. . _ send in letters and articles! Place orders for a special bundle for distribution! The Daily Worker is the best instrument for rallying the masses behind the Communist candidates! ton Jr., and Robert Law are vice presidents. David Huyler, candy The Committee of One Hun- (Continued ‘on Page's) dred, a social organization com- posed of 250 men who have homes All workers should immediately register so as to be able to vote the full Communist ticket Nov. 4th Get your shopmate to register “and vote Gommunist. at Miami Beach, Fla, and of whom more than 200 are said to be millionaires, will hold its first annual Northern dinner at the Hotel Biltmore, on Wednesday } night, it was announced yester- day. Speeches will be made by some of the country’s leading fin- ancial and industrial leaders. The committee was organized four years ago and holds monthly stag parties at Miami during the Winter esaosn. Once a year it holds a ball, usually a costume af- fair; which last year was called Judge Rertini, Ex-Bootlegger Judge Bertini, former boot- legger, is forced to toe the mark by Tammany and pays $100,000 for his job. for civil war throughout Brazil, wi forces, led by Vargas, “liberal,” to the Brazilion army. The “rebel victory in Para, one of the most Brezilian states. volt.” * The Brazilian uprising is based on the tremendous intensified by the struggle betw ver $1,250,000 000 invested in that 9 BRAZIL STATES IN “REVOLT” NOW armed men in the field and President Washington Luis, ealling first and second categories of reserves Nine states have joined the “re- effects of the economic crisis, which has impover- ished millions of workers and farm laborers, and is American imperialism for the upper hand. British imperialism has the greater foothold in Brazil, with ican imperialism imports 95 per cent of the raw ma- terials and agrarian products produced in Brazi), and has greatly increased its encroachment. Leading among the Wall, Street corpo: active in Brazil, backing the the Luis-Presies pro-Briti: Bethlehem Steel Co poration, the Ford Motor Bank of New York. The government is mobilizing its entire military force, army, navy, bombing planes, for a major bat- tle against the rebels. Troops are rapidly moving to Minas Geraes, one of the strongholds of the insure gent forces, and as well as a stronghold of the United States Steel Corporation. 4 Martial law has been declared in Rio de Janeiro and practically all business is at a standstill, The government has requisitioned all food supplies, and is entrenching itself for a long drawn-out battle. War looms in Brazil on a major scale; the leading imperialist powers of the world are directly involved. Reports of defection of government troops in Per. nambuco is a great blow to the Luis-Prestes gov- (Continued on Page 3) * | ions that have been beral” forces against sh government, are the on, the U. S. Steel Cor- | o. and the National City ith the insurgent claiming 80,000 1” forces claim a important of the een British and country. Amer- preceded by smaller conferences of the different language organizations on Oct. 12. Detroit A. F. of L. Locals Endorsing the Red Candidates DETROIt, Oct, 7—Carpenters’ Union local of the A. F. of L. has endorsed the Communist candidates in the coming elections and has rlected a permanent member of the State Election Campaign Commit- tee. official endorsement of the Detroit Federation of Labor of the usual run of bosses’ politicians. é Pay hat Many locals of the A. F. of L,| disgusted with the “Labor’s Ticket” ‘hat the A. F, L. has put out en-| dorsing the-different shades of ¢api- ‘alist politicians are endorsing the, Communist candidates in the com- ing elections. Among these locals is the painters’ local which has nledved support to the Communist Party candidates, x a * This was done in spite of the | | OOVER highly praises the AI present crisis as one of the very best yet turned out by the capitalist system. In thumbnail: the “depres- sion” is “free of conflict”, there is “nationwide coopera- | tion”, “never was efficiency | higher”. It is a freer and | more pleasant depression than the ugly European brand because “doles limit the independence of men.” The tom cat leaps out “I am co-operating with Wm. Green.” No “depression” is good enough for 8,007,000 starv- ing workers, Register! Vote Communist! Readers, uy 5 or more dailies to sell or distribute. Shrapnel for the boss, 1 cent a copy. Special Eleection Campaign Editoin, Pacific Coast, Oct. 15; Mid-West Oct, 17.