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. Se rrr rer EH TTERSs =-_ Be cy rs DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1930 fage Three KEK =z = Newark Workers Acclaim Communist Election Drive Cheer When Moore Exposes Fake Issues of Three Capitalist Parties : (Bu a Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N. J.—Packed to the hilt with workers who cheered the revolutionary message brought to them by Richard B. Moore, Negro Communist of New York, the Workers’ Cen- ter at 98 Mercer St., Newark, was a scene to behold last Friday night. When Moore finished speaking it was well nigh midnight, but the audience was apparently willing to stay longer, so en- thused were they with the ringing revolutionary manner in which Moore outlined the program of the Communist Party tor their edification. Calling upon all present to fight against the capitalist system until we unload it entirely and to smash the lynch- ing and Jim Crowing of Negroes, the speed-up and wage-cutting prac- tices of the bosses against all work- ers, Moore declared: “The bosses, the capitalists, will get off our backs only when the workers of all color and nationality are organized under the banner of the Communist Party for the final push that such a revolutionary united front can give them.” Exposes Fake Issues. Moore also exposed the fake is- sues and unemployment measures of the capitalist republican, democrat and socialist parties and described in detail the plan of the Communists as contained in the Unemployment Insurance Bill which they propose. This bill, which demands that $25 a week and $5 additional for each de- pendent, be paid to every unem- ployed worker, was immediately recognized as a real workers’ mea- sure. Frequently during his address Moore was interrupted by the spon- taneous and enthusiatic applause which greeted his many denuncia- tions of the vicious capitalist sys- tem under which we now live. Other Speakers. Other speakers were Dozier W. Graham, Negro unemployed worker and candidate of the Party for U. S. Senate from New Jersey; S. D, Le- vine, candidate for Congress 10th District; A. Harfield, section organ- izer, Communist Party; Frank Fisher, representing the Young Communist League, and Jay Rubin, New Jersey organizer’ of the T. U. U. L. E. Marks, campaign man- ager, New Jersey Elec tion Cam- paign Committee, Communist Party, presided at the meeting. Prices of New York Judgeships Range from $15,000 Minimum to $75,000 By ALLAN JOHNSON. (This is the fourteenth in the series of articles o Tammany Hall.) The feigned horror with which the capitalist press is regarding charges of judicial office-buying is all the more hypocritical when one consid- ers that the press has always known these conditions to exist and refused to publish a word about them until republicans, intent on “muscling” in on the graft, made them public. It is naive to think that anyone ever received an appointment to the bench without paying for it. The prices vary in different cities and states and are not always paid in cash, Oceasionally a group of finan- ciers will secure an appointment for a lawyer they know will render a favorable decision when a case they are interested in comes up for trial. In this case the financiers, rather than the judge himself, will pay the cost of the judgeship. The appointment of Chief Justice of the U, S. Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes falls into this cate- gory. Hughes made his reputation as a “liberal” by attacking corrupt insurance companies in New York. But he barely stopped assailing them when he was retained by these same companies to defend the very cor- ruption which he had attacked but a short time before. That huge contributions to the republican cam- paign fund and defending the most outrageous demands of public utili- ties companies, has been the price paid for Hughes’ judgeship. Levy Paid By Deposing Sulzer. Or take the case of Supreme Court lustice Levy of New York. Money flows so easily through his crooked fingers that he probably couldn’t af- ford to pay the regular fee of $75,- 000 for his job. But money, after all, is only a medium of exchange, and Levy exchanged his services by impeaching Governor Sulzer, who Sun Ship Uses Tricky Ads in N. Y. New York. Daily Worker: A short time back I read in the Daily Worker that the Sun Ship- yards in Chester, Pa. was laying off men and cutting wages to beat | hell. Saw the enclosed advertisement in the N. Y. Evening World of Oct. 4th asking for men to go to work in Chester for Sun Shipyards. Ad says “no labor trouble”, “long time job”. Am not a shipyard worker but just want Sun Shipyard men who have been laid off and the unem- ployed in Chester to know how their bosses are stabbing them in the back. —K. Hearst in Harmless Exposes San Francisco, Cal. Editor, Daily Worker: The San Francisco Examiner feels suddenly sorry that a poor unem- ployed man has to pay 180 percent interest per year (on a pawnshop loan). This is only a small crime in cap- italist society and the law would effect a small number of pawnbrok- ers, who naturally must be poor ad- vertisers otherwise Hearst would not expose them. What can the Examiner say about unemployment while the same paper in one day shows adds of 63 women and 57 men looking for work? What can Mr, Hearst say against the employment agencies while his paper in one day placed 15 ads. By reading a capitalist sheet I came | to the conclusion that pawnbrokers | must be poor advertisers. Yes, there is an economical reason for every- thing. —P. Ss. was deposed by Tammay because he displayed some slight indepen- dence, for his place on the bench. Past favors alone do not bring judgeships. There must also be a guarantee that the judge will hand down “satisfactory” decisions every time they are demanded. A few months ago, for example, and more than fifteen years after he led the fight on Sulzer, Levy did as Tam- many requested by appointing Jus- tice Crater receiver in the Libby Hotel steal. As for Supreme Court Justice Hughes, he may always be expected to render decisions favor- able to the most reactionary and rapacious capitalists in America, JUDGESHIPS FOR SALE! In New York there is a fixed price scale for every judicial of- fice, with exceptions only for such cases as Levy’s, and these always pay up in the long run. The prices for the various judgeships are as follows: Magistrates’ jobs, $15,- 000; City Justiceships, $25,000; $25,000 for General Sessions, $50,- 000 for Special Sessions and $75,- 000 for the Supreme Court. This is not to say that sometimes the price is not higher. Often it is— when Tammany is convinced that the office hunter is particularly anxious to be appoited. 4 Supreme Court Justice Cohen, for example, paid $100,000 for his ap- pointment, but then Cohen didn’t feel the strain because his father- in-law advanced the money as a wedding gift. Again, Supreme Court Justice Sherman was forced to. pay $150,000 and evidently thought it well worth it. The case of Judge Amadeo A. Bertini presented Tammany with some complications. True, there is no one on the bench in New York who is fit to associate with any one SEES THROUGH GOV. ROOSEVELT FAKE PROMISES All Boss Parties Have Schemes—WorkersPay New York. Editor of Daily Worker: I listened to Mr. Franklin 0. Roosevelt talk about unemployment at the firemen’s banquet. He said in part, “It is not necessary for me to tell you the cause of unemploy- ment.” He did not want to say the cause of unemployment because if he did the workers would know that he and the rest of the servants of cap- ital as well as the capitalists are the cause. “But I will tell you,” he said, “how to solve the cause. I can not take the money from the treasury of the state and give it to the un- employed, neither can the state help the so-called charitable institutions” Fears Tax on Bosses. Of course not. We know the money in the treasury is for those who defend the capitalist state, for those who fight against the work- ers, politicians, judges, state mili- tia, police, guns, etc. Mr. Roosevelt said that the month of October would be the worst in our history and we better do something before things get worse. Here Mr. Roosevelt like the rest of watch dogs of the capital- ists, the “socialists”, liberals, A. F. of L. bureaucrats, professors, the capitalist press, etc. warning the bosses to watch their step. Mr. Roo- sevelt knows that he and the rest of them can not any longer fool tne workers. ‘ He knows that the work- ers are wakening up and the time is not far when they will send him and his class where the Russian workers sent the czar and his com- pany. Fight for Workers’ Bill. So let us as workers organize and prepare like our enemies do to fight. To fight for unemployment insur- ance, against starvation, against lynching! Let us show Mr. Roosevelt and his class in the coming elections that we are ready and will fight for our class and continue until we es- tablish the workers’ and farmers’ government. —One of the many Unemployed. J.T. Vote Communist! more decent than a bishop, but when a bootlegger, even though he Register Today! lives on Fifth Ave., sought appoint- ment to one of the highest offices on the bench, the thick skulls in Tammany Hall were afflicted with some slight apprehension, Replace City Trust Looters; The matter was further compli- cated inasmuch as the judgeship that Bertini wanted had been occu- pied by Judge Mancuso, who had “resigned” when it was proved that he had helped loot the City Trust Bank. However, there were many things that Tammany could bring forward in Bertini’s favor. First of all, Bertini’s numerous speakeasies in Greenwich Village had made him wealthy. Secondly, Bertini lived in the same Fifth Ave. house, which he owns, with Director of the , City Budget Charles L. Kohler, whose office in City Hall adjoins that of Mayor Walker’s and who “happens” to be leader of the Tenth Assembly District. After due consideration, and after Bertini handed over $100, 900 to Kohler, Gov. Roosevelt ap- pointed Bertini to the bench on October 17, 1929. One hundred thousand dollars sounds like a lot of money—and is—to the more than 8,000,000 unemployed in America, but it is only a drop in the bucket of graft for Kohler, whose recent billion dollar budget for the city carried an unex- plained item of $23,000,000. Judgeships As Wedding Gifts Despite the fact that judgeships are rather expensive wedding gifts, they are a la mode in New York at the moment. Magistrate Leo Healy, who re; cently figured in a drunken assault on his sister-in-law, Mrs' Estelle Cummings, wasa recipient of such a gift. It will be remembered that Magistrate Corrigan, onee of the “three honest judges” in New York FASCISM, BOOZE RIOT IN BOSTON: Its War Convention With Hoover There (Continued from Page 1) est in the working class that Presi- dent Hoover addressed the A. F. of | L. fakers and pourdéd syrupy words } into their ears, thanking them for| the thorough manner in which they |{ have carried through their work of beetrayal. Remember, this is the first time a president of the United States has addressed an A. F. of L. convention since President Wilson) made his war time speech at the 1917 “gathering”. The 1930 A. F. of L. convention is a war convention. | Its actual slogans are strangle the | protest of the workers, destroy the Communists Governor Allen seems to be an- | other one of the success boys. “I am the son of a laborer,” he said, “and though I may have prospered | in later life, I started work at a stipend of $2 a week”. Ah, yes, the poor boy who made good by up- holding the constitution and lead- ing a pure life.” Then he recited a long list of “labor legislation”. He “forgot” to mention the $12 a week wages in the tetile mills of New Bedford, the thousands of children whose youth is being sap- ped away in the mills and factories of the state, the tens of thousands of unemployed and similar paradisal blessings. Allen, the poor boy who made good and became a rich ex- ploiter with a stranglehold on the state leather industry and an in- terest in the viciously anti-labor Armour Packing oCmpany, also “forgot” to mention the wage-cut after wage-cut in his own factor- ies and the recent strike at one of his factories in Peabody, Mass., which he helped to break. | Bosses in Orgies While Millions Starve (Continued from Page 1) manufacturer, is treasurer, F. Lowry Wall is secretary and Jo- seph T. Adams is chairman of the executive committee. This winter there will be more than 9,000,000 jobless. Hundreds of thousands will hang around the breadlines, while their wives and children starve. Wages will be cut still further. A vote for the boss parties (either the republican, demo- erat or socialist) is a vote in favor of the bosses to continue their din- ing and wining while workers starve. A vote for Communism is a vote for a struggle against the capitalit system and all its misrey for the worker: made against him by a republican politician. Healy accepted the invitation with alacrity and according to the New York Mirror “emerged smiling from Chief Magistrate Corrigan’s cham- bers and declared he had no state- ment to make.” What crook wouldn’t, who had just been “judged” by a colleague? (Tammany Judges will be con- tinued tomorrow.) PHILA, WORCORS PREPARE MEET Ship, Shop Committees) Have Reporters PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Six shop committees of the Metal Workers Industrial League who have elected worker correspondents fired the opening gun in the Philadelphia and Vicinity Worker Correspondents Conference, to be held Sunday, Oc- tober 11 at 567 North Sth Street at 2p.m. The worker reporters of the Daily Worker, Labor Unity and the for- eign language press, who hitherto have struggled and straggled along without any definite assistance are now looking forward to this con- ference. Besides definite guidance and training, these conferences will serve the worker correspondents as a medium of helping over the short- comings of the workers’ press, H. Robinson, veteran worker cor- respondent of Philadelphia will be OCT. 11, 20SIN ENTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION . Mass Meeting Oct. 9th Prepares Way (Continued from Page 1) that the delegates, all members of the officialdom of the international unions and central bodies, could at- tend the war preparation demén- stration. The workers and unemployed of Boston will give their reply by the mass meeting Thursday at 8 p. m. in Franklin Union Hall and in a mass demonstration before the A. F. of L. convention hall in-Statler Hotel next Tuesday at 10:30 in the morning. “Vote Communis One answer to Hoover’s speech at the Legion denouncing revolution and his speech at the A. F. of L. convention denouncing any sort of unemployment relief or insurance will be the demand of speakers at both the mass meeting and demon- stration for a big Communist Vote. “Vote Communist” means to vote for the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill, to take the funds for the war which the president clearly | foreshadowed in his Legion speech, and use them to pay $25 a week, with $5 extra for each dependent, to each jobless worker. The Trade Union Unity League, in thousands of circulars calling the Thursday mass meeting, points out that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., promised Hoover, the capitalist president of the, U. S., last November that he would pre- vent any strikes during the indus- trial crisis. Both Anti-Labor. The T. U. U. L. continues: “It is no accident that the fascist American Legion convention takes place at the same time in Boston as the A. F. of L. convention. The Legion and A. F. of L. bureaucracy are birds of a feather, they stick | other districts of southern Kiangsi,| together. Both are opposed to so- cial insurance, i. e., relief during unemployment, sickness, accident and old age for the workers, at the expense of the bosses. Both favor a program of making the workers bear the full burden of the present | economic crisis. Both favor spend- ing billions of dollars for war pur- poses but not one cent for unem- ployment relief. “All workers, both in the A. F. of L. and outside, must rebel against these fascist misleaders of labor. They must rally around the work- ing-class program of the Trade Union Unity League and join the ranks of this new trade union center. Organize to strike against wage- cuts and speed-up! Demand unem- ployment insurance with a mini- mum of $25 weekly! All out for the meeting Oct. 9!” Hoover in his speech to the Legion yesterday surrounded with his usual | a white woman screamed and point- | | ed after a man. fleeing with her sloppy pacifist phraseology some emphatic and clearly understood anti-labor and pro-imperialist war statements. Half World Revolts. After complimenting the Legion for its “inspiration for citizens” (its | murder of union organizers) he points the reason: “Even today one-half of the pop- ulation of our globe is in a state of great unrest or a state of revolu- tion.” He boasts of the speed with which the capitalists of America organized war strength in 1917, and then boasts of the preparation for the next war. Then, with his tongue in his sheek, after having delivered his message to the understanding Le- gionnaires, Hoover speaks for the record, and says this attempt to conquer the world with dollars and bullets is, of course, “not imperial- ism.” The Legion’s share in the war Nw Ehws ‘SENDS DISPATCH FROM SHANGHAITO German Metal ‘DAILY WORKER ON CHINA RED ARMY And How Imperialists Aid Ho Chien (By Special Mail Correspondence) | SH tHAL—Besides tens of thousands of Red Troops which are} attacking Changsha, the capital of|tacking Changsha from three di-| {Hunan province, the Red Armies in} |the various provinces are undertak- jing the following operations: | Over 3,000 Red Troops are now| attacki the white forces of the Kuomintang in the vi ities of Sha- si in Western Hupei, the important port of the Yangtze River, the sit- uation being very tense. A Japanese warship cooperates with the Chinese | gunboat in strongly firing upon the} Red force nd the Reds reply with | drastic f ades. | The Red Army in Eastern Kiangsi launches an offensive to Huko, twenty miles from Kiukiang. The reactionary magistrate of Huko | wired to the government of Kiu! ang asking for help, but Kiukiang itself S local ma: no Kuomintang soldiers to be dis- patched to help Huko. So Huko is going to fall to the Reds moment- | arily. | Pino Occupied. More than 2,000 Red Troops of | Western Fukien have been proceed- | ing southward and recently occupied |Pino, the important district of southern Fukien on the highway to |Kwangtung province. Many Kuo- |mintang troops were disarmed. | Having occupied Tayu and several the ‘Red forces are immediately en- tering Kwangtung, and going to| jconnect with the Red forces there. The ruling class of Nanshung, the| gieat district of Northern Kwang-| |tun, was scared to death. | | Kuomintang troops in Pinyang, | Taihuan, districts of Southern Chek- | jang are in a panic and have sent men to suppress the| struggles and there are| for Army Three Red Armies have been at- any soldiers to combat the Red rections: (1) the third, fifth and eighth armies under Peng Te Hwee, assaulting the east gate of the city of Changsha from, Lin Yang; (2) Chu Teh and Mao Tse Tung (the | Chinese masses call them Chu Mao) have been leading the sixth, fourth and eleventh armies to attack the South Gate from Yolo Mountain, six miles from the city of hangsha. Ho Chien’s reactionary trooy erected three lines of barbed wire with electric current outside the cit ef Changsha as a means of protec- tion. Since August 30, in the city of Changsha, tl people have been ohibited from coming out of their Your corre dent indi- rectly got two passports from Ho Chien and Wei So Chung (chief of the garrison headquarters) so he j}could spend a few days in the city to secure some information of the situation. | From noon of Sept. 7 cannon shooting was he:rd from east of Changhsa. Special martial law was |enforced. No one was allowed on the streets without a passport, and | though it is difficult for the masses |to work for the support of the Red | Armies, still there was some con- nection between the revolutionary masses in the city of Changsha and the Red forces outside. The imperialists are rendering Ho Chien great services by attack- ing the Red Forces, firing on them from imperialist warships, and by aiding in conducting the fight against the Red Armies. At the | present time the reactionary troops are desperately defending the city with the help of the imperialists and under their direction. Negro Fakers Roused | as Police Shoot Star PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7. — Negro petty bourgeois elements in this city, unmoved by the savage attacks | of the local cossacks on Negro work- ers, were up in arms last night fol- lowing a vicious police attack on Bill Robinson, famous Negro theat- rical star. Robinson was leaving his hotel to drive to the railroad station when purse. Robinson gave chase. In the meantime, police coming up at once assumed that the running Negro was the thief and fired at Robinson, dropping him with a nasty wound in the shoulder. Register Today! “provisions for better industrial mobilization,” and support of the administration bill to conscript | everybody and everything for the He called on them to mob- war. ilize against “strange new doc- trines” at the polls Aovidently | meaning Communism). On his way out of town, Hoover complimented Superintendent of Po- lice Crowley for his heavy police protection. ‘We did our best,” said Chief Cop Crowley; “We heard ru- mors of plans of teh Reds and took every precaution that your visit preparations, Hoover optlines as READY FOR CIRCULATION the following new pamphlets from the International Pamphlet Series No. 6.—SPEEDING UP THE BY JAMES The Speed-up and Rational No. 7—YANKEE COLONIES By HARRY GANNES A Study of the Philippin American Possessions No. 8.—THE FRAME-UP SYSTEM By VERN SMITH ‘The developmnt of the frame-up as an employers’ weapon in the class war, told against t No. 9—STEVE KATOVIS: The Life and Death of a Worker By A. B. 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A United Press dispatch states |that: “There is widespread belief here (Rio de Janeiro) that the revo- lutionists, entrenched in territory on three sides of the government strongholds, have practically iso- later Rio de Janeiro, at least from its immediate food sources.” The states now supporting the revolt against the Luis-Prestes gov- ernment are: Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Geraes, Santa Catharina, Pa- rana, Piauhy, Para and Parahyba. Coming on the heels of the coup @etat of Uriburi in Argentina, the overthrow of the U. S.-backed reg- imes in’ Peru and Bolivia, the pres- ent civil war in Brazil will further intensify the war danger between Great Britain and the United States COMMUNISM AN The Bible, Vol. V; Send fifty cents for copies of stion of Rome. 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The president of the Metal Cartel, Urich, replied with a demagogic speech to the effect that the trade unions would “not concede one tenth of a penny wage reduction without a fight.” The comment of the so- cial democratic press shows that this “fight” is to be the usual play upon words. This wage reduction would affect 140,000 metal workers in Berlin. Should this plan be carried out, the jemployers will gain about 41 mil- lions yearly by this wage reduction. | At the evening session the actual demands of the metal kings, kept secret until after the election, were made known. The 15 per cent wage reduction means a 20 per cent re- | duction to the Berlin workers, as their wages are somewhat above | the agreement. Urich again adopt- ed a radical tone declaring that the German Metal Workers’ Union would not accept any reduction and | demanded 8 pfennigs wage rise. ‘UNEMPLOYED ARMY ON | | INCREASE IN HUNGARY | BUDAPEST, (IPS).—The data | issued by the Hungarian trade union | council shows unemployment to have | ineraesed by 10.1 per cent in Au- gust. The number of unemployed has. doubled in one year. In the | building trade 47 per cent of the |Workers organized in trade unions }are out of work. In the metal in- | dustry unemployment has increased by 85 per cent in one year. An idea of the indescribable mis- ery of the unemployed in Hungary may be gained from the fact that in the town of Gyor 1,500 out of work |industrial workers have applied for | permission to go begging. jand greatly shatter the tottering | stabilization of world capitalism. 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