The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1930, Page 1

Before You Can Vote You Must Register. Do It Today! Dailu Central Orga (Section of : y,. <Worker the Communist Peerpetional) OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second at New York, N. Vol. VIi. No. 243 Sn $8 under the act of March 3, 1879 matter at the Pést Office NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930, CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents | DEMAND RELEASE TO SAVE MINOR, RED CANDIDATE! Don’t Freeze or Starve! INTER, with its cold winds, snow and sleet, with the need for coal, substantial food, warm clothing, and comfortable shelter} is rapidly approaching. Already the cold nights are driving the unemployed, homeless workers out of the parks into hallways and vacant buildings. Scantily clad, shivering workers are already to be observed on the streets. The marks of hunger are evident on the faces of many. The suffering of the millions of jobless. workers, already brutal, will, with the coming of winter, increase to an extent hitherto unknown. Yet the capitalists and their contemptible hirelings remain en- tirely indifferent. Hoover, Green, Norman Thomas, Roosevelt—all self-seeking tools of the bankers and manufacturers—talk everlasting- ly about an early return of prosperity, about “studying” unemploy- ment, about everything except the immediate relief which the workers really need. And no sooner are the lying statements of these political fakers made than they are refuted by the actual facts of life. They promise action, but no action is taken. They promise improvement in the situa- tion, and unemployment increases. The latest promises of Hoover and BOSTON WORKERS HOLD DEMONSTRATION iUESDAY AGAINST A |Sessjon in Militarist S War, White Guard; Metal Trades Departm e | FL WAR PLANS pree With Secretary of Legion Taking Part ent Resolution Calls for. Big Navy; All Attack Communists Green were yesterday refuted by figures from Detroit—a manufactur- ing center typical of the country as a whole. Hoover promised “pros- perity,” the figures of the Detroit Board of Commerce show an in- crease of 8.2 per cent in unemployment in September. Simultaneously reports show a further decline in steel production for September and a further decline in freight car loadings—all of which show, not return- ing prosperity, but a further deepening of the economic crisis. More mass lay-offs, more wage cuts, more speed-up in the fac- tories, this is the outlook facing the workers. This means indescribable suffering for the jobless masses, which will reach unheard of dimen- sions with the approach of winter. For the employed workers it means a living standard reduced so law as to make existence well nigh impossible. Thousands of workers will freeze in the streets. ‘Thousands of workers will starve. Nothing else can be the outlook unless the work- ers, employed and unemployed, organize and fight. The capitalist politicians—republican, democratic and socialist—with their lying promises, are trying to save the bosses’ profits by preventing organ- ized struggle. Their fake promises are designed for no other purpose. Only the Communist Party—the workers’ party—comes forward as the organizer and leader of the workers in this critical situation. unly the Communist Party points the way through organization in the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Councils for struggle against evictions, against mass lay-offs, against wage cuts, against the inhuman speed-up, against lynching, for immediate unemployment insurance, for the 7-hour day, 5-day week, and for full equality and the right of self determination for the Negroes. The position of the workers daily becomes more serious. Don’t freeze! Don’t starve! Rally against the bosses’ candidates! Support the candidates of the Communist Party on November 4th! Organize and fight for immediate unemployment insurance! Continue the fight until your demands are granted! A Gruesome Indictment 4 bes spectre of death today hovers over thousands of working class homes. Yesterday. in New York City alone four unemployed work- ers, driven to desperation, took their own lives, leaving behind them families to mourn their death. Harry Gordon, aged fifty-two, committed suicide. by hanging him- self from the gas fixture in his home. Morris Klein, aged sixty-five, jumped from the fifth floor of the apartment where he lived. Timothy Healy, aged fifty, hung himself from a tree. Arthur Lowrie, aged thirty-five, an ex-serviceman, jumped from the fifth floor of the Veterans’ Bureau when he was denied “any kind of work,” leaving behind him a wife and two children. All these items were tucked away in remote corners of yesterday’s New Yo#k evening papers. On the front pages of these same papers were big headlines and columns of news about Hoover’s attack on Bolshevism and his praise © for American “justice” and “democracy.” There were reports of the convention of the American Legion in Boston where ex-officers, many of whom never saw the war except in the “movies,” were swilling in booze and laying plans for war on all fighting workers’ organizations, while their starving comrade in New York ‘was taking his life because he could not find work. There were reports ofthe A. F. of L, convention where the fat- bellied fakers, also pickled in alcohol, were giving out assurances about an “early return of prosperity” and loudly shouting that the workers did not need unemployment insurance. There were stories of graft and corruption in city, state and na- tional government, accompanied by demands and counter-demands for investigations and indictments by republican, democratic and socialist politicians alilze. But the stories of these four tragedies in working class homes re- ceived only four inches of space—one inch each. And these foyr suicides do not tell the whole story. These are but the symptoms of a much more serious tragedy. They arise as a result of unemployment. Eight million workers are jobless. The num- ber is daily increasing as one factory after another reduces its crew. The situation is further accentuated by the coming of cold weather. Slow death from starvation is the lot of thousands today in Hoover’s glorious America. These four (which throughout the country number hundreds) merely accepted this fate and selected a faster method. And yet Hoover, Green, Thomas, Roosevelt and their fellow fakers can remain entirely indifferent, concerning themselves only with their own political interests, and the fat salaries which they receive for serving the very capitalist system which is responsible for the starva- tion and misery of the masses. But the masses are not indifferent. And the masses are not going to make it easy for the bosses by taking their own lives. The masses are going to fight. They will not starve! They will not freeze! They will not be evicted! They are already beginning to see through the fakery of the republicans, democrats and socialists. They will-rally for determined, uncompromizing struggle, under Communist Party leadership, for immediate relief and against the damnable capitalist system which creates such poverty and misery for the workers. They will “Vote Communist!” on November 4th! Clown Heywood Broun doing all he should do. He urged cooperation of the employers and’ workers as the basis for a future “socialist” (2) state. When asked about the “socialist” regimes’ in England and Germany, he professed ignorance and was highly flustered when asked>about the socialist club- | bing of the jobless in Milwaukee and the close cooperation of the socialists and the police in Reading. He left in a hurry when, some students trapped him in the state- ments that he had previously made. Even the students were able to see ae he made sites a clown of ee se Urges Bosses, Workers Co-op for “Socialism” Heywood Broun, the socialist candidate for Congress from the “Silk Stocking” district, spoke at a meeting of the Social Problems Clu of New York University yesterday afternoon. Broun’s talk was on “Why I Am ® Socialist.” His socialism consist- od in urging federal unemployment relief in order to avert revolution. Three-quarters of his time was spent in chiding Hoover for not BOSTON, Ma anti-labor speech at Kings Moi , Oct. 8—Hard on the heels of Hoover's untain yesterday, a speech to which he went directly from one before the A. F. of L. con- vention here, Green and his official family go about proving once more their complete cooperation with the imperialist war UNION PUSHES DRESS STRIKES IN THREE SHOPS Picketing and Arrests; Fight. Wage Cuts NEW YORK.—The assault case | against Potash and Winogradsky was postponed yesterday to Oct. 15, General Sessions, Part 9. The needle workers are making rapid preparations for the dress strike which will come soon. There are already three single strikes led by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union ih large dress shops. They are at Uneeda Dress Co., 145 West 28th St., against a wage re- duction; Goldsmith’s Dress Shop, 129 West 27th St., against a wage reduction, and Sancy Dress, 127 West 26th St., against a lockout. At the last named shop there was a big picket line yesterday morn- ing and a fight. Later, Fanny Pepper, May Greenstein and Esther Ermelin were arrested and rushed to trial m Jefferson Market Court, without being allowed a lawyer. They were given sentences of 10 days or $10 fines. Dress Workers Meet. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union calls a dress work- ers’ membership meeting Oct. 15 at 7 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall as part of the preparation for the dress and fascization program of Hoover. The A. F. L. convention ad-| journed yesterday to take part} inthe American Legion parade, Green cut short his attendance this | | morning to address the Legion con-| vention, and War Secretary Pat Hur- | ley was the principal speaker this | morning before the A. F. of L. con-| vention. The metal trades depart- ment has a resolution urging a big | navy. When 15 workers tried to walk into the convention they were | | thrown right out. ; This open jingoism and anti-la- | bor activity of the A. F. of L. bu- reaucrats takes place in the midst | of active preparations of the work- | ers and jobless of Boston for mass protest demonstrations Tuesday | morning at 11:30 before the con- vention hall in Bradford Hotel. The demonstration will be also a flam- ing call to the masses to vote Com- munist against the A, F. of L- American Legion-Hoover war mon- gering, against their plan to starve the jobless and for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. The demonstration is preceded by a mass meeting at Franklin (Continued on Page 3) | yourselves for the coming Recimib Now JF Yi Lay To Vo ae | ! |Needle Trade Youth Strike Conference, to be Held Saturday NEW YORK.— “Form your shop | committee to mobilize the shop to fight against the long hours and low wages! Dressmakers, prepare strike! Support the Youth Conference of needle workers by electing your youth delegate to the youth confer- ence! “Elect your delegate to the Youth Conference, which will take place | Saturday, Oct. 11, at 2:30 p. m. at, Irving Plaza Hall. Adult workers, |support the Needle Trades Youth Needle Trades Workers’ Union ‘to all needle workers. The call tells of the flooding into the industry of hundreds. of young workers. past very little attention has been given them, but that all must real- ize now the bad conditions of these young workers, and the necessity of | young and adult workers to unite in a fight on speed-up, section work, and piece work, long hours, ete. | Do Not Enroll issued a warning yesterday t NEW YORK.—The Communist Campaign Headquarters | Only Three More Days Lett to Register in New York; Workers, tor Boss Parties © all workers going to register | Conference!” says a call from the) Industrial | anybody to mislead them as to whether the Communist party in order to vote for November 4th that they should not allow | | courts during -| militant working cl; {were deliberately violated It points out that in the | * | Workers’ International \ the benefit of the locked out shoe LABOR’ DEFENSE IN APPLICATION TO PAROLE BOARD TELLS OF ACUTE DANGER; LEADER MAY DIE IN JAIL Shoe Workers Endorse TUUL Keeping in Jail When Anti- Payinent Reminded ; How oe Jailed Strikers in Last Year’s Fight NEW YOR The calling of a conference by the Trade Union| Unity Council on Oct. 10, prepari tory bilizing of militant fo: to tion, is timely and must receive the support of e y worker and work- ing-class organization, declared Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers’ Union. Bie- denkapp stated: | “injunctions issued by capitalist rikes and lock-outs are deadly weapons used against the with intention to prevent the workers from fight- ing for better living conditions. “During the recent lockout of over workers from 86 shoe shops working under agreements which by the bosses at the suggestion of the United States Department of Labor, the New York Supreme Court issued | 21 injunctions of the most vicious | nature, in an attempt to break the inden Shoe Workers’ Union by starving the workers into submis- sion. These injunctions went so far as to forbid the locked out workers from talking to wives, fathers, brothers or sisters about the lockout situation and that they were forced to. walk the streets end starve. Workers who to mash injunctions by mass viola- | their | n Conference BIG GROWTH OF UNEMPLOYED; CRISIS DEEPE Labor Dept. Keeps Back the Facts NEW YORK.—Why is the De- | partment of Labor silent on the | | growing of unemployment during | | September? At this time-of the | month the figures on employment | | are usually published. This time the U. S. Department of Labor, | under Hoover's orders, is keeping | back the twisted figures. The an- (Continued on pueden kage 3) | CHEER ENGDAHL IN SYRACUSE « Workers Support il Program—Defy Cops | | SYRACUSE, Oct. 8—A score of | fense yesterda | appendicitis made lived within a radius of five blocks | police and considerable additions of of the shop were forbidden by the | plain clothesmen mobilized in Han- injunction to remain in the neigh- | over Square here with the very evi- borhood and were forced to move | dent intention of intimidating work- out or be clubbed out. jers who turned out in goodly num- “Relief stations opened by the|bers for the Election Campaign Relief for | Demonstration of the Communist Party addressesd by J. Louis Eng- | dahl, Communist candidate for lieut- }enant governor. While the local capitalist dailies have declared an absolute boycott against any mention of Communist activities, the police had taken not- ice of the thousands of leaflets that workers w aided by the police and closed up. Thirty-five workers, who were drinking coffee at the | time of the raids, were clubbed and (Continued on apLnSH OU eae 2) COPS OBJECT T0 had been distributed among workers Needs Operation Is Attempt to Murder NEW YORK.—Voicing the de- mand of the militant workers and unemployed who, to the number of 110,000 in the March 6th unemploy- ion here sent Robert mber of their delega city hall to demand re- International Labér De« made formal appli- ion to the parole board for his rele before he dies in prison of acute by prison a the lief, the treatment. The I. L. D. latest facts on as follows: “Physicians demand gives the Minor’s condition state Minor is a very sick man, that he is gnffer- ing from an inflamed appendix, that he has been suffering from that illness for some time and that his condition becoming worse, that he has had four acute attacks during the past three or four days, that there is a real and increasing danger of a burst appendix with is attending peritonitis, a conditiqn the seriousness of which need hardly be emphasized; that this diagnosis has been confirmed by . Brenner and Fuld, visiting sur- geons of the hospital (Correction (Continued on Page 8) ALL ANTI-LYNCH UNITED FRONT Conference Meets Oct. 29 to Fight Lynching NEW YORK.—The American Ne- gro Labor Congress has issued a call to all labor organizations of New York, Negro and white, to elect delegates to a united front conference against lynching, Wed- nesday, Oct. 29, at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Twenty-nine Negroes have been strike. Saturday, for the same purpose, a Youth onference of dele- gates elected from the shops will | meet at 2:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall. Yesterday one of a series of open-air meetings to prepare for the dress strike was successfully conducted at 36th St. and Eighth Ave., with the workers enthustastic for the demands for the seven- hour day and five-day week, for week work instead of piece-work, ete. Fight Injunctions. All shops are being canvassed and organized to send delegates to the T. U. U. L. Anti-Injunction Conference tomorrow. The injunc- tions, as the dress workers very well know, will be used in the com- ing strike. Preparations aye going on to greet Leo Franklin, one of the Min- eola defendants who has just fin- ished his two and a half year term. He was to be released yesterday, and the union will greet him today. is on the ballot. |ELECTION DRIVE SAT., WATERFRONT NEW YORK.—Saturday evening, October 11th, the Waterfront Units, | 7 and 18, will raise funds for the election campaign of the Communist Party for the work along the water- front to mobilize seamen, Jongshore- men, and dock-workers to vote Com- munist. The Red Election Dance| arranged by these units will be held at 196 East Board; the East Side Workers. Jewish Club having volun- | teered their headquarters for this purpose. The outstanding features will be Ryan Walker’s cartoons spe- cially drawn for the occasion, cari- caturing the socialist party cam- paign, and cartoons showing the) hollowness of the reactionary par- ties and their fascist program. Can- didates will speak. The admission} charge is 25 cents. * The enrollment slips handed out to every voter at the stations of 3 Board of Registry, contained ist parties, democratic,’ repub- In an effort to stop the exposure | lican, and “socialist.” This has |of the bosses lynching terror which | made some workers suspect that the has claimed 36 victims already this| Communist Party may not be offi-| year and to prevent mobilization of cially on the ballot. The headquar- | | white workers for the support of the ters of the Communist Campaign | struggles of the Negro masses, Tam- Committee warns against this mis-| Many police last night attacked a take. The Communist Party is on|meeting of the Ex-Servicemen’s the ballot. Enrollment slips ought to| League held at 10th St. and Second! be disregarded and filed into the | Ave. box at the board of registry in blank | The meeting was not molested un- without any marks at all. The fact| til Harold Williams, a Negro leader that the name of the Communist|of the unemployed, took the stand Party is absent from the enrollment |and began denouncing the bosses sys- slip does not mean that the Commu-|tem for its breeding of lynching, nist Party’is not on the ballot, the|?ace hatred and discrimination. Communist Party has been official-| The cop on the beat ordered Wil- ly placed on the ballot this year, as|liams off the stand, and when he in previous years, refused, the cop went after help, Do Not Enroll For the “Socialist” /7tm™ing with five others. These tic started in to break up the meeting or Any Other Capitalist Party: | put desisted when they saw that the Most important, register today! | several hundred white workers pres- If you wait for the last day, you | ent were prepared to defend the Ne- in the many factories and work-| brutally lynched and tortured’ to ANTI-LYNCH TALK shops calling them to the meeting. Police efforts to interfere with the demonstration were defeated by the militancy of the workers who voted unanimously and with great enthus- iasm for the immediate and uncon-| ditional release of Wm. Z. Foster, the Communist candidate for gov- ernor and all other class war pris- oners, and for the election program of the Communist Party. In addressing the workers of Sy- racuse, Engdahl raised sharply the hole question of sti le for the protection of the foreign-born and fight against deportations and for the right of asylum in the United! States for all political refugees’ Ab-| ject misery is to be found among | great sections of the working class | population of Syracuse. The appeal to “Organize to Fight Against Wage | Cuts” met with an enthusiastic re-| spone. Register Today! Major Fighting on in Brazil; Wall St. Fears Mass Uprising NEW YORK.—The civil war in Brazil is developing into the bloodiest struggle in the history of Latin America. The Luis-Prestes government is calling on all the reserves between 21 and 30 years of age, and if it carries through this threat, will put in the field an army of 560,000 men. Aerial bombardment by government forces of Bello Horizonte, capital of Minas Geraes, is reported to be taking place. Ten states have now joined the insurgent forces. The “rebels” claim that they are daily gaining forces, and are prepared for the major battles which are now in the making. The Brazilian civil war is developing into a long drawn-out affair, somewhat on the order of the struggle of the Chinese militarists, each backed by an imperialist power. President Luis of Brazil has ordered the issuing of a statement in which he says “the government will use all its resources and its maximum energy within the limits of the law.” A dispatch from Montevideo to the New York {Limes states: “The Federal government’s preparations to resist the revolutionists prom- ises one of the most sanguinary civil wars in South American history.” The action of American imperialism behind the scenes is ‘shown from many sources. Baptista Luzardo, a national deputy from the revolutionary state of Rio Grande do Sul, says that the Brazilian re- (Continued on Page 3), may find that you have some ques- tions to ask or papers to supply | when you get to the Board of Reg- | istry. Find out today where the Board of Registry of your neighbor- | hood is stationed and register in order to vote for Communism on! November 4th, | ls In a letter received by the Daily | Worker yesterday a worker writes | that his father who will vote the| | Communist ticket on November 4th, |has enrolled for the “socialists” be- |cause he could not find the name of the Communist Party on the en- roliment slip. Again we warn the, | workers to disregard the enroll-| ment slip and deposit it in the box | jat the Board of Registry without | any marks whatsoever. This slip| has nothing to do with the ballot. | The Communist Party is on the! ballot. | NEEDLE FRACTION TONIGHT. NEW YORK.—AII Communists in the needle trades are called to an important fraction meeting, tonight at.8 p, m, at 1179 Broadway, Vote Communist! | gro comrades. Granite Jobless Thousands Reject Bosses Fake Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) GRANITE CITY, Ill, Oct. 8—Thousands of workers are unem- | ployed in Granite City, IL, and face a terrible winter with nothing more than Hoover promises and fake charity relief. The local news- papers are trying desperately to boost a “Let’s Go!” spirit, but this | time the workers are far from being fooled. They are beginning to understand that the local newspapers are full of nothing but bunk and treacherous prosperity talk. The Salvation Army, not satisfied with giving the workers bread- | lines and souplines, is offering them additional insult by standing on street corners and telling the workers to be good. They need not waste time telling the workers to be saintly, because it is not the work- ers who are responsible for mass starvation, wage cuts and increasing | jobless suicides. If they think that the workers here are going to be satisfied with their fake, insulting charity program they are badly mistaken. The Granite City workers want unemployment insurance, not charity, and as a proof of that they are organizing in great num- bers in the unemployed council. The bosses have another guess com- ing if they think that they can make the workers produce everything (Continued on Page 3), death in the last nine months, Some of them, like George Hughes of Sherman, Texas, and George Johnson of Honeygrove, Texas, were burned at the stake, raosted alive in a prison cell. These bar- barous lynchings «were followed by wholesale massacres of Negro fam- ilies and by the destruction of scores of houses where Negro workers lived. This horrible display oof barbarism, instituted by the capitalist class in order to keep the Negro masses in submission, must arouse all labor organizations to a vigorous fight against lynching. All labor organizations, Negro and white, must elect delegates to the | United Front Conference Oct. 29. Fight against the vicious system of discrimination, segregation and lynchings used by the ruling class in oorder to divide and enslave the working masses. Hoover’s Gift to the 8,000,000 The starving 8,000,000 ask -for bread and Hoover tosses them this chunk of granite: “We have maintained open the channels of opportunity.” True never before in history was a worker given a freer opportunity to spend the night on his feet or a better chance to live on garbage. One opportunity the workers will not pass up is the chance to smash the tottering old capitalist structure, 1 million copies of Special Election Campaign Editions of the Daily Worker will be 1 million crashing blows. Eastern Edition: Nov. 1 P. S. Register! Vote Com- munist!