The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1930, Page 1

Before You Can Vote You Must Register. Do It Today! Dail Central Orga he-CdRmunist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! — J Entered Vol. VII. No, 244 Ss as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 habia WAR ON SOVIETS, ATTACK ON U.S. WORKERS, IS BOSS’ AIM “An Open Acknowledgement MAXY times the Daily Worker has brought forth concrete charges to | prove that the Wall Street government in Washington was: taking the lead in the imperialist war preparations against the Soviet Union— the workers’ fatherland. The breaking of diplomatic relations by Mexico, the Stimson note in the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute, the Fish Committee activities, the attempted embargoes against Soviet products, the recent anti-Soviet wheat activities, and many other mani- festations were cited as evidence to back up our charges. But through all this there has never been an open statement by a | government official for war against the Sdviet workers and peasants. Hoover has made attacks against Bolshevism. Other officials have But it remained for Ray Lyman Wilbur, the secretary of the interior in Hoover's cabinet, to openly speak of Wall Streét’s plans. One of the great peoples of the earth (the Sdviet Union— Ed.) is deliberately trying to work out large social and economic programs (building socialism in the interest of the masses—Ed.) for the mastery of its vast terrain along new and untried lines. “Our economic, social and political philosophies (based on suffering and starvation for the workers—Ed.) inevitably must wage a gigantic and fundamental struggle (war!—Kd.) with theirs.” . Now the issue is clearly put. It is socialism vs. capitalism. It is prosperity and happiness for the masses in the Soviet Union and starvation and misery for the masses and huge profits and wealth for the capitalists in the United States. " Wilbur, the capitalist, defends the American system and joins in the government’s war preparations against the Soviet Union. The Communist Party rallies the workers for struggle against the poverty, starvation and misery of capitalism and for the defense of the Soviet Union where alone our ideals are being realized. War is being prepared. American capitalism is taking the lead. The Communist Party of the United States, in rallying the workers against the republican, democratic and socialist enemies of the Soviet Union, is preparing the masses for defense of the first workers’ state. “Vote Communist on November 4th! Defeat the enemies of the Soviet! Defend the Soviet Union!” A Danger Signal CORES of Negro and white workers have been killed in the United States in so-called “race riots.” The period of economic crisis fol- lowing the war (1919-1920) was particularly marked by vicious and bloody street battles between Negroes and whites. Tulsa, Chicago, Washington, St. Louis, Knoxville, and dozens of other cities were the scenes of protracted battles. These massacres arise from the vicious “race-superiority” theories taught and practiced by the white capitalists and big landowners. Centuries of boss-class education has caused many white workers to look upon and treat Negro workers even worse than they would dogs. In periods of crisis, unemployment and wage cuts, accompanied by starvation and misery for the masses, these poisonous theories are translated into the most brutal practices. Some misled white workers often quite openly say: “If there are to be lay-offs, let the “niggers” be layed off; if there must. be starva- tion, let the ‘niggers’ starve, etc., etc.” And by taking this position, instead of helping themselves as they think they are, they are actually helping the capitalists to maintain their fabulous profits while the suf- fering ofthe working class as a whole, both Negro and white, in- creases. The bosses, especially during crisis periods, deliberately cul- tivate these antagonisms and these cruel practices to prevent united working class resistance. There is grave danger of a new outbreak of present time. Yesterday’s fight in Pearl River, La., is already the danger signal. There three hundreds white workers attacked a group of Negro workers employed on a construction job. They worked on the theory that Negroes were. not entitled to jobs while whites were unemployed. Three hundred were ready ‘to unite against twenty-five or thirty Negroes instead of uniting with the Negroes in a fight against the bosses for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, against evictions, ete. The danger of a new series of mass murders of Negroes is im- mediate and real. Enlightened, class conscious workers, both white and colored, have a duty to perform. They must arouse workers every- where against “race riots.” They must arouse the Negro and white workers for common struggle against the bosses. The Communist Party calls upon all workers, and especially the white workers, to rally to the defense of the Negroes. Organize de- fense corps! Support the anti-lynching conferences of the A. N. L. C.! Vote Communist on November 4th! Rally Against Injunctions! INJUNCTIONS are a vicious “legal” method by which the bosses carry out their attacks on the workers, They put through wage cuts; they inhumanly speed up the workers in the shops and factories; they throw thousands of workers into the streets at will. Poverty and starvation are decreed by the bosses for the masses. When work- ers strike or demonstrate against these conditions the bosses rush into the courts with the plea that “private property is endangered,” that their “business is being ruined” and demand. an injunction. Some republican, democratic or socialist judge, ry owes his elec- “race riots” at the tion to the bosses and has pledged to give them serv: enthusiastically rushes to their defense. An “injunction” is issued-which authorizes the blood-thirsty thugs of the police department to murderously club, beat and even kill workers in order to break up their picket lines and to drive them back to work under the bosses’ terms. The A, F. of L. and “socialist” fakers, while pretending to fight against these injunctions, follow the same practices themselves. When their strikebreaking betrayals are understood by the workers and these workers rebel against their leadership they likewise rush before the same capitalist judges. They ask and receive the same injunctions, authorizing the same murderous police attacks, as those given to the bosses. Their “fight” against injunctions is only a fake fight. It is ‘designed only to deceive the workers. It is only to enable them to further betray the workers. ‘ The Trade Union Unity League of New York City is adopting a correct policy that should be initiated by the T. U. U. L. everywhere. ‘They are exposing the fake talk of the A. F. of L. and the “socialists” and actually mobilizing the workers for a fight—a real fight—against injunctions. They do not propose to fight injunctions with words. They propose that the workers “strike” agairist the injunctions in exactly the same way as they strike against the bosses. They éall upon the workers, when fighting against wage cuts, the speed-up or for other demands, to see the courts and the police merely as tools of the bosses, to recognize that they must be defeated as well as the bosses. With this they call for mass violation of injunctions, for mass picket lines which can not be easily smashed. The Communist Party supports this call of the T. U. U. L. Their New York conference tonight should have the support of all workers’ organizations. The Communist Party will support the program out- lined at this conference and will rally all its forces to broaden the anti- injungtion fight in the election campaign. WORKERS! REGISTER NOW! 10 vote communist: * ‘ | Browder, Clarence Hathaway, | Olgin, James W. Ford, Fred Bieden- | hoped to murder Minor and have it | CONTINUE DEMAND FOR MINOR’S RELEASE! Every Minute in Jail Endangers Life |Preparatons Go on for Mass Rally, Oct. 215) With Released Jobless Leaders Speaking NEW YORK.—Demand the release of Robert Minor, fac- ing death in prison as a result of mistreatment by the Tam- many Department of Correction. When the parole board de- cided yesterday in a three-hour session that it would be poli- tically unwise to continue his murderous incarceration, and) PLACE COMMUNIST ",22°%20'2,"%.t, i CANDIDATES ON NEWYORK BALLOT when the “parole: papers were| State Ticket Also Filed By Party trio who sent him up to an inde- terminate sentence of three years | for acting on the committee of the 110,000 unemployment demonstra- tors, in Union Square, March 6, not one of these judges was to be found. No Release Yet. NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, Is-| The parole therefore cannot be | rael Amter, Max Bedacht, Earl! authorized until today at the earl-: M. J.|iest. It looks as though the judges | kapp, Vern Smith and Alexander| look as though his death took place | Trachtenberg, are the Communist | merely before they could act. There | candidates tin the Congressional Dis-| is no law to compel them to ac- : JUDGES DODGE PAROLE 'Board Has to Grant Freedom; Warden Admits. made similar veiled atacks as part of the bosses’ war preparations. | rushed to Judges Max Solomon, | | Daniel F. Murphy and Nolan, the} tricts of Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn, officially placed on ballot yesterday. | In most of the working class dis- |cept the decision of the parole board. The workers must continue their struggle for the release of Minor, Robert Minor Congress 20th Candidate District, Harlem, New York. for SOLDIERS FLOCK TO RANKS OF RED ARMY IN CHINA Extend Soviet Over Whole of Hunan NEW YORK.—WI —Wholesale deser- tion of Chinese soldiers into the ranks of the Red Army is reported | by an Associated Press cable from | | Shanghia. The dispatch reads: “Thousands of rebellious soldiers throughout Southern China today were reported flocking to the Red banners, swelling the ranks of Com- munists to formidable proportions. “Changsha advices said the Reds in Hunan province had perfected an | organization to a high degree and “Vote Communist” Cry of Demonstrators at Convention Hall | Vaecarelli, Ts Tammany) | Gunman Is Delegate (By Special Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass., jofficials and mayors fulminate against unemployment insurance in {Boston workers and jobless looking forward to saying their about it for an hour on Tuesda |from 11.30 a. m. to 12.30 p. m. They |will not be im the convention hall. |The wealthy American Federation |of Labor officialdom is too busy re- ceiving the plaudits of the boss Ke ‘or keeping wages low during the , and too much concerned with Slais for the coming imperialist war \to listen to any mere\ workers. Yesterday when 15 workers tried to come in they were barred, and| \the A.F.L. and capitalist press have | jthe Communist horrors so bad they | gee double up to quadruple} they broadcast a story about “60 flam- Oct. 9.—Cabinet | the A.F.L. convention here but the} are GREEN FOR UNITED FASCIST FRONT, Tells Lewion Confab | Bitter Winter Ahead BOSTON, Oct. 9.—To the demands of the workers for unemployment insur- ance, in the face of the worst win- ter ever experienced by the Ameri- can workers, William Green, presi- dent. of the A. of L., appealed | to his fellow fascis convention here to unite in the tancy of the workers. Green, taking Hoover’s speech as his keynote, called on the Legion- naires to establish “relief commit- tees throughout the industrial areas of the country,” and to oppose the immediate relief, to be taken out} combat | ‘unemployed | at the Legion | struggle against the growing mili- | Communist demands for adequate, | MASS PROTEST TUESDAY IN BOSTON AGAINST AFL, LEGION WAR ON TOILERS Forty Billion Dollar Grafter Calls for War on Soviet Union | Davis Lauds Sell-Out) AG AINST TOI. BRS * |Follows Hoover’ s Lead Workers Must Answer, ie Vote Communist NEW YORK.—Hoover’s recent speeches, directed against the Sov- iet Union, as well as against the demands of the 8,000,000 unem- ployed in the United States, is hav- ing its echo in more speedy prep- | arations for war against the work- | ers’ republic. | The latest call for war comes from Ray Lyman Wilbur, Hoover’s secretary of the interior, just now involved in a graft scandal involv- ing $40,000,000,000 in Colorado oil lands, which the Hoover regime was turning over to the Standard Oil Co. Wilbur, in a speech Wednesday: before the American Country Life Conference in Madison, Wis., de- clared that the capitalist world was of the profits of the bosses, with|-faced with a struggle against the the offer of “charity” and. fascist | advances of Communism. The New attacks against the Commun ts | York Times, reparting Wilbur's were virtually in control of the en- ing Reds” assaulting the conven- | know who their candidates are. tricts of Greater New York, Com- munist candidates for the Assem- bly and State Senate were placed on the ballot as well. The revolu- Communist candidate for Congress in this election. Mass Rally Oct. 21. tire province. “A report from Kiukiang said Communists had captured Kian, an Minor will probably be top. ill, even if his life is saved, to appear} as a speaker at the Oct. 21 Red| Rally to greet the three members | of the delegation of the jobless who | were to be released then. But two | other members, William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade| Union Unity League and Commu-| nist candidate for governor, and} Israel Amter, candidate for con- gress, will speak. All workers must mobilize in their shops and march to the meeting in Madison} Square Garden, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p. m, tionary workers of such districts the working voters in their homes must now mobilize fo an intensive red campaign and for canvassing in order to agitate them for the Communist ticket. Names of the Communist candidates must be im- mediately displayed through signs, posters and other means of adver- tising so that the workers should | Register Today! Chamber of Commerce Head Admits Capitalism Is Rotten NEW YORK.—That the rottenness of capitalism is be- come too obvious to the workers, and must be covered up to! protect the bosses’ system from the workers, is the gist of a speech made Wednesday by Col. Robert Isham Randolph, pres- ident of the Chicago Association of Commerce, at the 58th annual meeting of the New - FR ; York Board of Trade. Special Ohio News Will Be Found on Page 2 Col. Randolph told his fellow exploiters that the racketeer- important city in Southern Kiangsi province.” A special report to the Daily Worker from a correspondent in | Changsha stated that the Red Army was consildating its forces for a terrific attack on Changsha, and} that within Changsha the workers were becoming more active under | Communist leadership, despite thej intense terror of the governor, Ho Chien, ELECTION D DRIVE DANCE TOMORROW NEW YORK.—Saturday evening,| October 11th, the Waterfront Units, ;7 and 13, will raise funds for the election campaign of the Communist | Party for the work along the water front to mobilize seamen, longshore- | men and dockworkers to vote Com-! munist. The Red Election Dance arranged by these units will be held Jat 196 East Broadway; the East! Side Workers Jewish Club having volunteered their headquarters for this purpose. The outstanding fea- tures will be Ryan Walker’s car- toons specially drawn for the occa- sion, tion, and being repulsed by the po- lice. open to workers is fiction. Only the opening session was public, at Hoover’s session admission was by (Continued on Page 3) The idea that the convention is| and militant workers. the land,” Green told the Legion- naires. “You know that there are thousands of men and women out of employment, seeking work. Dis- | tress, to some extent, is abroad (Continued on Page 3) NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Wa, | Bureau, Inc., for September too |! vious months. No less than against 63 in August. Tammany Exposures | Due to technical reasons the Tammany article by Allan John- son could not appear today. The article, “Judge Saloman, Who Railroaded the Unemployed Delegation, Is Ynvolved In Graft Collection,” will appear temor- row. ing so evident in Chicago is in reality shot through the entire cap- italist system, and it must be shoved under to protect the “pres- tige” of the present order from the attacks of Communism. Cheat- ing, bribery, fakers, racketeering is in the very marrow of the capital- ist order, admitted Randolph, He characterized the fabric of the pres- ent system as follows: i “Cheating the ultimate con- sumer, cheating disorganized re- spectability, is like taking candy from a child. Cheat him on the | stock market. Cheat him on ‘phony’ stocks or real estate bonds, cheat him at the bai’ot box, cheat him in your municipal councils, cheat him on his public improvements, cheat him on his clothes, his meat; his drink; bribe elected officials, bribe his police force, bribe the prosecutor, bribe his judges, corrupt his juries.” This robbery, cheating, graft and corruption, which the bosses can no more hide, will be done away with only by the revolutionary working- class taking power in its own hands. Vote Communist and for a real struggle against the entire rotten boss system. Vote Communist! Prisoner No. 52350. State.) great fanfare of trumpets, are campaign. employment insurance, the growing capitalism, falls in step with this dum on the liquor issue. Such a tic issue. “wets” country. have swept the industrial This was indicated first (Communist Candidate for Governor of New York 1 Hed capitalist politicians and newspapers, with a wet-dry question as a central issue in the election This is to divert the attention of the workers from | issues that are vital to their interests, such as un- Naturally, the “Socialist” Party, as a loyal tool of the importance of the prohibition question by its ridiculous proposal for a national popular referen- like of which has never been had upon any question in this country, would, if adopted, inflate the minor prohibition question into the appearance of a gigan- The A. F. of L., of course, at its conven- tion, makes the “wet” question a central i: All “Wet” and All “Arguin; The three capitalist parties make a great issue of prohibition in spite of the fact that their points of difference on it on it are rapidly weaing. The Digest poll, then by the Morrow “wet” landslide in the repeal of t playing up the re-establishment at least greatly is, by the openi: war danger, etc. market will be and thus ‘“prosp exaggeration of referendum, the who claim that reason. sections of the in the Literary unemployment. (Continued on Page 3) “WHO NEEDS THIS PROHIBITION ‘ISSUE’ NOW?” ASKS FOSTER By WM. Z. FOSTER. } New Jersey, and now, by both the republican and democratic parties of Newd York State demanding he 18th Amendment, not to speak of other manifestations. One of the most insi debate over prohibition is the so-called economic argument of the “wets.” ious features of the inflated They maintain that the of a legal liquor traffic will end, or alleviate, the industrial eri ‘That ng up of the many necessary brew- eries, distilleries, saloons, etc, hundreds of thou- sands of workers will secure employment, a great opened up for the farmers’ grain, erity” will shine again. Liquor Will Not Relieve Unemployment. This is nonsense, but it nevertheless has much persuasive power. behind the present popular sweep of the “wets.” In vain the “drys” It is ore of the principal forces cite their “economic authorities” it was exactly prohibition that pro- duced the long period of American prosperity. The “economic argument” of the “drys” as false as that of the “wets,” The fact is, the millions of workers, who furnish the main potential market for drinks, receive only a certain amount as wages— a declining figure in this period of wage cuts and is just and for the same alcoholic If they transfer a further portion Wages have dropped 10 per throughout the country between August, 1929, and Augus Record 117 Wage Cuts in | Sept.; “Appalling Spurt’ ge cuts reported by the Labor n “appalling spurt” over pre- 117 decreases were tabulated, 1930, the Labor Bureau esti- | mates on the basis of reports |from federal and state labor | departments and other sources. The iron and steel industry records a 14 percent decline, ma- chinery 17 percent, transportation |equipment 18 percent. Collapse In August. | Employment trhoughout the coun- |try dropped 18 percent in the 12} {months ending in August. Wiscon- sin and Illinois seem hardest hit} chusetts recorded an 18 percent de- cline. The lowest reported was 10 percent. _In transportation equip- ment the drop in jobs was 25 per- cent. in machinery 24 percent, rail- roads 10 percent, textiles 17 percent. bor bureau’s compilation of bus ness trends are preceded by a min sign: Bank clearings in the year {are down 25 percent, new security issues 31 percent, life insurance sales 9 percent. On the other hand jgust, 1929, Industrial production has shrunk 25 percent in the 12 month period |and manufartures 27 percent. Autos show the biggest blow dealt by | Hoover prosperity with output down a full 55 percent. Consumption of electrical energy has dropped 18 per- Department store sales are off 7 percent, freight car loadings 17 per- cent. Wholesale prices, according to the federal labor department, have declined 14 percent in the past year. 3 CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 9.— Now that three little children are dead of starvation, a collection Is being taken by a wealthy Holly- wood woman to save their bodies from the potters field. “You come from every section of cent | |with a 19 percent drop but Massa-| Nearly all the figures in the la- |failures are up 46 percent oveg Au- | cent, building contracts 40 percent. | | speech, quoted Wilbur as saying: “4 ,gigantic and fundamental struggle’ betwen the philosophies represented by the United States and another great nation, which he left unnamed but indicated as Rus- sia, was foreseen by Ray Lyman | Wilbur, Secertary of the Interlor, in a speech today before the Amer- | ican Country Life Conference. | “‘One of the great peoples of the earth is deliberately trying to work ‘out large social and economic pro- grams for the mastery of its vast |terrain along new and untried lines,’ he said. “‘Our economic, social and polit- ical philosophies inevitably must wage a gigantic and fundamental struggle with theirs. “We have confidence in our ways We must make it a continued suc- ces watching this strug- gle to see which shall be adopted. * Hoover, talking for the American imperialists, at the Legion and A. F. of L. conventions, prepared all the leading fascist agents in the United States for a war against the Soviet Union, together with am \attack against the standard of liv- ing of the American workers, A Adding to the provocation for war is the threat of Senator Tasker . Oddie of Nevada, contained in (Continued on Page 3) | Hard Winter for Bill Green At last even Bill Green is aware of the boss crisis. He says: “It occurs to me this com- ing winter is going to be most difficult.” It’s going to be most diffi- cult, Bill, cramming more speed-up down the throats of the radicalized workers, It’s going to be a real bother oil- ing up the prosperity myth, It will be tough, Bill, read- ing about the greatest mob- ilization of Communist vot ers ever recorded, Register! Vote Commu- nist! Spread your share of the 1,000,000 copies of the Special Election Campaign Edition of the Daily Worker. One cent a copy. Bighty cents a hundred. Eastern edition November 1 » ! = =e For Unemployment Insurance Paid for Out of the War Funds and Administered by ‘the Workers and Jobless! Vote Communist Against the Lynch Terror—Against the Injunctions. ——