The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1930, Page 1

You Must Register to Vote} This Is the Last Day! Register at Once! Dail Central Orga 4 he-Communist orker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Vol. VII. No. 245 < Entered as second-class matter at the Post’ Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘an Important Bankruptcy RKERS, we know, are not in the habit of gambling in New York’s 0. W stock market. But, notwithstanding that fact, the happenings in Wall Street are not without interest to workers. This is the ruling center of the capitalist world. Here first are reflected the economic developments that ultimately reach the workers in the form of wage cuts, mass lay-offs, and greater speed-up. Therefore, while all the workers’ pennies are needed for food and clothing, it is well to keep an eye on happenings in Wall Street. Yesterday in the midst of the most severe market decline in months the brokerage firm of Prince & Whitely, “one of the largest and best known houses in Wall Street,” operating there for 51 years with branch houses in many cities, suspended business and acknowledged that it could not meet its obligation. Immediately following this announce- ment all shares listed on the exchange crashed to new low points for the year, most of them going lower even than in the crash of last October which heralded the present economic crisis. This big new crash comes after a slow, but steady decline on the stock market for several weeks, The bankruptcy of Prince & Whitely and yesterday’s crash on the market is merely the reflection of the failure of industry to revive this fall as expected. It reflects the decline in steel production, the decline in freight car loadings, the shutting down of factories, the going of hundreds of factories on a part time basis. For the workers this sharp decline on thestock market must serve to finally expose all the fake promises about “returning prosperity” so glibly made by the Hoovers and Greens. It must serve as a warning | to workers that, in order to recuperate their losses, the bosses more viciously than ever will attack the conditions of the workers. Wage cuts will be even more widespread and heavy. Unemployment will in- crease. Suffering, misery and starvation will increase. The prospects for improvement are far off. Even the bankers put “prosperity” far in the future. The Journal of Commerce, speaking of the discussion at the recent bankers’ convention, says: “. . , full-fledged business improvement is not thought likely before the fall of 1931 or the beginning of 1932.” In the meantime, so far as the bosses are concerned, the workers can starve. But they will not starve! They will organize and fight! They will develop organized strike struggles against wage cuts and force the payment of unemployment insurance! And whether or not capitalism will return to prosperity will be determined by their ability to withstand punishment, because the bosses are due for some heavy body blows delivered with the full power of an outraged working class behind them. The first of these will be on November 4th when the masses “Vote Communist!” Someone Is A Liar! JRESIDENT GREEN of the A. F. of L., in introducing President Hoover to the delegates of the Boston convention, lauded Wall Street’s agent as follows: “He (Hoover),” said Green, “has steadfastly maintained that prosperity of our_country depended very largely upon the development of the consuming power of the masses of the people to a maximum capacity through the payment of the highest wages possible. . . . The great influence which he exercised . served to maintain wage standards and to prevent a gen- eral reduction of wages.” Now, President Green is not illiterate. Neither is he stupid. We assume that occasionally, at least, he reads the daily papers. We assume further that he understands what he reads. But, assuming all this, how is it possible to harmonize Green’s statements with the Actual facts of life? Yesterday Labor Bureau, Inc., a group of commercial statisticians who specialize in supplying A. F. of L. unions with statistical material, _ gave out figures that hardly jibe with the statements of Green. As- cording to their figures wage cuts for September took an “appalling spurt” over previous months. They tabulated 117 separate and distinct | wage cuts for September. For August their figures showed 63. Wages, according to their declaration, have been slashed 10 per cent for the country as a whole—for all workers on the average—since August, 1929. The iron and steel industry has cut wages 14 per cent. The ma- | chinery industry 17 per cent. The transportation equipment industry | 18 per cent. ‘ 4 Somebody is a liar! And, frankly speaking, we think it is Presi- dent Green! In fact we know it is President Green, because the state- ments of Labor Bureau, Inc., correspond with the statements sent to the Daily Worker by the workers in the shops. Furthermore Green knew he was lying when he made this speech. As we stated, Green is not illiterate; he reads and he understands what he reads. And we charge that he consciously and deliberately went before the convention of the American Federation of Labor with his lying statements about Hoover maintaining wage standards and pre- venting a general reduction of wages with the purpose of misleading workers into again supporting the old political parties of capitalism and of preventing strike struggles of workers against the wage slashes now becoming general and nation-wide. f Workers, harrassed by wage cuts and unemployment, will: rally | against this lying, boot-licking, boss-serving policy of the A. F. of L. officialdom. They will rally around the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League and fight against these misleaders and for their demands. : They will more and more turn to the Communist Party for leader- ship as against the strikebreaking scab-herding leadership of the A. F. of L. Thousands of A. F. of L. members, disgusted by the antics of Green, will “Vote Communist!” on November 4th. The Boston workers who demonstrate on Tuesday against these capitalist henchmen will speak for the fighting workers of the entire country. Order A Hundred Copies. ork aim is to circulate a million copies of a special election edition of the Daily Worker. This can be the most effective instrument in exposing the candidates of the three capitalist parties—republican, democratic and “socialist”—and in rallying the masses behind the revo- lutionary, fighting program of the Communist Party and its candidates. This special edition can be the means of rallying the workers and poor farmers, both Negro and white, for organized, continuous struggle for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, against lynching, etc., even after the elections are over. Our aim of a million copies can only be realized with the help of our readers. This number cannot be printed unless we have cash-in- advance orders that will insure their distribution in the shops, mills and mines and in working class neighborhoods. We ask every reader to help. We ask every reader to order 100 | copies of the paper for distribution among his shopmates. Do your share! Send in 80 cents at once! Get your 100 copies! Help to pile up votes for the Communist candidates! Help to rally the workers to struggle for their demands! TO RAISE ELECTION ISSUE AT DANCE TONIGHT Side Workers’ Club, 196 East Broad- way. Ryan Walker will draw cor-! toons depicting the true role of the socialist party. The admission charge is 25 cents. All workers are BOSS PARTIES ASK THE WORKERS TO VOTE FOR WAR; NAVY MADE READY Communist Party Shows War Preparations Linked Up With Wage-Cuts, Unemployment Vote Communist! Demand All War Funds Go to Jobless, as Unemployment Insurance WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—The boss parties want the workers to vote not only in support of the wage-cutting cam- paign, and against unemployment insurance, but for the rapid war preparations as well that the Hoover regime, with the backing of the democrats, aided by the “pacifist” screen of the socialists, is now pushing with MEET TOD AY TO all its efforts. The bosses are now spending |the billion dollars for naval PLAN FINISH OF | armaments, that resulted from | the London naval conference. | Over 8,000,000 workers walk the INJUNCTIONS streets looking for jobs and demand- ling bread. The capitalist govern- ea apat ment refuses to provide unemploy- Life and Death Fight) ment insurance, but can find billions |for naval expenditures. for N. Y. Workers | ‘under the guise of “economy,”| aa TR |the navy is being made “efficient” | NEW YORK.—At the call of the) for war purposes. The capitalist Trade Union Unity Council, dele-| press, to aid the election campaign gates of every militant union local,/of the boss parties, hides this new delegates from shop committees, the| war step. Their headlines blurt out | shope delegates council of the Needle | lies about “cutting down of ships,” Trades Workers’ Industrial Union/and “economy in naval expendi- attending in a body, and many|ture.” The statement of Admiral worker visitors will gatehr in Man-| Pratt, the new chief of naval opera- hattan Lyceum at 7:30 to plan mass / tions, definitely proves this is one violation and an increased struggle|of the capitalist lies, such as the everywhere against the injunction socialists spread among the work- evil. \ers, about “disarmament.” Injunctions are now issued in New; Admiral Pratt tells us that the York to employers’ organizatoins in|ships which are being scrapped are general. When a boss wants to put |“unfit for combat service.” They over something very bad on his |are unfit for war! workers, he joins the association! The bosses are preparing for war. and automatically gets an injunc-|Hence they scrap the junk and build tion against them. A. F. of L. andjnew, more deadly weapons. Pratt other company unions get injunc- | states that everything is being done tions against any shop strike where | “to make the fleet more efficient.” they have an agreement. Theycome|He tells why ships are being into strikes called by militant work-|scrapped, “Our destroyers are be- ers, sign up the boss, put a card in| ginning to get old and shopworn,” the window and proceed to arrest|he admitted. With the war danger pickets. becoming greater every day, the! New York’s “Paragraph 600” of | bosses need new ships, not “old and | Proof of Another U.T.W. Leader’s Sell-Out HARRY HAINES Vice-President of the Philadelphia Branch of The American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, a practical knitter for many years, has come to Boston to introduce Union Label Men's and Ladies’ Full Fashioned Hosiery to The American Labor Movement. Harry Haines will be glad ‘to fill mail orders for either brand of hosiery he has to sell. ‘Write him at 3527 ENGLEWOOD STREET PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. This leaflet (the cartoon by Ryan Walker was not part of 1t) was laid on every table in the A. F. of is one of the most Musteite of the unions of the United Textile Work- This is the outfit fighting the militant workers’ organization, the National Textile Workers’ Union, in the South. ers. FINALLY FORCE MINOR’S RELEASE; OPERATED ON AT ONCE TO SAVE LIFE Communist Candidate and Editor of the Daily Issues Ringing Call to Fight on . . . And Now a Laboring Man Can Dress as Well as a Lord / Revolutionary Competition to Build Big Mass Rally Oct. 21 to Carry on Jobless Struggle NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for Congress issued the following statement to the International Labor Defense just before being taken from prison to the hospital for an operation which may save his life: “Please give my greetings to the hundreds of thousands of workers who are with us in the fighting ranks of the working class in the battles for which we were incarcerated for close to seven months in the penitentiary. | “The greatest struggles are still ahead. The workers must close their ranks and steel their lines to fight against the misery of unemployment, wage cuts and imperialist war preparations, especially against the Soviet Union. While our imprisonment has brought on an aggravated crisis in my health, we will soon re-enter the fighting ranks of the working class to carry on to yictory more determined than ever and prouder than ever of the American workers’ advance guard of leadership—the Communist Party of America.” L. convention. The Full Fashioned After delaying 24 hours, evident- ly hoping that Minor would die in | Force Minor’s Release. N.Y. Unemployed to Demand Immediate Relief October 20 VOTE COMMUNIST Unemployed Councils Call Upon All Wor to Demonstrate at City Hall in Sup- port of Jobless Demands DOWNTOWN RED RALLIES TONIGHT iSeries to Wind Up in Big Demonstration NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—The Com- | munist Party Campaign Headquar- ters of 27 E. Fourth St. announce | the state code gives prison terms | Shopworn” war machinery. for violation of injunctions, without) “We have left the Asiatic fleet, | trial by jury. The prisoner, on his except for an eventual change of | release, may be haled before the flagship, exactly as it was,” Pratt| judge who granted the injunction | informs the workers. In the field and sent back to prison for “con-|where the war danger is most in-| tempt of court.” |tense, and where American imper- | Thousands have been arrested in|ialism can best attack the Soviet! the last few years’ strikes in the} | Union, the war strength of the navy | needle, food and shoe industries in| has been bolstered up for a long) New York. The fight is on to the| time, and is not to be changed. finish. jwar funds go to the unemployed! | ing before the Every workers must fight against | alae Lee Ses the war preparations. Demand the AGENCY JOIN COUNCIL Shoe Workers Open | NEW YORK—A crowd of over Horum Held Tomorrow} 500 left the hopeless job ‘ine wait-| ; the Tammany “Free| NEW YORK—Another Open City Employment Agency” on | Forum will be held Sunday at 10 Lafayette St. yesterday to listen|®™- at 112 Osborne St., Browns- to speakers of the Downtown | Ville, Brooklyn, for the shoe and Counciuetthe Unemployed: slipper workers of that section, un- = der the auspices of the Independent Two hundred went with the speak- | Shoe and Slipper Workers’ Union. ers at the end of the meeting to It will discuss the present situation headquarters at 27 E. Fourtrh St.jof the industry and take up future to sign up in the council. work, | Vote Communist! | thai the speakers for the Red Ral-| lies tonight ‘are to appear at the! Campaign Headquarters, 27 £.) Fourth St. at 7 p. m. for last- minute instructions. Meetings will begin at 8 p. m. at Tenth St. and Second Ave. Roman, Brooks and| Hahn to open meeting; Houston St. and Ave. C, Tarant and Apelbaum | speakers; Tenth St. and Ave. B, Gannes speaker; Bleecker and Mc- Dougal Sts., Lee, Vigman, Bruno, speakers; Christopher and Bleecker Sts., Gordon, Eden, Jansen and Net- zer speakers; Thompson and Bleeck- er Sts. McDonald and Syracuso} speakers. After the meetings the workers | will march to the main rally, meet- ing at Tenth St. and Second Ave. The chief speakers at this meeting will be Gannes, Alexander Trachten- berg, candidate for Congress in the 14th Congressional District, and Wagenknecht. Other meetings on Saturday night, with same schedule as the | above, will be held at Monroe and | the meantime and solve their prob- "ANSWER THREAT oe esi OF DEPORTATIONS:® sesiertes’ ordered the release. of 39| Robert Minor, member of the dele- | gation of the March 6th unemploy- | ment demonstration here, given an | indeterminate sentence of three | years by these same judges because kers Foreign Born Shoved| he was a leader of the jobless. = | Minor was taken from the Wel- on Seattle Train | fare Island prison about 11:30 a. m. yesterday, and rushed by ambu- SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 10.—The} lance to Roosevelt hospital where The Bureau of the Councils of the! gttack against foreign-born work-| he was operated on for appendicitis Unemployed, together with repre-|ers, to which all the capitalist par-| by Dr. William T. Healey, at 2 a. sentatives of the Trade Union Unity | ties are pledged, is already falling) ™., and at last accounts the opera- League and other workers’ organ-| heavily on the shoulders of large| tion was considered successful. izations, at a meeting last night de-| groups of workers. A deportation| Red Rally Oct. 21. cided to send a delegation to City| train leaves here Saturday, and will| Meanwhile the workers and job- Hall Oct. 20 at noon with the de-|pick up groups of foreign-born] less of New York carry on active mands of the unemployed workers| workers on the way. preparations for the Red Rally, Oct for immediate relief out of the| The Immigration Department has} 21, 7:30 p. m., in Madison Square funds of the city of New York.| not issued the exact number of fig-| Garden where the Communist elec- Every unemployed worker, accord-| ures on the number of worke-s to tion campaign and the struggles of ing to the demands of the delega-| be deported. The Communist Party, the jobless on March 6 and later tion, shall receive $25 a week until in its election drive, is calling on all| Will go forward another step. eh or she can find work, and $5 a| workers to unite against the attack| The rally wit] have as speakers week additional for every depen-|on the foreign-born workers, which| the released members of the dele- dent. is but the prelude to sharper attacks | gation, sentenced with Minor: Wil- Garbage Pail and Suicides. against the native American work-| liam Z. Foster, candidate on the ers. ; Communist ticket for governor, and Oct. 20 happens to be the last | A statement issued by the Pro-| Israel Amter, Communist candidate day of the term Comrades Foster) ional National Committee for the| for Congress. A message from and Amter will be serving for act-| bovection of the Foreign Born,| Minor will be read, if he is not able ing as the delegation of the March) Viich will soon issue a call for a| to be present. One member of. the 6 demonstration of teh unemployed) National Convention, to _ fight| delegation, Harold Raymond, is still workers of New York. | against depértation and persecution held in prison four months longer, The capitalist class wants the un- of foreign-born workers, comment-| being diccriminated against be- employed workers to starve. Even| ing on the Seattle | D, “deportation | cause of frame-ups against him pre- Jefferson Sts., Sazar, candidate for Assemblyman in the 4th Assembly District, teh capitalist press is forced to re-| train,” states: cord numerous cases of suicides} “As among the unemployed. The dele-| Sati ae | wage-cuts, evictions and persecu- ee Pe A a Oct | tions increase, the ruling class tries treiger pail He sui-| 1 stem the tide by deportation of cides! They will fight for unem-|1#'8@ numbers of foreign-born} ployed relief! meat ; The Bureau. of the Unemployed Answer the boss terror against| vr rers. ist! | Couneils and the Trade Union Unity|‘R® Workers. Vote Communist! | League call upon the workers | Sica aa aren of) Gerater New York, employed “4 LUXURY FOR RICH: unemployed, to come to City Hall on| 9 Oct. 20 and support the demands of | the delegation by demonstrating - WORKERS ST 'ARVE immediate relief. Register today! Last day of| registration! | NEW YORK.—John North Willys, unemployment grows, as Workers, Fight tor Bread! Accept the Issue ot “Capitalism or Communism!” By HARRISON GEORGE HE question is becoming clear. Presi- dent Hoover, Secretary of Interior Wilbur, two spokesmen for the Ameri- can boss class in speeches at Kings Mountain, South Carolina, and Madi- son, Wisconsin, have—in spite of verb- iage and evasion—made the question, the issue before us, clear. It is not “wet or dry”. Neither is it “Republican or Democrat”. Nor “high tariff or law tariff”. Nor the “League of Nations or isolation”. The issue ‘vhich vresents itself today to all who ‘ave eyes to see and brains to under- admitted the issue ism. For une spectre of Marx said in 1848 talist world. American Country ‘adisoi, that: large social and eco the arts of demagogy and casuistry to conjure away the spectre of Commun- ope,’ is today haunting the whole capi- Secretary Wilbur, more open in the admission, on Wednesday last told the “One of the great peoples of the ear. is deliberately trying to work ou’ and tried, with all not go to falsehood Communism, which was ‘haunting Eur- criminals, Life Conference at Hoover nomic programs fo” speech which the press reported, did to draw an analogy, to make a compar- ison between the sturdy mountaineers of Carolina who 150 years ago beat back the numerically superior forces of the British king, and the gang of brok- ers, bankers, profiteers and millionaire real rulers of America”, according to | th Ex-Ambassador Gerard, | will take not of how useless the) fighting a just war of national libera- tion, fighting for the land they plowed, | representative of Wall Street’s gov- | jernment to Poland, and former pres- | ident of the slave-driving Willys-| Overland Co., has just spent $60,000 | for a carpet and $300,000 for some | Spanish tapestry. For these luxur- | ies Mr. Willys spent enough to feed and clothe two hundred working-| class families for an entire year. | These articles, we are told, were} bought to dress up the Palm Beach | residence, one of the three estab- lishments which the Willyses find necessary to their kingly existence. |In contrast, thousands of working- | class families have ben evicted from | their two and three rooms, and far | more are facing eviction in the next |few months. PxeeS | Workers who are struggling to | keep tehir families alive on $12 end | |$15 a week, and the milliex= -_.an- | |employed who are wondering how! they will get through the winter, such lengths of sophistry and as did Hoover. Hoover tried only 59 of whom are “the | ruling class is. Ford, flitting over | Europe picking up antiques; Dawes, | puttering around in caves and cafes | jin Spain; Firestone, Vanderbilt and | spoke of those mountaineers, NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—George Siskind, John Soderberg, Verne Smith and Harriet Silvérman will speak on the Election Campaign of the Communist Party at a dance ar- ranged by the Waterfront Units 7 and 13 tonight, Oct. 11, at the East ORKERS! REGISTER NOW! 10 vote communisr: urged to give their best help to) pack the hall as the money raised will go towards the campaign fund of the Communist Party, for the work along the waterfront to mob- ilize seamen, longshoremen and tand, is: Capitalism or Communism? Against Communism, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (that is to say the Manager for the whole Boss dock workers to vote Communist. Class) at Kings Mountain last Tuesday the mi stery of its vast terrain alone yew evd untried lines. Our economic social and political philosophies inevit- ably must wage a gigantic and funda- mental struggle with theirs.” Wilbur, at least in the part of his fighting for progress. True the Revo- lutionary War was led by those who held black slaves and white bond slaves. But in its day it was a step forward. But what has that to do with Amer- (Continued on Page 5) |the other millionaires, holding din- | ners to celebrate their annual ex-| odus to Florida for the winter. | With grim determination, ithe} masses must organize and fight to put an end to these conditions, Sup- port the Party that leads this fight! Vote Communist! | vious to his participation in the | demonstration of the 110,000 in New York. Revolutionary Competition. Workers in all shops are being organized not only to buy tickets to the Red Rally, but to march with banners from their working places to the Garden. Revolutionary com- Communist units, militant union lo- cals, and shop committees to sell the greatest number of tickets, the winners in each class to have @ spokesman on the platform. PASSES IT ALONG: “Always take your paper along to the market. Give the Daily to the Negro peddlers.” Fred Van Howe,.. Oak Lawn, Illinois HELP! BUILD 60,000 CIRCULATION? How to Get Roof Over Your Head Mayor Murphy of Detroit has fit up the heavens with this bit of sensational wis- dom: “No legal resident of De- troit will be left without food or a roof over his head this winter. ' There is just this catch from the standpoint of the starving and homeless work- ers. To be a legal resident and not a vag you must first have means of support and a roof over your head. Smash Murphy and the boss system. Register! Vote Communist! One million copies of Speciat Election Campaign Editions. Pacific Coast, Oct. 27; Midwest, Oct. 30; East- ern, Nove. 1. Rush orders; $8 a thousand, 80 cents 100, 1 cent a copy. 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,