The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1930, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930 ~ BOSS PARTIES FREE S; KILL STRIKER Marion Bosses Refuse. to Punish Lynchers---- Negro Striker Slain',...,4 Ghattence of Grand Jury, With Names of Mob Leaders in| Possession, Refuses to Indict MARION, Ind, Oct. 10.—The bosses’ grand jury “investigating” the double lynching of two Negro youths in front of the court house here on Aug. 7, was today dismissed without returning any indictment against members of the mob. This action is a direct slap in the face of the Negro workers by the republican party, which, in alliance with the Gu Klux Klan, controls the state of Indiana. It is a direct challenge to the Negro voters to meet this out-and-out support of lynching by voting Communist in the coming elections, against the bosses’ system of exploitation and lynch terror, against the bosses’ po- litical parties. It must also bring to the front the question, of the notorious co-opera- tion given the bosses’ grand jury by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which, declaring it was in possession ef teh names of the leaders of the lynching mob, refused to give out these names for publication. The association instead busied itself at its usual job of spreading illusions among the Negro masses of capi- talist justice, of the possibility of abolishing lynching by other mtans than the mobilizing of the working class for struggle against the bosses and their vicious system. The lead- ers of teh mob made no effort to conceal their identity. They had so little fear of being punished for their deed that they had their pho- tographs taken by the riddled bod- ies of their victims. s +8 PROVIDENCE, Ky., Oct. 10.— Mine bosses and their agents yester- day murdered Sullivan Wolfe, Ne-| gro miner and a leader of the Ne- gro miners now on strike in Webster County. Wolfe was called to the front door of his home at 4 o’clock in the morning and shot down. One bul- let entered his throat. He died in- stantly. Wolfe had been on strike since the Negro and white miners went on strike in_April. When the strike was betrayed by the United Mine Workers’ Union, teh Negro miners | were among those who erfused to go back under the old conditions. Wolfe was instrumental in holding them togetehr, and had won the hatred of both the mine owners and their thugs and the officials of the United Mine Workers’ Union who betrayed the strike. Negro and white strikers, thoroughly aroused | over this outrage, threaten venge- ance against the mine owners’ thugs and the treacherous leaders of the U. M. W. Teh strikers are firmly convinced that the latter are con- nected with the outrage. YES, “NEED IS GREAT” IN SEATTLE THIS YEAR. ‘SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 10.— ‘While the newspapers usually mag- nify all hopes and signs of business recovery and minimize all evidences of the industrial depression the an- nual drive of the Community Chest} this year for $741,000, admits some | unpleasant facts. “Be Glad You Can Give For the Need is Greater” is the slogan and} figures are quoted to show how| much greater the need is than usual. Agencies that claim to help fam- ilies in their homes have had from 20 to 40 per cent more calls the last few months than during the same period a year ago. More than 25 per cent of their applications have been due to unemployment, as com- pared with 10 or 15 per cent in the Times: The City-Federal Free Employ- ment Bureau reports 20 per eent more calls for jobs and 20 per cent fewer jobs than in September, 1929. The board showed the following: coal solicitors, 50 cents a ton; farm hand, $20 to $25 and board; saw| wood for meals, no room or wages. The manager estimated that there were between 15,000 and 18,000 un- employed in Seattle and beginning November 1 this number would be largely increased by the seasonal workers from the apple orchards and construction work. Lumber mills and camps are still very largely shut down or running on short time. 349 mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association are operating 4744 per cent of capacity as compared with an average of 63 per cent from War Preparations Now Far Advanced, U. S. Army Officers Admit NEW YORK.—War maneuvers are now going on in Aberdeen, Maryland, utilizing the most ad- vanced machinery developed by the War Department. The army offi- cers who have been present at many of these demonstrations declared to capitalist newspaper correspondents that “the army gave a demonstra- tion more advanced and more fin- ished than it has since teh war. De- vices which have been in the process of development for years were dis- played.” Airplanes, tanks, 16 and 14-inch guns, cargo-carriers and every other type of war craft was brought into. action, in preparation for the next war which the American bosses are rushing. The admission of the army offi- cers that the war machinery is in better shape than at any time since the war, plus the fact that the navy is being made “efficient” for war purposes, stows the lengths to which the imperialists have already gone towards actu: war. January 1 to June 1. Wage cuts are common, A skilled worker in one of the largest wash dress factories here who formerly made better than the $13.20 per week prescribed by the minimum wage law, now since piece work rates have been “adjusted” can’t average $2 per day. While this section of the country is noted for its mild climate, one does not have to be weather prophet or the son of one to predict that the coming winter will be the sever- est yet for thousands of people. WORKERS, FIGHT FOR YOUR BREAD! Capitalist Rule! | (Continued from page 1) fica today, an America whose social | {system is based on the wage slavery jot 80,000,000 workers and the rob- |bery of some millions of bankrupt |poor farmers? All these and their families robbed and oppressed and exploited by a handful of multimil- lionaires? Hypocrite and liar! The heritage | of the heroes of Kings Mountain be- longs to those 5,000 workers, the workers of Cleveland, Ohio, who on October 2, fought back barehanded against the horde of hireling police cossacks, who with blackjack, club and poison gas “protected” Hoover from the demand “Work or Bread” as he promised the Bankers a re- duction in taxes? Where are the sons and daught- jers of those backwoodsmen of 1780 whose long-barreled rifles spoke the language of revolutionary defiance to iKng George the Third? Some of them are still there in the Piedmont District of Carolina. But they are living in worse | quarters than Hoover’s dog, eating | sparingly of such so-called “food” gs leaves them the quick prey of gellagra, raising tobacco for the tobacco trust which robs them. And when they ean no longer live in the hills, working at the looms of textile mills at the man-killing “stretch- out” for such starvation wages as $5 a week! Their “Spiritual Heritage”. Where are the sons and daught- ers of the Revolutionary War? Read the Daily Worker of only yesterday. |On the front page it tells: “Three little children dead of starvation” at Los Angeles. On page 3, a miner from the town of Warrior, Alabama, tells how a miner’s family was found starving—“one little boy about six years old was the smallest and the first to die.” Suicides among the millions of jolless every day in every city. Thou- sands living on the garbage dumps. Men and women in broad day, here | in the middle of Manhattan, the| richest city of the richest nation on earth, mutely quarreling over scraps of slop thrown in the gutters by the rich!.. - This is what Hoover, spokesman of capitalism, calls “the nation’s spiritual heritage.” And he “warns” against “another system”»— the Soviet system, Communism — which he says means the “abandonment” of this “heritage”, and “the destruc- tion of our Constitution.” Rubbish! The U. S. Constitution, insofar as it grants the exploited masses anything, is already destroy- ed! Where is the Bill of Rights for the working class? The leaders of the jobless workers of March 6th are not yet out of prison! _ Where is the Right of Assembly, of the Press, of Free Speech? They exist only where th workers, fight- ing in masses, fighting against the armed Hessians of today, by wounds and bloody sacrifice wrench these “rights” from the ruling capitalist class! “To Keep and Bear Arms’. The mountaineers of Kings Moun- tain won their batile for national freedom because they were armed. But what has become of the provi- COMMUNISTS ARE. ACTIVE IN BRAZIL Fighting Proceeds on) Many Fronts NEW YORK.—With a strict cen- sorship clamped down by the Luis- Prestes regime in Brazil, accurate accounts of the ggantic civil war now taking place in that country | feerce “to discuss the unemployment | “Nationalists.” One thing is certain, | are scarce. namely, that theeconomic crisis has set in motion great masses of work- ers and peasants have been armed by the “rebel” petty-bourgeois lead- ers; that battles are going on in many important states and cities. The latest report from Montevideo states that Pernambuco, one of the most important states, has fallen into the hands of the insurgents. Fighting is now proceeding in many Ports. Communist activity is reported in the state of Minas Geraes and Rio Grande do Sul, with the revolution- ary working class Party calling on the workers and peasants to take the lead in the struggle, and not permit themselves to be used by the bourgeois imperialist tools. The New York Times cable from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, states: “The consulates report all Amer- icans safe, although a power plant owned by the Electric Bond and Share Company at Bahia is said to have been partly destroyed by riot- ers, in an outbreak which had little connection with the Minas Geraes- Rio Grande do Sul movement. The trouble in Bahia is believed to have been incited by a small Communist group.” When the capitalist correspondent states that “it had connection with the Minas Geraes-Rio Grande do Sul movement,” he meant that the at- tack by revolutionary workers against a Yankee corporation was what the petty-bourgeois tools of Wall Street ‘did not want. The “lib- eral” insurgents want to lead the mass uprising into safe channels, not hurtful to American imperial- ism. right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon”? Today only the enemies of the work- ers are allowed to keep or bear arms, the strike-breaking police, the fas- cist Legionnaires, the gangsters and the scab-herding militia. The Constitution, the “nation’s heritage”, the “democracy”, the “ideas and ideals” of which Hoover spoke at King’s Mountain, are but lies and illusions for the exploited masses of this country. They are the property of those 59 “real rul- ers of America.” These masses will accept the issue raised by Hoover as to whether they will remain slaves under capitalism, or gird themselves for struggle for freedom and bread, for Communism. And soon or late, but surely, the masses will fight as the heroes of Kings Mountain fought, but for a sion in the Bill of Rights that—“The higher destiny, for Communism! Judge Salomon, Who Railroaded Unemployed Delegation, Is Involved in Gratt Collection This is the 17th article in the series of Tammany Exposures. “2 6 By ALLAN JOHNSON. Undoubtedly there exists a rela- tion betwen the more obvious kind of red-baiting and the most vicious sort of corruption. Study the career of any notorious red-baiter, be he a Creel of a Daugherty or a Lusk or even a Park Ave. Fish, and you will find that sooner or later he will be caught in the most bare- faced kind of robbery or exploita- tion or both, The law works with almost sclen- tific precision, Hoover is caught handing over $40,000,000,000 oil fields to the Teapot Dome pirates and two or three days later he openly attacks Bolshevism and tries to distort its aims. Hillquit, America’s leading “so- cialist,” is exposed as the legal de- fender of a labor racketeer who had shot a man in an attempt to collect some graft, and soon after hurls a blast of poisonous wind at Soviet Russia, The Daily Worker catches Andrew Mellon dipping his hands into the United States treasury as if it were his own private little safe deposit vault, and soon after, Low- man, Mellon’s man Friday, leads the demand of the manganese in- terests for a trade embargo against the only workers’ republic, Jimmy Walker becomes involved in some of the juiciest Tamamny graft in years and soon issues a manifesto which declares that “Bolshevism will de- strov thecity” if everyone caught grafting isn’t fired immediately. Kind to Animals, But Hates Communists. The cause and effect relationship in the psychology of the red-baiter could be illustrated by thousands of such examples. One of the most recent cases, and one which New Yorkers won’t forget soon, centers about Judge Max Salomon, a fat, greasy little nitwit who is reputedly Kind to dumb animals, including policemen, and takes keen delight in handing down barbarous sen- tences to all- workers who appear before him in Special Sessions, com- monly known as the “Slaughter House,” where the Constitution 1s legally broken every day by deny- ing defendants a jury trial—not that a jury trial makes any special difference: when a militant: worker is the defendants. Before this great exponent of capitalist justice, there appeared Foster, Minor, Amter, Lesten and Raymond on charges of “unlawful assembly.” Of course capitalist def- initions of “unlawful assembly” vary. with the character of those who assemble. When a group of Garveyite gangsters assemble to at- tack Communist meetings in Har- lem, that is considered a lawful, if not actually praiseworthy assembly. And when drunken and lecherous American Legionnaires run riot through a city, destroying restau- rants, traffic lights and female vir- ginity with equal abandon, as is occurring in Boston at this very moment, why, that isn’t unlawful assembly, that’s our boys on a spree, our own vicious little war mongers and red-baiters on a spree. To. come back to Mr. Judge Sal- omon, who is so kind to dogs, his friends say. When the representa- tives of 110,000 unemployed in Union Square were brought before him he rubbed his thick hands to- gether in high glee. His porcine features almost got tied up in a knot, so broad was his grin. Here was the chance he had been seeking for so long. He would show these workers who ruled America. He would send these “foreigners” back where they came from, even if he had to buy transportation himself for Foster, who was born in Mass- achusetts, and Minor, who was born in Texas, and Amter, who was born in Colorado, and Lesten and Ray- mond, who also hailed from the wild and wooly West. The trial which followed was one of the most farcical in the long his- tory of capitalist judicial farces.. Not a shred of evidence was permit- ted to be offered by the defense, Salomon, as well as his two col- leagues, grew apoplectic whenever a defense witness so much as im- plied that Whalen’s uniformed and plainclothes gunmen acted like so many wild beasts, rather than men, and clubbed half-starved men and ‘women 80 vigorously that one could not help but think that Otto Kahn had offered a two-dollar bonus for every worker’s skull that was crack- ed open. What was the reason for all this venom—unusual even for a capital- ist judge—on the part of Judge Sal- omon, who, if Minor dies, and he may because of improper treatment in prison, will enter the already large group of judicial murderers. As might have been expected, Judge Saloman’s hatred for Commu- nists has been aggravated by the realization of his own corruption, For Judge Salomon is one of the directors of the Cayuga Real Estate Corp., ostensibly dealing in real estate, but actually engaged in one of the most lucrative of occupations —collecting some of the huge graft that the “59” permit Tammany to take for its “trobule” in governing the city. Guards Tammany Boodle. The hard-working Judge Saloman not only guards the city against the wicked Communists who propose im- mediate unemployment insurance, an end to inhuman speeding up of factory workers, living wages for all workers, the establighment of a workers’ and farmers’ government and other such “outrageous” de- mands, but he also guards some of the boodle that is ultimately dis- tributed to the chiefs of Tammany Hall. We suggest that Judge Saloman ig taking his duties as a double- ended watch dog too seriously, espe- cially inasmuch as the 30,000 work- ers who signed the Communist peti- tions to put our candidates on the ballot are very, very likely to re- sent his cowardly persecution of ary their class-leaderg, LYNCHER ILL. BOSSES TO MEET 10 FIGHT JOBLESS RELIEF Chicago Jobless Will Demonstrate October (By Speciat Wire) CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 9.—Counter- | ing the growing movement of the| unemployed in Chicago and Illinois | industrial centers, a conference of | \leading employers, together with the | Illinois Federation of Labor fakers, | and church and charities organiza- | tions, has been called for Monday, | October 18, at the luxurious La} | Salle Hotel, by Governor Emmer- json, Among the representative situation” as Emmerson states in} | his invitations are the Chicago and | their respective Chambers of Com-| merce, the Manufacturers Associa- | tion of Chicago and the Employers | Association Industrial Relat ions| Committee. At a time when thousands of job- less workers are sleeping beneath | bridges, searching desperately in slop cans for food, with evictions | increasing daily, and disease spread- | ing among the workers, the bosses are marshalling their forces, includ- ing their agents in the American ;Federatoin of Labor to fight real relief. Instead “studies” and vague promises are to be freely gicen and never kept. The Chicago Unemployed Council wired Emmerson that the jobless demanded a hearing at this boss conference Monday. To back up their demands the Councils are or- ganizing a big demonstration before Hotel La Salle where the boss con- ference will be held, and demand real relief. The unemployed work- | ers will tell the big boss bankers | and their government and their la- bor agents that they will not stand for the flophouses, bread lines and | condemned prison for lodgings and food, that evictions cease immedi- ately that the unemployed receive! free rent, light, gas, water and| street car fare and twenty-five dol- lars a week to live on. The demosnt ration will be hedl Monday, October 13, at 3 p. m. be- fore Hotel La Salle, where a mass delegation will be elected to present the demands of the pobless. Sacramento Gyp Employment Shark (By a Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The Enter- price Employment Office at 1016 Second St., shipped a Walter Scott to Tudor Uba County to work for A. L. Saunders drying prunes. He was charged $2 transportation and $2 office fee. When he reported for} work he was told that they could} not use him for 7 days. When the 7 days were up he was delayed again. Then he started to leave and Saunders kept his baggage and forced him to pay $7 for board,| so he was out $18 for board fee and) transportation both ways. Saunders and the Enterprise Em- ployment office are the worst out- fit of their kind in Sacramento. WHAT NEXT? “Please send me the Daily Worker for six months. Conditions are very bad here. Farmers are discontented and be- coming revolutionary. The big- gest question is what will happen next.” E, G. Gipson, Krem, INTERNATIONAL WSs © GUGGENHEIM, U.S. AMBASSADOR == [150,000 to Go BOLSTERS UP BLOODY CUBA RULE Out On Berlin Dictator Machado Puts on Mussolini Show to Threaten Revolutionary Workers Dictator Machado of Cuba put on nationalis Metal Strike (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Oct. 10.—The arbitra- have appealed to Amer- | tion court, considering the proposed |a regular Mussolini stunt Wednes-| ican imperialism to intervene under | wage-cut for 150,000 metal workers, day, blurting out his defiance of the|the Platt amendment, to put them | adjourned today till Saturday with reports of revolutionary discontent.|in power as tools of Wall Street inja view of wearing down the work- He called all his political support- six provinces were present, a: as the mayors of 126 of the 132 Cu- staged for a dramatic gesture—and pehind the scenes lurked the Wall Street ambassador, Guggenheim, who just returned from Washing- and Stimson. Machado declared he would go through with the Nov. 1st elections, | despite any opposition. The elec-| tions are all greased to go Ma- chado’s way. This is the biggest | bone of contention of the national- ists, who want a big share in be-| traying the masses in the interest | of the National City Bank of Nev York, the leading imperialist inter- | est in Cuba. Wall Street, however, finds Ma-| its interests. Machado, before he} became president, was a tool of one Telephone subsidiaries, and received heavy graft for handing them big concessions, As president, he ex- empted them from taxation. In a_ regular tion of sticking to power, no mat-| ter what the masses wanted. As proof of his “popularity” he point- ed to the collection of mayors and governors—all of them Machado hand-picked men — who shouted themselves hoarse to every one of Machado’s pronouncements. He even went through the “crowd,” shook hands, slapped backs, and put on a hilarious mood. But the New York Times report of the occasion | tells us that it was all a put up job] as there were guards armed to the | teeth every few feet. Besides, says, the Times: “In a sense it was a hand-picked crowd, because the nucleus of it was made up of political leaders from all parts of the republic, and every- one who entered the palace had to pass by watchful guards who were posted every few feet.” Machado’s backslapping, and Gug- genheim’s benign smiles will not al- leviate the deep-going economic crisis one jot. The Cuban farm la-| borers are virtually starving by the thousands. The Cuban sugar indus- try is in the worst crisis in its his- tory. But American imperialism bolsters up Machado’s regime against the attacks of the workers | and peasants. | The “Nationalist” leaders, repre-| senting a section of the Cuban bour- | geoisie who are suffering as a re-| sult of the crisis, as well as inter- ests in the U. S. opposed to those | favored by Machado, fear as much| as Machado does an armed uprising | of the workers and peasants. That | is why Machado is so boastful about | not fearing any armed uprising | against his regime led by the so-| called nationalists. That is why the | North Dakota. FOR BETTER 50 MEN'S AND Y = Suits and WwW go 93 Avenue A, PARK CLOTHING CO. 22° VALUES IN OUNG MEN’S Overcoats to Cor. Sixth St. pamphlets on this of the Inprecorr, Communist, with your 50 EAST 13TH STREET THE WORKERS BOOKSHOP Opening Today Formerly at 30 Union Square Now Located at 50 East 13th Street 25 per cent reduction on all books and The Circulating Library will also be reopened on Saturday, October 11th. Every book published by International Pub- lishers is now included in the Library, as well as many other theoretical works and latest fiction. Come early and get the book you want! Also we will have the latest issues Send us the names and addresses of your friends and fel- low workers who should receive our latest descriptive catalogues, now in print. Place your orders for all books WORKERS BOOKSHOP opening day only! Communist International, etc. bookshop NEW YORK CITY the place of Machado. petus for a greater mass struggle. Illinois Bankers Association, and|ban municipalities. Everything was | Hence Machado is kept in power. Harold Denny, New York Times correspondent in Cuba, says that Guggenheim “has conferred with President Machado since his recent jton with specific instructions as to\return from the United States, and |what to do, handed him by Hoover! today he talked at the Embassy with Colonel Carlos Mendieta, lead- er of the Nationalists.” At the same time, the bankers headed by Thomas L. Chadbourne, report that they have a plan for the “salvation” of the sugar indus- try. This plan, which calls for “re- striction of output,” will concen- trate the entire sugar industry in the hands of Wall Street, and re- ult in more unemployment and suf- fering for the workers. While American imperialism is with Mendieta, the leader, to whom it will switch if becomes overwhelming. The Na- tionalists, “struggle” against Ma- chado is not a struggle against U. imperialism. The pressure is becoming strong. Lower : They would |ers’ enthus ; : big | ers together to listen to a speech,| murder workers just as efficiently} committee meets tomorrow t business interest invited to the con-| which contained his challenge to the | as Machado has done. This is known | plete last preparations f The governors of|to Wall Street, but the change at|moment the bosses at Nationalist | swashbuckling | leaders are holding back from open| speech, Machado declared his inten-| struggle as much as possible, but | the rank and file, as well as mass The central s' sm. well| the present time would be the im-|cuts. The Reich’s bank rate was raised from four to five per cent today to counter the dwindling of the gold supply and foreign currency re- sources. The Reich’g bank has lost about 60,000,000 marks in gold, as the result of the withdrawal of French credits and capital flight abroad since the elections, The government program was {sharply attacked today by Schiele, jleader of the agrarians, who de- jmanded that Curtius and Wirth |leave the cabinet. Simultaneously, the Association of German Indus- tries declared that the program is only the first step towards more |rigorous measures, The double at- tack is only meant as a blind for the workers. At the trial of the Young Com- chado through his past and present| doing all it can to keep Machado in| ™unists in Leipzig, being tried for performances quite able to handle | power, Guggenheim is maneuvering|# framed-up murder charge, the “Nationalist” | Prosecution is bringing in all sorts of mental defectives as “witnesses” of the American Telegraph and/ the mass pressure against Machado | @gainst the Young Communists. functionaries in the Nationalist ranks have informed the big shots that if they do not lead a “revolt,” the uprising will go ahead without them. Vote Communist! "ts Not Too Late to Register at te WORKERS SCHOOL 35 EAST 12TH STREET COURSES FOR WORKERS ENGLISH: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced. Public Speaking, Russian, Esperanto. Fundamentals of Communism, Marxian Economics, Marxism-Leninism, Program of the Com- intern, Courses for Trade Union Functionaries for Negro, Youth and Women Workers. History of the American Working History of Class Struggles of the C. P. 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