The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1930, Page 1

MADISON $2. GARDEN FOSTER MINOR-AMTER (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ak. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 CITY EDITION Vol. Vii. No. 248 £_ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTCBER 15; 1930 —— — =—e —=2 Price 3 Cents DEMAND JOBLESS RELIEF AT CITY HALL TOMORROW! 4,000 Demonstrate in Boston Before AFL. Meet for Communist | Jobless Insurance Bill A Wide Gap es wide gap which exists between the band of fascist fakers now meeting in Boston as the convention of the American Federation of Labor and the mass of workers hard pressed by unemployment, wage cuts and speed-up was clearly shown in Boston yesterday. Four thousand jobless workers, under Communist Party leader- ship, rallied in the streets before the Bradford Hotel where the A. F. of L. convention was in session, and there voiced their emphatic de- mand for immediate unemployment insurance. In the convention hall the strikebreaking A. F. of L. leaders just as emphatically followed the policy of the Manufacturers’ Association and Hoover’s Wall Street administration in declaring against: unem- ployment insurance. True to the policy of fakery and lies which has characterized the speeches of these fascist hirelings of the bosses, they attempt to justify their war against relief for the unemployed by clever phrases. They quote Gompers as justification for their present betrayals. “Wherever there are payments for unemployment insurance,” they quote him as saying, “it has not reduced unemployment.” The phrase worked overtime, though, is the one about opposition to “compulsory insurance payments.” Certainly if Gompers stated that unemployment insurance would not eliminate unemployment he was correct. Just so long as capi- talism continues we will have a constantly growing unemployed army. But all this only emphasizes the two-fold character of the problem confronting these jobless workers. First, there is*the immediate prob- lem of securing bread and butter. Second, there is the problem of eliminating unemployment, which can only be accomplished with the elimination of capitalism. The hypocritical phrases of Green’s gang of fakers are designed to ‘prevent the workers from accomplishing either. They, swilling in booze in Boston’s swellest hotels, do not give a damn_about the misery, suffering and starvation “now confronting millions of workers. Their opposition to “compulsory” unemployment insurance only indicates that their eyes are on the prices of stocks and bonds and on high dividends. For fear of lowering their income from such sources they oppose any move compelling the fat-bellied capitalists to come across with unemployment insurance. This is the only way their chatter about “compulsory” insurance can be explained. Arising from this complete community of interest. between them- selves and the bosses comes support for the more frequently employed police attacks on the aroused workers. Yesterday while the police clubbed and beat ,4,000 Boston workers in the streets these strike- breaking fascists cheered them on from the hotel windows. But their open unity with the bloody police thugs will only serve to expose their phrases more quickly and readily to the masses. The 4,0C0 Boston workers who rallied yesterday at the call of the Trade Union Unity League need no further arguments on the fascist role of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. They will even more determinedly carry forward their fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party and for immediate relief. The experiences gained in unemployment by destroying capitalism and its state machinery and this fight will prepare theni for the revolutionary struggle to eliminate by the setting up of a workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States as has already been done in the Soviet Union. Such demonstrations as were held in Cleveland and Boston and the demonstration planned for Thursday afternoon in New York will do much to rally the workers for struggle against the fakers and for the fight for unemployment insurance. They will rally’ many thousands of workers in support of the Communist Party on November 4th, Bos- ton and Cleveland show that the workers will not starve; they will fight! ‘ Social Fascism in Montana 'HE role of the fake “socialist” party as a pilot for fascism has given it the name of “social fascist” in the language of all who speak from a Marxist-Leninist point of view. The “socialist” party once disappeared from Montana. But now a small group headed by John F. McKay has formed under the name of a “socialist” party—but “of Montana.” McKay says he is running a party “of his own” and “don’t take orders” from Hilquit, Thomas and Co. This might be counted in his favor rather than otherwise, were it not that McKay is marked with the same political program of social fascism as are Hilquit and Thomas. McKay’s-self-seeking career- ism is as clear as theirs. It is covered over with the same demagogy, and he gives support to the capitalist class as Hilquit anf Thomas do by hostility to the only political party of the workers and poor farmers —the Communist Party. Social fi country, inclu ‘sm arises precisely in such historical moments as this ng Montana, is now going through. Decked out with all the phraseology of what appzars to be a revolutionary organization, thus to establish a social base among the rightfully discontented work- ers and poor farmers, social fascism also is characterized by its op- position to the only possible leadership of revolution—the Communist Party, in this being at one with the more open fascists. In Montana another social fascist organization has been born out of the crisis, the mzss discontent of poor farmers and workers, only instead of itself the “socialist” party, it takes the name of “Dy, the “Tar: ” party of Montana, Cr red.a: d the Producers News of Plentywood, Montana, those have given this social fascist movement birth are not at all to be corfus the poor farmers and workers whom they are seek- ing to de} Charlzs E. Taylor and Tom O’Flaherty, leaders of this group, are renegades from the Communist Party, and are getting support under false pretence hon they conceal their treachery behind nice words about Soviet Russia, while fighting against the world Communist Party and its section in this country. vepor they conceal this renegacy, and even speak nicely of 1 speakor, Mother Bloor. But these are only y know an op:n attack on the Communist reveal their fascist purpose and~turn against them the ers and poor farmers their deceit has tricked Labor” Party. ove renegades triod to use tre ludicrous excuse that the Com- munist Poriy was “not revoiutionzry enough” for them. But their is basically the same es the social fascist “socislist” party, into t, the foe of the Soviet Power. The poor farmers and workers of Mcntana will give a proper an- swer to thoce socizl fascist “Farmer-Lebor” misleaders. Tae bankrupt farmers and ing workers ave not to be frightened by the word Mt ity know that the Co: nist Party is the only revo- lutiorsry the only one loading the fight of the workers and poor farmers for ticir immediate demands and for e Workers’ and Fermers’ Soviet Government in this country. And those wko attompt to deceive them with radical words and appeareaces should get their answer by votes on November 4th for Willis L. Wright of Buite, candidate for U. S. senator on the ticket of ', the Communist Party of the United States, “3 of revolution, the ercmies of a Workers’ and Farm- ' SEND POLICE 70 CLUB THEM A.F.L. Session Votes Down All Insurance for Unefployed Masses Give Answer! | Battle Cops; 15 Jailed; Party Office Raided | BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 14.—Four | thousand workers, mainly unem- ployed, defied all the police could do to stop them today, and dem- | onstrated in front of the Bradford Hotel, where the A. F. L. conven- | tion was in session. The convention passed a resolu- tion against unemployment insur- ance and thus doing its best to doom 8,000,000 workers to death | from starvation in the interests of more profits for the bosses, and to try and tame them for use in the Hoover, Legion, Green and churches’ war program and attack on foreign- born and Negro workers. Outside, the Boston masses dem- onstrating before this convention of white terrorists demanded insur- jance and relief for the jobless. Hoover complimented in person on (Continued on Page 3) Jacob Panken— Eviction Judge Amazing documents of the BU R OCRATS Advertisement Shows How AFL and Bosses Unite to Starve Jobless WARNING! TO_AMERICAN Economists Social Workers Business Leaders Workers ‘ Legislators All Taxpayers!!! to Demand $25 a Week Board of Estimates in S ticipate in tomorrow’s mass demo! immediate relief to the jobless. MASS DEMONSTRATION OF ALL WORKING AND UNEMPLOYED AT 2 P. M. Delegation From Unemployed Councils, TUUL, for Each Out of Work ession Is Handing Over, $600,000,000 to Bankers and Grafters BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has called upon all needle workers, employed or unemployed, to par- nstration before the city hall for * * NEW YORK.—The misery and suffering of the 800,000 MENACE OF UN AVOID THE PLAGUE!’ iPLOYMENT SURANCE! unemployed workers in New York City will be laid before the Tammany board of estimates tomorrow at 2 p. m. at City Hall by the delegation elected by the Unemployed Councils and the Trade Union Unity League, and the delegation will make {formal demands on the city Views of American Observers: The workers demonstrated for p' | militant struggle against wage- demoralizing. yr | cuts, before the convention which | ‘ment insurance to the October 61930. “activity” of Mr. Jacob Penken, “socialist,” while he served as judge of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, have reached the Communist Cam- paig Headquarters. It appears (what Communists have always maintained) that Jacob Panken, while serving as judge, evicted from their homes workers owing as little as ‘$10 on their rent. The copies of the official court records that have reached the Communist headquarters cover less than a month of Penken’s ten years’ term. Within that short period, Panken managed to evict socres of workers from their homes, amongst them quite a number of tenants evicted in the interests of bankrupt Libby Hotel, which has become a source of graft and corruption for vari- ous Tammany judges. The documents will be -pub- lished in the Daily Worker Fri- day. Watch for them! Tell your shopmates about this expo- sure of a “socialist” judge! SHALL WE PROFIT BY_THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHER COUNTRIES?. ty Soe ee eg (John E." Edgertony president” National Associationtof Manufacturers i eee ee we 7 sora cso =” dx i ~ rin _“There are already formulated and in process a variety of legislative proposals on public’ ‘unemployment insurance,’ old age pensions,“and similar measures for the consideration’of the Legislatures which are to meet in 1931.§All of such emotional proposals are intended in the name of expediericy and social progress to shift individual responsibility to the already, ‘over-burdened shoulders of government and industry : (ther towards s the Socialisti William’ Green® President, American Federation of Lal {The “dole“system*émbodies’a vicious principle Pep-g-{developa"a paternalism: that is fe mee a Sa, SMMNON I ‘For additional information on this vital subject address:) and thereby.take us a long’step' fur- > property. ;; goal, the abolition of prive ores we ie a danger is that there is but one step from compulsory unemplo: ole. / ERRNO Soa ed YINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF: MANUFACTURERS: I1,West 42d Street, New. York)! NAY. rss sce Part of an advertisement by the National Association of Manufacturers, the big bosses’ organ- ization, against unemployment insurance. They boast of Green’s support of their plan to keep profits up and not pay a cent to save the 8,000,000 unemployed from starving to death. THROWN OUT OF LEGION; TO “VOTE COMMUNIST” NEW YORK.—Exposing the American Legion as a fascist~or- ganization, Sidney Marks of the Bronx, who was thrown out of the Legion convention in Boston be- cause he refused to vote for an anti- Communist resolution, and had his card taken away, in a letter to the Daily Worker exposes the Legion as a boss tool. “This year,” writes Marks, “I register for the work- ers.” In an article sent to the Daily Worker, Marks completely exposes how the Legion gets its dough, and what it is told to do by the bosses. 40 Cents an Hour on Depot Job. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 12— Laborers on the new $75,000,000 depot being built here receive only 40 cents an hour and work up to 11 and 12 hours a day. | By I. AMTER. (Communist Candidate, 23rd sional District, Bronx. Governor Roosevelt of New last has been forced to admit iousness of unemployment. This chief executive of the state, . who should have known the unemploy- ment situation from day to day his industrial commissioner and, if he were really interested, should least pretended to take steps the growingly fearful situatio: workers, has talked buncumbe during the whole year. Now facing tions, wanting votes, and forced to ad- mit some facts, he declares that 19 per cent more of the workers are unem- ployed than at this time last year! That the situation is far worse, there books will be trotted out for them Tammany Graft Lawyer Cries About “Constitutional Rights” NEW YORK.—The Tammany fakers when they are caught with their hands on the graft, put up a howl about their constitutional rights, and their refusal to testify before the grand jury is made the subject of long legal speeches by Ferdinand Pecora, former chief assistant district attorney. On Columbus day, he was the® A to prevent the exposure from com- chief speaker at the Tammany tisito iu even CTL Saiand, hang-out. It’s remarkable how a Tammany} Right in the audience were| grafter can howl about the Bill of the “judges” who sent the Rights, and the sanctity of the con- y stitution when he isn’t jailing a March 6th delegation of the unem-| Communist or militant maciigolass | ployed to jail, laughing up their.|Jeader. This is just another way of sleeves about “constitutional rights”.| showing the real class nature of Some of these judges are now under | capitalist “justice”. | Constitutional fire because they weren’t skilfull| rights exist for Tammany grafters, enough in hiding how much they| no matter what their crimes, but paid for their jobs, and all the “con-| working class leaders, and militant stitutional rights” on the statute| workers are jailed under any pre- text by these bandit judges. Amenican Workers to Be Put On Rations; Must Answer Roosevelt, Murphy By Fight! Nem sith obtaining them. York at the ser- predicts that the through will be earning $27 have at to avert m of the and provided the the elec- “provisions” for the is no question, for there are no reliable and comprehensive statistics or ways of Fake Bonuses in Detroit. Mayor Murphy of Detroit, recently elected mayor of the rich automobile center, where Henry Ford rules and years (provided they survive the starv- ation of unemployment and wage cuts, settled the question by setting up a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government in the United . States. time)—Mayor Murphy also is making Food in the Soviet Union. The workers of this country have heard much about queues in the Soviet Union, about the workers being put on rations. Food is plentiful in the Soviet Union. Part does not reach the con- suming workers in the city bureau of | the backward railway management and facilities, which will be improved dur- ing the coming year by the expenditure of $1,750,000,000. But more important is the sale of Soviet grain to the capi- talist countries, which enables the So- viet Union to install the machinery of production of industrial products in the new gigantic factories that are going up all over the country. The workers and peasants are economizing and wast- ing not an ounce of food, so that the Soviet Government can build up the in: dustries, especially heavy industry, as rapidly as possible. This cheapens in- American workers a day in twenty workers have not long before that hungry. | Ellis « Island, GERMAN METAL | WORKERS STRIKE; FIGHT WAGE-CUTS, 150,000 Are Involved; Fakers Plan Sabotage (Cable by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Oct. 14.—Yesterday an | overwhelming majority of the 150,- 000 metal workers who are threaten- ed with wage cuts voted down the acceptance of the arbitration deci- sion. The arbitration decision is the | result of the collaboration of the yellow trade union leaders and the) metal bosses. The result of the con-| ference of the bosses and misleaders | was to offer the workers a siii t eight per cent wage cut. | Yesterday evening the revolution- ary strike committee decided to strike today. Workers in a number of large factories followed the strike call. Tens of thou..sands are now} out, and the number is constantly | swelling. Union misleaders are try- ing to sabotage the strike decision, but are faced with an actual strike | of the workers, whereupon the of- ficials decided to call a strike for tomorrow. Several strike demonstrations were held. Police were sent to the strike scene. Yesterday evning, following the Reichstag session, hordes of fascists rioted in the center of Berlin, smash- ing windows in Jewish business houses, including Wertheimgdepart- ment stores. The police were lukewarm thru- out the rioting. While 108 arrests were made, only 14 were detained. ; The police at the same time attacked he funeral of the deceased Commun-} ist deputy Menzel. Batons and re- volvers were drawn before the Com- munist headduarters. Further fas- cist demonstrations are eiipected. Even the police have refuted the fascist contention that Communist | Pprovocators incited the riots. ' 201 ON ELLIS ISLE FACE SURE DEATH NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Francisc Vikukel, steel worker, is now at to be deported to Czechoslovakia, after last minute attempts by the International Labor Defense to stop the deportation failed. Militant workers throughout the country, especially amongst Hun- garian and Czechoslovakian labor organizations have made vigorous | protest against the high handed methods of the Labor Department which is functioning directly for all foreign born workers who show the least sign of rebellion against their masters. While speaking at an anti-fascist meeting at Gary, Indiana, Vikukel| was arrested and held incommuni- cado for a number of days and there framed up by the officials of. the bosses’ government. The government records included government for relief. The hundreds of thousands of jobless workers in New York are determined that they will not starve just because New York capitalists and their Tammany of- fice holders think they are fooled by the fake free employment agency. They are determined that the.1,700 evictions of jobless who can no longer pay rent shall stop. And the employed. workers, fight- ing against a stream of wage cuts, worsened conditions, speed-up and piece work are determined that they will neither join the ranks of the jobless, nor watch their fellow workers fall from hunger about their feet, nor let the boss profit from a wage cutting competition between jobless and job holding workers. The Communist Party calls on all workers and jobless to come in masses to the city hall at that time, to show their solidarity with these demands. The demands are that (Continued on Page 3), ILD SUPPORTING MAD. SQ. MEET Members to Greet Foster, Amter, Ete, Supporting the Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 21 for the Un- employed Delegation, the Interna- tional Labor Defense is gathering its forces for a big demonstration in the afternoon of that day with floats, banners and signs in the parade. The I. L, D. has instructed all its members to actively partici- pate in the parade and the meet- ing, as well as induce all workers in shops to declare a holiday for that day. Vote Communist! 4 Try to Awaken Love for Crisis Republicans have just an- nounced a 12-page weekly tabloid, “Washington,” to win favor for the Hoover administration. Wm. Allen White, Will Irwin, etc., will contribute. The paper will do what it can to popularize unemploy- ment, put starvation in a bet- ter. light, make evictions More acceptable and in gen- eral present the advantages of the boss crisis in a way to persuade workers to vote Hoover instead of Commu- nist. Smash all boss parties! Vote Communist! One million copies of Speciat Election Campaign Editions! DATES: N. Y. City, Oct. 18 and two a picture of Lenin as evidence dustrial products, makes them available (Continued on Page 3) si, against him as well tion card to the Communist Peakgy a dates to be announced; East- ern Edition, Nov. 1,