The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930 Page Three = EF Fe co rs xX’ Ea EE LANSING AUTO WORKERS WANT MORE! Disabled Vet THAN PROMISES OF ORGANIZATION Uyges Big Red Where Is the Auto Workers Union and the, Vote Communist Party? Editor, Daily Worker: About a year and six months ago the Auto Workers’ Union of Detroit started in to hold meetings in Lansing and promised the workers of Lansing many things, such as build- ing up a strong militant union backed by the Communist Party, but up to date all we have had is promises. Lansing was never in a better condition to organize than Automobile slaves are losing their homes, gas and it is now. FURNITURE OF EVICTED STOLEN Newest Tricks of the Boss Government (By a Worker Correspondent.) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A group of Ne- gro and white workers on an emer-| gency call of the eviction of Scott Whitley, an unemployed’ Negro worker, demonstrated against it and eight were arrested yesterday at 7:45 a.m. The police said that the workers were interfering with the execution of the law and were charged with “disturbing the peace.” STEAL FURNITURE. The deputy constables, who are doing the actual throwing out,. were early and bright. They also brought with them a_ storage house van. The number of evic- tions of unemployed workers is reaching such proportions that the “Jaw” is forced to change the tac- tics. They come early, before there is any people on the street so attention won't be attracted. Besides, they don’t put the furni- ture on the sidewalk, but load it on a furniture van and take it to the storage house. The purpose is two-fold. First, not to attract the attention of other unemployed workers and force them to organize against evictions, and, second, this is a good graft. The storage company, knowing the worker is unem- ployed, demands payment and sells the furniture for charges, at a fraction of the price. In most cases the furniture of a worker represents his life savings, but the “law” don’t give a damn for that. All it cares for is the in- terest of the greedy landlords. The arrested were held incommu- nicado for 24 hours. During that time they were questioned by immi- gration department officials, Owen Latz, Norman Whittington, Allen Brooks, Ethel Beran and John Peer are American-born unemployed workers. The federal officer was very much disappointed. “His simple mind cannot understand why not only militant foreign-born but also American-born workers refuse to starve and be “evicted peacefully. When one of the American workers was asked how he likes the United States government and answered that it would be better if the work- ers were in control,-the~dick told him that “We'll deport “all foreign- ers and send the American-born to the City Hospital for mental exam- ination.” ' 100 Per Cent Means Starvation. Such is the boss agent’s opinion. The American workers are “sen- sible” fellows. They believe in “American” principles, that is, walk the streets for months looking for a job, starve, get thrown on the street, Workers Now Ask Lansing, Mich, “lights being turned off and lwives and children half| starved. Who can they look to-for help. No, the bosses and the A. F. of L. don’t want to be bothered with factory slaves. Short Time Work. I get the Daily Worker from aj friend of mine working at the Dur- ant, one of the biggest slave driv- ing, piece cutting shops in Michi- gan and that is something. I work for the Motor Wheel Corp. Sometimes two hours a week and even to get that I must go every morning at 6:30 and stay around all day. I have four small children and my wife and her aged mother to keep on that. And have been refused help from the city because I have a rusty old Ford six years old and with, about five dollars. They don’t keep families that own cars. You must sell them and buy your gro- ceries. Isn’t it possible for something to be done in Lansing? - —K. D. L. A Motor Wheel Slave. Great Falls, Mont. Jobless Council Formed Great Falls, Mont. Daily Worker :— We have succeeded in getting a@ group of jobless workers to- gether and have formed an Unem- ployed Council. We have circulated a petition in the city to force the City Coun- cil into action openly either for or against the workers. ‘Of course I am not guessing as to where they will stand. —t. F. K. but don’t fight. Oh, no! Just hope that the hokum dished up by Hoo- ver, Hearst, Ford, Edison, etc., will come true in 60 days, next summer, next fall next winter. Anyone that fights against the greedy and bru- tal capitalist system is either a “de- | generate foreigners or else crazy American.” “Cleaning Up.” And they have decided to clean) up on the foreigners—send all of | them back to Russia, One of them, Nels Kjar, an unemployed ~carpen- ter, is being held by the immigra- tion authorities without bail for in- vestigation. Two workers were re- leased, because they could not hang any charges on them. The other five, including B. Stevens and H. Schwartz, will be tried tomorrow. They are out on bail. As winter comes the unemployed workers will have to organize their forces in Unemployed Councils and make the bosses and their govern- ment suspend all evictions of un- employed workers, Fight against evictions! Organ- ize and demand ufemployment in- surance! wu AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER. | Today! for the celebration in the U. S. First group leaving today on the Mauretania Second group will sail October 25 on the Europa STILL TIME TO JOIN! Ss. R. Nov. Ath Bronx, N, Y. Daily Worker: On May, 1917, I was one of the war to fight for “democracy.” I was over in Frarice in a real fire line firing at the Germans. Today instead of having a demo- eracy I am sick as a dog, no money, | no clothes. Winter is coming. I swear I will ‘never fight another capitalist war. I have been out of work over five months now and things look much| worse in the future. Today I went to register but my vote will not go to any capitalist parties, republican, democrats (or democrats) or the! fake socialists, but to the only Party | that every worker and ex-service- man should vote for, the Communist Party. —P. Oakland Jobless Find Big Shut Downs (By a Worker Correspondent.) There have been rumors in the capitalist press that last few days that business conditions are on the incline. Three of us were tramping the streets of Oakland in search of a job. Here is what we found. Heinz’s—They hired 4 men and 5 women. The men were paid 35 cents an hour and the women work on piece rates. Petes’ Soap Factory—Haven’t hired anybody for the last two months. : Parafine Products—Laid off 18 men the last week. Westinghouse Electric Co.—Laid off. Pacific Manifold—Not hiring. Magnovox—Closed down. Judson Steel—Operating on re- duced forces. California Packing—Closed down. Southern Pacific—Laid off.” Chevrolet-Fisher Body—Laid off. Contra Costa Laundry—Laid off. New Process Laundry—Laid off, , Montgomery Ward—Not hiring anybody. California ‘Cotton Mills—Not hir- ing anybody. Housework—Can be gotten, but wages and conditions are rotten. Does this look like prosperity in Oakland? Vote Communist! fools that volunteered in the world} RATION WORKERS Must Answer Murphy, Roosevelt By Fight (Continued from Page 1) for the use of the workers and peasants in ever larger quantities. | At the same time nev wages are going up steadi! Roosevelt Like Murphy. |_ Now turn to Detroit and New | York. Mayor Murphy is putting the unemployed on ration cards—char- ity to keep the workers from taking drastic steps in the midst of the sharp unemployment situation and starvation that face the workers of Detroit. Governor Roosevelt says the state cannot perform such a function. That is the duty of the cities. In |New York City, we have already witnessed it, with 10,000 workers standing in line for hours to get a sloppy “hand-outs”. Roosevelt pro- poses “loans” to the workers that they will pay back “when prosperity returns”. The workers are to saddle themselves with accumulating debts because capitalism cannot give them jobs. Hardest Winter Coming. Neither rations nor loans will set- | tle the duestion everi this winter, which will be “one of the hardest winters the American workers have ever faced.” The starving workers and impoverished farmers will not stand idly by, while the other section of the American population, the cap- italists, live and squander in idle luxury. The Américan workers under the leadership of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League will fight and battle using the most mil- itant methods against the barbarism called capitalism, which forces idle- ness and starvation upon 8,000,000 of them and their families, Workers! Answer Hoover, Roose- velt and Murphy! Give a resound- ing reply to American capitalism's Proposal to make charity-receivers of us. Join the Unemployed Coun- cils and revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Or- ganize, demonstrate, demand im- mediate unemployment insurance! Strike against wage cuts! Support the Communist Party and its can- didates in the election campaign! But prepare to struggle in this “the hardest winter we have faced in many years”, as Roosevelt now ad- mits! Don’t Starve—Fight! Vote Communist! (Written at Hart's Island Penitentiary). ‘4,000 JOBLESS IN AMERICA) PROTEST AT AFL |Defy Police; Demand Unemployment Relief | (Continued from Page One) its ability to prevent strikes during the industrial depression, A. F. L. Glories In Clubbing. And the A. of the Unemployed, started speak- jing from a truck in front of the |convention hall. The police had | been outwitted and it was five mn-i jutes before they got straightened jout. But then began a vicious club- bing of the jobless workers, ines Comes Back. Cops b0arded the truck and threw |Glines bodily off, but he defended | himself and came right back and | began to speak again. The cops at- | tacked again, with the crowd shout- ing, “Let him speak,” “We want workers’ unemployment insurance,” “Down with the labor fakers’ insur- ance swindle!” The A. F. of L. convention came |to an abrupt stop, and the fat boys, jthese “lebar leaders,” leaned from the windows and whooped the police on to club down the workers out- | side. The crowd rallied again after the police attack, and continued the dem- onstration before the Metropolitan Hotel, next to the Bradford. Fein- gold of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, spoke from the roof of a first floor hotel room un- til he was finally dragged into the room. Workers Resist Police. The crowd still stuck, milling | around and singing workers’ songs, shouting slogans for “Unemploy- ment Insurance,” “Vote Commu- |nist,” “Shorter Hours and More Pay,” “Organize and Strike Against Councils,” “Don’t Starve, Fight,” “Defend the Soviet Union Against Capitalism and the A. F. of L,,” ete. Rescue Prisoners. The police continued their attacks, and the workers continued to defend themselves militantly. Charging squads of workers often tore away from the police the prisoners they of L. bureaucrats | w Wage Cuts,” “Join the ‘Unemployed | 1 Demonstration at | City Hall Tomorrow (Continued from Page One) j worker here get $: ployed, the delegation also demands that the more than $7,000,000 pro: posed in the budget as an increase to the millions already being spent for police to club the workers shall INTERNATIONAL NEWS GERMAN ENGINEER WARNS BOSSES OF ADVANCES OF FIVE-YEAR PLAN | of work are being reduced, new mo-|who make up the convention les B moro for each eon | ae st |dern workers’ homes are being|from the Bradford Hotel wi nt he. has to support, and thatthe Urges German Capitalists to Win Trade Away built—whole new villages with alljand urged the police on Ea6 eo peaae an tHe deat ' ‘ d a all modern accommodations are be-|again to brutal clubbing of the un- | Brohdie beste ae Beh! From the United States ing erected for the peasants. The|employed workers. | servi fund to be paid over to Wi A ea general well-being and the standard} It was 11:40 a. m., with the huge | Wall Strect bankers shall be put in} Boprin (ipg)—The bourgeois! the immedinte future Russia must of living of the entire working pop-|crowd assembling rapidly, that R.|# fand wo 78s ne hans ell industrial daily newspaper|be regarded as a large purcha ulation are rising. K, Glines, secretary of the Council |2ve the lives of the hungry unem he Bergwerks-Zeitung” pub-| of industrial products of all kinds, an article under the above] At the moment the United States title dealing with the constructive| with its great financial resources work being carried on in the Sov-| has a great start over all other iet Union and written by the Ger-| countries on the Russian market. man engineer Peter Eyermann of| For Germany it is very difficult to be used instead to feed the work- fe n A i Bearer ae pay-| Duesseldorf who spent a consider-| finance such great industrial orders lments. The delegation, and the | able time in the Soviet Union in-| as are placed by Russia, The sums |mass demonstration supporting it, demands all the surplus in the city vestigating industrial conditions at the invitation of the Soviet involved in the carrying out of the gov-| Five-Year Plan total many milli- reasury, half the swollen salaries|¢rmment. The following represents | ards of Marks, whilst the mode of of the city office-holding politicians, | @ digest of his article: | payment required by the Soviet |and other sums now slated for ar-| With the Five-Year Plan Russia| government usually extends over mories, etc., all for the jobless. has opened up a great drive to years so that for German industry | “At the time of the appearance of | clop its industrial resources jand|Wwhich is financially weak such | the delegation and the masse sibil Opinions as to the| reat orders would represent ® porting its demands the board bilities of success for this plan| considerable risk. Russia is how- ‘estimates will be holding what is| are varied. On the one hand the| ever inclined to place a consider- | advertised as a public session on the | opinion is expressed that in from| able portion of its orders in those | $615,869,038 budget. | That budget, proposed by Com- ym ioner of the Budget Kohler, | |Pprovides in addition to the items mentioned above $40,000 a year for | |Mayor Walker, $35,000 a. year for | |the city controller and other such | grabs for an army of Tammany. jleaders. The total set aside for the | police department is $62,000,000. Last year the city administration | paid $772,000,000 to the various |banks and finance corporations on {city bonds. The delegation of the | | Unemployed Councils and the Trade | Union Unity League will demand} |that payment on the city bonds be stopped and the money used for an | emergency fund for the unemployed. Date Changed. The demonstration, which was | first planned for Oct. 20, will take place, tomorrow (Thursday), be- cause of the public hearing arranged by the Board of Estimates on the city budget. Mobilize all unem- | ployed and employed workers to ap- {pear tomorrow at 2 o’clock at City | Hall in support of the demands that will be presented to the Tammany countries “which suffer particularly dustrially completely independent| from unemployment. On the other of foreign countries, whilst on the| hand, the Russians examine very other hand sceptical minds doubt| closely into whether a country tak- the possibility of building up a ca-| ing over an order is really able to pable and prosperous industry in| gUarantee that it will be compiete- Russia at all. It would be best to|!y and promptly carried out. The draw a line somewhere between| latter considerations have probably these two extremes. In a country| been decisive in sending many or- with such tremendous natural re-; ders to the United States which sources as Russia industrial devel-| Otherwise might have been placed opment is inevitable. In any case,| i" Germany. German industry is Germany as the nearest industrial | NOW suffering severely from empty neighbor to Russia would be well|TUnning, and undeg the circum- advised to pay more attention to stances it would be e at least the happenings in Russia than she | t© consider the possibility of Ger- has done up to the present. For | ™any obtaining a reasonable por- tion of the tremendous Russian or- ders. The Russians have the high- est opinion of German technique and of German technicians, If the financial side of the question can be solved, then German industry will undoubtedly obtain very con- siderable orders from Russia. We should give close attention to the question of whether we could not co-operate with British and perhaps also American capital and obtain their financial support to divide the 8 to 10 years Russia will be in- tion offices where 2,000 workers were supposed to have been engaged for ‘pick and shovel work.’ The) jobless workers have fainted from | hunger while standing in the line. | it has become a usual matter to see | unemployed workers searching for! food in the garbage pails of the! ‘fashionable’ districts where the | parasites live. “The delegation of the Unem-| Board by the delegation. |. The Communist Party Election ;Campaign Committee states: “Winter approaches! The capi- had captured. The crowd was finally dispersed by masses of police, clubbing most viciously, beating up women work- | ers, worn with hunger and already struck down to the sidewalk by other police batons. Rifteen were arrested and taken to jail. After the demonstration was over seven police rushed into the Com- munist Party office looking for a lost police blackjack. They picked out a young worker and arrested the night befgre the demonstration, \talist press can’t hide the numerous cases of unemployed workers com- mitting suicide. The Daily Worker reported yesterday a long line of 15,000 starving unemployed workers in Cleveland storming the registra- him on a charge of the larceny of the blackjack. Three were arrested By ALLAN JOHNSON. (This is the 20th in the Series of Articles on’ Tammany Hall) A list of the crimes of Tammany judges would stretch from here to the end of the moon. And what has been said about \Tammany judges in this series might be paid about capitalist judges in general. The outline of the biography of each would remain the same; only rela- tively unimportant details would be changed. The study of these judges has been confined to typical cases, and singe lack of space requires that this be the last article on the New York judiciary it is hoped that workers will remember these brief biog- raphies whenever they are brought before a “cultured looking gentle- man” who will have no compunction about railroading them to long jail terms for picketing or propagand- izing their fellow workers. The chances are something like a mil- lion to one that the “cultured look- ing gentleman” will be an uncon- scionable crook whose brutality to- wards militant workers will be in direct proportion to his own ras- eality. The last two examples of this general condition are Judges Ewald and oRsenbluth, Ewald was ap~ pointed by Mayor Walker in 1927 after paying $12,000 for the job. The unusually low price is explain- ed by the fact that Ewald was to be put to special use after his ap- pointment. As in Judge Vause’s case, Ewald’s present “difficulties” were brought about Because of the protests of in- -HURRY—SPECIAL PRICES! WORLD TOURISTS, Inc, Algonquin 6656 175 Fifth Ave. New York Tickets to All Parts of the World ||"e#r Butte, Montana. Tuttle, be- vestors who had been robbed because they had been gullible enough to let a@ judge safeguard their money. When Charlés Tuttle was federal district attorney, he was asked to in- vestigate the Cotter Butte company, which owned several mining claims. cause he had not been bribed to “lay off,” as a matter of routine decided ‘Tuttle, G.O.P. Leader, Honorary Member of Tammany Club That Frees Criminals found that Judge Ewald was the person behind the scenes in the crooked “mining” company. Tuttle Told to “Get” Tammany Tuttle got a tip from the Na- tional Republican Committee to get Tammany for campaign purposes, as “prosperity” had disappeared. And Tuttle himself had an eye on the governorship. In the subsequent in- vestigation it was discovered that Ewald had “loaned” Tammany dis- trict leader Healy $12,000 just be- fore Ewald was appointed magis- trate. Talk of a “loan” is poppy- cock, of course. Ewald paid the $12,000 for his job, and the reason he paid so little is explained by the following. A bitterly fought strike took place in the fur trade in 1927. Matthew Woll, A. F. of: L. Red-baiter and insurance grafter, had decided that the left-wing fur workers’ union had become too powerful and laid plans to destroy it and “reorganize” it as @ company union. This “reorgan- ization committee” comprised Woll, Edward F. McGrady, associated with Paul Vaccarelli, convicted gun- man and strikebreaker, and Joseph Ryan, head of the Central Labor Council in New York. Woll and his conferes bought scores of gunmen and cops to as- sault those of the workers who realized what would happen if Woll and the A. F. of L. got control of the union, However, it wasn’t practicable to assault every member of the union who showed fight, and as a result the “reorganization com- mittee’ an dthe fur bosses were forced to put Judges Ewald and Rosenbluth under contract. The new tactics were to arrest pickets by the hundreds and have them brought before either of these two judges, who would send them to jail, usually for a six months’ sentence. Judge Ewald alone sent more than 150 pickets to prison, Sitting next to him on the bench as he handed down his brutal sentences, was Samuel Markowitz, lawyer for al- most all the “socialist” unions in New York, who pointed out the more militant of the pickets—those who were to be given the longest sen- tences, Is it strange that Judge Ewald was a good friend of “Legs” Dia- mond, the largest provider of gunmen-strikebreakers in the Metropolitan district? Is it strange that when “Legs” was given a dinner in a 41st Street restaurant for being able to buy his way out of being charged with the murder of two gunmen, Judge Ewald attended and delivered an enthusiastic speech in which he praised “Legs” and congratulated him for “convincing” Commisszon- er Whalen that he hadn't killed the two gangsters? Is it strange that “Legs,” who has been in- volved in forty murders, hasn't been in jail for almost twenty years, except for a few hours in Philadelphia on his recent return from Germany? Is it strange that Judge Ewald The other of the two judges who were hired to send the militant fur workers to prison, Judge Rosen- bluth, is one of the half-dozen New York judges now on the bench through the efforts of ambitious father-in-laws. To Judge Rosen- bluth goes the “honor” of being the first judge in New York to jail pick- ets for long terms. It is quite un- derstandable that a man who hi- jacked his father-in-law into buying a judgeship would be the sort who would institute such a custom, and a further investigation of Rosen- bluth clarifies both the hi-jacking and the long jail sentences for pick- ets, CLEARING HOUSE FOR CRIMINALS. In 8 mid-town hotel there ex- ists an organization whose one function is to step between gang- District Attorney Crain; Supreme Court Justice Peter Schmuck; Magistrate Simpson; Frank Bow- ers, Collector of Customs, and the aforementioned Judge Rosenbluth. This organization is a clearing! house of crime and is “norm| partisan” for all crooks. Ordinarily | the Tammany district leader “takes care” of those criminals who through some accident gets arrested. If the criminal can be useful to Tammany | Hall at electoin time, the price he| will have to pay for his release will be proportionately smaller. Tam- many treats its criminals squarely; it pays. It is only when some ob- stacle presents itself and interferes with the release of the criminal that the “clearing ohuse” begins to func- tion. Criminal Pays $50,000 for Freedom. Such an eventuality occurred re- cently when a third-termer was caught in the act of burlarizing a house by a tactless cop. If the bur- glar were convicted on the charge it would have meant a life sentence. The Baumes Laws, which have re- vised the constitution so that pun- ishment can be given twice or more for the same offense, have been an important item in Tammany Hall’s graft income. When a criminal faces a life term he will pay heavily to escape sentence. In the case men- tioned above the burglar paid $50,- 000 for his freedom. The magis- trate who freed him had to be con- tent with $5,000 of this amount, A half-dozen Tammany chieftains di- vided the rest. The “clearing house,” however, was never quite as profitable to Judge Rosenbluth as the contract he signed with the fur bosses, which obligate dhim to send picketing fur workers to jail. Moreover, none of the criminals who avail themselves of the “clearing house” would have the heart to praise him as he was praised by Barindess, Tammany sters and the law. Among its honorary members are Senator Royal Copeland; Charles Tuttle, republican candidate for governor; Supreme Court Justice Collins; chief, friend of “socialist” leaders, and Zionist, who publicly thanked Rosenbluth “in the name of the Jewish nation” for sending the pick- eting fur workers to prison! tuted. ployed Councils of Greater New| York and the Trade Union Unity | League will lay these facts tomor- | row before the Tammany Board of Estimates and will demand that im- mediate unemployed relief be insti- Russian market in such a fashion that Germany would obtain its fair share of orders. Great orders are |at stake which could be fulfilled | best of all from the technical point of view by Germany industry. READY FOR CIRCULATION THE FOLLOWING NEW PAMPHLETS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PAMPHLET SERIES No, 6—-SPEEDING UP THE WORKERS BY JAMES BARNETT The Speed-up and Rationalization in Industry.. No, 1~YANKEE COLONIES +100 By HARRY GAN) A Study of the Philippines, Hawai American Possessions No, 8THE FRAME-UP SYSTEM By VERN SMITH The developmnt of the frame-up as an employers’ weapon in the class war, told against the b: &ro,,nd of famous labor cases No, 9—STEVE KATOVI s Porto Rico and other veeel0e No, 10—-THE HERETAGE OF GENE DEBS By ALEXANDER TRACH The story of the development of this fe leader and his role in the labor movement . 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