The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1930, Page 1

FOSTER- MINOR AMTER K Dove Communit mn Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist International) er AA WORKERS OF THE WORLD, : UNITE! =_ Vol. VII. No.~248 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16; 1930. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Dangers Ahead Te approach of winter will inevitably be accompanied by many ex- tremely serious problems for the workers, and especially for those who are jobless. Poverty, privation and starvation will become ex- ceptionally acute with an increase in mass lay-offs and wage cuts. Many sharp and bitter struggles will develop as the workers even more determinedly declare their refusal to starve and take up the struggle to force the bosses’ government to pay unemployment insurance. And by no means the least serious of the workers’ problems will be the need for the development of effective resistance to the various efforts of the capitalists to head off the fight of the workers. Their measures will be numerous and will be brought forward in various disguises. They will range all the way from open police terror to measures supposedly initiated by “workers’ organizations” in the “in- terest of the workers.” By hacking away at the strawmen called “the dole” and “com- pulsory insurance” the A. F. of L. leaders will join with the Hoover administration and the manufacturers’ associations in a vigorous war on unemployment insurance. t At the same time so-called “liberals” of the Roosevelt-LaFollette- Lewis type will try to create a break in the workers’ ranks by piously promising to “study” unemployment insurance and its possibilities. Others, chiefly those from the “socialist” party and the Confer- ence for Progressive Labor Action (the Musteites), will come forward with actual bills purporting to be “ynemployment insurance bills,” but which actually will be efforts to liquidate the workers’ fight for real unemployment insurance. Against all these efforts to create confusion and division the workers must fight just as hard as they would against: the open effort of the bosses’ police to smash the workers’ ranks in a demonstration for bread. The Musteites, for example, have already started their phase. of the. bosses’ efforts to tide themselves through a hard winter. Their proposals are plainly proposals of insurance for the bosses.. They say in a leaflet which just reached our desk: “When unemployed, you will receive 40 per cent. of your weekly wages for a period of 26 weeks in each year.” Such proposals are scandalous. What worker can live and main- tain his family on 40 per ‘cent of his former wages?- Most workers can barely live even when they are steadily employed on the “full” wages paid by the bosses. Then, the period of such payments is lim- ited to 26 weeks! How are the workers going to eat the rest of the year? Thousands of workers have already been unemployed for more than the 26 weeks and still there are no jobs in sight. In addition thousands are permanently unemployed with machinery working in their place. And the Musteites, after “fattening” the workers up for the first 26 weeks of their unemployment with payments of about $10 per week, propose that these workers fast during the next 26 weeks. " This is an indication of the methods which the capitalists, working through their innumerable agencies, will use to maintain their own shamefully high profits while the workers starve in the streets. Mili-: tant worlters, however, in their fight against starvation, will more and more take up a fight against such fake proposals and the fakers be- hind them. More and more they will accept the leadership of the Com- munist Party. It is necessary, though, beginning now in the election campaign, to stimulate this process by most vigorously exposing and fighting against these agents of the bosses. ' The Full Dinner Pail Ree politicians are having the time of their lives in the present election campaign. For them. it is a sort of revenge cam- paign. Ever since Grover Cleveland’s last term as president the demo- crats have been painted by their republican opponents as the bearer: of economic grisis, closed factories and mass suffering. The republi- cans, on the other hand, have proudly boasted that they were the bearers of “prosperity” and the “full dinner pail.” McKinley was elected on such demagogic slogans and the democratic party has been on the defensive on these issues almost continuously since. Even Hoover went into office.as the bearer of “prosperity.” Now the tables are turned. A good republican president sits (!) in the White House while all around there are closed factories, bread- lines and starvation. The democrats are just as quick to exploit such a situation demogogically as were their republican opponents in the past, © Governor Roosevelt in his radio speech of Monday, completely dis- regarding the fact that he also has been in the governor's office for two years and has done absolutely nothing to relieve thé suffering of the unemployed, boldly charges the Hoover. administration \ with responsibility for the crisis, with falsifying census returns on unem- ployment, and with a do-nothing policy. He passes off his own failure to act by shifting the responsibility to Hoover. This turning of the tables by Roosevelt and other democratic poli- ticians throughout the country has put the republicans on the defensive as is shown by the speech Dwight Morrow, republican senatorial can- didate in New Jersey. He defends the Hoover administration, de- claring that everything ‘possible was done to avert the crisis. But plainly he was embarrassed by the stupidities of his own defense of Hoover. All this discussion now filling the papers about responsibility for the crisis, about “prosperity,” about the need for “studying” this and that, is all very well. It helps to show up many of these politicians as ignoramuses. But it does not feed the jobless workers. Workers should effectively stop this chatter by heckling these fakers off the platform. | When they start with their “explanations” and promises the workers should raise the cry for bread—for immediate rélief, They should be told that the workers are preparing to fill up their own dinner pail by ousting such types as they from office, by overturning the governmental system which they represent, and by establishing a government of workers and farmers. 2 MORE SUICIDES; ONE KILLED OVER CRISIS NEW YORK.—The crisis killed three more yesterday. One was an unidentified workman down to his last 90 cents. Jobless Girl Worker He leaped from the 4 upper floor of the Equitable Bldg., Cedar and Broadway, and.struck on the head of a truck driver, Alfred Korndorfer. Both were instantly killed. The other was Austin “Adams, president of a wheelbarrow manu- facturing company. The slump in industry had put him nearly out of business. He jumped to death ~-sout of the Singer Building, 149 . Broadway. } “ Suicides of unemployed workers are a daily occurrence. To the jobless the Communist Party pro- poses, not death but struggle. Join the Councils of the iployed. Vote Communist for the Workers’ versity Place. find (a job, was picked up passers-by and taken into the the jobless. who, as ‘soon’ a: porter getting in touch with her. onstrate today at city Mediate relief. ‘ Gimicn Collapses on Street (This is the 21st in the series of ar- NEW YORK.— An: unemployed young woman worker, with peaked to face and threadbare clothing, col- lapsed in the rain yesterday noon at the corner of 14th St. and Uni- The young worker who had evi-) up, The matter is of vital interests dently been tramping all morning| to all workers, for almost all city in the rain in a desperate effort to! income is derived. from taxes, and by ultimately the ren¢ payer is always men’s clothing “store of Joseph Hilton. She was soon after taken in charge | no by one of Tammany’s clubbers of she showed signs of recovery hustled her away, in a commandeered taxi- cab to prevent a Daily Worker re- Unemployment fasurance Bill. Dem-' leaders and their hundreds hall for im- 140,000 WORKERS — OUT ON STRIKE IN GERMANY) Metal Workers. Fight Against Wage Cuts; Socialists Betray Form a Strike Guard} | Union Leaders Tried to Prevent Strike (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 15.—The sritke of 140,800 metal workers is complete. The revolutionary strike leadership issued an appeal of warning to the workers . against the yellow trade union leaders who are attempting to throttle the strike like the social- ist Ebert did in 1918, Yesterday evening a delegate con- ference of revolutionary metal*work- ers decided on mass picketing, and, the. formation of a strike guard against the fascist scabs. est a The metal workeors are striking! against a wage cut, and the arbit- ration decision between the socialist trade union leaders and the bosses which compromised on a six to eight per cent wage cut. All attempts of the misleaders to keep the work- ers from striking failed. Very early in the proceedings, the revolutionary ; union leaders called on the workers to prepare for strike. The strike actually was effected before the of- ficials' set the date for it, and was carried out despite their wishes. The aclling of the strike at the present jtime, with the socialists bolstering jup the Bruening regime, is of great |political significance and shows the | growing militancy of the German workers. Sharp clashes are expect- ed. Not long ago, the Socialists at- tempted to effect a wage cut for all workers. The present strke shows the mood of the workers and their willingness to struggle against any attempt to cut wages, as well as against the socialist betrayers. PY de ta The few fascists who were arrest- ed at the anti-Jewish riots were sen- tenced to imprisonment for terms |ranging from three to six weeks. | Yesterday evening a fascist meet- jing in Schwerin ended in a general fight. Fascists attacked workers | with knives, clubs, ete, The work- ers defended themselves with chair legs. The hall was wrecked and fifteen were injured. N.Y. Central Says Men NEW YORK.—The New York Central lines magazine leading ar- ticle goes into ecstacies over its | Which workers are dismissed from the serviie as unfit. The article is | written by the general claims at- | torney, significantly enough. It ' says the men ought to like the | examinations because, “The great hope and the great conscious de- sire of mankind is to continue to live.” Just how the man found sick and fired can do that, general claims doesn’t say. He is satisfied that the railroad saves a little. | Should Enjoy Testing | physicat examination system under | Vote Communist! ticles on Tammany Hall) By ALLAN JOHNSON Sometime this afternoon, Direc- r of the Budget, Kohler, the Tam- many district leader who sold a judgeship to Amadeo Bertini for $100,000, will move for the accep- tances of the budget which he drew- the tax payer. The budget s so constructed that accountant alive can understand all of it. This is done deliberateiy, ‘because if every item were to be explained it would be evident that literally hundreds of millions of dol- lars in the budget find their way into the bank accounts of Tammany of friends. One such item is the $23,- 534, 348 marked “miscellaneous, ex- j ” =f Besibr yp Moy Pesuyp — Newark Boss 22 Hunger Dea Papers Hiding ths, Shout ‘Rum’ Sidetrack Life and Death Issue of Relief Into “Wet” and “Dry” Demagogy (By a Worker NEWARK, N. J.—Heralding in headlines that twenty-two | employment situation — bankers as- deaths during the, past week Correspondent) in Newark are due to alcoholic poisoning, the capitalist newspapers are doing their utmost to hide the ravaging effects of the system that has caused | mos of these workers’ deaths 7 MASS MEETS. AT NOON TODAY FOR JOBLESS Vote on Demands and| Go on to City Hall NEW YORK.—Seven meetings are already announced for unem- ployed workers at noon today, at which a vote to endorse the de- mands of the Unemployed and the Committee chosen by the executive committee of the Councils which will present them at the City Hall to the board of estimates at 2 p. m. today. The unemployed and _ militant workers will go from the meetings to join the City Hall demonstrati6n in support of their demands. The meetings are called by: Harlem Unemployed Counci!, te | Paign the newspapers tell of finding|a day and a five-day week, unem- meet ‘at 132 St. and Lenox Ave. Food Workers Unemployed Coun- cil to meet at 40 St. and Sixth Ave. Needle Workers Unemployed Council to meet at 36 St. and Eighth Ave. Office Workers Unemployed Council, to meet at 23 St. and Mad- ison Ave. Downtown Unemployed Council to meet at Lafayette and Leonard (near the Tammany fake employ- ment agency where thousands of jobless gather every day for jobs they don’t get). Marine Workers Unemployed Council, Whitehall and South Ferry. Brooklyn Unemployed Councli, Johnson and Jay, Brooklyn. Unemployed | by starvation. © Besides serving’ capitalism’s purpose of shunning responsi- bility for this systematic mur- der of unemployed workers, |the story serves as a stronger | veil for the prohibition “issue” in the election campaign.. These 22 deaths have occurred in the last. few days and the places where most of |the bodies were found are proof conclusive that they were unem- ployed workers. Found On Dumps. One white unidentified worker was found at 2 a. m. Saturday morn- |in Military Park, Newark, and altho ing under a temporary band stand known to other unemployed habitues of the park as one who did not drink, his death is attributed to alcohol. Four Negro unemployed workers | were found dead on the city dumps, |undoubtedly from rotten and_pois- |oned food gathered from thé dumps, but, not being desirous of letting the truth be known (death from starva- tion) and needing a bolsterer for the | prohibition issue in the election cam- | |an empty bottle by the dead bodies jas tho they could not have round hundreds of similar bottles on the dump. But, regardless of these at- tempts to blind the workers, both mentally and physically, the truth {concerning these things is being told to-all workers who gather at our meetings. The quarter-million unemployed workers in New Jersey and the eight million elsewhere must help th Communist Party show up this cap. italist class that cuts wages so that when they starve to death they are still used as a shield for fake elec- tion issues. Workers, go to the polls, but vote for a fight against the starvation system of capitalism. Vote Communist! ® ALL TO Illinois Governor’s Re-| ply to Jobless in Jail Demand Their Release To Speed Up Fight for Jobless Insurance CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—The delega- | tion: representing. the Unemployed Councils and the Trade Union Unity League of Chicago, were arrested | Monday while ‘attempting to get be- fore Governor Emmerson of Illinois and present the demands of the un- jemployed in Chicago. | The conference, called by Gover- |nor Emmerson in the high-class Ho- |tel LaSalle to “discuss” unemploy- ment, had representatives of all those responsible for the present uh- sociations, chambers of commerce, merchants associations, church and “social workers”, the fascist lead- ers of the Illinois and Chicago Fed- \erations of Labor, etc., but refused | to see the real representatives of the unemployed. The delegation composed of Bill | Mathegon, secretary of the Unem- ployed Councils of Chicago, Phil Frankfeld, secretary of the T.U.U. L., Poindexter, an unemployec Ne- gro worker, Katherine Erlich, a| (Continued on Page 3) DRESSMAKERS ARE FOR STRIKE; Overflow Meeting in Irving Plaza NEW YORK.—Irving Plaza Hall) |last night was overflowed by dress- | makers summoned by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to | | discuss the coming dress strike and | demands. | They were practically unanimous for a strike, enthusiastic and eager to battle for week work, seven hours | ployment insurance, and other points | outlined. | A committee of 200 was elected to arrange a conference of shop dele- gates from industrial union, com-| | pany union and open shops, to meet } in the same hall Friday, October 31 jand form strike machinery. | With Weisberg in the chair, Irv- \ing Potash made the main report, | showing how since 1925 the value of | he product in the dress trades had | increased from $850,000,000 to over | | $1,000,000,000 while the number of | | workers had fallen through speed-up rationalization and unemployment from 95,000 to 75,000. More than half the dressmakers areunemploy- | ed and average wages are less than $20 a week. | CITY GRAFTERS’ BUDGET OVER $ 1,000,000,000; penses” on the budget. Now this is the most brazen kind of graft, for no private accountant could hold his job a minute after he had writ- ten such an unbusinesslike state- ment in his books. Evidently the city accountants have utilized every legitimate method of accounting for expenditures and have been forced to all back on such meaningless phrases as “miscellaneous expense.” Budget Will Reach $1,000,000,000! According to pages 320 and 320A of the budget, the total to be expended next year is $630,- 200,000. Now this is a flat-footed lie. The city government has actually made plans to spend more than one billion dollars, but it dares not admit it, because even under its own figures it will spend almost as much as all the 48 State governments put. together. Two ‘additional items alone will raise the budget close to the billion- 4 MILLIONS GRAFTED BY JOHN D., WANAMAKER dollars mark, Neither is mentioned in the official budget. One is tie $270,000,000 which Comptroller Berry will spend on “public im- provements.” The other is for $61,- 000,000 to be spent by the various Borough Presidents for “public ira- provements.” The ‘character of these Borough Presidents is exem- plified by Connolly, until recently Borough President of Queens but now spending a year in a luxurious jail for stealing $20,000,000 trom the city treasury. $331,000,000 For “Improvements.” These two items total $331,000,- 000 for “public improvements.” Will the public improvements include immediate relief for the 800,000 un- employed workers in New York? Will it be used to pay the -ent of those thousands of jobless who are facing eviction by grafting judges? Will it be used to buy food for those who fall of starvation while they wait or non-existant jobs at the city’s fake employment agency? Will it be used for anything but| buying land for parks. and play- grounds—land that has been bought up by Tammany leaders and their families to sell back to the ciy at from 300 to 1,000 per cent profit in condemnation proceedings? The answer is “no” to all these ques- tions. And it will continue to be “no” until workers take the mat- ter into their own hands in a ae- termined struggle against their ex- ploiters. ‘ No mention is made, moreover, in this grafters’ budget, of the 318,- 000,000.,that the city will pay for Rockaway boardwalk property worth $1,100,000. Nor of the two and three-quarter million dollars that the city will pay to Tammany 300,000 ‘MUST N DEMONSTRATE FOR JOBLESS RELIEF TODAY AT 2 P.M. CITY HALL! AFL CONVENTION — KILLS ITS OWN Cops to Club Jobless BULLETIN. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 15.— Judge Good, past state com- mander of the American Legion, refused International Labor De- fense motion for postponement of cases of 15 workers arrested in demonstration yesterday against A. F. J. treachery to labor, and gave sentences of three and four months, $20 and $60 fines. Five girls were among those sentenced. The I. L. D. is providing bail at $300 to 1,000 each and appeals the case. Collections for defense funds are arranged Sunday at 93 Stamford St., International Hall, and Chelsea Labor Lyceum, 376 Broadway, South Boston. aoe eae BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 15.—Yes- terday 15 workers and jobless were arrested and scores were clubbed FAKE 5-HR. DAY, While Delegates Urge} UNEMPLOYED OT STARVE! |Estimates Board Must Face Demands of the Hungry Delegation Elected Each Man Out of Work |Must Have $25 a Week EW YORK.—The masses of New York unemployed and workers who know that their immediate in- | terests are that the jobless shall not | be starved by hundreds of. thou« | sands in the streets this winter, will demonstrate for immediate relief for ; the jobless from the city treasury |today. They will demonstrate at 2 p. m. at the board of estimates pub- jlic hearing on the proposed. city budget which hands over hundreds of millions of dollars to bankers, po- lice gunmen, Tammany office hold- ers etc., without giving a cent to the 800,000 starving unemployed inNew ™ York. As spokesmen for the masses of unemployed, a delegation has been | elected by the Executive Committee | of the Councils of the Unemployed, | which will formally present the de- | mands. | _A committee of the Councils of the | Surance and a seven-hour day, {fake which the Communist Party | Mayor's office. | being done for the | the matter “to the -executive coun-| friends at the White House said, they never saw arrangements bet- ter made or better carried out.” and trampled on by police outside| Unemployed yesterday demanded a the A. F. L. convention because| Permit for the demonstration. The they demanded unemployment in-| Committee was composed of Sam fives | Nessin, secretary of the Councils and day week. Immediately afterwards | J@ck Perilla, Communist Party cam- the A. F. L. delegates proceeded to| Paign manager. They were sent by show their own “5-hour day, 5-day|the Park Commissioner's office, week” resolution for exactly the| Where they first appeared, to the All the underlings and the Trade Union Unity League|there dodged responsibility on the have charged all along that it was./plea that Mayor Walker was ill, The “revolutionary” resolution of} though there is an acting mayor, the A. F. L. metal trades depart-| Joseph McKee. Finally the secretary |ment for the five hour week was|of the mayor agreed to “take it up meant “for the record” to give an| with him tomorrow.” The commit- impression that something was/| tee notified the mayor’s office that workers. But} plans for the demonstration would the big bosses of the A. F. L. aré! go right on. so openly tied up with the bosses’! ‘The ¢i ‘ci interests that they could not let itl gare ict hdmagre atc go by. It became a resolution to| New York, that the unemployed sit- {Study for one year and report to| uation is not as bad as it is painted pe ae Acca cae sia by the Unemployed Council. # iste practicable: | Only the strength of the workers Carpenters Threaten Secession, | will compel the city administration The United Brotherhood of Car-|to grant immediate relief as out- penters and Joiners of America) lined in the following demands of threatened to secede from the A. F.| the Councils of the Unemployed. of _L. if jurisdictional awards| 1.—Establish Immediately a City against it were pressed, and the A. (Continued on Page 3) F. L. convention retreated, leaving DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BOSTON POLICE ATTACK remainingyreally big craft union. NEW YORK.—The National of- HOOVER, BANKER 4 | fice of the International Labor De- LAUD CLUBBING | is calling upon all militant Oh | workers to demonstrate October 21, | the day of the release of the Unem- Rees te a | ployed delegation, Foster, Minor Gleeful Over Smashing | te are seein the Boston police , | brutality and the raiding of work- of Jobless Heads lers’ headquarters. CLEVELAND, Oct. 11.—Hoover’s approval of the brutal clubbing of Cleveland unemployed who demon-| strated upon the occasion of his visit to the bankers’ convention here, is reported by J. R. Nutt, president. of | the big Union Trust..Bank and| treasurer of the republican national | committee, in a letter to city direc: tor of safety Barry. ' The banker is delighted with the| conduct of the police, who first | blinded the unemployed with smoke | and then rode them down with hors- es and motorcycles, crushing the crowd up against plate glass win- | dows, so that many were injured by the shattered glass. “I do not believe there is any) American city where the police de- partment ever performed a finer service than our own police last Thursday upon the occasion of the visit of the president of the United | States”, Nutt writes. “As our cil.” The carpenters are the only | Vote Communist! Prophecy Crop Shows Decline In the dim and distant past Hoover, with a flourish, announced the end of the boss crisis in 60 days. A fresh flurry of prophecies blew up when the arrival of Pprosperit~ was delayed. A faint trace of prudence is beginning to appear even in the head dum-bells of the G. O. P. Morrow says: “... depression. I am go- ing to make no prophecies!” Smash the crisis system! Vete Communist! Eighty cents buys 100 cop- ies of the Special Election Campaign Editions! One million copies! N. Y. City Editions, Oct. TOKI0.—Eight thousand textile workers, mostly girls, demonstrated against the closing of a textile mill. Police attacked the demonstration chiefs for the Hotel Libby, at a (Continued on)Page 8) and many women were injured. ‘The 18, Oct. 24 and Nov. 3, women fought back militantly.