The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1930, Page 4

Os Page Four 18th Street, New York City Address and mail all check: Cable: Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Cos Inc. daily, except Sunday, at 50 Egst . ¥. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. “DAIWORK.” Dail Central Orga: orker wnist Porty U.S.A ~ TWO CAMPS OF ROBBERS (The Republican and Democratic Platforms | | es. It is silly and intentionally inflated verb for New York State.) By Moissaye J. OLGIN. (Communist Candidate, 10th Congressional District, Brooklyn.) Two groups. of politicians. Each one has made the federal and state administrations one vast racket. Each is looking upon its pi- rate’s booty as upon legitimate reward for dutiful service in the employ of finance capi- tal. Both have a record as black as a scab’s conscience. Yet both have donned the cloak of “friends of the people.” They are all public service, all one great care for the welfare of the masses, they aver. They do not solicit votes. No. They only tell the masses why it is in their own interests to elect such un- flinching champions of the public. Both Equally Lying. They recite achievements; they pledge them- selves to policies and measures. Says the democratic platform: The present cri is “due in great part to the inefficiency and the economic and political fallacies of republican rule,”—and this is a lie, because nothing a capitalist government can do will prevent a ¢ springing from the iron laws of capitalist economy, and because the demo- crats were partners to every major step under- taken by the republican majority in Congress. Says the republican platfor: “We par- ticularly commend it (the Hoover administra- tion) for the action taken to minimize the re- sults of worldwide economic depression,”—and this again is a lie because the Hoover ad- ministration undertook nothing outside of a campaign of malicious propaganda against the Soviet Union. Some Truth About Each Other. Both groups of political marauders lie; but this, after all, is their only weapon on the eve of elections. Says the democratic platform: “The repub- lican administration has disastrously failed. T+ is bankrupt in leadership and achieve- ments,”—and this is true as far as its at- titute towards the vast masses of the popula- tion is concerned. But when the republican platform says: “Nothing has so shocked the public as the recently exposed purchase and sale of judicial offices and the administration of justice” under the democrats in the city of | New York, and that Roosevelt was, bluntly speaking, an accomplice to these dastardly crimes, they are also right. Both are birds of a feather. Both Shielding Each Other. Both groups deal with a number of crimes committed by the other, but in reality each group shields the other’s most murderous ac- tions. The republicans speak of the prison riots in the state of New York, but they do not mention the March 6 crime of the New York democrats against one hundred thousand workers in Union Square. The democrats blame the republicans for “scandalous legis- lation,” they place unemployment at the door of the republicans who, they say, “encouraged the inflation and wide speculation which cul- minated in the present collapse,” but this is only a maneuver to divert the attention of the masses from wage cuts, the lengthened labor day, the increased speed-up, the anti- strike injunctions, the general worsening of working conditions. Both robbers’ groups are as one when it comes to the real issues of the workers. Nothing About Strikes, Injunctions, Lynchings. Not a word in both platforms about police fnterference with strikes, about police and the underworld manhandling workers, about work- ers being murdered on the picket line, about workers’ leaders thrown into the dungeon. Not a word in both platforms about the lynching of scores of Negroes. All this prattle in the “platforms” is intended to cover up the actual conditions, to interest the masses in such bogus issues as prohibition, in such indifferent mat- ters as whether the capitalists should exploit the consumers of electricity only through pri- vate agencies distributing the electric current or also through private ownership of the sources of water power, or to rivet their at- tention to such trifling questions as whether the term of governor should be two or four ears. All this is dust in the eyes of the mass- age poured out to hide the fundamental alli- ance of the two major agencies of the exploit- ers against the working class. Frightened by Communism; Calling “Social- ists” to Aid. However, they crave for th® workers’ votes. At the same time they are frightened by the spectre of Communism stalking the land. They know that the massés of toilers are restless. The workers are listening ever more eagerly to the Leninist appeals of the Reds. The workers are preparing for action. The two major camps of political thieves have mobil- ized their younger brethren, the “socialists,” to bamboozle the workers with still more ef- fusive verbiage. By this hocus-pocus of out- and-out bourgeois politicians parading as “a party of hand and brain workers” they hope to make the workers forget all the wounds inflicted on them by the wosses of all the political gangs. Still, they cannot yet forget their privilege of directly appealing to the workers, What Do They Offer to the Workers? What have they to offer? Are they against wage-cuts? The republicans state directly that they wish to have “such reasonable laws of regulation as will permit industrial competi- tion on an equal basis with other enlightened stat*s and countries,” which competition, of course, dictates wage-cuts as a means of cre- ating “an equal basis.” The democratc keep ominous silence which means that they are not against wage-cuts. Are they against the speed-up? Aré they against anti-labor in- junctions? Are they against police brutalities? Are they against anti-alien laws? Are they against the Jim-Crow laws? It is foolish even to ask such questions. They are the exploiters in their legislative phase. They are capital- ism in its political aspect. They are the mon? ster that crushes the lives of millions. How can they be against bloody oppression of the workers? The democrats are playing the op- Position. But do they say one word against American imperialism? Why, they are them- selves carriers of those predatory policies of blood and iron. Oh, Yes—Unemployment! They cannot help mentioning unemployment. But when it comes to measures against un- employment they begin to stutter. Say the republicans: “The best assurance against un- employment is the preservation of industry in a healthy and prosperous condition,” i.e. the best remedy against sickness is not to be sick. Say the democrats: “We pledge creation of a commission to make a scientific study of unemployment in the state.” i.e., they pledge to open a school of medicine while the patient is writhing in agony. Say the republicans: “We pledge aid to encourage employers and employees voluntarily to lay aside a portion of the income earned in days of prosperity for use in days of un¢mployment.” Which. means encouraging workers to form private funds out of their own meagre earnings. Say the democrats that they are “for unemployment insurance by contributing funds,” which again means a fund contributed to by the workers themselves. The words are vague, the meaning is not difficult to guess. There is, however, one point on which both cliques are quite ex- plicit. They both say in so many words that they are opposed to the “dole,” which means to actual state insurance against unémploy- ment, to the state being obliged to create funds out of employers’ contributions and tax- ation to pay a minimum to every unemployed worker. They are opposed to this only ef- fective means of helping the unemployed. They say it “degrades” the worker. They do not think it degrades him to run to the Salvation Army for a plate of soup to be gotten after hours of waiting. They do not think it degrad- ing to starve. Two groups of robbers. Two camps of work- ers’ foes. They hold a third, the “socialists,” in reserve. They are all one black force. Workers! Deal those enemies a smashing blow at the polls next November 4th. Give the robbers what they deserve. Vote Com- munist! The Fiasco ot “Chicago Bill” By FRANK E. O'BRIEN. 'URSDAY, October, 9, Chicago witnessed its greatest fiasco since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lamp. Thursday “was Chicago Prosperity Day. In other years the day has been observed merely as the anniver- sary of the great Chicago fire, but “Big Bill” ‘Thompson this year conceived the idea of put- ting over one of his so-called “big shows” and incidentally using the occasion to again toss his hat into the ring for re-election to the of- fice of mayor. “Big Bill,” who, it is said, makes his best political campaign speeches when soused with booze, brought another of ‘America’s master showmen, Wm. Randolph Hearst, to Chicago to help the thing along. Although Thompson had publicly announced that over three hundred thousand reserved seat tickets to the Soldiers Field Stadium had been circulated throughout the city and its suburbs, Jess than thirty-five thousand people were in the stands when the fascist clown, Mayor Thompson, and his guest, Hearst, drove into the huge bowl of the stadium. About three- quarters of that number were school children who were excused early from classes by the Thompson-controlled board of education. The remainder was made up, chiefly, of city and county employes whose jobs were in danger if they failed to turn out and whoop it up for Thompson and Hearst. In the sections where the grammar and high school pupils were seated one could notice the shoddy clothing that is being worn by work- ers’ children. On many of the faces one could plainly see evidences of under-nourishment. These school kids didn’t cheer when the two fascist leaders entered the stadium, flanked on all sides with police on motorcycles, detec- tives in Cadillac squad cars, whistles blowing and cut-outs open. Hundreds were indifferent, hundreds actually booed them. _ The jingoistic demonstration finally got -under way. There was the boom-boom of bursting bombs and immediately the air was filled with thousands upon thousands of Amer- ican flags. “Big Bill” Thompson had pur- chased several thousand balloons, red, white and blue, and these were released on signal and floated away into the air. Long lines of high school cadets in the uniforms of the Re- serve Officers’ Training Corps, headed by their school bands, paraded by in close order forma- tion. Police officers of the mounted division attempted to put on several riding stunts which proved fizzles and to which the people present paid little attention. At 3:40 railroad engines cut loose with their din. German and Swedish nationalist singing clubs tried to make themselves heard with but little success. All through the program the spectacle of militarism, fascism and prep- aration for war stood out so clearly that even the most stupid could observe it. Thompson and Hearst were the two princi- ple speakers. Thompson, whose police have murdered and slugged Chicago’s unemployed time and again since the crisis’ set in last fall, blubbered something about the necessity of men having to work if they wanted to eat. Not one word that might indicate that the big buffoon knows what it is all about. Not one word in favor of unemployment insurance for the workers and their families. Just a lot of his usual blah blah and hooey for which he is nationally known. Hearst, who once boasted that he could in- stigate a war over night through the influ- ence of his newspapers and who is alleged to have sent_one of his staff reporters into Mexico a few years ago with the order, “I’ll furnish the insurrection, all you have to do is write the news,” said absolutely nothing at all on the question of unemployment when it came his turn to “speak his little piece.” In- stead, Hearst spent a full half-hour telling an indifferent audience about France having thrown him out of the country and attempted to create a feeling of hatred against the workers of France. Hearst openly revealed —_——_—— HELP! HELP! himself as an out and out agent of American imperialism. His thinly-veiled phrases showed that he stands for a fascist dictatorship in this country which will further enslave the working class and that his publications will carry on such a campaign in the months of struggle which lie ahead. Chicago’s Prosperity Day was a big flop! “Big Bill” Thompson has thrown his hat into the ring for re-election as mayor and the workers are kicking the thing all over the lot. The ranks of the unemployed in Chicago in- crease daily and weekly by the thousands. Jobless workers, both men and women, sleep in parks, in hallways, in fact any place where they happen to find a place to flop for the night. For many weeks they slept, hundreds of them, under the bridge at Wacker Drive, over which the parasites drive in their limou- sines and family cars. Three big hotels actually made arrangements for their garbage wagons to pass under the bridge so that the workers might grab off what morsels of food had been thrown away by the parasites. In Grant Park, Chicago’s loop show place and beauty spot, thousands of the jobless would gather of a night, but they were awakened at five in the morning, because it wouldn’t do to have the capitalists and their “dames of leisure” bothered by the sight of workers lying around hungry and cold and it was certain that if the cops permitted the job- less to remain longer than 5 a, m. they’d get the habit of staying there all day long. The Councils of Unemployed, under the di- rection of the Trade Union Unity League, kept hammering.away on the question of unemploy- ment so long that the capitalists have become genuinely alarmed at the turn of things. Wm. Wrigley, the chewing gum king who pays his factory help the lowest starvation wages, and the Tower Town Girls, a tribe of useless old battle-axes of the capitalist class have come to the rescue of the four hundred and fifty thousand jobless workers of Chicago. The “kept women” of the Gold Coast, styling them- selves Tower Towners, have leased the old County Jail, condemned as a fire trap three or four years ago, and will quarter a couple of hundred “unfortunates,” as these consider- ate old damsels term the jobless. They will, of course, be fed with the usual Salvation Army slop guaranteed to turn the stomachs of even hogs. Bill Wrigley, who made several millions this year on his Cub ball in the National League, to say nothing of the millions coined out of the sweat and blood of workers in his gum factories, comes forward with an offer to “‘do- nate” one of: his unused warehouses to house the homeless. Bill is so considerate of the “unfortunates,” don’t you know. It will be seen that the efforts of Wrigley and his female associates to “salve” over the unemployment situation is but an attempt to smash the militancy of the jobless thousands in Chicago. They offer swill and slop in or- der to keep down struggles against them and the class of which they are a part for real, sustantial relief. Against this policy of betrayal, which is re- ceiving the support and cooperation of the trade union fakers of the A. F. of L. here and the leaders of the treacherous socialist party, the National Unemployed Councils, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, is organiz- ing the unemployed for struggle against the capitalist system, for the Unemployment In- surance Bill which grants every unemployed worker twenty-five dollars per week and five dollars additional for each dependent, and against evictions from their homes for non- payment of rent. Thousands of workers will vote Communist this election day in Illinois. We must poll a huge vote for the Communist Party program, which is a program of class struggle. CORRECTION The article “A. F. of L. Convention Side- Lights” on this page in yesterday’s issue was by A. B. Magil. . WORTHY OF SUPPORT: “Your organ- ization seems to. be worthy of every ‘work- er’s support.” H. Mallory, Detroit. HELP BUILD 60,000 CIRCULATION. y SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs POLICE!—THE UNEMPLOYED! North Carolina Blackshirts Get No Workers By ESTHER CHEMNITZ At the beginning of its campaign to invade every state in the Union with its organizers, the American Fascist Order of Black Shirts found itself balked in its first efforts to co- erce the workers of Charlotte, North Carolina, into joining their lynching, anti-working class organizations. Indignation waxed at its highest last night among workers of the Louise Mill village in Charlotte.. They had answered an unsigned call to gather at the Junior Hall, Belmont Ave., in Charlotte at 8 o’clock. The call which was clothed in secrecy and so catched as to pique the curiosity of the villagers, invited grown men only of 21 years and over to attend. ‘Women and children were specifically request- ed to stay away. Thus enticed, some two hundred workers found themselves together with superintend- ents, foremen and neighborhood petty business men at a first class fascist meeting. This was the beginning of a membership drive to be carried on in the separate mill villages of Charlotte, North Carolina. Accompanied by all the trick oratory of the Souin, the appeal was made “to each red blooded he-man to protect noble womanhood and the sacred home, and the supremacy of the white race.” Marvin Ritch, one-time Ku Kluxer and former city attorney, made the introductory speech. A close friend and as- sociate of Ritch recalling his record in the 1919 strike when with John Dean of the United Textile workers he took an active part in betraying the workers of Charlotte, says he “believes Ritch wouldn’t hesitate to sell to the overseers what he claims to be his influence with the workers.” The main speaker, an organizer from the Atlanta headquarters of the Black Shirts, pro- ceeded to picture “a wonderful glorious South unmolested by the Reds who incite our ‘good Negroes’ and make. them discontented with thet. station in life in which it has pleased god to call them.. Think of working to- gether with niggers shoulder to shoulder and its these Communists who are raising havoe in all our towns, who would have this come about.” The American fascisti, the speaker said, stands for jobs for the white man. Let all the white men have jobs and then if there are some jobs they don’t want, then, of course, the Negro could have them. By such talk, the fascisti hope to be able to divide the white and Negro workers, and so make it possible for the employers to cut wages, lengthen hours and speed them up. A call for membership reiterating the great significance of the organization as a check to Communism and the patriotism involved was answered by the foremen, superintendents and small business men in the audience but not a-single worker responded. The newly acquired members were then duly sworn in by a salute to the flag. Thus ended the first of a concentrated effort to organize in North Carolina a machinery for railroading and lynching workers both Negro and white. H. M. Powers, one of the six defendents in the famous insurrection trial slated to come up for hearing in Atlanta, Georgia, the end of this month, and Southern Organizer of the Communist Party, makes the following state- ment: “The Communist Party will fight to the fullest extent of its power the fascist Black Hundreds’ effort to coerce the workers into joining this terroristic organization aimed against its own interests. “Significant is the fact that the formation of the American Fascisti and Black Shirt Order in North Carolina followed the day after Hoover’s address here on Oct. 7th at Kings Mountain, near the center of the struggles of the textile workers of a year ago. Hoover openly called upon the Southern capitalist class to organize to fight against increased Communist activity and influence in the South. It also comes at a time when the attack on the standard of living of the mill workers is most vicious. Only the other day the employers of the Lou's Mill where the fascist meeting took place de- cided to install the 12 hour day in piace of a 10 hour day beginning Monday. The Commu- nist Party will proceed to form defense com- mittees in every mill and mill village. The campaign against the fascist attempt to terrorize the workers of North Carolina will be defeated by the strength of the defense committees of Negro and white workers. The fight will also be linked up with the struggle against lynching, and with the anti-lynching and terror conference which is now being called for October 27 at Charlotte, N. C. That the infamous committee of a hundred headed by Bulwinkle and other prominent law- yers of Gastonia is affiliated with the Amer- ican Fascisti Order of Black Shirts was estab- lished by the Atlanta speaker visiting that branch of their acti 5 All present at the meeting received copies of the organ of the American fascisti, “The Black Shirt,” edited by Gewinner, former Ko Klux Klan official, and published in Atlanta, Ga. In reality the paper, a four-page affair, largely defeats its own purpose, as at least three-quarters of the space is devoted to re- prints from the Daily Worker and the South- ern Worker, of such nature as to make new ad- herents for rather than enemies of the leader in all working class struggles among the work- ers, the Communist Party. Facts About Fish By H. RAYMOND. Prisoner No. 52349 (Imprisoned Member of Unemployed Delegation) From the early part of June until the latter part of July, 1930, the Hamilton Fish anti- working class committee held in various cities of the United States special police court hear- ings as part of a so-called investigation of Communism in America. At these hearings there appeared among others the following enemies of the working class as “witnesses:” A Jesuite witch doctor named Edmund A. Walsh; two labor mislead- ers, Wm. Green and Matthew Woll, from the American Federation of Labor; Mrs. W. S. Walker, a daughter of the American bourgeois revolution; three New York cops, Whalen, Ly- ons and Van Walkenburg; Charles H. Wood, a strikebreaker and agent of Wall Street; a judge, several school teachers, some ward healers, a few ex-czarist, white guards and a couple of lawyers. Who Was the Biggest Liar? All of these anti-labor “witnesses” showed plainly a vicious attitude toward the working class and the first workers’ republic, the So- viet Union. None of them mentioned the 8,000,- 000 jobless and starving workers, but all of them were interested in saving “our free dem- ocratic republic” for Wall Street. It is hard to say which one of these “good” christian “witné&ses” lied the most. Whether the police outlied the Walsh-Wood-Woll-Green group we don’t know. But we can say they all lied equally well, and in a manner that further discredits the rich grafting class they repre- sent. This batch of “witnesses,” however, it ap- pears, was not enough for Mr. Fish. He hopes to clinch his so-called case against the working class and therefore, he is back on the job list- ening to the Diamon Disk tales of new “wit nesses.” True Comrade Olgin and other Communists appeared before the committee; nevertheless they were handled with high-handed police tac- ties, like culprits before the bar, and were not given permission to testify concerning the true AGITATE IN THE SHOPS! For the Communist Ticket! of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 a a —BY BURCK an enero et tn ene A NN By JORGE It Works Both Ways Befére the gang of frothing patriots could get still more frenzied about the awful Bol- sheviks who are supposed to be to blame for the business depression in America because they bought machinery and cotton and sold a bushel or two of wheat here, the news from France tells us that in France the nationalist press is raising holy hades about American speculators robbing the country. Commenting on the bankruptcy of the Prince and Whitely brokers, whose collapse in New York carried ruin to thousands of French bourgeoisie who had been playing around with the firm’s Paris office, the paper “La Liberte” sa) ‘ “This firm is one of those which recently have been installed in France and have con- tributed to drain our national savings for the profit of the American speculators. It is one of those which have placed on our market American shares which had soared to enormous prices in the crazy speculation boom and which now have caused a loss to our countrymen of between eight-tenths and nine-tenths of what they paid for them.” After the fashion of Secretary Hyde, the French paper should assert that American imperialism did this deliberately “with the intent of stirring up discontent and Bolshev- * * * Utterly Unnecessary We see that a corporation is going to build a 22-inch pipe line from Kentucky to Detroit to supply that city with natural gas. Likewise we see that the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, the Continental Illi- nois Company and the Northern Trust Com- pany of Chicago, are going, with the aid of Mayor Murphy, to “help the unemployed” of Detroit, by nailing a mortgage on the city for $15,000,000, at a price of “par for the bonds as 2.68s plus a premium of $50.” From the way Murphy is helping the bank- ers under the guise of “helping the unem- ployed,” we judge that piping natural gas all the way from Kentucky is a waste of energy. oi eee Take It From One of ’em! Dear Red. Sparks:—When we Bolsheviks in- sist that rich guys never use their brains to make their dough, the pack of profs, journal- ists, and what you will, insist, on the con- trary, that it takes brains to get rich. Now, T swear, by Jorge, that we are right! Take it from Juli Rosenwald of the “59,” who proclaims in the talkies that: “People who think it requires genius to be- come rich are nuts. For men of wealth as a rule are a mediocre lot. Fortunes are acquired by a lucky break, which gives a fellow a foot- hold, and no more brains are required to keep going than it took to make the break.” —By Arso Tee. Must Have Daily. “Please find post office money order for $6. Many thanks for keeping the paper coming, as it would be hard to get along without it during these stirring times.” Nelson Dewey, Edgewater, Colorado. READ- ERS! BUILD HOUSE TO HOUSE ROUTES! > —~ meaning, aims and accomplishments of Com- munism. The only “witnesses” allowed to speak freely before this Fish boss-class committee were the representatives of the boss-class enemies of * the workers. But the workers in the meantime are pre- paring a case against Hamilton Fish and the whole capitalist class he represents. Among the evidence gathered by the work- ers against this fascist inquisitor, Hamilton Fish, is the fact that Fish is the owner of New York tenement houses where consumptive workers cough themselves to death. Where the Fish Grow. We have already learned that Fish lives like a veritable potentate, is the owner of several palatial homes, and is constantly surrounded by a formidable staff of servants, lackeys and guards. The Pictorial Review, October, 1929, speaks of Hamilton Fish’s nonentity of a daughter, Elizabeth, as “a member of Wash- ington’s youngest set.” “A stately line of ancestors is behind this little girl,” says the Pictorial Review. “Con- gressmen, senators, diplomats, lawyers, rail- road magnates, bankers. Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish’s father—Hamilton Fish, Jr.,—is a mem- ber of the House from New York, her mother, one of Washington’s most gracious hostesses. “Mrs. Fish has always been very particular about a definite schedule for her children. They have lots of outdoor exercise and their time for housework, naps and indoor play is care- fully systematized. “With the same thorough and personal care that she gives everything the children’s health and welfare, Mrs. Fish takes pains that their et sta be laid out by leading child special- ists, More Facts About Fish. These facts are merely a prelude to the in- side dope that we are gathering about Hamil- ton Fish and his pampered plutocratic family. We expect soon to unearth some very curious and interesting family skeletons. But in the meantime let us remember what while Fish’s children are having their naps and diets regul- ated by a corps of expensive specialists, work ing class children are starving and being evice ted from their homes or are forced to sacrifice their little bodies on the altar of mammon in the southern textile mills. Fish comes from a family of bankers that got its money by robbing the working class. Fish, true to his class, is trying to forge new chains for the already enchained workers. But we will not wear your chains Mr. Fish We American workers will do what our Rus« sian brothers’ did. We will destroy your cape italist system and set up a workers’ govern< ment. Our children then, Mr. Fish, will look back and compare you and your barbarious committee with the “holy” savages of the Spanish Inquisition. Worker! Fight Fish! Vote Communist! (Written at Hart’s Island Penitentiary) 8SsSSsSsSsSsS9M9M399393939aS9SSSSeeeeeeeeeee——————————— ° For Bread and Work! Against Mass Layoffs and Wage Cuts! rialist Attacks on the USSR! . Against Impe-