The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1930, Page 1

N. Y. State Communist Ticket: For Governor:—WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Lt. Governor:—J. LOUIS ENGDAHL For Att'y. General:—RICHARD B. MOORE For Comptroller:—_FRANKLIN P. BRILL Dail Central (Sectio Orga Tm *“the-Co: n of the et Diag Rinunict Interna Party U.S.A. tional) Norker .:: OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1 930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents A Frightened Tiger tL eek’ by means of the foulest graft and corruption, has been able for years to rule New York in the interests of the bankers and big corporations almost unchallenged. Judge Panken, the “socialist,” and the few republicans occasionally elected to office have all been hammered into line or bought and made to serve the machine. In the case of Panken, Tammany was so well satisfied that they were ready to endorse him for re-election and accept him into their corrupt family. But now, for the first time, the rotten rule of Tammany has been challenged. Fifteen thousand workers, under Communist leadership, have declared their intention to fight. The fight in City Hall Square and before the Board of Estimate last Thursday against their grafting billion-dollar budget and for immediate relief for the unemployed Tammany knows was only the beginning. Tammany knows also that this 15,000 will rapidly multiply as the workers realize the extent of the budget steal being put over while the masses are starving. And Tammany is frightened! Under the grafting Mayor Walker’s direction, and by the most bloody cossack methods, Tammany’s uniformed thugs were able to clear the Board of Estimate room and the square only after four hours of fighting. And they know that they did not win: They know that these workers are coming back in still greater numbers. And, we repeat, Tammany is frightened. i The cunning tiger, however, is not going to be easily trapped. This is shown by the actions of the Board of Estimate. Their firct act on Friday was to vote a million dollars “for the relief of unemployment, the method of its allotment to be determined later by the Board of Estimate.”. The allotment of $1,000,000, while it might appear to be a large amount to the worker who is penniless, is shameful. This repre- sents a “gift” of exactly $1.25 to each of the 800,000 jobless workers in New York City if we assume that it will actually go to the unem- ployed. But with the present gang of grafting thieves in the City Hall this allotment means only another million dollars for graft. It is designed to provide more oil for the Tammany machine while at the same time creating the illusion that something is being done to help the jobless workers. But under the title, “Help the Unemployed,” the grafting city of- ficials’ weekly, “The Chief,” editorially discloses the real “help” which Tammany intends to give. In arguing for a still further increase in the Lillion dollar graft budget, they say: “The police department, of course, leads with an appeal for a’out eloven hundred more men and officers which Commissioner Mulrooney needs serely. . . . The present unemployment sit- uction is another good reason for allowing these necessary new positions.” Following this policy the Board of Estimate, at the same meeting where it voted a million for the “relief of the unemployed,” it voted to allow irooney 600 additional policemen and $8,000,000 increase over last year’s allowance for the police department budget. Three million dollars additional were added to still other departments. So daily the graft budget increases. The frightened tiger espe- cially is voting money to protect himself from the enraged workers. The demonstration of last Thursday however, forced Tammany to make a pretense of giving relief to the unemployed. By continuous hammering the workers will be able to defeat their aims and get real concessions. In every one of the five boroughs, as the budget comes up: for consideration, the workers will be tnere in mass. They will tight this billion dollar graft budget to the last ditch, i. e., until Walker’s grafting Tammany administration with its republican and “socialist” allies, is driven from power. The Communist Party, in this fight, will give leadership to the workers, and the workers in increasing numbers will show their con- fidence in the Communist Party by, voting the Communist ticket straight—column 5 in New York State—on November 4th. “Inciting to Riot” Sam Nessin, secretary of the Unemployed Council of New York and Communist candidate for State Senator in the 22nd District, Bronx, is finally rescued from the murderous mob which attacked him and beat him nearly to death at Mayor Walker’s behest in the City Council chambers. Only one of Nessin’s sturdy body could have lived through it. Even yet his condition is precarious due to the possibility of internal injuries. But he lives. And the fact that he still lives gives the dastardly cowards, headed by the vile Walker, to hold him for prosecution under the ridiculous charge that he “incited to riot!” Whom did he “incite to diot?” One Communist, all alone (his four companions were in the back of the room and he was surrounded by scores and hundreds of city officials and law officers!) incited Mayor Walker into such a frenzy as he has not had since the last nude dance at a Tammany ,“stag party.” Perhaps Nessin “incited” Major William Deegan, hydophobiac Red-baiter and Tenement House Commissioner, the mention of whose office even is followed immediately by the thought: Graft. In fact the N. Y. Times admitted that the Major was excited, if not incited. Perhaps the Communists “incited” the cluster of capitalist press reporters, who, seeing the barbarians engaged ni trying to murder Nessin, were at a loss how to lie about it, and although they agreed that they should all say that “the Reds started it,” told as many contradictory stories as there were reporters. But, lie as they might, they could not escape the fact that Nessin was leaped upon bydetectives and patrolmen, though the New York Times lied brazenly by trying to speak vaguely about “persons in the audience.” “Audience,” hell! “Nessin was surrounded by uniformed patrélmen and detectives,” the Post had to admit. And—most of the patrolmen and detectives drew blackjacks and weilded them on Nessin’s head and shoulders.” And the Telegram had to admit that: “The police, say witnessés, kicked him, and one detective wtih ap- parent deliberation stepped on his head and ground his heel.” Now, who, considering that Nessin was unconscious at the moment, “incited” that, Mayor Walker? If Nessin is prosecuted for “inciting to riot,” we will find out perhaps, just who was rioting! 260,000 to Date Gee have so far been placed with the business office of the Daily Worker for 260,000 copies of the special Daily Worker elec- tion editions. This, while already showing a much greater use by the Party of the Daily Worker in its campaign, is still far from the goal of 1,000,000 copies. New York City has ordered 135,000 with the possibility that the order will be still further increased. Pittsburgh has ordered 50,000. Philadelphia, while not yet sending in the cash, has declared its in- tention of taking 50,000 also. New Haven has tentatively ordered 12,000. The remaining 13,000 are in small orders scattered throughout the entire country. Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle, Kansas City,-and California districts, not to speak of the South, have so far failed to order a single additional copy. This represents a serious weakness in. their election campaign work which can still be remedied if orders (with cash) are immediately rushed in. Surely if Pittsburgh, for example, which is relatively weaker than any of these districts, can order and pay cash for 50,000 copies every one of the districts which have not yet responded can place a sub- stantial order read us the possibility of reaching our 1,000,000 goal. Send in orders at once! By HARRISON GEORGE It makes a lot of difference whose ox is gored. So goes the old say- jing. In the case of accusations |against Tammany graft, it makes a lot of difference whether the ox is gored or just patted reprovingly on the starboard quarter. For months now, the capitalist | papers have been full of Tammany’s |corruption of the courts, long-| | winded editorials saying that such things aren’t nice. The republicans have generally hinted that the dem- locrats were dishonest, the demo- jcrats have retorted that the same | applies to the republicans. And the \“socialists” have issued endless |statements that graft in which they jare not given a share is undermin- |ing the confidence of the masses in ; the holiness and sanctity of capital- jist class government. Everybody—that is, all the “re- spectable” politicians have been gently abusing one another with stuffed clubs. Even without this stage play, every child that is able \to walk knows that.Tammany ad- [abuse fa) of New York City is “Insults” or A ‘Fight tor Bread ? Why Should Starving Workers Be Polite? to Mayor Walker and talks about it at an official “public hearing!” At once all the “opposition” M KaRLiny | masks of all the stage players, re-| publicans and fake “socialists” alike, are torn off. Even the chesty har- lot of the “Times,” which has been {scolding Tammany for inexcusable |blunders in giving the republicans | Haun: SOLOMON jie would make it look like Nessin VHISURCTION TRIO, rotten with graft and that Mayor Walker is king of the boodlers. “Opposition” Rushes to Defense But hoity toity! What a row| when a Communist walks right up! | workers, a chance by the horseplay about “waiving immunity.” Workers, see how the boss papers all rushed to the defense of the ‘Tammany grafters! See how the | “socialists” began showing their true capitalist colors b; ing with the unspeakable Walker | because he was “insulted”! Now it goes without if the Communists have i grafting Mayor of New York they are not at all sorry about it. In the first place, what possible nsulting word could be said about Walker that is not true? But the capitalist papers, in an effort to defend Walker against the undertook to give truth a couple of twists and make Nessin say things he didn’t things | g that | ulted the sympathiz- | s' The complete text of Nessin’s speech was given on page 3 of the ,| Daily Worker, Oct. 17. It was taken the | | was not interested in forcibly pre- senting the demands of the unem- | ployed and insulted the Mayor only because he invited it, but that he said nothing at all about the unem- ployed and simply began “calling names.” Fact and Fancy. | We invite all workers to read | Nessin’s speech, as far as ne was allowed to get, which began with stating that:—“In the name of 800,000 unemployed workers, we de- mand that the $7,000,000 that is as- igned for police, be assigned to an emergency relief fund for the un- | employed.” down by an experienced court re- porter in shorthand. What the cap- italist press had was the longhand |notes of their reporters plus a de- sire to lie about the affair. They don’t agree even with each other. MONSTER RALLY TOMORROW AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN (GREET FOSTER, MINOR, AMITER, RED CANDIDATES, RELEASED TOMORROW Unemployed Council Committee, Beaten On Walker’s Orders To Be Present SOCIALIST PARTY MISUSES DEBS The “Times” for example, relating what Nessin said that was so “in- | | (Continued on Page 2) By R. BAKER. On the eve of the greatest indoor | \demonstration ever held | | York, the Madison Square Garden | | meeting on October 21, it becomes | | necessary to sound a note of warn- ing and to issue some elementary | directives on proletarian discipline ‘and revolutionary conduct at politi- | cal demonstrations. in New| Some of our recent demonstra- | tionshave been marked by a dis-| | graceful display of petty-bourgois| indifference, chattering, promenad- ing and hooliganism. The overwhelming majority of | | workers seal ati tending our demonstra- tions pay close attention to the speakers and seriously participate n the demonstraton. A small part of the audence and among, them some irresponsible party amembers insist on expressing their ¢omplete ‘disregard for the ting by de- | liberately violating all the basic | principles of proletarian discipline. | When the police destroy our dem- onstration by violence we are not} surprised. But these petty bourgois minded sceptics, pessimists and wise ‘cracks attempt to disrupt the unity | and effectiveness of our demonstra- tions by turning them into social gathering places, promenades and circus grounds. This must be stopped. What to Do on October 21. Do not leave your seat until the meeting is adjourned. Do not talk to your neighbor after the meeting begins and until it is | adjourned, Do not promenade the hall or seek your acquaintances. Do not leave the hall until the Women Councils Call | on Workers to Greet | Foster, Amter, Tues. | The United Council of Working) Class Women calls upon all its) councils, members, sympathizers, and all other working class women to turn out 100 per cent Tuesday night, Oct. 21st, at Madison Square | Garden, at 7 p. m. to greet the un- ‘ employed delegation, Comrades Fos- | ter, Minor and Amter, who were ‘arrested and jailed on March 6th, because they dared to lead the un- employed workers to City Hall to | demand work or wages. | All council members and sym- | pathizers are urged to come early. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and the boxes near those sections are as- | signed to the United Council of , Working Class Women. The coun- | cils are to bring their banners. | The committee elected to greet The committees elected to take care of the sections, etc., are to be ‘at the hall at 5:30 p. m. lz delegation at the station is to report at Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., 4th floor, at 9:30 sharp Tuesday morning. gateud | Proletarian Self-Discipline at the Oct. 21 Mass Meeting Revolutionary Discipline and Militancy Must) Characterize All Communist Demonstra- tions, Says Baker meeting is over. | the listeners. | charge. {of all class war prisoners in Do not disturb the speakers or | Do not sell buttons, literature, tickets or collect funds unless au- thorized by the Committee in| ATTACK BRONX RED MEETING Tammany Cops Club] Workers NEW YORK.—Carrying out the openly announced policy of Walker to break up all Communist meetings | {in New York City, Teeny police } and yellow yesterday afternoon co-operated in attacking a Communist election meeting held at Hunts Point Palace, Bronx. Do not sell anything during the | time of the speeches. The demonstration has a serious purpose of mobilizing the workers to fight against unemployment, evic- tions, wage-cuts, police terrorism, | war, etc. Some Directives. Observe absolute silence during | the speeches. Remember that 25,000 workers | came to the hall and are interested in what Comrades Foster, Minor | and Amter have to say after being in prison 6 months. Silence the disturbers of the dem- onstration next to you. Pay attention to the ushers andj| (Continued on Page 2) | workers out of the hall. The Hunts Point Palace meeting | was a concert and election rally at | which Comrades Morsaiye J. Olgin, | Communist candidate for Congress, j and J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for | lieutenant-governor of the State of New York, were scheduled to ad- | dress the workers on the Communist | election program and its demand | | for social insurance for the millions | of jobless workers. Just beore the | speakers ‘appeared, the police called | |in by the “socialists” announced | that there would be no election speeches and started driving the} The “so- cialists” had first tried todisrupt the | meeting by standing in the hallway and telling workers “the meeting is| Mass Demand Forced Tammany to Promise the, Million for Relief, Says Engdahl, Amount called of here’s no meetng. BANQUET MARCH 6 LEADERS WED. ILD Calls Workers to. | orate the Garden. Greet Delegation NEW YORK.—The release of the unemployed delegation from Wel- fare Island, Foster, Minor and Am- ter, will be celebrated in militant | fashion at a rally supported by cru International Labor Defense in| Madison Square Garden, Oct. 21st, ) and at a banquet given at Irving | Plaza, thefo Nowing night, Oct. 22. | The immediate release of Raymond | |who has four months more to serve | will be demanded at these meetings | | as well as the unconditional release | the | United States. RULES FOR MADISON SO. ‘GARDEN DEMONSTRATION 1. Unemployed worke rs, should report at the employees entrance at 4 p. m. to he'p dec- 2. All committees elected | by the units must report at the Garden at 5:30 p. m. 3. Doors will be open at 7 p.m. 4. Maintain revolutionary discipline in the hall all through the evening. Do not walk about, do not change your seat, do not talk while the pro- gram is on. Do not disrupt the effect of the demonstration. | beaten members of the New York! Maintain revolutionary disci- pline! EVANSTOWN BOSSES ARM AGAINST THE JOBLESS, EVANSTON, Ill, Oct. 19.—The} |rich parasites who inhabit this | classy suburb o Chicago are arming themselves against the workers un-| | der the excuse of expecting a “crime | wave” this winter. The Evenston- | | ian bosses know that this is going to | be a hard winter. Thousands of un- employed will fight for bread. To combat this, a “Business Men’s and | Women’s, Pistol Club’ has been or- | ganized here. Over 200 have already venrolled. These parasites will be allowed to carry arms to shoot a worker who refuses to starve. The workers are jailed for being with- out jobs, let alone carrying arms. The boss governments permit these business men to arm. They will all | carry automatics, and they will be | used against hungry workers. VOTE COMMUNIST! | Peddles His. Name | the socialistparty, Repudiates Class War; NEW YORK.—The socialist par- ty insults the memory of its mili-| tant leader in days gone by, Eugene lv. Debs, on the occasion of the} | fourth anniversary of his death, to- day. Workers to Answer Hoover’s the 8,000,000 Unemployed NEW YORK.—Tomorrow night thousands of workers, in an enthusiastic mass demonstration, March 6th delegation at Madison Square Garden. At this mighty mass meeting will be present the Unem- ployed Council Committee who were ordered beaten viciously “by the grafting Tammany Hall Hunger Plan for will greet the released boss, Mayor Walker, The jailed leaders of the un- employed who are candidates on the Communist ticket will bring a stirring message of con- | tinued fight for unemployment re- | lief. They will answer Hoover’s challenge to the unemployed work- ers, and will give the werkers’ re- ply to the bosses’ announcement of “hunger and cold” for the 8,000,000 jobless men and women. The revolutionary trade unions will be there in mass. The Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen will march into the hall in a body. Hundreds of working class organizations with The New Leader ignores his career of class struggle, but seeks | | to capitalize the regard of American workers for him by reprinting on) ts back page an appeal by Debs "for subserptions to the socialist party} papers. Written in the days when | particularly in| the person of Debs and the whole} militannt left wing group whose tradition of struggle and most of whose personnel have now gone into | the Communist movement, use of this article for the party of treason | to the working cla$s, the socialist | party which has repudiated the class | struggle, is ghastly irony. | But this is the only use the social- st party now has for Debs and what | he stood for. | City Hall Demonstration | Leader Scores Insultingly Small and Fight Must Go On NEW YORK.—J. Louis Engdahl, chairman of the Delegation of the Councils for the Unemployed of Greater New York, that sought to place the demands of the unem-}| ployed befor the Board of Estimates | meeting at the City Hall last Thurs- | day, yesterday denounced the in-| sulting action taken against the| bundreds of thousands of jobless workers by throwing a “mere crumb of $1,000,000” to silence the de-| mands growing out of the increas-| ing hunger and misery of a great| section of the working-class popula-| |tion of New York City, the “richest (city in the world.” The statement | follows: “Exactly in the very hours that the imprisoned and the savagely | Unemployed Delegation that ap- jpeared before the Board of Es| ‘mates Thursday were being released Cops Rob Warehouse of Beer — and Sell It in Police Station (This is the 24th article in the series on Tammany Hall), By ALLAN JOHNSON. TAMMANY HALL'S answer to the Communist de- mand for immediate relief of New York's 800,000 unemployed is uite in character with the history Nine more million dollars for of the organization. the police department, six hundred gunmen, and one million dollars “to aid the job- less,” the 800,000 of them, at $1.25 each. Aiding the jobless means of course, collecting sta- tistics, opening another employment agency and ad- vocating the construction of roads 1946, The brains of capitalists grind exceedingly slowly, if somewhat noisily, and their belief that workers will be content with bullets when they ask for bread this winter is due for a A cop without a gun is as impressive as a de- flated penny balloon, and a large part. of the $68,000,000 that the police department will spend this year will go don their nice bi more uniformed | gangsters and mi in Chenango in last Thursday at jolt. gunmen. the career of any well-known gangster. scraping of the knees by cops whenever they have been given an opportunity” to meet these master And then compare this with the bestial clubbing of an undersized and gigs bag at (Continued on Page 3 for all the gewgalt -riot-wagons, machine guns, tear gas and armored motorcycles— that are designed to stiffen the soft spines of the gangsters who become officers of the law when they lue uniforms. And this “courage” which is so expensively injected into these Tam- many gunmen, is it designed to subdue professional urderers and rapists? Guns to Overawe Workers. Or is it all a big parade to overawe workers into “respecting” the law which makes a plea for bread punishable by such barbaric cruelty as was inflicted upon the members of the jobless council Mayor Walker's instigation? Read Note the ) | bers as.well are asked to meet there. Sop Throwing | from jails and hospitals on Friday,| |this same Board of Estimates that) carried out a blood bath against | workers appearing before it, met in| secret and hypocritically votes] $1,000,000 for unemployed relief.” Is An Insult. his crumb, thrown by the! ‘richest city in the world’, out of the} insult to the great masses of unem-| |ployed, although it is heralded as | |the first time that the city has al-| |lotted or considered any fund to re-| lieve the jobless.” “This hasty action, swear taken in secret, without any oppor- tunity being given for a ‘public hearing’ to denounce such a paltry sop put forward in an effort to ‘lence he growing demands of the | jobless, grows directly out of the mass pe re brought to bear on |the Board of Estimates through increasing activities of the Councils of Unemployed under the leader- ship of the Communist Party.” “This action, however, is a con-| made by Mayor Walker at Thurs- | (Continued on Page 3) VETS TO MARCH INTO MADISON SQ. MEETING | NEW YORK.—At a regular meet- ing of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s | League on Friday, October 17, it} was decided unanimously to attend | | the Madisu.: Square Garden demon- | stration Tuesday in a body, and to! pay tribute to our leaders, Foster, | Minor and Amter, upon their release | from prison. The ex-servicemen. ‘will | “fall in” promptly at 7 o'clock in the lobby of Madison Square Garden and march en mass into the demon- stration, Members and non-mem- 4 | will appear at the Ma: | must miss. | battles to come, Thursday’s demonstrations and the! fession of ythe false declarations |! | their entire membership have de- cided to greet the released unem- ployed leaders in what is expected to be the largest and most, enthus- ;jastic revolutionary demonstration ever held in Madison Square Garden. Foster, Minor and Amter, have been in jail for who Garden demonstration with a revo- lutionar ymessage that no worker Winter is coming on with its bitter struggles ahead. | Mere workers are losing their jobs | every day. The bosses are girding for a’ major fight against the un employed demands, as well as against the employed in the form of wage cuts. The elections are coming on, and the bosses are ex- pending every ounce of energy and spending millions to fool the worke ers into voting for the boss parties, The rotten socialist outfit is spend- ing more money than ever to mis« 1 the workers into voting for this boss 0 The leading Communist candi- dates will come right from jail to this tremendous election rally and present the real issues of the cam- paign to the workers, They will take up the fight where they were forced to leave off, Rally to Madison Square Gar- den. Swell the throng of workers who will be there. Answer the hun- ger proclamation of Hoover and the | Tammany grafters by attending the | Madison Square Garden demonstra- tion and preparing for the bigger Hear the Commus nist candidates fresh from the capi- so-called record-sized budget, is an|talist jails. Vote Communist! ‘Buy Now’! New Crisis Solution The Philly Chamber of Commerce has taken steps to “wipe out” the boss crisis and starts today a “Buy Now!” campaign, The plan is to circularize the 8,000,000 starving jobless pointing out the many ad- vantages of going hungry. Refusal to purchase food and clothing will be made illegal as the Phillyites say that if each jobless worker spent a minimum of $25 this alone would bring good times. ‘ Smash the hunger system! Vote Communist! Only a few days to get Special Election Campaign Editions. “Wrap up $1 and get 120 copies. N_Y. City editions Oct. 24]] ? and Nov. 3.