The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 1

~~ For a Fight Against Starva- tio~ “for the Workers’ Unem- Central Daily. Al Orga Yorker he-Cd mmunist Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) “en. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21; 1930 NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents 'OSTER, the Co: stty’s candidate for governor of New York | State, and Amte «’Party’s congressional candidate in the 28rd admits, will walk out of prison into Madison Square Garden tonight “to participate in the biggest political blowout District, the Daily Ne of the current campaign.” Robert Minor, the Party’s candidate for Congress in the 20th Con- gressional District, the 8rd member of the unemployed delegation already released from Welfare Island, will be unable to be present at He is still in Roosevelt Hospital following an opera- tion for appendicitis which was complicated by his six month’s prison tonight's rally. term. Harry Raymond, the 4th imprisoned member of the jobless delega- tion, is not being released together with Foster and Amter. framed up charges Tammany bosses are attempting to hold him in The Madison Square Garden demon- stration tonight, by rallying the unemployed workers for greater strug- gles for immediate unemployment insurance, will also rally the work- prison for another four months. ers to force his immediate relief. The thousands of unemployed workers who were led by these mili- tant fighters on March 6th will be present at tonight's demonstration. As a result of the struggle of the unemployed which started under Communist leadership on March 6th the capitalist politicians have been forced to make a pretense of considering the need of the masses Here and there a few sops are being thrown out. night’s rally a program of renewed and intensified struggle will be outlined designed to force these capitalist henchmen to grant imme- diate and adequate.relief to be administered by the workers. According to press reports, Commissioner Mulrooney has called in his chief cossacks and instructed them to “Wipe off the smile and And this is described as the polite version! This is the counter plans of the capitalists. thing possible, directly and through their republican, democratic and “socialist” tools, to continue to force the workers to carry the crisis More speed-up; more wage cuts; more lay-offs; more police for relief. give ‘em hell!” burdens. terror—these are their plans. Against this, and in support of the Communist election campaign, the workers will rally in Madison Square Garden tonight to greet Foster and Amter and to prepare for a new series of struggles for their demands. Preparing for Winter MRESIDENT HOOVER'S commission to deal with the problem of un- ~ “employment is receiving a lot of publicity in the capitalist press. But so far we have not heard of any unemployed workers being sup- plied with bread. On the contrary it becomes more and more evident that neitler Hoover’s commission, Detroit, Chicago, New York or other places which he endorsed have any intention of relieving the suffering of the mass of the unemployed. Their purpose is. quite different. They are attempting to create illusions among the workers by false promises which they have no intentions of fulfilling. a few crumbs to a section of the workers, as is being done, for exam- ple, in Detroit, they are attempting to sew disunity among the work- And then, against the mass of the workers, they are preparing for brutal and bloody suppression of their growing struggles for relief. The Journal of Commerce takes the measure of Hoover's pro- posals and at the same time indicates the policy which the bosses in- tend to put through. They criticize the president for not having come out more openly with a program of drastic wage cuts and the repeal of certain laws which, they say, “hamper” the profit making of the Then they go on to say: ers. big bankers and big corporations. “t=. Hoover would, of course, be politically doomed were he to fail at this time, partigularly in view of the coming elec- tions, to give EVIDENCE. OF ACTIVITY in endeavor to ‘ré- lieve unemployment.” “It is therefore hardly fair to criticize his efforts on the ground of their INEVITABLE FUTILITY. one else realizes just how relatively little there is that he can do to soften what is certain te be a very hard winter for those who are caught in the whee! of adversity.” (Our emphasis —Ed.) This is a very clear admi ion by the high m Hell” Is an Election Move; Workers Must Fight for Real Relief NEW YORK.—After consultation with the Wall Street bankers, secre- tary of Commerce Lamont, has re- turned to Washington, to head Hoover’s fake unemployment com- mittee whose main purpose is to combat the demands for unemploy- ment insurance militantly advocated by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. It is no accident that Hoover's an- nouncement of the formation of a “hunger and clod” commission was made the day after the murderous assault on the Unemployed Council delegation tat city hall, New York |Ctiy, on orders by the despicable Mayor Walker. It follows, also, the Communist led demonstration that riled Hoover at the Bankers Conven- tion in Cleveland. No “Relief.” The most outspoken of the boss press admits that the “relief” which will come out of Hoover's commit- tee will be “futile.” In short, there won't be any relief whatsoever for unemployed workers. Hoover's election of the commit- tee is first of all a campaign man- oeuver to make the 8,000,000 unem- On At to- They will do every- WE HONEST We 4 Must Prevent Coun AND HUNGER TO THoyE OF OUR PEOPLE WHo ARE IN, THOSE WHO HAVE ROBBED AND EXPLOITED THE WorKcK/. oe a aan C ployed, as well as the employed/there is a frightful winter ahead for workers, believe that the bosses in-|the workers. The Daily Worker tend to do something. The bosses}has pointed this out to the workers know the crisis is getting worse./for months, and has agitated for Hoover’s rotten lying doesn’t stand) mass mobilization’ of the workers up any more. He now admits that |for a fight for unemployment in- DETROIT JOBLESS DEMAND RELIEF Plan Demonstration in Grand Cireus Park DETROIT. — The Unemployed Councils of Detroit have issued a call to all unemployed and part- time workers to attend an unem- ployment demonstration that will |be held at noon on Friday, Oct. 25, jin Grand Circus park, where de- mands will be made that the Mur- phy city government provided im- mediate relief. The call of the unemployed coun- cils of Detroit for this demonstra- tion reads in part as follows: “Smash the Murphy-Ford starva- tion conspiracy. Refuse to starve. | Fight for bread. Not Murphy char- ity but city unemployment relief. | What has become of the election! promises of Murphy to give immed- iate relief for unemployed? Over nor the various local “efforts” in By giving Perhaps he as any- st capitalist source that Hoover is actuated only by politics—by a desire to retain republican control ‘of the House and Senate—and that Hoover and the commission are already convinced of the “inevitable futility” of their fake efforts “to relieve unemployment.” | 200,000. unemployed are starving. } Over six weeks have passed since the election of Murphy. During this period there have been regis- While the commission, all the political fakers of all three parties | trations and more promises, but of capitalism—republican, democratic and “‘socialist”—-and the capi- | they have not brought bread to the hungry.” talist press will talk much about the suffering of the unemployed their actual policy will be that of the bosses—lay-offs, speed-up, wage cuts, and police terror. Detroit first showed the bosses’ plans by registering all unem- oyed workers with the police, by refusing relief to all who had not Fived in the city for a year or more, by declaring that first considera- tion would be given to property owners and tax payers, and by openly declaring their intention to drive all others out of the city “back to where they came from.” The endorsement of Detroit's “efforts” by Hoover has stimulated the adopfion of this policy everywhere. In Evanston, Ill., a “Business Men’s and Women’s Pistol Club” is being formed—i. e., the capitalists are being armed—to deal with the unemployed. 600 new thugs are being added to the police force. They are preparing armed terror against militant doiny likewise. workers. But why do they talk of the “inevitable futility” of Hoover's plans and prepare to crush the struggles of the workers which they know Is it because the suffering of the masses cannot be On the contrary this country is well able to take care of the unemployed. There is sufficient food and clothing here for every worker. Food is now being dumped into sewers in order Houses are standing empty while workers freeze in the streets. But the capitalists want their profits and only because Hoover dare not touch these profits do the bosses talk of the are developing? relieved? Decidedly not! to maintain high prices. “inevitable futility” of his plans. The Communist Party has no respect for the bosses’ profits. We say, take the billions now spent for war, take a portion of their wealth, take a portion of their profits and immediately establish a five ‘billion dollar insurance fund to be administered by the workers and from it pay the‘unemployed workers $25 per week. These are the demands of the jobless For these the workers will rally in the election campaign by voting Communist on November 4th, after the election campaign and continuously until these demands are won. will stop the workers, under Communist leadership, from organizing and fighting for the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist These are our demands! workers! Party. Stamford Workers, Defy Police, Attend Red Election Rally STAMFORD, Conn.,. Oct. 20.— Despite the refusal of the city ad- ministration to allow the Communist Party candidates to speak from the Town Hall steps here, a successful election rally was held at Pacific and Wall Sts., at which 150 Negro and white workers heard R. S. Kling, The statement goes on to expose | surance. | This mobilization is going on rap-} jidly. The bosses are beginning to} | feel it throughout the country They | | know this winter there will be sharp (Continued on Page 3) Atlanta Bosses Speeding Ub “Insurrection Trials” Trying to Put Newton and Brady on Trial This Friday in Midst of Lynching Atmosphere and Isolated From White Defendants ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 20.—The possibility that the At- lanta “insurrection” cases will be coming Friday, according to the attorney for the International Labor Defense, is very strong. the trial for at.least another month because of the danger of lynching. When the trial was” due to come up a few weeks| BEAT AND JAIL ago and Herbert Newton and] 1 P EP Henry Story, the two Negro) Lf¢ 4 ae defendants, a number of lynch") METAL STRE ERS ings took place in Georgia as — well as Florida the bordering state. | Bee The International Labor Defense 1s| Make An. Unvrovoked constantly facing the danger of the Attack (Cable By Inprecorr.) defendants in the case _beitig} attacked by the southern mill own- ers and their henchmen the Ku Klux Klan. A reign of terror has spread throughout the south as a direct at- tack against the revolutionary movement. A fascist organization BERLIN, Oct. 19.—Police made an unprovoked attack on a striking metal workers’ demonstration in the Wedding district last night, beating and arresting many workers. Shots were fired. Thrtiy arrests were the fake public works schemes and the charity promises of Murphy. BOSSES STAGE 37TH LYNCHING| Police Lead Mob That Murders Negro WELDON, N. C., Oct. 20.—The thirty seventh lynching this year occurred here last night when Buddy Jackson, Negro worker, was riddled to death by a crowd of armed men. Jackson was accused of shooting and seriously wounding Chief of Police J. R. Frew, when the latter tried to rough-house him while ar- resting him on one of the innumer- able minor charges on which Negro workers are arrested to furnish men | for the contractors and chain gangs. The mob is said to have been led by police. In New York City Other cities are 15 PER CENT WAGE CUT FOR 2100 UPHOLSTERY WEAVERS PHILADELPHIA.—The wages of 2100 upholstery weavers have been cut 15 per cent. The Upholstery Weavers and Workers’ Union, backed by the UTW, is for a policy of no strike, calling for compromise. No threat of terror Communist candidate for Governor; Morris Fitch, candidate for Lieuten. ant-Governor, and I. Wofsky, can- didate for Mayor. The city admin- istration, in refusing the Town Hall steps, stated quite openly that only the republican, democratic and “so- cialist” parties could use this loca- tion for their election rallies, but not the Communist Party. Next Wednesday R. S. Kling will speak Full Circulation Figures Tomorrow Increases in circulation of all districts, all big cities will be shown in tables to be pub- lished tomorrow. Complete program for 60,000 circul: made. Many were wounded and beaten. Polce stormed the streets shouting, “Lights out!” All win- dows were closed as on May Day. has been formed and a newspaper issued filled with vituperous attacks | against all revolutionary activity of militant workers. The Black Shirt, the paper issued by the fascists| Bullets were fired into doorways supports the A. F. of L. program,! and windows. boasting the support of Matthew! The strike meeting today ex- Woll’s organization... Not an issue | pressed bitter protest against the passes without many articles and| action of the police. Secret pro- stories appearing in the Black Shirt | ceedings are going on between the in support of the southern mill) socialist union officials and the owners and white chauvinism. | government to throttle the strike. The Negro issue as brought for-| The revolutionary trade union oppo- ward in the Atlanta “insurrection” | sition issued an appeal calling on case is a constant source of mater-/ all workers to support the strikers ial for the fascist paper. To keep | to the extent of their power. the Negro workers in their place) Referring to Bruening’s Reichs- is one of their main points of argu- tag speech, today’s Rote Fahne, ment. |Communist daily newspaper, de- The I. L. D. is constantly forcing | clares the hypocritical phases con- the issue, fighting for the Negro cerning sacrifice of the whole peo- and white workers’ right to organ- ple is a mockery of the working ize and no discrimination because ' masses. It declares that the work- of color. COLD COMES, JOBLESS SUICIDES GROW (aaries BULL, an unemployed worker of 1137 | Porter Street, Philadelphia, yesterday committed suicide by taking poison after tramping the ctreets | for months in search of work. He died on the way | to the hospital. This worker's death is one of hundreds occurring all over the country as workers either starve to death or commit suicide while Hoover and the bosses and their lackeys in the A. F. of L. and the “socialist” party try to minimize unemployment and resist the demands of the revolutionary workers for | social insurance of $25 a week to every unemployed worker to be paid by the state and the bosses and | administered by the workers. In Escanaba Mich., yesterday Alphonse Dupere, another worker admitted by the capitalist press to be “with no prospect of work and his family facing privation,” fatally shot himself, leaving a widow been locked up workers. other cities mai closed down. Workers! The bosses have or commit. suicid ing families! in New London, at Williams Mem- orial Park, and Tuesday at Nor- wich. $ tion. Watch Wednesday’s ‘paper. and ten children. In Monroe, Mich, Edward Schmidt, a jobless worker, was arrested yesterday accused of attempt- ‘on the’ calendar’ this’ Every effort has been made by the Iv L. D. to postpone) CONN. JOBLESS CONFERENCE Demand $25,000,000 for Local Relief NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 20.— The state unemployment conference called by the Trade Union Unity League was held in the city of Hart ford on Sunday, Oct. 19. The con- ference at which there were over section of the state discussed plans organizing the workers of | tor | Connecticut for a struggle against | for all wo | unemployment and for relief to all | | jobless workers. | The resolution passed at the con- |ference demanded from the state j legislature an oppropriation of $25,- ; 000,000 for the. creation of an emer- soncy unemployment relief fund. | The conference also decided to cir- | : culate a petition among the Conecti- interest < Bosses Admit Hoover’s Fake “Hunger and Cold” Comm. Will Do Nothing for J obless @REET MARCH 6 100 delegates representing 60 work-| ment relief. ; ing class organizations from every | winter of “hunger and cold” is HUGE MEET TO LEADERS TODAY Red Candidates Foster, Minor, Amter—Just Out of Jail, Speed Jobless Fight To Give Workers’ Answer to. Hoover's Fake “Unemployment Committee” NEW YORK.—Tonight Foster, Minor and Amter, leaders | of the March 6th unemployed demonstration, candidates on | the Communist ticket, just out of jail after serving six months for fighting for unemployment insurance, will speak to a huge mass demonstration at Madison Square Garden. * This meeting takes place in ‘the onrush of the sharpest battles in American his- Unemployment is grow- ing apace. Elections are com- COUNTRY IN RED ing on and the three boss | parties, the republican, democrat ELECTION DRIVE tnc'sccatis, sre batting to. foe the workers and keep them away {from militant class action. The arte ftay jor|Communist Party is reaching mil- a Pag nal lions of workers in the election drive aaison $q. (ole) on the real issues which confront |the American. workers. Foster, NEW YORK. — After the huge}Minor and Amter will give the mass demonstration at Madison|workers’ answer to the Hoover- |Square Garden which greets the Tammany fake “unemployment com- March Sixth delegation, Foster, Mi-| mittee.” jnor and Amter, Comrade I. Amter| No more do Hoover and the para- | will make a tour of the country to|sites he represent repeat their lies jspeed up the Communist election] about improvement in employment. campaign, and to broaden the fight|They cannot hide the fact that this for the Unemployment Insurance! winter will be the bitterest for all | Bill. |the workers ever experienced in the Everywhere big rallies are ex-| United States. By Winter 9,000,000 pected to greet one of the leaders| Workers will be out of jobs. Hun- of the historic March Sixth demon-|dreds of thousands more will be stations. The fight for unemploy-| evicted. Wage cuts will come on ment insurance is growing sharper |@pace. It is to rally the workers every day. Hoover has formed a) against this “smash attack: of the | Wall Street jbosses that the Madison Square committee to fight | 7 3 against the demands for unemploy- | Garden meeting will be held to greet He admitted that a, the leaders of the unemployed who |were jailed by the Tammany graft- 4 4 ers. See lh ieee Nessin, who. was beaten | viciously on orders of Mayor | Walker, and J. Louis Engdahl, Com- ist candidate in New York, who ded the Unemployed Council + | delegation to City Hall, demanding | immediate unemployment relief, will ahead for all workers. have a rou message of struggle at two p. the Bricklay St. . | Cleveland as a mail Bluffs of Tammany and Hoover ing leader of the wor Unmasked. nouncement of his Foster, Minor, Amter, Engdahl ated wide cut woikers and to gain 10,000 sig- | Stickers have been printed in thou- and Nessin will analyze the latest _ ers’ demands are impossible of ful-| ing to steal bread for his starving family. jail by the bosses’ courts whose function is to de- fend the property of the bosses against starving Another worker, in Philedelphia, father. of two children, took poison but failed in the attempt, and then jumped from the Delaware bridge but was picked up and is still alive. In the meantime, the bosses are continuing to lay off thousands of workers. Don’t starve in this land of plenty! Fight for your right to live! port the Communist Party in its demand for social insuran-e of $25 a week to each unemployed worker, to be paid by the state and the bosses and adminis- tered by the workers. Demonstrate your refusal to starve by voting Communist on November 4! |natures endorsing the unemploy-| ment. insurance bill and supporting | the demands upon the State Legis- | lature. | _ The conference also passed resolu- | tions demanding the release of all | | elass-war prisoners and urging the workers to Vote Communist in the | coming elections. | | This conference laid a base for a movement among the Connecticut | | workers to fight for unemployment | insurance. and relief. Many of the jorganizations at the conference | | pledged to open their headquarters las meeting places for the unem-| ployed and thus make easier their | orgenization. | | fillment through parliament, Mass Found Guilty Penn. Sedition Law 0. S i Big 5 nee the Hoover administration who are throughout all ihe factories We and now bluffing the eight million un- around Cleveland. So successful has lemployed with “investigation” com- (Continued on Page 3) |mittees and “relief” funds of one MOE ae | million which might provide exactly } nr cents for every unemployed in LAWRENCE FACE New York City for the entire winter. | The Workers’ Unemployment In- 20 YEARS IN JAIL surance Bill proposed by the Com- x |munist Party will be explained by a |the Communist candidates and new Under plans for further fights for imme- diate unemployed relief will be laid |before the tens of thousands of {workers assembled at Madison PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 2 Square Garden tonight. Bill Lawrence, Trade Union Unity| Minor to Arrive from Hospital. | League organizer, wa: found guilty| Robert Minor, who went through get the conviction and with judge a dangerous operation after he was lunder the Flynn anti-sedition act |Teleased from prison in a most seri- | struggles in factories, employment) >. speaking at a Communist cam-| ous physical condition, will make an exchanges and on the streets are necessary, says the Rote Fahne. Bruening’s program opens a per- spective of lower wages for the workers and higher profits for the capitalists. The workers change the perspective to one of a revolutionary overthrow of capital- ism. He has and will no doubt be sentenced io In Philadelphia and ny plants and factories are being thrown you on the street to starve le! Suicide will not help your starv- must | | paign meeting in November, 1928.| attempt to be present on the plat- |The sedition act carries a sentence | form at Madison Square Garden and | up to twenty years. The case has receive the greetings of the work- been fought by the Internationat|¢rs of New York. If allowed by Labor Defense and a motion has| the doctors to speak, Comrade Rob- (Continued on Page 3) |been made for a new trial by At-| | torney Levinson. Meanwhile ,Law- rence is in jail in lieu of $2,000, bail. | Lawrence's crime consists of ex- posing the Philadelphia graft ring, for many years famous as one of the most powerfully organized graft rings in the United States, next to the Tammany machine in New York, In his speech the night of his arrest he flayed capitalism and the betrayers of the American) | working class, the American Feder- ation of Labor, proving the Commu- nist Party to be the only political | party capable of militant action || against the organized activities of | the boss class. | The state worked desperately to |and jury being part of the machine, | t was not hard to convict Lawrence, | }even on the flimsy evidence pro-| duced by the coal and iron govern-| ment of this state. | ‘Thanks, Hoover, no Breadcrumbs!’ A few hours after 15,000 jobless workers meet N. Y. cops in a head-on free-for-all Hoover hot foots into print with a hollow program. Lamont’s terror shakes through these words: “not an hour should be lost.” Fear of the coming winter chills the official spine. Workers scorn the crust they prepare to snip. De- mand full unemployment in- surance! Vote Communist! Hit the million mark with Special Election Campaign Sup- A protest meeting will be held tonight by the International Labor Defense at Garrick Hall, 507 South | Eighth Street, in conjuncton with | the Communist election campaign | rally. | Editions! Now! Order! $1 brings 120; $8, 1,000. See page 2 for dates, etc. WORKERS! VOTE COMMUNIST NOV. 4! For Unemploymen Administered by t Insurance Paid for Out of the War Funds and the WorkersAgainst the Lynch Terror—Aga and alent! Vote Communistinst the Injunctions. | ‘ j