The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1930, Page 1

| N. Y. State Communist Ticket: For Goyernor:—WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Lt. Governor:—J. LOUIS ENGDAHL For Att’y. General:—RICHARD B. MOORE For Comptroller:—FRANKLIN P. BRILL Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist International) orker . —SdRnunict Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIL No.d2tgp4 <> Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 _ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22; 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 27.000 HAIL RED CANDIDATES: SPEED FIGHT FOR BREAD — Insurance, Not Charity! Deas 150,000 jobless workers may be interested in a little item passed on to us by a New York fur worker who yesterday dropped in at our office. Mrs. Henry Ford, he said, was having a new winter coat made in the shop where he worked at a cost of $16,000. He added that the Ford family, to his knowledge, had $1,000,000 worth of very select furs in storage in New York fur storage houses from which coats were to be made for all members of the Ford family. Hungary, shivering, jobless Detroit workers, former profit makers for Ford, should be “delighted” that, while their own lot is a miserable one, at least Mrs. Ford and her “dear” family will be well protected from the chill, damp breezes for which Detroit is noted. Then, why should the workers complain? Surely Mrs. Ford has fur coats which cost $16,000—the bosses’ press will say. But don’t the Fords join with Mayor Murphy in making promises to the work- ers?. Haven't they contributed for the relief of the jobless? Haven't they juggled their shifts at the factory to supply part-time work for more workers? Mr. Murphy surely has no better supporters than the Fords. And al! these arguments raise a fundamental question. Are the unemployed workers entitled to their demand “Work or Wages,” or must they be content with Murphy’s charity? Should the Detroit workers, or the jobless workers in any city, be satisfied with a few crumbs from the bosses’ table. or are they justified in fighting for immediate unemployment insurance? The Communist Party declares that the workers are entitled to immediate unemployment insurance—and more! It is the workers who have built the homes from which they are now being evicted. It is they who produced the food which is now being thrown into sewers while workers are starving. It is they who have produced the cloth- ing which they now need to keep out the winter’s cold. It is they who have produced everything that mankind needs and uses. But under capitalism all these things which the workers have produced are denied them. . From their huge profits the bosses—the Fords—can deck out their wives in fur coats. can live in the greatest luxury and ease. When they can operate their plants for a profit they operate. Otherwise they close them down or go on part-time and let the workers starve. The workers are ready and willing to work. But because it is not profitable the bosses close their plants. We, the Communists, say—either open up the plants and give us work, or else give us unemployment insurance. We say, take the war funds of the bosses, make a capital levy on their wealth, levy a tax on their income. Take from their profits and wealth enough to immediately establish an unemployment insurance fund of. five billion dollars. From this fund pay $25 to every jobless worker and $5 ad- ditional for each dependent member of his family. These demands we oppose to Murphy’s fake charity which he combines with plans for war against the Detroit workers, For these demands the Communist Party calls upon the Detroit workers to demonstrate Friday. We call upon the workers to vote Communist on November 4th! ® Hoover ‘Hunger’ Crew Is Boss Attack on the Unemployed After six months imprisonment, during which the number of unem- ployed workers has passed eight millions and when hundreds of thou- sands are literally starving to death, we find President Hoover and the entire capitalist class still “calling conferences”—but for the purpose of devising ways of avoiding unem- ployment insurance and head off the rising movement of protest. The mass demonstrations of March 6th, for which we were sent to prison, was the first proof that only by mass organization and fight, under the leadership of the Communist Party, can the workers even gain the slightest relief. Just the other | day, another proof was given, when the militant demonstration at city jball was followed next day by a million dollars appropriation for un- employment relief; this was a little sop thrown by Mayor Walker and his fellow grafters, trying to hide somewhat their role as clubbers of the unemployed. But even this little sum, which is only $1.25 for each unemployed worker in New | York City, will find its way into \the pockets of the grafting Tam- many politicians. The workers must demand adequate relief and that all Lis Amter Communist Candidate for Con- gress, 23rd Congressional District, New York Robe rt : Minor wm. Z. Foster : Communist Candidate for Gover- , Communist Candidate for ni NewoWuel. Stat gress, 20th Congressiona MOE Ea Aah ee rs District, New York sums for unemployed relief be ad- ministered by committees of work- ers. The Communist Party forced the issue of unemployment upon the capitalist politicians. For this we are clubbed and jailed. But the fight will continue and intensify. We who come out of jail now, im- |mediately throw all our energies} York State, to rouse the masses to |into the fight for the Social Ins fight for this bill and against wage- | ance Bill proposed by the Commu-|cuts and speed-up. jnist Party. At the Madison Square It is clear that the Garden meeting tonight, American starts on a nation-wide tour, and/|against unemployment insurance. Comrade Foster on a tour of New| (Continued on Page 3) Hoover’s “Hunger Committee” Meets to Save Boss Profits and Eighth Ave., Monday proved to be a fine rallying point for strike preparations. Building meetings and shop meet- ELECT DELEGATES | TO PLAN STRIKE) bed eg ® Freed Red Candidates Call for a _ Greater Fight for Jobless Insurance we will| Federation of Labor is hand andj outline a program of struggle for | glove with Hoover and Walker, and | this bill. Tomorrow Comrade Amter | the whole capitalist class, to fight! COMMUNIST ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS BATTLE FOR RIGHT TO LIVE | “Hoover’s Fake Relief Really War on Workers’ Standard of Living; Fight on,’ Says Foster | Minor and Raymond Send Letters Cheering the Struggle of Millions Against Capitalism NEW YORK.—At least twenty-seven thousand workers, including an overflow meeting of several thousand outside, |barred by cops, the biggest demonstration that ever took | place in Madison Square Gardens, filling all the seats when \they were not standing up the cheer the leaders of the unem- : *ployed and standard bearers of |Communism, many standing in {the aisles because there were no more seats, held the Red Rally last night. They ratified the Communist candidates. GREET FOSTER, AMTER TONIGH TONE William Z. Foster, Communist | AT ILD BANOUETD concidate tor governor, and. sae | Communist candidate for | Amter, Congress, were speakers from the Prison Conditions to March 6th unemployment demon- | | stration committee, just released be Exposed yesterday from six months in jail. Letters from two other members of NEW YORK—Tonight at Irving| the delegation, Robert Minor, edi- Plaza the unemployed delegation,| tor of the Daily Worker and Com- just released from prison will be|munist candidate for Congress, and | greeted at a banquet arranged by| Harry Raymond, unemployed work- | the district office of the Interna-|er, were read. Raymond is held in |tional Labor Defense where Foster,| prisgn for four months more, and |Amter and J. Louis Engdahl will| Minor is in the hospital. speak with Samuel A. Darcy in ot | chair. ings are electing delegates to the, Wm. Z. Foster will make an ex- | pose of conditions at Welfare Is- “Vote Communist, for unemploy- ment relief and organize to fight all attempts of the bosses to throw the burden of this growing crisis on the workers and jobless,” was the keynote of the rally. “Militant action dragged from — Bap ce ip BS oe and) telling of the brutal ‘treatment right after work in Irving Plaza| 4¢ hundreds of workers incarcerated | Hall, Thursday, Nov. 6. Here final! in the prison, and demanding the Welcome Back---To the Fight! Banker Admits Crisis Will Last a Long Time; NEW YORK.—With the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union 4 ee Daily Worker joins with the whole working class in welcoming | the Merch 6th Unemployed Delegation back to the fight. | We wish to point out that the expectation of the bosses and their Tammany courts, Whalens Walkers and assorted fascists, that the Communist Party would collapse and the fight for Work or Wages, for Unemployment Insurance and immediate relief would cease to trouble the “59 rulers of America”—this expectation, we repeat, has | been proven to have been the expectation of fools. The class struggle, and hunger demonstrations, are not stopped by jailing leaders as the March 6th Delegation was jailed; nor by beat- ing them up as the Oct. 16th Delegation was beaten. No, the fight will go on, fiercer than before, until the workers force concessions from the snarling and greedy bosses and their government. ’ In welcoming back Foster, Minor and Amter (and demanding the release of Raymond, who remains in prison), we welcome them back to struggle, to aid in making the slogan: “Organize and strike against wage cuts!” a living mass movement that will sweep tens of thousands jnto the ranks of the Trade Union Unity League. To push the revolu- tionary call for mass action in the campaign for Communist votes in November. To increase ten fold the organized forces battling for the | demands of the unemployed under leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. “Vacation” is over, comrades! Welcome back to the fight! Shameful News HE New York Evening Journal, in its editorial column, carries the following news which should make the blood of every worker boil with rage: q “Last month American industries paid out $475,000,000 in dividends. “A year ago last month they paid out $339,000,000. Net gain over a year ago, $136,000,000.” | There you have it! This is positive proof that the burdens of the economic crisis are being loaded on the backs of the workers. An in- crease of $136,000,000 in the bosses’ profits over last year! In the same month (September) 117 big industries cut wages averaging over 10 per cent. Unemployment increased. The speed-up was intensified. In fact, it was through wage cuts, mass lay-offs, and speed-up, despite a continued falling off in production and trade, that made this increase in dividends of $136,000,000 possible. Workers! Organize and fight against this damnable system that makes possible luxury and wealth for a few and starvation and misery for the masses. Organize and strike against wage cuts! Fight for immediate unemployment insurance! Vote Communist on November 1! REFUSE SUBPOENA | derly conduct” and “inciting to riot.” The district attorney de- manded immediate trial. ~ |.commerce, Lamont, met today to de- be spent on public works. FOR MAYOR, AIDS NEW YORK, Oct. 21—Appear- ing in court yesterday morning with their wounds still unhealed after being brutally beaten up by police at a signal given by Mayor Walker in the chambers of the Board of Estimates meeting last Thursday, the six bearers of the unemployed demands found Magistrate Adolph Stone giving full co-operation to the latest effort to frame the leaders of the unemployed by refusing to issue subpoenas for Mayor Walker. At Tombs Court appeared J. Louis’ Engdahl, Communist candi- date for lieutenant governor of New York State, and leader of the Un- employed Council Committee; Sam Nessin, Milton Stone, Robert Lea- less, Freda Jackson and Anna Pogrebisvy, charged with “disor- Joseph Brodsky, attorney for the International Labor Defense de-| manded a postponement until Walk- | er could be subpoenaed. After much | hawing, the, postponemerit was | granted until October 28, but when it came to issuign subpoenas for the mayor and members of the Board of Estimate Magistrate Stern balked. “The mayor is a very, busy man and why_ bother him,” squeaked the Tam- many Hall judge, a wiggling in his chair, trying to smile. It was quite clear to a crowded court room that the Tammany machine had given its instructions to its judicial bench. When Joseph Brodsky insisted that sine Walker had given the sig- nal to forcibly put out Engdahl and the rest of the unemployed delega- tion, and in the presence of Walker and the Board of Estimates the brutal beating of workers took place that these officials become material witnesses, “Building Program” Is a Hoax; Only Class Fight Will Win Relief WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Fore-| munist Party. Not one definite step 24 strikes in other needle lines casting an increase in the clubbing policy against the unemployed, Hoo- | ver today appointed former New York City police commissioner, Ar- thur Woods, to head the “hunger committee.” Woods accepted. Hoover’s fake “hunger and cold”) committee, consisting of the official cabinet liars, headed by the Wall} Street banker and secretary of vise means of fighting against the} demands of the 8,000,000 unem- ployed for jobless insurance. Before this meeting, Hoover had a conference with a group of busi- ness men. The Indiana banker, N. A. Perry, who was present, told Hoover that the crisis will last at least three years longer. The main task of these fakers so far has been to publish a lot of fantastic figures about millions to This is the same hoax that Hoover and La- mont have been putting forward for nearly a year, and which has not reduced the unemployed army by one man. As exposed yesterday in the Daily Worker, the Hoover “hunger com- mittee” is an election maneuver to befuddle the workers into thinking that the bosses intend to do some- thing to “relieve unemployment.” It is an admission that the millions of jobless are faced with a starva- tion winter and an attempt to keep the workers from fighting against this under the leadership of the revolutionary unions and the Com- Fist for the Fact Finders Hoover is trying to ward off worker anger with a “fact. finding” committee on unemployment. The fatties will delve into the mysteries of the crisis and bring to light hitherto unknown facts on whether there are any jobless and if so just what is their opinion in regards to cold and starvation. Among the facts the rum- pies will soon learn is just how hard is a worker's fist. Fight the hunger system! Vote Communist! Readers rush orders for Special Election Campaign Editions: New York City editions Oct. 24 and Nov. 3. | to “ease the burdens” of the bosses. has been taken, except a lot of boss propaganda and preparation for at- tack on the militant unemployed, to elieve unemployment.” The whole futility of the Hoover committee is admitted by the capi talist press. The United Press here states that “The committeemen are confronted at the outset with the knowledge that they cannot attain/| their goal.” Not one worker will be fed) through the Hoover fake committee, as its main object is to protect the | profits of the bosses. In fact, Hoo-| ver is agitating for a cut in taxes The Communist Party demands that the parasites’ taxes be increased | to provide a huge unemployment, fund, which together with the bil- lions to be spent for war purposes, would be used to pay adequate and regular unemployment insurance to the unemployed. The ‘workers’ answer to Hoover's | “hunger committee” must be a} more determined fight against hun-| ger, which will be devastating this | winter. A huge mass movement of | employed and unemployed must be formed to demand the passage of | the Unemployment Insurance Bill, advocated by the Communist ‘Party which demands real relief for all unemployed. In the coming election every worker must vote Communist! | plans will be made and a broad, rep- resentative committee of several hundred dressmakers will be elected to continue the preparations and to lead the strike when it starts. An active members meeting will be held iday, right after work, in Manhattan Lyceum to look over concentrating on active prepara- | tions for the coming dress strike open air meetings, shop meetings, continue to develop. The workers of the Everready| Bag Co., 225 Powell St., Brooklyn, | went on strike aga a and came to the NTWIU for leader- | the situation and mobilize for great- S| All workers are urged to as- | er activ these s norrow there will be a dress- s meeting in Brownsville at ' 1844 Pitkin Ave. at 7:30 p. m. A big mass meeting of dressmak- ers in the open air on 36th Street 60 Worker Organizations Greet Foster and Amter NEW YORK.—Representatives of | W n’s Councils, Workers’ Clubs, many militant workers’ organiza-| Young Pioneers of America, Young tions greeted Foster and Amter, | Communist League, various sections Communist candidates for governor | of the Communist Party throughout and congress and members of the | Greater New York, cooperative or- imprisoned delegation of the 110,000 | ganizations, and a large number of unemployment demonstrators March | branches of the International Work- 6 on their release from Harts Island |ers’ Order. The delegations, crowd- penitentiary yesterday. ‘ed into three big trucks and about An attempt was made by the|a dozen automobiles, met the re- prison authorities to prevent the}leased Communist leaders at the candidates from meeting the dem-| Municipal Building, giving them a onstration by releasing them andj rousing cheer which passersby that sending them out two hours before|came running from all sides took the time set. The delegations, were |for another Communist demonstra- from over sixty workers’ org’ a-|tion heeding for city hall. Foster tions, including the Unemployed |end Amter were toured through the Councils of Greater New York, | garment center, accompanied by the Needle. Trades Workers’ Industrial} cheers and songs of the delegates Union, Food Workers’ Industrial|and warmly greeted by the mass Union, Marine Workers’ League, (Continued on Page 3) A LIVING SAMPLE OF HOOVER'S PLAN | Roe Ku iy rane FORSCOM TH 136 SIRTE HOLLANS 1 580) West,” the fruit and packing barons are trying to keep their profits up in a period of crisis by squeezing every last ounce of labor out of their employees and paying them practically nothing for it. Julia Smilga got $1.13 for one week’s work—thirteen hours, of the hardest kind of toil in a can- | PLANT No. 27 EMP. Xo, 5 CALIFORNIA PACKING CORPORA TON CALAROHS)* Pa ckixa Donponarion he surement PeOKK rem nery. Can she live on that? Part time, and part time at the rate of $1.13 per 13 hours! While millions starve off the job, the California Packing Cor- poration is starving its workers Just what Hoover's starvation commission proposes! Stagger the jobs, give more of the work- ers part time; wages of $1.13 a week to “cure unemployment”! Fight for the seven-hour day and five-day week! Vote Communist— which means to vote for the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill to pay each jobless worker $25 a week out of the U. S. government’s war funds. Organize in the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League, and if unemployed, organize into the Councils of the Unemployed! | unconditional release of Harry Ray- mond, he Atlanta “insurrection” |cases will be dealt with by Louis | J. Engdahl, national secretary of |the I. L. D. At the banquet a program will be given including Jacob Ryan Walker, staff cartoo: the Daily Worker, who will d and Margaret Larkin will southern mill ballads. sing |50 cents, and should be secured im- mediately if possible, at the Work- ers Bookshop, 50 East 13th Street. START TO DRIVE DAILY TO € Turn to Page 3 for Full Tables, Program Straight into Hoover’s fake pro- gram for jobless relief, clean through the bosses’ sinister mov trying to stem the rising anger of | the workers drives the Daily Work- jer program for 60,000 circulation by January 1. iM The campaign , |for mass cir - tion with a 15,000 jinerease by De- cember making possible a 6 page paper starts to- day. | The Daily | Worker must be used to the ut- most in the final | stage of the elec- tion campaign. Complete plans for the mobiliza- tion of ‘the Party and all sympa- thizers behind the drive for 60,000 Tickets‘ are at unemployed prices, |; 600 Tammany and from Hoover such sops as they now throw to the job- less, but the workers demand real relief for the unemployed. The ; workers must fight the whole capi- talist system,” declared all the speakers, amidst great enthusiasm, The hall was filling up with work- ers marching from the shops as It was half full at out to each other the flam- ing slogans on the walls: “Vote for the Working Class Against Capital- ism,” “Organize and Strike Against | Wage Cuts,” “Mass Violation Will s h the Injunctions and Stop vi ns,” “Hail the Communist In- | ternational,” “For the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill—Vote Red,” : 000 More Readers For the Daily Vorker.” | Police (horse, foot, gas end ma- ch gun service) were massed the building, a complete ound rdon. Sam Nessin, | who was speaking | (Continued on Page 2) E GREETINGS _ TO RED RALLY |Workers Everywhere Show Solidarity | NEW YORK.—The workers all \over United States showed their in- terest and expressed their solidarity | with the mass red rally to greet the released Communist candidates and jobless leaders last night by a show- er of telegrams. At a late hour, telegrams were still arriving, and it is impossible te list all, but among those received were messages from: Metal Workers’ Industrial League, wip vee will be found on page 3 of today’s | Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ In- Daily Worker. {dustrial Union, National Textile Published also are tables of | Workers Industrial Union, Food and Daily Worker circulation showing | Packing House Workers Industrial all the gains during the past 5 |League, Marine Workers’ Industrial months and proving that circula- | Union, Needle Trades Workers’ In- tion of the Daily Worker can be | dustrial Union, Young Communist built during the capitalist crisis. | League, Cleveland; Ohio district of the Communist Party, Communist Office Workers Hear pene of the New York University; . uto Workers’ Union, Detroit; Syr- RILU Delegates Tonite NEW YORK. — The delegates District of the Trade Union y League, Detroit International Labor Defense, Brarich 417 of the |from the Youth Section of the " ; Detroit District Trade Union Unity League to the of the Communist Party, Southern Fifth World Congress of the Red | California I.L.D.; Troy Unit of the International of Labor Unions will Communist Party go District | Teport on the congress at the regu- lar monthly meeting of the Office Workers Union, at 6:30 tonight at of the Communist Party; Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and In- the Labor Temple, 14th St., and 2nd° Avenue. ternational Workmen's Order of Vote Communist! Houston, Texas; Mass Meeting then ;going on in Buffalo called by the |LL.D.; Postal Workers’ Communist Club of New York City—and many — others.