The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1930, Page 4

Page Four 18th Street, New York City Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily, except Sunday, at 50 East N. Y¥. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Cable: ~ “WE SOUND THE ALARM” By HOMER SIMMONS Candidate of the Communist Part the 4th Assembly District, Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Jesse Taylor, owner of the “Buffalo Progressive Herald” and candidate of the “socialist” party in the Fourth Assembly Dis- trict, wrote a long editorial in his ov per under the title of “We Sound the Ala’ Mr. Taylor sheds crocodile tears about the “danger of the traditions of a faithful race, and the heritages of a God-fearing people, which should be maintained for prosper a. Here you are. Mr. Taylor, the “socialist” is very much worried over the traditions of his race, which traditions should be maintained for prosperity. Mr. Taylor in fact is so much excited, that he is sounding the “Alarm.” In this long article, after speaking about the evils destroying the Negro race he prints the following in heavy types: “In sounding the alarm we call upon the Christian Church to use every means to de- stroy those evils which fain would lay waste the children of our Common Father.” So the social candidate, the same Mr. Jesse Taylor in the same long article has noth- | ing to say about the lack of prosperity. He has nothing to say about the fact that in the Assembly District where he is a candidate the large majority of the Negro workers are out of work. He does not mention the fact that the republican and democratic judges are evict- ing families from their houses for non-payment of rent. Of course he does not mention this, for Mr. Taylor, the socialist candidate is a landlord himself and he uses the very same judges to evict from his homes those workers and their families who are unable to pay rent. Mr. Taylor does not mention the fact that the grocers in the district are denying credit “DATWORK.” Dail Control Ong. orker Porty U.S.A. to the starving workers with the excuse that: “We are poor ourselves and unable to give much credit.” He keeps silent about the fact the workers have no coal, warm clothing and other necessities for themselves and their fam- ilies. He does not say a word about the pres- ent mass unemployment and its terrible con- sequences for the workers. Well Mr. Taylor, we, the Communist Party, also sound the alarm. We tell the workers that they can get food, clothing and shelter for themselves and for their families only if they organize themselves into powerful indus- trial unions, if they organize themselves into the Unemployed Councils, if they carry on a militant fight for immediate relief. But more than that. We, the Communist Party not only say this to the workers, but we ar: actually organizing the workers into these organizations and leading them into struggle to achieve this. We demonstrated in this Assembly District againsé the eviction of fellow worker C. L. Thornton, 257 N. Division St. and we succeeded to keep the sheriff away from his home. We are organizing the workers to fight against lynchings and discrimination of the Ne- gro worker Our organization, the Commu- nist Party was and is the only political party that carries on an actual struggle against lynching. Only the Communist Party mobil- izes the Negru and white workers for this struggle. These are the reasons why the workers should not vote for the “Holy Three:” for the republican, democratic and socialist party can- didates, who are servants of the boss class, but register their votes for the Communist Party candidates, the candidates of the Amer- ican working class. Injunctions: A Developing Form of Government Strike Breaking By VERN SMITH [E courts, most sanctified and holy and re- spectable part of the capitalist governmen- tal machinery, have always played a prominent role in government strike-breaking by rulings adding to even the oppressive laws more op- pressive orders. In 1806, in the first of a series of labor cases involving. the newly organized shoe workers’ unions, the judge instructed the jury: “A: com- bination of workmen to raise their wages may be considered from a two fold point of view; one is benefit to themselves, the other is to injure those who do not join the society. The rule of law condemns both.” That decision was never reversed by the courts—but it is a dead letter; the workers destroyed it by mass viola- tion. It was applied in a modified form to prevent fining of scabs by unions, as late as 1835 (another shoe workers’ case) and it was written into the statutes of many states in the 1870’s, only to be washed out by the strike Wave. of the 1880’s. Mass Protest. In 1890 the Sherman anti-trust law was “passed, and under it in 1907 the Danbury hat- ters were sued for damages by the employer for injuring his business in a strike “a com- bination in restraint of trade.” The Supreme Court of U. S. opproved the victory of the em- Ployers in the lower court, but a mass protest and continued strikes resulted in the capitalist | government formally repudiating such use of the Sherman act by passing the Clayton act in 1912. The Danbury Hatters’ case was complicated by an injunction. The principle of “restraint of trade” (in spite of the Clayton act!) was used in 1927-1928 again in two cases, the Schoonover injunction prohibiting a strike in a mine which shipped coal over the state line, and a case of a strike on a building where scab material was imported over a state line (Bed- ford Cut Stone Case). That’s all a law amounts to. First Injunction. The first use of the injunction as a bosses’ ‘weapon against strikers was in 1888, granted by a Massachusetts judge to the English Springhead Spinning Co., and ordering strikers not to “display banners with devices as a means of threats or intimidation.” This is the tone of all succeeding injunctions—always the fiction that they are to prevent violence, and always forbidding effective forms of picketing | and strike action. The first great wave of injunctions “by the hundreds” says Debs, was in the Pullman strike, 1904. In 1897 injunctions prohibited organization meetings in the United M ine Workers’ strike. They were violated, hundreds went to jail, but the strike was won. The Bucks Stove and Range Case took place | around an injunction prohibiting publication of the fact that a struck firm was unfair. Gompers was sentenced to a year in jail but was already too useful to the bosses to be sent up. The principle was established against boycott ad- | vertisements. Government Gets Injunction. The U. S. government got an injunction against the miners’ strike of 1919. Hitherto injunctions, in many separate cases, had mostly failed because they were violated.. The A. F. of L. now recognized injunctions; soon it was to use them against workers; the strike was smashed by U.M.W. order (“We can’t fight our government”); 365,000 steel strikers were doomed to struggle without the miners, and were defeated. The government again got out injunctions in its own courts against the shop crafts strike | in 1922, prohibiting the use of the word “strike breaker,” or control of the strike by union heads, use of union money in the strike, etc. The rank and file wanted to violate, the offi- cials hung back; the strike failed. Paragraph 600. The injunction appears now in almost every strike, and reaches its most perfected form in New York, with permanent writs issued to bosses’ associations and to the A. F. of L. bureaucrats against militant unions and mili- tant strikers and with Paragraph 600 chopping down like a guillotine, providing double punish- ment for violation. All past history has shown that a purely legal fight is not enough. The victories of the past were won by mass violation. Open, mass viola- tion is the way out now. Elect Delegates to Conterence tor Protection of Foreign Born To All Organizations of Foreign Born and Native, Negro and White Workers! Fellow Workers! Registration, fingerprinting and deportation threatens the foreign born workers, as the game police clubbing, jailing and electrocution threatens native and foreign born workers alike. At the coming winter, when 9 million work- ers and their families will face hunger, star- vation and eviction, the U. S. Congress of the bosses plans to pass legislation against the foreign born, to frighten them with the threat of deportation. So they shall not dare to fight for the Unemployed Insurance Bill, for work or wages. So they shall not dare to organize themselves and strike against wage-cuts. So they shall not dare together with the native born white and negro workers fight against starvation and police terror and against the imperialist war prepared by the “59” real rulers of this country. _ As at the time of the deportation delirium of the capitalists, in 1919-20 the wild attack against the foreign born workers was made in order to divide the foreign born and native ‘workers, the easier to break down the great struggles in the steel, mining, railroad, meat and other industries. So are the capi- talists trying now before the impending great ‘struggles of the American working class, com- ing with the most miserable winter the Ameri- ean working class ever had, prepare a new de- portation delirium. The speech of President Hoover at Kings Mountain Battle Field against the “Reds” is the keynote to the opening of the intensified campaign of terror against the foreign born and native workers, against the entire work- ing class. # The lynching of 34 Negro workers this year, the jailing of the leaders of the unemployed demonstrations, the threatening six workers with electrocution in Atlanta, Ga., for organ- izing the workers, the Ashweel Bill, the Bleas Bill and the Cable Bill, providing for. the finger-printing, registration and deportation of foreign born workers, the mobilization of the American Legion and the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L. against the working class are all only steps leading towards wild fascist terror in the near future. Fellow workers! Let us answer the bosses and their government in their effort to divide and rule the workers by creating a united front of all toilers. The Provisional, Committee for the Protec- tion of Foreign Born Workers through local and district conferences prepared a national conference to be held in Washington, D. C., probably on the day of the opening of the U. S. Congress (November 30 and December 1). Every local cultural, mutual aid, sport, ex- servicemen, working women, youth, Negro, and trade union organization and groups of shop workers have the right to elect one dele- gate to this national conference, which will mobilize the whole working class to struggle against anti-foreign born legislation, against the existing discriminatory laws, for the re- KEEPING WARM Impressions of the Electro- savod Factory in Moscow By WILLIAM MURPHY es phase of life in the Soviet Republic shows with extreme clearness the mighty power of workers called into being when they have gained control of the means of production and are building up socialism. A recent visit to the Moscow Electric factory (Electrosavod) by members of an English workers delegation have striking confirmation of this power. The walls of Electrosavod were a legacy of pre-revolutionary days but owing to the activi- ties of the imperialists the structure remained a roofless ruin until 1924 when, in the initiative of Lenin, reconstruction was commenced. To- day the factory is organized on up-to-date lines for the production of. electrical material. A few figures will suffice to demonstrate the advances that have taken place and are still in progress. Last year 5,000 workers were employed, to- day there are 11,000 and next year there will be 18,000. No wonder that in Soviet Russia the” problem of unemployment has been solved. The volume of production shows a parallel upward movement. Thus in 1929-80 the Profim- plan (or estimated production for the current year) was valued at some 60,000,000 roubles. This will be achieved by the end of the year. In the coming year the Administration caicu- lated that production could be increased to 135,000,000 roubles. The workers held a series of meetings and finally rejected the findings of the experts. They decided that reproduc- tion can be increased to 160,000,000 roubles. It is a remarkable fact that wherever the workers have challenged the estimates of the experts the workers have been proved correct and the laboured calculations of the techni- cians relegated to the dust bin. Why is this? The technicians are in many cases imbued with capitalist ideology and fail to understand the tremendous force that lies in the revolutionary enthusiasm of the toiling masses. Fired with the same enthusiasm which they showed during the wars of intervention the Russian workers are today massing themselves in Shock Brigades to speed-up the transforma- tion of Russia from a backward agricultural country into an industrialized socialist coun- try. In order to do this they are denying them- selves everything but the minimum necessities of life, for they know, as the workers at Elec- trosavod explained to us, that they are build- ing up their industry not for the capitalists but for themselves, the working class. SUB FOR PRISONER: “Enclosed you will find $1 for subscription to the Daily Worker. A friend of mine visited me here in the cell. I got him interested in the Daily.” Freeman Thompson, Taylorville, Illinois. READERS! SELL DAILIES! ONE CENT A COPY! WILL HELP BUILD DAILY: “Have been behind on the rates—for the reason that I am not working steady, but I will continue to keep up the Daily Worker and help to build a powerful Daily Worker everywhere.” Gust Turpin, Jamestown, N. Y. BUILD HOUSE TO HOUSE ROUTES. lease of the political prisoners, for the right of asylum of the political refugees. Every national organization have the right to elect two delegates. Every organization has to finance its own delegates. ’ Send in immediately the names and addresse: of your elected delegates to the following ad- dress; National Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, 32 Union Square, Room 603, New York, N. Y. Send in donations so the Provisional Com- mittee shall be able to widen its campaign for the protection of foreign born. With fraternal greetings, R: Salzman, Sec’y. National Provisional Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born. AGITATE IN T E SHOPS! The House ot Morgan Grips N. J. By NATHANIEL HONIG. (Candidate for Congress, 12 District in New Jersey.) HEN the Wall Street government sent Dwight W. Morrow down to Mexico as its ambassador, it was the house of J. P. Morgan sending down one of its leading mem- bers to personally supervise the saving of the Mexican oil lands for the house of Morgan. When Morrow returned, the house of Mor- gan speculated as to what post it needed Mor- row most ‘in. There’ was talk of Morrow as a cabinet member—a personal representative of Morgan to supervise things in the cabinet. But even more important than this, the house of Morgan deems it necéssary that Morrow be its personal representative as U. S. Senator from the state of New Jersey. For the stranglé-hold of the house of Mor- gan on the industries of New Jersey and the capitalist political parties of New Jersey is probably greater than the Morgan hold on in- dustry and politics in any other single state. For one thing, northern New Jersey is the freight railroad center of this country. Every railroad with freight termini in New Jerse: the Penn., the Erie, the Baltimore and Ohio, the New Jersey Central and about a score of others—are in the grip of the Morgan inter- locking directorates. And perhaps 50 per cent of the railroad workers in the Hudson, Essex and Bergen County areas are unemployed. The rest are on part time and have had drastic wage re- ductions. ‘ The American Railway Express has some of ‘its largest stations in Northern New Jer- sey. It has laid off many thousands of work- ers in the past few months, and cut wages sharply. The giant Public Service dragon—with its grip on practically all of the electric power, gas, street car and bus transportation—is con- trolled by Morgan. Morrow owns a large part of the shares in the Public Service. The discontent of the workers of New Jer- sey is great. The A. F. of L. cannot and does not want to give leadership to the workers of New Jersey There cannot be found anywhere in this country a more corrupt section of the filthy A. F. of L. machinery than the Brandle ma- chine of Hudson County New Jersey. Brandle is the building trades union’s czar. He is on the payroll of the Iron League of N. J.—the structural iron bosses’ association— for $100,000 a year. Openly on the payroll. He heads a huge insurance company, which makes millions for him through the agency of the bosses. Brandle supports Simpson, ‘the democratic candidate for U. S. Senator. Hilfers, a leading light of the A. F. of L., former treasurer of the State Federation of Labor, on the other hand, supports Morrow. Hilfers was proven to have accepted $100,000 from the open shop bosses of New/Jersey, a | few years ago. The N. J. workers want to fight. some examples, as proof. Buffers and polishers at the big Edison Electric works at West Orange struck against a wage slash that sent rates from 93 cents down to 70 cents an hour. The Edison plant has laid off thousands. These strikers were Here are members of the A. F. of L.'Metal Polishers’. Union and hence were sold out. Four strikes have recently taken place in Paterson under National Textile Workers’ Union leadership. They were strikes against wage cuts. These are some of the reasons why the house of Morgan wants its member, Morrow, to per- sonally supervise things in New Jersey. Simpson, Hague man .and notorious dema- i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 —BY BURCK cratic machine, second only to Tammany in grafting abilities—as it is of the republicans. It considers its member, Morrow, certain of election. But it is taking no chances. It has the democratic candidate—Alexander Simpson, Hague man and notorious demo- * gogue, “friend of labor,” mouthing fake radi- cal phrases, pretending to attack Morgan tule, to attack lay-offs, but making no de- mand for immediate unemployment relief. This friend of labor is the intimate pal of the members of the State Federation who re- cently at their convention demanded that all trade relations be broken off with the Soviet Union. (Trade relations with the U. S. S. R. are keeping such plants as Worthington Pump, many shipbuilding plants in the Port Newark area, etc., from closing down altogether and from throwing more thousands of workers on the streets.) It has been charged time and again that the Hague machine and its leading political lights like Simpson are in the pay of the Public Service Corp.—controlled by Morgan, Mellon and Morrow. So it's a case of two jacks-in- the-box operated by a single string. In a state where over a quarter of a mil- lion workers are unemployed, and over 75 per cent of the rest on part time, or facing early lay-off, the republican party has put up for U. S. Senator, Dwight W. Morrow, who so openly represents the firm which, in control of most of the industry of New Jersey, has been responsible for most of the lay-offs and wage cuts in New Jersey. One set of A. F. of L. racketeers, centered in Newark, backs Mor- row. ‘The Hudson County set backs the democrats. The democrats, the notorious Hague graft machine, who boast that they have the biggest police riot squad in the country, for use against the workers of Jersey City, have re- sorted to putting fake radical phrases in the mouth of Simpson, their candidate. The “socialists talk their usual mouthings about “cooperation with the employers for peaceful solution of the unemployment prob- lem.” They back the General Electric unem- ployment plan, which means forcing great numbers of workers out of the industry—and making the workers pay for unemployment insurance, Only the Communist Party in New Jersey fights for and demands immediate unemploy- ment relief, and calls on the workers still at work (part-time for the most part) to organ- ize and strike against wage cuts. The Communist Party has a full Congres- sional slate in New Jersey, for the first time. Its candidates bring the message of class struggle—working class against capitalist class—to the workers and farmers in all twelve Congressional districts of New Jersey. Against multimillionaire Morrow and Hague- machine Simpsori it has nominated for U. S. Senator, Dozier W. Graham, Negro, threat- ened with 15 years in prison for organizing the unemployed workers. It is certain that the election of 1930 in New Jersey will see a Communist vote by far larger than ever before in the history of the state. , ‘5-YEAR PLAN GOES OVER BIG: “Your publicity on the Five-Year Plan goes over big with the workers of Oakland and keeps the bosses’ press busy thinking up excuses how to fool the workers.” Gust Vantjas, Oakland, Cal. WORKERS! BUILD MASS CIRCULATION! ‘ 12 Years Old, Subscribes. “TI took the Daily Worker for a month and paid fifty cents. I am only twelve years old.” Karl Humberg, Svensen, Oregon. READERS! SELL DAILIES! 1 CENT A For the Communist Ticket! For Against Mass Layoffs and Wage Cuts! rialist Attacks on the USSR! By JORGE News and Propaganda William L. writes in, just to tell us what a reader thinks of the Daily, which is nice, and really welcome. He compliments us on the exposures of Tammany, but adds that—“There is too much propaganda and not enough daily news. We're glad he mentioned it, as it gives us a chance to clear up this point of what the official organ of the Communist Party ought to be. We, and with us the whole working class, do not live in a vacuum or on the planet Mars. We all exist in a society divided into hostile classes, the relation of forces being deter~ mined not alone by objective factors, prospere ity, depression, but by what the working class does under such conditions. And what the working class does should be influenced by what the Communist Party pro- poses it should do. The events concerning the class struggle which are given in the Daily Worker are not just “facts,” but facts in re~ lation to the social forces at struggle and the outcome of that struggle we, the Communists, must influence or we cease to be a party of action. The capitalist press is literally filled with propaganda well mixed with “news.” This capitalist propaganda is the “accepted” thing. You will rarely find one of the gentry who claims a devotion to “pure facts” getting up a sweat over sugh propaganda. But they al- ways prelude comment on the Communist press with remarks against “too much propa- ganda,” thus revealing the fact that they feel quite at home with bourgeois propaganda be- cause they retain bourgeois ideology. Of course there are exaggerations? of the correct method, the unskillful blending of “facts” and conclusions directing the workers to act, the use of empty phrases. But a rather authoritative chap on revolu- tionary movements, Karl Marx, once said something like: “Our function is not merely to interpret the world, but to change it.” Come along and let’s change it! ; Paes cer Razzing Ras Tafari If you don’t know where Ras Tafari lives you will find Abyssinia located out in No Man’s Land between British and American imperialism, with some Italian and French dressing on the side. Which explains why all the capitalist gov- ernments are giving Ras a send-off on his coronation day. So the U. S. A., which will have nothing at all to do with the Soviet Union, because the U. S. is a “democracy” and the Soviet is—well, ask Fish, is sending a delegation to the coronation of the King of Abyssinia, whose title modestly claims that he is “King of Kings.” No, Hoover and Stimson wouldn’t speak to Litvinoff, and they shiver every time they see the word “Stalin,” but they’re “recognizing” Ras Tafari, who was last year a sort of court official of Abyssinia, which was ruled by a Queen or rather a royal mother whose son was supposed to be grawing up for kingship. But Ras, probably with some American per< suasion, organized a job to Jack Diamond the heir, who, getting wind of it, went out in thé hills and collected an army to come back to Addis Abbaba, which is the big town, and run Ras ragged. ke But Ras had hired some airplanes, which won the day, knocking off the heir to the throne. Then, on the same day, the Queen mother most conveniently “died.” So Ras Tafari dared all the other kids to say he wasn’t emperor, and they doesn’t. He’s it, with a capital “E.” And it happens that there’s a lot of min- eralssin Abyssinia, and the headwaters of the Nile River, with water running down it that the British need to irrigate cotton in the Sudan, and the Yankees and Limejuicers and Frogs and Wops are falling over each other beig nice to Ras Tafari. So it comes about that Hoover is sending Ras a “gift.” Oh, lord, how overjoyed Ras will be! It is a photograph of Hoover him- self! Evidently Hoover thinks that the Em- peror needs it, but we understand that Italy has already sent Ras a bottle of castor oil. eR ede 3 Two Sets of Fakers | The Cotton Textile Institute, the mill own- ers bunch, suddenly pretending a vast heart- break that women should have to work at nights in the mills, decides on a great “re- form.” It will fire all the women who are working nights. For doing this, it expects to get public ap- proval, because everybody knows that it is really and truly harmful for women to work at nights. We mean “work,” not playing night-club “hostess.” But since the mill owners are not going to put the women on day shift or even put men in the women’s places on night shift, the case is clear that the capitalists simply want to throw some more workers into the army of unemployed—and want to get praised for the “reform.” é But in steps another bunch of fakers, female fakers, the “National Women’s Party.” You never see that “party” on the election ballot and never will. It’s a fake, organized by capi= talist women to go snooping around with what seems to be “emancipation for women” stuff, Actually, it functions only when somebody is trying to pass a law against working preg- nant mothers over 14 hours a day—or night. And it butts in and says: “Women must have the same rights as men to work long hours at scab wages!” That's the kind of “party” it is. In this case it “protests” that the men who work nights were not fired, too! Nothing will suit the National Women’s Party but the worst conditions men “enjoy” shall be the “right” of women, and vice versa. Thus they keep both zigzagging downwards. i Tip To Pioneers \ We have no evidence outside what the gen- eral reports state, and they usually lie. But anyhow they state that some Pioneer uptown the other day, was making his lunch on a cop’s finger. Nearly ruined his teeth, we understand. But what we wanted to get at was this: Eating pork should be indulged in, if at all, very sparingly. Bread and Work! Against Impe-