The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1930, Page 1

For a Fight Against Starva- tion; for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! i Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 Price 3 Cents £ Pa e Fofce Real Reliet! FTER months of the most shameless lying, during which Hoover A and Tammany united to ignore and belittle the ghastly growth of unemployment, during which the ridiculous figure of 200,000 for the whole of New York State was given as the maximum number of job- less, Edward C. Rybicki, director of the fake “employment office” of New York City, is forced to admit that there are 800,000 unemployed in the city alone. It is the same 800,000 unemployed of New York City for which Sam Nessin of the Unemployed Council delegation demanded adequate immediate relief and jobless insurance before the New York City Board of Estimates last Thursday and was set upon by official thugs and beaten at command of Mayor Walker. Every worker should understand that the savage attack on the Unemployed Delegation was made precisely because the Tammany grafters are determined to do nothing adequate if at all for the 800,000 jobless workers and their families now starving in New York City. Every worker shonld understand that the $1,000,000 frightened out of Tammany supposedly “for the unemployed” will be used for nothing but to give some few hundred Tammany hangers-on a soft job for the winter. Thet is all that anyone can make out of proposals about “chopping wood in the perks, a method to “relieve unemployment.” Such empty gestures are intended to fool the individuals among the hundreds of thousands and make them think that they will be the “lucky ones.” But the workers are learning, must learn, a mass unity in fighting for something more than sops and idle gestures. There can be no substitute for the demands raised by the Unem- ployment Insurance Rill nvoposed by the Communist Party: there can only be adequate relicf from municipal and state agencies equal to such insurance until it is force’ through by the mass fight of the whole working class. Only by fightire will even the smellest concession be made by the capitalists. For this reason, and to put Communists in Congress so that a real battle can be put up there for Unemployment Insurance, all workers should vote Communist as well as prepare themselves | ‘ ctos for furthe= strvvale to force real relief. Jobless end Employed Unite! 'HE so-callel “stagger” system that Hoover is recommending as a “rem for unemployment deserves the widest exposure possible among the workers, and the maximum effort to unite the employed and jobless in defene of their common interest which this “stagger” system attacks. Workers will now understand why it is that the: Communist Party has for nearly a year isted that both employed and jobless must unite in common struggle. To make it understood simply, one may say that where two men are now working full time and one’is jobless,.the “stagger” system proposes to But also part-time pay. ‘Toxenyon® whois not a worker,“and possibly to*many “workers he deceitful nature of this proposal is not at first visible. Tt ” Jt says: “Everyone shall share alike.” But there is more ly anti-working class trick hidden in it. yone” shall share “alike”but only among the workers. sive up not a penny of their profits. And let us remember September American industries paid the capitalist sto holders $475,000,000 in dividends, which is $136,000,000 more than they paid in September last year. The bosses thus propose that they shall give. up nothing of their growing profits, but that the employed members of the working class shall contribute one-third of their wages by part-time work. the third unemployed member of the three mentioned above being also put on part time. The second big deceit in thi rer” system is the idea put forth alongside the proposal for iting up the work,” that this scheme is t a temporary thing, “to tide the workers over” until better times come and “prosnerity” returns. Let us get it well fixed in the minds of all workers that the same level of “ perity” as the past can never again be brought back under capitalism. That any “recovery” that can take place will leave millions of jobless still unable to find full time jobs, Thus we. see that the proposal to “stagger” the jobs and “divide up the work,” is a proposal that the whole working class shall be forced to accept a standard of living permanently reduced by at least one-third. And this.is put out by Hoover, who claims to be against lowering the standard of living! Everywhere, the militant workers must carry the exposure of this scheme to the masses of workers. Everywhere these masses must be shown that the “stagger” system is hostile to their interests whether they be employed at present or unemployed, since the present unem- ployed worker could, under the Hoover Plan, never hope for a job which would give him more than the most miserable wage. And everywhere, the workers, employed and unemployed, must be rallied to fight against the “stagger” system, to strike against this general wage cut of one-third their wages, and unite in the fight to force, as against this reduction of living standard, the establishment of rdecuate Unemployment Insurance as proposed by the Communist Party. Be Warned! Vote Communist! i hare New York Journal of Commerce on Monday remarked upon the fact that Hoover would be “politically doomed” if he did not, in view of the oncoming elections, make some pretense of “activity” con- cerning “relieving unemployment.” ‘ This should be a warning to all workers to understand that, when Hoover's statements and all the folderol of “committees” and “plans” are blazoned forth in the boss newspapers, that Hoover, and in fact all the capitalists, are making this show of concern right now solely to keep the workers thinking that by supporting the political parties of capitalism, they will be “getting something”—only. to keep the workers from Voting Communist. If this warning of the Journal of Commerce is not enough to show workers that the hubbub over “unemployment relief” is just so much pre-election hokum, and that after election the capitalists and their government deliberately intend to make a savage attack on the work- ers, we ask them to read the following remark by Dr. Virgil Jordan, economist of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., made in a speech to the National Electric Manufacturers’ Association in New York Tuesday night: z “Those who are leading it (the campaign to cut wages), will probably defer their outright attempts to liquidate labor and lower American standards of living till after the November elections.” We thus hear from the lips of spokesmen of the bosses, the warn ing that: 4 . The “employment relief” schemes now filling the capitalist pres: are consciously intended to fool the workers and keep them from voting Communist and following the leadership of the Communist Party. The bosses are holding up the heaviest attack on wages and living standards until after the election, to keep the workers from being per- , suaded to Vote Communist to defend their interests, Be warned! Only by fighting can the workers, employed or job- less, defend their interest. Fight for immediate relief and Unemploy- ment Insurance! Organize and strike against wage cuts! Vote Com- munist to place heroic working class fighters, Communists, in Congress and state offices to rouse the whole working class to battle! The fear of the bosses is that the workers’ votes may put Com- munists in Congress. Let us do our damnedest to elect Communists for every office! All out! Vote Communist! ‘divide up the work” so that all three get part-time work. | pein Led ‘by Communist ‘Party in Fight. Against Capitalism Small section of the crowd of 25,000 inside of Madison Square Garden attending the Red Rally | on Oct. 21, the day Foster and | Amter, Communist candidates and leaders of the unemployment dem- onstration March 6 were released. Sign: “Smash Tammany Police Terror—Organize Workers De- fense Corps” is along the front of 800,000 Jobless in New ‘Tammany Henchman Admits ied (, 000 “Despare Men” Ask for Jobs Every Day, But Don’t Get Any; Situation Is Getting Worse Daily NEW YORK.—Admitting that 800,000 out of work is a “conserva- tive figure” for New York City, |Edward Rybicki, Tammany hench |man, and head of the fake “Munici. |pal. Employment Bureau,” declared | Tuesday that the unemployment sit uation is rapidly getting worse and | worse. When a capitalist spokesman ad- mits 800,000 are jobless, worker knows that the number is actually much greater. Hoover is trying to make the workers believe that there are only 3,500,000 out of | work, sidestepping the lying figures of his census takers. The fact is that there are now closer to 9,000,- 000 ‘out of work throughout the United States. | It's Bankrupt. | Rybicki admits that the “free” | job agency of the city is bankrupt. |He says between 6,000 and 7,000 | “desperate men” without work ap- peal to him for jobs every day, but there are no jobs. Reports from all industries show |that huge as the unemployed army \already is, with even the bosses now ladmitting the figures which the (Communist. Party put forward |months ago, and which indicate: were nusually conservative, this winter conditions will be frightful. Not One Meal a Piece. With Rybicki admitting there are more than 800,000 out. of work. in New York City, the $1,000,000 “un- jemployment budget” of the despic- able Mayor Walker, after the, Tam- matry ‘grafters lay their hands on their share of it, wont even provide }one meal apiece for the jobless. Cold weather is already here. The jin the parks during the. summer jean’t hold out much longer. The’ ranks are being added to by the te jof thousands daily. The breadtines |will be tremendous affairs this | winter. Must Speed Fight. The need for a fight against un- jemployment is becoming clearer to hundreds of thousands more work- The Hoover “stag- | ger: is an attempt to put jall workers on the starvation level. Our Answer. The workers answer must be the biggest fight for unemployment in- surance ever witnessed in this coun- |try. The 800,000 New York unem- ployed must not permit the bosses jto force them to starve. Mobilize for struggle! Demand immediate relief. from the city government! Fight for the Unemployment’ Insur- ance Bill! Vote Communist! ‘MEET FOR AMTER IN BALTIMORE Jobless Leader Speaks! Today at Elks Hall BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 22.—An | automobile and truck parade, carry- ing the slogans of the Communist | Party, dentanding unemployment in- |surance and relief, shorter hours and |more pay, “Organize and Strike | Against Wage Cuts,” will greet Am- |ter on his arrival here tomorrow. The parade will meet him at the Pennsylvania Station at 6.40 p. m. It will assemble and start at the Communist Party district headquar- | ters, 9 South Greene St., at 5 p. m. | Amter will be the main speaker ‘at the mass rally which will start jat 8 p.m, at Elks Hall, 1112 Mad- ison Ave. Militant Record. | | Amter was a principal speaker at the demonstration of over 27,000 | workers Tuesday in New York, on | the accasion of his release from a | six months term in prison. He was ‘one of the delegation of five, elected | by the 110,000 unemployment dem- | {onstrators March 6 in New York. |The committee was to present de-| | mands for work or wages to the | | Tammany city government and was | arrested when he tried to do it. He lis Communist Party candidate for | Congress in New York. From Baltimore, Amter .will go to Philadelphia, the next day, where a similar parade and demonstration will take place. He then continues on a nation- wide tour through the principal in- dustrial cities, \HUNGRY, JOBLESS HE | the stage on which Foster and Amter are seated. Thousands more tried to get in but when the huge halt was practically full, police barred the doors. RED MESSAGE IN STATE WIDE TOU Industrial Centers Hear Red Candidate The demonstration at Madison |York, pointed out in the huge mass Square Garden last night was one/meeting at the New York Madison of more*than'a dozen of demonstra-| Square Garden, Tuesday night, this tions William Z, Foster, Communist |is an attempt of the bosses to trans- Governor of New|fer ‘the burdens of the crisis “and | candidate for | York State, will address before elec- | tion day. Right after the Red Ban- quet arranged by the International every | starving men and women who slept| Labor Defense for Foster, Minor and Amter at Irving Plaza Hall on October 22, Foster will leave for his tour through New York State. The following are the dates and places of the Foster demonstrations. Troy, N. N. ¥., Oct. wanna, N. Y. N. Y., Oct. 27; Rochester, N | Oct. .28; Nw Y.,, Oct, 393 Downtown, N.Y. (14th congressione | district), Oct. 30, where Comrade A. Trachtenberg is the Communist | candidate. Brooklyn and Bronx, N. Y., Oct. {81 (one demonstration in the di | tricts where Comrades Earl "row- der and M. J. Olgin are runting for Congress. In Brooklyn another dem- | onstration and in the 23rd congres- }sional district where Comrade Am- ter is the candidate). Yonkers and Harlem, N. Y., Nov. \1 (including a demonstration in the |20th congressional district where {Comrade Robert Minor is the can- didate). MASS IN CIRCUS PARK AT NOON: ANSWER MURPHY- HOOVER FAKE PROMISES; RALLY Hoover ‘“‘Stagger-Plan’’ Is Huge Wage Cut tor Workers Red. Candidate, Foster, Says Workers Must Rally to Fight Against It; Demand Unemployment Insurance NEW YORK.—Hoovyer'’s “hunger | come this they point out that Hoover committee,” comprising the profes-| and the bosses are rigging up a big York, FOSTER TO CARRY to |seme of the unemployed “jobs” at \ | | @ TO STRUGGLE Unemployed Council to Mohjilize Despite Murphy’s Order DETROIT, Oct. To answer the fake promises of Mayor Murphy and to fight against the starvation program of Hoover's “hunger com- mittee’ led by an experienced club- ber the workers, former Police Commissioner Wood, the Unemploy- ed Council is calling for a huge dem- onstration of all workers to take of sional liars in the cabinet, and | propaganda machine to put it overs place at Grand Circus: Park on aire headed by an experienced slugger of “One of the requirements, deugal Hone workers, former Chief Cossack says the oJurnal of Com- Mayor Murphy has created a Wood of New York City, is prepar- ing an attack not only against the | 000,000 unemployed workers, but against every employed worker in the United States. | Admitting that “nothing can be | done” to relieve the unemployment | situation, Hoover announced after a | meeting of his starvation committee | rats ste would advocate the so-called] tries, especially in factories with abe? By rebGrataise Wiley ot Mine | 100 workers or over. In this way, war department. This is a system | the bosses es pete eee ne of putting the employed workers on | “age cutting drive in the steel mills, a quarter to one half, and giving| They Do Nothing. | That the Hoover “hunger com- mittee” will do nothing whatever to | keep even a single worker from starving is likewise admitted by the Wall Street Journal, which says: “It is recognized that there is comparatively little that the Federal Government ean do.” merce, “would be to ‘sell’ the idea to the workers, for it would mean in many instanc- es a curtailment of earning power of those employed.” Furthermore, the same Wal! Street sheet points out that it would be put into practice in all big indus- sharply reduced wages. As Williath Z. Foster, Communist candidate for governor of New unemployment entirely backs of the workers. “The capitalists and their onto the] Into the Fight! Every worker must get into the| | united front of every boss agency to fight against the demand of un- employment inst He won the elec , With socialist support, by broadcasting a series of fake phom- ises. ce. Jobless Army Grows. In Detroit every day more work- ers lost their jobs, and tens of thou- sands more face starvation, Mur- phy’s promises have resulted in a bitter program of attack against the demands of the jobless workers, | Murphy is taking up Hoover's slo- gan of the “stagger system,” which } means a cut of one-third of the wages of all workers now employed, and attempt to make the workers t pay for the unemployment caused by the rotten capitalist system. Expose “Free Speech” Hokum. | No meetings have been held in | Grand Circus, park for the past few | years. The city boss politicians, un- der orders from Mayor Murphy, | (Continued on Page 3) rotten system, who are re- |fight against the attempt of the Or sponsible for unemployment, | bosses to make the working class | Zee) IN MINE want the workers to pay by | P@Y by vation and wage-cuts the biggest mass wage cut |for the crisis and the bankruptey ges s hg of capitalism. Demand the bosses and their gov- over. The workers answer | ernment pay unemployment insur- must be—fight!” jance. Fight for the Unemployment | Sec 'y of war Hurley said the| Insurance Bill advocated by the | agger” plan is already being put | Communist Party. Vote Communist! | nto effect by the war department in the “flood control projects.” An TAKES KIAN Journal of Commerce, an organ o: | ever attempted to be put | ! Wall Street, says it is being used | in many big plants. | Workers Must Fight! This same boss sheet admits it| means a tremendous lowering of | wages, and will be met with fight | on the part of the workers. To over- | HUNG JURY IN Capitalist News Says Reds Well Armed NEW YORK.—Covered by a cam- ouflage story of “60,000 massacred by Communists in Kian,” capitalist J news services verify previous re- ports that that and other big Kiangsi province cities have been SPEED-UP BLAST Cemmunists Demand Boss be Punished (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. noon to- ay 235 miners were reported dead and 291 injured in the Aachen min- ing disaster. Dynamite, which was previously said to be the cause of the explosion, was found intact. The cause is probably a gas explosion. A week ago mine pit stewards warned the bosses that gas was not noticeable, but nothing was done about it. Open lights were used, and explosive work continued de- site the warnings of the workers. All members of the pit committee were killed in the explosion. Rote Fahne”, official organ of 29 22.—By HANGS SELF ON TREE On Noy. 2 Comrade Foster will attend two demonstrations in the LYNN, Mass., Oct. 21.—Out of | state of New Jersey, one in Newark work and ill from hunger, George|in the afternoon, and another in Buinske, 40, an unemployed work-| the evening at Paterson, N. J. er of 138 Liberty Street, hung Rie Revolutionary workers must mo- self to & tree in the woods. bilize the Foster demonstrations and Buinske was a leather worker and | turn out tens of thousands of work- had tramped the streets looking for | ers to hear the message of the head work. He became sick because he! of the Communist. ticket of New had not eaten for a long time. In-| York State, stead of fighting for relief, together / Demand relief for the unemployed! with the great mass of unemployed workers, he eliminated a jobless | worker from the struggle by com-| mitting suicide. Vote Communist! LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 21, — | Three acquittals and a hung: jury| for fourteen other workers arrested | here during the police attack on the ; August 1 Anti-Imperialist War and | Defend the Soviet Union demonstra- | tion were obtained yesterday. The trial of these 17 workers was finished at 11 p. m. yesterday. The | jury was out 12 hours. The judge | Was so angered at the verdict that | he himself sentenced in an arbitrary | | fascist manner Defendant Firestone | for contempt of court, and has or- | dered a new trial of the 14 not con-| victed. 10 Billions for War; Pay Starvation for Jobless WASHINGTON, D. C.—Another step in the war preparations of the American imperialists was re- vealed by Assistant Secretary of War Payne, ad- Is Boss Program slave the workers in factory and battlefield and allow the bosses to reap a rich harvest in unre- stricted profits was made clear by Payne. Cuts on Job, captured by the Fourth and Fifth Red Armies on October 6. The Fifth Red Army is com- manded by Peng Teh-hsui. The jnited Press correspondent admits: hat the army is well organized and equipped with up-to-date arms. That actual Communism and not mere banditry is a part of the new army's scheme seems borne out by reports that there have been wholesale confiscations of private properties in areas in- undated by the latest Red wave, together with persecution of land- lords, shop propzietors and others classed) as| capitalists, while at | Changsha and in other captured cities special attention has heen paid to destruction of Government buildings and tax offices. “Red flags have been hoisted at points taken over by |the \new groups, while handbills and pam- phlets denouncing capitalism and imperialism are freely broadcast.” Chiang Plans Massacre. The stories of “60,000 massacres are of course pure fiction, intended | dressing the Society of Industrial Mayflower Hotel. the shops and as soldiers was militarist. the imperialists are preparing for | slaughter. sources of this country can be m efficient national team in the eve Enslave Workers. That the Wall Street government will only 4 The most comprehensive plan for plunging the entire country into war and enslaving workers in Tells of War Plans. In sketching their war plot Payne tells of how “In my office are determined the methods the Army uses in the procurement of current sup- plies, and those to be employed in the event we should be thrust into a major war, I have the responsibility of developing a plan under which the industrial and economic re- Engineers at the outlined by the the next world In addition obilized into an nt of war.” en- “It is true that there is no thought of purchas- ing or otherwise taking possession of Privately owned establishments; but the government will, through a suitable industrial headquarters, exer- cise a firm control over American industry to insure the speedy, efficient and economical satis- faction of its material needs.” The capitalist tool hinted as to the role of the American Federation of Labor officials and the “socialixts” and their operative” bodies regu Military Dictatorship. A virtual militarist dictatorship will be in force when war is declared, Payne showed; in saying that the president would be able to “exercise his war- time duties of marshalling all our resources to the support of the nation as a whole.” (Continued on Page 3) to exeuse the mass executions of | revoltit= or merely suspected work- | ers and peasants when the Nanking | government launches mercenary | |soldiers it |is removing |from the | |northern front into the central prov- | | inces, | The Chiang Kai-shek government | announces that it has raised a loan jot $1,500,000 to equip the expedi- | tion against the territory now under, jsoviet control. It is not admitted, but is practically certain that part | of this money comes from foreign | imperialist capitalism through cor | poration offices in China. One report states that the casera alist troops now in Kiangsi refuse to attack the Red Army and are all affected by Communist Gstphe nies} ee when he spoke of “co- lating prices and wages, etc. the German Communist Party, de- clares the disaster is the result of the murderous rationalization and speed-up system introduced by the owners with the support of the so- cialists. The motion of the Communist | fraction in the Prussian Diet, de manding a strict investigation of the mine disaster, and punishment for the bosses responsible, was tab- led by the socialists. Order! and How! 100,000, Detroit! Walker, the matinee may- orette, pops out the follow- ing: “If there is one fair city wherein decency controls, honesty obtains, it is in this city.” To avoid error it must be pointed out that the millions stolen from the workers by Tammany silk hat bandits is classified under the broad heading of “honesty.” The beating of Nessin, the jobless, the trampling of women by cop cossacks should be noted down in the “decency” list. Smash the hunger system! Vote Communist! Detroit orders 100,000 special election campaign editions of the Daily Worker, How about your city? Rush your own order. 120 for $1, See ad on page 2.