The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1930, Page 1

N. Y. State Communist Ticket: For Governor:—WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Lt. Governor:—J. LOUIS ENGDAHL For Att’y. General:—RICHARD B. MOORE For Comptroller:—FRANKLIN P. BRILL Dail Central Org. NO orker WORKERS ~ OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) 2 é Vol. VII. No. 256 Sot See Pass NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24; 1930 CITY EDITION Pre Back Scratching! MAYOR MURPHY in Detroit, following the enumeration of the var- ious points in his program to tide the bosses through a hard winter, was in danger of losing the support of thousands of workers who had been fooled by his fake promises. Detroit workers who had listened to his promises for unemploy- ment insurance and immediate relief could not see the realization of these promises in his after-election proposals for police registrations, for discrimination against workers who had resided in the city for less than a year, the limitation of relief to home owners, taxpayers, car owners, etc. But it was necessary for the bosses to maintain the Detroit illu- sion. For political purposes Hoover, Roosevelt and Thomas wanted to make these same promises. They also wanted to talk about public wrks, about division of work, about relief, etc., to actually hide their preparations for police terror against the unemployed. Hoover, therefore, endorsed Murphy’s schemes. The American Legion endorsed them. The A. F. of L. bureaucrats endorsed them. ‘The “liberal” Nation endorsed them. But all these endorsements were insufficient. They had to get the endorsement of someone who was not yet completely discredited among the workers. Norman Thomas was the man. His endorsements they thought, would convince the workers that they must believe in Murphy’s schemes until spring at least. And Norman Thomas readily agreed. He also gave his endorse- ments to Murphy’s schemes—which have now also become Hoover's schemes—to force the workers to suffer from starvation and misery | throughout the coming winter, while the bosses retain their scandalous profits without loss. And now, Norman Thomas is repaid. In return for helping the capitalists fool the workers—in Detroit by endorsing Murphy, in New York by helping Tammany smooth over the murderous attacks on the unemployed—Norman Thomas is endorsed by the Tammany-controlled New York World. This follows the endorsement of a group of other “socialist” candidates by the Citizen’s Union in New York. More and more it becomes clear that republicans, democrats and “socialists” all join in a united front against the workers. Only the Communist Party organizes and leads the workers in struggle against starvation, for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, against lynchings, for all their demands. Many thousands of workers, pre- viously fooled by these three capitalist parties, will vote the Commu- nist ticket straight on November 4th. An Eye-Opener for Negroes! IORMAN THOMAS, Hillquit, Broun and the other “socialist” leaders have been able to hide for a long time behind the Negro face of Frank Crosswaith. They have used him among the Negro masses to make it appear that their party “recognized” the “equality” of the ‘Negroes. They have used him in exactly the same way as the republi- cans use DePriest in Chicago and as the democrats use Ferdinand Q. Morton in Harlem. They have used Crosswaith to hide their actual support for the white landowners and capitalists of both the North and South, their lynch terror and their mob violence. A Frank Crosswaith, however, can be used by Norman Thomas and his co-politica] fakers in Harlem, but in Texas, in Maryland, in other places in the South this cannot be done. To get votes there, these “socialist” fakers adopt the same methods as the republicans and democrats.. They openly jimcrow the Negroes and appeal for votes only to the white bosses. This double bookkeeping of the “socialists” is proven by the letter reproduced in today’s Daily Worker written by A. F. VonBlon, the “socialist” candidate for lieutenant governor of Texas. “You know the South well enough,” says Mr. VonBlon, “to know that it (the South) will not be class conscious enough for at least 59 years to tolerate voting for a colored man... .” And then this yellow-bellied political opportunist undertakes to the Communist Party—to avoid the Negro jissue as they— the “socialists’—have done. “Like the S. P., you will have to pay the piper for your political errors.” italis °C very candidate North and South—are ready to pay the piper. do not give a damn for any vote that has to be secured by compromising on the Negro question. We stand uncom- promisingly and unconditionally against lynching, against segregation, against jimcrowism, against persecution, and for full social, economic and political equality. And when ‘we say we stand for equality we Mean unconditional equality including the unchallenged right of Ne- groes and whites to associate socially, or to inter-marry. 4 And as for your statement, Mr. VonBlon, that the South will not tolerate voting for a Negro for 50 years, this is a bare-faced lie. The Communist Party has filed Negro candidates in every state where we were able to get on the ballot. These candidates will get the votes of the Negroes and the white workers. They will not be supported, how- ever, by the white lynch gangs. : But the Communist Party is not in this election campaign merely for votes. The Communist Party is the Party of the Negroes and of the white workers. Our aim is to break down the prejudices that have been created by the bosses, to unite the Negroes and white workers in uncompromising struggle for their common demands. We do not wait “until prejudice disappears”; we organize the fight of the Negro and white workers to destroy this prejudice, to unite the Negroes and white workers, and then to destroy the damnable capitalist system which creates and utilizes these prejudices. i Negro and white workers, wherever the candidates of the three capitalist parties appear, should force them to put forth their position on these issues. The utilization of the Crosswaiths, DePriests and Mortons as covers for lynchings and jimcrowism should be exposed. All workers, Negro and white, should rally behind the Communist Party on November 4th and behind the continuous fight for equality and the right to self determination for the Negroes. “frienrs of labor.” During the fake i cla d in the cloak trade July, TAMMANY p AT 1529 and in the dress trade Febru- / ary last, Roosevelt and Lehman Roosevelt and Lehman appear as The fakers, of the New York State Federation of Labor have come out in support of the Tammany ticket which is in line with the policy these betrayers have been persuing in every election, to sell out the work- ers’ votes to the capitalist parties. Among the garment workers it was reported yesterday that the “socialist” group of fakers headed by Benjamin Schlessinger and other members of the “socialist” party are in line to pile a big vote for the tiger. One of the features of the “humanitarian” record of Governor Roosevelt and Lieutenant Governor Lehman the New York State Fed- eration of Labor is boasting about was the assistance tsese heads of the democratic government of New York State have given to the “so- cialist” fakers fighting the rank and file industrial union in the needle trades. Schlessinger and his group have done’ everything to make were each time invited to arbitrate |and to “help the workers.” The result of their “assistance” was, of course, that the condition of the needle workers became much worse and exploitation and unemployment greatly intensified. However, Roose- velt and Lehman had the courts and the police at the disposal of the “socialist” fakers in order to help them fight the rank and file indus- trial union and to have the check- off system instituted in a number of shops so as to give Schlessinger | and his group a better income. The “socialist” fakers in the needle trades company unions in almost every election were working for Tammany. During the presi- dential campaign of 1928 Schles- singer made a deal with Herbert Lehman who had advanced a loan of 150,000 to the Schlessinger outfit. Smash teh boss parties and the A. F. of L. servants of the bosses! Vote Communist november 4th! WORKERS! VOTE COMMUNIST NOV. 4 € Criticize Communists for Putting Up Ne- gro Candidates WACO, Tex., Oct. 23.—The “so- | cialist” party, whose Jewish Daily Forward some time ago carried on {a vicious lynching incitement cam- paign against the Negro workers, | slandering them as “rapists,” and |whose brother parties in Europe | have actively supported the plun- | dering of the colonial masses by | the imperialists, today further ex- posed itself as a treacherous ally {of the white ruling class and a | bearer among the workers of the | race hatred and nordic supremacy ideology of the bosses in a letter written by the “socialist” candidate | for lieutenant governor of the state | of Texas to a southern Communist en he sought to corrupt. This “socialist” standard bearer, a petty bourgeois shop keeper, by | the name of A. F. Von Blon, thor- oughly representative of the “so- cialist” party today, objects to the |Communist Party running Negro} | workers for office in the South. He | | boasts that in his opinion the “so- cialist” party, by soft-pedaling the | Negro question in its southern elec- | tion campaign and basely betraying |the struggles of the Negro masses jagainst lynching and oppression, will poll more votes than the Com- munist Party, which refuses to com- promise its program for full politi- |cal and social equality for the Ne- gro masses. The Communist Party | nominates Negro workers for of- fice not only in the North, as do| €: TEXAS SOCIALIST PARTY TICKET’ ct ting ‘AND PLATFORM + STATE TICKET xas Socialist Rarty Ticket and Platform | ones 5s PENDDIGAL + MAGALIME SUBSCRIPTIONS Sowoo. AND COUEGE suPPLIES Telephone 560 Aringtm's 5 Deer bbe Since Soutieest 2 9 * the Communtetie Party, in Texas. Like the &, for your political errors. You encveh to know that it will not rot to its attitude politically yo rill have to pay the piper coe 18/50 reine to quarrell with know the South well de class conscions “Socialist” Misleaders Jim-Crow Negro __ Workers in Southern Election Campaign [FAVES “RELIEF” TO THE Only in North munist program which boldly sup- ports the struggles of the } masses and s es to win the white workers away from the imperialist | ideology. Bose Attack Ordered Walker Orders Black- list By Cop of Unemployed gro Von Blon, in his letter, a photo- stat copy of which is published on this page, admits that the bosses will not be worried even if the “so- cialists” poll up a big vote (why Socialists Help Tam- many Grafters | [HOOVER “HUNGER CREW” "ed LOCAL BOSS GRAFTERS Situation Is “Serious” Says Col. Woods; Protects Profits Is An Election Move 3ig Communist Vote and Fight Is Answer enovmt for at loast 50 years to tolerate voting ft jerate voting for colored man, despite, bow just bis cause might de. should they, when the “socialist” | party is just another boss party NEW YORK. — To do his part tn tte nice vote, Se my tumble epinton 8 compared with the government, an #0 fe ja TAttly well informed am convinced that they are de hard "not to take" by of Piet, ‘Teras Range Polen, Mexico ary 98 fOr mane i Yor the f1 SP offers « platform that has ‘at least some "gu , then our high man rolled but 1500 votes. quite an admirer of the Soviet ting that 10000, with a few revolutionary phr: thrown in as fly paper with w |to catch militant workers?), but would be worried stiff by a big Com- munist vote. othing would stir the plutes up quite as much as that,” he admits. He further admits that for years the “socialist” party program has had no in it, and that this year, “for the first | time in years, the S. P. offers a | platform that,” (so he says!) “has |at least some ‘guts’ in it.” tine in years, the that we will poll a one of two years ago, deen able to co. ‘we willest 100000, ‘well, T don't mow shat. | If it has any guts in it, neither | workers can see it. Negro and white workers! Repu- the “socialist” fakers in their ef-| forts to hoodwink Negro voters, but the Communist Party puts up Ne- groes as its nominees and standard bearers even in the South. where large masses are still under the in- fluence of the bosses’ ideology of diate the “socialist” traitors and race hatred and white superiority. | their vote snaring tricks. Support Because the “socialist” party, |the struggles of the Negro masses like the republican and democratic | against lynching and oppression. | parties, openly jim-crow the Negro | Demonstrate your determination to | masses and appeal to the bosses for | fight the vicious capitalist system votes, this “socialist” standard | and its “socialist” tools by voting | bearer cannot agree with the Com-'COMMUNIST on November 4. RED ELECTION TAG DAY TODAY Must Have Funds for Communist Campaign NEW YORK.—Today, tomorrow and Sunday, hundreds of revolu- tionary workers in New York will go out to collect funds for the Com- munist campaign. Funds are very urgent. Without the necessary means the Communist Campaign cannot properly develop in the last ten days before Election | Day. Halls must. be hired, speakers | Sent out, literature distributed. The Communist Campaign Committee | has-onyl the workers to rely upon for funds. Cultural Organization to Ratify Communist | Candidates October 26. On Sunday, October 26, at'2 p.m. |at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. an |Irving Plaza, the relax | ral organizations, the Ge- | zang Farein and the Freiheit Man- dolin Orchestra will ratify the Com- | munist candidates in a tremendous | demonstration. { | | 27,000 N. Y. Workers Greet [PREPARE FOR German Toilers’ Advances DRESS STRIKE Madison Square Garden Rally Sends Cable| Active Workers Meet to Communist Party of Germany and Pledges Aid in NEW YORK.—The following greetings were sent to the German revolutionary workers on the occasion of the recent | this city, October 24 NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—In prep- aration of the shop delegates con- ference to organize a dress strike in a meeting of active dress United Struggle | Communist election advances by unanimous vote of the 27,000 workers has been called for Friday, workers at the Madison Suare Garden mass election rally, Oct. 21: © a Twenty - seven thousand workers of New York assem- bled in Madison Square Garden on October 2ist at an election rally of the Communist Party to greet the leaders of the New York March 6th demonstration just released from penitentiary, extend our greetings to the revolutionary German workers and congratulate them on their great victory in the recent elections. An Heroic Struggle. Withsenthtsiasm the revolution- ary workers of America witness your heroic struggle against your own capitalist exploiters and against the Imperialist Young Plan. We know that ~-your victorious October 24, at 6:30. p. m., at Man- _” | hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. ; struggle for your own social and) Formation of shop committees, national emancipation will deliver a, °Pe” air meetings in the garment | blow to our common enemy, the im-| “istrict, and the rank and file shop perialist ruling class of America, ‘elegae conferences are the steps | authors and chief beneficiaries of to be taken to prepare for the |the Young Plan.- We also witness struggle against the rress bosses. | the treachery of the German Social] The furriers will swing into the | Democracy which has paved the altive strike preparations at an way to a fascist capitalist dictator-| active workers meeting at the office | ship in Germany and now again en-|of the union. Organization of the deavors the rescue of German capi- furriers,.especially the unemployed |talism from its final destruction. es aeheor hg 4 k hi ee : | ilitant left wing workers in the Peseat the, Eesciate- ladies tailors and custom dress- We are confident that the Ger-| makers strike aretrying to make | man working class under the lead- | picketing effective, especially be- | ership of the Communist Interna-/fore the Milgrim Bros., 57th St. tional will defeat and destroy the) shop. The Local 38 right wing gang last stronghold of German capital-| are exerting themselves to act as ism, the German fascists and their | policemen against effective picket- (Continued on Page 3) ing. | REDCANDIDA 3osses’ Party Can Use Schools—Party of | Workers Can’t | NEW YORK.—When the efficient evictor of workers, ex-Judge Pan- ken, socialist, wants to use the pub- lie schools here to peddle his dope to the workers, he is met with the glad hand by the Tammany graft- ers. The other capitalist parties can speak in any school at any time. | | The right to use the schools is sup-| posed to be for “all political par- ties.” There is only ® slight error |in this statement. action of the Tammany grafter: s that they jmeant “all capita’ litical par- ties.” \\ Deny Use of Schools. The New York District Commu- nist election campai; committee applied for the use of school-rooms for Communist campaigns. The only worknig-class. political party was refused this right. First the excuse was made thatthe Commu- nist Party was “illegak”. The school authorities were a little too forward in expressing as a fact what the capitalist grafters talk about and are preparing to act on behind closed doors. When the school offi- cials were told the junist Party was on the ballot tl anged their tune. ‘ They have reams of tape—and it’s | | | not “red.” An application ' blank was sent to Comrade Baker, District Organizer. It was filled out, all the TES BARRED FROM SC OOLS fake rules were complied with. The] A letter reproduced here was sent story ‘about being “illegal” didn't to the District Organizer refusing work. point blank to permit Communist BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Orrice oF TME SUPERINTENDENT OF BcHOOLS wr. Re Baker jew York City Campa}, Committee Ccamuntat eee 50 East 13th Street, Sew York City. Dear Sir: Becent occurences ‘Party Asads me to the belie candidates to speak in public school vooms, What was the ercuse? The fact’ that the Communist Party militantly leads the fight for unem- ployment insurance. The letter spoke of “recent disturbances.” Did they mean the slugging of workers by Tammany cops, or the terrific beating given to the Unemployed Council delegation on Oct. 13th in AVENUE October i2, 1930. es {the Negro workers nor the white! the fake “hunger committee” pro- gram of Hoover, Mayor Walker is- sued orders Wednesday night to mo- bilize the Tammany grafters’ forces against the demands of the unem- ployed. He didn’t say much about his $1,000,000 relief item, as this sum looks pretty ridiculous in view of the statement of Commissioner Rybicke that there are more than 800,000 jobless in New York City. TThe police have been given in- structions to “register” the unem- ployed in their patrol. This is a Tammany blacklist to persecute the jobless who fight for 7eal relief in- stead of being content with starva- tion or bread lines. A United Front The Tammany united front with the Hoover starvation machine shows the unity of the capitalist parties in fighting against unem- ployment insurance demands. In | Walker’s outfit there will be Social- jists, Republicans and Tammany grafters. Wall Street will be well represented, as the bankers and the stock brokers have a committee of one hundred elected to “cooperate” with Walker. | Donations | Walker is demanding that all city jworkers donate one dollar from their pay to “feed the unemployed.” |HHe says nothing about the de- |mand of the Unemployed Council | that all the big salaries be cut and the money turned over for relief of the unemployed. Walker takes his | cue from Hoover. | throw the entire burden on the backs of the workers. ThTe bosses are | mobilizing everywhere to protect |their profits from the demands of the workers for unemployment in- surance. | Walker was told Wednesday by Commissioner Taylor that the Mu-| nicipal Lodging House is crammed to capacity. Many unemployed | workers sleeping on the streets are facing death by freezing. Charity, breadlines, well supplied with clubs and blackjacks, is Tam- many’s program for “unemployment | relief.” | | | Vote Communist! | | BUY SWELL CARS ON CITY BUDGET Grafters Ride in Best; Jobless Starve NEW YORK. — While Jimmie Walker and his fellow grafters at City Hall throw insults about ice \eream and charity at the 800,000 unemployed in New York City, these same Tammany henchmen are rol- ling around the city,and traveling | with chorus girls to road houses in | luxurious cars that are being paid | for out of public funds. ) A paltry $1.25 is what the city officials think an unemployed work- He wants to} involving the Communist f thet it would be {nimiosl to the best intereste of the New York City Public School System to allow your organization to use school buildings. Your perty will not be permitted to use any public school building in the City of New Yorr, ery truly i GIBB Director, : Extens: don Activi wd the Council Chambers, on direct orders of Mayor Walker? Anyway, they wouldn’t permit Communists } to expose the Tammany grafters in schools in which so much grafting is done. er should get through the winter on. But for the local politicians, there are 849 luxurious pleasure cars, at city expense. chines of such departments as the fire department are of course not included in this number.) And what cars they are! Boss “Democracy.” For in- Copitalice pee ee ciate race.” | stance, records of the State Motor cially—are given these “legal” | Vehicle Bureau show that there are rights. The Communist Party's | Seventy-one office holders who re- |to get them around town; twelve ait i | need Lincolns, twenty-four find high Vote Communist! | priced Packards ne:essary, ten +e- Fighting for unemployment relief | quire Pierce Arrows, instead of starving quietly is con-! have Locomobiles, and nothing less sidered a “disturbance” by the/than a Duesenberg with a special bosses. Spread the “disturbance.” | body and equipment is used by May- Vote Communist! Expose the fake or James A. Walker. democracy of the capitalist system. | Walker Peaches $12,000 Car at i City Expense. - The Duesenberg is known in thé automobile trade as the most ex- pensive of American cars. igm bars it. e Vote Communist! (The trucks and ma- | record of fighting against capital- quire nothing less than a Cadillac! two have to) Pua ME NEW YORK.—Further steps against the 8,000,000 unemployed were taken Wednesday by Hoover’s “hunger committee.” Col. Arthur Woods, ex-police commissioner of New York, who has been appointed to head the starvation-enforeing crew, together with Secretary of Commerce, Lamont, fresh from Wall | Street conferences, met witly the imperialist president in Washing- | ton. Fake Relief. It becoing clearer every day from interviews handed out by | Woods, Lamond and Hoover that there is not the slightest idea of | “relief” behind the Hoover “hunger” outfit. Col. Woods’ interview ended with these words: “Much of the work will in the final analysis de- volve on the local set-ups.” In other words, breadlines and blackjacks is the line of the Hoover committee. They depend on the Jimmy Walkers, the Mulrooneys, the Murphys, and their ilk to “solve” the problem. The | workers know how they will solve it. Woods admitted that the unem- |ployment situation was “very seri- jous.” He was called in just before election with a blare of trumpets to aid the bosses in their election drive. At the same time Woods’ job will be to use every boss agency, federal and local, to protect the profits of |the exploiters from the demands of |real relief. The insistance that the bulk of the “efforts” must be local is to keep down the demands that the big war fund of a billion dol- lars be turned over for unemploy- ment relief, and the demand in the | Unemployment Insurance Bill of the | Communist Party, that a federal tax |ze placed on the parasites’ fortune, | plus an increased income tax to pay | for unemployment relief. j Woods said he would be very busy {for a week concocting plans against “human misery.” One of the pro- nosals that Woods will present is the so-called “stagger- or | part time basis for all work |employed, which would only spread |the misery of hunger to all workers in the form of wage-cuts, even if it were carried out on a national scale. No relief will come from Hoover’s |“hunger committee.” Only a de- |termined fight by the workers will |foree the bosses: to provide relief. |The Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party demands this relief for all unemployed. Vote Communist! Paterson Workers |Locking Forward to ‘Foster Coming, Nov. 2 | PATERSON, Oct. 23.—Paterson | workers will bring the old textile | section into its own on Sunday, No- | vember 2nd, when Wm. Z. Foster comes to address them at the Cen- |tral High School Auditorium, at | 7:30 p. m. Zero Hour On Special Edition Taber, head kulak of the U National Grange says: ‘Agriculture is on the economic floor. There is only one place it can go, and that is... upward.” There is still the storm cellar and the cistern and the boss crisis is blowing hard. Poor farmers, workers fight the boss plan to saddle on your backs the whole crisis burden. Strike back! Vote Communist! Only a day or two for Special Election Campaign Editions. Readers, organiza- tions, order this minute. $5 will bring 625 copies. Spread them everywhere. New York City Editions: today and Nov. 3. ! For Unemployment Insurance Paid for Out of the War Funds and Administered by the Workers and Jobless! Vote Communist Against the Lynch Terror—Against the Injunctions.