The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 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 VOTE COMMUNIST DX) Dail Central | (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS — OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 257 <> at New York, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25; 1930 DETROIT MAYOR REJECTS DEMANDS OF UNEMPLOYED Political Hypocrisy! oe THOMAS dislikes the Daily Worker very much. He de- cidedly dislikes our methods of treating the news of the day. This he frankly admits. And why does he dislike the Daily Worker? Simply because the Daily Worker continuously exposes the political fakery of Norman Thomas and his followers. For example, the platform of the socialist party declares for the “rigid enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.” With this demand we Communists have no quarrel, except that we say that the “socialists” of the Norman Thomas stripe do not believe in this demand, that actually they support the persecution of the Negroes, and that this “demand” is put forward only to deceive the Negro workers. And when we make facts to prove A. F. VonBlon, th he states that “for at least 50 yea ing for a colored man!” And that, t not be filed for public offices by thi in harmony with the talk in their platform of the “rigid enforcement” ef the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. This would seem, at least, to y the bitter attacks which the Daily Worker makes on these fakers. But possibly some of our readers, influenced by Thomas, Broun and others of the same ilk, may think this is insufficient basis for our attack. Therefore, we quote the following taken from Heywood Broun’s column in the New York Telegram of April 26th last during the discussion on the efforts of Hoover to appoint Judge Parker to the Supreme Court: e make them stick. We give rday we published a letter from nant governor of Texas, where (the South will not) tolerate vot- efore, Negro candidates should y party. This, certainly, is not “Tf I were a candidate for high executive office or judicial office,” said Heywood Broun, “I would say, even without being cornered, that 1 WOULD NOT NOW SANCTION THE EF- FORTS TO ENFORCE THE FOURTEENTH AND FIF- TEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.” There you have it! The socialist party platform calls for. “rigid enforcement.” Heywood Broun, the Party’s candidate for Congress, declares that if he is elected he “would not sanction” the efforts to enforce these amendments. Yet the party, Norman Thomas, or no other leader has felt it necessary to make a statement on this question. And the Daily Worker, therefore, concludes that on the Negro issue. as on all other questions, Norman Thomas, Heywood Broun, Morris Hillquit, are just plain political-crooks and hypocrites trying it the workers, And Norman Thomas, therefore, dislikes the Daily Worker. But the workers, more and more, are turning to the Daily Worker and to the Communist Party. They are beginning to see through this fakery of the capitalist politicians. They will. vote the Communist ticket straight on November 4th. Playing Politics With Starvation! (OEL D. HUNTER, superintendent of the United Charities in Chicago, Sei boldly stated the prospects for the workers during the coming winter. “We are face to face,” says Hunter, “with the worst winter . since 1866.” We confess that offhand we do not know just what happened in 1866. But we do know that today well over 8,000,000 workers are jobless with this number daily increasing. We know that wages are being slashed. We know that workers still in the factories are being driven at a killing pace. We know that evictions, suicides, starvation and misery exists everywhere among the workers. And this is only October. With the coming of November, December, January, February, etc., accompanied by snow, sleet and cold, the misery and suf- fering of the masses will greatly inrease. Yet in this situation the suffering of masses is played with by political fakers seeking votes. Each tries to out-do the other in making fake promises which he never intends to fulfill. When forced to do so by the mass revolt of the workers in Cleveland, Boston and Detroit, under Communist leadership, Hoover appoints a commission, Roosevelt decides to study the matter, etc., ete. All of them, today, without waiting for November 4th, if they were really sincere in their proposals, have it in their power to relieve the suffering of the unemployed. Hoover's cabinet nationally, Roose- velt in New York state, “socialist” Mayor Hoan in Milwaukee, all of these men have it within their power now to see that immediate relief is granted, that unemployment insurance is put through. But this could only be done by making unprecedented assaults on the wealth and profits of the capitalists—and this they will not do. The $136,000,000 in dividends which the bosses received last month in excess of their dividends a year ago, while the masses starve, the political crooks refuse to touch. And without taking from the bosses wealth and profits and from tHe war funds as the Communist Party proposes, the republicans, democrats or “socialists” cannot help the unemployed. Their promises, therefore, are fake promises. They are lies to fool the workers and win votes. They are efforts to capitalize the suffering of the masses. The masses must be aroused against this fakery. They must be drawn into a fight to force immediate relief, to force the pay- ment of unemployment insurance. This can be accomplished only by rallying behind the candidates and struggles of the Communist Party. Vote Communist November 4th! CANDIDATES AT RALLIES TONIGHT 10 Election Meetings to be Held Downtown NEW YORK.—Ten down-town open air meetings tonight, two of them large Red Rallies at which Communist candidates will speak, carry the election campaign for- ward. The topics of all speeches will be the demands of the Com- munist Party for unemployment re- lief and insurance, with payments from funds now intended by the governments or bankers, for po'''e and for war. The payments, the Communist Party demands, shalt not be less than $25 a week per man, and shall be administered by the workers and jobless through their own committees. Heer Candidates. The two mass rallies will be at Henry St. and Broadway and at Tenth St. and Second Ave. “ Speakers here will be Trachtenberg, Communist candidate for Congress; Vern Smith, Communist candidate for Congress, Harry Gannes, Alfred | Wagenknecht, George Siskind, Toth, Soderberg, and Carl Brodsky. A | main speaker will be Louis Hyman, president of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union, and long a militant figure in the hard fought battles of the needle workers. Other Meetings. ait Preliminary meetings from which the audiences will go to the main rallies are held at: 10th St. and Ave. B, Seventh St. and Second Ave., Seventh St. and Ave. B, First St. and Ave. A, Bleeker and McDougal Sts., Thompson and Bleeker Sts., | 12th St. and Ave. B, and other cor- | ners. | At these meetings speakers will be Chaffee, Appelman, Jerome, Lee, Daren, Lillienstein, _Abramovitz, Weigman, . »riani, Mo, Brooks, Gordon, John on, Chorover, Santos, Tremien, Lee, and various speakers in Italia nand Jewish as well as English. All speakers and committees will , The meetings start at 8 p. m, | Doesn’t Want Workers to Know Truth of City Hall Events By HARRY GANNES Norman Thomas, leader of the socialist »party, finds himself in a tight hole. Like all the social-fas- cists-in the same predicament before |the working-class he resorts to lies to get around the fact that he miled and looked on without utter- a word while the Unemployed ouncil delegation was beaten in front of his eyes in the Board of Estimates Chambers on Oct. 16. Thomas was in a perfect position’ to see Nessin, Stone, Lealess and Maude White when they were jumped on. He was looking straight at Nessin when he was socked on| Walker’s orders. I_ was sitting right next to Thomas on the steps in the rear of the hall. Now Thomas comes out with an editorial in the New Leader (Oct. 25) denying the story in the Daily Socialist Thomas Lies to Hide Approval of Nessin Sluggings Tue? BRAINS OF The Sociauisy, ee qq Thomas thought his presence would be unnoticed. But when the Daily Worker came out with the news of his dastardly actions, he had to say something. In his white-washing Thomas says: Worker that he saw the beatings. Stimson Supply of $15. The Brazilian uprising overthrew the Luis-Prestes regime Friday, ac- cording to a United Press dispatch | from Rio de Janeiro. According to| this report: “Mobs raced through the streets. The six newspapers which were wrecked already had suspended publication, at least tem- porarily,” Rio de Janeiro was the strong- hold of the existing regime which had made a deal with Stimson, through its American ambassador in Washington whereby arms to the extent of $15,000,000 would -be fur- nished them to defeat the “rebels.” The uprising in Rio de -Janeiro involves tens of thousands of prole- tarians. There is a strong section |of the Communist Party in this | city, with roots in the trade unions. | The crash of the existing govern- ment came as a complete “surprise” to Wall Street. The “revolution- ary” forces led by the liberal lead- er, Gertulio Vargas, are marching towards Sao Paulo to make a junc- ture with the forces of General) Leite de Castro, who has set up pro- | visional power in Rio de Janeiro. While the “revolt” is led by vary- ing bourgeois groups, the action throughout the revolting states, and } now especially in Rio de Janeiro shows a tremendous mass uprising and discontent. Whether the Vargas outfit will be able to keep down the demands of the masses, which was done temporarily in Argentina by Uri- buru, remains to be seen. Mean- while the entire country is in a state of revolutionary action and ferment. No news has been received of the action of the Communist Party of Brazil, but from previous informa- tion there is little doubt it is taking a leading part. That the imperialist antagonisms will be severely sharpened by the recent events is especially clear. Great Britain sent two armed cruisers to Brazil, and the U. S. cruiser Pensacola is now steaming to Rio de Janeiro to be on the scene in the interest of Wall Street. A Washington dispatch shows Hoover and Stimson to be greatly disturbed over the upsurge of the masses in Rio de Janeiro. The Passaic Workers to Hear Foster PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 24.—Pas- saic workers will have an oppor- tunity to hear William Z. Foster as a result of the intensification of the Communist campaign in New Jersey in answer to the attacks by the cap- italists in denying the use of Krueg- ers Auditorium and Central High School Auditorium for Foster meet- | ings. The Passaic meeting will be held in Kanter’s Auditorium, 261 Monroe St. In addition to Foster, the work- ers will hear John Porter, ex- “I do want to go on record to de- Brazil Federal Gov’t Is Out; | Masses in Mood of Revolt DOES NOT BEGIN 000,000 in Arms Does Not Keep Luis Regime in Power; Commu- nists Are Active in Rio De Janeiro United Press correspondent in Washington writes: “News of the resignation (of President Luis) sur- prised officials here by its sudden- ness, as reports circulated by the (Brazilian) Embassy here have in- sisted upon the military strength of the federal cause. The arms em- bargo issued by President Hoover Wednesday also had caused an im- pression among diplomats here that the federal cause would gain strength.” TAMMANY ANTI- SOVIET DRIVE NEW YORK.—That Tammany is doing its bit against the Soviet) Union, just as the “socialists” do, is again proven by a speech Con- gressman Sirovich has sent to the voters of the 14th Congressional District. In that speech, held in the House of Representatives, April 8, 1930, Sirovich in answer to a ques- tion of Congressman Moore of Vir- ginia, states: “If a minister should arise in a pulpit and give vent to a sentiment which was in conformity with the teachings of Christ, he would be sent to Siberia or would be silently executed.” Sirovich who goes about the syna- gogues of the lower East Side boasting of his learnedness in af- fairs of the Jewish religion and of his being true to the Mosaic law was applauded by his fellow con gressment for championing the cause of Christ in congress. The working voters of the 14th) Congressional District, as well as the voters all over the United States must give their answer to such bit-| ter enemies of the Soviet Union like Sirovich, Panken, Fish and others. Every vote for the Communist Party is a vote for the Defense of the Soviet Union. self-applied | ® nounce the gratutious lie in the/ Daily Worker that I laughed when | the Communist, Sam Nessin, was | beaten up in the hall of the Board] of Estimate. I was present at the| meeting where Nessin carried a pro- test on the indifference of the city on unemployment which of itself was good to such an extreme that | any presiding officer would have} had to have him silenced.” | While denying the beatings, | Thomas approves of the “silencing” | of Nessin, intimating that if he were the presiding officer he would do as Walker did. But the reverend | social-fascist lies most brazenly | | when he say the beating until afterward Norman Thomas’s Jewish lang- | uage organ, the “Forward” calls him a liar in this respect. On Oct. 17, jon page 9, the “Forward” recording |the event saying: “Forward” Talks Differently. “A group of six Communists tried to create a scandal at the | city hall, at a meeting of the Board of Estimates. All of the (Continued on Page Five) TAMMANY OFFERS, | $3,000 More Per Year Secretly Handed to Commissioners I knew nothing of NEW YORK.—The accidental dis- that while the New York tentative budget was before covery City the board of estimates it had been secretly changed to include thou- sands of dollars more for “salaries” to Tammany leaders holding public office proves that Nessin’s charges of graft and looting were true. When Sam Nessin stood before the board of estimates in open hear- ing last week, at the head of a com- mittee of the Unemployed Councils, jand made this charge, Mayor Walker flew into a rage, gave a signal with his gavel, and had the police beat Nessin and the commit- tee nearly to death, right in the board room. Now the facts are out, and even the capitalist press can not deny them. With 800,000 workers starv- ing to death for lack of jobs or re- lief in New York alone, the callous Tammanyites dip their own hands into the treasury and add to their own income. That is their answer TO FEED 12,000 Other 788,000 Out of Luck If Don’t Fight NEW YORK.—Although Commis- sioner Rybicki admits 800,000 unem- ployed in New York alone, the Tam- | many city government continues to | ask votes on its “record” of feeding | —promising to feed—12,000 of them and to give out of the tens of thou- sands lying frost covered in the parks, about 3,000 a chance to lie on the floor in the armories. The city government has appro- priated $1,000,000 for this, most o which will go to new high salaried office holders for “administration” and “investigation.” Meanwhile it is held by the Tammany district or- ganizations as a lure for votes— relief to those who vote right! The police department, to which that the overgrown salaries of Tam- many offic save the lives of the jobless, and of their hungry children. Five borough commissioners of | public works, each of whom got a $2,000 raise last year, now get an- cther salaries of $15,000 a year. Five other officials get big sums, and 169 attendants at the magis- trates courts where striking and jobless workers are railroaded | | to the demand of the unemployed | Is be cut one-half to| aise of $3,000 each, to make! is voted $7,000,000 extra to beat up the unemployed if they don’t starve quietly, is also entrusted with the task of compiling a blacklist of job- less. They know that there mustn’t be too many recorded. Young Workers | to Stare “Vote Red” Race, Sat., Nov. 1 On Saturday, Nov. 1, the young worker athletes of New York will do their bit for the Communist |Election Campaign. The Young Communist League of New York jointly with the Labor Sports Union has arranged a race across the city with “Vote Communist” banners. The race will start from the Bronx, going through the working class neighborhoods and ending at 27 E. 4th St., New York City. On the other hand the Brooklyn young workers will start their part of the |race from Rockaway and Pitkin and also ending at 27 E. 4th St., New York City. Every team is to con- sist of 9 men. Send all entries to 50 E. 18th St., New York. All working class athletes as well | as organizations are urged to choose teams and enter them into competi- tion. Negro organizations are cor- dially invited. through to jail or for trial at special sessions, get increases of $250 a year each. Three of the public works com- missioners are big Tammany lead- ers. They are: H. Warren Hubbard, Publi Works Commissioner of Manhattan leader in the Tenth Assembly Dis- trict. Peter A. Cary, Commissioner of Public Works of Brooklyn; leader in the Tenth District. ‘Hoover Gang Cuts Workers Pay; Tammany in Pay Grab Less Than Sops for the Jobless From Woods Committee | | Nothing has been done for the un- employed by Hoover’s starvation board, headed by ex-Police Commis- ioner Wood of New York. Nor is anything definitely proposed except at the shipping having fired thousands during the last six | months, now announces that 500 more (office employees these) whom jit intended to let go will be kept for a time. Political observers say—until after election day. board, Postmaster General Brown has announced that a few new places will be found for part-time work- ers in his department through re- duction of hours of work for those now employed. And that is all, except that all {employers are urged to put the men | still at work on part-time! Even | the proposal of William Gibbs Mc- the ice cream Mayor Walker advises them to eat, can chew wheat, is mediately rejected. There is $75,- 000,000 worth of wheat being held in storage by the Farm Board to raise the price of bread. Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm Board, yesterday hurried to answer Mc- | Adoo, and declare that the wheat will not be turned over to the job- les He says to do that would be against the law. An Election Promise. Creaking along and making plen- ty of noise—at least until election—puffing out plenty of hot air but doing nothing for the job- less, the starvation committee gives | jan impression of action, but does |not result in action. a strong impression based upon current facts that it will confine itself after the election to wage- cutting—the Hoover stagger sys- tem. It spent its meeting yester- |day and the day before hearing tes- |timony from employers who mini mized the unemployment cris’ Prominent among these was D: F ieee Charles F. Abbott, executive direc- | : David S. Rendt, ommissioner of/tor of the American Institute of| by many Negro worker organiza- WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 24.—} | Adoo, that the unemployed, lacking | after | It also gives | © 10,000 JOBLESS BACK DEMANDS; TO RALLY ON MON. AT COUNCIL MEET | Elect Committee of 11; | Murphy Aids Boss | Profits } 'To Fight for Demands | Expose Fake Promises of Mayor Murphy DETROIT, Oct. 24.—Over 10,006 | unemployed workers, under the lead- jership of the Unemployed Council ;met today at Grand Circus Park, \ despite refusal of a permit; elected |a committee of eleven, and present- ed the demands of the unemployed | workers of Detroit to Mayor Mur= |phy at the City Hall. Murphy, who was forced to see | the Unemployed Council Committee, which included three Negro workers, |said that “these demands are not | practical because they put the bur- |dens of unemployment relief on the employers. And I don’t wan to do that.” The workers gathered in Grand |Cireus Park at noon. Three speak- jers’ stands were put up. Enthusi- astic cheering greeted the demands |of the speakers for the passage of \the Unemployment Insurance Bill, advocated by the Communist Party. A whole series of demands was read off and adopted by the jobless. A committee of ¢1even was elected. The unemployed marched down the main streets of Detroit, Woodward (Continued on Page Five) NY. ANTI-LYNCH MEETING, OCT. 29 |Masses Rallying to Fight on Terror Mass support for the New York | Conference Against Lynching called | by the American Negro Labor Con- | gress is indicated in the action of |a growing number of working class | organizations, Negro and white, in | endorsing that conferenc: and elect- | ing delegates to it. On every hand, ithe militant workers are displaying , keen interest in the struggle against | the bosses’ lynching terror which ‘has already murdered 38 Negro | workers this year. The conference has been endorsed | Public Works for Richmond; in con-| Stee] Construction, who told, in de-| tions in Harlem, by several A. F. |trol of the Staten Island Democratic’ fiance of facts, the story that there | 0f L. locals, in which a militant organization. lis no unemployment in the struc-| tank and file forced action on their sioners are John J. Halleran. of |Cueens and William J. Flynn of the | Bronx. \ | | Brownsville Holding George Primoff, Communist can- Senatorial District (Brownsville), will be one of the principal speak- ers at a large mass meeting and | Election Rally to be held on Tues- y, Oct. 28th, at the Lincoln Pal- Hall, Blake Ave., near | Powell St., Brooklyn, Admission free. r sending to press correspondents signed as a warning to Party stalwarts to bluff out a desperate nationwide economic crisis, the repub-, lican national committee has disclosed that it views the business smash and unemployment crisis with It advises speakers and editors to dark pessimism. blame the whole thing on foreign and pictures the United States as suffering less than the other victims. “The United States is passing precedented whirlpool of a worldwide economic “The great drouth and the col- lapse of our own stock boom have been contributing crisis,” it says. soldier who served a long prison report at 7 p. m. at 27 East 4th St.| term because of his activities in the New Bedford textile strike. causes from which we could easily The major causes of this prolonged large degre elie outside the United States. They A It names the are beyond our a statement de- “The effect is economic forces, through an un- tatorships. Ove: of revolution at turn accentuates have recovered. crisis to a very jected to shock ‘Hoover Fears Revolution; Orders Crisis Facts Hid WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Through a mistake in control.” over-production of coffee in Brazil, of sugar in Cuba, and of wheat in Canada, Argen- tina and Australia, and the over-supply of silver which “paralyzed the buying power” of China, as , factors in the shrinkage of American trade. even greater than unemployment,” it says. “Under the stress of economic strain, revo- lutionary activities have developed in a large part of South America, in China and in India. governments are menaced by Communism and dic- Other r half of the world is in a state this time. This disturbed state in the paralysis of business, increases | the anxiety of our foreign relations and the entire economic and political fabric of the world is sub- and strain.” Red Rally, Oct. 28) didate for state senator in the 7th) The other two borough commis- | tural steel trades. The workers must apply more pressure, more organization of the | jobless, more organization shops to strike against wage cuts, a \ big Communist vote to show. the |rulers they have decided to fight! |No wage cuts! No “stagger sys- |tem”! Real insurance for the un- employed! SHOP DELEGATES TO RATIFY €. P. Big Meeting Called for October 27 Section 1 of the Communist Party, District 2 is calling a shop delegates conference and mass meeting of jworkers downtown at Manhattan) Lyceum, Oct. 27th to endorse the | ‘platform of the Communist Party in | ‘the present election campaign. Final | preparations for the Foster-Trach- | ‘tenberg rally at ooper Union will be | made. | | Workers in the factories and on the docks, as well as unemployed | workers are urged to elect delegates | to represent them at this conference. ; All workers of the downtown dis- | tricts are urged to attend this con- ference and give their support to the Communist ticket. i Vote Communist! s in, the} | reactionary leadership, and by ore | ganizations whose membership com- | prise both Negro and white work- lers and whose policy is based on full equality for Negro workers, such as the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, the International Labor Defense, the | Workers International Relief, etc. . The conference will be held in St. | Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th St., on the evening of October 29. Swell Wave of Election Editions Tnsull’s plan for making unemployment pleasant is to toss the jobless a few nickles by gouging his workers a day’s pay. The boss chair warmers also faithfully pro- mise to dock themselves a full day’s pay when nobody is looking. Baloney! Insull says the cough up is “wholly voluntary.” Next week he will say the workers insisted on it. However, any worker who kicks will be fired for blowing his nose. Make the bosses pay for the boss crisis. Smash the hunger system! Vote Com- munist! Readers speed Election Campaign Edition Orders. Build New York City cir- culation to highest point in history. Final special Nov, 3rd.