The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 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 Central (Section of the Communist ewes Cont Norker mmunist Party U.S.A. International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, [ UNITE! eae Vol. VII. No. 259 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the uct of March 3, 1879 Price 3 Cents Starvation! Bigger Profits! MASY times we have emphasized that by various methods the bosses were loading all the burdens of the economic crisis on the workers’ backs. First came the even more murderous speed-up systems in the factories with the workers forced to keep up with the speed of the conveyors by the whip of slave-driving foremen. Then came the reduction of the crews, even more speed-up and finally, with the coming of the economic crisis, mass lay-offs throwing millions into the-streets to starve. This was followed by ruthless wage cuts and -part-time work which brought the workers still*in the factories down to the hunger level. Evictions, suicides, hunger, starvation have been steadily increas- ing among -the workers during the past year. But during the same period, due to these brutal methods of ex. ploitation, the wealth and profits of the capitalists have increased. We already cited the New York Journal as authority for an increase of $136,000,000 in the bosses’ dividends in September this year as com- pared with September last year. But for still greater proof of the bosses’ growing profits while the masses starve, read the following quotation from the October 26th issue of the New York Herald-Tribune: “The aggregate of bursements to shareholders during 1930 has shown an increase every month over the same month of the previous year. Moreover, the increase has been:very sub- stantial. For the month of September, for example, payments exceeded those of 1929 by 19.4 per cent. FOR THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1930 TOTAL DIVIDEND PAYMENTS IN CASH (division of stock, etc., would bring the total still higher. —Ed.) AMOUNTED TO $3,621,104,457, AS COMPARED TO § 278,531 FOR THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. A LE CALCULATION SHOWS THAT THIS IS AN_ IN- CREASE SLIGHTLY EXCEEDING 50 PER CENT.” (Our emphasis.—Ed.) A 50 per cent increase in the bankers’ and manufacturers’ profits, while over 8,000,000 workers are jobless and starving, while millions of others still employed are down to the hunger level! This is prosper- ous America “where all men are free and equal”! Yet these same fat-bellied capitalists, who are daily sucking the very life blood out of the workers in order to maintain their own glut- tonous profits, have the “guts” to talk of “relieving” the unemployed. Why, they have already “relieved” us of everything that they could tear loose! And their present schemes, put forth by their political hirelings, ere only further efforts to satisfy their greed for profits at our expense, But the workers will not stand for any more! Already many thousands grasp their ptedicament and are fighting back. This num- ber, despite the betrayals of the social fascists, will rapidly grow. November 4th will see a big increase in the workers’ vote for the Communist Party. which alone fights for their demands and against capitalism. The coming winter will see gigantic class strug- gles with great masses of workers fighting tooth and nail against the starvation plans of the bosses and for the Workers’ Social Insurance Tax the Rich! CCORDING to Arthur Woods, Hoover’s “hunger and starvation” chief, special bond issues totaling $450,000,000 will be submitted to a vote in nineteen states on November 4th. These bond issues, the capitalist politicians claim, will finance a nation-wide public works program “which mav help in easing the unemployment situation.’ But this is bunk to get the workers’ support for the politicians’ “pork barrel.” The number of workers who would receive jobs would be insignificant. We have the example of Buffalo where over $10,000,- 000 was spent this summer for “public works” and employment was given to only 421 workers. With the expenditure of the proposed 450,000,000, work would be given to a maximum of 20,000 workers out of the over 8,000,000 now jobless. By handing out 20,000 jobs, while permitting the balance of the 8,000.000 to starve, these political fakers would try to create the illusion that they were “doing some- thing” to help unemployed workers and in this way justify the mur- derous police and gangster attacks against the great mass of workers fighting for relief. The real beneficiaries of these bond issues will not be the unem- ployed workers; it will be the bankers, the manufacturers, and the corrupt, grafting politicians. ° When these bonds are put on the market, the bankers. for them- selves and their wealthy clients. will gobble them up at from 85 to 90 cents on the dollar. In addition they will collect 5 or 6 per cent interest for the term of the bonds. A few of the millions of dollars now lying idle in the banks because of the economic crisis, would be put to work through these bond issues, at a handsome profit for the wealthy. The politicians, as always, would steal a large portion of the re- mainder, after the bankers got through, for graft. Their nolitical machines would be well oiled as long as these “public works” funds held out. The jobless workers would not get work and ultimately, either directly or indirectly, they would have to repay the bond issue in full, the bonus of the bankers and the yearly interest. They would prob- ably have to pay several times the actual amount of the bond issues before the transaction was finished. All workers, therefore, should expose these fake, grafting pro- posals. For public works, as for unemployment insurance the workers should insist on direct. capital levies and heavy income taxes on the wealth and income of the country’s rich. They can efford to pay; they must be made to pay. By voting Communist on November 4th and by organizine and fighting under Communist leadership the workers, employed and unemployed, can defeat these proposals and win their de-vonds for. bread. “More Jobs and Less Talk” TLL ROGERS’ suggestion, as usual made. in jest, for “More Jobs and Less Talk,” is particularly applicable to the present situation ‘when republican, democratic and “socialist” politicians, their camnaien aides and the capitalist press are all whooping it up for “relief” for the unemployed, but actually doing nothing except to help the bo: increase their profits at the workers’ expense. “Every millionaire we have,” says Rogers, (and we might add, all their henchmen.—EFd.) “has offered a speech instead of keeping still and offering a iob. Our optimism is all at the hancuet table, where everybody there has more than they can eat.” . And this reminds us of the campaign being conducted by Dwight ‘W. Morrow for election as senator from New Jersey. On Friday night last week he spoke at a big banquet. at the Cochran House in Newton. N. J. On Saturday night he spoke at a banquet in Atlantic City. And after this hanouet he spoke at a “charity ball” on Atlantic City’s Million-Dollar Pier. And these two banquets and the charity ball sure went to his head. . “Our people have plenty of money in the bank,” Morrow. de- clared, “but they have lost confidence and. will not invest it. This propaganda of hoarding money must cease. People must get into close contact with business and start the ball rolling.” We have no doubt but what Morrow’s friends “have. plenty of money in the bank.” Moreover, we know that, by ruthlessly exploit- ing the workers, they are constantly adding more. And we propose, not to starve while they regain “confidence,” but to force them to shell out some of this money for unemployment insurance. Frankly, we, even more so than Will Rogers, are tired of optimistic talk: We want jobs or an unemployment insurance bill that will provide a minimum of $25 per week to every jobless worker. By repudiating the fakers of the Morrow type and by voting Com- munist on Nov. 4th the workers will advance their struggle for im- mediate relief and for social insurance, ) oe to Keep Ba Finnish Fascists’ War Plan Against USSR Is Revealed [EAD PROTEST | Were Ready to Declare War. Against Soviet Union in Baltic States; Gov't Tries NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930 PERSHING CALLS FOR WAR ARMING: ADMIT WAR NEAR Spend Billions for | Arms; Jobless Starve Admission that war preparations |have reached a tremendous height 8 contained in an editorial of the |New York Times, Oct. 26. “Com- |menting on General Pershing’s call |to speed up national defense, the |Times points out that the London naval conference resulted in speed- |ing up naval armaments, and that {the United States is as well rush- |ing all of its war preparations. The |editorial says: “.. . the purpose is to build up in cruisers to a parity with Great Britain and in other classes to esualize the fleets. The result | should be a more compact and effective navy. Both services now have air corps in process of at- taining an organization that would enable them to play a for- midable part in an uavoidable war.” For this “unvaoidable war” that the imperialists are engineering, the Times brags about the big increase in the National Guard, which num- bers 177,000 men besides the regu- lar army. It tells of the 127,453 in the military training units in schools and colleges; the 6,612 in the R.O.T.C, Besides, this paper say! “In the imminence of war |with a strong. power, they (the armed forces) could be expanded |under the terms of the national de- fense act, and all the resources of |the country could be mobilized.” | Thus we see billions being spent ck Exposure | e | A definite war plan against the} Soviet Union, engineered by the} |Finnish Fascists under the leader- ship of General Wailenius, together with militarists of other Baltic states, was revealed Monday in| cables to capitalist newspapers from | Helsingfors, Finland. The Finnish government is mobil- izing its bourgeois militia, but for what purpose is not stated. Gen- |eral Wallenius is “detained” by the} Finnish government, not because it | does not approve of the war plans ‘of the fascists, but because the sud- the rapid war mobilization. The fascists had made agree- ments with militarists, and un- doubtedly governments, in other | Baltic states whereby war would be declared simultaneously against the Soviet Union. The government is trying to hide |the “investigation” of this war |manoeuver. Foreign secretary Pro- |cope of Finland has ordered the in- vestigation of the Wallenius “ar- rest” be kept secret because he “fears the scandal which would fol- low publication of the full facts.” | There is little doubt that the big- | ger capitalist powers such as the United States and Great Britain were behind this direct war step. | The workers must be rallied against | the enraged imperialists who fear-| ful of the growing success of the Five-Year Plan are rapidly precipi- tating a war. Defend the Soviet Union! Show your determination to do this in the coming elections by voting Communist! for the “unavoidable war” while 9,000,000 unemployed workers face starvation this winter. Demand the war funds be turned over for un- employment. insurance; vote Com- munist! Vote Communist! BRAZIL REDS | ON STARVATION Call. on Workres to Fight Boss Cliques and Imperialism Rallying the workers in Rio de Ja- neiro, Brazil, against the starvation, | the Communist Party Monday led a | mass protest against the new military clique which rules there, as well as against the bourgeois leaders of the | Vargas movement, according to As- sociated Press dispatches. The pro- test took place at the time of a mil- itary uprising of a section of the mil- jitary police. The Party took ad- |den revelation has interfered with |Y@Mtage of the situation to lead a | itor, Louise Pearson. |demand on the part of the workers for bread. Police and troops were called into action against the mass of workers | (Continued on Page 3) CHILD'S PLEA SHOWS | MISERY OF JOBLESS | | | ' | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 27. | i} | —Following is a letter brought | |in to a book store owner in this city by an emaciated little child “Dear Bookeeper: Will you | | please buy these books from my | |sister. I would bring them my- | self, but I am hurt. Jover Thu | j out of wo and I had these old | | books what I am through with |Could you at least give me 75 cents for them to get us some- thing to eat with or please give us 50 cents, but I would appre- |ciate and thank you if you would give us 75 cents because there is six little children in the family to feed. Marjorie King Pearson 2316 East 57th St. | “You can send it by my little Please ke.” Here is untold misery and suf- |fering of an unemployed work- | |ers’ family. Here is capitalism. for my sa @ NEW YORK.—The biggest red election demonstration of the pres- |ent campaign, surpassing even the great demonstration at Madison Square Garden, will take place Monday, Nov. 3rd, at 5 p. m., on Union Square. Here the Commu- nist candidates will appear before the workers of New York with a final message before the polls open. The Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League who started and led the fight for un- employment insurance and imme- diate unemployed relief more than @ year ago, will not give up the jfight after election day. The Com- munist Party will wind up its elec- tion campaign with a huge demon- |stration on Union Square, demand- |ing immediate unemployed relief for the starving hundreds of thou- the suffering of the masses of un- the army of the unemployed is sands and will serve notice that as; employed is growing deeper and as} All Red Candidates to Be at Mass Rally in Union Sq. ; growing larger, the fight for im- | mediate relief will grow in the same proportions. continued. The demands of the employed and unemployed workers will be voiced through signs, placards and banners displayed on Union Square. The feature of the demonstration will be before the “presence” of the “so- cialist” Ramsay MacDonald who a year ago has made all kinds of promises to relieve unemployment and who has succeeded in having the army of unemployed doubled since he took office, and Jimmie Walker, who was forced by the Communist demonstration of Oc- tober 16th to have his Board of | Estimates assign a million dollars for the unemployed, that is, for Tammany graft and “ice cream.” | | | | | { = = ‘MASS VIOLATION OF INJUNCTIONS BEGUN; PICKET AT ZELGREEN ‘ WATK |Picket Again Today! Red Rally Thursday Is Part of Fight BE AT THE NESSIN | Aldermen have been served sub- poenas at the demand of the Inter- national Labor Defense to appear in court in the case of the Delegation of the Unemployed Council who were beaten and clubbed by the police when tryingto put the unemployed workers’ problems before the Board | of Estimate. | The trial of the delegation, who are held for inciting to riot and disorder- ly conduct will come to trial this morning at Tombs Court. The de- N YORK. — Hundreds of TRIAL UP TODAY workers packed the sidewalk in 9 weeds front of the Zelgreen Cafeteria, 217 pie West 34th St., yeste in open : ° mass violation of the injunction Court Aids Grafters to} acainst picketing. Stay pee They were attacked by police on Stay Away foot, horseback, in the riot wagon NEW YORK.—Mayor Walker and @nd on motorcycles. Twenty-one | McKee, president of the Board of were arrested, one being badly beaten up by a whole squad of cops before he was thrown into the riot wagon. He was a worker, Na- poleon, recently beaten up by po- lice on a picket line. One woman picket was cuffed and struck, and arrested. Struggle Goes On. The fight will go on! This is but the first round of a determined struggle of the militant workers of New York to smash the injunction evil by mass violation. There is no other way. The A. F. L, and Likewise, the fight | endant workers are J. Louis Eng-| the bosses cooperate to get injunc- against wage cuts and speed-up as , 42h, chairman of the delegation and | tions against the strikers in every well as the fight against part-time | Heutenant-govenor on the Commu- | work as a means of “relief” will be| Mist ticket, Sam Nessin, Freda Jack- strike, and those who try to picket are jailed under Paragraph 600 of the Penal Code, providing sentences for violation of an injunction. Mass violation of the injunctions, or loss of the right to strike— son, Anna Porgribsky, Robert Lealess and Stone. The International Labor Defense has so far been able to secure only | Mayor Walker and President McKee to come to court as the subpoenas | are not served by the LL.D., a rather unusual court procerude, but are “taken care” of by the court itself. Magistrate Stern refused the LL.D. to serve the subpoenas through its) attorney. Theoriginal demand was | for five subpoenas and if they are not served the I.L.D. will fight for | the workers’ right to call city offi- cials who ordered the beating and witnessed the whole affair in their chambers. VOTE COMMUNIST! iThe Disappearance of | Money Mystified Colon Division This is the first of a series of articles, written by a member of the crew of the “Booker T. Wash- ington,” on its ill-fated cruise in the West Indies. For obvious reasons, the name of the author is withheld. The articles are thoroughly authentic, however, as every reader will admit before the series is over. With this issue, we publish a photostat copy of a leaflet issued by the Colon Division of the Uni- versal Negro Improvement Asso- ciation. With every issue we will publish photographs, including the discharge papers of the seamen writer—all serving to prove the absolute authenticity of the series and of the charges made by the crew against the Garvey officials who attempted to make the crew the goat for their own misdeeds and mistakes. This series of articles are of tremendous import to both Negro and white workers. The U.N.1.A. or Garvey Movement, was created out of the discontent of the Negro masses, which found its highest expression at the end of the world war. Based at first on a demand for African liberation and nation- alism, the Garvey Movement has since shamelessly betrayed the struggles of the Negro masses. In this series of articles, the thor- oughly anti-working c! of the Garvey movement is vividly set forth by a worker who him- self experienced the brutal atti- tude of Garvey and his officials _ towards the Negro workers from whose hard-earned savings his movement was built and whom he has so barefacedly betrayed.—Ed. By a Seaman on the Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington” Thousands of colored people here in Harlem and elsewhere are still waiting to hear the true story con- cerning the circumstances surround- ing the cruise of the steamship “Booker T. Washington,” the fla; ship, of the fleet Marcus Garvey w: to. gather together for the carrying out of his “Back to Africa” scheme. A great many of these people have taken for granted what Mr. True Story of Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington,” arvey’s Flagship, Told for First Time by Seaman Carter and other officials chose to tell them. Through a vicious cam- paign of lies and slanders these crew. The workers, obeying orders and faithfully carrying out their officials have passed the buck to the |duties, have been made the scapejboat in West Indian waters for |goats before the masses. They have even been accused of keeping the A few pe matters and. monies are bi cing have been credit by adi ministrators is a minister Mony ‘they! omeherk They leave those aronnd tribute money in such di This is a photosphat copy of a leaflet issued by the Colon division of the Universal Negro Improve- le who term thenselves “di; uot adequately account for the the Cross Navigation & Trading Co. We understand that the man who is eat ity; because when all is over, the victims them. The merchants and and the activities of sere SPECIAL NOTICE. —— +e. — This is to officially inform’thé public that the Universal ciation which functions under the presidexey spovsible for the. present disturbances in connection ‘with the Black Cross Navigation & vading Co.. In fine, we constitute an independent entity and our activities are at pree- ent directed along purely local lines.as may be seen from our extensive educational. indastriat and commercial program. _ We regard with much disfavour the many injustices which are bein, against the interests of the ignorant-the credulous~-the unsuspecting. a time will soon come when these poor despicable and visionless creatures will awaken only to. find themselves victims of adverse and irremediable circumstances—circum- stances over which they will have no contral. We have a membership of 959 adults 4nd 300 school children, many of whom are holding certificates for loans in the Black Cross Navi are pouring out their distress to us aski know why the S, S. Booker T. Washington is: ttnchored in Cristobal stream unable to pro- ceed according to schedule, They want to (now what has become of the many thous- ands of dollars which have been collected. ai . We crosmutie io wale anytbing vpn cular and mysterious manner in which the’ fairs are being administered. The Sieg haa crew are unable to give any tangible information about anythin, taries” have assumed control of all financial irited away ina manner which is beyond hnman compre- hension. . ‘Fhe said “dignitaries” have been making certain report? with a view of pla- the'responsibility for the present dilemma on anybody beside themselves. e ing to mancouver other honest people within the sphere of bleme and dis! lucuig a series of evasive arguments. But these spurious fabrications can- eat.loss which is now threatening the contributors of eing by profession—that prior to his used to pilot the souls of men. We therefore heartily recommend than observe, for a while, a few of the principles. which he used ype and which he: Oi ed other people to swallow unmasticated and without question. think that Coloy is a lucrative field of exploitati , and when : behing mona ratify theie Snautighte bast fob-oiay mor It is to be hoped that the Locat Government will continue to maintain its ceaseless vig- ilance over the affairs-of its ‘citizens and wesident forei, of the undersigned is not in any way re-, ion & Trading Co. © us to-intercede in their behalf. Y the cafe managers, Up to the present + condition of the ship bi voaney b greg rd chief among this mysterious group of mal-ad- fo hie advent in the UN. I-A. t igners and do not permit dishon- slobe-teotiscs to come from al] parts of the world to ravish and extort this commun- must necessarily become a veritable nrenace to Mine tet saste peoples oe find ees delinquent ice ment must incre: ‘e have no objection to con- rections ee will bring, us some benefit, but not atharwisé (Signed) HECTOR CONNOR, President. Negro Improvement Aseo- etrated € realize that. aes day they ey.want to vent in N.LA. he st for.casy money. ment Association at the time the §. S. Booker I. Washington” was in that port, x : 5 nearly six months when she had presumably left New York for a 31- day cruise. Until now, the crew has had no opportunity to tell its side of the story. As a member of the crew on that disastrous cruise I will here tell the facts as they are known to every member of the crew—the facts that have been covered up and distorted by the officials. Here those who want the truth and noth- ing but the truth can learn the true reason why the “Booker T. Wash- ington” had to remain in foreign waters for so long. I will relate in the followig series of articles how Mr. Carter and Lady Davis bungled matters, deliberately | held up the boat, and even squan- dered the people’s money to an ex- tent where their wanton extrava- gance brought tears to the eyes of those among the crew who were} members of the U.N.IA. | I know beforehand that there are | certain people who will try to ques- tion the truth of my statements. But it is these same people who have allowed the heat of fanaticism | to becloud their minds to the extent where they cannot see facts that are plain as day. But I defy any- one to disprove my statements, I defy anyone to prove that the crew | had anything to do with the delays of the boat in any of the’ ports we visited. And I openly invite one and all to use the columns of this newspaper to discuss any of my statements in the following articles. | SOCIALISTS GET PRAISE | FOR AID TO CAPITALISM That the capitalists the world over regard the socialists as the best supporter of the capitalist system against the growing radi- | calization of the workers and the | advancing revolutionary moye- | ments is openly admitted in a dis- | patch from Berlin to the Herald- | Tribune, Oct. 25. The Tribune | Say: “Actually European socialism, | paradoxical as it may sound, is | the most conservative element in European politics today. Almost everywhere the socialists are pro- tecting the existing order of so- ciety by keeping the trade union- ists from drifting toward the slavery—peonage and a fascist rule through court orders by the bosses and the A. F. L. misleaders, with (Continued on Page 2) N.Y. ANTI-LYNCH MEET TOMORROW Many Organizations Answering ANLC Call Tomorrow night delegates from many working-class organizations, shop committees, etc., will gather in St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th St. to protect the lynching terror of the bosses which has already claimed 38 working-class victims for the year, and to cut a program of struggle against lynching. The conference is called by the American Negro Labor Congress, and is one of many anti-lynching con- ferences that militant organization is holding throughout the country in its work of mobilizing the entire working-class, white and Negro, for struggle against Negro oppression. It is also a step in preparing the na- tional convention of the Congress, which is scheduled for November 15 and 16 at St. Louis, Mo., and will constitute a country-wide rallying of working-class forces against the mur-derous system of the capitalists, which its lynching terror, unemploy- ment and mass misery, etc. Workers are urged to see that their organizations elect delegates to the conference tomorrow night, if they have not already done so, or to rep- resent their organizations so that | they can report back on the plans adopted by the conference for the fight against lynching. Negro work- ers! White workers! Join the struggle against lynching! Smash the vicious lynching terror and its capitalist instigators! Sheriff's Mouth Open Too Long Once in a while a capitalist spokesman, paralyzed with stupidity, lets out the cat. Sheriff Poppel, of Georgia, suh, has jolted his boss mas- ters and proved he’s dumb enough to be a N. ¥. cop, by blurting out: “I don’t know who killed the Negro and [I don't give a damn.” The killers entered the jail through the sheriff's kitchendoor. The Communist Party alone puts up a real fight against lynching. Rip off the mask of the social fascists and Gar- vey misleaders. Garvey ex- posures in Daily today. Dynamite the lynch system with Special Election Cam- paign editions. Boost New York City Elec tion Campaign edition cireu- lation Noy. 3. 60,000 drive news page 3. subversive Communist Party.” The socialist party in the U, S., with its Thomas, Hillquits, Pankens, Maurers, Hoan and others, are the best supporters of capitalism here, Yote Communist,