The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1930, Page 4

————— Se Page Four 13th Street, New Y. Address and mail City, N. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily, except Sunday, at 50 East ‘DAIWORK.” ll checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cabl Dail e-ESRmunist Porty U.S.A. By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Foreign ‘wo months, $1; excepting Boroughs One year, $8; six months, $4.50 ~ OUR OPEN AIR SPEECHES — By R, BAKER T THIS stage of our Elect Party in New York is cond: open air and about 35 shop gate meetings a week in addition to s d door meetings held by the revolutionary trade Y.C.L, and Campaign the ting about 100 unions, unemployment other mass orge n Through the each week we reach almost as ny worker we had at the mad rden meeting. ison Square G: ‘Our Speeches Too General. The new method of work and approach to by our P; ers on the whole deal too much with the ge problems facing the entire working class. We deal with the i tional issues, India, China, South Ame Soviet Union, etc. in too much detail and too great a proportion to the more burning problems actually facing the workers of New York or the definite section of New York where the m ng is being eld. True enough, we must deal with the interna- tional issues, but by no means at the expense of the burning local problems of the workers to whom we are speaking, ch is too often the case just now. How to Deal With Unemployment. The most burning issue of the day is unem- ployment. This must be the keynote of all our speeches and agitation. Our speakers must deal with facts, figures, events and give definite direction to the work- ers whom we are addressing. Read the Party Unemployment Insurance Bill and tell the workers about it, secure details of the local demands of the unemployment council. The City Budget developments for instance is concrete illustration of the reaction of the bosses and the socialists to the unemployment problem and at the same time illustrates our program strategy and tactics. In this relation the New York City Hall dem- onstration of October 16th must be brought out as an historic event. This was the first time that a delegation of workers was actually invited into the city hall by the mayor himself and brutally beaten up fnside the building after presenting the de- mands of the Unemployment Council. The fact that they were accompanied by 15,000 workers fndicated: the support which this committee, headed by Communist Candidates, had. How the demands of workers were answered by slugging and arrests while the socialist sat by and smiled their approval. October 17th in secret session these same poli ns voted for: $1,000,000 for unemploy- ment relief (for 800,000 unemployed); $8,060,- 000 for raises in their own salaries and 600 additional policemen to club the unemployed. We must hammer these points home until every worker in New York knows them. Hoover Hunger Plan. Hoover's hunger plans came after the mass demonstrations of unemployed workers in Cleveland, Boston, New York and other cities. Hoover’s main “remedy” is to put the entire burden on the working class by the famous “stagger” plan which means that all workers should be put on part time and receive part wages. Which means putting the entire work- ing class on a slow starvation basis, Hoover’s Hunger plan in New York is being put into effect by the big bosses and the police while the’ socialists again have only praise for it. In New York the proposals are: To put 10,000 to work at $15 per week. To have the police register all unemployed. To set up soup kitchens and flop houses | for the unemployed. To create a lying propaganda of promises behind which they prepare to crush the unem- | ployed workers’ demands with police and jail terrorism. Evictions. Our Party and the Unemployed Councils have raised the slogan of “Resist Evictions.” On several occasions the workers have actu- ally carried back the furniture of the evicted workers. This must be pointed out as the most effective means of stopping evictions. Mayor Walker’s latest demagogy will not stop evictions. Our speakers would do well to read the leaf- let “Resist Evictions.” And Furthermore— Our speakers must read the Daily Worker carefully. Most of the Daily Worker editorials can be used as the basis for speeches. Read the New York News carefully and cite facts, figures and events in your speeches often reading directly from the Daily Worker. Don’t talk about every subject under the sun. Confine yourself to one or two problems and deal with them effectively. Remember! The workers to whom you are speaking have real acute problems facing thm. We must know these problems and talk about them and show how to overcome them. Our Election Campaign speeches must deal with concrete issues. You don’t have to be a seasoned speaker to be concrete and effective. Talk to the workers from the platform as you would to a worker in the shop or on the street. “Conciliating” Latin-America By HARRISON GEORGE Bad those who know nothing of the “Muste- ites,’ we must explain that the Rev. Muste is a guiding spirit in the fake “left” wing of the A. F. of L., inspirer of the social fascist “socialist” party’s fake “unemployment insur- ance” scheme, master of strike sell-outs under the plea of “avoiding conflict” and artistic liar against Communism from a pretended “labor” standpoint. The Rev. Muste is also the Big Cheese in a fishy organization called “The Fellowship of Reconciliation,” the social function of which may be summed up as appearing conveniently on the scene of a hold-up, when a burly bandit is standing on the neck of a helpless victim going through his pockets, and protesting that the victim is squirming too much, adjuring him that it may provoke violence if he doesn’t | cease struggling and assuring him that the Fellowship of Reconciliation will insist on Congress passing a law providing that here- after bandits, before standing on their victims’ necks, must exchange their hob-nailed boots for chamois-skin slippers. Now it appears that the outfit, the F. 0. R., is invading Latin America. It has a budget of $8,000 for “work” there. And a couple of scoundrels, Charles and Olive Thomson by name, “conciliating” the victims of American imperialism in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Hon- duras and other Central American countries. Against Revolutions. The F..0. R. program, true to the illustra- tion mentioned above about the bandit and his victim, has as its first point: “1. To oppose military measures—revolutions and the use of Marines.” Mr. Thomson tells in a folder put out by the F. 0. R., how he got along famously in Nicaragua. True, he says not a word about an effort at all to persuade the Marines to get out. The Marines are difficult to “con- ciliate” perhaps and it’s not the F. 0. R.’s business to do more than just say it’s “against using” Marines. So the Marines, being there anyway, are not to be taken to task, and all the F. 0. R. has to do is to “conciliate” the Nicaraguans to not fight back, because that might “pro- voke violence” and lead to revolution, And ithe F. O. R. is against revolutions. So Thom- son boasts of a convert in Nicaragua who told him: “We have taken no part in the last two revo- Jutions. We refused to. We told the generals, “You can look in our faces and see that we are not material for cannon fodder. We know that patriotism means loving this sky, these trees and flowers, all the people who dwell here, and making this a happier country in which to live.” Which, under the circumstances of Amer- ican imperialism sitting on the neck of Nica- ragua, means nothing less than to say: We Agree to Slavery. “There’s no necessity shooting us, Mr. Mar- ine, you can see that in our eyes is the hu- mility of slaves, the craven fear of a dog towards a cruel master. We accept your defi- nition of patriotism as meaning giving up the resources, the mines, coffee fields, the canal route and even the sky and flowers to an armed invasion of foreign oppressors, to love everybody, whether they are workers or bosses, native or foreign, even the Marines’ comman- der, to make this a happier country for Wall Street bankers.” The little folder of the F. O. R. naively tells how the Musteite Brookwood College is of- fering scholarships to knowledge-hungry Cen- tral American workers, and that soon some students will be coming to “acquire practical help” at Brookwood, which, we are told, “will mean more intelligent and effective leadership of the workers in their respective countries.” The kind of “practical” sell-outs of strikes such as the textile workers of Elizabethtown, Tennessee, got—and the Danville strikers are getting. From Salvador, however, comes the news (from workers there, and not from Mr. Thom- son), that when he showed up there he was asked a lot of uncomfortable questions, about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Gastonia prisoners, and just what the hell he was doing running around “conciliating” Central Americans for, instead of trying his hand on J. P. Morgan and Co. An Agent of Hoover, Too! And, moreover, perhaps the Fellowship of Reconciliation .can explain how it happened that this Thomson, this agent of imperialism which is supposed to go about in the disguise of the F. O. R., as its representative, intro- duced himself to the trade unions of El Sal- vador as “a representative of President Hoover”? % True, there seems no reason why Thomson shouldn’t represent Hoover and the Fellow- ship of Reconciliation at the same time. Send- ing Marines, and sending somebody to “recon- cile’ Latin Americans to the Marines is good team work. But we would like to know who is paying that supposed sum of $8,000 for “reconciliat- ing” Latin America. We would like to know just what connection Thomson has with Hoover. Above all, in view of the complacency with which the F. 0. R. accepts the fact of armed intervention by Marines in Latin America, why don’t it stop the hypocrisy of saying that it is “opposed to revolutions and the use of Marines,” and state the simple truth that it is in favor of imperialism and against revo- Today in Workers’ Histery OCTOBER 28, 1759—Georges Jacques. ; Danton, popular leader in French Revo- lution, born at Arcis-on-the-Aube. 1905 Vienna workers held great demonstra- tion for universal suffrage. 1918—Fif- teen thousand children’s clothing makers in New cork struck for 8-hour day and 20 per cent wage increase. 1918—Crews of German high-seas fleet put out fires to prevent sailing. 1920—Sylvia Pank- hurst, English Communist, sentenced‘ to six months in prison ‘for articles. in “Workers’ Dreadnaught.” 1929—Alex- ander Loewe, Hungarian Communist, died in hunger strike in prison. AGITATE IN THE SHOPS! Need to Organize By HARRY EISENMAN wits 675,000 building trades workers either totally or partly unemployed according to A. F.L. figures, out of 900,000 in the industry, there are estimated about 200,000 plumbers and helpers pipe fitters, ete. jobless. The build- ing industry feels the effects of the crisis, and is going through one of the worst seasons in history. ahs Plumbers’ helpers on new work suffer from the misleaders of the A.F.L. who refuse to organize them. They are thrown out of work by automatic cutting machines. Expulsion. In the recent attempt to organize the plum- bers’ helpers, those who fought for the correct line for the organization, and for it to join the Trade Union Unity League were expelled. Freddie Broad, a militant young worker, was expelled, but he fights’ on in the Building and Construction Workers’ Industrial League of the T.UUL. Mortimer Jacobs, who for years was one of the most active members was thrown out bodily for only trying to visit some of the old plum- bers’ helpers. Ginenthal was expelled. Hymie Reich was forced on the side lines, although at one time president, and is now a food worker and active organizer of the Food Workers’ Industrial Unior. ise ~ Ben Intrator, a militant, was refused admis- sion for 12 weeks on the ground that he was an active member of the Young Communist League. Renegades Unite. And there are many more, too numerous to mention. Assisting in all these expulsions and outright reactionary moves are the Trotskyites. When McLaughlin comes on his fake campaign to “organize the helpers” we will find a united front between him and the Trotskyites and Lovestoneites. But now is the time to organize. There are militants still in the industry. The campaign starts with a big mass meeting at Workers Home, 350 East 81st St.,.N. Y., at 8 p. m., Thursday, Oct, 30. All alteration plumbers and alteration helpers, New York plumbers and their helpers, gas fitters, pipe fitters, supply men and steam fitters and their helpers are invited to come. The meeting is called by the Plumbers Section of the Building and Construc- tion Workers’ Industrial League of the T.U.U.L. Murderous Speed-Up in the Coal Mines By F. BORICH et ioe i ago the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association gave to the Ford Collieries Co, a “certificate of honor” for thé “small” number of fatalities in its three mines. In glorifying this “honor,” Mr. C. W. Jeffers, engineer of the U. S. Bure of Mines brings out the total num- ber of men employed, total hours worked and total net tons produced for the last 10 years and compares it with fatalities. However, he doesn’t even mention the casualities and in- juries although there are too plenty of them. Premature deaths of miners, because of intense exploitation, are not considered as “fatalities” by. the capitalist class and its engineers. Many miners working for the Ford. Collieries Co. have lost either an arm or leg, or suffered broken backs. Many of them received “slight” injuries which the “Safety Association” doesn’t even put on record. ‘ According to Mr. Joffers’ figures, in 1927, 739 miners, produced 347,360 tons of coal-in 674,776 hours of work. In 1928, 436, miners produced 511,879 tons in 781,729 hours of work, "i According to these figures, in.1927, 1 hour and 54 minutes was the necessary time. to pro- duce one ton of coal; in, 1928, 1 hour and 32 Plumbers Hit By Crisis; Feel 2 AND 2—IS THREE—AND 4—IS 6—AND— By ROBERT W. DUNN. 'OURTS and judges have actually more power to limit the rights and legal status of labor than has congress or the legislatures. We often hear the capitalist politicians tell- ing the “people” to go to the polls and vote for “good” law-makers. But the laws that. most vitally affect labor today are made by appointed judges. The New York papers are now full of a few of the dirty doings of these black-clothed. crooks who sit on a “bench” and send workers to jail for disobeying their “opinions.” These birds really make the law by “interpreting” it in the light of the funda- mental: concepts of capitalism. They are com- pletely responsive to their master’s voice—the voice of the employing class. The courts are, in fact the most effective piece of capitalist machinery for strikebreak- ing. Injunctions are, of course, their hardest club. But in addition to injunctions there are many other ways in which the judges hit out at the workers. They often, by their own decisions, and even without an injunction, declare picketing ille- gal, deciding with their prejudiced minds whether it is “peaceful” or not. They also determine by their whim the number of pickets to be “permitted” in front of a shop. How often have we seen this sort of thing cripple a strike. And how often have we seen the A. F. of L. leaders conform submissively to these rulings. Yellow Dog Judges. Judges have also upheld the legality of the yellow dog contracts in which a worker is forced by his boss to agree that he will not join a union. This “individual contract” is a growing menace against the workers. The courts are simply the back yards in which the Yellow Dog is kept, well fed and ready to attack the workers: at any tirne. Courts have also virtually legalized the blacklist in certain forms, whereby the em- ployers exchange information about workers for the purpose of discharging those who talk strike or resist wage cuts or belong to a union. These judges have also declared “unconstitu- tional” laws which attempted to prevent em- ployers from. forcing workers to withdraw from unions by threatening discharge. Sympathy Strikes. But this is not all these enemies of the workers have done. They have held all sym- pathetic strikes completely illegal thus ban- ning one of the most potentially powerful poli- tical weapons of the workers. They have also declared that strikes in which workers refused to work on non-union material were illegal. Furthermore, they have set up a series of de- minutes, and in 1929, 1 hour and 23 minutes. The Ford Collieries Co. didn’t mechanize its mines. It has no conveyors or loading machines. It is using the same machinery that was used ten years ago. It is clear therefore that the direct, speed-up is responsible for the reduction of necessary time to produce one ton of coal, and for more intense exploitation of the miners. There are various forms of the speed-up sys- tem. A miner is forced to load in one shift whatever coal the machine cuts. If he fails the next day he. finds himself in the ramy of the unemployed. The Mine, Oj] and Smelter Workers’. Indus- trial. Union. raises very sharply the necessity of struggle against wage cuts, speed-up, etc. It mobilizes and organizes the miners for a decisive strike struggle against the speeding up of the miners. | The Ford Collieries Co. mines are among those that the'M.0.S.W.L.U. are concentrating on. It is organizing miners, arranging for Mine Bulletins, and preparing the miners for struggle against this murderous speed-up. —BY BURCK The Injunction Fight--A Struggle Against Capitalist Courts cisions outlawing strikes in public utilities or government jobs. Courts have also outlawed boycotts, a meth- od whereby labor has sometimes been helped to win a strike. They have by other decisions made certain kinds of strikes virtually a con- spiracy. Devise New Ways. In those cases where the strike actually gets under way without the courts taking ac- tion against it, scores of ways to hamper it have been devised by these ‘judges, assisted by the corporation attorneys. They deal out long sentences and heavy fines to the strikers for anything from “disorderly conduct” and “distributing literature without a permit” to “talking back to an officer” or “criminal syn- dicalism.” Any law or ordinance that will suit the purpose of the bosses is called into play. The courts apply them ruthlessly against the workers. Judges are also the ones who either refuse to get bail in some cases or, in others, demand excessively high bail in violation of all “con- stitutional rights.” They may even permit the worker to be held incommunicado, not able to reach even a lawyer or his defense organ- ization. The courts have also been a party to frame- ups against workers and have gladly carried out their part in efforts to legally lynch mili- tant workers. The pamphlet by Vern Smith on “The Frame-Up System” shows how this has operated, assisted by judges, in a dozen important cases. Smash Injunctions. In New York State the employers have found “Section 600” an added help in fighting the workers. Under it the violation of an in- junction is made “criminal contempt” of court —a-criminal act, and the worker sent up for three to six months for doing nothing more than walking down the street! Under this sec- tion the judges and the employers can now send a worker. speedily to jail without going through a lot of the delays and formalities previously required in injunction cases. The fight against injunctions *is one of the most important fights before us today. In fighting these we fight against the capitalist courts and the whole system that exploits and enslaves the workers. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S.A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name .... Address ..cscecsscccccssweses UMS. sccceees Occupation Seeccccccccccccccccses AGOs evens Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y. Scorn Arrest Threat “I am threatened with arrest for distrib- uting the Daily Worker.’ However, if you send some each week I will distribute - them regardless.”—R. J. W. Elizabeth- ton, Tenn. Workers! . Answer the boss with g 60,000 circulation! | He Little Games of Tag The imperialists are having the time of their lives trying to swindle each other. Two little games the past week are worth notice. Both coming about as a result of the knot encountered in carrying out the Young Plan. First, a dispatch to N. Y. Times from Paris, talking about how the French were foreseeing the impossibility of collecting reparations from Germany, saying that: “Reports from Washington reaching Paris, to the effect that American govern- ment. officials under chairmanship of Secre- tary Mellon were actually considering the possibility of a five-year moratorium for allied debt payments to the United States if similar conditions were accorded to German reparation payments, were read here with profount interest.” Washington, of course, “denied the report,” which was without doubt, a little game of agitation against war debt payments to the United States, put out by artful French im- perialists, Then an even more delightful game showed up in a dispatch to the N. Y. Times from Lon- don. In brief, it related how it was thought possible that the German “socialists,” being rather put in a hole by their support of the Bruening dictatorship’s plan to attack the German working class conditions to get money to pay reparations, “might approach the Bri- tish socialists” ruling Britain, to see if the British government would give up its own reparations and bring pressure on France to do likewise. The German “socialists” being worried at the prospect of German workers leaving them to turn to Communist leadership, if the Young Plan robbery of the workers went through. The dispatch then told how the British “so- cialists” hinted that the German “socialists” might as well save their carfare if they thought they were going to gyp the British Empire out of any cash. In the name of George the Fifth, British “socialists” insist on the pound of flesh—and that’s that. The whole story, undoubtedly, being quite deliberately cooked up by Ramsay MacDonald and Snowden, to warn the “socialist” boot- lickers of German capitalism that any such monkeyshines would be “coldly received” as the papers put it, by the “socialist” bootlickers of British capitalism. Remember these tricks when you read such things in the capitalist. newspapers hereafter. tweet RRS Unskillful Liars Capitalist politicians are accomplished in the gentle are of not letting their left hand know what their right hand doeth, but we wish the government would try, once in a while, to agree with itself on a lie and stick to it. For instance, in lying about the “splendid accomplishments” of Hoover’s “prosperity plans” for keeping up employmnt and wages ten months ago, the N. Y. Times last Satur- day quoted “those who worked with the Pres- ident in organizing the activities last Fall,” as saying that: “Business and State and local governments have kept their pledge” in keep- ing their former forces on the payroll and maintaining wage rates. But then along comes a recruiting officer for the U. S. Army and hands me a little yaller folder, where the U. S, Army says: “Only a few firms will carry you on their pay rolls over a lengthy period. What as- surance have you that you will not be laid off a month from now—next week—tomor- row?” eo eis They Brag About It What kind of “socialism” the fake “socialist” party stands for came out again the other day when one of them, Herr Hoegner, speaking for the “socialist” party of Germany in the Reich- stag, declared that the nationalist patriotism of the “socialists” eclipsed that of the fascists. The N. Y. Times item told it thus: “Herr Hoegner asked the Reichstag to bear in mind that the socialists during the war did most to discourage subversive talk.” That is, the “socialists” were the best. de- fenders of the Kaiser during the war. And he might have added—‘and the best defend- ers of capitalism since the war.” * A News Item “One person was sentenced to death and seventy-four others given various terms in prison after their conviction of graft in food and clothing ‘sales.” No, dear reader, this did not happen in New York City, but in Moscow. The Associated Press tells about it in the N. Y. Times of Oct. 21, But this may explain a lot about why Mayor Walker “don’t like Communists,” and why he is praised by Heywood Broun for it. . . An Object Lesson Even the dumbest cops ought to know enough to remember that jobless workers should be given the same break as dogs. They let sleeping dogs lie, But when Policeman Joseph Boeger found Edward Roberts, a job- less worker, asleep ‘in a Brooklyn street, he woke him up, probably by the favorite cop method of clubbing the soles of his feet. The result was that the cop’s nore was broken and Roberts is held in jail, not having—strange to say—$2,500 bail. * * * Jimmy Takes.the Prize “Tf there is one fair city on this American continent wherein decency controls, wherein honesty obtains, it is the city that I have the distinction and the pleasure and the honor of presiding over.”—-Mayor Walker. But exactly what, Jimmy, does decency “con- trol,” and precisely what, tell us, does honesty “obtain?” i For the Communist ‘Ticket! Fer Bread and .Work!. Against Mass Layoffs and Wage Cuts! rialist Attacks on the USSR!+ Against Impe- By JORGE qeeee