The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930 a — — ie LEerreERs =-_ Fe cy res x —+.— “TAMMANY MAN _INBOWERY TRIES TO SPLIT JOBLESS “Offers $2 for Each Vote for Bosses pee (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I was working in Ford’s in Kearny, N. J. Six months ego the manager of the plant called 2500 men and told them that pro- duction has been cut down and as a consequence all were to be laid off. On the Bowery Now. So I’m one of them and for six months I have been looking for a job all over Jersey City and New York but could nog find a job of any kind. So today I'm living in Bowery St. The other day it was a cold day. In order to get some warmth I went into a mill house. There I found a good looking man well dressed. He was talking to a bunch of couple ‘dozen men. When he saw me he stopped and asked me what I was looking fo So I told him my condi- tion and he says alright, you are one "of us. Agitating Chauvinism. ie So saying he started to speak again. I tell you fellows what we “need is a third, I don’t mean the socialist or the Communist Party. ‘They are all foreigners and that's why I'm telling you to vote the dem- 3 _ccratic party. Beeause after Nocem- ~ ber 4 our government is going to take all these foreigners and put all on ships and we don’t care if they drown in the middle of the ocean. The re- sult of all this will be that here in this country there is going to be lots of work only for us Americans. © To Buy Votes. At this point he lowered his voice and said: are you all registered. Everybody said yes. So he said, when you go vote there'll be a man that if you'll vote for the democratic party he'll give you two dollars. He left the place, I followed him. I saw him enter a 9 floor building and I read the sign: Salvation Army hotel with two big signs: Babson’s Hokum. “Business Depression is Caused by Dissipation, Dishonesty, Disobedience to God’s Will a General Collapse of Moral Character—Roger W. Babson.” “Business Depression is Cured by Moral Awakening, Spiritual Revival and Righteousness—Roger Babson.” I went in and saw the same guy was talking to crowd of about hun- dred men, all unemployed. —An Unemployed Worker. Spinach Rancher Goes Belly Up (By a Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal.—W. Green at Courtland Colusa County, fruit grower and ‘pinach rancher, went broke and could not pay his debts nor his employees. The Farmers and Merchants Na- tional Bank had a title mortgage on his property and between the bank and the spinach growers’ associa- tion put him in a bad shape. J. Ke. Ss. “Farmer-Laborites” Play With Issues (By: a Worker Correspondent) STILLWATER, Minn—Am en- closing you a few notes, being is- sued by the Minnesota Federation of Labor and the Farmer Laborites (age pensions at 70 with numerous limitations, ete.). ‘They are all bubbles. Give them hell. Make it so hot for the seat of their pants that they will give up their fake issues. Try Stop Veteran Selling the “Daily” (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.—I was selling Daily Workers, and had five under my arm, when a_ stool-pigeon grabbed the papers from behind tearing two of them. I was quick enough to get all of the papers back except one. While he was | doing this a cop was looking on, but _| did nothing to stop the stool-pigeon. | tt looked as if the cop wanted me ‘o get into a fight so that he could rrest me. Afte» this T went up town to sell the papers, when a man caine up to me and tried to pick a fight. ( Just then a plain clothes man came rup and said to me, “Keep still or ‘will put you in jail”! I told him was an ex-soldier out of work, and QE was doing this to get something eat. Then he threw a lot of questions at me which I refused to answer—about membership in the {Communist Party, etc. Then he said, “Why don’t you sell ‘good’ } papers”? I told him the Daily i Worker tells the truth and speaks for the workers and ex-soldiers. ‘} More of the ex-soldiers are buying the paper, so they think its enough —AN\EX-SOLDIER. tion tables each Wednes- | for them. Don’t miss full circula- day in the Daily Worker. (By « Worker Correspondent) WEEHAWKEN, N. J.—I’m tak- ing this opportunity to let the Daily Worker know that the Lithographic | concern here is cutting wages ten per cent. It seems that every work- er will be squeezed out of his wages { util he knows how to vote for the] Communist Party . Only recently we have been laid off three weeks at a time. And they are ready, “therefore, to rob the workers within three days’ no- tice without any mercy. The schemes of the bosses are to defend themselves and lay off the heaviest attack on wages and living standard until after election. And keep workers from being persuaded to vote for the Communist Party to defend their interests. Every worker must get into the’ fight, otherwise we will be slaves if we don’t vote for the Communist Party. Lithographic Worker. ‘DEMANDED FULL RATIONS, JAILED Vet in Naval Can in 1920 (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I am reading the Daily Worker regularly and find it is the only paper that fights for the workers’ rights. I am an ex-serviceman; I’ve seen plenty in the world war. Was hon- orably discharged, re-enlisted and was sent te a naval prison for stick- ing up for our rights (of course we have no rights). I was sent to prison for two years. Offense: “refusing duty.” Wanted Full Rations. I was a ship’s cook and it was my duty to cook the slumgullion. Because I refused to feed the men on half rations money—you know where the other half went—I was sentenced to two years in a naval prison, The captain wished me twenty- five years for daring to stand up and fight for what was justly ours. This happened on the U. SS. Salen in 1920. “Let’s Fight Bosses.” Let’s go, workers and ex-service- men, give the devil his due. Wake up, don’t let them pull this stuff any longer. Hereafter I fight only against the bosses and capitalists and I vote a 100 per cent Commu- nist ticket. Ss. S. BOSSES FEAR JOBLESS’ FIGHT Legion Wants Them to Join Army (Continued from Page 1) kee, undoubtedly under Socialist in- fluence, goes further. It is demand- ing that the unemployed be enlisted: in the army for the “duration of the crisis,” so that these unemployed can be used to club and shoot their fellow workers who fight for bread. Austin A. Peterson, State Adjutant of Wisconsin, says this scheme “would teach men army routine, which would be valuable in time of war.” The plan was offered as a substi- tute to “unemployment insurance,” and in reply to the Communist de- mand that the war funds amounting to billions, be turned over to the unemployed workers in the form of jobless insurance. Hoover is working closely with every charity outfit in the country, who are already admitting that their funds will not be big enough to buy sufficient slop for the samé number of unemployed who stood in the breadlines Inst ‘winter. The talk about supplying jobs is fast disap- pearing, and the ugly aspects of the boss maneuvers against the unem- ployed as well as the employed, is becoming clearer. While talk has quieted down about the “stagger” system, this wage cut drive is being put into effect. Against this boss mobilization of all its black hundreds against the unemployed, the workers must or- ganize their forces for a concerted drive for unemployment insurance, to come out of the bosses’ profits. It is against this that Woods and his committee, together with all the local boss politicians, are so frantic- ally fighting and preparing. Only the Communist Party is leading a militant fight for real relief. \ Vote Communist! Continue the fight for unemployment insurance, 10 Percent Cut} 40,000 SEARS CO. in Pay tor Men’ WORKERS’ STOCK’ Of Weehawken ayy, WIPED OUT Labor Buy Capital Bubble Exploded (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago sold stock to the ma- jority of its 40,000 employees at the peak of business when quoted at 190 on the stock market, with the “laud- able ambition” of all these poor workers to share in the great melon worth between $900,000,000.00 and a billion dollars. But the golden melon Proved to be an inflated bubble for the deluded workers as the stock fell down to 50 and is only worth $250,- 000,000 with the opposite results of what they expected from their in- vestments. For not only did they lose all their earnings in favor of their bosses but they still owe the company half of their shares, to be collected out of their future earnings. Those that are fully paid up would not get 50 per cent of their investment. What a fine sample of equality, of opportunity for all, including wage- earners when we compare the $50,000 investment with Mr, Rosenwald, president of the Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose fortune is valued between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000.00, Foster in Syracuse Today to Rally Masses for Social Ins. Fight SYRACUSE, Oct. 28—The Commu- nist Party and the Trade Union Unity League of Syracuse will call upon the workers in this city to struggle for real relief for the unem- ployed by demanding that the City Council appropriate $500,000 for re- lief of the unemployed. Severe wage cuts have taken place in this city in the automobile, steel and textile industries. Speed-up has been intensified, and mass discontent is growing. ‘The workers of Syracuse will greet peter ates oe ete Workers Starve, Officials Live High on Cruise of “Booker T. Washington Further Exposure of Garvey Deeds (Continued from Page 1) steady customer at the fount of Bacchus. His entirely overdressed and over-bearing manner advertise | to the world that he is selfish, greedy and wanton. If you are a total Stranger, you would never guess in a duce him to you. The Honorable Marcus Garvey, the greatest confidence man of the age. Contrasted With His Victims, There he stands, contented and happy, living in a magnificent home and enjoying all the luxuries of life, while the poor working people who subscribed the money for his high prosperity are still living in the lowest degree of poverty, His Biack Cross Navigation Company, and the steamship “Booker T. Washington” (Gen. G. W. Goethals”) are but dis- |tant memories now, but every day |we come in contact with the poor people who toiled day and night, and even starved themselves and their | children so as to make purchase of that boat possible, and as they pour out their troubles to us, we cannot help recall the disastrous cruise of that vessel. I well remember in 1925 when Mar- cus Garvey was using his slick tongue and imposing bulk to urge the Negro people of the world to subscribe to the purchase of a Negro steamship line. Negro workers, groaning under the oppression and insults of the white bosses and anxious for a way out, had entirely forgotten the les- sons of the failure of the Black Star Line. They were again easy victims of Garvey's guile when he urged them to dig down and shell out once Paid subscriptions will solve the financial crisis of the Daily Worker. Join the drive for 60,000 readers. Comrade Foster at the station at 7 o'clock tonight, from where they will march to the Alhambra. There they will rally the workers ehind the Com- munist Party in the elections and for a militant struggle against wage- cuts, speed-up and for the Workers’ Insurance Bill of the Communist Party. thousand guesses the true identity of | this person. Therefore let us intro- | Let us introduce | ” |more. The poor women got down jon their knees, and scrubbed the | j bosses’ floor harder, while the men slaved overtime at pick and shovel, sometimes even working on Sundays 80 as to give Mr. Garvey the money jhe demanded. Squeezed Millions Out of Women. And, as the money came pouring in, Garvy hummed and hawed, par- ried and thrust until cut of the mil- lions of dollars he collected he finally spent $100,000 for the steamship “Gen. G. W. Goethals,” which he se- cured through the offices of a Negro broker, Anthony Crawford, because the owners of the boat would not have sold it to Garvey himself. At the time I was in New York | looking for a berth on some ship, and |@ friend informed me there were vacancies aboard the “Booker T. | Washington.” I was a bit cynical | about working on any boat that Gar- vey was in control of, for I had a NEWS ONAL Cobs, Fascists Attack German Hunger March (Cable by Imprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 28.—Unemployment parades were prohibited here on Sat- urday and Sunday. The Dortmund attacked the group, killing a 16-year old worker and injuring six. Police attacked the meetings every- where clubbing ruthlessly. Over 1,000 arrests were made. Hundreds are still in jail. (Cable by Imprecorr) pretty clear understanding of the Black Star Line. A few friends even advised me not to make the trip, but | the novelty of the thing appealed to me, and being myself a Negro and a }seaman, I imagined I would be help- ing my race to some extent by work- jing on board the vessel. $18 a Week Exploitation. To make things short, I went down to the dock and was employed by the | boatswain, an old and jovial Bar- barian by the name of Bully Hunt. This man was a good sailor and a staunch member of the Universal Negro Improvement Associatien. He put me to work with a few others to clean out the ship’s hold which was in a filthy condition. I was to get $18 a week. It was damn hard work and several of us wanted to quit, but the boatswain with soft words got us to stay, appealing to our race pride to help a “race enterprise.” With the $18 a week that we were “supposed” to receive, we were forced to pay for room and board ashore as there were no accomodations at the time on the boat and no meals were being served. We worked for the first few weeks Without receiving a cent. Sometimes we were so hungry that a Jewish woman across the street had to have compassion on us, and credit us with meals. While the crew was being mis- treated and starved, money was pouring in from all quarters to Mr. Garvey. In the next article I will relate how thousands of dollars were collected in New York and Philadel- Strikers Firm, BERLIN, Oct. 28,—The metal strike situation, involving nearly 140,000 | workers, is still unchanged. | prerteeeeae SAO EER aS 500,000 PEASANTS IN GREECE ON TAX STRIKE | ATHENS.—The bourgeois press re- | ports that no less than 500,000 peas- | ants have been summonsed this year |for not paying their taxes. The gov- jernment has announced that it in- tends to enforce the payment with \all possible means, with the auction- jing of the peasants’ personal prop- erty if necessary, The Greek Communist Party has issued the slogan of a tax strike and the cases where peasants refuse to pay taxes are on the increase, as also |are cases of collisions between peas- |ants and tax officers. In the village | of Azikli the police arrested 20 peas- ants for non-payment of taxes, whereupon. the remaining peasants armed themselves with pitchforks and the like and freed their com- rades. In the village of Zyrnovo the peasant women beat up the police and the tax officials. phia and what became of it. wiffGvifi- shrd etao shrdl cmf cmcm Watch Changing Figures ot Your City in Campaign for 60,000 Daily Readers hunger march was stopped. Fascists | » Bloody Machado Finds Another “Red Plot;” Fascist Rule in Peru That a Communist “conspiracy” to overthrow the Machado regime was discovered by the police, is the an- nouncément made to the Associated Press. Numerous students and Commu- nists were involved in the “conspir- y” says the cable dispatch from Havana. The overthrow of the gov- | ernment, according to Butcher Mach- Jado, was to take place right before | the November 1st elections. Students | Were supposed to be organized into | groups which were to revolt simul- taneously in different parts of the country. Since the so-called con- spiracy was discovered, the police {have begun a search of numerous |houses looking for “arms and muni- tions.” The report states that many arrests have been made in connection with this “plot.” Machado orders frequent discoveries of plots and hé follows with the usual arrests. Many Communists are now in danger of murder in Machado’'s jails s 8 i Reports from Lima, Peru, show the growing fascist measures of the new government. Congress has suspended Article 156 of the Constitution, which peimits military authorities to pun- ish civilians “who propagate alarm- ing false notices or attacks on the armed fore Workers Clash With Police in Shanghai ‘SHANGHAI—On the 19th anni- versary of the establishment of the Chinese Republic severe collisions be- tween demonstrating workers and Police took place here. The police declare that Communists disturbed the celebrations by distributing leaf- lets and making revolutionary speeches. Twenty-six workers were injured and many arrested. Hoover Institutes on Best Way of Faking Unemployed Figures WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28— Complete, detailed instructions for faking unemployment figures are given in the Journal of the American Statistical Association for September 1930. The trick consists mainly in. leay- ing out of consideration all workers who have. been denied employment because they are at or past middle age—the deadline set by the profit- grabbers. These workers are not really unemployed, the boss’ figure butcher explains—they are “persons who have succumbed to enforced re- Czarist Agents |Are Jailed in | Soviet Uuion (Cable by Imprecorr) MOSCOW, Oct. 28.—The Ogpu dis- | covered a counte olutionary en- | gineering organization aiming at pro | ducing an artificial crisis by wide- spread sabotage in all branches of | industry coinciding with intervention, | The leaders were arrested and made statements concerning activi |ties in the Soviet Union and Pa |where the organization maintained connections with czarist emigrants, | The arrested were handed over to the ) Supreme Court for trial shortly. ‘LANDWORKERS IN APPEAL | AGAINST POLISH TERROR ; WARSAW.—The Red Landworkers’ | Union has issued an appeal to the workers and peasants of western Ukrainia in cqnnection with the | Pilsudski terror in western Ukrainia, | The appeal points out that the pog- jToms organized against the workers jand peasants have revealed clearly a united front between the Polish and Ukrainian fascists. The democratic People's Association, the radicals and the social democrats pretended to be opposed to the illegal terror of the | punitive column’, but in realit? they | did not move their fingers to prevent it. The appeal concludes by declar- jing that the democrats, radicals and | socialists are at one with Pilsudskt in the preparations for war against | the Soviet Union, and by calling on the workers to answer their united front with a united front of the workers and peasants in defense of the Soviet Union, | Newark Workers’ Defense Corps Halts Vicious Police Attack NEWARK, Oct. 28,— With the | hasty and effective mobilization of a | Workers’ Defense Corps, a worker, Whose name is omitted for very good reasons, was rescued from the cus- | tody of two police agents of the | bosses last night at an International | Labor Defense dance. ‘The comrade was distributing leaf lets to advertise the meeting for Wm. 2. Foster to be held in Newark next | Sunday, Nov. 2nd, when the two cops |pouned upon him with clubs and were proceeding to call the wagon when they suddenly found that they | did not need one, The cops were “Handled very nicely,” the comrade was rescued and Tables Each Wednsday Will Registr Activity for Mass Circulation (Editor’s Note: This is the first of a@ series of weekly reports, to be published each Wed- nesday which will show in figures by city and district the exact progress of the Daily Work- ’er campaign for 60,000 readers.) * sd * The campaign of the Daily Worker for 60,000 readers by January 1, and @ ‘enough paid sub- scriptions to publish a 6 page paper by December is just getting under way. A few reports are coming in, “UP AND OVER THE 60,000 MARK.” —CLEVELAND. J. Fromholz, Daily Worker repre- sentative in Cleve- SHourden To HOULDER! land writes: “We have worked out the plans to carry on the task of building the Daily Worker, up and over the 60,000 mark, The details have been sent to the section organizers, and in Cleveland, it has been send to the unite. We will do our best to reach our mark, “The District Office will have a wall chart showing the progress of the Sections, and another showing the Cleveland units, This was very effective in the last drive, it holds the interest of the members, and stim- ulates them to action. “Our plan will be somewhat different CHANGES IN .SUBSCRIPTION FIGURES BETWEEN SEPT. 1 AND OCT. 21. MANY OLD SUBSCRIPTIONS REMOVED FROM THE LISTS. These tables show a decrease of 300 sub- ae Pl ~ | scriptions between Sept. 1 and ne ah grind . wd : ,' Jold subscriptions have been removed. Subs have anit 25 ii Bees 35 ay been cut off by post office notices of inabil- | me. eo a0 ity to deliver. The drop however shows in- a rial “a 4 fo. RantaPoly 238 goo | Sufficient attention by units, sections, districts 8. Philadelphia se¢ rae Ui Agricultural 134 384 | to the job of fighting for renewals. ‘ 4. Buffalo .... 216 699 The tables show a big percentage of sub- 5. Pittsburgh , 494 200 | scriptions have run past their date of expira- $ Geren sete San 1S Gat gam $f $f | tion. Each unit must visit all past due sub- 8 Chicago .., 1202 1279 19, Denver ... 82 82 scribers in its territory and obtain renewals, CHANGES IN SUBSCRIPTION LIST BY CITIES. . PAID IN ADVANCE SUBS WILL PAY DAILY BILLS. In working on the subscription lists re- ~ ot x ot volutionary workers should bear in mind that hd if iy if only by paid in advance < .bseriptions can the aien ae ve Sate Daily Worker realize a sufficient income to New York City 906 851 Chicago. ensure its appearance. District Daily Worker Philadelphia .., 400 408 Ay yyennolls 83 | representatives must use the subseription 51 Kansas 16 | lists sent out by the Daily Worker office to eet $5 | win back subs which have lapsed. oo gala ie § it Kan Pramelso! : iz 700 SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE Gary... 4 Oakland .. 8 Miwankes “.02 82 79 Denver”... &3 | ADDED TO DAILY LISTS. SEVEN DISTRICTS SHOW GAINS IN SUBSCRIPTIONS. The following districts show gains in subscriptions between Sept. 1 and Oct. 21: District 4, Buffalo; District 5, Pittsburgh; District 8, Chicago; District 9, Minneauolis; District 10, Kansas City; District 13, Cali- fornia; District 17, Birmingham. Other dis- atricts have either stood still or gone back. The following cities boosted their sub lists during this period: Buffalo, Milwaukee, Min- neapolis, St. Paul and Seattle. Other big cities failed to show gains. TABLE SHOWS NUMBER OF PAID, LAPSED SUBSCRIPTIONS. ‘The following table shows the exact situ- ation of the subscription lists for all districts on September 1 and October 21, and reveals However these tables also show thére have been added about 700 paid in advance subs, up to this writing we nave failed to learn the nature of the excuse the cops gave for their dishoveled and bruised experience, tirement” after continued failure to| find a job. * » | Hoover has already instructed his} hunger committee to leave out of eonsideration all workers who were unemployed when the “depression” struck. They number about one) million, he says. No “relief” is even) suggested for these unfortunates, or! for the “enforced retirement” vic- tims, who number several million} more. These millions of hungry} workers will not appear in Hoover’s| faked unemployment -report, but they | sure will look good in the Communist! election returns. | You hungry jobless workers!| Hoover has left you out in the cold! | But turnabout is fair play. Leave) the pot-bellies out in the cold elec- tion day. Vote Communist! Boulevard Cafeteria 541 SOUTHERN BLVD. Cor. 149th Street Where you eat and feel at home. Vel. ORChard 3783 DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREET or. Bldridge St. NEW YORK Vote Communist! Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served 3y6uaa Jlevedunua DR. A. BROWN Dentist all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 301 Mast 14th St. Cor. Se®ond Ave. 37 WEST 32ND STREET ‘Tel. Algom T48 225 WEST 36TH STREET 29 EAST MTH STREET NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line: of All Comraaes Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant Parkway, 558 Cleremont Bronx than the last drive. Our debt to the Daily the month during which subscriptions expire. was run up on account of the Sections not having paid for their bundles, aid worked SUBSCRIPTION TABLE SHOWING too hard on the Free distribution. This way they can pay their one cént per copy, and sell some of the copies, and pass out some |* . after, enough has been colleeted to pay for j the bundle.” i he vy iy 1, January, 1930 56 47 — Today we publish tables which show the | # February ..... 214 185 29 including new subscriptions and renewals, Each situation of Daily Worker subscriptions as of FY = district will receive by mail an analysis of its October 22, the day the drive started. These 7 aL =—6 own circulation showing the number of subs tables do not reflect activity since the cam- Maman ide J =1h, 5 | past due, etc. paign started. Next week’s tables will show 976 24 The building of paid mail circulation for the what has happened since the beginning of the 3380 Pr} 2632 met] —698 | Daily Worker must not be considered the work drive, sine’ SE és ad pfaue alone. Only by bringing the Daily a s : ‘82 | Worker into the every-day campaigns of the s 4 : é pogo lly = ROL oe " Party and the every-day struggles of the work- IVE. as 38 ers can a real increase in circulation be realized. Tables will be based on actual receipts of ° ay 43 BUILDING SUB LIST IS subscriptions and orders for bundles listed in | 7: Au is . * WORK OF THE WHOLE PARTY. this office. 9. Sey 8 * 3 u The machinery must be built up in every The following tables show the change in the er cain eae Oe be id ie ‘ane ees Ai preiee this b 3 organization. in subscription lists between Sept. 1 and October Tee cis to | AbpAratus cin ‘bo. the basis of mass circufa- 21st. ‘ 3961 soot 300 tion. Phone: LEHIGH 6382 \nternational Barber Shop M, W. SALA. 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