The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1930, Page 4

Published by P = stirs 18th Street, New York City, Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc, N. Ze Telephone Algonquin 7! Cable: 50 East 18th Street, New York, daily, except Sunday, at 50 East “DAIWORK.” Dail N.Y. THE WORST SLANDERERS OF THE SOVIET UNION By PAUL NOVICK HMROUGH the carelessness of the Russian white guard paper in New York, Novoe Russkoe Slovo (October 22), it has been dis- closed shat the “socialists” are calling an anti- Soviet conference for November 9 at the Penn- sylvania Hotel. In this connection, and be- cause the defense of the Soviet Union is one of the major issues in the present election cam- paign, the attitude of the “socialists” towards the Soviet Union must be dealt with. That the “socialists” are the worst slander- ers of the Soviet Union hardly needs proving to those following up the “socialist” press, The second (“socialist”) international which is the Agitprop (department of agitation and propa- ganda) of capitalism is particularly active with regard to the Soviet Union. Abramovich and other leaders of the second international con- pply the capitalist world with all kinds of “news,” theories, predictions, fabrica- tions, misrepresentations for the consumption of all red-baiting newspapers. The Berlin Sot- sialistitsheski Viestnik, published by Abramo- vitch and Dan, is one of the chief sources for the capitalist correspondents cabling the fab- rications about “shootings,” “riots,” and “peas- ant uprisings” in the Soviet Union “occurring” now and then. The Berlin Vorwaerts, central organ of the social-democratic party of Germany is always louder in attacking the Soviet Union. While in control of the government by Germany and of the municipality of Berlin the social-democrats have always taken care that “foreign” Commu- nists, “agents from Moscow,” conduct no prop- aganda in Germany, giving at the same time the Russian monarchists free reign. The ac- tivity of such blackguardds as Orlov and his friends who were caught counterfeiting Soviet money was protected by the “socialist” rulers. At one of Orlov’s trials it was disclosed that he was doing some work for the then “socialist” minister of the interior of Prussia, Grzesinsky. The Berlin Vorwaerts was not shocked. Neither did the acquittal of Orlov shock that paper. In the United States, there is division of labor among the “socialists.” The dirty work is left to Algernon Lee, Abe Cahan and other Soviet-baiters. Lee, who is the candidate of his party for state senate in the 14th district, down town, New York, has recently addressed a meeting in that district, at the Church of All Nations, called by a group of Russian counter- | revolutionists and “socialists” in protest against the execution of the scoundrels that were try- ing to bring about starvation in the Soviet cities by derailing cattle-trains, by putting rot- ten intestins into canned food, etc. And Abe Cahan, through his Jewish Daily Forward, is doing his damnest. The Jewish Daily Forward is the mainstay of the S.P. in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and many other cities, a great financial source for the S.P., subsidizing the New Lead- ér, etc. The S.P. has never disassociated itself from the Forward, has never passed any reso- lutions voicing its disagreement with its New York daily whether with regards to its abom- inations concerning the Soviet Union or any other matter. The attitude of that paper is the attitude of the “socialist” party (Hillquit, Panken and other such luminaries are members of the Forward publishing association, while the editor and manager of the paper are lead- ers in the “socialist” party). If the New York Call had continued to live it would have acted the way the Forward is acting now. It will be remembered that before it went down, the Call, in. 1922, printed the infamous series of articles on the Soviet Union by the British spy, Captain McCullugh. The attitude of the Forward is therefore, a criterion for judging the “social- ist” party in many respects and particularly with regards to the Soviet Union. Anybody superficially acquainted with that filthy sheet knows that there is no paper in the United States that could compare with the Forward with regard to slanders, fabricants, mutilating of news, including cables of the capi- talist corresponents, in order to paint the most horrible picture of the land where the workers rule. The Forward has so far been the only paper in the United States that has been re- printing from the Russian monarchist press in Europe the series of articles of the infa- mous Bessedovsky who was found guilty by a Soviet court for stealing $15,000 from the funds of the Soviet embassy in Paris. Bes- sedovsky’s articles were presented to the Fish committee by the Tammany police Inspector Lyons in English translation and have since become the Koran of that committee. Matthew Woll is constantly in touch with his friends of the Jewish Daily Forward. Whatever agree- ments: advanced by Abramovitch on the pages of that paper soon find expression in the statements of Matthew Woll in the capitalist | press. Before appearing before the Fish com- mittee Woll was the honorable guest at a, banquet dedicated to Abe Cahan, editor of the Forward, side by side with Thomas and others. As if by magic, the arguments advanced by Woll at the Fish hearing were in line with the arguments of Mr. Abramovitch in the For- ward a few days previously. | religious holiday, | The editors of the Communist The calumnies and fabrications of the For- ward with regards to the Soviet Union could fill volumes. There is hardly an issue of that paper without any fake detective story | about the 0.G.P.U. or the Soviet Government, fake cables, or editorial attacks on the So- viet Union. Recenlty the Forward began re- printing from the monarchist press a series of articles of another scoundrel of the Bes- sedovsky type, Agabekov. After the Jewish Yom Kippur, the Forward, on October 1 had a story most prominently displayed on the front page that the 0.G.P.U. had shot two Jews in the city of Berditchev, “in a fight between the religious Jews and Communists.” The same story was. repeated the next day, with the “shooting” taking place in a different city, Borissov. October 3—a story of “mass arrests.” October 4—Moscow is ready to pay the old (czarist) debts. Oct. 6—“Cheka” shoots 17 peasants. Oct. 9—bread riots in Leningrad, etc., ete. Every day some- thing different. If not a news story on the front page, it is an article by some provoca- teur like Bessedovsky or Agabekov or an ed- itorial. During the “wheat-attack” on the Soviet Union ,the Forward gave Hoover's secretary, Hyde, a helping hand. No capitalist paper was yelling so loudly about “Soviet gambling” as the Forward did. One day the Forward splashed the news across the front page that the “Soviet gamblers” lost half a millions dol- lars on the wheat market. These are but a few recent examples of the slanders and fabrications of the disgusting “socialist” paper. After screaming for years about unmployment in the Soviet Union, the Forward recently developed quite an interest- ing counter-revolutionary line of explaining the shortage of labor in the Soviet Union at the present moment. “On account of the fright- ful terror,” the Forward said editorially on August 30, many workers have begun running away from their jobs. The remaining engin- eers and other specialists. live in continual fear of arrest any day. The result is that the work suffers immensely. In Moscow there was a saying: ‘As long as there are enough revolvers everything will be a success.’ Now this belief is losing ground every day. The failure of the Five Year Plan is being real- ized even by the fanatic adherents of the Plan. papers and magazines have already been ordered to grad- ually prepare the public for that.” We have chosen the above excerpt from the mountains of similar material of the For- ward because it reveals some of the char- acteristics of that sheet. You have here a “saying” which was fabricated in the offices | of that paper and offered as an importation | from Moscow. You have here the “failure” of the Five Year Plan which is “realized” ete., and that “the editors” have been “instruct- ed” to prepare the public, etc. This sneaking kind of calumnies is characteristic of that “socialist” paper. The Forward, to prove that its stand is the stand of the “socialists” all over, has printed last Sunday, Ovwncr 26, an article introducing a new book by Karl Kaut- sky, theoretician of the secund international, “proving” that the counter-revolutionists sab- otaging and plotting against the Soviet Union are really “revolutionists!” In addition to be- ing the worst slanderers of the Soviet Union and the Agitp,ops of capit.iism, the socialists, working hand in glove with Fish, Matthew Woll and the czarists, cover themselves with fancy names. The defense of the Soviet Union is one of the major issues confronting the working class all over, whether during an election cam- paign, or after. A war on the Soviet Union is in the making. The Geneva correspondent of the New York Times last Sunday openly stated that a blockade against the Soviet Union is on the order of business at the League of Nations headquarters. France and other coun- tries have declared an economic war on the Soviet Union. In the United States the Hoo- ver Government is openly engaged in creating a war atmosphere against “Moscow,” whether in connection with Soviet timber, or Soviet wheat. The party of Hoover and Mellon, as well as the party of Smith and Roosevelt, are spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. The “‘so- cialists” are calling an anti-Soviet conference November 9. All this is part of one front of attack against the Five-Year Plan, against the land where the workers and farmers rule, abol- ishing capitalism with all its. evils, including unemployment, and establishing the Commu- nist Society. On election day the parties of Hoover and Fish, and Cahan, Woll and Lee, must get a smashing answer. A tremendous vote for the Hammer and Sickle will be a warning to the Soviet-baiters and all kinds that the workers of the United States are ready to defend the Soviet Union. A tremendous vote for the Ham- mer end sickle will force to loosen up on the economic blockade against the land of workers’ rule. A tremendous vote for the Hammer and Sickle will be a helping hand to the work- ers and peasants of the Soviet Republics. Vote Communist! Injunctions and Elections By SAM DARCY “Restaurateurs of the nation should hail with joy the decision of Supreme Court Justice Henry L. Sherman, who on May 7 (1929), in acting upon a plea of New York cafeteria own- ers, handed down a ruling which practically dispelled the old nightmare, ‘Peaceful Picket- ing,’ by which trouble-makers formerly terror- ized operators.” ‘Thus the “Restaurant Man,” the official organ of the United Restaurant Owners’ Association hailed the entrance of the Supreme Court in the struggle against the strike conducted by the cafeteria workers against the extremely miser- able conditions which existed for them. These workers had, for months, heroicaliy fought under the leadership of their militant trade union, the Hotel Branch of the Food Workers Union, and were having considerable success in establishing better conditions. The workers had practically broken the back of the injunction issued against them through one of the most militant fights ever waged in New York. The Willow Injunction An example of how useless the injunction be- came is illustrated in the way the capitalists themselves risked their money on it. The stock of Willow Cafeterias, one of the largest of the New York chains which operated at that time twenty-three stores, rose five points when the injunction was issued. One week later, after the first mass violations of this injunction, Willow stock fell seven points and continued to fall until it was finally removed from the Exchange. The famous Paragraph 600 was then vigor- ously introduced and literally hundreds of work- ers were arrested daily and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. 5 The United Restaurant Owners Association explains in its editorial that {t would not have AGITATE IN THE SHOPS! Daily, Worker SUBSCRIPTION RATES: vy By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six montlis, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 THE TICKER Penn rier Unemployment Insurance Versus Boss Charity By A. VERBLIN The Chicago Chamber of Commerce, the cap- italist press of Chicago, the city government, the preachers, the'A. F. of L. leaders, and a host of other minor capitalist lackeys are. falling all over themselves to “relieve” distress amongst the unemployed workers. Campaigns are being or- | ganized, appeals for help are broadcast—all in the name of charity for the suffering poor. Peculiar, is it not? When the Communist Par- ty and the Trade Union Unity League demand social insurance for the unemployed, when they ask that every unemployed worker be given a minimum of twenty-five dollars a week, then the capitalist masters and their American Fed- eration of Labor leaders raise their voices in strenuous opposition on the ground that unem- ployment insurance is the same as the dole sys- tem and the dole system is charity. And of course in the eyes of the wealthy bosses and well-fed labor leaders, it would be degrading for the starving American workers to accept charity. Bosses Charity OK With Bosses But when the Salvation Army and other char- itable institutions of the bosses go out to collect pennies for the purpose of giving “coffee and” to those out of work, there is nothing degrading. high-minded Christians. It is all very oe To give an unemployed resorted to such measures it the American Fed- eration of Labor had entered the strike. It would mean, the restaurant bosses frankly say, that lower conditions could be established for the workers in the industry. But since it was a mili- tant union bent upon establishing decent con~ a fund of hundreds of dollars and used the police and courts against the strikers. In this connection the “Restaurant Man” says: “Had the organization sponsoring the ‘strike’ been a reputable one, negotiations might have effected peace, but here was a group with no affiliation with the American Federation of Labor and with apparently no aim except to intimidate the operators into recognizing the gang’s leaders and accepting their terms for employment conditions. And these conditions were of a nature that caused several owners to decide to close up shop rather than comply, while the majority of the others decided to - fight to a finish even if reduced to their last dollar.” Bosses Lose a Million The workers continued to fight despite the injunction, the opinion of the Supreme Court, and Paragraph 600. Eventually in some shops at least better conditions were established. The bosses bewailed the fact in their official organ that it cost “sixty New York operators a total of 9 million dollars over a period of about tvo months because New York State laws are lenient with pickets.” They proposed that picketing should be made “a felony with a penitentiary term as a penalty” and for this they are now actively campaigning. ‘They have the support of Tammany Hall and the republican party and such outstanding re- publican and democratic politicians as Judge Aaron J. Levy, Bronx, capitalist politician, and Supreme Court Justice, Henry L. Sherman. Nor- man Thomas and the “socialist” party are doing their best to help these bosses by campaigning for a more efficient police force and by assigniny the lawyers in their ranks to obtain injunctions for the American Federation of Labor against striking workers us was the case in the Food Workers strike in the Bronx when Steve Katovis ‘was murdered by the police, under an injunction obtained by Charles Solomon, It is clear that there is no use appealing to courts for justice. The answer of the workers must be on the one hand to mobilize such forces in open violation of injunctions and Paragraph 600 as will break its utility to the bosses and on the other hand, to give energetic support and votes to the Communist ticket as will serve notice to strikebreaking judges and legislatures of the determination of the working class to es- tablish its right to fight for better conditions. That deserves the support of all charitable and | ditions the Restaurant Owners Association raised | By M. S. Goa ae election meetings throughout western Pennsylvania are ‘being broken up by police and candidates of the Party arrested while speaking to workers. Acting on-orders from hearing the Communist program by open force. Despite the fact that the Communist Party has candidates on the ballot and that the state laws provide that election campaign meetings shall not be interfered with, the po- lice openly show their contempt for these laws by attacking the election meetings and arrest- ing Communist candidates. Two successive meetings held in the Negro section of Pittsburgh were broken up by police even though permits had been issued for these meetings. When the arrested speakers were brought to trial, the judge cynically’ stated, “Since the police have already accomplished their purpose in breaking up the meeting, I will discharge the speakers.” ”- “fonessen, a steel town of 30,000, the en- worker $25 a eae: so that he can support him- self half-way decently is the kind of “charity” which the capitalists dislike very much because it would take too much away from their huge profits.. To give a starving unemployed worker some dish-water and a few square feet of dirty | floor to sleep on will not make it necessary for the capitalists to part with any of their ill- gotten gains and that is why they consider it charity of the praiseworthy type. In the case of unemployment insurance, the bosses would be taxed and the money disbursed through representatives of the unemployed, so “that the bosses would find it difficult to evade paying. In the case of help by charitable insti- tutions, there would be voluntary contributions and no one could compel a boss to be charitable. But why should the bosses all of a sudden become so interested in the walfare of the un- employed workers? It was only a short while ago that their newspapers were claiming that the unemployment situation was not so bad as some claimed it was, that it was only necessary for people to start buying again (they didn’t mention with what) and prosperity would be ushered in in all its capitalistic glory. What caused this change of tone? Why this hysterical appeal for charity relief? Try Stop Real Relief There is only one answer. To put a brake on the movement for real unemployment insurance. To prevent the workers from organizing and demanding the passage of an effective social in- surance law. The bosses are willing to donate a few miserable pennies to charitable institu- tions but not to part with a substantial portion of their profits which they would have to do in case of the passage of the social insurance law advocated by the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League. It is significant that at the same time when they are calling for charity for the unemployed the bosses of Chicago are intensifying the terror against the revolutionary workers. When Gover- nor Emmerson’s conference to discuss the un- employment situation met, the committee sent by. the Unemployment Council to present the demand for social insurance before the confer- ence was unceremoniously arrested and the gov- ernor was free to tell the conference what a good friend of the unemployed he was. The police of Chicago have practically prohi- bited all campaign meetings of the Communist Party. Not one meeting passes by without an arrest. At a time when “the capitalist parties are putting posters allover the city calling for votes for their candidates without’ being hind- ered in the least, the police are arresting, all ‘ers caught putting up “Vote Communist” signs. The bosses are working on two fronts. To buy off the unemployed with, their miserable charity and to crush the only political party actively fighting for relief for the unemployed. The workers must adopt the slogan: “We do not want your charity. We demand unemploy- ment insurance.” tire police force was mobilized to terrorize the | and tear gas bombs. , —BY BURCK Bosses’ Terror in Pennsylvania workers to keep them from going into the hall where the meeting was held. The police told the workers that the speaker had the permit to speak, but they had no permit to hear him. The police were lead by Luksic, chief of police, member of the Croatian Club, who uses: his membership there to spy on workers and have the company fire those who express. working class ideas. This husky brute violently threw 68-year-old Pat Cush to the ground when he spoke on August 1st demonstration and tried to kick-him down a flight of steps. In Glassport, the Burgess (mayor) is a member of the A. F. of L. The election meet- ing at which Comrade Cush spoke was smashed by, the police who came to the hall in a high- powered car, containing sawed-off shot guns Comrade Cush was, held in prison for over 20 hours on a suspicious person charge and then finally‘ released with orders not to come back to town. In McKeesport ,controlled by the steel trust, Mayor Lysle has broken up all workers’ meet- ings and has forbidden hall owners: to rent their halls for Communist election ‘meetings. Lysle secures graft by foreing all halls to sell booze and then threatens them with arrest if they let working class meetings take piace in their halls... This is the same Mayor. Lysle who brought state police into McKeesport dur- ing the steel strike of 1919 and organized a systematic terrorization of the workers. .to break the strike. For this service, strike breaker Lysle re- ceives $50,000 from the U. S. Steel Corpora- tion, as well as shares of stock from other firms in the city. In the, borough of Arnold, an-electioh meet- ing was: broken up after the mayor had given a permit for this meeting. Arnold is a town whose chief industry consists of a large. plant of the U. S. Aluminum company owned by Andrew Mellon. Comrade Cush was; again ar- rested by the chief of police who stated, “No Communist meetings can be held in this town.” Comrade Cush was threatened with physical violence by the head of the police committee in the town. i After being held a number of hours, Comrade Cush was released. Following this, the. Burgess informed our comrades he would give a permit for future meetings. When they came to get the , permit, they were told by the Burgess; “I have changed my mind, because the business men are against the Communists having meetings here.” In the entire Ohio River Valley within a radius of 30 miles-of Wheeling, West Virginia, the com- bined police forces have organized a new red scare which is inspired by the Fish Committee, one of whose members is Congressman Bachman of Wheeling, whose family owns the houses. of prostitution in the city and are the leading boot- leggers in the section. The police conducted. an intense agitation in the press, declaring that they discovered a letter (obviously written. by the police). threatening to blow up. all bridges over the Ohio River in Wheeling and surround- ing towns. This campaign follows a notice by the sec- retary of state in West Virginia that the. Com- munist Party will not be allowed on the ballot. This is not an accident. This takes place at the same time that the state of Ohio also refuses to place the Communist ticket on the ballot. The Communist Party issued a leaflet. in the Wheeling section exposing this plot of the com- panies which is an attempt to prevent the work- ers from organizing. The leaflet declared that the Party will organize the workers “to, resist the .anti-labor activities of the police who. are carrying through a campaign of terror on in- structions from the coal and steel mill owners, and the police department will be held respon- sible for whatever consequences might occur.” The action of the police are especially brutal in those sections where unemploynient has reached a high peak, this is especially true in the Wheel- / ing section, in Arnold, Glasc#ort, Monessen and Negro section of Pittsburgh. It is clear that in many sections the police By JORGE eeenceee Party Work Last week the New York District of the Com- yhunist Party girded up its loins, probably in B. V. D.’s, to put the candidates over Nov. 4 There are a whole string of candidates running, including Alex Trachtenberg, whom we partic- ularly mention because to see Alex actually run- ning is a phenomenal occurrence, physically un- thinkable. Anyhow, the District meant well, and to make it strong about, what is called “Unit Control,” every Unit Bureau was adjured to make every Party member 2s busy as the proverbial bee. In fact it asked earl Unit Bureau’--"‘Did you give work to every rember of your Unit for every minute of every day until Election Day?” This is all very well, though it didn’t draw any blueprints of how a comrade is to gather an audience about him (or her) while taking the morning bath and performing certain other functions demanded by nature. Perhaps the District Bureau relied upon the Unit Bureau making their own blueprints and remaining a little rational in holding the com- rades to account for minutes spent, in, let us say, such necessary ways as reading Red Sparks. The District might have made clear, perhaps, that while the Unit Bureaus were also to gird up their loins, still they should keep their shirts on. But, alas, here and there Unit Bureaus exist made up entirely of machinists. At least one would think so from the mechanical way. in which perfectly good instructions are go rigidly enforced as to make a simple worker stand com- pletely dumbfounded. For example, one Unit Bureau had decided that every member must report at a certain hour of a certain day to distribute leaflets or something, and a certain member of that unit was supposed to be on the dot. So far so good. But it happened that this member had heard something about the Com- munist International requirement that Commu- nists here should concentrate on building the Trade Union Unity League. And it also happened that in his shop he had succeeded in winning two workers to the T.U. U.L. and learned that in order to get them to join the Metal Industrial League he would have to go with these two workers to the League meeting at the very hour in which he was sup- posed to be reporting to distribute leaflets. The machinists in the Unit Bureau ignored all this, however. The building of the T. U. L might be all right in the abstract. But it “isn’t Party work!” Reason as he might, the comrade could not overcome the Unit Bureau’s mechan- ical insistence that he was a criminal and must from the Party ausgestossen sein. He was actu- ally expelled! But he will also actually be reinstated with full honors for having more brains under his hat than the blueprint artists in the Unit Bureau all: put together. + * Russian, But Not Red Being abit bashful we hesitate to comment about young ladies who go in for teetering around on their toes and prancing gayly across the boards in nothing much but cheese-cloth without any cheese. But we understand that Irma Duncan is stag- ing a show next Sunday, with such features as the rebel song “Dubinushka,” and so on, but minus. the. real kids she had along last year. ‘The. reason is, we are told, that the genuine Soviet kids she had last year got the dirty end of the stick from Irma and went “back where they came from,” taking their wonderful spon- taneous art with them. But Irma, being thoroughly “Americanized” in the Tammany. Hall sense, has got together another atch of children, and is running along on the momentum of the real Soviet kids with a poor substitute. As we said at the beginning, we hesitate to comment on dancing girls, in fact we rather stand in awe of any girl. Probably it’s a “de- fense mechanism” against being rounded up and branded. But anybody who does dirt to Soviet kids and tries to run a show on their reputa- tion, we hope will play to empty seats and go bankrupt. * Teday in Workers’ History \ OCTOBER 29, 1795—Citizens of Lon- don, clamoring for bread and peace, © stopped king on his way to parliament. 1811—Louis Blanc, French revolutionist and historian, born in Madrid. 1917— Herbert S. Bigelow, Cincinnati pacifist preacher, kidnapped and beaten by mob. 1920—Charles E. Ruthenberg and Isaak Ferguson, American Communists, sentenced to five years in prison on “criminal anarchy” charge. 1923—Berlin troops arrested © Communist-Socialist cabinet in Saxony when refused to re- sign. 1927—Captain Karsitis and five sola‘ers executed, ten others imprisoned for five to ten years, for membership in Lithuanian Socialist Party. ~ fear to have the Communist program . brought before the workers. The election campaign com- mittee announces that it will again arrange meetings in these, towns and that the efforts of the police to obstruct the Communist election campaign will be met with doubly increased activities. No efforts of the police will keep the workers from becoming acquainted with the Party platform and with the Unemployment. In- surance Bill. No efforts of the police will pre- vent the mobilization of the workers behind the Communist ticket of the present election. | It is interesting to note that the American Civil Liberties Union has not ‘raised a single word of, protest against the brutal ‘ions of the police, despite the fact that thefe actions were called to their attention. It is also impor tant to note that in the towns where the Com- munist meetings have been broken up the social- ists have been welcomed with open arms. Not only have their meetings not been interfered with but the capitalist press gives. them free front page advertisement for their meetings. For the \ Communist Ticket! USSR! ae Fer Bread and Work! Against Mass Layoffs and Wage Cuts! — rialist Attacks on the Against Impe-