The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1930, Page 1

RALLY AGAINST TAMMANY! Demand Bread! N. Y. State Communist Ticket: For Governor:—WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Lt. Governor:—J. LOUIS ENGDAHL For Comptroller:—FRANKLIN P. BRILL For Att’y. General:—RICHARD B. MOORE Dail Central Orga @; — e-Co (Section of the Communist unist NCO Interna Norker Demonstrate at Union Square Monday at 5 p. m.! Vote Com- munist for Immediate Relief for the Jobless! For $25 a Week Unemployment Insurance WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Pot, USA. tional) Entered as sect pl Vol. VII. No. 262 ond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the uct of March 3, 1879 “CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents -. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930 = Demand Release of Nessin,. Lealess and Stone HIEF Tammany Magistrate Corrigan, acting as the tool of the New C York bosses, is trying to put over a “clever” railroading job in the case of Sam Nessin, Robert Lealess and Milton Stone. When the cases of jobless delegation, which included also J. Louis Engdahl, Anna Pogribsky and Freda Jackson, came up in his court, he divided the defendants into two categories. The first group—Engdahl, Pogribsky and Jackson—charged with disorderly conduct, he dismissed. But this was only to create an illusion of “fairness,” so that the sen- tences planned for Nessin, Lealess and Stone would appear to be unpreju- diced*and justified by the fake evidense brought forward by the Tammany thugs, Mayor Walker and other members of the Board of Estimate, where the jobless delegates had presented the demands of the 800,000 unem- ployed workers. ‘These men are now charged with “unlawful assemblage” tor attend- ing a “public hearing” called by Mayor Walker. This might appear to be funny! But, because they went before the Board of Estimate and de- | manded that the budget provide funds from which immediate relief could be paid to the jobless, and because they showed up the grafting practices of Walker and the Board members, they were first murderously beaten, and now charged with having come: to the “public hearing” for the pur- pose of,sterting “troubie.” It is plainly an effort to cover up the vicious attacks of the police, to smother the demands of the unemployed and to railroad Nessin, Lealess and Stone to prison as they did Foster, Amter, Miner and Raymond Workers! Stop this move against the jobless delegation! ’ Rally at Judge Corrigan’s court this morning! Demand that Nessin, Lealess and Stone be freed! Fight the Vagrancy Laws! 'WENTY-THREE jobless men were yesterday sentenced in New York City to thirty days in the workhouse. Their “crime” was that they were jobless, penniless, hungry and cold. Whey were charged with having “no means of supporting themselves” and with “loitering” in a ferry Hoover ‘Hunger Crew’ Not Organized Work to Jobless, Admits Woods to Give Green Says 20,000,000 Face “Acute Need;” Covers Facts Unemployed workers who expect jobs or any kind of relief from the “hunger committee” organized by Hoover and led by the expert clubber and ex-police chief, Col. Woods, have Woods’ own word for it that the Emergency Unemployment Commit- tee “is not organized to provide in- dividuals with employment.” This is a statement issued by Woods. to capitalist newspaper: men in answer to the request of thousands of work- ers who appealed to Woods for jobs. The job of the Woods’ “hunger committee” is to organize the boss resistance against the demands of the unemployed for jobless insurance. Hoover's, big talk about the tre- mendous plans which were to be car- ried out to “relieve unemployment” have faded into thin air. The only result so far is that the “stagger sys- tem,” with its smashing wage cuts is} being applied in the Youngstown steel industries, according to Fred C. Crox- ton, the Ohio representative on the | “hunger committee.’ o> ) Imratt Parirs “blake TAMMANY COURT KEEPS OUT FACTS OF BEATING | OF JOBLESS COMMITTEE | Walker Didn’t See Slugging That Took Place Right Under His Nose; Forgets Wise- cracking Under Brodsky’s Quizzing Tamman y Grafters Use Blacklists to Put Jobless in Jail workers out of work in the United States today, and with their families total well over 40,000,000 people who face not only “acute need” but starv- ation, disease and death because of the economic crisis of this rotten capitalist. system. Woods policy of blackjacks and breadlines for the unemployed is be- ing carried out to the letter in New York City. The police department after making up a blacklist of un- employed to give them “relief,” went | into action today by arresting 23 un- | employed for the sole crime of being | without jobs. All of these men have | been to the city employment bureau Admits He Said: “When Do We Serve Ice Cream,” When Unemployed Demanded Bread Call on Unemployed to be in Court Today When Trial Resumes; to Meet at 300 Mulberry Street, at 11 a. m. NEW YORK.—Following the tactics used to railroad the virtually begging for jobs. They were | ; phe: fired because capitalism could not! March 6th delegation to jail, the Tammany court, under the supply them with work. They are guidance of Chief Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan, went into on the verge of starvation. They are willing to wotk, walking the streets daily looking for work. For this crime they were arrested and sen- action yesterday. to hide the vicious slugging meted out to Sam i Nesin, Robert Lealess, and Milton Stone of the lL nemployed Council delegation which appeared at the Board of Estimates fought sovigorously against unem- ployment insurance at the last A. F. jacute need,” another nice way of say ing hunger, starvation and death by | charge of “vagrancy.” This 'is Hoover meeting..on Oct. 16 to demand that the millions being handed ~|tenced to 30 days in jail on the fe out to parasite bondholders and put into the pockets of the | and Woods handiwork, which gets the of L. convention, uniting with Hoover | freezing. Green's solution was more in the boss wage-cutting campaign, | support.to the Woods committee that | cooperation of every local boss graft- now comes out with the statement | “is not organized to provide indivi- ling politician from Murphy to Walker. Tammany grafting politicians go to he 800,000 unemployed f terminal building, where they had gone to sleep after finding the city + workers, parks too cold. While Mellon was bolstering up the Hoover tissue of lies about “the re- ‘These men had no previous police record. It is admitted that they “had been driven into the terminal because of the chill in the air, after | unsuccessfully having sought employment during the day.” Yet Magis- trate Murphy, who was recently appointed. by Mayor Walker (probably for a consideration). ordered that these men be fingerprinted and com- mitted to the Tombs for thirty days. This action in New York City is typical of what may be expected in all cities. It is an effort to terrorize the jobless, to destroy their fighting spirit. The bosses expect that after thirty days in their vile prisons, these workers will come out prepared to peacefully starve or freeze in the streets. ; But they are mistaken! Sug) 9 acts as, this will only. arouse the fighting spirit of the workers. workers of New York will rally at Union Square before Tammany Hall on November 3rd to fight against these vagrancy laws and for immediate unemployment insurance! Under ~ the leadership of the Communist Party the masses will fight to the last jtion of Labor was forced to admit turn of prosperity,” Wm. Green, fas- cist leader of the American Federa- | that unemployment is becoming tre- mendous. This lying faker who advance from 3,500,000 to 5,000,000, an increase of 1,500,000. Green went on to say thaf 20,000,000 workers and their families ware “threatened with that, unemployment this winter will |duals ith employment,” or for that|In New York, ‘the police announce | matter, with relief is in line with his usual lying es: timates. Green's 5,000,000’ figure, of course,| of being without work because the There are at least 9,000,000 PLAN BIGGEST RED tse evs ati er, surrounded by hundreds of jhis armed official gunmen, - | bosses cannot provide them with jobs. | Chait as By ‘ELECTION R A LLY walked into the court-room to | thousands will be jailed for the crime | GUIDO SERIO MASS PROTEST. SUNDAY To Fight Deportation of Militants | NEW YORK.—Answering the call Hokum! But No Jobs! 'UCH hokum is being peddled these days about “unemployment relief.” | At daily press conferences, Hoover’s “hunger commissioner,” Woods, | is dishing out “statements,” “promises,” pledges,” “prospects”—all hooey— | by the bale. Able assistance is given by hundreds of local understudies | who spring up like mushrooms. Administration “critics’—democratic, | “socialist” and farmer-labor-—have added their bit. The result?—tons of newsprint consumed on what will be done—but, so far, not one tan- gible act to relieve the suffering of the unemployed now! ‘Thousands of workers, of course, have been fooled by this unprincipled propaganda. Many believe that behind this continuous talk there are real jobs which will soon be handed out. This will cause many of these workers to again be fooled into supporting capitalist politicians—their class enemies—on November 4th. But these lying promises made now to the starving jobless workers will prove to be a boomerang before spring. Hoover's “hunger commission” has no jobs! It is only playing poli- issued yesterday by the International | Labor Defense for a mass protest to save the life of Guido Serio, the! Council for Protection of Foreign | Born is turning its Sunday afternoon meeting at the Grand Central Opera House into a rally against the de-| portation of this militant worker. ‘The Council is organizing the for- eign born’ workers on a national scale for militant action“against the boss class who in the present crisis are deporting foreign born at the! first sign of discontent. The cases| of Serio, Vikukel and other militant | workers who are being deported, many of them to fascist countries, | calling the workers of Brooklyn to row, Saturday, at } p. m. While the Tammany grafters Mc- Cooey, Connolly and others are steal- ing tens of millions of dollars in sewer pipe graft,and increases in workers of Brooklyn, hundreds of thousands of them, are starving. ‘The Tammany graft administration of the fight conducted by the Commu- nist Party, to make believe that it is doing something for the unemployed. But the Communist Party will not their robber salaries, the unemployed | New York has been forced through | Demonstrate at Borough Hall,|RED ELECTION Btklyn, Sat. for Jobless Relief To Demand Immediate Establishment of Fund for Emergency Unemployment Relief; Expose Grafting Politicians NEW YORK. — The Communist | through a special tax of ah income and Trade Union Unity League are | above $5,000 annually, be turned into | this fund. demonstrate at Borough Hall tomor-| Fight evictions! Fight for free tooa | Foster, Olgin, Hathaway, Biedenkapp. | and clothing for the children of the | work or Demonstrate tomorrow noon unemployed! for Wages! at Borough Hall! Fight RED WATCHERS TO GET INSTRUCTIONS TONIC |a meeting of all Red Election Poll Plaza, NEW YORK.—Tonight at 8 p. m. | Watchers will take place at. Irvin B png Brooklyn Downtown, under arrange- FOR MON., NOV. 3 He denied observing the slugging which he ordered and 4} To Plan Bigger Fight! which took place under his very eyes. Under the skilf examination of for Jobless Insurance NEW YORK.—The biggest red Joseph Brodsky, torney for the International Labor Defense, Walker demonstration of the present election | campaign, Monday, November 3, 5} — squirmed jn his seat, twice having to admit that the {wo detectives whe 2-- | testified before him were telling @ | cock-and-bull story. | The court room was cleared of all when Walker DRIVE INN. Y. Schedule of Events Up v ,| unemployed workers a p.m. will be the signal for a new| to Mond y powerful drive for Immediate unem- andthe other vigettte e of the Bae iiyed ‘rellef. “now! of Estimates arrived. They all Today. bk * flinched under the repeated mention Twenty-even workers were sen- tenced to 30 each for “sleeping” at] the Pennsylvania depot. Suicides of Foster Rally at Grand Manor Hall, |318 Grand St., Brooklyn. ‘Speakers: of Nessin’s exposure of them when he branded them as “grafting Tam- many politicians who were pocketing Foster rally at Ambassador Hall, | J0bless every day. Hoover is up '/ millios that should go to the unem= Washington Ave. and Claremont his old tricks of fooling the workers. | ployed.” Pk'way, Bronx. | Speakers: Foster,| The night-club Tammany mayor! Nessin, Lealess and Stone had been | donates some change for “ice-cream.” No relief is coming. Winter is approaching. tion will get still worse. The unem- | ployed must be taken care of. No charity, no crumbs, but real relief, | $25 a week for every unemployed, the | money to come from the military as- signments, from the fat purses of the parasite class who is now getting| bigger dividends than ever, | ) Néssin, Louis Hyman. arrested, } Open air meetings in all election | | districts | | Watchers’ meeting at Irving Plaza, | . m. Final instructions. Red automobile parade starting |from 35 East 12th St.,.7:30 p, m. ‘Tomorrow. “Vote Communist” race, run in re- | lays from Bronx Downtown and from | re-arrested several (Continued on Page 8) NEGRO MASSES RALLY SUNDAY tjmes, The situa- \8 are awakening the foreign born to Irving Place and 15th fs ‘ 3 "7 * ties with the misery and suffering of the workers. This is what today's |tne danger confronting them jet up, and will continue the fight | Pinal incteetions gill te'given The | ment. of the Young Communist| Demonstrate Monday! For a big] Red Candidates Lead Press reports state: 3 until real unemployed relief is se-| Communist campaign committee calls |Leaete. ‘The racers will be met by |red vote which oe oe ‘The meeting will be addressed by | Fight on Lynching cured. think and loosen up their purses! “Colonel Woods, in his daily conference with newspaper men, asked them to spread the news that HIS COMMISSION ‘IS NOT ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH EMPLOY- MENT.’ This request was based upon the receipt of thousands of letters asking for jobs.” Colonel Woods is correct. His commission “is not organized to pro- vide individuals with jobs.” It is organized to fool the workers, to prevent them‘ from fighting for immediate unemployment insurance. But these illusions, as Woods and the higher-ups will learn, are only temporary. Already on November 4th there will be a big increase in the Communist vote, and from November 4th on, as the workers see through Hoover's fakery, great numbers of workers will rally around the Commu- nist Party to carry forward the fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill, against wage cuts, and against lynchings and police terror. The Policeman’s Billy fOLONEL ARTHUR WOODS will fool the workers as long as he can. He knows, however, that “promises” will not feed the hungry and starving. He knows that sooner or later he must either supply food, clothing and shelter, or be prepared to quell the mass demonstrations of the workers for bread. He has no intentions of supplying bread, because to do so would necessitate cutting into the bosses’ profits and wealth. His experiences as New York's police commissioner has taught him, therefore, that he must prepare for war against the workers. » Instructions to this effect have already been passed down. Hodver sent instructions to all Governors to prepare the National Guard to quell the bread “riots” of the unemployed. Similar instructions have been sent to the police departments. In New York City the.Board of Estimate has | just provided for the addition of 600 men to the police force. From Chicago comes the following Associated Press dispatch: “Acting Police Commissioner Alcock proposed the policeman’s billy today as the most suitable weapon to swat Chicago's two major problems—crime and unemployment.” « He asked for 5,000 additional cops. ‘These are the real “relief” plans, the real purpose for the creation of Hoover's “hunger commission”! ‘The workers, though, will not be terrorized. They will not starve! ‘They will not accept the “policeman’s billy” as a substitute for food. They will fight!—and under the leadership of the Communist Party! 10 CELEBRATE 13TH ANNIVERSARY OF USSR NEW YORK.—The sharpening at- tack on the Soviet Union will be an- swered by the workers of New York with a huge celebration of the 13th the Coliseum, November 7. feature of the celebration. heit Singing Society is preparing a special program of | revolutionary songs. jubilee of the October Revolution at A huge mass pageant, “Turf the Guns,” under the auspices of the W. I. R. laboratory theatre will be the ‘The Frei- J: Lpuis Engdahl, candidate for lieu- tenant governor on the Communist | ticket; M. J. Olgin, editor of the) Freiheit; Sam Nesin, Samuel L. Dar- cy, Ass. Sec. of the I. L. D:, who will discuss the Serio and Vikukel depor- | tation; A. Markoff, representative | from. the -Anti-Fascist League; and S. Howatt, secretary of the Council, who will preside, Unions, fraternal organizations and all sympathetic groups are requested to bring resolutions protesting perse- cutions and deportations of the for- Brooklyn workers will demonstrate tomorrow noon at Borough Hall in support of the demands presented in their-name by the Unemployed Dele- gation at the session of the Board of Estimate, October 16th, demonstrate for he immediate estab- |lishment of a city emergency unem- ployment fund to provide the sum of $25 for every unemployed. They will demand that all payments on the re- demption and interest of the city bonds be stopped and that money, as well as the money obtained from the eign born. ; Socialists - Republicans Unite Against ; Workers All Boss Parties in United Front to Fight Workers NEW YORK —Not only does Hey- wood Broun and the Rev. Norman Thomas support. the policy of black- jacking and slugging the unemployed by the grafting Tammany politicians, but the Socialist Party has now gone to the extent of making a united front with the Republican party against the workers. In this issue of the Daily Worker we print the proof of this fact of support to tke Hoover “hunger crew” outfit of the leading exploiters in the United States. The photostatic copy of the ballots of the Socialist party and its brother boss: outfit, the Republican party, shows a candidate by the name of Alfred E. Herz, of 307 E. goth St., New York, who is running for Justice of the Municipal Court in the 6th District, Manhattan, on both tockets! cut of all salaries above $5,000 and They will | upon all Party members and mem- bers of revolutionary fraternal or- | Communist vote whatever |the representatives of capitalist parties do not | with them. | the ballot in New York State. Call Algonquin 5707. meetings of workers at each relay all For a new drive for immediate relief! ganizations to enlist as watchers. Without the Red Watchers the par- | ties of capitalism will do with the the; please. There must be a Red eur | sympathizers are asked to call at the | at every polling place to encourage the working voters, and to see that | the three interfere | The Communist Party is 5th on} En- | list as a Red Watcher at the polls.| East 138th St. Harlem. Speakers: through Bronx, Harlem, Yorkville, ; Downtown, as well as Brownsville, Brook’! and Williamsburgh. Automobile and truck parade to) follow the racers, Comrades and NEW YORK.—A big Red Rally will teke place Sunday, Nov. 2, 3 p. m, at Renaissance Casino, 150 E. 138th St., under the auspices of the Harlem Election Campaign Committee of the Communist Party. Engdahl, New- ton, Nessin and Paterson will be the speakers. The message of the Communist. Party, for a fight against lynching and Negro oppression, for a fight for full equality of the Negro workers, TWO BIG FOSTER RALLIES "TONIGHT ist sisi? ee, wer Bronx and_ Brooklyn, will be brought to the Negro masse Demonstrate before the polls open! A: Monday, 5 p. m., right after work, on Union Square. Jimmie Walker and others will be present—in effigy. | Sempaten headquarters 1:00 p. m. Open air meetings in all election districts. Red rally at Astoria, 2nd Ave. and | | Ditmars Road. Engdahl main speaker. Sunday. Red rally at Renaissance Hall, 150 Engdahl, Paterson, Newton, Nessin. to Elect Injunction Judge Mass Meetings Se ; The Communist Party is 5th on the ballot in New York State. Enlist NEW YORK.—Two big rallies with | as a Red Watcher at the polls. Call Algonquin 5707. ‘Wm. Z. Foster, Communist candidate for governor of New York state as the main speaker, will take place to- night in two large halls, one lesrmacisd eadiatiner ale pace Look at Teeth of | Boss Gift Horse stiee of the 9 Cont. Pintle of the Mvaicipat ‘tosn, . ee raven Rivers Hiatuine | The Bronx meeting will be at Am- | bassador Hall, Washington Ave. and Claremont Parkway. Sam Nessin, Turn your back when boss ; Communist Party candidate for sen- comes running to you with a ator in the 22nd district, and Louis nice present. For instation Hyman, president of the Needle relief! In Queens a handful | Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, of jobless workers were given | will speak together with Foster. ‘work on tieds. . Next ane | The Brooklyn rally will take place | they were suddenly informed jat Grand Manor Hall, 318 Grand Ae Gaunt ad ugh’ wy day’s St. (near Hayemeyer) Williamsburg, retire na inn ‘teenatice ae with M. Olt ‘ iunist candidate money was badly needed for in the 10th Congressional district, ea tiem Yorks me Sinintie Wy, int innat Pies escin uation of the Cit eine Cart oo ort lenin Ry, Rew Yor sina Rew Yor, ties have agreed to support the same man. This is done for a purpose The Republican and Socialist parties have combined to elect the candidate In short, both) these capitalist par- judge to break strikes and throw workers into jail. of the manufacturers, an injunction | In many other districts in New many. | York the Socialist party gives active; That the Schlessinger socialist support to the Republican candidates. | group of the needle trades company | | Democratic Rabbi Supports Broun, | unions is supporting the heads of the Viadeck. Tammany ticket for New York State, Roosevelt \and Lehman, has been (Continued. en i2ge 3) There are some. districts where the “socialists” have deals with Tam- ‘ a and C. "Hathaway, candidate in the 7th Congressional District as speak- ers, besides Foster. Workers of Brooklyn will march from their shops and the Workers! Centers to the Grand Manor Hall (formerly Grand Miller Assembly) to hear the Communist candidates. | Bleyer Paper Box workers will march | from the shop to Section 6 head- quarters, 68 Whipple St., and from) there will march to the hall. The Communist program of jobless relief) and insurance will be explained. | Vote Communist! election expenses. 8,000,000 unemployed and the bosses organize relief for the democratic campaign fund. Annihilate the boss torture system! oll up a mass Communist vote. Drive up the final figure J for Special Election Cam~ paign editions! Eastern edi- tion, tomorrow; New York J this paper to a worker o after reading the 60,000 ca paign news, page 3.