The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1930, Page 3

\ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930 Preacher Carter Real Slave Driver On Cruise of “Booker T. Washington” was given another lecture on Gar- veyism instead, while both the purser and the preacher lied that they had | no \money, and that we ought to be} Page Three <= = = LETTERS iki SHOPS Red Hot News from Red ‘Front in Drive for 60,000 Readers for the “Daily” Well, well, the program of the Daily Worker to build 60,000 mass cir- culation is getting some/results. Take Chicago. The day after the pro- Held By Crew to Be|} Even Worse Than Se 5 gram arrived in that city the police head announced plans to put on 5,000 brand new cops and 840 additional firemen; Now here’s something readable. It sounds like literature: SEATTLE WASH DAILY WORKER PLEASE INCREASE DAILY BUNDLE ORDER FROM 250 TO 350 L scorT. Red workers, comrades. We want @ six page paper and we want it by December. ' Paid subs will pay the bill. Every Party member, every red worker, put the proposition to the worker at the next bench.” Swamp the business office. 50 cents a month brings the Daily. Action'in Detroit! This city filled the circulation department with great expectations, by ordering 100,000 spe- cial election campaign editions. Since then they have had time for a week’s work, Today the order is cut to 30,000. JOSEPH CESSICH “I got the surprise of my life in selling Daily Workers. I went into SELLS 25 COPIES INthe 36th Street SHOES subway station, Brooklyn, with a bundle of 25 Daily Workers. I got on a West End_ express, and although the car was crowded, start- ed yelling ‘Dai- ly Worker, 3¢ a copy’. Well, those 25 copies went like hot- cakes, and he- | fore I got thru JOSEPH CESSICH with the second car they were all gone.” Get your organization be- hind the Daily Worker Drive for 60,000! (Give MER Copy lor Tee DAILY WORKER Se-* ct Oh, well, Metropolitan News Co. | in New York during week ending | October 25 ordered 38,000 Daily Workers. Biggest newsstand order in history of Daily. Daily Worker builders! Send in | thumbnail true stories on experien- |ces selling Dailies. Enclose photo, | Our engraver can make a cut of any- thing the mails will carry. Prima donna news men of the prostitute press are supposed to | spend their lives wondering the rel- | ative importance of news. They | leave out all mention of 8,000,000 | starving workers but publish col- | umns of flattery on a flower, just located, a bit larger than necessary, } in the lower Mississippi delta. | 60,000 Daily Worker circulation will lay the foundation for the time | we'll be running on NY. Times presses. : Air mail greetings for November 7 | Bolshevik Revolution Edition, Its tough “working next to the bookkeeper, What with these district checks bouncing around. | KEEP OUT FACTS OF NESSIN BEATING ‘Walker Admits “Ice Cream” Taunt (Continued from Page 1) “ while the Tammany district attor- neys were busy preparing “charges” that would keep out the truth of the vicious beatings. ‘The first case to be called was that of WJ. Louis Engdahl, Communist Candidate for Lieutenant Governor; Freda Jackson, and Anna Pogribsky, who were arrested after Engdahl had ordered ejected from the Board of Estimates meeting. To make a show of “fairness” Justice Corrigan dismissed the charge of disorderly conduct against these workers. Two detectives, who took part in the slugging of Nessin, Stone and Lealess, were the first witness in the Next case of “unlawful assembly,” They manufactured an entirely new version of the whole proceedings and both of them had memorized a phrase which they claim Nessin said right after he called Walker a rep- resentative of the Tammany grafting politicians. “Come on let's throw these Tammany grafters out,” is what these two dicks said Nessin declared before he was “arrested.” One of them, Detective Ruditsky, ad- mitted he socked Nessin twice, but not in Walker's presence, All the detectives were careful {o do their socking out of Walker's presence, for the purpose of the court record; and of course, Judge Corrigan “wasn’t interested” jn how badly the repre- sentatives of the unemployed were beaten up after Walker ordered them out. Sam Nessin, his eye still battered and blood-shot from the beating he got, went on the stand. He told about going to the Board of Esti- mates meeting with the other mem- bers of the Unemployed Council dele- gation and demanding the $7,000,000 to be handed out to the police go to the unemployed; he told about the brutality of the police and the club- bing and jailing followjng the March 6th demonstration. District Attorney Botien didn’t want these facts to come out. He finally got Nessin to tell about the scene just before the slugging. Nessin told of branding Walker a grafting Tammany politician who represented the judges who bought their jobs and were now evicting workers, “Walker sajd then,” Nessin testi- fled: “I would like to go down there and smash you in the face. Then a bunch of cops rushed on me, slugged me right there, knocked me down—” Here the judge interrupted, but Nessin did not stop until he, told of how he was beaten, kicked and ended up in the Belleyue Hospital with a fractured jaw, . Walker looked nervous when he got on the stand, He didn’t want to testify at all, but read the “prepared” minutes of the Board of Estimates jmeeting. Brodsky insisted he tell} what he saw. He asked him jf Nes- sin didn't say “You are wisecracking about the unemployed, but this is ne wiscracking matter when 800,000 men and women face starvation.” Walker admitted this, He denied he saw any beating in his presence, but did say the “cops closed in on them,’ He contradictgd the story told by his official ‘gunmen about Nessin waving his-arms, calling on the other mem- bers of the delegation to “throw the Tammany grafters out.” Walker admitted that the delega- tion had a right to come up to the Board of Estimates public hearing, and said he was “surprised” to hear they were charged with “unlawful assembly.” While he said he didn't | see any beatjng he said there was | “considerable commotion and turmoi) | in the room.” | He tried to. wisecrack about the jailing of the March 6th delegation, “They got a little bit more than a! perfect hearing,” he said. “Did you say,” asked Brodsky, “When are they going to serve ice- cream when these 15,000 unemployed came there with the committee?” Walker hesitated. He squjrmed in his seat, “Well,” he drawled, not ex- actly that way. The papers got it wrong.” Further questioning was stopped by the Judge who automatically up- held every objection made by the District. Attorney. Walker tried to brag about what he had done for the unemployed. “Tell us just what the city has done for the unemployed,” Brodsky in- | sisted. Walker kept his mouth shut. | A ruling for the judge helped him out of this difficult hole. The demands of the Unemployed Delegation were put jnto the record. Walker tried to shift the whole case away from the main point of attack, inamely that the unemployed deltoga- tion was beaten up for demanding unemployment relief and exposing the grafting of the Tammany politi- cians. “That didn't hurt me so much,” said Walker. “What I objec- ted to was the fact that Nessin said we railroaded Fester, Minor and Amter to jajl. I c/dn’t like that.” At the end of Walker's testimony the case was adjourned until the next day at 11:30, at 300 Mulberry St. Nessin, Lealess and Stone were let out without bail, under custody of their attorney. All unemployed workers are urged to be present in court today. The Daily Worker is better. Sell it for 3 cents, and cheat nobody. Marcus Garvey Like the brutal white exploiters of Negro and white labor, the Gar- vey leaders have fattened on the misery of the Negro workers, util- izing their natyral protest against oppression and persecution for the most selfish self-aggrandisement. And, like the rest ef the treach- erous Negro petty bourgeoisie (rent- gouging landlords, parasitic preaeh- ers, etc.), they haye basely be- trayed the struggles of the Negro masses against imperialist oppres- sion of the Negro masses in the colonies and in the United States. They have sought to cover up their betrayal with struggle-phrases, but behind these struggle-phrases is the usual fear of the petty bour- geoisie (of all races, of all coun- tries), the usual trickery of that batch of belly-crawling traitors. Negro workers! The rent-goug- ing landlords and preachers (most of them landlords, as well) will not lead you in militant struggle ashamed for asking for a few dol- lars. But we noticed that the poten- tates aboard and the officers were spending freely ashore. Had we been aboard’ any other vessel we would have raised hell, but our sympathy was with the organiza- tion and the thousands of people who had put up their last dollar to buy the vessel. Garvey Officer Works With Gloves On. ‘The crew not only had to put up with the abuse of Carter and other |U. N. I. A. officials, but were even- tually made the goat for everything that went wrong with the vessel. In this way the officials, the real crim- inals, evaded their responsibility to the thousands of hard-working toil- ers who had invested their last penny in the boat. How the chiefs |and chieflets of the U.N.LA. wrecked | the vessel and its chances has yet |to be told. Take for example Ford, | the third assistant engineer, who was | caught by the chief engineer feeling JOBLESS WORKERS’ WIFE, WITH | CHILD, IS EVICTED INTO STREET; THE CHILD DIES IN A HOSPITAL Vote Against This System That Would Murder Workingclass Mothers and Children, Vote for the Communist Party, Nov. 4 (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I am an unemployed waiter and haven’t had any work for several months. It has been a hopeless quest for me to try and find work as there are so many unemployed workers in the food industry today. If I had only myself to support it wouldn’t be so hard but I have a wife and family which requires attention. Wife is Evicted. Last week on Thursday the 16th while I was at the City Hall dem- onstration for unemployed relief, my wife was evicted from the fur- nished room that we had. My wife was pregnant at the time and in spite of the fact that she was in this condition and penniless she was thrown out onto the street. She — against the capitalist system under which Negro and white workers, as well, are savagely oppressed. They themsélves have a stake in the sys- tem’ of your oppression. Reject the misleaders! Support working- ! class leadership! Vote Nov. 4 for the party of the working class! Vote Communist!.—Ed. (By a Seaman on the Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington”) With the boat leaving for Havana, Cuba, Mr. C. E. Carter, secretary- general of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association, was put in charge by Mr, Garvey, although he could not exercise his authority on the high seas. Mr. Carter, who was a former | preacher, was even worse than Mr. Garvey in his chase of the shekels and in his attitude towards workers on the ship. In addition to abusing the crew and starving them, he squandered tremendous amounts of money contributed by workers in the |ports at which we stopped. In this he had the full cooperation of Lady Davis. The Meanness of Rev. Carter. Arriving in Havana, we found the colored people wild over the boat. In no time at all we were sure rounded by @ small squadron of canoes and floating craft of all descriptions, conveying workers who were so anxious to see the boat that they could not wait until it got alongside to inspect it. It was while at this port that we learned that Resplendent parades and struggle-phrases were Garvey’s substitute for militant struggle against the imperialist oppressors of the Negro masses, and helped to cover up his betrayals of those masses. The above photograph shows Garvey in one of his gorgeous shows. Garvey is second from the left, standing. | | | Garvey had been sent to jail on the] cided that rather than give the men | charge of using the mails to defraud. | a few dollars he would not 80) Things bad enough on board the through with the fumigation. As,| ship before this, now got worse. without fumigating the vessel, it could not go alongside the pier, the The meanness of the Reverend Mr. | preacher was spiting his own foolish | Carter was sharply brought out in self because by not going alongside | this port, It is the Cuban custom) 16 ist a lot of money he would to fumigate all vessels going along- otherwise have taken into his greedy side the pier, and when it was de- claws. cided to take the “Booker T. Wash- : ington” alongside, the Cubans sent Carter Collects Huge Sums. | a crew aboard to fumigate the ves-| However, he was to get another op- | sel, Rev. Carter stood on the deck! portunity to make a haul. While in| casting \a speculative eye on the| Havana, the boat was libelled for thousands of people lining the pier} debts incurred by the Black Star and beaches in such a way that it | Line in that port. As the Black Star took little imagination to know he/Line had been buried by Mr. Gar- was eounting the dollars he would | yey and the Black Cross Navigation collect when the boat docked up.|Co. organized in its stead for just) When, however, he learned that he| such purposes as evading debts, the} would have to let go a few of these) libeller burned his finger badly. Rev. dollars to furnish the crew with) Carter collected big damages for the some money to eat ashore during) libel at so many hundred dollars for | the six or eight hours of the fumi-| each day the boat was held up. On| gation process, the foolish preacher | the strength of this, the crew tried stamped his foot in a rage and de- to collect a little on their wages but the bearings of the engines with gloves on his dainty hands, and told that he was menacing the vessel be- cause he could tell with gloves on his hands whether the bearings were hot. Ford refused to dirty his hands, and the chief engineer demanded he leave the engine room as he was a | dangerous person to be down there. After that, Ford did nothing but stroll up and down the promenade deck all dolled up and ogling the women while he smoked expensive cigars. Campbell, the refrigerating | engineer, had to take his place. This man was a good worker from start to finish, but the Garvey officials gave him the dirty end at the last. Men Refused Advances on Wages. Finally we reached Kingston, Jam- aica, B. W. I. Here again we re- ceived a great welcome, Thousands upon thousands of colered people lined the pier to greet us. This was the home port of most of us of the crew, and we went to preacher Car- ter to beg a few dollars out of our wages so we could go ashore with money in our pockets. The preacher greeted us gruffly, and learning our mission slammed the door in our face. The men then became unruly, for we were not accustomed to being treated like this, no, not even by white officers on boats of the big companies, How we suffered in Jamaica, how workers there had to feed us, how Mr. Carter abused us as “the scum of the earth” will be told in my next article, Prof. Harper Speaks Sunday in Chicago on the Soviet Union CHICAGO, Oct. 29. — Professor Samuel Harper of the Russian De- partment of the University of Chi- cago and recently returned from a visit in the Soviet Union, will lec- ture this Sunday, Nov. 2, 3 p. m., at People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chi- cago Ave. He speaks under the aus: pices of the Friends of the Soviet Union and the ICOR and his subject will be: “My Second Trip to the So- viet Union.” On the program will also appear Miss Rena Rubin, so- prano, who will sing a group of songs. The F. S. U., anticipating a ca- pacity crowd at the hall, urges every worker, especially those who have bought tickets in advance, to be there punctually at 3, since the lec- ture will begin without delay and the doors will be closed as soon as all seats have been occupied. FORMOSA TRIBES IN INSURRECTION Life and Death Fight Against Imperialism NEW YORK.—Ofpitalist press dis- patches from, Tokio under headings “Formosa Savages Revolt; Kill 28 Japanese,” etc., admit a spread in the area of anti-imperialist struggles go- ing on now, and tell, between the lines, another story of rebellion of na- tive peoples against imperialist slave drivers. Formosa was conquered from China by Japan in the latter part of last century. The natives settled along the seashore were quickly subdued, many were driven into the interior, and all who remained were submitted to forced labor and gradually choked out by Japanese immigration. The, tribesmen in the interior have fought for over 30 years against subjugation and slavery, and in spite of tremen- dous military operations by the Jap- anese imperialist government have never been entirely conquered, Plan To Flood A kind of truce for the last several years was broken a short time ago by active construction work by the Jap- ‘nese government to build dams that would flood out the cultivated valleys oz the tribesmen, The dams will pen up water to feed turbines of the Tai- wan Electric Company, which is be- “NO WORK FOR SOCIALISTS JOIN JOBLESS”-WOODS FORCES WITH ‘GOP’ 20,000,000 Are Starving |For Same Injunction Green Admits Judge (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) ‘rhe Evening Graphic headline states:\| known all along. Now Rabbi Wise, | «Jobless here sent to jail.” Not only Democratic party stump speaker, | are they being sent to jail, but they comes out with an endorsement of being finger-printed, beaten, slug- the socialist Heywood Broun, who is | yt for iiced te relief. running for candidate in the 17th | No worker should stand for this. Congressional District. In that dis- The bosses who since the crisis have |trict the Republican Mrs. Pratt is increased their profits knowing that running for re-election. The purpose 40,000,000 starving workers and their 0! Rabbi Wise's endorsement of Hey~ families will not stand by, are prepar- Wood Broun is to draw Away a suf- | ing the most vicious attack against ficient number of Park Avenue and | the working class ever attempted in| petty-bourgeois votes from Mrs. Pratt | ‘any country. The unemployed Jead-|S0 that the Tammany candidate, | lers are jailed and beaten. Hoover |Louis B. Brodsky, is elected to Con- | linstructs all the militia and local | Tess. j ; police to be ready for a bloody at-| Not only is the Socialist party a tack, The grafting politicians who | capitalist party, but it makes all sorts pay out in New York $196,00u,000 to ‘| of alliances with the two other praft~ the parasites in interest on bonds, ing boss parties to fight against the and ho brag about their $1,000,000 | Workers and to assure the election “relief” program show by deeds what | of reactionary judges who will evict the workers can expect—jail, black- | Workers, as did Judge Panken, so- jacks and maybe breadlines. | cialist, when he was on the bench, ‘The Communist Party, militantly| Workers, smash the capitalist alli- jeading the fight for real relief, and @nce of the Democrat, Socialist and against the terrorism on the unem- | Republican party directed against ployed, calls on all workers to an- the workers Vote for the only work- ser this damnable policy by a more | insclass party which leads the strug- determined fight for the Unemploy- | £!¢ against capitalism, for unemploy~ ment Insurance Bill, and against cap- | ment reliei—Vote Communist! italism. A vote for the Communist Party is a blow against this terror system against workers who demand We want 60,000 circulation and we want it now! Bosses Sentence 3 for Protesting Evic- tion of Negro Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 29.—Three unemployed workers—B. Stevens, | Owen Lutz and H. Schwartz, were sentenced today to pay $5! and costs each for protesting against the eviction of Scott Whitley, an unem- ployed Negro worker. This is the ease in which Nels Kjar, National Cheirman of the Unemployed Coun- cil, was involved and whom the im- migration authorities are trying to deport. The judge, Hyman Stein, in giving ee sentence, $550 fine or over six lonths in the workhouse, made a vicious attack on the unemployed workers, calling them racketeers and bums, When one of the defendants was asked if the Unemployed Coun- cil is connected with the Chicago racketeers he aptly answered that ——MELROSE— 8. 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John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHK- A place with atmosphere whe all radicals meet attack they seem to have captured the village of Musha, and its police other office 02 K. 12th St, New York stations in the vicinity are reported captured, and 100 rifles seixed by the natives, who have been armed only with swords and old fashioned mus~ kets, The natives are now advancing to- ward the towns of Kenkei and Horu. FOR BETTER 178 WwW MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN'S Suits and Overcoats go to VALUES IN 22° walked the streets till midnight un- til some woman took her into he night, The next day her condition was such that she had to be re- moved to the Fordham Hospital where she gave birth to a prema- ture child, Because of her condi- tion and the exposure to the cold with lack of food she nearly died. A Murderous Landlady. This “Shark Landlady” Yetta Friedman of 3077 Hull Ave. is no different than all the other land- workers from their homes today. We cannot expect any mercy from such money grabbing types unless we force them to acknowl- edge our demands, I am a member of the Unem- ployed Council of the Food Work- ers’ Union and realize that it is only through the organization of all unemployed workers that we can expect to get any relief from the misery and suffering which we have today, strong enough we wont come home and find our families on the street possibly in the same condition my wife was in. I hope that you will print this letter so that some other unemployed workers will be able to realize how necessary it is to organize to fight against this system of persecution for the unemployed. —IJ. M. V. P.S. My wife was removed from the Fordham Hospital right after childbirth and sent to the Muni- cipal Lodging House, She needed careful attention and they ship her to a place where there is no at-~ tention. re Into the shops with the Daily! Sell at factory gates! Give the workers an eyeful of the boss system (undressed!) “We in no way are aE. 5 with the Chicago Chamber of Commerce.” From all appearances and actions of the city attorney and the judge it was plain that the workers were sen- tenced even before they were tried. The case was appealed. “Organize Unemployed Councils and fight, should be the answer of the unemployed workers to this vicious attack by the capitalist bosses, —An Unemployed Worker. SHOEMAKER WANTED. Must be all round shoe-repair man and do good work, And be good salesman for shoe repairing and new shoes, $30 a week. Long job if you know how to manage the shoe shop next summer. LEE SHOE FIXRY Florida Fort Myers, r house and gave her shelter for the | lords that ure evicting unemployed | of people | When we are organized} Ss ‘SWELLED IN PEN. ‘JOBLESS ARMY (By a Worker Corresnondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Preparae tions for a big drive against the workers are now going on feverishly. Especially against the growing army jof the unemployed. To cite but a | few examples: The Sun Ship of Chester is firing men daily, hiring no one, A complete | shutdown is expected in a few weeks. Ford Laying Off The Ford Chester plant is laying off many men and some plants of that company will soon be closed, Textile mills fin the Kensington (Philadelphia) area are in many in- stances working but two days a week. Hosiery plants in the same city, tho already at work on Christmas orders |are in the main working only par- | tially. “Merry Christmas” Mockery And that the workers need expect no “Merry Christmas” can be readily seen in the fact that no promises are being made for work after the holi- day orders are filled, Such large concerns as the H, C. Aberle and others, normally employ- ing thousands of hosiery knitters admit “uncertainty” in the industry. Hunger Wages Cloth mills in the same city are running at such a reduced output of production that weavers generally making $40 per week find their weekly pay envelope now $13. This condition prevails in even the Jarger plants such as H. Crowther’s, Silkk mills in the same city of “brotherly love” but no unemploy- ment insurance are almost at @ standstill, —C, R. "lection Campaign Rally and Ball for the benefit of “VIDA OBRERA” Spanish Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of U. 8, A. Saturday, Nov. Ist NEW HARLEM CASINO 6th ST, & LENOX AVE, NEW YORK, N. ¥, } “Red Star Jazz Band” Latin Amerean Dances Tango Exhibition Admission: 50c in Advance %5e at the Door WORKER; Take this up at your next meetin. Daily Worker Office, The Bosses Attack The Post Office Department has PIONEER” will come out in Seventh Anniversa ANSWER THE BOSSES! S’ ORGANIZAT! DAILY WORKER Election Campaign Edition—Monday, Nov. 3 Use This Election Issue to Help Mobilize More Workers to Vote Communist! BUNDLE ORDERS: 80c A HUNDRED TO ORGANIZATIONS $3.00 FOR 500; $6.00 A THOUSAND sell and distribute these Daily Workers, Place your order immediately at to the “Young Pioneer,” the paper of the workers’ and farmers’ children. As an answer to this attack of the bosses, the “YOUNG Workers! Support The Young Pioneer! RUSH FUNDS AND GREETINGS TO THE IONS! ATTENTION Order a bundle. Elect Committees to 35 East 12th St., 9th fl. The Young Pioneer! refused Second Class mailing rights a 16 page, 15,000 edition on its ry, November, 1930. The Japanese imperialists are rush- ing troops and aeroplanes, PARK CLOTHING CO. 93 Avenue A, Cor. Sixth St. 7th Anniversary Issue YOUNG PIONEER, 43 East 125th St., New York City \ station. A number of other police = a NEGRO WORKERS! VOTE COMMUNIST! VOTE AGAINST THE BOSSES LYNCHING TERROR AND MASS UNEMPLOYMENT! VOTE FOR FIGHT @N LYNCHING AND FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE TO EVERY JOBLESS WORKER!