The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1930, Page 4

— * scsagst tou. w- i Ydea gotten from the News is warped, as it by no _the other. _ made of 8. L. P. speakers and they safely got Page Four 18th Street, New York City, N. Putllished by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily, except Sunday, at 50 East AIWORK.” Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Cable: Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Dail orker Funist Porty U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. ixcepting Boroughs Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 ~AGITATE IN THE SHOPS! For the’ Communist Ticket! Against Mass Layoffs and Wage Cuts! Against Impe- rialist Attacks on the USSR! For Bead and Work! ~ LOOKING OVER DETROIT By HARRISON GEORGE EADING what is called “The Letter Box” in the Detroit News, gives one an idea of the com- pelling central question in Detroit as in other citiés—the question of unemployment. True the means expresses the opinion of vast masses. of workers who remain inarticulate—but whose suf- fering have forced Mayor Murphy and associated demagogs to make pretensions of “solving” the question. In ‘spite of the. united front, running from Hoover's praise to endorsement by the fake “so- cialist” party, the News’ “Letter Box” reveals no enthusaism, no popular “gratitude” for the blus- tering faker Murphy who has set out to slay the dragon of hunger. Let us survey what some of these scattered opinions: One worker of no little writing ability, sarcas- tically rips into the “News” itself for an ediforial called “How Hard are these Times?” The cap- italist editor of the “News” like all of his kind, has never learned to regard workers as people. “People” are those who play golf, have vacations in mid-summer, get all excited over yacht races, whose greatest. “troubles” are how to select the best cars and train housemaids. Always Blind The stark misery and endless worries of the vast majority of workers does not interest the editor of the Detroit‘News. And in resentment at the masses having pressed their demands for | bread into the foreground of attention, the “News” editor tried to be scornful and intimate that times were “not so hard”, because, said he, a half million people had attended baseball games in the East and Middle West one recent Saturday. Quite correctly the worker reminded him that such a fact is “not an indication of the times”; that the man “who is chief sufferer in times like the present never has and never will be seen in any great number at these inter-collegiate games. The men who works at ordinary labor cannot | afford it.” Also, he adds, if the editor has doubts about how hard times are, “I suggest that he don habil- ments of the average worker and begin his quest. for a job.” “This Country”—The Bosses An ex-soldier, sore at the difficulties of paying for a home, paying taxes, paying doctor bills for | ® sick wife, when——“all I make here is from | 50 cents to $2 a day”, wants to know why the | capitalist government even holds back bonus pay- ment. He adds: “IftheU.S.canesth s “If the U. S. can manage to loan Germany mil- Hons of dollars, it could put the same ip circula- tion amongst its own, who gave the best they had in them fighting for this country instead of against it. The man forgets, of course, that the ‘soldiers were fighting, not for “this country”, but for the capitalists of this country. The “country” had neither any interest nor any voice in the World War. And after the war, the capitalists of “this country” figured on making profits not only from the workers of “this country”, but also from the workers of Germany—and therefore the millions of dollars loans to Germany while ex-soldiers of “this country” can starve and.die in the street for all the capitalists of “this country” care. ‘Another worker, influenced by capitalist propa- ganda, thinks that what ought to be done is to run all the foreigners out of jobs and give them to Americans. : The obvious impossibility of si ng all the millions’ of foreign-born cls | death never seems to occur to him, nor the fact that it wouldn't help the ones who are so clever that they picked out America to be born in. If the bosses can keep workers quarreling with one another over who shall have the jobs, the 7 Workers will not unite to take away all industry | | I suppose if I have to wait my turn for work I'll | ployment insurance, from all bosses and run it for the benefit of all workers. The Issue—Class Against Class This worker's idea is just as sensible as to say that workers with blue eyes should be compelled to starve to death. It is a reactionary idea that defeats the struggles of the working class against the boss class whose profits would not suffer the least reduction by throwing “foreign” workers on the street and hiring “American” workers—per- haps at less pay. This idea of a “foreigner” being the enemy is one of Mayor Murphy's pet ideas, only you don’t have to be born in Europe or China to be a “foreigner” to Murphy. You are a “foreigner” in Detroit if you were so foolish as to be born in Nashville or Omaha. A couple of landlords write that they are going broke because workers don’t pay rent. One of them tries the old gag that “the small landlord is the tenant’s best friend’—O, yes, so long as the tenant pays his rent. Rent that is twice as high as it ought to be, rent that takes up from 30 to 50 percent of a workers’ wage, while in the Soviet Union it takes not over 10 percent while he is working, and where the unemployed do not have to pay rent. “Widows and Orphans”—Gag Behind some of these landlord complaints, such as one who claims to be a “childless, elderly widow who invested her small capital” in flats | and now -can’t collect rents from starivng workers, we suspect the fine hand of the big realty corporations. | Most of the landlord interests are centered in | the big investment banks and trust companies, | and the old gag of “widows and orphans” is | usual to such scoundrels who demand their pound | of flesh in rent, which is robbery to begin with, or they will throw workers into the street. Only in one missive sent to the News’ “Letter Box,” is the wonderful “plan” of Mayor Murphy for the unemployed given any attention. He goes straight to the point: “T have not had a day’s work in months and my wife will be confined in December. My chil- dren need clothes. I don’t want charity, I want work. I wrote to Mayor Murphy and told him my story. A few weeks later I received a reply and he told me to register if I had not already done so and said he was sorry. But being sorry, or a letter, doesn’t fill an empty bread box. die of old age.” A “Staggering” Problem Still another worker apparently not aware that Hoover had sponsored the bright idea of “stag- gering” jobs, protests the proposal made by: Del Smith and some other public officials, to cut the D. S. R. platform men’s hours to 6 or 7. “That sounds very lovely,” he says, but goes on to ask how in hell Ke is going to live on the reduced salary Which he takes for granted will go along with the reduced hours. | This, workers, is the problem. And it is to-be | settled, not by trying to outlaw “foreigners”, or by workers of any kind, men or women, mar- ried or single, white or black, quarreling with each other while the dividends of the capitalists go on as before. The unemployed must help the employed to fight back any wage cuts, to demand the same pay for part time as for the | full time, while the employed must help the fight for real, adequate immediate relief and for unem- And both employed and jobless should support the Communist Party— Vote Communist and fight with the Communists after the election. The rich,’ whose dividends for the first nine months of this year have been 50 percent more than during the same time last year, must be | forced to’ pay genuine and sufficient relief and | insurance’ for’ the unemployed. And only the fight of the workers will make them pay. from Rhode “By ALLAN ROSS, 1 te ‘tense condition of the workers affected by the economic crisis has alarmed the two old Parties of capital before the November elections. While the workers were worried about their im- mediate economic needs, the democratic and re- publican parties were trying to “catch fish. in muddy waters” by blaming the crisis one upon . They could not escape the- unem- | Ployment issue raised by the Communist Party | and supported by the masses of workers and, | sa safety move, they maneuvered through the | A. F. L. leadership to get “labor support” and | to bar the Communist Party from the state ballot. A. F. L. Leaders Support Enemies of Labor. (On October 9, the state branch ofthe A. F. L. Building Department called a mass meeting with the sole purpose of endorsing the nominees of big business. Peter G. Gerry, the democratic nominee for senate, was the main speaker. This big textile exploiter and millionaire received the | endorsement of the A. F. L. leadership. The © Communists who came to the meeting with the | unemployment bill and a special leaflet calling , the workers to support the Communist Party | were promptly arrested on the complaint of the | head of the Plasterers’ Union. But’ this man- euver was not successful. The workers were | eager to get the leaflets of the Communist Party, and Peter G. Gerry did not receive the | greetings from the workers which he expected. | | -Many booed him. The A. F. L. leadership, how- ever, stood solidly for this millionaire candidate. SLP Favored by Bosses. -The two and a half members of the socialist labor party, carrying on their campaign only at election time, have received the favor of the authorities. Loyal to their tradition of “educat- ing the workers,” only on election day (but not | Participating in any of the struggles of the workers), they proved themselves entirely harm- | Jess and the capitalist politicians thought it to use this clique of “tired radicals” ‘against the Communist Party. No arrests were | on the ballot. This clear line of favoritism has r many workers of the stand of the rm Barring of Communists © Island Ballot Party has an average attendance of several hun- dred and the S.L.P. has an attendance of a half a dozen “old timers.” C. P. Organizes Workers During Election Drive. While the capitalist politicians and 8. L. P. | were busy with camouflaging issues, betraying the workers, the C. P. cooperating with the T. U. U. L. carried on a consistent organizational campaign in: the textile and metal industries. | The American Silk workers have rallied to strike | against a 10 per cent wage cut which was forced | upon them. The Brown and Sharpe metal work- | ers have answered the call to organize. Ex- posing the actions of the’ A. F. L. leadership and | the stand of the republican, democratic and so- cialist labor parties, the Communist Party mob- ilized the unemployed workers for a fight for Unemployment Insurance. This activity of the Communist Party threatened the influence of the parties of ‘capital and they’ decided to coun- teract this activity and its growing mass support. C. P, Barred From State Ballot. The old election laws existing in R. I. offered a good opportunity to the authorities to bar the Communist Party from getting on the state ballot. According to these laws all workers must be registered before June 30 in order to be en- titled to vote on November 4. All citizen-workers | who fail to register before’ that time. are dis- franchised. Naturally, many workers failed to | register. They know, too well, the ‘game of the old parties.” It was during the latter months that the workers learned of the platform of the Communist Party, and endorsed the Communist Nomination papers. The involved caucus laws | which apply to every locality in the state of R. I, have caused many workers’ signatures (who endorsed the nomination’ papers of the C. P.) to be thrown out, as disqualified, because the caucuses had them registered as being pres- ent. As a result of these laws and general dis- crimination against the workers’ signatures who signed the Communist nomination papers, the authorities succeeded in throwing out five- eighths of the signatures, thus preventing the Party from filing the required number of en- dorsers. It is Clear to all class-conscious work- ers that this was a deliberate maneuver to bar the Communist Party from getting on the ballot Workers Rally To Vote Communist. | The election campaign of the Communist TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE BY BURCK Our Election Campaign and | November 7 By BETTY GANNETT. HE aggressive role played by the United States in the preparations for an attack against the Soviet Union must be’ concretely: ‘counteracted by our activities during the Elec- tion Campaign, culminating in mass demon- strations on November 7th for the Defense of the Soviet Union. The United States was the aggressor in all the attacks against the Soviet Union during the past year. Beginning with the Stimson note at the time of the Russo-Chinese conflict, to the propaganda against “religious persecutions” in the Soviet Union, to the forged documents of | “Butcher” Whalen, the Fish Investigation Com- mittee and the present “wheat dumping” slan- ders, the capitalist class of the United States was consciously organizing its campaign of red baiting with the view of mobilizing and mould- ing sentiment in the United States against the achievements of the proletarian fatherland. Contrary to the past propaganda catried on against the Soviet Union during the first per- iod of stabilization, that socialist economy can- not withstand the competition of the powerful capitalist countries and therefore must perish— the campaign conducted today pictures the So- viet Union as the “red menace” undermining capitalist prosperity by underselling capitalist produced products. “Moral Justification for War.” This is clearly exemplified in-a series of edi- torials, cartoons, articles’ in the Philadelphia “Public Ledger” which has for weeks and reonths carried on a vicious campaign against the Soviet Union. The ‘aim in these editorials ac in others printed in the capitalist news- papers,-is to place the blame for the present economic crisis in the United States on the Soviet Union, create hostility in the ranks of | the American workers against the Soviet Union; | increase war preparations and to intensify the war fervor. The “Public Ledger” uses no pacifist phrases. It uses no smoke screens or fine words to cover | up the aims of the American capitalist class. Direct mobilization of all capitalist countries for. @ war against the Soviet. Union is the all- embodying slogan of these editorials. A recent editorial begins “Russia as the barrier to peace,” and therefore: “The Soviet is slowly but surely reestablish- ing throughout Western Europe the awful factor which the old diplomacy called the. moral justification of war.” Capitalists Adopt a Change in Tactics. The rapid revolutionary advance of the Rus- sian proletariat in the industrialization and col- -lectivization program, taking place side by side with the deepening of the economic crisis in the United States and throughout the world, smashes the capitalist, right. wing and social democratic accusations of the failure of Com- Party has, however, not slowed down for .a mo- ment. The workers readily grasped the signifi- cance of the politicians’ maneuver. Thousands of stickers have been distributed to the workers who will vote Communist by ‘placing the sticker on the ballot. ‘The workers of Providence have also the opportunity to participate in the mayor- ality elections by voting for the Communist candidate—R. Armstrong. Workers of Rhode Island! Answer the man- euver of the politicians to bar the Communist Party. Vote against starvation which is facing the workers. Vote against the millionaire bosses, Gerry, Metcalf, etc. Vote for unemploy” ment insurance! Vote Communist. Send Reid to the Senate. Workers of Providence, vote for Armstrong for mayor! Vote for your party —the Communist Party! munism. This is recognized by the capitalist powers. A change in tactics to conform with this situation had to be adopted. Therefore, the cause for the chronic unemployment, for the increased speed-up, lay-offs, wage cuts, starva- tion and death of American workers is placed not on the capitalist class in the United States but on the advance of the Soviet Union. “Every wage earner in countries outside of the Soviet Union as well as every owner of property has reason to ‘view the newest pro- gram of the Soviet government as one de- vised to subject him to poverty, humiliation and the economic martyrdom decreed by Lenin as a preliminary to general political chaos.” To remove unemployment and reestablish “prosperity” necessitates war on the Soviet Union—is the call of the Public Ledger. The Communist Party in Pennsylvania must speci- fically use this propaganda and expose the base- ness of these arguments—the evils of capital- ism—the cause for unemployment by connect- ing it up with the daily occurrences in the fac- tories of our district. This must become a vital part of our election campaign to rally the workers not only for a struggle for unemploy- ment insurance, against wage cuts, lay-offs, speed-up but also to make the slogan of Defend the Soviet Union one the workers can fully understand. Conditions in Pennsvlyania. The workers of Pennsylvania are b2coming more dissatisfied --+ discontented with condi- tions than ever before. Daily the capitalist newspapers list cases of suicide of desperate workers! Riots and clubbings of Philadelphia workers looking for work in front of the Victor Radio Plant. Evictions increasing! The condi- tions in the factories sharpen the struggles of the workers and expose the fake “prosperity” slogans of the bosses and the real causes for these conditions. The Budds automobile plant in Philadelphia is practically closed down with only half the workers employed after a “forced vacation.” The Ford plant in Chester working at 30 to 40 per cent, capacity transferred a number of workers to the Philadelphia plant. But here too the workers are being laid off and the factory faces a shutdown. In the Victor Radio, the night shift employing nearly 10,000 workers, laid off the workers—and then began to rehire the same workers and others at 15 cents cut in the hourly rate. In the textile plants of Kensington, the 22 percent wage cut put over by. the Full Fashioned Hosiery Worker bureaucrats in unity with the bosses is creating great discontent and exposing the social fascist leadership of the | union. The sell-out agreement of the I. L. A. on the Philadelphia waterfront under which the longshoremen work at starvation wages two and three days a week—will mean a still further worsening of these conditions. How to Link Them Up. Can these conditions of the workers in Penn- -sylvania be exposed.in the light of the condi- tions of the workers in the Soviet Union and thus make the workers recognize that the enemy is not the Soviet Union but the American capi- talist class? Can we on the basis of these con- crete examples, in the factories cotmteract the campaign against the Soviet Union and win the American workers for the defense of the Soyiet Union? i ; Concreteness. is necessary in this work. We have been satisfied in the past in speaking of the achievements of the Soviet Union by mak- ing general statements—but failing in each fac- tory where work is being conducted to tie it up with the conditions of the workers in ‘the specific factory. In the present election cam- paign we must begin this work. i ‘ 4 The activity in the election campaign on this issue carried on in this manner will serve as a means of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States for the November 7th anniversary meetings—which must this year attract not only the workers who for years have been coming to these demonstrations—but must’ win new. sections of the working class— who will come knowing that capitalism’ cannot solve its crisis and the misery of the working | class. Thus laying the basis for winning: the workers for the Defend the Soviet Union slogan not abstractly bit on the specific rotten, intol- erable conditions of the American workers and strengthening organizationally the Party. The Red Putilov in Leningrad To visit the Red Putilov Works is an ex- perience of a lifetime. Here one sees not only a contrast between the old and new methods of production, but the amazing rapidity of Socialist Construction, with the mass: enthusiasm and initiative, of the workers expressed in Socialist Competition. As a group of English workers visiting the Soviet Union, including skilled. metal workers, who were given the opportunity of. inspecting the famous Red Putilov we herewith give our impressions. The contrast in productive methods is vividly seen in two departments, the foundry and the tractor production and assembly department. In the old foundry one sees the old craft meth- ods of production,’ with the “Sandvats” as moulders are familjarly known, hopping about preparing the moulds, filling the casting boxes with sand, with backs bent double, putting the finishing touches to the open mould on the fioor ete. In the new foundry, the most up-to-date ma- chine equipped plant, A new high, airy well lit and ventilated building. Here everything is well and orderly aranged according to the var- ious processes—human energy and time is re- duced to the minumum. Overhead is the sand conveyor with mechanically operated chutes arranged in convenient rotation to the casting box ,conveyor immediately beneath. Upon re- leasing the sand-chute, the sand drops in the required quantity irito the casting box, where it is “ramnied” tight by electrically operated machine, the top half of the box removed. the pattern inserted and removed, the mould thus complete passes along the conveyor. All this in the course of a few minutes, the casting boxes pass along, to be filled with molten metal fromthe ladle, held by an overhead crane, which requires to be tilted by the operator. The conveyor carries the. boxes around, when cooled, to be further mechanically cleaned of sand sur- plus’ nietal, in the sand blasts etc. . A similar contrast is more vividly seen between the old and the new Tractor departments. In the new building, again high, airy well lit and ventilated, the machines are aranged according produced, then pass to the assembly Department, where ‘again the. sequence of operations with the aid of the Conveyor, rapidly assembles the complete tractor. In every department the discipline and enthu- slasm. of the workers was amazing. To the enemies of the Soviet Union, who deny sucess of the Five Year Plan, who prophecy the collapse of Socialist Construction, the following figures give the lie: Year No. of Workers Value of Production Employed Programme 1924 8,000 10,000,000 roubles 1928 12,000 32,000,000 roubles 1929-1930 24,000 93,000,000 roubles ‘The figures for the production of tractors are equally amazing. to the sequence of operations—the various parts | e By JORGE “Nice, Pretty Crocodile!” “I must repeat what I have said frequently during the recent period, that the Daily Worker shows continual substantial im- provement.” Such is the deserved appreciation which we get from the D. O. at‘ Cleveland, and which moves our compassion for him, despite the fact that we knew it anyhow and thst he was not the first to discover our excellence. Also, there may be the possibility, remote per- haps, but still a possibility, that the artful cuss was trying blandishment when protest failed to check the Soviet dumping of crocodiles on the American market. At least, with the appearance of the second article on the ways of D. O.s with the Daily Worker, an apprehensive missive from Cleveland begged us that, if we simply must criticize, to write it in Imprecorr language (so that nobody would understand) and on a high level of seri- ousness in dignified editorials and so on. The trouble is that we have done just such things before, and nobody seemed to notice it. So kind words butter no parsnips and the digni- fied editorial passeth over the ‘head on the wings of abstractions. We gotta be cold-blooded oF we en broke. - What we would like to know, without casting any 12 sions on domesticated D. O.s and well- behaved Daily Worker agents, is the reason why, since January 4th this year to Oct. 1, the Daily + Worker account of: Cleveland has grown: from $182.58 to $437.85? Also, and more to the point, what is being done to pay off this accumulation?. Are the comrades hopeful of a moratorium on internal debts? Or that the $437.83 will be “funded” over a period of 63 years and bonds issued through the Bank of International Settlements? Alas, neither of such hopes can be realized, nor will it help the Daily Worker to get back to six pages, a desireability which—aside from bigger and better hot dogs for the staff, is our immediate goal dust because the Cleveland D. O. has curly hair and a persuasive way with him is no rea- son why we should fall for his charms, Our bookkeeper has curly hair, too, but it is turning grey over deficits. You jest can’t mesmerize a crocodile! #1 er. Oe Upon hearing that a whole trunkful of “red documents” were taken from the vest pocket of somebody in Mexico, the Poor Fish wired, cabled and sent a special delivery letter ‘to Ortiz Rubio, offering to go to Mexico, Pata- gonia or anywhere else to “examine the evi« dence.” Alas, it turns out that this trunkful of “red plots” existed only in the imagination of ‘the capitalist newspapers. Fish ought to know better than to’ believe what he reads in the boss press. * A Bulwark of Civilization The evolution of a Tammany’ police commis- sioner ought to interest those who get clubbed. Consider, now, the case of James P. Sinnot, Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner. S The gent was* formerly a political writer for a certain “morning newspaper,” the N. ¥. Times / modestly states in an obscure place on page 15 of its issue of Oct. 21. But. like the busy little worm, he blossomed forth in 1926 on the police force and, we understand, was one of the hot publicity agents of Glorious Grover Whalen. Anyhow, he was put on the Tammany pay- roll at $7,500 a year as “secretary” in the police department in 1926 by Mayor Walker. Then hd was made Fifth Deputy in 1928, and though we are not informed of how much more he gets-on that job, undoubtedly he gets a lot more. But the “duties” of a Fifth Deputy, not being overwhelming, allowed him to dip into other things. Sinnot is also president of the Newark International League Baseball Club. But part of Sinnot’s “duties” is to see that naughty chorus girls put on~a fig leaf, or at least that the show they're playing in gets properly advertised by arresting the actresses as “immoral.” Sinnot therefore was guarding what's left of Manhattan morality by raiding Earl Carroll’s leg show last July and “Frankie and Johnnie” a month ago. But unfortunately, the Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City has a sup- posedly private life. It seems that back in his days as press prostitute, he accumulated a sweetie, a graduate nurse, and—needing a nurse in those times, promised to take her unto him and so on, as soon as he would be grafting as much as $5,000 a year. That goal, however, was past long ago. He had evolved into a Fifth Deputy and become a per- sonage. So much of ‘a personage that he despised those base degrees by which he did ascend and would have naught to do with the nurse, graduate or no graduate. He told her last April in fact that he was married to some- body else. But this wasn’t so, reports go, and thus it happens that the Fifth Deputy Police Commis- sioner, defender of Manhattan morals and all that, is being sued for breach of promise for a cool 100,000 smackers. a a ‘Though it probably has nothing to do with | the stock exchange campaign against “bear raids,” we notice that there’s even an overe production of bears reported from Yellowstone Park. The management says that the Park cannot supply natural food for more than 150 grizzly bears and 450 black bears, and that the bear families, knowing nothing of birth control, are increasing at too great a rate, * * —-——= —a duction spent 5, years in developing this branch of production—Red'Putilov obtained results in the first year. ‘The workers proposals for,economy in produc- tion for ten months of this year secured a saving of 5 million roubles. The average wages of the workers are 122 roubles: per month for a 7 hour day, which they have been working since last November. The skilled workers earn 200 roubles per month. The Red Putilov workers have a militant and revo- lutionary tradition before the revolution, during the civil war days-etc. This is being well main- 1926 28 Tractors Produced 1928 1,200 Tractors Produced 1929 3,050 Tractors Produced . 1930 - TAMA ne 4 es 31,000 To Be Produced f Fords, with years of experience in ey pro- tained in the Soctalist Construction in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. —C. SMYTH.