The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1930, Page 1

LRH AA ROMA yt ees cf / Demonstrate at Union Square Monday at 5 p. m.! Vote Com- munist for Immediate Relief for the Jobless! For $25 a Week Unemployment Insurance 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 u orker SR faunict Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 263 se?! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents The Case Is Closed! /EYWOOD BROUN has received much attention from the DAILY ever since the socialist party filed him as their candidate for Congress in the 17th Congressional District. First we were inclined to look upon him as the clown in the campaign. He still remains a clown. But more and more, as the campaign developed, we saw this clown step forward as a leading figure in the campaign and in the “socialist” party. He played a particular role for the “socialists.” He became their bridge to respectability. Through him they gained the support of sections of Broadway’s racketeers (night club keepers, theatrical people, gamblers, booze and dope runners, etc.) and of middle class elements. He advanced them far on the road away from the working class and helped them to- ward realizing their goal of a foundation among the “intellectuals” (Texas Guinan), which has been the avowed policy of the ‘Thomas-Hillquit lead- ership. He helped them to break into the capitalist newspapers. ‘Through him newspaper contacts he greased the ways for a steady flow of “social- ist” publicity that for the first time has placed their candidates on a par with those of the republican and democratic parties. And finally he helped to bring their program closer to the non-pro- letarian classes. For example, on the Negro issue, he dispelled the doubts of the middle class by definitely declaring against the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. His attitude towards Tammany’s uni- formed thugs, his pacifism, etc., ete., were all contributions toward making the “socialist” platform respectable. All this has been pointed out in the DAILY WORKER. On the basis of Broun’s policies, which have been closely aped by Thomas, Vladeck, Panken and others, we have repeatedly established the fact that the “socialist” party was today a party of capitalism—on a par in every sense with the openly capitalist republican and democratic parties. Now we have even more conclusive proof! The capitalists themselves have established the case of the DAILY WORKER! This morning’s New York Times indirectly endorses Broun, Thomas and Vladeck. This follows the endorsement of Thomas and ladeck by the New York Post. The Daily Mirror, this morning, has the following to say: “We are not concerned here with yéur party affiliations or your newspaper alliances. Our ballot is cast for the man Broun .. .” This is published in the editorial column as a toast to Broun together with a reproduction of a bust of Broun. The New York Telegram of today concludes an editorial on Broun’s merits with, “Mr. Broun has our endorsement.” The New York World, also of today, in its effort to square its con- tinuous support for Tammany with an edorsement for Broun, makes the following significant remaks: “In indorsing Mr. Broun we cannot persuade ourselves that we are indorsing a Socialist. The one unreal factor in Mr. Broun’s candidacy seems to us his effort to convince himself that he accepts the doctrinaire Socialist theory of the class struggle. We do not believe that Mr. Broun is capable of accept- ing this theory, and we regard his socialism with suspicion. This does not worry us, however much it may worry him. We com- mend his candidacy to the independent voters of his district. There you have it! The “socialist” party has established itself as a party of the bosses. The capitalist exploiters of the workers, those who are today speeding up production, throwing thousands into the streets to starve, ruthlessly cutting wages, and clubbing workers who fight back, are today solidly back of Norman Thomas, Broun, Panken and Vladeck— of the “socialist” party. This must convince the workers that their party is the Communist Party, the one organization that daily gives leadership in the workers’ struggles. Vote Communist November 4th! i} ZARITSKY, BOSS PLOT WAGE CUT Have “Yellow Dog” for Millinery Workers NEW YORK—In the Women's Wear of Oct. 28 and 29, the millinery bosses’ association organized by Zar- itsky of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Mil- linery Workers’ Union, announced that umless the millinery blockers | | agree to the “collective” yellow dog | | agreement maneuvered by Zaritsky | | behind the screen, the millinery bosses threaten to lock out the mil- linery workers. It is evident that Zaritsky is play- ing the same treacherous roll that he did against the Chicago millinery workers,, where he instigated a lock- FOSTER SCORES THE “CIVIL LIBERTIES” Read William Z. Foster's letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, printed on Page 2 of this issue of the Daily Worker. The action of the Civil Liberties Union {in the Gastonia case, where it treacherously attacked the de- |fendants who escaped 20 year ‘terms in the deadly Carolina prison and plainly put bonds ahead of workers’ lives is analysed for motives. And back of this contemptible act of the Civil Lib= jerties hides the sanctimonious | figure of Prayerful Norman Thomas! OROTEST ALIEN out, smashed the workers’ organiza- tion and forced open shop conditions upon them. Zaritsky knows full well that the, operators, blockers and trimmers, re- gardless of their union affiliations will unite in a militant struggle against the “collective” yellow dog agreement with reduction of wages and piece work. Zaritsky is there- fore instigating the bosses to lock-out the workers and thereby force the Zaritsky yellow dog agreement upon them. This attack is aimed especially against the blockers and trimmers. Zaritsky has always agreed with the bosses that the blockers are “holding up the bosses” for higher wages. The first step in the direction of cutting the blockers’ earnings and for the institution of piece work for the millinery workers was the expulsion of the trimmers from Zaritsky’s union because they lead the fight against wage cuts and piece work. The trimmers are now members of the Needle Trade Workers’ Industrial Union. Fight! The Needle Workers’ Indus- trial Union calls upon all members of Local 24 and all members of Local 42 to fight this betrayal which is engineered by Zaritsky and Goldin. The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union calls upon its members and the members of the Zaritsky “Union” to unite their ranks to or- ganize into militant shop commit- tees to fight against this outrageous betrayal. BILL TOMORROW In Huge Mass Meet at! Central Opera NEW YORK.—Protesting the de- portation of foreign born workers and their persecution as a result of their militant activity against the bosses’ hunger program, the Council for the Protection of Foreign Born will hold a rally tomorrow afternoon, 2p. m.,, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. One of the main issues to be dis- cussed at the mass meeting will be the deportation of Guido Serio, Ital- ian worker who is facing a certain death at the hands of Mussolini and is at present at Ellis Island awaiting any minute his death sentence. Other cases like Vikukel’s will also be gone into. The proposed bills in Congress to discriminate against the foreign born will be vigorously protested and con- demned and action will be taken to fight this boss rule legislation. The speakers will be J. Louis Engdahl, Communist candidate for leutenant governor; M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit; Samuel L. Darcy, assistant secretary of the I. L. D. who will talk on the Serio and Vikukel cases; |Sam Nessin, of the Unemployed Council; B. E. Amis, for the A.N.L.C.; Harriet Silverman, and S. Howatt, who will act as chairman. ss Vote Communist! Wasge-Cuts is “Solution” Proposed by Three Boss Parties! Fight it! Vote Communist! Workers, Capitalist Parties In Election Peddle Bunk To Catch Votes Among all the fuss made by the capitalist political parties in the elec- tion, you will find none at all about wage cuts, Workers, ask yourselves what this means! Why should Hoover lead the Republicans, Roosevelt the Demo- crats, and the Rev. Thomas the fake “socialists,” in a grand uproar pre- tending to be justly interested in the workers? The answer is as plain as the nose on your face—it’s the elections! All the capitalist poltical parties sud- denly woke up to the fact that there were millions of unemployed, ~ All of them suddenly began trotting vut the moldy gag about being “friends of the workingman.” But all of these liars combined are not making one solitary squeak about the way the bosses are cutting wages right and left all over the country. In fact they gabble about wages “have been maintained.” The cap- italist papers publish bunk put out by various big capitalists saying: “We are against cutting wages.” tells you the truth. Only the Com- munist paper, the Daily Worker, tells you the fact that during September And only the Communist Party | alone, 117 big industries cut wages an average of 10 percent! Let this fact scak into your mind, workers! The political parties which are controlled by the capitalists, by your bosses, pretend +o be “friends” of the workers, at the same time that these bosses are taking the bread out of your mouths, robbing the food from your children, making it harder for you to make ends meet! And only the Communist Party tells you about it, protests against it, puts up a fight over it! And not only that, but the Communist Party is the only political party which has organized, is organizing, and will continue to organize the workers to strike against wage cuts, to fight the hellish speed-up that is tearing down your health in the shops! You know that there is no other <7 Vote Against the Wage Cut Parties! Vote Communist Nov. 4! such 8 political party as the Com- munist Party, the workers’ party. ‘You know that only the Communists have faced the clubs and blackjacks of the police, police controlled by the Republicans, the Democrats, and even the traitorous fake “socialist”! Communists face this all in order to organize real trade unions, not the company unions that the pot-bellied officials of the A. F. of L. control, but real, militant unions of the Trades Union Unity League which the work- ers themelves control! The Communist Party is organizing Shop Committees of these unions, fighting all obstacles, to give the workers the necessary unity of action so that they can defeat the attack on their wages, so that they can use the only weapon they have, the strike! Remember who is clubbed on the picket line first—the Communist! Remember who orders the clubbing— the Republican, the Democrat, the “socialist” political office holders! It is class against class! The party of the workers against the parties of the bosses! Remember this, munist! and Vote Com- IMPERIALISTS IN PLOT TO START INVASION OF USSR Chang Denies Move; Soviet Congress Soon Capitalist press dispatches from Peking report the Chang Hsueh- liang government heads there as saying that there is no movement of Manchurian troops towards the Si- berian border. If this is not lie, the war plot hing- jing around the alleged mobilization | is to be considered a little scheme of | the Nanking government and foreign imperialists to stimulate such an at- tack by showing Chang that he had | support. for it. American newspa- | pers which recorder the alleged troop movement as though fighting were already in force, are only doing their | part in the plot. Yesterday the Scripps-Howard papers’ foreign ex- | pert (William Philip Simms) had a | whole column on it ending, “Indeed, according to reports, it (the war) has already begun.” “Tt is known, however, that Chang has been filling government posts and the police department in Man- churia with Russian white guards, in defiance of the Khabarovsk protocol. This is a mobilization of a sort, in \ itself, for it is these white guard (Continued on Page Five) [While Officials Lived ‘Like Gay Sports Ashore The Garvey movement continues to parade before the Negro masses the illusion of escape from capitalist op- pression through the development of @ Negro capitalism. Even if this treacherous illusion by the spectacle of the impoverish- ment of the huge masses of the white populations of the most developed capitalist countries after four hun- dred years of capitalism, the cruise of the “Booker T. Washington” and the shameful treatment of its crew by the Negro misleaders aspiring to par- ticipate in the exploitation and op- Pression of the masses of their race, should serve to disillusion those workers who are still under the perni- cious influence of the Garvey mis- leaders. Negro workers! Capitalism is your enemy! You cannot achieve your lib- eration by simply exchanging your white oppressors for black capitalist had not been thoroughly repudiated | Fight for Job By RAYMOND BAKER Organizer, Communist Party U. S. A. District 2 Mayor Walker discovered unem- ployment on October 16 when 15,000 | hungry workers came to the City | Hall to support their delegates’ de- |mands for Unemployment Relief. | President Hoover discovered unem- | ployment when tens of thousands of unemployed greeted him in Cleveland and Boston with stern and deter- ;mined demands for unemployment | relief. All these militant demonstrations | were crushed with policemen’s clubs. Charity and Clubs, But the determination of the un- | employed workers to fight, raised the unemployment problem sharply throughout the entire country Scores | of charity schemes, soup kitchens and | flop houses, are being planned in | every city. Behind these frantic schemes of | charity and pitiful fairytales of jobs a sinister preparation against the unemployed is proceeding, Walker and his Board of Estimates vote a million dollars to feed the 800,000 un- employed of New York and simul- taneously hired 600 more policemen. cilessly crush every attempt at further demonstrations of the unem- The next day he gave orders to mer- | Down With Charity and Clubs! less Insurane! Vote Every Hammerand Sickle! ployed. The unemployed are being regis- tered by the police. The most poverty stricken and | homeless unemployed are being ar- | rested and sent to prison. ‘The leaders of the unemployed face charges of “inciting to riot.” Resist Evictions. Evictions continue at a growing pace. The workers of Harlem have (Continued on Page 2) Last Pre-Election Red Sunday, Nov. 2! NEW YORK.—The entire Com- nunist Party membership is being nobilized for the final Red Elec- don Sunday, Noy. 2, from 9 a, m. 2 p.m. All members must re- dort at their sectidn headquarters. The work will be canvassing of workers’ neighborhoods with special issues of the Liberator, Daily Worker, and with Commu- nist leaflets and other literature. Due to the Union Square dem- onstration and election day, all Party units meet Sunday after- noon at their regular meeting places. Demonstrate Today, Monday For Jobless Insurance Relief, |Demonstrate Today at, | Brooklyn Borough | Hall; Vote Red! | NEW YORK—“On to Brooklyn} | Borough Hall! Meet at Court and | Fulton Sts., today at 1 p. m.! De-| mand immediate unemployment re-| lief! Don’t starve; fight for unem-| ployment insurance” says the Unem- ployed Council of Brooklyn, calling a big demonstration of jobless and} militant workers to impress on the| city administration that they can no} longer kid along the 800,000 jobless | in this city. Vote Communist. “Vote Communist, for the Work-| ers Unemployment Insurance Bill} and immediate relief from the city, | to take the grafters’ loot and the war funds and pay every jobless man $25 a week,” says the Unemployed Council. Their leaflet distributed calling the demonstration today says: “The yearly income of the city of New York is over $1,500,000,000 and the proposed budget for 1931 is $650,- 869,038, but Tammany tries to solve the unemployed problem by evicting 1,700 families each week, by vagrancy jail sentences, by clubbing workers for demanding Work or Wages. Only Communists Fight For Relief. “Neither the democratic party nor the republican or socialist parties proposed that unemployed relief be considered as part of the city budget. “All Out to Red Rally in Union Square on Monday at 5 p. m.! NEW YORK.—March to Union Square Monday, at 5 p. m., to the biggest Red Rally of the present election campaign! Demonstrate against Hoover starvation plan! Fight evictions! On the eve of election day the tens of thousands of workers of New York, employed and unemployed will serve warning to the capitalist par- ties that the unemployment question which the republican, democrats and “socialists” have discovered for cam- paign purposes will not be taken off from the order of business after elections are over. now. Winter is approaching. No evictions for unemployed workers must take place! March to Union Square Monday, 5 p. m. and give your support to the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill the oCmmunist Party has pro- posed. Demonstrate for the red slo- gans and red candidates. Help pile up a big red vote, President Hoover and Mayor Walker will be there—in effigy. See them! See them get a red reception! Vote for every candidate with the Hammer and Sickle by his name! Vote for no other candidate! RED MEETS ALL “While workers are starving, Tam- |many Hall grafters like McCooey, Connolly and their gang steal mil- |lions in sewer pipe graft and ine) | creases in salaries. } “Forced by the militant fighting | power of the Unemployed Council in| the demonstration on October 16th |at City Hall, New York, the Tam- OVER N.Y. TONITE ‘Vote Communist’ Race This Afternoon | many Hall politicians were compelled | |to give one million dollars out of the | budget for the unemployed, which is |like throwing a well picked bone to a straving dog. To the 800,000 un- employed workers of New York the | one million dollars proposed by Tam- |many means a little over one dollar to each unemployed. Not a penny of the one million dollars will go to the unemployed, but into the pockets of the Tammany grafters. “Only the struggle of the workers can compel the city administration to grant immediate relief.” | SECTION FOUR MEMBERS! Tonight is the final Red Saturday night of the Communist election campaign. All over greater New York scores of open air meetings will be held. On the east side Alexander Trachtenberg, Vern Smith, Louis Hyman, Rose Wortis, Carl Brodsky, and many other active campaigners and Communist candidates will ad- dress the working class voters. Trach- tenberg and Hyman will address mass rallies at 2nd Ave. and 10th St. and at Ave. C. and 7th St. Vern Smith will address a rally at East Broadway and Jefferson St. In the Bronx, in the 23rd congres- sional where Comrade Amter is the| Relief must come | _ All comrades of Section Four are Communist candidate, red rallies will instructed to report tonight, at 7 be addressed by Comrades Nessin, o'clock, at Section headquarters, 308 Darcy, and other candidates and || Lenox Ave. Crew Forced to Beg On Streets On PRrorters Dow'r? Have awy Yi 00 Wine © Nis Mists THey Over Th Treen yee | — Marcus Garvey defends his friends —the imperialist oppressors of the Negro masses. oppressors! Negro landlords are just as bad as white landlords, as you know by experience. You must fight for full national and social libera- tion! Overthrow the exploiters, white and black. The struggle is class jagainst class; the oppressed Negro |and white’ workers against their op- pressors! Vote against the bosses on | November 4! Vote Communist!—Ed. (By a Seaman on the Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington”) When Mr. Carter slammed the door in our face at our request for a few dollars to go ashore on, the crew lost its temper. We made such an uproar that he finally agreed to give us 8 shillings each (about $2.00 in U.S. money), This was not the tenth part of what we should have received, but still loyal to the organization the men meekly took it ‘and went ashore. Calls Crew Rats. That night Carter got up in the Liberty Hall in Kingston and called us all kinds of rats in front of the members of the local organization. He then told us that we were scums jof the earth. The men were for giving him a damn good beating, but we knew he would have put us in jail and used that as an excuse for holding up the boat as that was his aim all along. We therefore swall- _ Cruise of ‘Booker T. Washington’ |owed his insults hoping to handle | him when we returned to New York. | Preacher Carter was not only avari- | cious in the extreme, grabbing and | holding on tight to every dollar that |came into his hands, except as he spent it in luxuries for himself and | Lady Davis, but he wanted the best of anything that the crew had. We were in Jamaica five days when the | workers sent us some chickens and | pigeons. Mr. Carter, hearing of this, came aboard demanding the meat of the pigeon’s breast. Perhaps he thought he was still in the preaching business with fool wives skimping their husbands and children to give him the best portions. He cursed us and went ashore in high dudgeon when we would not give him the best portions. Crew Forced To Beg Ashore. We laid in Kingston for about 20 days, during which time all we got of our wages was $7.00 apiece. The crew had to go ashore and beg the people for meals, and you could see them at all hours of the day and night begging food and cigarettes in the streets. Carter and the other (Continued on Page Five) |active campaigners. Numerous open | air meetings will be held in Harlem, | Brooklyn and Brownsville. | Young Communists to Race. This afternoon two “Vote Com- munist” racing teams will start out from the Bronx and Brooklyn on their way to downtown New York, racing all through the districts of Greater New York with large letters of “Vote Communist.” The Bronx team will leave 2901 Bryant Ave., at 1:30 p.m. The racers will be relieved by the next team at 4041 3rd Ave, 1400 Boston Road will be the second relay, 569 Prospect Ave., 3rd relay, 149th and Exterior, 4th relay, 308 Lenox Ave., 5th relay, 43 E. 103rd St., 6th relay, 350 E. 81st St., 7th relay, 2nd Ave. and 50th St., 8th relay, 1179 Broadway, 9th relay. Finnish, 27 E. 4th St. The Brooklyn team will start out from 105 Thatford Ave., at 2:30 p. m. It will be relayed at the following points: Fulton and Kingston, 46th and Ten Eyck St., Grand and Park, 73 Myrtle Ave. Manhattan Bridge and Bowery, Finnish, 27 E. 4th St. The Communist Campaign calls upon all workers having trucks or automobiles to call at the campaign headquarters, 35 E. 12th St,, at 1:00 Pp. m, this afternoon in order to ac- company the racers, All workers are called upon to be at the various sta- tions where the teams will be relayed. Vote for every candidate having the | Hammer and Sickle near his name. Vote for no other candidate! Vote Communist! 4 NESSIN, LEALESS AND STONE RAILROADED TO TRIAL WITHOUT JURY Tammany Judges Ig- nore Evidence, Want Jail Jobless Leaders |Court an Armed Camp \Vote Communist! Demand Release NEW YORK—With the courtroom | surrounded by cops who refused to let | anybody inside except capitalist news- paper reporters and police, Sam Nesin. Robert Leales and Milton Stone, who were beaten up on Oct. 16 in the Board of Estimate’s chambers at the | orders of Mayor Walker, were held over to Special Sessions by Chiet | Magistrate Corrigan yesterday on the ridiculous and framed-up charges of “ynlawful assembly.” The projected railroading of Nesin, Leales and Stone is following the same paths as the jailing of the March 6th unemployment delegation. The case will now come up before three Tammany judges of the type ot Ewald, and the outcome is a fore- gone conclusion. Despite the fact that Walker con- tradicted his gunmen on several oc- casions and feigned surprise that the | Charge could be “undawful assembly,” because the unemployed delegation “had a right to be there,” the action Jot the Tammany judge Corrigan | Shows to what limits the bosses will | go against the unemplyoed workers |who demand immediate jobless re- | lief, to come out of the bosses pockets. | Not only were these workers murder- | ously assaulted right in the City Hall, | but they are now being railroaded | to jail to cover up the vicious beating they got, as well as in “punishment” for their exposure of the grafting of the Tammany ploiticians. | The first witness to go on the stand |at the hearing which was resumed yesterday at 300 Mulberry Street in (Continued on Page Five) RED ELECTION | DRIVE INN. Y. Today. “Vote Communist” race, run in re- lays from Bronx Downtown and from Brooklyn Downtown, under arrange- ;ment of the Young Communist League. The racers will be met by | meetings of workers at each relay all |through Bronx, Harlem, Yorkville, Downtown, as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn and Williamsburgh. Automobile and truck parade to |follow the racers. Comrades and sympathizers are asked to call at the campaign headquarters 1:00 p. m, Open air meetings in all election districts. |_ Red rally at Astoria, Ind Ave. and Ditmar Road. Engdahl main speaker. Sunday. Red rally at Renaissance Hall, 150 East 138th St., Harlem. Speakers: | Engdahl, Paterson, Newton, Nessin. Monday, Huge Red demonstration on Unton Square, 5 p. m. Dem nd unemploy- ment Relief! Job Shark Smile In Total Eclipse Jobless workers who have been robbed by employment sharks can read with delight the boss press report on the unemployment demonstration in Sacramento, Calif.: “Work- ers visited several employment agencies during the day and through threats of violence forced some of the establish- ments to return money col- lected from job applicants.” The smile on the job shark’s face suddenly jumped to the face of the worker. The phy- sical might of the working class alone wrests concessions from the bosses. A Communist vote will be a census of Red- forces. Vote Communist! Final election campaign edi- tion in New York city Monday, Readers, rush individual or- ders. 80 cents a hundred.