The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1930, Page 1

WM. Z. FOSTER Garetatiey candidate for governor of New York State, 9 who will tour the country after the elections - Vote Against Capitalism!’ .Vote Jobless insurance! Vote Con imunist! (Appeal of the Central Committee of the Covatciniat Party U. S. A.) TO ALL WORKING MEN AND WOMEN N Tuesday you are called upon to vote. But with nine mil- lion workers unemployed, not only upon Tuesday, but every day afterward, you, as a member of the working class, must face the misery of unemployment, of hunger and cold of winter. Against this énly the Communist Party has raised a struggle of real relief, a struggle long and fiercely fought and without which none of the capitalist parties would today be even pretending to “solve” unemployment with cheap charity and: empty words. You will still face the problem of unemployment, food, clothing. and shelter after the election, and only the Com- munist Party is prepared to continue fighting—prepared to lead the struggle under the banner—‘“No Chartiy! We De- mand Unemployment Insurance”. VOTE TUESDAY! Tuesday you are colled upon to vote. Your vote is sup- posed to be an act of self-government. But it can never be that. The governments of the United States, of its several states and municipalities, are capitalist governments. The business of these governments is to maintain capitalist rule and guarantee the bosses the highest profits. That is why the police club strikers; why judges issue in- junctions against strikers. That is why the courts of these capitalist governments jail strikers. The severe economic crisis brings misery to millions of worker: Relief, adequate relief, is needed. But it is not the mission of the capitalist government, federal, state or city, to help needy workers. That is why these governments have their police club the jobless and send them to jail— fingerprinting them like criminals. Wages are the only income workers have. An unemployed worker gets no wages. So he has no income from which to live. The bosses do not care about that. Because of over- production they. close their factories and deprive the workers of their jobs and their wages. Out of a job and without wages the worker cannot pay rent nor buy food. But for these: “crimes,” the capitalist judges evict them from their homes and send them to jail for “vagrancy.” Capitalist governments thus punish the victims of capital- ist crimes. As long as the rule of capitalism lasts, this con- dition will continue, no, matter how you vote on election day. Only where capitalism has been overthrown from power, in the Soviet Union, is unemployment wiped out. Only where the working class has placed the Communist Party in control, are the workers’ interests given first consideration. Under capitalism, IT IS NOT YOU THAT GOVERNS, BUT CAPITALISM. You MUST change this. You, and only you, the working men and women, CAN change this. Make your vote on election day a declaration of intention to change this. THE THREE PARTIES OF CAPITALISM , The Republican, Democratic and Socialist parties are cap- italist parties. A vote for them or their candidates is a de- claration of satisfaction with the police clubs, the injunc- tions and jails of the capitalist system against the workers. The Republican president, Hoover, called a conference in November, 1929, “to, meet the crisis.” It decided that ex- tended construction work was to liquidate the crisis and end unemployment. But the crisis deepened. Unemployment in- creased. In October, 1930, Hoover again calls a conference. Again takes up his program of construction work. Clearly, Hoover thinks the workers such fools that he hopes to trick them twice with the same lie. The Democratic Tammany machine in New York railroaded the Unemployed Delegation of March 6 to three years in the penitentiary. Tammany policemen brutally attacked the Unemployed Delegation to the City Hall on October 16. The Tammany Mayor of New York insulted the unemployed. Capitalist lawyers buy judgeshifs from Tammany and use them to jail the workers, Socialist officials of the Arherican Federation of Labor unions in New York,.unite with the bosses to get injunctions against striking workers, Steve Katovis was murdered by a Tammany policeman for violating an injunction obtained by a “socialist” union official. Republican, Democratic and Socialist politicians all to- (Continued on Page 3) ~ In fact, jobless workers are looked Workers! Vote Agoinst the Bosses! Vote Communist! Central (Se Dail y ction of the Communist Inte Yorker e-SDAMruniet Party U.S.A. rnaitonal) OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 264 + Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the uct of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, a uuaicisiisaeniied Price 3 Cents “Relief” ‘Only in the Newspapers to Help | Fool the Workers | “Unemployment Relief.” The newspapers, the capitalist newspa- pers, are full of it. There are “Emergency Committees” all over ; the map. There is a lot of jabber- ing about “A Billion Dollar Fund.” Any boss who can offer a worker a job gets onto the front page! But in fact, this “relief” business lis a lot of blah. The same old blah, all the capitalist political parties |hend out before election. upon as criminals, treated like crim- inals, sent to jail as erimnials, fin- gerprinted like criminals! It is a punishable offense not to have a dime. If you don’t think |so—just try it. And just listen to this: Two police dicks found thirty- eight men sleeping in the Cortland Street terminal of the ferry owned jby. the scab Pennsylvania Railroad. Without any authority in law, of course, but just because they wear stars, the dicks “frisked” these poor | workers, driven into this poor shel- ter by the cold, and found that fif- teen of them had a dime or a couple of nickels each. The other twenty-three were ut- ; terly penniless. They were guilty of being broke and jobless. Guilty, by Heaven, of being hungry, too! So, while the fifteen were merely What Bosses Really Do for Jobless! Workers Jailed and F inger-Printed! FORCE CITY COUNCIL TO YES AND You Nore for. Me! 3¥é Jusr UN TTOLD You THAT You were < 5 perrLOeD. \ EMPLOYED Me chased out into the cold again, the|charges” against twenty-three were arrested. They | gungster murderer, were workers who had committed | best of care of him and call him the serious offense of not producing | “Jack” like a long-lost brother, the profits for any boss. So they were|Tammany police sent 23 homeless hailed into the court of Magistrate workers to jail and finger-printed Murphy in the Tombs, on the charge | them! of “vagrancy”—they were unable to! ‘This is their prove themselves innocent. They had jjef!” And to the indignant pro- “no visible’ means of support.” tést of the workers, who must sub- So the law, the capitalist law, got mit to this humiliation of finger- busy. While the bosses, whgse printing, of being shoved about, ar- “means of support” existed here in! rested and jailed and fingerprinted, the bone and muscle of these 23) the Tammany capitalist judge cooly wage slaves, were soundly sleeping ‘answers that it was all according to in comfortable beds in warm rooms rule. Judge Murphy says: and getting up to eat the ham and “The proceeding was perfectly eggs these workers had produced regular and in accordance with the profits to pay for—these 23 home-' statute. All those sentenced pleaded less and penniless workers were sent | guilty to charges of vagrancy. up for thirty days in jail. der the law nothing remained but And finger-printed! Finger-print- | to sentence them.“ ed as if they were criminals. The} So it was quite “regular.” The same police force who have “no | capitalist law forbids workers being Legs “unemployment re- who take the | Un-! lOnly Communist Par ty | Fights For Workers! | | Vote Communist! !7 77 | jobless, homeless and penniless. jis an offense against capitalist so- | ciety. | As Anatole France said: “The |law forbids both the rich and the | poor from sleeping under bridges jand begging bread on the street.” |But only the poor sleep under | bridges or beg on the street—so the “equality” of all men before capital- | ist law is all the bunk! | This is what the Communist Par- | ty has continually been saying. The government is the watch-dog of the bosses, of the rich. Capitalist “civil- | ization” is a slave civilization. No} other political party but the Com- munist Party is opposed to this slave system, is fighting against it. Only the Communists expose this “unemployment relief” and lead the | struggle for real relief and real | unemployment insurance. Workers, you who resent the rob- bery of your class by the rich, the treatment as criminals of your class broth who are outraged by be- jing jailed andfinger-printed like murderers while real murderers go | free— all you workers who want to show your willingness to help in the fight to overthrow such a de able system of capitalist “lav capitalist “order’—Vote Commu- nist! | ‘U.S. ADMITS AIDING FASCISTS MURDER Set on Sending Serio to Death _ NEW YORK.—A direct admission from the Department of Labor that. they will deport Guido Serio or any| other militant worker from the United States if he shows any resis- tance to capitalism in America was | forthcoming today in a signed story published in the Washington Daily | | News. | ) | Labor Department officials stated | when they were interviewed on the | Serio case, that this country will not harbor any foreign born who “make an attempt to tear down the institu- tions of this country.” This state- ment is in direct line with what the I. L. D. has long claimed for the Washington authorities. But what is more important is the acknowledge- ment of these government officials | that they are sending Serio to his death in Italy. When they were ques- tioned by the capitalist newspaper if Serio is to face a firing squad at the hands of Mussolini their answer was {almost in the affirmative: they said that they had no evidence of such nature, but quickly adding that “if he has violated the laws of Italy it may be presumed that he will be punished.” Dreiser, Noted Writer, Calls Masses to Vote Communist Statement Fieked Through J John Reed Club Declares that Only Communist Party Leads Fight on Hunger NEW YORK.—Theodore Dreiser,!of Governor Roosevelt to act de- one of the greatest writers in the/|cisively in the present revelations of United States today, recognizing that| pure political corruption in New only the Communist Party leads the York City makes it impossible for any fight of the workers against unem- conscientious person to put his trust ployment and wage cuts, has issued in any individual working within a statement through the John Reed these parties. Club, calling on the American work-| “Unemployment appears to have ers to vote Communist! His complete statement, blasting the capitalist parties as utilizing! “unemployment and starvation” for “party and political advantage,” and pointing out that the Communist Party raised the issue of unemploy- ment and leads the fight against it, follows: “I believe that the present crisis has reveald th complt inadquacy of the present major political parties. American labor organization at this Their unwillingress to meet or even time is apparently being fought only to acknowledge, unemployment and |by the Communists. starvation except for party and Poli- | “For this reason, and without in- tical advantage, reveals a corruption | sisting upon my agreemnt with the deeper than that of the widespread larger aims of the Communist Party, missuse of public funds and the graft Ke feel that its candidates and pro- which is apparently almost universal. |gram represent the only current This corruption strikes me as a political value worth supporting. cynical willingness to represent only | the interests of the financially en- trenched. | “I believe, too, that the inability been forced on the attention of the people of this state and the nation no‘ by either of the old parties but by the activities of the Communist Party and its sympathizrs. Such patchwork relief as has been offered or achieved, and all wholly inade- quate, appears to have followed upon the activities of the above group. More, the labor injunction which threatens the whole existence of —Theodore Dreiser.” Vote Communist! Rabbi Endorses Republican - Socialist Candidate As Good Injunction . Judge alae that Socialists| | Are a Boss i Party NEW YORK—Because he is run-| ning for election for Julge on both ‘the Republican and ‘Soicalist tickets, | Alfred E. Herz, is receiving the en- ‘dorsement of the most reactionary forces in New York. The latest back- jet is Rev. Dr. Joseph Shick, Rabi of |the West Side Jewish Center, reli- ‘gious dope-peddler, who has sent ‘letters to workers calling on them to “vote for our Jewish brother.” | Dr, Shick’s letter, a copy of which is reproduced in this issue of the Daily Worker, admits that Herz has the backing of two boss parties—Re- publican and Socialist, which the Rabbi thinks is to his credit! Herz ,who has the full support of the Socialists and Republicans was a under Republican guidance, and will ‘3.000 ON STRIKE. - IN TEXAS PORTS M.W.LU. “Urges Con- trol by Rank and File | GALVESTON, Nov. 2.—The Marine Workers Industrial Union is conducting a drive among 3,000 striking longshoremen here, in Hous- ton, Corpus Christi and Texas City tor tank and file strike committees id control the strike oy the strikers. The International Longshoremen’s Association bureaucrats had here, as in other ports agreed with the em- ployers'on rates of pay, etc., behind the backs of the workers. Meetings of Texas locals repudi- ated the agreement and put up de- mands in a strike which the LL.A. leaders are nominally heading, but which they will betray if the rank and file do not take control, with broad strike committees, bringing Negroes also into the leadership, and calling out the seamen in support of the longshoremen, as the M.W.LU. urges. The strikers are demanding 80 cents on the s Shipping Co. work, and 65 cents on coastwise work. Many will be arrested during the , Strike, and the International Labor Defense met November 1 to protest police interference with picketing and to raise funds. ‘The response was | good and 15 new members joined the iLD of Rev, DR. JOSEPH SCHICK RABOE OF THE WEST SIDE JEWISH CLNTRE Office "447 Wese 44th Se v4 Wes Sc Residence $30 West soth se : ‘Phew Lala aias October 27th, 1930 My Dear Friend: Tam going to ask you to do me a |Special Assistant Attorney General, |, prove an excellent injunction judge for the bosses, It is this fact which makes the rabbis and the Repub- licans, as well as the Socialists, so personal favor, Vote for my good friend ALFRED E. our Jewish brother, - HERZ for Justice of the Municipal Court in. your district ALFRED E Pull either le . . HERZ 18 the dandidate the 86 and Soc tickets. Pa His 12 it ver down and 1 For a number of years ALFRED &, HERZ nas been @ Special Assist without pay prosecuting f: His qualific per be! ‘Ey HERZ 1 and @ capable lawye be our Judge rid Sincere: ant Attorney General raude tions are many. worthy citizen well qualified to indorsetient of al) ly yours, Rabb! Dr Joseph Schick Rabbi 3 S.y Be Vote Against All 1 Capitalist Parties enthusiastic in supporting him. The Daily Worker has repeatedly printed proof of the united front not only between the Socialists and Re- publicans, but between fis party of | capitalism and its blood-brother, the rotten Tammany machine which beats up and jails the unemployed for demanding bread, The Socialist Party has deliberately | { attempted to, hide this organizational | 3 unity between the Republicans and |} Socialists. They do not want the} workers to know the truth, as it makes it difficult for the social- fascists to play their fake role of) “friends of the workers.” Workers, | vote against all capitalist parties! | Vote Communist! Smash the boss) alliance! | Today's article in the series on the Cruise of the “Booker T.| Washington” will be found on page 3 of this paper. | into a football gridiron 5,000 DETROIT JOBLESS HEAR THEIR DEMANDS . CLUBS AND JAIL ‘Demons ‘ation ANSWER JOBLESS IN PITTSBURGH ‘Brutal Assault On Unemployed Meet PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 2.—Two hundred police, 50 special officers and herds of detectives attacked the mass demonstration of unemployed workers at the steps of the city coun- ty building at noon yesterday and ar- rested six, besides clubbing and breaking up the crowd. Mayor Kline refused to receive their delegation which was elected to present demands for immediate relief _for the 80,000 starving jobless here. The breaking up of the meeting of the jobless was the more insulting because two Saturdays before, every courtesy and privilege, deflecting of traffic, etc., had been extended to the Pinchot meeting of the republican party, whose speakers held forth on these steps as long as they liked. * Open Brutality. The Pittsburgh bourgeois papers admit the brutality of the attack. The “Pittsburgh Press” states, Rougher tactics were employed than when. the police broke a socialist | meeting Monday,” and “The police shook several, of. the awould-he, Come, munist speekers back and forth vio- lently as they propelled them down ‘the steps.” The Pittsburgh “Sun-Telegraph” describes tho arrest of Fred Kearns, Secretary of the Unemployed Coun- cil, as follows “A six-foot traffic man hit him and knocked him down he four steps he had ascended a moment before and four other of- ficers pounced upon him. He was lifted bodily and rushed to the rear of the building * In ten seconds the spacious threshold was ‘turned Nobody was safe, the police ran hither and} thither After Kearn’s arrest, Pat Cush, Communist candidate for Senator and a worker for 40 years in Pitts- burgh mills, tried to address the hun- dreds of workers and jobless who still defied the police attack. He was ar- rested, and then, as they started to speak, the others were grabbed: Cath- erina Mills, Negro candidate on the Communist ticket; Pete Chappa, na- tional youth organizer of the Metal Workers Industrial League; Paul Hurst, unemployed building trades worker, and Mike Bucich, represent- ing a colony of about 700 evicted job- less workers living in pasteboard shacks in the woods on the outskirts of the city. All jailed workers are held on $50 bail Police surrounded the whole City Hall, and kept chasing every little group of the jobless that came to- gether in the streets near it. The day previous, the mayor, an-| swering the demand of the Commun- ist Party and the unemployed that they be allowed to present their pro- | eram of immediate relief to the city | Sovernment, declared that he did not want them to come, as the city “was doing everything possible.” Thousands of Pittsburgh unem- ployed are actually starving now, and thousands of the evicted fill the parks, the river fronts and the ‘woods. Chicezo0 Needle ‘Union ‘to Show China Express CHICAGO, Noy. 2.—All workers, is 5th n One Week in Fight On Starvation DETROIT, Nov. A large crowd of unemployed, exceeding Wednes- day's 5,000 massed at City Hall Fri- day and forced the Common Coun- ci! to grant a hearing to the Unem- ployed Committee elected at Grand Circus Park last Friday by over 10,000 unemployed, under the leader- ship of the Unemployed Council of the T. U. U. L. The Council had announced in the press its decision to grant a hearing Friday, Nov. 7, but when the commit- tee appeared, backed by the huge mass of workers, the Council changed its mind and listened to the de- mands. Five Times in Week This was the fifth time in a week that the unemployed and employed workers demonstrated against hun- ger. The demonstration before being at Grand Circus park where 10,000 massed; again at the City Hall on the same day after a parade; at the Amter meeting at the Armory, at- tended by over 4,000 workers; Wed- nesday at the City Hall when the Council refused to listen to the de- mands, adn again Friday. The Council had decided to adopt a faye “work and wage” policy which in reality meant abolition of a dole of $30 per month to $20 per month. Thousands of families, while given some of these day's work for. four, doilars less on city work, it was the: expense of lowering wages of other city employees, througfih their work week. A Mere Shift Mayor Murpry and also snnounced that the Council theywouldask (Continued on ee 3) URGE NEGRO WORKERS CELEBRATE NOY. 7TH CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—Pointing out the role of the Soviet Union in sup- porting the liberation struggles of all oppressed races and nationalities, and in affording an example of successful socialist construction in sharp con- trast to the economic crisis of dying capitalism, Augst Poansjoe, Negro work director of district 8, Commu- nist Party, in a letter to Chicago Negro organizations, urges the Negro workers and their organizations to participate en masse in the celebra- tion, November 7, of the thirteenth anniversary of the Russian Revyolu- tion. The letter declares in part: As compared with the race dis- crimination, “jim-crowism,” lynching end persecution of the Necro workers in the United States, we find that in the Soviet Union when two American engineers insulted a Negro worker in the mess hall these engineers were | expelled from the country. “We ask you as workers, who have followed with beating hearts. the gigantic victories of the Soviet Union to participate as an organization in this Thirteenth Anniversary Celebra- tion at the Ashland Auditorium, Nov- ember 7th, ‘Van Buren and Ashland Ave.” Philly-Detroit Drive Challenge Philadelphia contracts to beat Detroit in quota percent- age figures in the first major challenge of the Daily Worker campaign for 60,000 circula- tion. What's. your answer, cutting Party members or sympathizers, who are willing to assist in the Commu- nist election campaign by serving as watchers at the polls in Chicago on | November 4, are asked to report either to Vilnis, 3116 S. Halsted St., r to the People’s Auditorium, a West Chicago Ave., on Monday, Nov. , at 8 p. m., where they will receive | instruction on what to do at the) polls on Tuesday, as well as assign-— | ment to a polling place and a cre- ‘dential from the Party authorizing | them to act as watchers. Detroit? Philadelphia means busi- ness too . Philly cut down its special edition order at a much slower tempo than De- troit. Detroit slashed 70 per- cent off a good 100,000 order in one week’s hard chopping. Whereas’ Philly cut only 30 percent off its 50,000 order in 10 days. This shows Philly is geing ahead in cutting down at a slower speed than Detroit. Silver, Daily rep in Philly, blew into the office to pick up a truck |load of special) edi- tions, carting off 20,000 (which he first paid for). He says Philly will make its quota. News of 60,000 campaign on page 3, 60 HOUR WEEK WN | souTH | CHARLOTTE, N. C. (FP)—Nespite | | the Cotton Textile Institute's recom- | mendation of the 50-hour week, two) | mills of the Shuford group at Granite | | Falls, N.C. have resumed the 60-| hour day shift and 55-hour night shift. a —