The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1930, Page 1

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 CSc tion (os thie? (Ciom munist orker y,aWo Party U.S. A. Internaitonal) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 265. Entered gs second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930 Price 3 Cents _ CITY EDITION WORKERS! VOTE AGAINST THE BOSSES! ihe “Victory” Claims T= three capitalist parties—republican, democratic and “socialist’’—are all busy today, before the votes are cast and counted, boastfully claim- ing “victory” for their particular candidates. minute effort to rally votes. After a campaign characterized by lying promises which none of them have any intention of fulfilling, they hope by these fake “victory” claims to further fool the workers into supporting capitalist candidates as against those of the Communist Party who alone fight against unemployment, wage cuts, lynching, speed-up, war and capitalism. The Communist Party does not retaliate by claiming a “victory” in the same sense as do the capitalist parties. The Communist Party does not judge its victories by the same standards as do the republicans, democrats and “socialists.” These parties all unitedly join in the fight for the bosses against the working class. The fight between themselves fs only secondary; it is a “fight” to determine who shall rake in the graft while the bosses’ attacks on the workers are carried through. No matter which of these parties, or which of their candidates, are elected today, it means only one thing—victory for the bosses! But. this is merely victory in a single engagement. The war is still on. -Regardless of who is elected the bosses will continue to lay off men, they will continue to cut wages. they will continue to increase the already killing speed-up, they will continue to club the unemployed rather than grant unemployment insurance, they will continue their war preparations against the Soviet Union and their imperialist rivals—in short they will continue even more ruthlessly to try to load the crisis burdens on the workers. And the workers, exposed, will fight more determinedly against the bosses. nist Party, in these battles, will continue to give uncompromising, revo- jutionary leadership to the workers. In judging any particular battle in this war between the workers and the capitalists—the election campaign, for example—it is necessary, therefore, to determine which side has been most strengthened for the battles of tomorrow still more vigorously as their lying promises are And, from this viewpoint, we unquestionably declare that the election campaign, as will be shown by a greatly increased Cdmmunist vote. has added additional strength to the workers. Votes can be divided between the republicans, democrats and “‘social- ists” as you will; Congress seats can be divided between them in any pro- portion, but this does not add to the capitalists’ strength. On the con- trary, as the workers see through the fakery of these parties, the existence of three separate capitalist parties fighting among themselves on the methods of serving the bosses, living on graft or maintaining corruption only weakens the bosses. An increase in the Communist vote, though, means an increase in the forces consciously waging war against tHe capitalists. It strengthens the forces which will give leadership to the continuous, daily struggles of the working class in its fight against wage cuts, for unemployment insurance, ete., and later in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the rule of the bosses entirely. An increase in the Communist vote means a strengthening of the workers’ conscious fighting force. So republicans, democrats and “socialists” can shout all they wish about “victory.” But to the extent to which the Communists gain sup- port in this election to that extent the capitalists and their parties have suffered a defeat. Moreover, the gain for the Communists in this elec- tion prepares the ground for even greater defeats for the capitalists in the battles which will be waged throughout the coming winter and con- tinuously until the workers are finally victorious. . * . The Communist vote will show a big increase today. But even this increased vote will not be a measure of the full Communist strength in the United States. Thousands of workers are foreign born and cannot vote. Additional thousands are barred from voting by capitalist election regulations (residential requirements, poll taxes, etc.). Still more thou- sands, unaware of the importance of participating in these elections, do not register and therefore cannot vote. Many more are terrorized (the Negroes, especially) by the political machines of the old parties. From among these categories many thousands are supporters of the Commu- nist Party. We must blame ourselves, also, for our failure to get out our fullest possible vote. Our own organizational weaknesses and our lack of ex- perience in picking up the many local political issues, which hamper us in developing all struggles of the workers, have been very costly in the battle with the well oiled and powerful political machines of the bosses. ‘These weaknesses must be recognized and critically examined with the view of correcting them in the shortest possible time. . There is no ground for optimism, no ground for pessimism. The big increase in the Communist vote today must be soberly examined, pri- marily with the view of finding out why more workers were not broken away from the three capitalist parties, in order to most effectively con- tinue and strengthen the fight of the workers against the bosses. The partial victory for the workers, as represented by today’s Com- munist vote, must be the means of carrying the struggle forward for every demand of the workers. Vote Communist today! Continue the fight under Communist leadership after the elections! A “Socialist” Swindle GREAT big headline on the official paper of the fake “socialist” party, calls everyone to vote for “Socialism and Security.” Every worker should~be thoroughly convinced already that, while genuine socialism such as workers are building in the Soviet Union would indeed mean security, the so-called “socialist” party here does not stand for socialism. One of the chiet proofs of the “socialist” partys nostility to real socialism, is its lies and attacks on the Soviet Union. Many things might be added. Such, for example, Thomas’ approval of the jailing of Foster and the other Unemployed Delegation of March 6th; his tranquil smile while witnessing the delegation led by Nessin being beaten up at City Hall, and his expressed “pleasure” that the police had been “gentle” in ejecting workers from the Cooper Union meeting Sunday night. But the swindle put out that by voting for such fake “socialists” you are voting for “socialism and security,” is further revealed in the fact that while the “socialist” party claims to stand for something definite in the line of “security” through unemployment insurance, it actually doesn’t mean what it says, and Norman Thomas, the chief figure in the so-called “socialist” party, is offering a reward for somebody who will bring in an idea on what can be done about unemployment. Norman Thomas, leader of the “socialist” party, clearly don’t con- sider that the “socialist” program for unemployment insurance is to be taken seriously. Because he, Norman Thomas, as Executive Director of the “socialist” controlled “League for Industrial Democracy,” on October 16th, sent out a circular letter offering cash prizes up to $300 for—“the best solution for this problem (unemployment) and the reasons therefor.” Thomas, the “socialist,” does not, moreover, ask the workers to either contribute their ideas, or to judge those contributed by others. On the contrary, the prizes are offered specifically to “professors and students in high schools and colleges.” And the judges to select the best “solu- tion” for unemployment, are not workers, who are the ones suffering from unemployment, but a couple of “doctors” and one “professor”! Workers, if you are looking for either socialism or security, you can see that the fake “socialist” party offers you neither. Only the Com- munist Party stands for and fights for genuine socialism. Only the Com- munist Party, the party of the workers, stands for real unemployment insurance. Vote Communist! This is done in a last | The Commu- | Election Promises Are To Be Broken With Clubs and Guns Do you read the papers? Do you| see in the capitalist papers the col- what the good “kind-hearted” capit- alists are doing for the unemployed? Well, if they’re not doing so much, ‘ at least they're making a lot of noise | about what they're going to do. But jit happens that the capitalists and | the capitalist government only began | to make a noise about the unemploy- ed just before election! Take notice of that, workers! And notice that the main things offered to |the unemployed is a little, damned lit- | tle, charity, and lots of hope for “bet~- | ter times”. In the same breath that | they promise to feed the hungry, they claim that there is not going to be any hungry. Take warning, workers! They are preparing, even before election, |to | break their election promises about feeding the hungry. ‘And not only that! The capital- | ists are preparing to give the hungry workers blackjacks and bullets in- stead of bread! They know that ; times will be worse, not better, this winter. ,umns and even whole pages telling | MAT You NEED. UNworKy Se 15 TORETURN To ed rE OF KEROSENE LAMPS di OU ARE UNEMPLOYED IT Wy ih ig HELP Poop MR Rotictenep vote Communist! Then | Organize to Fight After Election! ry’—why should they be arming themselves to terrorize these work- ers whom they promise to feed? Think that over? And just listen to some of the) things being done behind your back, | workers! 1. A dispatch from Chicago says: “Acting Police Commissioner ‘Alcock | proposed the policeman’s billy tod as a most suitable weapon to swat | ’|manding work or bread, shorter VOTE COMMUNIST! Workers! The Bosses Arm Themselves _ and Only Lie About Jobless Relief! 25,000 AT UNION SQUARE PLEDGE SUPPORT TO RED PROGRAM, ORGANIZE, FIGHT Demand Unemployment Insurance and Relief; Ready for Mass Violation of Injunction Cheer Daily Worker; Promise to Carry it Into Shops; Demand Prisoners’ Relief NEW YORK.—Twenty-fve thousand workers and unem- Liga of this city came out with red flares and placards de- hours and more wages, no wage cuts, no imperialist war, and pledged to Vote Communist Virgil Jordan, a capitalist econo- pscady Secut7 4 the Eee pee ©, oe the Cage Neu Shorr mist, openly said a week ago, that] capitalists are getting ready to use the capitalists were waiting till after| violence against the starving work- election to begin cutting wages right | ers. and left for the employed workers. | If the capitalists were honest in But that’s not all! Everywhere, the| their promise to “feed the hung- Chicago's two major problems—crime | and unemployment.” So the one billy is the “remedy” and Alcock a for 5,000 more cops to blackjack = unemployed. 2. After nearly murdering the Un- employed Delegation in the City Hall, the Tammany New York gov- ernment boosted police appropri- ations to $63,000,000 to “protect prop- | erty during the unemployment crisis | this winter.” 3. The Hoover government's es Department, has sent orders out from Washington to all commanders of the National Guard, to be ready at a | moment’s notice to “suppress mass | activities of subversive character ex- (Continued on Page 3) ST. LOUIS, Nov. 3. — On the | 15th and 16th of this month this city will be the scene of a conven-| | tion without parallel in the history | of the South. On that date the na- tional convention of the American Negro Labor Congress which will mobilize the Negro and white work- ers on a national scale for a grim,! proletarian fight against lynching jand all forms of Negro oppression | will convent in the Missouri city. The convention will open on the| morning of the 15th and run through! to the evening of the 16th. The! large U. B. F. and F. M. T. hall, at 2631 Lawton boulevard, has been engaged for the convention. Many Meets Numerous anti-lynching confer- ences held by ANLC locals through- | out the country during the past six! months have served to mobilize the workers for support of the conven- tion which will focus and organize! the fight against Negro oppression. | At all of these conferences dele- gates were elected to the convention, while many delegated organizations pledged full support to the efforts of the American Negro Labor Con- gress to build a powerful fighting mass movement and a militant news- paper to lead the Negro masses in struggle against oppression and for their demands for full political and social equality and the right of self- determination for Negro majorities | in the South as well as in Africa, the West Indies, ete. All Southern Conference A large southern delegation is certain to be present at this con- | “What Has as Become of| the Money,” Tricked Workers Asked By a Seaman on the Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington.” So notorious was the treatment of the crew by Mr. Carter and the other U.N. I. A. officers on board, that the | Colon local of the U. N. I. A. on 8th! Street felt it necessary to issue a manifesto stating that they were in no way responsible for the terrible conditions on board or for the plight ef the crew, which was on the verge of starvation. Division Criticizes Leaders That manifesto criticised very sharply the dishonesty of the big leaders and their attitude towards the Amer. Negro Labor Congress|U. ni ADMITS AM Is Meet Opens Nov. 15, St. Louis|TO MURDER SERIO Large Southern Delegation Assured— Chat-| tanooga Conf. Nov. 9 to Further Rally Masses | Cooperating With Mussolini NEW YORK | from the Department of Labor that) vention. Several anti-lynching con-| ferences have already been held in the South, znd on November ninth, | they will deport Guido Serio or any the big all-southern anti-lynching | other militant worker from the U conference will be held at Odd Fel- | if he shows any resistance to lows Hall, 124 East Ninth Street,| capitalism in America was forth-| Chattanooga, Tenn. ATTENTION, VOTERS AND RED WATCHERS! 1. Vote early. 2. The Communist Party 1s fifth (fifth row) on the New York State ticket (Row E). 3. Swing lever from left to right, lower pointers in front of every candidate with a Hammer and Sickle above his name, then swing the lever back to the left. | coming 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 |institutions of this country.” This statement is in direct line with what the International Labor Defense has long claimed for the Washington | authorities. But what is more im- portant is the acknowledgment of these government officials that they are sending Serio to his death in Italy. When they were questioned 4. Do not vote for any other || by the capitalist newspaper if Serio candidate. If there isno Commu- f/js to face a firing squad at the nist candidate for a certain office, || hands of Mussolini, their answer was leave that space blank, do not || almost in the affirmative: they said touch the pointer in any other but |! that they had no evidence of such the Fifth row. - |nature, but quickly added thatt “if 5. It makes no difference how ]/ he has violated the laws of Italy, it you were enrolled during registra- |) tion. Vote Communist. 6. Watchers must display their }| badges to encourage working vot- ers. 7. Do not allow the democrats, republicans, or “socialists” to in- terfere with the voters. | 8. Watchers must stay in the }) polling places until the vote is }| counted, copy the figures and re- port to the campaign headquar- ters (Algonquin 5707). punished.” While awaiting Serio’s deporta- |tion at Ellis Island, the attorney \for the International Labor Defense, |Carol Weiss King, is presenting her brief to Federal Judge Wm. Bondy, | demanding voluntary departure for this militant worker. The International Labor Defense | in fighting this deportation has re- jceived support from hundreds of labor and fraternal organizations -A direct admission | may be presumed that he will be! Vote Every Hammer and Sickle! ! Vote Communist! | jin the biggest of pre~ -election rallies, (CELEBRATE BTR ANNIVERSARY OF SOVIET UNION Complete ‘List of Meets Found on Page 3 NEW YORK —T hrough out the United States on Nov. 7th hundreds of thou- sands of workers will celebrate the 13th Anniversary of the Soviet Union. On Page three of this issue is pub- lished a complete list of these meet- ings and the speakers. The 13th Anniversary of the USSR this year takes place in the period | of the severest crisis ever experienced in capitalist lands. While in the So-} viet Union there is a lack of workers, during and August ¢ September the scarcity of workers amounting to 500,000, due to the great advance of the Five-Year Plan, in the United States the jobless army has jumped to 9,000,000. The U.S.S.R. anniversary meetings will not only be demonstrations for | the defense of the Soviet Union, but will be mass gatherings of the work- ers determined to fight against the | rotten capitalist system, which pre- | pares war on the victorious Soyiet republic, and forces vation and wage cuts on the workers here fi End of Voting Is Beginning of Bigger Fight On Hunger | | Cr:sis Gets Worse, as Party Promises Will More Lose Jobs; Boss Not Feed Workers; Communists Continue Struggle Today is election day, but with] the closing of the polls the question | of hunger for the 9,000,000 unem- ployed workers and their families is not solved. The capitalist par-| ties with their fake promises carry on their campaign to win votes. The Communist Party, through- out the -'sction campaign pointed out to the workers that a class fight jis necessary to win unemployment insurance from the bosses and their government. A vote for the Com- | munist Party is a vote to continue} | the struggle against the rotten cap- | italist system, against unemploy- |ment and wage cuts, and for the ‘Colon Division Exposes Dishonesty on Cruise of Garvey Ship ‘Booker T. Washington”’ workers in the employ of the organi- zation and its subsidiary companies. ing us to intercede in their behalf. by Carter's glib tongue, they would They want to know why the S, Ss. j Meet us on the streets and curse us, overthrow of capitalism. All facts point to a worsening of the crisis, and an increase in un- employment. The much advertised fall “improvement” not only did not take place, but the crisis reached |the levels of the 1920: smash, ac- cording to the Annalist, an organ of Wall Street. Steel production has dropped ev- ery week for the past month, and| is now below 49 per cent of capac- ity; auto plants are shutting down; |building activity is stopping. The | winter will be a frightful one. The boss politicians’ promises are made | with the intent of fooling the work- ers. But the problem of bread and | wage cuts is still here and will grow more acute after the elections. The fight for unemployment insur- | ance, the fight against starvation, must not stop with the closing of |the polls. The bosses want this to happen. | They want the workers to starve, quietly and quit fighting. But the workers will not starve, as they This document, a photostat copy of | Booker 'T. Washington is anchored in which was published with the first Cristobal stream unable to proceed article of this series, stated in part: | according to schedule. They want to| “We regard with much disfavor the | many injustices which are being per- petrated against the interests of the, ignorant, the credulous, the unsus- | . Up to the present time we are pecting. We realize that a time will powerless to give any account of the soon come when these poor despic- | ghostlike disappearance of the able and visionless creatures will money.” awaken only to find themselves vie- | Local Workers Feed Crew tims of adverse and irremediable cir-'| In spite of this, however, Mr. Con- cumstances over which they will have| nor, the president of the local, con- no control. “What Has Become of the Money?”| the crew. Mr. Carter, angered that “We have a membership of 959| this local was spending money to help adults and 300 school children, many | the crew instead of giving it to him, of whom are holding certificates for| denounced Mr. Connor in the Lib- loans in the Black Cross Navigation | erty Hall on 11th Street, and further & Trading Co. Day by day they are|incited the members of this other pouring out their distress to us, ask- local to do us bodily harm. Misled know what has become of the many thousands of dollars which have been collected by the ship's managers. 5 tinued to do all in his power to help | have shown on hundreds of occa-| and many a time we were forced to| sions, without fight. This fight will defer | ns fh ourselves against physical at-/be led by the Communist Party and| the revolutionary unions. Keep up| an DeMena was the only official] the fight! Don’t stand for star-| who displayed any sympathy towards | vation. Vote Communist! Carry on the crew, and she took sick suddenly, the doctors claiming she was poi- | Soned. It was whispered among the | crew that Miss DeMena had been| poisoned for fear that her sympathy for the crew would induce her to tell | the truth of the sabotage and extra- vagance of the high officers. | Leaders Have Big Rolls | One night, driven to desperation, I called at the house where Miss | Davis and Mr. Carter were staying, | and calling aside Miss Davis 7 de- manded some money out of my wages. | She threatened me with the police, | (Continued on Page 3) the struggle after the elections! MacDonald has shown what the unemployed can expect from the “socialists.” MacDonald was liberal with promises about un- employment during his election campaign last year just as the “socialists” in the U. S. are, Un- employment has doubled under the MacDonald regime in one year. Only in the Soviet Union was unemployment abolished. Vote Communist! ” yesterday, in Union qt are. Flaming torches great |siens blazing in the darkness jand the powerful, spontaneous enthusiasm of the masses made it the most impressive of lthe many Union Square dem- | onstrations, Speakers were cheered to the echo | when they called for a big Commu- nist vote as a vote for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill to give every jobless man $25 a week from the funds now accumulated for the next war, and pending that, $25 a week from the $200,000,000 Tammany has laid aside for the bankers. Crowd Keeps Growing. Sam Darcy, as chairman, opened the great meeting shortly after 5 p. m., and speaking continued for an hour and a half from seven stands, with the crowd growing all the time. Jack Johnstone, head of the Trade Union Unity Council and Communist candidate, called for mass violation of injunctions which the New York bosses, particularly in the food, shoe and needle industries get out in every case now to sentence pickets under Paragraph 600. He showed (Continued on Here 3) FOSTER SPEAKS TO 900 JOBLESS Vote to Organize and Carry on Struggle NEW YORK.—About 900 unem- ployed filled Manhattan Lyceum yes- terday at noon at the call of the Un- employed Council and after hearing Communist and jobless leaders voted unanimously to demand the release from prison of Harry Raymond, to demand the unconditional freedom of Nesin, Stone and Lealess, to pro- | test against the brutal police attacks |against the unemployed demonstra- tions at City Hall on Oct. 16 and at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Noy. 1. They passed a resolution calling on all jobless to vote Communist, for the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. William Z. Foster, Communist can- didate for governor, was the main speaker, and urged the necessity of organization into the Party, into the Trade Union Unity League and Un- employed Councils. Other speakers were Sam Nesin, J. Louis Engdahl, Stone, White, Lealess, and Allen of the Oct. 16 committee of the unemployed which was beaten up and arrested when it appeared before the board of estimates. Vote Communist! Join Campaign for “60,000” Starvation of course is dis- turbing to the 9,000,000 job- less, but don’t think the boss class doesn’t have its own tragedies, Raskob say s: “The number of motors are so clogging the highways that motoring on week ends and holidays is no longer the pleasure it should be!” Down with traffic jams and narrow roads. Detouring into ditches is the boss ca- lamity. Sleeping in them is the workers! Smash the dic- tatorship of starvation. Mobilize the Red Army of Daily Worker Builders. Join the campaign for 60,000 readers. Get your unit or- ga:ization into action! Order your own bundle. 60,000 campaign news on page 3.