The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1930, Page 1

| | j | | e In capitalist America 9,000,000 jobless workers and their families fgce starvation and cold this winter. In the Soviet Union, where the workers rule, there is no unemployment! Hail the 13th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution! Dail Central Orga: (Section of * the-Co the Communist 4 NO Internaitonal) orker unist Party U.S.A. WORKERS — OF THE WORLD, UNITE! at New Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 CITY EDITION ~ Price 3 Cents Vol. VII. No. 266 EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1930 Carry On the Fight! ITHOUT yet knowing the final returns of yesterday’s elections, we can already state with assu’ance that nothing has been changed fun- damentally. Regardless of the number of seats won in Congress or in the various state legislatures by republicans, democrats or “socialists” there will be no basic change in the methods of the capitalists in trying to “liquidate” the present economic crisis. All of these parties are for pulling the capitalists out of their present difficulties by forcing the workers to pay, and pay, AND PAY. In the shops and mines the bosses will continue to lay off men, slash wages and increase the speed-up. In fact, now that the elections are out of the way, the bosses will be more ruthless than ever before. Unemploy- ment will increase; part-time work will increase. By heavy wage cuts and Hoover's “stagger plan” (so far as it is applied) the employed workers will be brought down to the hunger level. The terrific speed-up will greatly increase the number of injuries, of accidental deaths and of workers suffering from occupational diseases. All these things will greatly increase the suffering and misery of the masses. It will further arouse their fighting spirit. In the legislative halls and through the executive departments of the city, state and national governments everything possible will be done to expedite this offensive of the bosses. Taxes will be lowered for the rich and increased for the poor. Lucrative bond issues will be made to the bankers. The foreign policy will be such as will aid the big bankers and manufacturers in their struggle for foreign markets. Armaments will be increased to seize and hold these markets by force. Special legislation will be introduced to curb the activities of the Communist Party. and all other militant working class organizations. Strikes and demonstrations of workers will be met by the iron fist of the bosses’ state power. All the promises that have been made by the “socialist,” democratic and republican politicians will soon be forgotten now that the elections are over. They have now become the instruments, the willing tools, of the basses in their attacks on the workers. The Communist Party, however, is still leading the fight of the workers. The fight will go on. There will not be a let-up even for a moment. We take this opportunity, on the morning after the elections, to call upon the workers—all workers—to continue to fight for their demands, to continue to resist the attacks of the bosses. Do not accept wage cuts! Do not accept charity! Do not tolerate lynching and police terror! Organize in the Trade Union Unity League Join the Unemployed Councils! Support the St. Louis convention of the A. N. L. C.! Rally to the defense of the Soviet Union on its 13th Anniversary November ith! Strengthen and broaden the fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party! Rally under the banner of the Communist Party to expose the lying promises of the old party fakers and the “socialists.” Join in the fight against the bosses and for the workers’ demands. Support the Convention of the American Negro Labor Congress! ‘VERY worker should give full and enthusiastic support to the final work of preparation for the national convention of the American Negro Labor Congress to be held November 15 and 16 at St. Louis, Missouri. With the help of the revolutionary Negro and white workers and farmers, this convention must be made the mobilization point for a joint struggle of the white and Negro masses against the special persecutions and oppression directed against the Negro workers and farmers by the white ruling class of this country. It must serve to mobilize the toiJing masses of both races for the relentless prosecution of the struggle for=full political and social equal- ity for the’ Negro masses, for the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities in the Black Belt--the right tohave their own form of government, the right to separate from the United States government if th y so desire. g is.convention must rally the mostyatiiitant forces of the working class\ie the destruction of all racial and national barriers and prejudices which still divide large numbers of the exploited classes to the advantage of the exploiters. The workers can make this convention the basis of a tremendous mass movement against lynching and Negro oppression by raising the question in their organizations and shop committees of sending delegates to St. Louis and of giving financial support to the convention organizing com- mittee of the American Negro Labor Congress at 799 Broadway, Room 338, New York City. The expenses of the convention will be heavy and in- dividual contributions will also help. Support the convention of the American Negro Labor Congress! Support the struggle against lynching and all forms of Negro oppression! On to a mass movement of Negro and white workers for a militant strug- gle against the entire capitalist system. New Lies About the Soviet S the 13th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution nears, one notes the desperation of the capitalist world, torn with crisis and rife with misery for the workers, to slander the Soviet Union as a propaganda in- troduction to war. \ Coolidge, a few days before the elections, tried to help the republicans by saying Hoover wasn’t to blame for hard times, but that the “chaos in Russia” is what's the matter. Of course there is, in the United States, perfect “order”—only 9,000,000 unemployed workers are starving to death. Recognizing also that things are so hopeless for the workers here, the capitalists have been lying outrageously to “prove” that the workers in the Soviet Union are “worse off.” In an effort to keep American workers from learning from and following the example of the Russian workers, the capitalist press and politicians must misrepresent the conditions of the Russian workers. Tales are told of the “shortage of goods’—in a way to distort a shortage into appearing as if there were no goods being manufactured. For example, the capitalist press talks about a “shortage of shoes” as though. everybody in the Soviet Union is going barefoot. Yet the fact is that, compared to pre-revolutionary years, when there were only 55,000,000 pairs of shoes sold each year and most peasants, par- ticularly peasant women, wore rags or bark shoes if they wore any, and millions never owned a pair of leather shoes in their lives—compared to this pre-revolutionary figure, we repeat—the. state-owned shoe industry alone, not counting small producers, manufactured 97,000,000 pairs of shoes last year. And still there is a “shoe famine.” This shows that the population is consuming twice the number ot shoes as before the revolution. And this is so, because the revolution has for the first time given the masses a higher income and they are demanding more goods. ¥ the first time in.history the Russian peas- ant is “putting shoes on his feet.” For ‘the first time the peasant has money to buy such trifles as cigarettes—and so there is a “cigarette shortage,” though Soviet factories are speeding day and night to keep up with the growing demand. ‘ City workers of the Soviet Unjon, who consumed 86 pounds of meat each on the average in 1924, increased their meat diet to an average of 106 pounds in 1929, Yet their increased wages gives them money to de- mand still more. So there is a “meat shortage.” In short, the Soviet workers and peasants are demanding twice as much goods as Soviet industry can produce, though it is producing more than ever before, and has wiped out unemployment with thousands of new factories bidding for every available worker. How different than under capitalism! But the point of all this is that most of what the Soviet produces, has an eager market right at home, and all the lies about “Soviet dump- ing” are lies to lay the blame for capitalist crisis on the Soviet, as a forerunner to war on the Workers’ Soviet. ne Hail 13th Anniversary of Bolshevik _ Revolution! Defend Soviet Union! | Workers Are Building New Socialist Society, Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A. To All Workers: | November 7th marks the close of | thirteen years of working class gov- jernment on the territory of the \former Tsarist Empire, one-sixth of the surface of the earth. For 13 |years the workers’ government has |mot only emerged victorious from a | World of enemies, within and without, j}but is now successfully building a |new socialist society, which in the Five-Year Plan is demonstrating & - Se such tremendous growth and energy |as the world has never before wit- | nessed. : | | For the workers in the United | | States, of whom more than 9,000,000 | One of the former palaces of the to house parasites:. a workers health resort in the Soviet Union. republic are turned over to more useful purposes for the workers than | Czarist exploiters in the Crimea now Palaces in the workers are out of work, with all sources of | | income cut off, forced to rely for the j in the United States under capital- means of life upon the disgraceful ism. 'and degtading “charity” and bread- | ‘That lesson is, that only when the | lines of the capitalists, while those working class organizes its class still at work are having their wages | forces, unseats the capitalist class slashed unmercifully and being | from state. power, itself takes over speeded-up at the machines—for the | the powers of government, confis- workers of the United States, there | cates the banks, industry, and the |is a great lesson to be learned from | land, and reorganizes society upon a |contemplating the mighty rise of | new basis—only then can the prob- \ production (by 30 per cent) and liv- | lems of unemployment, of class op- deadly fear, at the tremendous achievements of the Soviet Union. They fear that its example will show the millions of starving workers all over the world the road to their own | Therefore, the capit- | emancipation. alists are desperately planning a new war against the Soviet Union, ready to spill new rivers of workers, blood, and throw more millions into star- vation, if only they can halt the suc- | {through their enormous press, through the notorious Fish Commit- tee, through all their organizations, | with the help of the socialist party | and the A. F, of L., are trying to| befuddle the minds of the workers and farmers with slanderous lies about “Soviet dumping” as the cause of the breakdown of capitalist pro- duction. the obvious facts, that the Soviet Union buys much more in the United | States than she sells, that Soviet orders for American goods are keep- ing thousands of workers employed at a moment when trade with the rest of the world is falling at a catas- trophic rate. If the capitalists break off trade with the Soviet Union, this will throw new thousands of workers on the street, will deepen the econ- omic crisis, will mean more starva- tion for American workers. | Workers, learn the lessons of No- vember 7th! Learn from the Soviet Union how to abolish unemployment, interests of the masses of workers | and farmers! Unite with the Com- munist Party, the Party of Revolu- | tion, the Party of Lenin! Fight against the oppression and exploita- | | the Communist Campaign Headquar- | ters yesterday told of numerous di: learn how to rebuild society in the | CTiminations PARTIAL RETURNS IN _ NEW YORK SHOW BIG INCREASE OF RED VOTE Enlarged Basis for Struggle to Win Jobless In- surance, Shorter Hours and More Wages Carry on Struggle TERROR TRICKERY AGAINST OILERS AT VOTING POLLS NEW YORK. — Reports reaching against revolutionary workers at the polling places, of ir- regularities in the voting machines and other means employed by the capitalist parties to deprive the Com- munist Party of a considerable num- |tion of the capitalist class, against | ber of votes. wage cuts and speed-up, for unem- | insurance! Fight against the threat- ening war danger! Demand the rec- ognition of the Soviet Union, and the broad extension of trade relations! Defend the Soviet Union, the work- In the 15th election district, 116 W. ployment relief and unemployment | 128th St., a Negro voter, H. Snite, discovered that somebody else had voted for him already. At the first attempt to protest he was told to leave the place. By the time the Communist watchers could bring |under a workers’ government, con+ jtrasted with the decay of production | (by 25 per cent) and mass starvation | lions, be solved. Today the capitalists of the world are panic-stricken, are filled with ing conditions in the Soviet Union | pression, of starvation for the mil- cessful building of socialism in the | Soviet Union. | Workers, be on your guard! The capitalists of the United States, ers’ fatherland, and its victorious so- |down a lawyer it was already too | cialist construction! |late for voting. _ | Central Committee, Communist An unemployed worker, Oscar Her- Party of U. S. A. derez, American born, registered at the 18th election district of the 17th MEET TOMORROW Conference to Plan Great Dress Strike NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union calls upon | the dressmakers in open shops, com- ‘pany union (1. L. G. W. U.) shops {and Industrial Union shops to send ‘delegates to this conference. This important conference will re- view the preparations already make for the dress strike and will make plans for further mobilization of all dressmakers for a successful struggle for the 7 hour, 5 day week, for week work, for unemployment insurance and the other strike demands. The N. T. W. I. U. says: “Comrades: If you are still work- ing, set up a shop committee and elect. delegates, three delegates for | every shop committee. If you are not | working, come to the special meeting |of unemployed dressmakers on. to- | morrow, 2 p. m. at 131 -West28 Street. |At this meeting the unemployed dressmakers will elect delegates to the conference and consider plans for the mobilizing of the unemployed dressmakers for the strike. “Tf you do not succeed until the jconference to set up shop commit- | tees, we call upon you an individual, | class conscious dressmakers, as dress- | makers who recognize the necessity | of a strike, to attend this conference, We call upon every delegate to the | Shop Delegate Council to come to | the conferences representatives of the Industrial Union shops. Get your organization be- hind the Daily Worker Drive for 60,000! | Want to “Solve” Crisis a utting Workers | ‘Living Stafidard . NEW YORK.—Now that the elec- are over the bosses are prepar- ing to continue in a more drastic manner ‘the wage cutting campaign that has been going on for over a | year. Before elections the Daily Ns pointed out the repeated wage cuts, and published the fact that the smashing attack the workers standard of living would be inten- sified after elections. The Communist Party in its elec- | tion campaign made the fight against wage cuts one of the major issues. Now more thah ever must the fight (be taken up against wage cuts. Yes- terday the workers in the Inland DRESS MAKERS ‘St. Louis Convention to | Mobilize Fight on Lynching Amer. Negro Labor Congress,Organizers in Whirlwind Drive as NEW YORK.—Nov. 4.—The Amer- Chattanooga, Tenn., will be the last | | ean Negro Labor Congress is wind- jing up its campaign to build the na- | tional convention which opens No- vember 15 and 16 at St. Louis. | The all-southern anti-lynching con- |ference to be held November. 9 at ‘TO HIT REIGN OF T’RROR This Saturday Before Polish Consulate NEW YORK.—The League Against Polish Fascism has issued a call for a mass demonstration before the Polish Consulate, East 67th Street, between Park and Third Avenues, Saturday afternoon, November 8 at 1.3 Oo’clock. All workers are urged to support this demonstration against the out- |rages of the Fascist government of Poland, against its military punitive expeditions in Western Ukraniane, | and for the release of the militant | workers Kagan, Niebiaski and Sosno- wiec, who were sentenced to death in | Biala Podlaska, and for the release of jall political prisoners, numbering over 10,000 in Poland. Workers! Demonstrate against the new war on the Soviet-Union which the fascist government of Pilsudski is big imperialist powers, Demonstrate POLISH Opening Date Nears of a large number of such confer- ences held throughout the country to mobilize the working class~ for the fight against lynching and Negro oppression and for support of the na- tional convention of the A. N. L. C. at which the fight against lynching will be further intensified and pre- pared on a national mass basis. Several members of the Conven- tion ‘Organizing Committee have been sent into the field to rally the masses for the convention. Richard |B. Moore has already started out on a national tour. F. E. A. Wallis, southern organizer of the ANLC, is |touring the most important cities of the South. He is to be assisted by a local organizer in Atlanta. Ralph Hainsborough will be the local St Louis correspondent and organizer. All locals of the Congress are working feverishly in preparation for the convention. A special effort is being made to win the Negro organizations and | other working class bodies, unions, etc., for support of the convention and its, objective of building a mass movement for militant struggle for Negro rights. All Negro and white workers are urged to support the convention by raising in their ‘organizations and | shop committees the question of dele- |gates and financial support for the |convention. Support the A.N.L.C, | convention! t } against Wall Street imperialism ;of Poland! assembly district, Harlem. Three days previous to the election he was |evicted from his house. Because of | PAINTERS ORGANIZING that he was not allowed to vote. An | T0 FIGHT CONDITIONS | xxemptovea voter is a dangerous voter for capitalism. No Reason Given | NEW YORK. — Painters who now | work for $6 even at new work and at the height of the season’ often find there is no work at all are also suffering from many other abuses. Bosses are beginning to demand that painters bring their own tools, ‘FOOD WOP"ERS.MASS would bring a car he would get a/‘-sanized and unorganized. employ- bit of work (most likely to deliver! eq or unemployed, are called to a the boss’ materials to the job). | mass meeting tonight at 8 p. m. in There is an alteration painters’| Bryant Hall. This is a mass mobil- group in the Trade Union Unity | ization meeting to fight the injunc- League which needs to be strength-| tions, to organize for better condi- ened, for a real fight for the work- | tions, and to hear the delegates sent ers. It is calling a series of paint-| by the food workers to the Fifth ing place at 114 W. 137th St., that (Continued on Page 2) ‘ers’ mass meetings, the first one to) World Congress of the Red Interna- | The dele- | be held ia McKinley Square Gard- | tional of Labor Unions. -s, Pronx, Friday, Noy. 14, 25,8 p.| gates reporting will be Sam All “- are urged to come.! men and Rose Kaplan. Seiss- m. Smash-Injunctions-Committee | to Organize Mass Violations Great Demonstration at Zelgreen Cafeteria | Tomorrow; Fight For Right to Strike NEW YORK.—The entire militant } The bosses of New York, with the working class of New York is being | 2Ctive aid of the A. F. L., now seek rallied against the injunctions; no| to smother in injunctions every longer a food workers’ fight. A series | Strike, big or little, which is not a of mass violations of the injunction | fake strike like those of the A. F. L. |obtained by the Zelgreen cafeteria | The Trade Union Unity Council re- jand its A. F. L. allies has been con- | cently called mass meetings and a | ducted for a week, with hundreds of | conference with representatives from |and needle workers and unemployed. |™any shops and workers’ organiza- The next step is now being taken, for | tions, at which the program of mass workers participating, mostly food | Violation was adopted, and the T. U. Preparing at the bidding of the | which finance the fascist government | mass violation of a much more mili- | U- L. empowered to build up the ma- chinery to lead it. Yesterday, in accordance with these |tant by much large numbers. ofthe Holeprooff and Phoenix “Iosiery companies were given a 14.5 per cent wage cut. orkers in the Berkshire Knitting mills were given a wage cut 2C to 40 per cent near the first of the year. Millions of workers will be given wage cuts. They Know Speaking for ‘the leading bosses, the latest issue of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle (Nov. 1) says | that the bosses consider the present Wwage-scale as not low enough, and as an “obstacle” to the liquidation of the crisis. They say more wage cuts must be made immediately so the bosses’ profits can be maintained. A Great “Obstacle” “At the moment,” writes this of 30 per ent following a cut from | sheet, “the greatest obstacle in the way og business recovery is the re- Ientless opposition manifested to wage concessions on the part of Steel Co. in Chicago were given a 5 per cent wage cut. Right on election day 800 knitters & Bosses anaunce Wage Cut Drive Will Be _Speeded Up Now That Elections Are Over labor, even where imperatively called for by the requirements of the situation.” “Wage concessions,” means “wage | cuts” in plain English. Since the boses believe that the present level of wage (low as it is for those fortunate ,enough to have jobs left) is in the way of a “solution” of the crisis they propose a ‘Smashing attack against the wages of all workers. Now elec- tions are over and all workers must | prefer to organize and strike against jit. The Drive Is On The admission was made several days ago a big driv€ against wages would come right after election. Dr. Virgil Jordan, economist of the -Mc- Graw-Hill Publishing Co., in a speech on wage cuts, made before the Na- tional Electric Manufacturers’ Ass'n in New York several weeks ago. “Those who are leading it (wage cut. campaign) will probably defer jee oe the Trade Union Unity | Council met at 16 West 21st St., and |with special delegates present from jall militant unions and industrial leagues, reviewed the situation The council found the demonstra- tions must in future be better pre- pared and better organized, as well as |more militantly resisting the attacks made upon them. The council decided on a series of |real mass demonstrations, to begin Increase Organize and| Strike Struggle Against Slashes teria, 257 West 34th St. tomorrow at noon. their outright attempts to liquidate | To lead the mass violations, to | labor and lower American stand- | make preparations and insure a con- | ards of living till after November | tinued unrelenting struggle until in- |. elections,” junctions against picketing come to Now the elections are over. The | ar end, the council elected a “Smash- | big bosses says the present wage |The Injunctions Committee” com- levels are in the way. ‘They must | posed of delegate from the Needle, \smash them down, They promised Marine, Office Workers, to do it after elections, | aroused against this attack on their |also delegate from the Council of standard of-living.- Sharp battles are Working Class Housewives, the Coun- coming. Immediate organization is |cils of the Unemployed and the In- necessary. The fascist leaders of the |tenational Labo Defense. A F, of L. will redouble their iraitor- ous role. The Trade Union Unity The “Smash-The-Injunctions Com- George Legree was told at the poll- | with one in front of Zelgreen cafe- | Food, Shoe, | Laundry and Meeal Workers indus- | The entire workingclass must be | trial unions and leagues. On it are | These stupid lies, ignore| Communists Call for Intensive Organization to Against Capitalism NEW YORK.—Reports on the elece tions received up to press time al- ready show conclusively a consider able increase in the Communist vote as compared to all previous elections. In many precincts the increase was | as great as 100 per cent. At least a general increase of 50 per cent over ! the general 1928 vote appears prob- | abie, at this writing. Red watchers at the polling places, covering only a fraction of the precincts, reported at about 10 p. m. yesterday 4,757 Com- munist votes. Base Grows. This increase shows that the Come munist Party will have a much wider base for carrying on its struggle-to win unemployment insurance, for im- mediate unemployment relief, to smash the injunctions, to win shorter hours and more wages in the shops, and to organize the workers for the overthrow of capitalism. Fear to Count Red Votes. The compilation carried out through the police department simply fails to take notice of the Commu- nist vote. The capitalist news ser- vices therefore, based on this, do not show Communist returns. Vote Grows. Red watchers, however, report in many voting places two or three times the vote of last year, in spite of the most outrageous stealing of votes, terror against worker voters, refusal in many cases to allow Red | Watchers to stay, tampering with the machines so they: would not ‘record, | opposition yotes, etc. } At 9 p. m. last night the vote of capitalist parties, 3,889 districts out of 8398 the total in the state was: Roosevelt (democrat) 998,009; Tuttle (republican) 528,250; Carroll (the dry split from the republicans 32,269; Waldman (socialist) 35,421. No reports on Communist vote had at that time been received from any place outside of New York City. WESTERN ELEC. SECRETLY FIRING | Let 200 Go at a Time; , Cut Wages $3 a Week NEW YORK.—The big Western Electric Co. shops at East Houston and Hudson Sts., have been secretly reducing their forces by 200 men at a time for the last five weeks. Last week the men were called to a meeting and told the company was suffering from the depression and had to fire men from time to time, and also had to do $40,000 worth of painting and renovating on the building, and therefore the men must take a cut of $3 a week. They didn’t even hire painters for this job, but make the electricians and engineers do the painting. They started with $19.95 a week, and now pdy $16.95. In addition, the men are forced to take Tuesdays off instead of Saturdays, as they work only half days on Saturday. The company is making a drive to cut wages still more by forcing the men to take part of their pay in stock. They lose the stock when they are fired or otherwise can’t pay up the remainder of the amount due. Follow Elections with60,000 Drive Another one of those en- forced voluntary wage-cits is revealed with word from the Inland Steel Co. of Chicago that its workers have eagerly accepted a 5 per cent slash in rates. | This is the boss’ plan to steal from those on the job to help those off and help | themselves by keeping their millions of loot salted away, Follow the Election Cam- paign with a mass offensive on the Daily .Worker .60,000 circulation front. Utilize the | thouands of contacts made | during the Election campaign to build mass circulation for | League is leading the struggle against wage cuts. Organize shop commit- tees. Join the T. U. U. L. Organized and Strike against Wage Cuts! ¢ mittee will immediately begin a cam- | paign of mass meetings, distibution | of leaflets, and active oganization to | make the demonstatiorn po mi the Daily Worker. Get units, organizations into action. 1 cent a copy. See full cir- and decisive, culation tables on Page 3. a