The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1930, Page 1

Organize in Every Shop For Violation of the Injunctions! Fight Is On For the Right Strike and to Picket! The to Dail. alia hide of e-Co the Communist f unist NOOO orker Party U.S.A. Internaitonal) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 271 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, ’ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1; 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ea ‘Cooperative Action’ Pledged | Against the Workers yoouns republican administration, prior to November 4th—election day—was charged with every conceivable crime by its democratic op- ponents. For vote catching purposes, and to prevent the masses from turning to the Communist Party, democratic spell-binders, headed by the chief of the demagogues, Governor Roosevelt, charged Hoover with in- dividual responsibility for the economic crisis, for unemployment, for wage cuts, for the tariff, for the war danger, for the conditions of the farmers, for everything, in fact, with which the masses were justly dis- satisfied. At the same time they promised that, if elected, they would remedy all these things, that, for example, they would grant immediate relief to the unemployed. Many thousands of workers, naturally, were fooled by these dis- honest attacks and by these lying promises. But the Daily Worker was not. We pointed out many times that republicans, democrats and “so- cialists” were liars and political crooks, that their promises were mean- ingless, that they, collectively and individually, would serve only the bosses. Now our charges are substantiated. After the democratic landslide of last Tuesday, if these fakers had meant what they said, they would now be able to force through a program in the interest of the masses that they fooled.. But they have no such intentions. Now that the election danger is passed the masses can go ‘ hell so far as these political fakers are concerned. Alfred E. Smith, John Davis, James M. Cox, Raskob, Shouse, and other democratic leaders, instead of declaring theit intention of fighting for unemployment insurance, and for other such demands with the open- ing of congress, boldly discard their pre-election attacks on Hoover's administration and declare their intention to cooperate with Hoover in order not to “frighten business.” “Even enlightened political selfishness,” they say, “demands that business should not be frightened.” “Enlightened political selfishness.” Great concern about business! But no concern about the 9,000,000 jobless workers who are suffering and even starving. No concern about the millions working only part time. No concern about the workers subjected to heavy wage slashes. Only concern about business. And this concern about business brings them naturally to their declaration of support for Hoover’s program of high tariffs, and reduced taxes for the rich; wage cuts, more lay-offs, more part-time work and more bitter police attacks for the workers. That is what the democratic declaration means. ‘ ‘The republicans, also, see the significance of the democratic move. After a conference with Hoover, Senator James A. Watson, the republi- can leader of the Senate, declares: “We accept with full faith and credit the pronouncements of the seven democratic leaders. . . . It is gratifying to know that they will not obstruct or embarrass the president in the conduct of the government. . . . It gives assurance that there will be no at- tempt on the part of the democratic party to support disturbing legislation.” No support for “disturbing legislation,” eh! That means no support for unemployment insurance. That means no efforts to stop lynching. That means no efforts to stop wage cuts or Hoover's effort to introduce the “stagger plan.” That means no efforts to stop the war plans against the Soviet Union, Wall Street's penetration into the colonies, and Amer- ica’s frantic preparations for war. It means full support—united support, republican and democratic unity—in the war against the workers, in the bosses’ efforts ot maintain their own profits and wealth while the workers starve, Very well! This will help to disillusion the workers. This will help them to understand the fakery of the democrats. It will cause thousands and tens of thousands of workers who were fooled on November 4th to reject these old capitalist parties—republican, democratic and “socialist” —and join with the Communist Party in a determined fight for ae diate relief and for unemployment insurance. Upward, But Too Slow! 'WO weeks ago a number of New York newspapers, including the Times and the Herald Tribune, raised the price of their Sunday editions from 5 cents to 10 cents. About the same time the papers began to cut both their mechanical and editorial staffs, especially by laying off some of their high-priced feature writers. These measures are due to the steady decrease in circulation and to the decline in advertising which result for these papers from the economic crisis. Workers who are unemployed, who are working only part time at greatly slashed wage rates, who are actually facing privation and starva- tion, naturally buy fewer capitalist newspapers. Likewise the business houses find it useless to spend large sums for advertising in a futile effort to persuade destitute workers to “buy now!” Decreased circula- tion and advertising income is the result, which the capitalists who own these sheets attempt to pass on to their workers by lay-offs and by wage slashes in their plants, and to the workers generally by higher prices for the papers. But the Daily Worker can tell quite a different story. Last October (1929) at the time of the stock market crash the Daily Worker had an average daily circulation of only 16,000. The average circulation of the Daily Worker now (at the end of October, 1930) is in excess of 30,000 copies dsiiy—an increase of over 90 per cent. This shows that, despite the suffering of the masses, they buy the Daily Worker. It shows that the masscr see in the Pally Worker a paper that gives leadership in thei) fight against unemployment, wage cuts, and the offensive of the bosses generally. They turn to the Daily Worker, not only to get the news, but to learn how to fight for unemployment insurance. This is the basis for the big increase in the Daily Worker circula- tion at a time when all the capitalist papers are slipping backward. But, while a 90 per cent gain is a big gain, it is still insufficient. The Daily Worker is published only to serve the needs of a fighting working class. ‘The present need of the masses for organization and struggle also creates a need for a wider circulation for the masses’ fighting paper. It is our aim, by the end of January, to reach a circulation of 60,000. ‘This aim can be easily realized. But it can only be reached by hard work—by work involving every Party organization and every reader of the paper. The drive for 60,000, so far, has advanced too slowly. The Party has not responded; the readers have not dug in with sufficient energy. But the 60,000 must be reached. The fight for the unemploy- ment insurance bill, the fight against wage cuts, the fight against war, the fight for the defense of the Soviet Union—the successful outcome of all of these class battles is dependent on widening the circulation and influence of the paper. Every worker, every Party committee and unit, get on the job! Carry forward the drive until the 60,000 is reached! ay Write to the circulation department for information of how you can Ip. “AUSTRIA GET ~ A SETBAC I Sonielieses ‘se the Left! | Phrases to Fool Workers Will Aid Boss Parties Communists Gain Industrial Centers NEW YORK.—Reports of the Aus- trian elections show a parliamentary defeat for the fascists and the Heim- wehr party, led by Prince von Star- hemberg. Despite the fact that von Starhembergm, who is in the govern- ment, ordered the disarming of the workers, the fascists met with re- verses. The. winners in the election were the social democrats, who were jable to fool the workers with their | left phrases, while aiding the fascists, and the Christian social party, rep- | resenting the big capitalists of Aus- | tria. An International Press Correspond- ence Cable to the Daily Worker states that in the industrial centers the Communist Party made advances in the election. For instance, in Vienna the vote totalled 10,591 as against 7,521 in 1921, In the rural districts the Communist vote was unchanged. As a result of the elections the Social Democrats obtained 72 seats in the parliament; the Christian so- |cial party (a grouping of the big | bourgeoisie) obtained 69; the econ- omic party (a section of the big bank- ers and bourgeoisie representing the “right” fascist elements) obtained 19 |seats, while the outright fascists in the Heimwehr party got 5 seats. It was the threat of von Starhem- berg that if the fascists in the Heim~- wehr did not win the elections they | | would prepare to take power by force. | “The capitalist newspapers refer to | | the results of the election as a “dead- Hock,” but the social democrats can | be countetl on to aid the capitalist | |parties out of any deadlock as did) | the social democrats in Germany who | fully supported the Bruening govern- | | ment. in} | Slaughterhouse, where 10,000,000 men | 20,000,000 more. | young to know more than the pa- FASCISTS IN 'Avmistice Day! But No Peace for the SOCIALISTS Workers! Lies Hide eee War! PUT OVER A ‘Organize Ri Rich t Now! to Fight the Coming Capitalist War! Armistice Day! Twelve years since the curtain fell upon the human were killed in battle and from which, by disease and famine, there perished Workers! Do not forget! Young workers, you who were then too triotic tinsel and music of war that you saw and heard as the soldiers marched away—do you realize what the words mean — “Ten Million Killed in Battle?” If not, talk with the men who were actually in the trenches, who faced the shells that tore these mil- lions of men to ghastly chunks of bleeding flesh, that burned their lungs with poison gas until they strangled to death, that spattered the fields of France with brains and blood and entrails of young men of your class—the working class! Go look upon the pitiful wrecks in the Army hospitals, insane, shell- shocked, faces torn away! Look around you on -the streets, where those who were seized by the Draft Act, politely called “the Universal Service Act,” are begging for bread in the “richest country of the world”! To Slaughter a More Millions } Rows of crosses in Flander’s Field: Capitalist reward to the masses it kills in its robber wars for profits. And for what? For the profits of made to the Allies that caused Am- when German victory seemed likely to endanger those loans! were told you! “To make the world safe for democracy”—and what “de- mocracy” have you today? Unem- ployment for 9,000,000 American starving, while the capitalists, still the capitalist class! For the security | of Morgan's loans of $4,000,000,000 | erica to enter the war at a time! Remember, workers, the lies that} workers who, with their families, are | | living in luxury, pretend to “solve” unemployment with soup kitchens and rotten charity! While wages | are cut for all American workers! While those left at work are speeded to death! And while the real “re- | lief” the capitalists give to the suf- fering workers is the blackjacks, the clubs and tear gas of the govern- | ment watch-dogs of capitalist pro- | fits! | Don’t forget, workers, the lie which elected Woodrow Wilson! “He kept | us out of war”—until he got elected! ‘anitalist War} Organize and Fight the Class War! | Remember that today the same sort of lies are being spread with “d missions,” “naval treaties” — and | so on. Yet today the world stands on the | verge of a new imperialist war! And with weapons compared to which those used in the | | last world war were mere popguns! | Weapons to wipe out whole cities in the passing of an hour! Weapons | which bring the war to every man, | woman and child! Which make the | war a thing of horror for civilians right in their homes, not merely hell | for soldiers in distant trenches! | Workers! All the pretensions of | “peace” and “disarmament” are lies! | Look at the farce at Geneva, where | the “disarmament” commission for- bids the Soviet delegation to even | | speak of disarmament! The capitalist nations are arming feverishly for war! The U. S. gov- ernment, which refuses Unemploy ment Insurance tothe workers, builds $1,000,000,000 more rships and has given back to capitalists in the last 11 years $3,000,000,000 in taxes! Workers, (Continued on Page Three) CLOAKMAKERS TO MEET TO FIGHT PIECE WORK NEW YORK.—The United Front Conference Committee of Cloakmak- | ers calls a mass meeting of all in the trade to fight the attempt of the Schlesinger and Dubinsky clique who are trying to legalize piece work, and to spread piece work to shops that did not have it before. The meet- ing wilktake. up the struggle against bad conditions, speed-up, unemploy- ment and low wages also. The meet- ing will be tomorrow, at 6:30 p. m. in Cooper Union. The committee calling this meeting was elected at a joint conference held some six weeks ago NEW YORK. — Negro workers are | suffering severely because of unem- ployment, many of them dropping |from hunger while looking for jobs. A New York Telegram reporter who | visited the City “Free” Employment Agency here tells of interviewing many Negro unemployed. One Negro woman, whose husband was sick, had been given orders to get out of her home or be thrown out. She was looking for work desperately. NEEDLE JOBLESS ARE ORGANIZING Support Dress Strike; Fight Injunctions NEW YORK.—The needle bosses) have been forced to recognize the mass unemployment, so they provide a “remedy.” Women’s Wear yester- day carried the announcement of the dress manufacturers and jobbers combining to start an unemployment fund. With the announcement goes a nice schedule for taxing the work- ers in their shops according to their wages to provide the fund. | This robbing the already exploited worker to pay himself something, perhaps, when he shall be thrown out of a job will not do, and the Nee- ile Trades Workers’ Industrial Union calls two meetings of jobles to or- ganize for real unemployment insur- ance and to aid the fight for better conditions on the jobs. Today, at 1 p. m., all unemployed who used to work downtown meet in Manhattan Lyceum, These are mostly men’s clothing workers, cap makers, and white goods workers. Jobless Meet Tomorrow. Tomorrow at 1:30 p. m., there will be a meeting of all unemployed nee- dle workers at Bryant Hall to take up and discuss plans for unemploy- jment relief and for the smashing of | the injunctions by which the 12-hour ‘day and other labor displacing schemes are protected. | Tomorrow at 8 p. m. at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St., there will be a meeting of all members of the Nee- dle Workers: Industrial Union who live in Harlem. This meeting is to mobilize all needle workers, of all races and nationalities in Harlem to Negro Unemployed Workers Drop of Hunger on Job Line She couldn’t find any. A Negro worker who had worked as an unskilled worker on subway con- struction told of being out of a job for 11 months. He couldn't get work, | was in debt, hungry. One Negro worker, standing in the washroom, after waiting months for work, dropped to the floor, a victim of starvation. The Telegram reporter was told that this thing happens every day, unemployed workers drop from hunger. How many die of starvation the capitalist papers never | report. This same situation faces | more than 800,000 unemployed in New ATTACKS REDS IN ARMISTICE SPEECH Communists NEW YORK.—Whil the bosses talk “peace” on Armistice Day, they do not overlook the question of prepar- ing for attacks against the workers |in the United States who resist wage | cuts and demand unemployment in- | surance. Not only is capitalism preparing for war against other imperialist na- tions and against the Soviet Union, but is arming for an attack against | revolutionary working-class fighting against capitalism. Ex-embassador to Mexico James R. Sheffield, in an Armistice Day statement made this clear. He said: “Signs are not wanting that the foundations of liberty and self-gov- | ernment are challenged. The Com- munists and the extreme radical are actively at work to that end. If men | are willing to fight on foreign soil to uphold principles of government in which they believe, they should be equally willing to fight at home to up- \hold the same principle.” POSES AS LONGSHOREMAN. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 10.—J. Ham- ilton Lewis, pink-whiskered senator- elect, is described by the daily press York, of whom at least 80,000 to 100,- 000 are Negro workers. as “an aristocrat and honorary mem- ber of the longshoremen’s union.” pases | ‘Calls for War on All) jeconomists announced that. were 117 wage cuts in September, declamation that “in general wage rates have been’ maintained.” a considerable increase in wage cuts in October! Last August there were 63 cuts. Not only that, but in Sep- tember, there were 45 small wage in- creases, in small shops mostly. And in October, there were only 36 in- creases! average earnings showed no change between August and September but the drop between the Septembers of 1929 and 1930 is 9 percent. Wiscon- sin appears the worst hit with a de- cline in 12 months of 20 percent in earnings. Iron and steel showed lower earnings of 15 percent, machinery 12 percent and transportation euipment 14 percent. time work have reduced payrolls in U. S. by 20 percent in one year.) Jobs increased 2 percent between August and September but were 18 What Unemployment, Wage Cuts Mean for Workers’ Children Hoover had just issued from the elegant White House in Washington a proclamation for “a general ‘Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings of life and that means to sustain it...” and among various other things, for “the gains in the prevention of disease and in the pro- tection of childhood.” But the Perrones, crowded in their Brooklyn tenement flat, at 1896 Paci- fis St., had other things to thi about . than wordy proclamations. Charles Perrone, a shoemaker by trade, with a family of eight looking to him for bread, has had no work since June. Five anxious, foot-sore months, spent in a vain search for work. Rose, the oldest daughter, now nineteen, has had no work since Aug- ust. Charlie, Jr. twenty-three, has been pounding the pavements for six months. Mrs. Perrone, forty-five, has been too busy caring for the four younger children Anthony, Florence, Catherine and Mary, too look for work, Anyway, Rose and Charles have made her think it’s a hopeless task. Besides her two older children, Mrs. support the coming dress strike, ‘Hoover Thankful for Thirty Million Starving Children watch out for until yesterday. Now she has only four. For Frank Per- rone, aged two, was found dead in his crib. Dr. Lavanberg of Unity Hospital said the child hes died of malnutrition—which is a rather po- lite term for starvation. Little Frank was starved to death. Anthony, Flor- ence and the others may soon follow. There is no money with which to bury the baby, no money with which to feed the living. Charles Perrone, now forty-seven, has given more than twenty-five years of labor. He has created a mass of wealth for his em- ployers. Now he and his family are actually being starved to death. Yet Hoover tells the Perrones and their brothers they should be thankful for “the blessings of life and the means to sustain it.” Little Frank Perrone is but one case of thousands, yes even millions in the United States today. Even Hoover's committee on “Protection” ot Childhood admits that. There are more than 6 million children in this country, the richest in the world, who are suffering from malnutrition, undernourishment, etc. The actual number is easily four times that num- ber. The majority of the children of the 11 million Negro agricultural and industrial workers of the coal min- ers, textile, steel, automobile and Perrone has had five little ones to other workers are suffering from semi—if not drastic starvation. There prove this. Scrimping, doing without, prosperity. In the#present period of workers’ children is made incredibly more difficult. Those who do not up undersized, because under-nour- ished. Tuberculosis, recognized as/“a is mounting to new heights. Expos- ure of children, during the wide- spread evictions of jobless families are increasing the hazards, This is what capitalist America is doing to the forty-three million child- ren of the working class. There is only one power on earth that can stop this mass murder of childhood, and that is the organized strength of the workers themselves, organization against wage cuts, organization for the unemployment bill insurance and immediate relief. Workers! The bosses starve you and your children, and then ask you to be thankful for it! Don’t starve, fight! Organize into unemployed councils! Write the Daily Worker about it! NEW YORK. — Wage cuts in 136, percent under September 1929. corporations took place ‘in ‘the month | nois reported the greatest 10ss, 22 per-'| of October, Labor Bureau, Inc., finds. | cent under September 1929. When the same body of bourgeois | reported the greatest loss, 22 percent | there | with Massachusetts close behind with | Jobs fell off 26 percent in | there was a general furor, so sharply | the year in transportation equipment, did the figures answer Hoover's loud |25 percent in machinery, 20 percent | But here is, on the same authority, | According to Labor Bureau, Inc.,; (Editor’s Note: Standard Statistics | Co. states that wage cuts and part) are innumerable studies and facts a iet embassy at Paris, meet Frank Perrone’s fate will grow disease of poverty” will increase its grim harvest, and sweated child labor 136 Wage Cuts in October Says Statistical Company There Were 117 in September and 63 in August September Jobs Are 18 P. C. Fewer Than a Year Ago; Conditions Grow Worse Ti- Tilinois 1 percent. in cement, clay and glass, 16 percent in textiles and 12 percent on the railroads. WALSH IS STRONG ‘FOR BESSEDOWSKY |Reads Renegades Book | to Fish Committee WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 10— The Fish Committee, or as it was | officially entitled, the “House of Representatives special Committee to Investigate Communism in America,” has had a nice tour around the {red light district of Aguas Calientes | south of the border, and is now back | at the point it started from, hear- | | ing its first witness, priest Edward Walsh, all over again. During the months that Congress- man Fish and his crew were inter- viewing A.F.L. fakers and chiefs of police, Walsh has heard of Besse- dowsky. A book has been written by that. particular renegade an@& | grafter, once an official in the Sov- and Walsh |has the book. By brilliant detec- being | tive work he found it for sale in a under-fed under-schooling and too| 0ok store, and he read it today to| early forced to work is the lot of the Fish committge. workers’ children in capitalist Amer-| that the Communist International ica even in past periods of so-called | Wants The book says to | movement in U. S. and sends $100,- economic crisis, mass unemployment, | 900 for that purpose. jand drastic wage-cuts, the iot of | “Didn’t Mean A Thing:” Donkeys Listen to the Democratic apologies to big business: “Sorry! Those things we said, that talk about unem- ployment. Just a little swindle to fool the jobless. We're 0.K.” . The boss press says: “There will be no attempt on the part of the Democratic party to support disturbing legisla- tion.” What disturbs ‘ig business is the tripling of the Com- munist vote. 60,000 circula- tion for the Daily Worker will disturb the bosses. Join the Daily Worker campaign. See drive news page 3. and more terrible | prepare for the coming| country, has spent some time in the | the catholic | spread the Communist | WAGESLASH | Metal Workers in Ger- | many Suffer Big rmament conferences,” “peace com- | Wage Cut | Will Become General Red Unions Call for Bigger Strike (Cable by Imprecorr) BERLIN, Nov. 10.—Saturday the | | arbitration committee in the metal strike announced a wage cut all around of three per cent on the 16th |of Oct., to be followed by a further | three per cent cut on the 19th of | January for women and young work~ ers, and a further five per cent cut for adult workers, Thus the old decision is put into effect in a new form, The capital~ ist press here openly declares the cut lis the beginning of a general wage | offensive in all industries throughout the country. Even the orwa leading socialist newspaper, decl: he decision 1s “2 blow against the workers,” omitting, however, to mention that the decision | was impossible without the socialist | treachery. The revolutionary unions are ap= pealing to the workers to refuse to recognize the decision and to call factory meetings to organize 2 | struggle against wage cuts and to prepare a new strike under revolu- tionary leadership. Saturday the police chief, Grzeis- inski, prohibited the Rote F | Communist newspaper, fro: jing for seven days for w |the masses. approved of 3 workers’ action im) belaboring Zoer- | giebel’s responsibility in the May Day | massacres. At heon today the police raided the | | headquarters of the Communist Party at Liebknecht Hotze, COMMUNIST VOTE STILL PILING UP |700 in Pittsburgh Is | Expected; Other Gains NEW YORK.—Though most of the big industrial towns outside of Ohio are still to be heard from, scattering | reports from ‘smaller centers continue to arrive and show great gains in the Communist vote. ” Returns are incomplete in Pitts burgh, but indications are that there will be about 700 as against 128 in |1928. The heaviest Communist vote is in Hazelwood and South Side sec= j tions, where the steel workers live. A general stealing of votes were con- ducted by the capitalist election boards, At one place where it is known for a fact that 5 were cast jenly one was reported. There are 70,000 less voters this year in Pitts- burgh because so many workers |could not pay their poll tax, The latest Pennsylvania report shows 398 votes from Schuylkill county, in the lower anthracite re- gion. This is three times the vote |bere last year, and was given by the | miners without much of a Communist |campaign as all speakers were en< |gaged in the organization of miners, |and were most of the time in jail, Grow In Steel Centers, The Communist vote in Washings ton, Pa., increased from 3 in 1928 to 77 this year. This is a steel and |mining town. In Portgage, the coal mining center | of central Pennsylvania, the vote this year is 83, more than 15 per cent of the total. In 1928 it was 10. Warren country, Pa.,. shows 47 |Communist votes this year, against 9 in 1928. Cumberland county shows 64, as against 13 in 1928, Complete jreturns for Monessen give 116 Com- |munist votes, as against 39 in 1928, Returns from Jeanette and vicinity shows 60 votes for Cush and 112 for Muselin, Communists. Woodlawn Vote. In Woodlawn, scene of the famous Woodlawn case in which the steel workers Muselin, Reseter and Zima | were sent up for 5 years for belong= ing to the Communist Party, there were 23 votes in four wards, with 5 wards still unreported. The town is now called aliqquipa. In New Jersey, in eleven out of 31 counties, there are 1,300 Communist votes recorded. Two years ago the whole state gave 1,255. In Essex county there were 338 votes this year, and 229 in 1928. Mercer county gives 293 and had 73 in 1928, Passaic county gives 280 Communist votes this year, and had 236 in 1928, Salem shows 14 votes. Hunterdon county gives 15 votes, and had 12 in 1928, »