The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1930, Page 1

Build the Organize and Strike Fund of the Trade Union Unity League! All Profits From Dance Tonight at Manhattan Lyceum Go For This Purpose Dail Central Orga a sh / e-Co mm orker unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! _o-- Entered Vol. VII. No. 273 as second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. ¥.. under the uct of March 3, 1879 NOVE : NEW YORK, FRIDAY. Tammany’s “Sweet Charity”! 'AMMANY’S whole police force, numbering, we don't Know how many thousands, after what they lyingly claimed was a “house-to-house canvass” of New York City’s five boroughs, succeeded in finding only | 32,210 “needy families.” Rybici, the head of the City’s Free Employment Bureau, however, was forced to acknowledge that the number of unemployed in the city was not less than 700,000 and most probably 800,000. This clearly brands Tammany’s “census” as a bigger fake even than that of Hoover's. Nevertheless Mayor Walker’s unemployment “relief program” is based on the “statistics” gathered by these cops, too dumb for anything except clubbing unemployed workers. Yesterday, after a month or more of empty promises, they entrusted these same cops with the job of delivering boxes of food to “13,428 needy families.” Knowing these cops for the petty highwaymen that they are— thugs well trained to extort graft from everyone on their beat, bootleggers, drug adicts, peddlers and even from girls forced to sell themselves to avoid starvation—we can see about two-thirds of these boxes going, not to the unemployed, but to increase the rations for some cops’ family. .... But be that as it may! Even more important is the content of the boxes and the “relief” they will provide to those families (including the cops) who get them. The following is a week's ration for a family of four. Get that straight:—a week’s ration for a family of four! Twenty pounds of potatoes Two pounds of onions One-half pound of coffee Six eggs One loaf of bread. No meat! No butter! No vegetables (unless you count potatoes and onions)! Bread enough for one meal. Eggs (one each) for a meal and a half. Coffee, onions and potatoes as long as they last. Then a long fast until the spying Tammany thug makes another visit (if he does?). This, they say, is a week’s ration for a family of four! And the last straw is that even this hypocritical charity is extorted from the city employes. They are being blackjacked into supplying the funds in order to cover up Tammany’s refusal to make funds available in the city budget for the relief of the city’s 300,000 unemployed. ‘This fakery is an insult to the intelligence of every worker. They seem to think they are dealing with men possessing the brains of a louse. But they are due for a rude awakening. The workers will never stand for this. Even those who were fooled by their shameful promises on November 4 will see through their criminal lying now. The masses will not ace2pt these starvation boxes. They will fight! They will force these grafting politicians and their capitalist masters to grant unemploy- ment insurance. Reject this miserable charity! Forward with the fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill! Forward with the million-or-more-signature drive! Demand Jobless Insurance from Congress ap laiiog ROBINSON, the’ democratic leader in the upper house, might | appear to be holding up the unity agreement between the republicans and democrats through his poorly-timed “hunting trip.” In reality his “hunting trip” is being used as a “stall” to give the democratic leaders time to whip certain elements, such as Carter Glass, into line. Not that Glass has any basic objections to a common program; he is for such a | program, but he does not, want to have it put through in such a way as | to lessen the opportunity of the democrats to again exploit demagogically a seeming opposition to Hoover. ‘These maneuvers for position between the two old parties will go on | until Congress opens. While both of them are equally Jesirous of helping | the bosses through the crisis without loss of wealth or income, and there- fore at the expense of the workers, they will each try to gain political advantage for themselves. Hoover's effort to secure a definite statement from Robinson on the program to be submitted to Congress is one of these maneuvers. The statement of Glass, raising some doubts as to the soundness of the earlier statement of the democratic leaders, is another. Robinson's “hunting trip,” which will continue until he gets instructions from Smith, Raskob, Shouse, Cox, etc., is still a third. But in the end republicans and democrats will have a common program against the workers. That much is certain! In the main Hoover's proposals will be adopted. Hie proposes that | the December term of Congress be confined exclusively to the adoption of “the annual appropriation bills for the fiscal year 1932 and measures Jooking to the relief of unemployment’—according to press reports. This might appear to be quite a satisfactory basis for agreement to many un- employed workers. But what does it actually mean? First, the appropriation bills. Would there be any possibility of the democrats, under any circumstances, refusing to approve’ the bills? Cer- tainly not! Then why is this an issue? Only because these so-called appropriation bills contain not only the funds for the operation of the government, but also the graft and political rewards to the Congress- men and their local political machines. The close division in the House and Senate makes the division of the spoils a delicate task, especially because this division will influence the 1932 elections. The democrats, to get their full share, might be inclined, therefore, to do a little log rolling. To prevent this Hoover would prefer agreement in advance. Second, the unemployment issue. Neither republicans or democrats have any real proposals for relief. But both sides know that in order to get votes in 1932 they must continue to fool the masses, if possible. Hoover, it appears, will propose public works, particularly road building and Mississippi River flood control. The democrats, it appears, will stand by Senator Wagner's proposal for labor exchanges, an unemploy~ ment census, and “regulated” public works. But they will easily get together. Needless to say, none of these proposals, even when taken together with the various charity schemes, will relieve the suffering of the unem- ployed. And even more so will they fall short of the republican and demo- cratic promises to “solve” unemployment. The only real role which these proposals will play in the unemployment situation is that they may help to continue some of the illusions still widely held by the workers that maybe these fakers will do something. ‘These illusions can be broken down only by presenting squarely before the coming sessions of Congress the demand of the workers for immediate unemployment insurance. If left alone, they can succeed in befuddling thousands of workers. But if a strong workers’ delegation, carrying with them thousands and even millions of signatures:of workers who demand unemployment insurance, goes to Washington, and there militantly pre- sents the workers’ demands, the shyster politicians will either be forced to adopt the Unemployment Insurance Bill or stand exposed before additional thousands of workers as liars and fakers. All efforts must now be made to increase the drive for signatures and to prepare the ground for the election of members of the workers’ delegation in all the larger cities. Workers desirous of getting informa- tion or petitions should write to Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of the Provisional National Campaign Committee for Unemployed Insurance, 2 West 14th St., Room 214, New York City. MARTIAL LAW IN PERU; MBER 14, 1930 Price 3 Cents = = ——=s Organize in Los Angeles to CALL GENERAL STRIKE; 14 STRIKERS SHOT DEAD 1,500 Miners Defeat Cops Who Act for Wall Street Guggenheim Copper Trust Cerro Fascist Government Orders Dissolution of Unions; Workers Are Militant NEED FUNDS FOR T.U.U.C. NEW YORK.—Yesterday’s demon- Council, against the injunction now being used by the Zelgreen Cafeteria, ing the struggles initiated and catried on by the Trade Union Unity Council and its affiliated organizations. The Organize and Strike Fund created by the Trade Union Unity League in preparation for just such struggles as these, should be supported by all class-conscious workers. An immediate opportunity to give such support, is to come and bring your fellow workers to the dance and entertainment to be given tonight, by the Trade Union Unity Council, in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. All proceeds of the dance will go to the Organize and Strike Fund. Show your solidarity by making this affair a success. Tickets are only 50 cents and can be gotten at the Workers Book Shop, 50 EB. 18th St., T.U.U.C., 16 West 2ist St., and at the Manhattan Lyceum, after 6 p. m. tonight. See that your workers’ organiza- tion enters the fight for unemploy- ment insurance! STRIKE CAMPAIGN Run Dance Tonight for stration led by the Trade Union Unity again points to the need of support- | BULLETIN Latest reports from Lima by the Associated Press declare that Com- munists led the struggle against the police in Cerro de Pasco, when the police killed 14 miners. The occasion of the miners demonstra- tion was the calling of a mine union congress to plan a strike against wage cuts and for better conditions. c Nee are laborers dangerously.” This action was taken following a clash between police and 1,500 top- per miners in the Adean mountains who were on strike for higher wages A group of police attempted to dis- perse a workers’ demonstration at La Oroya Fifteen workers were shot, but the police were finally driven away. Two Americans, who took sides with the police and fired at the workers, were killed by the strikers. The num- ber of wounded is estimated at 25. The Fascist Cerro government im- mediately ordered a detachment of troops to Cerro de Paso, the copper mining, center, to protect the inter- ests of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, a Wall Street Guggen- heim interest. At the same time a strike took place ‘ (Continued on Page Three) Johnson Asks Workers to Take 20 P. C. Cut “Like Gentlemen” BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., Nov. 12— The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Co. is cutting wages right and left, to keep its profits high, but is trying at the Endicott-Johnson Sho NEW YORK, Nov. 13—Martial| Louise Strong, just returning from | Pata s jJaw has been declared in Peru. A| the Soviet Union, managing editor of | y Et 33 ‘twenty-four hour general strike has| the first English newspaper printed tathe7 iA been called by the General Federa-| in the U.S.S.R., “The Moscow News— | Hoek ' tion of Workmen. According to As-|2 Day Weekly!” Dr. E. Reed Mitchell, A sociated Press and United Press dis-|Wh0 has recently returned from the| {¥f, patches from Lima, Peru, President | S0viet Union, and Moissaye J. Olgin, | Sanchez Cerro has ordered the dis-| @ditor of the Freiheit, will also speak. \ solution of all trade unions because | The Program includes new pictures of | | “foreign elements were | Russian life, and other features./ pounds. Now they receive seventy- influencing | Supbort 2,000 Farm Sirikers Bakersfield Cotton Pickers Are Fighting Fifty’ Per Cent Wage Cut and Child Slavery; | Strikers Need Relief | (CELEBRATE 5-YR. | PLAN ADVANCE | Anna Louise Strong to | Speak Nov. 20 NEW YORK.—To celebrate the| family the bare necessities of life. | tremendous advance of socialist con-| Rotten conditions existing already | |struction under the Five-Year Plan,| have been intensified by a wage-cut |and 13 years of the Soviet Union, the| of 50 per cent. Friends of the Soviet Union has ar-|jast year ranged a conference and celebration 5 for Thursday, November 20, at 8 p.| }m., to be held at the Irving Plaza, | 15th St. and Irving Place. | The speakers will include: Anna | LOS’ ANGELES, Nov. 12.—Workers of Los Angeles have organibed to upport the strike of 2,000 cotton | |pickers around Bakersfield, Califor- | | nia, who are striking against one of ee most drastic-wage cuts felt yet in that district. Miserable conditions exist on the | {arms and in the homes near Bakers- | éeld. Children work alongside their The cotton pickers | received $1.50 per 100] | Come on, 5 ORGANIZE AND STRIKE Jag ansT WAGE Cuts | | 5 Meedesay, Tickets are 35 cents. | five cents per 100 pounds. Since it | Organizations are requested .to or-/is not possible, to pick more than jder their tic’.ts immediately. The} about 100 pounds of cotton per day, F.S.U. will deliver any quantity of/ the workers can earn no more than | tickets to the next meeting of the} 75 cents per day. | respective organizations. A huge mass | * ; November 9 by the T.U.U.L. and) | NEW YORK.—AIl working class or- | W-LR. to discuss with the workers of | ganizations are urged to send dele- | Los Angeles, who are also faced with gates to a mass protest conference | SPeed-up, wage-cuts, long hours, | called by the Friends of the Soviet ;™eans of supporting and winning the | | Union against the huge war plot by | Strike of the cotton-pickers of Bak- | the imperialists and counter-revolu- | €Tsfield. The need for relief was) tionaries against the U.S.S.R. The | Stressed : \conference will be held at 6 p. m.,| The workers responded enthusias- | | Thursday, November 20, at Irving tically and a campaign was organized. | | Plaza, 1sth St. and Irving Pl The W.LR. appeals to all workers to meeting was held | * . emergency | patrol wagons had dashed up, and | WILD BATTLE WHEN COPS ATTACK MASS VIOLATERS OF ZELGREEN INJUNCTION Hundreds of Pieckets, Thousands of Spectators Block Street; Besiege Scab Cafeteria for | Hour and a Half; Greet Militancy 36 Arrested; Held to Trial on Paragraph 600 parents in the fields to earn for the | Swarm of Placards, Leaflets, Shouted Slogans, Show Workers’ Refusal to Accept Court Orders Ending Right to Strike; Fight on NEW YORK.—With determination and fearlessness, five or six hundred pickets, with a supporting crowd of about a thousand and several thousand spectators came out in mass violation of the injunction and picketed for over an hour at Zelgreen Cafeteria, yesterday. There have been many previous picket demonstrations here since the A. F. L. Local 302 got the boss to break with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, put in the 12-hour day, and take out an injunction to prohibit picketing. But for militancy and enthusiasm the demonstration yes- terday was without parallel so? a a ee far. Unusual forces of police HARRY RISMAN were mobilized, and emergency Peete poate wagons and patrol wagons i rushed up at fifteen minute FREE SATURDAY intervals and discharged their hordes | My 5 of clubbing, slugging Tammany cops. Ln me There were 36 arrests, the prisoners | \\77 Jaap were beaten up in full sight of the | Will Go to U.S.S.R. as great crowd after arrest, and beaten | Pioneer Guest up again afterwards. They are now | ear, held for trial on Paragraph 600,| NEW YORK.—Harry Eisman, after “violation of an injunction.” | serving si months in Hawthorne Re- Masses Stick. | formatory * for participating in the t til can , | March 6th unemployment demonstra- feel a is @ ‘ eeeitie vate | Hon will arrive in New York tomor- hear iro aes Kgiece nee veers ©|row. The workers and the workers* Tlot' Wagons and four | children in New York will gather at reek hick sige th | 308 Lenox Ave., on Saturday at noon the street was thick with cops, the before meeting Eisman at the 125th | At 8 o'clock on the same day, and | BUNDON sais compAlan: | ab thes ame place there will-be held ja mass demonstration in defense of | the Soviet Union and of socialist con- ‘struction under the Five-Year Plan. Set up signature collection com- | every working class organization! e Company Cuts Wages; Bre Promises; Lies About Profits; Retreats When Fought =| ‘As Hduatral Democracy ef 17,000 i ci si masses stuck, cheering, singing, yell- | inittees in every nelehboriicod and jabeen on it, and battling with police | will be the principle speaker. Street railroad station. Down: With | On Sunday at { p. m. at Manhat- holding» up posters with tie same|tan Lyceum, 66 B.'Fourtie-#t., Eisman This meeting will be the only chance that |the workers will be able to hear Eis- |man before he goes to the Soviet | Union. Harry has bee ninvited to | the U.S.S.R. by the Pioneers of the (Soviet Union. Instead of remaining |in the reformatory for 514 years and then being deported to Roumania the Young Pioneers of America have de- cided to accept the invitation of the Soviet Pioneers. At Sunday's mass meeting the Young Pioneers will greet ing the Injunction,” (Continued on Page Three) aks Its aree of K eping’ -) Harry and present a program. 1, Fa c : e gs Ur Amter, member of the March 6th Wage Scale, Poverty, |unempioyment Delegation will speak, Other prominent speakers will be there. CHOE WORKERS GIVEN Exposed as False ing in, no matter how many w ‘uts it needs or how many wi tarve! same time to kid the workers along | with the idea, first, that it is against wage cuts and secondly, that it is not making money. The statements of the officials of the company, not in- tended for the workers themselves, show that they are lying to the men who make the shoes—and take the wage cuts. son City, Endicott and Owego, N. Y. It published a full page advertise- ment in the local papers Nov. 4 try- ing to answer some exposures made by the workers in a shop leaflet is- sued by the Communist Party. Pleads Poverty. In this advertisement, George F. Johnson himself says in big type that difference talk of State or National Administra: tion, and not because we like to do it. ‘shoes at the same or lower prices, if will be because we are forced by com- What changes have been or may Ghz wages while I voting. But I do not believe that any Candidate for Governor, or any atall in your chances to secure better work and better wages. ms “making times better” fion to the fact that there have been several es fe workers to “fight wage reductions”; incidentally calling atten- nally have been adv: ating maintenance of m this. Some of you possibly have not had that privilege. Itisa “political This company, one of the biggest bcameniior es calls on the workers to vote for William Z. Foster for Governor of the State of New York, in the world, employs about 17,000 Codin ist ticket. ; a ‘i Shoe workers: in sp. aren 25. miles Trl theught voting for William Z. Foster, or any of the several candidates, would ed oe een square, taking in Binghampton, John- tion, I would myself vote that way, avd advise you; although I don’t think you need any advice in the matter Candidate for President, willmakeany. Itis nothing but political “bun! ‘or “worse.” Ihave lived long enough and cb- SD rerns: AM BOLT ge) PMSDUy Ae POC ONEE™ PENG, BH a enough, to be able to say this, to the best of my information and belief. : mabe tery be made in our wage scales, will be because we are forced by competi We are agreed, that we must meet competition. We must sell better eae es we are to secure business. ; i income. Itis quite certain that with steady the shop bulletin is only a “political Wealio agree that high wage scales without work, do not help income. Itis quite document” and that “What changes work, “lower wage scales” may mean larger incomes. r Wh eivdeods in @fheck and haye been made in our wage scales It would be a pleasant job for ‘your Management, to keep the high scales and all privilese= in effect an petition. . . . It would be a pleasant job for your management to keep the high scales and all privileges in effect and force if it were humanly possible. But the result would be we would be retired from business in a very little while . . .” ‘ete. The facts are that the company is determined to make a good profit at the expense of the workers, As this same Johnson said in a state- ment to the Binghampton Press, Oct. 20 (only a few days before his pov- erty plea of Nov. 4) “I have had some inquiries from anxious stockholders as to the condition of the company and ability to earn and pay dividends during this present business depres- sion and hard sledding. “As the statement of the com- pany clearly shows there is a sur- plus of several millions of dollars available for dividends. We are earning a fafr profit considering the whole situation.” They Gouge the Workers! That is the actual situation. Not one penny for the workers out of the millions of surplus profits, in- stead, cut their wages and tel] them the company is too poor to pay more —by all means keep the profits roll- work create any income. space canis vise hto terest charges 0 set eee to Capital |, as a matter of square dealing, and Capital,” should have ail there is possible for them to have, of the business. You may be certain that this will be our policy. Jam talking to you as fr: asl I believe the future will justify our faith in one another, and nessielations. [hope it will not be very long. Weare ject to much it Endicott, N.Y, Now. 11, 1890. force, if it were humanly possible, But the result would be—we would be retired from business in a very little all that ible. In fact, we have paid so much that it is doubtful if we have to stockholders ‘on borrowed Capital, Youagree with me, that ve must pay In- just as we pay wages toLabor. Eac!> and still permit us to compete and get our share w how, having access to all the information necessary so that | may Fama, eee many things taking place in the Leather and Shoe world. Many Houses are “going out of busi- ness.” Many more will go out; but there will be others to take their pli_ es, so competition will be in evidence. Lam sure you don’t want our business “liquidated.” We want to meet conditions patiently, and with forti- tude and courage. Unpleasant at times, of course. Other times not so unpleasant. t we shall have happier days in our busi- ilding for the future —a future that we believe will justify our present sacrifice, our loyalty, faith and good will toward one another. We havea great business, sub- t—delayed in growth for a time, to be sure, by conditions over which we have no con- trol; but nonetheless certain of develo) t and better results for all concerned, if we but “reason together,” and refuse to believe false teachi af fale leaders artner, “Labor Full Page Advertisement by Big Shoe Boss, Pleading Poverty and Need of Wage Cut; in Other Papers He Boasts Profits . A That is Johson’s policy. While conducting this merciless and treacherous and lying campaign against the workers, Johnson poses in other parts of the country as being against wage cuts. He sent a tele- | gram published last July in “Printers’ Ink” a New York monthly, saying: “Labor should not pay for the busi- ness depression, low wages make the depression . and “Take it from the income of those who have it,” ete. When the shop bulletin exposed | | this hypocrisy and lying, Johnson in | his answer tries to get around the contradiction by saying, “I personally have been advocating maintenance ot wages,” etc. and claiming that his | own company overrules him. | Fighting Stops Cut. The leaflet which roused Johnson | to the full page newspay reply pointed out that women workers in the tannery in Endicott got a cut of 18 PER CENT WAGE CUT NEW YORK.—The cutters and lasters in the Strassburg and Style Shoe Co. were given an 18 per cent vage cut last Saturday. There are out 100 workers in this shop. They ere anxious to struggle, they are al- y on low wages and can not id the slash. The Independent Shoe Workers’ Union calls on these and other shoe workers to organize and strike against wage cuts. Solidarity Dance for Harlem Needle Toilers NEW YORK.—There will be a soli- darity dance of Negro, Spanish and white needle workers Saturday eve- ning, at the Unity Holse Auditorium, 110th St. and Seventh Ave., Harlem. This will be the first of a series of 10 per cent, and this was followed by affairs and meetings in Harlem ors Spain = aS 20 per cont wage cut in other fac- | canized by i Lag gies ara the workers on this point. I would be a poor fricnd indeed, if I per- tories. In Johnson City the 20 per cits ninco Pei ee suanstiat Pai mitted our competitors to secure the business, while we foolishly believed thet “high wage scales” without cent cut was preceded by a nice fath- | kbs | Workers to be quiet, and “take it 1\ gentlemen.” However, in the last. y and finishing room, of the New Scou' factory, the workers didn’t “take it like gentlemen” they, fought like men, and as a result George F. Johnson suffered a complete defeat. This is the action that wins. | Don't fa]l for the Johnson bunk. The | bosses take the profits, but expect you to take the pay cuts! Orgs and strike against all wage cuts! Form shop committees! Affiliate with the Shoe and Leather Workers’ | Industrial League of the Trade Union | Unity League! The Independent Shoe Workers’ Industrial Union is a Part of this leegue. nson, 2 urging ' Connecticut and Buffalo on Job Paul Mazur, Lehman broth- ers advertising wizard tells the association of National Advertising boobs his solution of the capitalist crisis. His answer is a 5 day week on a slashed pay basis. He tosses out the following idiocy which should be embalmed and placed in a museum of curios- ities. “The addition of another rest day to the week of the working man would undoubt- ediy allow him more time to spend his money.” (What money.) “In this way con- sumption of goods would be BUFFALO POLICE IN NEW DRIVE ON WORKERS BUFFALO, N. 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