The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1930, Page 1

Build the Organize and Strike Fund of the Trade Union Unity League! All Profits From Dance Tonight at Manhattan Lyceum Go Fer This Purpose Daily. Central. Org. “the-€o Rryniet Norker Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 607 T_ MS 2 ote tere, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, , NOVEMBER 15, 1930 NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents ha, eSoviet War |Feed Unemployed Reeking Garbage; Call THOUSANDS OF JOBLESS *. «ganda < A done their bit in the concerted efforts of the past few mdx 4 to whip up war sentiment here against the Soviet Union. The Chffese-Eastern Railway dispute, the Whalen for- geries, the Fish Committee “investigations,” charges of Soviet “dumping,” etc., have all been used to prove the necessity for crushing the Soviet power. The present world situation guarantees that this, as well as all other phases of the war preparations, will be increased and not decreased. The already severe economic crisis which grips all capitalist countries is steadily becoming more severe. In the Soviet Union, on the contrary, no crisis exists; no unemployment exists; steady progress is being made in carrying through the Five Year Plan. This arouses a frenzied fear among the capitalists. They are afraid of the effects that this great progress in the Soviet Union will have on the workers and peasants in the capitalist countries and the colonies who are now suffering from hunger and starvation. They already see a grow- ing sympathy for the Soviet Union among the oppressed masses. This drives them to increase and speed up their war preparations. The advance publicity for a new series of war articles to be run by the New York Evening Post, called “The Red Trade Menace,” reflects this hysteria among the bosses, They state: “A nation on the other side af the world—sworn to overthrow the so-called “capitalist” governments—HAS ENTERED BUSINESS ON A SCALE SO HUGE AS TO DWARF THE GREATEST COR- PORATIONS OF PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED BUSI- NESS. (They are engaged) in a frantic endeavor to raise money with which to buy machinery and to finance further production, . » . TO DO IN FIVE YEARS WHAT TOOK 100 YEARS IN AMERICA AND 300 IN GREAT BRITAIN.” (Our emphasis.—Ed.) ‘This is an acknowledgement of the great significance of the Five Year Plan and of the great progress being made by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union under Communist Party leadership. At the same time this new series of articles is a warning of the determination of the capitalists to drive forward their war plans to crush the Soviet Union before the Five Year Plan can be completed. The workers, as we have repeatedly urged, must organize and fight against the American capitalists and their war plans. But of equal im- portance is the necessity of counteracting the bosses’ lying propaganda. ‘This can best be done by widening the circulation of the Daily Worker. ‘The present campaign for 60,000 subscribers for the Daily Worker by the end of January, therefore, also becomes an important phase of the workers’ fight for the defense of the Soviet Union. subscribers! 'APITALIST newspé, A. F. of L. and Injunctions HEN workers strike against the unbearable conditions on a job and some capitalist judge rushes to the defense of the boss with an in- junction which attempts to deny the workers’ right to picket the A. F. of L. fakers are sometimes forced to make a mild protest against “the use of injunctions in labor disputes.” Many resolutions are adopted by A, F, of L. conventions against injunctions, but only because the strike- breaking bureaucrats are compelled to adopt them because of rank and file pressure. The Greens, Wolls and their like, however, have as much respect for the injunction as have the bosses. This is shown most clearly in the dispute at Zelgreen’s Cafeteria in New York. There the cafeteria was organized by the Food Workers’ In- dustrial Union affiliated to the T. U. U. L. The management was forced to sign an agreement with the red union granting shorter hours and higher wages to all of the 18 or 20 men employed. To destroy these im- proved conditions which they had been forced to grant the owners, after @ period, closed the restaurant for one week. At the end of a week they resopened, with an A. F. of L. crew—that is the cooks and countermen were A. F. of L. men and the bus boys were unorganized. The members of the T. U. U. L. union were told that their services were no longer required. The A. F. of L., working with the boss, had conspired to get these workers out and to put in a new crew for less wages and under worse conditions. . When the Food Workers’ Industrial Union fought against this effort to worsen the conditions of the food workers Local 302 (that is its secre- tary and attorney) went to Supreme Court Justice Peters on October 25th and asked for and secured an injunction preventing the-employes of elgreen’s from picketing the restaurant. The union's lawyer, an old ‘Tammany man, working together with Ryan and Quinn, president and secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York, had no difficulty in getting ample police protection to enforce the injunction. So here is a case where the A. F. of L. leaders, who constantly shout against injunctions, actually went into court with the bosses and them- selves took out an injunction “in a labor dispute.” This proves our con- tention that these men are not against injunctions and only talk against them because they are forced to do so by thé rank and file. In reporting*the trial yesterday of the 35 arrested for participation in the great mass picketing demonstration before the restaurant, the New York World had the following to say: Jonah Goldstein, attorney for the A. F. of L. union, with all the ardour that could be expected from a labor lawyer on the favorable end of an injunction, demanded that the prisoners be held in $1,000 bail apiece because ‘they respect no law and went there purposely to violate the injunction.’ ” This completely exposes the role of the A. F. of L. on injunctions. It emphasizes the necessity of fighting not only against injunctions as such but also against the strikebreaking, injunction leaders of the A. F. of L. ‘The revolutionary food workers are giving the whole labor movement an excellent example of how to proceed. They must be given the full and energetic support of every worker in proving to the bosses, the courts and the A. F. of L. that the workers are going to fight to maintain their con- ond biggest city of the country, is | this town was 19, and in Precinct 2 ot _, the township, it was 7. “)erease in Communist votes sitice ditions, injunction or no injunction. 7,000 COMMUNIST VOTES IN DAKOTA Triple Communist Vote in Ill. Coal County NEW YORK. — The Communist vote in South Dakota is only partially reported, but the number is already over 2,000. The same multiplying of the Com- munist vote in the elections this year over the vote in last elections con- tinues, as reports begin to arrive from Illinois and other western industrial and farming areas. TIlinois, state of coal, steel, stockyards, with the sec- very hard to get figures from. A local correspondent writing from the small mining town of Livingston, Ill, states: “The vote for Freeman ‘Thompson, Communist candidate, in It took ‘us about a week to find this out from the Clerk of Election.” In 1928 the same district gave 11 Communist votes. Franklin county, Ill, gives 180 Communist votes, and only 88 to the socialists. This is a three-fold th-« 1928, and Franklin is one of the main coal producing counties in the state. . Ella Reeve Bloor, active Commu- nist, wires from North Dakota that it is impossible to get official returns on the Communist vote from that state now, but tlt the estimate (previously announced.—Editor) of 5,000 votes in the state may be too small. Eventually returns may be obtained, and all the Red votes the election boards took the trouble to count will be known. A Sour Laugh. A capitalist paper in Davidson county, Tennessee tries to laugh it off as follows: “An amusing surprise of the cam- paign in this city and county 1s the vote that Sherman Bell received. Bell is the colored man from Chattanooga who made his race on the Commu- nist ticket. Bell received votes in practically all the precincts of the City and County and doubless many white workers cast their ballots for him, not knowing he was colored. It is safe to say that Bell received sev- eral thousand votes in the state. Bell's vote in Hamilton county, Ten., was 293 in 68 out of 71 precincts In Franklin, in 24 out of 27 precincts, he got 15. In Moore county he got 8 votes in nine out of 11 precincts. In McMinn county Bell got 114 (in- complete returns). Up to now in the above named counties, the Commu- nist candidate for governor, Samuel Borenstein is reported with 243 votes. Forward to, 60,000 | | lucky enough to live long enough to |to the unemployed at the McGregor |battle with armed peasants and| DETROIT, Mich—-Garbage, reek- ing with filth and germs, and dirty boss politics is what Murphy is feed- ing the Detroit unemployed, who are wind up at the stinking counter of the slop joints which the Detroit mayor's Unemployment Commission is backing. Recently the Detroit Daily came out with a harrowing exposure of the poison and slime that was being fed Institute, whose food is as dopy as its religion.’ What was behind this? Why suddenly should a capitalist newspaper become s0 solicitous about the tortured stomachs of the few hun- dred thousand starving unemployed workers? It is true, conditions at the slop joints are bad enough, as will be shown here. But that didn’t bother Murphy so much. He's mak- ing a big reputation on the starva- tion of the unemployed, and his tricks of fooling the masses about how much he is doing to relieve their suffer- ings and used as patterns by Gov. Emmerson of Mlinois, Jimmy Walker of New York, and even ex-Police Chief Col. Woods, on Hoover's Emer- gency Unemployment Committee. Murphy had his pet scheme of unit- ing all the slop joints under one roof. He had picked out a nine- story building, where one floor would be used as an eating place, and the rest of the floors would be used for the unemployed to flop in. Here Murphy could keep his eye on the Wl, ee pe os regis-| REVOLT FLARES Unions Affiliate to Red International NEW YORK.—Reports from Ni- caragua to capitalist newspapers armed clashes against the Wall Street Moncada regime there. ident Moncada, who was elected with | the aid of marines, has issued a de- cree establishing martial law in the departments of Esteri, Nue#o Segovia, Jinotega and Matagalpa. It is in these regions that the poor peasants have again taken up arms in ever increasing numbers against the Moncada regime, and its sup- porters, American imperialism. Ser- geant Russel White, of the marines, was killed during the course of a workers. Nicaragua, together with the other Latin American countries, is in the throes of a severe crisis. The last election showed the gaowing discon- tent of the Nicaraguan masses. Only 40 per cent of the voters participated, as against 0 per cent in the first | election which Moncada won. Both! elections were under direct marine supervision. Moncada is a tool of U. S, imperialism, having been paid a huge bribe by the present secretary of state, Stimson, Reports tc the Daily Worker from Nicaragua state that the Nicaraguan Federation of Workers, the leading trade union of that country, has withdrawn from the Pan-American Federation of Labor on the ground that that organization, headed by Matthew Woll, is a tool of Yankee imperialism. It has declared its ad- herence to the Latin American Con- federation of Labor at Montevideo, affiliated to t he Red International of Labor Unions. In its official organ the Nicaraguan Federation of Labor sent greetings to the Communist Party of the U.S.A. The workers throughout Latin America, as in Peru, are militantly taking the lead in the struggle against imperialism and ts lackeys, Force Chi. Workers to Pay for Bosses’ Jobless Charity (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—The workers here are forced to hand a day’s wages to the charity organizations for unem- ployment relief or lose their jobs. At these charity organizations, such as the Salvation Army and the Christian Relief Association, which have been elected by Governor Emmerson, to take care of the unemployed in Chi- cago, they won't give you a thing unless you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior. On Saturday the unemployed had to register so that the committee elected would be able to investigate and find out who needed immediate relief, After they get through inves- tigating and red-taping spring will be here and they'll tell the unemploy- ed workers that it is warm enough UP IN NICARAGUA show the growing seriousness of the | Pres- | Coming Garbage for ied employed The “Kitchen” in the McGregor Institute, approved by Mayor Murphy as part of his “relief” plan for the unemployed. The picture doesn’t begin to show the real conditions. floors are literally covered with a putrid mass. The food stinks. The | State of Siege in Peru;| Industry Completely Paralyzed NEW YORK.—Peru is in a state of armed siege, as the general strike called by the General Workers’ Coun- cil in Lima, in sympathy with the 10,000 miners in La Oroya and Mal} Paso in the copper regions of the | Andean mountains, has paralyzed all industry and transportation. Gen. Sanchez Cerro, the military, Fascist dictator of Peru has gathered ' all the troops into the Lima barracks for action against the General Work- | ers’ Council. | The general strike throughout Peru followed the attack agaist a miners’ congress in Mal Paso, wherein 14 workers were reported killed and 40 injured. When this news reached Lima, a general strike was called immediately. Most of the Peruvian miners are Indians who are bitterly exploited by the American and British imperial- ists. American imperialism has a} naval base at the Island of San Lorenzo, just off the coast of Peru, near the Port of Callo, the port of entry to Lima. The U. S. Ambassa~ dor Dearing, who is a tool of the Guggenheim copper trust, is calling upon Wall Street to rush gunboats and marines from San Lorenzo to aid Gerro crush the general strike and the general mass uprising of the Peruvian workers. Dearing and Cerro are directing their main attack against the Com- munists and militant trade union leaders in the General Workers’ Council. Cerro hs ordered the dis- solution of the Workers’ Council, while Dearing has furnisned Cerro Workers Couneil Duis Boils Strike; Cuba Uprising Grows! (Continued on Page Five) Se eg NEW YORK.—Under guise of “re- lef for the unemployed,” a very profitable racket has been worked out by the International Apple Associa- tion, with the help of the Tammany police and Mayor Walker. Unem- ployed workers are permitted to buy apples and sell them on the street corners, but the ones who benefit are not the jobless workers who freeze in the cold for a few cents but the apple dealers who have been able to sell 4,000,000 apples during the past few weeks, which Joseph Sicker, chairman of the International Apple Associa- tion admits would have rotted in the to sleep outside. ‘warehouses. Machado Police Kill 7; Cannot Stop Clashes HAVANA, Nov. 14—Seven have been killed and 50 injured here in a series of clashes against the Machado | regime. Martial law has been de- clared in Havana and its environs by Machado, but it exists in reality throughout the island. Bloody Machado has under his | command 16,000 soldiers, but despite | their continuous patrolling and sup- ervision dozens of armed clashes have taken place in Cuba against the Wall Street regime. The Nationalist leaders are con- spicuous by their absence in the growing revolutionary struggles | against the Machado dictatorship. | The reformist trade union leaders are aiding Machado by remaining passive as the masses surge on to revolt. Wholesale arrests are being made of Communists and students. Many of them will be murdered outright by Machado, as he has done in the past. A rigid censorship has been clamped down. Machado is in con- stant communication with U. S. Am- bassador Guggenheim and all his | activities are carried out with strict supervision of U. S. secretary of state Stimson and the National City Bank | of New York, the largest imperialist force in Cuba, The uprisings against the Machado regime are not confined to Havana. Seyeral days ago a severe clash took Place between students and police at Santiago de Cuba, more than 500 miles southwest of Havana. The basis of the discontent and struggles ig the growing economic | ped it, backed down on his proposals, | It “Rehet!” Expose Faker Mayor Murphy Ther them when necessary; weed out | the militant ones, and run things | his own way. | His Commission, headed by the banker Roosevelt, though they didn’t disagree with the policy, thought this | was too ambitious a plan and wanted | the work to go on as it was, under the guidance of about 50 different | religious instittuions and charity fakers. The Detroit Daily, which is Mur- phy’s main sheet in Detroit, came out with an expose of the McGregor Institute. Murphy very quickly stop- | and went the way the bankers, his real bosses, wanted thinks to go. But here we get an insight into the | “relief” which Murphy and his Com- mission is giving the unemployed. Talk about lines in the Soviet | Unuion, where workers with money | in their pocket, wait to buy a few| things! In Detroit, the 200,000 un- employed, when they nearly drop | from hunger have the following lines | to go through: Lines for breakfast, lines for din- ner, lines for supper, lines for a bed— and what a bed—lines for a bath. As the Detroit Daily puts it: “In- terminable, endles: lines that sap the | strength of the strongest men and last from dawn to dark and from dark to down.” There aren't many strong men in the breadline after their guts have been polluted with what Murphy’s (Continued on Peer Five) 40,000 BATTLE | | COPS IN MADRID, Police, Guards Charge Workers Funeral United Press reports from Madrid state that 40,000 workers battled the Police in Madrid Friday on the oc- casion of the funeral of four work- ers killed in a building collapse. The police had forbidden the fun- eral demonstration to go down the main streets. The workers refused to abide by the police order. cops charged the workers. The work- | ers replied by a fusillade of stones. | Street car windows were broken. One | worker was reported killed as a re-| sult of the charge of police and civil guards. LEN TOMB OPEN MOSCOW.—Ten thousand worker and peasants daily visit Lenin’s tomb that was recently opened. The mausoleum is built of red} granite and is simple and sheer in design. |Battle Police; WAIT IN VAIN FOR COPS TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD |Tammany’s Boasted Promise to Hand Out Onions and Potatoes to Small Percentage of Starving Shows Itself Another Swindle Jobless Must Fight or Starve This Winter! Only 32,210 Out of 800,000 Unemployed To Be Fed, and These So Far Get Very Little NEW YORK.—Not content with the outrageous lie of the police census of the unemployed, that there were only 32,210 starving families in New York, where the city employment bureau head admits there are 800,000 jobless, Tammany pro- ceeded yesterday to swindle even those few to whom it had promised food. Seldom has there been seen a more heartless, cynical dis- regard of the suffering of the masses than the fiasco yester- | day showed. For days the city has been running truck loads of donated and Totting food through the streets, with loud ——*signs on the trucks pees 2 3 14) 000 DE T R 0 I T as, aie s Relief” For | s TOIERS PF TEST seen tating about “the mayor Por ISH TER ROR cery, Sy cn cr meted a eee ine obese, and. added $7000000 to the funds for police to club them into submission. Stone) 5 No Food! Fascist Newspaper But when even this million came to be distributed, it wasn’t there. The The| | DETROIT, Nov. 14—A_ spirited} demonstration involving 4,000 work- | ers took place in front of the Polish | Consulate here today, at John R. and Woodward Ave. against the Fascist terror in Poland directed against the workers. Mounted police twice tried to dis- perse the demonstrators. But the workers came-back, militantly fight-. ing Murphy's cops. Stones were thrown at the police, Russini, ers, addressed the workers from the steps of the Consulate building. At- | tempts to arrest Thompson were resisted by the workers. When the workers were driven away from the Consulate building, they marched over to the Polish Fas- cist newspaper, “The Record,” and smashed several windows, shouting, “Down with Polish Fascism!” After the demonstration in front of the Polish Fascist newspapers, the | | Workers marched over to the Polish | workers section at Perry and Park Sts., and held a mass meeting in an | | open square. Many workers were in- | jured by the police attacks. | The brutal attack against the | workers exposes the fakery of Mayor | Murphy who repeately denied that} his cops broke up workers’ demon- strations. 7 War Plot Includes Attempt to Kall Soviet Envoy at Geneva (Cable By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 14—A mass meeting of engineers and nechni- cians here unanimously demanded the execution of the engineers, etc., guilty of sabotage and espionage in the service of French imperialism, and implicated in the war plot against the Soviet Union. The meeting declared that the | overwhelming majority of the en- gineers enthusiastically are with the workers in building up socialism. by et, ie Capitalist press dispatches indicate that the war plot of five imperialist | powers against the Soviet Union goes | crisis in Cuba. Hundreds of thou- (Continued on Page Five) right on, even though the actual in- vasion has been postponed to next Keep on Raising the Prices; Is Plain Robbery When Walter Winchell, columnist for the Daily Mirror was going to ex- pose the apple racket over the radio Wednesday night he was told: “You do not understand. Radio is govern- ment controlled. The apple growers have power. If you offend them— they will get a Congressman to get up on the floor at Washington and You mustn't make trouble for us, Apple Racket Is Gold Mine tor Apple Dealers; Jobless Gypped say anything about them robbing Profits from the unemployed apple sellers.” When the apple dealers, with the help of Walker and Mulrooney found this racket a profitable one, they taised the price of a box of apples to the unemployed from $1.75 to $2.00; then they raised it again to $2.25, Pulling pennies from the pockets of the unemployed. An unemployed worker has written from first hand information about this racket for the Daily Worker. He says: Tammany stops at nothing. It even (Continued on Page Five) jyear. A scheme of Russian white guardists to assassinate the Soviet | | delegation to the Geneva arms con- ference has come to light. A white guardist was to smuggle himself aboard the train on which Litvinoff and other members of the Soviet delegation leave Geneva and kill them. The Swiss police are sup- | posed td be “exercising extraordinary care,” but it is recalled that when sassinated at Laussane, Switzerland, in 1923, the police did not seriously interfere with the murder, | neither was any adequate punishment | visited on the murderer. | More Riga Lies. | Simultaneously with the scheme to {kill Litvinoff, the Riga lie factory commenced to work overtime, spread- ing a ridiculous story about the vil- shot to pieces by “Soviet troops on an armored train” during an attempt to “forcibly collectivize” the peasants. | The utter insanity of this charge is | evident when it is remembered that the Soviet government and the Com- munist Party have denounced even mild popular pressure of a propa- Ganda sort to speed collectivization, Collectivization, preferring to go termediate stages of the artel, etc. th Ties sch . Protest Conference. NEW YORK.—In view of the ex- pose by the Soviet Government re- vealing the British and French im- war plot against the Soviet Union, the Friends of the Soviet Union, N. Y. Dist., has changed its plans for the November 20 conference to meet ‘ (Continued on Page Five) 1 Azuliak, Thompson, and other speak- | Soviet Ambassador Vorovsky was as- | and | lages of “Jelino and Dubki” being | and have denounced all too hasty | ahead on the basis of full coluntary, | and well prepared collectives, with in- | Perialists as arch conspirators in the | food wasn't there. Yesterday it was officially admitted that the mayor's checks amount altogether to only $600. Thousands of starving gathered at the police stations at 9 a. m. yes- terday where it was announced the big distribution of food was to take Place—and they waited and waited There was no food. Word arrived that the inspéctorS were going over the piles of garbage they have col- lected at some warehouse in the (Continued on Page Five) LAYOFFS MOUNT IN BUFFATO, NY. Boss Papers Lie and Say They Hire BUFFALO, N. Y. — Just a few lines about the situation here, which is terrible as can be. Not long ago I read in the cap- italist paper that the Curtiss Aero- |plane will hire about 500 men and plenty of workers thought they would jhave work over winter. Now the workers found out how the capitalist paper fools the workers. Laying Off, Not Hiring. Instead of hiring men they lay off many hundreds of workers and the bosses say it is just temporary. The workers thought they would be called back to work soon. Now just the other day another lay-off started and the bosses tell the men too that it is just for a short time. Wages are being cut for those still on the job, about 10 percent. Another plant, the Pierce Arrow Motor Co. announced a long time ago that they would start up in full force to build a modern truck and work will |be open for hundreds of men, Not long after that advertisement a big layoff starts and the Pierce plant now employs just a few workers and | those that go fifty-fifty with the foremen on their wages. Most of the factories here just work | part time. Hundreds of workers are without roofs over their heads and without clothing for winter. Let U. S. Know About U.S.S.R. E. E, Shumacher, boss slave driver of the R.C.A. Victor Company has just turned on the following cracked record: “We are planning to keep as many employes as possible by first rétlucing to a 5 day week, then a 4 day week, also re- ducing the number of hours per day.” The boss perspective is to keep all workers employed by cutting hours to one daily and Perhaps entirely eliminating wages. In U.S.S.R, hours are down and wages up. -Tell U. 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