The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1930, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, EW YORI K, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1930 Page IONE All over the U. S. even in the si Daily Worker campaign for 60,000 re: letters. T. J. Bingaman wrote us a couples of weeks ago from Decatur, Ill.: “I am a carpenter and have been out of work 12 months, I want tr get to be the agent for the pape Send 10 a day.” ‘Today we have this letter from ne “I can handle 50 daily now. think I can raise my papers to one hundred or more in a week or so. Grand Rapids Begins House-To-House Routes W. J. Conn., section organizer in Grand Rapids writes: “The Grand Rapids section has decided to begin the distribution of the Daily Worker on the ‘Detroit’ plan, house-to-house routes by the units. “The house-to-house distribution begins next Monday.” Cops Fail To Stop Daily Worker Sale The following is received from G. Nagura, Stockton California: Since our Daily has entered Stock- ton it is only one month. Some times we sell all the papers we re- ceive. A month ago our news ped- diler was threatened by cops sev- eral times. Once a plain clothes man approached him and said that if he didn’t get out of the town the cop would pinch him. Next day the Daily Worker was sold just the same. Since the cops could not find out the legal method of railroading the comrade newsboy they tried to find out where the comrade got his pap- ers—but in vain. Many want to read it earnestly and are ready to join the movement.” Start Drive For 500 Subs in Moline M. R. Pearson of Moline, Ill, hi this to say: “Comrade Bud Reynolds, former secretary of the L. of 8. U. advised me after our section was organized to write you in regards to building up subs for the Daily Worker in Mol- ine. “Our comrades are starting a drive = 500 subs by January 1. We Scattered Cities Move Into Drive for 60,000 Readers; | A HUGE seat Red Builders Meet Sunday mall cities action has started for the aders. This is shown in innumerable | Da oh ferin € are in a former S. P. community and in a good field of class consci- ous workers.” Second News Club Meeting Sunday Emil Eggers, out of work for 21% months, sold 42 Daily Workers at 6th Ave. and 27th St. the first time he went out. “I was a little bashful,” he says, “never having sold any papers be- fore. Later on I started to yelllike © a real newsboy, only instead of yelling about © scandal I yelled ‘Daily Worker, the Red paper, the real fighting Daily.” Eggers is a member of the Red Builders News Club. The next Jam- boree of this club will be held Sun- day at 8 p. m. at 27 East 4th St. Workers who are selling the Daily or intend to sell only admitted. No ieee Emil Eggers SWINDLE JOBLESS WHO WANT FOOD Tammany Promises Show Up As Fake (Continued from Page One) Bronx, and condemning most of it. Finally, three hours late, they be- gan to hand out a little food at the East 104th St. police station and at the West 135th St. station, There was not even a pretense to distribute at the other stations. Onions and Potatoes. Captain McGrath of the East 104th St. station had the starving lined up to file along past a desk on the side- walk, where as long as they lasted, each got a paper bag with 20 pounds of potatoes, two pounds of onions, half a pound of coffee, half a pound of macaroni, and a cabbage. Then the line crossed the street where each was given half a dozen eggs and a leaf of bread. This is rations for a family of four or more, and they don’t get any more for a week, if they get it then! ‘The arrangements showed complete disregard for the jobless. Soon after the distribution started, the supply of bags gave out, and the food was just shoved at the hungry workers, to carry away as they might. A stew kitchen has been set up at the city pier on East River, and some hundreds of double deck spring cots installed. Here, without mattresses, jobless who have no place to ‘sleep or eat will be allowed five day's lodging. In this way the city politicians boast they have solved the unemployment problem, for 1,500 out of the 800,000 jobless in New York. These “relief measures” are not only starvation measures for the great bulk of the hungry jobless, they are an insult even to those who are fed—fed for a few days only. More and more organization is needed, into the Unemployed Councils, into the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League, to fight for the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and for immediate relief from the city treasury. The Insurance Bill proposed by the Communist Party demands that the war funds of the national government and the excess income of those getting over $5,000 a year be taken to form a $5,000,000,000 insurance fund, which shall be handed out by committees of the workers and jobless at the rate of $25 a week to each jobless worker, and $5 more for each dependent. Fight Or Starve. ‘The unions of the T.U.U.L. and the _ workers’ mass organizations have formed a provisional National Cam- paign Committee for Unemployment Insurance to lead a drive for signa- tures to demands that Congress pass this bill. Out of a job? Got spare time? You can earn a little money and take a crack. at the system by sel- ling Daily Workers. Come up and we will explain. 35 East 12th St. TIGER HENCHMEN ONLY GET WORK Radio Man’s Family Is Now Starving (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—It is oppor- tune to apply the stethoscope of public opinion to big hearted Tam~- many that we may ascertain whether the driving force is humanity or political expediency. It is not in my nature to make a “squawk,” so what I have to say is an echo of despair from my wife and our four children, If I do not present my case, or rather their case, with sufficient ability lay the cause to a harrassed state of mind. Writing by candle-light in a cold apartment after a dinnerless day of tramping the sidewalks of New York makes one that way. On the thirtieth day of September I was dropped from the payroll of the municipal broadcasting station WNYC, while men without the re- motest connection with radio were carried on. As past-president of the Veteran Wireless Operators Association I make the charge on behalf of other jobless radio men that the Honorable Albert Goldman, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, has kept and is keeping men on the radio payroll who are not alone not qualified but who do not even remain at the sta- tion for duty if they were capable of performing it, to the disgust of the few good men there who have labored so futilely to show the tax-payers something for their money. These parasites are shamefully flaunted in the faces of radio men desperately anxious to do an honest day's work. I mentioned political expediency. A position became open through the resignation of the Broadcasting Sup~ ervisor. Who got the job? It was a political appointment to a single youth whose only qualification was that of relative to a district leader. Since I have opened the shadowy precincts of WNYC slightly, let’s throw open the doors and flood the interior with fresh air and sunshine. Further revelations along these lines might better come through less prejudiced observers and investigators interested only in getting at the facts, As a result of these conditions, one unit of society, the Maher family, has suffered bitterly. Is a world-war veteran, a man with a wife and four children, entitled to so little consideration by the City of New York? Is a member of. the Institute of Radio Engineers and a former radio editor of the New York . Evening Journal less qualified for a job in the city radio station than ward-heelers? Talk about Tammany gratitude! A month before the opening of the Radio World's Fair at Madison Square Garden, while I was still em- ployed at WNYC, I personally ar- ranged for an exhibit of the City's radio activities and worked like ten men to work out the details. It was the consensus that it was the great- est publicity “stunt” ever put over for WNYC; and it didn’t cost the City a nickel. (APPLE RACKET IS Unemelnvad . Gyppe =| | by Dealers (Continued from Page One) sucks the blood of the anemic unem- | ployed. Tuesday I tramped the length |are mixed up in the grub served to | of Broadway conversing with some ot |the unemployed. The more delicate the hundreds caught in the net of | Detroit Daily merely refers to all | | Tammany'r apple-selling racket. | Every man I spoke to without excep- | | tion, damned Tammany, Walker and | unbearable, | the police, The unemployed are hep to the racket but cannot help them- selves. These unemployed men buy an average of two boxes of apples a day. The number of apples in a box varies between 60 and 100. The price of each box is the same, $2.25 now. One fel- low selling at 34th St. said “The box they give you is the box you take— no counting—and you've got to keep your mouth shut!” To give the racket momentum the price per %ox or case was started at $1.75. Soon it went to $2. It jumped to $2.25. Another bost in price is expected momentarily. The apples must be carted away somehow. The subways and trolley lines are closed to the men, To carry the cases away on their shoulders or to take a cab are the alternatives. The distribution center at Harrison and West Sts. being nowhere near the crowded selling districts the men are forced to hire taxi cabs. Then there are paper bags to be bought. They sell at 15 cents for 50. The following are the statistics of one fellow at Times Square: 1 Box of apples (71) ...... $2.25, 50 Paper bags . 15 Taxi fare .... 45 Total Outlay .... 2.85 Sold 71 apples at 5 cents .. 3.55 (Some sell them 6 for 25 cents) Net profit ........ 5 This box was sold after he had | gone early in the morning for the 7:30 a. m. up to 2:30 in the afternoon. Seven hours (to say nothing of the carting time) for 75 cents. Thirteen cents an hour is Tammany’s method of bleeding the unemployed. The apple dealers are not stopping at coining mone yat the expense ot the unemployed in New York alone. Mayor Murphy of Detroit nas ap- proved of this racket. In the Detroit News, Nov. 8, he is quoted as saying, about the apple racket: “Anything that will help these men to get a little money is all right with me. If the committee agrees to the plan I would be glad to have it car- ried out.” MACHADO POLICE MURDER SEVEN Communists Arrested; Marines. Threatened (Continued from Page One) sands of workers and farm laborers are unemployed, facing starvation. The Machado regime, always noted for its murder and torture, has been increasing its suppressive measures, especially against the Communists. To aid Machado, the Nationalist leaders have been attempting to quell the rebellious spirit of the rank and file of the Nationalists. Their treach- ery has been of no avail, as the Na- tionalist rank and file are joining in the struggles against the Wall Street government in Cuba. There is little doubt that if the up- rising reaches greater momentum, as is certain to happen, Washington will rush marines to Cuba under the Platt Amendment to aid Machado drown the mass revolt in a sea of blood. All workers in the United States must be aroused to take up the struggle with their fellow workers in Cuba against hunger, starvation, wage cuts and boss terror, Support the uprising of the Cuban masses! Fight against the common enemy, American imperialism! Western Union Has Started Reductions in Its Work Force (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—There’s a proposition for the modification of force reduction agreement as affect- ing automatic and simplex operators of the Western Union Telegraph Co. of Los Angeles that was voted on. Those being eligible to vote were those having been there over 18 months. The proposition was not accepted in. the phone department of the Western Union office. Therefore the junior phone operators are being re- duced to 3 days a week and trans- ferred to the routing department. Otherwise they would have been fur- loughed indefinitely. Reduce Forces. This is really no reduction to them only in the fact that they can't pos- sibly get any extra time. Unless they want to work on Sundays on straight time, As recently Sunday work has been reduced to straight time from time and a half. Earlier in the year some of the junior automatic and simplex opera- tive were transferred to the lower positions of routing. But in the long run they gained by it. As they got full time in the routing dept. and only 4 hours per day as operator's. But when they were transwerred to i the routing dept. this caused the in- apples and stood by. “his” box from | |FEED JOBLESS REEKING GARBAGE; EXPOSE FAKE ‘RELIEF’ OF MURPHY (Continued from Page One) Commission calls their relief “food.” When they arrive at the food coun- ter, the jobless find the floors black with great older than the crisis. Spit, | cigar buts, bockroaches, lice, worms this as “filth indescribable.” The stink in the eating room is Yet the men must eat. | Most of them are sick from under- nourishment already. The food is Pee AND Y%t pe : TAMILY ~ rouR. OF Yu TRy To e FoR A WEEK LIVE OW THIS FRom THe | Box one VA Coal enough to kill a hog. To call it garbage is doing injustice to garbage. No garmer would risk the life of his | hoks by serving it the type of food | the McGregor Institute hands out to| the unemployed workers, under the | guidance of Mayor Murphy's banker and auto boss committee on unem- ployment. The pans the McGregor Institute food is cooked in are swill pails, never washed, streaked with filth. It must be understood that the Mc- Gregor Institute is no exception. It probably is a little cleaner than most of the others, There are “McGregor Institutes” in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles —every- where that unemployed workers starve. How many workers die of this sort | of “food” will never be known. The | capitalists don’t count them. Bed and bath sound as if the un- employed were getting something. Here is what the Detroit Daily says about it: “A-bed—after the delous- ing room where men are submitted to indignities no farmer would dream of when cleansing his hogs of para- sites.” jhe fully approves of Hoover's method AAAYOR Siam Pry WALKERS “STARVATION That's the way jobless workers are treated under Mayor Murphy's “per- fect” system of unemployment re- lief. This is what the socialists praised. This is what Hoover and | Woods pointed to with pride as a real solution of the unemployment | problem. | William Green, president of the A. | |F. of L., ensconsed in his luxurious hotel, tells the workers he is against unemployment insurance. He says of dealing with the unemployed. He IE ARE Nor ERS— WE Have WORK! THE CAPITALIST “APPETITE had a good word to say for Mayor! Murphy’s special treatment of the unemployed. This is what the Communist Party | in Detroit, and everywhere else is exposing in fighting against the fake relief measures of the Murphy's the socialists, the Hoovers and Woods. This is not “relief.” It is a delib- erate atempt to murder the unem- ployed by making life impossible, or killing them off by tainted food and disease. It is little better than outright starvation. Against this type of “relief” the workers must fight as militantly as against outright starvation. This} | Slimy food costs the bosses little. They | \think it will keep the workers quiet. | They spread it wholesale. Anything | to save their profits, to keep from giving the workers unemployment in- surance so they can live like human beings while capitalism is unable to | give them work. Smash the rotten system! Demand unemployment insurance! Expose the fakers like Murphy! STATE OF SIEGE IN PERU STRIKE American Workers Aid Peru Wage Cut Battle!) (Continued: from Page One) with a list of names of Communist leaders ordering their arrest as the instigators of the strike. Conditions of the workers and peasants in Peru are frightful. The Indian peasants, who comprise the majority of the population, live under the remnants of a bitter feudal re- gime. The Indian workers in the copper mines, owned by American imperialism, or on the railroads and factories run by British imperialism, are on the verge of starvation. Thou- sands are unemployed. An attempt to cut wages below the starvation level was made, and the Communist Party of Peru has led the organiza- tion of resistance to wage cuts and for the demand for bread. The American workers must im- mediately take up the challenge of imperialism and fight against Dear- ings demand for gunboats and ma- rines to bolster up the fascist regime of Cerro against the growing mili- tancy of the Reruvian workers and peasants. The struggle of the Reru- vian miners against wage cuts is the struggle of the American workers. War Vet Is Found Starving in Street (By a Worker Correspondent) BRIDGEPORT, Conn.— Happened to pick up a paper here in So. Nor- walk and sure was surprised to see an article in there about a world war veteran. It ran like this. A world war vet- eran traveling along Post Road dropped to the pavement. He was rushed to the St. Vincent’s Hospital. In a statement issued by the hos- pital doctors later says that he may have been starving which was the actual fact. This goes to show that even those who fought for “democ- racy” are being paid with starvation. (By a Worker Correspondent) BRONX, N, Y.—When on Noverr- ber 11 at 11 a. m. the teachers of Monroe High School in the Bronx ordered the students to stand in silence for two minutes, four boys re- fused to stand up. When asked the reason they declared that they would not honor the Armistice since we are in preparation for a new war. Don’t miss full circula- tion tables each Wednes- day in the Daily Worker. definite furloughing of some of the girls that were working in the routing department at that time. The reason being they had no operating experi- ence, My daughter has been reduced to 3 days a week and expecting one of the popular indefinite furloughs. WAR PLOT ON SOVIET UNION (Continued from Page One) this latest attack agairTt the U. S. S. R. The F. S. U. conference will open at 6 o'clock instead of the time previously announced, at Irving Plaza and on the same date, Thurs- day, November 20. The conference will meet from 6 to 8 p. m. to lay the basis for the broadest mobiliza~ tion of all working class forces to answer the imperialist war mongers. The F. S. U. calls upon shops, untons and fraternal bodies to act on the| emergency call at once and send| delegates. At 8 o'clock sharp, following the conference, the mass meeting of pro- test will take place, combined with the celebration of 13 victorious years of the Bolshevik Revolution. Admis- sion will be by tickets obtainable at 799 Broadway, office of the N. Y. | so-called | their utmost to increase the difficul- | with the | is Li NTE RNATIONAL “ISVESTIA” EXPOSES BACKGROUND OF WAR PLOTTERS AGAINST USSR Wiping Out of Kulak Deprives Imperialists of Last Ally in Soviet Union De Counter-Revolutionists Tried to Hinder On- ward Drive of Five Year Plan MOSCOW.—After the discovery; “The ¢ am of the traitors wa: and arrest of the forces behind the|the destruction of the proleta a “Industrial Party,” which dictatorship, the handing over of the |later was found to have entered into | factories, banks, railways, etc., to a wide-spread plot with imperialist | private capitalism, the payment of| | powers for a war against the Soviet | the imperialist debts, the compensa- Union, Isvestia, a Communist news-|tion of the foreign capitalists for paper, pointed out the basis for this | their losses through the nationaliza- new counter-revolutionary conspir-| tion, the intrcduction of land trad- | |ing, the denationalization of the land | and the return of the estates to their former ow acy. “Isvestia” said: “The liquidation of the kulaks as a class deprives the international counter-revolution of its last serious ally in the Soviet Union and that therefore the counter-revolution is dustrial Party’ and its ally the so- called ‘Toiling peasants party’. In-| land this organization sought support straining every nerve to act now as/| from the kulaks and from sections of | tomorrow will be too late. the bourgeois intellectuals, The “The leaders of the latest counter- | working class will punish these ele- revolutionary organization have done| ments as they deserve, and at the same time ties of our economic life ‘They | fulness thousandfold and intensify its aimed at creating a dangerous lack /| efforts to build up cadres of special- |of proportion between the various| ists from amongst the ranks of the branches of our economic system) workers and peasants. with a view to precipitating a general “The forces of the counter-revolu- | crisis and causing discontent amongst | tion are being mobilized, The devel- | the masses of the workers. The|opment of the socialist competitive counter-revolutionaries hoed to be|scheme, the shock group movement, able to exploit this discontent at the | the constant improvements suggested moment of a capitalist intervention | by the workers in the factories, the and they maintained connections | collectivization of agriculture, the in- international bourgeoisie | dustrialization of the country and the both through the emigrants in Paris | determined drive to carry out the five and directly. | year plan in four years, are a proof “The sabotagers betrayed the in-| that the forces of the revolution are terests of the Soviet Union to foreign | also being mobilized. capitalism from which they received} “Our victories on all fields of econ- jinstructions and money. This fact | omic, political and cultural life are sufficient to reveal the social | proof that the counter-revolution in | nature of the new organization. Its|the Soviet Union is experiencing its members are the representatives of | last days. The revolution is advanc- the bourgeois restoration. ing reply, It will be victorious! WALL STREET PLANS $500,000,000 LOAN TO BOLSTER UP NANKING NEW YORK.—Hoover and stimp- ,badly. The Chinese markets are son are very much worried about the | contracting sharply. advance of the Red Army in China.| The Wall Street Journal states: “It According to the Wall Street Jour- nal, Noy. 13, a subcommittee of the|with the war lords of China be un- Senate Foreign Relations Committee! dertaken by representatives of for the past six months has been dis-|(U. S.) government in an attempt to cussing the granting of a huge loan| bring about a reconciliation of the to the Chiang Kai-shek government forces opposing the present Nanking to bolster it up. | government, which is recognized’ by The proposal was made that a loan | the United States.” of 1,000,000,000 ounces of silver, or| Of course, the 1,000,000,000 an- roughly about $50,000,000, be made|Nounces of silver is supposed to do by Wall Street, with government ap-|# great deal towards this “reconcil- proval to the Nanking government.|{ation.” | The British imperialists are busy in At the same time, Judge Paul | this direction also. Linebarger, legal adviser of the) special trade commission to China Nanking government, is in Washing- to jack up Brit'sh trade. The strug- ton on a visit seeking a loan of $360,-| gie for the Chinese markets are 000,000 in silver. growing sharp. The Nanking government is sup- The big loan which Washington is ported by American imperialism, but the other war lords are aided by either British or Japanese capital- ism. This conflict between the war lords, likewise, is worrying American imperialism because with the crisis FE shek will be used to “suppress” Chinese Communists. the District F. S. U. BREMEN growing worse it needs markets THE 75° JUBILEE of Comrade MORRIS VI (The Pioneer of Jewish will be celebrated by all revolutionary workers Saturday Evening, November 22 at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Four of the Most Famous Poets from the Soviet Union are coming to extend their greetings. I, CHARIK, I. FEFER, Y. BROWNSTEIN and SH. GODINER Freiheit Gesangs Farein — Red Dancers Artef and Others Tickets on Sale at the Office of the Morning Freiheit 35 East 12th Street, New York City Prices: 50c; December 6 ACUITANIA January 17 Sailing with groups leaving for USSR Including five days in Moseow and Leningrad in care of the Von? 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