The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1930, Page 1

| | | Build the Organize and Strike Fund of the Trade Union Unity League! Dail Central Orga Ze) Fruit Party U.S.A. WORKERS ' OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) = =3 Vol. VII. No. 275 Entered ss second-class matter at the Post Oftice at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YO RK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930 CITY EDITION ‘Price 3 Cents “Industry First!” H H. BROACH, International president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, affiliated to the A. F. of L., recently made a speech before the Bureau of Personnel Administration which should serve as an eye-opener for every worker, especially for those still in the A. F. of L. But first, what is this Bureau of Personnel Administration? It is an organization created by America’s biggest corporations—Western Union Telegraph Co., Gillette Razor Co., American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Studebaker Corporation, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., Swift & Co., and dozens of others—for the purpose of training business managers who can more ruthlessly exploit the workers. Managers or perspective managers are sent to the course which the Bureau conducts at a cost of $50 per person, this expense being borne by the corporations. Well, on November 6th, H. H. Broach of the electrical workers’ union, was the star performer before this gang of bosses. His subject was: “How Changing Managerial Policies and Changing Industrial Conditions Are Compelling Trade Unions to Alter Their Methods and Policies.” In his speech he made the following significant statement: “The industry must come first—not the union. The industry is as much ours (!) as the employers! . . . I do not deny the exist- ence of the class struggle. But you cannot build anything on it.” According to Broach, then, the “trade unions must alter their methods and policies” to conform to his theory that “industry must come first,” that it is “as much ours as the employers” and that “you cannot build anything on” the class struggle. This speech certainly must have glad- dened the hearts of the corporation managers there present. But for the workers what does it mean? If the view that “industry must come first—not the union” is accepted then the present policy of mass lay-offs, wage cuts, speed-up, part-time work, etc., are endorsed, because all these are “necessary” if one considers only the profits of in- dustry. And when he speaks of industry being “ours” the jobless work- ers who are cold and hungry and haven't seen an “industry” for months will hardly be convinced of their ownership. The same applies to those who are working two or three days a week for starvation wages. His whole speech was plainly one for the bosses. The workers themselves will answer the’ Broaches, the Greens and the Wolls on the effectiveness of the class struggle. They see that the A. F. of L. fakers’ policy of “industry first!” has resulted only in increased profits for the capitalists and increased misery for the workers. ‘They are learning through bitter experiences—through unemployment, wage cuts, hunger and starvation—that they must organize, not in the bosses’ A. F. of L. unions, but in the revolutionary, fighting unions of the Trade Union Unity League. By organization, strikes, demonstrations and the broadest mass struggles—and only by these methods—the workers will fight and win their demands from the bosses. The Geneva Farce ENEVA is now the scene of another session of the Preparatory Dis- armament Commission of the League of Nations. We have forgotten i BIG GROWTH General Strike In Spain VOTE MASS VIOLATION | IN JOBLESS DURING OCT. 11,000 Wait Hours in Line For Jobs in | Cleveland | 2 Collapse; Starving | More than 100,000 Lost Jobs During Oet. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 16.—More | than 11,000 unemployed workers} waited in line here for hours to “reg- | ister” for temporary work which the city has promised. On a previous occasion nearly 10,000 workers ap- plied for these temporary jobs and only a few hundred were taken on at very low wages and for a few) days. | Hundreds of police guarded the | lines as the mass of workers began | to troop in during the early hours of | the morning hoping to get a ew dol- lars to keep them from starving to death. Two workers collapsed of hunger while waiting to register. One was Frank Minnich, 30 years old. He had not eaten for a number of days. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—One day after the Department of Labor hadj} issued a statement, widely published | in the capitalist press, that employ- {ment remained “stable” during Oct., | figures published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the very depart- ment show a huge increase in unem- ployment in all industries for Oc- | tober. | In manufacturing industries alone Threatens Socialists and Republi Discontent to Establish Bourgeois Gov't; Soldiers Prepare For Armed Struggle Armed struggles of the masses of workers and the Berenguer fascist troops, backed by the monarchy, are on the verge of culmination as the result of a general strike in Spain, according to capitalist press reports from Madrid. Following a clash of 50,000 workers and police in Madrid on Saturday, on the occasion of the funeral of four workers killed in a building col- lapse, a general strike was called, completely paralyzing trade and in- | dustry in the capitol of Spain, as/ well as in many other sections of the country. Meanwhile, the republican geoisie, with the aid of the social- ists, are attempting to gain the lead- ership of the mass discontent among the workers to supplant the mon- archy with a bourgeois “democratic” government. The Spanish cabinet at a meeting Saturday night ordered the mobifiza- tion of all the armed forces in the country and the preparation for a militay siege against the masses. bour- | Fascist Rule cans Try to Use Mass OF JIM CROW LAWS AT | ~| §T. LOUIS CONVENTION | “Agreement”; to | NEW YORK, Nov. Treaty, which in itself provided for dispatch from Geneva to the New This cable states: Mey Go O-GETHER é | Ow “The policy of the United St | | Martial law will be declared. | The soldiers and police have been | | given extra rounds of ammunition | General Enrique Marzo, minister of | (Continued on Page Three) today’s session of the Preparatory TELGREEN PICKETS HELD TO SPECIAL SESSIONS TRIAL Workers Will Continue to Violate Injunction NEW YORK.—Thirty-five arrested | same liberty to spend unlimited a | terrible beating when seen the | picket line. The cop who clubbed be Discussions at Geneva show that Naval Treaty Smashing Up-- Arms Race Spurs ‘War’ Fever Imperialist Rivalries Breaks London Naval Amounts” On Navies 16—A complete smash-up of the London Naval sider any limitation of its war expenditures bore what is expected | to be costly fruit for the three London naval treaty powers in fruit took the shape of its other partners in the naval treaty, Britain and Japan, announcing they reserved for themselves the National Anti Lynch Convention for Death to All Lynchers | 78 Delegates Present \Demands Liquidation | of Debts, Mortgages By CYRIL BRIGGS ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 16.— After militant reports and thorough dis- cussion, the National Anti-Lynch= ing Convention called here by the American Negro Labor Congress has | gone on record for mass violation of all Jim Crow iaws, for liquidation of ‘ Nae | debts and mortgages of the Negro Dea rpameny Comets: Tune | poor farmers, and for infliction of {the death penalty on lynchers. The convention was electrified by the demands for the right of self determination and confiscation of the farm land in the “Black Belt” as the Spend “Unlimited a huge armament race, is told in a York Times by Clarence K. Streit. ates in steadily refusing to con- mounts on navies.” the drive towards war has been re- | | him into a mass of bruises had to be | restrained from beating him up again } right in the court room during the! | bearine. To justify this brutality, | the police have decided to fasten the | charge of breaking the Zelgreen cafe- teria .plate glass window on Hari. | They falsely accuse him of throwing | ;@ rock at it, and charge him with | “felonious assault” because the police beat. him up. Alex Hanarian, arrested with the | ceiving tremendous impetus, and that no fake treaties by the imperialist powers in any way limits the huge armament race. Hoover's talk about. “peace” and “‘limitation” of armaments is the sheerest bunk to blind the masses to the rapidly approaching World War. Harry Eisman Is | “ 99 Greeted Here, Will ALL QUIE IN Speak at Passaic PRI - NEW YORK. — Two. thousand | REPORT only solution for lynching and op= presion of the Negroes. Delegates besides reporting the un= precedented terror being waged against Negro workers and farmers, the discrimination and peonage in- ficted upon them, told of the growing revolt of Southern Negroes against starvation. There are frequent at- tacks on stores and on freight trains in Georgia, Sonducted by groups of | the starving. original 36, was not a picket but be- | workers and workers’ children gath- |Wall St. Ambassador Blacklists Reds | Yesterday six workers, two of them came involved when he passed by and|ered in New York Sunday to greet (Continued on Page Three) the exact number of sessions previously held, but we think that this is saw police beating up men and| Harry Eisman militant young fighter | the sixth or seventh. Its expressed purpose is to prepare plans for gen- there was a drop of 1.4 per cent in/at the Zelgreen cafeteria, where on| workers employed. This does not|Thursday hundreds of workers and) \ eral and complete disarmament which can be submitted to an interna- | Cover the hundreds of thousands wha | jobless demonstrated in mass viola- eer agree? lerianey aie | Seer eee: aaiary. sine! Reports from Washington, trans- Ro Gt dicaccihent eoNterebee oF Saklone: ‘were put on part-time employment. | tion of the injunction, are in jain) Was 8 attacked and arrested. | Reformatory on Saturday. The | aa hd eee Sesh a OVER 2.000 RED |Payrolls were cut heavily also. | waiting trial before ‘special sessions | #8 denunciation of the police bru-| workers cheered kone ranayeniesid Se ¥ 1 9 At each session, however, the delegates from the Soviet: Union have submitted plans for complete disarmament which embraced every branch of military, naval and auxiliary services but these were summarily re- jected. No other such proposals have been submitted by the capitalist nations. On the contrary the Geneva sessions of the “Preparatory Dis- armament Commission,” instead of leading to “disarmament,” have only stimulated the building of larger navies, bigger armies, more airplanes, etc. The present session is no exception to the rule. Saturday's session, though, was interesting precisely because it not only exposed the fakery of the Geneva conference, but especially the fakery of the London Naval “Disarmament” Conference héld last spring. "There, our readers will remember, the claim was made that the naval race between the United States, Great Britain and Japan had been stopped by virtue of the London Treaty. One of the big campaign claims of Hoover was the “achievements” of the London conference. Now, the discussion at Geneva, according to the New York Times correspondent, has brought out the fact that: “The London treaty by limiting only the quantity of the three navies (and then only by setting this “limit” far above the size of existing navies—Editor.) stopped only one form of compe- tition and left the door wide open to another form of competi- tion, TO GET THE UTMOST FIGHTING POWER BY SPEND- ING THE UTMOST TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY PER TON.” Furthermore, beginning first with the United States, each of the three signatories to the London treaty categorically refused to consider any limitation on the amount of money to be spent in building the ships provided for in that treaty. The correspondent says: “The United States maintained its previous flat refusal to close this door (to limit expenditures—Ed.) The British and Japanese announcements today were to the effect that in these circumstances they, too, must keep the door open to unlimited expenditures as far as navies were concerned.” These statements reflect clearly the sharpness of the present an- tagonisms between the imperialist powers. These are plainly declara- tions of their intentions to speed up the naval armament race, to spend still more money for armaments. It. is an indication of the speed at which the world is heading for a new imperialist war. For the workers this is important from two angles. First, in the war which these imperialists are planning, the workers will be called upon to do the fighting—and dying—in order that the wealth, profits, foreign trade, colonies, investments, etc., of the capitalists may be protected. And sec- ond, while the United States spends billions of dollars for battle ships, cruisers and other implements of war—for which the masses must also pay—millions of workers are hungry and starving with no unemployment insurance and not even emergency relief. The workers, therefore, must strive to prevent another world-wide catastrophe such as drowned the world in blood from 1914 to 1918. They must fight to eliminate the mass suffering which now exists among the workers by insisting on the transfer of the billions of dollars that are now being spent for war preparations into a fund to feed, clothe and house the jobless workers. They must organize and prepare now to fight against war! They must organize and fight now against wage cuts and for im- mediate unemployment insurance. Forward with the campaign for a million signatures demanding that the U. S. Congress grant unemployment insurance!» Fight for the Un- employment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party! BLDG. PROGRAM ~ HOAX SMASHED BUFFALO, Nov. 16.—The hoax of @ speeded-up public works building program was smashed here when Mayor Charles E. Roesch ordered a slashing of all building projects to save taxes for the bosses. At a meeting of the City Planning Commission, Mayor Roesch declared that the main principle was “to keep down taxation.” “We have no lati- tude for expenditures of municipal funds for projects which dre desir- able but which sannot pass the test of absolute necessity,” he said. In fact, the public works building program is being cut to the bone, and, instead of aiding the unemployed sit- uation, as Hoover so fantastically told the workers, it is increasing un- employment. The same situation is true in all cities, where the bosses are demanding tax reductions and not increases to finance any building pro- grams to aid unemployment. In the federation government bil- lions are being spent for war pur- poses and the building program is being. slashed to save the bosses taxes, . cg In other places, excluding indus- | tries, there was a drop of 1.2 per cent; in employment. Decreases for tne} most important sections of industry | were as follows: Manufacturing, 1.4 per cent drop; metal mining, 1.2 per | cent; quarrying 3.4 per cent; tele-| phone and telegraph, 2.4 per cent; power light-water 0.4 per cent; hotels | 2.6; while in canning there was a! | 33.2 per cent decrease. ‘The Labor Department index of | employment which in Oct. 1929 stood | at 3 was, at the end of October,| 1930 at 78.6; payrolls last October were 102.3; the present index for payrolls is 72.7—a drop of 29.4! The Department of Labor figures are not an accurate guide to the tremendous growth of unemploy- ment, as they cover specially select- ed factories, and the reports are handed in by the bosses at their own will. Yet even with these juggled figures the bosses cannot get around the fact that more than 100,000 workers were thrown out of work during October alone, adding to the ranks of the 9,000,000 who were with- out jobs before Oct. According to the Department of Labor figures since last October, nearly 20 per cent of the workers have lost their jobs. SPEED-UP TRAPS WORKERS POTRERILLOS,° Chile—Terricic speed-up and faulty, cheap construc- tion caused the death of one worker and seriously injured twelve others in the mines of the Chile Copper Co. Saturday. The immediate cause of the “accident” was a rock slide. court on charges based on the no- torious “Paragraph 600” of the New York penal code which provides a) prison sentence for violation of an! injunction. One case out of the orig- inal 36 was dismissed. Meanwhile active organization of | even bigger demonstrations against the anti-strike and anti-picketing in- | junctions go on. The Trade Union| Unity Council leads the struggle to: win the right to strike through its special “Smash-the-Injunctions Com- | mittee.” Trial Without Jury. When the 36 came up for hearing before Magistrate Jessie Silberman in Jefferson Market Court, the attorney for the A. F. L. union Locals 302 and Waiters No. 1, tried to have them first tried there for “contempt of court,” figuring to get them a double | sentence by having them tried later) under Paragraph 600. After an argu- ment between the A. F. L. attorney, Jonah Goldstein, and. Jacques Buit- enkant for the International Labor Defense, representing the 36, the judge threw all the cases with one exception over to special sessions for the Paragraph 600 trial. They will come up Tuesday or Wednesday. Be- | fore special sessions, they do not get | a trial by jury, but only by a battery of Tammany judges. The court seems to be a unique New York institution, and has given 60 and 90 day sen- tences to many pickets on the charge | these workers face. Beat Japanese Worker. A second charge has been made of | tality was so vivid that the judge tried to exclude him from the defense by dismissing the charge. JOBLESS FIGHT EVICTION TODAY. the Wall Street ambassadwr to Peru, Morris Dearing, state that the gen- eral strike “appears to have been called off.” No details were given | when Harry got up to speak. Among the. other speakers were I. member of the Mareh 6th Unem- ployed Delegation, Tyler, Negro | worker, for the I.L.D., Minerich for A general strike was called through- the Y.C.L. and a Pioneer speaker. | out Peru following the murder of 14 Harry will sail on Wednesday night | Indian miners in Mal Pasco on the for the Soviet Union. In the evening ; occasion of a miners’ congress which a farewell concert has been arranged was preparing for a strike of the for him at the Unity Cooperative, at | copper miners in American and Brit- 1800 7th Ave. |ish owned copper mines. Amter, VOTES IN TENN. Socialists Admit They Exaggerated Badly NEW YORK.—It is still impossible to give reports in full on the Com- | at 553 Saratoga Ave. | |notified him that he will be evicted | 7°39 P- ™ Save Home for Worker Out of Job For Year NEW YORK.—Unemployed work- | ers, especially ex-service men, and| militant employed workers are called by the Councils of the Unemployed to struggle today in Brooklyn. Max Kaplan, an ex-service man, a shoe worker with a wife and child, | but no job for about a year owes two|1 Pp. m., at Irving Plaza Hall | months’ rent on his family’s lodgings building workers are invited. Harry will speak in Passaic at 25 Dayton Ave., on Tuesday, at 6 p. m jand in Paterson the same night at | Union Hall, 205 Paterson St., at | Building Workers to Hear RLU Delegate NEW YORK.—The delegate of the | building trades workers in U. S. to the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions will make a report on the-congress to a mass meeting Saturday, Nov. 22, at All The boss, Wiezenthall, who owns this building and another next to it, and has 26 tenants in 553 alone, has Threats of sending gunboats and) munist vote in this election, every marines fro mSan Lorenzo to Pert obstacle is being placed in the way were quieted down by the State De- of collecting even partial reports. partment when this caused wide- | However, all partial reports received spread resentment a the masses so far show double or triple or even in Peru. greater increases in the Communist Ambassador Dea‘ on «ported to vote, except for very few, which still the state departmen: that he handed | show increases of a substantial per= a list of Communists res:sonsible for centage the general strike whch tied UP| present information shows 2,000 Hearst and other an-owned and probably more Communist votes : : __,|in Tennessee, for the Negro Commu- Meanwhile, most of the imperialist | ist candidate ior senator, Bell. lackeys of the mining companies! ‘the ‘Tennessee capitalist press have evacuated the sections of the makes a general statement that there Andean mountains in which the | yere “several thousand votes for the clashes took place between police and | Gommunists. When it is remembered miners. | that there were only a couple of hun- copper mines in Peru. today. The jobless, led by the Council of the Unemployed. will demonstrate at 553 Satatoga Ave. today at noon, and will picket all day. A second demon- stration will be held at 5:30 p. m. Defies Cops, POLAND GETS ANOTHER LOAN., By R. WOODS WARSAW, Poland.— Negotiations (Secretary of Unemployed Council) have been almost completed here DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 16.—Peter with the Swedish-American Match | Stankass, unemployed for several Co. for a loan of $30,000,000, accord- | Months was evicted from his home| Katsuo Hari, a Japanese worker who was singled out by the police for a ing to a statement by the minister | 0" 17231 Moran, for not being able of finance. * | to pay rent for two months. He im- | mediately notified the Unemploy- P Big Wave of Suicides as Jobless Grow Desp Boss Press Fails to) Report Hundreds of Others NEW YORK.—Because her two babies were hungry, her husband having been out of work for a long time, Mrs. Irene Elliott, 34 years old, attempted to kill herself and her two children Wednesday. She put her babies, Stuart, 3, and Doris, 18 months old, to bed and turned on the gas. George Elliott, the father, returned from a fruitless search for work and discovered them in time to have them revived by a pulmotor squad. He has been out of work for a year. . . NEW YORK.—Morris Appeal, 42, a construction engineer, poisoned himself when he could not find work and faced death by starvation. He had been unemployed for a number of months. All attempts to find uaa ete = erate, Facing Starvatio jment Council, 3014 Yemans. Ten minutes later fifteen members of the Council were on the spot, while the furniture was sti!l being moved ov. John Marr, secretary of the Council | calle dthe onlooking workers together and asked them if they were going work failed. Appeal was not a mili- tant worker. BUFFALO.—Nathan Weiss, unem- ployed, 24 years of age, attempted to kill himself by turning on the gas a few days ago. His landlady dis- covered the odor of gas and pre- vented his suicide attempt. Weiss, before his death attempt, willed his body to the City of Buf- falo, “who ask of me, unemployed and broke, a $12 license fee and $100 bond in order to peddle apples.” ree PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 12.—Jo- seph Drusin, 39, unemployed, father of eight children, hung himself when he was discovered stealing a loaf of bread to feed his hungry children. Drusin has been jobless for nearly a year. He stole the bread, but was riscovered in the act. His body was found hanging in the cellar of his home in Indiana township. ae ar DETROIT.—George A. Anderson, 48, out of work for a long time, shot. himself on Noy. 7 in the kitchen of ‘ — as to let the landlord get aawy with | his home at 17789 Omira Ave., when| these evictions without putting up he spent his last dollar. He hadja fight. The answer of the workers been despondent because he could| was action. They immediately went not find a job and faced starvation.| up to the door which the constable | was just looking and smashed it These mew suicide attempts and | ping Pe ae biel Be hae workers y | suicides do not begin to tell the whole | brushed the constable aside and pro- | story. Hundreds of workers every ceeded to put the furniture back in day throughout the United States| its place. Two scout-cars with police kill themselves in desperation be- C#me around but when they saw the | cause they cannot get w | militant mood of the workers they | if ts organ tod. did not dare interference. | Many hundreds die of starvation. | Hold Meeting Never does a line of unemployed | After the job was finished a meet- workers form anywhere, either wait-| ing wes held right from the poreh | ing for slop or to “register” for Jobs, | of the house. Marr, Mary Himofft when a few dozen do not drop from | and other members of the Council | hunger and starvation. spoke and urged 75 to 100 workers} This winter conditions will be much| to join the Unemployed Council. | worse. Only by fighting as a class| While the meeting was going on, a can the workers force the bosses to| moving van came around to take the give them relief. This method of! furniture to a storage. But the eliminating the unemployed, by sui-| workers told the movers that what cide, pleases the bosses. Don't starve! | they put back stays put and the van Fight! Demand relief! Demand the | drove off empty. passage of the Unemployment In- Put Back 5 Per Day surance Bill! Write to the Daily| While this was going on Ferry Hall Worker! Council was putting back another Detroit Unemployed Council |dred Red votes in the 1923 election in this state, the radicalization of the Negro and white workers and poor . . farmers is evident. Stops Eviction Reports from Maryland show about 1,200 Red votes in the state, double the number of the 1928 election. colored family on Hastings street.| The Socialist New Leader, which In this manner two and three and | published glowing. front page ace sometimes five families a day are put counts of “175,000 socialist votes in back in the house by the unemployed | New York State,” now, in an incon- councils. As a result the councils |Spicuous paragraph in the inside are growing fast, A campaign is now , Pages admits (last issue) that it was being prepared throughout the city “misinformed.” The socialists now to develop rent strikes. The councils Claim only 108,000 votes for the state are sending committees from house Of New York, in comparison with to house to prepare the workers for | 175,000 votes they. got for Norman a real struggle for free rent for the Thomas in New York City alone last unemployed and lower rents for the Year. Their vote has in general employed workers. | fallen off in all industrial and mining | Sections. The workers are finding DIES FOR TAKING LOAF | : FOR 4 HUNGRY CHILDREN n 00 Driv PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 16.— I 60,0 c Caught stealing a loaf of bi | si ncaa aaa Al Smith, unwittingly gives for his four motherless children, 100 ar f Joseph Drusin, 39, of Rural Ridge i i ration Rae Pa —a small mining town—hanged | Sc RRNeNig hl Sela himself rather than be brought fate vee a ee * eee | uil column of grad> A blah: Challenges Fly “The great trouble is that when a crisis of this kind comes upon us we seem to run around in circles.” . | For years Drusin had worked in the Monarch Fuel Co. mine but in the end was made a victim of “economy.” After months of job- lessness, Drusin could listen no longer to the pleas of his hungry | children and thought that to steal | a loaf of bread would not be such | a crime as letting them starve. The boss stampede is in- tedéd to give the jobless a picture of excited activity for relief to stave off real work- ing class action. Much suffering is going on in} Hasten the the mining towns of Pennsylvania. | with 60,000 Rural Ridge, near Parnassus | the Daily Worker. The air where the big mine disaster took is full of new challenges. place but two years ago, has not Campaign news page 3. worked steady time for years. | ¢ t mobilization circulation for r