The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1930, Page 1

Build the Organize and Strike Fund of the Trade Union Unity League! Daily Central Orga (Section: of the Communist o> 2 SSAfrunist tg ienns ZWorker Party U.S.A. Jewivuond WORKERS ~ OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 277 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 _NEW YORK, WED R 19, 1930, CITY. EDITION _Price 3 Cents NESDAY, ‘NOVEMBE U.S.NAVY HEAD IN OPEN WAR THREAT AGAINST SOVIETS Rally Behind the National Signature Campaign For Jobless Insurance! SEWHERE in today’s Daily Worker we print the statement of the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance. This committee was recently formed at a conference with representatives pres- ent from twenty national workers; organizations, which included the Com- munist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated organ- izations, the National Council of the Unemployed, the International Work- ers Order, and the other: principle workers’ fraternal organizations. Their statement, issued today, marks the beginning of a concerted national drive by these organizations, embracing many thousands of workers, to force Congress, at its session beginning in December, to provide for the payment of unemployment insurance to every jobless worker. Such a concerted drive was never more necessary. Unemployment is steadily increasing. This is admitted by the United States Department of Labor and by the various State Labor Departments. @But merely to emphasize the increase in unemployment is insufficient. workers have already been jobless for months. Millions of And every additional day of unemployment for them increases their suffering, misery and despair many times. The cold of winter also increases the needs and therefore the suffering of the unemployed. The various charity schemes that have been proposed or are actually under to meet the needs of the well over 8,000,000 jobless workers. way do nof begin and cannot begin Those who are employed for only two or three days a week are but little better off. The capitalist politicians—republican, democratic and “socialist”— have already agreed to do nothing real for the unemployed. They talk about relief. They pass around a few boxes of food. They shed crocodile tears about the workers’ suffering. somehow never gets started). They promise public works (which They want a “census” of the. unemployed. They speak about “labor exchanges.” They talk and talk, and promise and promise, but there is no relief, no unemployment insurance. The National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance proposes to change this situation. They propose a united, nation-wide fight to force these lying politicians payment of. unemployment insurance. ganize local conferences throughout to stop talking and provide for the They are taking steps to or- the country before December 15th. Before January 15th these Jocal conferences are to elect delegates who will meet in Washington aboufJanuary 15th to present the workers’ demands for unemployment insurance to Congress. The demands of this delega- tion, composed of representatives from workers’ organizations in all parts of the country, is to be reinforced by millions of signatures of workers. ’ Signature lists for that purpose are already in circulation. ‘The efforts of this broad national committee which is carrying for- ‘ward the struggle for unemployment insurance deserve the support of every worker and every workers’ organization. The “socialists” and the “Musteites,” as well as the strikebreaking leaders of the A. F. of L., are following a line essentially no different from that of the republicans and democrats. They join in trying to fool the workers with talk about “an early return of prosperity,” and promises, only promises, of relief. The National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, though, can be relied upon by every worker to fight to the last ditch for ' unemployment insurance and for the other demands of the workers. Get behind the national signature drive for unemployment insurance! Build up the local conferences on the broadest possible basis! Don’t starve! Demand immediate relief in every state and locality! Fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill! More Study, But No Relief IOVERNOR, ROOSEVELT, continuing his efforts to fool and deceive the workers, yesterday announced his intention of calling a conference of governors from the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio to “study” unemployment. York Times states: The New “He explained that the proposal for the conference CON- TEMPLATED NO ACTION beyond setting on foot a thorough study to determine whether the ultimate purpose in view could not be better served through coordinated effort on the part of the indus- trial states invariably most seriously affected by financial and in- dustrial depression.” (Our emphasis.—Ed.) His proposals for discussion at this conference include not only the possibilities for free public employment bureaus, the technique of public works planning, a public fund reserve, a “study of unemployment insur- ance in its broad aspects,” etc. All of these things are only to be studied. ‘The conference is to take place in January. Commissions will then be appointed. Months will be spent in investigations—broken up, of course, by regular press statements offering good cheer and more progress to the hungry and starving. Roosevelt appointed one committee last March. Months later at the State Federation of Labor convention he promised more study. During the election campaign the “study of the possibilities for unemployment insurance” was the theme of several campaign speeches. Recently he reappointed the committee of last March with instructions that they fur- ther study the question. And now he has decided that the study must embrace more territory. We presume that Roosevelt thinks that he can get away with this “study” bluff until the democratic national convention in 1932 where he expects to be the democratic choice for president, and that then he can continue to “study” unemployment insurance throughout the national campaign, and for four years in the White House if he should be elected. The need for such long and “profound” study might lead some to be- Heve that Roosevelt is naturally dull and stupid, but such is not the ease. He thinks the workers, though, are dull and stupid. He thinks the workers will go on starving indefinitely. He thinks that the workers will forever listen to his promises. But fooled once—possibly even twice or three times. conscious that they have been fooled, look out! and fight damn hard! that point. he is mistaken. Workers can be But when they become Then, they will fight, Mahy thousands of workers have now reached They are through starving, while the Roosevelts “study.” ‘They are preparing to fight for unemployment insurance! METAL WORKERS HOLD JOBLESS MEET TOMORROW NEW YORK.—The Councils of the Unemployed and the Metal Workers’ League of the Trade Union Unity League call an out-door mass meet-~ ing tomorrow at 9:30 a. m. at the corner of Jay and Johnstone Sts., and these meetings will be continued every day thereafter. This meeting will start the organ- ization of the Unemployed Metal Workers Unemployed Council. Sam Nesin, secretary of the N. Y. Down- town Unemployed Council, the heroic leader of the Oct. 16th Unemployed Demonstration at City Hall, and the organizers of the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League will speak. From the out-door meeting the workers will go to the hall at 73 Myr- tla Ave. where the actual enrollment of the metal workers and the organ- ization of the Metal Workers’ Un- employed Council will begin. The Metal Workers’ Industrial League is conducting an entertain- ment concert and dance in New Har- lem Casino, 100 West 116th St., N. Y., on Nov. 29 to raise money for organ- ization expenses. Special attractions will be the Red Dancers, with Edith Segal, and French Creole and Negro work songs by A. Burroughs. Music by the John C. Smith Negro band. “PUBLIC ENEMY” ACT AGAINST JOBLESS. CHICAGO, Ill—A “Public Enemy” act was recently passed in Chicago. It is supposed to be used against such gangsters as Al Capone. However, the first test case of it showed its real purpose. A jobless man was tried as the “public enemy” and re- USED ceived six months in jail. SERIO VERY ILL; JUDGE DELAYS CASE Impossible for Him to Get Well on Ellis Island Bosses Want His Life Delay Right to Go to Soviet Union NEW YORK.—Demanding an im- mediate decision and release of Guido Serio from Ellis Island because of serious illness, the International La- bor Defense, throvgh its attorney, Carol Weiss King, went before Fed- eral Judge Wm. Bondy late yester- day afternoon, arguing in behalf of the militant worker who is about to be deported to Italy to face a firing squad at the hands of the fascist gov- ernment. Judge Bondy refused to grant the demands of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and delayed his decision again on the habeus corpus proceedings, Serio is now in Ellis Island with a temperature of 103 and growing worse, according to reports from vis- itors who have seen him. He is con- fined in Room 225 with all the other deportees on the island and cramped for space as there are about 100 other men in the same room with him. Un- der these conditions, the visitors re- port, it is almost impossible for him to get better. When these facts were presented to Judge Bondy, who had promised a decision on the case, and when the International Labor Defense de- manded a decision immec#ately sifice it had been held up now for months, the federal’ judge who had previously advised the department of labor to “use common sense” and permit Serio “voluntary departure’—meaning that he does not have to go to Italy but has to leave the United States—the judge seemed inclined to confer fitst | with other officials in authority. Guido Serio was arrested. in Erie, Pa., on May 11, while speaking at an anti-fascist meeting, and was imme-| diately held for deportation to Italy, | where he had been active against the black shirt government during its: (Continued on’ Page Two)” (Statement by National Campaign Committee for Unemployment In- surance: Unemployment insurance is a burn- ing necessity of the workers. More than nine million workers are out of a job, and. the number is con- stently increasing. The crisis is deep- ening and forcing more millions of the workers into the ranks of the unemployed. The basic industries of the country—steel, power, trans-/ portation and auto—are slowing down | production, so that as the winted ad- vances more millions of workers will be thrown into the streets to starve. | Suicides. insanity, collapses and death through hunger are a daily phen- omenon. “Sixty-day,” “return to prosperity.” Hoover has become an object of scorn. The employers, alarmed at the militant demonstrations of the unem- ployed led by the Communist Party aud Trade Union Unity League and seeing that the unemployed will not consent to starve but will fight, have made fake gestures of relief. The Hunger lines in capitalist America. | brass to boast about the “superiority” of the capitalist starvation systeme |in the belief that over the Soviet system of workers’ rule! funemployment insurance, on the grounds that it “lowers the dignity and independence of the American | workers.” But they see nothing hu- miliating for the workers to accept a miserable charity on the breadlines, | through the Salvation Army, through police departments that act as spies approve the methods of manufac- Jers of helping the unemployed. workers want no charity—we con- demn these fake schemes of relief— we demand unemployment insurance and will fight for it. | The capitalists and their govern- jacks, tear gas and machine guns. And the bosses still have the \idate the unemployed. But they have capitalists in fear that the demon- | clearly cannot meet the situation and | ployed councils led by revolutionary \z | workers have organized the masses | official since Secretary strations of the past months will be | duplicated manifold in militancy and numbers, have begun a ceaseless flow of talk about unemployment, have | proposed building programs that! | been badly mistaken, for the unem- | | have organized charity relief. | turers to dock the wages of the work- | We | ment have given us night sticks, black | Jobless Insurance Must Be Won! PRATT CALLS FOR “BASIC” FIGHT ONUSSR jand clubbers on the workers. They Follows a4 Geriar State- ment Made by Wilbur Workers to Answer ‘Huge Demonstration They have sent our leaders to jail| t this would intim- | in N.Y. Thursday NEW YORK —The war plot moves forward against the Soviet Union. ts frankest expression and the most of the In- The capitalists and their agents in |of unemployed and have continued | terior Wilbur's careful announcement | the working class, the fascist leaders | the fight with increasing militancy. of the American Federation of Labor.| Side by side with the campaign reject the demand of the workers for| (Continued on Page Three) WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM, NOV. 30 Bedacht Lectures First On the Crisis NEW YORK.—The Workers School announces that it is opening its reg- ular open forum this year on Sun- day, Nov. 30, at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, The} Workers School Open Forum has be- come a tradition with the workers of | New York. Each year on consecu- | tive Sundays running through the | winter months, the’ most prominent | leaders of the revolutionary labor movement lead discussions on current | topics of vital interest. The widest | latitude is allowed at these forums | for discussion and questions. The leaders of the struggles of the work- | ing class. discuss with the workers on | these occasions all the important problems of the class struggle. ‘The first of the series of important topics to be discussed at the Forum | will be “The crisis of capitalism, and the American workers” discussion led by Max Bedacht, head of the na- tional agitation-propaganda depart- ment of the Communist Party and director of the Workers School. Dubinsky, Hillman Agree With Walker for WorkWithout Wage Will Make Needle Workers Produce Clothing “For Jobless” and Save Bosses Expense of Giving Relief; NEW YORK.—Dubinsky of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers and Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers met with Mayor ‘Walker yesterday and agreed to force the needle workers who still have jobs to make clothing for nothing for the jobless. The city administration and the company union heads much prefer this real wage-cut to what the militant unions and the Councils of of the Unemployed demand, that the city government shall use the $200,- 000,000 it has appropriated for the bankers this year, and other millions given the police department, to pay each jobless worker relief at the rate of $25 a week. While the company union heads, were selling out the workers and swindling the jobless with Mayor Walker, several hundred unemployed dressmakers met in the\hall of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and organized a dressmakers’ council of the unemployed. The coun- cil will fight for the 7-hour day and 5-day week, support the coming dress strike and fight for unemployment insurance and against evictions otf the jobless. Jobless Organize. At the same time 200 jobless work- ers, mostly from men’s clothing trades, met in Manhattan Lyceum at the call of the Industrial Union, and organ- ized another unemployed council. The dressmakers’ council will meet regularly every Monday and Thurs- day afternoons at 131 W. 28th St. at 2 p.m. The men’s clothing council will meet every Tuesday at 2 p. in Manhattan Lyceum for full re- ports and to make plans for struggle. Tomorrow, at 2 p. m,, there will be a meeting for unemployed fur work- ers in 131 W. 28th St. All should come. ™.|to other cleaning establishments, to Jobless Organize NEWARK LAUNDRY DRIVERS STRIKE Walk Out - When Two Fired; TUUL Active NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 18—The drivers of Perfect Laundry Co. of Newark went out on strike yesterday morning against firing of two drivers as part of the wage-cutting and speeding that the bosses are carry- ing on, taking advantage of the un- mployment situation due to the eco- nomic crisis created by the boss system, As soon as the workers walked out spontaneously against the firing of their two comrades, the bosses hired scabs to man their trucks; among these scabs is one by the name of John Wysochansky, member of the ‘Ukrainian fascist organization “Obra- | na Ukraina” who has made the scab- bing a profession; he scabbed in the baby carriage strike too. The A. F. of L. fakers have been snooping around to get control of the strike and sell it out as they have | done with the strikes before, but the workers are rightfully suspicious. The Trade Union Unity League organizer, John Kasper, speaking to these strikers urged them to imme- diately get on the job picketing, spreading the strike to the rest of the 80 workers in the shop as well as organize and affiliate to the T. U. U. L. and win the strike. The Trade Union Unity League headquarters is located at 93 Mercer St., Newark, N. J., and all the work- ers are invited to come over. Spain General Strike Spurs Revolt; Socialists Betray LUMBER BARONS | ists which changes its government by AFL FAKERS AID Workers Shout “Long Reds Jailed; Militant of Workers Against Socialists BULLETIN. A late United Press cable from Barcelona, Spain, states that “Po- lice and strike rioters battled in the streets of Barcelona today and seores fell as heavy firing sounded throngh the city.” Four were killed and at least forty injured. The situation is growing more tense, | with fighting spreading throughout the city. NEW YORK.—A state of siege is| impending throughout Spain as the) | general strike, which began in Ma- drid, and spread to Barcelona and pha important industrial centers is ssuming revolutionary aspects. A United Press dispatch from Bar- celona states that the Berenguer fascist government has ordered the arrest of all Communists leading the strike as well as other “extremist leaders.” Armed clashes took place through- out the night on Monday in Bar- celona. Thé army headquarters are being prepared for battle in the event the strike continues and develops into a revolutionary struggle. Masses of workers at many points in Barcelona called for the overthrow not only of the monarchy and fas- cism but for the establishment of a Soviet government. “Long live the | Soviets! Long live the Soviet Union! Down with Spanish capitalism!” are | cries frequently heard. Communists | held numerous mass meetings urg-| ing the workers to overthrow fas-) cism and establish a workers’ rule. ‘The general strike in Barcelona is getting a more complete grip on the city all the time. Coaling of ships in the harbor has been stopped. The passage of automobiles in the} street is being stopped by the strikers. | Strikes are going on in Seveille, Ciudad Real, Malaga, Mieres, Cor-| doba, Antequera. | In the general strike in Barcelona the socialists are attempting to be-| tray the workers and call off the strike, The great majority of the| strikers are under the leadership of the “indicato Unico, which the capi- inight at 1800-7th Ave. Live Soviets!” Many) Local Unions Smash Union Wins Support Anti-Soviet Attack NEW YORK.—The fascist leader-| heed in the Mississippi S H. EISMAN SAILS a month ago that the Soviet and |own | ship of the American Federation of | fits State Feder-|now on a world-wide scale, and de- mn of Labor, openly supported the | \enpte manufacturers by introducing Resolution No. 15 calling for an em- FOR USSR TODA Banquet for Him To- country. |paganda regarding “convict labor” suffered a defeat however by the NEW YORK.—Harry Eisman, @ rank and file of the local unions in Young Pioneer, just released from the | reforraalory, Saburday, where he was | Joiners, the workers refusing to sup- | port the bosses’ agents and the fas- cist policies of the A. F. of L. bu-| reaucracy. the N. ‘7 Carpenters District Coun- cil, Mr. Fred Simcoe, the American lumber manufacturers spokesman, was introduced by O. Wilson, a Dis- trict Council official, known among the rank and file of carpenters as a faker, grafter and drunkard who is trict Council machine which got into office by “fixed” elections, this reac- tionary “clique” stand exposed as the bosses’ agents. The Carpenters District Council allied with the Tam- | a f i + the many Hall machine, adopted Reso-| imprisoned for participating in |lution No. 15 of the lumber bosses. March 6th Unemployment Demon | gut when this was referred to the] Pe Soee roan ane | membership, the rank and file of Lo- | | Street Pier, for the Soviet Union. Eisman was released only on the and repudiated its stand | ground that he go into voluntary e tile in the Soviet Union. He was in- vited to the Soviet Union by the ance of its Young Pioneers, as a guest. the Soviet Union, N. Y. Dist. This evening, at 1800 Seventh Ave., a banquet and concert has been ar- ranged as a final greeting to Harry tickets for the mass meeting which before he leaves for the U.S.S.R. Harry many workers and workers’ children in Philadelphia on Wednesday night at a big mass meeting where he Local 2090 has just sent in assur- | 15th St. and Irving Place. F. S. U. conference. capitalist differences must be solved |by a “fundamental struggle,” came lene Admiral Pratt Friday. The capitalist press comment on |Pratt’s declaration is as follows: “There could be no hope for lasting world peace as long as one group ex- revolution, and another group exists that believes in war, revolution, or any means, fair or foul, to spread its conception of social order throughout the world.” The admiral’s description American imperialism, exactly looting termined to set up on a pinnacle of bayonets its “own conception of so- \cial order,” that is, capitalist mas- tery over slave populations. But the bargo against Soviet lumber in this! admiral made it clear that he was Matthew Woll’s lying pro-| referring to (slandering and threat- ening) the Soviet Union. An Administration Statement. Admiral William V. Pratt is Chief the Brotherhood of Carpenters and of Naval Operations, practically head lof the U. S. navy. His speech was When the resolution came before | building himself a pleasure yacht out | of the funds of the workers. The Dis- | read for him by Captain Arthur Eberle, chief of staff of the First |Naval District, a very important of- |fice, also. It was read in Boston to the Institute of International Prob- lems of the United States. Such & formal statement, delivered under such circumstances, is by navy rules, never under any circumstances issued unless it is the policy of the national administration, and has previously been approved by the responsible cabinet officer, or his master, the president. This statement is espe- cially significant, following, as it does, on the heels of an almost similar |statement by Secretary of the In- | terior Wilbur. Wilbur’s Attack, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur stated in a speech on October 8: “One of the great peoples of the |cals 2090 and 2717 protested against earth is deliberately trying to work |the action of the District Council |out large-scale social and economic programs for the mastery of its vast terrain along new and untried lines. support to the Friends of |Out economic and political philoso= Ton-|Phies inevitably must wage a gigan- | ference which takes place this Thurs-|tic and fundamental struggle with |day, November 20th, and ordered 50) theirs.” This open war menace is obviously jopens immediately after the confer- | dictated by the expressed fear of the Eisman was welcomed by|ence at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza, | capitalist rulers of the United States Local 2090|and other imperialist countries that was also represented at the previous the U. S. S. R. will be made impreg- All unions, fra-,nable by the success of the Five Year | spoke. talist papers say is led by Commu: nists. A cable dispatch to the New York (Continued on Page Three) ternal organizations, clubs and sh3/Plan, and that when the oppressed, re urged to sen@ delegates to the | wage-cut, unemployed masses of the conference in defense of the First |capitalist countries see the tremen- | Workers’ Republic. Speakers include: |dous advance of the workers in the Anna Louise Strong, M. J. Olgin, I.| Soviet Union, they will demand such Amter. |@ system for themselves. Workers Must Rally to Fight New Wave of Bosses’ Terror WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18.— The Fish committee will bring in a} bill for a federal secret anti-labor spJy service and will propose a rigid | deportation system, probably involv- ing registration, for foreign-born workers. It is probably going to pro- pose embargo of Soviet products. ‘These facts came out yesterday in interviews released by Hamilton Fish, Jr., congressman from New York and head of the “House of Rep- resentatives Committee to Investigate Communism in America.” The statements by Fish are the Fish to Propose U. S. Anti-Labor Secret Service; More Deportations Against the war program of the bosses the workers must mobilize and fight! The next round is the New | (Continued on Page Three) Circulation conference between Fish and Hoover yesterday preceded them. New Wave of Terror. This is all in direct line with the administration policy of giving the jobless bullets instead of bread, clubs, blackjacks, deportations and jail sen- tences to try to whip them into line for the next war. To save profits Hoover does not only lie about im- provement of conditions, but he is planning laws to back up the terror that has atte started. Against this new terror supported by the Fish committee bills the job- Jess and the exploited workers who still have jobs must unite for a still greater struggle. “Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts,” build the militant unions of the Trade Union Policies of the Hoover regime and a Unity League, build the unemployed councils, collect a million signatures for the Workers’ Unemployment In- | surance Bill, build the Communist Party! While congress proposes to | outlaw the workers’ organizations, | |rally in force*to demand of it that Jit feed the starving jobless! ‘The bosses and the government join in | the drive to make the workers starve | on or off the jobs, and the menace | |must be met! Report Today More boss favors for work- ers are indicated by the re- mark of the city’s sham relief dispenser: “We will endeavor to have large groups of employed per- sons authorize the treasurers of their companies to deduct a certain amount from their pay and contribute it.” A Propaganda Stunt. | The policy of the committee is ex- | actly that it began with, as over and) ever again exposed in the columns of the Daily Worker. The policy was plain to see merely from the line of questioning used by Fish and the other congressmen on the committee. The formality of an “investigation” is revealed as just a fake, intended to create propaganda for the bills al- (Continued on Page Three) Smash boss sadling of the crisis load on the workers’ back. Build the 60,009 circu- lation for the Daily Worker. Full tables on circulation for each district on page 3.