The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1930, Page 1

SPEED. THE Take Out a List and Sign Up E | COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Daily Central =Wo he-Csrnunict ee | MD the Communist International) (Section of Vol. VIL. No. 279 at New York, N. Entered as second-class. matter at the Post Office ¥., under the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930 Mr. Hyde Is “Carried Away” RTHUR M. HYDE is Secretary of Agriculture, an important member of Hoover's cabinet. When he makes a public declaration, most par- ticularly when it is not repudiated by Hoover, Hyde's statements may certainly be taken as the opinion of the United States Government. Hyde made a speech to 800 representatives of land grant colleges and other agricultural “leaders” on Tuesday at Washington, which was suppressed by the great press associations, but was reported by Ray ‘Tucker, Washington correspondént of the N. Y. Telegram. Hyde’s speech was a war speech, a cait to arms against the Soviet Union. He threw aside the ‘prepared speech which some subordinate had written for him, and was “carried away,” as he admitted afterward, into an attack on the Soviet Union on the rather vague claim that the Soviet has “crucified American idealism, our religious principles, our theory of individual enterprise.” Yesterday, two days afterward, Hyde confirms this as opinion, though conceding that he was “carried away.” audience state that he “almost wept.” Obviously, an experienced and mature, not to say a rotten capi- talist politicians, is not bursting into tears over “idealism” or “religious principles.” And it is precisely because there were more material reasons that Hyde threw away his prepared speech and in frenzy, launched an attack on the Soviet Union. His speech in conjunction with the anti- Soviet speeches of Hoover at King’s Mountain, Secretary Wilbur's speech in Michigan and Admiral Pratt’s saber-rattling talk, constitute a plain program of war, armed intervention and invasion of the Soviet Union on the part of the United States Government. ‘ Without going into the possible outcome, we wish to point out why Mr. Hyde was “carried away.” He had been trying to defend the buying of 100,900,000 bushels of wheat by the Farm Board. (It seems that in this assembly the extent of the purchases of wheat came out of its former secrecy.) shese purchases were made as a desperate effort to “organize” what is essentially capitalist anarchy in production, which Hyde had to admit was “the law of the jungle.” But it is also the law of capitalaism, and | all the schemes of Hyde and Mr. Legge cannot overcome that fact. In his speech he had to refer to maps and charts of price levels of land anad wheat, and had to admit that he “cannot look at these figures without a shiver.” And well may he shiver, because the beauties of “American idealism, religious princip! ’ and, more particularly, “individual enterprise,” translated into prices of land and wheat mean bankruptcy for capitalist agriculture and a sure and wide growth of pauperization for the ma- jority of the farm population. Collaterally, it means a cancer in the heart of American capitalism as a whole. But what has the Soviet’ Union got to do with that? Could any preachment for or against “American idealism” have such effect? Or because the Russian peasant is induced to throw away his ikon bring American capitalism to its knees? It is absurd to think so. What is the matter is, that the Soviet Union, by socialaizing agri- culture, is guaranteeing to the Soviet farm population a better standard of life than American capitalism can do. . Every technical possibility which the Soviet has, the United States certainly has also. But so long as the capitalists of the United States, including Mr. Hyde, maintain that the farming pepulation must pay billions in rents to landlords, billions in interest on mortgages to bankers, billions in taxes to a corrupt government bureaucraey, billions upon billions to every form of monopoly in marketing and in goods the farmer buys, including transportation, so long will the biggest part of the American farmers be poor and get more wretched until they join with the workers in revolution against capitalism. It is only by the capitalists giving up thie gigantic robbery of the pootand middle farmers that the ultimate end of revolution can be avoided. But if capitalism would do that, it would no longer be capi- talism. Hence Mr. Hyde, correctly seeing no*way out in the condition of continued existence of the Soviet Union, cries out for war against the Sovie# Union to crush this example of what a Workers’ and Farmers’ Cq@ernment means to the toiling masses of America. Hypocrisy--As Usual IN his speech to the Conference on Child Health and Protection, President Hoover Wednesday evening went into rhapsodies over the child. To hear him, one would believe that American capitalism is touched to the heart with consideration for children. An example: “We approach all problems of childhood with affection. Theirs is the province of joy and good humor.” But do “we” so “approach all problems of childhood”? And:-is child- hood, under capitalism, a “province of joy and good humor’? If “we,” by which Hoover means the capitalist class which, we regret, is still ruling this country and which is responsible for the welfare of the children as of the rest ofthe population—if “we,” are dealing with childhood problems with such “affection,” then why did Hoover have to admit further along in his speech, that 6,000,000 children are “im- properly nourished”? ¢ Actually, the figure is far greater. With 9,000,000 wage earners job- less, there can but be at the least twice that number of children directly suffering from starvation, which is what Hoover meant to conceal with the nicer word, “improper nourishment.” At least 18,000,000 or 20,000,000 of the 45,000,000 children of this country are being stunted in mind and body because they belong to the working class—for Mr. Hoover cannot escape the fact that these millions of boys and girls are the sons and daughters of workers, not of the capitalists. But even if we grant that only 6,000,000 are so suffering, from simple hunger, among 10,000,000 which Hoover admits are “deficients,” which are also results of poverty, we see that practically 25 per cent of American children are being crippled, deprived of that—‘“province of joy and good humor” behind which Hoover sought to hide the ghastly fact of mass starvation, misery, ignorance and disease. Nor need any worker think that something is going to be done about. it just because Hoover made a speech. In fact he made the speech to avoid ‘doing anything. For all he proposes is such petty things as better “sanitation,” and more “education.” Clearly it is hypocrisy for Hoover to say that—‘Industry must not rob our children of their rightful heritage,” when the bosses are privileged to do that very thing under the laws which Hoover executes and every provision about child labor after decades of legislative stalling is declared “unconstitutional” by the Supreme Court. While capitalism is thys murdering babies in their mothers’ wombs and dooming millions to stunted lives, under the Workers’ Government of the Soviet Union (Current History, October, 1930) infant mortality was reduced from 27.3 per hundred under the czar, to 18.7 per hundred in 1926 and the Soviet child is given such ‘attention that, says Current History: . “As a result of all this care, the Soviet child is now physically superior to the child of the Czarist regime. His weight (average) has risen 10 per cent, his chest measurement has expanded eight per cent, and his height has grown six per cent.” Thus we see that the advantages which the Soviet Union offers to the children of the workers—the workers of tomorrow. Hoover, like all capitalist apologists, in his speech talks as if capitalism has the same social ethic as Communism. But his beautiful words about the affec- tion with which “we” approach child problems cannot hide the fact that capitalism, with all its crimes against childhood remains. his Indeed, fixed the Precisely now, in the presence of 9,000,000 unemployed wage workers, *| it is necessary to call the bluff of Hoover and his kind. The demands of the working class, led by the Communist Party, is for material aid to the children of the workers, adequate food and clothing for the workers’ children at the expense of the government for which Mr. Hoover speaks. Unemployment insurance for all jobless workers at not less than $25 per week, so that their children may not suffer. These demands, among others, must be enforced upon the capitalists by persistent action of the workers. Don't let Hoover get away with his hypocrisy! ‘ * |; dation and starvation the workers ; hidden away in he corner of their | Agriculture Secretary Practically Declares War on Soviets WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.— | Once more a Hoover cabinet mem- ber comes to the front in the capi- talist war plot against the Soviet Union with what practically is a call to levy embargo and then proceed to invasion. There haye been in recent weeks a the form of news stories and fiction articles flooding through the nhews- papers and cheap magazines. All this takes place at the time the caught and confesses that it is sub- sidized and commanded by foreign business interests, and has the co- operation of the general staffs of the army and navy in England, France, Poland, Rumania and Finland. Administration Policy. The Fish committee, active all summer and still active, was the con- tribution of congress to the war plot. Then came Secretary of Agriculture Hyde's first denunciatton of the sale of Soviet Union wheat here, which he called “dumpin: ‘Then Secertary of the Interior Wilbur frankly stated that the rule of the workers in the Soviet Union and their system which series of anti-Soviet propaganda in/ sabotage ring in the U. S. S. R. is; DontStomach AnythingRussian MUST HAVE Yells Hyde, Cabinet Member ISECALE Tdey SPEND Ai. OF THEIR Wages on ROORE 15 THe ASO ACY ARe IN THE BREAD GIVE Us WINE Ano Beer. | AND THe Bread LING WikL VANISit costs, as a rker Porty U.S.A. ploiters is “incompatible with” capi- talism anywhere, and that between Communism and capitalism there must be a “fundamental conflict” in which one or the other perishes. Last Friday Admiral Pratt, chief of navy operations, issued a threat ot war against the Soviet Union, under circumstances that necessarily meant proved his remarks. Most Vicious Tirade. Now, Tuesday night, before leading agricultural experts and big land- lords, meting with representatives of does away with millionaires and ex- most of the state universities and the Secretary of the Navy had ap-/ ether “land grant” colleges in Wash- ington, Hyde comes out again with an attack on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the violence ot which, and the untempered manner in which it was delivered, made it the most significant yet. Hyde spoke a few days tfter he had issued orders that practically bar the importation of Soviet Union sausage casings into the United States, thus | cutting off one of the main imports | Brockton Shoe Bosses Propose | To Cut Wages by One Third Ask Workers to Agree In Nine Factories; Put Up Usual False Argument That It Will Bring More Work; Workers Must Fight It! less Workers Should Not from the U. S. S. R. | No newspaper reporters were sup- | posed to be at the speech Tuesday, | (Continued on Page Three) near South Bend, killed and ate their workers’ family to expose the degra- | are subjected to in “the richest land in the world.” ; | ‘The capitalist press had this item paper. Conditions in South Bend are get- | ting worse all the time. The Oliver Plow Co. of this city laid off over) 1,000 workers on Nov. 14th. The/ bosses told the workers that this is | only for three weeks ,but most of the workers know that the bosses are | liars. One worker expressed the idea that the bosses are planning to cut their wages 10 per cent, and even if the men are called back it will be only after many moons of waiting. Only one-third of the workers will be taken back even at the reduced wages. The unemployment situation is growing acute. One worker here hanged himself on Nov. 14 because Starving Family in South Bend Forced to Eat a Dog Thousands Thrown Out of Work In This City; Wage Cuts Threatened; Worker Kills Him- self When Facing Starvation SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 19—A he was starving, old and sick. His ‘nist Party of the Soviet Union and | fourth grade shoes. starving family of an: unemployed?name is Alexander Nagy, a Hun- worker in Mishawaka, Ind, a town| garian worker, 50 years old. Many hundreds of workers are pet dog when their food ran out. | starving. The charity organizations This fact is published in the “South | which boast so much about relief | P if (S pl Fl Bend Tribune” of Nov. 17th. Com-| give the workers nothing, as the case | rog Yr am s oO m e te cv) | munist Party members here are en-| of the family which was forced te eat area oem deavoring to secue thre name of this its dog showed. Delegates to Report 1. All delegates to theNational | Conference for the Protection of | the Foreign-Born, all representa- | | tives of mass organizations and all | | members of the district executive | | committee for the protection of | foreign-born are called for a special meeting on Saturday, Noy. | 22, 3 p. m., at Irving Plaza, Irving | | Place and 15th St. 2. All delegates must immedi- ately send in their credentials and $6 carefare to the council for the protection of foreign-born, 32 Union Square, Room 603. | 3. The National Conference for | the Protection of Foreign-Born | | will open on Nov. 30, 11 a. m., at! Press Club Convention Hall, Na- tional Press Building, Washington, D.C. 4 BUCHARIN STATEMENT | BROCKTON, Mass., Nov. 19.—An| the workers to agree to this starvation | CAMPAIGN! verybody Who Thinks the Job- This Winter. ve WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents $30,000 NOW TO CONTINUE GROWTH OF THE ‘DAILY WORKER’ | NEW YORK.—Pointing out that the Daily Worker, which has constantly increased its circulation in the present struggles against wage cuts and for unemployment relief, and. that due to these greater tasks the Daily Worker is faced with a deficit of $30,000, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A., in a statement just issued calls on all workers to rally to the support of the Daily Worker. i The statement points out that due to the growth of the Daily Worker, and to increased result of moving, the Daily Worker must get funds immediately to meet the burdens it has to face in connection with the drive for 60,000 new readers. All workers are called on to rush funds in immediately to build up the Daily Worker as an important weapon in all the tremendous struggles which are now going on and which will increase as the economic crisis worsens and the attacks against the workers intensify. The statement calls for the | organization of Red Shock Troops in all factories, shops and | workers’ organizations to collect | funds for the Daily Worker. | A special blank is printed in this Jissue of the Daily Worker, which | should be filled out and sent in im- mediately. The full statement of the Central attempt to put over a one third cut int wages here is being made by eight firms, running nine factories, with the expected assistance of the com- pany unions. The firms which joined in the re- quest were the W. L. Douglas Com- policy and put up the usual argument | Committee of the Communist Party that “it will get work away from our |°f the U. S. A., reads as follows: competitor.” Over in Binghampton,; “In the growing economic crisis, N.Y. one of these competitors also | With millions of workers being added proposes wage cuts, and all others|'© the unemployed army, with the will follow. The Shoe and Leather | Mashing atacks against wages, de- Indstrial League of the Trade Union | SPite the fact that the Daily Worker has been reaching ever larger num- | vectness of his silence. pany; Stone, Tarlow Company, Ino.; Diamond Shoe Company; Doyle Shoe Company; M. A. Packard Compan; A. Freedman & Son, Inc.; E. E. Tay- lor Company, and Charlesc A. Eaton Company. ADMITS HIS ERRORS, (Cable ‘by Imprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 20--Bucharin made ‘a declaration admitting his right wing errors and admitting the incor- The wage cuts proposed range from In his state- | 19 per cent to 33 and one third per- ment he approves of all the decisions | cent of the already low wages, and of the last Congress of the Commu- | are to go into effect on all third and | the Party poliey. | The bosses have the nerve to ask Unity League points out that these | wage cuts do not bring more work te anybody. All bosses are cutting wages, and when one starts, the others follow. This could go on for- ever if the wérker let it gocs on. Only the determined resistance of the sho workers will stop it. “Organize |and strike against every vage cut, everywhere and don’t wait for any- |body to show thet Aiy" is the only | possible answer of the workers. Mayor Murphy’s Employment These fa | DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 20.—A net in- |crease of 120 permanent jobs is the accomplishment of Mayor Murphy's publish them. Instead the impres- unemployment committee, after five | 4 erie | sion has been left in the public’s mind weeks of activity backed by pages of | that, the 5,200 jobs were permament | publicity in the press. i | Efforts are being made to open The committee's report shows 5,200 | municipal lodging houses and two | |men given jobs in that period, of | more breadlines have been started whom 3,800 got temporary jobs of | bringing the total to 12. Optimistic cne, two and three days’ duration; | pallyhoo which marked the induction 720 were given permanent employ- | of Mayor Murphy has toned down ment, but during the five weeks the : municipally owner street railway sys- | tem laid off 600 men, showing the net gain of 120 jobs. Jobless Swindled. Get Signatures. The jobless who swarm the streets |and alleys of Detroit and the work- | ers who are facing wage-cuts and un- | employment both should now get be- Thousands of workers voted tor|hind the signature drive for the Murphy and company in the last| Workers’ Unemployment Insurance elections instead of for the Commu- | Bill and force the federal govrenment ‘nist Party’s demands for immediate | to turn over the war funds for job- relief, at the rate of $25 a week per | less insurance. They should join the jobless worker. They were fooled by | councils of the unemployed and make | Murphy's glib prom Some of | organized demands too strong to be S were given the Detroit | newspapers, but they preferred not to| NEEDLE WORKERS RATLY T) SMASH THE INIINCTION (35 Arrested Pickets | Actively Mobilizing NEW YORK.—The needle workers are getting behind the drive to smash the injunctions. They know that this is the fight of all workers. and that the mass ‘picket lines which must be organized Monday before Zelgreen Cafeteria, 257 West 34th St., at 5:30 p. m. are the battle lines of the whole working class. They know that in every strike now the A. F. L. and |bosses united get out injunctions against picketing, like the one at Zelgreen Cafeteria, They know what j to xpect of this nature when the fereae dress strike starts, soon Four open air meetings to mob- | them know better now, by bitter ex- perience, but they don’t know it from the capitalist papers. Instructions Out to the Bosses on How to Slash Wages NEW YORK.—A new drive against the wages of all workers in the | United States is now being prepared day prints ample proof of this. The Standard tSatistics Co, some time ago published the fact that wages since the stock market crash have already been cut 20 per cent or a But this is just the beginning. total of nearly nine billion dollars. ‘The wage cuts in Germany and | those being threatened in Great Brit- ain will be followed by general wage cuts in the United States. The at- tack against the workers is going on | internationally. |. A new argument is being used by the American bosses in their inten- sified wage slashing campaign. Fol- lowing the lead of the German capi- talists, the American bosses are pre- paring a propaganda campaign to accompany their wage cuts on the idea the wages must go lower because of “the decline in commodity prices.” | by the bosses. ‘The Daily Worker to- | Daily Worker Prints | ignored for immediate relief from the |ilize for the Monday demonstration | city treasury and from taxes on the | before the Zelgreen caeteria and to | wealthy business men. form councils of the unemployed were bers of workers, we are faced with a difficult situation. The Daily Worker has been the chief instru- ment for mobilizing and organizing whe unemployed. It is a tremendous | weapon in the fight egainst wage |euts. The steady increase of the cir- culation of the Daily Worker is a | concrete answer of the workers dur- jing the period of crisis. But more |and more burdens are being placed lon the Daily Worker in this strug- ‘gle. To carry out the drive for 60,000 new readers, to build the Daily Work- jer up to meet the present struggles and needs of the workers, to increase the size of the paper, funds are need- ed immediately. | “During the past few months, the zrowing struggle to organize and strike against wage cuts, the fight | for unemployment insurance for the 9.009.900 unemplo;ed workers has put greater tasks on the Daily Worker. Particularly during the moving of ithe Daily Worker into its new head- quarters it took the most heroic and trying efforts of workers to get the necessary funds to meet the financial is through which the Daily Work- er is passing. The expense of print- (Continued on Page Three) REUEF BUT VOFF HUNDREDS | Walsh Exposes Bosses jon Hunger Committees TALK LA NEW YORK.—The very bosses on the New York Emergency Unemploy- held in the dress and fur markets, ment Committee who splash ads all ns Sarwiae Building had begun, the first ory was that Power of the public. use every other possible means of fore touching wages. employment, thereby maintaining a Wo have repeatedly expressed long be possible to evade the living is now declining in th Maintdin wages at former levels ) Business Service WHEN WAGE REDUCTIONS BECOME NECESSARY A year ago, when it became evident that @ business decline @ reduction in pay-rolls should further curtail the purchasing firms have laid off help, others have furnished part tine issue by brings up the whole disct | necesity of further wage cutting in | order to trasfer the burdens of the | crisis to the workers, and to increa the profits of the bosses. He points out thet in Germany wages are be- jing cut: this is being followed by wage cuts in Great Britain, and “that | some money-wage reduction is cer- tain to become general in Europe seems reasonably clear.” He is in- 210 Newbury Street, Rectan, Maca wages must not be reduced, Lest the when prices go up they point to the high “money-wages.” Woodlock goes on to tell his capi- talist readers that this situation on that it would not ‘Th problem.” Here is the way he puts it: “Thus we seem to be faced in this country with a choice, for the pres- Proof of Sharper Drive Against Wages of All Workers Jand drew thousands of workers to hear the speakers. Some workers |joined the councils on the spot | Pickets Organize. Wednesday the 35 pickets given five day sentences in special si court for the Smash The Injunction demonstration before the Zelgreen a week ago met and with splendid en- thusiasm organized themsely special shock troops to mobilize an- other and bigger demonstration at the critical moment, Monday The pickets already arrested and sentenced divided themselves into special committees to go to all work- ers’ mass meetings and visit al! or- ganizations and enlist their. support |in the demonstration. A committee | Sential need in any strike from now jon. They got a good response from the workers assembled there. An- |other delegation of the pickets was “furnishes us in this country with a | Present last night at the Friends of | 4; What is this problem? | Soviet Union mass meeting to call! all to fight to the end against the |injunction system. The Madison |Square Garden Winchefsky Jubilee While it is true that on the aver-|ican bosses, to protect theri profits, age retail commodity prices have | insist on lowering costs of production dropped 4 per cent, we have already | to capture larger slices of the world ent, of elhter continued high wages | Saturday will find another delegation | for those who are employed, together | of these pickets present, with their! with continued pressure to lessen | Message. man-hours in product-unit costs with over the capitalist press telling other | bosses that “Conditions are good,” {Don’t fire your workers,” are the | very first to lay off hundreds of | workers in their plants. This exposure was made Wednes=- day by Frank P. Walsh, famous law=, | yer, in accepting, the chairmanship of the Community Councils’ Com= mittee on Unemployment. | | He declared: “Well-known indus- trial leaders, prominent on com- mittees recently formed ao relieve unemployment, are themselves dis- charging workers by the hun- dreds.” | “This is flagrant disloyalty and ° | hypocrisy,” Walsh added. However, | because he also is closely connected | with these bosses Walsh did no go so The first effort, quite properly, was to sistent on the term money-wages in|Was Present at the Webster Hall| far as to reveal their names. He absorbing price reductions be- " " | sday wher . ce Wathen than reauge the’ rate,of piyt nemet order to lessen the sting of cutting. | Meeting Wednesday where Foster) knows who they are and does nob When prices drop. the bosses are |Spoke on strike strategy. and on! want the workers to know all the uoh larger working forer. always solicitous about “real wages;”| Smashing the injunction as an es-| facts. The capitalist papers tried to bury these blasts in the corners of their | Papers. | This shows up the whole fakery the boss committees on unem= ployment. Their statements are a lot of boloney. They talk about keep= ing workers on the job, but go right on firing hundreds and even thous sands, . Nothing can be expected irom the boss hunger comtittees. Only class. shown (by the proof of a boss or- ganization) that wages‘on the aver- age have been cut 20 per cnt. As the crisis gets worse, the Amer- market, and the first thing they attack is wages. Thomas F. Woodlock, in an article in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 17) resulting increase of unemployment group of workers who want to pre-! mediate relief. of a ‘technological’ kind, or a reduc- tion in money-wages which shall put (Continued on Page Three) Shop organization is vital. Every | action by the workers can force im= The workers must — serve the right to strike must rally| spread the fight for the passage of to the mass demonstration in viola-|the Unemployment Insurance Bil tion of the injunction Monday. ~ advocated by the Communist y