The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1930, Page 1

» Woods. Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Daily, > e-Co (Section of the Communist ™ thet “CO Interna orker Party U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD. UNITE! Entered at New York, N. Vol. VII, No. 285 as second-class matter at the Post Office ¥.. under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Why No Food For Negroes? NEW YORK CITY’S much advertised “charity boxes,” distributed through the police department, are, of course, entirely inadequate to even begin to relieve the hunger and suffering of the city’s 800,000 unemployed workers. Two weeks ago a few potatoes, a couple of onions, a half dozen eggs, a loaf of bread and a half pound of coffee were distributed to only 18,000 of the city’s 800,000 unemployed—enough food to feed a family on the most miserable diet for two days at the most. Absolutely nothing was done for the others. The grafting Tammany politicians were uncon- cerned; these workers, the remaining thousands, could continue to slowly apprpach death via the starvation route. ™ ‘Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, was chosen to repeat the reli bluff of two weeks ago, Again food in starvation quantities was dist@buted through the police stations to an insignificant number cf the oi jobless. Again thousands were turned away without even a crust of ad. And again the newspapers boasted loudly of the “great” relief efforts of Mayor Walker’s committee. But what we would like to ask is the following: Why was it that precisely in the Harlem police precincts, where the Negro workers live, were the number of food boxes inadequate? Prior to the distribution, the police claimed to have made a survey of the exact number of “needy families’—that is, those in extreme need— in their precinct. Cards were given to these families in advance author- izing them to receive food at the precinct in which they lived on Wednes- day. The police, therefore, knew in advance the exact number of people in each precinct who would call for food. Packages could and should have been made up in such a manner as to insure a maximum of food to each of these starving workers’ families. But what was the policy adopted? Not that of equal distribution! But one of discrimination against Negroes! The East 126th Street sta- tion in Harlem received 600 packages for 700 families. The West 123rd Street station had 600 packages for 1,169 families. The 104th Street station had 900 packages for 1,500 needy families. There were two other stations where there were small discrepancies between the number of cards issued and the number of boxes available. But in Harlem this dis- crepancy was a system. It was a clear case of the usual discrimination practiced by the white bosses and landlords against the Negro masses. In Harlem, even according to the fake police survey, there were 3,369 Negro families in immediate and extreme need. But food in the most miserable quantities was given to only about 2,100 fam- ilies, In other words over 1,200 Negro families, which even the cops admitted were starving (that is what they mean by “needy fam- ilies”), were sent away from the stations on Wednesday without even bread after having been told to come there to get a box of food. This discrimination against Negro workers is the concern of not only the Negro masses, It is the concern primarily of the white workers. The white workers, in order to set up a united fighting front of all workers, Negro and white, for unemployment insurance, must place in the fore- front the fight against discrimination and for equal rights for Negro masses. Only by such united action of the workers can the w! bosses be defeated and the workers’ demands be won. Neither the Negro nor the white workers can win alone. All workers, of all nationalities, Negro and white, native born and foreign born, must all fight together, each for the protection of the other, and all for the defeat of the bosses. Hoover Tries to Cover Up IKE all scoundrels President Hoover would like to conceal the mur- derous acts of his kdministration behind a cloak of greatest virtue. ‘The suffering and starvation of the 8,000,000 unemployed, and the com- plete failure of his administration to provide relief, are covered up by | many columns of lying relief publicity issued by his official liar, Colonel In the case of. the vicious war plans against the Soviet Union, and the efforts to block the carrying through of the Soviet’s five-year plan, more newspaper statements are being issued to conceal these war maneuvers. The new regulations of the treasury department, supposedly designed to bar products made by “forced” labor, are plainly directed against the Soviet Union. But first the Treasury Department, then the State De- partment and, finally, President Hoover himself issued statements de- claring that such was not the case. These regulations, acgording to these tying statements, are merely pious efforts on the part of Hoover's ad- ministration to eliminate goods manufactured by “convict” or “forced” labor. We have not heard, though, of any efforts to bar products from any of the capitalist countries where all labor is really forced labor and where all workers are brutally exploited. Plainly these statements are only hypocrisy to conceal the offensive against the Soviet Union. And this is not clear only to the Daily Worker. The capitalist papers see through Hoover's lies.. Yesterday's New York Herald-Tribune, for example, declared editorially: “President Hoover has added his own assurance . . . that the néw regulations . . . are not aimed at Russian trade. . . . The official assurances must be regarded as more ‘diplomatic’ than real, for it is obvious that in practice Russia would be the country chiefly affected. It is also fairly apparent that the new regula- tions . . . could actually be so administered as to disrupt the whole of our trade with Russia or extinguish it altogether.” So it is clear that not only France and England are attempting to prevent the successful carrying through of the five-year plan in the Soviet Union, but also the American imperialists operating through Hoover's administration in Washington. France and England were taught with the goods, so to speak. Their agents were found to be in direct con- tact with the eight counter-revolutionists now on trial in Moscow. The United States government, though not directly involved by their testi- mony, is nevertheless just as deeply involved in the war plans against the workers’ fatherland. This is shown by the speeches and acts of Hoover and his cabinet members. It is a world-wide plot to crush the first workers’ state. The news now being carried by the Daily Worker on the trial of the eight members of the so-called “industrial” party n Moscow are therefore of vital concern to every American worker. These proceedings, which are being covered more fully by the Daily Worker than by any other Amer- ican paper, are the exposures of the actual plans for internal destruc- tion and armed invasion which would again, if the imperialists are per- mitted to go through with their plans, drown the world in blood, would cost the lives of millions of workers and poor farmers. Only the capi- talists would benefit from such a war. The workers would have to pay the cost with their lives and by increased capitalist exploitation. ‘ The workers must rally against these war plans, for the defense of the Soviet Union, and against Hoover's starvation administration which can spend billions for war but refuses to care for the 8,000,000 starving unemployed workers, BRONX WORKERS, PROTEST ATTACK Cops Beat Youth For Handing Out Leaflet While starving workers were vainly waiting for Tammany charity at the tality. The cops then took him up- stairs and savagely beat him, third- degreeing him like a criminal, want- ing to know where “the reds” met and who was “leader” and so on. When this was over, he was, of course, charged with “resisting an of- ficer,” besides “distributing leaflets,” “causing a disturbance” and “picking arguments” — some new “crimes” Tammany’s grafting cops have in- vented. War Plot Against Soviets Not Ended By Trial (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) By WILLIAM WEINSTONE, MOSCOW, Nov. 26.—Professor Ramsin, chief counter-revolutionary of the “industrial party” whose state- ment lasted over six hours, was fol- lowed by Laritchev, another of the defendants now on trial for taking part in an extensive war plot against the Soviet Union, Laritchev spoke for three-quarters of an hour before the adjournment of the morning’s session on the sec- ond day of the trial. The rich details of the far-reach- ing and thorough-going plans of in- tervention and armed overthrow of the Soviet power reveal, first, that the reactionary engineers, without a foothold among the broad masses, inevitably gravitated to international imperialism. The imperialists stim- ulated and directed the war plans. These disrupters were without sup- port among the masses, as they openly admitted, which led to plans for the establishment of a military dictatorship to crush the inevitable orrectness of Line of Communists Is Again Shown resistance of the workers and pea- sants. Secondly, with the advance of the Soviet proletariat they passed over from acts of individual casutl sabot- age to a plan of disruption subor- dinated to the intervention program, proving with striking force the cor- rectness of the line of the Commu- nist Party that an upward swing of Socialist construction sharpens the class struggle, and that only by an offensive on all fronts against capi- talist enemies can the workers assure the success of Socialist construction. Thirdly, the evidence further re- vealed. that the absolute certainty of the rapid and successful development of industry would “make impossible counter-revolution even with the aid of intervention.” This hastened the preparations for war and set the date between 1930 and 1931. The immi- Exposure! *nence of intervention was strikingly shown by the designation of a pro- vision government Fourth, the imperialist govern- ments, especially France and Eng- land, were exposed as directing the war plans, assigning troops of vassal border states of Poland, Rumania, etc., as the vanguard in the attack. Rumania was to seize upon some | frontier incident to launch an armed attack upon a set date, and that it would be the utmost folly, as the Chinese provocations brought to light, to expect the capitalists to | wait “justifiable” cause before let- ting loose the hounds of war. Not only was Poincare exposed but Briand of Kellogg peace pact fame, MacDonald, the general staff and the present inspired campaign now un- der way by all governments. Fear and hatred of the Socialist state is the driving force behind the capitalist war plots, but also there is the predatory desire for Russian ter- ritory. The defendants reveal that the price of intervention was so high as (Continued on Page Two) pfurned away from the police stations Discriminate Against Negroes In Distributing Food Pittance Police Stations in Negro Harlem Have no Food For 1,200 Families Admitted by-Cops to Be Destitute and Starving NEW YORK.—The bosses’ vicious Policy of discrimination against Ne- gro workers was again made evident in the Doling out of food Wednes- day to 18,000 of the city’s 800,000 un- employed when 1,200 Negro families which even the police admit to be utterly destitute and starving were ity of the bosses! Demand unem- ployment insurance to be paid by the bos: s and their state and adminis- tered by committees of workers with- out regard to color or nationality. Fight the’ bosses’ hunger policy! AMTORG PROVES DELGASS LIES Soviet Air Head Not Here In Disguise NEW YORK.—Amtorg officials yes- terday denied the charges of Delgass before the Fish Committee that air- plane motors secretly to ship to U. S. S. R, and that “the head of the Soviet air service ,Baranoff, came to U. 8. dis- guised as an Amtorg purchasing agent.” ith entpty ‘hands although they had been given cards to receive food. The bundles of food, consisting of potatoes, onions, etc., sufficient only for a miserable diet for two days for a family of four, were distributed at all the police stations outside of Negro Harlem “without any difficul- ty” the bosses’ press boasts, ignor- ing the fact that hundreds of elderly men and women were turned away. In Negro Harlem, however, not| only workers without children in| their families were refused food but 1,200 Negro families with young children, whose destitute condition even the cops admit, were refused bundles of food. were being bought | WAR. DEP’MENT CHECKS SALES OF PLANES TO USSR Hope to Weaken De- fense When Attacked WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27.— Yesterday the War Lepartment per- | | manent officials outraged at the lies © Delgass before the Fish committee | and evidently forgetting that it is| sometimes necessary in the capitalist | world to take unmerited criticsm to} accomplish a larger end, denied that | the alleged purchase of Liberty Mo- tors by Amtorg meant anything. The motors are for sale, said the War Department. Today those political considera- tions come to the front, and the} War Department gets back on the Hoover administration line of pre- paring for war against the Union of Socialist Soviet, Republics. President Hoover, late yesterday, | called in Secretary of War Pat Hur- |ley and the Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison. It is bre-| sumed that they stood on the carpet | and got a spanking. At any rate, | Chicago Police Shoot Down Hungry Unemyloyed Workers Out of Work for Months, their Babies Starving, Two Men Killed While Trying to Obtain Food for Famished Families CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—Their wives and children starving in the midst of the bunk dispensed by the bosses and their church agents in connection with Thanksgiving Day and fake re-} lief, two unemployed men were shot to death here yesterday while trying to obtain food for their famished families. The victims were Fred Bernard, 3258 Mospratt St. father of four ployed men had been driven to des- peration by the constant sight of their children starving and begging for the food they were uhable to provide, At th esame time that these job- less workers were killed the entire boss press was carrying the “big news” that Hoover would have six turkeys for “Thanksgiving.” ‘To date, the few concessions wrung small children, and Joseph P. Mar- tin, 2817 Emerald Ave., father of two children. They were identified by members of their families, who be- came worried when they did not re- turn from their daily hunt for work. Bernard, who leaves a destitute family after being out of work for six months, was shot down by police bullets as he walked out of a butcher shop at 2859 Emerald Ave. with a turkey under his arm. Martin was killed by the boss of a shop at 3209, where he had entered in his des- perate search for food for his starv- ing children Widows of both men told of the futile hunt of their husbands for work during weary months of effort and suffering and dependence upon the fake promises of Hoover and the bosses that everything will soon be all right. Like an increasing num- ber of other workers, the two unem- BEDACHT SPEAKS ON CRISIS SUN. Opens Workers School Forum NEW YORK —Max Bedacht’s lec- ture on “The Crisis of Capitalism” White and Negro workers. discrimination! Fight Fight the fake char- BOSSES, DOGS EAT; JOBLESS STARVE 1,000 Bosses In Orgy ‘Discuss “Jobless” News on Thanksgiving Day showed that the bosses and their dogs ate heartily of turkey, stuffed’ themselves with all sorts of good food that the workers produce, while most of the 9,000,000 unemployed could barely get bread enough to keep them alive. In New York, 1,000 “business men and women” attending a thanksgiv- ing luncheon of the Electric Associa- tion of New York, and amidst the crunching of turkey and the guzzling of assorted drinks, they “discussed” unemployment. Outside men were starving to death. In the warm Hotel Astor, with tables filled with food, a “holi- day spirit” was prevalent. Speaking of the wonderful time had by the bosses, the New York Times said of this event: “A holiday spirit marked the luncheon, which nearly 1,000 men and women, representing the elec- trical concerns that comprise the association attended. After the meal a company of cooks marched to the speakers’ table while the Metropolitan Life Insurance Band played a funeral dirge, A barnyard manhagerie, consisting of turkeys, capons and geese ready for the oven, then was distributed to lucky guests.” Yes, the bosses everywhere had their turkey. Even their dogs had enough to eat. In Summit, Ill, the Goetz family dog, because he bit a hungry worker who tried to “rob” Mr. Goetz, was given a sumptuous turkey dinner. The capitalist press reports says the following of what the dog got: Wednesday, Richard Newman, a young worker, passed out leaflets on the Unemployment Insurance Bill and demands for real relief of the Unemployed Council. Newman's “trial” is to come off December First, at 10 a. m., in the Bronx Supreme Court, at 156th St. near Third Ave. All workers should attend in protest at this outrageous Cops took him into the station and| attack, which is not merely against beat him up in front of the workers,|Newman, but against all workers, who began to protest at this bru-| particularly the unemployed, 138th and Alexander police an, “The Gaetz family will reward the Great Dane tomorrow. Kaiser will occupy a place of honor at the Thanksgiving feast. He will lick his chops over turkey legs, instead of just bones, There will be plenty of gravy and maybe some cran- berry sauce.” Amtorg points out that P. R. Bar- anoff, head of the Civil Aviation Council of the U. S. S. R. arrived several months ago to study airplane construction in U. S., had a passport for that purpose, and went about his business openly and without any disguise of any sort. In fact, his arrival and position were announced in all the newspapers, Furthermore Amtorg states, through M. Mendelson who speaks in the absence of Bogdanov, the chairman of the board of directors. “You know there has been a great expansion in commercial aviation in Russia, and the lines have been ex~- tended to a total of 26,000 kilometers, This called for an increase of equip- ment was bought openly from some of the largest firms here.” today it is announced that the War| this Sunday evening at the Irving Department is checking up,all sales | Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, |of motors to the Soviet Union. A| im the week of the uncovering of the |cireular questionnaire has already| ™0st nefarious international plot ben sent out to all private dealers | #8@inst the Soviet Union, is of spe-/} to complete, the check-up. Test Soviet Strength Furthermore, it is frankly admit- ted that this action of the war de- partment is “to ascertain the mili- tary strength in airplanes’ and air- plane parts of the U. S. S. R.” That is, it is a form of of espionage, pre- paratory to a possible military at- tack. It is also announced that the policy of the Hoover administration, al- ready shown in two previous in- |stances, to stop all sales by private firms of any kind of war material to the U. S. S. R. cial significance to understand fully the significance of the trial of the eight counterrevolutionary saboteurs. significanceofthetrialofthet. Lined up with the plotters, Poin- care, Briand, Deterding, etc, are the leaders of international imperialism, Wall Street's Hoover administration. All these points will be’ dealt with at length by Max Bedacht. The lec- pture will be followed by questions and discussion. Com early if you want to get in. | On the following Sunday night, Dec. 7th at 8 p. m. Clarence Hatha- way will speak on “Disarming for War.” workers, particularly district substantial donations: These | | section organizers of the Communist Party, | must organize small committees for reach- | ing those workers who they know can give | must be immediately organized and the funds rushed to the Daily Worker. The increase in the circulation of the Daily shows conclusively that the workers recognize the power of the Daily Worker as present time, the bosses on All : cially against organizers and class must ha Shock Troops Masses. Rush all fu their mass organizer and agitator. Quick Action Needed to Save ‘Daily’! Send Funds In Now! A total of $207.75 has been received to date for the Daily Worker Emergency Fund. Unless increased funds are received the Daily faces the possibility of suspension. 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Cents, | behind these bills and has been de- | out of the bosses and their govern- ment have been won through the struggles of the working class, led by the Communist Party and the rev- olutionary trade unions. Workers! Rally to the struggle against starva- tion! Support the Communist Bill for unemployment insurance! ‘PROTECT FOREIGN BORN’ MASS MEET IS ON TONIGHT Browder, “En gdahl, to| Be Speakers NEW YORK.—Tonight at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 BE. Fourth St., the mass meeting held by the Council | for the Protection of Foreign Born will protest the various bills against. foreign-born coming up in the next} session of congress and the deporta- tion of militant workers. The speakers will be Earl Browder, J, Louis Engdahi, Herbert Newton, 5. Howatt and various language speak- ers with the full New York delega- tion for the Washington, D. C., con- vention of the foreign-born workers present. ‘The Council for the Protection of Foreign Born points out that “a half dozen vicious bills directed against foreign-born workers are coming up in this session of congress and are backed by all the forces of the boss class in America. The convention of the foreign-born, opening this Sun- day in Washington, will work out a Program that will unite all aliens in the United States with the native- born workers against the attacks of the employing class in their cam- paign of persecution of workers who happen to be born in foreign lands.” The council points out that these various bills for registration of the foreign-born are backed by such leading elements of the employing | class as the Saturday Evening Post and the Chamber of Commerce. The Saturday Evening Post, owned by Cyrus Curtis, who also owns the New York Evening Post and is now carry- ing on a campaign against the Soviet Union, is backing the bills for regis- | tration of aliens. The Saturday Eve- ning Post, in supporting this legisla- tion that will put the foreign-born worker under the direct surveillance of the police, said editorially: “Leading authorities on immigra- tion, including Mr. Davis, secretary of labor, are in general agreement that we cannot maintain proper oversight over our large foreign Population without the establish- ment of some federal and nation- wide system for the registration and positive identification of aliens. Since time out of mind we | have been talking about it, but the years roll by and we do nothing about it. Why not?” For the last six months the Curtis interests have been intensifying their | campaign against the first Workers’ | Republic by publication of lying ar- | ticles and fiction in their various | magazines and newspapers. | The Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born points out the New York Chamber of Commerce is also manding their passage and the pass- | age of similar bills for a long time and that they are aiming this legis- lation directly against workers who are militant, At its convention opening on Sun- day at Washington, D. C., the Coun- cil for the Protection of the Foreign 4 MORE ENGINEERS IN STORY OF SABOTAGE AND WAR ON USSR. Kalnikov “Admits Guilt and Pleads For End of Sabotage { “Socialism Advances” ‘Powerless Against the Will of Masses!’ No newspaper in the United States is covering the trial of the war plotters In Moscow as fully as the Daily Worker. .In ad- dition, the capitalist press distorts the facts. A special staff of writers and artists is at the trial to give the Daily Worker readers a detailed picture of this tremendous event. Mike Gold and A. B. Magill are sending us daily cables on the course of the trial. In yesterday's and today’s issue we had special cables from A, B. Magil and Wil- iam Weinstone. Every day that the trial goes on we will print full, detailed cables from our special correspondents on the trial. Very soon we expect drawings from our artists, Fred Ellis and Bill Grop- per. Do not miss a single issue of the Daily Worker. Subscribe now! Learn the truth of the war plots against the Soviet Union published only in the Daily Worker. By A. B. MAGILL (Special Daily Worker Cor- respondent in Moscow) MOSCOW, Nov, 27.—When Lari- chey concluded hi pasrt in the im- perialist. war plot against the Soviet. Union, Professor Kalnikov followed, Kalnikov'’s statement gives the first deep insight into the cause for the full confession of the defendant. Professor Kalnikov began his statemert with great emotion. Re- garding the methods considered in the State Planning Institute the de- fedant spoke as if in a discussion of the planning. He described the weak planning work which gave the “Industrial party” and particularly. himself, as acting chairman of the industrial section of the State Plan, the possibility for sabotaging work, The economic plans were set delib- erately too low, as shown by the suce cess of the first year of the plan, The disproportion in the last years in iron and steel and the machine (Continued on Page Two) LEGION ASKS FOR WAR ARMING AS “JOBLESS RELIEF” Demand Billions For Jobless Insurance! WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—War is drawing near, and the American Legion begins to talk about “uneme ployment relief” to cover up its pros gram of rapid increase in armaments, Yesterday Ralph T. O'Neil, the new national commander of the Legion submitted a program for “unemploy= ment relief” to President Hoover, and the backbone of the “program” is the spending of billions for war instead of giving the jobless workers unemployment insurance, Here are points five and six of the Legion program, “The desirability of immediately bringing our naavl establishment to the strength agreed upon by the terms of the London naval treaty, That consideration be given to the adequacy of the army and national guard, and training for reserve officers and those cligible to citizens’ miltary training camps. To carry out this program the boses will spend about $1,50,000,000, {It is precisely this sum that the Communist Party demands be turned over immediately for unemployment insurance in its Unemployment In= surance Bill. The Legion is for war | Preparations not for unemployed re- lief. Its policy is precisely that of the Fascist leaders of the American Federation of Labor. Workers! Demand these war fnuds, be turned over to the unemployed, The Legion wants this money spent for war—and for war against the Soviet Union and against the Am~ erican workers, RUBBER MILLS SHUT DOWN, AKRON, Ohio.—The General Tire and Rubber Co. shut its mills Weds nesday and gave the usual fake ) Born will fight these bills aimed at foreign-born workers, promises of an early reopening, Other tire igctories may follow sult