The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail Central Orga J he-Communist Party U.S.A Yorker OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 8, 1879 (Section of the Communist International) a Vol. VI, No. 286 Entered a second-class matter at the Post Oftce NEW YORK, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29, 1930 a ‘city EDITION Price 3 Cents Do Your Bit! Wass is here in earnest. From all parts of the country come reports of storms, snow and extreme cold. Ohio reports a six inch blanket of snow. In Chicago the mercury hovered around the zero mark. In the Northwest states and in Western Canada temperatures ranged from zero to 15 degrees below. Even in the sunny South below freezing tempera- tures were reported yesterday, with heavy frost everywhere. And with these weath reports come reports of extreme suffering among the unemployed, and of death. Six died in Ohio. Two deaths from the cold were reported from Chicago. Three were picked up in New York, dead from “starvation and exposure.” The suffering among the unemployed, forced to go without food, with inadequate clothing, with- out shelter and without fuel, will rapidly increase. Deaths frorf starva- tion and cold will number thousands—unless the workers act immediately! Every worker, employed as well as unemployed, Negro and white, native born and foreign born, must throw himself into the fight to im- mediately force the government to pay unemployment insurance. Charity is futile. Only by guaranteeing regular weekly payments to the jobless can their suffering be relieved. Only in this way can the rapidly mount- ing list of deaths from starvation and cold be stopped. Don't starve! Fight for immediate relief! Fight for unemployment insurance! Write to Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of the Provisional National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, 2 West 15th Street, Room 414, New York City. You will be told just what you can do to carry forward the fight for unemployment insurance. Do your bit! Write to Wagenknecht today! Comrades: Daily Worker. it be crushed? The Daily Worker has been suffer- ing from a chronic deficit. Ruin is staring in the face of your Are you willing to let | Union. ist, you. must fight! If you do not want to submiv to starvation while | your bosses are enjoying the fat of Unless | the land, you musv organize and car- Workers, if you do not want to per- | | ACUTE FINANCIAL CRISIS THREATENS EXISTENCE OF OUR DAILY. $30,000 WILL AVERT CATASTROPHE. MUST RUSH AID workers who could save the Daily. We appeal to them for immediate aid. Comrades! Friends! Workers of | every state! Rally to the support of | your Daily! Take up tne Daily| Worker relief question in you~ shops, | Save the Daily Worker! 8 SABOTAGERS FINISH STORY OF HOW TO START AGAINST WAR WAS USSR aid is rushed immediately, the paper may fall under this financial burden. We appeal to all workers to help us in this emergency. We have no- body to appeal to but the working class. The working class needs the Daily ‘Yorker. The working class is faced with problems only a working class paper can help solve. |ry the fight ino the enemy’s camp. | You must force the bosses to give up | the money that is needed for unem- ployment insurance. You must stop the speed up and the wage-cuts. You must stop evictions. Eow will you do it without the ; Daily Worker? The bosses have thousands of pap- ers. They have the pulpit, the radio, You are suffering from, unemploy- the schools. They have the state and mintes and factories, at union meet- | ings, at the meetings of other work- | ing-class organizations. Take up the relief question at home, in circles of | | friends. Make the Daily Worker | yur chief concern during the cam- | | paign. be taken care of immediately is: send in your own contribution right away! Bring it directly to the office or mail And the main thing which has to} Green Lets Out Peep About|S*ycnko'o Bring Out Wage Cuts, But It Aids Bosses Wants to Keep Workers Faith in Capitalism and Their System; Hides Fact That Their Danger Greater Ossadchi Is Arrested Capitalist Press Lies on Moscow Trial Wages Were Slashed Nine Billion ment which spells starvation. The/| federal governments, the Police, the|it. Do not delay, because delay may ees ei unemployed among you are driven in| judges, the thugs. You have only! be fatal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28,—After the | Green sticks to his “no strike agree-| No newspaper in the Unites a break-neck speed-up which spells| your Red unions of the Trade Union| Make collections! Organize groups | entire American working class had| ment” that he made with Hoover) States is covering the trial ruin to their health and premature Charity and Death | exhaustion. The Negroes among you | | be ballyhoo has been heard during the past few days about Thanks- | are being lynched. The women and giving dinners for the hungry, jobless workers. Newspapers, in an | children of the working class are be- effort to conceal the widespread starvation among the masses, have ing exploited with increased brutality boasted of how “New York (or some other city) opened its heart to the | The foreign-born workers are being 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 Unity League, you. Communist Party —and your press. Without the Daily Worker no working-class organization | can properly function. Without the | Daily Worker you are defenseless, The very existence of the Daily to aid the Daily! Muster volunteers! Right now the Daily Worker is the only English paper in the United States which gives the truth about the trial of the counter-revolution- suffered a 20 per cent wage cut,|and the other big bosses. | amountin to nine billion dollars, ac- What the Daily Worker and the | cording to the Standard Statistics | Communist Party has been telling |Co., the fascist head of the A. F.| the workers of this country for a |of L., William Green, comes out with | year, Green is now forced to come a fake “protest” against wage slash-| out and admit. Bue he covers his/ poor and the oppressed.” Turkey dinners, with all the trimmings, so they claim, were given free to many hungry thousands, “all in a gesture of Thanksgiving good-fellowship.” But, in New York City, at least five workers were missed. Three of these—Harry Francis, Daniel Dunbar and Emanuel Bratal—are in the Bellevue morgue, dead from starvation. The others, William Colombo and August Bauman, are in the Bellevue hospital, “where it*is doubtful that they will recover.” These five workers, one of them a mere boy of 17, were found dead or dying on New York’s streets, “victims of starvation and exposure,” while the city was making its “gesture of Thanksgiving good-fellowship.” This illustrates most clearly the criminal folly of charity. Once a week, once a month, or on some holiday, everybody is called upon to “open their hearts to the poor and the oppressed.” A few dollars, a few baskets of food, a few old clothes are collected. After carefully arranging for the proper newspaper publicity, and for the newsreel cameramen, these mis- erable offerings are handed out to the “poor and the oppressed” —usually after they have waited in line for hours. Everybody (except the starving workers) then resumes their attitude of smug self-satisfaction, pleased at their own generosity and confident that all's now well with the world. - But, in the meantime, workers are starving and dying. Like Harry Francis, Daniel Dunbar, Emanuel Bratal, August Bauman and William Colombo, they cannot wait for somebody's “gesture of ‘Thanksgiving good- fellowship.” They must have food, clothing and shelter everyday, and not merely on holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, or the visits of Tam- Many's’ cops are too far apart. The human body, even’ of the jobless worker, must be provided with more frequent nourishment—or death from starvation is the penalty. More charity is not the solution. The only remedy is unemployment insurance, The bosses prefer charity because it is cheaper. The workers must demand unemployment insurance because it is necessary. The bosses will only pay unemployment insurance when they are forced to do so. The workers must refuse to be satisfied with the bosses’ miserable charity schemes. They must fight now for unemployment insurance! Forward with the signature drive! A Deceitful Gesture poeeeny: GREEN of the A. F. of L. is in a difficult position. About a year ago, he, together with Woll and other A. ¥. of L. bureauciats, attended a conference of bankers and manufacturers at the call of Presi- dent Hoover. There he promised that the A. F. of L. unions would not try to improve the workers’ wages or conditions during the period of | crisis. He, in turn, accepted their promises of no wage cuts. | discriminated against, and new op- pressive laws are planned to crush them and through them the native workers, Day in and day out wages are be- ing cut. Day in and day out unem- ployed workers are being evicted. To top it all, the bosses are planning war: they are preparing an attack on the only country where the worker: are in power and secure — the Soviet Worker is now endangered. We ther fore appeal to you: Give! Save the Daily Worker! | Times are very hard. But so are | they for the Daily. The workers are suffering privation. But so is the Daily. Unless mass support is avail- | able immediately, we cannot vouch for the continuation of the paper. We are absolutely certain that there are plenty of employed workers ists in the Soviet Union and mobilizes the workers to fight back the attacks cf the capitalist governments against | the only Workers’ Republic. You will | no* allow this voice of the revolu- tionary workers to be silenced. .. .. MOBOLIZE! To action, Comrades! All friends of the revolutionary labor movement | must do their utmost to save the Daily Worker! ‘Chic. Charity Rackets Harrass| Jobless Who Ask for Relief Jobless Are Put Through Third Degree When They Face Starvation; Businessmen Make Money Out of “Charity” Through statements and speeches he assured the workers that they could rely fully on the promises of President Hoover and of the capi- talists. He bitterly denounced the Communists when we called upon the workers to prepare to strike against the wage cuts which were inevitably jare in a severe crisis, not only as a) a part of the bosses’ efforts to make the workers bear the crisis burdens. From this his difficulties arise. While he was disarming the workers with continuous repetitions of the bosses’ no-wage-cut promises, the bosses were preparing a national wage slashing drive. Wage cuts were put through on thousands of unsuspecting and unprepared workers every- where. In many cases the first cut was followed by a second wage cut. All this Green is now forced to admit. With this growing wave of wage cuts, though, the workers began to see through the role of Green. They saw him, then, as the contemptible hireling of the bosses in their own ranks. More and more they began to turn away from A. F. of L. leadership and to accept the leadership of | the Trade Union Unity League and of its affiliated unions. It was only | the revolutionary unions which clearly foresaw the wage cuts and began the organization of strike struggles to prevent them from going through. Now, Green, in order to again aid the bosses by preventing if pos- sible the drift of the workers to the T. U. U. L., issues another statement. This time he urges the workers to stand by the Hoover administration in its deceitful “anti-wage cut” stand. This is another bluff. It is an effort to stop the growing distrust of the masses for the old Parties and their growing confidence in the Communist Party. As in the ‘past, the Daily Worker calls upon all workers to organize and strike against wage cuts. Watch the maneuvers of Green! be fooled by his tricky lies! Don't TIMES LIES AGAIN same vein, sugar-coated lie crowding sugar-coated lie. Just One Case. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—The “charity” fakers of Chicago Heights are in the midst of their drive for funds to care for the city’s needy. The drive, of course, aims to force the workers still on the job to give part of their starv- ation wages to those who have already been kicked ut. There are about fifty “prominent” RAILROADS ADMIT But Use It as Excuse to Attack Workers NEW YORK.—That the railroads result of the present economic crisis, but one which has been dorsening | for the ast ten years, is the gist) of a statement signed by the Asso- ciation of Railway Executives, rep- resenting all Class 1 railroads, about 95 per cent of the entire railroads in the United States. The background for the statement, issued by Charles C. Paulding, vice- president of the New York Central lines, is of course an attempt on the part of the big railroads to form a gigantic trust in the present crisis, raise rates, smash the workers or- ganizatidns, cut wages However, while Paulding says that the present crisis has not been taken into account, it is a fact that it has roads at least 30 per cent in one year. The admitted crisis on the rail- roads is indicative of what is hap- pening to the entire structure of American capitalist economy. statement gives the following table, showing the decline of the railroads, which Paulding attributes only to competition: SMASHING CRISIS), Citizens of the town on the commit- tee to direct the work. They are sup- posed to see that the families who are forced by hunger and cold to beg for aid are investigated. The employ- ed factory, shop, and store worker are asked to help out those who are less “fortunated”. In many places workers are asked to give out of their small wage or get out. The way they hound one for a part of his ray and their hypocritical sympathy is enough to make any worker tell the boss and his whole system of charity to go to hell. The fifty “prominent citizens” on he committee are among the most “prominent” grafters and thieves in the city. Among them is the mayor, the commander of the local Ameri- can Legion, the captain of the “Stary- ation Army”, several preachers, the Red Cross, the police matron, and FOREIGN BORN IN | CONVENTION, SUN. National Meeting to Plan Protection WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.— Delegates for the National Conven- tiot of the Council for the Protection of Foreign Born are arriving here for Sunday’s gathering at the Press Club, where over 400 delegates will assemble from all over the United States to outline a fighting program against the persecution, deportation and imprisonment of foreign-born that is going on on a large scade throughout the United States. The council in convention here will devise a program ef action against the department of labor, which has been deporting workers for their militany activity and sending them to their. death in fascist countries. The council oints out that in the case of Serio the department of la- bor has been working hand in hand with the Italian embassy in Wash- ington to deport this militant worker into the hands of the black shirts. jing. | admission with a whole tissue of les. Green, who was one of the leading | Green’s statement has the object of figures in formulating the wage | preventing fight. cutting campaign with the big bosses! There is only one way of smashing |in Washington last November, real- | the wage-cutting drive: Organize and izes that tl> workers are fighting. |strike—under revolutionary leader- |He finds it good policy, in the in-/| ship, under the leadership of the terest of the bosses, to make the| Trade Union Unity League. FIGHT WAGE CUTS What Worries Green, Green is not interested in the workers at all and says so. He is concerned, he says, about the “wrongs that are being perpetrated against picture of this tremendous event. | Mike Gold and A. B. Magill are sending us daily cables on the course of the trial. In yi _terday’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 the public.” He is afraid that this| is going “to undermine our (read—| capitalist!) national economic struc- ture at a time when the leaders in government and public-spirited citi- zens are striving to maintain wage | standards so that we can facilitate | and hasten a return to normal con- | only in the Daily Worker. ake cuts. Stop Work Monday Over 10 P.C. Wage Cut NEW YORK—With a militant shop committee, affiliated with the| Trade Union Unity League, arousing | the workers for action,. the 1,200 By A. B. MAGILL (Special Daily Worker Cor- respondent in Moscow) MOSCOW, Nov. 28.—Fyedotov de- clared in his statement that money was given by British capitalists in ditions.” Here Green is a plain liar. He tries | to tell the workers, though wage cuts are going on, the bosses government and the leading bosses are not re- sponsible, | Outside of calling wage cutting as evidence of being “a public enemy,” RED SUNDAY FOR T LY WORKER! All Out Tomorrow; Get’ More Circulation! NEW YORK.—This Sunday, hun- | dreds of workers will participate in the Red Sunday to get new readers | for the Daily Worker. Workers will Eagle Pencil Co. workers today will go into their factory, stand at their machines and refuse to accept a 10 per cent wage cut which the bosses are putting into effect Monday. Several weeks ago the bosses of the Eagle Pencil Co., who have been speeding up the workers at a fright- ful rate, posted a notice of a general wage cut. The latest announcement is that the wage cut begins today. Nor is that all, the bosses declare that another 10 per cent wage cut will be given the workers in Febru- ary, making a slash of 20 per cent in the already low wages. Mass Meeting. On Monday night, all the workers in the Eagle Penocil Co. plant are being called upon by the shop com- mittee to attend a mass meeting at The council also states that hun- dreds of cases of deportation are the | direct result of this period of unem- ployment. others in the same rank. According to the plans of the com- mittee no applicant will be given cash in any case. He or she must first be visited in their homes and the role of the Daily Worker will be ex- | plained to them in an effort to build | Labor Temple, 14th St. near Second Ave. to prepare action against the wage cut, and complete organiza- tion. Every worker in the Eagle motion, defendant Fydotov declared that al- ready during several years British firms supplying him with machines the interest of support the wreckers’ | campaign for war preparations. In today’s session occurred a sene |sational incident. The defendant, Kuprianov, declared: i “At a meeting of the central com- mittee of the ‘industrial’ party’ IE heard that a prominent member (Torgprom).Af the commercial and industrial committee (in Paris) ine formed Karpov, one of the leading capitalists under the Czarist regime, that connection Torgprom was being established through an official French person living in Moscow.” | The president of the court, Vishine sky, interrupted the defendant say- ing: “You repeatedly mention official institutions of foreign states located in Moscow. I call your attention to the fact that you must not do that, |as such questions must be considered in closed sessions.” This incident caused great com- Later in today’s session the lowered the operation of the rail- | register. Then the committee will send an investigator. The investiga- tion includes everything but finger- printing. If the applicant is found worthy he or she will be given a re quisition which is good for a limited amount of food, clothing, and fuel. This must be bought at thé stores named by the committee. The own- ers of these stores are themselves part | of the committe. This is the way they are solving the unemployment situation and helping the hungry. —A WORKER. The Washington convention will up carrier routes in all parts of the | Pencil Co. should be at this meet- also take up the various bills slated | to pass this session of congress for | finger-printing and registration of the alien. Rewarded After Long Slavery. BAYFIELD, Mass.—The workers of this town, most of them, worked for many years, many of them more than 20, in the Bayfield Felt Mill, operated by the Williams family. Now the mill is closing for good and| scores of workers can starve for all| city. | Party members assigned by their, units to this work must not fail to report at 10 a. m. at their section | headquarters, All readers of the Daily Worker are asked to participate to help make this Red Sunday a success by vol- unteering at one of the following! stations: 27 E. Fourth St., 64 W. 22nd/ St., 308 Lenox Ave., 569 Prospect Ave., Bronx. In Brooklyn the stations are 68 Whipple St., 105 Thatford Ave. and ing. Only by organization now can the wage cut be smashed. The bosses are attempting to con- fuse the workers by having notices posted to get the workers out to the |yard Monday morning. The shop | committee, in a leaflet issued to the workers, tells them not to budge from their machines, but to refuse to work, and be at the mass meeting of |all Eagle Pencil Co. workers Monday the Williams family cares.—L, P. 136 15th St. FOSTER SPEAKS AT U.S. Imperialism Gives Money NEW YORK.—Leaders of the mil- INJUNCTION MEET The | __» CeCOW. ERE Sedo ote ne | Intervention Facts Hit| to War Plotters Against Soviets ing point in the testimony of Fyed- itant workers’ struggles well known throughout the country will address | the most important mass meeting of recent times Wednesday niht, paid him one-half of one per cent of the sale price for the sabotagers (Continued on Page Five) MILAN JOBLESS BATTLE POLICE |March on Fascist City Hall for Bread That unemployed and employed | workers in Turin, Italy, marched to |the City Hall Friday demanding re- lief from the fascist government, is the report sent to the United States by the Associated Press. Reports in Turin, that the Fiat Automobile factories would close It is| down, throwing thousands more out the next great mobilization against /of work, caused a storm of protest the vicious injunction system by among the workers. There are al- MOSCOW, Nov. 28—The direct otov. No definite relations existed,| which th aes . . A. F. L,, the bosses, and| ready tens cf thousands of uneme- But on another page, due to the| PRiraftic, Grosstons lt nand of American capital was ex- feed i i ita I easeaaaie i ABOUT JO BLE Ss stupidity of some editor or other, an | orowtt miles % Pass. m Pi Hoover’s “Peace he said, but ideas were fundamental- | the capitalist city and state govern- | ployed in Turin, % be posed in the intervention plans just! ‘om 1890 to 1900. 85.8 * jy agreed on, and said that they | ments unite to Strangle all strikes in | Rey, arew any, scemaset, From 1600 to 1810 801 1018 Bete the: ond fof, Met nighia set-| Talk worked objectively. |New York City, PPrReab pad once Ynamnplageas 3 nor did it get two columes, 'on the |From 1910 to 1920 622 465 Ree ee mecountamreyo-| | The sabotagers method was to use| The meeting is called by the Smash dispatch, marched to che city Hey Says All Are ‘ed, and CHUA G cere ras three | From 1920 to 1929 88 ¥ utionaries, | the pompous phrases of Hoover on | spatch, marched to the City Hal inches of space and was tucked away near several advertisements, The complete story as published in the Times follows: “A man and a boy who were found starving on Thanksgiving Day were picked up by the police and sent to Bellevue Hospital. There, although both arrived while dinner was being served, they were fed egg-nogs and put to bed. They were August Bauman, 5’, a dish- washer, who has been unable to work because of rheumatism, and William Columbo, 17, who has been without food for five days.” “Bauman was found slumped on a bench in the Grand Central ter- minal waiting room. Columb col- Contradicts Own News There is an old adage among class- conscious workers that nothing in the New York Times can be belieed but the date-line. Others, less sharp- eyed, believe that sometimes the weather reports are true. Two items in yesterday's Times indicate the reason for this scepticism of workers in the veracity of the paper that dis- torts “all the news that’s fit to print.” In a two-column story starting on page one yesterday's Times declared “No one went hungry (on nks~ giving), so far as could be learned.” Further down in the report we read: “Even the homeless were cared for *Passenger per cen tin the years 1920 to 1929. Notice to Delegates to Washington Meet 1, The Council for the Protec- tion of the Foreign Born asks ail delegates to the convention in Washington, D. C., to report in that city at 1337 Seventh St, N.W. 2 The New York and sur- rounding territory delegations are instructed to immediately forward their credentials and $6 fare money. This group of delegates will meet at Irving Plaza, Satur- day, Nov. 29, at 1 p. m. sharp and will depart for Washington one thoroughly in half a hundred places.” The story continued in the lapsed at 81st St. and Central Park.” traffic decreased 34.2 of the “industrial party.” He stated that during visits to America he ar- ranged the payment of a commission of one half of one per cent on cotton purchases. This amounted to 800,- 000 rubles annually. The under- standing was that this money was to be used for the work of the “indus- trial party.” This testimony signalizes but does not yet reveal the full extent of the participation of American business interests which may be uncovered in witnesses, or brought to light in cross-examination. hour later. These revelations blow to the winds the evidence yet to be submitted by, Sitnin, one of the defendants, ac- armastice day in his speech reiterat- cused the textile specialists, suuple-| ing the bunk about no entangling menting the testimony of Fyedotoy. alliances and shows that American Sitnin said that on purchases abroad capitalism is enmeshed in the world commissions were paid to members war plans against the U.SS.R. | | every occasion when the members of the right opposition opposeu Party | decisions to prove the righs ecrrect. Thus, when the rights said the gen- Fyedotov's testimony, detailing the | @ral line of the Party leads to bank- exact plans for the preparation of 'UPtcy, the sabotagers worked to pro- intervention told the role of the press “uce bankruptcy to discredit the in the anti-Soviet campaign, divulg- | Party leadership, In this way, Fyed- ing that in 1928, the representatives t0V revealed in a remarkable man- of the old Russian capitalists, Kar-| De!» how the right opportunists not Pov, visited Fyedotov in Berlin, and OMY brought grist to the mill of stated that public opinion would be ‘he Capitalist elements, but shows the first prepared, and especially the, Practical significance of the char- English and French press was being acterization that the line of the op- mobilized. Fyedotov added that they portunists leads to the restoration of carried out their task, using any ma- | capitalism. terial against the Soviet Union they) The direct testimony of all the! could get. accused, which is now in, reveals by The attitude toward the right op- the fullest publicity given to it in the Injunction Committee of the | Trade Union Unity Council which has led a series of most militant picket demonstrations at Zelgreen cafeteria, the present fighting ground | in the battle against injunctions. There have been over a hundred arrests in the course of the 5 week's | fight centering around the Zelgreen. | The mass mobilization meeting Wednesday will be addressed by Wm. Z. Foster, general secretary of the Biedenkap, chairman of the Smash the Injunctions Committee, Jack Johnstone, organizer of the Trade Union Unity Council and by J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the Ih- ternational Labor Defense. All workers should come and bring position in the Communist Party, of court, that they are tools o foreign the Soviet Union, was another strik-| capitalists and governments. their fellow workers, friends and shop mates, Trade Union Unity League, Fred| to demand bread. The police who |tried to break up the demonstration | were roughly handled by the unem- | ployed workers. The fascist mayor refused to ree ceive a delegation of workers. A mu- nicipal bread wagon was driving up | Just at this time. The workers rushed lonto the wagon, crying “Give us | Bread!” The A. P. dispatch goes on to say: “They stormed the wagon, unloaded lits cargo and distributed many loaves among the marchers before the police broke up the mob and ar- rested several of the leaders. “Later in the day there was @ | similar demonstration at the gates of the Fiat plant, which bas been rune ning for the last month only three days a week because of business de- pression.” —_—