The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. @xemployment Insurance Must &s Won Now! (Section of the Co mmunist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 298 >" Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3. 18° at New Yo NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930 300,000 WORKERS ARE HARDEST HIT IN BANK FAILURE | Emergency Call! We are forced to get out only a tour today too late for deliv- ery and mailing. Workers! mediately to page paper Report im- the DAILY WORKER representativ: in your city! funds! Rush DAILY WORKER, 35 E. I2th St, New York, N. Y. The Distribution of the Daily Worker today de- pends upon you! | CHINA RED ARMY SWEEPS AHEAD Capture All Important Towns in Industrial Provinces NEW YORK.- c. 12--All the most important places along the bor- der of Kwantung and Kiangsi Pro- vinces are reported to have been captured by a Chinese Red Army of 10,000, according to an Associated Press despatch from Canton yester- day. Four regiments of Chiang Kai- shek’s troops were rushed off to Shiuchow las. Thursday in a desper- e effort to stem tye advance of the Red Army. The great unreliability and insta- bility of the Nanking Government troops whenever they come in con- tact with the Red forces was further revealed by the same A, P. despatch which states: “Twenty-seven officers and men of three other Cantonese regiments stationed at Shiuchow were re- ported executed by provincial au- thorities in consequence of their regiments’ yielding to Communist bribery. Four civilians were exe- cuted.” Meanwhile Chiang Kai - shek’s hangmen are continuing to execute workers suspected of being Commu- nists. In Hankow, five have been executed on the pretext that they were plotting to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek on his arrival in that city. ‘Daily Worker” and “Freiheit” Ball Held in Cleveland Jan. 10 GLEVELAND, Ohio—A Daily acer and Morning Freilieit Ball is being aranged for Saturday, Jan. 10, 1931, at 8 p. m, at Oak Pythian Temple, located at 706 E. 105th St. The ball is held annually to collect money for the revolutionary press. All workers are urged to attend. The admission is 50 cents. A large crowd is expected. Help to get them to the Series Puts AFL Officials On Spo: ..Catch the dirt on Theodore Brandel, A. F. of L. official in New Jersey who publicly points to himself as a “labor leader and banker.” He la- delled $25,000 a year out of the open shor bosses white he czared it over the Iron Work- ers Union. Don’t miss this startling se- ries. Rivals the Tammany rip-ups by the same Allen Johnson. Soon! Wherever A.F.L. officials prowl, wherever graft blos- soms, this series will be a ARMY POST IN SPAIN IN UPRISING Troops Are Rushed to Quell Uprising of Jaco Soldiers Censorship Invoked Indicates the Spread of Workers’ Revolution NEW YORK.—An Associated Press dispatch from Madrid states that active civil war has broken out with the revolt of the garrison at Jaco near the French border. The fascist government is rushing troops to the scene of the soldiers’ uprising and fire was opened upon Jaco. A complete radio and telegraph censorship has been clamped down on Spain. Martial law will probably fol- low. Although the dispatch throws no light on the immediate cause of the revolt, it is obviously part of the bourgeois republican movement against the fascist Berenguer regime. General strikes took place recently in all large industrial centers. The Communist Party has been strength- ened in these recent strikes and is now actively fighting to win the masses for a real independent revo- lutionary struggle. At the same time, it is fighting against the efforts of the socialists to betray the revolu- tionary trend of the working and peasant masses. RUSH BOMB PLANE BUILDINGFOR WAR Gov’t Orders 72 Large Bombers TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 12.—The Keystone Aircraft Corporation is Speeding up its activities, producing war materials on a large scale. Seven bombing planes are being sent to the Philippine Islands as part of the war preparations. Later there will be an- other shipment. Each of these planes carries two tons of dynamite, five men, three machine guns, 20 bombs and one radio. They have two 525 horse power motors. The United States government has ordered 72 of these bombing planes and 18 big navy flying boats. This is the biggest ship- ment of these twin-motored planes ordered by the United States govern- ment from the \Keystone Aircraft Corporation. Meanwhile, the workers on the job are speeded up frightfully. The bosses have instituted a big spy sys- tem against the workers, sation. Latest on 60,000 circu- lation, page 5. CONN. T.U.ULL. ARRANGES MEETS NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The Trade Union Unity League is arranging a series of unemployment mass meet- ings in the district for the purpose of unemployment mass meetings in the district for the purpose of elect- ing delegations to the respective city councils and to build up Unemploy- ment Councils. The unemployed in Hartford, Conn., have already elected their delegation and presented their de- mands to the Common Council, where Mayor Batterson and the board of aldermen refused to hear the demands and ejected the delega- tion out. Unemployment mass meetings will be held in Waterbury, Danbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford, South Norwalk and Springfield, Mass. The signature campaign for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is in full swing. Over a thou- sand petitions have been sent out to cover fifteen different cities. Over 600 stgnatures were turned in im- mediately after the campaign started. Workers! It’s Up to You! Bankers Lied About Condition; Was Bad for Months BULLETIN. Four More Banks Fail. CHRISTOPHER, Ill, Dec. 12.— The Christopher State Bank, capi- talized at $100,000, failed to open for business today. our Paw: TIRONE, Pa., Dec. 12.—The doors of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank here were closed to- day. oe Se ASHEVILLE, N. C, Dec. 12.— The Bank of West Asheville failed to open today, RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 12.—The Mechanics Savings Bank of Raleigh today invoked the thirty-day rule on withdrawal of deposits. * # 8 NEW YORK.—The 400,000 depos- itors of the Bank of the United States, which closed its doors Thurs- day morning, remain without one cent of their money being paid out. The capitalist press has deliberately been playing down this important piece of news. Bank examiners are of promises are being made, but they are on a par with the promise of the doors would be open on Thursday. This turned out. to be a lie. The seriousness of the crash can be realized when it is known that for weeks the leading bankers of New York City have been working to save the Bank of the United States. All their efforts were futile. The bank closed. Reports published in the capitalist (Continued on Page Three) going over the books, and all sorts vice-president of the bank that the ® Bank Will Be Closed tor Months; Money Tied Up in Frozen Assets Workers Desperate at Loss of Funds, Wait All Night By MYRA PAGE, “Keep moving.” The cop elbowed his way in among the small crowd still clinging around the glass win- down of the Fifth Avenue and 14th Street branch of the Bank of the United States. “Ain’t I tole you of- ten enough,” the blue coat demanded, “to go on home? There ain’t nutten doin’ tonight, but tomorrow marnin’, cartain, th’ bank’ll open, ’n ye kin git your money, thin.” “Who wants fifty cents on th’ dol- lar?” “We'll be darn lucky to git thet.” “What right they got to take half of what we saved?” “Well, move on, now, move on.” As we started away a girl with a warn looking face murmured half to herself, “That's the way with th’ rich, always takin’ from th’ poor, what’s got so little.” “Did you see them guys inside — bank officials, or somethi A lot they care what’s happenin’.” A lit- tle man pointed with his tumb over his shoulder. “They're smokin’ ’n jokin’ ‘n one was readin’ some kind of a magazine with a pitcher on it.” “My gawd, ‘his is awful’. The black-eyed woman spoke with a broad Trish accent. “I was workin’ this af- ytanoon, whin theytole me. “The-U. 8. Bank’s failed. I near failed me- self. I cum ova soon as I cud. All the spare dollars me’n me hoosbin cud put aside is in thar,—put aside by him woikin’ all night, ’n all day. ’N now th’ bastards seys we carn’t hev it. Ain't this a govern-ment bank? Thin the government shud be responsible .. . Gee, wait til me hoos- The Hurley Machine Co., manufac- turers of “Thor” washing machines, has cut the wages of all its workers from 10 to 50 per cent. On Decem- ber 6th, a letter was handed to all the workers announcing the wage cut as a “Christmas present.” The letter says that salary reductions would be necessary “as the Holiday Season is approaching.” While the wages of all the workers were cut the bosses say they look to “the new year with optimism,” and hope that their profits will be kept up no matter what the workers suffer. “Thor” Co. Cuts Wages Up to 50 P. C. As “Christmas Gift” Bosses Are Optimistic About Their Profits for Next Year; But Workers Get Slash From 10 to 50 Per Cent This is just one of a whole series of wage-slashes that are being hand- ed the workers still- left on the job as “Christmas gifts” by the bosses. With the huge wave of wage cuts descending on the workers, not a single shop in the country will be left untouched. Only by organization and striking can the workers resist wage cuts. One wage cut does not mean the end. It is now the policy of thé bosses to hand out a 10 per months follow it up with another. The process can be stopped only by the militant action of the workers. Come to the Help of the “Daily”! Don’t Delay! bin’ hears th’ bank failed. He'll fail too”, and she hurried off. Down at the Delancey street branch of the bank, several thousand working men and women from the lower Eastside crowded around the entrance, and vainly tried to get in- side, cops and plainclothes men cir- culated among them, carrying out bank orders. “Everything is allright. Don’t worry. Don’t worry”, and “Go on home, and come back tomorrow.” “What do ya think? Everything all- right! ! Is it! We may be poor woi- kin’ people, but we ain’t such fools as to believe that!’ “What's things comin’ to—every- hungry’n behind in rent, now our last dollars took too? What's it com- in’ to?” “A revolution, maybe!” “Hey, move on, you!” And the mounted police drove their horses up on the sidewalks, pushing the crowds roughly before them. All night long, in the cold and oc- casional rain, long, shabby lines of worried men and women stood in front of many East-side and Bronx ba-ks, waiting to get their last few dollars out in the morning—if pos- sigle. By 6 a. m. the lines had grown until in many cases they stretched around three corners of the block, (Continued on Page Three) DOAK STARTS NEW DRIVE ON TOILERS Workers Must Answer Hoover Tool WASHINGTON, D. C.—Appropri- ately enough, the new secretary of Jabor, Wm. Doak, has made his debut as a member of the Hoover cabinet by moving t ointensify the persecu- tion of the foreign-born workers. The drive is to be disguised as one osten- sibly to rid the large industrial cen- ters of gunmen and gangsters. Funds are to beappropriated for this pur- pose. As the chief allies and even lead- ers of the three capitalist parties and of the government itself, as the chief prop of the fascist A. F. of L. bu- reaucrats rule in its strike-breaking and union-smashing role, the under- world will not be molested one whit. Workers on strike, workers who dare protect themselves from the vicious assaults of the thug police in dem- onstrations for bread, for defense of the Soviet Union, will be singled out in this new terror drive of the bosses. Deportation will be the chief weapon PLANE WORKERS FIGHT WAGE CUT Refuse to Follow Scab A.F.L. Policy PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 12—Six hundred workers struck Wednesday against the “group system” which the bosses of the Wright Airplane Co. tried to put into effect. The “group system” is a method of forcing a group of workers to get out a set amount of work under speed-up; and if this is not done they are docked. In praetice-it amounts to a 30 per cent wage cut. Not long ago all workers in the Wright plant were given a 10 per cent wage cut. When the workers went out on strike, Connolly, general organizer of the Int’l, Association of Machinists, an A. F. of L. local, tried to get the workers to go back, promising them he would “talk to the boss.” He urged them, if they went out—as the work- ers insisted on striking—not to pick- et, but to merely go out on “pro- test.” : ‘The next day, Thursday, the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, of the Trade Union Unity League, issued a leaflet to the strikers, urging them to carry on mass picketing, eo elect a rank and file strike committee to cary on a militant strike and to de- mand not only the revokation of the “group system” but the previous 10 per cent wage-cut as well. Friday the 600 strikers met and elected a strike committee, carrying out mass picketing and generally fol- lowing the line of the Metal Work= ers’ Industrial League. They refused to obey the scab orders of Connolley. At a meeting of the strikers held Friday the strikers took up the ques- tions put to them by the Metal Work- ers’ Industrial League and adopted this method of real struggle against the wage-cut. Another leaflet was used, declared Doak. ! WE WERE FORCED TO PRINT ONLY ONE EDITION IN A LIM- ITED NUMBER OF COPIES. WORKERS! THE DAILY WORKER MUST BE SAVED! WE NEED FUNDS, AND WE NEED THEM IMMEDIATELY TO OVERCOME THIS SITUATION. WE DEPEND ON YOU TO RUSH TO THE HELP OF THE DAILY. WORKERS! DO NOT WAIT! HELP SAVE THE DAILY AS THE VOICE OF YOUR STRUGGLES! Fight for Immediate R ‘ elief! Collect Signatures for U issued by the M. W. I. L., showing up the role of Connolly, who is con- stantly meeting- with the bosses in an effort to wreck the strike. The leaflet was enthusiastically received by the strikers. Wash. Supreme Court Bars Organization of School Teachers SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 12—The State Supreme Court has declared that the eSattle School Board has the right to prevent teachers from belonging to a union. This is the latest act in the fight between the teachers and the Board since the board put a “Yellow Dog Clause” in the* teachers’ contract and started to suppress the union in the Spring of 1928, The teachers, especially those in the high schools, put up a fight for the right to organize, but the School Board threatened to dismiss any teacher who belonged to the union. They claimed that though the union was affiliated with the A. F. of L. it was tin-American nad radical and would interfere with the conduct of the schools by themselves, the “rep- resentatives of the people.” This decision is in line with the policy of the Supreme Court to fight every effort toward organization of workers. MASS DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST WAR PLOTTING AGAINST SOVIET UNION Call on All Workers to Rally at 40th Street and Fifth Avenue, to Give Answer to Poincare, Briand and Co. P-.ah Frears Smashing of Trade With Soviets Will Increase Unemployment Here But War Preparations Go Right Ahead With Aid of American Imperialism; Workers Must Give Their Answer Today! NEW YORK.—Today at 1 p. m., thé militant workers of New York will give their answer to the war plotters against the Soviet Union. A huge mass demonstration will be held at that time in front of the French Con- sulate, 40th St. and 5th Ave. the agents of the imperialists of France in the United States, and the repre- sentatives of Briand, Poincare and Co. whose part in the vicious war plot was exposed at the wreckers’ trial recently concluded in Moscow. Despite the fact that the exact plans for intervention and the bloody attempt at destruction of the work- ers’ republic were publicly exposed, French imperialism, together with the Tulers of the other capitalist lands, are’ still continuing their war prep- arations, This demonstration will be the an- swer of the militant workers in this city to the robber powers in their at- tempt to smash the Soviet Union, and to interfere with the tremendous ad- vance of socialist construction under he Five Year Plan. Every worker should rally to this demonstration. Show your solidarity with the workers in the Soviet Union! Give your answer to the war plot- All out today! Smash the threatened war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics NEW YORK.—William E. Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee, fearful that the recent action of the U. S. Treasury Department will wreck trade with the Soviet Union and further intensify the crisis in the United States, re- peated his request for recognition in an interview with the United Press on Friday, “Everything possible is being done in these days,” said Borah, “to break down our trade with Russia— agitation and attacks and treasury regulations all calculated to inter- fere with and embarrass trade with Russia, at a time when, above all things, we need foreign markets,” The Idaho Senator deliberately left out of his remarks the fact tuat this is all part of the war preparations against the workers’ republic, He put his demand that trade be continued qn the ground that a great number of American workers will lose their jobs if trade is stopped. Borah is really interested in the profits his fel- low-bosses will lose, He said: “Russia has purchased of our people in the last few years nearly eight hundred million dollars worth of goods. That gave employment | to a great many American work- men. But the extent of our trade | with Russia in the past, unless the | wreckers have their way, will be greatly increased in the next few years.” He also added that “for every dol- lar's worth of goods Russia sells ta us we sell five dollars worth of goods to Russia. And most of the commo- dities sent to this country from Russ sia are not produced here.” Borah, in line with Hoover, is against giving unemployment insur= ance to the unemployed workers. He fears if trade is stopped with the U. S. S. R. that the unemployed army will grow to greater proportions. In the meantime, the war prepare ations against the Soviet Union go on at a fast pace. In the United States the bosses are taking a more and more active part. To combat this the militant work- ers in this country are calling a sere jes of meetings in all parts of the country, ‘ nemployment Insurance!