The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! (Section of: the Communist International) Vol. VII. No. 299 <>» NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930 EDITION SSS ‘Price 3 Cents | Why the Daily Worker Was Late Saturday “ANDY” ARMSTRONG, president of the Printing Pressmen’s Union, arbitrarily tried to prevent the Daily Worker from going to press on Friday night. In the most high-handed manner, without previously making known any dissatisfaction or grievances in the relations between the union and the Copart Press which prints the Daily Worker, he pre- vented the printing of the Daily Worker on the pretext that certain ma- chinery in the press room was “unguarded.” This was immediately after the Freiheit and the Elore had been printed without protest from Arm- strong. Secondly, which proves that-Armstrong’s act was not based on “un- guarded machinery,” he refused to permit other printing plants to pro- duce Saturday's paper. Finally the “unguarded machinery” pretext is exposed by a careful investigation, made Saturday, which shows that many print shops throughout the city are equipped in exactly the same way as is the plant where the Daily Worker is produced. Furthermore, after having stopped Saturday's Daily Worker, the manager of the Copart Press asked if his act meant that a strike had been called in the plant. Armstrong's reply was, “No”! These facts, the failure to give any previous notice of any complaint about the press room, and the timing of the stoppage to affect only the Daily Worker, the refusal to permit the paper to be printed in another plant, and the similarity of the equipment in the Daily plant with that of other plants shows conclusively that, “unguarded machinery” was merely a pretext to cover up the political motives for Armstrong's attempt to suppress the Daily Worker. Information reaching the Daily Worker office shows that every ef- fort was made by tne big bankers to cover up the real significance of the crash of the Bank of United States. Other papers concealed the true facts in the case. The Daily Worker, on the contrary, pointed out that the workers and small depositors were being fleeced by the big bankers and that the whole burden of the crash would be placed on their shoul- ders. Tt also pointed out that the closing of the Bank of the United States still further weakens the banking structure of the country, still further deepens the crisis, and will bring more unemployment, wage cuts, and speed-up and bring still closer the danger of war. It was principally because of the Daily’s stand on the closing of the Bank of the United States as well as our fight in support of all issues. affecting the workers, that caused Mr. Armstrong, acting merely as the tool for the big manufacturers and bankers, to stop the Daily Worker Saturdi This act further exposes the A. F. of L. union officials and. emphasizes the need of the masses of workers rallying to the support of their paper, the Daily Worker. Sugar and Capitalism THOMAS L. CHADBOURNE, the New York lawyer who is trying to solve the crisis in sugar production, in speaking to representatives of the world sugar industry meeting at Brussels, admitted that “the capi- talist system is on trial.” This, of course, is a discovery fo some capitalists and their apologists. It evidently is a discovery to Mr. Chadbourne, since he makes much of his own statement, and, ignoring the failure of the Steel Cartel and other schemes similar to his own scheme for restricting sugar production, says that if his sugar plan “if well done” will be ‘followed by all other: indus- tries and wil reestablish production and consumption on a balanced basis.” ‘This is the theory of “organized capitalism.” But it is foredoomed to futility. Not only because the separate interests will invariably violate the agreement thoy sign, but because any measure of reduced produc- tign will at once decrease the power to consume of the producing masses and thus the quantity calculated as sufficient to supply the demand will inevitably be found too much again when the cycle of production and consumption is once completed. This, of course, is because the capitalists insist upon foreing the workers engaged inj production to bear the burden of reduced produc- tion in unemployment and wage cuts. If they do not insist on this, they would no longer be capitalists and their system would not be capitalism So Mr. Chadbourne is talking as if capitalism was founded on Com- munis ic principies, but is, af the same time, acting on capitalist “princi- in trying to “organize” sugar production at the expense of the ers. Hence-all hi alarm serves only to emphasize the problem for which his s s no effective remedy but rather an accentuation. His alarm real cnough, as well it might be. Picturing the situation, he shows that capitalist greed is causing the masses to suffer, and then adds: “We cannot get away with it, and the peopie who are suffering from it will challenge our system just as inevitably as the éarth goes around the sun.” Chadbourne’s purpose in this conjuring up the threat of revolt is, of course, to scare the other sugar capitalists into line with the scheme which he proposes as a representative of Cuban sugar interests. The news from Cuba is significant enough to make Chadbourne speak with convincing eloquence. Cuban economy, dependent, upon sugar, is in a state of collapse, and the Cuban sugar magnates who are identical with the Nationa! City Bank whose governmental lackey, President Ma- chado, is faced with a revolt which, as one Yankee politician intimated, “may end up in going further than a political change, in a social revo- lution.” The attempt of the U. S. ambassador at Havana, Mr. Guggenheim, to uphold Machado against the masses, and to cover up the crisis which has become a sharp political crisis with soft words about the “trouble” “now being over,” was only yesterday refuted by the declaration of martial law throughout Cuba. Try as he will, Mr. Chadbourne cannot solve the instability of the imperialist regime in Cuba. Nor can the false “Nationalists” of Cuba, who are awaiting the spontaneous rising of the masses to seize upon in order to ride into power as Yan'ee lackeys no less tyrannical than Ma- chado, solve the misery of the Cuban masses. Food for the starving, shelter for the homeless, land to the peasants, these demands of the Cuban masses can only be won by the stern and stubborn struggle of the masses themselves under leadership of the Com- munist Party of Cuba, aided by the working class of the United States. And fl‘s will be the answer to Mr. Chadbourne’s alarmed demand that capitalism be saved: “Not at the expense of the workers! If thuc is all you can {..0} » but by the defeat of capitalism; by the victory of the workers.” fe ofic Mobilize For Big Daily Worker Tag Day This Week All workers are urged to partici- pate in the Daily Worker Tag Day to be held Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 20 and 21. Organizations are urged to open their headquarters as stations for volunteers and to mobilize their membership to help raise funds for the Daily Worker. Party, League and Pioneer Units Labor Rackets and Boss Graft Read how Rockefeller, Mor- gan, Mellon and Ford made speed-up and low wages uni- versal in New Jersey by first purchasing the politicians and A. F. of L. officials in car- load lots. Read how the Catholic church rules Hudson’ County like the pope rules Vatican City, Don't miss the Allen John- son exposes of New Jersey racketeering and boss corrup- tion in the Daily Worker. Soon! t oparticipate in these emergency colections. Get in touch with the Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St, Room 505, for further information, are to get the entire membership | |that, due to the tense international COPS SLUG WOMEN AT N.Y. DEMONSTRATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIETS 10,000 on Fifth Avenue See Thousand Workers Militantly Protest French Army Staff's War Plots Against U.S.S. R i. Police Wagons Helpless Against Militancy of Demonstrators; Held Up Slogans Demand War Funds Go to 9,900,000 Jobless; Pledge Defense of Soviet Union Against All Boss War Plotters NEW YORK stration on Saturda —-Over 1,000 workers took part in a demon- near the French consulate at 9 Bast 40th Street, in protest against the war plot of the imperialists being organized by the French General Staff against the Soviet Union, which was exposed at the trial of the wreckers’ recently RO nA heer RT Sra reg ge ‘concluded in Moscow. “French, British and United States imperialism are plotting war against the Soviet Union: Defend the § French Tmopcrialis' the Soviet Union ie Smash t on Alliance A and Demand the KILLING STRIKERS Openly Admits That Is eae funds of the bosses go to the What Militia Is For | 9,000,000 urempioved in the form of —— unemploymen! insicones.”” the work- s marched casi on 40th St. off of 5th Ave., right in front of the Con- NEW YORK.—Open admission that, the militia is to kill workers for the sulate. bosses during strikes or demonstra~ tions titis year against starvation is} 4 foun of 25 cops was stationed on the opposite side of the street, contained in the argument of Captain Joe Hart, for a new, armory in Queensborough. Hart is cashier at the Bureau. of Highw He is captain of Com- pany “F” of the 69th Regiment,, Na- tional Guard. Says Hart: “Queens with its great popula- tion certainly déserves an infantry regiment all.its own. There is an- other side to the question. Queens is one of the greatest industrial rushed over and pulled i}> pisckjacks \from their pockets and sailed into |the workers, striking many of them. The first cop to swing his blackjack was No. 6598. He clubbed two women on the head with all his might. The main attack of the cops was against. the women. The demonstration was driven onto Fifth Avenue, where over 10,000 people gathered: The workers resisted the repeated attacks of the police and continued parading up and down Fifth Avenue for over an hour. centers in the country. Millions of Tae dollars of capital is invested in | At first one riot squad wagon was plants, In time of industrial strife |C2lled. This proved useless in di |persing the workers. Two others were jcalled, but they never effectively mashed the demonstration. The dlacards were Kept aloft for prac- militia regiments are called out to protect such property and the public. This offérs another argu- | for a Queens infantry regi- ment.” (Continued on Page 3) Lloyd’s, Knowing War Is N , Raises Insurance on Shipping Big Insurance Company Says International Situation Tense; Fear War In Germany and On Eastern Frontier NEW YORK.—An indiction of the nearness of war, taken together with the huge war preparations of all the imperialist powers, is contained in qc | Premiums on cargoes be increased the recent announcement by Lloyd’ 8, to cover war tisks. A rise of 6 large insurance agent in pondon,| per cent, which has been proposed, would raise insurance costs on British cargoes alone by $2,50,000 proposal to restore shipping insur- ance to a war basis. A suggestion has been made, ac- cording to Th Sunday Express, that situation, they will restore shipping insurance to a war basis. : 5 : annually. For world shipping it This news is contained in a cable! would mean an extra cost of from London to the New York Times. | ¢7 599,000. The dispatch to the Times says: .... “The international situation in Europe is so tense, in the opinion of marine underwriters here, that Lloyd’s is seriously considering a Internal conditions in Germany and tension long her eastern fron- tiers are among the leading causes contributing to the nervousness, one prominent roker said.” | responding. 700 Carpenters of A.F.L. For lobless Meeting NEW YORK.—The drive employment insurance is assuming greater size and power, .The New York Campaign Committee for Un- employment, Insurance announced yesterday that its call to a confernce Dec. 19, at 7.30 p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall, is eing received well by a great many organizations. Particularly the A. F. L. locals are The committees has just been notified by Martin J. Warren, secretary of the Mt. Vernon Local of the United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners of America, that this local, with 700 members. has en- dorsed the conference and the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, elected two delegates to the con- ferenc, he encl petitions signed by large numbers of the mem- bership. Delegates to the be elected Wednesd: to five thousand jobless who gather in front of th Tammany for un- and conference will ployment agency on Lasaye Speakers before the agency will be the whole October 16 delegation which was beaten up at the order of Mayor Walker when it appeared at an open meeting of the city hoard of ostimates to demand that some of the millions being landed over the city to the bankers be used for relief of the jobless; These speakers are Sam Nesin. J. Louis Engdah!, Stone, Lealess, Mary White, Negro worker and Allen. Signature lists for the Insmance Bill can be obtained by writing to the committee, at 16 West 2ist St., New York. TODAY IN SPAIN Fascist Mobilizeto Shoot Workers Following the execution of two of- ficers who led the arm’ uprising of soldiers in the north of ain, a gen- eral strike has been deciared through- out the country. A United Press dis- ch from Madrid says: “General strikes which threatened paralyze industry throughout the te country were called by labor leaders tonight. to be effective in the mor ing (Dec. 15).”| The Sindicato Unico, in which the Communists have great influence, last night ordered all its followers to go out on the General Strike Monday morning. Every in- dustrial city in Spain will be effected. A revolutionary situation exists throughout Spain "The general strike committees have established secret headquarters be- cause of. the fascist dictatorship which has been set up by the Beren- guer government.( Police Mobilized. The police and army are being mobilized to shoot down the strikers. In Barcelona, where the Sindicato Unico is particularly strong, the workers are being mobilized for sharp resistance against the fascist bands. Many labor leaders were arrested last night. They face execution. The calling of the general strike in Madrid, though simultaneous with the general strike call in Barcelona by the Sindicato Unico, is under the leadership of the socialists, who be- trayed the last strikes which were called despite their orders to the con- trary. Because of a strict censorship, de- (Continued on Page Two) y the three | COMMUNISTS URGE Jewish Capitalist Press Lies in Effort to Minimize Crash’ d h and but itors, of whom at least three hurd thousand are workers, the E press minimized its importanc tried to hide its real siginificance Try to Save Jewish Bankers, Not Workers NEW YORK. — Under sereaming,|#€ temained for the Day. the For- full page headlines. the three Jewish | Ward, and si datalec crieusoreatericne capitalist newspapers in New York | Ct an utterly fantastic story to the effect that the State Superintendant sterday carried the lying story that. every depositor in the closed Bank o: United Sta would receive 100 per- cent, of his reposiis Every one of these vulture papers declared that the basis of their story 2s a statement made by State Sup- erintendant of Banking Broderick Actually Broderick said nothing of the kind (Continued on Page 3) NEGRO MISLEADERS IN PLEA FOR BANKS | CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—That the bosses are utilizing the misleac TY}. rs of | The newspapers which carried the shameless lie are the Fordwards, the “socialist” paper which spends most, of its energy attacking Communism and Soviet R and recently said the unemployed delegation was not. | beaten up in city hall, even though on the day the attack oceurred it was reported in its colunms; The eJwish Morning Journal, a newspaper which supports the crooked, bloody Hoover, and The Day, owned body and soul by Tammany Hall. all groups to bolster up their shaky banking system, is shown by the ap- pearance the current Chicago Whip, a Negro petty bourgeois news- | paper, of an advertisement, inserted the Douglas National Bank, and signed by over 200 of the local Negro bourgeoisie, advising the Negro magses to leave their hard-earned savings at the disposal of the bank- ers. The statement is signed by doc- tors, ministers, lawyers, real estate sharks and others. in by The Jewish capitalist newspapers represent the lowest point to which even capitalist journalism can fall. The English capitalist press, although they always distort, hide, and hisrep- resent the news, rarely make up a story out of whole cloth, unless the story concerns Communism or Soy= iet Russia. In the case of the failure of the Bank of U. S., with its 490,000 depos- Hundreds Fight Philadelphia Injunction; Wound 6 Police ae | Put Captain In Hospital, Smash Cops’ Clubs When 130 Uniformed Brutes Try to Stop Shoe Shop Demonstration Led by T.U.U.L. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 14.— The Trade Union Unity League and the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union ecnducted a picketing demonstration Saturday at 1 p. m. before the shoe factory and store of Finkelstein Brothers, located at South and Third Sts. in defiance of the injunction landed down last Tuesday by Judge McDevitt, known as the worst anti- labor judge in the state of Pennsyl- vania. A thousand workers present cheered the hundreds of pickets as they demonstrated with banners urg- ing strike support in the fight against injunctions and wage-cuts. The picket line, organized at Fourth and South Sts., proceeded to Third and South Sts., with banners and song, and then marched up and down be- fore the factory. The cops guarding the factory en-j| trance feared to act and sent in a call for reserves. Dozens of police responded in a number of police The Whip itself also carries an edi- torial giving the same treacherous advice. This action of the Negro petty. bourgeoisie and their newspaper again exposes the ever-scadin of this group to protect the interests of the bosses at the expénse of the Negro workers. wagons and immediately tried to smash the demonstration, swinging clubs right and left. In the battle that followed two cops were knocked unconscious, four other cops were severely hurt and a number of others sustained bruises. Police caps were smashed, one club was taken from a cop and broken. Among the six policemen hurt were a captain and eant, all of whom were taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital. Wo- men were trampled by the cops and then the mass of workers entered the fight to protect the women. A later rjot call brought out in all 130 cops and dicks. Women, young workers and Negroes gave a good ac- count of themselves in the fight. Six Arrested. The six workers arrested Herman Rothwell, Nicholas Leto, Leonard Woofchef, Samuel Vasal, Leon Shechter and Webster Cowell. They are being held without bail for criminal investigation, six hours arter the arrest, being charged with were Workers! Rally to Defense of the Daily! The Daily Worker Is Still in Danger! INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ ORDER LEADING MASS SUPPORT At a time when President Armstrong of the Press- men’s Union, acting as the tool of the bankers, is attempt- ing to cripple the, Daily Worker, you workers must rally now more than ever to the defense of your paper. There is still nothing like enough support—not enough even to provide relief from the daily press-time crisis. The response so far is hopeful only because it indicates a new attitude on the part of organizations and mass groups. In- dividuals must not relax their support; but individual support is not enough. The Lithuanian Daily of Chicago sends $42.80, collected in a conference of the ALDLS. A letter which accompanies this donation says: “The example of this conference should be followed by the other language mass organizations.” Branch 43 of the International Workers Order pledges $100, of which the first installment of $25 has been sent to- \ j ‘ gether with a challenge “to all the other organizations, espe- cially the other branches of th to do as we did.” Never have the workers been more in need of the Daily Worker as a fighting organ. of the Bank of the United States, containing thousands of dollars of workers’ money, closed its doors, stormed its doors in the vain hope of recov ering a part of their meagre savings the New the streets, containing a story which declared that the bank was solvent and that the “threatened” run was merely a false rumor, Only in the workers’ paper can workers hope to | receive information designed, but to arm them. The working class needs the Daily Worker. It must be removed from the danger of suspension. As this article is being written word comes that the International Workers’ Order will tax each of its 10,000 mem- bers a minimum of 25 cents to conspiracy to assault officers, which is part of the Flynn Sedition Law. This is an attempt to railroad these workers to jail for long terms. They are being defended by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. The morale of the strikers, now out five weeks against a wage-cut, surged to great heights as a result of the demonstration. Strike activi- ties are being intensified. This dem- onstration will serve to encourage the shoe workers also on strike for five weks in the Standard Shoe Co. Thg T. U. U. L.,, together with its affiliated organization, the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, has ar- ranged @ mass meciing against in- | Junctions and in support of the shoe | Strikers in both the Finkelstein and | Standard shops. The speakers will j be A. Lippa, local shoe organtzery William Simons, district secretary of the T. U. U. L., and Fred Bieden- kapp, national secretary of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union. This mass meeting is ex- pected to develop a strong campaign against injunctions. Use of the injunction here indi- cates that the vicious New York practice of strike-breaking by court | order is spreading and that the work- j ers in this part of the country will | fight it by mass violation just as de- | erminedly as do the New York work- e International Workers Order. In New York the 57 branches While workers York Times was being sold on not to confuse and mislead, woman started to tell me her storys’ a concern for over 30 years and yes= An old man of 65, no prospects for i away over night, SMALL U.S. BANK DEPOSITORS TO ORGANIZE DETERMINED FIGHT Rich StockholdersMove to Get Their Dough Acainst Workers 4 Workers Must Mobilize Bank Crash Will Resul§ In Worse Conditions — NEW YORK.—Pointing out that the rich stockholders of the Bank of the United States are organizing ta protect. their interests against the 300.000 worker-depositor.s, the Com= munist Party calls on these workers to organize to fight fo> the return of their full deposits. While the bank examiners aré ing over the books, clearing up the: wreck, or whatever there is Jeft of it, the big investors and depositors on top are looking out for their sums, while the worker-depositors are lef# helpless. An association of worker-depositora must be organized immediately to de= mand full repayment of every cent)” of their deposits, before anything else is handed out to the parasites. In no other way will the interests of the 300,000 workers involved be protected. ‘The workers themselves must defend their rights. Mass demonstrations of these hundreds of thousands of depositors must be organized to put forward the demands of the worker depositors, The crash of the Bank of the Oe Sa (Continued on Page 3) Losé Last Cent in Bank Crash\ By HELEN KAY. “Move on,” the husky representa= tive of “law and order” told the frightened workers collected at 803 Prospect Ave., in the Bronx. “Come on,.step into it, your money is safe.” “But all the money I have is itt there, they'll put me out of my house!”* : “Look, she’s worried about her money, I’m tolling you its safe, come on, keep moving,” continued. the cop,» He expected the workers to smile, but none of them did, they were all in the same boat, They all felt as though they were sinking. All their miserable little savings, money that they had collected in spite of the wage cuts, in spite of part time work, money that they had expected ta keep safe until a rainier day, was lost. # A Worker's Story. The workers moved on, One ol@\. Her husband had been working for terday he was layed off—for job, and their last few cents “Come on, keep moving.” ‘The. was still on duty, The workers dispersed, But the attraction was t resistible, Again there was a gathering in front of the bank, A harassed little woman to the cop, “I hear the bank’ “Naw, it’s only closed tempo “But I want to get my money “You can get half of it out and half another time.” “T need all of it.” “Well, you can’t get all of it, have to keep moving now. come on, do you ant me to up.” But she didn’t keep moving. 4 started to weep. Such pitiful ‘so I offered her my handkerchief, ; she expanded with the touch of pathy. “You see it was all the mo I had in the world, I had save ever so long. I work in the Manufacturing Corporation for week, and we expect to be any day now. My husband died. a year ago and I've had to wi since. I have a little boy, and wi I work,.Ikeep him in a ni have to pay for that, and f board and room, and now money I saved is gone. I came to see what I could do, and 1 docked a half day’s pay at the tory.” Other workers came up, tal weeping, gossiping. “You know thi reminds me of the run on the bank about ten years ago.” “They: that this is just a trick of the to keep from paying the interes “All the money I had in the is in there.” ; “Come on, keep moving. a1] ive in the many demonstrations at support the Daily Worker. Zelgreen Cafeteria, “We want our money.” “Get going, come on, come }