The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1930, Page 1

DAILY WORKER TAG DAY VOLUNIEERS REPORT TO STATIONS SAT., SUN. SEE PAGE . Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Daily, Central ——s og 4 > 4 (Section of the Communist International) at New York, N. Entered as second-class matter at the Fost Office Y.. ander the uct of March 3. 1879 _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DE 3; READERS DON lorker the-Corimunist Porty U.S.A. ATE ON Th G DAY! EMBER 19, 1930 Vol. VII. N 303 The Farce In Congress ‘HE newspapers are all agog and radio announcers are filling the air with the terrible tale of the sham battle between the President and the Congress of the United States And what is it all about? The President’s message provided not one cent for unemployment relief, or to save the poor farmers, starving from the combined result of rentals and other robbery along with the drought. Not a cent for these unemployed workers of the cities or toilers of the i field. ) But the political necessity was that a big hullabaloo should be made | to pretend that the government was providing relief for the unemployed workers and drought-stricken farmers. So the despicable farce has been going on in Washington, made more | despicable bythe fake “fight” of the hypocritical “opposition.” This “opposition” has been sorely pressed by demands from voters, and wishes to maintain an appearance of “fighting for the people.” But the whole affair reeks with fraud. Hoover recommended that 150,000,000 be appropriated for “public works,” and $25,000,000 for loans —to be made through banks—to farmers (those who have credit) in order . that they may supply themselves with seed, food for work animals and fertilizers. The Congress thought Hoover too generous on public works, and cut that point to $116,000,000. But since the “opposition” and the administration had agreed on a | sham battle, the battle had to be fought., So the proposal to make the | “drought relief” to farmers was raised to $60,000,000 and around that enough noise is being made to give both Hoover and the fake “opposi- tion” hope that the facts at the bottom of the farce will be hidden. 'who are facing evictions, eag- Smith, Kresel, Other Fakers Mixed Upin Bank Crash :mall Depositors Organize to Demand the Return of Money After a spont*neous meeting at 1472 Boston Road of de- positors of the Freeman Street branch of the Bank of the | United States, a committee of 25 was elected by the workers. This committee was to make the necessary preparations for a fight to get back the money kept “safe” in that. bank. The committee of 25, work-* ers who lost their last few An eager eyed woman, mother of two children, whose husband, a hat- cents, who are unemployed, |ter, has been out of work for the last 3 months, wanted to give some money WwW —— ORKERS ‘OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Tammany ' Explains Why Walker Handed Bank $2,500,000 NEW YORK.—Al Smith, Assistant District Attorney Isadore Kresel, John F. Gilchrist who was appointed president of the state tax commission when Al Smith was governor, and a whole flock of Tammany fakers are ; deeply involved in th> crash of the Bank of .he United States, according to a special investigation made by the Daily Worker. This explains why the city of New York, through grafting Mayor Walk- | er, put 22,500,000 into the Bank of | And what are these facts? That of the $116,000,000 for “public works” about half may go for buying land to build on. Then another $10,000,000 | off for “administration” and we have $50,000,000 left with which the con- tractors can begin sometime when the architects finish their plans—and ' the contractors will take at least half in profits and graft, and what's left, at most some $25,000,000 will be paid out as wages. This might give | 1,000,009 men one week of work at $25 each. Such ridiculous “solutions” of unemployment are a crime. And the hypocrisy of “both sides” (they are really one side—the capitalist side) was only more pronounced with the bandying of words about “viaying politics with human misery.” ° The hypocrisy concerning the farmers’ “relief” is equally glaring. Although Hoover grandiloquently accused Congress of “playing politics with human misery,” he stands firm as Gibraltar against making evcn the pretense of relieving human misery. As stated by Secretary Hyde. Hoover’s policy of starvation for the masses is: “Loans by the Federal Government for food on such thin secur- ity is a dangerous step toward the dole system.” in cther words, the government declares that it will let the unem- ployed workers and the poverty-stricken tarmers starve to death. If they , cannot live on miserable charity gathered from other workers.and farm- ers, let them starve—says Hoover and Hyde. And Hyde added: | “We can’t go out and help every little farmer in the country.” | No, workers and poor farmers, the capitalist government is not in- terested in “helping” you. It helps only the capitalist class, protecting it | egainst your demands for food, clothing and shelter! The capitalist gov- e t will use every ounce of its force to protect the property and profits ot the capitalist class. That is why you need a government of yow own, a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. But today, now! In this bitter winter! You need food, clothing and shelter, and only if you rally in masses to Communist leadership in the Unemployment Councils, fn the revolutionary trade unions, in Shop Com- mittees and—in the cowttry~in Township Committees of Action, wilt - you defeat the tribe of hypocrites at Washington and force real relief immediately and carry on the fight for Unemployment Insurance. Expose the- farce at Washington! Fight for relief against cold and hunger! Rally to the militant Unemployed Councils! Mayor Murphy’s Pals |AYOR MURPHY’S “Unemployment Council” of Detroit is getting so much publicity these’ days and spreading so many illusions among the workers because of its so-called “labor” backing, that it is well to ex- amine its extreme “left wing” to which the industrialists are so strenuously objecting. They are namely, Mr. Frank X. Martel, Mr. Wm. Bailey, and Mr. Sam Tobin. We will accept their own estimation of themselves to avoid any dispute. Mr. Sam Tobin was, in 1920, the business manager of the Detroit Labor News. Mr. Martel and Mr. Bailey were respectively business agent and president of the Detroit Federation of Labor. Mr. Tobin was charged by a sub-committee of the Federation with the theft of some thousands of dollars from the Labor News; and after a strenuous fight, Mr. Bailey and Mr. Martel leading the ‘honest’ elements. Mr. Tobin was removed from the office, dropped his activities in the labor movement and devoted him- self to selling stocks, bonds and real estate, until the jis hit business somewhat over a year ago. This is Mr. Bailey and Mr. l,on Mr. Tobin. In 1926 Mr, Bailey withdrew “his” Musicians’ Union from the Fed- eration of Labor because of the corruption in the Federation. On being urged to return and fight for a policy of ‘struggle he characterized the Federation under Martel’s leadership as “unclean” and any struggle as hopeless. This is Mr. Bailey on Mr. Martel. Mr. Bailey has drawn $200.00 a week from the Musicians’ Union for many years. Part of this graft has been invested in a tract of land on which Mr. Bailey owes a‘large balance. Canned music and the crisis have ruined the Musicians’ Union so that it is thin pickings for even such an astute faker as Mr. Bailey. Therefore, Mr. Bailey has supported Mr. Murphey’s Campaign, and concentrated his efforts both upon getting a jerly planned a mass meeting at Hunts Point. Palace, Southern Boulevard and 163rd St., for Friday, December 19, at 8 p. m. The worker depositors are holding this meeting to get the other worker depositors of that particular branch organized and with a united front against the enemy, the boss swindlers, they will |proceed to fight to get back the money that they had saved. The workers were standing around the table eagerly discussing the plans. WORKERS WILL ATTEND TRIAL: OF NESSIN, ETC. In Judge Levines Court —ILD to Demand Jury Trial NEW YORK.—Workers of New York will mobilize today behind the defense of Sam Nesin, Milton Stone and Robert Lealess of the October 16 unemployed delegation when they. come to trial in Judge Levine's court, corner Lafayette and Franklin Sts., at 10 o'clock this morning. arg urged to be on hand. A demand for a jury trial and a change from Special Sessiohs to Gen- eral Sessions will be made by Joseph Brodsky for the International Labor Defense, which is conducting the de- fense, and will make every effort to defeat another railroading of mili- tant workers to jail as in the case of Foster, Raymond, Amter, Lesten and Minor who were imprisoned after the March 6th unemployment demonstra- tion in Union Square. In General Sessions a jury trial can be had. The defendants will first come up in Spe- cial Sessions this mornjng for plead- ing. Carol King Weiss will repre- sent the I. L. D. The case grew out of the attack made by police and detectives on a committee of the Unemployed Coun- cil, J. Louis Engdahl, Nesin, Maud White, Lester Allen, Lealess, and Stone when they visited City Hall to present the demands of the unem- ployed for immediate relief. Walker Gave the order to his thugs to throw them out of the room and beat them up, the while he gazed at the thou- sands of unemployed workers who turned out to back up the: demands and cynically inquired “when do they serve, the ice cream.” All workers for a deposit on the hall, and showed the other workers that she only had 20 cents. All the money that they had in the world was in that bank, $250, money that they now needed for food. The chairman of the meeting, a worker who has been unemployed for months, had $90 which he was carry- ing around with him. He changed his mind and deposited it in the) bank, only two weeks ago. The bank crashed, and now he is left without a cent. i A sad eyed woman had waited in line in front of the bank for two days, and when she finally came to} the door, it was closed. She waited from 10:30 until 2:30 and received nothing. The housewife had $500 in the bank. Her husband is a carpen- ter, and is only workfmg part time She asked the cop who was on duty, “why he didn’t send someone out to tell the workers who were standing there freezing to go home, that noth- ing could be done for them.” The cop told her, “We're not here to do you any good.” Other workers, unemployed paint- ers with their last few cents, carpen- ters, dressmakers, seasonal workers, who were now faced with actual hunger. unless, the money, was forth- coming, spoke in the discussion, and” eagerly dug into their last savings (money that they had kept in their pockets) to help. get a hall for Fri- day’s meeting. The workers realize that they must put up a fight and a hard fight to get even half of their money back. Of the 50 per cent promised only 35 per cent is given and that only rare- ly. Five per cent is deducted for the bank and 10 per cent for the em. ployees. A Woman worker was standing in line for a whole day and only 60 people were allowed into the bank. Sixty people received 35 per cent of their deposits while hundreds waited outside in a line that was two blocks long. Even Ether Is Un- wholesomeinN.J. You can’t even die com- fortably in New Jersey. Sup- pose you have to have an operation. They pump you full of adulterated ether sold by Squibbs and Co., which kills you even if your opera- tion is successful, Then they insult you by forcing you to the United States, when Broderick, knew for 15 months that the bank was going to crash. This $2,500.00 that was put into this Tammany- controlled bank is five times more than the city grafters put into this Tammany controlled bank is five times more than the city grafters put into any other bank in the city. Al Smith, whose name the capital- ist papers have kept out of the news in connection with the Bank of the United States, was on the inside, and knew what was happening. He is a director of the Consolidated Indem- nity & Insurance Co., another one ot the “creations” of the Bank of the United States, like the Bankus Cor- poration and the Municipal Finance Corporation, both of which are in the hands of receivers now. Out of 19 directors of the Con- solidated Indemnity & Insurance Co., State Bank Examiner says that he | | Several developments, the most im- WALKER CALLS FAKE AID With Fake Note from “Convict Camp” After a few days comparative quie, | Soviet Union lumber exports. the drive of the imperialist robbers} William S. Bennett, attorney for the of America for war on the Soviet | Hines Lumber Co. (an enormous con- | Union, preceded by embargo, took on| cern prominent in crooked politics) new vegor yesterday. Thére were | stated at the present conference in New Orleans of the Southern Pine Association: “We've got to fight Russia, and fight Russia to the limit. Not only in the matter of lumber ports, though they are disorganizing the lumber industry of this country, not » only in the wheat and manganese and cotton and other imports, but portant being a concerted movement of the lumber barons for embargo on “STRIKE AT COMMUNISM” NEW YORK.—Open recogriition _ all down the line. Because this is a that the jobless are getting wise to battle between the Russian system the anti-labor character of capital- | and the American system.” ism and the les of the government | yer 150 lumber manufacturers ap- bodies, and hope that they can be | plauded, and preparations for in- fooled still by private charity was | creased demands \for embargo, both oiced by Mayor Walker yesterday | through the treasury department and when he complimented the Prosser | py pills in the present session of con- committee on collecting $8,269,000 in 11 are directors of the Bank of the pledges from the big corporations. United States. This insurance out- | Walker said, “the committee has fit was formed by the Bank of the| mage a better strike against Com- Wee eed ieee ae fons is headed} munism” than anything he had ever by Tammany politicians. tee! No wonder the-entire state and city] Walker forgot to mention the fact machinery was used to protect this) prought out -by Walsh.and openly bank in which the Tammany grafters | aqmitted in the committee meetings, were making big money, getting loans | that the firms contributing, the amounting to muilions! money were firing workers at the Isidore Kresel, Assistant District | same time, and hiring others, cheap- Attorney, who is now trying to put| er, because starving, from the un- (CONTINUED ON PAGE employment agencies, Jobless Die in: Park and in Union Sq. As Cold Chills What are they to do the other nights? Other organizations dispose of ap- plicants with a few meal tickets, and a few nights lodgings in a flop house bunk. Then what? What of Roosevelt’s Promise? There are several large armory buildings, warm and convenient for immediate relief purposes. Are the authorities afraid to open the ar- mories to the unemployed? Is it necessary that men should stand in line for one and two hours THREE) By GROVER J. SHOHOLM A man was found dead the other morning in the public toilet at Union Square. There was a green scum on his lips. He had wrapped news- papers around him, trying to keep warm. : People hurried on. They did not want to see. The cop’s only comment was, “Well, he’s done for.” ~ Perhaps he had stayed his five nights at the Municipal lodging house. Perhaps some social service worker has found him not “worthy.” On a bench in Madison Square a few mornings ago a woman with a bundle was found dead. She sat their rigid and cold. She was a wo- man over sixty. Not in Boss Papers. There was nothing in the papers about that. What are the welfare organizations in the bitter cold weather, waiting | for a little food? When the temper- ature falls below zero, when there is! a foot of snow on the ground, will) they have to stand as they do now at | east twenty-fifth street and at forty- eighth street, and the other lines? The jobless will get nothing unless they make their demands heard. They must not remain satisfied with | gress, were made. | The propaganda department of the | lumber barons got into action yester- | day with a story about a “note writ- |ten in Russian on a block of pulp! | wood”, alleged to have been found }in the International Paper Company plant at Piercefield, N. Y. The “note” is obviously the pro- | duet of ‘séme local Russian. white | guard, and contains absurd mistakes, ‘such as the statement that “millions | of convict: laborers” are used in the lumber camps of thé Soviet Union, and that’“thousands die every week from overwork and starvation.” Manganese Again. At the same time the American Manganese Producers Association filed a formal answer to the Iron and | Steel Institute's brief at the treasury | department. The Manganese owners j are still campaigning for embargo on | Soviet Union manganese which is of | excellent quality and easily competes with the American grade. The brief of the manganese men | is mainly for publicity and the record, and adds.no new urguments to the | charge of “dumping” and “convict” | labor. Incidentally, the anti-Soviet Knick- erbocker series of articles in the New | York Post, endorsed by Fish as cor- | rect, stated that manganese was not dumped or convict produced. WORKER’ TAG DAY SAT. AND SUNDAY | political job and holding his present job so that he may make his pay- ments on his real estate in order to become independent. Bailey on Mr. Bailey. He is brutally frank about himself if one catches him in an unguarded moment. This is the unholy trinity which the bosses of Detroit profess to greatly fear. BKLYN MEET TO FOIL EVICTION BROOKLYN, N. Y.—At the. in- struction of the Landlord and the Court, Mrs. Silbert, a jobless mother of two children is ordered out of her home, 58 Moore Street, Saturday morning at 10‘a, m. The Electricity Co., uniting with the landlord and the judge, ordered the lights shut off leaving Mrs. Sil- bert’s home in the dark. Against the eviction order the Ten- ants League which was organized by the Tenants of the Detan Realty Co. (the landlord evicting Mrs. Silbert), and the Unemployed Council of Wil- liamsburgh is calling a mass meeting for Friday, December 19, at 8 p m.,, at the Workers Center, 61 Graham} Avenue, Brooklyn, where complete mobilization to smash the landlord’s attempt to evict Mrs. Silbert will be made. All employed and unemployed workers, tenants and neighbors are urged eS to attend this meeting Either they are spoofing the workers or, as is sometimes | the case, they fail to recognize their most valuable and servile agents. This is Mr. Workers from everywhere in the immediate vicinity of the Workers Center, are reporting eviction cases and ask for support in the fight against the landlord. Mrs. Rebecca Shulman of 34 Mc- Kibben Street, returning to her home Tuesday, December 16, found her door crashed and the furniture out on the street. This widow with a sick child was unable to pay the rent and the judge ordered her out of the landlords’ home, Cops Attack Toiler in Place Over Zelgreen NEW YORK. — A Greek worker named Constantinedes entered the Greek restaurant over Zelgreen cafe- teria recently and laid his Daily Worker on the table while he ordered coffee, The owner immediately called three police, and the cops beat up Constan- tinedes viciously, and falsely accused Him of breaking an electric fan be- lunging to Zelgreen cafeteria. The mass violation of the injunc- tion campaign has centered around the Zelgreen joint, pay extra the surgeon, a rank overcharge for being killed. Read of this and 1,000 and one strange tales of capitalist corruption in New Jersey by Allen Johnson in the Daily Worker soon. (60,000 campaign news page 3) The I. L. D. calls upon all work- ers to come out in masses today to show their, Support of these defend- ants of the October 16 jobless dele- gation. WASHINGTON, D. C.—There were 136 decreases in wages reported here last month. Protested Daily Worker Notes Increase Danger of doing with all the money they collect? Ex-Governor Smith urges turning down all panhandlers. But it is sim- ply a lie that any one in néed of food and shelter is cared for. He must know very well that only five nights in a month are allowed at a Municipal lodging house to those who can prove. that they are bona fide residents of New York City. a little stew! Get a 1931 Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- newal. Hot Dog Jamboree of Red Builders News Club, 27 East 4th St., Sunday, 3 p. m. Suspension PAST OBLIGATIONS MUST BE MET TO SAVE PAPER Comrades, we have reached the point at which the appearance of our paper in the immediate future can be assured only by immediate MASS support, This week the Daily Worker was published only with the aid of last minute loans. But unless there is a strengthened working class support to aid the paper in meeting its past obligations IT WILL BE IMPOS- SIBLE TO GET OUT THE DAILY WORKER EVEN WITH BOR- ROWED FUNDS. ‘| A $2,000 note has been protested because we have not been able to meet the payments on it. Comrades who have acted as co-makers on . other notes are threatened with suits to force them to pay Daily Worker obligations. A letter from Westville, Tlinols, points out at the same time the great need of the working class for the Daily Worker and the means of ¥ : _Saving this fighting organ. The letter reads in part: Dear Comrades: Enclosed please find $7, our first contribution toward the $30,000 drive. We are hounded by the fakers of the A. F. L. and U. M. W. A. We are therefore forced to work more or less secret. Nevertheless we are doing effective work and the workers are waking up through the Daily. We agitate the locals, All over the country the Daily Worker is a weapon in the intensifying struggle, a means of awakening and organizing workers, THE DAILY WORKER CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO SUSPEND. Send what you can TODAY. Organize your union, your unit, every ee class organization to which you belong to support the Daily orker, Use the Red Shock Troop coupon on page 3. RUSH your contribu- tion to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, | Mobilize Forces to Col- lect Fuhds | NEW YORK.—Realizing the dan- |ger which the Daily Worker faces ; through lack of funds, wide support is being mobilized for the special tag | day to aid in raising $30,000 for the | day and Sunday, The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union and the ~Food Workers’ Industrial.-Union have endorsed the $30,000 Emergency Campaign, and |are mobilizing the membership to | raise funds for the Daily Worker. In the needle trades industry with a large percentage of young workers and Negro workers even more ex- ploited than the older workers in the industry, the Daily Worker is a real Weapon to organize these workers for ‘ struggle, The membership of these unions are taking part in the Tag Day to build the paper that fights for their interests. Stations are being opened up throughout the city for volunteers. The Workers International Relief has sent out a call to its membership to support the Tag Day. The United Councils have distributed 300 boxes to its members, all of whom have shown by their excellent support in the past that they are always ready to support the revolutionary press. Many ~Non - Partisan Children’s Schools, Jewish Workers Clubs, Hun- gerian, Finnish afd Ukrainian or- ganizations are opening up their headquarters for Tag Day stations for the Daily Worker, Daily, to be held the coming Satur- | CONFERENCE TONIGHT TO PLAN STRATEGY IN FIGHT TO SAVE JOBLESS’ LIVES “We've Got to Fight Russia,” UNITED FRONT OF Says Lumber Barons’ Group TOILERS, JOBLESS 150 Manufacturers of Southern Pine Move to AFL Locals, Unions of Foree Embargo; Propaganda Already Starts TUUL, Councils and Irving Plaza, 7:30 p. m, | Fraternal Bodies Slogan Is “Unite for | Insurance for the | Unemployed!” NEW YORK.—“Unite In The Fight For Unemployment Insurance,” is the rallying call of the New York United Front Conference on Unem= ployment which meets tonight at 7.30 at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Bt. and Irving Plaza. | Delegates have been elected from working class organizations, including many A. F. L, locals, fraternal or- ganizations and the militant indus- trial unions of the Trade Union Unity Council as well as from groups of the unorganized shops and fac- | tories, and from the Unemployed | Councils and the masses of the un- employed meeting before agencies and on the bread lines. ‘The conference will strengthen the work of organizing the unemployed into councils, will hear reports from (the jobless and drew up a list of | their most pressing demands, — will plan the strategy of the fight against evictions, will organize the demon- | Strations for immediate relief, and will especially work out methods of securing hundreds of thousands of signatures to the demands for unem- | ployment insurance from the na- tiohal. government. The New York | couference is one of a series through- out the country. | “That the many unemployed work- ers prefer organization and struggle for the yight to live as against the | crumbs c¥ charity from the tables |.of the bosses,” said Sam Nessin, sec- | retary of the unemployed council: | yesterday, “is proved by the incidents before the Tammany agency Wed- nesday. The obless crowded aroun our speakers in a huge mass meet. ing, while the Musteites who hac | been serving coffee and sandwiche: | were desertd. | “The workers not only remainec | through the meeting, but marched t | the headquarters of the Down Towr Council of Unemployed, where ar | extra hall had to be secured ig Man- hattan Lyceum to hold the bit crowd.” Nesin, with Lealess and Stone, al members of the October 16 jobless committee to the open hearing o the city board of estimates, goes o1 trial today in Special Sessions. Larg: numbers of the jobless are expectec to gather in or in front of the cour room to protest the railroading o these leaders of the jobless. The: | were beaten up at Mayor Walker’ | orders in the board of estimate: | room, and are now on trial for “seri | ously endangering the public peace, and “openly outraging public de cency.” All they did was to tel Walker to spend less for graft an spend something saving the lives the jobless. . Wage Cuts, Unemplo. ment Hit Workers NEW YORK.—Variety, amuse organ, reports nation-wide wr cuts and lay-offs, among the ployed workers of “the stage; cot less suicides among the _ jok amusement workers, and produc and distribution of films on a ticeable decline, Rally to Court Wher | Nessin Trial Goes 0 All workers are urged to mi at the General Sessions Cov Room, where a motion int” Nessin, Lealess and Stone case wi be heard before Judge Max 5— Levin in Part I, 32 Franklin i corner of Lafayette Street. case is set for 10 a.m. The cot. room should be jammed workers. The court is near ? Canal Street Subway. |