The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1930, Page 1

+ DAILY WORKER TAG DAY VOLUNTEERS REPORT TO STATIONS TODAY, TOMORROW, SEE PAGE FIVE Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Daily Central * % ~Comm 4 Uy >. 2) orker ist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CSR) Entered as second-clase matter st the Post Offes mt New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March $, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930 Vol. VII. No. 304 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 1931 ait for war against the Soviet Union in 1931, disclosed in the Moscow trial of the “Industrial Party,” have not been abandoned, The French General Staff, whatever its dismay at witnessing the destruction of its treacherous agents within the Soviet Union, is busily at work trying to make good the loss by mobilizing more support in the capitalist countries, especially the United States. Every day the press carries systematically manufactured materials designed to rally new sections of the population for a “Holy War” against the Red Menace. The most significant and shameful of these war preparations, which gives the political orientation of the whole move, is the resurrection of the Romanoff bones, the parading of the Czar and family as “martyrs,” the publication of pages upon pages of photographs of the “Royal family,” . the writings of General Janin, representative of the French General Staff in the war preparations. It is under the banner of Czarism that the in- # tervention is being prepared, in the U. S. as well as in Europe. ¥ What cynicism there is behind the campaign, may be measured by the brazen repetition of charges of “convict labor” in the Soviet Union, as a slogan to rouse the masses for imperialist war. In the Soviet Union, where unemployment has heen abolished, where the workers’ own organ- izations control, where the workers’ state, the proletarian dictatorship, is improving workers’ conditions at a speed never witnessed in history, and at the same time building socialist industry at a speed many times ex- ceeding the highest speed capitalism ever realized in its prime. War in 1931 is the determination of the capitalist bloodsuckers. Workers must answer with the declaration, that war against the Soviet Union will end only in revolution, in a civil war of the oppressed masses against capitalism. The fight against war can today be carried forward most effectively by the fight for unemployment relief, for insurance, against the wage cuts and speed-up. The fight against war is part of the fight for building unemployment councils, the revolutionary trade unions, and the Com- munist Party. The fight against war is the fight to build the Daily Worker and extend its circulation to tens and hundreds of thousands more worker readers. Down with the imperialist war-makers! Bank Robbers! bankers of this country have been knocking at the door of every state legislature, demanding the death penalty for bank robbers. Of course these gentlemen never meant this to apply to themselves, but only to poor wretches who crack the safes in the dead of night, or who bravely ) enter in broad day and risk their lives to make away with all cash in sight. But these are merely petty criminals, door mat thieves, compared to the bank robbers who operate from the inside. And it is these criminals to whom the death penalty should be applied. : In February 1929, the City Trust Bank failed and the State Superin- tendant of Banks at that time, Mr. Frank H. Warder, was finally found to be bribed by that bank’s officers, was convicted of that—but of course is not in jail! Now Mr. Broderick, Mr. Warder’s successor as State Super- intendent of Banks is clearly protecting the officers of the Bank of the United States( and is not protecting its depositors. Why is it that no one hears.the name or names of those officers of the Bank of the United States who were responsible for the conduct of its affairs! These gentlemen are hidding behind tht entity of “The Bank”! Why do they hide? ‘Thomas W. Lamont, in his address at the Stock Exchange on Dec. 15, said that—“the institution in question (the Bank of United States) had Jong been regarded with uneasiness.” But Mr. Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks evidently had no “uneasiness.” Why? And will Broderick explain why, if such an eminent banker as Lamont had reasons long ago to regard the Bank of United States with “uneasiness,” Broderick could find nothing wrong when he “examined” the bank no longer ago than September? But Mr. Broderick it appears, is above explaining anything! He lifts his lily-white Tammany nose in the air as if lowly depositors have no right to demand an accounting! It is time that Mr. Broderick was yanked up short and sharp and made to talk something besides empty nonsense about “book assets are that the figures in the books ‘You have slaved and denied your stom- Are you satisfied Force the bank robbers into the It is up to Death all gecounted for”—which means nothing but ed are still figures in the books! he But where is the money, the money, Mr. Broderick, which the de- in positors put into the Bank of United States? Did those dollar and five ns dollar bills saved by self-denial of hundreds of thousands of workers just on evaporate—or did they find themselves into the pockets of well-fed and er, slick bank robbers—who rob from the inside? if One stockholder, Max E. Block, is bringing legal suit against the Dir- ectors of the Bank of United States, charging assets were “stolen, wasted nd squandered.” His complaint charges further that the officers invested “the funds of the bank and the money deposited with it, without eontrol and as they pleased and illegally, for their own individual profit, and in securities in which they should not have invested, and on, particularly securities in which such officers or corporations in which ae they were interested had a personal interest.” Workers! Small depositors! achs food to put away your few dollars in the banks! ntt J to allow Mr. Broderick longer to treat you as dogs deserving of no atten- tse; i tion? If not, organize! Speak up! light! Force the Tammany government of New York to account to you ard 9% gor its supervision of your money! the ‘The bankers who demand the death penalty for bank robbers should lady J get a dose of their own medicine! The Superintendent of Banks must not ters Hi be allowed to shelter the criminals who have robbed you! uar- # you to demand your money or their lives! Death to bank robbers! rave o those who steal the little savings of the workers! you, 4 lady; the Romanoffs out of Siberia, fraudulent- aw fLJARS DISAGREE BANK U. 5. DEPOSITORS ORGANIZE TO DEMAND THROW STINK BOMB IN MEETING But Depositors Keep Their Nerve and Form Committee Plan Demonstration 3,000 Meet in Bronx; to Form City Group NEW YORK.—Three thousand de- positors of the defunct Bank of the United States met Thursday night at Grand Central Hall, 90 Clinton St. ‘The vast majority of those who jammed the hall to capacity and stood in the halls striving to get in were workers. They were shabbily clothed. The marks of hard toil could be seen on their faces and hands, They were all in a fighting mood. Cops, stool pigeons, bank officials were at the doors looking sullenly at the worker-depositors as they planned action to demand the return in full of the money robbed from them by the Bank of the United States, engineered by Tammany poli- ticians, Every worker-depositor present pledged himself to action en mass to force the return of their deposits. Speaker after speaker from the floor got up. They talked as workers. “We are exploited on the job,” they said. (Continued on Page Five) | More Proof of Robbery Committed by Bank Directors NEW YORK.—More proof of the highway robbery tactics of the Tam- many bank officials of the Bank of the United States is brought out in an investigation being conducted by Watson Washburn, assistant attorney general of the State Bureau of Se- curities. ‘Washburn questioned 35 officers of the bank and got evidence of “mis- representation by representatives of the Bank of the United States or its investment affiliate, the Bankus Cor- poration.” In short, he discovered statements to cover up the dirty deal ings of the bank, which, together with the growing economic crisis, led to its smash. The Board of Directors were mak- ing big coin in swindling deals with the bank stock. Meanwhile, Broderick, the Tam- many Bank Examiner, is trying to quieten the depositors who are or- ganizing to demand the full return of their deposits, The fake loan scheme is being blasted. There is more fake talk about “reorganization,” as the bank examiners know that millions of dollars are missing and there is no way on the present basis to return 100 per cent to all the depositors. One of the branch managers, Dietz, has disappeared and cannot be found for investigation. As more facts are unrolled, the depositors will learn that the conditions of the bank are so rotten, all the efforts of the lead- ing Wall Street bankers could not save it. To protect their interests, the worker-depositors must organize! League of Nations Openly Drives for Soviet Embargo Calls Abolition of Unemployment In USS R ‘Forced Labor”; Lets Propagandists Talk About “Secret Evidence of Convict” Capitalist press reports indicate the League of Nations is coming out for embargo on Soviet Union products, such an embargo as is usually the prelude to military attack, just as the sabotagers on trial in Moscow confessed the French and British general staffs were planning. The League of Nations attacks in both an open and a covert manner, Openly, the League Labor Office in Geneva permits interviews with news- paper correspondents, for example Clarence K. Streit of the New York Times, which give the opinion of the League that the Soviet decrees abol- ishing unemployment insurance on the grounds that there is no more unemployment in the Soviet Union, make all labor “compulsory.” The league, of course, does not take the same stand against United States, which never had any insurance for unemployment, and which has 9,000,- 000 jobless, whereas even the League does not argue any longer that there are unemployed workers in the So- viet Union who can not get jobs. Secretly, a series of capitalist press correspondents, have been allowed to see “confidential” reports (entirely fake, too absurd to make public on the authority of the League) and on the basis of these “reports” are writ- ‘ng slanderous articles about convict labor in the Soviet lumber industry. One of these is Albin E. Johnson, writing a series now in the New York World. The first article appeared yesterday, only a few days after the Knickerbocker series ended in the New York Post. This first article of Johnson's tells of the “confidential” circular sent to League of Nations subsidiary offices, alleging that “es- caped convicts” have made a number of statements “which do not contra- dict each other.” If they did con- tradict the League of Nations liar who invented them all would lose his job! The statements are all about the O. G. P. U. (Russian state political administration) sentencing “thou- sands” of kulaks and professional men and former capitalists to hard labor in the lumber camps where they are “starved and overworked.” that the bank officials made fake} 17 Young Reds Bayonetted, Beaten With Rifles in Sofia |1 May Die; Judge Watches Murderous Attack Protest Capitalist “justi showed itself in all its brutual savagery during the | trial of 17 Young Communists now | going on in Sofia, Bulgaria. Because the 17 young workingclass defendants demonstrated and sYang the “Inter- nationale,” they were rushed on by soliders with bayonets, and were beaten with the butt end of guns | right in the court-room under the } nose of the Judge. The brave court-guards, armed to | the teeth, proved their daring by NESSIN CASE PUT OFF TO DEC. 26 Police Fail to Stop Meeting of Jobless NEW YORK.—The cases of Sam | Nesin, Milton Stone and Lealess, | members of the Oct. 16 delegation of the 800,000 jobless in New York, were postponed yesterday to Dec. 26. An argument is being made to have them transferred to general sessions, because of the change in the charges. In general sessions they would get a jury trial, Tammany wants them tried without a jury in special ses- sions and railroaded through to an indeterminate sentence of three years, like the very similar case of Foster, Minor, Amter, Lesten and Raymond. Raymond is still serving time in that case. Mayor Walker ordered. the police to beat up the Oct. 16 delegation right in the board of estimates reom when they demanded that some of the money being spent on graft be turned over to the jobless to save their lives, Try to Stop Meeting. ‘Nearly 50 police thronged around Lafayette and Leonard Sts. (the ‘Tammany fake employment agency) yesterday and tried several times to stop the mass meeting of 1,500 un- employed who had tried to get jobs and couldn’t. Thousands try every day and find no jobs, and these job- less gathered to hear the speakers of the Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil, and stubbornly refused to be moved along by the cops, The jobless gave scant courtesy to the well-dressed and well-fed speak- ers of Muste’s “Leagus for Progres- sive Labor Action” who tried to draw them away from the Unemployed Council speakers. “He’s no worker,” they muttered about the Muste sec- retary. “Who Pays You?” they yelled at him. The Musteite was telling them how amiable the police were and that their only task was to “dramatize” their demands. Ball was chairman of the Unem- ployed Council meeting and speakers were Murphy, Williams and Milton Stone. Stone took the stand imme- diately after coming oht of special sessions court. ‘The usual meeting in 27 FE. Fourth St. followed the open-air meeting, and many joined the council, also many signatures to the demand for unemployment insurance were se- cured. Hot Dog Jamboree of Red Builders News Club, 27 East 4th St., Sunday, 3 p. m. Assault and Then Orders 12 to Jail Who FULL DEPOSIT RETURN plunging their bayonets into the bodies of the handcuffed revolution- ary youth while they were caged in | the prisoners’ dock. Two were se- | | verely injured, and one is expected to| |die. The bloody hangmen couldn't | }even wait to go through with the farcial trial before they did their murdering. | | The capitalist press in the United | | States takes this action quite calmly. | | They look upon it as a matter of | course, like the beating of Nesin, Stone, Lealess and White on orders | of Jimmy Walker in City Hall, last | October. | But when the counter-revolution- | | ary wreckers who had plotted the | murder of millions of workers are} | put on trial and permitted to say | what they pleased, admitting that their health had yeen improved dur- | jing their imprisonment, the very | | same capitalist press shrieks bloody | | murder. | | The only action of the judge in the | | Sofia court was to order the prisoners back to their cells where, no doubt, the court-room spectators could not see the conclusion of the beating and dayonetting. When the proceedings resumed 12 | witnesses, members of the Commu- | | nist Party of Bulgaria, in protest, re- | | fused to testify because of murderous assault on the 17 young defendants. They were ordered to serve three weeks’ of rigorous imprisonment | where they too will feel the butt end of rifies against: their heads. One of the defendants who was beaten is just 17 years old, a high school student, and the only charge | against all of them is “membership | youth.” The bloody fascists of Bulgaria are so fearful of the growing mass discontent in their country and the increasing leadership of the Commu- nists that they openly drop the sham of their rotten court procedure to rush the lynching of these 17 young revolutionaries, “CHARITY” IS RELIEF. CHICAGO, Ill—The Governor's | Commission on Unemployment and Relief, in answer to a worker's re- quest for relief, told him to apply at one of the charity organizations. UNEMPLOYM HUGE CONFERENCE ON ENT BUILDS FOR SIGNATURE DRIVE Takes Up Demands for Millions City Govern- ment Now Gives Bankers and Police; Must Be Used to Save Jobless’ Lives All Organizations Affiliating To Be Stations Collecting Signatures for Insurance Bill Discuss Amendments to Bill; Full Force Back of Hunger Marches, Building of Councils, Propose 200 Mass Meetings BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—The credentials committee preliminary report shows about 600 delegates to the New York United Front Unemployment Con- ference. This does not count delegates from Communist Party units. iis eee NEW YORK.—Irving Plaza Hall was jammed last night with delegates—not a mass meeting, but delegates—of work- ers’ organizations, A. F. L. unions, militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League, workers’ defense, relief, sports, cultural, fraternal, mutual aid, and all other sorts of workers’ organizations, including, of course, the councils of the unem- ployed, and representatives from meetings on bread lines, from in front of employment agencies and from flop houses. They gathered to plan the signature drive for unemployment insur- ance, to voice the local demands of the New York workers, to | im the Gommunist organizatioy, cf. organize their central body, to amend the proposals already made by provisional organiza- tions. They were standing in the aisles and beginning to crowd the visitors in the balcony and were still coming last night when the last news: reached the Daily Worker, “-The. big credentials " cornmittee, jelected from the conference to rep- | resent some of the larger organiza- | tions present, was down on the floor of the room -downstairs, surrounded | by a litter of credentials which they were hurriedly sorting and verifying. Nesin Opens Meeting. Sam Nesin, out of jail mostly be- cause his case was postponed yester- day (Tammany is trying to railroad him without a jury trial because he led a delegation October 16 to de- mand relief from the city treasury for the jobless), opened the meeting at 8 p. m. in the name of the New (Continued on Page Two) NEW YORK.—With a great. city conference of delegates from work- ers’ organization reatly to meet last night in New York to map out in- creased campaign for signatures to the demand for the bill for unem- ployment insurance and a local fight for immediate relief, the National Campaign Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance yesterday began to especially emphasize the mobilization of all workers’ organizations. “All national workers’ mass organi- zations should endorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, to Call to Workers Organizations to Endorse Jobless Insurance Also Urged to Select Their Representatives On National Campaign Committee for Un- employment Insurance take the war funds of the national government and to tax the «reat in- comes in order to pay the jobless workers insurance at the rate of $25 a week each.” Elect Delegates! the organizations endorsing the bill to send in copies of the resolution of endorsement, together with a stdte- ment of the number of members in the organization. should also elect their delegates to Organizations | TAG DAY DRIVE BEGINS TODAY For Daily Worker ; Many Groups Help — NEW YORK.—Many organizations throughout the city will open up their headquarters today and Sun- day to serve as Tag Day stations for the Daily Worker Tag Day, which is part of the Daily Worker Emergency drive for $30,000, The United Council of Working- class Women has mobilized all its branches to take active part in this Tag Day. Over 300 boxes have been distributed to its members, The Non-Partisan Children School, Inter- national Worker Order branches, Jewish Workers clubs, Hungarian, Czechoslovak, Lithuanian, Polish and many other language working-class organizations have mobilized their membership to make this Tag Day @ real demonstration for the sup- port of the Central Organ of the Communist Party. Thirty-six Tag Day stations have been opened throughout the city and in Newark, New Jersey, where work- ers can get their material, Indivi- dual workers who wish to rally to the support of the Daily Worker should report to one of these sta- tions. Over 3,000 workers have already volunteered, and at least another two thousand workers are expected to The National Committee wishes | Vlunteer today and ftonierrew. fa) ee Notice All workers collecting $5 ane over in Tag Day today and to- morrow will be awarded a 1932 the National Campaign Committee | ! Firs for Unemployemnt Insurance, Those | bes Mit athe eto mrtg : e of cism, wee! e 0 ings roo! rug rke! nsuy- of Cun sees ly using the U. S. consular car for that The New York Times reporter tries to solve the contradic- tion between the two stories by say- ing that Olarkin’s tale “completes” that of Janin—and ending his yarn by saying that the bones of the Czar after being shipped through China to Trieste (on the Adriatic) “left the fateful box in Czech hands.” From where evidently they were shipped to Siberia, across Bolshevik territory, so that the French general leading the Czech legion in Siberia could also smuggle them out through Siberia, at about the same time Clarkin did! IANOTIAZR N.Y. STATE | BANK GOES TO SMASH ON CZAR’S BONES i‘imesMakes Desperate ffort to Unite Yarns —s f+ Coupled with the League of Nations opaganda, a desperate effort is g made to revive sentimental inv fjres in the Romanoff family, shot luring the allied invasion of Russia. eneral Janin, the same fellow who placed in charge of the French eneral Staff plans to make war on ie Soviet Union in connection with Moscow sabotagers, has published book. He asserts that he carried e bones of the Czar and his family » Europe while he was commavder | the Czech counter revolutionary ion in Siberia during Kolchak’s zime, and has them buried in the nin family vault. This seems to hove been a story spired from the central, war plot ganization, because, evidently feel- @ that the story must go trough,’ e plotters assigned the task of “ising this story on the world also , crashed a few days ago, but the cap- Pranklin Ciarkin, former vice eon-| italist papers outside of Baltimore of United States in Siberia; cid not carry a word about it, This other New York bank, with $1,117,914 in deposits crashed yesterday. Joseph A. Broderick, Tammany State Super- | intendent of Banks, announced that | he had taken possession of the State Bank of Canastota, N. \Y. The People’s Bank of Baltimore, Priia resterday gave a long inter- | shows more banks are crashing every | the press telling how he, not| day which nover'see the light of day smuggled the “relics” of the in the capitalist. press. Every day more banks crash. An-| Comrade I. Amter, District 2, New York — Appeals for $30,000 Daily Worker Fund THE DRIVE FOR THE DAILY WORKER — A PROLETARIAN DUTY By I. AMTER. The immediate problem before the Daily Worker is finance. The Daily Worker is being published practically on day to day loans. The deficit of $30,000 is crushing the existence of the Daily Worker. This deficit must be liquidated if the Daily Worker is to live According to latest computations, there are more than 9,000,000 un- employed in the country. Of this number, more than 1,000,000 are in New York City alone. A breadline for the children is the latest “novelty” for the ladies of the rich—something that tickles their sense of duty. Bank crashes all over the country. The collapse of the Bank of United States in New York means the robbery of at least 300,000 workers of their last savings, , The capitalist press which knows only charity as a “remedy” for un- employment and dares not tell the workers the truth aboyt the lies of Hoover, the lies of the capitalists, the treachery of Woll, Green and the other fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. and the treason of the socialist party. The Communist Party and press have told the workers the truth. The Communist Party and press will continue to expose the rottenness of the capitalist system, the misery of the workers and their families. ‘The Com- munist Party and press will continue to mobilize, to organize and mobilize the workers for struggle against these conditions. The workets recognize what the Communists are doing, and therefore are showing their support of the Party and the Communist press by mobilizing for the Daily Worker drive to put the Daily on # better func- tioning basis. The sales of Dailies on the streets of New York, the en- thusiasm of the comrades in collecting funds for the Daily—both Party and non-Party workers—the mass sentiment expressed in the letters to the Daily from all parts of the country—all make it clear that the workers of the country are coming to the realization that the Daily Worker is one of their most powerful weapons in the struggle. The District Oftice of the Daily Worker has arranged two tag days on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 20 and 21 to help raise the quota of $8,000 for New York. Every member of the Party and Young Communist League, every sympathizer must rally to this work. This will be one of the most Powerful and effective answers to the capitalists who wish to destroy the Daily Worker. This will be the best answer to the Fish Committee, who are trying to outlaw the Daily Worker and the Communist Party. This will be the best answer to the reactionaries inthe labor movement, whose treason to the workers is being exposed with deadly effectiveness by the Communist Party and the Daily Worker. All workers out on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 20 and 21. Your work on those two days will be a challenge to all enemies of the revolutionary movement! RUSH your funds and collections immediately tr Paily Wetker. 50 East 13th Street, New York City. elected should reside in or near New York, so they can attend meetings of the committee. National Committee Meets. At the third meeting of the Na- tional Campaign Committee for Un- employment Insurance held several days ago, Wagenknecht reported on the mass character this campaign is assuming and the tasks that lie be- fore it to increase and broaden the demand upon the Congress of the (Continued on Page Five) OLGIN AT WORK- ERS FORUM SUN. NEW YORK.—M. J, Olgin, editor of the Jewish language organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A.. the “Morning Freiheit,” will address the Workers’ Schoo] Forum this Sun- day, Dec. 21, at 8 p, m., at the Ir- ving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving PL, on the Bankruptcy of Zionism. ‘This subject is of great immediate interest to workers in view of the growing efforts of the Jewish capi- talists and bankers to utilize the ac- tion of the British “labor” govern- ment in withdrawing the fake Bal- four declaration, ii order to revive of its kind ever printed—pictures and cartoons never before: pub- | lished with historical events in the class struggle. Call with Tag Day receipts at Daily Worker Of- | fice for calendar, How Senator Is 70% Bribed A certain senator in New Jersey arrived at his desk one morning at 3 p. m., opened his drawer and found ten $1,000 bills. He counted them over one by one, ten of them. The statesman, so-called, out- raged, jumped up in the senate and indignantly bellowed: “I have been offered bribes, yes. bribes, fo vote against this bill. Some scoundrel left money in my desk, $1,000 bills. Three of them! Here they are!” The law-juggler thereupon tossed three (1-2-3) of the ten $1,000 bills to the shocked speaker, and, boiling with in- dignation, walked out with a newly-acquired reputation for honesty and seven $1,000 bills, True tales of boss graft and labor rackets in the Daily the reactionary nationalist Zionist, Propaganda massa beryipcatated Peat «| Worker soon (60,000 campaign | flashes page 5). i