The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemp!oyment Insurance Bill. Unemployment ‘Insurance Must Be Won Now! o) eo WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 305 at New York, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Ofiee N. ¥., under the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER. 22, 1930 Capitalist Class Justice. ‘HE capitalist press of the entire world, after weeks of moaning over the execution of Professor Ramzin and his fellow plotters against the Soviet Government, flew into a rage at the Soviet Union when the Soviet Central Committee remitted the death sentences. ‘The capitalist enemies of the Soviet Union are very hard to please; and the Soviet Government did correctly in not trying to. Instead it declared that the Soviet, the Workers’ Government, would not take re- venge on a disarmed and defeated enemy. Compare this with what dispatches brought us Friday from Sofia, Bulgaria, where (according to the N. Y. Times of Dec. 18) a trial is going on with “seventeen Communist youth, including a 17-year old high school boy, being charged with complicity in a Communist plot and membership in Communist organizations.” The dispatch relates that when agents of the political police entered the courtroom, the youthful defendants arose and, in chorus, denounced them as murderers (which in fact they are, as all know who are acquainted with the white terror in Bulgaria). Let the N. Y. Times tell how “justice” proceeded in capitalist Bulgaria: “Finally the judge ordered the prisoners’ removal to their cells. When they refused to go and resisted the gendarmes the latter rushed them with fixed bayonets. Two of the accused were felled with rifle butts and a third was seriously wounded in the head with a bayonet. Panic seized those listening to the trial and they fought to escape from the scene.” In all capitalist countries workers on trial for their class activities are brutally beaten and tortured—and nowhere more generally than in the’ United States. Yet the capitalist newspapers here and in Europe lied wholesale about Ramzin and his fellow criminals being “tortured”— a lie which Ramzin and the rest publicly denied. The dispatch from Bulgaria adds that a dozen witnesses, horrified by the attack on the prisoners, refused to testify when the “trial,” if it can be called such, was resumed. Whereupon the judge sentenced these witnesses to three weeks “rigorous imprisonment” and ordered them imme- diately tc prison! ‘The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Mooney-Billings case, the daily frame-ups and brutal beatings of prisoners in hundreds of cases against obscure workers, the persecution of a jury member in Los Angeles because she would not vote for a verdict of guilty against workers on trial, the railroading of the leaders of the Imperial Valley strike—all show that capitalist “justice” is at bottom the same in America as in bloody Bulgaria. The working class cannot and will not cease its struggle because of this savagery of capitalism, seeking to retain power to rule and rob the workers. And the answer of the workers—who see such proof of the fal- sity of “fairness” of capitalist courts, is to strengthen all their class or- ganizations, the International Labor Defense, the, revolutionary trade anions—and the leader of all class struggle, the Communist Party! Swindling Small Depositors R. BERNARD K. MARCUS is the man who was president of the Bank of United States. Questioned by Richard Sherman, Deputy Assist- ‘ant Attorney General, Marcus admits that total deposits shrunk from $203,000,000 on September 24, to $161,000,000 on December 10. What does this mean? It means that long before the poor and humble depositors knew that the bank was shaky, somebody else knew it. And it means that these people “on the inside” were getting out from under— but saying nothing to warn the small depositors. “| (CONTINU! MORE PROOF OF ROBBERY “IN BANK OF U.S; 5,000 472272" U? ~ DEMONSTRATE AT BANK stockholders Engaged In Wholesale Gyp Dealings 1,100 Banks More Banks Crash NEW YORK. — On Monday, Bro- | | derick, state superintendent of banks, | | announces. the “loans” will be Evan to the 29,415 depositors of the Bank lof the U. S. who applied. Evidence | given by worker-depositors at the var- ious meetings shows this “loan” to be |a fake scheme which has no relation |to their deposits. The depositors |have to get other endorses to back | \fheir loans, a proceding which they can go through to get a loan even |if they never put a cent in the Bank | of the U. S. i Meanwhile, Broderick is still keep- ing back the truth about the condi- | tion of the bank, He now refuses | to answer any questions of depositors on what is going on behind the closed doors of the ruined bank. When the | charge was made that a judge of the supreme court got a “loan” of $100,- 000, and one of the directors of the bank stuck a cool million in his pocket as a “loan” just before the bank crashed, Broderick refused to answer. More Swindling. Now some more swindling is shown | up through an examination of stock sales by the bank. It is proved that | the bank officials sold stock of the; | bai nk for $198 a share with the pro- ise that the shares could be turned | in at any time for the full amount. | vED ON PAGE THREE) Who are these people? We do not know their names, but we can | safely say that they were “friends” of those who robbed the bank from the inside—and were in’ on ‘thé ganié~of leaving nothing but an empty vault for the small depositors. They were, undoubtedly, big depositors, as the bank was losing more than $500,000 a day as they withdrew. Now it is reported that another cruel swindle is being put over. The promise of “loans” to depositors has a string tied to it. A string that absolutely prevents workers and other small depositors from actually getting a loan. Such a cynical swindle has rarely been put over! The capitalist papers—partners in the crime, against the small de- positors—relate as a boast that, after applying for “loans,” many de- ~scitors are finally “changing their minds.” Athd these- capitalist sheets claim that this shows a “return of confidence.” Such hypocrisy! The trick is to get the depositors sign over their deposits as security for the loan. But when the final loan papers are made out, the depositor is required to give “further security”"—to get his note endorsed! “For, it is argued, in case the Bank of the United States does. not finally pay out as much as 50 per cent, then the depositor—will have to make good! And small depositors, poor Korkers, have no other security but their bank books! So they will havé to get their loan repayment endorsed by someone who is tablé to the bank making the loan! Which in the end means that such a thing is impossible for poor workers to get at all! Others who have security, who are rich and fortunate enough to hhaye security or someone who will endorse their loan‘note, can get the loan. However, they could get a loan on such conditons without being Jepositors of the bankrupt bank. So it is all a cruel swindle! The workers, the small depositors, those who have laid up a few dol- Jars at the cost of sweat and selfsacrifice—are robbed! And it is becoming plain that the State Superintendent of Banks, Mr. Broderick, is protecting the bank robbers. He is above answering questions—though he is a public official. He says he has: been “watch- ing” the bank for fifteen months. But he made no move to halt affairs while yet there was a chance that the small depositors might get their money back. ’ Workers should beware of the swarm of false “friends” who gather around them “assuring” them that “things are all right.” One Mr. Steuer, a lawyer, who is making some pretensions of “defending. the depositors”, can be judged by the fact that he says he has “complete confidence in the integrity of the Superintendent of Banks.” Anyone who can say that is no friend of the small depositors, . ‘The 300,000 or more of workéts and other small depositors cannot rely on legal chicane, tricks and humbuggery. They have been robbed of their savings, the few dollars saved against age and poverty, and they have béen robbed by a set of scoundrels who can only be brought to book and made to cough up by insistent and militant mass protest! Organize to defeat the swindlers and robbers! Organize to force them to disgorge your money which they took and filled their pockets with! Organize for mass protest that will compel attention! ELIZABETH JOBLESS IN DEMAND FOR RELIEF NOW ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec. 21.—The Council of the Unemployed here has sent a committee of five to present the following amendments to the city pudget for 1931: 1—Turn over for immediate relief to the unemployed the $990,753 slated for repayment of loans and: interest ‘on city debt. 2.—Cut in half the city officials’ salaries where they amount to over $2,500. All this relief to be distributed through a city board of shop workers and the Unemployed Council. ‘The committee demands also that the city council Passes the following measures: 1.—Absolutely no evictions, 2.—All vacant apartments for the free use of the unemployed. ..3—No payment of bills for gas, rand or coal, by the jobless. 4.—Free food and clothing. 5.—Free transportation for all the unemployed workers and their fam- ilies, #0 Re ee MORE RAILROAD LAYOFFS (By a Worker Correspondent) HILLYARD, Wash. — Hillyard is the centre for the railroad chops of the Great Northern and only a few men are working and those one half the usual time and lay-offs are still on. Tester Smeared; Bad Meat Good | i N.Y. MEET 10 HIT WAR PLOTS DEC. 26 |Bob Minor and Olgin| Among Speakers NEW YORK.—A mass protest dem- plots of international imperialism as has been revealed in the Moscow Trial against the eight conspirators who were in direct link with the gen- eral staffs of France and Great Bri- tain and other imperialist nations, with the aim to attack the Soviet Union thereby crippling the five year plan of socialist constructipn, will take place on Friday, Dec. 26th, 8 p. m. at Star Casino, 115 E. 107th St., New York City. Robert Minor will make his first address since his arrest and impris- onment as a result of the unemploy-| ment demonstration of March 6th. Lem Harris, newspaper correspon- dent at Moscow, just returned from the Soviet Union, will relate his ex- periences of his troubles through the Soviet Union. M. Olgin, editor of the Jewish Daily Freiheit, will speak on the latest achievements of the five year plan, and on the trial of the eight con- spirators. There will also be a concert and other entertainments. The admission will be 25 cents at the door. Come} en masse and demonstrate for the defense and recognition of the Soviet Union. Auspices' Friends of the Soviet Union, New York District. Failed | Crisis Grows Worse As, onstration against the interventionist | ‘COPS BEAT WOMEN. ASKING DEPOSITS | Organized For Mass | Stru ruggle |B’klyn Meeting Tonite Tammany Judge Finds Depositers “Guilty” NEW YORK.—Following a meet- ing of 3,000 small depositors of the | Bank of the United States on Friday at Hunts Point Palace in the Bronx | more than 5,000 depositors and wor! | ers, who sympathized with them, | demonstrated in front of the Free- | man St. branch of the defunct bank | on Saturday morning at 12 o'clock. One or the worker-depositors’ com- mittee, representing over 3,000 depos- | | itors attempted to get up and speak to the crowd in front of the bank. | The doors of the bank had just been | slammed shut at 12 o'clock, and the depositors in line protested, demand- ing the right to make application for | the “loan.” Cops Beat Depositors. The police in front of the bank | began to attack the crowd, but they stopped very soon and called for re- inforcements. Mounted police, riot wagons and a bunch of cops and dicks rushed to the bank. The | speaker was knocked to the ground and beaten. Bessie Lapidus, a depositor whose pEnGneY was robbed by ‘the Tammany | bank officials, was beaten in the ribs ‘and over the heart for demanding the return of her deposit. : Eight were arrested. Lillian Ger- | charged. The others, Harry Metz, Joseph Levitt, Oscar Mailman, Alvar Allen, Yetta Schechter and Bessie Lapidus were tried before Magistrate | Flood, found guilty of disorderly con- duct and were given a suspended sen- tence. Flood, who tried the March 6 delegation in the preliminary hear- ing, is the magistrate who refused | bail to William Z. Foster. This Tam- many magistrate, whose brother was | pinched for murder and let out on small bail, has the gall to find work- ers guilty for demanding the return | of their money stolen by Tammany | bank officials. Meet Monday Night. ‘There wijl be another meeting of the Bank of U. S. depositors on Mon- day at 8:30 p. m. at 1373 43rd St., Brooklyn, where further organiza- tion will take place. Over 15,000 de- positors have already met in differ- | ent parts of the city, have organized themselves, formed ¢ommittees and will meet to work out plans to de- | mand the return in full of the de- | posits of workers and small mer- | chants, * ° oe! BROOKLYN.—Determined to fight for their deposits, a committee of worker depositors of the 86th Street More Than 15,000 Now| ber, one of those arersted, was dis- | oy "CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents. Push Navy War’ Program Ub to WASHINGTON, Dec ieast pspee $1,100,000,000 will ha limit” the Ameri hat to be | of naval operatic | Committee on N Previously Hoover declared the | only $800,000,000 would be nec ary to build sufficient ships with which to ‘ ‘m,” but now Admiral Prat ; Says an increased sum is necessary The $1,100,000,000 will be voted for | war preparations, but the unemployec workers are being fooled by a fake $18,000,000 building program, not, a | cent of which they will ever see In previous testimony Admi Pratt said that there mn ity” cause the made the British 1 the Ame: make up. | Pratt now s for $300,000,000 more for war ships and cruisers, and ad- peeding-up merchant ma as part of the war pref The merchant definitely a part would cost ano FAKE RELIEF CASH FOR WAR PURPOSE CongressA marine, which is war ‘moves {ssuresWage | Cut On Publie Work WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. | Congress ad, ned until after New Years last night. The last business ot importance w: Hoover which provides $116,000,000 for pub- | lic improvements During the course of teh debate on Senator Couzens’ amendment, which provided that labor hired should ‘be jat union rates, it was pointed out | that such small parts of the fund as- | found its way into the pockets of the men hired would be at a wage-cut basis. The Couzens’ amendment was defeated with great enthusiasm by the rest of the senators, who are all representatives of big business and enthusiastic for wage-cuts. They argued that such an amendment was unconstitutional, as it might prevent the lowest bidder from getting the job. Couzens made a poor fight, him- | self, and seemed to be talking for the record, ot Spent For War, The bill provides about $91,000,000 for roads and trails (nice pickings for Stone & Webster and other big contractors) and gives most of’ the rest to the war department to pre-" pare fer the coming slaughter under the guise of “improving rivers and harbors.” Facts brought out in the debate by Senators LaFollette and Walsh showed 40,000 unemployed in Buffalo in San Antonio, 9,000 in New Haven, 8,000 in Springfield, Mass. Senator Willett of Massachusetts rose and indignanily declared that “no outside aid should he sent to Massachusetts | cities or towns.” and 20th Avenue Branches of the Bank of United States have called al mass \meeting of depositors for this | evening, 8 o'clock, at 48 Bay 28th! Coney Island. | t Worosers are the eyes of the workers’ press. Join your local Worcorr group and help fight the bosses, \Shoe Worker Jobless Meet Tomorrow, lpm) NEW YORK—The Independent ' Shoe Workers’ Union calls a meeting | of all unemployed shoe workers for Tuesday, at 1 p. m., at 16 West 21st ' St., to plan organized action for re-! lief and insurance. (21 per cent of the Workers), 25,000 | OVER 3,000 BIRMINGHAM NEG A SE ren Police i in Vicious CHASE BOSS RO, WHITE JOBLESS PUT UP FIGHT FOR RELIEF RN [ol] INTO Attack on Girl Shirt Strikers HOTEL; DEFY COPS Boss Courts Every see strike I NEW al HAVEN, k wa police Friday nigt picket line of th the Lesnow Bros Dec. nother hed by against the mass striking workers Shirt Fa The police savagely beat up girl strikers with clubs When they re- fused to disperse tory Kick and Club 2 eaders— s Offer ¢ der T aken For Ride the | the Savage Sentences (@ i 325 For sunmen $25 For | Lite Tra ade Union | Unity League | Speakers taken a hand in the effort to b strike, with the here of U. S. Labor Department Conciliator Anna Weinstock, who has alr | conferred with the bosses but refuses to see strike committees. The church and kicked several! were | the workers. too is functioning in its traditional role of betrayer of the struggles of in the stomach. Fi A local Catholic priest ij PER old} is attempting to inject himself in to strike leader, r Weisman, 17-| the situation, but the girls have sar old picket captain, also William | unanimously voted against accepting an, Louis ¢ and | his invitation to a conference at his Meyer Jacobson who were picketing. | ebureh, ther Weisman was rescued from] A big strikers’ dance was held last cops by a group of girl strikers! night at the Labor eum, with a away but the cops| large number of strikers and sym- n and, threat- her in the stomach, her king ened to beat The rested str rs were all held | 00 bail with trial set for Wed- | y before Judge Whitaker who has already handed out viciou n- tences of 60 days to June Croll and 90 days to Joe Jackson. With the police and courts co-| ting in full with the bosses in| attempt to break the strike, the | ave offered gangsters $25 for h strike leader taken for a ride. vigilance on the part of the strikers foiled gangsters’ attempt to kidnap June Croll, organizer uf the Netional Needle Trades Worrrrs' In-'} dustrial union which is conducting | the strike. The Federal Government has also | ATTEMPT TO STOP, ‘PIONEERS CIRCUS Hall Cancels Contract,| |Central Opera Secured NEW YORK—To counteract the | to tnis banquet ana also to raise | widespread religious propaganda in the schools, the Young Pioneers hav¢ prepared a great Anti-Santa Circus, | pathizers present. A mass meeting is scheduled for | this afternoon at which Tom Di Fazio, Italian organizer, and June Croll will speak. There will also be de: ss meeting Tuesday to organize defense for those arrested | and facing vicious sentences in the | bosses courts. ‘OPEN DRIVE FOR WORKERS CENTER Organizations Urged to Help NEW YORK.—The 8-day drive for the New York Workers Center and Workers Printing Press, which serve the working class in its struggle, will open with a banquet in the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., Sunday, Jan. 1lth. The speakers at the banquet will be Comrades Browder, Minor, Bedacht, Foster and I. Amter. All sections and fraternal organi- zzations are urged to elect 2 delegates | money to help maintain the Work- | ers Center. | At present the New York Workers which was to have been held at Center is housing most of the insti- Irving Plaza on Christmas Boss Threatened Them Ambridge Steel Toilers Present Demands ] BIRMINGHA Three about third to tv tion f the leader. the Trade front of t under of League local '¢: ening had Union Unity me where 2 d fled a i ce the workers who nswered his advertisement for at 15 cents an hour. The spirit of the demonstration was so militant, the crowd protecting the speakers who spoke in the hotel corridors, that the police used unu- s ly gentle methods to break up the demonstration, and no one was hurt. The demonstration cheered for the Workers’ Unemployment In- su nce Bill and demands for relief from the government treasuri It was the: biggest mass demonstration ever*seen in the South, NEW-YORK.—-Following a week- end-in which a number of local inlted. front conferences .wére’ helt in the larger cities to plan the work of collecting signatures for the Works ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, which proposes to take the national war funds for the use of the jobless, to plan local demonstrations for im- mediate relief, organization of the unemployed into councils, and for- mulation of local demands, the Na- tional Committee in charge of the (CONTINUED ON PA AMTER AND NESSIN AT DEC. 25 SOCCER GAMES NEW YORK,—On December 25, at: Dyckman Oval, at 12 o'clock sharg THREE) Day. | tutions of the Party and the C.C. of the whistle will blow to start the Under pressure of the police authdri- | the Party will move into the center | first soccer game on the Labor Sport ties the owners of the Irving Plaza | shortly. broke their contract with the Pio- | ing into proper shape, some immedi- | bosses’ neers and refused to allow them to | ate funds are needed and we ask all football use the hall. Webster Hall also re- fused te rent to the Pioneers, answer to such manoevers of the police the Pioneers are taking the Central Opera House, which is much larger tha nthe previous hall, and are preparing a more elaborate pro- gram. The same police will be portrayéd | V- at this circus together with their | rulers, John D., Hoover and Co. | The workers of New York together with their children will answer these | underhanded tactics by demonstrat- ing their solidarity with the Pioneers and by jamming the Central Opera | House to overflowing on Christmas | rigs at 2p.m. The admission is only | 25 cents for adults and children 2 for | 7 cents. Daily Worker Debts Grow. Emergency Fund Support Is Still Insufficient. ORGANIZATIONS MUST GET BEHIND THE $30,000 CAMPAIGN ers Center and the printing plant, made. Telephone cut off for non-payment of bill. The Daily Worker owes $3,000 current printing bills. The Daily Worker owes $1,000 for past 3 months rent and electricity. These are immediate debts that must be met now to remove the danger not only of suspension but also of crippling the work of the Work- It is hardly necessary to add that the Daily Worker staff has not re- * ceived wages in weeks; or to repeat that there are thousands of dollars of outstanding notes that are over-due and on which payment must be The Daily Worker ts the fighting organ of the working class. Through But, so far, workers have been lax in their support. The fault is with casual, haphazard and insuffic immediate response to the Emergen ient organization, There must be an cy Fund. The $30,000 must be raised by organized, mass support. * On December 15, the Boston District, had sent only $52.50 to save the Daily Worker.. The Philadelphia Di This can no longer be excused must be corrected. the Daily Worker and other militant working class organs, the Communist Party has forced unemploymént on the attention of the country, has or- ganized the fight for work or wages. While capitalist newspapers attempt to delude workers into believing that conditions are “basically sound” and on prohibition enforcement, the Daily Worker reveals the true meaning of the bank crashes and the crisis, and organizes the workers for defense. The working class needs the Dally, Worker, “~~~ ~~ | we $9.41. The Executive Committee of BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH. Thi istrict had sent $83.22; Buffalo, $38; Minneapolis, $67.97; SEATTLE ONLY $10. or explained away.’ No matter how “good” the intentions of the comrades in these districts may be, their failure to support may result in suspension of the Daily be It From some places there are signs of life. The Novy Mir Club ints the Lithuanian Literary Society, $25. ¢ Finnish organizations, for instance, have almost neglected the Emergency Campaign. Others are equally lax. will save it. The Daily Worker m it id. o ha abktiig’ lade fioin the gle with col ae chatter | ly Worl just not suspend. Organized working class support Use the Red Shock Corps Coupon on page 3. Rush your contribution and your organization’s contribution ball the ey Worker, 50 East Ressaal Street, New York, y HE et Oey | | sympathizers to support the 8-day As an | drive. WOMEN STARVE IN CITY FLOP HOUSE 300 Sleep In In Bug In-| fested Dump NEW YORK.—At the municipal | lodge, known among the workers as a “flop house,” on third avenue and twenty-fifth street, there is a young married woman, Mrs. Constantino, barely eighteen years old, who is not only starving herself, but her un- born child is also being starved to death, even before it comes into the world. Mrs. Constantino is one of three hundred women who sleep in the women’s dormitory each night, amid filth and bed-bugs, and with only one sheet and one thin blanket. Her husband, now unemployed for months, is housed in the men’s lodg- ing quarters. Each morning at five, the unemployed men and women are awakened and after benig fed a heavy breakfast of: cup of coffee, without milk or sugar. They are turned out into the street, and told not to come back until six o'clock that night. None are allowed to stay in the building, unless.too | cick to sit up, or unless kept there to do work around the flop house, | for a few hours, i Mrs, Constantino is wearing an old neir of cast-off shoes which do not fit, and in her condition, made her quite lame and sick, She asked to be allowed to stay at the lodging room and rest, but this was denied. Over the radio, the Mayor’s Un- cmpleyment Relief Committee are announcing that “No one should give to those who are soliciting aid, for the public relief is quite adequate to take-cane-of all cages" 5 <i a In order to bring the build- | small bowl of oatmeal, without milk or sugar, one Union Counter Demonstration to the fake “unemployment relief games.” Not only will worker athletes play for the benefib of the Unemployed Council,. but leaders of the unemployment insur+ ance drive will speak. Israel Amter, one of the leaders of the huge March 6 demonstration of the unemployed for Work or Wages, who was given 6 months in jail for [eecine this struggle will speak in | the name of the arrested March 6 delegation. Sam Nessin, one of the spokesmen of the Oct. 16 demonstration of the unemployed at City Hall for city unemployment relief, and who was beaten up by the mayor's lackies because of his demands upon the grafters to give the jobless real aid, will speak in the name of the un+ employed workers of New York City, | Full Text of Verdict Against Counter-Revolu- tionary Wreckers Beginning tomorrow, the Daily Worker will begin publication of the full text of the Verdicts of the Supreme Conrt of the Soviet Union in the recent trial in Moscow of the counter-revolutionary “Indus- trial Party”, rendered by the Court on December 7th, which has just arrived, This is the official summing-mp of the revelations of the trial, which revealed the detailed inter- national conspiracy, led by the French General Staff and partici- pated in by capitalists of England and the United States, in prepara~ tion for war against the Soviet Union in 1931. «Every Worker must read care~ fully this document, the most im- portant in mobilizing the struggle against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union,