The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail Central (Section of tthe Communist ee A eck OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! ly | | i) Tol. VII: No. 307 Fen mee Eatered as sccond-class matter at tl at New York. \. ¥.. Post Oftes eh 3, 1879 the act of NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24: 1930 IN Monday the United Press sent from Washington a news dispatch beginning with the following paragtaph: “The American Federation of Labor has reversed its position against unemployment insurance and will go on record next month as supporting establishment of ‘reserve funds’ by employers, state and government agencies for benefit of workers in slack times.” It is added that this was “revealed” by Edward P. McGrady, a gen- eral organizer of the A. F. of L., who says that the plan will be consid- ered by the Executive Council meeting at Miami on January 12. Another Washington dispatch to the N. Y. Times states that Senator Wagner is soon to introduce a bill in Congress for a joint House and senate Committee—“to make a general study of the unemployment in- urance systems insuse by private interests in the United States and by oreign governments.” On top of this, the N. Y. Times of Monday says that “after consulta- tion with leading economists and authorities” the American Association for Labor Legislation has “prepared a bill to alleviate distress during per- fods of unempioyment that will be presented to twenty State Legislatures this Winter.” In this announcement, also, a policy of “setting up in prosperous years a restrve fund” is mentioned, as it is in the.McGrady statement. Indeed = ‘Friends’ of ‘he. J obless “American Association for Labor Legislation” flow from the same source. Among the “authorities” consulted by the Association are capitalist col- lege professors, leading capitalists and the. social fascist “socialist” trade union leaders, Sidney Hillman and Leo Woiman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Workers should be warned against jumping to the conclusion that '] the reactionary leaders of the A. F. of L. have suffered a change of heart on unemployment insurance. Green, Woll & Co. are as reactionary today as they were yesterday, and will be the same tomorrow as they are today. They are firmly devoted to the interests of the capitalist class as opposed to the interests of the working class, and no amount of brave words should convince workers to the contrary. The question naturally arises, why this sudden flutter? Why the pre- ‘| tense of “reversal of position’? These scoundrels have reasons for the seeming change of front. Firstly, along with, their masters and pals, the | big capitalists, they exbented a return of “prosperity” and hoped to bluff | the thing out. The deepening of the crisis upset this plan, and with the army of ‘ memployed mounting by millions and turning to the Communist Party md°the Trade Union Unity League for ‘leadership in struggle against apitalism for real unemployment relief and insurance, these servants of \Big Business are pressed to make an attempt to sidetrack the movement. From long experience these Jabor™ lieutenants of capitalism have learned that the most effective way to oppose a mass movement is to rush to the front of it—and lead it into futility, along channels harmless to capitalism. That rank and file pressure of worker members of the A. F. of L. in compelling these reactionary bureaucrats to make a pretense, is shown by the fact, to cite one example among many, that half the fifty-four delegates at the Seattle Unemployment Conference, were delegates from \ A. F. of L. uniens. The reactionary bureaucrats want to head off this movement of the rank and file. And the rank and file'members of the A. Fe of L: should.-clearly “realize that the purpose of the maneuver. of the Executive Council bureaucrats is not to help their struggle for un- employment insurance, but to lead’ it to defeat and betrayal. With the terrible winter of starvation and cold driving great masses to desperation, all this hypocritical pretense, this fake show of solicitude for the workers by the capitalists and their “labor” lackeys will increase. | But no worker should be fooled by it. Just as Green and Hoover got together a year ago to deceive the workers with promises that there would be “no wage cuts,” so now there is this hypocritical deceit of a “reversal of position” on unemployment. insurance. In this connection, ‘the faker McGrady, in sending up this “trial balloon” announcing the “reversal of position,” lets drop the admission that President Green lied about wage cuts both a year ago when the “no itrike—no wage cuts” agreement was made, and later lied again at the 4. F. of L.-Convention. He did not intend it as an admission, of course, aor did he tell the full truth as to wage cuts, but he went so far as to say that: #, “Wage payments in industry in the first half of 1930 were below 1929 by $707,000,000, while dividend payments increased over 1929 by $350,000,000. Wage earners incomes were cut 12 per cent, while stockholders’ dividends increased 28 per cent.” Workers, especially those in the A. F. of L., will thus see the shame- less mockery of Green’s pretensions that “wage scales were maintained.” With this and all the other records of betrayal, all workers, including A. F. of L. members, will understand the necessity of intensifying and uniting their struggle for unemployment relief and insurance under the banner of class-struggle unionism of the Trade Union Unity League. They will understand that the A. F. of L. bureaucracy is a greater enemy of their interests than ever, precisely because of this fake “reversal of position.” What Is Happening in Your City? | OM many big and important industrial cities, not to mention the hun- dreds of smaller places, the Daily Worker receives no news of the unemployment movement. Is this because nothing is being done to fight for unemployment LL relief? Are the workers quietly starving? Are the charity agents of the bosses filling all needs? ‘The Daily Worker does not believe any of these questions can be an- swered affirmatively. We are quite sure that striiggles are developing, and that a little leadership will bring mass struggles. We are sure that im- mense numbers of workers want to sign the lists for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. We know that the workers are accumulating a fighting spirit. We know that the miserable charity crumbs are filling the work- ets with fury, and not quietening them. We therefore come to the conclusion that our reporters in many cities are not on the job. The Daily Worker is not being supplied with full information. 8 We call upon the workers everywhere who read this paper, to get together and appoint correspondents. And we call upon all Party com- mittees to do their duty in this respect. We will begin in a few days to call the roll of those cities who are absent from the fight. ADAMSKY SINGS “AT TOWN HALL ‘The famous lyric tenor Sergei lamsky, who has just returned a two and a half year concert through the Soviet Union, will his first appearance in Town Hall Friday evening, Dec. 26, 8:45 p. m, In the Soviet Union Comrade Rad- amsky gave over 200 concerts. A large part of his program on Friday Might will consist of new Soviet songs, which have never been heard in this country. The Moscow Izvestia stated in reference to Radamsky's concerts, “The recitals of Mr. Rad- amsky are of great benefit and edu- cational value to our young singers.” at it seems the A. F. of L. organizer's words and those of the so-called | “YOUNG WORKER? SUPPRESSE HOOVER GOVT Post Office Revokes Second Class Mailing Rights NEW YORK.—Another step in the | \attack against the working class | started by the Fish committee was | made today with the curt announce- ment of the postal authorities that the “Young Worker,” official organ of the Young Communist League of America, could not receive second- | class mailing rights. The application for second-class tights had been made by the | “Young Worker” in April, but it was | not until today that the business cf- | fice of the “Young Worker” received a letter dated Dec. 20 stating that | their rights had been “revoked.” Meantime the paper had been pub- lished in Worcester, Mass., and sent | through the mails pending the of- fical receipt of second-class rights. At no time during the period be- |tween April and December, eight | months, did the post office question |the right of tge “Young Worker” to use second-class rights. Part of General Attack. It is evident, even accorceng to the unofficial admissions of the Worces- | ter, Mass., postmaster, that this at- | tack on the’ “Young Worker” is di- | vectly due to the agitation of the | Fish committee against the Commu- | | nist Party and the whole working | class. This is the third revolutionary organ to be barred, on one pretext |or another,’ from mailing rights due them, “Vida Obrera,” Spanish or- gan of the Communist Party, and the “Yeung Pioneer” have already been attacked by Hoover’s postal agents. C. L. to Fight. “[mmediately upon hearing of this the National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League laid plans for a nation-wide fight against the revocation of the “Young Worker.” Funds are needed to carry on this fight to issue the “Young Worker” despite the Hoover government, to carry on the fight for unemployment relief and against the danger of a | new war, of an armed attack of the | Soviet Union, Rush funds to the “Young Worker,” 43 E. 125th St., New York. LANDLORD EVICTS MOTHER OF TWO NEW YORK—An unemployed woman worker, Mrs. Singer by name, mother of two children, out of work for nearly a year, is being dispos- sessed because she is unable to pay her rent in full for last month, Abraham Siwan, the landlord, has refused to accept part of the rent with a promise to pay in a few weeks when Mrs. Singer definitely expects a job. The woman begged him not to evict her. She asked him how he would like to have his wife work- ing. He told her that his wife didn’t NEW YORK.—A radio message from the Red International of Labor Unions secretariat and the Interna- tional Needle Trades Committee of the R. I. L. U. will be read to the thousands of workers of New York who will gather tonight at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., to hail the national session of the gen- eral executive board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. ‘The reading of the message of greetings to the Needle Trades Work- CITY TRIES STOP PIONEER CIRCUS |Fear Exposure of Reli- gious Bunk NEW YORK.—After forcing the Irving Plaza to cancel their contract with the Young Pioneers for an anti- Christmas circus, and after the Pion- eers had secured the Central Opera House for the affair, the city author- ities informed Central Opera House | that they either cancel their contract with the Pioneers or risk their license. The city authorities seem to realize | quite well how closely their entire | system is connected with the religious | propaganda in the public schools, the | press, ete. They well understand the influence of the Young Pioneers among‘ the workers’ children. It is for this reason that they do every- thing in their power to stop the ac- tivities of the Young Pioneers, espe- ‘l clally their atiti-religious activity. At the same time, they seek to keep up and spread the illusion among the workers’ children about “religious freedom” and “democracy” in this country, Therefore such underhand tactics are employed. Despite all these threats and maneuvers, the Pioneers are going on with their preparations fo? the cir- cus. It will not merely be a circus, but. will be a demonstration of the workers and their children against religion, the police, and the city authorities. The Communist Party, New York District, calls upon al workers and their children to demonstrate their solidarity with the Young Pioneers, LEAGUERS PLAN PROGRAM The Young Communist League is preparing an anti-religious program that promises to be a wow, for their dance on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, at the New, Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. Besides a god Negro band, and an interesting program, Comrade Gil Greene, representing the National Office, will speak. have to work, so why should he worry. The»tenants of the house are or- ganizing a rent strike and the Bronx Unemployed Council is mobilizing its forces to prevent the eviction. ed International Giekis Needle Workers’ Session: Radiogram Heal @ at t Mass Meet Meet Tonight at New Star Casino; Foster, Hyman Speak; General Executive Board Meeting Greets ers general executive board and of} advice on the coming general dre: strike for which the board will, in| its one day session here and three day session in Philadelphia make | preparation, will be but one of the | many important events tonight. iP i A BANK A delegation from the 400 heroic | si a — E A CRASH HITS MANY strikers of the Lesnow Bros. shop in| Paid New Haven, new territory for the! organization and a most militant | struggle against wage cutting, will | report. William Z. Foster, general secre- tary of the Trade Union Unity League, to which the N. T. W. I. U. is affiliated, and which itself belongs to the R I. L. U., will speak. So will Louis Hyman, of the national office of the N. T. W. I. U. There will also be a ball, with a ball, with a fine musical program featuring Mavrikis, Anna Cohen, and Freda Weiseberg, with in addition, selections from the Arteff repertoire, | specially “The Machine Dance,’ by Jacobs. Demand Workers Full Deposits Immediately PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 23.—A provisional committee of workers and small business men depositors of the Bankers Trust Co. will meet to organize a broad committee whict is planning action to fight for return of the depositor’s money: The | Bankers Trust Co. crashed on Mon- day. It had 19 branche and more than $50,000,000 in depos: with 138,- 000 depositors involved, mainly work- ers and small business men. The demand being put forward by tonight the New Strike. The great dress strike is being led up to by sharp, decisive struggles in separate shops. The Needle Trades | | Workers’ Industrial Union urges all| Y militant workers and the unemployed | ‘@¢ Provisional small depositors com- to come out every morning to help | Mittee are: 1. Pay the workers first Sinks Dlgiash tke eerie Elulscnin, 3g0 | 204 the city deposits last. 2. An West 38th St., called on strike yes- |immediate loan by the State, without terday. This outfit is a contractor | terest to repay the depositors in for the Foremost Sportwear, of 1385 |W Broadway, which the union has been The committee is warning the small (CONTINUED OF PAGE (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1,500 Longshoremen Battle ‘for Hours Over Job Swindle Smash Gate at Army Base Docks, Run Crooked ILA Officials From Scene; Marine Workers Union Holds Meeting Today THREE) NEW YORK.—Over 1,500 long-) with it, and they started to rebel. shoremen, clamoring for work, caused | Seeing this, the I. L. A. delegate got a battle that lasted several hours at | into his car and drove through the the army base docks in Brooklyn yes- | masses of workers, driving them terday, when the crooked Interna-| back. The men resisted, throwing tional Longshoremen’s Association of- | mud, shouting and fighting. Then ficials tried to browbeat them off| the dock bosses ordered trucks to ‘The longshoremen had come for work in answer to a notice stating that a full cargo of coffee was com- ing on the S. S, Western World. They were in desperate need of work; many had not had any in weeks, and they came from Hoboken, Green- point, Harlem and other places, looking for a chance to earn a couple of dollars. When the foreman came to pick out the men for the jobs, it was clear he picked only the faces agreeable to him, in other words, those who paid him graft. This Time They Fought. This is an old favorite trick with the blood-sucking International Long- shoremen’s Association grafters, but this time the men would not put up the docks. | ride down the workers. Then the workers started to rush the gate, who had been sucking dues out of |them for many years. Finally, the cowardly delegates sneaked out of view. These workers are ready to fight | it out and have turned away in is- | gust from the rotten I. L. A. Today, at noon, the Marine Work- | ers’ Industrial Union will hold a | meeting at the army base docks, at | 59th St., Bay Ridge, and rally these longshoremen for’ a concrete pro- gram of action against the rotten 1, L. A. bosses and stevedores. The Marine Workers’ Union head- quarters are at 140 Broad Sa., corner of South St. tearing aside the I. L. A. delegates | Delay in Turning in Tag Day Collections Threatens Daily Worker Appearance EMERGENCY FUND CONTRIBUTIONS FALLING BEHIND DEFICIT The telephone bill has not yet been paid and postponing of the payment of pressing bills and notes has made possible the Daily Worker today. If the comrades who have made collections in the Tag Day in New York City turn in imme- diately their collections, the situation for the next few days will be s’mewhat relieved, Af.airs have been held for the Daily Worker but the comrades do not feel the extreme emergency that faces the Daily and are delaying sending in of the income from these ° affairs. Even in some Party Units the Daily Worker is not being taken up and no steps taken to raise funds. To date (December 20th) only $3,493.16 was received. This is an average of about $150 per day. When we consider that the expenses per day is about $400 and our deficit is $30,000 we can easily see the real situation facing the Daily. Comrades, we cannot leave a moment go by without mobilizing all our forces to raise the $30,000 deficit, which threatens the existence of the Daily Worker. The crisis is becoming sharper, more banks are failing, involving the last savings of the underpaid workers. It is just at this time that every effort must be made not only to save the Daily Worker but to Increase its circulation among larger masses of workers. We must have the Daily Worker as our central organizer and agitator. Without it, the struggles against unemploy- ment, wage cuts, war, etc., cannot be properly carried out. Workers, do not wait, send in all funds collected for the Daily Worker immediately. There must be no delay. The next few days are testing days for us. Without immediate assistance there can be no Daily Worker. Rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York City. Use the Red Shock Troop blanks on page 3. 0,000 Depositors; Second Big Crash In 2 Wee Is| NEW YORK bank er Another hed T day | The with seven bra , $20,000,000 in deposits and over 50,000 depo: closed by the State Banking. De- ent when depositors began be- x the their up to iegir draw cials within a the bar the depositors thi as all right 10,000 lined up in front of branch of nk Seventh and th their At main y co ney the door of 1ed the glass in the windows. The police rushed the crowd and some of them drew their revolvers agair it depositors. At long lines and s stood at doors of the cops blackjacks against the ‘s who found they could not get at their hard-earned money. As in the case of the Bank of the United States, Broderick, Tammany sunerinsandoa and it w O, K.» He also said he | had examined the statement of the Bank of the United States for 15 months 4 everything was all right. | Nevertheless, the 400,000 depositors |are today without one cent of their | deposits The bank officials are trying to (CONTINUED ON SUPPORT SPORTS” DEC. 25 Sportsmen. Play Benefit of Bill NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Tomorrow at 12 sharp at Dyckman Oval, rain or shine, there will be a field, ar- ranged by the Labor Sports Union as a counter demonstration to the fake unemployment games of the bosses. The sport feature of this demonstration will be a special ex- hibition game between two teams of picked soccer players. One of these picked teams will represent the best worker athletes of Brooklyn, the other to represent the bes athletes of New York, The prelim- inary.game, to start at 12 sharp, be betwen two of the best teams from the Metropolitan Soccer League, the Pirates, a fast team of Negro workers, against the Bronx Workers. Comrade Amter will speak in the name of the March 6 delegation that served in the bosses’ jail for leading the unemployed workers in their de- mand for work or wages on March 6. Comrade Nessin will address the workers in the name of the unem- ployed workers of Greater New York who demonstrated on Oct. 16 before the City Hall for immediate relief. All workers must repudiate the bosses’ fakes and come in great masses to demonstrate against their hokum, showing the basses that they cannot fool the workers with their tricks. All funds raised at the demonstra- tion by sale of tickets (25 cents) goes for the organization fund of the Un- employed Council to fight against evictions, and fgr the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill. LABOR for vill STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUT. BOSTON.—Workers at the Fitz- Henry Machine Company came out on strike against a 25 cents a day wage reduction, and for the payment of double time for overtime work which the company tried to do away with, ‘Sebi be i, Atement- of the “bank | Price 3 Cents —— PS DRAW GUNS, CLUBS AGAINST WORKERS WHO DEMAND THEIR DEPOSITS 24 000 DEPOSITORS BANK ORGANIZE Le NEW YORK depositors ar Lwyers* owed tc he various hes of he U tog per cent drew i mediate ation an executive co! of the small ttee of in W Irving Pla actic t the mecting who were elected at meetir Bank of the United & 1.—A committee of threthiseives.--Ditore Chief against pc 50 depos lepositors. & ment of d ositor | before the 60 throughout the ci 2.—That the same cc or and the ch depositor hold a large they may present State dent Broderick with 12 ¢ 12 r. Brod These que! will be projected that no eva sible. | it is found that the Bank of United States is solvent, then a demand shall be made to Governor Roosevel€ Lieutenant Governor Lehman anks shall be reopened ard de- and that ‘s paid in full. If the investi- on reveals thet the i * solvent, then the committee shall de- mand that the Governor appoint a Moreland commission to prosecute of- ficials of the Bank of United States for criminal negligence. 5.—If all these measures fail to give satisfaction, a mass demonstration by | the 400,000 depositors shall be held throughout the city for the purpose (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) $7 PER WEEK WAGE IN FLORIDA FLORIDA.—The Federal Women’s Bureau found that only 16 per cent of the white women and none of the Negro women in Florida has a work- ing day of eight hours. Many work 80 hours a week and almost all work 7 days a week. Mére than two-thirds earn between $7 and $20 a week, with one half re- ceiving less than $15, School for Cops, How They Learn! In almost every trade some time must be served in ap- prenticeship. ‘his is true of boss copping. Of 205 men who passed civil service examina- tions for Newark policemen it was found that all but 131 al- ready had police records, One aspiring law-enforcer had nothing to point to with pride except that he had stolen a locomotive. Strange tales carved out of boss cor- ruption and labor racketeering by Allen Johnson start Satur- day. (Pick up the latest on the 60,000 drive page 3.)