The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail Central Orga WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! e. Vol. VII. No. 309 Entered ag second-class matter st the Fost Offes at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 8. 1878 = CITY EDITION NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1930 « IN the band played ‘The Star Spangled Banner’, and the party was over.” ‘These are the words used by the N. Y. Times correspondent at Wash- ington, describing the pleasant scene in the capital city when President Hoover wished his “countrymen” a merry Christmas and a Happy New ‘Year over the radio. . “The party was over.” The rich, including Hoover, turned to their well-laden tables in their comfortable houses. “The party was over.” And the poor, the millions of unemployed with their starving families, turned to their bitter crust, the stingily measured charity, the food eaten in fear of the morrow, in “their” hovels and flats from which tens of thousands are daily evicted into the winter's cold. What hypocrisy to pretend that “the party,” the cheerfulness of human well being, was shared by all, on Christmas or any other day! Under all the vain endeavor to veneer the miseries of the masses with a mystic well-being of religion, of “spiritual good cheer,” was and remains the stark spectre of starvation, mocking the effort to drown out the clash of class struggle with the chimes and carols of Christmas, with the strains of the Star Spangled Banner! No such humbug can mask the lie! In scores of American cities the starving workers, demanding bread, are marching, By thousands and tens of thousands they are knocking insistently at the doors of capitalist gov- ernment demanding bread or wages. They know, these workers, despite all the fancy lying of the boss newspapers, that only in one country, in the Soviet Union, are there no unemployed; only in the country where the workers and farmers have their own government is there no starvation! ‘These marching masses will not be denied. Never in history has a governing class of exploiters trifled successfuly and without end with the demand of the masses for bread. The cynical and hypocritical million- aires of America can be no exception. Necessity knows no law. It is necessary that the starving be fed, not fooled. The present pretense of charity is not only inadequate, it is a crime. It is sentencing tens of thousands, even millions, to disease and death. Workers, employed and unemployed! Demand an end to the snivelling pretense! Demand real aid, adequate food, clothing, shelter—and end to evictions! Demand Unemployment Insurance as the logical and syste- matic means of distributing such aid. You have created the wealth of this country, refuse to starve! The Government Splits the Farmers’ Union 3 the matter of “farm relief” it is no joke to say that the government has “relieved” the farmers of most everything. So much is known and generally admitted. But it is something unique to learn that the -gov- ernment has taken steps to split the largest organization of farmers, the National Farmers’ Union. ’ This, of course, will be denied, and there will doubtless be plenty of diplomatic evasions of the accusation. But the fact is inescapable. And the proof is as follows: At the recent St. Paul convention of the Farmers’ Union, the former president, 0. B. Huff, was defeated for reelection, and Johg. A. Simpson elected jn Huff's. place. ‘Huff has been a firm supporter of Farm Board policies, which is to ‘say the policies of finance capital, the bankers and monopolists in general who wax fat by farming the farmers. Mr. Huff, undoubtedly with government encouragement behind the scenes, promptly allied support for a split. Hence ten state organiza- tions of the Farmers’ Union banded together, elected an executive com- mittee of their own and adopted some enlightening resolutions. One of ‘hese said the splitters would “Keep C. E. Huff in.a position where he can do the greatest good to the farmers of the nation; as he is held in the highest re- gard in Federal Farm Board, Congressional and White House cir- cles.” The splitters Executive Committee—“to keep in touch with Federal Farm Board and its affiliates.” The Committee to act for the units of the National organization which will “solidly support the Federal Farm Board.” To make the split effective, its Executive decided: “To support the new national president of the Farmers’ Union so long as such a policy will not affect business institutions.” Thus we see that all the preachments of Secretary Hyde and Chair- man Legge of the Farm Board about the necessity of farmers “organizing,” is conditional on the farmers organizing only for such demands as finance capital, for which Hyde and Legge gpeak, may approve. One might draw some interesting comparisons here with the touching solicitude of Hyde & Co. over the alleged “persecution” of kulaks (rich farmers) -by the Soviet Government. It is plain that, in spite of all efforts to reconcile the two, finance capital is having a conflict with the rather well-to-do farmers who really control and lead the Farmers’ Union. In the pinch of general crisls, finance capital finds it difficult to consolidate an economic alliance with that stratum of farmers who, having a»moderate capital, aspire not only to safeguard their profits but cherish the illusion of being sheltered from economic storms by their “big brothers” in Wall Street. Finance capital has need of such alliance in order to keep the farmers of more modest capital, the middle farmers, and the still lower poor farmers in hobbles, so to obstruct a general farm revolt directed against finance capital. But these aims are difficult to realize in the pinch of crisis, when all the vast burden of debt held by finance capital against farm capital de- mands liquidation in the most painful conditions. So we find the new anti-Farm Board regime of the Farmers’ Union demanding more brother- ly treatment from the Big Brother bankers. So the new president of the Farmers’ Union revives the ancient de- “mand for currency reform long buried with the old “populist” and free ~ silver movement, and declares that all ills are due to the fact that, whereas in 1920 there was $6,000,000,000 in circulation, now there is only $4,000,000,- 000, and he demands that the government put back that missing $2,000,000,000. ‘ : This, of course, is an absurdly futile demand of a subjected debtor group against a creditor group which holds the government in its hands precisely to prevent such things being done. And from this all poverty- _ stricken and bankrupt farmers should understand that the official Simp- \won policy of the Farmers’ Union is no way out for them, even if it is “opposed” in a friendly sham battle to the detestable Farm Board, and n if the government is so annoyed by this “loyal opposition” that it is litting the Farmers’ Union. ‘The only policy which will win anything for the debt-bedeviled and tax ridden farmers is that of the United Farmers’ League, which calls such farmers to form Committees of Action in their own township or neighborhood and unitedly as one refuse to pay taxes at all until they are cut in two, to enforce a ‘moratorium themselves by general refusal to pay mortgages or interest—and to fight against any eviction of those who ™may be persecuted for the refusal. 4 Only by such policy, and only by their own action, under leadership -ot the United Farmers’ League can the debt-ridden farmers get any | | TO COVER UP ROBBERY BY NEW YORK BANK OFFICIALS | More Hanks Crash On FISH TAKES HAND IN FRAMING UP 90 In 10 Days \Fear Organization of Small Depositors Demand Funds |\Stock Gamblers OK’d Many Are Large Banks Failures for November Alone Numbered 260 NEW YORK.—Not a single day passes without reports of a series of bank crashes. During the past few | weeks some big banks went under, involving from $265,000,000 to $25,- 000,000. During the month of No- vember alone more than 250 banks failed. Shy Off ‘Investigation’ of Bank Conditions NEW YORK.—Instead of investi- | gating the bank officials whose actio: The day before Christmas four banks closed in three states. The Bank of Americus closed in Jefferson City, Mo. In Connersville, Ind., the | First National Bank, with hundreds United States and the Chelsea Bank & Trust Co., robbing 450,000 deposi- tors of their money, many of wh led to the closing of the Bank of the | Price 3 Cents The Hungry Must Be Fed! |THREATEN JAIL FOR REDS’ Over 3,500 Cheer Piss. Circus at the Opera House Hold Anti-Religious Demonstration Despite Attempts of City Officials to Bar Pioneers from Halls ® | NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Red Circus of the Young Pioneers, held to debunk the boss Santy Claus myth }and cther superstitions connected with Christmas, came off at the Cen- tral Opera House this afternoon with a bang, amidst the delight and con- | tinual applause of more than 3,500 | workers’ children and their parents. The entire folor was reserved for | children, and their animated faces! / | and readiness to sing and cheer their | revolutionary songs and yells was as | big a treat as the circus itself. | ‘The city authorities had attempted | to ban the whole affair. Taree dif- ferent managements cancelled their lease of a hall, but when th Young Pioneers showed’ their determination | by declaring a protest parade in} | front of the Central Opera House | | (the last hall to cancel its arrange- | the local bosses’ government gave an | ment), the city authorities thought | 2dded zest to the whole affair. | better of it. This victory of the) Five or six cops were hanging | workers’ children in their battle with! around outside as the groups of Youre SS CHRISTMAS 77 DINNER- \ ) From Mc SALVATION, ARMY of thousands of dollars on deposit failed. Two Georgia banks failed on the same day. They were the | Bank of Dearing, near Augusta, Ga., face starvation now, Police Lieut Charles Newman declare he would | arrest Communists on the ground of “spreading rumors which led to of Oklahoma, “Who stoot in “opposition” to Farm Board policies, was~.) . Sazar Speaks at Bklyn Forum Sun. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Henry Sazar national organizer of the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will speak this Sunday evening, Dec. 28, at 7 p. m., at the Workers Center, 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. Sagar will speak at one of the wession of the Williamsburgh Work- “Feu facing the Needle Trades Workers.” Free discussion and free admission to all workers. Needle trades workers especially are invited to attend this session of the Forum to discuss the methods and demands for the coming needle trades worker's strike. ‘4 Worcorrs are the eyes of the workers’ press. Join your loca! Worcorr group and help fight the en “The New Struggle bomset 5 Sere we \ and the Citizens Bank of Wayes- | bank failures.” | Boro, Ga. ' : | Newman, according to th About ten days ago, the |Dally News, said he would have a squad of Worker, n various proof of bank con-| police at the Central Opera House ditions by Wall Street experts, point- | Thursday where the Young Pioneers ed out that there would be at least | scheduled an anti-Christmas circus, 100 bank failures before the end of and would arrest “the leaders of the year. This was following the plot.” crash of the Bank of the United At the same time, Hamilton Fish | States. Thus far there have been re . | nearly 90 bank failures, and there is JT» head of the Fish Committee, an- | very little doubt, at the rate the | bank failures are reported in the | capitalist press, the 100 will be ex- i ceeded. The most important fact | thus far is that during the past two | weeks such large banks as the Bank- | ers Trust Co. of Philadelphia, the | Bank of the United States, with 62) branches, and. the Chelsea Bank & | TrustCo., with 6 branches, have | and his assistant, Watson Washburn, in charge of the state bureau of se- been among the failures, | curities, talked abotu making ‘an “in- vestigation,” when their proof led them to Wall Street stock gamblers who had been unloading the Bank af the U. S. and Chelsea Bank & Trust Co. stock weeks before these banks crashed, they decided to lay off. cial Congressional show the “Reds” caused the bank failures. In this way, the leading bosses through their official sluggers and government apparatus, hope to cover up the facts of the growing crisis which not only throws millio- out of work, but robs the workers of their pénnies they placéd in’ the bank to keep them from starving when unemployed. Though District Attorney Crain, investigation to BOSSES “SOLVE” UNEMPLOY- MENT NEW YORK, Dec. 25,.—The fat bel- lies have a new way of solving un- | employment. They plan to fire all | married women, and put men in their | places. They certainly are a brilliant | lot. It’s just another excuse to dis- | | employ more workers. Hoover, Boss Press Garnishes Fake Bldg. Program by Lies NEW YORK.—To make the fake $118,000,000 building program adyo- cated by Hoover appear as a real re- lief measure, the capitalist press is garnishing it with all sorts of fig- ures and propaganda. The New York Times, following out the prop- aganda of Woods, head of Hoover's Emergency Relief Committee, tries to make it appear that the building con- struction program for the whole amounts to $5,000,000,000. This is a lie, in order to cover up the fact that the conditions in the building industry are becoming worse all the time, and there is not the slightest hope that there will be any relief from this direction. The An- |malist for Dec, 5 publishes the fact that building activity in November, 1930, was over 29 per cent below the same month in 1929. The building | work done in 1930 thus far is about 35 per cent below 1929; and the build- cent below 1928. In 1931 the build- ing activity will drop still further. The $118,000,000 bill advocated by Hoover canpot be put into effect for of those whom the bosses want to depend on it for “relief” will be dead of starvation. Instead of feeding the unemployed, the capitalist papers think that the unemployed will not feel hunger pangs so badly when they feed their eyes with long lists of figures of “proposed” building schemes. . This is not the first time that Hoover or the bosses have proposed building construction. It is never carried out. It wil not provide any relief. This is but part of the boss man- euvers to attempt to kep the workers surance. nounced he would undertake a spe- | ing construction in 1929 was 13 per | from two to five years, when most | Exposure of Christmas Bunk | — | children trooped into the hall, and | OCT. 16 JORLE the capitalist papers had seven pho- LFADERS TRIED TODAY AT 10 A.M. |Unemployed to Attend Special Session NEW YORK.—Today in Special Sessions Part 6 (down in the base- ment of the criminal court building next door to the Tombs Prison) the three members of the October 16 del- egation which demanded relief for the jobless from the board of es- timates, will be on trial. Trial starts any time after 10 a. m. Attorney Brodsky of the Internationa] Labor | Defense will argue the cas for the | defendants. iRas These on trial are Sam Nesin. Rob- ert Lealess and John Stone. All are active leaders of the struggle for job- | less insurance, and for organization | of the unemployed in councils to make an organized fight for imme- diate relief, against evictions, etc. On Oct. 16 they were on a com- mittee of six which attended an open | meeting of the board: of estimates | where the city budget was under | disucussion, and where according to New York law, any citizen has a} right to make amendments to the | budget. The committee had been | elected by the Councils of Unem- | ployed ‘in New York to represe= 800,000 jobless workers, and to de- mand that $7,000,000 extra money for the police and nearly $200,000,- 000 set aside in the budget for pay- ment to bankers should instead be used for unemployment relief, Walker Orders Beating ‘They were met by an attempt by Mayor Jimmie Walker to laugh them | off. When they persisted, they were | insulted. When Nesin answered the | Mayor's crude insults with the re-| | mark that he would rather be one of the jobless than a Tammany grafter, the mayor beckoned to the police to} | beat them up right in the board of estimates room. All were horribly beaten, Nesin was confined to a hospital for days, and these three were then held for incite- ment to riot and provogking the | mayor, etc. They are to be tried | without a jury. It is expected that large masses of workers and jobless will be in and tographers and a score of journalists | there, mixed in with a goodly number of dicks. Among the dicks was one especially well-known to the Young Pionee Mr. Doiy, head of the dis- ciplinary department of the schools, who has served the bosses well by his sp. activities and propaganda against the youth to the Fish com- mittee. Perhaps these uninvited guests enjoyed seeing themselves as the workers’ ki see and painted them in the circus? The circus opened with a grand parade of the approximately eight score young actors-for-a-day. _The audience craned their young necks, squealed and clapped as they recog- nized the various enemies of the working-class,—bosses, cops, thugs, capitalist and “socialist” politicians, priests, rabbis, and other dope-pedd- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE), Robbing Workers After Maiming Pubile Service ef New Jersey never fails to get the verdict it wants in an accident case by first making a careful choice of all perspective jurors and de- clining to accept any who might hand down a verdict against it. Publie Service, on its numer- ous street car lines maims thousands of workers and thes uses the cours to rob them of their compensation. Exposures of labor, racketeer- ing and boss corruption by Allen Johnson start tomorrow in the Daily Worker (60,000 circulation drive news page 3.) HUNGER MARCH ON BORO HALLS AND CITY HALL 70 DEMAND JOBLESS RELIEF Unemployed of Brooklyn and Bronx March On Jan. 8; All Jobless March On New York City Hall, Jan. 9; Led by Councils |Demand Cash Relief Instead of Serax Rotten Food; Demand No Evictions s of Section Committees and Headquarters to Or- ganize Campaign for Insurance and Relief Established Saturday NEW YORK.—Preparations are being made to organize a hunger march to the Boro Halls of Brooklyn and the Bronx jon Jan. 8 and to the New York City Hall on Jan. 9 by the Un- employed Council of New York, to demand immediate relief, for the stopping of all evictions of workers because of their | © inal: to pay rent for free q , clothing, free and adequate food ployed, and to demand from the city an immediate minimum weckly cash payment for all unemployed workers instead of the brutal racketeering | charity methods that are now used MEET TONIGHT | | |Minor, Olgin, Speakers bY YORK.—The Friends of the Soviet Union (N. Y. District) of the Soviet Union protest dez- onstration on Friday, Dec. 26th, at 8 p. m, at the New Star Casino, 115 East 127th St. and answer the challenge of the enemies of the Soviet Republic be it bishop, rabbi, banker or Jabor faker. Workers of New York come enmasse and de- | mand the unconditional recognition | pf the Soviet Union! Defend the iWorkers’ Fatherland! | Recently the Moscow trial of the eight conspirators exposed the fact that. Poincare. riand, Detardin, | Morgan and the general France haye been working overtime aiming at armed intervention and the destruction of the Five-Year Plan which is successfully being carried | | take cognizance of the danger of im- | perialist intervention confronting the first Proletarian Republic and by or- | ganized effort rally to the defense of the Soviet Union. | Greet Bob Minor. Bob Minor will speak at tonights | | mass meeting for the first time since | his imprisonment for leading the March 6th Unemployment Demon- stration. Lem Harris, newspaper cor- respondent at Moscow, recently re- turned from the U.S.S.R. gives an| interesting account of his experiences. Moi: Olgin, Editor of the Morning | Freiheit will give an up-to-date pres- |entation of the accomplishments of | | the Five-Year Plan. Jobless Worker NEW YORK—With his wife and seven small children starving in a cold flat at 195 Bay 46th St. in the “poverty beach” district of Brooklyn, | Salvatore Paternostro, an unemployed carpenter, sallied forth on Xmas Eve in a desperate attempt to get some- thing to eat for his hungry family. Paternostro, who has been vainly hunting a job for the past 3 months, | today to attend this case. from fighting for unemployment in- | around the criminal court building | could no longer stand the sight of his | seven young children, whose ages Starts New Attack on Daily Worker EMERGENCY FUND MUST BE SUPPORTED Yesterday was Christmas. The capitalist press, which refused to rec- ognizet he depression until forced to by the Communist Party through the Daily Worker, was filled with stories designed to show the workers how fortunate they are to live under capitalism—which not only provides crisis, unemployment and starvation, but on Christmas pats itself on the back for its own special brand of holiday “charity.” But over this tawdry bit of display could not stand up before the analysis of the working-class, made through the Daily Worker. “Nobody will go hungry on Christmas day,” said the capitalist news- Papers. (“Let workers starve the rest of the year for all we care,” they might have added.) What is the real truth? ONLY THE DAILY .WORKER—THE WORKERS’ OWN ORGAN IS INTERESTED IN TELLING IT.—Two thousand children receiving bits of bread and cups of blueish milk from the Salvation Army, which collects millions yearly for sweet charity—and builds a huge and costly building in the middle of New York’s business district as a “place of rest and worship.” The Young Pioneers, militant working-class children, are attacked with the whole weight of the capitalist press for their anti-Christmas circus. Only the workers’ own paper reveals the true nieaning of the attack—“gentle Saint Nicholas” means millions yearly to the capitalist class, and is a chief weapon in the master class attempt to confuse and mislead the workers. 4 (“Give them bearded gents in red pants and sky-pie instead of work and wages.”) In New York another bank, another institution of that “eternal institution, capitalism” has fallen under the weight of the depression. This has precipitated another attack on the Daily Worker. Commu- for Children, Is Arrested nists are supposed to have blown over the “solid” structure with whispers, THIS MEANS THAT ANOTHER ATTACK WILL BE MADE ON THIS PAPER. Attempts will be made to confuse the workers—make them be- lieve that THEIR Party and THEIR newspaper are responsible for the ills they suffer under capitalism. THIS MUST BE FOUGHT. MORE THAN EVER BEFORE IT IS NECESSARY THAT NOT A SINGLE ISSUE OF THE DAILY WORKER SHOULD BE MISSED. THE DEFICIT MUST BE MADE UP. More than ever before the Emergency Fund Campaign must receive the full support of the working-class. Fill out the Red Shock Coupon on page three of this paper. Give what you can, Take the Fund to your worker friends, before your organi- zation. Send contributions immediately—send what you can SODAY—to the Dally Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, Mi, a ny Sought Food range from 1 to 12 years, standing around their mother crying for the food he was unable to furnish them. He picked up an ancient, rusted re- volver and went forth in defense of the right of his family to life, under the brutal capitalist system which crushes the working-class with the burdens of the economic crisis while the bosses buy expensive yachts and automobiles and live in luxury. Stopping the driver of a milk calls upon all workers and fricnds | staff of! out. The workers,of»the-world-must | wagon at the point of his ancient gun, Paternostro at once won. the sympathy of his fellow workman w! his starving children. milk. In a few minutes a policeman who had witnessed the incident followed him and arrested Paternostro, An examination of the revolver showed that it was unloaded and that it would not work even if it was loaded. In Coney Island court Paternostro was held in $500 bail on a charge of violating the Sullivan law. He was held without bail on a robbery charge, although rich murderers are always permitted bail. But Paternostro had violated the sacred right of property, and the courts of the capitalists were ready to punish him to the limit. Many thousands of workers are in as desperate plight as Paternostro and his family of wife and seven young children, in spite of all the fake talk of the bosses and the char- ity fakors. These workers must help to build the Unemployed Councils, must support the fight for Unem- ployment Insurance, must learn to act not as individuals but as organ- ized groups, defending the right of themseives and their families to life. Workers! lieaeviines gee on sono tent “ty ‘At New Star Casino— | on the starving workers, and to abol- ish, by the organized strength of the workers, the 72 charity bread lines which are ruled by police terror and prison discipline and a starvation diet. The New York Campaign Com- mittee for Unemployed Insurance, organized Dec. 19, through the initi+ ative of the Trade Union Unity League, fully endorses this campaign for immediate relief, and, in order to give full and active support, is call- ing to a meeting Saturday at 2 p. m. all its affiliated organizations and to organize section, sub-section commit- tees in Harlem, Bronx, Downtown, Williamsburg, Borough Hall and Brownsville. At these section sub-committees plans* will’ be decited- upon ‘for or= ganizing work in the s , the visiting of workers’ the sectic the Worke: ance Bill, tures in ort of the bill, to ur all those mnizations that meet the section to affiliate with th tion sub-comr and delegates to the united fr ference for unemployed ins whieh will be held Jan. 12 2 p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall conference delegates wil ated who will h tho: in other cities to present the bill for unemployed insurance to congress on the collec in sec- ees. 7:30 At this | Feb. 10. The organizing of these section sub-committees of the New York Campaign Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance is Dec. 27, at Harlem—Finnish Workers’ Hall, W. 126th St. 2 p. m. Bronx—Food Workers’ Hall, 341 E. 149th St., 2nd floor, 2 p. m., sharp. Downtown—16 W. 2ist St., 2 p. m. Williamsburg—Workers’ Center, 61 Graham Ave., 2 p. m. Borough Hall—Finnish Hall, 40th St., Brooklyn, 2 p. m. Brownsville—Workers’ Center, 1844 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, 2 p. m. FREEZE IN LINES WAITING “LOANS” Very Few Get Them; Some Are Hungry 15 ‘164 NEW YORK.—Out of the 400,000 ho | depositors of the Bank of the United | contributed several bottles of milk to | States very few have been given any Paternostro| Money on the fake loans of 50 per immediately returned home with the }cent of their deposits. Those who apply are stalled off. They have to go through all sorts of red tape, are told to come back ten to twenty, times and must wait out in the bite ter cold for as long as eight hours, The whole scheme is pure fakery, as the deposits have nothing to do with the loans. Those who have other securities and can put up col- lateral are given the loans more quickly. Workers who face starvae tion because their funds have been robbed in the bank failure cannot get any money. The same roten scheme is now bee ing applied to the Chelsea Bank é& Trust Co. Workers School Gen’! Assembly Friday night, 8:30 p. m, Second Floor, 25 East 12th St. Important problems to be taken up. Bedacht, Amter, Markoff and Student Re Resist the sentences of |, will speak, General discussior follow. All students atte