The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1930, Page 1

| Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! to —! RA at New York, N Vol. VII. No. 310 Entered as second-class matter at tho Post Offies |. ¥.. ander the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27° 1930 CITY EDITION = “Red Rumors” and Capitalist Lies! ‘HE New York Times of December 26th reports that: “Officials of the State Bank Department . . . disclose that they had succeeded in tracing to Communist sources the run on another bank last Saturday.” This so-called disclosure follows on the heels of newspaper headlines to the effect that the closing of the Chelsea Bank and Trust Company was caused by a run originated by the Reds through a rumor campaign. ‘We brand these “disclosures” as pure ‘fabrications. We declare that the perpetrators of these “disclosures” are willful and deliberate liars. The “disclosures” are efforts of the State Banking Department to bolster up the tottering credit of unsound banking institutions. With these lies, the State Banking Department desires to draw the wrath of cheated depositors from the heads of the directors of the Bank of United States for withdrawing from this institution $60,000,000 the two months pre- ceding the closing of its doors. With these lies, the State Banking De~ partment desires to draw the just wrath of the cheated depositors from the brokers who gambled with the stock of the Chelsea Bank on the market, As a part of the whole government anti-working class con- spiracy, the State Banking Department even utilizes this stock market transaction to support the preparations of the American capitalist class for a participation in an international capitalist intervention in the Soviet Union. In the eyes of the State Banking Department a stock broker, who makes millions out of juggling on the market, is a successful business man and a glorious example to be lived up to by ambitious American school boys. But when the inevitable result of his juggling, the disappearance of other people’s money, becomes public, then his juggling must have been instigated by Soviet money. A good liar could invent better lies than those invented by the State Banking Department. The State Banking Department is little concerned with the fact that such lies will cause the loss of other millions of workers’ deposits. Al- though established ostensibly for the purpose of protecting the depositors, the State Banking Department is only an instrument in the hands of MILWAUKEE HUNGRY 10 MARCH MON. Support Demands for Relief Madé on City Government Bosses Lied for Year Jobless Desperate and Demand Action MISWAUKEE, Wisc., Dec. 26.— | Starting at Haymarket Square, Sixth | and Vliet Sts. the jobless and mili- |tant workers of Milwaukee will march Monday in parade to the city hall to support their committee present- ing to the city “common council” de- mands for relief to the unemployed. The march will start at 2 p.m. Workers! Don’t Starve! Fight! Hunger Lines Keep on Growing By WM. Z. FOSTER. EVER in the history of Amerrica have the workers faced such a terrible winter. Mass starvation spreads like a cancer throughout the country. The breadlines Jengthen and multiply—New York's latest shame being a children’s breadline on the Bowery, | patronized daily by thousands of workers’ children. The capitalists make the workers starve, while at the same time they fill the newspapers with disgusting boasts about the relief work they are doing. Vultures of the Hearst type calously exploit the misery of the unemployed, organizing display breadlines for adver- tising purposes in Times Square, Columbus Circle, and other great centers, where the workers’ misery and their own “generosity” may be profitably made known, The capitalist system is rotting at the heart. The great industrial machine, unable to function in a de- caying capitalist society, gradually sinks deeper into paralysis. Greater and greater becomes the army of unemployed. Wage cuts take place on all sides. One big bank crash follows another, bringing ruin to hun- dreds of thousands of poor depositors. During one local relief. Witt sent to their mas: Join en mas being organized these be gigantic to starve. wage cuts. Join T. U. U. L. Esti Elect the mass rai Bill to Congress. Prepare for the human eviction policy. Only if we fight can we ac- complish anything. Passivity on our part means con- ers and their fami for these militant demonstrations. Workers, employed and unemployed, men, women, | ment Insurance to collect as many| and youth, join hands for struggle in this bitter crisis. Fight for local relief. working class organizations for local relief and in sup- port of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. of workers in support of unemployment insurance. CHARLOTTE h all our power let us stop the in- s starvation program. se the great hunger marches now Delegation Carrying| in the many American cities. Let sisted = fighting demonstrations of the work- Insur ance Bill to Be | Let them be a powerful warn- Representative | ing to the capitalists that the working class refuses bee Let their slogan be “Don’t Starve, Fight!” | NEW YORK.—All possible forces| Every conscious worker must be an active organizer | are being rallied by the National | Campaign Committee for Unemploy-| signature possible of the jobless Organize and strike against | and workers on the demands for the Unemployed Councils of the | passage by congress of the Workers’ | ablish the local united fronts of all’ | Unemployment Insurance Bill. | Along with this, under the direc- | tion in each city of City Campaign Committees for Unemployment In- surance goes organization of the un-/| employed into Councils, which lead} hunger marches on the city halls. | nk and file delegation to present this Get the signatures of great armies great National Unemployed Demon- AND DENVER rice 3 Cents _ HUNGER MARCHERS DEMAND CITY UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF NEGRO AND WHITE JOBLESS UNITED 1,000 Parade to City Hall, Met By Police Attack; Organizing Denver Demonstration Force Demands on City Council After Parade day, 51 crashed. The capitalist bankrupt. week in November 124 banks failed; and during one Workers, don’t stand idly by and submit to all system itself is Workers, awa: stration on February 10, the day our Bill will be pre- sented to Congress. with the A. F, of L. and socialist In New York an elaborated machin-| CHARLOTTE, N. ©, Dec 26— ery of sub-committees by sections of} Over a thousand workers and job- the city is being set up at special| less conducted a hunger march on party fakers who counsel peace and submission to | sesction conferences held Saturday. the Charlotte City Hall Tuesday. The Trade Union Unity League and) iyi, starvation and misery. Let us organize and | the starvation program of the bosses. Join together | These sub committees will direct| They were brutally attacked by the | | seoneomaen set big capital to do dirty work for capitalist exploitation and capitalist politics, That is why the State Banking Department in its lying state- ments about the Reds, is merely concerned in maintaining a lily-white reputation for the capitalist banking institutions, who bet the money of their depositors on the expectations of permanent prosperity and lost it. ‘The Sate Banking Department is willfully and deliberately dying in an effort to explain away the fundamental unsoundness of capitalist banking. But it only proves the opposite of what it set out to do. ‘What flimsy structure indeed must the financial system of modern banking be, ifa mere rumor can cause its collapse! Even we Reds have a better knowl- edge of the foundation of capitalist financing than the State Banking Department discloses in its statements. We know that more than rumors are needed to topple over the structure of capitalist economy. The State Banking Department is willfully and deliberately lying to cover up the daring speculations carried on by the banks with the money of the depositors. This is clearly shown by the developments of the sus- pension of activities of the Chelsea Bank and Trust Company. After subscribing to and strengthening the lie of “Red rumors” Mr. Broderick, the State Banking Commissioner, emphatidally denies a statement at- tributed to him that the depositors of the Chelsea Bank & Trust Com- pany will get 100 per cent of their deposits. Just plain logic would tell Mr. Broderick that either the Chelsea Bank and Trust Company is solvent and its difficulties are only temporary ones, caused by rumors, then the depositors must get one hundred cents for every dollar deposited—or, the “Red rumors” are a deliberate invention and then the Chelsea Bank is insolvent and cannot meet its obligations 100 per cent, ‘The Communist Party is a political party of the working class, er- ganizing and leading uncompromising struggle against the political rule of the capitalist class and against the economic system of capitalism. It knows capitalism too well to expect its collapse from whispered rumors. It has many painful reasons to know the shooting and clubbing and graft- ing policemen of capitalism; its experience has taught it the efficiency of grafting capitalist judges in/the issuance of injunctions against work- ers, in the carrying through of frame-ups against workers, in the ruthless incarceration of striking or picketing workers; it knows of the numerous capitalist army of grafting politicians; it knows that the whole machinery for the defense of the state, the army, the navy, the National Guards, the militia, everything, is an instrument of the defense of the rule of the capitalist class and of the defense of the capitalist system. It therefore cannot aim at rumoring capitalism into an economic or political bank- ruptcy, and incidentally, rumoring it out of existence. On the contrary, it tells the workers that only their own mass struggles can defeat capi- talism. Neither does the Communist Party rely on whispered rumors to propagandize the working class. Economic facts and factors speak a much louder language. Millions of workers are hungry in the midst of plenty. Their hungry stomachs tell them with convincing clarity, that a system which allows them to starve in the midst of plenty is no good | and must go. We have no doubt but that the liars in the State Banking Department are resourceful enough to find reasons for a public statement that even the misery of the masses of unemployed today is not a reality but only the result of “Red rumors.” But the columns of the very paper that pre- sented the “disclosures” of officials of the State Banking Department, spread these “Red rumors” in glaring headlines. In this paper we find side by side the report that “a jobless, penniless man, who had kept body and soul together for days only by grace of the breadline, was found dead by his own hand yesterday,” and “the secret police (of Havana) have discovered in a pawn-shop a pearl necklace said to be valued at $50,000 which was stolen last year from Mrs. Catherine Davis Daws.” ‘The same paper tells us that thousands are in want in New Jersey. It informs us that misery reigns supreme among the working masses through- out the capitalist world. Were it not for the fact that the State Banking Department is a capi- talist institution of the capitalist government, it might very easily find some connections between the bank failures reported daily, the reported misery of the workers, the numerous suicides of destitutes, and the runs on still-operating banks. It would not have to resort to lies. Eight Day Drive For Center Opens With Banquet Jan. 11 NEW YORK.—The Central Com- mittee has authorized an 8-day drive for the New York Workers Center. This drive will open with a banquet on January 11th and will continue with a 7 day bazaar. All sections, Sections Units, Unions, Labor and fraternal organizations are urged to Whispers, Loud Talk, Crashes The ruin of the bosses’ banks under the gentle stimulus of non-existent whispers throws up a picture of the whole star- vation system toppling when the working class begins to really talk out loud. In U. S.—Workers starve, Council of the Unemployed in a statement addressed to all workers and jobless and headed, “Fight for Relief Against Hunger and Cold,” points out that the common council has once more refused to act on the demands of the jobless, Scares Capitalist Liars. The statement says: “The refusal of the capitalist class and its local government to act on the burning question of insurance and relief for |the unemployed workers, against evictions and for free gas and elec- tricity for the jobless must be chal- lenged by the organized strength of | the workers. The workers must show by their actions that they refuse to starve amidst plenty or exist on the crumbs of charity thrown to them.” The statement exposes a whole year of lying to the jobless by the bosses and the city government. here, and the latest fake relief plan, the “Lib- erty Loan Scheme,” which proposes to make those still working cut their | wages so the bosses will not have to support the jobless. The committee to the common council will report back to a great mass meeting Tuesday at Miller Hall, Eighth and State Sts. to which all workers and jobless are invited. W. Clark and D. Burke, jailed lead- ers of the jobless, will speak also, JOBLESS EX-SERVICEMAN OFFERS SELF FOR SALE “For Sale: A human being to the highest bidder, Am a strong, | physically fit man, I offer my- self to doctors, hospitals, etc., as a living specimen upon which to experiment, I will also go any- where or do anything legitimate to earn a living tor my wife and my children.” The above advertisement was inserted in a Baltimore news- paper. The man, H. L. Griffis, a Canadian war veteran, has been out of a job for the last month. He is a painter by trade. Griffis has a wife and two children to | support and with starvation star- ing them in the face he is forced to degrade himself to the extent of selling himself. This is what the bosses do for the workers who have faithfully fought in their talist masters are responsible for DEPOSITORS TO PUT UP DEMANDS To See Mayor Walker Monday; Fight Evictions NEW YORK.—On Monday, at 2 p. m., the committee of 25, repre- senting 20,000 small depositors of the Bank of the United States, organized in the United Depositors Committee, will go to Mayor Walker, protest against police brutality to depositors, demand that evictions be stopped against workers who cannot pay their rent because their money has been robbed in, and demand a free public meeting place for a mass meeting of the depositors to plan further action. ‘The committee of 25, whose spokes- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Bronx Workers to Resist Eviction of Jobless Family Sat. All workers of the Bronx and un- employed councils are urged to re- port to 569 Prospect Ave, at 8o’clock Saturday morning to prevent the | eviction of an unemployed worker. Workers! Resist the evictions by the bosses and their courts and po- lice agents of unemployed workers. Come out Saturday morning and | show your solidarity with this job- Jess worker and his family. SEC. 4 DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT NEW YORK.—Section 4, District 2, of the Communist Party is holding a gala dance Saturday night, Dec. robber wars for profit. | | 27, at the section headquarters, 308 Lenox Ave, fight to defend ourselves and our families. The capi- They are wealthy beyond measure with what they have robbed from our class. Demand relief from them. Force them to establish unemployment insurance and the great crisis. Insurance. Fight! Now Tammany Bank Robbers Fear Truth; Rush ‘Red’ Frame-Up Post Admits Truth off “Worker” Story; Omits Names NEW YORK.—As time drags on without any reports from Broderick, Tammany henchman, and State Superintendent of Banks, on the in- side facts of robbery in the Bank of the United States and the Chelsea Bank & Trust Co., which deprived 450,000 depositors of the money they put into these banks, totalling more’ than — $300,000,000, the campaign against the Communists, engineered by the Tammany bank officials, and taken up by Fish, Broderick, Crain and others, is being intensified. The capitalist press in New York} and elsewhere print long stories) charging nearly all bank crashes to} “Red activities.” Hot Air. ‘The charges, consisting of a lot of hot air, go so far as to charge the/| Soviet Union with engineering the bank crashes. As the crisis goes, undermining bank after bank, rob- bing millions of workers and poor farmers of their savings and bring- ing them closer to starvation, the capitalist press is attempting to stir up a red hysteria in order to keep back the workers anger and indigna- tion against the capitalists. Post a Little Late. A glimmering of what is back of it all is contained in the New York Evening Post, Friday. This capitalist sheet prints in a veiled form what the’ Daily Worker published as news nearly two weeks ago, namely, that the Tammany grafting politicians are neck deep in the robbery which, together with the crisis, resulted in| the crash of the Bank of the United | States. Stating that an investigation into the Bank of the United States would GE (CONTINUED 0) FIVE) with the revolutionary workers of the Communist. | entire police force, armed with base- Party and the T.U.U.L. for militant struggle. | the collection of signatures, and the | preparation of demands for free food | Support the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment | 125 W. 130th St., second floor. is the time to act. Don’t Starve, DEPOSITORS MEET CALLED INHARLEM Boro Park .Depositors Back Fight of Committee NEW YORK.—Organization steps are under way to mobilize the small depositors numbering around 40,000 whose money is tied up in the crash of the Chelsea Bank and Trust Co. and clothing for the unemployed workers’ children, no evictions from (CONTENU DON P. FIVE) LABOR DEFENSE ‘DANCE ON TONIGHT |Winter Relief Fund Drive for Prisoners NEW YORK.—At the Russian cps- | tume ball given toright at the Stuy- | vesant Casino, Ninth St and Second Ave. by the district office of the In- | ternational Labor Defense for the}! Winter Relief Campaign for the re- lief of the wives and children of class war prisoners, Tao Hsuan Li, just released om-bail ftom Ellis Isiand where he was imprisoned for depor- tation to China for his working-class activities, will greet the workers, Edith Siegel, outstanding prole- tarian dances, will render a program of new and old dances of a revolu- tionary nature. The orchestra is one of the finest jazz bands in the city A call has been issued to all de- positors of both the Chelsea Bank and Trust Co. and depositors in the | Bank of United States in Harlem to | come to a mass meeting to be held | Sunday, 7 p. m. at St. Luke’s Hall, Plans will be drawn up to organize to de- and will play dance numbers of all nations as well as popular jazz pieces. The district office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense asks all mem- bers of the organization as well as all wide awake workers and their sympathizers to come to the balland bring their friends. The price of ad- mission is proletarian, 50 cents a per- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) son, Bosses Hold $1, While Jobless While homeless and destitute un- employed workers are dying like flies, with scores committing suicide in preference to the slow starvation of the bread lines, the bosses are staging the most lavish orgies and entertainments. Concurrent with the news of an unemployed worker committing sui- cide on Christmas Day in New York City came the report in “Variety,” the theatrical weekly, of “a huge social stunt.” “the biggest event in social Washington” scheduled for Workers’ Children Send Pennies Saved for $30,000 Fund; Take Up the Challenge! 000,000 Orgy Millions Starve “the night after Christmas when the H. L. Doherty millions start to work on a coming out party for the mil- lionaire’s adopted daughter, Helen Lee Ames Doherty.” “It means the spending of more than $1,000,000 in one night for en- tertainment,” boasts “Variety,” which goes on to describe with ecstasy the reserving of the whole floor of the} largest hotel in Washington for the orgy which will be participated in by 2,000 guests, with an expensive erchestra making the trip by plane and a gigantic radio hook-up so all the little bosses not fortunate enough to get an invitation to the million dollar orgy can “listen in” and bet their share of the thrill In the meantime the case of Delcio Discitoh, the jobless worker who committed suicide on Christmas Day, is being duplicated by the scores | throughout the country as workers are made to bear the full burden >f the crisis According to the New York Times, ball bats, guns and tear gas bombs, and “instructions to use their wea- pons.” In spite of the attack, with Ne- gro workers especially beaten up and all attempts made to start a race riot, the crowd, Negro and white, refused to disperse, and although broken into smaller groups by the police attack they stayed around while W. G. Binkley addressed them from the steps on a corner lot: “The unemployed workers came here demanding bread and the bosses” government gave them baseball bats,” he shouted. “The Unemployment Committee of Mayor Wilson is noth ing but a fake.” Other speakers were Russell Knight, one of the original defendants of the Gastonia case, and Dewey Martin, or- ganizer for the National Textile {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) . FIGHT FOR JURY IN OCT. 16 CASE Defense Will Argue on Monday NEW YORK.—A stubborn fight by the International Labor Defense, and continuous protest by the masses of the unemployed, won at least a tem- porary advantage in the case now being brought by the Tammany, prosecutors against Nesin, Lealess and Stone of the Oct, 16 delegation of the unemployed. Yesterday in Special Sessions (where without a jury they railroad @ worker to three years indeterminate sentence) the L L. D. attorney got the case postponed to Jan. 9, to allow for argument Monday before General Sessions to have the trial itself in General Sessions, where at least you get a jury. Brodsky of the I, L. D, will argue the case Monday, Nesin, Lealess and Stone, with three others, constituted the committee sent by the jobless to appear at an open meeting of the board of esti- mates and demand that $200,000,000 on the budget for the bankers be turned over to the jobless instead. Mayor Walker had the police beat up the delegation of the jobless, and afterwards arrest them, They are being tried for “inciting to riot,” “in- sulting the mayor,” and similar charges. Cop Shoots at Negro Worker Who Did Not Stop Quick Enough NEW YORK.—The Southern cus- tom of shooting down Negro work- ers on the slightest pretext was again practiced in New York City Xmas night when Edward West, Jr., a 19- year-old Negro young worker, was shot down in cold blood by Patrol- G.E.B. OF NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION SUPPORTS DRIVE banks crash. In U. S. S. R.—Wages jump, participate in this drive, and to elect delegates to the banquet on the oc- Discitoh came from Highland Falls,| man Joseph Allen because he did not N. ¥., and had engaged a furnished | stop quick enough when ordered to. casion of the Central Committee moving into the building. ‘The growth of the left wing move- ment necessitates the concentration of the work into one center, While the Central Committee secured the Center, it is necessary that the workers give it every support and help to bring it into shape so that the work of the revolutionary in- stitutions shall not be hampered. All organizations should send their unemployment exits. Read the whole absorbing story in “The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union,” by Greg- ory T. Grinko, free with one year’s subscription or renewal to the Daily Worker. (Fight the fight for 60,000 circulation. See page 5.) Begin to organize the workers in your factory. Use the conditions, speed-up, wage-cutting schemes to | this bazaar in order to complete the mobilize the workers for struggle. ‘ olutionary workers. Again the Daily Worker appears, but the telephone bills, paper bills, printing bills and rent remain unpaid. The tag day in New York City has helped pull through from day to day. The Mock Trial in Detroit netted in part $175 and the regular income from Cleveland has helped tide-over the serious crisis, The General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union at its last meeting passed a reso- lution to support the Daily Worker in the emergency drive. A group of school children of the Workers Children School No. 3 of Brownsville raised $3.55 stating—we are sending to you this money saved by us from the daily pennies that our parents are giving us for candy. They are challenging the children from other schools to do likewise. The response from other cities than New York {s begin- ning to’ show that the workers are determined to liquidate the deficit, however, the length of time it takes to send in funds endangers the actual existence of the Daily Worker. Comrades we must make quick, sharp and decisive an- swers against the bosses and their attacks upon the workers, “Whipering campaign of Communists caused bank crash,” “Pioneer Children Groups are trying to destroy Santa Claus.” Back of these remarks can easily be“seen the open attacks that are being made against the workers’ press which is the powerful instrument of the working class, which is daily exposing the hypocrisy, sham, the real crisis and the basic cause. The Daily Worker is mobilizing the workers and their room at 93 Third Ave. paying a! week's rent of $3 in advance. On Christmas morhing his landlord smelled gas and traced it to Disci- toh’s room, Discitoh was dead in bed with the gas on, On a table was this note: “Merry Christmas! I am broke. I have no money and I can’t find any work. I have been on the bread line for the last few days, but it is a slow death on the breadline. I prefer to take this way out. I was children to destroy these superstitions. It puts forward a fighting program for the workers, Comrades, we must answer the appeal of the Daily Worker. We must liquidate the deficit immediately. Rush all funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street, N. Y. C... never on the breadline before. “P. S.--My overcoat ,which is in ‘The police are trying to cover up this atrocious murder by claiming that the murdered worker dropped his hand to his right hip when or- dered to stop by the cop. Graft Stories Start Monday Due to technical causes the series of exposures of boss corrup- tion and labor racketeering in New Jersey by Allen Johnson cate | the room, I wish that it be given to some poor man who needs it.” The note was signed, “Merry Christmas.” not be started in. today’s issue. | The first article in this amazing series will appear in Monday's edition, Workers in » the Shops! Yo ini i ed Next! | lef oi the Job i, a.