The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bilk Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail Central | Orga “the-Cd (Section of the Communist International) diel NO orker Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! has VIL. No. 311 Entered as second-class matter af the Post Oftiee at New York, N. ¥.. under the act et March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 193 N CITY EDITION | Plenty of Armament | HE textile capitalists of New England have often acted as the most | outspoken of American imperialism, even though they are not the | decisive factor in determining the policies of finance capital. They fur- |nished the republican party with its national chairman, Mr, Butler, in They | | dominate the capitalist circles of the New England States. The “New | | Bedford Times” is one of the chief spokesmen of this group of bandits. | | This paper, in its issue of Dec, 23, after quoting with approval the words | of Sir Henri Deterding, head of the British oil trust, calling for economic ioe 1924 campaign when the immortal Coolidge was “put over.” war against the Soviet Union, adds its own contribution in the following ‘ords: “We would point out emphatically that the United States must | not delay or hesitate in such matters, It is a case of fight now 1 against the Soviet or be devoured by the Soviet after we have been | reduced so to be unable to fight. | “And with proper economic campaigns against the U. S. S. R. let | us not forget plenty of armaments.” Every worker who fails to understand that now is being prepared | BOSS AGENTS LIE ON BANK Wall Street Organ Ad- mits Crashes Caused by Boss Thievery NEW YORK.—At the same time that a fake investigation is being Price ‘3 Cents Edgewater, N. ].---Mirror of the JOBLESS STORM CITY HALL Poverty and Misery of US Totlers CRASH CAUSE (This is the first of a series of articles on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New Jersey.) wulse te By ALLEN JOHNSON. | Within the boundaries of the town- | ship of Edgewater, N. J., a tiny in- | heart of New York City, can be found a small-scale panorama of grim, capitalist-ridden America, of the poverty and the suffering of the war against the Soviet Union, and who therefore fails to do his full part | arranged by the Tammany district! american working class on the one 2 fighting against this war, is becoming one of the dupes and tools of the | attorney, Crain, to whitewash the in-/ hand and of the billion-dollar prof- |side robbery of 400,000 depositors in| its of the country’s leading exploit- apitalist-imperialists. Every “socialist” of the type of Norman Thomas, Who pooh-poohs the war-danger, is a direct agent of these war makers. Workers must prepare to fight to the death against this war. They must prepare to realize for the capitalists that fear which was ex- pressed for them in the New York Times of Dec. 26, that such a war will “infallibly let loose a civil war in which the belligerent government would fall.” This Must Be Stopped! prox Juarez, a Mexican city in the state of Chihuahua, comes the news v (by way of the Mcxican press in the United States), that two Mexican 4 peasants, horribly disfigured and pierced with bullets of the Yankee fron- ; | tier guards, were found on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. And this is not the first time, says the report, that Yankee frontier | guards have dared to violate the Mexican frontier and commit depreda- | tions. The “Nacional” of Chicago gives the completely justifiable response of the Mexican residents of Juarez, that—“the next time the American guards cross to the Mexican side, they will be received with bullets.” ‘The “Mexican authoriti are, of course, greatly troubled about such eventualities. But the M plet w:ican workers from the United States, the law upon which thousands I an workers, their wives and children are being rounded up like cattle end driven across the frontier. Fae Mi an covernment, faithful to the interests of the imperialists looting the country under the Lamont Agreement and loyal to the ‘reacticnary latifundtsta landholders in stopping even what little distribu- tion of Jand that was hitherto done, has robbed the Mexican masses of the small measure of gains won by the revolution of the masses.’ It is “completely reactionary and fascist, an ally of Yankee imperialism in the | tobesry and oppression of the workers and peasants of Mexico. Hence the Mexican government has murdered and imprisoned militant "workers. It jails arbitrarily Mexican Communists and trade union leaders such @s Comrade Campa, head of the Unitary Trade Union Confedera- tion, precisely as a.service to Yankee imperialism. L Het the Mexican). government pretends that it has done its full duty when-it “wins the concession” (what a concession!) that the thou- sands of Mexicen women and children, brutally herded into prison on the American side by the U. S. Department of Justice, be cared for by the Mexican “Blue Cross,” the counterpart of the hypocritical Red Cross of the U.S. A. ‘ Tens of thousands of these Mexican workers have lived long years in the United States. They are a part cf the working class in this coun- try. But by agreement. between the Washington and Mexican govern- ments, they are set upon, arrested, torn from their families and even these families are thrown into prison and finally whipped across the border. They are told they are here “illegally,” the old excuse to justify persecution of militant foreign born workers. But the American “working class knows that any action it takes in (defense of its interest against the employers is “illegal” in the eyes of Japitalist government. So it scorns all such “reasons” behind which the | | exican government hides its surrender to imperialism. /) No matter what the servile Mexican regime of Ortiz Rubio consents to, the revolutionary workers of the United States, the Communists and militant trade unionists of the Trade Union Unity League, protests at this attack on Mexican workers in this country, and demands the repeal of the infamous Harris Law under which our class brothers of Mexican blogd are being persecuted! D PARTY FAKERS LAN BETRAYALS ry Sidetrack Rising Mass Anger NEW YORK. — To sidetrack the i ing mass discontent on the ‘farms and industrial centers, and to ead it into “safe” channels for pitalism, the Legaue for Inde- pendent Political Action is preparing to. call state conventions through- it the country to build up a “third y” for the 1932 presidentiai clec- E: i —————— ~ OCT. 16 CASE ARGUED TODAY Jobless Demand the Release of Leaders NEW YORK.—Today unemployed workers will be present in large num- bers at the hearing of the arguments on the case of Sam Nesin, Robert Lealess and John Stone, members of the Oct. 16 delegation of the unem- ployed. These three workers are being tried for unlawful assembly, dis- orderly conduct, assault, committing a nuisance, and insulting the Tam- many grafters at the board of es- timates meeting, where Mayor Walk- er had them beaten up by the police. | They had appeared to represent the 800,000 jobless here and demand that the enoromous sums on the budget to be given to bankers and the police should ‘instead be used for jobless relief. ' After being beaten half to death, they were arrested and held, to spe- ae sessions where there is no jury trial, on the above fancy assortment of fake charges. Today at 10 a, m. Attorney Brodsky of the Interna- tional Labor Defense will argue in ie leading spokesmen of this coi- fection of Socialists, labor fakers, ‘teh farmers and college professors, s Prof. John Dewey, who tried to make an alliance with the so-called nsurgents in the Republican Party No alliance is too unsavory for this 28, so long as it has the flavor of progressive.” wnile no principles have been tvorked out, the object of the League ‘or Independent Political Action is io prop up decaying capitalism, if ecessary by fascist means. A state- issued Saturday by Prof. | wey says: “During 19331 we shall act as a coordinating agency, bringing to- gether all groups that ought to {PA interested in using politics on ‘the basis of this principle of social ‘The “social planning and control” | case must be taken out of special } ¢ is precisely the view of the| sessions and given a jury trial in osley fascist group in Great Britaiy’| general sessions. ‘an government, completely fascist and com- | ety servile to American imperialism, makes only the pretense of pro- | |the Bank of the United States, and| |the crash of the Chelsea Bank &| | ng and control. We shall | general sessions court, Judge Levine's to workers, farmers, and all | department, in the criminal court of good will.” building near Tombs Prison, that the!” was proposed in an article in the If the general sessions judge re- erationist, A. F. of L. organ sev-,').uses to take over the case, it will go /’months ago, and explained as| on trial in special sessions before control by the capitalist. | three judges but no jury, on Jan. 9. Trust Co., a vicious attack is directed against the Communists by the fed- eral, state and city capitalist gov- ernmenis, The Fish Committee, which had practically closed its hi ings, and was preparing a whole series of anti- working class laws, has been revived ers on the other. Along the shore, within sight of the millionaire’s yacht club, live several score squatters—workers, who, reft of jobs and homes, have made their habitation in the broken hulks of old barges and canal boats. These squatters, contrary to the condescending descriptions of them in New York newspapers, written oc- be- | | faster, more efficient, more econom- ical machines. The boats in which they live are relics of an earlier era—of an era} when almost a: man could get a job if he was willing to work 14 or | 15 hours a day. Not so long ago dustrial center directly opposite the | these canal boats sank low in the | waters of the Hudson with their car- | goes of wheat, ore and lumber. Soon | the boats were displaced by the more efficient railroads. The inevitable | law of capitalist development began | to operate; some of the bargemen | found jobs on the railroads, nany did not. Some of those who didn’t were forced to make their homes in the boats that had been left to rot or the Jersey shore. | These, workers had now become | Squatters, homele jobless, impov- erished. Are these Edgewater squat- | ters an isolated instance in New Jer- sey? In Elizabeth, less than 15 miles | from Edgewater as the crow flies, for the purpose of “investigating red| casionally by reporters who have | there is a colony of Negro squatters— | activities in connection with bank failures.” In a statement issued by Hamilton Fish, who heads the committee, it is charged: % “The Daily Worker, the official Comm: t organ in the United States, h an alleged daily cir- culation of 35,000, has been filled for the last week with articles at- tacking the credit of American banks and predicting new failures (CONTINUED ON iE THREE) BANK CRASHES CONTINUE IN US. 20 Reported Friday and Saturday NEW YORK.—As the United De- positors Committee, representing 20,000 sthall depositors in the Bank of the United States crash prepares to see Mayor Walker today with the demands of the depositors for a pub- lic meeting hall and to protest against police brutality, reports flock in about other bank failures throughout the country. On Friday and Saturday nearly 20 bank smashes were reported in the capitalist press. Among these were the following: The Mutual Deposit and ‘Loan As- sociation of San Antonio, Texas, with over $739,000 in deposits was closed by the state, and the depositors’ money is tied up. The Bank of South Hill, Va. closed its doors. In Eden- ton, N. C. the Citizens Bank of Eden- ton, with deposits of over $345,000 failed. The Elling State Bank of Virginia City, Mont., closed. While over 260 banks crashed in November alone, with $200,000,000 in- volved, the bank failures for De- cember, when finally totaled will number close to 300, with over $500,- 000,000 involved. This will bring the year’s total to about 1,200 bank fail- ures with over a billion dollars in- volved—twice the size of the largest | gone “slumming,” are neither hoboes | nor traps; they are discarded hu- man machines—discarded on the c2p- | italist junk heap and replaced by | workers lured to th efactories of the | morth during the war and then | kicked out after the war as if they had been so much garbage. In Dur-, ham, about 10 miles distant, there is | | another large colony of squatters. | As capitalism develops the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The crisis which is shaking the foun-| cations of America is not a crisis in| the sense that it is an unusual oc- currence, Crises are as normal to capitalism as a bad smell is to a skunk, and the only method that ex- | ists of abolishing either the crises or the smell is the destruction of capi- talism in the first place and the skunk in the second. Half-way mea- sures, “reforms,” such as are advo- cated by the fake “socialists,” who profess to offer a solution for the crises and the misery and the uner ployment under capitalism, are quack remedies deliberately offered to mis- Jead the mi s. Such refoms will no more cure the ills of capitalism | N. HAVEN STRIKE than listerine will cure a skunk’s!fs, , wiadee < “Bp sell) end tho who eoneod that) 1ne Malitancy But they’ will, have been universally| Girls Are Starving proved t obe either liars or crooks| and ofttimes both. The canal boat dwellings of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 28— Faced with the actual starvation of | many of the striking wo and | their families, the Strike Committe ‘Says Discrimination ‘Against Foreign-Born | Adds toUnemployment | NEW YORK.—That the widespread discrimination practiced by employers and government agencies against the foreign born workers are depriving these workers of a means to earn a livelihood and adding to the vast army of the unemployed, is admitted in an article published in the Jan- uary issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, written by Harold Fields, executive director of the National League for American Citizenship, one of the bosses’ organizations to inject patriotic punk into the foreign born. Discrimination against the foreign born is practiced not only by private employers but by local, state and federal bureaus and departments, Fields declares. Automobile execu- tives, with the open shop policies, are particularly vicious in discriminating against the foreign born. NEW YORK.—Strange words and strange ideas came up in the colirse of the two-day city convention of the socialist party of New York held in the Rand School, Saturday and Sun- day. Realizing that the socialist party had too openly displayed its capitalist-supporting policy, a new element has cropped up calling itself “militants” who have learned from Maxton & Co. of the British Labor Party that an imperialist policy should be garnered with “left” phrases. The main discussion centered previous record in American econ- omic history. Working Women Give Last Cent to Daily Fund! Speed the Emergency Drive! THE DAILY WORKER IS NEEDED IN ORGANIZING HUNGER MARCHES / around two resolutions. One was on Socialist Convention for ‘Left’ Phrases to Fool Workingclass last Friday night at the coming Avenue, South Jamaica. The dead baby was five months old. It was one of a family of nine, including Mr.| and Mrs. John Eldert and their chil- dren and grandchildren. The entire family was without food. The house was without heat. When the dead ‘baby became ill the family had been unable to obtain a doctor to attend it because they had no money. ‘The New York Times reporting the story admits that “the Elderts had} had no warmth and little food for weeks. Their two eldest sons, Ed- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) and the other on the Soviet Union. Two different viewpoints were brought | out regarding the attitude toward the Soviet Union. Who They Were. usual, the regular collection of small business men, merchants, law- yers, doctors and a small sprinkling | of students composed the convention. If any workers were there they were well hid behind the ample proportions of the other delegates. At least, not one worker spoke. * Algernon Lee, in a smooth, oily fashion brought out what is a fact, Baby Dies of Hunger in Cold Flat While Bosses Hold Orgy NEW YORK.—-While Washington boss s | Vice President Curtis, were holding their million-dollar orgy | Doherty, adopted daughter of H. L. Doherty, multi-millionaire, | la working class baby was dying of cold and starvation in an junheated flat at 147-03 114the————- -~ | of the workers of the Lesnow Shirt | Co., New Haven, Conn., has made an urgent appeal to the national office of the Workers’ International Relief, | 36 E. 20th St., N. Y. C., for relief, in | order that the wo: may continue to fight the mi: ble wage-cut of- fered to the workers by Lesnow Shirt Co. and win the strike. ciety, headed by } “Help us keep alive,” the appeal | stated. “We know that the W. I. R. can mobilize the workers throughout the country. Help us and we will carry the struggle to a successful end | in spite of the bosses, their Chamber | of Commerce, the scabs, police and | the undermining work of the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor.” FIGHT EVICTIO | ber 15 400 girl and women shirtmak- Jobless Worker With | ess walked out in the first strike in| . . | New Haven since the 1922 strike of Sick Wife In Danger | the. railroad workers.. The.. young | Italian girls and women are putting NEW YORK —The Bronx Council up a most valiant fight. The wage- of the Unemployed calls all workers’ cut of 15 per cent amounted in some and jobless to meet today at 1 p. m.} cases to actually 30 per cent. Av-| sharp in front of 524 East 136th St.| erage wages had been $11, with many | An unemployed worker named Joe) workers receiving only $3 to $7 a/ Prezioso is to be evicted there at) week. | 2p. m. Because of these miserable wages, | A committee representing the ten-| and more particularly because the ants visited Raynes Realty Corpora-| shop had only been working. two or | tion, which is having this jobless| three days a week before the strike, | worker evicted, and showed him that! the workers are already in dire need. the man had been unemployed a long) In many instances the young girls or time, and had no home for his sick | mothers émployed by the Lesnow wife and his familygif thrown out. | shirt Co. were the sole support of Mr. Raynes told them he was going) families, with as many as ten mem- to evict, and said, “Why doesn’t the| bers, depending upon them because man go to the Catholic charity?” | the fathers and husbands have heen The worker himself showed his | unemployed for months. dispossess notice at the police station| workers are requested to show and they told him they would do) tneir solidarity with these stri nothing for him. He went to the} workers by sending funds fake employment agency, and tley ately to the National Office, Wor Promised to “maybe” get him a job/ ers mnternational Relief, 36 E. 20th sometime at $15 a week. Meanwhile St, N. ¥. Cc. he will be thrown out with his fam- | MANY ATL... out party of Helen Lee Eames- | “campaign methods and propaganda,” (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) To date a little over $7,000 was raised up to and includ- ing the 26th. The little over $7,000 was raised in the $30,000 campaign. Most of this comes from New York City, the New York Tag Day and donations from organizations amounting to around $5,000. There has been noticed a of money coming in. This te that the full $30,000 can be secure in moving forward. marked increase in the tempo mpo must yet be increased so raised and the Daily Worker A shop nucleus in McKeesport sends in a donation of $10 in which is included a donation from a Finnish Working Women’s Club. There has not been enough response from the Finnish workers. A Negro working woman from Cin- cinnati gave as much as she could give, $.25, toward the Daily Worker. Comrades! The workers with their small amounts can liquidate the deficit of the Daily Worker. We must rush forward more than ever the Emergency Drive of the Daily Worker. The working class sees through the fake “prosperity and Christmas spirit” of the bosse: s. Already hunger marches of the unemployed are developing in the various cities. Work- ily to freeze unless the masses them- | ‘ORG. CONFERENCE, selves stop the eviction. All should | come, today at 1 p. m. to 524 East} NEW YORK—The National Or- | ganizational Conference of ihe Na- | 13th St. tional Executive Committee of the | The Bronx Council of the Unem- ployed meets every morning at 341 International Labor Defense, with | the district organizers and some of | East 149th St., second floor. | the other leading workers in the I. | L. D., opened Saturday noon at Ir- ving Plaza Hall with over sixty | workers present. | The conference was called by the N. E. C. of the’ International Labor | Defense to review the work of the | organization since the last conven- tion, especially in relation to the | eight months’ plan and the amnesty ers are marching to the state city halls making fighting de- mands from the bosses and their governments. The Daily Worker more than ever must be used to mob- ilize the workers in all the cities through which the Hunger Marches pass. The Daily Worker must be ahead of the line of marchers preparing the workers in the cities, both the unemployed and employed, to give assistance and aid to the Hunger Marchers, to build similar groups and swell the ranks of ‘the Hunger Marches. The Daily Worker must appear every day so that the workers can better mobilize and strengthen their forces. The Daily Worker must be used to bring the employed workers to the support of the unemployed. Unless immediate assistance is given the financial dif- ficulty of the Daily Worker will be too large a burden for those assigned to look after the publication‘of the Daily. All workers having collection lists, all workers having tag day boxes (this refers particularly to New York) must rush these into the office of the Daily Worker immediately and without fail. Send your contributions to. the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th Street. , drive, and make plans for the next | national convention, At the afternoon session on Sat- | urday, the conference heard a re-| port on the Eight Months’ Plan and | the Amnesty Drive, by J. Louis Eng- dahl, national secretary of the or- ganization, followed by a supplemen- | tary report on Negro Work by George | Tyler, head of the I. L. D. National | Negro Department; an organizational report by Jakira, organization secre- tary; a short address by Jack Sta- chel, assistant secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, and a seport on Prisoners’ Relief by Edward Royce. The session Saturday night and Sunday morning were given over to a discussion of these reports. At the opening of the conference @ presidium. was _elected..consisting of Steve Rubicki, chairman; H. M. Amis, Robert Dunn, Jack Rose, Grace Hutchins, Jennie Cooper and Cyril Briggs. IN TEXAS AS BITTER FROST COMES, PLAN HUNGER MARCH 3,000 in Peabody Demand Immediate Relief Without Discrimination Against Negroes and Foreign Born Workers | Detroit Army of Unemployed Plan Huge Dem- onstration January 2 at Grand Circus Park Employed Workers to Support Demands Increasing militancy, @ militancy born of desperation among the masses of hungry, cold, unemployed work and a militancy which must be organized and concentrated to get results, is reported from quarters not even touched,yet by the national campaign for unemployment insur for local relief and the fight against evictions, etc, Word has been received from Marfa, Texas, a small town near an army post, not far from San An- tonio, that swarms of jobless stormed the city jail when the first bitter cold weather struck, and that the police met them with 30-30 rifles. No cas- ualties were reported, but that was probably just luck. The freezing, starving jobless demanded the right to sleep in the jail, and rifles were used to, keep them from breaking in, One Meal Only, Now the city authorities in Marfa permit a jobless worker to toil sev- eral hours at work for the city, in return for which he gets just one ticket for a meal and one night’s lodging. That is all, after that he can starve anywhere he wants to, and without a place to sleep. Unemployment grows rapidly in Texas as farm workers are set adrift and others are evicted. The National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance re- ports increased activity in all large cities and some, but not enough, nf the smaller ones, to conduct local hunger marches on city halls, de- manding relief, to collect signatures for the Workers’ Unemployment In- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE WAGNER ‘INSURANCE’ PLAN TAXES WORKERS NEW YORK. — Yesterday inter- views in the press with Senator Wag- ner on his flock of bills and resolu- tions in congress attempted to soothe the jobless with the idea that something was being done for them, Wagner's main bill provides for state uenmployment funds to be made up of contributions by workers and employers. He argued for the bills that a worker thrown out of a job by economic crisis was in the ne position as one suffering ac- lent from factory machinery and had as much right to compensation. Then, in spite of this, he argued that if the worker while on the job was not taxed to make up the insurance fund, he would be “debased by re- ceiving charity” when he drew his insurance. One of Wagner's bills has already passed; ;i;t provides for collecting unemployment statistics—from the bosses, so they will never be too large. Other bills exempt insurance funds from taxation, inursance col- lections from taxation, provide for a study of insurance systems, provide | for national unemployment agencies, ete, COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! Hunger Marches and 60,000 Drive Edge, Standard Oil's ambas- sador to France, remarks: “I think the present economic trouble is largely a state of mind.” The 9,000,000 unemployed per- sist the “trouble” has a bearing also on a state of the stomach, But what the bosses will soon learn is the influence the crisis has over 9,000,000 fists tending to give them a sort of passing acquaintance with the bosses’ chin, as the jobless move into hunger marches in every ‘city in the United States, “Use Wire Daily Worker to mobilize the unemployed. Build 60,000 circulation fgr the Daily Worker. See page 3.