The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Coitral (Section of the 0 em add ~f > Interna Vol. VII. No. 312 at New York. N. Entered se second-class matter at the Post Office ¥.. ander the act of Lomein 3. 1879 orker Party U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORED, UNITE! CITY EDITION ee a ee _ Price 3 Cents_ $ 164,808,044 CASH TAX REFUND AS JOBLESS STARVE $800,000, 000 Traction Steal | Proposed By Tam “Slow Deat is Christmas Day a man, Delcio Discitch, one of the millions of unem- ployed, was found dead by gas at 93 Third Ave., New York City, leav- ing behind him a note saying: , “Merry Christmas! I am broke. I have no money and I can’t find any work. I have been on the breadline for the last few days, but it is a slow death on the breadline. I prefer to take this way out. I was mever on the breadline before.” A worker in the shadow of death, lodged in a cheap rooming house for which he paid his last penny, wrote this bitter indictment of the stingy, miserable and really murderous “charity” relicf so much boasted of by the hypocritical flunkeys of capitalist press, puipit and political circles as “altogether adequate.” “Tt is a slow death on the breadline!” And he “preferred to take this way out’—the way of suicide, rather than bear the slow death of watery soup, weak coffee and stale bread—not to speak of the brutal treatment of those who seek food at the doors of “charity” where they are Wrowbeaten and manhandled by the police as if they were criminals. wonder he preferred suicide. But suicide is not, of course, the way out. “Organized charity, skimped and iced, in the name of a coldly statistical Christ,” as some poet has called it, can be made to cease this brutal, this murderous starvation | of the. destitute unemployed. But they can only be forced to do so by the organized mass protest of its victims. The instance cited is not infrequent. starving and in desperation, prefer suicide to the “slow death on the breadline.” But this slow death, this inadequate slop handed out with every indignity of which police and professional charity dispensors are masters, can be remedied by vigorous and militant mass protest. Everywhere the starving workers who are suffering this “slow death” must be rallied with all support possible from the working class as a whole to demand—really adequate and sustaining food, shelter which is in fact, and not in fancy, comfortable and warm. All of this bitter lesson of starvation and death must be caught up by the masses of workers, employed and unemployed as well, to show Daily and in every city workers, them that the working class must fight, persistently and unitedly, for | something more than the miserable dole of charity slop; for unemploy- ment insurance. Without such struggle, the horror will remain—‘“slow death on the breadline.” With such struggle, united and militant, the workers can force concessions from those who flaunt their wealth as insults in the face of the starving millions! On with the fight! Organize the hunger marches! “Socialist” MacDonald Slaughters Burmese ISPATCHES from Rangoon, Burma, report that the soldiers of His Brittannie Majesty's Government, at the head of which stands the ‘socialist,” Ramsay MacDonald, is slaughtering 1,000 Burmese “rebels.” Simultaneously, telegrams from London inform us, on the authority of the “very respectable” Burmese representative, Mr. Ube Pe, at the so- called “Round Table Conference,” that the causes of the trouble are due to, head-taxes placed upon workers already driven to desperation by un- employment and starvation-wages. Mr. Uba Pe says: “I think. it probably is a sporadic outbreak due to the workers’ inability to pay taxes. There have been similar troubles in previous years when work in the rice fields ended in November. All single men have to pay about $1 head tax and married men $2. With no work and. heavy food charges, they evidently have been driven to desperation.” “Socialist” MacDonald, while helping cut wages in England, goes further in Burma, He systematically kills the workers who, “driven to desperation,” refuse to pay the head-tax. MacDonald is “building so- cialism” according to tle formula of the Second International—subsidies and full protection for capitalists, wage-cuts and killings for the workers. MacDonald is the accepted “leader” of international “social-demo- DAILY WORKER EXPOSES UNTERMEYER WALL STREET TRANSIT GRAFT SCHEME | Plan Which Gives Baruch, Dahl, Amster and Others Millions in Profits | Ask City to Pay 15 to 50 Per Cent More for 'Stock Than Can Be Bought on Stock Market 4 Grafting Politicians Who Order Beating of Jobless and Refuse Relief to 800,000 Pave Way for $800,000,000 Steal tW YORK.—A huge grafting scheme for the so-called | unification of all the subways and elevated in the city whereby | \a group of Tammany grafting politici cians and their Wall Street backers would make hundreds of millions of dollars has been proposed by Samuel Untermeyer, corporation lawyer and Tam- | many toel. | No capitalist paper has carried the real story behind this vroposed, deal. The Daily Worker was able to get inside in- | formation which has never seen the light of day, as the entire capitalist press is alligned either with the Tammany: grafters or the Wall Street bankers and lawyers who stand to gain mil- lions through the Untermeyer scheme, in the Tammany cesspool. Hylan has no idealistic motives such from the. Tammany machine | Funds to Aid Struggles) opportunity to smash into his former of the Communist Party, New York | Worker has these facts. When thieves pili 6 | deals involving $800,000,000, Eve Wednesday, Dec. 31. Section 2 One of those instrumental in exposing the deal is ex-Mayor ~~--=~~tas he tries to express through 3 SECTION NEW his interviews in the capitalist and from the opportunities of sharing i nthe graft, and is good and . : : | graiting cohorts. in District The fact that he has got a job as District have arranged balls on New pa fall out the workers may not get thei: fe benefit of the ose ore Bete due, but they do get a chance to see | The Section Two “Red Costume | Ball” will be held at Bryant Hall, | of eee te On ‘The plan proposed by Untermeyer, is well prepared to welcome the New Year in real proletarian fashion. John F. Hylan, who has fallen out with his former associates press. Hylan was eliminated sore. He was just waiting for this judge from Mayor Walker did not NEW YORK.—Sections 2, 5 and 6 Distri i f the Commu- eee area crane Me | some of the inside workings of graft Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. on New Years | Smith, appears in the light of a pub- | There will be Red dancing and real | lic-spirited lawyer, ceived substantial sums from the sub- Al Smith Appointed Untermeyer to Draw Up: | shut him up. But the capitalist press | did not publish the facts. The Daily | who, with the help of ex-Governor | though he re- | ‘More Banks Crash; 2 of Large Size PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 29.— Another big bank has crashed here, ‘ depriving thousands of depositors of their money, amounting to $6,409,124. ; The Aldine Trust Co., a bank with alleged resources of $9,256,234, main- taining a main office and two | branches, closed its doors yesterday. This is the second big bank crash that has taken place in Philadelphia in two weeks. The first Bankers’ Trust Co., with many posits. The 134,000 depositors of the Bankers’ Trust Co. are still without cne penny of their money put into the bank, Sa oe The important feature in connec- tion with the deluge of bank failures is that bigger banks are. constantly ‘crashing. The capitalist press is try- | , ing to minimize the importance of these bank crashes, numbering over | | 1,200 for the year, by saying mainly | small banks are effected. Recently, however, the bigger banks have been | going. This is recognized by one of the leading organs of Wall Strect, which the workers are not supposed | to read. The Commercial & Finan- cial Chronicle of Dec. 27 says re- garding the big bank failures: “In the meantime bank failures keep coming with unpleasant fre- quency in all parts of the country. | And, unfortunately, too, Big banks are now being drawn into the vor- | (CONTINUED ON GE THREE) (CHEAP EATS AT | Promised ty. Councils and W.LR. NEW YORK.—Tasty and delicious cakes that melt in the mouth with piping hot drinks to go with them will be for sale at rock-bottom prices at the joint bazaar of the Workers International Relief and the United | Council of Working Class Women, at New Star Casino, Jan. 2, 3 and 4. Besides cakes, ihere will be huge tacks of pancakes and mountains of knishes to warm the soul of every worker patronizing the food booths. | Workers are assured of eating what was the) branches and over $50,000,000 in de- | JOINT BAZAAR | demands which were at that time be- | | way companies, provides for the pay- | they like and eating cheaply at the many FIGURES CONCEAL TWICE ‘AS MUCH MOREIN CREDIT: HUNGER MARCHES BEGIN SPEED TAKING OF SIGNATURES Worker Organizations Endorse Bill for Job- less Insurance NEW YORK.—The National Cam- paign Committee for Unemployment Insurance reports that the latest of a list of workers’ organizations formally endorsing the Workers Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill and pledging | thefr membership to gather signa- | lures, take part in united front con- ences to lead the campaign for signatures for the bill, use their headquarters as campaign stations for the signature drive, for the mass nd hunger marches and tions, ete., ar Hungarian Workmen's k Bene- volent and Educational Federation. | Lettish Workers Alliance of Amer- ica. Friends of Panover (Ame Lumber Workers Indu National Textile Workers Union. Labor Sports Union of America. International Workers Order. The National Committee urges all 7” } Workers’ organizations which, have not yet done so to immediately en- pone the bill, and swing into action in the local campaign for relief. Yesterday a hunger march was be- ing held in Milwaukee to enforce the | ing presented to the common counci of the city. Today in Stamford, Conn., an un- employed mass meeting is being held at Workers Center Hall, 49 Pacific st. On Jan. 2 a mass den ration will take place in Detroit at G id Circus Park, 1 p. m., with a hunge: march on the city hall from that place immediately after the meeting. (CON NUED ON PAGE TH | NEW YORK. - Murray Body Men | Pay for Charity | | (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 29. —The capitalist pr of De- troit announces that Murray ]| Body Corporation gave out |} 185 baskets of groceries to || needy families for Christ- mas. A friend of mine working in Murray Body had a pay of $12 coming. When he got it, he found they had deducted $4.26—to pay for these Christmas boxes! MORE BUNK CIVEN U. Still . Bank Depositors Without Money In an | bolster in the closed: Co., Brode idence up cor Chelsea Bo Tam: nerintendent has a statement sayingthat this bani sound.” The capitalist press makes it appear that attempts will be made to reopen the bank, It must be remembered, howev that the capitalist press for the published statements saying that the depositors would be Brod kK immediat a Re ni and never of all deposits The directors of the Chelsea Bank & Trust Co. state they have many s for re-or, ion of the | pre bar The same story was spread about the Bank of th ited States (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Boss Pastor Admits Capital- | Committee on Internal Revenue Ta: attempt to | at aid 100 per cent. | F THRICE HOOVER’S “BUILDING BILL’ Most Goes to Mellon Firms; All Getting Gift Cut Wages WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 29. = ; The Hoover emergency building pro gram bill, as passed by congress gives $116,000,000 for “relieving unemploy- ment”. Not one worker has so far been put into a job by that bill, and | until months of negotiations for land, drawing of plans, etc., are gone thru with, not one will get any work. Even then, most of it will not go to the orkers, a few thousand may be hired | eventually. But simultaneously with the ter- rific advertisement of this “emerg- ency building as a cure for unemploy- ent”, Hoover's secretary of th | ury has handed back to big co. ations, according to the statemen rday of the Joint Congression: yest 5 | on, $164,808,044, in the year ending une 30, This is called a tax refund, 26,200,000 is direct refund, the rest interest, } ‘This tefund is $58,000,000; aipproxi- mately, more than the government offers the landlords, conttactoi building material manufacturers, and a few thousand workers — for < | “ungéaployment relief,” Larger Part Concealed. nore, this tax refund an- of the total. Me! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) 1,000 AT NEW STAR as SOVIET UNION ser Report Success Be Five-Year Plan ism Means Hunger for Toilers | surprises for the Fish Committee un- | Kashar NEW YORK.—In spite of the heavy cracy.” The socialist party of Norman Thomas, Hillquit, O’Neal, and ‘Heywood Broun, take off their hats to MacDonald ‘as their leader. These are the same gentlemen who howl against the Soviet Union, denouncing the violence of the workers’ government against the capitalists, No one has ever heard a squeak out of them against MacDonald's bloody reign of terror in India and Burma. These “pacifists” are only for the peaceful acceptance of capitalist rule. They are the bloodiest murderers, whenever the issue becomes the maintenance of capitalist government against starving and rebelling workrs. They are the best tools of world imperialism today in preparing for the imperialist war against the Soviet Union, Workers must support the heroic Burmese workers! We must pro- test against the bloody slaughter by British imperialism! Especially must we expose and denounce the bloody MacDonald and his “socialist” sup- porters all over the world! Districts Should Organi Special ‘Daily’ Editions Anes big industrial city finds that not enough of its own news is car- ried in the Daily Worker. This is true. We are terribly circumscribed in space by our 4 page limit. But there is a way to meet this need for more local news for the various districts, even before we get back to 6 pages. That way is for each big city, once a week to have a special Page entirely devoted to the news of their district. The cost to the dis- trict for this would be quite small. Detailed plans for such pages have been sent long ago to the districts, but have not yet been taken up sere jously, Now is the time for this to become a practical proposal. Which district will be the first to adopt the plan for a special district page once per week? ASKS AID FOR WORKERS CENTER By A. MARKOFF. fas the Spring term the school is NEW YORK.—The importance of|moving to the second floor where the the 8-Day Drive for the Workers|class rooms will have sound proof entirely inadequate, The actual work of the classes was interfered with because of the temporary walls. And all this could have been corrected in a short time if the building commit- gee ee een no wore Center cannot be overestimated. It is especially felt by those who are connected with the Workers School. Every student of the Fall Term of the school felt the tremendous physi- cal difficulties the school had to face. For lack of room, we were: com- pelled to hold the classes in two dif- walls, spacious class rooms, etc., but in order to have all the physical con- veniences, we must improve the con- dition of the whole building. The question of plumbing for instance ts one which depénds on the improve- ment of the entire building. Therefore, every class conscious ferent places; the time for each class| worker, every student in the school Seucdae on, accommodate one hour in order Pibedfec rtr gel 9 ae the classes. This is'8 Day Drive success, tii early in the morning of the next | ™ent. of $489,804,000 for the unifica- | year. | tion of. the subways and elevated to | Section Five has its dance at the | pele) ks Ais aac supposedly section headquarters, 569 Prospect ‘ Ave. and challenges Section Two as | anne and Se ee a to the lively proletarian manner of to be worth $1,675,000,000 into one greeting the new year, a year of| _ growing advances of the revolutionary , SSt¢™ and would pay good and movement, and sharpened struggles against capitalism. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Workers and workers organizations on December 26th, 1,000 work- are beginning io turn in money col- Jecting through sale of tickets, honor rolls and advertisements. All others are urged to turn in the money. they collected immediately, to the bazaar offices at 131 W. 28th St. and 80 E. 11th St., Room 535, and help the ba- zaar work go on more smoothly, ‘The proceeds of the Red New Years | Beas Diutes for intonsing toe || poe sit campaign for unemployment relief and insurance, for building the Party and the revolutionary unions, for The dealing powerful blows against the imperialist plans for intervention against the Soviet Union, ‘ond article on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New Jersey will be found on page three. Cigar Makers Preparing for Strike, Aid $30,000 Emergency Fund SHARPENING CRISIS INCREASES NEED FOR DAILY M bait oe two Spanish-American workers came into this office to turn in the $11.90 collected for the Daily Worker $30,000 Emergency Fund by cigar makers in a plant at Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, These workers know the value of the Daily; they are keenly aware of the loss to them as members of the working class which would come from the threatened suspension for financial reasons. They are the only workers in the United States who have articles from the Daily read to. them aloud while they work—and at the boss's expense. Years ago they won the right to a reader, paid by the boss. And their own Spanish paper makes @ practice of translating editorials and articles from the Daily. Now more than ever they feel the need for this aid in organizing and fighting the class struggle. ‘Tampa cigar makers. are already suffering from unemployment and part-time work designed to throw the burden of the intensifying crisis on the already suffering workers. On January 1, they face a further, wage cut of 10 per cent. They expect to meet this boss move with a strike; and they want the Daily Worker to help them to fight their battle, Comrades, this is only one incident In the struggle which Increases in intensity daily. aeakant Noempeynant, aguaeh Narration, Saqboeh 0 MANY ARCHITECTS IDLE. NEW YORK.—Graduates of the foremost schools of architecture here and abroad have been thrust into the ranks of the unemployed. In the region of New York it is estimated that there are over 3,000 architects, NEW YORK.—Capitalism has only , “a narrow chance” of survival, the Rey. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick sor- rowfully admitted Sunday in his ser- | mon at the costly skyscraper River- side church donated by John D. Rockfeller, Jr., to the propagation of | | religious bunk as one of the main props of the capitalist hunger system. | “Capitalism is on trial with Com- munism for its world competitor,” | Fosdick told his congregation of wealthy parasites. “Communism is rising into prodigious world power,” he declared, pointing out that his purpose in dealing with the situation * weight of the crisis, to aim an attack against the working class and its and 1,000. architectural draftsmen without work, wes to do his bit toward soving capi- talism: “there are few things that I watery soup of the bread-line. The whole weight of the boss-press, the boss-school, the boss-mayie and the boss-church is thrown against the working class in the feverish attempt to disarm and confuse us. At no time has it been more important to meet the boss-lie with | worker-truth, THE DAILY WORKER MUST BE MADE TO REACH THE WHOLE WORKING CLASS. IT MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO PAUSE FOR A SINGLE DAY. The attack against the Daily Worker fs an’ attack against every worker. The situation is acute. This workers’ organ is being threatened | with suspension that can only be avoided if the mass of workers come to | ‘its immediate support. The attack is coming from the bankers and the | capitalist press which is using the failure of banks, crashing from the fighting arm ,the Da‘iy Worker. Again last minute assistance is making it possible to publish the paper today. We cannot depend on such a haphazard method for tomorrow. Use the Red Shock Troops Coupon on page 3, Use a Daily Worker list to campaign among your friends and shopmates. DO NOT WAIT TO for one would like better than to help | »: American business men to be hard~ headed realists just now.” Sharing the dread of his capitalist | masters at the sight of the growing mass monstrations against unem- ployment and st tion, the rising anger of the ses, Fosdick con-| fessed that “something is the matter with the operation of a system that in our Western world puts millions more this Christmas time in the shadow of sinister poverty.” He then proceeded to spout bunk about the possibility of the profit-| greedy capitalists building a “hu- mane, co-operative economic life” order to prevent the masses from turning to the socialist co-operative system which is being built with such | gigantic strides in the Soviet Union | for the benefit of the workers, trial. production in the hands of a small class of exploiters and profit sucking parasites who live on the toil of the masses. Nor will they swallow the illusion that the capitalists will vol- untarily surrender the factories, mines, mills, railways, etc. to the workers who create the wealth of the | country, The workers know that Fosdick’s “nard-headed business men” who want to see the worwkers starve quietiy, who have armies.of polie~»+9 club and shoot down the are preparing new bivvu-vavuis, sow robbers wars—the workers know that the bosses will not stop being bosses unless forced to do so. THE CITY HAS MONEY SEND MONEY TO THE DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER CANNOT WAIT. Bush contributions as often as possible to @@ Nast 13th : i FOR COPS; MAKE IT FEED Sai i oa | plause. | Minor calling upon the workers Yes, Dr. Fosdick, capitalism is on} and sympathizers braved their way into New Star Casino and dem- ed their solidarity with the s and peasants of the Soviet Union protesting against the inter- on plots on the part of inter= national imperialism as revealed in the Moscow trial against the eight conspirators who worked hand ip | hand with the general staff of France and Great Britain with the aim of upon millions of people who want | crippling the Five Year Plan of So- work out of work, and leaves millions | Cialist Construction. ‘They pledged | as one to be ready at a moment's call to defend the Soviet Union, Upon a motion by John J. Ballam, national secretary of the F, S, U., a \telegram to Bob Minor, who could in | D0t appear due to ilness, was dis- patched, wishing him immediate re- covery and his return to continue his activities. The motion was unan- |mously passed with thunderous ¢ A statement was read f the U. S. to stand behind the wor And the workers will give the | ers and peasants of the Soviet Uni answer. They will not be fooled with | and defend them against any atta tice bunk that there can be a co-/on the part of international imp; operative society with the means of \{alism. On a motion from the floot that same be adopted as a resolution of the meeting was carried by ate clamation, Bosses Drench Selves in Graft In the past year the bosses doled out the sum of $126,836,333 for thelr own “re- Hef” under the guise of tax re- funds. While the workers are instructed to be too proud to take unemployment insurance, the bosses themselves take mil- lions in graft without a blush, Mobilize the hunger march- ers with the Daily Worker, Build 60,000 Page 3. il See.