The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1931, Page 1

/ aa IONE Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemploy::<2t Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! (Section of the Communist international) NO WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Er Vol. VIII, No. 2 ‘8 et the Fest Omics |. Yu. ender the act of March 8, 1878 - NEW: YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1931 ci TY EDITION nts Who Carries the Burden? Shonen of millions is the price of the crisis for the working class. The capitalist press tries to create the impression that the capitalists are “also suffering” from the crisis. Small capitalists) it is true, are being bankrupted wholesale, and their properties absorbed by the big ones. But big capital, finance capital, grows fatter and fatter, while the masses starve and freeze. During 1930, the working class had its income cut by more than one-third. ‘The farmers as a whole lost about 30 per cent of their income, which means that the poor farmers lost. half or more. But the capitalists divided up more cash among themselves than ever before. Here are just a few quotations from the New York Times of Jan. Ist: “The dividend record for the past year makes a satisfactory showing alongside of that for 1929.” “A comparison of the dividend disbursements by the companies carried in the daily dividend table of the New York Times in 1930 and 1929 follows: “Total payments (all classes) 1930: $4,982,668,635, 1929: 4,488,465,736 “Total payments of banks and 1930: 344,058,342 insurance companies.” 1929: 236,577,757 Who carries the burdens of the crisis? Clearly it is not the capi- talists! Demand unemployment insurance out of these billions! When Sugar Fails to Sweeten “ager. AND MRS. HORACE HAVEMEYER gave a large dance last night in the ballroom suite of the Ritz-Carlton,” says the N. ¥. Times of Dec, 30, “to introduce to society their daughter, Miss Doris Havemeyer. The debutante wore a frock of white velvet with rhinestone trimmings, and carried a bouquet of yellow roses and orchids. Supper was served in the Oval Restaurant at smali tables decorated with Talisman roses.” Luxury poured out at the Rity-Carlton by the undreds of thousands of dollars to “bring out” the ‘daughter of one of American imperialism’s most famous Sugar Kings. whtle in Cuba hundreds of thousands of workers are starving because of the crisis tn world sugar production. To “solve” the sugar crisis, the 6ugar Kings sent Mr. Chadbourne to Europe recently, where, on arvival, he publicly declared that unless the sugar producers of the world would adopt his plan for “controlling pro- duction,” that “capitalism would be proven to have failed.” Unable to reach any agreement. he is coming home sick, but no sicker than his won- derful plan of “organizing capitalism.” ‘The crisis in sugar increases, but the burden of it falls upon the workers of Cuba, a country whose economy centers upon that one com- modity.. While the Sugar Kings are squandering money like water, the masses of Cuba in city and country are beginning to rise against Yankeo imperialism which governs with bloody fascist terror through its servile “president,” Machado. Taking advantage of the mass discontent, a capitalist opposition has arisen led by so-called “Nationalists,” but—in spite of their occasional nice words about “labor” meant to get mass support—they are no less reac- tionary than Machado and are just as ready to serve an imperialist mas- ter. Some of them,‘ indeed, are reported to be linked with British im- perialism, which accounts in part at least, for the hostility with which this opposition to Machado is treated in the “Washington Post,” the usual mouthpiece of the White House. The “Post,” in an editorial of Dec. 20, bitterly denounces ex-President ‘Menoeal and all others who are trying to overthrow Machado, and openly threatens not only armed intervention by the United States, but says | that the next intervention—which would be the third—‘would be per- manent.” ¢* Thus, again, the octopus. of Yankee imperialism threatens the Latin American masses with armed intervention and slaughter to maintain its power. Sugar has failed to sweeten imperialist rapacity toward its semi- colonial slaves, or make more palatable the rivalry of British imperialism. But imperialism cannot reckon that gnother invasion of Cuba will be so easy as those before. Neither can the Cuban capitalists in opposition to Machado count upon a guarantce that the masses will permit them- selves to be the tools of native exploiters or to be sold out to imperialism, a doubt that so far has been the main obstacle to the “nationalists” open- ing armed revolt. The workers of Cuba have 2 Communist Party, small and savagely persecuted, but with great influence among the toiling masses. And th Communist Party of Cuba will raise its voice for independent action the workers and peasantry against all imperialism and against all ex- ploiters, native as well as foreign. To aid the Cuban masses in such movement will be a supreme duty of workers in the United States. And the Communist Party must pre- pare the ‘workers for this, because revolt may bust forth at any moment in Cuba. Speed the Signature Drive For Unemploy- ment Insurance Tens of Thousands Have Signed Demands For , Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill But Names Not Being Sent In Fast Enough NEW YORK.—The National Cam- paign Committee for Unemployment Relief, the leading body nationally, made up of delegates from many workers’ organizations which have affiliated, declared yesterday that though it hears of 10,000 signatures being collected here, and 20,000 in another place, the lists are not being Sent into the committee. It calls for all the filled out lists, to be sent at once to 2 West 15th St, Room 414, New York, N. Y. Th statement is as follows: x More Activity. “The campaign for signatures for our proposed Unemployment Insur- ance Bill must assume much larger ™ass proportions. Signature lists have been sent in large quantities into all the cities from coast to coast Have these lists been distributed to workers organizations? Have work- ers’ Organizations activized their memberships ‘in the collection cam- paign? Are the City Campaign Com- mittees for Unemployment Insurance and the T.U.U.L. district secretaries sufficiently supervising and program- ing the collection of signatures in order that many thousands of work- ers will give their cooperation in the of signatures during the entire month of January. “Only 5,880 signatures have so far been sent to the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insur- ance. Information has reached us from various citics that signed lists have been in the hsnds of individual workers, committees, organizations that we may record the industrial centers they come from and secure an understanding as to how active the various industrial centers are in the campaign. Best From Frisco. “San Francisco has sent in 2,700 signatures, which is the largest amount so far received from any dis- trict. Seattle and Everett, Wash., 750; the Marine Workers’ Union of | New Orleans has gathered 400 signa- tures; from Sebecka and Soo, Mich., come 325 signatures of farmers and laborers. Cleveland sent in 525 sig- natures. “Steel workers of Niles and Steub- enville, Ohio have sent in a few lists. Workers of Canton and Hamilton, Ohio are also beginning to respond. Farmers and laborers in Taivola, Mich., New York Mills, Minn., Bovey, Red Granite, Wisc., sent in about a dozen filled lists. Mining Sections, “A mine worker from Cardale still holds the record for individual effort. | He secured signatures from 250 mia- ers in his territory. Some lists have come in from other mining sections. Brownsville, Bessemer, Pa., Mounds- ville, W. Va., Martins Ferry and Yorkville, Ohio, Tiltonville, Ohio and the first ten filled lists from the an- thracite territory Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth, Ashley and Sugar Notch Nave arrived. “This is only a very small begin- ning. A million or more signatures must be collected. and we have only 5,880 collected. A million signatures for weeks and that they have failed $o send them in. Signed lists should “me forward in @ steady stream so must be collected in January. This means that thousands .of , workers must be enrolled in this tast.” Q HUNGER |Starvation MARCHES NEXT WEEK country. March Monday For: Immediate Relief SHO; a n> FAcroRIG f OF SPLTALISMA quences in the development of horrible famine conditions. Unless relief is forthcoming the situation will be- Signature Drive Goes | | Forward; Organizing fore long ap- proach that of 4 SUBLET EN, the famine strick- BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 1.—The en. distrib ot g Boston hunger :narch on the city st India and China. It is an imper- ative task of our Party to arouse the workers of America to this terrible situation and to unite them, for militant struggle against it. hall will take place Jan. 8 Nine separate * hunger marches, mass mobilizations of the starving and freezing jobless from the bread- lines and flop houses and those who are still madly searching for work will take place next week. The march- ing throngs of jobless will be joined ‘ regions, In Illinois, according to the by militant workers, undergoing Unemployment is now unprecedented in the mining 10,000,000 IN ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED! ® Stalks Through Coal Fields o Pennsylvania i By WM. Z. FOSTER. Hundreds of thousands of miners and their families are actually starving in mining districts throughout the Month after month of joblessness, with no 32,000 of the 60,000 miners are totally unemployed and the rest work only 3-4 days per month. Over 50 per cent of the mines in the South are completely shut down. In the anthracite districts 25000 are entirely | state unemploy- unemployed, and the balance work half time. Through- Cleveland, Youngstown ment relief, are 9 -————_ out the middle bituminous districts 2 or 3 days a | Ambridge Jobless having their in- Fo cOme >») month is the rule for the miners. evitable _ conse- Om THE To make matters worse huge wage cuts have been enforced everywhere, ranging from 25 per cent. In West Virginia the miners receive 21 cents per ton instead of the former rate of 67 cents. In Kentucky similar rates prevail. In Ohio the total wages of the miners dropped from $71,000,000 in 1929 to $29,000,000 in 1930. Wages in western Pennsylvania may be judged by the pay envelope of a Westmoreland miner who reported to the Board of Miners Union that he recently got $11.16 tor 13 days’ work. Besides the miners are mercilessly robbed on their weights. In many places mine cars which formerly held 2% tons have now been enlarged to 5 tons, but are still counted at the old weight. Dead work, for which miners were soften paid $15 or more each two weeks, is now done free, etc. The long continued unemployment (the cris coal industry has been growing deeper for te: | past) and the wage cuts have led to a w | pauperization of the miners and their families. per cent to 75 in the with the miners, Chicago Tribune, (CONTINUED ON PAC | speed-up, wage cuts, and part time in the shops, and all together they will follow the banners of the Coun- cils of the Unemployed to various city halls and two state capitol buildings to demand immediate relief, to de- mand no evictions, to demand city Ww be paid full wages, to demand free gas, light, water and street trans- portation, to demand an end of vag- rancy laws and police brutality, etc. 25th St. and Ist Ave. “Tell the Fat Bosses.” { | | NEW YORK —At the Municipal In Cleveland on Monday Jan. §, the |y caging Ba ante ae jobless will assemble before 6:15'p. m. |." Mer dee OY tinea take Eh Gales Ave, ann eee memes ee ee ai Sede osae ‘ i {employed worker, after staying there | | 0th St; Central and 30th St.; and}... days has been thrown out on the | |-8t Lorain and 25th St. ‘They will! street to freeve ‘and’ starve: This is march at’6:15 with placards display-|ja5nening to thousands of others |-ing their demands to arrive and join ee sa * z 1 toret i; reat at } 4 ogether in one great demonstr: tion | ‘A Committee of Unemployed 4: will | ne ite Had at's : ; efore the city hall at about 7 P.M. | semand that Mrs. Constantino be.ad- | “Tell the smug, well fed agents of | the bosses in the city council “we | mitted to sleep in that place as ‘long | as necessary. refuse to starve!” shout leaflets being | | ributed broadcast by the Councils} The Down Town Unemployed; | of the Unemployed and sympathetic | Council supports the demand of these nizations, workers and calls upon all wunem- here ‘are. 115,000 jobless in this Ployed workers to demonstrate to-} city and the Cleveland city adminis- | 8¢ther with them on Saturday, Ja uary 3rd, 1 p. m., at the Municip: Flop House, 25th St. and Ist Ave. | ‘The unemployed workers protest) the registration at~ the Munjcipal! Lodging House, demand that’ the| | lodging house give shelter every night | instead of as now only five nights a} month, and demand that the.gcity| government open public buildings and | jarmories to house the jobless. , | A good meeting was held in 27) |East 4th St. yesterday by the Down! Town Unemployed Council, even |though no open air meeting j took | place on account of the closing af the |Tammanhy agency over the hojiday. | Eleven joined. 7 When the jobless went out Is- | | tribute leaflets calling the Saturday | demonstration police tried to chase |them away from the 4,000 waiting “Stocks return to 1929 high.” \peteree the Municipal Lodging House. “Ty million return to jobs.” | Even so, 1,500 leaflets were given out. “U. S. Steel resumes full-time |} work.” “Collision of the sun and a star, bringing an end to the solar AT CITY LODGING Demonstrate Sat. At) (CON MOST JMPOSSIBL! THINGS IN 193) A capitalist humorist, writing in the New York Times, tries to spec- ulate about what would be the most unexpected and impossible “news” that could occur ‘n 1931. Mis choice is extremely interest- ing, reflecting accurately the deep- est convictions of the capitalist world, behind the formal “opti- mism” with which it plunges deeper into crisis.. ; The most impossible things in 1931, he says, are: ALL ACTIVE NEEDLE WORKERS | MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—All active members system.” of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- “Failure of the Russian Five- || ‘tial Union, all section organizezrs year Plan.” are called to meet at Union head- “Incontrovertible proof of .a || Werters at 6 p. m. today to prepare } a series of activities during the com- JOBIESS PROTEST Bosses Try to Sm ash Havelton Strike By Importing Moie Spies Lies Spread By Stoolpigeons Headed By a Rat Named Downey; Tries to Cover Up Fact That Strike Can Be Won! HAZELTON, Pa., Jan. 1.—In order to break down the fighting spirit of 1,600. strikers in the Hazelton mill of the Duplan Silk Co., who are militantly resisting wage-cuts and speed-up, the silk bosses: have hired a notorious strikebreak« Howard Downey, to organize a crew of spies to go to the hom of the strikers and through the?-—-——--- — ce slimiest methods attempt OHIO KIDS RAT CAT, DOG, COAT get them to go back to work} and desert the strike. The bosses fear the strike will be! (By a Worker Correspondent) CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 1—Th press reports that “publ: won if the workers hold to-! gether longer. The strike in the Duplan Silk Mill here began on November 6. The bosses workers who were receiving $34 for | creasing and 1 € handling three looms today have had | going back to wo of their work increased until they are | Diversitiea Indust forced to handle six looms and re- ceive $28. Most of them get much lower wages. An efficiency expert by the name of Mr. Meyer has been put in, and despite the economic crisis he has speeded up the workers so|for the whole year’s charity was ex- hard, and. reduced wages so much, | hausted in four months. that the company is making more| Here in Canton recently we found money than ever. _.|one family eating their dog; another In 1928 its profits were $1,051,000, | cating their cat; a little girl was In 1929 it was higher, and in 1930, found eating coal in the school room; through smashing the workers living another went crying to her teacher standard, speeding them up, it will because it was not her day to eat have made more money. The charities admit “at least 2,000 Downey, an old Hand worthy families destitute.” Realizing the militant spirit of the| The bunk in the capitalist press is workers, who went out on strike (ot fooling the jobless and workers spontaneously, and who are being |S it used to. Mary are signing the misled by the United Textile Workers lists demanding p.:sage of the Work- Union, who want to plan a sellout, |¢rs’ Unemployment Insurance Bill the Duplan Silk Co. got hold of And on March 12, we are going down Downey, an old hand .at strike- in a big mass to tell our “City Fath- breaking. ers” we want relief for the unem- Downey like all rats of his type has | Ploved. a dozen names, He goes under the name of Hoffman and Howard Smith. He has established strike-breakiny But, strangely enough: are to be had than ever before of the 68 leading firms in this cits |report over hali their force laid The community chest raised last M WHEREVER WORKERS MEET, SIGN UP FOR IN- spirit message from Conan Doyle.” ing week, SURANCE! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ‘Socialist’ Sheet of Boss Class , Attempts to Obstruct Daily Worker Emergency Fund “FORWARD” ATTACK AGAIN REVEALS ITS ANTI-WORKER ORIENTATION The Jewish Daily Forward, a New. York “socialist” sheet which finds ‘space in its columns to support the bankers in the attack on the working class, strives to aid the imperialist attack against the Soviet Unton, which in every way supports the boss-class in its attack on the workers, attempt- ing to confuse and mislead, now also attacks the $30,000 Emergency Ap- peal. “A number of Forward readers,” it says, “yesterday called the tele- phone company. They said that the telephone in the Daily Worker Is functioning and that they never thought of stopping it.” What is the truth of this? IT HAS BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO: TELE- PHONE OUT OF THE DAILY WORKER OFFICE FOR ABOUT A WEEK. The telephone company makes it a practice to shut off outgoing calls before incoming. BUT ON DECEMBER 30, THE DAILY WORKER WAS WARNED THAT UNLESS BACK BILLS WERE PAID IMMEDIATELY that the contract would be terminated and TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT | REMOVED FROM THE DAILY WORKER OFFICE. COMRADES, THERE IS STILL NO TELEP?{ONE CONNECTION IN THE DAILY WORKER OFFICE, The presses still lack some essential adjustments that. threaten: the @ppearance of the Daily Worker every .. THESE BASIC TECHNICAL- tt 0 gis RIN tne day. anal, ae 3 et REN EROS: Ie B | FIGHTING ARM OF THE WORKING CLASS. Only 2 powerful mass support which will liquidate them and enable the Daily Worker to wipe out the past obligations can insure its appearance every day in this crucial period. Comrades, the support given the Emergency Campaign thus far has been entirely inadequate. Many of the districts—some of them have been named in the Daily—have done almost nothing. The New York Tag Day was of great assistance. It literally saved the Daily Worker for an entire week. But it is only a hint of what must be done. No single district can be depended upon to support the organ of the | entire working class. AND NO DISTRICT, NO ORGANIZATION CAN STOP AFTER A SINGLE EFFORT. The support must be continuous. There is a tendency visible in the letters from comrades to rest on back laurels, to take each donation and each collection as a wound stripe which ends the need for further struggle. Comrades, the Emergency Campaign must receive the full, consistent | support of the working class, individually and organizationally until the $30,000 is raised and the danger of suspension entirely removed. Use the Red Shock Troops Coupon on page 3. Send your NEW YEAR OPENS WITH LARGEST NUMBER OUT OF WORK IN HISTORY Future Promises More Unemployment, As In- dustry Hits Lower Levels All the Time; Speed- up Is Increased; Can’t Hide Facts More Than 20,000 In This Country Have Suf- fered Through Part-Time, Etc. Never Been Equalled Before In U. S. Boss Professors Over 10,000,000 unemployed workers is the New Year's gift to the American workers, with promises, based on the indisputable facts of worsening crisis, that 1931 will see the huge army of the unemployed swelled with more millions of new recruits. Prof. Lionel D. Edie at the Cleveland Conven- tion of the American Economic Association said that the un- employment situation in 1 would be more acute in 1931 than it was in 1930 og 1929. The capitalist government has unemployment. It can no k giving out figure hide the fact that many ted. There i behind tt overnment t yed. It ha ige proporti alists do not want w the facts, on ger ailli definit ENORMOUS PROGRESS IN USSR IN 1930 fe ms are ef (a refusal of ason the count the reached sucl that orker hi mic econ ignated, facto cuts crisis, || es Closed came buildir cine It such fr and ever made hort time. The c long pe our years of of - building double the pro- ductivity of previous industry, was insured Large tion billion scale hed ore than the plan industrial produc $25,000,000,000, t a called rty per drop in jobs is aboloshed. hour 4 intro- industries, with im- seven ed in m y is ¥ si ee : (CONTINUER ON PAGE THREE) f eight years was in ommunist Party crushed ht danger. (FS ON BANK | | U. S. ROBBE | NEW YORK.—The Tammany egraf- | ers who ran the Bank of the United | States and run the state and city | government of New York are effec- | tively blocking any real investigation | of the wholesale robbery which de-| prived over 300,000 small depositors | ‘of their hard-earned savings. | Through bankruptey proceedings of | | the Bankus Corporation, one of the} many phoney companies organized | by the big bank robbers, they hope to; |get cleared up on a cold $50,000,000 | | steal. | It is now shown that the company | |in which Al Smith was the most out- | standing figure, the Consolidated In- | | jiemnity and Insurance Co.—the facts | about which were for the first time | brought to light by the Daily Worker | —robbed the depositors of $2,665,000. | The New York Evening Graphic now substantiates the story of the Daily Worker, when it said that the | chances of getting money back were | so slim as to be almost. nil, . The ‘Graphic says that the Bank of the | U.S. is so wrecked that’it is “beyond | | hope of complete repair.” | ‘This shows more than ever that | the small depositors must organize | in militant action to force the pay- | ment of their savings at the expense | not only of the inside big bank rob- | |bers but out of the pockets of the | Tammany grafters, Al Smith, Kenny, | Gilchrist and Kresel—all of whom have coired millions out of the bank vobbev'y. . | mn New Jersey Article Due to technical difficulties the article on New Jersey .will not apear today, Article 5 tm the AD SRNR AOR } ‘ Idren - See nduced, and enormous strides ree ao in aut etre a | EAMILY STARVING: i atiack on the Soviet rm NEW YORK. — Unemployed, and with his wife and two smal children | facing starvation, and himself facing the wrath of the bosses courts for having violated the “sacred rights” of property in his effort to save his family from starvation, Joseph N. Brownstein, 35, a laborer of 115 Hop- kins St., Brooklyn, yesterday slashed his left wrist in the Federal Build- ing in an attempt to commit sulcide. Assistant United States Attorney Peter Speneli, one of the watch dogs for the bosses, noticed the blood streaming from Brownstein’s wrist and summoned an ambulance in his anxiety to see that Brownstein did not escape capitalist “justice.” After his wrist was bound with a tourniquet and his wound closed, Brownstein was taken before United States Com- missioner Fay, who held him in $,000 for the federal grand jury, His of- fense was stealing $4 from the United States mail. A few days before, in General Ses- sions Court, a boss thief, Christian G. Bosch, who admitted misappro- priations of $177,000 was permitted to go scot free with a suspended sen- tence, Afraid Jobless May See Light Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union, says he is “somewhat fearful that an increase in the number of unemployed might cause trouble through a proportionate growth of disbelief the economic justice of the capitalistic system. Especially when the worker can see as far as the U. 8. 5. RB. where is the 7-hour day and no unemployment, Organize the jobless marche with the Daily Worker, Sty thousand drive meme page ©