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DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FISH COMMITTEE A Collection of Signatures for Unemployment Insurance Is Every Worker’s Task. Col- lect Everywhere and Every Day! Daily, WV T ‘DAILY’ ANNIVERSARY AT ST orker nist Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist international) NICHOLAS ARENA, SAT. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! => at New York, N. Entered ae second-class matter at the Post Ofles . ¥., under the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931 _ CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Vol. VII. No. 7 Capitalist Deceptions HE economic crisis in the United States is continually deepening. The millions of unemployed are mounting. With the progress of winter, misery and privation among the unemployed is intensified. In the face of all this, capitalism does absolutely nothing. “All of its so-called actions in connection with unemployment are there gestures. All capitalism really does do, is to make bright and baseless predictions for, the future and spread lies about the present. ‘ The recent Congressional appropriation of $16,000,000 for the ‘Relief of Unemployment” is a glaring example of this. This appropriation is an unadulterated piece of deception. Under ordinary conditions, ihe ap propriation would pass under the general application of pork barrel legis- Jation. The appropriation is not for unemployment relief but for the con- struction of buildings, etc, which has always been the most importent. source of graft. But even granting the impossible, namely, that not a cent of the $116,000,000 will be stolen by thieving politicians or thieving contractors, the fact still remains that the largest portion of that appro- priation will flow into the pockets of contractors in the form of ‘legitimate’ profit. Only an inconsiderable part of this money will be actually paid out in the form of wages. The whole structure of capitalist unemployment relief is of the same flimsy and deceptive nature. After the unemployed demonstration before the Board of Estimate in New York City on October 16th, Tammany Mayor Walker appointed a special committee to organize some unemployment relief. This committee is supposed to organize relief and at the same time raise the funds to pay for it. As a method of raising these funds, the Committee urged employers to collect contribution from their workers. What comes out of this practice may be illustrated by the events in the New York Telephone Company: The New York Telephonse Company was granted an increase in telephone rates by the Public Service Commission this year. About the same time when this increase went into effect, the New York Telephone Company cut the wages of its employees. Simultaneously the manage- ment of the company gave strict orders to all departments to reduce ex- penses to the irreducible minimum. As a result, systematic speed-up was introduced. This resulted in discharge of workers from all departmenis, their. functions having been assigned to othet workers. ‘But the New York Telephone Company is a humane and philanthropic corporation. It is true that it reduced the wages of its workers just after its own profits were increased by an obliging permit from the Public Service Commission. It is true that it systematically contributed to un- employment by organized speed-up and consequent reduction of its work- ing force. But when the committee of Mayor Walker appealed to the N. ¥. Telephone Company for contributions, this company decreed at once that every worker employed by the N. Y. Telephone Company must contribute weekly to Mayor Walker’s Committee. being taken off the already reduced wages. The chiefs of the different departments in the N. ¥. Telephone Company are holding frequent meet- ings with their workers, telling them that their future employment with the N. ¥. Telephone Company depends upon them keeping their mouths shut about these evet.ts. Here we have the whole “philanthropy” and “unemployment relief” of capitalisrh-exemplified in the activities of one companyy First, increase in telephone rates increasing the expenses of the consumers. Second, decreases in wages reducing the income of the workers. Third, decrease in working staff increasing the army of the unemployed. Fourth, de- ductions from the wages of the workers still employed to buy with the returns of these deductions, the title of humanitarianism and philan- thropy for the company. Such deception is an ihdispensable accompaniment of capitalist ex- ploitation. Making profits out of the workers’ toil is impossible without causing amemployment; is impossible without condemning millions of workers’ children to tortorous child labor; it is impossible without tionalization and 2, continuous replacement of workers by machine: impossible without causing misery and privation for the working masses. It can meet the protests of its victims only with deception and lies. It is useless therefore, for the victims of capitalist exploitation, of capitalist unemployment and misery, to expect a remedy from the bosse: The remedy lies solely with the victims. This remedy is struggle again the bosses; struggle against the boss class, struggle against the bosses’ social system and against the bosses’ government. The misery of unem- ployment can be relieved only by concerted efforts of the workers employed and unemployed, for unemployment insurance. Only concerted efforts of the workers can force the use.of capitalist war funds for unemployment insurance. Only concerted efforts of the workers can force the mobili- gation of bosses’ profits for unemployment insurance. The workers must fight for unemployment insurance, The workers must fight for a capital levy against the bosses for the creation of an Unemployment Insurance Fund. ‘The workers must fight for the immediate assignment of all military ‘and naval appropriation to an Unemployment Insurance Fund; The workers must support and fight for the unemployment insurance THREAT LOCK-OUT A Call to Readers ‘to Come to Meetings This contribution is | SENATOR BLURTS OUT FEAR OF UNEMPLOYED REVOLT; FLOOD OF TALK Red Cross Says It Won’t Give More Relief; | Sorts of Schemes Connected to Fool Jobless Instead of Feeding ih Covernment Dares Not Publish Figures of Its Secret Census, Holds Fake Census Now Wood Admits 5,000,000 Out of Work; Albany Relief Bill Meant to Be Voted Down; Relief Only to May 15th Anyway | Senator Heflin, undisciplined and indiscreet anti-adminis- tration man, yesterday blurted out the fact that has cast cold shivers down the spines of the capitalists and their govern- ment, and which is responsible for the flood of fake relief measures, national, city and local within the last few days. Phd meteiag per: NAVAL MUTINY IS SERIOUS MATTER for the navy came up, Heflin jarose: Cancel Maneuvers; But Keep Facts Secret “Senators,” he said, “let | us defer this until the starving are | fed. Telegrams from my town say they are breaking into the stores. If this condition is not mended we are going to haye revolution in this country. Men are breaking ii 5 ‘ ‘ Reports from London show that the tores. Th re robbing banks. ore abe, i 2 mutiny cboard the submarine depot |ship Lucia which took place several days ago involving 30 men, is much more serious than previously reported in the capitalist press. The details have been suppressed, but the fact that the Spring war maneuvers have been.held up pending a court martial and investigation of those involved |shows that the mutiny effects the jentire navy. Signals were flashed to the entire British Atlantic fleet on orders of |the Admiralty cance!iny the plans for maneuver r the jboss press as “a startling The Red Cross, represented by its national chairman (Hoover is its president) had just declared that it was giving all the relief the starving farmers deserved, and asked congress not to approp.'ite more money for this work. Bunk, Not Money, But this relates to practical meas- ;ures. The capitalist gang, wallowing lin refunded taxes and profits ex- torted through wage cuts and speed- | up willmot actually give much money jto the jobless unless forced to do so by the workers, However, they jed by | will give an abundance of talk. snedeat ini to th Verardis a rinipunconent made | the naval court of inquiry” into the by ident. Hoover's Emergency | ™UUNY- Unemployment Committee that a The cause of the revolt is kept a census of the jobless (no appie seller t The admiralty declared it called unemployed!) would be taken | ¥° ke no statement until the} {1109 cities or parts of cl a inquiry was completed. Not long ago| This is not to gather facts. The|there was a mutiny of British sailors Jagainst rotten food and maltreatment by officers. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) German and British Bosses Fear Revolt of Hungry Masses Lloyd George and Hermann Dietrich Propose End of Jobless Insurance and Speed Up in Industry to End Crisis Stark fear that the growing armies of the unemployed ar emenacing the existance of capitalism was expressed in two important speeches Tuesday in England and in Germany. Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich of Ger- ‘wage cuts must be handed out to the entire working class, “in order to stimulate industry,” and put the un- employed to work. The “cure” pro- posed by both these capitalist spokes- men would increase unemployment, yuel to} Force Another Danbury Shob To Negotiate DANBURY, Conn., Jan. 7.—The | unity and militancy of the strike of | 500 fur workers here in three shops is forcing the bosses to negotiate. The “D & B” Fur Co. sent for the committee yesterday and proposed a compromise on the basis of a 10 per cent wage-cut instead of 20 per cent. | The committee refused, and the boss asked for another day to consider the demands of the strikers, which are for: 1—No wage-cut. 2.—An hour for lunch. 3.—No discrimination. 4—Recognition of the shop com- mittee, The three shops now struck, Na- tional Fur, Eastern and “D & B,” are tied up absolutely. The 15 scabs they got the first day or so have been pulled out now by the mass picketing. Trick Trucks. The National and Eastern are send- ing truckloads of furs to each other, to try and fool the strikers into thinking the work is going out of town. The trucks were followed and the trick exposed. One truckload of finished furs was dumped on the ground during mili- tant picketing. The splendid strike meeting this morning pledged that all strikers j would be protected against firing. Volunteers are visiting strikers not active on the picket lines, Show ’Em How Many! Tomorrow there will be a mass sicket. demonstration before the local. Since the press here lied about the Police Start Bruta Outside; Milit of jobless in this city were in the board of commissioners’ meeting, de- manding relief for the unemployed SMASHING ANSWER TO FISH SATURDAY Workers to Defend the Right to Fight: NEW YORK—in militant protest against the attacks on the working- class ss by the Fish Committee of New York workers will pack the large St. Nicholas Rink, 69 W. 66th St. this Saturday night in answer to these enemies and their attempt to suppress the revolutionary pr The occasion will be the Seventh Anniversary Celebration of the Daily | Worker, which, this year, is a part FAIL TO CONVICT TWO ORGANIZERS se sev Sue Yeas j é aj. |. New York workers, rouse@ at the Workers on Jury Block} poss attacks on the Communist Party rity = jand its press, which has already it rame up taken the form of denial of mailing (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) : | rights to the Young Worker, Ti BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jar ~In | b ed Gis ofthe anne at mh a fal Pioneer, Vida, Obrera, the Spanish |by the prosecutor and the openly an-| | O™munist paper tagonistic attitude of Judge McCor Ie Pe ocivideaiee a jury made up largely of wor ligoner cls | today refused to bring a verdict of |"°S* © to sn guilty against Tom Johnson, Sout jae beim ones Wasted Lcd tt ern organizer of the Commu PBs cciaretire Tas tee aL Party, and Jackson, Trade Union| 22 '’s .cCeepaon, with the lates Unity League organizer. jee onary music from the Soviet Johnson and Jackson, together | 61 k with Braxton, a Negro comrade, were | ° The arrested several months ago on afake|{, ‘y charge of vagrancy, the police op lsoaliat: V7. e sariate stating at the time that they would| Clits V. Kayuloff, pianist; Leo Li- voif, tartar dancer, and the Freiheit be arrested again and again until = they were driven out of town. Some | Snes Verein in new numbers and special selections. of the police even made the remark d numbers by the following mn artists: Morris Bell, tenor cow Musical Studio; Miss tinova, alto; C. Kayuloff, ‘Newark Jobless Demand Food, Cops Feed Them Blackjacks Spokesman Exposes Graft in City Hall While NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 7—While a committee representing the thousands | |and other fascist groups, thousands | "| report 1 Assault on Crowd ant Resistance ,;and boldly charging that the city officials were grafting money which would keep the men, women and children outside alive through the winter, the police were clubbing, blackjacking, riding down and jail- ing selected victims out of those same jobless. The committee was accompanied by hundreds of jobless to the city hall. The crowd grew rapidly as it hunger- marched around the building until it was two or three times the size it started. When speakers of the Council of the Unemployed began to address | them from the steps of the city hall, Deputy Chief of Police John F. Harris ordered a charge by mounted cops, and his flatties and dicks began slugging. The jobless fought back most mili- tantly and sent three dicks includ- ing a Detective Sergeant to the dress- ing station with injujries. | Many men and women were |elubbed, however, and finally the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) |RUSSEL SAGE REPORT | FAVORS EVICTIONS | The Russel Sage Foundation pub- | ished its report yesterday on its investigation of relief measure, The | admits that a police census | ken in New York “pro- | duces figures of no statistical value, | and only increases alarm. among the foreign born.” ‘The “Foundation” proposes noth- ing of any use to save the lives of | the present 10,000,000 jobless, but | only offers a scheme to be started | “four or five years before the next} depression, and urges landlords ana Grocers not to grant credit to the starving. that they next time they would be! sent to the comete:y instead of being brought into cou, At the trial today the prosecuter raised the red bogey, in an effort to prejudice the jury, a Ku Klux Klan representative made threats in the court room that if the jury failed to convict the Klan would attend to the Reds. The judge also did-his bit for the bosses in trying to force the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty to en- Only Four Days To Second Unemployment Conference!) All Worker Organizations Send Credentials! | Groups in Breadlines, Flop Houses Are With Editorial Staff NEW YORK.—Closer contact between the “Daily Worker read- ers and the editorial staff will be the main purpose of a meeting to be held Saturday, January 17, at 6:30 p.m., after work, on the 2nd floor of he Workers Center, 35 E. 12th Street. This is not a meet- ing to carry out the necessary work of collecting funds for the Daily Worker. It is something never before, done. Every reader of the Daily Worker who is interested in im- proving the contents of the paper, who has valuable suggestions and criticisms to make is invited to partake in this gathering. Es- pecially representatives of work- ers’ organizations should come with concrete suggestions of drawing the Daily Worker close to the life and struggles of their organization. There will be a report from Comrade A. Landy for the ed!- -} torial staff on the problems of the Daily Worker, plans for es- tablishing closer contact with the OF 500,000 TOILERS MacDonald Frantic in Effort to Betray Because 4,000 textile workers in Burnley have refused to agree to wage cuts and an increase from four to eight looms, the Lancashire cotton mill employers announced Tuesday night that they will close their mills, locking out 500,000 textile workers. In order to speed up the workers and -increase unemployment, the bosses propose that weavers handle eight looms instead of four. The workers have insistently refused to agree to this 100 per cent speed-up plan, and in Burnley went out on strike when the system was installed. The reformist trade union leaders, the MacDonald government, and the textile bosses are negotiating in an effort to betray the workers and get them to agree to some modified form of speed-up with wage cuts. se 8 many stated “Our present capitalistic industrial system cannot survive if it does not find means of creating employment for the unemployed.” David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister, and Liberal leader said that there would have been a revolution long ago in Britain had it not been for the British dole. He pointed out that the situation was growing worse all the time. Both Lloyd George and Hermann Dietrich argued that unemployment insurance must be stopped, and that lower the standard of living of the workers already employed, in an ef- fort to save capitalism. While Dietrich admitted that 4,- 000,000 German workers were on the brink of despair, the latest British census of the unemployed showed a tremendous increase. The latest fig- ures show there were 2,643,127 with- out work on Dec. 29, which is 234,756 more than the previous week and 1,- 132,869 more than a year’ago, This is the largest number of unemployed in the history of Britain, able him to sentence the comrades to the chain gang. Early in the trial the charges against Braxton, the Negro comrade, were dismissed because of lack of evidence. Johnson and Jackson summed up the case in their own defense, de- nouncing the capital'-! °; #4 sentences millions of workers to death by starvation. The jury was unable to reach a verdict after being out for 20 hours, the workers on the jury standing out against conviction. NEW YORK.—With only 4 days ahead, preparations are under way for a successful conference at Irving Plaza Hall, at 7:30 pm. when dele- gates to the December 19 conference for unemployment relief will recon- vene to elect representatives to go to Washington in February to pre- sent the workers’ unemployment in- surance bill to Congress, with sig- natures representing the mass de- mand of a million or more workers. Many Important Stories Held Up In “Daily” Because of Lack of Funds FUNDS MUST BE RUSHED IN TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER IN THE PRESENT SHARPENING STRUGGLES Electing; Push Signature Drive! _] Daily Worker. readers. There will be open discussion from the floor. Every worker who has the betterment of the Daily Worker at heart is invited to at- tend and do his part in contribut- ing to the editorial end of the Over 150,000 Welsh Miners Still Out. At the same time, over 150,000 Welsh miners are out on strike against a proposed wage cut. This was made possible by the action of the MacDonald government in pass- ing the mines act providing for a seven and one-half hour-day, when the miners were promised a seven- hour day without wage cuts in re- turn for votes for the Labor Party. MacDonald said he was determined to force workers back to work This matter should immediately be taken up in your organization. Elect delegates to put the views of your organization before the meeting. Every reader should lo his part. Lloyd George, liberal leader of England, and Hermann Dietrich, fin- ance minister of Germany, on the same day make speeches with exactly the same content. They say growing unemployment is threatening the existence of capitalism. Senator Hefflin, also on the same day, made a speech in the Senate telling about workers and farmers breaking into stores for food to keep them from starving. “If this keeps up,” Heffiin shouted, “we will have a revolution.” Hunger marches are reported nearly every day now throughout the United States. Everywhere we read of strikes—the Ruhr miners fight- ing a death battle with the police and the mine owners; 500,000 facing a lockout in Britain; 150,000 Welsh miners, hungry, cold but militantly i not only“), reporting the news of the fighting against wage cuts. Revolution struggles in Burma, India and China, But in this situation the Daily Worker is faced with ® serious problem, cS ar mobilizing he American workers against hunger and against wage cuts, With the great lack of funds it is difficult to get the Daily Worker out , even in its present form. Stories are being cut down—many good articles, written by workers, telling of the breadlines, hunger, fight against star- vation—are not going in. There is not enough money to keep the Daily Worker going with its present limitations, The Daily Worker lives from day to day, only by the heroic efforts of workers who rush their pennies in to save this fighting organ of the workers. Hungry workers have made tremendous sacrifices for the Daily. They know that now more than ever the Daily Worker must live—and grow! We must have money immediately, Do not delay. Get your shop mate to contribi your share in. Help the Dally Worker! Rush funds in Bowt Ye Wie ee’ Se as aiteal OP Besides the 600 delegates repre- sented at the last conference, there! will be delegates present at the Jan- uary 12th Conference from workers’ organizations, recently organized te- nants’ leagues, bread lines and flop houses. The Municipal Lodging House workers have already elected ten delegates to the conference and delegates will also be elected from the Hearst breadlines on 42 street. Tenants Leagues recently organ- ized in the Bronx, Yorkville, Wil- liamsburg and Brownsville will also send delegates. Organizations which were not represented at the Decem~ ber 19 conference are urged to send in the credentials of their delegates to the New York Campaign Com- mittee, 16 West 21st Street at once. Get More Signatures! The signature drive is still show- ing insufficient activity according to reports received at committee heaa- quarters. More than 25,000 lists are out but only 25,000 names have been turned in. To check on the activity in the drive for signatures, weekly reports of organizations submitting lists will be published in Labor Unity. Workers’ organizations are urged to center attention on a through ana effective mass mobilization for an intensive signature drive on Janne ary 17 and 18, days set aside for a city-wide house to house canvass. The present unemployment cam- paign wili be one of the important matters considered at the Trade Union Unity Council meeting as ALL OUT TODAY! FIGHT FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF _ FOR THE UNEMPLOYED! Bklyn Hunger March From 3 Points Joins At Boro Hall Bronx Demonstrations! Harlem, Down Town, Mid Town Protests! NEW YORK.—Today in every part of the city thousands of jobless work- ers and the workers still in the shops who know that their struggle for hours, wages and conditions depends on the struggle of the unemployed for relief, will swing into one great demonstration. They are demon- strating against starvation, against the total starvation of the tens of thousands who can not find a place on the breadline, and against the starvation by degrees of those given @ bowl of charity soup a day orsome trifle for “emergency work.” Joining the hunger marches today will be 3,000 just fired by the Prosser Com- mittee from $15 a week jobs, Hungry Children Faint. There will be the parents of the school children who are fainting from hunger at the schools in work- ing-class sections now. A half dozen fainted on one day recently at Pub- lic School 55. Each section of the city sees some- what different demands by the jch- less, depending on local grievances, but ali unite in calling for at $15 a week relief for each jobless worker, with additional amounts up CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CHICAGO PLAN BIG D.W. CELEBRATIO Saturday Night at the Peoples Auditorium CHICAGO, Jan, 7—Chicago work- ing-class organizations are workiit feverishly on the preparations for the 7th Anniversary Celebration of the Daily Worker, to be held Saturday night, January 10, at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. The celebration will also be in the nature of a mass answer to the no- rious Fish Committee and other ist. bodies which are sponsoring anti-workingclass laws, especially aimed against militant foreign born workers and the working-class par- ty, the Communist Party and its press. At a recent conference for the sup- port and building of the Daily Worker over 25 working-class organ- izations were represented by 30 dele- gates, This conference unanimously endorsed the Daily Worker as the most effective weapon of the masses in their struggles against unemploy- ment, starvation, wage cuts, etc., and called upon all workers and their or- ganizations to support the 7th Annt- versary Celebration. Several organizations have already announced their intention to attend en masse with their banners. A fine revolutionary program 1s being prepared for the affair by the Palm, and the Waukegan Club of the Labor Sports Union, All workers are urged to support the Daily Worker Anniversary Cele- bration and give their answer to the Fish Committee and other enemies of the working-class. Remember the date, January 10. Build Marches With the Daily Suggestion that the crisis is about to deepen is seen in the fact that Bill Green is again putting out optimistic state- ments. Immediately following his recent blurbs, relative to the fact that the depression was about over, stocks re- crashed and two dozen banks failed. Hunger marches all over the U. S. will answer the Green blather with Arkansas farm Manhattan Lyceum on Thursday night ac 7:45, The Council will also reas. stro and ech an Boventing and elect an sw tae 3 ) ‘yt same oR tactics. Use the Daily Worker to or- ganize the marchers, Order ex- tra, 60,000 drive news page 3.

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