The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1931, Page 1

7 saa ta * errr =| eR RSENS Build a United Front of thou- sands of Workers to collect signatures for Unemploy- ment Insurance. How many cid you collect today? Dail Central Orga (Section of ; atl the . at Vol. VIII. No. 10 Entered os second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the wer of Mareh 8, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY; JANUAR Y 12, 1931_ Fight Against the Fish Proposals! [AMILTON FISH, chairman of the Congressional Committee to investi- gate Communist activities in the United States, last Friday in Car- negie Hall in New York,.made his officialgreport to the assembled reac- tion. The outstanding points of his report were: 1, The Fish Committee will recommend to Congress the outlawing of the Communist Party. & The Fish Committee will recommend to Congress the passage of an anti-alien law which will permit the deportation as a “red” of any foreign born worker who dares to object audibly to starvation wages and who refuses to let Morgan, Woll and Fish do the thinking for him. 3. The Fish Committee will recommend to Congress the granting of an appropriation which will enable the Department of Justice to establish 2 labor spy section. 4. The Fish Committee will recommend to Congress the immediate and complete prohibition of import of any and all Soviet goods. ‘These proposals are no surprise. It was clear trom the first that the purpose of the Fish Committee was to prepare a basis for new anti-labor Jaws. It was always clear that its aim was to feed the anti-Soviet war preparations of American and world capital. The lack of intelligence of the chairman of the committee prevented any attempt to cover even with capitalist “decency” the nakedness of this attempt. The origin of this committee was a contemptible forgery. The work of the committee was a shallow pretense. The recommendations of the committee are atrocious attacks on the working class. bd The outlawing of the Communist Party is an attempt to hogtie the working class. To fight against capitalist unemployment and starvation shall be made impermissible. To organize and struggle against speed-up and for a living wage shall be made a crime, To reject capitalism as the last word in social development shall become high treason. The anti-alien laws are designed to divide ‘the working class. The foreign-born worker shall be reduced to the status of a helot. Over his head shall be suspended the threat of deportation to prevent him from organizing, from fighting, and even from thinking. The demand for a special appropriation from Congress to establish a labor spy agency within the Department of Justice, is another step to reduce the American working class to the status of mechanical robots. ‘The American worker shall not only sell his labor power to the profit- making boss, but his whole being. Some governmental stool pigeon shall be placed beside him to watch every breath escaping his mouth and to ‘subject this breath to the scrutiny of the boss, Should the boss detect any anti-capitalist ingredients in this breath,*the worker shall be sub- Jected not only to discharge, but shall be liable to criminal persecution by some capitalist judge and to incarceration in some capitalist prison. In the proposal to outlaw the importation of Soviet-made goods, the Fish Committee not only performs the job of anti-Soviet propaganda but also reveals its close connections with the anti-Soviet forgeries which stood at its cradle and with the counter-reyolutionary Czarist Russian Spy organizations in the United States. Mr. Fish in his speech in Carnegie Hall did us the honor of defending the socialist party against the Communists and the Communist Party. We appreciate this honor. But, we think that no Congressional investigation ‘Was necessary to establish the pro-capitalist principles and activities of fhe . ‘The betrayal of the intarests of the Working class “by the socialists the world over, has been written into the history-of the class struggle with the blood of thousands of proletarian victims of so- cialist treachery. Mr. Fish, if he is able to ever learn anything, may yet learn that the absolutist, Czars of Russia have tried for decades to outlaw and to deport ‘the proletarian revolutionary movement. He may yet learn that the last Czar of Russia has deported and murdered thousands and tens of thou- sands of revolutionists, until he himself was eta and ignobly buried by the revolution. * The revolutionary proletariat is se eecbis: The fate of capitalism is sealed by the fact that it canngt exist without the workers. The sup- pression of revolutionary ideas and revolutionary movements is impossible ‘as long as there is a working class. At the same time, the revolutionary workers must keep in mind that capitalism will not voluntarily abdicate its power. It is just such proposals as made by the chairman of the Fish Committee which endeavor to maintain the capitalist class in power. It is the mobilization of the workers against such measures that will drive home to them the class consciousness and revolutionary understanding. ‘Therefore the task of the hour is to mobilize the workers of the United States for struggle against the proposals of the Fish Committee. Demand What the Govern- ment Says You Must Have! “AT THE request of President Hoover's so-called “Employment Committee,” which was formed to allow Hoover to pretend that something was being done for the growing millions of unemployed and starving workers and their families, the Bureau of Home Economics at Washington has put out a food guide. This Government “food guide,” it must be noted, is meant “to furnish the maximum of health and energy from a minimum of expenditure,” and was outlined particularly with a view to “prevention of malnutrition”— or, in plain English, starvation. It must be noted by all jobless workers especially, that the following secommendations of the United States Government, are the very least it thinks you can live on without starving. Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, the chairman of the women’s division of Hoover's “Employment Committee,” in making the following recommendations public on January 8, warned that—“Our food standards must not be lowered or adults will suffer and the children may be handicapped for life.” Obviously, therefore, all unemployed workers particularly, must insist that they be given the following supplies from any relief agency now or in she future pretending to supply food relief to the destitute: “For every meal, milk for children, bread for all. “Bread every day, cereals in porridges or puddings, potatoes; toma- toes or oranges for children; a green or yellow vegetable; a fruit or addi- tional vegetable. “For two to four times a week, tomatoes for all; dried beans and peas or peanuts; eggs, especially for children; lean meat, fish or poultry or cheese, “Where fresh milk costs more than 10 to 12 cents a quart, the Com- mittee (Hoover's “Employment” Committee) suggests that unsweetened ¢anned milk or dry skimmed milk be substituted for the great part of the milk allowance.” Workers! Jobless! The United States Government, with Hoover at the head, appointed this “Employment Committee” supposedly to give you relief in this “emergency.” Its recommendation is that unless you are getting—no matter how—the above foods, you are starving and your chil- ren may be “handicapped for life!” Jobless workers! If you are not getting these foods, demand them, Sight for them—and keep fighting till you get them! Otherwise you will starve! Don’t starve, fight! Call Daily. Worker Readers to Editorial Meet ‘Every reader of the Daily Work- thrown open for discussion, and ‘w who is interested in bettering every reader who has suggestions the paper is invited to participate | to make will be given an oppor- in a meeting called by the editor- tunity to speak, ‘ fal staff to discuss the editorial This is the first meeting of its probloms of the Daily Worker. kind ond fs not called for the This meeting will be held Satur- collection of funds, All working- day, January 17, at 6.30 p. m. on class organizatic.s are urged to Gi a sark teee send representatives to take up Street, A, the problem of establishing better will report for the editors | connections FiSH ADMITS But Asks pro Terror to End Fight on Starvation NEW YORK.—Making his first report against the Communist move- ment to the leading fascist organiza- tions in the United States, whose representatives were at Carnegie! Hall Friday night, Hamilton Yish launched into a vicious against the Soviet Union. attack | Among | Norker unist Party U.S.A. international WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! = YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 11. Jobless and part time workers, all of whom are either suffering from wage | cuts now or will suffer in the gen-| eral cuts announced by the st mills, seized the city flop house ye: | terday, and established a Workers | Council to administer the relief. The city officials had put the Sal- | | vation Army in charge. When the} well paid Sallies came down to oper- | | ate the affair Saturday morning, they were astonished and terrified to find the workers in control of their “Friendly Inn,” and ready to give ‘some real relief instead of make a does. pretense at it as the Salvation Army | the fascists present were Matthew! Alfred Walton, head of the Work- Woll, who pledged ‘the aid of the} ers Council, refused to let the Sally leaders of the A. F. of L. in the same | “Captain,” James Hepburn, into the fashion as the dozens of strikebreak- | place. ing organizations who were repre- The mayor and the chief of police sented. Admitting that “capitalism was on trial,” Fish stated that Communism must be rooted out if the workers were to be kept content within the present system of starvation. He ad- vocated sterner deportation laws; se- | cret police against all revolutionary working class organizations; a ban {on Soviet imports, as a prelude to | actual war, and the outlawing of the Communist Party. Carnegie Hall was surrounded by hundreds! of police. Every leading enemy of the American workers was | list of organizations present at the groups in the United States urging more vicious oppression of the work- ers here and war against the Soviet Union. While saying that “capitalism must clean its house of some of its abuses,” Fish proposed this should be begun by a reign of terror against the mili- tant workers who lead the fight against wage cuts and starvation. He took especial occasion to praise the socialists, saying that the social- ists were among the worst enemies of the Communists, and therefore were good friends of Fish and those who stood behind him. Fish praised the New York police for slugging and murdering workers who were on strike or who demanded unemploy- ment relief. “We owe a debt of gratitude to the police of New York City,” exclaimed Fish. He urged more brutality against workers who organized for relief. The meeting at Carnegie Hall was the first big mobilization of the fas- cist forces to back up the Fish er Pposals. | present and most of them spoke. The | mass meeting inchade the foremost | came down and finally the police succeeded in ousting the workers. The city authorities then placed on guard an individual named N. E. Wilson, a former marine. Demand Restaurant Feed. TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 11.—Led by ee CAPITALISM | Has } | AND I WeLK WITH YOU MIGHT AND D, 2 DNL | | | | GWen ME To You/ J the Council of the Unemployed ey jobless here are demanding food in unmistakable terms. The council and a large crowd of starving jobless marched into a restaurant here and declared they would stay until they had something to eat. The police came down in force, and | made 17 arrests, charging them with “making a disturbance.” ‘There will be a mass protest meet- ing against this forcible starvation | of the hungry here, and against the arrest of their, leaders. ae ree Cleveland Protest. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 11—Three women and eight men, leaders of the jobless who marched on the Wood- land Ave. market Friday and seized the food they needed to prevent themselves from starving to death are still held by the police. It took three squads of police to disperse the unemployed. 1 DEAD AS SCA Victims to Speed-Up NEW YORK. — Another working- class victim to speed-up, John Ruhl, 32 years old, of 495 East 152nd Street, Bronx, died last night in the Hospital for the Crippled and Ruptured, two hours after he had fallen 70 feet to the sidewalk when a scaffold on which he and another worker were working at 42nd Street and 5th Ave. collapsed. Street, managed to save himself by making a desperate grab at the iron railing along the top of the sign at which they had been working. He severely sprained his back, however, and is in the hospital. Buhl, who was working on the end of the scaffold which collapsed had absolutely no chance of saving himself. TAKE A LIST TO WORK WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! Woll Admits Wages Cut Over FOLD COLLAPSES, Other Badly Injured; | Rerier Stip, 35, of 852 East 163rd) $700,000,000—With His Aid Tells Bosses Dividends Fresh from his collaboration with Hamilfon Fish to strengthen the hunger-system, Matthew Woll made a@ speech Saturday night before the National Republican Club, admitting that wages were cut $707,000,000 in 1930 while dividends increased by | $350,000,000. Woll, however, did part in the wage-cutting drive. He did not teil his bosses that he, to- gether with Green, and other A. Y. of L. fascist leaders signed the “no Strike” agreement with Hoover and not reveal his Went Up While ‘Wages Went Down, and Wants Recognition for His Strike-Breaking Service the leading “59” exploiters in No- vember, 1929, under which these wage-cuts were made. In pointing out these facts, Woll did not complain but told the Na~ tional Republican Club that this was | making the workers more di tented, especially at this timo worsening crisis, and his job of strike- | breaker was getting more difficult. Undoubtedly Woll expects greatr rec- | ognition from the capitalists and their politicians of his great service in saving them $707,000,000 by fore- ing hunger on the workers. of von- | | Worker and smashed up everything. There were many arrests. The demonstration was held to Angeles Cops Smash Up Party Office; Revenge for Protest LOS ANGELES, Gelb eaaaleciiieen Jan. 11.—In revenge Sani @ successful mass demonstration on the Plaza yesterday, the Los Angeles police raided the Communist Party headquarters-and the local office of the Daily The walls were broken, the furni- ture destroyed, literature was confiscated, and other literature destroyed. protest against the criminal s; calism laws, under which agricultural workers organizers in the perial Valley were given 42 year sentences. FIGHT GREEK FASCIST TERROR Demonstrate Today at Greek Consul Two Greek’ Communist soldiers were sentenced to death by the Greek fascist government, because they dared to protest against the atrocities of the military officials in the mili- tary camp of “Kalpaki” and to “or- ganize the soldiers for the defense of the Soviet Union. _Two others sen- tenced to life imprisonment and six members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece are now on trial, charged with treason. | The fascist Venizelos government, is determined to send also these six leaders of the working class to death. | Only with a mass protest of the} | world proletriat these brave fight-} ers will be saved. A mass demonstra- tion before the Greek consulate at 63 Perk Row will take place today at | 12 o'clock sharp. The Communist workers of New York, employed and unemployed, to demonstrate before the Greek consulate today against the white terror and to demand the i | mediate freedom of the Communist soldiers, Demonstrate your solidar- | ity! Demand the release of all class | | war prisoners. Worcorrs are the eyes of the workers’ press. Join your local Worcorr group and help fight the bosses. Navy Yard Y.M.C.A. Fires 2 Painters Price 3 Cents TO IRVING Another A. F. La Caruentaee BOSS SY SYSTEM | Unemployed Seize Food, Beds in WORKER ORGANIZATIONS IS ON TRIAL Youngstown, Toledo, Cleveland SEND DELEGATES AT 7:30 PLAZA HALL Local Endorses Insurance; Driye for Signatures Unemployed Council Blocks Eviction and Will Support Evicted Man In Court NEW YORK.—Tonight in Irving Binge Hall, at 7 what is expected to be the largest and most representative united front conference of workers’ organizations on unemploy- ment will be held. 0 p. m, After reports by Sam Nesin, secretary of the Councils of YONKERS JOBLESS he Unemployed of New York, delegates of unions, including A.F.L. locals, and every variety |Demonstration Jan. 10 Attatked; 2 Jailed YONKERS, N. N. ¥,, Jam, 11—The first of the series of demonstrations of local jobless in the towns up to Albany, along the line of the hunger march on the state capitol at Albany, is under way in Yonkers, An unemployment mass meeting is | | oalled by the Yonkers Council of a) Unemployed, in De Regis Hall, Main St, for today at 8 p. m. 2 This is also a protest meeting against the action of the city authori- | ties in mobilizing the whole police | force and breaking up the mass meet- | ing Saturday. 2,000 At Meeting. Over 2,000 Yonkers workers and jobless gathered around Panoiva Hall, 520 Ashburton Ave., at 3 p. m.| yesterday. The Yonkers Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- PROTEST POFLICE tions will take up the amendment of the Workers Unemployment Insur- nce Bill, the direction of next steps in the campaign for more signatures for it, the holding of 200 open air mass meetings during the next three days. the holding of six indoor mass ‘meetings to ratify the bill on Jan, 16, and the demonstrations to be held here on Feb, 10, when the bill and signatures are presented to Congress in Washington. The second large AFL. car union to support the bill is Local 1 They were the more interested in i surance because of the fact that 60 to 75 per cent of the carpenters here are unemployed. A drive is being made to enlist still more A.F.L. locals in the unemploy- ment campaign, especially by com= mittees from those which have al- ready endorsed the bill Stop Another Eviction. Though the unemployment offices were closed yesterday and the usual daily meeting at Lafayette and Leonard at 10 a. m. was not held. the | lief and the Unemployed Councils had | Down Town Council of the Unem- called a meeting in the hall, with the | Ploved Kept right on fighting for the PEWS ORE oreo aey7 announced intention of leading a|/ Yard Y.M.C.A. last Saturday laid off) march of the jobless on the city hall two or three painters it had employed | afterwards to demand immediate re- at regular wages in order to avail it- | lief. self of the supply of the unemployed nee ae ile rh aes workers whom tle city fake employ- | riche, AVL aa toni Giaee ne ment agency is forcing to play tag under arrest. Nathan Liss then| with starvation at $5 a day, 3 days a started to speak, and was arrested, | week work, | and the meeting outside was dis- | "The action of the Y.M.C.A. fs typi- | persed. Trial of the two jobless lead- ers is set for this morning. cal of the way the bosses and oe The Yonkers jobless are calling for fake charity organizations are utiliz-| another hunger march on Thursday. ing the misery of the unemployed to| Will Starve. further intensify their exploitation of| In Yonkers the mayor, J. J. Fog: . This incident is also| **ty, has issued a public statement nid “ declaring that £150,000 will be enough typical of the fake relief schemes of | s. a1) the jobless because “there will | workers and j .|the trial ins jobless. Committees from the council came down to 226 Clinton St., where Paul Novak had been evicted because he | hasn’t had a job for a long time and can not pay his rent. The Down Town Council put the furniture back in the house. There- upon the landlord had a summons | issued for Novak to appear in the magistrate’s court at Second St. and Second Ave. today at ten a. m. on a charge of “malicious mischief.” The Down Town Council calls all ss to be there at rt of the evicted | unemployed work Walker for Eviction. Yesterday Waiker gave @ ae inter i ” | the crisis is | Reserve burdens of the working class by en- | abling the bosses to cut wages. j the bosses, which further add to the! 104 be so many by April.” If they : n | CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Facts of Crisis: Big Bosses Say 1 oeoce, sam. aoe comm’ Must Be Stopped; Favor Lying A campaign .of conscious and de- | liberate lying to hide the facts of now being carried on by rs. Paul Warburg, initiators of the Federal bank hes have been reported than ev before in the United States, takes the lead in this cam- paign of lies. In a statement just issued he says that economic crisis is a “study for Over 4,000 Workers Celebrate Seventh Anniversary of Daily Worker in N. Y. ANSWER THE THREATS OF FISH, WOLL AND CO., RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTION Mr. Fish launched his campaign against the Communist Party and its official organ, the Daily Worker, and against all militant workers in a special meeting in New York City attended by Woll of the American Federation of Labor and the sons and daughters of all wars, ete, This marks the beginning’ of sharp repressive measures against the workers. On the next day, Saturday evening, over 4,000 workers celebrated the Brooklyn we saw how far they will go. In addition to the police being mobilized in regular military formation, airplanes were flying low, ready to drop gas bombs on the workers, Comrades, again we must emphasize the fact that more than ever the Daily Worker must reach the workers every day, must mobilize and or- em, through which’more | psychologists rather than economists.” W. W. Nichols of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., in a special ar- | ticle in the Sunday New York Times points out that instead of*reporting the facts of the crisis the boss press should spread “optimism.” This is already being followed out in all of the capitalist papers. The financial organs are taking part, When 70,000 Ford workers are laid off “temporarily” and only half of j them taken back, the capitalist papers who deliberately hid the original news talk about this as “proof” of increas~ ing prosperity. During December, steel mill opera- tions dropped over 13 per cent, some plants completely closing down, and when there is a slight upspurt—still far below last year’s crisis level—the capitalist press use this in their ly- ing campaign as proof of returning prosperity, However, the Mew York Times latest index is unable to hide the fact that the crisis 1s worsening, For the week ended Jan. 3rd the index was at 78.3 as against 76.6 the pre- vious week, Compared to last Jan- uary, when the crisis was severe the Times index shows a drop of 22 points in freight car loadings; a drop of 13 points in electric power pro- duction; a drop of 20 points in steel shal by the Mayor's ment relief commi unempl family “would bec if put out of thei this was the bes and added: “Judge Cotillo’s deci law. After all, we ca Jandlord to pay taxes on property we tie his hands in the matter renting his apartments.” Thus Walker, as well as the city manager of Cleveland express openly and frankly the business of capitalist government—to always aid the rich against the poor, the landlords and capitalists against the workers. United Front Conf. At Perth Amboy PERTH AMBOY, N, J,, Jan, 9.— The council of the unemployed here calls for a city wide united front conference at 1 p.m., January 25 a0 Colombia Hall, Plans will be made for a hunger march. t re Lenin Edition Orders Growing Philadelphia has ordered 10,000, 7th Anniversary of the Daily Worker and answered the threats of Fish, Woll and Co, the agents for Wall St. This holds true for the entire country. The bosses are preparing for sharper atiscks, not enly against the standard of living for the workers but agzinst anyone or any organ- ganize them for the struggle. The workers’ answer to the attacks of the bosses is the building of the Daily Worker, The deficit which threatens the life of the Daily must be liquidated, Funds collected at the 7th Anni- versary Celebrations must be rushed in immediately, DO NOT DELAY. ‘This next week is a crucial week for the Delp Chicago, 5,000 extra copies of the Lenin Memorial edition to be pub- lished this Saturday, January 17. Rush orders for this edition, ex- mill activity, and a decline of 14 in automobile output. ot “optimism” propaganda to keep be Blanner ate pln 2