The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1931, Page 1

} LENIN MEMORIAL EDITION Da il Central IN TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE (Siec t10 Orga n of Vol. VII. No. 15 at New York, N. Kntered as second-class matter at the Cost Ollkes ¥., ander tae NEGRO ORKERS RA ~NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931 Our Lenin Herit HE seyenth anniversary of the death of Lenin finds the proletarian revo- Iution in Russia nearing its goal of socialism with the seven mile strides of the five year plan; it finds capitalism a few steps nearer its grave... This is the greatest ideological and revolutionary victory of Lenin- ‘This victory impresses itself so ‘persistently upon the minds of the proletarian masses, that even the most unscrupulous apologists of capital- ism a la Fish echo it with the statement that capitalism is on trial. Yes, capitalism is indeed on trial before the masses of the workers, though they are yet dominated by capitalist ideology. It.is the Leninist heritage of the revolutionary advance guard of the working class, of the Communists, to act as the tireless and pitiless accuser and organizer which will transform the proletarian judges of capitalism into its executioners. Never before has the correctness of Lenin’s words impressed itself so strongly as now. In his letter to the American Workmen of August, 1918, Lenin said: “America has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divides the handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a | mire of luxury, and millions of laboring, starving men and women, who | are always staring want in the face.’ Indeed, the American working class _ is now standing on the very bring of this abyss; and it is slowly becoming conscious of it. The workers are taught by the present economic crisis that under imperialist capitalism of today the production of commodities has nothing whatever to do with their wants. They begin to realize that this production of commodities is merely the subjec of speculation which ism. “WAR COMING Theodore Dreiser, Author, Defends SOON,” SAYS the Communist PwC Tt a orker unist Party U.S.A. tional) LLY FOR HUNGER WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MARCH, TUE HARLEM MASS MEETING SDAY the Right to Revolution of Masses PLEDGES ACTIVE DRIVE nied. One thing we do know, though, and that is that it was supported by 41 +. | By THEODORE DREISER | iw i | The right to revolution, in America tt as elsewhere, depends entirely on who |wants the change in government. Cer- Sa |tainly a bouffe revolution can be staged—as it just recently has been U. s. Spends Billion i Panama—apparently for no other in One Year; But jreason-than that American banks and corporations were not satisfied with | Jobless Starve | the existing government. Yet if | Americans, slaving in mills ten and} A war involving the leading im-!twelve hours a day, criticize the Uni- perialist powers, and especially Brit-| ted States government because evers Bin and the Unite sites, jreceives only a starvation wage, the | able next year in the event of the) criticism is “seditious” and brings | failure of the so-called world dis-| with it a prison sentence for as long armament conference, was the ad-!as forty years. The worthiness of the | uission made Thursday by Com-jcause or the number of people ee is inevit-|*hing is so tied up that the laborer | | |to Panama City from Governor Ga- | Undo of Colon, to put down the re- | volt. | Of course, no one is supposed to | |see the Negro in the woodpile. he |American people in particular are supposed to think nothing of the fact that Panama's whole financial policy was mapped out a short time ago by Vice-President George E.| Roberts of the National City Bank | {of New York. Or that, because of threats of strike among scHool teach- jers and public servants generally over reduced wages, the overturned pres- fills the pockets of the rich capitalists with untold wealth but which sarvec the working masses in the midst of plenty. The working masses are on the way to revolutionary consciousness. All they need is a guide. All they Must have is a translator for their amazing experiences. To be this guide, to convey these experiences to the masses is at this moment the | embodiment of Leninist strategy and tactics for our American Com- | munists. The democratic form of government is the last form of ciass designed to fool the masses. The very rapidity with which Congress Washington with its Hoovers and Mellons and Fishes is throwing one s0- called democratic principle after another upon the scrap heap of Fascism testifies to the awakening of the working masses. Democratic illusions lose their charms for the hungry masses. Therefore sheer class brutality | replaces the democratic make-believe as a means to keep the workers in | subjection. ‘The courts are more an@ more dropping even the pretense of “dis- | pensers of justice.” They prosecute the workers openly as their class 1 enemy. The daring of a worker to make use of the pretended religious freedom granted by capitalist democracy is challenged by capitalist judges as a crime by an official refusal of allowing or giving credence to testimony of religionless workers. : ‘The users of the pretended right of petition are met with police clubs and heels, and, after being beaten within an inch of their lives, they are dragged into court as malefactors against capitalist laws. | ‘When representatives of the hungry masses of unemployed give voice | to the cry of the masses for “work or wages,” they are arrested, are de- nied the pretended constitutional right of a jury trial and are sent to prison for years. And when, as in the case against Nessen, Stone and Lealess, who were arrested for appearing for the unemployed before the Board of Estimate of New York on October 16, the defense points out that in a recent case involving the charge of obscenity, a jury trial was granted, the court cold bloodedly replies: “Yes, but there were property rights in- volved.” In the case of propertyless workers only their lives, their free- dom and the happiness and lives of their tamilies are involved. Such things are not worthy of a jury consideration. But if a dirty dollar is involved the capitalist judge bows and declares: “You, Mr. Dollar, are entitied to every protection the constitution can afford you.” What bet ter acknowledgment do the masses want of the fact that the constitu- tion of the United States and of its various States do not prescribe and | protect the privileges of the so-called citizen but only the provileges of property. If you have no property, if you are poor, a mere worker, then | you are beyond the law. No rights and no privileges exist for you. | Some attempts are still made to feed the democratic illusions of the | masses. The corruption of Tammany Hall in New York is historically notorious. The history of corruption in New York politics is a history of Tammany Hall, except for the few intervals when a corrupt republican machine temporarily replaced Tammany in the Government of New York. Just now the stench of this corruption arises irrepressible and de- mands some outlet. This outlet is supplied by uncovering a few of the scoundrels and removing them from office or letting them resign. But atvitie same time the whole “cleansing” is turned into a farce by letting the same corrupt and thieving Tammany Hall, whose members the re- moyed scoundrels are and who had appointed them, appoint their suc- cessors. A scoundrel is removed; but the scoundrels remain. Imperialism, said Lenin, is the stage of decaying capitalism. Never did we Communists have a better opportunity to prove that to the workers. Never could we dispense more with abstract phrases in our efforts to prove it than now. Unemployment, msery and starvation, wage cuts, speed-up, rationalization, persecution, are haunting and arousing the working mass- es."The masses are ready to fight against these tormentors. They are willing to learn the indispensability of organization in this fight. Our Leninist task is to connect every one of these dreaded phenomena up with the social system of capitalism and show that the only social presents capitalism has for the working class in this stage of its imperialist de- cline are unemployment, hunger, wage-cuts, speedup and persecution. As against this capitalism we can show the fruits of Leninist construc- tion of a new society. Only a short while ago shamefaced enemies of the proletarian revolution have assured us that in the Soviet Union y -is on trial. Well then, accepting this formulation for a mo- ment, the rial has proceeded o a poin where today shamefaced apolo- gists of capitalism feel compelled to proclaim that capitalism is on trial. And what put it on trial are not merely its own rapidly accumulating sins against the working class, but the victorious emergence of Communism out of its trial in the Soviet Union. It is the Leninist heritage of the Communist Party of the United States that it shall help this trial of capitalism along. We shall agitate and organize the working class. We shall work with them and lead them in bis el every-day problems. We shall teach them how these problems in their thousandfold variety are only different faces of one social disease.. And we shall convince them that this disease is capital- ism. And we shall show them that its only cure is Communism over the road of the proletarian Revolution. Danbury Strikers Here to Speak at Worker Meetings e | in | | Perea oy NEW YORK--A committee of against the 20 per cent wage cut.” nander J. M. Kenworthy, Labor/ member of the British parliament in| 2 speech before the American Cor-| jtespondents’ Association. All the} | boss powers are rushing to war thru) cause in question affects, has nothing to do with the right to revolution. | ‘That is, as usual, merely a privilege | | of the powerful. | | In Panama a revolution to install | ident of Panama, Arosemena, was un- {able to hold to this policy dictated by the National City Bank of New| York, and so was no longer useful And can it be meaningless that the revolutionists guarded first the doors increased armaments and growing,as provisional president a certain | lR- struggle for world trade, said Ken-|Harmedio Arias is quite all right. | worthy, and he implied that the La-|Why? Because Dr. Arias is the lead- bor government, if in power, would |ing lawyer down there for the large carry forward this war. American banks and corporations. of the Chase National Bank and the | National City Bank? And when he proclaims | Even a newspaper as conservative the revolt. that the revolution is supported by ON DRESS STRIKE OVER WEEK END Another Shop Struck; Toilers Meet Today NEW YORK.—The following for- ums and affairs are going to take place on the issue of the coming dress strike: 1.—East N. Y. Workers Club, con- cert for strike fund, today, 8 p. m., at | 524 Vermont Place, Brooklyn. 2.—Dressmakers’ Unemployed Coun- cil, Concert and Dance, today, 8 p. m., 2700 Bronx Park East. to transport the five hundred police! Harlem Meeting Picks Negro Delegates to Present Demands | Fight the Evictions |Walker Gang Worries When One Is Blocked NEW YORK —The first of the |mass indoor meetings in a list of six |of which five were held yesterday, and one Wednesday, was the meeting jot mostly Negro workers in St. Lukes Hall, Harlem, All these meetings are to ratify the |Workers Unemployment Insurance | Bill and the delegation of ten (with | five alternates) elected by the Jan. | 12 united front conference. The dele~ After pointing out that the rivalries between Britain and the United States for the control of the seas in} furtherance of their trade against each other is the major issue driving toward war, Kenworthy said that this fact has consciously been hidden in the press. He went on to state: “If we enter this world conference without the right preparation and understanding on certain salient | questions, it will be a failure.. Such a failure would be the greatest dis- aster since the outbreak of the World War in 1914. Why? Because it would mean:—(1) An intensified competition in armaments, espe- cially on the continent of Europe, (2) An irresistible demand on Ger- many to break through the ‘inhibi- ions of the treaty of Versailles and inerease her armaments, (3) An- other great war in Europe, which would almost certainly spread to other continents.” All the capitalist powers are rapid- ly preparing for this war. The so- valled disarmament conference in a sam, the object of the various pow- ers being to gain advantages over (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Besides, Dr. Arias is a man who can point out all of the “purest senti- ments of patriotism” which prompted j‘the entire population,” that is ac- | cepted too in America by the kept ‘press. At least, it was nowhere de- jas the New York Times says editorial- ly that certain phases of the revo- | |lutoin in Panama should be read with uncommon interest. They should! at Slovack Hall at | NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 16.—Sunday, at 2 p. m., in Slovack Hall, 52 West |St., two delegates from each working class organization here will meet in a united front conference to plan im- mediate steps in the campaign for some relief for the starving jobless of Newark. They will also plan a more intensive campaign for signa- jtures to the Workers Unemployment [Insurance Bill, and will arrange sta- \tions for signature collections, mass |meetings, etc. The jobless of Newark are 80,000 in number, and many who still have ‘Tells Tariff League to Aid War on Soviet, 5-Year Plan Munro, American Window Glass Co. Head, Thinks Wall St. Can “Make or Break” Five- Year Plan; Fears Industrial Advafice NEW YORK.—Calling for a tariff attack against the Soviet Union and ultimately war to “break the Rus- sian five-year plan,” William L, Mun- ro, president of the American Win- dow Class Company, devoted his en- tire speech before the American Tariff League on Thursday to a vicious as- sault on the Workers’ Republic. Saying that trading with Russia is helping “to make Soviet Russia a great industrial state," Munro in- sisted that all trade be stopped. “Now is the time for us to help make or break the Russian five-year plan.” Munro. of course, thinking the Amer- Workers in Adding Machine Company Support Daily Worker MARSHALL THREATENS TO CLOSE PRESS FOR NON-PAYMENT ican capitalists all-powerful, belives | they are the decisive factors in mak- ing or breaking the Five-ear Plan. This has a serious purpose which is being pressed on all sides by such enemies of the American workers as Fish, Woll, Father Walsh and the Socialist party. Steps have already been taken by Hoover and Mellon through the Treasury Department to cut off im- ports from the Soviet Union so that there will be difficulty in paying for machinery. This is the part of the war preparations against the Soviet Union which all the boss powers are carrying on. The slowness in sending in funds collected in the emer- gency drive is adding to the critical financial condition. Quick response from Detroit and Chicago to our telegrams kept the Newark Conterence Meets Sunday on Unemployment, [ ‘>gates From Workers’ Organizations to be 2. p.m. Nessin Will Report; Plan Big Campaign jobs are on part-time and starvation |wages. Practically nothing is being | done for the hungry. | The Newark Campaign Committee ;for Unemployment Relief will put |forward the demands against evic- tions, for free food and clothing for the children of jobless workers, free juse of empty apartments, free gas, | \electricity, and coal for jobless fam- lilies, etc. | A report to the conference will be jmade by Sam Nesin of the Unem- |Ployed Councils of New York. All workers are invited to attend | this conference. Besides Nessin there |will be a report by Kasper (T. U. U. L. organizer and secretary of the con- ference) on the work of the commit- tee in the unemployment campaign. Harry Martin of the Workers Inter. Editorial Mass Meet Tonight |} Every reader of the Daily Work- |} er will have an opportunity to |} come to a meeting arranged by the Editorial Staff for tonight at 6:30 p. m., Workers Center, second floor, and voice his suggestions on how to improve the Daily Worker. While there will be a short report ‘or the Editorial Staff by A. Landy, the floor will be thrown open for informal discussion on the prob- lems of editing the Daily Worker, |] bringing it closer to the readers |J and broadening’ its influence jf among the workers. Many working class organiza- |] tions are sending representatives || to this mass editorial gathering. || The Unemployed Council will have |] representatives, as will many |{ unions. || But whether you are sent by an |{ organization or not, come to this || meeting and take part in improv- |J ing the contents of the Daily |] Worker. Tell us what you think of the Daily, whether it sufficient- ly. reports the life and struggles of 3.—Bronx Workers’ Club, 553 Beek- |84tion will present the bill to Con- man St., Bronx, Open Forum, 8 p. m. |8Tess Feb. 10, with the signatures of Danbury fur strikers arrived yester- day in New York, reporting that the strikers in the"National.and Eastern shops are standing firm, that effec- tive picketing is going on, that the strikers answer united campaign of the bosses’ press, the fascist and na- tionalist organizations, the American Legion, and the bosses in Danbury by saying: “We don't care what they call the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial ‘Union; we'll stick to it, it came in andhelped us organize our fight The committee from Danbury will be part of the Workers International ‘Relief and N. T. W. I. U, joint Dan- ‘All bury Strike Relief Committee: active needle trades workers called to meet today at.11 a, m.'at 131 West 28th St, to take up plans for gathering relief for the Danbury strikers. It is intended to send speak- ers, especially strikers, to all workers’ organizations in New York over the marshal from closing down the press. Today we were notified unless we meet notes amounting to about $5,000 we will be . faced with the court cases and police marshalls. Bills of this . kind are endangering the paper. These are part of the deficit . that we are trying. to collect in the Emergency Drive. ’ \ This’ means comrades, we must intensify our drive to liquidate the deficit. There is a balance of about $20,000 which must still be collected. On the other hand, even though the funds come in slow- ly, we see in some of the donations that the Daily Worker is (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) aa reaching shops and factories and the native American. We national Relief will address the con- | ference in connection with the relief, work for the hunger march of the | | jobless. | the worker in this period of in- tense economic crisis, Come early! Bring your friends. This is not a meeting for the col- lection of funds to build the Daily Worker. The main function is to bring the readers closer to the edi- torial end of the paper. i ae | NEEDLE YOUTH FRACTION | A needle trades youth fraction will | be held this Saturday at 2 p. m. at} 35 E. 12th St., 8th floor. Comrades | |Amter and Potash will address this | ‘ims to Speak at Brooklyn Forum Sun. jmeeting. All Y. C. L. needle trades | workers must be there without ex- | ception. Final preparations for the | coming dress strike and important | \problems concerning the mobilization lof the young workers will be made. A complete check-up will be made by the District Or. Dept. No excuses will be accepted. BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—Amis, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party, will speak |this Sunday at the Williamsburgh | Workers’ Forum, 61 Graham Ave., at | ok tear 1p. m. on the “Rise of the Negro | BRONX WORKERS’ FORUM | Masses.” On Sunday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m. at) pyery worker and eras 509 Prospect Ave, M. Frishkoff will | 0, yy ound speak on the Socialist Party a Bosses’ | N@8to workers are called upon to at- Party. Admission is free, Bring your ;tend this important session of the friends. \Williamsburgh Forum, received a greeting with $9.00 for the 7th anniversary of the Daily Worker, “from a conscious group of workers in the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Detroit,” a worker who signed “A Bronx Irishman” states—“it is my first donation to the Worker, you are doing a great work and doing it under a heavy handicap.” y Comrides, the campaign for funds must be intensified. The funds must be sent in more quickly, more funds must be collected, the deficit must be liquidated, or the bills that are now pressing us will force us to shut down, The two instances mentioned above are concrete ex- amples of some of our problems. Rush funds immediately to the Daily Worker. Send all money to the Daily Worker, Speaker, Joseph Winogradsky. 4.—East N. Y. Workers’ Club, 524) | Vermont Pl., Brooklyn, Open Forum, | |Sunday, 8 p. m. Speaker, J. Levin- json. | | 5—Forum at 48 Bay 28th St.,| | Brooklyn, Sunday, 12 noon. Speaker, | J. Boruchowitz. | 6—Brownsville Open Forum, Sun- |day, 11 a, m, 105 Statford Ave. | Brooklyn. Speaker, S. Hertz. | 7.—Banquet for strike fund, Brook- | lyn Union headquarters, 1844 Pitkin |Ave, Sunday, 2 p. m. | Hyman and | jother leaders of the union will. be | | present. Another strike has been declared in |a dress shop, for better prices and | reinstatement of a discharged worker, jat Nagler Dress, 27-35 W. 24th St, | ‘The union calls on all active work- ers to come to the office of the union on Monday, 7:30 a. m., for participa- |tion in mass picketing. | Tailors of Locals 2, 5, 19 and 10, ;Meet today at 12 noon at Stuyvesant | Casino, 142 Second Ave. This meet- ing is called by the rank and file! jeommittee of these various locals to | fight against the check-off, wage-cut | and piece-work. All tailors, members of these locals, are cad to attend | | the meetings wi | OLD, COPS CRUSH YONKERS MEETING YONKERS, N. Y., Jan. 16.—The Yonkers protest and unemployment demonstration tonight lasted only six j Minutes. The bitter cold kept all but 150 of the shivering unemployed work- ers away, and the well padded police, Sadie Van Veen was carted off by main force when she tried to speak. The committee which was to lay {demands of the jobless before the city board of Aldermen could not penetrate the police lines. The com- mittee was composed‘ of J. Louis Engdahl, John Keen, M. Weich, and Liss. 80 in number, rushed the crowd, and ; Smashed it. CONTINUE! E Two) ‘STEUER ON INSIDE OF WRECKED BANK Got $54,000 Out Just Before It Smashed BULLETIN. Mayor Walker, who is protecting those responsible for the bank crash, refused point blank to listen to Sol Wollin, secretary of the United Depositors Cammittee, rep- resenting 20,000 small depositors in the Bank of the U. S., protest against the appropriation of $100,000 for Steuer as whitewash “investi- gator” of the bank. * 2 e NEW YORK.—More proof that Max D. Steuer, the nriminal lawyer that ‘Tammany ig slating to whitewash the $100,000,000 robbery of the depositors in the wrecked Bank of the United States is on the inside is shown by the fact revealed Thursday night that he was tipped off the day before the bank closed, and that his wife with- drev’ between $53,000 and $54,000 out of the bank. Steuer also made money on stock deals, The much-promised report on the condition of the bank hag not been issued by the State Superintendent of Banks, Broderick, Tammany hench- man. Broderick promised an “early report.” He hasn't had time to fix up the books to hide the big steal vet, so he isn’t giving out any in- formation. It is more than a month since the bank closed. Not one penny has been paid out, and Steuer is working on a cheme promising 50 cents on the dollar, The fact of the |matter is the internal condition of | the bank is so rotten that the small depositors, of whom there are over 400,000 will not see one cent unless they organize and carry on mass ac- tion to force the return of the money stolen from them. to fire the people for another war! @ billion dollars! of capitalism. eration of Labor. On Wednesday, January 21 at workers, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa to the imperialists. They will pack termined voice: Union! Defend the Soviet Union! 50 East 13th Street. Masses Out to Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial Jan. 21 at Madison Square Garden “Unemployment can only be solved by war!” Thus the American capitalist class prepares the American masses for another slaughter! Pershing, Wood, Joffre, Clemenceau—all write their “war” memories, The U. S. imperialist government prepares its war budget of nearly Airplanes, fast cruisers, gases, explosives—this in face of the “peace” pacts and “disarmament” treaties! The trial of the leaders of the “Industrial Party” !n Moscow re- vealed that war is plotted against the Soviet Union! ernment must be overthrown, say the imperialists, as the only “solution of unemployment,” because socialist production is undermining the basis “Dumping,” “persecution of religion,” “enforced labor”— these are some of the baseless, lying charges of the imperialists, and their hirelings, the socialist and fascist leaders of the American Fed- of New York, in honoring the leader of the world revolutionary move- ment, Comrade Lenin, and the leaders of the German revolutionary We will fight against your intervention plots against the Soviet Not a penny for imperialist war—all war funds for the unemployed! Fight for immediate unemployment relief and insurance! Your imperialist war we will turn into civil war! Out to the Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, January 21! Let this be your answer to the enemies of the working class! The Soviet Gov- Madison Square Garden, the masses Luxemburg, will give another answer the Garden and will declare in de- RALLY TO THE LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING, JANUARY 21 “AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN wn