The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1931, Page 1

The Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Delegation Goes to Washington Feb. 10. How Many Signatures Will They Have in Hand From Your City? Daily Central > Orga ASE fs Oe ov re Cae SES a ee i VII, No. 17 we Entered aa second-class ‘matter at. the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 orker WO Party U.S.A. eon ae) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ‘cry | EDITION Price 3 Cents_ HUNGER MARCH FROM ALL OVER CITY TOMORROW The Fish Committee Issues Attack On All American Workers WALKER DODGING DODGING THE King Canute Fish » FISH'S COMMITTEE has made its report to congress. Its recom- mendations ask for measures to suppress not merely the Communist ¢ °) Party, but the struggle of the working class against the class which ex- « Ploits it—the capitalist class, Of course here are no recommendations even hinting at prevention of capitalist class exploitation of the working class. The Fish proposals are classical examples of capitalist class measures to retain its power to rob the workers without any democratic dressing—but by plain fascist suppression. If all these proposals are accepted, what will be the situation of the American workers?. The employing class will still have the right to cut wages. But the workers will have no right to protest. The employers will still have the right to throw millions uvon 1! streets to starve quickly if “charity” is lacking, or slowly if they look for relief on the breadlines. But it will be illegal for the workers tu uns. unemployment. insurance. To make a long story short—the capitalists will have a perfect right to make the workers slave at low wages and long hours and starve to death when unemployed, and the workers will have the right to starve— but not to protest, not to strike, not to organize a struggle to better their immediate condition, let alone to make an end to the capitalist system which dooms them—in case they do not struggle—to mass misery, starva- tion and war. Essentially, the Fish proposals are to legalize the class struggle of the capitalists against the workers, and to forbid the class struggle of the workers against the capitalists: Yet the second is inescapably the result of the first—and no congressional incantations can conjure away the result while retaining the cause. All workers should understand the Fish proposals for open suppres~ sion of working-class protest in connection with the high “honors” given the American Federation of Labor misleaders and Mr. Fish’s recent speech praising the so-called “socialist” party. Mr. Fish, as a fascist, frankly proposes to outlaw the fight of the workers for unemployment insurance, incidentally revealing what is meant by the term “social fascist” in expressing his solidarity with the fake ‘socialist” party, which aids his fascist program by establishing a social basis through gabbling about unemployment insurance, but practices fas- | | ¢ism by uniting wich Fish & Co. to attack and suppress the Communist Party, the only leader of an effective fight of the workers for unemploy- ment insurance. e It is the misfortune of the capitalist class that it cannot exist without @ working class, however. And neither all the might of the capitalist class, nor all the trickery of its servants in the A. F. of L. and the fake “socialist” party, can prevent the working class from struggling. Hence the Communist Party,-which is born out of the working class in struggle will continue to exist and to lead the workers in defense of their interests, which include not only a betterment of their conditions as wage slaves, but to put an end to wage slavery through the over- throwal of capitalist class dictatorship. Mr. Fish’s proposals will aid materially in taking the “democratic” disguise off the capitalist class dictatorship so that all workers can see it for what it is. Sweeping back the ocean with a broom has been tried “py King Canute. Mr. Fish evidently has not learned that the attempt was not exactly a success, The working class wiH rally to struggle against the Fish proposals, not to educate Mr. Fish, but to defend itself against the robbery, starvation and war inseparable from capitalism. And the Communist Party will be—as always—in the vangurd < the struggle—class against class—on the side of the workers! Get Out of Nicaragua! wat passes for the “president” of Nicaragua, a gentleman named Moncada, expressing great sorrow at the loss of life of the U. S. Ma- rines killed in acticn by the Army of Nicaraguan Liberation while invad- ing'that country, declares that the wiping out of the national independence fighters is, or should be, the business of the Nicaraguan “national guard.” Moncada does not lament the death of the Marines because they, as sons of American workers and poor farmers, have been induced by pov- erty on oné hand and the seduction of recruiting posters about “seeing the world” on the other hand, to serve as tools and victims of imperialist invasion against a people whose tepritory happens to be not only desirable for the United Fruit Company, but which is wanted badly for military reasons for a canal that will be completely dominated by Yankee im- perialism. No, Moncada “mourns” the death of these Marines because it is “good politics” for Washington, He would have no tears for them if they had, consciously refusing to serve the interests of the same American capitalists who exploit their fathers and starve their mothers in the United States, gone over to the Nicaraguan Army of Liberation and fought for the freedom of that oppressed people. Moncada has no tears for those of his own people who, driven by the extortions of the United Fruit Company plantation slave-drivers or, the feudal barons of the coffee ranches, to starvation embittered by Marine repression of any protest against this extortion. He sheds no tears for those among these Nicaraguan peasants who, to free their coumtry from the iron heel of armed invaders and themselves from hunger and misery, take up arms and, captured by the imperialist forces, are decapitated in Chinese | style and their heads displayed in public streets of the cities as a “lesson” of Yankee “Kulture.” Moncada, this despicable bootlicker of Mr. Stimson, expresses his sor- vow, not in order to conclude that the Marines should be withdrawn, but to justify their presence’now, when on account of the casualties, some other hypocrites in the U. S. Congress who allowed the Marines to be sent there, are covering up their own guilt in the death of the Marines by speeches about ‘withdrawal, Also, there is a proviso to Moncada’s sorrow, that although he thinks the native “national guard” should “eliminate” the Army of Liberation which Moncada calls “bandits” (after the definition of General Smedley Butler that “a bandit is anybody who is against the candidate favored by the U.S. Marines”), the Marines should remain to garrison the towns. Of course this is a trick. Because if they stay in Nicaragua on this excuse, or any other, they will be used to oppress the people who would @therwise run Moncada out forthwith. And as long as they stay there ought to be and will be fighting against this outrageous invasion and oppression. Mr. Stimson, asked on Jan. 7, upon what “treaty” the Marines were being kept in Nicaragua, admitted that there was none, and passed the buck to Congress, which he said “has given the Executive power to send troops to certain countries to train the national constabulary.” Such rot is this! To train 2,000 “national guards,” the U. S. keeps 3,000 Marines! American -workers, of course, should understand that imperialism, which robs and starves them at home under pretense of “prosperity” and “unemployment relief,” will find some thin excuse or another for con- tinued armed occupation of Nicaragua. Therefore, American workers will ignore these fake excuses and, demanding that the imperialist hypocrites at Washington withtiraw every Marine from Nicaragua, they will at the same time give every aid and support to the Nicaraguan Army of bash ta tion so long as armed invasion continues. CALLS FOR R OUTLAWING _ COMMUNIST PARTY; ASKS ANTELABOR SPY SYSTEM ° ks |Prepare for War > healt Soviet Union; for Spies to U.S.S Nelson, in Separate Report, Appreves of Fis Proposals But Wants H idden Approach WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — With 10,000,000 unemployed | workers facing starvation and wage cuts descending upon the entire working class in veritable floods, the Fish Committee, jin order to attack the militant who lead the struggle against | capitalism, wage cuts and for unemployment insurance, ha: issued its ‘report This report? ~ ek | TUG BOAT MEN | Sommunist Party and the revo- |lutionary trade unions, as well) lis a whole series of rebressivel stating that the Communist Party; NEW YORK.The Cornell Steam- gars! : ¥/ ship Co, has announced a wage cut with over 12,000 dues-paying mem-, of 19 a month will go into effect on bers and with sympathizers number- 911 its tugs.on January 15. Last sum- ng between 500,000 and 600,000 are ; cut of five per cent, but the Marine capitalist offensive against the) Workers Industrial Union issued a jWorkers, Fish proposes 14 measures] jeaflet calling for a strike against the |to help the bosses. cut, and the bosses withdrew the re- provides for outlawing the GET WAGE CUT |to effect every American worker. | mer this company threatened a wage he main obstacles in the road of the! duction. Asks for More Spies. His main proposal is to outlaw the, |Communist [>>ty because it is the | leader of the + ngclass in its fight against capits jist starvation and miséry. The other proposals are as follows:* |) Creation of a more efficient spy agency in the Department of Justice. | vith plenty of funds (not a cent can ‘be found by the boss government for advantage of the greater unemploy- ment to enforce the wage cut. This cut is being made in violation of Cap- tain Maher's so-called “agreement.” The company union, the “Associated Workers” is preparing the ground for a general wage cut on all tugs. The Marine Workers Industrial Union has issued a I:aflet calling on | all workers on tugbox’ Sto ‘fight against the wage cut. “Every boat (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘Flood aj War ‘Prsbaratinnal ‘Let Loose By All Boss Gov’ts War is drawing closer every day. | of this year for naval arms construc- Reports in the last few days from| tion in ee to the $1,200,000,000 the capitalist countries throughout | 2°¢ded for naval arms construction | pieiiay count Shout | under the London naval treaty. | the world show a huge increase in| ?not only expenditures for war, but in | actual steps toward war. While 10,- | Navy Department issued 000,000 uneployed workers starve in| snowing that for the fiscal year of the United States, one of the main | | tasks of Congress is to increase the | ree PE eee oe fee ni war expenditures. A $30,000,000 bill) Wat Purposes. The New York Times, was passed by the Senate to “mod- | commenting on this expenditure, Says that “most of the $1,127,651,670 ex- ernize” the battleships New Mexico, pended by these departments may be Mississippi and Idaho for war. Con- | gressman Britten of the Naval Affairs | attributed to the cost of wars of the past and to national defense.” Committee is proposing the building Another Washington dispatch of of a whole’ raft of cruisers, costing between $16,000,000 and $20,000,000 | the New York Times, dated Jan. 15, states: “The general staff’ of the each, carrying bombing planes, be- sides the construction of a whole new army, as a result of the World War experience, is prepared to carry on fleet of fighting airplanes. warfare at a moment's notice.” On the same day the War and Senator King said that Congress would be asked to appropriate from $200,000,000 to $900,000,000 by March Now the bosses are trying to take | reports | Workers to Answer Fish’s Attack at Lerntin Mass Meet NEW YORK.—The Fish Committee j has reported~to the U. S. Cohgress, |and among its recommendations are the outlawing of y and the practical suppression of the Communist press. The Communist Party, in honor of Lenin-Liebknecht and Luxemburg | three great revolutionary leaders, will hold a memorial at Madison Square} Garden, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. . This memorial will be a mighty demonstration against this new at- tack on the Communist Party and the | revolutionary moyement. It is clear that the economic crisis, from which capitalism cannot extri- cate itself, is driving the government to these measures of des n to suppress not only the Communist |Party but the rising tide 6f working class protest and struggle against the |system which is vation jfor 10,000,000 workers, wage slash jin every indusutry ,undernot of millions of children, ir cides, etc. Just three months after the release lof the leaders of the demor at Union Square on March 6 ation mighty demonstration aga tf war , aimed ai aimee art, at the Soviet TRIEY BR q | A T ISCIPLINE A BOLTS HO! Meetings of the Conamiinist Pe Party and of revo}ut. ry organizations, as ‘a rule, discipline. tion is a revolutionary action, each member of the Party and e [revolutionary worker must recogni: that revolutionary discipline is funda-! mental if the army of the working class is to pass through its training, ;become mature for the bigger \struggles and for the final struggle for the overthrow of the system. do not display revolutionary A meeting or demonstra- and The Madison Square Garden dem- onstration in honor of Lenin-Lieb- knecht-Luxemburg will be another tionary discipline. line and order that workers conscious of their duties display. Hold Ranks and Order. The District Committee of the) Communist Party calls upon all Party and Y@ung Communist League mem- | bers and all revolutionary workers to observe the following and as a body to cooperate in making the meeting | a success not only from the stand- point of attendance, but of revolu- | tionary organization and discipline: 1, The demonstration will begin on time and every comrade must be in his seat at 8 p. m. 2. The Party committees in charge of the demonstration. are the only ones to be standing about the hall. ing the Garden shall take their seats and remain there. 4. No literature shall be sold in the hall except the Daily Worker, Young the Communist | ) RANKS AT LEN {to other work occasion for the exaction of revolu-| The meeting must | be orderly—it must show the discip- | 3, All other comrades upon enter-| the improvement of the paper and to! Worker, Working Woman, Young | Union, will take place. leaders of the demonstration mond is still in jail)— and Minor, will be the main speakers. In addition, a splendid program has been arranged—a pageant arranged| by the Workers oratory Theatre, singing by the Freiheit Singing So- ciety, The Hungarian and Jugoslavic And the three (Ri POINTSFOR MARCH NEW YO) Councils of the Un- day announced 16 as- s, ete, ved y But above all this will be a demon-|S¢™bly points, at which, at 10 a. m. stration against imperialist war and|0morrow, the jobless and militant against intervention in the Soviet| Workers should mobilize, hold meet- Union. The workers of New York |imgs to endorse the demands on the Gill declare with unfehty votes: city council, ratify the delegates who DELEGATION; HEDGING OVER PERMIT TO MARCH ® MOBILIZE AT 16 | Scores of Meetings Prepare the March; Endorse Demands Fight for Work or Food Determined Demand Stops Starvation NEW YORK.—The New York job- are to present the demands, and start] jess “anid workers, determined not to We demand Immediate Unemploy-| chine : ji PMentY BANAL Ghd “Tabanatoe ena! ning on the city belt in time to| starve and knowing fsom past ex- abs cadiregl tant tae Sen TREE | eee ae ce, ae Ot eae | periences that the only way to get iy et Se a ese mobilization points anyerehe® whatever: from.th i All War Funds for the Unemployed he greedy s IN BRONX: Wilkins and Intervale.| Tammany machine and the bosses We Support the Chinese Revolution! jzaRLEM: 132d St. and Lenox Ave. inst the Imperial Fuhr ecg who support it is to demand in huge é wee _ MIDTOWN: 25th St. and Ave. A; numbers and no uncertain terms, are Down with Lynching of Near North side of Madison Square; 40th| sshing on a dozen fronts a struggle Death to all Lynchers North and Sixtn Ave; 3 St:/for the largest. and most militant We Support the Wor sig ical ade NET ea ee 56th St:| jemonstration for the demands of the ants of Latin-Ami DOWN TOWN: 25th St. and First) unemployed that has ever been seen Philippines against Ameriéan Im- : Lafayette St. and Leonard St.| there, perialism WILLIAMSBURGH: Grand St. Ex- Ye Will Defend the Soviet Union |tension and Havemeyer St | Tomorrow at noon they will be on Against any Intervent BROWNSVILLE: Stone and Pit-|/the march from fourteen places in We Will Turn Imperialist War into|kin Ave the city, converging on the city hall, Civil War ; BORO HALL: Johnson and J St.| At 1 p. m. they will hold a great ter ae eal SOUTH BKLYN and BRIGHTON) mass meeting there, with speakers on BEACH: Court and Carrol St. | the city hall steps, and will send in SURV: it WTY: %n addition there are various in-} 2 delegation already seleited by the AULA y } ial unions and leagues which! various unemployed loundils, tenants’ MERTIN to special mobilization points. Kt paqunced so far are: JEWELRY WORKERS: 47th St.! er ane es Sixth Ave. Pioneer, Labor Unity, Liber FOOD WORKERS: 40th St. and| Labor Defender. {Sixth Ave. < OFFICE WORKERS: Madison Square. NEEDLE WORKERS: sold only ~hefore the.meeting begins and during the intermission: The literature agents must observe this} strictly. 6. During the meet needle trades market rade should verse with specially must teach g every com- keep silent, and net con- | his neighbors. This is a duty of Communists, who jutionary — discipline the demands to tne mayor consists) jof the following: Harry Ramsey, Julius Genanthal, | James O'Neil, Frieda Jackson, Ric |ard B. Moore, John J. Jones, Curtis} 6. Do not “help” the committees.|1. Fair, Stevens, Pat O’Boyle, Mrs. Enough comrades have been assigned Constantino, Maude White, Charles| to the work to take care of it. | Oberkirch, Lester Allen, John Lembke; 7. Remain at the meeting till the | Nat Ball, Bucky Oldenson, Beverholt, adjournment. Do not begin to move | Joseyph Murphy, Silver, Frank Ha- before the meeting is actually closed, #0, Thomas Daugherty, Nat Lercy, for this merely disorganizes the meet-| Mrs. Elizabeth Nugent, Francis Boris, ing and every worker present goes| Sarai Gross, Mariano Ceuto, Rose away with a bad impression, | Schechter, Fred Biedenkap, Jose Yenis, Frank Smith. 8. Members of the Young Commu- MARINE AND WATERFRONT nist ‘League and especially of the) jopiEss: Whitehall and South st. Young Pioneers are naturally boister- | BUILDING TRADES AND OTHER | |'T. U. U. L. LEAGUES: Madison Sq. and 25th St. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Daily Worker Readers’ Meet Paves Way for Impr. »vement NEW YORK.--For the first time in frst, a briet report was made by A. the history of the Daily Worker, Landy of the editorial staff inviting} readers came to a meeting to discuss |full discussion on the shortcomings| of the Daily Worker and what was necessary to improve it. One thing was made clear by all the speakers. The Daily Worker is improving and it is reaching into sec- tions of the working-class who never before read a revolutionary news- offer criticisms and suggestions. At/| this meeting, which was held Satur- day, at the Workers Center, more than 30 workers spcke. Half of those | present were non-party workers. At} Workers Child Sends in 59 Cents to Re- new Subsrciption for Father WORKERS!— The Fish Committee has made its report. Has made its recommenda- tions to congress. But the Daily Worker and the Communist Party have pointed out exactly what the Fish Commitee would say and would do. The Daily Worker has been mobilizing and organizing he workers for a struggle against the Fish Committee report. The increased activity of the unemployed and_enfployed workers in their struggles against the bosses are all part of the struggles of the workers against the attack and offensive that the Fish Committee is openly planning against the mil- itancy and fighting spirit of the masses of workers in the United States. We have taken the offensive against American Imperialism. The circulation campaign and its favorable results is a concrete evi- dence that the workers are moving forward in this struggle. The re- sponses of the workers towards the Daily Worker although not sufficient workers to use the Daily Worker as their mass organizer. ter from a worker's child (twelve years old) in Michigan: “My daddy had to cancel ‘the Daily Worker, because he needs those few cents for bread, I'm missing this paper so much. If I had the money I would join the Young Pioneers. But all I have is 50 cents which I earned doing chores. I want to surprise my daddy. I am Here is a let- BEST ANSWER TO FISH COMMITTEE REPORT IS: “BUILD THE DAILY!” paper. In order to broaden this type of meeting, others like it: will be held throughout the country. One of the criticisms, repeated by many of the speakers with concrete examples, was that the Daily Worker should simplify its language so that it can carry its revolutionary message to workers who have never heard of such words as class struggle, dic- tatorship of the proletariat, etc. An- other suggestion made was that the back page articles be cut and simpli- 23rd St. and | Nesses, | he be somewhere else with lots of Mobilize at|Strongarm gunmen and white light the three meetings listed above in the| !dies around him when the starving financially up to date is another indication of the determination of the | enclosing 50 cents for the Daily Worker.” Comrades, again and again, we must point out the danger we are in, because of the fact that we are burdened daily with the financial deficit that faces us. The campaign for liquidating the $30,000 deficit must~ “be pushed faster. More funds must be raised to make possible the actual life of the Daily Worker. 3 Organizations are collecting funds, but again, a little too slow in sending the money. The Finnish wilcers organizations are beginning to show results of their activities. The other day a check for over $100 was received as part of their contributions. These are not enough. More intensifying efforts must be made to raise funds immediately. This problem of facing an everyday crisis even involves the energy and time of members of the secretariat of our Party. Draws them away from theiv important tasks and in the long run will seriously hamper the work of the Party and mass organizations. Answer the Fish Committee Intensify the work of col- lecting funds for the Daily Wor! 2 .cdcs, the balance éf about $19,000. must be collected before the end o? January, Rush all funds collected to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York City, N. ¥. eport. fled in such a manner that the neces- sary theoretical direction of the daily struggles be made understandable to 1 wider strata of workers not in the Communist Pafty. Many of the speakers urged a con- tinuation of the questions and an- swers column which was just started. | Others urged the carrying of a col- |umn on the pack page for the educa- tion of new readers on the ‘meaning jof Communism, so that they could }go back to their shops and factories) jand explain the rheanihg of the Five- | Year Plan, Soviets, Communism, ex- | |Ploitation, colonial revolutions, Len- | jinism, ete. One of the speaker's criticised the demands for too much “popularity,” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) all unemployed in their industry | leagues, unions and other workers” An- | ‘organizations, to present demands on the city government. Mayor Dhcks. Mayor Walker has already an- nounced one of those convenient ill- which will absolutely require | unemployed workers of New York ask The delegation which will present | his administration for work or food, But the jobless will march and ths | demands will be made just the same One of the demands will be the res lease of the Oct. 16 delegation, whict Walner had beat up in the board otf estimates room when they dared to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) -_———— NEEDLE WORKERS MEETING TODAY Great Activity, Open Air and Indoor Meets NEW YORK.—Besides mobilizing tomorrow at three points in the needle trades markets for the hunger march on the city hall, the needle workers are holding a number of mobilization meetings today. There will be a meeting of unem- ployed dressmakers today at 1:30 p. m, at 301 W. 29th St. There will be a meeting of unem- nloyed tailors today at noon at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Between 12 and 1 p. m. today there will be four open-air meetings in the various sections of the dress district. These meetings are not only to mobilize for the hunger march, but are rallying points for the dress strike preparations. Broaden Strike Committee. The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union is proceeding to broaden out the mass strike committee, the nucleus of which was formed at the mass. dress conference at, Webster Hall, and is also proceeding to still another mass demonstration for the strike demands at 36th St. and Eighth Ave., Wednesday at 12 noon. ‘The union is requesting workers who can give machines or trucks for Wednesday’s demonstrations and also for general dress strike publicity ta get in touch with the office of the union and lend these trucks and ma~ chines for the dress strike prepara- tions. The ‘union office is at 131 W. 28th St. Today, at 7:30 p. m., the executive of the shop delegates’ council will meet at the office of the union, te provide for corrying out the tasks land down by the dress shop con- ferences on Thursday at Webster | Hall. TO END DEMAND ORGANIZE STARVATION; RELIEF!! » n ‘f