The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1931, Page 1

Fill Your Signature List for Unemployment Insurance. { Send It'in at.Once. Get An- other and Fill That. We Need Thezzzands of Ad- ditional Signatures Dail Central ie dled adie =| ane Communist obi Datta ic sll al yaiorker OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! 18 : Vol. VIII, N at New York, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the act of Marci _ Exploited of City and Country --- Unite! T this moment millions of workers are walking the streets of the citic: of this country, jobless, hungry and destitute. Overproduction is tw cause of this. Production of too much is responsible for the masses « workers not having enough to.live on. & At the same time millions of share-croppers, tenant and small, po. farmers, especially in the southern states, are reduced to the stage of peu age. ‘They are indebted to their landlords or to bankers for their lab: of ‘years to come. In some districts their misery is aggravated by « drought; but the farmers do primarily starve because there is too much of the products of their labor. ‘The industries of the country have turned out a surplus of the products needed- by the-farmer; but the farmer cannot buy because he is penniless. * The: farms of the country have produced too much of the grain and other stuffs needed by the workers’ food and clothing. Yet the worker carmot buy them for he is jobless and consequently penniless. And so in the midst of plenty, surrounded-by the bread they crave and bythe things they need, the masses of workers in the cities and the masses of the poor and tenant farmers and :share-croppers in the rural districts are living in poverty and want. ‘THIS monstrous social phenomenon is the face of capitailsm. It is the outgrowth of the “rugged individualism” which our well-fed Capitalist rulers are praising so much. It is the unadulterated face of capitalism. Its contorted grin conducts fat profits into the pockets of the stock juggler, the banker, the, grain speculator, the landlord and all other categories of capitalist exploiters. But for the masses this grin means impoverization. For them it means death by’starvation. There is only one way out—fight. Fight!—but not individually; fight tellectively. The starving of the city and of the country must fight to- gether. This collective struggle shall not only express the solidarity of the hungry. It shall express the understanding of the hungry working and producing urban and rural masses that the same enemy besets them, that the same cause impoverishes them; that the same system starves them. i Out of this understanding the working masses of city and country, the industrial workers, the migratory agricultural worker, the harvest workers and. the farm hands must make common cause with the share croppers, the tenant farmers and the poor, small farmers for a united struggle against their mutual enemy, the capitalist. White and black tenant farm- ers, share-croppers' and agricultural workers in the south, must make common cause in a united front with the workers all over the country. They must learn that the race issue which still divides them is a subter- fuge of the landlord and the banKér. As long as landlord and banker can keep them divided on the so-called race issue, they can rob both white and. black, undisturbed. UGH. this common struggle of workers, share-croppers, tenant farmers -and /exploited farmers, the capitalist masters of the United States must be forced to establish an unemployed insurance for the ‘workers, The wage worker of indusdtry and farm who has ‘no means ot livelihood except his wages must be secured against the time. when the insane system of capitalism deprives him of wages through forced unem- ployment. This united front of workers, share-croppers, tenant and small, poor farmers, must help the serfs of the landlords, the shafe-croppers and ten- fant farmers to defend their means of livelihood against rent collections and crop seizures. They must help.to carry through rent strikes; they must help to defend the crops against the parasitic idle landlords. tis ‘united front must fight for complete and unconditional cancella- debts of the masses of starving and bankrupt share-croppers, d small, farmers. All chattel and other mortgages on tneir § must.be cancelled and the united front of the poor exploited of itty shall organize and support the refusal to pay interest these debts. The united front of the poor exploited of city and country miust organize systematic resistance against foreclosures and sheriff sales ot the belongings of the share-croppers, of the tenant and of the small, ‘poor farmers. They must equally resist the dispossesses served on the penniless workers and their families by the landlords in the towns. united fighting frofit of the workers of city and country with the share-croppers, tenant and small, poor farmers must carry on a politi- cal fight against the\government’s tax refunds and tax reductions of the rich corporations and capitalists. Instead a special capital levy must be placed against them to supply the funds for the relief program for the starving in city and country. They must wage a political battle for the assignment of the billions now spent for war purposes to a special fund financing the payment of unemployment relief and adequate relief for the starving rural masses. The millions now spent to send war-ships and marines out to kill poor Nicaraguans, Chinese and other objects of colonial oppression shall bé red to feed and keep alive the poor masses of city and country in the United States. We further demand that special taxes be levied \against the large capitalist farms and ranches to provide the necessary funds for the relief of the bankrupt and starving share-croppers, tenant and small, poor farmers, ‘Out of such funds these categories of farmers shall be supplied ade- quately’ with the necessary implements and seeds to enable them to culti- yate their land in the spring. This help must be free and unconditional. The proposal of the Farm Board ’to create a loan fund from which farm- er§ can hofrow money against adequate securities is nothing but a declara- tion of the Farm Board that it will not help those farmers that need help. The well-to-do: farmer who ‘has sufficient collateral to secure loans can help himself. This program of the Farm Board does not help the share- croppers,, tenant. and. poor farmers against the exploitation of the land- lords and bankers; -it intends to help only the bankers and landlords against their victims, the share-croppers, tenant and small, poor farmers. ‘HE only way out of the present insane conditions where in the midst of plenty there arises a mountain of misery and poverty, the only way out. of the insané conditions in which the burden of misery and poverty 4s placed upon the shoulders of the workers and producers while the para- sitic exploiters live in luxury, is the way of the abolition of the capitalist system. The way of the solution of the problem of the share-croppers, the tenant and the small, poor farmers, is the abolition 9f private prop- erty of the’ land, and the collectivization of farm production. This pro- gram is fiow carried through in the Soviet Union. The same grain specu- fators, the same capitalists, the same bakers that ite exploiting and starv- ing the masses of workers, of share-croppers, tenant and small, poor farmers, the same landlords, that press out their last ounce of energy and their last kernel of grain to turn it into rent and profit for themselves are trying to propagandize their victims against the Soviet Union. They are afraid that the example of-establishing a revolutionary workers and farmers government and of coll ition of agricultural production in UNS the Soviet Union will show the rural victims of capitalist exploitation the » only effective solution of their problems. That is why the capitalists lie and forge documents against the Soviet Union. That is why they are A trying to win them for fighting against the Soviet Union, 8 against these éndeavors of their common exploiters the workers of city J A and country together with the share-croppers, tenant and small, poor farmers must unite in the defense of their common interests. These in- terests lie not in the direction of a struggle against the Soviet Union. They lie in the direction of a struggle for food and-clothing for themselves, in the direction of struggle for a chance to live. They lie in the direction of a struggle for the necessities of live not as a gift of charity, but as the overdue Tepayment of a debt which the capitalist class owes to the work- ing and producing masses of city and try for their labor which alone keeps: their social ‘system going. be Aaa the direction of a struggle of the masses of unemployed share-croppers, tenant and small, and country. All of the categories’ victims of capitalist exploitation, the’ urban and rural workers, the share-croppers, the tenant and small, poor farmers must join these com- ‘resist crop seizures, foreclosures and sheriff sales growing out of such resistance. These committees of action murt forces town, cao ach renee” The omer oti mat aco * children of these categories. These committces must demand that all the workers and poor farmers in the struggle against their common enemy, the capitalist. Core Coney ereemae Weill secre, FeHet. Only their wally, wilt ensure att, : a Se ee | be the beginning of a determined struggle against the Proposals 20, 1931 MAS‘ DEMONSTRATION AT LENIN MEMORIAL MEET TO ANSWER FISH Garden Wednesday Night Foster, Minor, Amter to Speak at Lenin-Lieb- knecht-Luxemburg Mass Meeting NEW YORK. — The mighty demonstration of tens of thou- sands of workers on Wednesday night October 21st in memory of the threegreat revolutionary leaders, V. I. Lenin, Kar] Lieb-| knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, at Madison Spuare Garden, will] of the fascist Fish Committee.* It will express the determina | Fy tion of the New York workers| ! to mobilize behind the Com- munist Party and the revolu- tionary trade unions of the T.U.U.L. for «truggle dgainst the new wage | cutting conspiracy of Hoover and: Green, against the wholesale deporta-, "i tion and further suppression of the Fyrom All Over City foreign-born workers, against forcing | pat additional millions to starve, against! ‘The delegation that will invade the the entire campaign of terror, against | city hall is made up of Harry Ramsey. the working class in preparation for) Julius Cenanthal and James Onea: war against the Soviet Union. jof the Bronx Unemployed Council! The proposals of the Fish Commit-| Frieda Jackson of the Bronx Council | tee, which is th@official policy of the | Of Working Class Women. Hoover-Wall St. government, is a| Richard B. Moore (Negro worker) | blow against the entire working class. | of the Harlemn Tenants League; John | DELEGATES TO. ENTER CITY HALL RepresentManyGroups Tens of Thousands F Fixpected at Madison Sq:! jcomes from,a so-called pacifist, Dr. Robber War tor Protits Is Coming That a war is being repated rapidly t6r “economie causes,’ whatever may be the other pretexts, is the admission made Saturday in the Washington conference of governors on the oil |situation in the United States. Rus- sell B, Brown, secretary ot the con- ference, said that “the world race tor control and exploitation of oil is one of the major causes of war.” Taking for granted tnet the next war is quickly coming, Brown goes on to say: “It has long been recognized by the best students of internat al affairs that whatever may, be the pretext of the next war, its primary cause would be economic and chat the race to obtain oil will be the most significant of those economic causes. If we look behind the scenes of revolutions and recent minor wars we will find this com- petition for oil is the bomb which Hs often started the hostilities.” It was for “economic causes,’ in other words, for capitalist profits, p that millions of workers were slaugh- HARLEM: 132d St. and Lenox Ave. tered inthe last World War under | MIDTOWN: the slogans of “A war to end wars,” | North, Side of Madison Square; 40th sand “war for democracy.” |St. North and Sixth Ave. 36th St. More proof of the war prearations |@nd Eighth Ave.; 419 West 5éth St.; | 122 West 27th St., 33th St. and Sev- enth Ave.: 148 Twenty-Third St DOWNTOWN: 25th St. and First Ave.; Lafayette Si. and Leonard St. DEMONSTRATORS! MEET AT 10 A. M.! Come to One of These! Points for the March! NEW YORK. — Wo less of New York! Today is the day to make your demands for unemploy- ment relief felt by the city govern- ment! Come early, by ten o'clock a. m. to one of these assembly points peu so as to reach it by noon! Pick | the concentration point most suit- able to you! IN BRONX: Wilkins and Intervale. David S. Muzzey, American historian. In a speech at the Society for Ethica! Culture on Sunday, Muzzey said that | every new battleship built adds to the WILLIAMSBURGH: Grand St. Ex war danger. “We are systematically | tension and Havemeyer St. preparing for war and sporadically | rs and job- | and be prepared to march on the city | BROWNE LDS: Stone and Pit-| CITY EDITION 1 |v Shes of Huge } Masses | nly Way to Compel | Feeding of of Hungry |Want $15. W eek Relief | |More for Families; No Evictions! NEW YORK. =A out today at 10 a m. to hunger march on the city hall and demonstrate before it at noon! Come in masses and show the city government and the bankers and many that you refuse to starve dur- ing the crisis they made, that you |refuse to freeze to death after they have evicted you! From 19 25th St. and Ave. A:\®round the city the demonstrators will march. They will meet early in the forenoon, not later than 10 a. m. hold meetings at these assembly | peints, vote on the demands, endorse their 30 delegates to interview the |mayor (if he comes out of hiding), or the aldermen or the mayor's rep- resentative, and prepare to march in |time to reach the city hall at 12 lo ‘clock noon. wage-cutting employers back of Tam- | main assembly points | _ Price 3 Cents UNEMPLOYED AND MILITANT EMPLOYED WORKERS DEMONSTRATE BEFORE CITY HALL AT NOON; GATHER IN MORNING G <| GRANT PERMIT T0 SEND COMMITTEE Deny Right ¢ to Speak From City Hall Steps NEW YORK.—Chief Police Inspec- tor Boland has granted a permit to the delegation of 30 representatives of the 900,000 jobless here to enter the city hall today at noon and pre- sent demands for $15 a week cash relief for all unemployed workers and more for those with dependents, , as well as other demands. The police refuse a permit for speakers from the city hall steps to the vast throng that will be assembled before them. | | Yesterday the police sent down a special car to take Sam Nesin tothe |office of Boland. But the secretary of the Councils of the Unemployed | here, after riding in numerous police | wagons during the period in which every demand of the jobless for the right to live has been met with hide- ous brutality and arrests, thought he could get to the police inspector’s of- fice by subway. The working class will mobilize at the Lenin Memorial meeting’for the pur- pose of intensifying the organization of the revolutionary organizations, for developing the struggle against outlawing, the Communist Party and the revolutionary unions. Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg. memorial meetings will be held in J. Jones, elected at the Harlem bread- line; and Curtis La Faire, ‘of. the Harlem Council of the Unemployed. Stevens, Pat ,O’Boyle and Mrs. Constantino of the Municipal Flop | House; Maude White of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and Charles Oberkirch of the Food Workers Industrial Union, all repre- senting the jobless of the Madison every industrial city in the New York | Square: section ne 3 Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, | Lester Allen, John Lambke, Nat New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Pas- * ; is Boyle and Buckey Oldenson of the saic, Linden and Yonkers, Newburgh, | nown Town Unemployed Council Troy, Jersey City. Prominent speak- igx! : From Waterfront ers will address all the meetings. ie pn aciral pi fave _ ‘ mass |. 308i lurphy, and Silver of the aemonsration ever held in the Ga. | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union | singing of appropriate revolutionary Pie Mees op a WOnISa Rea ee by a combined mass chorus in- Bpllak Hacer, Jose Yenuils, ‘Thomas ing hundreds of workers from * Daugherty and Nat Leroy of the the Freiheit’ Singing Society, the Brooklyn Unemployed Council. Lithuanian Chorus, the Hungarian Mra Elizabeth Nugent and Sarah Ukrainian, German, Finnish and Rus- Gross of the Williamsburg Tenants sian choruses. ‘The pagéant will por- League. tray very dramatically and vividly Franc’ is of th the birth of the Bolshevik Party in A beitiat 4 ek aes econdeneey the 1903 split, the revolution of 1917, Mariano Ceuto of the’ Boro Hall the imperialist . intervention plot Unemployed Council. and the triurhph of the 5-year plan.| Rose Schechter of the Metal Trades It is something that the workers of Unemployed Council. New York have never seen as yet,| Fred Biedenkapp of the Independ- prepared by the Workers Laboratory | ent Shoe Workers Union, heatre. Frank Smith of the Executive Com- All out to the Lenin Memorial| mittee of the Councils of the Unem- Meeting. Give your answer to the | ployed. Fish Committee. Smash the imper- ialist intervention plots against the Soviet Union! Signature Collection Days in Perth Amboy PERTH AMBOY, N. J,, Jan. 19.— The Communist Party unit here has decided to make the next four Sat- urdays and Sundays special mass sig- nature collection dates for the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, All workers interested in the passage of this bill are asked to report at the Workers’, Home, 308 Elm Street, at 1 p. m. on Saturdays and 10 a. m. Attention Members of All Language » Choruses All must come to the general rehearsal for the Lenin Memorial on Tuesday, Jan, 21, 7.30 p. m., at Irving Plaza. Come under all cir- cumstances. — “Federation of praying for peace.” Muzzey favors a | tin Ave. continuation of~ war. arfmaments; pat |— BORO HALL: Jolinson and J. St. calls for more efficient pacifist sine SOUTH BROOKLYN and BRIGH- sapbemic, ci aE uadacnen TON BEACH: Court and Carroll St. | In addition there ,are various in- NEGRO RIGHTS TO dustrial unions and leagues which ‘ call all unemployed in their industry to special mobilization points, An- nounced so far are: JEWELRY WORKERS: and Sixth Ave. FOOD WORKERS: 40th St. Sixth Ave. OFFICE WORKERS: 23rd St, and | "Madison Square. | NEEDLE WORKERS: Mobilize at the three meetings listed above iff the needle trades market. MARINE AND WATERFRON’.’ JOBLESS: Whitehall and South St. BUILDING TRADES AND OTHER T. U. U. L, LEAGUES: Madison Sq. }and 25th St. HOLD ORG. MEET Workers Organs Urged to Send Delegates NEW YORK.—The League of Struggle for Negro Rights will hold a mass meeting on Monday, January 26th, at 8 p. m., at St, Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St. At this meeting a report of the’ National Convention at St. Louis will be given by Herbert Newton, Nationa} Secretary of the or- Other speakers are William Z. Fos- ganization. ter and Richard B. Moore. Organiza- tional steps will be taken at this meeting to form branches of the LS.N.R. All organizations are. asked to send delegates to this meet. Fight for These Demands Today; Refuse to Starve! The demands that will be served on the city ne today are for: $15 a-week for a single worker to be paid from the first day of unemployment; $20 a week for a married worker, increasing up to $25 47th. St. The article on A. F,_of L. and Political Corruption in New Jersey is omitted today. The 18th article will appear tomorrow. for more dependants; free food and lunches for school children, and free carfare for both the jobless in seareh of work and their school children; no evictions of the unemployed; 20 per cent reduction in rents; free light, heat and gas; all vacant apartments, armories, public buildings, etc. to be- opened as sleeping quarters for the jobless; all schools and halls to be allowed as meeting places for the unemployed; immediate dismissal of the charges against the Oct. 16 delegation, Stone), who were beaten up in the rd of estimates room at a signal from Mayor Walker. These three le#lers of the) jobless have been de- nied a ju,-y trial and face the sama railroading given the March 6th (Nessin, Lealess and * Choruses.” Workers’ Choruses.’ on Sundays. ~ ‘ ‘ The Lenin Memorial Meetings mean much to every worker in the United Stat particularly to the Daily Worker. One of the great con- contributions of Lenin was in pointing out\the importance of the working- class press, of building the press just at a period similar to this in a revo- lutionary crisis, It was he that raised the: slogan. “The press. is the col- lective organizer and mass agitator of the’ working-class.” Today the Daily Worker must play the role for the American workers that the “Iskra,” the revolutionary paper of the Russian workers played in organizing the Rus- sian Revolutionary Movement. It is just at this period that all the work- ers must develop and strengthen the Daily Worker, so that we may have our collective organizer in the struggles that we are now entering against American Imperialism. The Fish Committee especially noted the strength of our press, noted its increase of stroulation and therefore s are Gctermined-by all means to ‘Comrades, Help Overcome the Deficit of the Daily Worker! ; WITHOUT. THIS WE CANNOT BUILD THE DAILY delegation when they appear January 26 in the court of special sessions. | During the meetings, and on the|. wesin and a witness saw Boland } line é Darcy ibe og signatures | | jafter 11 a, m. in the Twentieth Pre- lot those demanding the passage by! cinct puilding, 150 W. 68th St. congress of the Workers’ Unemploy- Police Hate March. The inspector tried to dissuade the New York unemployed from marching on the city hall. To Nesin’s demand for a permit to speak from the steps D ON PAGE WE'RE NOT ALONE! CONTIN Two) ‘OTHERS TO MARCH and | Workers and jobless of Akron, Ohio; Los Angeles, Calif.; Haver- hill, Mass., and New Brunswick, N. J., are hunger marching today. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. —A workers nearly captured the city hall, Jan. 10, and three-days later the city council amended its budget and ap- propriated money to feed the starv- ing. Results! CANTON, Ohio.—After the hunger march Jan. 8, the council of the un- employed grew many times in size. Now it is haling landlords before it and forcing them to stop evictions. It crashed into the city charity and demanded its Girector. eat his own garbage. . 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 19. — Today 1,500 hunger marched, on the city hall where they were joined by 5,000 more and forced Mayor Rossi to listen to their demands. The de- mands were refused, and the march- ers went back to a hall and built a huge: Council of the Unemployed for further struggle. 8 BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 19. — A big snow storm, followed by rain did not stop the hunger march here today, though it kept thousands away. De- mands were made on Mayor Curle: but he answered by sending the po- lice to break up the demonstration. BALTIMORE, Md., Jan crush it, the power of the’ working-class will save the Daily Worker. The seven years of existence of the Daily Worker and its increase of circula- ‘tion is Proof of this. a Comrades: We must answer the Fish Committee with increased finan- cial support to liquidate the deficit. Without ridding ovrselves of this deficit, tab Bact’ possibly build the Daily Worker. The balance of about $19,000 mist be reached by the end of the month. The Brooklyn Finnish thousand demonstrated today at the city hall; hundreds having hunger marched to the place. ‘The city coun- cil adjourned its sessions and fled. the mayor was “away to a funeral.” Demands will be ‘served on the board of estimates Tuesday. Peat Young Negro As Attack on “Daily” NEW YORK.—Because he was sell- | ing the Daily Worker, Lorenzo Stokes, @ young Negro worker and a member of the Young Communist League, was badly beaten up by a cop and a dick in front of the 180th St. station. Stokes is a member of the Red Build- ers News Club, and is one of the best Workers Club at their last meeting donated $500.00. There are still more Finnish Organizations which are to report their donations and collections. -There are still some workers’ organizations, who are actively raising fands who have not yet reported nor sent in their contributions, RUSH ALL FUNDS IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK CITY, 4 ' boosters in selling the Daily that the club has. What was done to-him afterward is unknown. Despite this attempt to discourage selling. the Daily the Red Builders will continue and will intensify their mending of the workers’ paner. hunger march of Negro and white |, 19. — Six} the inspector replied that the “city hall was not the place for demonstra- tions.” Nesin reminded the inspector that Queen Marie left her torture cham- bers and dungeons full of workers back in Rumania and had speakers on the city hall steps, as well as a parade. Likewise many another fa- mous enemy of the working class had the same privilege. The inspector said that was different, those were “guests: of the city.” It is evident that the 900,000 starving jobless here are not “guests.” They are regarded as slaves or cattle by the city ad- ministration. Nesin, throughout the interview, acted on the presumption that the city hall, seat of government, was just exactly the place where workers should gather to make their demands on pS ibaa B’KLYN LISTS TO BE IN BY JAN. 27 The Communist Party (Section 8) calls upon all revolutionary workers in Brownsville and East New York to help in getting the necessary sig- natures to put a Communist can- didate on the ballot in the Ninth Congressional District by Jan. 27. The Party has only yesterday learn- ej that the death of the capitalist politician O'Connell will mean a spe- ial election on Feb. 17. Petitions with the signatures of 3,000 East New York voters must be turned in by midnight of Jan. 27! This task must be therefore accomplished within seven days! The accomplishment of this tremendous task within so short ‘a ‘tithe will be a test of Bolshevik qualities and determination of the members of the Communist Party, the | Young Communist League, the revo- lutionary unions and mass organiza~ tions, and all sympathizers of the revolutionary movement, in Browns- ville and East New York, The District Committee and the ion Committee have released all ununist Party members of Sec- | tion 8 from all internal meetings in | thy ty and mass organizations and unions up to January 27 and have is- sued a binding instruction to all comrades to report to 105 Thatford Ave.every night from 6 to 8 p. m. and if unemployed, every day at 12 noon, for the collection of signatures. All Communist ‘Party and Young Communist League members are call- er to a special section membership meeting at 6 p. m. today (Tuesday? at the Workers Center, 105 Thatford Ave, after which the wih [eo cul tor slanatunee ge at % , | ‘ je