The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1931, Page 1

& i Rush tke Collection of Signa- tures for the Unemployment Insurance Bill! Make the Halls of Congress Ring With the Demands of the Unemployed on February 10! | Dail (Section of the Communist he Entered ay second-class matter ; - at the Post Office ggpo22 ™; tnternat Vol. VIM, No. 24 at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3 187° Don’t Starve---- Fight! 'HE DRIVE which the unemployed masses of the United States are making under the leadership of the Communist Party for unem- ployment insurance, is evoking distorted echoes from the bourgeoisie. Unwilling to provide adequate relief for the unemployed, and unable to solve the problem of unemployment, the capitalists and their agents, are now talking about unemployment insurance. Politicians, liberals, sky pilots, and labor fakers, talk about it. They all talk, in the hope of di- verting the attention of the working masses from their fight for unem- | ployment insurance. They talk, expecting to intoxicate the masses with | hopes for relief from “above.” However, even a mere glance at the Substance of their talk and of their proposals, reveals their sheer pre- tense. Last Friday, there gathered at the Russell Sage Foundation, a num- | ber of ladies and gentlemen who formed themselves into a “Committee for the Promotion of Unemployment Insurance.” This committee decided to bring forward and support an “American plan” of unemployment in- surance. Mindful of the warning that “patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels,” we lift the cover of Americanism from the plan, and try to see what it hides. We know only too well that Americanism stands for capitalism. And it will—until the workers rule America. > The “American” plan provides that workers pay the major part of the premium for the proposed insurance. The workers’ income when employed, is to be taxed to provide an evidently inadequate help for the unemployed victims of capitalism. The profits of the bosses are not to be touched. To make profits for the bosses is the sole purpose of the capitalist order. The value of this social order therefore, is not to be judged by the number of workers it starves, but by the percentages of profit it produces for the pockets of the bosses. Any plan of unemploy- ment insurance which proposes to reduce the number of starving workers at the expense of the percentage of the profits of the bosses, is “un- American.” As against this “American plan” proposed by this committee, the workers put forward a workers’ plan of unemployment insurance. This plan is based on the fact that the workers’ labor is the source of all the profits of the bosses. This plan therefore demands that when the bosses cannot supply work for the masses their profits must be mobilized to keep these masses from starving. The workers’ plan demands that all the tremendous expenditures which the government is making in the interests of the bosses must be stopped and the funds provided for these expenditures shall be assigned to the unemployment insurance fund. The workers’ plan of unemployment insurance declares that the billions spent every year for armaments and war purposes are spent only in the interest of the bosses. The only thing the workers ever get out of these ex- penditures is the uniform of a conscript soldier and the pleasure of being set up as a shooting target in the battlefields of imperialist wars for profits. The workers’ plan therefore demands that all the funds assigned to war expenditures must be immediately turned into an unemployment insurance fund. Last Friday a meeting of some governors in Albany, also discussed unemployment and unemployment insurance. One of the gentlemen participating at this conference declared: “Unemployment and the conse- quent loss of wages cannot be eradicated.” The workers’ plan for unem- Pioyment insurance challenges this statement and declares that it is true only in % very qualified form. Unemployment and the consequent.Joss ‘Of wages cannot be eradicated—under capitalism. While political lackeys of capitalism are talking about an “American” plan of unemployment insurance, we wish to point out a Russian plan of liquidation of unem- ployment. The plan, of course, is Russian, not in a nationalist, but in @ class sense. Just as Americanism stands for capitalism, Russia today stands for Communism. Though as yet in the stage of transition and construction, the building of Socialism in Russia has proceeded far enough to prove that it can and does liquidate unemployment. It liquidates un- employment eyen to a degtee very unwelcome to our bosses. It not only provides a job for every worker, but it also makes it progressively impos- sible for parasites to make a living out of the labor of others. There- fore, the remnants of the capitalist class in the Soviet Union find them- selves more and more forced to exchange their past habit of fattening on the labor of others into the habit of working themselves for. a living. ‘This kind of “forced labor” in the eyes of capitalism, is worse than hell itself; but being required to have a job can have no terrors for the worker. ‘His experience under capitalism make it a terrible thing to be unable to find work. All the talk about unemployment. insurance, all the numerous plans brought forward for unemployment insurance, all the conferences and committees organized to talk about unemployment insurance and to work out plans, are nothing but attempts to make the workers believe that their bosses and their political rulers are contemplating unemployment insur- ance and unemployment relief and that therefore the workers themselves need not bother about the problem, This is a method devised by the ene- mies of the workers to defeat the struggle for unemployment relief. ‘The workers must resist these attempts. The success of their strug- gle for Unemployment Insurance depends upon more energetic activity and the drawing ipto the activity of greater masses of workers. The whole history: of the last year is proof of this. Every relief action en- gaged in by the bosses, the government or other bosses’ agencies, was the immediate result af organized struggle and organized demonstrations of the workers themselves. To get unemployment insurance, the workers must continue their fight till they have it. To get adequate unemployment insurance, they must fight for the mobilization of the bosses’ profits. To develop the greatest fighting force, they must reject the support of the numerous schemes put forward by agents of the bosses and must unite on-the only adequate and effective insurance proposal — that drafted by the Communist Party. This unemployment insurance provides the drafting of the bosses’ profits, the assignment to unemployment insurance funds of the billions of awr expropriations and the administration of those funds by the workers themselves, 4 The slogan cannot be “Wait and See”; it must be “Don Fight!” ov 't Starve— Bryant Ave.: 736 Fox St. ee 14% Kant 1oard st: 308 Lenox Avenues 341 EB. 149th st.” a DOWNTOWN: WORKERS, VOLUNTEER for the Unemployment Solidarity Tag Days under auspices T.U.U.L. and W.LR., January 31st and February 1st. Do yout’ class duty, help the ais deat hunger marchers! In their fight for| Zan se’ fa eels aeth St 184 EB. Unemployment Insurance! Call for| St.: 1¢ Wes aint ac niche da rg your boxes and coupon books at once | g, LIAMSBURGH: at the National WIR, 131 W. oath | irGrnham Avet 201 Tompking Ave.: St, N. Y. Cand at the following NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931 ® ment Insurance Delegation will make also the day upon which hundreds working class. Sickness and death February 10, the day that the Workers’ Unemploy- Congress to pass the Unemployment Insurance Bill is workers must pour into the streetsand public places to again voice their demand for unemployment relief, to again engage in a determined battle against hunger. Starvation is gripping ever larger sections of the nourishment is spreading faster and faster throughout Demonstration on February 10 and participated in our local struggles for immediate relief and unemployment insurance must at once take its demand upon steps to effect the the February 10 had. of thousands of tive leaders in the ready for battle. The problem is to through under- The city hunger marches have definitely proven to allworkers that our Unemployed Councils and the Trade Union Unity League are responsible and effec- They are anxious to join our ranks, the nation, Hardship and suffering multiply, while | our local demands tense, buncomb and fakery. workers, in large and small we all demand. those that have all wealth and overfilled stomachs sneer at the plight of the starving masses of workers, inerease the exploitation of the employed workers, while they spit forth ever more demagogy and pre- Workers, unemployed and employed, power. February 10th will be the day upon which the industrial centers, mining camps and steel towns, will gather in masses to demonstrate to the bosses and their political hench- men that what our,delegation in Washington is de- manding, namely, unemployment insurance, is what Upon this day we give notice to the rich and well-fed exploiters that our delegates to Washington carry with them the power and determina- tion of gigantic masses of workers in all cities and towns, that it represents the employed and unem- Ployed workers throughout the country. All comrades and workers who have helped to lead Every action we must show their | demonstration upo! hunger, the battle in politicians retreat working class, towns! about our Washington delegation and its aims. have engaged in up to now, will be adjudged a definite achievement for the working class upon the basis of the numbers of workers who fill the streets in militant and numbers. Accumulative power and militancy will compel the rich to disgorge, will make the capitalist Organize more Unemployed Councils! day-to-day fight for immediate relief in all cities and | Gather additional thousands of signatures for our Unemployment Insurance Bill! ly for February 10! unvanquishable masses! TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE. largest mobilization of workers for demonstrations that we have ever fight for bread. The workers are reach them, to acquaint them with for immediate relief, to inform them have sponsored, every struggle we mn February 10. The fight against for bread must grow in intensity before the onward march of the Carry on a® Mobilize effective- Onto the streets upon this day in Demonstrate your power! | | EX-SERVICEMEN HELP THE DAILY’ Must Have $2,000 in Next Two Days ~Although the income on the ap- peal began to show quite favorable increases, however the last few days’ donations are so few that the Daily appears only through special loans and concessions by some of the work- ers of the press. The uncertainty of getting out the paper must cease. The deficit must be liquidated. These are times ih the history of the lives of the American workers in which we must not be without the Daily Worker for one moment. Not only are the workers in shops showing their militancy but we find the unemployed war veterans begin- ning to show real fighting, working class militant spirit. Ex-servicemen are on the streets selling the Daily Worker, also joining in all the dem- onstrations and are now becoming an integral part of the hunger mareh- es of the unemployed councils. By next Thursday we will be facing sev- eral notes that are due, amounting to about two thousand dollars. To- day's paper came out only by post- poning payments of bills due today. Tomorrow and the rest of the days this week show a very bad picture for the Daily Worker. Comrades, you must rush funds in order to make possible the publish- ing of the Daily Worker this week. Send funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. ee ORGANIZE TO. END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF!! Newark Jobless Wednesday; Defying Police Hunger March NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 26.—On Wed- nesday., at 10 a, m, under the leader- ship of the Newark Campaign Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance, thousands of workers will gather at Military Park, where a short meet- ing will take place, then a hunger march of the workers will begin to City Hall, while a delegation of the unemployed workers will present de- mands of the unemployed to the City Commissioneers at the city bud- get meeting. Thirty-three million dollars is pro- posed for 1931 city budget, and not one cent for the relief of the 80,000 unemployed of this city. Workers will demonstrate for the postpone- ment of payment of $5,981,621.38 to the bosses, instead it should be given to the unemployed as relief. Under the instruction of the big companies, Policé Chief McRell re- fused a permit to the unemployed to hold a demonstration. He said, like a little Mussolini: “No hunger march to City Hall! No demonstra- tion at City Hall—no speaking at City Hall! I will see to it that no such things are done.” To the agents of the bosses of Newark, the Newark Campaign Com- | mittee for Unemployment Insurance | declares that the unemployed work- | ers are determined to go through with their hunger march from Mili- tary Park to City Hall, permit or no | Permit, police or no police, arrests or no arrests, and that the fight for bread for the unemployed thousands wil] be won, The jobless demonstrated here Jan. 7 and were met with police clubs | and 13 arrests, | Appeal to Militia. | The state militia have been or- | dered out for a ceremony of some sort near the City Hall Jan, 28. The icbless in their leaflet calling for the | Jan, 28 demonstration make a special appeal to workers in the National | Guard to assist, and not attack, the demonstration. One of the demands | of the marchers is for the “tombstone bonus” to be granted now, not in 1945, H TAKE A LIST TO WORK! WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS| INSURANCE! RED FLAGS FLY IN MASSES REVERE ANTONIO ORA Manila cables of capitalist press: agencies reveal the enormous mass following of the Communist and rev- olutionary workers in the Philippines, as shown by a great demonstration at the revolutionary funeral of An- tonio Ora, for many years one of the | Undaunted by the efforts of Tam- many. Judge Voorhees to gag them, Sam Nesin, Milton Stone and Robert Lealess, the three leaders of the un- employed demonstration of Oct. 16, 747 Flushing Ave.: 322 South Sth St. sas Pickin Aves S02 Binet stations on the Tag Days: reealy pag NEW YORK CIry: St vene Marks Ave, ‘alle ania be 500 Proxpect Ave. + 353 Beckinan Ave.t 1622 Bathgate Ave.s 52. Maat isotk Sty 2100 Arthur Ave.t 1645 GrandCon= Lenin Meet Tickets Must Be Settled for All units of the Party and YCL RIDGEWOOD: 208 Central Avenue. EASTERN PARKWAY 249 Schenectady: Ave. iu IDDLEVILLAGE 1 Fulton Avenue, ‘ 902 Sutter Aves 1151 Dial’ ; ler Ave. Thatford Ave. aly 4 se 1978 ara str 4012 New Utrech mn jew Utree! oe 746 40th St Sth Ave, ga EAST FLATBUSH: LK, 04th Sts 470 FE. O3rd_ St. SOUTH BROOKLYN: as well as all mass organizations || 130 15th st. to which tickets for the Lenin- }] 2994 zou geo NSONMURST! Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial BORO HALL: 15 Myrtle Ave, » CONDY ISLAND: 2001 Merminid Ave, BRIGHTON BEACH: 140 Neptune Ave, BATH BEACH: 48 Bay 28th St.. ssa LONG ISLAND CITY: 26 Jackson Ave. N EY: Mercer Sty Newark 206 Market ns Ne 4 jar ti, Matersont 106 Fi. Jersey St» Eliza- i ‘ONKE a] 262 Warburton ave E Liha Meeting were given, are asked to settle up at once for the tickets. The District Office is in a severe financial situation which caused the cutting off of the electric power in the building last week. Please turn in all money at once. District Bureau, District 2 Communist Party of U. 8. A. i appearing yesterday (Monday) in Special Session. Court, Part 6, re- fused to plead either guilty or not guilty to the charges against them and exposed the attempts to railroad them to jail without a jury trial. The three workers, who are being charged with unlawful assembly, out- raging public decency and endanger- ing public peace, created a new pre- cedent by appearing in their own de- fense. The court consisted of Judge Voorhees, Walling and Direnzo, all loyal henchmen of Tammany Hall. Stone, the first to be called, refused to plead because they were being Leaders of Jobless Refuse to Plead Guilty in Court had caused him to order the on- slaught on the three workers. Lealess and Nesin both’ refused to submit to the jurisdiction of the court —Nesin demanding a jury trial. Nesin pointed out that on the day the unemployed delegation appeared before the Board of Estimate the Beard appropriated $700,000,000, but not a cent for the unemployed. He also demanded that Mayor Walker be subpoenaed as a, witness. Despite the refusal of the. workers to plead, Judge Voorhees himself en- tered a plea of “Not guilty” for them and set the date of the trial for Feb. 16. The New York District of the International Labor Defense, which is handling this case; is in a state- ment issued by Rose Baron, secretary, denounced the refusal of a jury trial tried in the same court whose judges | and exposed this case as an effort to they had called Tammany graftersé for which the three of them had been thrown out of the Board of Estimate | meeting on Oct. 16, brutally beaten and arrested. He cited testimony of Mayor Walker at an earlier hearing in which the mayor admitted this stifle the struggles of the hundreds of thousands of starving unemployed. The:LLD. calls upon all workers to smash this attempt to railroad the three militants to the same or longer sentences as were meted out to Fos- ter, Minor and Amter. MANILA AS. outstanding and militant leaders of the workers’ movement. The death of Ora, supposedly from. United Front Conterence Saturday at 2 P.M. at Webster Hall to A ional) CITY ED id Dressm WORKERS OF T HE WORLD, UNITE! ITION Price 3 Cents" DEMAND INSURANCE FEBRUARY 10! Prepare Now for Militant Mass JOBLESS AND EMPLOYED PREPARE T0 SUPPORT DELEGATION TO CONGRESS WITH NATION WIDE DEMONSTRATICN Demonstrate Tomorrow at Noon for Dress Strike!) Thousands Will Be at Mass Meeting, at 36th! Street and Eighth Avenue; More Agree to Be in Saturday Conference NEW YORK.—Thousands of work- , Club, ers will participate in a monster dem- | Club. | onstration, to be held tomorrow noon | at 36th St. and Eighth Ave., as an | L expression of determination to make | the contemplated dress strike a suc- | cess, | The plight of 35,000 dressmakers | _ who are forced to slave under ab- | solute sweatshop conditions, imposed | upon them by the boss in co-opera- | | THUAGER. AND UNEMPLoYMew Tr tion with the company union, must | be combatted. Only through strug- gle will the workers smash these sweatshop conditions. The Needle | Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is mobilizing the dressmakers for a} struggle both’ against the bosses and | the treacherous company union. | The demonstration tomorrow noon | ¢ | will be an expression of both the | firm resolve on the part of the work- | ers to smash the sweatshop condi- tions and smash the company union. | Credentials for Conference, l¢ All indications lead to believe that | the Jan. 31 conference will be a huge success. The question of representa- tion at this conference and of ma- terial assistance to the dress strike | ; is being taken up in hundreds of | workers’ organizations. The follow- | ing already sent in their credentials: | International Workers’ Order,| Branches 20, 56, 112, 132, 147 and 150. Clubs—Prospect Workers’ Club, Young Liberators, Finnish Workers’ | DOWNTOWN ULC. HALTS EVICTION ‘ganize Suffolk | Worker Tenants NEW YORK.—Hearing that a wo- man with nine children were about | to be evicted at 167 Suffolk St. the Downtown Unemployed Council ad- journed their meeting to march | down in demonstration against the | eviction. | Halting before the tenement house the Unemployed Council held a meet- ing with Al Dasch, former amateur | boxer, and Pat O'Boyle, an ex-ser- | viceman, speaking for the council Police, who at first refused to grant | @ permit, did not dare interfere with | the meeting. t St. an “automobile accident” while on the way to court to be tried for “sedi- | | ployed Council decided to return on tion,” was followed by preparction of the Proletarian Labor Congress, the largest Philippine trade union organ- ization and the only one following a class struggle policy for a mass fun- eral. Ora was president of the or- ganization. The capitalist dispatches state that the chief of police forbid the bearing of red flags at the funeral, but the workers fearlessly asserted that red flags would be carried in defiance of Police and constabulary prohibition. So determined and angry were the workers that the police were forced to withdraw the ban on red) flags. Rather amusingly pretending that | they “outwitted” the workers—by surrendering to them. The result was a huge demonstra- tion, the capitalist press admitting 27,000 participants, which in view of other Manila demonstrations’ strength was undoubtedly twice 27,000. Red flags flew everywhere as the great parade passed through the strééts, and speakers of the Proletarian Labor Congress (affiliated with the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat) delivered speeches which the imper- ialist press calls “highly incendiary, calling for a revolution against im- perialism and capitalism,” While there is no Communist Party in the Philippines, there are a num- ber of Communist workers, and An- tonio Ora was one of those most de- voted to the working class, an inter- nationalist and a resolute, self-sacri- feing revolutionary, b Organizing me tenants the Unem- | the morrow and demonstrate at | Commissioner Taylor's office, to- | gether with Mrs, Schreiber, , the | worker's wife, whom the landlord wished to evict. Tenants of Suffolk St. will turn out ‘and demand that the eviction notice be withdrawn. | Unemployed in Many Small Industrial Towns Active \| Speed Signature Drive Woods Admits Present Crisis Worst Yet The hunger marches have justified themselves, now for demonstrations Feb. 10 to support the demand for unemployment Demon- strations and marches on city halls | have torn from a grudging capitalist class and its local governments what- ever measures of relief are given, at the same time that, according to the statement of the Family Welfare Association of America breadlines are being abolished in 120 cities, | where the struggle has not’ developed | Strongly enough. Bronx Hungarian Workers’ Greek Branch of the International abor Defense. Jewish Workers’ Club No. 5. Brownsville School No. 3. Every organization is voting funds insurance, | Dew't Thine Anour THINK ABOUT § ooze? Mass struggle against evictions, made possible by persistent organiza- | tion of unemployed councils in all |of the union, eign-born, thorities raided’the Hoboken water-| front and arrested 300 foreign-born} workers, - | “ CAPITALIST, PRES ‘or the assistance to the strike. It is urgently requested that all credentials be sent in to the office 131 W.. 28th St. on ime and that those organizations where delegates were not elected be (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 300 FOREIGN BORN RAIDED AND HELD Government Attack ON) “We have millions of idle work- All Workers NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — Carr out their threat to attack the for-| federal immigration au-| workers. While no specific charge was placed against them the immi-| gration officers state that it was the| first of such a series of raids to de-| port “undesirable” —_ foreign-born | =| | That the attack is mainly directed) against active Communists was in-| dicated in the Fish report. Fifty-eight workers are now held | for preliminary hearing for deporta- tion. The fight for the protection of for- eign-born must be spurred. A united) front of native and foreign-born workers is necessary to smash this terror drive-against the work- ers. ‘Cut Of Even 120 Cities to To hide the fact that ever greater masses of workers are forced onto | the breadlines to keep from starva- tion, over 120 cities out of 149 sur- |veyed by the Family Welfare Asso- ciation, have abandoned breadlines. Not even the slop fed on these bread- | lines will be given to the workers |any more in these 120 cities. While the city agencies promise “other forms of relief,” the fact is that the bosses are preparing wholesale star- vation for hundreds of thousands of workers. The Family Welfare Association, a charity outfit, also pointed out that in 75 large industrial cities no bryad- lines at all existed this winter. Ninety-five of the fake charity or- ganizations said they did not have sufficient funds to provide “relief.” This is the real reason why the breadlines are being eliminated. Un- willing to supply the unemployed in Breadlines in Starve Jobless coffee and stinking soup that they were formerly given, the breadlines are now being cut off. ‘ Those cities doing away with breadlines reported that they were abandoned because “community thinking turned toward more individ- | ualized forms of relief.” This means that the few workers who get relief will be blacklisted, browbeaten and terrorized by a bunch of charity vul- tures and cops. The closing of the breadlines and the failure of the entire charity structure of capitalism shows the worsening conditions of the unem- ployed and the necessity for pushing the fight for unemployment insur- ance. With no place at all to go for a bite of food, the millions of unem- ployed are closer to death by starva- tion. Mobilize for the huge hunger marches on Feb, 10 to force the | large cities and a good many of the smaller ones, have been fairly suc- | cessful. They Admit It's Worse. But these are local fights. The crisis grows, and is already admitted by Col. Woods, head of Hoover “Emergency Committee on Unem ployment” to be the worst yet. and one of a series of crises, each more serious than the one before. Woods admits in the press a a radio broadcast Sunda nd in night “Here we are with unrivaled rat- ural resources of every kind, an abundance of raw materials and man-power, a highly developed sys- tem of transportation and distribu- tion facilities, a tremendous system ef manufacturing plants to conyert the raw materials into saleable commodities. We have plenty of capital. ers, many of them now desperate- ly in need of the very commodities they might produce if they had work. These workers are not of the chronically unemployed type. They are able to work, able to do (CONTINUE THREE) Worker Jailed for Having Copies of the Daily Worker on IRT NEW .YORK. — Bert Wellman, a member of the Daily Worker Red Builders Club, was sitting on an I, R. T. subway train Wednesday night with copies of the Daily Worker on his lap. He was not selling the pap- ers, but two detectives came up to him and arrested him. They jerked him off the train, Wellman was brought to the 57th St. magistrates court for “disorderly conduct” and selling the Daily Worker on the sub- way. He was not allowed to call up the International Labor Defense un- til after the trial was over. The case was put over until Tues- day. Wellman is out on bail put up by the International Labor Defense, Red Cross “Meals” At 3c Is “Relief” MARKED TREE, Ark., Jan. 26. —The Red Cross, out of the gen- erosity of its heart, is allowing the Starving farmers of this section exactly three and a third cents per “meal” for relief, om at the rate of ten cents a day. The max- imum allowance for, any family, no matter how big, is $4.50 a week. ‘The average family getting re- lief, if such “miserable sums can be so called, is five persons. Some families of 15 persons must get along on the $4.50, and are really starving. The food bought must be only that per- mitted by the Red Cross and con- sists of salt pork, cornmeal and beans, being without balance for bosses to pay the unemployed unem= Ploymeut insurance, th and really creating disease. A ecard