The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1931, Page 1

Carry on the Drive for Signa- tures. Intensify It. However, Remember That All Signa- tures Must Be in Hands of the National Commit- tee in N. Y. C. Not Later Than Feb. 5 ’ (Section of. the Communist interna ene!) Entered as _Vol. VIII, No. 27 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥ under the act of March 3. 187" Sa aresiny actu W YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 29, 1931 Smash the Fish Committee Report! Te workers must organize their forces to repel the new attack by the bosses of this country launched through the report of the Fish Com- mittee. This committee, which was appointed by the U. S. Congress for the suposed purpose of investigating Communism, has finally brogght in its report, a bitter anti-labor document. The Fish Committee, cre®ted as @ result of the struggles of the unemployed workers on March 6 and the !" growing misery of the workers and poor farmers of the country, *empha- sizes two main points in its report, which every worker must fight against. |) Itisa direct, brutal attack on the entire working class. It aims to lower the workers’ conditions, to paralyze the labor movement and to outlaw the Communist Party. It also represents another step in the preparation for war against the Soviet Union. The hearings of the committee were those of an inquisition. Every police agent and spy, every white guard: Russian, every fascist strike- breaking labor leader, every enemy of the labor movement and of the Soviet Union, was called before the Committee to give testimony against the working class, against the Communist Party and against the Soviet Union. The Communist Party declares openly its aims: to organize and lead the workers in the struggle against starvation, to improve the workers’ conditions and to emancipate the working class from the damnable system of capitalism. ‘The reasons for the formation of the committee ‘were clear. Millions of workers were then out of work—and their number has increased. The growing revolt of the workers against hunger, misery and starvation forced the bosses to action in order to curb the efforts of the workers to get organized and to fight. The many millions of unorganized workers, whose ‘conditions, hours and wages were reducing them to the hunger- line, were beginning to organize and strike. The rising tide of the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union was in sharp contrast to the mass unem- ployment and the growing economic paralysis in the United States. Therefore the capitalists could and can find no other way out of the crisis and to smash the Soviet Union but through war. The Fish Com- mittee is the instrument for slashing wages, smashing the unions, speeding up the working class, for making war on the Soviet Union. ‘Who stands behind the Fisa Committee? Behind it stand Wall Street and all the black, fascist, reactionary forces in the country. Behind these so-called “upholders of the constitution of the United States” stand Morgan, Rockefeller & Co., the fascist leaders of the American Federation of Labor, the traitorous socialist party, the priests and ministers of all denominations—all the ferces that openly and covertly fight against the workers in their struggles for unemployment insurance, for organization to improve the conditions of life and labor. : And what does the Fish Committee propose? It proposes fo smash back the working class, to take away the right to organize and strike. It aims to raise and organize sentiment for war against the Soviet Union, ‘The Fish Committee proposes the formation of a national spy system under the Department of Justice, which will threaten the existence of every ‘worker. Particularly those who take the lead in the fight against existing conditions and for the organization of the workers for struggle, are to be crushed. The foreign born workers are to be intimidated and terrorized with deportation, finger-printing, registration, taking away of their rights, etc, The campaign of lynching against the revolting Negro workers and poor tenant farmers is to be encouraged and legalized. But above all, the Communist Party is to be outlawed and the Communist papers are to be suppressed. ‘This is an open attack on the entire working class. The Fish report proposes to disorganize the workers and pit one section against the other. But neither the Fish Committee nor the capitalist class can outlaw hunger. The growing misery of the workers, the struggle against Green’s agreement with Hoover to lead no strikes for wage increases, are uniting the working class. More and more the awakening workers are following the Communist Party, which is leading and organizing the struggle against hunger and misery. Therefore, beginning with an attempt ta drive the Communist Party underground, the Fish Committee and the capitalists and their labor-traitor hirelings, the A. F. of L. fascist leaders and the socialist party, hope to be able to smash the entire labor movement. The Fish Committee report is an open attack on the Soviet Union. The Fish Committee proposes to place an embargo on all Soviet-made goods, and demands that a committee investigate the lumber and other industries of the Soviet Union in the hope of proving that “enforced labor” is being employed in the Soviet Union. These men who are the bosses of a-country where Negro and white workers’ slave in chain gangs, where two million child workers waste their lives in the sweatshops, where misery and starvation are the lot of 10,000,000 unemployed, where millions more work part-time on hunger wages, where millions of farmers and their families are starving—these men have the nerve to talk about “en- forced labor!” The attacks on the Soviet Union are open Pibiarabions for war. The increasing budget of the U. S. government for war purposes, for the army, navy, air and chemical forces, the organization of industry on a war basis, are a clear demonstration that the U. S. government together with the other imperialist governments, is energetically preparing for war. Fish Committee is part of the general campaign for war. Under the proposals of the Fish Committee, more than ever so-called “constitutional rights” become a joke. There is no “free” press, “free” assemblage for the workers. The policeman on the corner has the power to smash any such “rights.” The “right” to organize and strike is stopped by the police, courts, military and sheriffs. Only through bitter struggle can the workers get any rights. And in order to smash the rising move- ment of the workers and poor tenant farmers, who driven by starvation, are figiiing for the right to live; in order to stop the rising movement of the workers and poor farmers against another imperialist war, especially against the Soviet Union—the Fish Congressional Committee has brought in its report. _ Workers and poor tenant farmers of the United States! The Fish report is a challenge to the entire labor movement. It is the threat of the U, S. capitalist government to destroy every effective protest against the intolerable working and living conditions in this country. It is a step in introducing fascism in the United States, ts alm is to throttle the right of the workers to fight for their im- mediate economic needs, for the right to unemployment insurance, 5 for the right to organize and strike. It is aimed against the workers’ struggle for emancipation, It Is a direct attack on the foreign-born workers and Negrees, It is an open expostre of the fact that there is no free speech, no free press and no free assemblage in this coun- try. It is a step in the direction of the conditions in Cuba, where no voice of criticism may be raised, no word of protest may be said against the miserable conditions of the worling class. Workers and poor tenant. farmers! Now is the time to fight. All forces willing to defend the working cliss movement and the Soviet | Union must be merged in the struggle against the Fish Committee and its report. The danger to the working class is great. Only through mass pressure, through organization, demonstra- tions and struggle will we be able to prevent the further enslave- ment and pauperization of the working class. We must fight with all our might for the protection of the unemployed workers through unemployment \insurance, for the protection of the foreign-born workers and the Negroes, for the right to organize and strike, against the curse of injunctions. We, must fight for the right to meet, publich cnd d'seuss eur working class affairs. We must fight against the danger of war against the Soviet Union. Workers, defend your organizations! Native and foreign-born, Negro and white workers—unite and struggle! Down with the Fish Committee! Forward to the united front of all workers and poor farmers in the struggle for the rights of the working class! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U.S. A. . 3 { * The. _|for me as a laborer to be informed a the treacherous mature of the smal’ WASHINGTON, Jan. sce | on unemployment, doctored with | “optimistic” propaganda, just issued by the American Federation of Labor and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., show tremendous increases in the number of jobless. The Metro- politan Life Insurance Co’ figures, which Hoover at first refused to give out, and which were published only after they had been fixed up, show that only 54 per cent of the workers in the United States have full-time employment. are either totally unemployed or on | part-time basis. In the Detroit District only one- third of the workers have full time jobs. The rest are either totally un- employed or on part-time basis. The | | The rest, or 17,000,000, | AFL Admits Increase of 200,000 in.One Month A. F. of L. figures for the early part of January state that there are 5,- 700,000 workers totally unemployed in the United States. In issuing these figures to help the bosses and to cover up the real extent of the | unemployment situation, Green says that only 200,000 workers lost their | jobs in December. The percentages of the New York department of labor figures and those of the U. S. Departinent of Labor indicate that more than ‘300,000 workers were thrown out of work. While the bosses are printing lies about workers being taken baci on | the job the A. F. of L. officialdom |who work under Hoover's direction, | |are forced to show that while the! |‘weighed” percentage of unem- | ployed in December, 1930, in the ranks of the A. F. of L. was 16.6, in January it had jumped to 19.4. |is. forced to admit that ne ' 6,000,000 workers are out of wo | (mentioning nothing about the mil- lions on part-time as proved by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. figures) indicates that unemploy- ment is growing worse from day to day, and is affecting half ot the en- tire American working class. e RED CROSS AIDS MORE TO STARVE Tussle Over $25,000,000 Reveals Gov’t Fakery WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. — That the Red Cross under instructions of Hoover is refusing to take $25,000,000 | which is supposed to be appropriated for “relief”, is the charge made in the senate today. ing even the fake relief program of the Red Cross, so that the bosses will | have more profits and will not have to pay additional taxes. put over a gesture of providing re- lief” said that become a }.itical instrument of President Hoo; :r’. .The attitude.of the President cf the United States against a federal appropriation is in- comprehensible to his most intimate friends,” Robinson said: This wordy tussle between Robin-- son and Hoover over the function of the Red Cross brings out clearly that the bosses government, either through form of relief. Both are inicrested let the unemployed starve. What | Robinson objects to is Hoover's crude | methods of open sabotage, while he and his associates favor plans of} making the unemployed believe that | the boss government is actually doing something against hunger._ Only the mass action of the work- | ers will force relief from the capital- | ist government. Mobilize for the mass hunger demonstrations on February | 10th! NOTICE After Thursday, Jan. 29th, all | mail for the central office of the Communist Party and its depart- ments should be addressed to P. 0. Box 87, Station D, New York City. Senator Robinson who wanted to} : CUT WAGES 10 P.C. “the Red Cross had | the democrats or republicans do not} propose to give the unemployed any | in preserving the bosses’ profits and | 7°28 Spontaneous Marches Show Eagerness for Insurance As the time draws near for the nation-wide demonstrations in sup- port of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, spontaneous demon- strationsbreak out all over the coun- try. News has just been received of the march of 200 Fisher Body auto workers in Cleveland. Tuesday 3,000 who were looking Hiaavie i abr ae for jobs at Hogg Island, Philadelphia, marched on the city hall. SMITH CARPET CO. These ‘Doing It on the Sly to Forestall Action YONKERS, N. Y., Jan. 28.—Fro the | second time wit!im a year, a teh per | been handed out | Alexander | cent wage cut h: to the -wofkers in the Smith and Sons Co. mills here, the largest plant in the city. Th2 mill has been running part time for a long period, and hundreds of workers were The wage cut ‘is to go into effect Feb. 7. The new wage cut. will mean a reduction of from 4 to 60) cents a day in the already starvation | | pay of the workers. ‘The company is keeping quiet about | the wage cut, but it instructed the | foreman to go to each worker in- dividually and infor mhim about the | Slash. No notice was posted. This | is done in order to keep back organ- ization of strike by the workers. The Daily Worker is being sold in front of the shop gates, calling on the workers to organize shop com- mittees to prepare to strike against | the wage cut. All sorts of rumors’ fone ago but none were hired. ficit and do it quickly. This letter expresses Hot only the opinion of the native workers in Virginia, but also of, workers throughout the United States. Read the ‘etter carefully and im- mediately send your contribution to the $30,000 Bmergency fund of the Daily ‘ker, 59 E. 13th Street, New| York N.Y, dollar not because I can <a a | spare it because it is essential of the issues confronting the exploi- ted proletariat of America—and the Daily is worthy of every revolutionary worker's support. I am enclosing a clipping from the “ ia.Ga- zette” to give you an idea of the lousy propaganda we}workers have to stomach from the J loving, booze drinking Rotary Club that sanctions every crime from lynching to open shops and will never suggest that a laborer be paid more than 35 cents an hour, with a 10-hour day and a’ 6-day week. My gawd how the money, rolls in. Regardless of this: imper- ialist capitalist propaganda, regard- less of wage-cuts, lay-offs, the Klan, the American Legion and old lady patriotic societies, there are enough revolutionary workers in Virginia who by past experience have learned of J WORKER SENDS $1, SAYS IE REALIZES DAILY’S IMPORTANCE” The following letter from a Vir- town capitalists and will not be lead | ginia worker is one of the best reas-|into either another ons why we must liquidate the. de- slanghter or 2n attack on the Soviet | imperialist ‘Union. The Czarist-aristocray of the South cannot retain its wealth or po- sition of power in the present eco- nomic depression without resorting to the militia and murder. The old regime of the blue bloods is dying out, in its place we find a middle class bourgeois merchant trying to imitate his brother Morgan of Wall Street on two hundred a month wnd a new Ford—this n je class tyrant does not stop at m 3 to increase his profits—he uses the church, the klan, the legion, the press and the radio to make of the proletariat a willing and humble slave. Against these petty Mussolinies the working class will hurl the challenge of a “Daily Worker” will meet the lynch- ings, wage ‘cuts, and lay-offs with the ,organized power of a world proletar- jat— wil not compromise, will not re- treat until the demands of the work- ers are met, until by a united strug- gle we realize the overthrow of capi- talism and a World October. The revolutionary workers of Virginia may be unorganized, may be hungry, may be without jobs, may be scattered over the state—but the revolutionary workers of Virginia exist and stand with their northern comrades for the defense of the Soviet Union and the ultimate dictatorship of the proletar- iat over the whole world. ~ _ VIRGINIA WORKER. were sent) around about new workers being | hited at the plant. More than 1,000 | workers lined up at the doors a few | strike of all workefs in the Philip- Seaunseetions break out among the jobless themselyes, and are in ad- dition to the regular demonstrations arranged through the Councils of the Unemployed, of which there have | been dozens within the last few| weeks, and another big one planned for Philadelphia, today. Make It Nation-Wide! The workers and unemployed | Should now be in readiness for the great demonstrations in every city and town of United States, Feb. 10, the day on which the Workers Un- | employment Insurance Bill is pre- | sented to Congress by a delegation | | | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) HELP FIGHT FOR THE UNEM- PLOYED INSURANCE BILL! Workers International Relief, 131 W. 28th St. Telephone: Lackawanna 4-0640. -UNEMPLOYED SOLIDARITY TAG DAYS Saturday, January 3lst. Sunday, February Ist. $10,000 Needed to Feed Shelter Delegates in Washington and State Hunger Marches! — Thousands of Men, Women and Children Must Be on the Streets Collecting funds for the Struggle of the Un- || 2mployed! — Show Your Solidar- ‘| ty in Deeds! Prepare Yourself ind Prepare Others, Call ie pans | A wireless report from Manila dat- leadership of the Proletarian, Labor Congress, are calling for a general | pines in sympathy with 3,000 long | shoremen who are on strike in Ili- | olo. | mobilized against the strikers. Con- Ventura, secretary of the Interio: Filemon E. Perez, secretary of com- | meters and the Manila police that “dafiger was threatened in the cap- | | Mereasing number of strikes, | ‘The strike of 3,000 longshoremen at Tiiolo paralyzed port activities. Another strike involving dock work- ers of occidental Negros broadened MELLON AGAINST Wants All the Money for Tax Refunds WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28. | Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ap- peared before the Senate finance committee and urged rejection of all demands to pay the 1945 (‘‘Tomb- stone”) bonus to starving unemployed ex-servicemen now. This demand for payment now is one of those made by the Unemployed Councils and by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, as. well as by other bodies. Mellon's argument is that it would add to a treasury deficit and be an “economic peril.” Heé has given away money like water in the form of tax refunds to big businessmen, especially to corporations which his own family | owns, ¢ The very fact that the A. F. ot L. | jed January 27tlr states that Manila | labor unions, undoubtedly under the | | ° The Filipino constabulary is being | | stabulary chiefs informed Honorio | jital” Secret police were put into ‘action to railroad strike leaders to jail, Li feds” are hoot. n tie) BONUS TO VETS ® 10, OOt DEM = — oes owt} oH Very Import mittee in Wo! Tonis Eefore the domo ad ous trict around f ynict Party U.S.A. NCO EN wk WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (RS; BRUTAL a emo mstiate me {eets| ike Cor liamsburg Mest aturday , Prospect Clup, 1 Labor | Price 3 Cents _ NEWARK MARCH PREPARES FOR DEMONSTRATION FEB. 10 Half of American Workers Hit By Some’ Form of Unemployment NSTRATE IN NEWARK FOR NT RELIEF; MARCH, DEFY LY ATTACKED — Mayor Tells Leader “You'll Get Nothing, We Have Co Contracts” | =a | Knocked Down 3 Times Collect 5,500 Names} Prepare for Feb, 10 | NEWARK, N. J., Jan, 28. — Thowe NE‘V. YORE.--Thousands ne Order Branches ers d ] ‘ 1 122, 132, 147, Sands of Newark workers and uneme | neon for the cori ys Women’s Ployed workers marched from Military, Park today on the city hall. They, p, | held a meeting in the park first, then | blocked the whole street for blocks to the city hall, sent in their delega- | tion agd held a demonstration whem . ves. Lithuanians, Jewish Ae rae li Yo. 5, Brownsville | the délegation tried to report back, iden atutidrede of | They carried placards demanding un= slogans about the imp¢ rg Mecting Tonight! | Sepipyniede relief. They did all this coming sirugele, tonight all the needle | in the face of continued savage ate the a rs working or residing in | tacks by the police, and in defiance dressma. yurg will meet to take up | of police orders given previously, “no the” demonstration. manifested a’ spirit of | the part of the wor to ations for the coming | ess, strike. The workers in this} ve had additional proof of | rous acts of the Interna- placards, no march, and no demon- | stration at the city hall.” Speakers at the Military Park were | Mary Kingston and Taft. The crowd | to the call of the Needle Trades’ a | Workers’ Industrial Union and to| tional Ladies’ Garment Workers | endorsed the demands on the city Raia a oa eidaanen ear ? company union when a wage redue- | council to divert $6,000.00 from the | Tens of thousands of served the dei a passerby mgde such re “These fellows seem to be ready for something seriou demonstration wound up series speeches from 7 platfo. thousands of work Conference Satu’ The United Front Co: held Jan. 31 at WV be, all ste e ee indica‘ The followine al Sitike in _ Philippines; More Walk Out: yesterday with €00 quitting work to demand better wages and recogni- tion of their union. These are just two of a whole ser- ies of strii thet have been spread- jing throughout the Philippin |gether with'mass peasant up: ngs. was forced upon them by the seab agency. Tonight's meeting will ys and means how to in the strike. The meet- ing will be held at 795 Flushing Ave. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ATTEND TRIM! diords “law.” was served for “forcibly entering 2 morning a committee went with Smith and a rom the Council to the where a postponement | ee W secured until Thurs- ing at 10 a.m. Smith, who} expecting another baby, must not be put on the streets again. has two-children and a wife who is| ™ city sinking fund to unemployment relief, for no evictions, free food for children of the obless, etc. They elect ed as their delegation to serve these demands on the city council: John Kasper (spokesman of the delegation) Bessie Blumer, A. Kruzpainter and Pergola. | “On to City Hall shout was raised at 10.30. hall”, and the battle | 1 to city ed. Mounted police and “foot police or works f ing fists and clubs ting yf Negro Unemployed ®n¢ riding into the crowd, ~vhich ; sce - welled rapidly. The throng pushed make: coming strugale. See aly rae Ee 8 aap she howetek Ter nant Today on, broken as police fated che een trihthels' oa a = charges, until Broad St., leading to although: the: NEW YORE. the city hall, was blocked for hours. their dele i loyed I estimated that about 10,000 took Ss niatal no in this m: with other thou- nould. be ands looking on. of the Ind ies ganizations tha ion went | fore the confere: nd the city com- sented by their Kasper spoke in a loud oice, relating the demands of the already sent visited jobless. Mayor Congleton snapped, Unemployea | “You're wasting your time, If the i fo find sur) city were to give that much it would have to break its contracts” (con- tracts with the bankers and graft- ers)! | Congleton denied there was much | starvation in Newark. Kasper told | him the mayor had been living among the wealthy, but the commite | tee before him was living ampng the | wage-cut workers and the uneme ployed and knew what it was talking about. When Kasper demanded the pay< ment now of the ex-servicemen’s | tombstone bonus, due in 1945, the ‘A. strike of 500 workers on the Iiolg| ‘The landlord, through the courts = |railway for more wages and better | Will try to railroad this Negro worker eae erdeds MMMM nti working conditions ended recéntiy.| tO jail for refusing to allow himselt | %.". More than 1,000 humber workers in @Md his family to freeze on the] | ‘asper poral? Reagan bape stréets. All workers must come to | testis | Negros struck id stab- | ulary armed ine guns and | |hand grenades were sent’ inst | them. The Filipino workers and peasants are Mmcreasing their struggles for bet~ | ter living conditions and against im- Pperialist s NEW YORK. | working-class population of York City as a result of mass unem- malnutrition worry, ard the press. The increase was especially marked | in pneumonia and influenza deaths | resistance of the workers, are tak- ing a huge toll throughout the coun- Pneumonia cases numbered 1,284 and deaths 508 during the week ending Satirday, Jan. 24. The weck before there had ken 1,148 cas2s~of pneu- which, as a result of the weakened | ployment with its resultant misery,| try. In-New York City alone new lead, but the} Magistrate Court at 1014 E. 181st St. at 10 m.. Thursday morning } and support Smith and the Unem- loyed Council in an effort to pre- wenky ny more -ef-this bosses’ and | ? “justice” from being to the workers of the a. anded out Bronx. HUGE INCREASE IN DEATH RATE ADMITTED BY HEALTH DEPARTMENT ~- A huge increase) marked ind increase, the department ad- in the sick and death rate of the! New) mits, The death rate_for the past week | was 2,243 as compared with the aver- age for the preceding six years of | actual) 1,160, an increase’ of 583 directly at- starvation was admitted today by the| tributable to the misery and weak- Board of Health in a statement to| ened re: | general death yate per 1,000 popula-| tion showed a jump to 16.50 as| ance of the workers. The | against the average for the preceding 6 years of 13,03, The increase in cases and deaths | was not confinéd to pneumonia and | influenza, although these took the scarlet fever, measles, Cerebrospinal meningitis, typhoid fever, etc. ir tre meantime, the suicide toll of jobless workers continues to mount. included also diptheria, in Washington, too, but meanwhile he had some demands to make Im | the name of Newark jobless, on the | | Newark city government, The mayor | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 1On the Strike Front Meetings Every Day Today the executive of the Cloakmakers’ United Front, Com- mittee will meet at 6:30 p. m. at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St. Demonstration in Har- lem, noontiine st Third Ave. and 105th St. to 115th St. Fraction meeting of all Communist Party members in the needle industry at 8 p. m. at Workers’ Center, 35 E. 12th St. |] Tomorrow: Youth educational meeting at union office at 7:30 p.m. Saturday: At 8 p. m., a banquet sand concert by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and the Williamsburg Warkers’ Club, at 795 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, to celebrate the opening of that headkuarters. ‘Tuesday, Feb. At 6:30 p. m, a meeting of young needle work~- ers. moniswith''457 deaths. | Boss papers reported the finding of Influenza cases during the week| the body of a man-“about 45 and ending Jan. 24 numbered 1,140 with| poorly dressed” hanging from a tree 147 deaths, according to the Health| in Queens yesterday. The man has Depaytment. The preceding week | not been identified so far. The boss had 1,005 ceses with 109 deaths. Both | press profess to be mystified about) cases and deaths are showing a| the cause of his suicide, Everyday: Collections for the strike fund. Mobilization of the workers in the shops. Join the union. Make your con~- tribution to the $15,000 strike fund. Be ready to strike! wend 3 te