The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1931, Page 1

} | | The Unemployed Councils Are the Fighting Organizations for Immediate Relief and Unem- ployment Insurance for the | Unemployed Workers. Or- . ganize Them Everywhere Vol. VIII, No. 38 -Dailu Central (Sectio Entered as second class matter at the Post Office @gip21 at New York, N. Ys under the act of March 3, 1979 Orga n of y;, Wo the Communist interna OF Party U. S.A. tional) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931 CITY EDITION WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents CONGRESSMAN FEARS JOBLESS TURNING 10 COMMUNISM “The Emancipator” ‘ODAY is Lincoln's birthday, and all the high priests of capitalist wage slavery are summoning the masses to pay tribute to “the great emancipator.” It is a trifle difficult, no doubt, to convince the 10,000,000 jobless workers, who, with their families, are starving to death, that their “free- dom” is worth very much, Nor to the workers still employed, speeded to exhaustion with wages cut to the bone, sweated behind factory gates guarded by private armies of detectives and identified by a number, can their “freedom” be pictured as more than a cruel joke. The historical forces which have made this a fact, are of far more | importance than the personality of Lincoln, Which accounts also for the letter of Karl Marx, during the Civil War, approving the cause of the North as against the slave owners who dared to inscribe human slavery on the banner of armed revolt. But it is a matter of record that Lincoln’s prime motive was not the abolition of slavery but rather the preservation of the union against seces- sion. He supported the infamous Fugitive Slave Law. He repudiated an early emancipation decree of one military commander and only signed the so-called “Emancipation Proclamation” of 1863 as a matter of military expediency. Nor, although then, as now, a great majority of the population of the southern states were Negroes, did he propose the right of self- determination of this assuredly oppressed nationality with the right to adhere to or separate from the union. Indeed his only idea of a “settle- ment” of the Negro queStion was the fantastic one of sending them back to Africa Despite all this, the historical forces inherent in the yet ascendant manufacturing capitalism of the North, were progressive forces compared to those obviously reactionary forces of southern slave owners. In the South, indeed, monopoly of the land in big plantations still furnishes the basis for remnants of slavery, peonage and share-cropping and these were and cannot be wiped out by capitalism. Capitalism was yet, in the ’60’s, however, playing a progressive role both economically and socially. Can the same thing be said today? Most decidedly not! And all workers, understanding instinctively if not theor- etically the workings of historical dialectics in the changing conditions of their lives, easily grasp the fact of capitalism’s historic decline. | The system that condemns millions of toilers to starvation, which is not able to maintain its slaves within its slavery, is a system rotten with decay. -And all the spouting of patriots on this day is but the effort to cover up and justify the present decay of capitalism with the tradition of its progressive past. In all countries of capitalism the same decay exists, more or less | advanced, while in the one country where capitalism has been overthrown is there economic and social progress—in the Soviet Union. The workers of the United States, Negro and white, know very well they are not free. And with the approach of International Fighting Day | Against. Unemployment ‘omiFebiuary 25th, they are preparing with the workers of other capitalist countries to register their protest against one of the worst symptoms of capitalist decline—unemployment and starvation! Historical progress today lies in the hands of the working class, and | just as chattel slavery required four years of civil war to blot out, so the struggle today is one of war between the working class and the capitalist class, And it is necessary that the ranks of the workers come onto the | streets on February 25, to battle for Organize for February 25th! bread and progress! NEW YORK.—Four thous met in Lincoln Arena last nigh ers’ Industrial Union against vailing throughout the needle t The dressmakers marched? into the Arena in groups from their shops. Irving Potash, secretary of the Needle Trades | | Workers’ Industrial Union, was | chairman of the meeting. In a fif- teen minute address, he described the |mear-slavery which is the lot of the | dressmakers, their starvation wages, | | their inhuman speed-up, their long} | hours.. He told of the various tricks | | the needle trades employers used to exploit the needle workers to the limit, and of how they open shops} jin outlying sections of the city and| jin the. suburbs, where they pay the} | workers $10 and $15 a week. He also| | told of the great help that the I. L. G. W. (the company union) was to | the bosses, aiding them in every | 2D ON PAGE TWO) FRIDAY MEET TO (CoNTINE Workers to Hit Bosses 4 300 DRESSMAKERS IN ~ LINCOLN ARENA VOTE TO STRIKE WHEN CALLED General Organization Committee Meets Tonight In Irving Plaza at 7P. M. Dress Pickets Battle Thows Ger Sent By I. L. G. W.| and Boss; Police Arrest Six out on strike under the leadership of the Needle Trades: Work- PROTESTEMBARGO } and five hundred dressmakers t and voted unanimously to go the. unbearable conditions pre- rades industry. “TIMES” FEARS | REVOLUTION IF WAR BREAKS OUT) But Go Right Ahead! With War Moves While Hoover pushes the navy pill | in Congress, so that war prepara- tions in the United States can be speeded up, the New York Times de- | Plores the fact that the British for- | | eign secretary's speech can be twisted into the belief that war is imminent. | Arthur Henderson, Labor foreign sec- | retary, on Monday tried to absolve | the Labor Government for the. re- sponsibility, of-the coming war by aying “no government can control) ite But the New York Times, realizing the growing d:i°> to war increased revoluticr fears the | ruggle of} rt of revolu- | on their way back Stress Organization on Feb. 35 DELEGATES GO TO ORGANIZE iHold Final Session | ‘er Congress Bars Committee WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11—} The 140 delegates to the National Unemployment Conference here are| to the hundreds} of thousands of the unemployed who sent them and the ten million job- less they represent, also the other| millions on short time. They go, after being thrown out of the U. S. capitol when presenting| a bill for unemployment insurance,| which had been voted for by 1,400,000) workers and unemployed workers. They go fresh from their final ses-| sion, they held after being ‘ejected from’ Congress, and in that meeting they pledged to rally great masses for demonstration Feb. 25, International | } |Fightiig Day, and with the deter- esd mination to eee thejoble: unemployed councils and the w into militant unions. Special meetings are already bein held in many cities to he: ports of the returning deleg Many will report at the huge mass meetings after demonstrations on It was resolved in the final sess’ after the capitol incident to empower | the small delegation to draft a state ment embodying the sentiments of the delegation and ‘based upon their Committee of — to U. s. Capitol This is the smell committee, elected by the 140 delegates to the Washington National Conference, ready, with bundles of signatures to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, to go ino Congress and demand the floor. Walker, Hiding Behind Police| : Dodges Subpoena By Jobless NEW YORK.—Mayor Walker is the mayor who on Oct. 16 ordered | trying to dodge out of appearing as |a witness at the trial of Sam Nesin, | Milton Stone and Robert Lealess, the experience with the capitalist con- ssmen, Nesin, Stone and Lealess thrown out of the Board of Estimate meeting | and beaten up. The New York Dis- ‘FISH GANG RAVES OVER COMMUNISTS Eslick Complains of Daily Worker ; WASHINGTON, Feb, 11, — Thé spectre of Communism haunted the House of Representatives today. Rep» yesentalive Huddlestone of Alabama attacked the $20,000,000 loan of which the poor farmers and workers were unable to receive a cent. “Do you want more Communists, or are you trying to create fascists?” Hud- diestone shouted, déclaring that be- tween the two he would choose Come munism, but he said he was against the proletarian dictatorship. Representative Eslick of Alabama, a member of the Fish committee, ir a long speech warned congress of the handful of Communists in 1919 who are now ruling four nations, half the population of the globe. He said there were now millions In the Communist parties of the world and in the Young Communist League. He said that the Communists vote in the United States in 1930 was 100,- 000. In Tennessee he said 99 per cent native Americans cast 3,399 votes for the Communists as against 112 votes in 1928. Eslick quoted the testimony of John Bebrits, editor of ; Uj Store, Hungarian language Come munist daily newspaper, for the cons fiscation of property. Fish intere tupted, saying Bebrifs was from Rut mania, They Hate “The Daily.” Eslick then estimated the circulae tion of the Communist press at 500,< | the masses and the da: It was decided that all delegates} = | tion, | return to their cities, ng camps, | three leaders of the unemployed dem- | trict of the International Labor De- | “A destruction more thorough will|and factory towns, and there inform onstration of Oct. 16, whim Tam-| fense, gary has ysieliergarari/ id |be effected by populations arising in| ll workers and workers’ organiza-| Many is trying to send to long ped pond as decided that Ak hree fury and despair against the govern-|tions that not a single congressman| terms on charges of unlawful essem- workers should appear in their own : ments that would lead them’ to an-|0r senator in the capital is inter-|bly, outraging public decency andj defense instead of depending upon| was threatening the whole werld, other catastrophe,” complains the|ested in the starving and dying| endangering public peace. jattorneys. They are being denied | and unless thwarted by a world eme | Times. “The ‘world revolution’ of| Workers, their hungry children and| When Lealess went to the mayor's | jury trial and are being tried by the }bargo, would lead to international office yesterday to serve him with | same gang of Tammany judges who | revolution. Eslick attacked the Ame a subpoena requiring his appearance | sent Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray-/}torg Trading Co., stating that the 000, including shop papers. He drew attention to the fact that the Datly Worker was enjoying mail privileges, He said that the Five Year Plan War Move : NEW YORK. — Rallying to the defense of the Soviet Union, the Help Daily Worker By Returning ion All the Red Shock Troop Lists S285 :soc".citt i est department's embargo on _ Soviet | | NEW YORK.—The Red Shock | which Moscow abandoned hope in‘a | babies, peaceful Europe, would have to be lumber and pulpwood at a big mass “ ee guage paper. There was $73 to | presented by the Workers Labora- Ave] the Open Forum organized recently| issued an appeal mobilizing all mili- \ be divided. \ tory Theatre. wa by the Youth Department of the| tary fit supporters. Police are re- '|Troop cartoon just above is our ap- \peal to all the readers of the Daily \|Worker, Only about 50 lists have ‘been returned. Most likely the work- jers are all busy getting other work- \lers to make contributions, There hould be no delay in getting dona- ions and in sending in the Red Shock oop lists. The Daily Worker got by this week by running into a fur- ther deficit and we now owe the press around $3,000. This could be hvoided if our last appeal that is now in the field would be answered |promptly. |The results of the Washington Delegation must be broadcast every fay throughout the country. The ‘results of their work must lead to ‘jurther organization and preparation lor Feb. 25. The dressmakers’ strike ‘n New York City must be given full ublicity, not only to the workers in New York City, but throughout}, jhe country. It means the building ip of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- ‘lustrial Union against the right- ving and the bosses, | Immediate answer to the above lartoon will make this possible, Send RED Jrock Teaop MS 5 < \y eee WW Facto OFFICE MINE FARM-UnemmoveD WORKERS SEND Your LISTS To Tate DaityS Worker - THe PAPE FIGHTS FOR YOU. TA DIS OLVE A. F. L. LOCAL GIVE TREASURY TO T.U.U.L, WORKER PRESS NEW YORK.—Hungarian Local No, 4 of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A-F.L.) dissolved itself meeting tomorrow (Friday) night at Central Opera House, 67th St., near Third Ave. This mass meeting, called by the Friends of the Soviet Union, will give the fighting reply of the New York workers to the latest step in the cap italist war campaign against the first workers’ republic, | “All workers must recognize this | embargo as a war measure,” declares a statement issued by John J. Bal- lam, national secretary of the F. S. U. “Behind it stand the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, the multi-millionaire Secretary of the ‘Treasury, Mellon, and his Wall Street | colleagues, the Fish Committee, Mat- thew Woll, Ralph Easley and the whole crew of professional red- baiters. It is the latest in a series of steps toward breaking off all trade relations with the Soviet Union— toward war against the U. S. S. R. Speakers at the meeting will be Robert Minor, leader of last year's March 6 unemployed demonstration; Richard B. Moore, National Negro organizer of the International Labor Defense; and I Amter, New York | each other.” reckoned with if the nations were mad enough to fling themselves at Gutted of this hypocrisy, the above question actually means: imperialist countries need a war; they are driv- ing to war, but what they fear most is the revolutionary uprising of the! masses under the leadership of the! Communist International, In the United States the war prep- | arations are going ahead rapidly. | Congress is debating the $1,000,000,000 naval building program, that grew out of the London Naval Conference. | Hoover pulls all the necessary wires to get it over with quickly. He fights | with all his might against any form of relief to the unemployed, but for the machinery of slaughter he and the rest of the capitalist rulers can find billions. To further the war preparations, the United States fleet is now around the Panama Canal zone carrying out war maneuvers, Everything is being | done to make ready for this war, even the suppression of the Commu- nists whom the Times fears will lead uprising “in fury and despair against WOMENS COUNCILS | IN ANNUAL MEET To Map Out Program| for Coming Year NEW YORK.—at the annual con- ference of the United Council of Working Class Women, to be held on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 1 p. m., at Stuy- vesant Casino, Second Ave. and) Ninth St. delegates represeznting | various women’s organizations will | discuss how best to organize the huge | mass of proletarian workers’ wives to | fight for immediate demands of the | workers, The United Council of Working | | Class Women is a rey jonary or- ganization which organizes and leads the proletarian housewives in their | struggles. The U. C. W. C. W. leads the workers’ wives at demonstrations, on picket lines, hogeen marches, eto, Te ormanises) tio co¢ tassios, ie ants’ leagues, and fights against evic- at; the trial which will be held Mon-| mond to jail for leading last year’s day, Feb. 16, in Special Sessions |March 6 demonstration. Only mili- Court, Part 6, he was directed around | tant action on the part of the work- the building to a police captain. The police captain wanted to know all about it and then obligingly offered to deliver the subpoena to the mayor or his secretar, But Lealess didn’t fall for this ruse; he demanded a signed receipt if he was to turn over the subpoena to anybody but the mayor. “What do you want a receipt for?” asked the police captain, “After the way we've been treated,” Lealess replied, “after being beaten up and then arrested because we de- manded intmediate relief for the un- | employed, we have no faith in your institutions or your promises. We | want to be/on the safe side.” “Come Frida; The captain went to consult some- | body and then returned with the in- fermation that 48 hours in advance is enough for the serving of a sub- peena. He told Lealess to come back Friday. ‘The three defendants are on the watch now for further deceptions and intend to do everything possible to} ing class will smash the efforts to railroad Nesin, Stone and Lealess to j long prison terms, FASCISTS BACK UP ON WALK-OUT Rumors of Uprising in Saxony (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 11—The Nationalist | deputies to the German Helene | who walked out with the fascist dep- uties yesterday, decided to return to| the Reichstag today, thus Holating | Hitler. The fascists, also, produced an anti- climax to their pompous exodus by announcing today they would return to the Reichstag in case of a major- | j ity plan involving “further attacks | | | | Department of Labor extended Boge danoff and Ziavkin visaes disregard ing FishSs protests. Fish, Bachman, Huddlestone, and others shook hands with Eslick, congratulating him: on his speech, ST. PAUL, Minn. Feb, 11—The ten thousand jobless demonstrators here yesterday held the state legis= lature hall for three hours, made 20 speeches from the rostrum, forced the farmer-labor party governor inte hiding and ate free all the food iq the capitol building cafe. ane a Negro-White March. is CHICAGO, IIL, Feb. 10.—Althougil hundreds of police were mobilized along the way with machine gung and shot guns, 5,000 Negro and white workers held the first solidarity hune ger march through the Negro diss tricas of Chicago yesterday. hundred Negro children ang some white children led the parade, and it took the center of State St, in spite of orders from the policg not to do so, and held the center of the street for 15 minutes. ‘The march ended with a big demiw iC imm istrict unist, a to appear. It s | on the people.” sila E. pane: Ate on Feb. 8 and the members voted Be rty. Secretary of the Commi the governments” that go to war. tions of the unemployed. forte the mayer pee ded The capitalist press regards the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEY |rork City. be Sete al eee sheen eat ‘The meeting will give workers of AMTER TO SPEAK ON “REvo- | £2S¢ist threat of establishing a coun- | —_————_. Fight lynching. Fight deporta- \ion of foreign born, Elect dele- gates to your city conference for \protection of foreign born. . ive Sat. Feature age; Order Now “Chain Gang,” a ‘story of the South: “Strike Secret,” a chil- dren’s story: “Yetta,” telling of the experiences of an old wom- an against the landlord: and “Letter to the Fed Army,” by ‘n Gorky, f,remost prole- poems are added to this at- tractive section of the Saturday edition. Orders for extra hundles at one cent for five or more, $8 per 1,000 received until Friday, Workers’ Industrial League of the Trade Union Unity League, 25 per cent to the Daily Worker and 25 per cent to the Uj Elore, the Com- munist Party's Hungarian lan- Hoover OK’s Wagner Bills «They Are Against Jobless ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — What Senator Wagner's bills on “unem- ployment” actually amounts to s0 construction.” Senator Wagner, a Tammany henchman, spread a lot of phrases about demanding action on the un- employment situation. He put thru a lot of bills, but they were not in 6 p.m, (60,000 circulation week- ly report, page 3), the interest of the workers. One was for “studying” - unemployment Ste ee -ananenana New York an opportunity to hear the famous Hall Johnson Negro) Singers in a program of Negro labor songs and spirituals. A mirthful satire on the Fish Committee will be insurance. That passed, and the senators will have a ten-year uni- versity course “studying” how to de- feat unemployment insurance. number out of work. Under no cir- cumstances do they permit a figure higher than 5,000,000 to be published. Now Wagnci's final bill goes thru —to push up public building con- struction. But that was done, or sup- posed to be done, years ago. There is less building today than ever be- fore é Part of Crowd In poe Square, Feb. 10 From ten to fifteen thofisand workers voted to carry on the fight for Unemployment Insurance, They will demonstrate again Feb. 25, yg ~~} force the measure through, milan pectinases naa LUTIONARY TRADE UNIONISM.” NEW YORK.—I. Amter, organizer of the Communist Party of New York, will speak Sunday, Feb. 15, 3 p. m., on “Revolutionary Trade Unionism” at Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, at 131 W. 28th St. ter-parliament at Weimar as a bluff. | The anti-fascist committee of ac- | tion is organizing a mass demonstra- tion in the Lustgarten for Sunday. Rumors of a fascist putsch (armed uprising) are current. Saxon fascists ported to have arrested numerous fascists in ue Hamburg district. Bl Young Plan Winning Against Vets Demands WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — Again the bankers’ wishes will be obeyed into effect the suggestions of Owen D. Young, Morgan associate, to de-~ t the cash bonus demand. This is the natural process, in view of the fact that most of the ex-serv- icemen relied on the promises of the congressmen and senators, instead of mobilizing, their own class forces to Bid for Cash Relief The new measure does not provide any cash bonus relief. It merely ex- feed the hungry ex-~servicemen than do the loans for “live stock” feed the tarniers. All worker ex-servicemen must be | mobilized for a fight to demand the! cash bonus and unemployment relief, together with the unemployed work- ers who are fighting for unemploy- ment insurance, tA ery t ‘ Vote against finger printing, reg< istration, and photographing the foreign born. Elect delegates to local conference for protection of foreign born. Convict Labor in Guatemala Over 1,500,000 Indians in Guate- mala are held in bondage and forced to labor mainly by the Wall Street firm, the United Fruit Co, In Cuba and Guatemala convict labor is one of the main sources of profit to American bankers. 4an writer the Soviet pedi ie satan “op de ‘The next was to “count the unem- against the demands of the ex-|tends the old plan of “loans” on barony pri caging ples Union are among the articles in fe stha duet that met oe ear rhe ployed The government is “count- servicemen. A plan has been worked | bonus certificates. The bankers win children being piaoy to labor to next Saturday’s feature page. heey, SSGHIN 'aind » Hooves ing” the unemployed, but only ane out by the republican and democratic | out this time. But the fight is not pay off th e“debts” of their pa- Book reviews, caroons and {| jut ai Disha lait bac bg’ number it wants, and not the actual | representatives in congress to put|over. The “loans” will not more rents to the feudal landlords and the big frait companies, Matthew Woll, who lies about the Soviet Union, is silent about these facts. The Daily Worker publishes this feature story to show how American imperialism creates convict labor and makes huge profit from ft.