The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1931, Page 1

Unemployed and Employed! Unite for the Feb- 25th demonstrations: Against Wage Cuts! Support the Philadelphia Needle Strike! Smash the wage-cut drive in the Lawrence woolen mills! Employed and Unemployed, join in mass picketing! Rally to the Feb. 25th world demonstrations against hunger! Entered at New York. Vol. VIII, No. 49 Ne oil (Section of the Communist secend class matter at the Post Office <iep>21 Y. under the act of March 3, 1979 Norker ESR runict Party U. S.A. International) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATE TODAY AT 4:30 ON UNION SQUARE! COME OUT IN MASSES TO DEMAND RELIEF AT ONCE! All Out! yo the capitalist class is your.enemy. But if it openly said so it knows that you would at once cease to have any faith in capi- talism. So it lies to you. Over a year ago, on Feb. 13, 1930, the U. S. Department of Labor issued a statement saying: “Within the next sixty to ninety days the country will be on a normal employment basis.” It was a lie. You work- ers know it. But did you believe it then? “Business is on the mend,” said the American Bankers’ Association Journal for February a year ago. It was a lie. You know it now, workers. This year, again, the capitalist papers and the capitalist government are filling your ears with the same lies about “a recovery in the Spring,” and so on and so forth. They are lying again, workers! They lie to get you to starve peacefully and quietly—on hope! While the workers weaken and die from hunger and the diseases that follow it, the capitalist government throws billions into war preparations, refunds hundreds of millions in taxes to parasite millionaires who loll in luxury at the Florida beaches! And the capitalist government, with Hoover at its head, declares against Unemployment Insurance, declares it is against capitalist “prin- ciples” that you and your babies be fed, declares that millions of toilers can starve in a land full of bread, go homeless amid cities they have built, and ragged among mountains of clothes they have made—rather than that a cent of capitalist profits be touched! Only the force of protesting masses can break down this cynical in- difference to your misery, workers! Only your collective and militant demonstration can break down resistance to your demands for immediate relief and Unemployment Insurance at the cost of the rich! Onto the streets téday to join your protest with other workers the world over egcinst unemployment and starvation! Onto the streets under the banner of the Unemployed Councils to demand food, clothing and shelter! Fascism in England ISINTEGRATION of the Empire, capitalist decadence and steadily growing unemployment and msss misery, together with an increasing will of the workers to struggle, is speeding up the tempo of affairs in England, and most notably hastening the growth of fascism. The founding by Sir Oswald Mosley of what he.calls a “social fascist” party, but what is really not that, but instead is a party of fascism, is clearly a result of the deepening crisis in British capitalism. It is the descendant of the “Empire Crusade” and the “United Empire Party” of Beaverbrook and Rothermere, of the “National Council of Industry and Commerce,” founded by Sir William Moris who has signed up in the “social fascist” party, and,of the ‘Mosley group” of mixed fascists and social fascist elements in the Labor Party. The Beaverbrook “Empire Party” came straight from the Conserva- tive Party ranks on the question of tariffs. The “National Council of Industry and Commerce” of Sir William Morris, one of the great capi- talists of England, claiming to be “non-political” and appealing to “mem- bers of all parties,” made a special appeal to workers in its speeches to stand for protection and talked of forming locals and seeking coopera- tion from the trade unions but did not do so actively. Yet it is clear that this purely capitalist element furnishes the class tap-root or point of departure in the building of the new party, which is a fascist party regardiess of its name or of its formal initiation by the figure of Sir Mosley who comes from the. social fascist Labor Party. The two years of intense offensive by the capitalist class against. the workers, and their growing resistance which the treachery of the Labor Party ‘arbitration’ policy and the repeated sell-outs of the trade union bureaucracy has led into defeat and disillusion, affords the rising fascist movement to enlarge its base by appealing to the workers with demagogy. But this use of demagogy does not make the new party one of social fascism. Just. as in Germany the scandalous anti-worker actions of the social fascist “socialists” gave the fascists the chance to make an. appeal to those social democratic workers disillusioned with their former leadership, so the new British party of fascism makes a bid for worker support, simply “dropping the question” of socialism and appealing on the basis of a “national emergency” for a purely fascist program. They cry in alarm about the doom of capitalism only to get the workers to save it. Because of the difference in the situation, Mosley's party of fascism has not reached the dramatic violence of demagogy that Hitler has in Ger- many, but that will develop as mass misery grows with the crisis. And this will furnish the Labor Party, which is and which remains the party of social fascism, the maneuvering room to develop a pretended “struggle” against it for “democracy,” for “socialism by peaceful development” and all the futile shibboleths of social fascism. It is most necessary that these differences be understood and that the self-called “social fascist party” be exposed as a party of fascism, which does not displace the role of the Labor Party as a party of social fascism, because the social fascist role of the Labor Party must continue to be fought by the revolutionary workers of England who follow the Com- munist Party of Great Britain. The rapidly developing crisis of British industry and the deepening misery of the masses indicates that the fascist movement may have some- thing of the same sudden expansion as did the fascist movement in Ger- many. But just as in Germany,-those workers who will at first be enchanted by the “easy way out” offered by the demagogy of the fascists, will find out the falsity and hollow pretentiousness of fascist promises. ‘They will not be disillusioned by the social fascist Labor Party, how- ever, but by the road of struggle, class against class, pointed out by the Communist Party and certified to them by their own experiences. More and more they will see that it is necessary to fight under the banner of the Communist Party, and for the overthrow of capitalism. Albany Hunger March Delegates All delegates to the Albany Hunger March must report imme- diately after the Union Square demonstration at the headquarters of the Workers International Re- Tjef, 131 West 28th St., without fail. Wants to Be a Slave for Food A worker of Casey, Illinois, sends us the following clipping, telling of an unemployed worker pleading .to be enslaved so he can eat: “RUSHVILLE, Ind. Feb. 19.— C. A.‘Stearns of Osgood, Ind., in- serted the following advertisement in Rushville newspapers this week: “‘wanted—A master. White, able-bodied man, willing to work, will sell himself into slavery for his keep. I have got to cat. State Our correspondent comments: “There was a time when the mas- EX-SERVICEMEN ATTENTION! All ex-servicemen are call2d on to participate in today's demonstration against unemployment. Reperi at Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Headquar- ters, 79 East 10th Street, at two o'clock in the afternoon. 10% WAGE CUT ENFORCED ters sold the slaves; now the wage-Slaves are desperately trying to sell themselves.” CHICAGO, Ml.—The Crane Com- pany, a large plumbing supply “oapeed has decreed a general of 10 NEW YORK.—More than 5, | picketing demonstration that | “market” here. Starting from ‘SOVIET LOGGERS IT SLANDERS IN U. S.-ANGLO PRESS Invite Workers To See, Real Conditions MOSCOW.—A meeting of loggers | trict’in White-Russia adopted a reso lution against the slanders spread by the British and American press con- cerning the conditions of the Sovict timber workers. The resolution de- nies that forced labor of any kind is jused in the industry, and declares that the conservative attack is not | dictated by any desire to secure im- | | proved conditions for the logger in the Soviet Union. As a practical answer to the slan- ders of the conservatives the work- group movement. A _ resolution press in the capitalist countries io inform the workers there of the real conditions in the Soviet lumber camps. At the same time it was decided to invite a delegation of British and American workers to come to the Soviet Union'in order to study at first hand the conditions of the workers in general and the condi- tions of the lumbermen in particular. MANY MEETINGS ment Insurance NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Council of Harlem has arranged a series of open air mass meetings for today, International Unemployment Day, at 86th Street and Lexjngton Avenue, at 10 in the morning and another at noon, 99th Street at the I. R. T. shop at noon, 114th Street and Fifty Avenue at 10 o'clock; 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue at 10 o'clock, 142nd Street and Lenox Ave. at 10 o'clock; also a meeting at 1 o’clock in front of the National Laun- dry at 140th Street and Fifth Ave. Between two and three all of these meetings will adjourn and march to 135th Street and Lenox for a central meeting, in which the Unemployed Council of Section 5 will also join. There will then be a march from 135th Street to 116th Street. ‘The Harlem Section calls upon all workers, unemployed and employed, Negro and white, in the Harlem ter- rjtory to report at 9 o’clock at Sec- tion Headquarters, 308 Lenox Ave. Employed and Jobless Must Fight Pay Cut PITTSFIELD, Mass, Feb. 24.— Over 1,200 workers in the Eaton, Crane & Pike Co., writing paper menufacturing plant. were given wage-cuts ranging from 5 to 10 per cent. The wage-cuts go into effect en March 1, e ° ° YOUNGSTOWN, Feb. 24—All ‘workers on weekly rates in the Trus- con Steel Co. here have had their wages cut 10 per cent. The pay slash ~svama, Horace Dodge, K. F. Hutton, John-s.| spend a few and drivers in the Smilovitchi dis- | but by, a desire to attack the social- | ist constructive work being conducted ers at the meeting joined the shock | adopted called on the working-class | IN HARLEM TODAY Fight for Unemploy-| MASS PICKETING IN N. Y. "BRINGS SPLENDID RESULTS: "TO DRESSMAKERS’ STRIKE | More Shops Walk Out After 5,0 5,000 Dressmakers, Stage Enthusiastic Demonstration 1,000 Dressmakers Go Back to Work Winning Higher Wages and Shorter Workday ,000 vcheariig: singing dress- makers swept everything before them yesterday in a mass elecrified the needle trades Bryant Hall at 7:15 a. m., the | militant needle’ trade workers marchea into every section of the | garment center, stopping be- |; tore the more notorious hell- holes in the district to make clear their defiance of the fat rasites who employ them at starvation wages. ‘Young dressmakers were in the vanguard of the picketers and helped | {to build the stone wall of strikers— a stone wall that few scabs were able | { | to penetrate while the demonstration s in progress. The demonstration yesterday will |not soon be forgotten by those who | Witnessed it, particularly the scabs. Another mass picketing demonstra- } tion will be held Friday.in which at |Teast an equal number of workers lare expected to participate. | The mass picketing had an imme- djate effect on those dressmakers who still remain in the shops, mis- led by the hypocritical arguments j of t hese ‘it is bad to strike when there |are so many unemployed.” A num- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ALLY AT FAKE AGENCY TODAY Also Fight Court Case of Jobless Widow NEW YORK.—The Down Town Council of the Unemployed holds its daily meeting in the vacant lot next door to the new offices of the Tam- many fake employment agency at 59 Leonard Street (Leonard and | Church Street) today as usual. The meeting will be at 11 a.m. From this point, the jobless will march to 27 East Fourth Street, and then to Cooper Square, where they will be joined by the members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and pobless marine workers, and will march on to Union Square to take part in the demonstration. At 10 a. m. today, all jobless and others should crowd into the magis- trate’s court at Second Avenue and Second Street. Yetta Zucker, a widow whose furniture was put back after she was evicted from 74 Suf- folk Street, will be on trial. She is threatened with a jail sentence un- less she moves. She has applied to the United Hebrew Charities, who sent her to the Mayors Committee, who did nothing for her. ‘The worse the crisis the gayer the parasites, For every workers that dies of starvation, there is a rich parasite down in Florida who wallows in food, lives in stupendous luxury, indulges in orgies of every kind. Cor- nelius. Vanderbilt, Jr. who finds scribbling for the newspapers thril- ling, tells about what some of his fellow exploiters do while the unem- ployed shiver on the breadlines. We learn that in Florida, “Parties are more lavith, clothing more expen- sive, food much dearer.” Vanderbilt gives names. Here are some of the leading capitalists who pass their crisis in a riot of splendor: “Edward T. Stotesbury, Cornelius Whitney, Harold Vanderbilt, Arthur Curtiss James, Harrison Williams, Oliver Harriman, Joseph Widener, Henry Carnegie, Leland Hayward, he I. L. G. W. (company union) | ‘No Evictions of Unemployed! Free Food for School Children Rockford Will Sail ongeie: Again Today ii Part of the crowd which denohersied for. the Work ployment Insurance Bill in Rockford, Hl Feb. 10. They will be taking | art in the International Demonstrations today for jobless relief. the Workers, | HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. first blows have already been struck in the preparations for International Unemployment Day. It had a bloody | | beginning here. On February 20th, | police police fired into a meeting of the Confederation called to organize | an unemployment demonstration on February 25th. 24.—The | Soon after the beginning of the | | meeting, at which about 500 workers | were present, the secret agent “Be- tankourt” and Montero (the latter sal | called disdainfully “Guanajo” by the workers here), made their appear- ance and demanded that the — ing should be closed. The workers | who were present protested and did | not want to disband the meeting. | Then a larger police corps came into the hall and others to the extent of about 100, occupied all of the sur-| rounding rooms and exits, occupied | all the street corners of the streets in the neighborhood, and demanded again that the meting should be d banded. The workers protested ener- getically and did not wish to leave! the hall before the end of the meet- ing. Then a barbarous clubbin gof the workers began. In the room itself, in. the exits of the surrounding rooms, on the stairs and ont the streets, the | participants were brutally beaten, and wounded. Men and women and | children, no one was spared. The floor was covered with blood. No one could protect themselves, since the steps are very narrow here and the workers had to leave almost singly by the steps which were cov- ered by the police. Secret agents | and members of the “Porra” (the murderous bands of Machado) ad- dressed themselves as workers and Murderous Attack on Havana SOCIALISTS FOR Workers Planning for Feb. 25. | Machado. Police Block Doors and Shoot Down, Laidler Speaks — With Club Women and Children; One Killed increased the panic and clubbing from within at a signal given by the | police commissioner. The workers were packed as in a mouse trap and only a few could de- fend themselves with their fists. Oth- ers jumped from the windows, the police having shot at them. Machado is carrying out the orders of Wall Street to murder the unemployed who | fight for bread. ‘ON TO ALBANY TOMORROW ‘Trenton Hunger March Starts Saturday Tomorrow, the day after the Union Square demonstration, the hunger march to Albany starts. Captains and lieutenants were selected at the meeting in Irving Plaza Hall on Mon- day. trucks carry! and placard: The marchers start out with ng food, It will go north on Broad- way to Times Square, where the morchers will board the trucks and ride to the They will march on foot through | Yonkers and proceed up the Hudson | River, through many small trial towns, to Albany. Saturday, Feb, 28, the New Jersey workers and jobless will begin their march from Paterson, through the industrial towns of that state, to the capital at Trenton. indus- Spend Half Billion for Yachts Phipps, Gordon Douglas, Jr. Jack Whitney, Anthony Drexel Biddle, Marshall Field and Jules S. Bache. To supply the money for their stay} in Florida, wages are cut. Workers! are speeded-up. Many are thrown out on the streets. The wealth of) these men combined would be enough to feed the 10,000,000 unemployed for about five years. Every one of them fights aaginst unemployment insur- Rich Parasites Gayer in Florida As Unemployed Die of Starvation @on silk gowns and jewelry, on auto- Mellon and Friends, mobiles and their kingly orgies. Mellon kicks about the bonus for | war vets an deven is against the half billion for “loans” to veterans, but we find that Mellon’s Vagabondia, is the foremost of a group of yachts whose total worth ig over half a bil- lion dollars.. Mellon wants more money for yachting, and for guzzling | in Florida. Life is happy and gay for the para- government working hard to piace all the bur- | Food Workers’ Industrial Union. The sites in Florida. Theiv dens on the backs of the workers. Profits still role in by the billions. Capitalist society is constructed so No they can live and enjoy life. with banners | The march starts on | foot at Union Square at 8:30 a. m.! ’ | tomorrow. outskirts of Yonkers. | ! ¢ aiden Reports of Your Delegates Who Took | Your Bill For Unemployment Insurance To Congress; Demand Insurance! | Only 25,000 Have Been Given Jobs By the City; They Are Going to Fire These; Protest! Only 65,000 Out of A Million Jobless Here Get Even Charity Soup, They Plan to Stop That; | Demand Cash Relief for the Jobless! NEW YORK.—The workers Fal nobles workers of | York can not be quiet. They are hungry and the; | starve while the country is full of food. In un | erms they will let the U. S. government and the city and state | governments of New York know that the fight for unemploy- | ment insuiance goes OF ©. Today they demonsttate Ma 4:30 on Union Square. will march to the IN | five main mobilization ATTACK ON USSR others will march from |shops, where they will quit 5 | time to reach the Squa be ‘speakers from all y izations’ at the Squar next steps in the str jless for the right to live Squar point the \ | “Poison Ivy” Lee Lee, personal “Poison Ivy” pub-|} ‘Today at on Square the une | ticity agent for the Rockefeller | ployed of Ne t damnen family and the standard oil Co.,| for unemp r for im- joined with the “socialist” Dr. Harry | mediate relief for the for all |W Laidler in working up war senti-| war funds to the ut A tgrnaye ment against the Soviet Union. Both ss 5 a week and j these enemies of the Soviet Union, | ¢3 forte sendentc/agals despite their phrases about recog- mbainab dideriedenelan cana nition, agree that Communism, as! Jim Cru -~+ nersecution of! | shown by the advance of the Five-|the foreign vori, u- | Year Plan, must be fought with every weapon available. | defense imperjalist war and for the of the Soviet Union. | The Rockefeller-socialist united} This demonstration will indicate front against the Soviet Union took|the will and determination of the place at the religious dope-dispens- | workers to fight. ‘Th ort of the ing institution, the Union Theological | elected delegates of New York job- Seminary on Monday. | ess to ce the Workers Unemploy- “Poison Ivy” Lee spoke about the|ment Insurance Bill to Washingtoi ultimate “failure” of Communism be- | Will be delivered at Union cause it abolished private property |.today. | and because it was based on a “ma-| In the city of New York the terialist” philosophy. Lee insisted | dition of the unemployed steadj that the masses need to be doped so | comes worse. Even the cha: elief, which only a small number of wo! ers have received, has been cut down. Out of more than 1,000,000 unem- ployed workers in New York o 25,000°have received a through the “Emergence ommittee ive thousand are in the miser- able bread lines, getting sloppy food. But the hundreds of thou ds more, with no income whatever, drag them- | that they could put up with the “realities” of capitalism—unemploy- ment, starvation, war. Of course, | Lee overlooked the fact that when | the capitalists squeeze the life out |of millions of workers, they do not | exactly do it for the “glory of god.” Laidler spoke on “The Socialist Looks at Russia,” but the manner in | which he spoke showed clearly that the socialist looks at Russia through |selves through the streets in vain capitalist eyes. lookjng for work, looking for relief. The socialist party, of which Laid- |The. grafting Tammany administra- |Jer is one of the leading lights, has |tlon of New York with its corrupt | passed a resolution supporting inter- | vention in the Soviet Union by the imperialist powers to overthrow work- ers’ rule. Justification for the intervention against the Soviet Union has already been prepared by the socialists. When | | the question of the Five-Year Plan | was under discussion in the New York ecnvention of the socialist party, Hillquit laid the ground for approval of the capitalist war against the Sov- jet Union. “It is absurd to speak of the Bolshevik dictatorship as a workers’ government,” he said. Hence, to aid the capitalist war prepara- tions against the Soviet Union, in the mind of Hillquit Laidler and the rest, is a justifiable act. All the talk | about “Russian terror” which is so voluminous and prevalent in the so- | cialist party is the very propaganda that the bosses are using to speed the war against the Soviets. Strike Sun Food Mkt. Join Militant Union After A.F.L. Sell-Out' (CON Rally at These : = Points Today! NEW YORK.—These are the main mobilization points for the marches to the Union Square demonstration. Go to the proper one if you. belong to a workers’ organization, or, if you have no organization, go to the nearest: MADISON SQUARE, at 3 p, m. —Madison Square Council of the Unemployed, Section 2 of the Communist Party, Food Workers’ Unemployed Council (food work-~ ers have some special meetings first), Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, Dress Stri . RUTGERS SQU p. m~-Unemployed Cour all of Brooklyn and East New York, Sections 1, 6, 7 and 8 of the Communist Party. LEONARD AND CHURCH STS., at 11 a. m.—Mobilization of all jebless, led by the Down Town Council of the Unemployed. LENOX AVE. and 134TH ST, at 2 p. m—Unemployed Councils of Harlem and Bronx, Sections 4 and 5 of the Communist yEST wy at 3:3 PAGE TWO) NEW YORK—Twelve men went| out on strike at the Sun Food Mar- ket, 184th Street and St. Nicholas Ave., under the leadership of the | men are striking for union conditions | 30 p. m.—Labor Sports Jand recwwnition of thé union, All| Union, Young Commun were fortuerly mernoey) of Local 1 of the A. F. of L. f2- don. The A. Enea ocak UNION SQUARE, at 4:30 p. m. wonder they rage against the Soviet ance, If they are forced to give up| Union and clamor for war to destroy part of their wealth for unemploy-| the workers’ republic. The Soviet ment insurance, theg will have to} Union has wiped out the base for Jess on yachts,| parasites who live on:the misery of F. of L. misleaders sold the men out. They then joined the T. U. U. L., and went out on strike under the leader- ship of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, i —All who cannot get to the other mobilization points to march to Union Square, come dirertly to Union Square before 4:30) m