The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1931, Page 4

{ wbitshed by me Comproearry ruvnisnme co., re, dalty except sunday, at sv Ease ith Street, New York City Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, Page Four N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7, Cable: ‘ON THE MOVING OF “UJ ELORE” TO CLEVELAND e economic crisis, the | lass organizations | fidence and sup- | where the pro- y was turned into workers. The Hun- , “Uj Elore” is one of leading the struggles of the starvation and war danger, s support and succeeded to some ort through draw- garian workers into into the united front jing of a solid basis for rting the bu This gain was especially marked in Cleveland and in the middle West generally where the cone! ed Hungatian masses are a very im- portant part of the American working class; | where they are toiling in the heavy industries ge numbers; even more affected by ra- w cuts, unemployment, than ‘tions of the working class. | ver marches of the proletariat of | wage cutting campaign in s 1 industry started in Mahoning Valley d in the automobile industry; the unbearable | the miners and their families in her mining territories, f the miners, steel and u leadership of the revo- ions; the widening struggle against syndicalist law, and persecution of lified in the Kassay case t; all these brought into nds ungarian workers of Ohio niddle West as fighters in the ranks of ican working class. Uj Elore, the revo- Jutionary king class paper, is gaining a better foundation, for example, in Cleveland now more than ever before, at the same time when “Sza~ badsag,” the fascist daily Hungarian paper, pub- lished in Cleveland for decades, once very in- fluential in local and Ohio political life as an / of tern Ohio, and in ot ng strug and the the Am | calist laws, for organizing the Hungarian work- anti-working class organ of the republican ad- ministration and of the bosses, is rapidly losing ground among the workers and as a result of this is in a serious crisis. : The Hungarian Buro of the CC of our Party on the growing demand of the Cleveland work- ers to move the Uj Elore there, correctly decided in favor of moving and thereby basing the paper much more than heretofore on the masses of Hungarian workers of the key industries of the middle West. In the immediate proximity of those industrial centers where the most impor- tant sections of the Hungarian workers are con- centrated, the Uj Elore will be in a better posi- tion to carry on agitation, propaganda and or- ganization in the struggles of the working class. The Central Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A., supporting the decision of its Hungarian Buro, at the same time calls upon the Hungarian workers in all parts of the coun- try to intensify their work and support for the Uj Elore, to build it in this most favorable situa- tion into a real mass paper. This way the Uj Elore will become a mightier weapon of our class in the struggles for unemployment relief and insurance, against wage cuts, against deporta- tion, discrimination, lynching, Criminal Syndi- ers into Unemployed Councils and into the unions of the American workers affiliated to the ‘Trade Union Unity League, against the prepara- tions for imperialist wars and for the defense of the Soviet Union, for a workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States. Through the change and with stronger mass support it will be in a still better position to lead the struggle against the fascists and the social-fascists (Horthyites, SLP, IWW, etc.) especially in those territories where these elements are comparative- ly stronger in their efforts to confuse and mis- lead the workers. Stand behind Uj Elore, fighting organ of the American working class among Hungarian workers. COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, DALWORK.” ww York, N. ¥, Daily,. orker Barty USA WAITING SUBSCRIPTION RATER By mail everywNere: One year, $6; six months, $8; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs ot Manhattan and Bronx. New York Ctly. Foreign: one year, $%- six months, $4.50. + OD NEGRG 80s togEy! KECIROCUTED —————— ay DUMB. Brooklyn Workers Review Forces for Struggles Ahead By DOMENICK FLATIANI. HE increasing misery of the workers in the Bor- ough of Brooklyn is becoming more evident with the continuation of lay-offs and wage-cuts which the workers are forced to under the pres- ent-depression of decaying capitalism. The ter- rific speed-up prevailing in all establishments, is | grinding the very life and energy of the workers. | The starvation cases which are being daily re- | ported by the Boro Hall Unemployed Branch, to- gether with the evictions of hundreds of working- class families, brings to the attention of the entire working class of New York and especially in the Borouzh of Brooklyn that only through organized mass struggle can the workers put a stop to the prevailing situation, and thus force the city gov- ernment to give immediate relief to the working- class families suffering of want, cold and hunger, and stop the bosses’ police in the shops to cut the wages of the workers. The miserable conditions existing in some of the shops cannot escape our attention. ‘The workers employed in the Kayser Hosiery Mill, have been suffering one wage cut after an~ other in the last year. Young workers especially are forced to work at a terrific speed up with a miserable wage of $10 per week. The bosses of the Kayser Mill are not satisfied with the enorm~- ous profits they are making out of the sweat and blood of the workers in the mill, are planning another wage cut to be enforced on May First. This time the cut will affect most of the week- work section of the mill. The bosses in Kayser are using a wise scheme of cutting wages first to one section of workers and then to the others. The piece workers while not affected with this cut directly they will, unless they organtze and fight back the wage cuts be forced to accept an- other wage cut after the bosses will force the week-work workers to accept the proposed one. Today the workers in the Kayser mill are sent home almost every day by the bosses. While the speed-up is increasing more and more. The workers in the Kahn and Feldman Textile Mill are not better off then those of Kayser. The spy system in the mill is a keen one which is . being utilized to terrorize the workers in.an at- is if ' tempt to prevent them from organizing. Due to the use of chemicals in the Kahn and Feld- man Mill, a very large percentage of workers are usually finding their whole body and especially their hands infected. The doctor of the company however is trying to deny the fact that the in- fected workers were victims of the chemicals used in the mill. ‘The clothing workers, especially those who to- day are under the controll of the Hillman fascist. Amalgamated Union are suffering one wage cut after another. The bosses of the Wm, P. Gold- man (better known as the GGG) are proposing to cut the wages of the workers to 40 per cent. Mr, Hillman, Blumberg and the lesser fakers of Amalgamated are doing their best to see to that Wm. P. Goldman should be able to put cross this wage cut. In the Howard Clothing shops while the workers have been forced to in- crease the quality of work to 100 percent during the last year, the, workers have suffered a wage- gut of 15 percent. Hillman has instituted the dastardly check-off system thus far in the pants and sack-coat shops and within the coming week to introduce the check-off system in the Overcoat and waist shops. These same conditions ‘and in many cases worse prevail in practically all shops and mills in the Borough of Brooklyn. Against these miserable conditions we are wit- the rising of the workers who today un- der the leadership of the revolutionary unions of the ‘Trade Union Unity League are organizing for struggle. Under the leadership of the Unem- Ployed Council, the unemployed workers every- are organizing their forces to force Mr. i the Borough president to give immedi- to the starving families of the jobless. Workers everywhere are uniting their forces ~ ‘for bitter struggles, The strike against the high _€ost of living which has been conducted in Mid- “de Village, which has forced the butchers to cut lown the price of meat in many cases from 40 a pound to 26 cents is indicative that more More struggles will be organized in this di- on, The activities of the tenants for |the ition of rent strikes in Williamsburgh and ge ee ape on He ee eel Cel an, yi | many tasks to accomplish in the face of the pres- | ent situation. The building of powerful . unions more struggles before us. The onward march of the Negro massés to- | gether with the white workers in the struggle | for the liberation of the Negro masses as an in- separable part of the struggle against imperial- ism is finding its roots in every section of the | Borough. The workers in the Borough of Brooklyn have of the Trade Union Unity League, the organi- zation of the Negro workers side by side with the white workers in the struggle against lynch- ing and discriminations, the organization of the unemployed for unemployment insurance and im- mediate relief are the three primary tasks we are confronted with at the present time. Warning Against a Swindler | terious mishandling of money and many oth: | told me the T. U. U. L. promised to send some | Club, decided to write to you about an imper- | missible lack of discipline on the part of speak- PARTY LIFE Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U \. More Irresponsibility of Party Speakers Chicago, Ill. I am a carpenter. In my local there is a mys- things. I called a meeting of our local opposi- tion members to discuss the conditions in the union. I asked Comrade R. to notify someone from the T. U. U. L, to send us a speaker so we would know how to organize an opposition to the underdogs of the A. F. of L, He promised to do so. Then came the meeting. We held a meeting but no T. U. U. L. man to be seen. The members said to me, “In case of a revolution your Communist Party pet will be twenty miles behind the lines and hollering like hell.” Next day I saw R. and asked him what is what. He carpenter, but you see what happened. You in the Central Office, step on the tails of your dis- trict leaders in this city. —E. L. Bronx, N. Y. We, the members of the Tremont Workers ers who have been assigned to lecture at our Fri- day night forums. Our club was organized about, two months ago, and we wanted to attract to it the workers in the neighborhood. We decided to hold a forum every Friday evening and we dis- tributed a thousand leaflets every week for pub- licity. We immediately attracted about 75 work- ers. For the last four weeks our forum was completely disrupted because the speakers failed to show’ up. And now, our attendance has dropped more than half, the workers in the Some time ago the Daily Worker published a warning against George Carter, as an unreliable dishonest individual, who attached himself to an unemployed council in Washington, D. C., took money from several unemployed Negro workers under promise of jobs, and then dis- appeared. ‘This despicable swindler has turned up again, in connection with the Scottsboro legal lynching case, claiming to have been sent by a group of workers from Birmingham, Ala. and calling himself now by the name of A. W. Lee. He tried to attach himself to the International Labor Defense, to be sent out as a speaker on the Scottsboro case, which, due to its great mass appeal, he expected: to give him rich piekings. ‘When questioned, he repeatedly contradicted himself, although with a glib tongue he denied all wrong doing, even when confronted with workers, who personally knew of his swindling operations in Washington, D. C., and later in Richmond and Norfolk. . He claimed to have studied theology and to have been a Negro preacher for six or eight years, but admitted also that he had told to other comrades that he had studied law and been a lawyer. He claimed to, have joined a “branch of the ‘Third International at Birmingham, Ala.”, and to have received a membership book with bine covers, which had been taken away from him by the police. Plain lies on the face of it. ‘The persistence with which he tries to con- nect himself with workers organizations raises strong suspicions of even more nefarious pur- poses than money swindles. He is short and stocky, and his photograph, published herewith, will help all workers or- ganizations to recognize him easily and to re- fuse to. have anything to do with him in the future, “4 CHNTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION neighborhood are angry and do not believe our announcements any more. We ask you to use your column to denounce and condemn such un-Communistic*conduct on the part of speakers and others responsible. This will not only do our own club good, but other organizations also where such a situation exists. —Tremont Workers Club. ob rege Comment: The comrades are absolutely justi- efi | lay off most of its workers. coming out with, “Hey, don’t forget and-so to send a speaker np to our day night,” they think they have’ share and now it is the responsibility = 5 zs fi : ? Q e Be FE constantly of families of the unemployed by the city governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases of starvation, un~ dernourishment, sickness. We must pub- lish these cases in our press, in the Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell them at all workers’ meetings. Un- employed Councils should publish bulletins to inform all workers of me aul The Municipal Elections in Baltimor | By E. BENDER. IN May 5th, elections of a new city adminis- tration in Baltimore will take place. These elections are of great significance to the workers in view of the problems of the workers in this | city, and the manner in which the candidates of the republican and democratic parties deal with these problems, Starvation Widespread. Sixty thousand workers are unemployed in Baltimore. Starvation is widespread. Hundreds of workers are being evicted every week. The jails are filled with workers arrested on the charge of vagrancy. Relief is being cut off by the charity agencies and many workers are forced to dig into the ash cans in search of food. Suicides are a daily occurrence. At the same time, the number of unemployed is increasing daily. On the waterfront, in the steel mills, in the railroad shops, in the copper works, thou- sands of workers are being laid off or wotk part- time. The Baltimore Copper Works is going to The Mt. Clare shops of the B. & O. railroad laid off 2,600 men for a period of two weeks. This is the second lay-off in the period of a month. The Sparrows Point steel mills work on part-time in most de- partinents, while some of the departments (tube mills) are completely shut down. Wages Cut. Simultaneously with the lay-offs and unem- ployment, the bosses are making attacks on the standard of living of the workers. The Bethle- hem Steel Mills, whose officials made $36,000,000 in bonus, has given wage cut after wage cut to the workers. On February 1st a 1 per cent cut was given to the openers in the Tix, Mills. On April Ist a 5 per cent cut was give to entire Tin Mill department. Speed-up is introduced continuously. The shearmen in the Tin Mills will have their hours lengthened to 11 and 12 hours a day through a mechanical device which will eliminate the feed boys and scrap boys and put all of the work on the shearmen. The B. & ©. workers lost 28 per cent in wages in 1930 through periodical lay-offs and speed-up which were forced upon the workers with the help of the A. F. of L. officials. Attacks on Workers Growing. The rising discontent and militancy of the workers is being met with attacks upon the work- ers, Just recently eight workers from one de- partment in the steel mills were arrested by im~ migration officials to be deported into fascist Italy. Charlie Schwab-wants to keep the work~ ers from fighting the wage cuts through depor- tation and division of the foreign born, native white, and Negro workers. Many more foreign born workers are being arrested daily and slated for deportation, the number of which is not being reported by the capitalist press. The Negro workers are segregated in Jim Crow sec- tions, paying high rents; they are not allowed into restaurants or theatres; they are receiving 30 cents and 35 cents an hour on their jobs. City Administration Squanders Millions, Noth- ing For Jobless. 4 ‘The republican mayor and the democratic city council have worked very well together in spend- ing millions of dollars. A $59,000,000 loan is proposed for the city to be spent for a new court (to more efficiently evict and jail workers), for viaducts and other such things. The Public Im- provement Commission is in charge of the fund ‘and will squander quite a few million. Four million were already spent for an airport which has not been built. The workers will have to having homes. The unemployed received a crumb of $50,000 from the city treasury. This makes it less than one dollar per unemployed family. The workers are really the ones made to ,pay for the pitiable relief that is given out to the jobless families by the police. The workers in the factories are “asked” to contribute (at the point of losing the job). A “self denial” day | discrimination, sues of unemployment, tax increase, low wages, etc, They _are content with speaking of the Sunday blue law, 18 hole golf | courses and filling stations (as some of the can- was declared by the city and $100,000 collected | came primarily from the pockets of the workers. Politicians. Gidates did), but not a word on the issues that are of life importance to the workers. The so- | cialist party is heard of very little. It babbles in its platform about unemployment insurance but actually does nothing to struggle for it. It | temains true to its masters—the boss class. Communist. Party Has Platform For Workers. Only the Communist Party raises in the muni- cipal elections the issues and problems that are | of importance to the workers: The Communist Party demands immediate unemployment relief to be secured through transferring 50 per cent of the loans made by the city for the unemployed; no evictions for non-payment of rent; immediate repeal of the State Jim Crow law; union scale Wage on city jobs, etc. The democratic and the republican party ex- posed themselves as parties of the bosses. Mayor Broening replied to the unemployed workers that it is “unconstitutional” to tax the bosses for un- employment relief. The “liberal” democratic Governor Ritchie answered the demands of the unemployed with police clubs and arrests, The Communist Party calls upon the workers to or- ganize into revolutionary unions to fight the e of wage cuts; to organize unemployed coun- cils to demand relief; to fight against deportas tions and race discrimination; to struggle against imperialist war preparations. The Party brings before the workers the example of the Soviet Union as the only solution for the working class to do away with the misery it finds itself in today. Workers of Baltimore! the Working Class! Communist Party! The May Communist Is Out ‘The following contents are in the May num- ber: x May First, 1931, Editorial. The American Background of May Day, by Verne Smith. Comintern Documents. On the use of “Transmission Belts” in our Struggle for the Masses, by C. H. Hathaway. The Party Nucleus—A Factor is the Class Struggle, by Johh Williamson. Some Lessons of the Lawrence Strike, by Jack Stachel, The Crisis and the Strike Curve for 1930, by Phil Frankfeld, A “Model” Colony of Yankee Imperialism, by D~, R. D, Blood Stained Nitrates of Chile, by Albert Moreat. c ‘Three Sources and 'Three Elements of Marxism. Lenin's May Day Leaflet. | Book Reviews. Copies can be had from the Workers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City. Support the Party of Vote Communist! Jein the* Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D, New York City. Please send me more information on the Oom- munist Party, Name ooo eee ryy Address CHY ..ccveceeeeecccseenaeeees StMte crssecncees Oteupation sree MEO ceveee eee ceees: By JORGE Pollution, Not Revolution Yes, somebody came in with it, the Saturenp Evening Post, with the cover showing Aimee Semple MoPherson on a green horse, and the name “Leon Trotsky” right underneath the horse's stern, beautifully accompanied by Edith Wharton. “Wuxtra! Wuxtra!” the newsboys shout, “All about the scandals of the Czare family.’ So now you know the kind of “his- tory” the great man was toiling over at Prin- kipo. What incredible rot! A discovery that history “operates through people’—and from this sup- posed justification, Trotsky leaps off into the sewer, diving for at least 5,000 words and never coming up for air. Spewing confusion as a squid does ink over revolutionary history. The Czar was a half-wit. That’s why there was a revolution. And without one word of con- demnation—except that of “weakness,” Trotsky quotes Count Witte, writing about the Czar, as follows: “., weakness did everything that marked his heign—unceasing spilling of more or less in- nocent blood—and largely quite without pur- Pose.” ‘The Russian workers will remember that “more or less innocent blood” to the end of time. But Trotsky, in the Saturday Evening Post, has not a word to say in its honor! But he can explain endlessly how the Czar’s secret police reported “The night of 25-26 was spent by the actress V. with Rasputin” and. “He arrived at the Hotel Astoria with Princess D.” What a textbook for James Pickled Cannon to use to teach his pupils the history of the November Revolution! The “first organizer of the Red Army,” ac- cording to the ads, has fallen so low! In fact he was only held high as long as he went with and not against the revolutionary workers! When he went against them, he lost all significance. His fame came from their “more or less innocent blood” to which today he renders no tribute. And it is necessary, too, that workers should know that the “great” organizer, in the: midst of the civil war, was not so hot. Read the “Life of Stalin,” obtainable from the Workers’ Library Publishers, that part written by the present Commissar of War, Comrade Voroshilov, of which we quote only a few lines here, about how Stalin in 1919 reorganized the Southern Front of the Red Army. As a condition of his appointment by the Central Committee, Stalin demanded as Point Number 1: "That Trotsky should not interfere in the af- fairs of the Southern Front, and should not cross its boundary line.” The Central Committee accepted that condi- tion, and Voroshilov tells what happened: “The results are well known; the turning Point in the Civil War was passed. Denikin’s hordes were rushed into the Black Sea. Ukraine and North Caucasus were freed from the White Guards.” At Last, Ah! “Dear Jorge,’ writes a worker from Chicago. “At last on April 25th, the first article by Leon Trotsky on Russia appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. So I was informed by a full page ad in the ‘Worlds Greatest. Newspaper,’ the Chicago Tribune. “Tt certainly is fortunate for our ‘militants’ that such great papers have accepted Trotsky’s articles and will broadcast his ‘opinion” ‘They are to be regarded with awe for the successful beginning of their new theoretical organ, The Saturday Evening Post. “What a glorious sight, to view the ‘Left Op- position,’ the ‘fighters against capitalist so- clety,’ standing in front of factories and shops and mines with bundles, yelling: ‘Saturday Eve- ning Post, great article by Leon Trotsky, the man who won the war and made the revolution all by himself—150 pages, including varnish ad- vertisements, all for a nickel!’ “They certainly are lucky! After long skirts, comes the Saturday Evening Post!—Yours, L. G.” oy, GEE a Ash Can Worries Mayor Walker, who seems to be so in originality that he copies the President ¢. Cuba in laying all and even the weakest op- Position to his grafting regime to the “insidious Reds,” was speaking at a Holy Name break- fast on Sunday. Among other jackass remarks, he said: “It is the complaint of the housewife who writes to ask why the ashes were not removed— that is the kind of complaint that gives one sleepless nights,” Now, isn’t that just downright bad! But we seem to recall a news item about a Hollywood movie actress who gave him one sleepless night. However, the poor girl probably had an ash can. 2 8 The Kind You Read About Not long ago a reader in Chicago asked us how it happened that his delicatessen store- keeper told him ‘a sad tale of receiving letters from “Roosha” from a relative, asking for money and relating his supposed misery. Not knowing the store-keeper’s relative, we could only guess that that gentleman had got crosswise with the Soviet rule “No work, no eat.” Now we have some direct information of a similar case, in a letter coming from the Soviet Union by way of Hollywood. Beek one day with a letter from Soviet Russia, writ- ten in Esperanto, asking him to translate it Along with the letter was the ‘picture of its sender, and in a tuxedo suit! Holy mackerel! But the letter explains things. Here itis: ° “Dear Brother—The times are and worse in this terrible country. became so worn that I neded a new I went to the store to get them. refused to sell me any. They said that boots could be repaired. Pimpsky, “So I went to the repair shop where they asked me for my work card, Having none, they asked me my trade. I told them quite truthfully that I was a student of poetry. They then told me that I would have to do some useful labor before they would mend my boots. “Dear brother! It is a good thing that you a