The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1931, Page 3

7 4 . ; { / e ~ = e t. ig OATLY WORKER, N “GET A GUN AND ROB,” POLICE TELL FATHER OF STARVING FAMILY Mayor’s Committee and Catholic Charities Re- fuse to Give Relief to Family of 9 Harlem Unemployed Branch from City Government vw Force Relief NEW YORK.— in officer at the 23rd precinct gone, an unemployed electrician and father “Go get a gun and rob.” Takes Up Fight That’s what tion told Sam Strep- of seven small police s children, when he went to the station and told the police that his family was starving. ‘The police had “helped” him on They gave him 1 pound of coffee. 1 pound of beans, 1 pound of rice, 2 pounds of prunes and 3 pounds of potatoes. This for a family of nine for one wéek! And the next! time he went to the Tammany police ; oldest aid by out Unemployed Branch Gets Relief The Strappone family, behind three months in rent, with no light daughter, the priest Mary, was denied and told to get they told him to “go get a gun and | and the gas about to be shut off, rob.” Charities Refuses Aid. Then another “kind jally starving. Tammany | Unempioyed Council and went there. were facing eviction and were actu- They heard of the cop told him to go to the Catholic} The father joined the Harlem Branch Charities, 51 Street and Madison Ave. This fake organization cl cause he was mentally deficient and | tried to sera him to the insane asy- d| The that Streppone was unemployed be- | | umediate aid for the family. at once. He spoke at the meetings. workers rallied and collected The Harlem Unemployed Branch is now | mobilizing the workers in the neigh- lum, but they failed in this because! borhood to resist the eviction of the the doctors through some misunder- standing failed to cooperate with the charity gang by declaring that he had no psychosis. The Catholic Charities, however, again refused him aid as did the Mayor’s Committee in the Leonard Building. He was then advised to go to the Saint Cecilia Church. His Strappone family and force the city government and the rich bosses to turn over to the Unemployed Coun- cil more relief. The workers in Har- lem must mobilize at once under the leadership of the Harlem Branch of the Unemployed Council to expose the false charity institutes and fight for food for this family. Worker Jailed In Eviction Case Calls On Miners : to Organize and Fight ° + Universal, Ind. Daily Worker: I happen to be one who received a slice of this “Glorious Humanitarian Justice” that the bosses’ courts deal with (a hundred and costs). Work- ers, just think of that for putting a starving family back in their home after they were evicted. Workers, white and Negro, we can only~scare the bosses when we or- ganize ourselves into strong, militant unions, such as the Trade Union Unity League, which fights against wage-cuts and rotten conditions that the bosses are responsible for, " 1922 Sellout. ‘Don't, depend on the American Fake Federation or the old grandma, U, M. W. A. of John L. Lewis. You railway maintenance and all work- ers of America can’t and must not forget the 1922 strike, when those noble, .pretending labor leaders sold out the maintenance strike and the John Lewis machine double-crossed the Kentucky, W. Va., Penn., miners That cheap double-crosser promised those miners that he would not send unions miners back to work until their grievances were settled. That smooth faker not only double-crossed those miners, but he went and signed up with the Jinks shafe coal opera- tors, claiming to represent 60,000,000 short tons of coal. Think of 60,000,- 000 out of 680,000,000 tons. This heroic misleader signed a contract for 9 per cent of the coal miners and let 91 per cent go to hell. Build National Miners’ Union. You miners wonder why your wages are low and working condi- tions rotten. Lewis has broken your backbone in that strike. You will never recover until you miners build the National Miners’ Union. Underground’ workers, for your sake and your family, organize your- selves into the National Miners’ Union. Don’t take wage-cuts, fight. You have nothing to lose but capi- talist chains, and gain liberty and happiness, —S. M. Martin. Watervliet Workers Lucky to Have Food: Wages $8 to $5 A Week Watervliet, N. Y. Worcorr: ‘Those who believe all this rot about the high standards of living of the American working class should come out here to Watervliet, Green Island and Cohoes. In house after house they'll find whole families sitting home, wearing away the long hours in monotonous boredom because they haven't the money for the movies, or to buy a book or a radio. ‘They're lucky to have enough to eat! $5 to $8 a Week. What wages are paid here? For- man-Clark pays $8 a week (50 hours) for lining pressers. Women slave over the sewing machine for a whole week for $5, and glad to get it! Over at Cluett Peabody, in Troy, it’s just as bad; they pay their help so mis- erably, and rush them so, that at night to watch those women coming out of the factory is like looking at an army of ghosts. Ford Speed-up. Ford's plant at Green Island is practically shut down. Those left on the job are speeded up inhumanly, making their blood turn to gall. Slowly, they are beginning to see the way out—the only way—the way pointed by the Communist Party. —R.G. (Former oFrd Inspector.) Toledo Woman Worker Active In Boosting for Freedom of Scottsboro Boys Toledo, Ohio. Daily Worker: Iam doing everything in my power to bring about the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. I was at two meet- ings yesterday and I actually found a minister of a church who knew nothing about the case. Well, I soon put the wheels of action turning and Tam going to furnish him with leaf- iets on the cause. I will attend this church this mid-week for the purpose of getting action in sending the re- sult to ‘the Alabama governor. Cireulates Daily. T also circulate the Daily Workers in the dormant centers. I hope to help a lot. I've got the good will and ambition. I hope to be useful and I am waiting to see the whole country all Communist. I belong to the Unemployed Council, Unity League, International Labor Defense, and I mean to work hard. If this is the spirit you work with let me hear from you, please. Yours for labor and liberty, —M. B. R. Pacific Northwest Lumber Co. Forces 15 P. C. Anacortes, Wash. Daily Worker: As the class struggle deepens, the Jumber barons of the Pacific North- west are making the burden more difficult for the workers, not only ‘ wage-cuts, which go as high as 15 per cent, but are also using the vis- cious method of deporting the foreign horn, i? Bosses Urge Deportation of Workers, These foreign-born workers were Stockton, Calif, working-class families in California H are actually starving in the midst of ae. the jingoist Hearst papers of section 1 applaud the ete Altieda High School rifle} team, winner's of thé national junior used ‘here | patti. Train California Youth for War; Hearst. . Papers Applaud trophy. . i sty. of these youthful fooled into coming to this land of “prosperity” and now the bosses at- tempt to deport them. Workers are being checked up in the mills by these rats and stool-pigeons of the bosses. One worker is being held for deportation to Canada because of his militant activity in behalf of his class, Anacortes Workers Urged to Organize All Anacortes workers are urged to join the Lumber Workers’ Industrial —A Lumber. Worker, Prepare them for the coming war against Soviet Russia, Workers! In 1917 did Hearst and his fellow-jingoists suffer with our fathers and mothers? Of course not. Organize and fight those who use the | Workers for the bosses’ interests, —A Young Worker. Workers Correspondence is the backhone of the revolutionary press by writing for i W Y ORK, MOND: AY, MAY 1931 Gen. Ludendorf Says War Will Break Out in 1931; U.S. Gov't Rushes Its War Preparations will come before the end ot| 1931,” wrote General Erich Lunden- dorff in the Munich “Volkswarte,” | just a few days before 672 planes | in New York City took part in the biggest air war maneuvers ever con- ducted. General Lundendorff said that this would be primarily a war agamst the Soviet Union. He stated the only way the capitalist nations could avert economic boycott to destroy Social~ ism in the Soviet Union. “War is coming,” Lundendorff said, “and is coming in the form of Broth- er Briand’s ‘preventive war’.” Te short, war is coming under the slogansof “peace!” In New York City on Saturday hundreds of planes swooped down to the Battery after a six-hour delay and took part in the far-flung war this war was by uniting in a drastic | Morgan and Co. Associates Take Leading In N. Y. Air Maneuvers; Part ; War Policies Commission Busy In Washington maneuvers. The war was participated in by two indivi- duals heavily interested in Morgan & Co. The maneuvers were under the direct charge of F. Trubee Davi- | son, Assistant Secretary of War,| whose father. was a partner in the| House of Morgan and made millions in the last World War. Col. Lind- | bergh, son-in-law of Dwignt Morrow, | another Morgan partner, took a pro- | minent part in the maneuvers. There were 50,000 people at the | Battery watching the maneuvers. At 26th Street and Madison Square a small group of sky-pilots and social- demonstration | i spouted for “peace” — of the Briand type. The Rev. White, who spoke along w Paul Porter ialist, said that ifists there assembled were 1 the best Am- erican patriots as they were for peace and human brotherhood After the New York maneuvers the planes head for Boston wnere will continue the war show. ran” IINGTON, May 24 Plan are being perfected here by Var Policies Commission which is still in session. The main task is how to make war as profitable as possible for the capitalists by forcing conscripting 4,000,- , and through that will in- sure the bosses the maximum profits, A new note was sounded by Her- ber ayard Swope, one of the wit- | testifying today. Swope was xecutive editor of the World. He red that the moment war s out a heavy censorship should amped down to keep the masses from knowing the truth, “Enlightene and informed public opinion in war,” said Swope, ideal. But the plan gerous.” Swope said the war should be fought bitterly and fur! , once it breaks out, under c: italist leadership, and all “rights” of the masses, such as free speech, etc., id immediately be abolished; the newspapers controlled by an. open capitalist dictatorship—all to one end driving the war forward. ho sho! $769 CONTRIBUTED ON SATURDAY; day that is needed. Of the amount DISTRICTS? The contributions follow: Dist. 1 A. Scott, New Bedford, Mass. $1.00 Dist. 2 Peter Duncan, N.Y.C. 5.00 S. Licht, Coll. at Com. Mane- vitch Party, Sec. 5, Unit 21 24.10 D. Lang, Brooklyn 1,00 Mrs. S. Pilot Dauber, N.Y.C. 5.00 Women’s Council No. 2, Bronx 2.00 A. Halzer, N.Y.C. 2.00 Friedman, Bronx, N.Y. 2.00 Packer, Broklyn 1.00 J. Clens, Sec. 2, Unit 16 2.25 Red Sparks A.C., N.Y.C. 1.00 Oscar Kravitz, N.Y.C. 3.00 3:8). N,Y.0. 2.00 Jos. Jerady, Sec. 5, Unit 16 5.35 F. Ollenberg, Sec. 2, Unit 16 1.25 H. Kaplan, N.Y.C. 1.00 M. Folcios, N.Y.C. 1.00 Morris Benbasat, N.Y.C. 5.00 Miles Gustafsori, Brooklyn 5.00 T. Holzer, N.Y.C. 2.00 Hungar’n Wkrs. Home, N.Y.C. 25.00 A Comrade 1.00 H. L. Brown, Brooklyn 1.00 Finnish Bureau, N.Y.C. 200.00 Ukrainian Daily News, N.Y.C. 100.00 Brownsville Wkrs. Y’th, Bkln. 25.00 Prospect Wkrs, Club, Bronx 25.00 NEARLY ALL FROM NEW YORK DIST. A total of $765.35 (figures up to 6 p.m.) was received on Satur- day in the campaign to save the Daily Worker. able improvement over previous days, but is still below the $1,000 a was contributed by the New York district. WHERE ARE THE OTHER This is a consider- received Saturday all but $22.40 Farber, Coll. at party for Com Horowitz & Clara Krauss, leaving for U.S.S.R. 10,00 Hungar'n Wkrs. Home, N.Y.C. 25.00 Eliz. Frank, Sec. 1, Unit 9 10.00 Co-operative Grocery, Bronx 75.00 Workers’ Cooperative, Bronx 165.00 Novelty Barber Shop, Bronx 10.00 Total $742.95 . 15 Members of Russian Mutual Aid Soc., Banksville, Conn. V. Volch $1.00 I. Romanchuk 1.00 M. Tverdohle 1.00 T. Yusaluk 1.00 P. Pasechnuk 1.00 W. Chernow 1.00 N. Tereshko 1.00 P. Ternimsky 1.00 Y. Leychuk 2.00 T. Masewich 2.00 V. Kalesen 1.40 N. Neveretz 5.00 J. Jensen, Bridgeport, Conn. 3.00 Total $21.40 Total, all districts $765.35 Previously received 322.75 Jobless, Protesting Wage Cut Storm Greenwich Town Hall Smash Doors and’ Wi in Contractors to ¢ Policemen Cut dows; Wiltaney Forces srant Jobs on Road; by Flying Glass GREENWICH, Conn., lay 24. — A crowd said by capitalist papers to number 1,000, made up of king road workers and their wives and children, many of them babes in arms, stormed the Town Hall yes- terday, smashed in the doors and windows and shoved back the police guard which menaced them with tear gas and other weapons. This militant demonstration forced the immediate granting of a part of their demands. The workers refused to disperse until they were told that} while they were den trating, a hadty meeting called in the offices of the Tudor Mitchell contracting firm had agreed to put 200 men back at work on the highways Monday, Wage Cuts These workers are members of the A. F. of L. “Hod Carriers and Com- mon Laborers Union, ch has had a contract to worl wh at $6.50 a day, but whose members have been paid $4.25 instead. Several previous strug- gles resulted in the officials of the union using every art to persuade the workers to go on pending “ne- gotiations.” Some of their meetings were addr d by representatives of the Trade Union Unity League who drew mighty cheers when they urged the workers to take over the strug- gle into their own hands, and stand fast for their demands. The demonstrators had paraded the streets with placards denouncing the wage cutting before they rushed the Town Hall. In the struggle at the doors of the building, two cops were cut by fly- ing glass. The demonstrators forced their way into the entrances of the building. Two of them, Francesco Disanto and Dominic Chiapetta were arrested, the former being charged with throwing stones at the police. GREEN AND WOLL SUPPORT U.S. STEEL CORP. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Total to date $1,088.10 All Districts, Sections Clubs Must Hold Affairs For Daily Worker Benefit On Sunday, May 24, the Arbeiter- bund of Manhattan, N. Y., held Pienic at Edenwald, Pa., half the proceeds of which wen to Daily Worker. On Sunday, May 31, Dis- trict 19, Denver, Colo., will also hold Picnic at Golden Park, Denver, the entire proceeds to be presented as donation to Daily Worker. Good moves on part of Arbeiterbund and District 19 in emergency campaign for $35,000 to save “Daily.” Should set example to other clubs, orgam- zations, sections and districts in country. From now on, until end of Drive, the Workers Calendar, Page 2, should be filled every day with dates of meetings, affairs, picnics, etc. to be held for benefit of “Dai- ly,” and reports of these activities sent in for publication. The “Daily” must not suspend. Daily Worker Clubs to insure con- tinuous mass support must be or- ganized. Independent initiative of readers and sympathizers must be stimulated. Daily Worker Agents, Red Builders News Clubs, and Work- er Correspondents should make them- selves responsible for acquainting all working class sections with the im-+ portance of the campaign and the need for their support., The Daily Worker must become an integral part of Party activity. Send Detailed Reports on Campaign “Received your telegram for money. Will try my best. Am sure of suc- cess,” is encouraging report from Dis- trict 3, Philadelphia. “Coupons,” adds the new Daily Worker Rep. “will be immediately forwarded to sections in district in accordance with quotas.” Letter from J. F., D.W. Rep. District 5, Cleveland, reads: “All material will be sent to various sections to begin drive at once.” Discouraging report from District 16: “I don’t think we are in position to do much here in raising funds. Will do our best how- ever © reach sympathizers with coupons and forward results," writes J. C,, Charlotte, N, C. ‘There must be no question of fail- ure, if the “Daily” is to go on. Rush Orders For All Conferences Philadelphia has excellent Dis- trict Page this week. Scottsboro and “Daily” Defense Meetings should have plenty of Dailies on hand for distribution, Phila. Also National Youth Day Convention at Passaic. Extra orders for Scotts- boro, “Daily” and N. ¥. D. con- ferences all over country should be rushed immediately, “Are doing best to increase sales ad expect to increase bundle to 75 pies,” writes T. O., Salt Lake City, _ ah, Now getting 60. similar de- “Nucleus here just been reorganized and comrades going to start work in real earnest. First step of course is to build up Daily Worker sales,” says A. P., D.W. agent. F. G., In- dianapolis, Ind., also sends order for 10 daily. Daily Worker Clubs will help build “Daily” fast Don’t fail to involve every reader in work. Bundle orders must not be stopped. If comrade has to leave town or is offered better job, papers should be turned over to another worker. L. T., Pontiac, Mich., has right idea. “Sorry to stop bundle. Send 15 copies daily to F. K., Pontiac.” ——__ SENTENCE LUESSE TO ONE YEAR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dence, for the police witnesses con- tradicted each other in flagrant fa- shion. This unusually heavy sentence is the frantic effort of the court to uphold the capitalist theory that the jobless must be evicted, harrassed and starved to make the wage cut campaign a success and to save profits. Protest June 4. ‘The workers and unemployed workers here are determined to fight on. There will be a mass protest meeting against the sentencing of Luesse, at Workers’ Center, 932% South Mendean, Thursday, June 4, at 8 p.m. Richard Moore will be the main speaker, and the meeting will also demand the release of the Scottsboro Negro Sa 3 Meetings in City Join in Protest .at Scottsboro Frameup NEW YORK. — Three meetings of workers in this city yesterday passed resolutions denouncing the Scottsboro boss court lynche verdict against the nine innocent Negro youths and sent telegrams to Goy. B. M., Miller of Alabama demanding a new trial for these young workers, facing the electric chair on a framed- up charge of “raping” two white prostitutes. The meetings were; a membership meeting of the Russian Mutual Aid Society held at 35 East 12 Street; a membership meeting of the Down- town Unemployed Council held at its headquarters, 27 East 4 Street, and an open atr meeting of 250 work- ers at the corner of 6th Street and that have cut wages; I do not want to embarrass them.” Farrell, also, did not mention the name of his own company, the U. 8. Steel Co., which cuts wages through speed-up and the stagger system. While saying open wage cuts would be dangerous, Farrell agreed with Schwab that there must be slashes in pay in some form. “Now all these economies that Mr. Schwab has referred to have been pretty generally done !n nearly all companies. But those economies are necessar Farrell's main emphasis was on keeping up steel prices, the attempt | of the big capitalist monopolies to} overcome the crisis, and in a fashion that has resulted in a prolonging and intensification of the cris In showing the depths to whieh the present crisis has gone, Farrell warned of the growing instability of capitalism, Peed anes Railroad Wages Cut NEW YORK.—Rail executives at the Eastern Presidents’ Conference of railroad executives admit railroad wages have already been cut. Others say they will be cut much further. The New York Herald-Tribune com- menting on wage cuts in the rail- road industry says: “There already has been a deflation of railway labor costs by about 33 per cent, because about 1,200,000 workers are doing work which only recently required 1,800,000 worke: Se More Steel Pay Cuts in Youngstown YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—Informa- tion privately given ‘out by steel ex- ecutives in the Mahoning Valley state that wages will be cut in the steel plants here still further, Most of the executives propose an PAY CUTTING PLAN from 10 to 15 wage cut of 10,000 Get Pay Cuts in Film Co. NEW YORK.—Over 10,000 workers in the Paramount Publix Corpora- tion will get wage cuts from 5 to 25 per cent beginning July 1. This was announced last Saturday by Adolph Zukor, president of the com- pany. All workers employed by the company are affected. a eer Frisco Sets Pace tn Pay Cutting N FRANCISCO.— Dollar Line cut the wages of all its em- |ployees, from the white collared slaves in the offices down to the y slaves on the big ocean liners. This cut can better be called a ‘slash’ one-sinxteenth of the wages are cut off, or over 16 per cent. Following close, are the wage cuts at the Linotype Co. on Sacramento and Sansome streets. Cuts of 5, 10 and 12 per cent, with one month off without pay for each employee. Wage cuts and the stagger system com- bined! Hundreds of workers are af- fected. Lay-offs too, continue fast and furious. The San Francisco “Exa- miner” recently layed off 400 office clerks, some of whom had been em- ployed as long as 8 and 10 years. Every employee as soon as he Is. en- rolled on the payroll, is compelled to take stock bonds—four shares at $24 a share. Weckly payments of $1 are deducted from the wages without the consent of the employee. This is how William Randolph Hearst further robs the workers. When the lay-off took place, they were deduc- ted another $1 on each share, The lay-off affected every department, eight to two layed off. The two left on the job will be speed-up terrific- ally to make up for this. 800 Pitts Workers Cheer Mrs. Wright In Packed Scottsboro Protest Meet (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED Wright when she told the story of the frame-up and stated her faith in the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights and in the effectiveness of the mass protest of the working class. A resolution demanding new trials for the boys and their uncon- ditional release wes unanimously passed by a standing vote as well as a thunderous “Aye.” Charles Irving, acting district or- ganizer of the I. L. D., contrasted the role of the “Daily Worker” and the “Liberator,” working-class news- papers, and of the Pittsburgh Cou- rier, an agent of the bosses. He point- ed out that the Pittsburgh Courier had at first ignored the case, then printed news articles in the best style of the boss press branding the nine innocent boys as “rapists,” and was now carrying its support of the southern boss lynchers another step by attacking the International Labor Defensa and the Loagye of Struggle for Negro Rights, the two organiza- tions that had rushed to the defense of the boys while the N.A.A.C.P. leaders were congratulating the southern bosses on giving the boys “a fair trial.” Other speakers were Robert Woods, district secretary of the Trade Pnion Unity League, Perinthia Hill, a mem- ber of the L.S.N.R. Both are facing seven-year sentences in the boss courts of Pittsburgh for their ac- tivities in mobilizing the white and Negro workers for the February 25 demonstration against unemploy- ment, starvation, boss terror and lynching. Nell Amter spoke on be- half of the young workers, pledging their support in the fight to save the boys. Ben Careathers, secretary of the Pittsburgh L.S.N.R., acted as chairm- man, and further exposed the treach- erous role of Mr. Vann, editor of the Courier, against the struggles of the workers to better their conditions and in seeking to knife the defense of the Scottsboro children. Wi age Three ~ GRAFT AND GANGSTER (CONTINUED FROM PAC 2 ONE) dared to tell the truth. The fact is they were Chicago cops, acting for the police depart- ment and the Capone gang- sters. At the head of the police de- partment on this outstanding day in the history of Chicago me and ¢ known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, February 14, 1929, were Com- missioner William F. Russell and Deputy Commissioner John Stege. Russell later re- signed. Commissioner John Stege became head of the po- lice department and led the as- sault against numerous unem- ployed demonstrations, com- manding the same cops in viciously beating unemployed workers, N and white, who o demand jobless He Gets a * On February 16th Major Silloway, deputy prohibition administrator for the Chicago district, stated he was convinced not only that policemen with their official uniforms and badges participated in the massacre, but that they even used a regulation detective car equipped with gong and siren. For this bit of information the Hoover government transferred Silloway to another district and, in sheer chagrin, he resigned. Mellon and Hoover didn’t want the workers gangster- up o" to know, even a semblance of the truth, The link between gangsters and police exists in all ranks of the po- lice departments of all capitalist gov- ernments. It begins at the top with the chiefs of police and is firmly connected with the mayors, the back- ers of the political machines, the capitalist exploiters. In tracing the action of the gang- sters, the growing rotten grafting system which is bred in the bone of the present capitalist system in the United States, we will have occasion to show the interlocking directorates of the Capones, the Rothsteins, the “Legs” Diamonds and the Thomp- sons, Walkers, Lyles, the Republican: the Democrats and the “Socialis! Origin of Gangsterism. We must go back somewhat to trace the origin of gangsterism, its roots and its developments. It has a class ba: Graft and murder are integral parts of the capitalist gov- ernments, and the rise of the pow- erful modern gangster machines, the ever-spreading system of graft, vice- rings, dope-peddlers, booze-runners must be traced in the history of the growth of American capitalism. ‘The capitalist system, with profit and the exploitation of the workers a sits motive force, is the breeding ground of the “racketeers,” gangsters, grafters and gunmen. One of the leading Wall Street publications, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle (March 28, 1931) admits that racke- teering is part of the capitalist sys- tem, the same system which grinds profits out of the workers. ‘racketeer,'" said this organ of the leading financial interests in the United States, “is, in a sense, the product of ‘organization,’ that now permeates all forms of industry and soctety.”” The objective of the gangster. racketeer and capitalist is the same, though the methods might differ at times. Even the methods become more and more indistinguishable, however, “Glory In Gold.” “The gangster, said Charles Francis Coe, a criminologist and authority on crime, speaking over a nation-wide hook-up on WJZ (New York Eve- ning Post, March 30, 1931), “kills for money and dies for money. The en- tire premise of his existence is cash. He counts life in dollars, measures mind in money and gauges glory in gold.” This is precisely the objective of the capitalist system in the exploita- tion of the workers. It is for this reason that the gangsters have such Woll, Building His Insurance Racket, Urges Treasury Nab The Upholsterers’ Journal for May carries an article by Matthew Woll, vice president of the A. F. of L., acting president of the strike breax- ing National Civic Federation, and president of the racket known as “The Union Labor Life Insurance Co.” Woll urges, and claims that the practice is already growing, that the Officials of the A. F. of L. unions insure their lives and pay the pre- miums from the union treasury. This most outrageous looting of the trea- suries of money taken from wage- cut workers is put forward by Woll with all the smug assurance of a good business man. a fertile field in the y de veloped capitalist system. Because of the struggle for more profits at a faster rate, the employs angsters and gai glory of gold.” In the A. F. of L. is woven of the trade bureaucracy of the American tion of Labor To te workers in the trade unions, to keep the leadership in the Is of the with the bosse ne union mis- men that collaborate against the wor! leaders have developed one of th largest groupings of gunmen and ngsters in the United States The, bosses have aided the union bureau4 cracy in this development, fearing} the real organization of the work in revolutionary unions and dreading the overthrow of the fas ship of A. F. of 1. The American Background. ist leader- the Why gangsterism emerged from the soil of erican capitalism more readily than it did in most Euro- pean capitalist countries can be found in the history of the capitalist system in this country. Europeam capitalism grew out of the feundae tions of feudalism and through a struggle between the rising capitalist nd th efeudal lando’ In capitalism developed with- out the fetters feudalism. As Frederick Engels put it, it developed “without any kindly disposed feudal background. Competition reached its highest expression in early Amer- ican capitalism, with the resulting brutal, violent struggles. In a letter written in June 3, 1886, Frederick Engels, one of the founders of Marxism, described the origin of capitalism on the American conti- nent as follows ners, of “For America all, was the ideal of all bow a country rich, vast, expe with purely bourgeois institutio: unleavened by ditions and ¥ hereditary proletariat if not t all events an indep ducing or tr means, on his Then t and Jand in the cor one could become ist, huge West abing ion en the vp on a dcliber- mand in the str of a cap! fostered engende pare woe Ww who came in large num ing to the of violence to an ic degree the very basis of ¢ any feudal ba When the capita! its full bloom, when the disappeared; when the “colossal en- ergy of the development” had slowed down, and the division be- tween classes had grown sharper. when the capitalist class had ci ated its state power on a firmer base, it did not eliminate and could not eliminate the corruption, violence, race conflicts and the brutal, gang- ster element that had grown up in the infancy of this system. These forces were incorporated into the capitalist structure, into its state ma~ chinery, and became an inseparable part of it. Price corruption, upon m without t state reached 2 land” ing Rackets. Later, with the growth of imper- jalism, monopoly capitalism, the trustification of industry and the development of price-fixing organiza- tions, the gangsters were drawn into these new forms of American capi- talism. With the post-war crisis of capitalism, fascism began to show its head in Italy, Hungary, Poland, Ru- mania, Germany and other countries, due go the sharpening of the basic conflicts, antagonisms of capitalism. The crisis reached a_ particularly virulent form in the United States beginning in November, 1929. This ready-made element of gangsterism is now being utilized in the United States in the development of fascism —the rapid disappearance of the so- called democratic rights, the open expression of the direct dictatorship of the capitalist class in its drive against the growing revolutionary struggles of the workers. (Lo Be Continued.) NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION (LACE OPEN THE ENTIBE YAK Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultura) Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEB CAMP NITGEDAIGED, BEACON, 8.7 PHONE 133 Enclosed find by July 1. Name .. Address ...... Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund. dollars We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily by raising $35,000 MUST HAVE $1,000 A DAY! » cents City