The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1931, Page 4

ly Publishing Co. N. Y. Telephone ks to the Daily Worker, lgonquin 7956-7, Cable: Page For » Raise the $35,000 Fund! By I. AMTER. c at the only country in the world that GAIN the Daily Worker faces su | gz from the economic crisis, but Again the Daily Worker must appeal to the | y is rising rapidly and has long workers all over the cour to come to its sui nd it the pre-war level of production, port. Again the enemies of the Daily Worker viet Union. This is not welcome news the Communist Party and the re erialist countries, which are strug- workers le in derision, for they | r power, some of them for existence, the Da rker will be lost to the rev he economic crisis in their own coun- he struggle for power is sharpening the nisms between the United States and But the an- movement, Hamilton Fish, Matthew .Woll, liam Green, Norman Thomas and the ¢ alist cle lackeys rejoice when the | Gre tain, Italy and France. he 2 sevolutio Negro and white, and | tagonisms between Communism and capitalism the poor face the danger of lo: | still sharper. All the nations represented their most piece. | ue of Nations, when Litvinoff pro- The econom: is is becoming worse. ace policy as against the capitalist heads of twenty-four leading ba! , had to recognize the unique position ne Soviet Union, which as a country of the s and peasants alone can offer peace. ace will not be accepted—for capitalism is om war to get out of the crisis—even the capitalists know that the next world world including the United States Basle, Switzerland on May ‘20, ‘declared | “they wish there was some definite mechanism | that could be set up to meet the present crisis | bent t but their hands are tied.” The ikers of the world can find no way out of the In | ¥ result in turning all Europe into 5 } t a] leadine | Soviets London, the representatives of all the leading | Soviets. ‘ nations of t world meet on the wheat pr | In this crisis, with the imperialists preparing | lem, and c one solution for | the capitalists want to destroy the rev agr down th ge c ry movement. The attacks of the U. 8. the production and the expor fw nt through the Fish Committee clear- the way: Smash the Communist press; the Communist Party and revolutionary terrorize the Negro and foreign-born (Michigan foreign-born registration); | smash the revolutionary movement. Daily Must Be Saved. The answer of the workers is: You will not smash the Communist press; you will not smash the Communist Party and revolutionary unions; | we will fight against your terror methods against the Negro and foreign-born workers! You cannot smash the revolutionary movement! Our first act of solidarity and class unity will be to saye the Daily Worker, our revolu- tionary mouthpiece. The danger signal of the Daily Worker will spur us on—the $35,000 fund will be raised. In the shops and mines, we will form committees to raise funds to save the Daily Worker! In the unions, clubs and mass organizations we will form committees to raise funds. We will mobilize the workers, employed and unemployed, and they will go among the so that the price of bread will rise. The rail~ | way companies of this country want to “help the crisis, by boosting freight rates, which will increase the cost of living. On the other hand, wages are being slashed. Matthew Woll and his brother traitor and fas- cist, William Green, who attempted to sell out the workers in November, 1929, when they promised Hoover that there would be no str cuts, while the manufacturers promised there would be no wage reductions, now admit that they have already taken place in 75 per cent of all industrial establishments! Unemployed Starve. The unemployed continue to starve. The U. S. and state governments categorically refuse to grant unemployment insurance, Some of the proposals are for “industrial insurance,” left to the discretion of the employer, and with re- strictions that will exclude the present unem- ployed and many still employed. Charity and the other forms of relief have been cut off ers flophouses and breadlines have been closed workers and collect the dimes, quarters and victions take place by the thousands every dollars from willing hands to save the Daily day. The cost of living and rents do not de- | Worker. cline. Children continue to starve. The Negro | Hoover, Fish, Woll, Green, Norman Thomas, workers and poor farmers who are always dis- Hillquit and all the capitalist enemies of the working class have smiled too soon: The Daily Worker will be saved to continue the fight for organization and struggle against the economic crisis, against the danger of war against the Soviet Union, for the overthrow of capitalism! criminated against, are discriminated against even in the race against hunger. No Crisis in Soviet Union. At the meeting of the League of Nations, Lit- vinoff, representative of the Soviet Union, de- Graft ur ‘The previous articles in this series dealt with the rise of gangsterism and graft early in American history. J. P. Morgan, the elder, hired 45¢ gunmen in the Erie railroad fight and Gangsters By HARRY GANNES in 1869. Gangsters became a part of the of- ficlaldam of the A. F. of UL. bureausracy. In Chicago the cops committed wholesale mur- der for Al Capone, though the facts were hid- den by the capitalist newspapers, Growth of Racketeers Meera the World War over 400 organiza- tions were formed to fix prices in various retail and wholesale trades, particularly in the food industries, such as vegetables, milk, butter, eggs, etc. The capitalists who were interested in forcing their prices up made wholesale use of gangsters insthe process. Independent dealers and sellers were bombed or murdered. Others were terrorized into becoming part of the price- fixing organization. Once in, of course, they became rabid in their desire to wipe out all other competitors through the use of gunmen. Both capitalist newspapers were the school for many of the present day leading gunmen in Chicago. “Big Tim” Murphy Arrives Tim Murphy,, like Rothstein of New York, among other things, turned his hand to big robberies. He engineered the hold-up of the Dearborn Street mail station, netting him $338,- 00Q, He controlled five or six unions, several of which he created solely to squeeze contributions from the workers and graft from the employ- ers. Murphy himself told how his type of leader in the post war period ran the unions: “They don’t use boxing gloves in the labor movement,” he boasted, “they use Smith and Wessons.” Murder was Murphy’s side-line. After his release from an accidental jail term he was greeted with open arms by the Chicago capitalist poli- ticians at City Hall. The Chicago Tribune de- scribed this reception as follows: A new name was developed for this type of business, “racketeering.” Soon after the rise of the American Federation of Labor, the mis~- leaders developed the use of gangsters and gangster methods against the rank and file. At first this method of terrorizing the workers and keeping the A. F. of L. unions within the bounds so desired by capitalism to protect the “American institutions” which Samuel Gompers “When Murphy was released from jail in the loved so well, was developed on a small scale. Enright case he was received with open arms at the City Hall, where he went to call, followed by a troop of admirers.” Among those admirers were judges, assistant state’s attorneys and al- dermen. He fed them at sumptuous banquets and paid them handsomely. Some time before his death he boasted of his money making prowess. T mmde a million, and spent a million, and T figure I'l make another million before they It came into full flower after the war with post-war building boom, and now is an integral part of the entire A. F. of L. officialdom. It is part of the equipment of the socialist leaders in the trade unions where they hold forth, such as in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the furriers and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, in reality a company union manned by socialists and gangsters. plant me.” Skinny Madden William Z. Foster in his book, “Misleaders of He Didn't Make It. Labor, traces the growth of gangsterism in the A Capone bullet stopped him at the half- American Federation of Labor Unions. He te! of the rise of “Skinny” (Martin) Madden, the earliest of the gangsters and racketeers to enter the trade union field. Skinny Madden laid the basis for organized graft in the Chicago building trades, collecting graft from union members and building contractors alike. Madden was fol- lowed by Simon O'Donnell who taught con- tractors how to add 20 per cent to their total bill for graft to the union gangsters who con- trolled the building trades unions, In the Boss Political Machines All these leeches in the trade union move- ment spread out to broader fields. The capi- talist politicians found them valuable allies, and alliances were made with both the republicah and the democratic machines. This type of gangster-union leader in the A. F. of L. reached its highest expression in the person of “Big Tim” Murphy. During 1917-18, Murphy turned his hand to politics. He was a democratic representative in the Illinois State Legislature. Previously in 1912 he had gained his gangster experfence for the Hearst news- paper in Chicago, in the war between the Chi- cago Tribune and the Chicago Examiner, a Hearst, paper, for control of the morning news- paper field. The Chicago Tribune, to keep out its rival which had just entered the morning field, hired an army of gunmen to kill news wagon drivers or newsboys who dared to sell the opposing paper. Hearst retaliated by em- ploying his own army of gunmen, It was in this battle that “Big Tim” Murphy learned the million mark. The gangster business was being consolidated with big banking and capitalist support. Gangsterism among the misleaders in the trade unions in Chicago is not an exception. Chicago in this instance, as in the’ general description of the connection between the un- derworld and the upperworld, is just.a striking illustration. Foster’s book gives plentiful de- tails of other cities, ‘Possibly conditions are somewhat worse in Chicago,” Foster writes, “but not much. The Chicago building trades business agents may be a ‘little quicker on the trigger, or, because of the greater strength of their unions, somewhat more ruthless in their graft- ing. But their confreres in the building trades in other cities also let no grass grow under their feet.” While the Fitzpatrick-Nockles faction in the Chicago Federation of Labor won office in 1905 in a struggle against the gangster “Skinny” Madden, it had developed so far on the path charted by Madden himself that by 1930 it engineered the killing of Hertzel Weizenberg, a member of the revolutionary trade union group in the painters union. Weizenberg was beaten to death by pro-Fitzpatrick-Nockles men because he distributed leaflets of the Trade Union Unity League calling on the painters to drive out the gangsters aligned with the bosses, struggle against wage cuts and for better union condi- tions, The Chicago Federation News, controlled by Fitzpatrick and Nockles gleefully , Inc, dally except Sunday, at 56 Fast 50 Bast 13th Street, New York. N. ¥, “T'm still pretty much of a kid, but | Weizenberg's murder, re eame. Gangsters flocked in and were imported. heen enlilin ah aacli st i. ALWORK.” National Youth Day — Next Step| | to the Spartakiad By I. AMTER. N every field .of c:dca¥or, the workers face two enemies—the talists and their tools, the socialists and A. F. of L. bureaucrats. In the struggle that the workers are carrying on against the efforts of the crisis—unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up, persecution of the foreign- lynching of the Negroes, the workers find enemies speaking different languages, but * | fighting together against the interests of the working class. Thus the capitalists openly and brutally attempt to suppress the militant work- ing class organizations. The liberals, reformists and socialists attempt to speak the language of | the workers, being forced to this position by the growing demands of the workers in struggle. But the aim is the same: to make the workers accept the capitalist system with its misery, starvation and suffering for the workers and Poor farmers. The socialists have another function in the struggle: to keep the workers away from the struggle. They have the same policy as the bureaucrats of the American Federation of La- bor, even though at times they speak a dif- ferent language. In all the strike struggles, their policy is to keep the workers from putting up | @ real struggle, from taking the leadership into their own hands. Another function—and a very important one—is to keep the workers from uniting in their struggles, to expel the mili- tants and keep the rest under the heel of the reactionary leadership, who are the tools of the capitalists. In every field, the role of the socialists is the same. In the sports field, cultural and other fields, the social democrats are splitting the or- ganizations and keeping the militant rank and file from uniting in struggle for the interests of the workers in the organizations. On the one hand are the revolutionary work- ers, who in the sports field are organized into the Red Sports International. In this Inter- national are the revolutionary workers of many countries. They are carrying on a militant struggle for the interests of the workers, which means the fight against hunger, against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The bosses are opposed to this inter- national—and through their tool, the Lucerne International, are trying to crush the spirit of revolt that is rising in the ranks of this in- ternational. The workers of this international see their interests betrayed; they see this in- ternational taking a vicious stand against the Soviet Union. When they raise their voice, they are expelled, as, for instance, tens of thou- sands of workers, who have been expelled in Germany, France, Finland, etc. No member of the Lucerne International is allowed to parti- cipate in*the Spartakiade (revolutionary inter- national meet), They are not allowed to com- pete with the: Red athletes from the Soviet Union. ‘This is a tyranny established to keep the workers from uniting their forces, The Red Sports International, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, is holding a Spartakiade in Berl from July 4 to 12, Athletes from many countries will participate in the Spartakiade, but it is, possible. that the Soviet athletes will 000 participants are expected from all countries of Europe, United States, South America and Canada. As against the Spartakiade, the Lucerne In- ternational is arranging an international meet at Vienna at the same time. And one year not be granted visas. Nevertheless, about 100,- later will occur the bosses’ Olympics, the expres- sion of the bosses’ plans for the working class— further suppression and training for war against the Soviet Union (provided war has not already been declared against the Soviet Union, owing | to the brilliant success of the Five-Year Plan which the bosses fear so much), The Labor Sports Union, section of the Red International, is organizing the revolutionary athletes into the revolutionary sport organiza- tions, as opposed to the American Athletic Union, and other patriotic sports organizations. It aims to offset the bosses’ shop and neighbor- | hood clubs, which serve to fool the workers. The Labor Sports Union is preparing for the Spar- takiade. Beginning with May 30 in Passaic, N. the selection of the delegation to represent the revolutionary athletes of the United States at the Spartakiade. Elimination events will be features and a large delegation will be selected, which will sail for Berlin on about June 20, with a send-off affair and meet on June 13, 14. The young revolu- tionary athletes number in their ranks some splendid stars, but this is not the feature of the Red Sports International, which is based on collective achievements, and not individual stars. National Youth Day will be more than an athletic meet. It will be a day of demonstra- tion against the miserable conditions that the workers, and especially the young rorkers, have to suffer in this land of “prosperi Tt will be a day of protest against all the evils that the workers have to endure. It will be a day of demonstration against the rapidly coming imperialist war and for determined defense of the Soviet Union. When the U. S. delegation arrives in Berlin it will meet not only the Red athletes from the other countries, *but representatives of the Communist Parties of France, Czecho-Slovakia and Germany, of the Red ‘frade Unions, who have been energetically working for and prepar- ing the Spartakiade, and will attend it as frater- | nal delegates. ‘The struggle of the workers goes forward on all fields. ‘The field of sport is not exempt. The workers who are being enticed into the bosses’ sport organizations, and are offered all the advantages that the bosses with their big capi- tal can offer, must remember that this is not done for nothing. The workers pay for it—and the bosses use it in order to hold the workers fast_to the system under which .they, are ex- -ploiting us to the bone, % All workers on National Youth Day! All” revolutionary athletes participate in National Youth Day, Make National Youth Day the be- ginning of our campaign against bosses’ and Soeialist-traitor sports! / American Legion By C. TIPTON. Article I, revolutionary labor movement, and the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, in par- ticular, continually expose the role of the Le- gion and the Veterans of Forcign Wars, the same as the class struggle requires the expo- sure of the American Federation of Labor. The A. L, and its spiritual annex, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, in fact have an influence upon the development and course of the class strug- gle in the U, S. A. hardly less than the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. The Legion serves the interests of the bosses with an archaic interpretation of patriotism. This patriotism implies that it is treathery to fight against the capitalist system, to raise a rebellious voice against oppression and explolta- tion by the bosses. According to the psychology of these rack- eteerigg triots, the world began its real laine" Ts ies Sto mes eee san ergs int I ete aoe Se ey ett Me mao pans, ceremony (1 and V. F. W. dom and all social relations of Americans (about the only humans) are prescribed for all generations to come up to the “end of the world,” in the Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and the Bible. ges The forefathers said nothing one hundred and fifty years ago about a capitalist system, its complications, unemployment,: starvation, etc., and therefore it is taboo, un-American, un- jawful to elaborate on such problems, let alone fight for a dictatorship of the proletariat. Moses, Christ and the Bible have never known or mentioned a capitalist system, problems of a proletariat, Soviets, etc. and therefore it is a desecration of Jewish, Christian and all ‘other gods, the Almighty, all knowing, beyond’ whose knowlédge there is nothing left to think of or eonceive; all was created and revealed by the forefathers and religion. If we want to know more, wé may find out after our death, when we get to heaven or hell. By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy, Foreign: one year, $8+ six months. $4.50. PARTY LIFE Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. The South End and Roxbury Branch of the Unemployed Council Got Food For Starving Families that the Public Welfare Department Refused to Feed. O weeks ago a committee from this Un- employed Branch went to the Public Wel- fare Department and spoke to Miss Shay de- | Manding that immediate relief be given to some starving famfies. | ination | Barrett lays out for Dwight Morrow. Miss Shey speaking for the Welfare Depart- | ment answered that she “Don't care if they are starving.” Mayor Curley knows about this and refuses | to do anything. In Thursday's papers he says, “Boston has the best relief system country.” Mayor Curley’s system is to starve the families of the unemployed workers, quietly. The South End and Roxbury Branch of the | Unemployed Council got busy and sent out | committees of unemployed workers in the neighborhood and got food for the following starving families that Mayor Curley’s welfare department refused to feed. 1, The family of Mrs. Moore, 63 Northfield St., with two children, had been unemployed for months and no food in the house. 2. Mrs. Costello, who is sick and can't find work, is being thrown out of her home by the greedy landlord, and is in desperate need. 3. Mrs. Bryant of 64 Northfield St., is a widow with two boys, had been unemployed for mahy months, was forced to move by the land- lord, and needs money for food and rent badly. 4. Pat MacBride of 57 Northfield St., is 65 years old, has a little room in the cellar, which he gets for cleaning up the house. He gets no wages and is compelled to get his food from the streets or wherever he can find it. At the same time while we are cellecting food for families like these we must fight for cash unemployment relief for the 100,000 job- less in Metropolitan Boston. ‘This Unemployed Branch is planning to sand another large committee of unemployed work- ers to the Cfty Council and to Governor Ely to demand regular relief for these and all other starving families in the South End and Rox- bury. Fellow-unemployed! Join the Unemployed Branch! Don’t starve quietly! Join us in the fight for relief. The City Gov- ernment has plenty of money for graft and investigations. We can get relief if we will fight for it. Come to the meeting of the branch! Every Tuesday and Friday, 1:30 p. m., Dudley Street, Roxbury. 113 “oppression, was revealed by Moses, Christ, the forefathers, at the orders of an all knowing God. There is ‘no mind, no wisdom beyond’-Christ and the ) American consti onl The Legion's slogan—'For God and Country!” —express that psychology. This slogan is the starting point, a pivot, around which center the activities of the Legion and the V.F.W. in their savage attacks upon any and all efforts of the proletariat for emancipation. Under these slo- gans of archaic patriotism and religion, these veteran organizations act as the chief enemy of the working ‘class, as the most loyal watchdogs for the continuation of ruthless, cruel capitalist Their role in the class struggle, their appeal to the ignorance of the masses, to the brutal egotistic sense of race superiority and vanity of the Americans, lends strength and backbone to American capitalism and imperialism. The A. L. combats the class struggle of the starving, awakening American proletariat under the slo- gan of “God and country,” rousing more dark and backward prejudices than do the bosses themselves or ¢he American Federation of Labor. These veteran organizations are the. greatest enemies of the American unemployed and employed masses of hte working class. The ruling class of America know well how to use this power. The A, L. and V. F. W. are organized on a national, fascist basis of co- operation of exploiter and exploited, boss and worker. With them there is no problem of any interest of the working class. The worker just exists as an object of exploitation, for the con- venience and welfare of the bosses. ‘ in the | By JORGE Be-Kind-to-Heroes Week! At Albany, the other night, Harold Nielson, a veteran, was trying to speak on the street: “I’m a disabled World War veteran and my family has been five generations in this country. The Constitution guarantees us the right of free speech and peaceful assembly.” The meeting was broken up by the cops. “Get a permit!” they said. Another World War veteran, Stanley Sinko- witz, was found somewhere reading a book ene titled “Christianism and Communism.” He was unemployed. So Judge Regan told him: “So you are an honorably discharged soldier of the United States. Well, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for reading such literature on Communism, Fifteen days in jail!” dust try to get these two veterans all excited about the “Soviet tyranny”! ! 1! Learn something from this, you boys who will be asked to—nay! forced to!—fight the next wal And turn out for National Youth Day, May 3 are te ie 4 Mr. Morrow Will Save God Anyhow, such is the only hope for the Al- mighty, according to the opinion of John Bar- rett. You may not know John Barrett, but he is an important guy. Doubly important, we may say; since like Dr, Jeykel, Jekyel, Jyekel, Jykel (Oh, heck, how do you spell it?) and Mr. Hyde, John Barrett # ‘ao persons all by him- self. He is prominent as director of the Pan- American Union, the organization of the Mon- roe Doctrine, in which all the Latin American republics are supposed to be organized as “equals,” but with a Yankee imperialist “direct- ing” them. On the other hand, Mr, Barrett is on the payroll of the U. S, State Department—doubt- less learning how the Latin Americans shall be “directed.” But on the occasion of which we speak, Mr. Barrett was talking as director of the Pan-American Union. He might upset U. S. State Department. *We have to make this distinction and take space doing it, because Mr. Barrett brought in a certain trio; that is, Hoover, Mr. Dwight Mor- row, and God. Mr. Barrett favors the renom- of Hoover, he told the Newark Ki- wanis Club in a speech there May 21. But if Hoover is not to be a candidate, then only Mr. Morrow, who tamed the Mexican capi- talist class to eat out of Yankee imperialist hands, can fill the bill. And it’s a big job which He says: “The future of our civilization, of our form of government, yes. of our God, depends upon the solidarity of the Western Hemisphere. If the program and plan of Russia are success- ful, it may mean the end of our system of government, of our civilization and of our God.” Well, that’s a large order, to save God, whose very existence now seems to rest on the frail noulders of Dwight Morrow, partner of J Pierpont Morgan. It seems that the speech of Litvinoff at Gens eva, and the growing resentment in capitali Europe against American dumping,~has cause. this revealing speech of Mr. Barrett, who, being a second-rater among diplomats, blurts out what his superiors are thinking. And they are thinking that they are in a hell of a fix. More, they are panicky. . . Thanksgiving Day Mayor Walker is being photographed thank: ing Police Commissioner Mulrooney, and Mul: * | rooney is thanking District Attorney McLaugh: lin, and McLaughlin is, thanking his lucky stare ——all over a so-called “confession.” The police had to have a “fall guy” in the Vivian Gordon murder. So they “persuaded” or “questioned” one fellow until he “confessed.” But kindly note that he “confessed” that an- other fellow did the killing! ‘The “confession” was obtained “after a night of questioning,” of whieh the World-Telegram gives the following comment: “It was no secret at Police Headquarters that the long examination of Schlitten yesterday had not been peaceful.” In other words, he was beaten up. But as a reward for coming through with a “confession” he will not even be indicted, but only used as a witness, while the guy accused, who apparently is a crook that can be dispensed with, will get the axe. ‘Thanksgiving day always was a gala occasion for everybody but the turkey. But we wonder if, ‘ammany expects sensible people to believe this blarney. bosses at its best, appeals are made to the ex servicemen’s vanity, they are acclaimed by thi cunning scheming boss as heroes, nice obedient, heroes, who fought for democracy, for “their” country and are now even defending the great- | est “American institution”—the capitalist. sys- tem, that keeps this country snugly and safely as private property of the ruling class. As aforesaid, nothing can or should be done about the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and misery for the majority, since the Bible and the American constitution have not said anything about it. The forefathers knew ail with the help of God. Charity solves all problems of the poor, according to these foun- tains of unsurpassable wisdom. The primary mission of the Legion and V. F. | W. is the fight, openly and secretly, as simple savage and hypocrite, of the filthy battle of American capital against labor, But to dis- guise these brutal ends of savage attacks on a tormented working class, a smoke screen is built around the racketeering leaders of the A, L, and the V. F. W. They pretend to be concerned a whole lot about the disabled veterans, and in line with the Bible teachings, there is a great field for hypoeritical charity on the part of the exploit~ ing bosses and the corrupt politicians of the A. L. Patriotic wisdom is not supposed to bother about able bodied veterans. ‘They are taken care of by the capitalist system of economic slavery. But the unemployed veterans have succeeded partly in forcing a demand for a bonus upon the legion, not quite in line with ite diplomats if he spoke as an employe of the |