The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1931, Page 1

Rx y —CoRunist > (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, _UNITE! Party at New York, N. Y., under Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office the act of March 3, 1879 “NEW YORK, EDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1931 Es = ————— Price 3 Cent ——— ON! ONLY STRIKES WILL STOP THEM! % a Decisive Turn in the Local Elections a ba Jocal elections are taking place this year at the time of still further deepening of the crisis, when the bourgeoisie with unheard of fury is murderously attacking the living conditions of the workers, both em- ployed and unemployed. ‘The local elections therefore must become an important force in the development of mass struggles against hunger, capitalist terror and imperialist war. In many of the cities where elec- tions take place important local struggles of the unemployed and strikes took place under the leadership of the Party, as in the textile centers of New England and the anthracite, in the coal fields of Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio District, in Youngstown, Philadelphia and Cleveland. The election cempaign of the Party, therefore in those cities must become the rallying point for the mobilization of the masses under the legder- ship of the Pari; for deeper and greater struggles. The development.of the election campaign, however, is hampered by the existence of anti iamentarian tendencies and the underestim- aticn of the revolutionary possibilities of our election campaign. It does not merely express itself in slowness to enter and develop the cam- paisn, but in completely “forgetting” the existence of local elections. Nor j 2” confined to small towns, but evew in the towns where ; committee has its headquarters, nay, in one case, even where nittee resides. s of the Party around this year's local election cam- inning of a sharp turn which will deal a death | anti-parliamentaarian tendencies prevailing in | campaign thus far is very un- ities eve frequently confined, and nm, to the collection of signatures, important as al electior ct. t2¢ on the election campaign for one/of the section circ in the Pittsburgh District we find the following statement: “Can U.S. BUDGET | HIT; KEEP UP WAR ARMING Pay Rich Bondholders $450,000,000 But Refuse Relief $2,000,000,009 Deficit Talk of Greater Taxes For Workers, ete. WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 29.—With the United States Treasury facing a deficit of $2,000,000,000 the coming year, mainly because during the crisis | the rich pay less taxes, and the war armanents program keeps going ahead at full speed, government au- thorities are talking about some ways to make up the shortage. The main attack is against the workers through refusing any form of federal unemployment insurance or relief. The ex4servicemen are hit, and Mellon proposes. and increased tax, not for the rich who have the NEW YORK.—Bill Duncan, one of the fighting Harlan, Kentucky, min- ers who faces a charge of criminal Syndicalism, yesterday issued a call to all New York workers to join in a huge demonstration this Saturday, October 3, in Union Square, at 12:30 p. m. and demand the release of Tom Mooney, the Harlan prisoners, the Scottsboro boys and all other class war prisoners. He also called on all trade unions, workers’ clubs, shop groups and other workers’ or- ganizations to send delegates to the big conference in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, on Sunday, Oc- | tober 11,.at 10 a. m., where a great | Duncan, who is now in New York, his statement through the New York District of the International both the demonstration and the con- ference. He declared: Felt the Terror | defense campaign will be launched. | | having been released on bail, issued | Duncan, Harlan Miner PLAN RAISE. Huge Mooney-Miners-Scottsboro Demonstra- tion at Noon On Union Sq. Saturday dared to fight against starvation, dared to demand bread for their children, clothes and a roof over their heads. These miners know} that they can expect no justice from | the capitalist courts; Tom Mooney, | rotting away these 15 years, knows | it; every militant worker in jail who isn't blind knows it. And they know | that only the power of the united | workingclass all over the country can | | free them. | Demonstrate! | | “In the name of my comrades in | Kentucky, in the name of Tom Moo- | | ney, of the nine Negro boys in Scotts- | boro, in the name of our fellow- | prisoners of Imperial Valley and| ; Centralia, in the name of all the | fighters now behind the bars, I call | on all workers to make this Satur- | | day’s demonstration in Union Square | the bosses to murder and imprison | all those who fight for the working- | class, I call on every worker's or- Drive Backed By U.S. Gov't; varnes eect on © More Comin Working Class | i Inflation Continues |Coustant Gain In Wage Cut Campaign Shows That World Tariff Fight| Workers Must Act Now ta Stop il Sharpened hake oo (Railroads Coming Next, as Gov't Prepares for Cut The capitalist class in the United | Through Commerce Commission States is pointing out very clearly that the inflation in Great Britain | which has already reached eee | WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—As the Daily Worker forecast, the wage cut drive keeps on, spreading to a wider group of industries. Now 25 PER CENT proportions will necessarily be fol- lowed by even greater inflation. The New York Times in its editorial page points out that not only is this likely to happen but that the “short selling | Labor Defense, which is arranging|a mighty challenge to the efforts of |Of the pound” indicates that the | Only the resistance of the workers can stop this capialist class is united in the belief that it must happen. “The British Government an- nounced, when it was forced to the continuous attack on the living standards. How closely the Hoover government is connected with the | bay slashing drive is shown by the action of Secretary of the “J have seen with my own eyes |ganization, big and little, to send dele- | millions and billions, but for the petty | and felt with my own body the ter-| gates to the October 11 conference, disagreeable necessity of suspend- | Treasury Mellon, leading imperialist in’ the government, who + the candidates of the Republican or Democratic Parties? “st the workers, even though some are worse than others.” > egainst the platform and social demagogy of the capi-" , ond particularly against the social fascists, is very unsatis- d cf the election campaign being made an instrument iher the issues of all the partial struggles and the issues of elds of work into one consolidated program of revolutionary ss struggles against capitalism” (13th Plenum resolution), they are essuming the form of routine organizational activities. The pene- tration cf the shops, the reformist unions, mass organizations controlled by the social fascists, has merely been approached-formally. The growing radicalization and restiveness of the masses increases the “opportunities of our Party in mobilizing these masses for struggle uring the period. of the election campaign. However, the political underestimation of the gréat possibilities that the Party has in these local elections, which resu!is i very slow tempo in our activities, makes these masses who are looking for a way out of the crisis, easy prey to the social demagozy of bourgeois politicians of both parties. We are confronted with the danger that many workers who have accepted the leadership of the Party in the struggles for unemployment insurance, in strike struggles, in the Scottsboro campaign, etc., will as a result of the insufficient activity of the Party, will vote for bourgeois candidates in line with the theory of “the lesser evil.” The struggle for social insurance, for immediate unemployment re- lief must be made the central issue in the local election campaign. We must not merely raise it as a general issue, but must explain to the workers that our campaign for social insurance is based on taxing the rich, on creating a fund at the expense of the bosses and their state. ‘We must now more than ever before around the struggle for social in- surance, linked up with the struggle for immediate relief (aaginst evic- tion, free food for children, against forced labor), develop the sharpest fight against the various local bourgeois politicians who demagogically also speak of unemployment insurance. It is necessary to call sharply to the attention of the comrades the tendency of relegating the fight for social insurance to the background, of raising it abstractly not tied up with immediate demands ,as well as to merely raise immediate de- mands without tying it up with the struggle for social insurance. Thes! tendencies have manifested themselves in the local election campaign:. Such tendencies must be immediately done away with. Our exposure of these sccial demagogues must be based on facts and the development of struggle which will teach the workers as a result of their own ex- periences the true nature of the demagogic proposals of the bourgecis candidates. In the struggles that took place in the past two years and the coming struggles, various local governments expose themselves more openly as strike breaking agencies of the ruling class. The experiences of the various mayor committees in the textile strikes, the role of the local authorities in usin the full force of the stete in hiring special deputies and mobilizing the police to break the strikes indicate the gtowing fascist tendencies and the growth of the capitalist reaction throughout the country. The lessons of these experiences must be brought home to the workers. The issues of graft and corruption which are raised by many of the local politicians of the various groups as a means of covering up the class nature of the government and as a channel for diverting the dis- content of the workers must be made into a means of mobilizing the mass- as for struggle against all of these bourgeois parties and to expose the true class character of the state. But this can be accomplished only if our Party is sensitive to all of the local issues and immediate needs of the workers in the given cities ‘and makes those the basis for an intensive political election campaign. The present local elections are already conducted by the bourgeoisie asa rehearsal for the 1932 elections. Our Party must also prepare for the 1932 elections and in all of the local campaigns and in the raising of local demands we must already bring forward our major political slo- gans, particularly the fight for social insurance, concentrated attack against the Hoover administration and particularly the Democratic Party. A mere branding of the socialist party as a third bourgeois party is not sufficient. We must convince the workers, on the basis of facts, experiences and struggles, that the socialists, the Musteites, are playing the role of strike breakers, paving the way for fascist attacks on the workers and in many instances taking the lead in organizing such attacks, And there are plenty of facts and actual experiences! And the expér- jences of our native social fascists can be “enriched” with those of Mac- Donald, Snowden and those of the entire second international. The socialist administrations in Reading, Milwaukee, must be exposed to the workers as local governments of the bosses, which are clubbing and starving the unemployed as the Tammany Hall democratic administra- tion in New York City. i The local elections must build themselves around the slogan of “class against class.” But we must concretize this slogan to the workers so that by their actual experiences they will learn to know the need of fight- ing for their class interests as agains tthe interests of the ruling class, ‘We must therefore develop all forms of united front activities from be- low (draw in the wide masses in revolutionary unions, ete.) which will involve the workers in struggle for the demands raised in our election campaign, and develop the self activity of the masses. / The struggle for the immediate demands must be the keynote in our election campaign. But at the same time we must point out to the masses that the winning of the demands can ge achisved through mili- tant mass struggles. We mwist connect up these local fights with the struggle and need for the overthrow of capitalism, for the establishment of a Workers and Farmers Government, contrastnig the growth of misery In the capite%et countries with the growth of Socialist prosperity in the Soviet nion * bourgeoisie as well as for the workers through all sorts of sales tax. “To begin the next tax drive in order to avert a budgetary crisis, the Hoover government follows the usual lies about cutting down on naval armaments. Behind all this talk there lurks the insistance that the United States Navy be kept up to the strength of the London naval treaty, which means it will be built up ready for war against any im- perialist competitor or against the Soviet Union. ‘One source of stopping government ror of the capitalist class and know | and under the leadership of the In- there are no crimes the bosses will| ternational Labor Defense organize j Stop at to gain their ends. 134 miners | a great campaign {o snatch our com~ in Harlan County are facing death | rades from the paws of the capi- or long terms in jail because they! talist hangmen and jailers.” Sell-Out of Loft Strikers © ing gold payments, that the pound | himself ordered the wage cuts in his Aluminum Company of sterling would never be allowed to follow the disastrous course of the German mark. But the trouble with inflation is that when you begin it, you cannot tell how far it will go or how it can be ended. Already | America. | cuts on the railroads is shown in the arguments yesterday before the In- terstate Commerce Commission. This | body deals with greight rates. The | railroads are asking for freight rate | increases merely as a dodge to pass over to wage cuts. In the argu- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ments before the Commission very | o— Again the preparations for mee BIC FIGHT ON _ PAY CUT LOOMS Rejected d; Strike Continues Young Candy Workers Fight Seabs and Cops; One Striker Is Shot, Three Arrested expenditures for the benefit of the bosses, and transferring the money to the unemployed, ts the payment for the retirement of war debts. The hold around $16,000,000,000 in war debt bonds, on which they are paid every year, The United States government pays these parasites $450,000,000 a year as interest. Instead of touching these funds, the czitalist administration looks to the workers who are harrass- ed by unemployment, by wage cuts and starvation as a means of making up an additional $2,000,000,000. A campaign is starting in Congress now to save the rich exploiters from further taxes. They will make all sorts of pretenses at economy, espe- cially economy when it comes to starving 10,000,000 unemployed, but they will fight to the last ditch to keep the rich from paying any more taxes. 37 TRANSPORT WORKERS FIRED IN UTICA (By a Worker Correspondent.) UTICA, N. Y.—The New York State Railway Line layed off 35 men this week. Many of these men had from 10 to 20 years service. Also the D. L. and W. freight house with a force of about ten fired two men, one with fifteen years of service, the other; with nineteen. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! rich capitalists in the United States | NEW YORK.—The opinion of the Food Workers Industrial Union that there was a group of gangsters among the Loct Candy strikers who would sell out was proven correct yester- day. These racketeers refused to al- low the union organizers to speak, beating some of them up and taking another one for a ride with a gun against his side. This was done in order to break up any organization that existed among the Strikers, Hay- ing accomplished their purpose, these gangsters held a meeting yesterday and sent a “strike committee” of their own to see the boss. The work- ers had demanded the old scale of 48 hours a week and no pay reduc- tion, The fake strike committee ac- cepted the bosses’ compromise of 54 hours for the men instead of the 60 that had caused teh strike. The boss proposed that the women work 51 and a half hours instead of the 54. The workers hearing this settle- ment became very angry and imme- diately realized that they had been sold out. The sentiment against these workers decided that they would not go back to work on such miserable conditions. Those who had arranged this settlement, tried to apologize for the Loft bosses saying that the lat- ter had explained that business was bad and the cut couldn't be helped. This was immediately branded a lie by a worker who mentioned the fact that 23 new stores were being opened gangsters became very strong and the | by Loft. In all the capitalist press, Loft advertised yesterday that its business had doubled in the last year. All day yesterday there was a great fighting spirit among the strikers. They stoned truckloads of scabs and police, they smashed the windows of the factory and beat up a policeman. During the fighting a number of bul- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) | |Workers to Protest Imperialist Attack In Manchuria To protest the imperialist aggres- called by the New York Branch of the Alliance of the Chinese Anti- Imperialists and the Japanese Work- ers Club will take place this Wednes- day, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th Sf Leaflets in Chinese and Japanese have been distributed among the Chinese and Japanese workers call- ing them to join in protesting against the imperialist aggression on Man- churia and war preparation against the Soviet Union, Ameriean workers are also urged to attend the meeting to show solidarity agains t Japanese, American and world imperialism. Protest telegrams will be sent to the State Department and the Japanese Legation in Wash- ington, D, C. U.S. AGENTS IN __ IN MASS. MILLS little is said about rate increases, but | | Stervthing is said about wage éuts \Lawrence Workers i esi leman for wage cuts | 1% " } © | was made by Charles E. Cotterill of | Gird for Resistance _ SLIPPER STRIKE Atlanta, Ga., speaking for the South-| NEW YORK.—Fearing the resist- sion in Manchuria a protest meeting | ern Traffic League and other organ- | izations. He followed the usual Inie heard here of declaring wage cuts | to be the solution for increasing pro- NEW YORK—After failure of all fit for the railroad stockholders, | : 7 ie | sorts of tricks to break the strike of Eiivelcpe. Oo. Cate eae | the workers at Melrose Slipper Shop, | SPRINGFIELD. |11 West 19th St., government agents | _SPRIN Pease tiys See | have been called in to try and in-| The United States Envelope Co. cut Cnet agers | weges for all its factory and office _ | workers. The exact amount of the On Monday, the shop committee jay slash was not announced but it and the representatives of the Shoe | ; a |and Leather Workers’ Industrial| * ®P0Ve 10 per cent. Union of the Trade Union Unity Zine Co. Pay Cut | League had a conference with the POUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Sept. 29. |management. The committee pre-| —The United Zinc Smelting Co. will | sented the demands: Recognition of | cut wages 10 per cent on October 1. j the union, withdrawal of the last | This is a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Hany ccs aan. eerince recogni- | Steel Co., which also cul pay. The bosses evaded discussing these Philadelphia City Cut | demands, and tried to start an ar-| PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 29.— | gument over Communism, The union, Major Lemuel B. Schofield, director | representatives refused to discuss of public safety, i srecommending a | anything but the demands. The con- | pay cut of 10 per cent for city em-- | ference ended. Then came the gov-| ployes. Mayor Mackey said that the | ernment agents with threats of ar-| city had $9,000,000 less to spend this | rest and deportation, | year than last. Rather than increase ee ae oe the Pea ee | taxes for the rich the workers will | Teport on the conference, and many) suffer through pay cuts and a cut- workers took the floor and stated | ting down of the meagre unemploy- they were proud to belong to a union} ment relief. that fights for their tnterests, and | es * that they will not be frightened by | Professors Pay Cut propaganda against “The Reds.” “If} DELEWARE, Ohio, Sept. 29—The fighting for the workers means being} faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- Red, then we are all Reds and glad | versity, whose function it is to teach of it,” they said. | how beneficial capitalism is to the All workers and all strikers are| workers, got its wages cut 10 per called to a mass picket demonstra-| cent. In their usual manner, they tion tomorrow morning at 7 a. m. accepted the pay cut. ‘Strikers Refuse to Be Frightened Fight for Your Baby’s Milk! ws a gigantic steal pending in the attempt to make New York workers pay $45,000,000 a year more for milk, all workers should be interested in this game of graft which the Milk Trust, the Health Department and the World-Telegram are trying to put over under the disguise of a campaign against “unsafe” milk. ‘The Daily Worker assures you that the issue is not one of “impure” against “pure” milk, but of the raise in price of five cents or more a quart that the Milk Trust is counting on getting. To the workers, with wages cut and out of work, it means thousands of babies will get no milk at all! Is bottled milk any “safer” than loose milk? Not at all, Did you ever look at the top of your milk bottle of Grade B milk and not see there enough dirt to contaminate it. Is there any difference from risk- ing ‘contamination there, than there is in risking it by the loose milk dealers’ carelessness? None what- “ever! Look into the—wagon of milk-wagon drivers, and you will se a can of Joose milk they frequently use to fill up the bottles that are by chance short. Is THAT a “sanitary” arrangement? Nobody can say it is. As to “bacilli coli” which the World-Telegram is trying to scare you with, it is present to some degree in ALL milk and the law even permits a minimum number of these germs per measure, just as the law permits yan to be sold milk that is watery, low in buter fat--not under three per ¢ent—produced usually ] by Holstein cows who give a lot of low grade milk; when under a sane social. system, you should get milk from Guernsey or Jersey cows that give as high as seven per cent butter fat milk. Butter fat carries Vitamin “D,” so necessary for poor workers’ children of the New York tenements, robbed of sunshine and good food, The big dairy companies.do not try to give you as rich milk as possible, but as poor as the Jaw allows. And if the natural milk as it comes from the cows is much above the legal minimum in butter fat, they take out some of the cream, And they bribe inspec- tors right and left to even let the legal minimum be passed. A worker who has spent years working for big dairy companies informs us of these facts. The supposed “tuberculin test” is also a racket, says this worker. Firstly, the test is not. positive. Badly tubercular cows will often not “react” to the test, while healthy cows often will—and the farmer is foreed to kill them. But the tuberculin serum manufacturers haye Job- byists to get the laws passed by bribery or otherwise; a lot of veterinaries get fat state jobs, and the law comes in handy for the big companies wheneyer they want to haye the small dairy farmer put out of busi- ness by “testing” his cows, Of course the big com- panies can get an “O. K.” on even the worst tuber- cular cows by slipping a proper bribe to the veter- inaries, So, workers, let us get out of our heads all the notion that absolutely clean and absolutely pure or even natural rich milk can be possible in such a sys- ® tem of graft. But graft is inevitable under capi- talism and will be ended only by overthrowing capi- talism. : ‘The Borden Company, which has its aliases under the name of the ‘Dairymen’s League, the Milbank Foundation, and its well-taken-care of agents in the Health Department, want to raise the price of milk, that’s all! If bottled milk is sanitary, how does it happen that the N. Y. Times of Thursday, Sept. 24, page 24, under a headline about the decisions of the Board of Edu- cation, said the following: “Children in the elementary and junior high schools will hereafter receive their milk in sanitary Paper containers instead of bottles, the board de- cided yesterday. The Borden company was the bidder on the milk contract at a price of 41% cents for each half pint.” And if loose milk is.as “unsafe” as is claimed by the World-Telegram, which is trying to put over this robbery of the poorest of the poor of New York—why, asks a doctor who writes the Daily Worker, is there no disease epidemic traceable to it? The issue is, between the milk companies, of who gets the profits, the loose milk companies or the bottled milk trust. But that issue is of no concern to New York worker's. What is of importance to them is the question of PRICE. In another article we will take this up. But here and now we say: Demand that milk, bottled or loose, be sold for no more than eight oe a quay da x | ance of the textile workers in Law- |vence, Mass., where a general wage cut takes place on October 13, the leading mill bosses have planned out their strikerbreaking activity with a “citizens’ committee” and Mayor | Michael A. Landers. |- The Boston Sunday Post tells of | “a secret meeting of mill owners to | cut wages.” This wage cut affects | from 20,000 to 25,000 textile workers, | most of whom have already received pay cuts within a short time. | The bosses sheet, the Daily News | Record of New York, says: “It is acknowledged that wages paid to | textile employes represent one of the | lowest of the group of manufactur- | ing industries.” On top of this comes the 10 per cent wage cut which this {same sheet says the workers are | preparing to fight. They put it as follows: | “Concerted opposition by every | agency representing the working people to a 10 per cent reduction | in wages which it is proposed to | put into effect in every mill in this district on October 13, began to | crystallize tonight with representa- | tives of labor organizations taking the lead in issuing vehement state- ments to the effect that every ef- fort will be made to organize the mill workers and assist them in resisting any reduction in their | weekly pay envelopes.” | H. A. Riverer of the A. F. of L. | United Textile Workers Union in | Manchester, where the workers have been forced to accept one cut after another, is talking about “resistance,” very much in the fashion of Green and Woll who also said something about “resistance” to the steel wage cut, but did all they could when it came to put it over. The Lawrence workers have always followed militant leadership, shying away from the fakery of the A. F. of L. misleaders. The National Tex- tile Workers Union which has fought many bitter battles against the bos- ses and their wage cuts is organizing for real resistance against the wage cut. Upholstery Shops Mass Picketing Continues; Relief Ba vd 1} y Needed NEW YORK.—Yesterday a mass picketing demonstration took place in front of the Marion Upholstery Company, corner Grand St. & Briggs Ave., Brooklyn, to prevent the scabs from going up to work. All furniture workers and all other workers are called to come down every day at 6:30 in the morning to strike head- quarters, 46 Ten Eyck St., corner Lorimer St., Brooklyn, to participate in our mass picketing demonstration, Relief at the present moment of the strike is very important, Work- ers and workers’ organizations, send your contributions in to the union,