The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1932, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932 Meg eons Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Ins., daily excxept Sunday, at 0 E. 18th St, New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALxonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., York, N. ¥. Net SUBSCRIPTION RATE! By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $: Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. six months, $4.50. two months, $1; excepting Foreign: one year, $8; Paving Way for New Bank Crashes WITH @ barrage of contemptible filthy frame-ups, the ground is pared for a new bank cra in this country. That the Chicago banking magnate, Melvin A. Traylor, has knowledge of impending bank crashes is seen from his eontributiom to. the Ties that filled the colur the ¢ oon press yesterday All the evening paper ries under screaming headlines that radicals had plotted to cause runs on banks as a step toward social re- volution.” Mr, Traylor, millionaire banker, the representative of the House of Morgan in Chicago, and leader of the Democratic Party, an- nounces in the press that he has “reports from practically every large city fh the nation concerning a plot to wreck banks by circulating unfounded rumors against them.” Perhaps this tesponsible for the nancie ind politician can explain who is s that have been wrecked within the past few years To be specific, perhaps Mr. Tray- Jor and his lacKeys who frame-up alibis for bank making, can explain who it was that caused 578 banks in this country to close from January 1 to April 1, this year? According to the Federal Reserve Bulletin these banks, from every federal reserve district in the United States had de- posits totalling $334,451,000. Of these failures 90 banks were in his own. state of Mlinois and got away with dep s of $44,873,000 in round figures. To bolster up the attempt of T r and his associated bankers to pave the way for an alibi f a new wave of bank crashes, the state police thugs of the state of Michigan are “searching” for someone named George Rowland, who is said to have had concealed in his room “docu- ments” and letters showing him to be the “directing head” of a nation- wide conspiracy to cause runs on banks. These “documents,” manufac- tured in police headquarters, are, on their face, the crudest and most inept forgeries. Some weeks ago the Detroit Free Press came out with a wild accusation that “Reds” were trying to start a run on the one re- maining bank in Pontiac, Michigan. This was obviously the prelude to the discovery of the Rowland “papers” exposing a plot against banks. The deepening crisis is shaking capitalism to its foundations. The only condition at present under which there will be a decline of the num- ‘ber of bank crashes is when financial power has been concentrated in such few hands that there are not enough banks left to crash to keep up the tempo. Not even the pillaging of the United States treasury by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to help the banks could stem the time of failures. When Traylor and others see a new wave of bankruptcies they have to try to divert the anger of the depositors from the big bankers, from the LaSalle and Wall Street bandit gangs in some other direction. ‘Hence they try to blame “radicals” and “reds” for effects of the world economic crisis for which Traylor and the capitalists alone are respon- sible. Such forgeries, such lies serve an additional purpose—that is to try to foment police attacks on revolutionaries on the eve of August First, International Fighting Day Against Imperialist War, when the capitalist ‘war-mongers and their political puppets at Washington will be pilloried for their part in the imperialist war that has already begun in the Far East and that threatens momentarily to grow into armed intervention against the Soviet Union and into world war. The reply to such trickery, such incitement against the working class must be a more determined fight against the capitalist hunger and war program and for jobs and bread. Deliver a smashing blow against the bankers, frame up and terror, against the war-mongers, by making August First a day that will ring -down the pages of working class history in this country. Mass Defiance Can Smash Injunctions vital interest to every worker is the anti-injunction conference which takes place tonight at the Manhattan Lyceum in New York. Representatives from A. F. of L. unions, from red unions and from other workers’ organizations will discuss means of conducting a success- ful struggle against the injunction menace. A whole series of injunctions have been hurled against strikers in Greater New York within recent weeks. They are the injunction against striking shoe workers of the I, Miller and Andrew Geller concerns; the permanent injunction against the Food Workers’ Industrial Union ob- tained on the initiative of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats; the injunction against the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, against the Laundry workers local strike, against the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ local of the A. F. of L., and against Carpenters’ Local 2717, affiliated with the A. F. of L, ‘This conference is particularly timely in view of the federal “anti- injunction bill, which had the approval of the leadership of the American Federation of Labor and was hailed as a victory by socialists and liberals. That bill was not designed to do away with injunctions against strikers, but to make them more effective. The old injunction system whereby one judge at the mere request of the boss issued a ukase against striking, picketing and even against membership in labor unions was brought into general contempt by the mass defiance of workers in hundreds of strikes. Hence more legal formality is to be applied henceforth. There are to be elaborate, but swift, hearings and then the injunction is to be issued. The aim is to create legalistic illusions—to try to reestablish respect for judges and their injunctions. The conference should have for its main purpose the working oft of a policy of mass violation of injunctions on the broadest possible united front basis, enlisting organized workers in the red unions and the A. F. of L., unemployed workers, Negro and white, native-born and foreign- born, men, women and youth in great struggles against injunctions. ‘The courts are one of the main instruments’ of tyranny against the working class that make up capitalist state power and the fight against them is a part of the general class fight against capitalism’s attempts to find a way out of its crisis at the expense of the toiling masses and * through fomenting imperialist war. . This conference should be a landmark that will mark a new stage in mobilization of the toiling masses against capitalist terror and for the rights of the workers. —— Letters from Our Readers r BY THEIR DEEDS. New York City, A WAY TO HELP UNIONS New York City, I have voted fo rthe past nine for the Democratic and Re- ican Parties. This year I am that my family and myself i cast our votes for a straight 100 tt Communist ticket. I believe that the Communist Party, with the able Mr. Foster as their leader, are well deserving of ‘votes because the Communist Dear Editor: I would suggest that shock troops go around and expose speakers who under the guise of speaking for the revolutionary struggle make a racket of selling books, * Further I would suggest that laun- dries that have settled with the TUUL should be advertized in the Daily Worker so that workers should pat- ronize those shops, and the , don't promise what they will do|for other trades. for us workers but they are making —t. K. their pre-election promises: dl OB The Democratic. Party and Mr. Roosevelt don’t deserve our votes be- cause Mr. Froosevelt is associated with the crooked Tammany crowd. Although he pretends ‘to be, he is not, he proves this by not sending his pal Mr. Broderick to jail with are not deserving of our votes of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. nd pre-election promises, ‘The Republican Party and Mr. Hoo- FOR THE LIVING—FOR THE DEAD By A. PETERSON N July 22, William Green, presi- dent of the American Federa- tion of Labor, was directed by the Executive Council to formulate a compulsory unemployment insur- ance plan. All along during the crisis the Greens, Wolls, McGradys from the A. F. of L. have con- ducted a bitter fight against any kind of compulsory unemployment insurance calling it “a degrading dole.” At the last A. F. of L, Van- oouvér convention, held October, 1931, under the chairmanship of that ardent opponent of Unem- ployriént Insurance, Mr. Matthew Woll, all the resolutions in favor of unemployment insurance were killed anq these labor chiefs came out with the statement that the American workers are opposed to compulsory unemployment insur- ance. Not Expression of Membership. But these gentlemen surely did not express the sentiment of the membership of the A. F. of L. The rank and file is for unemployment insurance. This sentiment of the rank and file in the A. F. of L. took on an organizational form when the Carpenters’ Local No. 2717 called for American Federa- tion of Labor conference in New York City on Jan, 27, 1932. At this conference a resolution for a Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill at the expense of the govern- ment and the employers was adopted. At this rank and file A. F. of L. Conference a committee of 15 was elected for the purpose of circularizing all A. F. of L. lo- cals and Railroad Brotherhoods with a referendum so that the membership of these organizations could register their opposition to the election of the American Fed- eration of Labor 1931 convention against unemployment insurance. Activities of Committee. The activities of-this committee of 15 has already revealed in fact that the membership in the A. F. of L. are for unemployment insur- ance, paid by the government at the expense of the employers. Eight .hundred local unions and central bodies have endorsed the referendum. All activities of this committee were given the best con- sideration. Committees of a sim- ilar nature were established in various sections of the country and they began to look at the New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance and Relief as the center, as the national body, Position of Bosses’ Agents. In their bitter fight against gov- ernment unemployment insurance, the Greens and Wolls have con- centrated their main attack on this New York Committee. All the reactionary Trade Union journals had editorials attacking this A. F. of L. Committee and unemploy- ment insurance. As an addition to this opposition came Green's A. F. of L, circular letter also attacking this A. F, of L. Committee. Then came Hutcheson’s circular letter to the membership of the Brother- hood.of Carpenters and Joiners of ‘america, agitating “the member- ship against unemployment insur- ance, bitterly attacking the New York A. F, of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and even threatening with suspension and expulsion those who will. support the New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief. And Mr. Green, in the name of the federation, lately: increased his agi- of the Party, who must be-the first VETERANS GEN. WATERS, General Glassford, “Pardon me, Mr. President, here is the eviction notice for you to sign.” ; By Bi The New Retreat of the A. F. L. Chiefs The Latest Maneuver Against the Fight for Unemployment Insurance and Relief tation for the schemes of curing the unemployment problem by staggering the already staggered part-time employed. But the work- ers in tHe United States had enough of this staggering to con- vince them what it means. With their wages cut in some places to the éxtent of 40 per cent, 13,000,000 totally unemployed, others working two to three days a week, the la- test mode of staggering a la Green’s Proposition would mean that the part-time unemployed same as the totally unemployed would be con- demned to starvation. That the workers in the United States begin to see on the basis of their own experience that even Green’s scheme of the 6-hour day means a wage-cut, a cutting of the work- ers’ standard of living, was admit- ted by the New York Times on July 24, page 10-F in a full col- umn article. Another Maneuver. All the concentrated attacks by the labor chiefs on the movement for compulsory government unem- ployment insurance surely did not stop the sufferings of the workers in the United States of America. The movement for government un- employment insurance is growing within the A. F. of L.—and unable to withstand the rapidly mount- ing tide of sentiment or compul- sory government unemployment in- surance as evidenced by a flood of communications from local unions, city central bodies and state fed- eration of labor, the Executive Council of the American Federa- tion of Labor on July 22 decided to make a pretense of being for some king of “unemployment in- surance.” The Meaning of the New Schemes. What is the meaning of these new schemes? Here is part of Green’s statement in the name of the Ex- ecutive Council: “Whether I shall propose that the federal govern- ment contribute as we¥l as employ- ers, as well as the employees, I cannot say at this time. It may be that it will be sufficient for industry and the workers to make joint con- tributions.” It shows at best these gentlemen may talk only about an unemployment insurance that will be at the direct and indirect ex- By SAM DON HE training of cadres is essen- tial for the development of ef- fective mass work. The full time training schools of a district, re- gional and national characte? are of great importance in the training of functionaries. The attitude, however, of a number of districts as in the general attitude towards the schools established by the Cen- tral Committee, is far from satis- factory. To give a few examples: The Workers’ School and Trade Union Unity League organ- ized a special 4 weeks training school for miners and steel workers. It goes without saying that this school was of great importance. The Chicago District was asked to send at least two miners to this school, and one steel worker. The District, however, failed to take ad- vantage of this excellent opportun- ity. The answer in fact was that the school, and those who should be sent cannot be spared. Chicago, while @ heavy sinner in its attitude in selecting comrades for our schools, is by no means the only guilty party. We will take an- other example from Minneapolis District. The 6 weeks National ‘Training School with 40 students from practically every District in the country, has no representation from the Minnesota District. In answer to the many requests from the Central Office that Minnesota send its quota of students, we have received a reply that those com- rades who are material for the school are at the present time “in strategic positions.” Therefore they | cannot be sent to the National Training School. But the comrades must understand that it is preci- sely those who are in strategic po- sitions, that ig those who are ac- tively engaged in the mass work of the Party, close to the problems { in the selection of students, as well” we do not have the material for | Who Should Be Sent to Our Schools? choice for our schools. While the composition of the stu- dents in our schools have improved @ great deal lately, it is still far from satisfactory. The main rea- son for this is that the Districts who select the students have a “policy” of sending those who can be spared, which means those com- rades wh® are not in close touch with the masses and actively en- Baged in mass work. We must fundamentally change the attitude in the selection of the comrades for our schools. While recently there is a better representation of Negroes at our schools, there is, however, not a sufficient careful selection of pro- letarian elements. In the selection of women com- rades for the schools, we must par- ticularly insist on the selection of industrial workers. “Young and new members of the Party should of course be consid- ered as fit and in some instances Preferable material for our schools. However, a more careful selection should be made. Such new and young members should be selected for our schools who have been tested in the class struggle. In addition to the regional and national schools which are organ- ized and conducted “by the Central Committee, the system of district schools must be still further devel- oped. While we have made some ‘Progress in this direction, the main weakness lies in the fact that the district leaderships are not paying sufficient attention to the organiza- tional details of their district schools and particularly to the selection of the students. It would be well to have the experience of the Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and San Fran- cisco District Schools. For a serious approach to the training of new cadres—more at- tention to our school system! ® pense of the workers’ pay envelope and will exclude those many who hhad no boss and pay envelope for a substantial perioid of time, as iis the case with many of these “un- employment insurance” schemes. These gentlement can’t silence the’ fact that they bitterly opposed the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill that was mailed by the New York AFL Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance and Relief. This bill clearly declares: “Unemployment Insur- ance at full wages, (on the basis of the yearly average) for all work- ers, no discrimination, at the ex- pense of the employers and the gov- ernment, te be administered by the workers; also insurance to the amount of full wages to compen- sate for the loss of wages through sickness, accidents, old age, matern- ity, etc.” Knowing these Greens and Wolls from past experieince, we may safe- ly consider the new retreat of July 22 simply as a manouever before the Cincinatti AFL annual conven- tiion in the attempt to weaken the fight of the rank and file of the AFL membership for a real work- ers’ unempoyment insurance. The way to force through the adoption at th Cincinatti conven tion which will be held on Nov. 21, is by mass pressure from the rank and file in the A, F. of L. of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. The way to bring such pres- sure is to send a broad rank and file delegation representing local unioins all over the country to the Cincinatti convention and demand the admittance of a rank and file representation to this convention to take up the question of govern- ment unemployment insurance and Telief. Only an organfzed pressure of the rank and file in the AFL together with the starving workers outside of the AFL will force the government to adopt the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. of Capital Why the Lindbergh Baby Was Not Found (The Daily Worker herewith publiishes a penetrating analy- sis of the Lindbergh case and its political implications written by D. Sasslavski, brilliant Soviet journalist, who writes frequently in the Moscow press.) PR ei By D. SASSLAWSKI. entirie bourgeois press of America raised a hue and cry when Lindbergh’s baby was kid- napped. It cried out twice as loud when the boy was found. Capi- talisit America went into mourning. Hundreds of American children, workers’ children, are today dying of starvation. Not a line about this is to be found in the columns. of the capitalisit press. But the death of young Charles Lindbergh shocked the entire country. Was Police Event, The kidnapping of the child of the famous flyer, Lindbergh, over- stepped the bounds of an ordinary crime, It became a political event of gigantic importance. It will go down in world history as a proof of the disintegration and rotten- ness of capitalist society. In this respect, it is no less significant than the unhealthy indices of the de- cline and stagnatioin of the most important branches of industry; no less significant that the bankrupt- cies that astound the world, and the collapse of world trusts; no less significant that the suicide of Kreu- ger, Eastman and other “Kings” whose thrones are toppling. Lindbergh's child was kidnapped on March 1. In the note which the kidnappers left behind, they spoke of ransom. The folowing day, 6,000 secret service agents and police stood at all the cross-roads of America the country over, wherever an auto might arrive by travelling at even the highest speed; all autos were checked up, not a single car carrying a child could pass. There were mobilized at once all the means at the disposal of the secret Ppolice—telephone and radiio, the press, and thousands of yolunteers. Lindbergh happens to be among the national heroes and a darling of bourgeois America. He is one of its most popular persons. The kidnap- ping of his son, a 19-months-old baby, was the signal for the stirring of a whole nation. The speedy ap- prehension of the kidnappers be- came a point of honor with the American police. But the kidnap- pers had vanished as though the earth had swalowed them. Had it been only the earth that swallowed them, they would certainly have been found, but they went to a place where the policie dare not go. Causes Panic. The first effect of the Kidnap- ping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., was a terrible panic in the upper cir- cles of the American bourgeoisie, from-here the panic spread to the entire bourgeoisie. The newspapers stated that in the past two years, more than two thousand kidnap- pings had taken place, witih ran- som as their motive. In the over- whelming majority of cases, the parents ransomed their children and paid enormous sums to the kidnappers. Many millions were spent in this maner—no exact check is possible in this branch of American industry, since neither the parents nor the kidnappers are inclined to report on income and expenditure in this line. The recognized head of the Chi- cago gangster, Al. Capone, was at the time o fthe kidnapping in jail, not because of his gangsterism, but because he concealed the amount of his income. Here is re- vealed the morality of capitalisit society: you may be a gangster, as long as you do not overstep your bounds; but the gains of your gang- sterism you must divide honorably with the treasury of the capitalist state. Evolution of Gangsterism. This morality was also expressed in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh child. Gangsterism stood revealed as a two-edged sword. Nourished Readers’ Ideas on Daily Worker The Daily Worker welcomes let- ters from workers and farmers of- fering suggestions for building up a mass paper, in the editorial and keep impoverishing the workers more and more. He thinks that that will automatically bring the revolution. One worker say& people will do nothing till they are starving; then organization will come, and the starv- ing will overthrow imperialism. These benighted ideas could be greatly re- circulation departments. We will try to print as many letters as possible that are sent in. Trrigon, Ore, Dear Comrades:— I realize that the Daily Worker is showing big improvements, and you may know that I am not writing to throw cold water on the struggle. Yet I offer some criticism, ‘The news of daily struggles seems to take too much space. We all are hia to read these, but could they not I realize that the baat must grow by struggle, yet is your method the best? Will not the very fighters weary of reading of lit- tle but bitter’ struggle? More News from Abroad. ‘You have partly overcome that sameness by the much needed articles of achievements, especially in China apd in the Soviet Union. Yet the Daily Worker lets many readers fail to understand the rélation of struggle to revolution. One keeps saying he hopes Capitaliem will duced by short articles in your daily, showing that the workers must fight their way to victory step by stey. Ex. pose the pancake-theory of revolution. Comic Strip. Personally, I would like to see a comic strip, more news from other nations, especialy from colonies, one to two short articles now and then on theoretical background; since Gorky admits he failed in the crisis, give more space to leaders; and espe- cially more about progress in USSR and China. By asking, can you/not get_ even more workers from other nations to send in their interesting letters? Another thing: why do you not let we readers know more about your limitations, problems, and things you wish donated? We know thoroughly of only one of your problems. You have been thorough in telling that: the problem of finances. You have done correctly in telling us that, Tell us your other needs. Comradely yours, a» ‘Sy A Farmer. - in the lap of capitalism, gangster, isim refused obedience to its pare! ent. It arose against its protectors. It became a national hero, The bourgeoisie suddenly felt that it was in the grip of a dark power, which it could not altogether con- trol. Its own horse had run away. The police, who are supposed to be the support of society, were openly | baffled, The pillars no longer sup- ported the edifice. The sentiment in capitalist circles is illustrated by the following facts, which are in no way mere anecdotes, A group of capitalists decided to build for their children a special house with bullet-proof walls, moats and watch towers. This is a direct return fo the middle ages, it is a flight from the capitalist city, which has be- come more dangerous than forests and steppes ever were, But the richest people have faith neither in bullet-proof walls nor armed police. ‘The newspapers report a formidable flight from America, of rith fami- lies, with their children. Is this to) After the kid-| napping of Lindbergh's child, when | 4 be wondered at? the entire police-force, without ex- ception, was mobilized, 12-yearold Antonio Arias, son of a rich sugar manufacturer, and little Hilda Brodsky, daughter of a New York manufacturer, and yet a third child, were kidnapped. Only in the last case were the kidnapers caught. Hilda was brought back from the kidnappers to her parents, but the kidnappers could not be found. Gangster—American Hero! The gangster has become the hero of the day in the American papers. Lindbergh himself, from the first day, rejected ‘the services of the police and asked them not to interfere. He got in direct com- muncation with the gangsters. In April, the American press, report- ing on the kidnapping, told the following: There was ay important meeting with Lindbergh, in which the following were present: Lind- bergh himself, the famous lawyer Breckenridge, dean of Gibbon Uni- versity and ........ a famous gang- ster, burglar and smuggler—Salvi Spitale. After this meeting, Spitale became a famous man. The news- papers wrote of the “honor” of this gangster, photographed him, and made svch a to-do about him that the garzster was forced to refuse further participation for the fol- lowing reason: that too much pub- licity is harmful to the career of a@ gangster. The gangsters kidnapped and the gangsters sought out the kidnap- pers. Three friends of Lindbergh, who became known under the name of the “Three Gentlemen @f Nor- folk,” took over the negotiations between Lindbergh and the kid- nappers. On the other hand, “Pro- fessor” Jafsie Condon carried on negotiations with the kidnappers in Lindbergh's name. Lindbergh gave $50,000 to the one group. Probably he also gave money to other gangsters. In the end, it was proved that not only the gang- ters, but even his friends, had be- trayed him. When the corpse wae suddenly discovered, it turned ottt, that the “Norfolk Gentlemen” among them Pastor Peacoek, had shamelessly betrayed Lindbergh. Gangsters, Police Embrace. x ‘Thus has capitsfist society be~ come involved with the world of gangsters. Capitalist scciety gave birth to gangsterism, and now suf- fers from gangsterism. There can be no doubt whatever, that the gangsters are most closely allied with the police. The interconec- tions of the government apparatus with the gangsters became glar- ingly apparent in the Lindbergh case. This is an inevitable result of that system in which capitalist so- ciety, in its struggle against the working class, puts gangsters at the service of the. police. Botls @e pol- ice and the private detSttive agen- cies use the criminal world to a large extent to break strikes, to suppress workers and to do the work of spies. The police organize the criminals and gangsters, but the gangsters also organize the police in their own interests. The pers sonal contacts between the visible police world and the “invisible” gangster world leads to the wiping: out of the distinction between these two “institutions” of capitalisit so= ciety. Information is exchanged be- tween these two worlds, and there can be no doubt that the kidnap-. pers of the Lindbergh baby were well informed of all steps being taken by the police. It was not the earth that swallowed them, but. the police. Hence their total dise appearance, ‘ Internation! Phenomenon. : But the connection of gangstere: ism with capitclism is not alone an American phenomenon. This. connection exists in Europe also. The murder of Doumer by a white guardist reveals the same picture: of the interconnection of the poe lice apparatus of the bourgeoisie: with the apparatus of the gang- sters, which the bourgeoisie has created in its struggle against the revolutionary working class moves ment. Charles Lindbergh, Jr., was a year and a half old; President Doumezr was 82 years old. Both the American infant and the aged , Frenchman fell as sacrifices to one and the same “order.” They met their death by a power which cap-. italism created for its own pros tection, and which now refuses to capitalism its obedience ' 5 , ih a