The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1932, Page 4

~ Page Four Dal Yorker’ Porty US.A 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily exoxept Sunday, at 50 E, Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York, N. ¥. By mall everywhere: One year, $6; SUBSCRIPTION RAT six months, Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. six months, $4.50. (wo months, 61; excepting Foreign: one year, $8; The Job Racketeers Must Go! With over a million workers in New York City unem- ployed and without relief, the private employment agencies are filled to overflowing by despairing men and women in search of work. These workers are made the victims of job acketeers. The private employment agencies, like vermin, live on the unemployed workers and thrive on their misery. These job rackets must be shut down and in their place the city must be compelled to open agencies where the workers can themselves take charge and register for work. Employers must come to these Thousands of search in vain for work. As a desperate last resort they try to buy jobs. These jobs are, in most cases, non-exist- ant, as revealed in the case of the E, iency Agency ex- posed in the Daily Worker yesterday. Where “jobs” are given, crooked bosses and foremen split with the agencies and turn over their help in a week or two, thus fleecing the unemployed workers out of their last few dollars saved up to buy the job. These private agencies further prey upon the unemployed governmen mployed nemploy t agencies for workers. spend carfare daily and workers by taking their fees and promising a job in the hazy future or by stalling him with insincere promises. They mis- nt working conditions and send workers to plants out trike, compel them to ride long distances, spending fare repr on and, when the workers refuse to scab, keep the fee. These employment agencies circulate employers, urg- ing them to discharge workers and to rehire new crews from amongst their victims at lower wages. These private employment agencies are linked up with +he underworld and become supply agencies for houses of pros- titution, driving many women workers into the hands of white slavers. These job sharks are likewise traps for foreign-born un- employed workers. The job sharks demand citizenship papers and passports, herd the foreign-born workers and hold them tor immigration authorities for no other crime than that they are unemployed. Unemployed workers who seek redress against these crimes from the License Bureau of the city, as well as from the police, get no assistance. The License Bureau and the po-j lice work hand in hand with workers. these vicious exploiters of the These foul dens cannot be reformed, they must be wiped out. Against this shameful robbery workers must organize demonstrations, they must demand the repayment of all funds gained on false pretences. Demonstrations must be made against the License Bureau for its collusion and asistance given to these parasites. The protest demonstration of 1,000 workers, held yes- terday in the job market in New York against these plun- dering practices, is a good beginning. But the way to wipe out this condition is to raise the demand—the job racke- teers must go! The city government must establish em- ployment agencies administered by the unemployed. There must be no fees extracted for the securing of jobs. These slogans and this fight must be carried on not only in New York, but throughout the country. ready echo in the ranks of the tens of thousands of victims of the job racket. The militant Unemployed Councils and the revolutionary trade unionists should everywhere take the lead in this timely and vital struggle. Employed must be drawn into this fight. as well as unemployed workers High Point, N. C. Workers Prepare Coming Struggles By JOHN ADAMS HE textile and furniture workers of High Point, N. C., now back under a dubious “settlement,” are talking over their strike and seeking its weak points. The National Textile Workers Union must participate in this rank and file analysis of the strike and convey to the strikers its pro- gram and explanations of the last strike. There will be more out- bursts of the militant southern mill workers. These struggles must be organized and led successful with a mass basis of rank and file ap- paratus for conducting the strike. 12.50 A WEEK WAGES Here are conditions in the south- ern mills as described by workers. In a print cloth mill the highest wage collected by any worker was a little over seven dollars and an average of around $2.50 for the rest of the workers. This was the situation in High Point before the strike. Another North Carolina mill pays 2% cents an hour to fixers for eleven hour shift and they furnish ) their own tools. Their. helpers get 17 cents an hour. } Durham gives “unemployment re- lief” of 75c a week, Mill workers earn $5 and $6 a week with mills on two and three day-basis. Workers complain of unsani- tary conditions in the workshops. | Toilets with vermin are a common |sight. Floors are not scrubbed for | years and accumulated filth helps | to bring “TB” to weakened bodies. BABY DIES In Marion where six workers were murdered in the 1929 strike, a baby died because its mother had “to be at the mill on time.” Mill Mill whistles blow at 7 a, m. while workers actually start in by 5.40 a.m, These are conditions. Out of this horror is rising the heroic | spirit of the southern workers. They will strike back! It is up to the workers of the country to see that they receive full support in their fight against the textile barons. To do this they must be in touch with the militant union | movement. The betrayers of labor | are active. They are on the scene. They must be exposed in action. ATTENTION, READERS! The Daily Worker would appre- ciate if workers writting in to us would sign their full name and address so that it will enable us to inform readers why at times their letters or other material are not published, or otherwise com- ( municate with them. We are un- able to do this without the name and address. Those who do not wish to have their names mention- ed must indicate so. The Daily Worker never will publish the name of the writer without his coment, ius ’ { It will find a NEED DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932 TO THINK! By “I have always maintained that one of the greatest difficulties of the present day arises from the fact that statesmen of the world have too little time in which to think... !”—Stan- ley Baldwin, leader of the British delegation to the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa. The Struggle Raging in Germany and the Workers of the U.S.A. NEW YORK.—The significance of the German events in rela- tion to the struggle of the work- ers of the United States will be brought to the fore at a mass meeting to protest the open fas- cist dictatorship in Germany. The meeting will be held at Cen- tral Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. this Friday evening, Aug, 19. Speakers will include William W. Weinstone, editor of the Daily Worker, and Max Bedacht- The meeting is called by District 2, Communist Party. eee, By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL INGING crystal clear as a warn- ing bell through the tumultuous German Reichstag election cam- paign was the penetrating appeal to the toiling masses and their sympathizers, “Anti-Fascists Vote Communist!” The election is now over. This is being written in Berlin as the carefully organized, well-armed Hitler lynch mobs de- velop their carefully planned terror with the murder and maiming by bomb, gun, knife, blackjack and hand grenade of workers and work- ers’ leaders—the way toward still more open fascist dictatorship. The Reichstag election results were a signal triumph for the anti- fascist struggle that finds its broadest expression in the “Anti- Fascist United Front,” under the leadership of the Communist Party. The brilliant gains of the Commu- nist Party, threatened with dissolu- tion, were made in the face of the greatest obstacles—its headquarters, Karl Liebknecht House in Berlin, and in other cities, closed by the Papen military regime; its central organ, the Rote Fahne, under the ban, as well as twelve other Com- munist dailies suppressed; joint murder actions of the fascists and police against workers’ quarters, as at Altona-Hamburg; Communist speakers excluded from wireless broadcasting; its propagandists ter- rorized, meetings broken up, The Voting Technique There is no opportunity for Ger- man voters to split their ballots. They vote for parties straight! The social-democrats, who had called for support of Hindenburg against the Nazis in the last presidential elections and then saw Hindenburg go over to Papen and Hitler and the Hohenzollern generals, have “List No. 1,” the Nazis “List No. 2,” while the Communists have “List No, 3.” Thus the figure “3” in great proportions, displayed from the windows of workers dwellings, on billboards, on the front pages of newspapers, everywhere, was in it- self an appeal to “Vote Commu- nist!” to mobilize in the elections against fascism, Under the hammer blows of the anti-fascist campaign the Commu- nist vote rose from 4,590,160 in the Reichstag elections of Sept. 14, 1930, and the 4,982,149 votes re- ceived in the presidential elections of March 13, 1932, this year, to 5,276,887 votes in the Reichstag elec- tion Sunday, July 31. This means that there will be 89 Communists (anti-fascists) in the next Reich- stag, compared to 78 in the last Reichstag, a gain of eleven, the outstanding achievement of the election campaign, which became an historic milestone leading on to new struggles, an immediate task being the increasing agitatiOm for the political mass strike of the working class against the growing, bloody terror, ‘The Reichstag election campaign, with its important results, the anti- fascist united front struggle in Germany, the growing resistance to the fascist Papen-Hitler terror, should have a tremendous signifi- cance for every section of the In- ternational Red Aid, but especially Defense Organization Was In the Forefront of Recent Election Campaign for the International Labor Defense in the United States, where a pres- idential election is raging in the midst of new, ever more ferocious attacks upon the working class, mobilization of the army against the world war veterans in Wash- ington, everywhere attacks on the unemployed, terror against the strikers, deportations, the Scotts- boro and many other persecutions with lynching attacks upon the Negroes, the continued imprison- ment of Mooney, Billings and scores of other long-time prisoners, sav- age repression of the campaign ac- tivities of the Communist Party, the Party of struggle against the growing terror, against. the lynch mobs, against oppression. The German Red Aid (I, L. D.) was in the forefront of the Reich- stag election campaign, Not only through its central organ, Tribunal, but also in a'flood of pamphlets and leaflets, and the tireless activ- ities of its nearly 400,000 members, the battle flags of the Red Aid, as a militant organization of class struggle, were raised higher and higher. The Red Aid gave voice to the agony of the widows and children left fatherless by the Hit- ler murder gangs (200 workers have been done to death by the Hitler assassins since 1930). It was the voice of the 8,000 working class political prisoners, who watched the election campaign from behind their prison bars, that could not shut out the growing cry for “Am- nesty!” In one week during the election campaign prison sentences totalling 300 years were meted out to workers, On the day the Papen emergency decrees went into effect there were 140 arrests of workers in Berlin alone. The Red Aid be- came a mighty bulwark of struggle against the whole system of fascist terrorization. Previous Inactivity in Elections In this sense it must be stated that the International Labor De- fense has never sufficiently partiti- pated in the election campaigns, raising its own program before the working class in the United States: It is Clearer this year than ever that the carrying through of that program calls for the most ener- getic support of the candidates of the Communis Party. All members of the International Labor Defense must be so convinced of this that they will become among the best INJUNCTION MENACE A Review of a New, Timely Pamphlet By JOHN SLEUBEN ‘Lhe injunction Menace, by Uhar- lotte Todes, International Pamphlet NO, 22,..cecseeevceseeeeee 5 cents, “\N strike against a wage cut. Holding their baumers aloft the strikers picket, grim and determined. “Between rows of blue uniforms, swinging clubs and hostile glances, the line of ragged men, women, young boys file past the factory gate. “Millions in profits; wage cuts for workers. “The factory windows gape, the smoke from the chimney stacks fades into thin gray streaks. Not a wheel of machinery turns. “The picket line comes to a sharp halt. A policeman on horseback blocks the way. The blue uniforms close in on the pickets menacingly. “You can’t picket here. There is an injunction.” That’s the way this pamphlet starts. Even though the pamphlet consists of only fifteen pages, if is full of facts on the injunction men- ace, Not only does this pamphlet give facts as to where and when this judge-made law was applied against workers, but also analyzes why the bosses and their courts issue injunc- tions against striking workers: “The resentment of the masses has found expressiion in growing strug- gles under the leadership of the mili- tant unions, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. It is not sur- prising, therefore, that such militant unions as the miners, and the unions in the food, shoe, metal, furniture, needle, textile and other industries have been the special target of attack by the employers and the govern- ment. Injunctions have been one of the instruments of repression along with criminal syndicalism laws, frame-ups, deportations and terror- ism.” It gives a detaiJled description of * the injunctions issued against the National Miners Union, the Tobacco Workers Union in Tampa, Fla., the Shoe, Food, and other unions in New York. The pamphlet also contains an im- portant chapter on the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and injunctions, exposing the sharp battle the A. F. of L. has put up against injunctions, while at the same time resorting themselves to injunctions against the militant unions of the T. U. U, L. like the food and needle unions. The recent so-called anti-injunc- tion bill’ passed by Congress is also dealt with in this pamphlet, pointing out that: “In face of the sharpening crisis, the resulting unrest and leftward movement of the masses, the govern- ment has been forced to adopt this so-called anti-injunction law as a smoke screen to cover its hostile ac- tions against the workers, Further- more, the law covers only the federal courts, where a relatively small num- ber of injunctions . re issued. The state courts remain free to continue issuing injunctions without restric- tions,” Events have already proved the correctness of this analysis. The anti-injunction law is only several weeks old, and already numerous in- junctions were issued against striking shoe and food workers, In recent years, many books were written on the injunctions and how to “defeat” them, proposing new laws, bills, petitions, etc., thus limiting the struggle to “legal” means only, in- cluding the Civil Liberties Union. This is the only pamphlet that pro- poses class struggle methods, namely, a mass Violation of injunctions, When this review is written a new injunction epidemic has spread in New York. The strikers of the An- drew Geller and I. Miller shoe fac- fighters in the electoral struggle. It is to be regretted that the July issue of the “Labor Defender,” the central organ of the I. L. D., its agitator and organizer, carried no article on the nomination of Wil- liam Z, Foster for President and James W. Ford for Vice-President. The call for the Fifth National Convention, October 8-9, in itself a mobilization against every phase of the growing terror, does not men- tion the election campaign, al- though it will be held on the very eve of the elections, and its prepar- atory campaign parallels the grow- ing electoral struggle. Strength of Movement. The strength of the anti-fascist struggle in Germany is to be found in the fact that the more than five millions who voted the Communist Party ticket have no parliamentary ilusi@gs. The weight of this power is, threfore, all the more signifi- cant. While the mounting wave of fas- cism in Germany broke on the bul- wark of revolutionary internation- alism; the capitalist ruling class, with the elections over, increases its campaign of repression against the revolutionary workers and their Party. The Rote Fahne has again been suppressed, this time for ten days, along with the suppression of many other Communist organs. The proposed outlawing of the Party and all other militant working class organizations is again raised. But the workers continue their struggle, more actively, everywhere, for an end of fascism, for socialism and for a workers and peasants govern- ment, Cites Sacco-Vanzetti Murder It is in this sense that the Inter- national Labor Defense inthe United States approached the Fifth Anniversary of the burning alive of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti in the electric chair on the night of August 22, 1927. On this T. R. A, anniversary, especially this year, the I. L. D. in the United States, and the International Red Aid on the eve of its World Con- gress in Moscow, in November, everywhere brings forward its whole program of struggle, into the center of which the I. L, D. in the United States must place the 1932 election campaign. The intensifi- cation of the struggle may then reach proper proportions in the mighty demand that must be raised before the United States Supreme Court on Oct. 10, for the freedom of the Scottsboro Negro children, when this highest tribunal of dollar capitalist class justice meets to hear the I. L. D. appeal against the judicial lynch decrees of the “white supremacy” courts of Alabama, tories received an injunction. The clerks department of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union received a vicious permanent injunction, the Laundry Workers Union is now facing an injunction, and more are in the making. The class-conscious workers have already accepted the challenge of the bosses and their courts and will reply to these injunc- tions with mass violations. That is why the “Injunction Menace” is such a timely pamphlet, It must become a strong weapon in our hands, It is the duty of the mili- tant unions of the T. U. U. L. to spread this pamphlet into the hands of the entire union membership as well as among the A. F. of L, and unorganized workers. VOTE COMMUNIST Against capitalist terror; against all forms Of suppression of we political rights of workers, Rib, ~ |The 25-Year Plan of the ‘Liberty Party’ Irrigate the Desert, Urges Ally of the Cox Movement; Living Example of Demagogy By K. E. HEN the crisis deepens and the conditions of workers and farmers get worse, these workers and farmers become discontented, lose confidence in the capitalist system and its chief parties. In order to stem the tide of revolu- tionary thought and radicalization of these masses and lead their discontent into such channels as will keep them from fighting cap- italism, various parties and organi- zations, backed by capital, spring up in the ranks of the working class, ITS “PLATFORM” Such a Party is the “Liberty” Party.” Its platform calls for “six hour day and wages in keeping with incomes of industry,” against big trusts, etc. etc. The leaders of the Liberty Party resort to radical phrases against the mil- Honaires, against Hoover, etc. Mr. Roland Bruner, the national chair- man of the Liberty Party, goes to the extent of opening his speech much in the manner of a Com- munist by saying “Comrades and Friends.” One of the ideological leaders. of the Liberty Party is Andrae Nord- skog, who is the vice-presidential candidate on -the Liberty Party ticket. At a meeting held in De- fenders Temple in Kansas City, Nordskog said that the “Five Year Plan was alright for Russia, but United States being a developed country with a stabilized govern- ment, needs a 25-year plan.” What is Nordskog’s 25 Year Plan? HOOVER'S “BIG IDEA” 1. In order to relieve unemploy- ment, it is necessary that first of all a meeting will be held of en- gineers (a la Hoover?) and “in- telligent” men and women where they will lay plans for the 25-year- plan. 2. One of the first things to con- sider is to combine the waters of the Missouri, Mississippi, Colorado and other big rivers of the west and build huge dams and power stations so that the desert area of the western states can be irrigated. 3. Cities, farms, towns and fac- tories to be built in the heart of the desert. This, he claims will give jobs to millions of men and women. 4, In building of+these “desert” towns and dities, a plan for the absorbtion of the students, young people, into industry and office shall be worked out, thus guar- anteeing the younger generation a job and means of existence for the rest of their lives. SOME WORKERS WERE FOOLED Nordskog presented his “25 Year Plan” with such pep and vigor and with such phrases of “assuring our sons and daughters of a means of “existence” that some of the work- ers present thought such a plan a good one. But what is wrong with the 25-Year-Plan of the Liebrty Party? First of all Nordskog and the leaders of the Liberty Party over- look the fact that the capitalist system itself is to blame for the present crisis and its toll of misery and starvation for the working class.—Secondly, that it is not of prime necessity to build new cities in the desert- There are today many cities and towns, big and small, which are located in good farming localities, where dams and irrigation are unnecessary. In these cities there are houses, new mode ern apartment buildings, factories and shops with modern machinery —warehouse filled with food and other necessities of life; that many of these houses are empty; the apartments are for rent; the fac- tories are closed. SOME THINGS HE FORGOT Nordskog conveniently forgets to mention that workers and their families are being evicted and are forced to either move in with friends and relatives or sleep in parks or make themselves homes of tin, card-board boxes, etc. like the many “Hooverville” towns that have been built up near the city dumps in many cities. He does not say anything about the thousands of closed shops, factories, mills and mines where workers are willing to work RIGHT Now! Nordskog and the Liberty Party overlook the fact that under cap- italism it is impossible to have planned production, That the cap- italist are daily at a life and death struggle to outsell and outcheat each other. Therefore, under such anarchy, it is impossible to have a a system of competition and an- plan by which the younger gen- eration of students, etc., will be guaranteed jobs .and means of existence for the rest of their lives after finishing school or college. Nordskog and the Liberty Party have nothing to say Soncerning what the workers and farmers and their families will do between now and the time these “desert cities” are to be built. WHAT IS TO BE DONE The workers each day face the problem of getting food and homes. Many workers and farmers are los- ing their homes because they can- not pay the taxes or the mortgage. These workers and farmers must organize in their city or community and put their demands before their local governments for “immediate relief, no sales of homes, or fore- closures of mortgages, no evictions.” Workers in the towns and cities should arrange public hearings on the conditions of the workers and their families in that town or city and immediately the following day to send as large a delegation as possible to the local authorities with the demands of the workers as laid down at the public hearing. Hunger marches to the local gov- ernment offices to be organized in which the workers of the county or township will participate. Workers in the cities and towns must organize and build up Block Committees and Unemployed Coun- cils, involving both the employed and unemployed, as well as part- time workers. Unemployed workrs must help the employed workers to fight against wage cuts by pledging their support in the event that the em- ployed workers will strike against the wage cuts. Wherever such fakers and misleaders as the Lib- erty Party and Cox's Jobless Party expose them before the working class and urge the workers to vote Communist for jobs and bread, on Nov. 8th. Singer Bosses Out to Trap Workers With Stock Scheme “Podolsk” Series Contrasted Conditions in U.S. With Ex-Singer Plant in U.S. S. R. Coincident with the series of ar- ticles that have been appearing in the Daily Worker on the Podolsk plant in the Soviet Union—a series which has portrayed the sharp in- crease in the standard of living of the workers today as compared with the Czarist days, when the Podolsk plant was owned by the Singer Sewing Machine Company — the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Elizabeth has announced that it will present a plan to its employees which will “enable”: them to buy stock in the company. « The employees stock purchase plan is an old scheme to draw workers deeper into the barbed- wire embrace of their exploiters. Far from increasing the income of workers, the purchase of stock in the company they work for actually reduces their income and amounts to a wage cut, a particularly unen- durable wage cut in the or as plant, where wages are as $7 and $10 a week. y By trying to force workers to buy stock in a company, the bosses en- deavor to sow the illusion among the workers that they have an interest in the company’s profits — that greater profits for the bosses mean more wages for the workers. After the workers buy the stock, the bosses introduce still greater speed- up and wage cuts under the pre- tense that even though the workers are working harder and for less wages, they are doing so for their own benefit because they are part “owners” of the company. The workers in the Singer plant must oppose any attempt on the part of their bosses to force them hh in ‘tar loyees stock: hee emp! “pur ance committees in the shop and by forming shop branches of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the Singer workers can pre- vent their bosses from forcing them to buy stock in the company, Struggle against the Singer ex- ploiters, not the buying of their stock, will bring better conditions to the workers in the Singer plant in Elizabeth. And the only guar- antee of the Singer workers of a permanently improved standard of living—such as is now enjoyed by the workers in the Podolsk plant in the Soviet Union—is to rally behind the election campaign of the Com- munist Party in the fight for the overthrow of the entire hateful system of capitalism and the erec- tion of a workers’ and farmers’ government, Workers’ Kids i} Write to Mooney ) SAN QUENTIN, Cal. Aug., 16—The widespread interest of American children in the frame-up of Tom Mooney, jailed 16 years ago by the California traction trust for a crime he never committed, is indicated by the many letters which children are sending him from all over the coun= try asking for his autograph. ‘The children want to use “tis sig- nature in an autograph contest for the signatures for famous men. Moow ney, has replied to all requests. gl |