The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1932, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTUBER 4, 19SZ orker Daily, Worker by the Compredally Publishing Co. daily exexept Sunday, at 5@ FE. York City. N. ¥. Telephone Algonquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK nd mail ehecks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th’ St., New York, N. ¥. Ine. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mall everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3 Berongh of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. six months, $4.50. Canada, 38 per year Mocking the Oppressed Negro Masses OR shameless, disgusting demagogy last Saturday’s per- formance at the White House by President Hoover and a group of reformist Negro leaders is unsurpassed even in an election campaign marked by the most brazen, hypocrit- ical lies and sham promises on the part of the bourgeois two months, $1; exespting reign: one year, 38; per_month politicians and their reformist henchmen. The performance was most elaborately staged in an attempt to stem the growing stampede of Negro voters from us attacks on the whole system of record of tree ism and of persecution. rent the Republican Party, w Negro masses port gro naticr The reform of J from Hoover with nded, In he whole per- arranged in advance by Repub- 1 election maneuver, but of the Negro people, imself as follows: to whom Hooy “phe right of liberty, justice and equal opportunity is yours, The President of the United States is ever obligated to the maintenance of those sacred trusts to the full extent of his authority.” This demagogic appeal for Negro votes is made by a, President who openly supports the persecution of the Negro masses, who has lifted not a finger to stop forced labor of Negro work +s on the government's flood control project in Mississippi or the hideous attempt to legally lynch the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro children. This meaningless prattle of the rights which are brutally denied the Negro masses in all sections of the country, was made by the man who, as head of the Mississippi flood relief work of the Red Cross, segregated Negroes in the refugee camps, made them do forced labor at the point of bayonets of the National Guard, and, finally, when the flcod waters receded, returned the Negro peons to lebt-slavery on the demands of the white landlords who claimed them as their property on the basis of “unpaid” debts which these enslaved Negroes could never work off because of the dishonest accounting system of the landlords. On all of these questions the capitalist reformists headed by Roscoe Conkling Simmons, were obligingly silent and were careful not to raise emba‘ ing questions. To protests against this open support of peonage, Hoover and his committee replied: “We did not create the social conditions in the South and it is not our function to reform them.” Undoubtedly Hoover and his committee meant to infer that the Democrats alone were responsible for these s! neful conditions. There can be no question w! ever thatthe unbroken rule of the Democrats in the South has kept the Negroes in indescribable oppression. But have Hoover and the Republicans ever been heard to complain against the system of peonage and lynchings, against the national oppression of .the Negro people which has kept them under an iron heel, Hoover, as well as the Democrats, supports the capitalist system which is responsible for the condition of the Negro m: Moreover, several Southern states have supported Hoover in his elec- tion campaigns. And further, the Republicans have had an almost un- broken control of the Federal government for several decades. What then becomes of the President’s obligation, mentioned by Hoover, to protect the rights of the Negroes? TT IS this same Hoover who supported peonage in Mississippi who now declares, with unbridled effrontery: “TI recall also with great pleasure this cooperation and the evidence of fine leadership in the relief of the Mississippi floods, and more recently in relief of drought, and in the sound advice and assistance I have had in formulating relief frfom the present distress and unemployment.” This disgusting comedy not only once again exposes Hoover. It above all shows the sordid role being played by reformist leaders of |the Negroes and their attempts to betray them into the camp of the enemy of the Negro people. Increasi numbers of Negroes are daily realizing that it is only the Communist Party that is day in and day ¢ut waging a relentless struggle against Negro persecution, for unconditional equal rights for Negroes, for the national liberation of the enslaved Negroes in the “Black Belt,” and for-adequate relief and unemployment insurance. nswer the hypocritical maneuvers of Hoover and mists! Vote Communist! Support the Party of the working class! Vote for William Z. Foster for President, and W. J, Ford, Negro worker, for Vice-President. Who Lies? HE NEW LEADER of October ist carries a letter in the “Questions and Answers” column by Herbert Bess Brooklyn, which rea “Communists have charged that the socialist in Milwaukee has cut the wages of city employees by calling for a 10 per administration cent donation by city workers and that city employees h to military camps for a number of weeks. Wi correct information? I fear that this is another Communist misrepre- sentation.” HERBERT BESSIN, Brooklyn. In reply to this letter the editor of the S. P. organ states: “It is another falsehood, We have seen a document sent out by Mayor Hoan answering this and other falsehoods. We suggest that in all such statements made by Communists that Comrades write direct to Mayor Hoan. We cannot spare the space to answer every accusation that comes from the Communists.—EDITOR.” The Daily Worker has repeatedly shown that the Mil- waukee socialist administration hailed by Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party, acts in every respect like the capital- Ist parties and the “Daily” has specifically made the above charge that the socialist cou! men put thru a wage cut for city employees which they cunningly tried to disguise as a Voluntary donation The following photostatic copy of the story printed in the Milwaukee ‘Leader on July 7 is proof sufficient that what we have charged is true, COUNCIL VOTES lg FOR JOBLESS |; |-» The term is only half correct—if that Socialists Carry Plan| much, It is true’ that it is not technically 5 | a Use Fund for | 1a \ THE CITY WAGE CONTRI- a voluntary contribution, inasmuch as the action was taken by the common council, but the offer of the city employes to make the contribution was virtually unanimous— Ve Reliet. and in that sense it is voluntary. « + si. e1}e. ap vw It reduces the pay of the employes re- he a . ceiving over $1,000 a year; reduces it by 10 Bn Ser rota en ‘rumerous . Ber cent for the time being. But it is not ‘Amendments were proposed and re- Jected, Socialist aldermen succeeded im passing their proposal for a 10 per eent wage and salary donation by elty emploses to create a tund@ | permanent. The difference between this and a regular pay cut—which the non-Socialists kept advocating—is that the basi¢ rate of pay remains. When the depression is over, + the old i ii the old pay will be reinstated. ‘Fur the employment of unemployed seorkers,iot a mecting of the cot: mon eoninell last night te oe meee 4 not,only confirms oui ion. but shows that the New Leader deliberately lies to its readers in order to conceal the enti-workingelass administration of Milwaukee which exposes’ the true role of the social- ists as agents of the capitalist class. ‘4 As to the question regarding military training, the following are the jetails: On June 15, Stephen A. Park, representing the National Guard and Reserve Officers Training Corp Association appeared Before the Judici- ary Committee of the Milwaukee County Board—requesting that all county employees be allowed time off to go to camp for a period of two weeks. On a motion of Supervisor Warnimont the rules were suspended and the resolution was adopted by unanimous vote, including all the socialist supervisors—among them, Frank Metcalf, candidate for governor on the Socialist Party ticket in Wisconsin.” The Socialists not only help the A. F.of L. officialdom to carry thru wage cuts, but wherever they are in power they. assist. the capitalists in carrying through their offensive for which they receive praise rom the | { | | | vanced countries and surpe | Lenin in his moments of rest and | heated political debate; shows him | ordered direct from Workers’ Li- Spent Eubligbers, Bax 148, Sia, D. lass ‘throughout, the United. Sinler, Sate ~Pecmemnene pasar | ly urges the actual preparations for Six Vital New Lenin Pamphlets The six new Lenin pamphlets (just issued by International Pub- | lishers), dealing with the period from the overthrow of the Tsar in March to the victorious proletarian revolution in November, 1917, | should serve as indispensable ma- | terial for the observance of the aes . 15th Annversary of the establish- ment of the So- viet Government. In these writ- ings of Lenin, each stage in the developing revo- lution stands out clearly. Letters from Afar (lic), writ ten by Lenin | while still in ex- ile in Switzer. land on receiving the first news of the overthrow of the Tsar, shows that the Provisional Govern- ment which seized power on the abdication of the Tsar was no= thing but a government of capital- ists and landowners and already proves that only “a complete vic- tory of the next stage of the revo- lution and the conquest of power by a@ workers’ government” could give the masses what they expected from the revolution—peace, bread, land and freedom. STRATEGY DURING TRANSITION On his arrival in Petrograd April 16, 1917, Lenin enunciated the prin- ciples and tactics which guided the strategy and action of the Bolshe- viks during the transition from the bourgeois revolution in March to the proletarian revolution in No- vember. These theses are contained in The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution (15c.) At the All-Russian Congress of the Bolsheviks in May (April, old calendar), under the leadership of Lenin, all the tasks and problems in connection -with developing the revolution to its second stage, the proletarian revolution, are ham- mereq out and the basic policies of the Bolsheviks towards this end are definitely formulated. The speeches of Lenin at this confer- ence are contained in The April Conference (20c). Complete economic collapse and famine threatened Russia. Lenin proposed revolutionary measures to meet this situation—control of pro- duction and distribution of prod- ucts by organizations arising from | thé masses. To completely save the country from economic ruin Lenin showed that power must pass into the hands of the workers supported | by the poorest peasantry, and only then could the national economy be organized for the benefit of the V, I. LED -THE & BLOANIS = THE FIVE ad . Carr -THE GIVE YESR PLAN I$ FAILING Hipon, WPPP. GS ened ECONOMIS FORWARD TO THE 15th ANNIVERSARY! VE.YEAR PR MBB do —By Burck ng Prtgers > Aa 4 EVERY DAY IN eveay} Bf, WAY 'M GETTING: tay TALIST a4 people. The slogan of the Five-Year Plan, to “catch up with the ad- | also economically” formulated by Li His writings on contained in Th: tastrophe and How (20¢). to Tight It. { he de- | quick- | ho claimed cisive struggle for po ly approaching, thos: to be close to the Bolsheviks warn- ed them against “endangering the revolution”, and raised two ques- tions: Will the Bolsheviks dare to attempt to seize power and if they do and succeed in taking power, will they be able to hold it? Lenin gives a decisive answer to these questions and smashes all counter- arguments in Will the Bolseviks Retain State Power? (15c). Lenin’s letters to the central Committee and other leading Bol- shevik bodies written during the. period of 10 days before the actual seizure of power, are contained in On the Eve of October (15c). In these letters Lenin most persistent- the uprising and fixes the date; he insists that “uprising must be treated as an art”, that:a plan must be decided upon, all preparations made accordingly and carried out with military precision. No understanding of the Rus- sian Revolution can be complete unless one reads about it in the writings of the organizer and lead- er of the revolution, V. I. Lenin. ‘Days WithLenin’ in. Book Form IMULTANEOUSLY with the celebration in the Soviet Union of Maxim Gorky’s fortieth year of revolutionary activity, his small book, Days With Lenin, has been issued here by International Pub- lishers, Gorky first met Lenin at the Party Congress in London in 1907 and they met again many times during Lenin’s exile in Europe, and in the Soviet Union after the suc- cessful revolution of November, 1917. In these reminiscenes, Gorky gives a most intimate and clear picture of the great working-class revolutionary leader. He tells of leisure as well as in moments of at rest at an Italian fishing town talking with the fisherman; look- ing after the health and comfort of his comrades; debating about the leading political questions of the day; talking with workers about all the details of their lives; as the first head of the great workers’ and peasants’ government, ‘The book may be obtained, either in strong paper covers (25 cents) or cloth bound (75 cents) at all workers’ book stores; or may be 2s America a decent place to live in, “Communists | @ETTER ano BETTER ae Can Create Land With Jobs for All” “Big Business Has No Fear of Socialists” Remarkable Achievements. in the Soviet Union Says Noted Writer “By CHAS. RUMFORD WALKER. (Concluded From Yesterday.) Last winter, the relief funds for the city of Chicago were exhausted half way through the winter. Four hundred thousand men, women and children faced starvation if no new funds could be found. The Com- munists led a march of the people in the streets of Chicago demand- ing relief. A few days later, it was appropriated by the state govern- ment. The legislators said they feared more Communist riots, if the bill Was not passed. The march was not a riot, it was an orderly mass ‘demand for food, but the marchers were in earnest. Only a few were “reds;” they were the most courageous of the workers, who had the nerve to organize the march, ang make the demand. They won it. The Communist yote in this country will be the vote of men and women who are in earnest about their jobs and food this winter. And they will win relief as the 400,000 in Chicago won it last winter. THE NEGRO ISSUE The group of Americans who have suffered most in this depres- sion are the Negroes. In the fac- tories ,they are notoriously the “last hired, first fired,” Virtual peonage exists on the millions of “share cropper” farms in the south. In the black belt, the Negro “vote” is a joke. The Communist Party ac- tually treats the Negro as he is supposed to be treated under the American Constitution, without discrimination as to “race or color.” ‘They have nominated one of the race as their candidate for Vice President of the United States, and they propose in their campaign an abolition of all discrimination, racial, economic, and social, against the American Negro. Jobs and bread now, for all who need them—that is my first reason for voting the Communist ticket. But, secondly, I am yoting to make What kind of country can the Communists make it First a country with a job for everybody—as in Russia today— with full rate of wages paid by industry and the state during periods of unemployment, Second, a country with security— the basic thing the American im- migrant—and every American was once an immigrant—came to Am- erica for: security against sickness, security for old age, security for children. Third, a country with opportu- nity, What kind? Not to make prof- its for the Morgan bank, or to live off the profits of the Morgan bank either. But the opportunity to work at the top of your powers in the job for which you are fitted, as a steel worker, an engineer, whether with their hands or brains, pro- vided that they do not exploit Letters from Our Readers WORKERS ARE READY Newport, R. I. Dear Comrades: For a long time I have been do- ing active Party work, and have come in. contact with scores of workers at different times. These include unemployed — carpenters, painters, etc, What puzzles me most is that in spite of all this depres- slon there is relatively little radical sentiment among thesé men. In fact the depression seems to make them more antagonistic to the message and program of our Party. For instance, many workers are disgusted when I emphasize the Communist doctrines, and they say that we are just taking advantage of hard times to fool working men into following us. This is what they tell me when I ask them how can they support capitalism when there is so much unemployment, misery and suffering among the working class.—B, T. * 2 6 Editor's Note—The writer of this letter is wrong in his analysis. ‘There is a pronounced radicaliza- tion of workers throughout the United States, who are feeling more and more the results of the bosses’ hunger program. If the com- rade will come to them with con- crete proposals, he will find these workers ready to struggle. If he comes to the workers with definite proposals instead of merely general agitation, for a fight against spec- ifie greivances, he will undoubtedly in the course of concrete action, get the workers better to understand and fight for the overthrow of cap- italism. Foster’s “Toward Soviet America” is given free with a yearly subscription to the Daily Worker, others, deserve their jobs, deserve opportunity, and deserve security, WHAT. VOTING COMMUNIST MEANS Bread, opportunity and security to the man who is willing to work has always been held out to Am- ericans as their inheritance, The business men and the’ system which they ‘operate has been unable to give, though it has often promised, these gifts to the hundred million people of America, This the Com- munist Party proposes to give them, And in addition, it offers them the opportunity for increasing leisure, enjoyment and participation in the life of the mind which is impossible in America under the starvation economy of today. The industrial achievements of Russia under the Soviet Union are remarkable, but. they are nothing compared with the turning of a whole nation to an interest in science and literature and the arts. This is the less known but the more important part of the famous “five year plan” and of the other plans to follow, ‘The Europeans who crossed to this country and became Americans were confident that their own labor power and the natural wealth of America could give each of them work, opportunity and_ security, Those three things they did not regard as Utopian. And they were right, Today, not only does great natural wealth remain in the United States, but a great plant has been built capable of employing oy one and giving him a decent le. The descendants of those early Americans and the ones who came jJater are numerous and_ strong. They intend to enter into their inheritance, In Russia, a back- ward and a much poorer country industrially, the workers and farm- ers who have taken over their own country, already have jobs and bread, and the beginiings of/ a great life. In America, where the industrial plant is already built, and where there is an unfulfilled tradition of freedom, the job will be done much faster and more readily, I am voting for William Z. Foster and James W. Forc, the Commu-° nist candidates, because I do not think that a United States of jobs, bread, leisure, and culture a utopian or fantastic program. There are Utopians in this country however, They are the bankers and indus- trialists and all others who still believe that Americans can be talked, cheated, or tear-gassed out of inheritance i THE NEGRO REDS OF CHICAGO By MICHAEL GOLD. CONCUSION. | ‘HEY sang in their high, treble voices, then they yelled some of the lively Pioneer chants: “Stand ’em on their heads, stand ’em on their feet, Pioneers, Pjoneers, can’t be beat!” then a dozen others of the lively tunes of red kids the world over, finally the ‘Interna- tional.” Outside in the street at least twenty other kids had gathered, attracted by the singing. They joined lustily in the chorus, lifting their fists in the Red Front salute. | T have heard our great anthem sung on the streets of Paris, Berlin, Moscow and New York, but never did it seem so moving as in this home of a jobless Chicago worker. | “Hundreds of kids here want to join the Pioneers, but we have no , A books, literature, instructions, comrade has taught these ki he's a war vet, and has a way with kids. Too bad, though, we can’t get the right books.” AN EVICTION Then a very subdued, heavy- eyed man in old pants and with a bald head, entered the room, Two boys were with him. Brown Squire leaped up and shook his hand. “What's wrong, Comrade Wil- liams, are they evicting you again?” ' “Yes, Brown,” “Do you want us to put you back?” “Yes, I guess so.” “But your wife refused last week, said they’d try the charity again.” “They turned us down, Brown, and I don’t know what we'll do now.” Brown Squire, who had been chatting,. laughed easily, turned in- to @ red commander before our eyes. “Round up some of the boys end let’s go.” Men left the room hastily and visited some of the neighborhood homes, Five minutes later thirty soldiers of the class Struggle were lined up in the street, and ready to fight evictions. Brown Squire led them, they sang the International as they marched, and the sidewalks cheered and ap- planded. Cece is the spirit of our Negro comrades in Chicago, Such is the movement they have built up, almost spontaneously. This is the first mass revolution- ary movement among Negroes, and as such, of world importance. It will affect the great Negro race everywhere, Writers, leaders, think- { ers, will spring from this mass, their | to do that night, THE STRUGGLES ON THE SOUTH SIDE deeds will make history, It is a pity no one in Chicago has dedi= cated himself to the task of make ing a day-to-day chronicle of this tremendous event. Brown Squire told me two anec- dotes that revealed like lightning this world of new history, . TWO STORIES. At one eviction the cops arrived and began beating the comrades, They fought back as best they could, all the time carting back furniture, piece by piece. Most of the furniture was covered with workers’ blood. “TI tell you, that poor man’s wife must have had a lot of scrubbing My own blood spilled over a tate and dresser; I never did think I could bleed so much, But we kept right on, and got that furniture in.” Courage. Another anecdote: There was a Communist demon- tion and some republican po- = cian ran in his truck with all his signs in an effort to utilize the dem- onstration to advertise his candi- dacy, The workers forced the bal- lyhoo truck from the scene, at the same time tearing some of the signs down. When the truck re- turned, another scuffle took place in which one of the Negroes who had sent this truck raced out and shot a white comrade named Mad- den. Three months later, when I met him, Madden’s arm was still paralyzed. The Negro comrades rushed out, found the thug, and gave him the beating of his life. The cops ar- rived and saved him, arresting, of course, not this wilful republican murderer, but Squire Brown and another worker. That night in the cell this com- rade said to Squire: “HAVE COME A LONG WAY.” “Squire, you and Tf together ! fought with guns in the race riots. We hated the whites. Do you re- | alize what we two did today? We beat up a Negro capitalist in de- fense of a white worker.” “Yes, buddy,” said Squire, “we have come a long way.” “Yes,” said the other, “we have come a long way, and I know it has been the‘ only way.” INTELLIGENCE, History in the making. ‘The Negro workers of Chicago are the proletarian vanguard of their race, and they have come a long way. paper “Tribunal,” published in Berlin of the International Red Aid. It is By HEDDA How the time flies! The jailers torture us, “The Scottsboro Boys” The original of “The Scottsboro Boys” appeared in the German by the Rote Hilfe, German section one of hundreds of literary com- positions which have appeared in the European press, inspired by the - tour of Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro mother, and J, Louis Engdahl, « of the International Labor Defense. i ot iM 2 ZINNER (Translated by Keene Wallis) How the time flies! In front of our cells, in front of our eyes Ts the electric chair. We have seen so many others burn, We Scottsboro Negroes awaiting our turn In the eleotric chair. “Nigger, look, That's the way you, and you, will cook In the electric chair.” ‘You boast of your Southern chivalry, All know it is not for But for being workers Your Bible Christianity, $ And your electric chair! “alleged attack” and being black That we go to the Chair. Are we to burn? Are Workers, speak! To them and their “They Shall Not Die!” by leaders of the Second (Socialist) imperialist war, You brought us shame and the slaver'’s ship, Jesus, gin, and the rawhide whip, And the Code of the Chair. You brought us disease and mockery, And stole our Iand and our liberty, With the threat of the Chair. You brought us the blessings of civilization, Merciless grinding exploitation, And the code of the Chair, But all the workers, black and white, Are learning to organize and fight You and your Chair, we to die? Make your reply chair— How the Socialists Supported Imperialist’ War of 1914-18 “The Scuni of the Earth” | In previous issues we published excerpts from speeches and articles International, in support of the The following is from the “Courier,” the organ of the Social-Demo- cratic Transport Workers’ Union, published Oct, 25, 1914, * * * “The villainous plans of the dishonorable, bloody and faithless Tsar and his allies, the cunning Japs, the perfidious Britons, the boastful French, the lying Belgians, the thankless Boers, the swaggering Canadians and the semi-savage and kidnapped Indians, Turcos, Zouaves, Niggers and the remaining scum of the earth, have been broken against the strong wall set up by the incomparable heroism of the German and Austrian troops, “It is bad enough that brave German soldiers must fight on the blood- soaked fields of France with the half-savage cannon-fodder of Great Britain and France, It is bad enough that the ‘revolutionary’ and ‘repub- lican’ French let themselves be led by the nose by the Russian Tsarist criminals, and that the usually so reasonable Belgiarfs let themselves be deceived by cowardly, perfidious Albion. Every dayJot the war proves how just is the cause of Germany. . .” sais j