The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1932, Page 4

oe BONN AE Ie Sees i DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1932 U Porty USA Ine, daily exexept S$ By mall everywhere: One year, $6; ax six months, $4.50. Canada, $3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Berough of Manhatian and Bronx, New York City. two months, $1 Foreign: ene year, $8; 75 cents per_month. months, $3. per year McKee “E KEE of New Yo | ae ms against the living standards of the worke of “economy”, this lackey of conomizes” rk is making a big offensive In the name graft-ridden Tammany Hall, is not only pushing thru wage cuts, but is slicing the relief of the unemployed workers who rations. the inter of the big real estate sharks st payments to the are already down to starvation Cut wages, cut unemployment relief, but keep up bankers and protect the profits This is the banner under which Mayor McKee is working. And for this reason he has been acclaimed by the prostitute capitalist pr being done amidst All of this i City automobiles are being sc big as well as small will have to sa’ provided with automobile services, while the unemployed will be denied even the shoe leather with which to McKee’s program McKee and Ber: pense of the poor. to carry through is not a stru It is only a s the program of th But the demagogy of McKee is not sufficient to carr ion of the unemployed and city worker ening of the sit stantial arguments are necessary. cents a day will fight the bankers’ and to his masters of the city economy regime of the mayor is to increase force against the starving million: The mayor was the chief speaker at t Police Academy in Brooklyn, At t the program of Tammany Hall. And hence demagogic gestures. rapped to make it appear that crifice, But the city officials will be o walk the streets in search for jobs. The fight between for or against economies at the ex- uggle as to which is the best method e Wall Street banke: thru the wors; More sub- The starving workers living on six program. This is known to McKee an essential part of the and improve the use of brutal in the richest city in the world. 2 graduation exercises of the ises a real size-up of the hese exe peace-loving mayor was obtained. What did the mayor say here? He was happy to have had the privilege in tion” which, according to the New and formation in which smoke bomt were brought into play” weapons of murder which thrilled modern warfare were brought into purpose? Not at all. “Remember, that in time of rioting first line and the army the last line.” When the workers demand brea the demands of hungry workers with bullets. It is this ‘witnessing this splendid demonstra- York Times, cons d of “riot drills bs, machine guns ,ifles and bayonets spectacle of the perfection of the the mayor. All the instruments of play. Against whom? For what Perhaps to intimidate the fleecing bankers and the grafters? General Nolan, in speaking to “New York's finest” declared: and great disorder, you represent the d, the bosses call it riot, and silence ‘Was it not the U. S. army which became the main “line of defense” in Washington and with bayo- nets and gas bombs drove out the bonus marchers? What unanimity be- tween the federal Republican administration and the Democratic city administration of New York. All of them are using and perfecting the instruments of force to keep the workers in repression. And in this re- spect as in other ways the Socialist administration of Milwaukee does not lag behind the capitalist governments. the policemen’s club and piles up movement of the unemployed masses. * It too, meets the unemployed with “riot guns” to answer the growing * * The increasing use of the police, National Guard, and the regular army to crush the growing struggle ment of the broadest united front fensive of the bankers and their government. bent upon carrying thru its starvation program. of the millions calls for the develop. of the toilers against the fierce of- The capitalist class is The workers must unite their forces to defeat this program. The suffering of the masses will grow if the capitalists have their way. The workers must form their committees of struggle in the factories against wage cuts, on the bread lines and in the neighborhoods, against relief cuts. The Republican, Dem- ocratic and Socialist Parties are tools of the capitalists in the offensive against the workers. The workers should vote for the ticket headed by Comrades Foster and Ford, which fights in their interests. They should vote Communist. terson, for Mayor. In the New York Elections, vote for William L. Pat- S.L.P. Betrays Jamestown Workers; Says “Don’t Strike” By JOHN VAN. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—The workers in the Art Metal Factory here are being robbed not only by wage cuts, but now the bosses have come for- ward with a new scheme. They have devised a contract stem, which metns that a worker is allowed so much time to finish a job, and if he cannot finish it in the allotted time, he must finish it on his own time for nothing. A worker got a job that allowed 15 hours contract by the bosses. It was impossible to finish it in 15 hours, as it took him two weeks to finish it. Yet the bosses only paid him for the 15 hours. He received $1.80, for two, weeks work. The Art Metal has been cutting the ‘wages nearly every week. The work- ers are becoming fed up with this system of peonage, and a few men from the press room have struck and gone home. In order to curb the rising mili- tancy of the workers a few S.L.P. misleaders have formed a union call- ed the United Workers of America and their main slogan is NO STRIKE. They tell the workers that capitalism will die of itself, but ne- glect to tell them what the workers are to eat while capitalism decides to commite suicide The United ; Workers and its fake misleaders have |absolutely refused to back up the striking pressmen, and that is not surprising, seeing as how Smith, the president of the union, has just pur- chased a new car which smells sus- Piciously like a gift from the local chamber of commerce, The workers are learning that the | United Workers leaders and union | officers are paid tools of the bosses, |and they are learning that the only |union is a union affiliated to the | TUUL. The Jamestown Worsted Mills have |been cut three times. If a worker works full time weaving all week, in- cluding Saturday, every day till five o'clock, he will only make $12 piece work, The bosses also insist that the day workers work until 10 p. m. for nearly the same amount. The workers in Tollitsons factory are earning as low as ten cents an hour. The bosses say no strike. The United Mine Union says no strike, so what is the difference between the two? Girls that work all day ten and 12 hours a day in the local restaurants, only average about $4 a week, out of which they must pay their laundry, uniforms, rent and the necessities of life. Habeas Corpus for ‘All But One Jailed South River Strikers SOUTH RIVER, N. J., Oct, 3.—All arrested South River strikers and re- lief workers and union organizers, with one exception, have been taken out of jail on writs of habeaus cor- | pus obtained by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the International Labor Defense. L, Sul- livan, an active worker inthe strike, is still held. Active preparations are being made for defense, 1 McKEE SCHOOL “RELIEF” | NEW YORK.—At the kindergarten | in Public School 174, which is lo- cated on Dumont and Alabama Aves., the children are asked to bring 20 | cents every Friday, for which they | get a glass of milk and one cracker a day. One child, whose father is unem- ployed, did not have the 20, cents, and when he came to school the fol- lowing Monday he got no milk, only a cracker. The next day he did not |even get the lousy cracker, but the | teacher told the child to get. the | mother to buy a box of crackers and | he would get a cracker every day. —A. S. How the Socialists Supported Imperialist War of 1914-18 “Socialism Wherever We Look” previous issues we published excerpts from the writings and hes of leaders of the Second ( ) International, in sup- of the imperalist war of _ 1914-18. The following is from - the “Metallarbeiter-Zeitung,” the organ of the German Metal Workers Union, controlled by the sovial-democrats. It appeared in ‘its issue of November 7, 1914. "eee sae a ‘age has opened up. In has made new men of us all. This is true equally of high and low, rich and poor, Solidarity and mu- tual assistance in bitter and unde- served distress, the principle of ac- tion which we have always ham- | mered into the working masses and so often demanded without success from the rich, has become the com- mon principle of a great and cap- PARTY LIFE Some Points About Our Daily Worker By ROSE SPECTOR. IN the Sept. 15-16 issues of the Daily Worker Comrade Nathaniel Buchwald gives us some glimpses of the growth of “L’Humanite,” Cen- tral organ of the Communist Party in France. He writes: “If you get into a subway car, in the morn- ing, when Paris is on its way to work, you will find most passen- gers reading the ‘L’Humanite,’ for the workers will always find things of interest in that paper.” How about our Daily Worker? Are there things of interest for workers in the Daily Worker? With many shortcomings that are being sincerely improved every day, the Daily Worker is without dispute the only daily newspaper that brings the news of the daily struggles of workers to light. It rallies thou- sands of workers for struggle for immediate demands. Are not the | hunger marchers of vital interest to the employed and unemployed workers and their families? The struggles of the miners, textile workers, steel workers, veterans, the boss terror, and lynchings of Ne- gro workers, are all of vital inter- est to workers. MEETINGS— NO “DAILY” However, very *2w of us have taken the responsibility and initia- tive to place the Daily Worker into the hands of workers. For example: I have been present at about five open air election campaign meet- ings conducted by a Party Unit without a single Daily Worker in sight. Not even a mention by the speaker that there is such news- paper in existence. The mass or- ganizations also conducting meet- ings on the same corner followed the same bad example of the Unit. In order to improve this, a thoro check-up system must be built up by the District so that the Sections are not only considered as “come and get your bundle agent” but must be responsible for the func- tion of the Daily Worker apparatus in the Units. Our concentration at factories with the Daily Worker is also like pulling teeth. Concentrating around the factories with the Daily Worker should not be done mechanically. Merely standing near a factory gate and giving out the Daily Worker will not do. The comrade in charge must talk to the workers, get a story on working conditions within this particular shop or fac- tory, write up that story’in simple words, have it printed in the Daily Worker and come back to the same factory with that story, announcing it to the workers. There will be no need in coaxing the workers to buy the Daily Worker for they will surely be interested to read about the conditions in their own shop. Alongside with it they will reads other items of interest to workers and in time they will earn to ap- preciate the Daily Worker as we do. It is not only the duty of Daily Worker functionaries to be respon- sible for Daily Worker activities, especially when there are very few of them. Neither can we, who know the great importance of the existence of the Daily Worker, clear ourselves of responsibility by giv- ing only a donation to the Daily— although this is most of the time a sacrifice on our part. It is the duty of every class conscious worker to act as a “Daily Worker Agent” every day in the week. There are many ways in which we can help to spread the Daily Worker. For instance, while traveling in the subways, we must be sure and read the Daily Worker, holding it out so that workers can see and read the headlines; and when leaving the car we must also leave the Daily because there will always be a worker or two who will want to read it. On our way home we should do the same thing. At rail- rail stations, parks—every place where workers are we must manage to have the workers see and read the “Daily.” The workers are eager to reach such a working class paper as the Daily Worker but they may not come to our offices or homes to get them. We must constantly approach worker with the Daily Worker. By bringing the “Daily” into the ranks of broad masses of workers, by building up a large circulation of the Daily we will in the same time build a stronger financial and moral support for the Daily. There will be no need for such prolonged daily appeals for funds as we have at present. The Daily is forced to give up its valuable space for appeal articles instead of using this space for articles of im- mediate and vital importance to workers. BUILD THE “DAILY” Workers! Save the Daily Worker from the danger of suspension it is facing at the present time! Help build a powerful weapon in the hands of the workers—build the circulation of the Daily Worker! A Valuable Handbook for Election Fight (OVERNMENT AND POLITICAL PARTIES,” a section in the Labor Fact Book, prepared by Labor Research Association and recently is- ued by International Publishers, is especially appropriate at this time for use in the election campaign. It contains many important facts, gen- erally unknown, about the Repub- lican, Democratic and Socialist Par- ties and their relation to the gov- ernment and Wall Street. Facts bearing on all the issues of the campaign are contained in this labor handbook and so arranged that they can be easily gotten at and used effectively by speakers, propa- gandists, writers and others engaged in winning workers to the Commu- nist program. A cheaper edition has been issued at 85 cents to make this valuable reference book more easily available. It can be obtained at all workers’ book shops or ordered from Workers’ able people overnight, Socialism wherever we look!” ¢ { 1 orm (#D, New York, Library Publishers, Box 148, Station “My God, More Fertilizer! What I Need Is Relief!” , wee —By Burck U.S. Capitalism- Record of Terror Workers---Fight for Your Rights by Backing Communist Party in Elections! (Tom Mooney m prison for 16 years, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scottsboro boys frame-up, the murder of a child and three ex-servicemen in Washington by President Hoover's gunmen, are only a few of the outstanding acts of terror carried on by the ruling class against militant workers and oppressed people in general, Suppression of free speech, the killing, jailing, and deporting of workers during strikes and demonstrations, the lynching of Negroes, are almost daily occurances in the United States. The Communist Party platform, Plank 5, definitely dec- lares “against capitalist tex-or; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of the workers.”) #7 me By Labor Research Association HEN almost every branch of the U, S. Army was ordered by Hoover to stab, beat, gas, and burn the bonus marchers and their families out of their shacks in Washington on July 28, tens of thousands of friends and relatives of the marchers, as well as the ave- rage reader even of the capitalist press, got perhaps a first glimpse of the capitalist white terror, POLICE ATTACK WORKERS Take first the “usual operations” of local police, the most common of the governmental forces used against the workinug-class and its organizations, The Ford massacre, March 7, 1932, when four workers were killed and two score wounded, was typical of the more recent local police attack u unarmed workers demanding jobs and unemployment. relief. Closely following this came the Melrose Park, Ill, attack in which workers were sprayed by police with sub-machine gun bul- lets, wounding eight, Then there was the assault with tear-gas bombs by Detroit police on the Briggs hunger march, Remember, also, in recent months the brutal police at- tacks on workers and students, in Washington and Chicago, who were demonstrating against Japanese imperialism and war; and the re- cent police attacks on unemploy- ment demonstrations in St, Louis, when four were shot, and in Kansas City. so. i pecans are only samples of open terror. Scores of meetings, some not even mentioned in the press, are broken up every week by local police. Even the Communist can- didate, William Z, Foster, is ar- rested, clubbed and fingerprinted 4 by the police of Los Angeles, Besides local police we find the employers using county sheriffs and their deputies against strikers as, for example, in the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio and the Kentucky coal strikes within the last 12 months, It was the sheriff of Washington County, Pennsylvania, who in the 1931 coal strike, gave the strikers 48 hours to remove their relief kitchen, Deputy sheriffs and their Posses are used to enforce the peon- age system against both Negro and white farm workers in the south, Terror against the black ang white sharecroppers, to keep them in slavery, is especially bloody. STATE AND PRIVATE POLICE ATTACK STRIKERS ‘The state police come next with a long record of ruthlessness, es- pecially in coal strikes in Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey textile strikes, Almost every state now has some sort of state cossacks, under , the control of the governor, Just as in the 1927 miners’ strike, Gov- ernor Adams of Colorado recently sent in state troops to break the strike of beet workers, (The Labor Fact Book gives many other in- stances of this sort of local and state police violence against workers.) Standing by the pubic poiice are the private police, the whole army of regular and special thugs hired directly by companies to intimidate workers and break strikes. In the recent Kentucky coal strike, dozens of workers were wounded and some, such as Harry Simms, National Miners Union Youth. organizer, were murdered by these hired kill- ers. These hirelings ‘cooperated with local sheriffs and their dep- uties in. terrorizing delegations of relief workers, writers, and students trying to enter Kentucky to help the miners, Although the so-called “coal and iron police” were sup- posedly banned by Jaw in Penn- sylvania, the armed guards of the coal and steeel companies still carry on their murderous work whenever the workers show signs of revolting against starvation, HOODED BANDS— ARM OF RULING CLASS When the public and private police for one reason or another are not available to do the dirty work of the capitalist class, a mob of volunteer sadists is often as sembled to carry out the job, The United States is notorious for this form of violence especially since the World war. These mobs are used not only as a part of the lynch ter- ror against Negro worktrs and share-croppers in the south, They are also used against white workers, as in the kidnapping and whipping of seven unemployed council mem- bers by a band of 40 masked “night riders” at Pontiac, Mich., last year, A similarly “hooded band” in April, 1932, raided the headquarters of the Workers International Re- lief in Knoxville, Tenn,, destroying all the property they found, Ac- cording to the League of, Struggle for Negro Rights, 79 Negroes were “legally” or “illegally” lyncheq in 1931. Had it not been for the pro- tests of the workers, the. nine Scottsboro boys would have been added to this number, Assisting these mobs and the police is a veritable army of spies and provocateurs of all types, pri- vate, local, state, and federal, The detective agencies hire out trained dicks to harry the workers and build up blacklists. The local “industrial squads” and “Red Squads” func- tion as part of the local police sys- tem. On a national scale there is the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice and the Secret Service of the Treasury De- partment “protecting” the interest of Millionaire Hoover and his class from bonus marchers and national hunger marchers, «3 These spies, as well as the police, frequently participate in framing up militant workers and radicals. The mbst famous frame-up in re- cent history is that of Mooney and Billings; scores of less well-known cases of frame-up are a part of the record of the labor struggle in this country. (See Vern Smith’s pam- phiet, (The FrameUp System.) ‘ ohm le Hee in hand with spies and police go the courts, one of the most powerful instruments of re- pression which the employers use against the working class, Among their chief anti-labor weapons are injunctions and yellow dog con- tracts. Injunctions were used in recent strikes, such as the I. Miller shoe strike in Long Island City, in spite of the federal anti-injunction Jaw of 1932, hailed by “progressives” and A, F. of L, officials as a great victory, By the use of many other capitalist laws, such as vagrancy Jaws and sedition and criminal syn- dicalism laws, passed to protect “property rights,” the courts play a strategic part in the capitalist ter- ror machine. (See the pamphlets on The Yellow Dog and The In- junction Menace in International Pamphlet series.) Various federal departments are also employed agains: the workers, especially in recent years, The Conciliation Service of the U. 8S, Department of Labor has become a literal strikebreaking agency with such creatures as Charles G, Wood t | to fight for life around the unem- By WILLIAM L, PATTERSON (Communist candidate for mayor of New York City, who has just returned from a trip through the South, visiting the Scottsboro boys and their parents, Angelo Herndon, the Logan Circle pris- oners in Washington, and other class-war victims). IN the same jail that held the At- | lanta “6”, sits Angelo Herndon, 19 year old Negro leader of the Unemployed Council of Atlanta, Georgia, The bosses’ court has fixed his bail at $5,000. A grand jury of landlords and mill owners has in- dicted him under a law passed in 1859, Conviction on this charge, “inciting to insurrection”, carries with it the death penalty. Angelo Herndon was guilty of demanding relief—immediate relief—for starv- ing unemployed and part time \ workers. | -STARVATION ” IN GEORGIA. ‘Thousands of workers face starv- ation now in Atlanta, Georgia. Many of them have but recently | come in from the plantations | where they were share croppers or tenant farmers, never in their lives out of the shadow of starvation, Most of them are Negroes. They were ready to struggle—but against whom? They did not understand who was responsible for their mis- ery. Herndon harnessed this urge ployed councils. Bs “Bread and work and against imperialist war.” “Immediate relief and, unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the landlords and mill owners and their government,” An Interview with Angelo Herndon in Atlanta Jail 'HE masses understood these slo- gans. Particularly the Negro masses, robbed of the land, their national heritage, denied all eco- nomic, political and social rights »accorded others, these masses rale lied to the struggle. The first demonstration Herndon led demanding relief he was are rested. No charge was placed against his name. Then after a search of his room he was charged with “inciting to insurrection”, They allege his demand for bread for starving workers constitutes an attempt to overthrow the governs ment of Georgia. This is to say that to grant relief to starving une employed workers would be to dee stroy the government. Are workers then to do without bread? HERNDON’'S. MESSAGE. In the county jail Herndon sald to the writer: “Tell the workers to broaden the mass organizations, Build the unemployed councils, Only mass pressure will secure ree lief, Only mass pressure will free the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney, me and the other class war prise oners. “If you cannot gev bail for me T can stay here a little longer. M> spirit grows stronger every day. The future belongs to us, the toile ing masses,” Only the might of a united fighte ing working class can free Angelo Herndon and the other prisoners of the class struggle. The ery “rally to the defense of Herndon” must be raised. Build the International Labor Defe-se, defender of Ans gelo Herndon, into a mass defense organization, aac HISTORY OF THE WORK- ING CLASS, Lessons 1-4; PO- LITICAL ECONOMY, Lessons 1-4, International Publishers. Each Lesson, 15 cents. Reviewed by V. J. JEROME. 'HE issuance of the pamphlet se- ries Marxist Study Courses marks a new phase in the activity of International Publishers. 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We have analyzed for us the elements of similarity and dissimilarity in these revolutions; the tasks and roles of the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, and the proletariat; and, finally, the lessons Marx drew from the 1848 Revolution. The * fourth lesson deals with the First International and the Paris Com- mune. After a survey of the labor moves Ament in England, France, and Gere many, we are led to the foundation of the International, to a study of its program and statutes, and to an examination of the struggle which Marx carried on within the Inter- national against Proudhonism and Bakouninism. The section on the Paris Commune includes, besides an analysis of the mistakes and sig- nificance of the Commune, excerpts from Marx and Lenin on the great event as well as a criticism of the social-democratic position. These four lessons constitute the main phases in the history of the work- ing class movement in the pre-im- perialist epoch. ‘The subsequent lessons will deal with the development of the mod- ern labor movement in the epoch of imperialism in England, Ger- many, France, Russia, and the U.S. The lessone are appended with stimulating control questions and listings of collateral reading ma- terial. They recommend themselves not only for workers’ schools, but for study groups, discussion lead=- ers, and individuals. — “Even the Garbage Cans Feel Crisis” 4 Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: I have been a constant reader of the Daily Worker ever since I en- tered college. Your cartoons and editorials impressed me most, but some of your news made me think that you exaggerate a little, espe- cially when you write how some of the unfortunate unemployed eat. out of garbage cans, pick up what- ever they possibly can in the streets and eat fish around the East River which has been dumped due either to price war or poisoning. I thought you exaggerated when saying that. However, I believe in the saying eing is believing”, and not_be- attempting to break strikes of shoe, textile and hosiery workers, Closely related is the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor, which deports all non-nat foreign born workers who s] any mili- tancy in strikes or a desire to better their conditions by collective action. ‘The deportations of Murdoch and Devine, and the attempted deporta- tion of Burlak and Berkman are four specific deportation cases di- rected at the leaders of but a single militant organization—the National Textile Workers Union, In 1931, over 18,000 foreign-born , workers were deported. The Dies bill at- tempts to number, greatly increase this; fore I witnessed these miserable conditions (in the richest country in the world) did I believe it. But on'y today as I was walking along the lower East Side, Lud- low Street, to be more exact, I saw an old man not badly dressed, ap- proach a garbage can and actually picked up the cover of the unsani-. tary and filthy can and started to ~ pick out various things. I remained there for a while and watched to see what ho was going to do. A piece of stale bread and a piece of filthy chicken was all he could find to eat. Nowadays even the gar- bage cans are suffering crisis. —Jack Richman. 7 when workers engage in strikes o1 demonstrations involving “nati interest.” Helping all these force: of capitalist offense are the pro- fessional patriots and fascists of various types, for example in the National Civic Federation of which Matthew Woll is president, the Am- erican Vigilant Intelligence Federa- tion, the American Alliance, and dozens of other such bodies, fi- nanceq by the employing class. Plank 5 in the election platform of the Communist Party definitely declares “against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of the workers,” A vote for Foster and Ford, standard-bearers of the Communist In addition, the War Department. itself is called upon in “emergen-— Party, will be a smashing blow against the terror of the capitalists and their agents! s