The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1932, Page 4

Ine., daily axexeyt Sunday, at 58 & hone Algonquin 4-790, Cable “DAIWORE.” 50 K. 19th M1, New ork, N. x. SUBSCBIPTION RATES: One year, $6; six months, $8.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, %e excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and | Canada: One year, $9; 6 months 8 months, $3 Roosevelt’s “Old Age | By mail everywhere: Pensions” | T IS claimed for Franklin D. Roosey and in elt that he is “pro- m the Democratic | gressive,” E this cle support of National Committee states that he created “old age pen- | sions for those whose days of labor are over.” What are the facts about the New York State Old Age Pensions? New York State pays a pension to workers ever 70 years of age, providing they have been residents of the state for ten years, if they can prove they are destitute, citizens, and have no children or grandchildren able to day. industry e lived | italist system is bank- arly unemployment in- adership of the Com- ‘he Communist Party Insurance to Vote Communist! | is growing. Only munist Part; puts in the uggle w social insurance campaign, the demand for ent and employer City College Students Show the Way! IGHTING the dismissal of Dr. Oakley Johnson of the teach- | ing staff of the College of the City of New York for revolu- tionary} ivities, the students of this college are putting up a battle that will be hailed throughout the country for its} courage and militancy. They maintained their rights to meet within the college halls and voice their protest, and fought | back the attempts of the college authorities and the police to| oust them from their meeting room. When several of their | number, including Professor Henderson of Columbia Univer- sity, were arrested, thoy proceeded to the courtroom to con- tinue their fight, invading it to demand the release of their colleagues. demand ,of course, enraged the college authorities and in true | ctionary style they saved the “honor” of the school | on The students are proceeding with their threats of expulsion arranged to hold an open trial for the pur pose of exposing the arbitrary actions of the Tammany appointee, Presi- dent Robinson. TODAY the educatidnal institutions of capitalism are in a ferment, with the student ing the bankruptcy of the capitalist system growing fascist character and joining in with the working class ng their proper place in the fight against the capitalist system evidenced in the strike in Columb: Ji i ainst the the editor of the “Spectator, the university paper. It was again shown in the militant participaion of the students in the Kentucky strike movement and in other struggles. In reply to these actions, the college ‘ities have come down with ban after ban, suppressing the political rights of the students in the same high-handed way capitalist authorities deal with the rights of workers. Unable to defend their -actions before the student body, President Robinson of City College has resorted to the old alibi that outside agitators are responsible for the mil ment of the students. The City College President can conceive of stu- | lents only as docile, unthinking persons. But the students are awakening particularly enrages these ultr: ntimidated by the threats of th the march; this is what Th udent 1 not be Tammany Hail. he workers from whom they will receive fraterna mass their power and compel the college authorities to t their tyrannical and arbitrary actions Hail the militant fighting stu courageous revolutionary studen political rights of the students! L working class will defeat cap nt body of City College! Hail the Down. with the suppression of the nity of students, intellectuals with the action. Against the Militavist Terror in Japan! IHE heroic battle of the revolutionary workers of Japan, led by the Communist Party, against the war of the mon- archial-militarist government against the Chinese people, and for the overthrow of that government, demands the unstinted support of workers everywhere. : Millions in money and munitions are loaned and sold to Japanese imperialism by American bankers and armament makers with the approval of Wall Street government while 10,000 Japanese workers and peasants, Communists and trade union members, have been jailed, tortured and mur- dered since 1928, On 191 members of the Communist Party the Supreme Court, of the Mikado have recently passed ‘death sentences, life imprison- ment and other penalties amounting to a total of 1,000 years in the dun- geons of imperialist reaction. Twenty Communists have been driven insane. The health of score down by bad food and bestial treatment tortured to de been 1 broken of other priser ha: iy AN appeal to the world working class the Central Committee of the i Communist Party of Japan calls in the following words for support in | the revolutionary struggle it leads, against imperialism, world imperialist | war and for the defense of the Soviet Union: | “Comrades, in your countries also terror and oppression Is raging | against the revolutionary workers. With us, in the Far East, in China, | in Formosa and Korea, you can witness lynching scenes in broad day- light, where revolutionary workers and peasants are murdered without | any court proceedings. But we shall go over to counter-action if we are | supported by a great people’s movement in the whole world, by the pro- | test of the international proletariat against the imprisonment of aur comrades, for the release of our 191 comrades. We appeal to you pro- letarians of the whole world to give us your powerful aid in our struggle for the release of the victims of Japanese imperia “We declare before the whole world that we viet Revolution in China, that we are opposing w Japanese colonization of Manchuria! “We demand the immediate withdrawl of the Japanese land and sea forces from China! “We declare that we are the deadly enemies of the imperialist war! “We raise our protest against the white terror!” s ® * ng the So- h all our might the MERICAN workers! Rally to the defense of the revolutionary ‘Japanese workers and their Communist Party! Demand the release of all class war prisoners! Workers organizations! Scnd pledges of solidarity to the Jap- anese masses. Protest the financial and politics id of American capitai- Ist government to the murderous campaign inst the Japanese Com- munist Party and the working class! Stop the shipment of arms and munitions to Japan. Organize col- | lection for support of the families of victims of Japanese imperialism! Strengthen the mass struggle against the attacks of the boss class in the United States and against their preparation for imperialist war] is ii f Committee 17S JUST A GAME 3 BROTHER, THEVRE REALLY, FRIENDS? “THE SHAM BATTLE GETS LOUDER!” Issues Stirring Appea —By Burck The Communist Party -~ A Call to Join Its Ranks Masses Have Shown Willingness to Fight; “Highest Duty to Join C. P.” By lL. AMTER. (Communist Candidate for ernor of N. ¥. State) 'UNDREDS of thousands, yes, perhaps more than a _ million workers, have listened to the mes- sage of the Communist Party in the election campaign. Not only the speakers who have toured the Gov- | country and the states, but also the local speakers of the Communist Party have inspired hundreds of thousands of workers with the mil- itant demands of struggles of the Communist Party and the deter- mination of the fight against hun- ger, terror and war, MASSES WILLING TO FIGHT ‘The workers and farmers thru- out the country have shown that they are willing to fight. This, they have backed up, not only with ap- plause at the meetings, but by struggles that are taking place throughout the country. They have shotn their disgust and indigna- tion at the actions of the Hoover government. They show that they have faith in Roosevelt who for four years has been at the head of the state administration of New York where the workers and farm- ers are suffering as in other parts of the country. In Milwaukee, where the socialists hold power, the Communist Party has shown in the election ¢@:mpaign and in the strug- gles conducted in Milwaukee that the workers will listen to the pro- gram of struggle that the Commu- nist Party brings forward. « Bei Sie HE Negro workers and tenant farmers of the South have shown that they will respond to the platform of the Communist Party. | Facing brutal capitalist terror they are unafraid, and joining with the white workers, have come out in struggle against the boss class and the boss parties. More and more through the leadership of the Com- munist Party, they are learning that there is one Party that car- ries on the struggle in behalf of Ne- sro ‘or, and that is the Communist ‘The leadership of the Com- munist Party in the Scottsboro case, in the Euel (“Orohan Jones”) Lee | case, and in °ll the cases of per- secution of the Negro workers of this country, bringing the Negroes closer to the Communist Party as the only Party fighting for full po- litical, economic and social equality for the Negroes and for self-deter- mination for the Negroes in the Black Belt of the South. MUST BE BACKED BY ORGANIZATION The workers and farmers who on November 8th will vote for the Communist platform and the Com- munist candidates must back this ‘up with steps of organization. They must not only join the broad or- ganizations of struggle that sup- ights and against the savage | port the Communist Party, but must take the further siep and join the Communist Party itself. The Communist Party is the organiza- tion of the workers and poor farm- ers, that is organizing the workers and farmers of this country to de- stroy the capitalist system and s up a Workers and Farmers Goys ment. Building up the Communist Party means strengthening the leadership of that organization which will mobolize the millions of American workers and (poor farmers in the struggle against the capitalist system with all its hor- rors and miseries, erie oe MOEEERS and farmers, Negro and white, it is your duty~to yourself, your family and your class, to join the Communist Par- ty. Now facing the fourth year of the crisis with greater misery in store during the coming winter, it is your highest duty to join the Com- munist Party that we may wage a bitter struggle against the capital- ists who are determined that we workers and poor farmers shall bear the burden of the crisis. CALL TO SOCIALIST WORKERS Socialist workers, the treachery of the Socialist Party is daily be- coming clearer. The policy of the Socialist Party ts accepable to the capitalist class. Hamilton Fish, one of the bitterest enemies of the working class, speaks with great friendliness of Norman ‘Thomas. ‘You are members of a party that hates the Soviet Union, that put Hindenburg into office, that mur- | ders the German workers and peas- ants, that is slaughtering the work- ers of Spain., that supports Japan- ese imperialism. Now is the Elec- tion Campaign you must take that step that will ally you with the revolutionary workers of the world. Vote Communist! Vote for the platform of the Communist Party. Workers and farmers — Negro und white, vote the straight Com- munist ticket! Vote for Foster and Ford. Vote for the state and local candidates of the Commu- nist Party. Vote for the program of struggle of the Communist Party. Join the Communist Party, your Party, the Party of the re- volutionary workers and farmers. FARMERS TAXES Although land values have fallen steadily in the last decade, taxes have continued to climb. In most states they absorb from 33 1-3 per cent to 40 per cent of the net re- turn of the farms, Tax levies were $1.43 per $100 of the full value of farm rea) es- tale in 1928; $146 in 1929; and $1.50 in 1930. The rate was $1,22 in 1924 and 48 cents in 1913. French Red Aid Meet Demands Release of: The Scottsboro Boys PARIS, France—"Release all class war prisoners! Liberate the Scotsboro Negro boys! That it our greeting to the representative here of the Am- |erican Red Aid section, our Comrade Louis Engdahl! Amnesty! Amnesty! Amnesty!” | The words were spoken with such feryor as the concluding remarks of Delegate Aristide Denys, that they brought the delegates to the Fourth | National Congress of the French Sec- | tion, Inernational Red Aid, here to) their feet singing the “Internationale” | and chanting “Amnesty! Amne: $ in one of he most spirited outbursis lof the whole gathering. | The German-speaking delegates! jfrom Alsace-Lorraine joined in the} “Rote Front” greeting three times | in acclaiming the speaker. | Aristide Denys was the respon- sible editor of L’Humanite; French Organ of the Communist Party, for four years, during which he was twice sent to prison, once for a year and a half, and the second time for four years, on 30 charges of “inciting sol- diers to disobedience.” Most of his | contributions to the convention dis- | cussion ,of the general report to the Congress made by the general sec- retary, Jean Chauvet, was a plea for greater attention to the prisoners and their families. i Delegate Dangelser, from Strass- bourg in Alsace-Lorraine, brought forward the struggle on behalf of the German national minority in this section, showed how it was linked up with the Scottsboro campaign, ex- posed the role of the Social-Demo- crats as the best imperialist allies in their aid in oppressing the na- tional minorities and in their attacks upon the Scottsboro campaign. A Polish delegate from Northern France also helped to show that France is not all French, but that it has a large foreign-born population, Italians, Germans, Poles especially. These all create special problems for the French Red Aid Section. Oscar Behrandt, from Essen, in the | | Ruhr, spoke as the fraternal delegate | | from the German Red Aid. He was | received, as was Xavier Relecom, sec- retary of the Belgian Red Aid Sec- tion, with the singing of the “In- fernatloness Both Behrandt and lecom told of the carrying through of the October 10. International Scottsboro Day action of the Inter- national Red Aid, PAPERHANGERS VOTE FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE BOSTON, Oct. 27.—Local Union 258, Paperhangers at its regular | meeting last Monday voted in favor of federal unemployment insurance and will send instructions to the General Executive Board of the Brotherhood of Painters, Paper- hangers and Decorators of America jthat they shoilld instruct ‘the ap- | pointed delegates to the A, F. of L, convention to favor and vote for Unemployment Insurance. Worker | YOUNG WORKERS More than half of the youth be- tween 16 and 19 years of age in the U. S. were at work in 1920. About two-thirds of these 4,000,000 young workers were boys, and one- third were girls. Numbers of young AL ge Toy SS | l to Negro Voters Most Important Election Since Civil War, Says New Ford-Foster Committee (The Daily Worker on Saturday announced the issuance of a statement by the “Ford-Foster Committee for Equal Negro Rights,” calling upon all Negroes to support William Z. Foster and James W. Ford, Communist can- didates for President and Vice- President. The following is the full text of the statement) : cer) TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO VOTER: since the Civil War have col- ored voters faced such a serious and urgent duty of making their votes count in a national election as at the present time. Just how to vote the best way in order to get the best results for 14,000,000 colored citizens, some of them disfranchised; most of them jim-crowed into an economic cor- ner of the already exploited work- ing class; and all of them discri- minated against on account of their race in some way in every state in the nation, should be the first consideration of every colored citizen this year, UNABRIDGED CITIZENSHIP. It goes without saying that the most immediate goal of every col- ored voter should be full American citizenship, including the full op- portunity to participate equally with other citizens, in the indus- trial, political, and social life of ‘the nation. The Negro will continue to suffer from industrial exploitation, from lynching, jim-crowism, and the other consequences of racial segre- gation, as long as he accepts, with- out @ definite struggle, a segregated status in American life. There must arise a leadership which will make no compromise with any white man. woman or group, who or which proposes to us that we ac- cept .any* economic, political, cul- tural or social status which he or she would not himself accept. The white man has plowed through bloody battlefields to throw off the shackles of oppression Wherever they have bound hi-. The fact is this country was born in a revolutionary struggle, and the establishment of the American na- tion followed a revolutionary war. No people or nation which does not have the will or courage to make some kind of telling strug- gle for its place in the sun will get a place there. There must be an uncompromising movement to- wards a status of complete equality of rights for the Negro and aimed directly at every form of racial Segregation and white chauvinism. This movement must have behind it not the feeble whinings of com- promising leaders, but the firm and uncompromising stand of men and women who understand what the cost of this freedom may be. oie Saar UT until we obiain this status, we will continue to be the most oppressed victims of that exploita- tion which keeps white and colored workers arrayed against each: other through racial prejudice. We will continue to be pushed to the bot- tom of the industrial pyramid where we die faster, have more economic and industrial outlet. And what is worse. one of the biggest factors in keep- ing the thorny crown of capitalism pressed down on the bleeding head of mankind. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY In the present campaign, the Re- publican Party is clearly on record as opposed to equal rights for Ne- groes. The lily-whiteism of Her- bert Hoover, the Republican ad- ministration’s open policy of using the color bar against citizens of our group in every ‘governmental activity, is unmistakable evidence that this party has no intentions ef according ecual rights to the Negro. Even Negro leaders who still cling to the Republican Party admit this. Not only do they ad- mit it, but frankly declare they see no hope that the Republican Party will ever place the Negro on the same status with whites in the par- ty councils, It is also clearly the party of special privileges to the industrial exploiters who are responsible for this depression in which babies are starving in the wombs of hungry mothers; in which the country is filled with breadlines and the shadow of desperation is haunting the working masses. It is the par- ty which caters to that group of heartless moguls of industry which is allowing grain to rot in elevators, produce to be burned as fuel, and the hording of millions of tons of food, while 15,000,000 human beings are slowly starving on a _ ration which comprises less than 75 cents worth of soup and bread each week. Nero, looking on while Rome burn- ed, presents no more heartless pic- ture than the spectacle of Hoover protecting the few rich and preedy capitalists, while millions starve. No self-respecting Neero could go to the polls and vote an acceptance of this half-portion of American citizenship with a clear conscience. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY If the party of Abraham Lincoln has failed for three quarters of a century to give the Negro a Square deal in American life, cer- tainly we cannot expect that a par- ty born in the womb of chattel slavery and rocked in the cradle of racial prejudices can be raised to a place where it will grant com- plete citizenship, with full econo- mic, political and social equality, to the Negro, Nor does the rec- ord of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Haiti and the record of John M. Garner in Texas, justify even a belief that they will try. Nahr oe is one of Ticromes, Gunenamanae ct epotgay tor Tyrehings tp the eomtb, 4b, ; of jim-crowism and peonage. John in a Texas Democratic organiza- tion which has just gone all the way to the Supreme Court in an open fight to bar colored voters from the primary polls in that state, Any voter who can swallow Garner lacks that self-respect. | which should belong to a free | People. |THE | SOCIALISTS While the Socialists pretend to adhere to Marxian economics and | claim to be the champions of the working class against the capital- ists, actually in practice they daily | show themselves to be the chief barrier to the improvement of the workers’ conditions. If we judge their preachment as we see their practice, their “socialization of in- dustry” would only be the salvaging of already bankrupt industries through the setting up of a sort of state capitalism, a change that in no way would effect the domina- tion of the capitalists and land- lords over the masses, a change which would mean primarily a® white “socialization” with the col- ored workers occupying the same position as in the present indus- trial structure. More than this, the Socialists lack a clear cut position and de- termined militancy on the question most vital to the American Negro, the question of complete equality and equal rights for the Negro, and since this is the only premise upon which the racial question can be | satisfactorily solved in this country, they do not express the real ob- jective and ambition of the colored groups. This leaves but one open road for the real expression of the for- , | ward looking voter of our group. | FORD AND FOSTER | The Communist Party is the only one going straight down our | street.’ Straight from the shoulder, it | Proposes complete economic, politi- | | cal, and social equality. It backs up this stang by meeting the issue squarely and nominating James W. Ford, a colored man, for vice- president. It meets the issue squarely ‘by expelling from its.ranks any whites who seek to raise the horny-headed monster of racial prejudice. It meets the issue squarely by bringing together white and colored workers in a country- wide movement to throw,off to- gether the yoke of economit bond- age and make a united mass struggle against their common enemy. While the three other parties are sacrificing the Negro for political expediency and crucifying him on a cross of prejudice, Communist lead- | ers are blasting gaps through the M. Garner is a controlling leader } | lines of racial prejudice. They are carrying to the four corners of the, civilized world the horrid picture o! American race prejudice. Duri the past twelve years, they ha’ won more significant victories for the Negro than ‘any other party since the Civil War, U have only to recall Scotts- boro and Euel Lee in Maryland. Laughed at and ridiculed ong few years ago, they have compellet the respect and serious considera- tion of the courts, civic tribunals and seats of power throughout the country. And since it means little, if any- thing, to the Negro or, in fact, the country whether the Republican or the Democratic Party wins as long as both subscribe to the same old economic system, the only thing left for the Negro voter to go is to vote a protest and at the same time help build up a new party more to his liking. We owe it to the Com- munist Party to vote for their can- didates out of sheer appreciation, if there were no more compelling rea- sons, MUST STRIKE ouT But above all, the time has come when there must arise a Negro group which must strike out boldly for a place in the sun. ‘It must be a group which will frankly and above board take the position that, while they are willing to use every legal weapon at their command, they will pursue this place, even if the road to it leads through the same revolutionary period which self-respecting races of men have used since the beginning of civilia- tion, Pek Satie IF you are interested in supporting a party which proposes complete economic, political, and social equa- lity, and whose election platform declares categorically for equal rights for the Negroes and self- determination for the Black Belt, vote for Foster and Ford. re The Ford and Foster Committee for Equal Negro Rights also invites you to join with them in their ef- fort to push this campaign and to. organ: a permanent movement that will bring every thinking manj\, or woman of the group behind) such a program, THE FORD AND FOSTER COM- MITTEE FOR EQUAL NEGRO RIGHTS, 1214 Pennsylvania Ave., Baltimore, Maryland. (Signed) William N, Jones, Will- jam E. Baker, Vivian Allen, Sam- uel L. Finley, Louise Young, Will- iam Porter, Bernard Ades, Dr. Kelly Miller, Jr., George B. Murphy, Jr., Elliott Cohen, Alonza Brewer, Louise Thompson E, J. Wheatley, Erma Katz, Countee Cullen, Eugene Gor- don, N. A. Jenkins, Willa Robin- son, Louis Berger, A. Kline, Dorothy Dixon, Benjamin T. Johnson, Lang- ston Hughes, New Dem oad Show Rise in ‘Living Standards in rite ace juvenile and adult crime, and less | The following letter from a young American worker of 24 who got | job in the Seviet Union throws an interesting light on the problem of con- ter goods. The letter follows: “Dear Uncle: “I started to write you a week ago j and was about to finish the letter when some things came up and I didn’t get around to it till today; and when I did, I found that the letter I had written was unsatisfactory. The reason is that every day I learn something more about the life here. I am always meeting with new phases of Socialism, and it will be some time before I can give a com- plete picture. “As you know I have been working now for about six weeks. I work in a scientific institute where the work- Letters from Our Readers Dear Comrade: ‘ Please send complete instructions as to how the voter can get on the ballot where the Party name and emblem has been denied the right to appear, which is the case here in Florida. Respectfully yours, ED. L, } . . . | EDITOR’S NOTE: In all states where the Party was denied the right to appear on the ballot, special stickers, conforming with the requirements of the state law, have been printed for voters. No doubt the worker writing it will receive the neces- sary stickers from our Florida organization. If not, then any worker can write in the name of the Communist Party on the ballot, NEGROES AND A. F. OF L, Eleven international unions af- filiated to the American Federa- tion of Labor deny membership to Negro workers either through pro- visions in their constitutions or by their rituals. They are the Boiler- makers, Machinists, Railway Car- | men, Railway Clerks, Sleeping Car Conductors, Masters, Mates and Pilots, Switchmen, Railway Mail Association, Wire Weavers, Rail- way Telegraphers, and Commercial Telegrahers, Thirteen unions not affiliated with the A. F. of L. haye similar provisions, including the four rail- road brotherhoods —- Conductors, ae ik Locomotive | and end |sumer goods in the U.S.S.R. The apparent “shortage” in such goods, as the letter points out, is caused by the new demands being placed by the workers and persants who are learn’ng because of the rise in their living standards, to demand more and bei-®-- 4 ing day is only six hours, In factories the working day is seven hours. Ev- ery one, as you know, gets one day in six off and at least two weeks vacation with pay. A good many workers get a month, some even two months, but the majority, as far as I can judge, get a three weeks’ vaca- tion, Jobs Waiting. “Jobs are easy to get. In fact, face tories and offices fight each other for qualified workers. Any one can get a job almost anywhere, and if he applies himself and learns. the work, advancement is very rapid. “The demand for everything has gone up tremendously and while the supply has increased, it can’t keep up with the demand. Take shoes for instance. If you can manage to buy | three pairs of shoes a year you are very lucky. But every worker an peasant has a pair of shoes. In | past, I'm told, in Cdarist Russia, was very rare to find a peasant wit! a pair of shoes. Now, they demand to buy three or four pairs a year, and of course since the concentration has been on heavy industry so far, the shoe industry can't keep up with the new demand for shoes, Big Cultural Activity. “Here in Kiev, a city of about 700,- 000 and, I am told, by no means the cultural center of the country; and yet it contains the following: five museums, all fairly well attended, Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish and Gypsie theatres, as well as the Russian and Jewish tropues that come down from Moscow, three or four public libraries, a proletarian gare den where in the summer you can hear every evening a concert of classical, operatic and folk music, News stands and book shops eyerye where and people buying too; in fact so tremendous has been the ine crease in the reading public that the Pravda is refusing subscriptions bee cause there isn’t enough, paper to, print all the Pravdas there is a des| mand for. It is estimated that the} Prayda could sell about five times as many copies if it could print ther “Everybody gets along quite wel somehow (the people here seem very healthy); it is a busy life, and an interesting one. The spirit is very healthy. One rarely finds a bored or pessimistic person among the young- er people or even among the middlee aged and elderly, “Everyone is willing, in fact, eager, to go to a new place or try some new |kind of work. That, as a matter of fact, is one thing that is holding ny iprieaat Lei ian ‘The ace that there's a job waiting everywhere change,”