SEND DELEGATES TO THE CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN BORN WORKERS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

Why did Supreme Court .Justice Sherman have to Sneeze up $150,000 for his judgeship when the WORKERS Regular store price is $75,C00. cash and carry, with $50,000 on bargain days, no OF THE WORLD, exchanges? Stand in line at your newsstand Monday and see Tammany 1), Dail UNITE! cracked open. .Worker Central Party U.S.A.

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Knit*red n »ninil-i'liiu,nßii«i at the Huai Office il > YORK, THURSDAY, 18, EDITION Cents Vol. VII.,No. 225 VnrU V. nnrtcr the art «f Narrk (I. IS7M NEW SEPTEMBER 1930 FINAL CITY Price 3 There Is No Short Cut! t 3,000 LAID OFF easy escape, simple working MORE There is no no solution, for the masses I who increasingly are being forced to suffer from hunger, privation, and Organize; Fight; the Boss Laughs disease as a result of mass unemployment, wage-cuts, the killing speed- up, and other'forms of boss-class oppression and persecution. IN R. R. SHOPS; FIGHT Likewise, there is no easy, simple way out Mr the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions which alone are responsible for organizing and leading these workers in the struggle for emanci- at A Worker Who Kills Himselt! pation from capitalist exploitation and misery. FOR INSURANCE BILL! Solid organization and continuous, determined revolutionary The Long Roll o£ Suicides since the war they have had to sta- struggle is the only way out for the masses. Shows Despair of tion special guards along the Dan- 1,300 Fired From Steel Mill; Hoover Urges More Ex- Therefore the establishment of powerful workers’ organizations prevent if ube and other rivers to to and the development, and persistent carrying through, of revolutionary Unemployed they can the daily suicides by ports; Leads World War struggles is the major task of the Communist Party and the revolu- drowning. By MYRA PAGE. tionary trade unions. Suicide final of men ; Another suicide! “Mrs. Ella is the act Trade Union Unity League Calls for Support for t?n* By means of strikes, protests and demonstrations against wage cuts, driven insane by their plight and Kiertwehm of Chicago, who cannot employment Conference, Sept. 28 for the 7-hour day, G-day week, against mask lay-offs, against evictions, misery of loved ones. Ig- face any longer her three small the their for unemployment insurance, against injunctions, against lynchings, norant of the ways of meeting cap- j children for whom she cannot ob- ELIZABETHPORT, Spt. for full social, economic and political equality and the right Os self-de- italism’s ruthlessness, they take N. J., 17.—Notices have been posted in the tain food, ends her life by hanging another termination for the Negroes, against police brutality, etc., every pos- this way of escaping in one last New Jersey Central railroad shops here that layoff will go into herself to a beam.” “Jobless and sible concession must be wrung from the capitalists and their govern- * act revolt. At the same time effect this week until the end of the month. Three thousand workers starving worker City of ment today. in New York larger and larger numbers of la- are effected. ends life by jumping in front of One official, in an unguarded moment, admitted that the layoff was In the of such struggles and by means of our election cam- bor’s ranks, harrassed by the same course truck.” Sales clerk in Grand Rap- for purpose of cutting paigns the A. F. of L. and misleaders and all other liberal and conditions, are having their desper- the down the socialist ids, Mich., unemployed, was found j operating expenses. All engines reformist elements must be exposed as betrayers and enemies of the ation directed into organized and, in the park last Sunday, dead from that should have gone to repairs workers and the independent leadership of the Communist Party and constructive channels of revolt. self-poisoning. Father, in Rich- SOCIALISTS SUP-|; are now being piled up and such the revolutionary trade unions must be established. mond, Virginia, 55 years old, shoots “Don’t starve—fight!” says the men as are allowed to return will The role of the government as an oppressive instrument of the self when fired from job he knows dry, and Sdoc says the baby’ll die. , Mich., Sept. 13.—Mrs. Communist Party. “Don’t kill your- be put on piece-work to speed them capitalists must be made clear to the workers, all illusions about will be his last. Middle-west farmer, I gotta have work. For God’s sake Alma Graether,iijobless -»nd penni- self. Kill the capitalist system. up—until the next lay-off. “democracy” must be overcome, and the masses must be prepared, a job.” away. You mr.ke everything that is of PORT BRUENING: losing farm, hangs self in barn Everywhere turned less, aged 39, was rescued here to- The shopmen had been working politically and organizationally, under Communist Party leadership, to with cow rope. Signs up “No help wanted. Keep value in the world, and it belongs on a 4-day basis. Section hands on day by N' gro worker when she hurl their full mass force into the struggle for the overthrow of the Suicide! Day by day the grim out.” Useless, discarded. Just a a to you. Organize and take it!” the same railroad are working only life by drown- capitalist government and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ toll mounts, tragic evidence of the hand cast c.i the dump heap. attempted to end her It is cowardly to seek death GOVERNMENT three days a week, the first time favorable opportunity. government at the first straits to which unemplo* nent and Tramp, tramp.' Brooding. Use- ing in the Detroit River. Mrs. while millions of workers are be- this has occurred in twenty years. clearly accepted Party. This course has been charted and by our the present criris are driving mem- less. Discarded. Just a “hand” Graether is now in the hospital. ginninf to revolt. If you are still War Danger Sharpened by Comrade in his article, “Where to Begin”: bers of the * * As Lenin stated working class and whom the bosses no longer want. * | employed, organize and strike WHEELING, W. Va.—The Ben- “Itis not a matter of choosing the path wc arc to travel farming poor, in all parts of the against wage-cuts, against long German Election wood the Wheeling Steel Hellcvacount y where a man is not DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13.—The i mill of but of the practical measures and methods we must adopt on a country. for a ring. hours, against speed-up. That pre- i Corporation has completely allowed to work T Life body of George H. Campbell, 55 sus- cerain path.” Despair. living. vents from losing their jobs. NEW YORK. The German- . pended all operations and thrown not worth Starving, any- years old, was found hanging from more And in our Party the organizational forms—the building of Party In a few words the story is told: way. Why :ot end the agony and If you are jobless, organize in the Social-Democrats have told Chan- , over 1,300 workers into the streets up a rafter in the garage at his home will : units in factories, mills and mines, the setting of revolutionary No work, hunger, worry, fatigue, make it quick ? Councils of the Unemployed. March cellor Bruening that they for an indefinite period. here today. He had been brooding their “indirect T.U.U.L. unions, the establishment of a national revolutioary organiza- leepless muscles and nerves on the seats of capitalist govern- give him support j Hoover has shown himself to be nights, * * v* over inability to find work, his sis- tion among the Negroes, etc, —have also been clarified. But, again to that cry for rest. Tramp, tramp. ment. Demand work or wages. De- or benevolent neuTtrality, so that j.a liar on many occasions. He is at are a few- lines culled from ter the po ice. quote Comrade Lenin: Searching the Wanted” col- Here told mand immediate relief from the he is assured of the needed ma- it again. In March, when 1,250,000 “Help a day’s reports, and the same single * * * jority for his various "We must not only be clear in our minds as to the kind of umn, knocking at factory doors. city treasury. Demand no eviction measures workers fought under the leader- story is true of the entire country: , organization we must have and the kind of work we must do; we Gas and light turned off. Children These are the acts to which mis- for non-payment of rent. Fight for when these are submitted to the ship of the Communist Party for must also draw up a definite PLAN of organization that will crying for bread. No shoes for * • * ery and desperation is driving un- the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- new Reichstag.” The main items < “Work or Yv’ages,” his lie factory enable us to set to work to build it from all sides.” Mary to start back to school in. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13.—An told member of America’s laboring ance Bill to r;ua’’antee every jobless under the so-called "various mea- worked overtime trying to dispel of the Bruening program This is where we are woefully weak. Our Party has a correct Tramp, tramp. “Please, mister, I’ll unidentified, penniless man today masses. In alone man at least $25 a week insurance. sures” the truth about the economic crisis.

- with financial and economic mea- political line; we have worked out the necessary organizational forms, do any kind of work.” Turned out took his own life here by lying the suicide rate for 1929 was over The bosses tr to throw the bur- The efficiency engineer is now sures, including the cutting down ¦ but we have failed to develop planned, continuous activity “that will by the landlord, so where will his across the Grand Trunk railroad 1,300, higher by nearly three hun- den of the crisb due to their own using his efficiency *o lie some of employment doles, etc., which enable us to set to work to build it from all sides.” kids sleep tonight? Tramp, tramp. tracks before an onrushing freight dred than it was for 1927, while exploitation on your shoulders. Or- (Continued On Page 3.) brought speak many campaigns,” many Fighting in line, to get near the train. The only clue as to his iden- the rate for 1930 wil lbe by far ganize fight about the dissolution of We hear comrades about “too "too and them! To die last Reichstag. demonstrations,” and “the impossibility of building the revolutionary boss, the powerful boss who holds tity was a letter written in what the highest in its history. Soon in willingly is just what they want of the unions” because of election campaigns or other Party activities. And the magic of life in his hands. is thought to be Russian and a belt America it will be like ¦it is in you when they have no use for By this cirtuitous route of “in- these “other campaigns,” which occupy so much attention in our Party, “Kind boss, my wife’s milk run buckle bearing the initial “G.” Austria and Hungary, where ever you. direct support or benevolent neu- CARPENTERS arc almost exclusively agitational and propaganda campaigns. Syste- trality,” which will no doubt as- matic organization work is given altogether insufficient attention. sume the for mos open colition, In this same article of Comrade Lenin, he warns against two wrong MASS CONFERENCES FOR the German social-facists hope to tendencies in the revolutionary movement; first, the tendency “which FIGHT RED CAMPAIGN avoid a sharpening of the class HIT WOLL’S LIES strives to curtail and restrict the work of political organization anyl SPUR ON Greet the Communist Party struggle in case the Fascists agitation” (pure and simple trade unionism), and second, the tendency Women Delegates Meet Saturday. should form the government. Mass Demonstration Sun- of those who are “incapable of distinguishing between the require- Since a sharpening of the strug- days Sept. 28th ments of the moment and the permament needs of the movement as a DRIVE AGAINST Election Gains in Germany, Yesterday thousands of workers gle between the Communists and Both tendencies exist in our Party. Both must be all over Greater New York at- Fascists will place before those whole.” of these Carpenters’ Local 2090 corrected. tended the numerous Red Campaign millions of workers still support- unani- Opera House, Friday mously voted accept the Friends The second, however, the failure to distinguish between the re- Central meetings held in the various dis- ing the “Socialists” the clear cut to FOREIGN BORN of the Soviet Union Resolution quirements of the moment and the permanent needs of the Party, is tricts. The Communist slogans alternative of Fascist Germany or j adopted recent of today the greatest danger. It is the outstanding of op- The Communist victory in the German elections will be the about unemployment, wage-cuts, Soviet Germany the “socialists” at the conference characteristic the F. S. U., calling for Defense portunism in practice in our Party. Everywhere, in practically all our Sunday, Sept. cause for a demonstration of the workers of New York at Central sped-up and other burning prob- are trying their best to prevent Conference. and Recognition* of the work, the basic tasks of rooting ourselves in the shops and factories, Opera House, Friday evening. lems, were met with great re- such a development in short, are Soviet 21, 66 E. Fourth St. Union. According to a statement the building of the unemployed councils, the building of the revolu- The outcome of the German elections, where the Communist sponse by thj workers surrounding (Continued Page 3.) On just issued by secretary tionary trade unions, etc. —which constitute the permanent needs of Party polled over four and a half million votes, gaining 1,300.000 every Communist speaker. the local Spurred on by Governor Roose- U., Silverman, the Party—are Demonstrations, election campaigns, etc., above that of the elections of 1928 and securing 76 seals in the of the F. S. Harriet side-tracked. velt’s recommendation, urging dis- The working masses of Greater the action taken by Local 2090, an instead of becoming instruments in establishing a firmer organizational Reichstag, instead of the 54, previously held, has shocked the capi- against New York are being mobilized for local, a fitting an- basis among the masses, too often become things in themselves. In crimination employment of talist world and has overfilled with joy the revolutionary workers A. F. of L. is foreign-born workers, the First the Communist Campaign. The EXILE WORKERS; swer to the brazen lies of the fas- practice, if not in theory, there is a tendency to rely too much, or even the world over. In France and other countries, the workers have Conference by conference of working women is cist Matthew regarding entirely, on spontaneous outbursts. Our calls for strikes and demon- District called the expressed their rejoicing and fighting spirit through street demon- Well new Provisional Commit- called for Saturday, Sept. 20, at “forced labor” in the Soviet Union strations are insufficiently backed up by organizational preparations. National strations. .’ln the the Communist Party is arranging Irving tee for the Protection of the For- Plaza Hall. In every shop and an indication that the rank And on this also Comrade Lenin issues a warning: a number of meeting-demonstrations in connection with the result and factory, SHIELD FAKERS eign Born will open at 10 a. m. office and department and file of workers are against the “But no political party, if it desires to avoid adventurist of the German elections. women on Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Man- store the workers must be slander campaign of the fascist tactics, can base its activities on expectations of such outbursts The demonstration at Central Opera House will start at 7‘30 organized hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth to send delegates to this j Fake Evidence on One; Let leadership. and complications. WE MUST PROCEED ALONG OUR ROAD, St- p. m. sharp Friday evening. Comrades Max Bedacht. representing conference. prepared to discuss the increasing Another conference, in Other Break Law 2090 pledged support AND STEADILY CARRY OUT OUR SYSTEMATIC WORK, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., order Local its to of facing for- to organize the Negro masses S. spreading true AM) THE LESS WE COUNT ON THE UNEXPECTED. THE number problems the and J. Louis Engdahl, Communist candidate for Lieutenant-Gov- the F. U. in the eign born workers in this country around the Communist ticket, is NEW YORK.—Deportation to fas- facts about in the U. LESS LIKELY ARE WE TO BE TAKEN BY SURPRIZE BY ernor of New York State, will be the main speakers. called Sept. conditions S. today. for 28 at 308 Lenox cist hangmen abroad for militant S. R. to the inter- ANY ’HISTORICAL TURN .” Come to the demonstration! Bring the workers of your shop forge bonds of Ave. foreign born workers, even if the The immediate and chief task of our Party, then, at the present The conference will lay the basis to on evening right I national working-class solidarity Central Opera House Friday after work. evidence of of time is the development of planned, systematic work. The practice of of a national organization and pre- violation immigration between the working class here and Vole laws has to be faked a looking for short cuts, of trying to find some less difficult path, must pare for a national conference to 1 Communist! is policy of the workers and peasants of the the U. S. government. be stamped out. A careful study of our forces must be made. The be held in Washington within the Deliberate Soviet Union. All working-class or- overlooking of actual flagrant permanent needs of the Party must be kept in the foreground. All next few months. viola- ganizations are expected to take tion of these same laws for foreign other activities must be made, not a hindrance to, but a means of Delegates to the conference will favorable action of the resolution strengthening the carrying the Party’s basic tasks. Only j misleaders and parasites, and for and to turn out for the mass dem- through of represent organizations of Hungar-1 Post Office and government Brutally stoolpigeons, is of Illegally j Sunday, Sept. in this way can our Party become a mass Party of the American work- ians, onstration, 28, at the Roumanians, Russions, Ukran-! j the same policy. ers capable of independently leading them to victory over the American ians, Italians, New Star against the Fish Lithuanians, Jews, ] Radeßadecovitch, capitalists and their agents. Finns, Japanese, Scandinavians, Jugo Slav work- Committee, which renews its “red” I has been deported. Bulgarians. Slovaks. Esturians, Ar-! and er Guido Serlo baiting investigation in New York Workers on Speeds Discharges is Ellis Island, waiting deporta- day menians, Chinese and Letts. ] a or two before the meeting tion to the fascist murderers in Italy, of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Many Trade Union Unity League from whom he has been given the Pencil an X The S. Post Office is being younger clerks, carriers laborers, Speakers at the mass emonstra- ELLA MAY and American Federation of Labor U. castor oil torture several times al- MEET or put a “sound business basis” substitutes newly-appointed 2 tion incuded Max Bedacht for the Unions will also send delegates, as on ready and by whom he is already America’s 64 3 years ago, are not promoted to Party, and M. Ol- Over Monday well as the International Labor De- and are satisfied—a under sentence. FYank Vikukel, on Communist J. little bit. regular positions as vacancies oc- gin, editor of the Freiheit. fense, he Anti-Horthy League, and | u-sPg*nr©miiSs, SI,OOO bond, has been told to “hold Tic- TONIGHT, cur through death, and kets for the meeting 8 P. MJ other national organizations. The Postal Inspectors’ Survey retirements are 35 cents i himself in readiness for deportation" -up by removals from the service, or in advance and 50 The committee declares that and Speed ’em Commission ! to the merciless Horthy in Hungary. cents at the Spring through increasing the staffs with door. rfniTwflSSi\ OUT Os | Noted Speakers To Be Pre* President Hoover’s suggested new Postmaster Gen. Brown last r There is no evidence against any m [ Wtf, Door lay ¦( the increase of the country’s popu- I ..-¦¦¦ measures to restrict immigration to introduce “economy, efficiency of these workers except that they or- ¦V =*, soiled at Memorial 1 as w W/ij ANYOrtt. off; lation by 20 million the re- a remedy for unemployment is and sound business methods” in and ganized labor lnthe United States. sultant increased of mail. In Irregularity of ; simply a means of distracting the the Department, is producing re- volume Serio's case, the witnesses utilized Daily The Ella May Memorial meeting sults in a hurry, even before they “These vacancies,” Brown declares, Worker Due attention of workers from the real by the immigration officers in their in New York City opens tonight I Already will be “permited to lapse,” con- source of unemployment, creating barely get started. re- deportation case all swear that they to Moving Irving reaching Department trary to the Civil at S p. m. at Plaza Hall. enmity between foreign born and ports are the Service Law. did not say what the officials claim from all of the in- These men are continued as sub- The is now in , A notable program arranged for native worker without solving any- parts country, j they did. dicating that lick-spittle local post- stitutes for years at the hourly the process of moving from 26 , by thing. Dopester Safe. I //J// ALCAPO'It the occasion the District Office masters, curry favor rate of 65 cents per hour and are Union’Square 50 East St The organization will launch a anxious to On the other hand, in Oklahoma to 13th S of the International Labor Defense with their superiors, are cutting given 1 or 2 hours work a day, This will require a couple of nation-wide campaign to combat City, Gregory Anyschenko, a reiigi- ' includes amo ; the speaker* Anna their carrier, clerk and laborer though they are compelled on a weeks. During this time the registration and finger-printing of ; ous dope peddler, priest of the Al Capone, bad honihre of Burial;, in New York for the day forces to the bone. "The remain- time card to hang around their paper is written in one place, the aliens which would place foreign- Ukrainian Orthodox Church, ad- Chicago, is itching for the ten only,' preparatory to going on trial is speeded The stations 10 and 12 hours a day who type is set up and the mats made born workers in category of ing force brutally. mits coming here illegally, is to be times sweeter millions of the ',: n Atlanta, Georgia, where she I the without pay, in shifts in another and the paper printed : criminals, and will fight against mail sendee schedules are cur- determined to stay; N. Y. gin act, but lie lias no faces a death sentence for leader- tailed by the will or willfulness of their allowed he’ll tell the work- in a third. Lateness and irregu- j the measures being advocated by on week-ends and in the poor ers not to striwe, he Is the kind of more chance of grabbing the ship of Southern workers; Moissaye residential districts, one supervisors. Or else, they are larity of delivery are unavoidable Hamilton Fish to remove so-called daily de- foreign born the capitaist govern- marbles than a ark Ave. boy J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, and put back on the list of eli- during this period because the ¦ “undesirable elements” livery and 4 collections on Satur- those ment T nth St. free-for-all. Kngdahl, general secretary back to gible for apointment of the United States likes to Daily cannot to in a J. Louis their native lands, thus placing days and Sundays being dropped. ssi and are ‘fur- have here. Worker afford Bill Dwyer’s per- of the International Labo. Defense. the loughed’—told to shift for them- pay thousands of dollars extra Read how alien worker at the mercy of every This affects the poor working- At the Fish Committee hearings pugs pictures selves—as was done recently with 1 to make the chane in the most sonal draw on Arteff will present its members prejudice. masses only. in New York, a perjurer for the 150 letter carriers in Philadelphia com- efficient and most expensive man- the walls of their headquar- in declamations and Thus, some 400 letter-carriers mittee against Sacco-Vanzetti Working-cias* organizations who and with 50 in Baltimore. J and the Soviet Union -1 ner. ters in Watt St. garages with a of “Water Boy.” and as many clerks were laid off Similar was publicly assured by that recitation have not yet appointed delegates condtions prevail in other cities. Fish 15- 'iber hip-pocket cannons. in New York, 150 in Grand Cen- “The U. S. government will protect ; The typography of the paper, Under the direction of Schaeffer, are urged to do so at once and in- Young regular employees, with 6 ; Secrets Tammany paid mil- tral Station alone. Half as many 1 you" when he admitted that he i blurred spots, etc., must also be the Freiheit Gomngs Feroin will | sure their representation at the or 7 years, are reduced to ‘tem came lions to keep out of the boss were laid off in Brooklyn, some in 5 : ; to this country Illegally. pardoned as due to the same ; sing new gioups of revolutionary ! conference on Sunday. Delegate’s As porary regulars', something the press Monday in the Philadelphia, Baltimore and so on postal employees are sup- Meetings the sauses. start songs. ! credentials may be presented at Civil Service <¦“ protesting deporta- the throughout the country. Al! this posedly protected by the v.-vc pprovided - —J Daily Civil- —— I Worker; 75 cents a conference tion of Vlkulel and Serio have ben i - A member of the John Peed Club hall. —in anticipation of the Commis- Service-Act, the laying off for. l month Manhattan and Bronx, and i held in New York, New Brunswick, , I.L.D. and Anti-Fascist Alliance. Kif cent.; | will deliver some of Ella May’s sion’s visit, so as to impress them speeding-up is as underhanded as Letter can.e.c, ocii.iesy routes PerMi teen in j by mail; 50 elsewhere. ¦ ; i Newark. Amboy, Bridgeport , more will take place various poems. VOTE COMMUNIST! favorably. |it is vicious. of 1 Thousands (Continued On Page 3.) laud Fairfield under auspices of the i cities next week.