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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
By HARRISON GEORGE.

IN the middle ages it was customary for eX-
perts in that line to lay hold of some poor
unfortunate child who was grotesquely Grip
pied, preferably a half-witted hunch-back, and
improving on this by breaking and deforming
few more bones, raise up this sad remnant
for sale to drunken monarchs as "The Kings
FOOL to be kept around the throne butt
of jokes.
We are forcibly reminded of this because a
certain respectable slant-wit who writes drivel
for the New York Telegram is running for Con-
Fress on the socialist ticket. His name is
Haywood Broun.-No, not Brown" that would
be too low caste, confusing this great jackass
with real people who work for living.
When Hoover came out last March with
Prosperity will be back in 60 days" Broun
said "Hurrayw and started lone campaign to
"Give job till June" In June, of course,
things would be all right Such was BrounS
vast perspicuity.
The campaign rather fizzled Though thou
sands applied to Broun for jobs, they got
neither jobs nor replies to their notes. Even
when they sent stamped and self-addressed en-
velopes. Evidently this Broun was swinder
as well as fool.
Broun Turns Pink.
June came, but without prosperity" Broun
announced that he was joining the socialist"
party, DuL LndC ne reserves Lne IlgnJ 10 MS
own opinion probably about politics, since that
was the subject under discussion. Hence,
Broun and the socialist" party made an agree
ment, it accepts Broun, but Broun accepts
nothing "socalistic." Score one for the Kings
Fool.
Being a denizen of night-clubs and hale-fe-
low with the underworld fringe, Broun gets
committee" of Earl Carroll's "follies" and
like Statesmen" or "stateswomen," to back
his candidacy. The Kings Fool takes his claim
to the throne seriously.
The Telegram, however, being a capitalist
paper, i.e., guardian of the throne of King
all Broun is only the Kings Fool. Hence on
August Is, while Broun was on a Vacation,
the Telegram editor, Roy w. Howard, wrote
as follows:
"The Telegram is opposed to MARKHAM So
cialism. .. But i. g. the Telegram has no
fear of the 'mercerized' socialism of Norman
Thomas and Haywood Broun. Theirs is
largely socialism in name only. Karl Marx
would never recognize nor accept it as his
brain child. >. The socialism advocated by
Thomas and Broun can be accepted as hav-
ing a very real value in that it furnishes
an outlet for the rapidly mounting public
distrust of the two moribund major parties"
Broun Is Not Red
We Communists are thus obliged to the TeIe-
gram for certifying what we have said all
along: that the socialist" party is merely
another capitalist party, but serving, because
of its name, a special function for capitalism
in attracting the radicalized workers who are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
By HUGH McKIERNAN.

by mum McAIERN-AN.
WHEN the Communist Party decided to enter
" the elections few years ago, | thought
it was all wrong, that it was useless waste
of energy. Now | find out that the elections
are of the best means of reaching the
workers The bosses representatives at Wash
ington thought it was a brilliant idea not to
allow the candidates of any new Party (aimed
at radicals) to have their names printed on
the ballot, without first getting thousands of
signatures from the citizens where that Party
candidate was running. They overlooked one
thing. When we run candidates in every dis
trict all over the U, s., then we will come in
contact with all the workers in the collection
signatures.
The mere fact of getting worker to write
his or her name on the petition list is not so
important. The most important part of our
work is to get the workers to talk about our
Party. Even if they are opposed to us, we
have chance of talking to each one individ-
ually and from personal experience | know
that 81 per cent of the workers. when they hear
the true facts about our Party and what it
stands for are convinced that it is the only
political party that fights for the workers.
In the collection of signatures if | cannot con-
vince them that the Communist Party is right
and has the right policy, then ] try to sell
them some literature or ask them to buy the
.
stands and buy it for them, AMI visit them
again i'll couple of nights after and ten
chances to one they will sign the petition and
buy the Daily Worker on the newsstands or
else give a subscription as many have already
done.
Not only that but some of them have asked
for application blanks and are now or will be
members of the Party Many of the workers
who have never heard of our Party except to
have it slandered by the capitalist agents or
their press, come to the open air meetings, buy
literature and the last couple of weeks we
have sold double the number of D. W. that
were sold at the previous meetings.
few of my experiences Last night ! Wis
ited an Irishman and his wife. ] asked him
to sign the petition; he said no, that the
Daily Worker handed to him once at the
subway station. He liked the revolutionary
articles in it and bought it on the newsstand
daily for six months as h. believed in work
ers' republic for Ireland, but one day he saw
a cartoon slandering the Pope, after that he
was through with it. | explained the role Of
the pope and all oher religions played in
keeping the workers in subsection He signed
the petition, bought the platform of the Party
and was at the last open air meeting at Sind
st. and 18th Ave, Brooklyn. However, it was
too late to get any more signatures that night.
Visits Republican.
| next visited a man who told me that he
republican and that | had the hell of
nerve to come to his apartment, although he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
The Rising Fascist Terror in
ESthOnia

ton. And SO do their little brothers at the
border of the Soviet Union
1t was the money of imperalists in the
United States, Great Britain, France and other
big countries that made possible the existence
as capitalist states of Finland Poland, Esthon-
ia, ETC. And now the imperialists are paying
more money to them to prepare for the war
with the Soviet Union. Yes, millions of dol
lars are spent by the big imperialist coun-
tries to strengthen the battle line against the
U. s. 5. r. but not cent is spent for eco
nomic conditions so the workers coul breathe
easily.
Furthermore, the recent fascist outbreaks in
border countries are all supported and en-
couraged by the big bosses in other countries.
Why are the world mperiasts so anxious
to have fascists in power in those small coun-
tries? The democrats, republicans and So
cialists are now helping the imperiaists in
their preparations for war. But the big bosses
want to be very sure about everything. Only
recently we had the fascist outbreak in Fin
land, their butchery of workers, ETC., and now
the same situation is facing the Esthonian
wor ers.
We should always remember the fact that
installation of a fascist regime in border
countries means war with the Soviet Union.
Workers in the United States! The work
ers in Esthonia should not be left to face the
onrushing fasci1 alone. They are fighting
the government that gets the support of the
imperialists of this country; they must fight
the Wall Street government in the United
States.
The workers in the Untel States should
rally to the call of Esthonian workers and
send mass protests to the imperialists of
United States who using the governments
of FINLAND, Esthonia, Poland and others, by
supporting the fascist movement, to start war
on the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
By VAL S. KoPPEL

BY VAL S. K0PPEL.
EVER since the beginning of the Esthonian
white government, the workers under the
leadership of the Communist Party have
been most brutally prosecuted by the social
fascists of that country. Outstanding is the
mass murder in 1919 at Isborsk, where hun
dreds of workers were shot in the back on
their way to Soviet Russia. Throughout IL
years of the white regime, hundreds of
workers have been arrested and sent to prison,
from to Is years each. There were mass
trials of 149, 10 and lesser numbers At
present there is no workers paper because
the Communist Party itself has been out
lawed for years. On December l. 1924, work
ers were once more drowned in blood when
they tried to throw off the system of eXploita-
ton.
What the Fish Committee is after in United
States today, the Esthonian government has
had ever since the start-the federal police
OF course the Esthonian government has its
own name ("defense league,") for them but
they answer the purpose for which they are
founded.
The Esthonian government doesn't trust its
regular army, for the simple reason that in
1924, the time of workers uprising, the SOL
diers in many cases resisted the officers or
ders to shoot the workers. In later years they
showed revolutionary spirit by revolutionary
leaflets to the barracks.
The composition of the defense league" is
much different from that of the regular army
The regular army consists of sons of the
workers and farmers and the officers are the
only offspring of the upper classes but the
defense league" is composed of the rich farm
ers and business men-n other words, 100
per cent patriots, and enemies of the working
class. Large sums of money are spent on
han 10 ho,ra H..
shape. Only last year this defense league"
had 103 maneuvers in which so per cent of the
membership participated. 1t also should be
noted that this defense league" is most bru-
tai in running down the leaders of working
class and is so the most hated by the working
class.
Who Is Behind Fascist Outbreaks?
The imperialists of the world are at a point
where they think that war is the only solu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
Some Experiences in Collecting
Signatures

had just invited me in, and bother him while
he was eating his supper. | told him to hang
a sign on his chest next election and then
would not bother him. / don't blame the man
as Pm sure he never did days work in his
life. He looked as if he had spent tiresome
day down in Wall Street.
| called on another in the same apartment
house and he told me he was democrat He
told me that | was not out for signatures, but
that | one of these agents from Moscow
to spread Bolshevik propaganda and that
was getting some of the money that Foster
brought back from Russia.
| went to the next block. | met an Irish
man. named O'Brien l explained to him about
the Communist candidates that we were run
ming in that district. | asked him to sign the
petition. He said certainly. He got his wife
to sign. He bought one of the platforms.
| met another man in that apartment house.
He was also an Irishman. After the usual
explanation he said he always a democrat
He was now unemployed for months. He
asked to see the petition After looking it
over he says, is this >e Foster that's in Jail.
told him yes. Then he says, if l vote for
that man I'll lose my vote. We had quite an
argument. He finally signed the petition and
told me when | was leaving that Smith last
year got the last vote the democrats would
l asked one worker if he reads the Daily
Worker. He said no. he never heard of it.
That was on Saturday night. | brought him
o.; copies Sunday morning. | went back to
his house the following Tuesday evening and
he gave me months subscription for the
Daily Worker
| met one Italian. Not only did he and his
wife sign but he came and got some of his
friends who were citizens, to sign also.
One Joins the Party.
One man, a Norwegian. told me he could
not sign he holding a city job. His
wife said she would sign. She is a needle
trades worker. She filled out an application
to join the Party
| met an ex-soldier lately discharged from
the army. He got 7 days in Jail for some
minor offense. While in Jail some Commu-
nists were brought in giving out literature.
They told him when he got back to N. Y. to
buy the Daily Worker. He now attends the
open air meetings, and will join the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League and the T. u. u L.
One old Spanish War Veteran said he was
glad there was a genuine workers organiza-
ton at last. Most of the ex-service men would
not sign for any other Party.
Other years there was very little interest
taken in eur Party. They either signed the
petition or they didn't sign it, without any
arguments. This unemployment, ETC., so far
little opposition to the Party except from the
yellow socialists who will not sign or listen
to reason under any circumstances
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
WORKERS MUST ANSWER
ATTACK ON FOREIGN BORN

erS, but also from the great masses in the
shops and factories. The millions of foreign
born workers must answer that they are a
part of the American working class. The
American workers must come to the defense
of their foreign-born brothers. They must
fight shoulder to shoulder with their brothers
in the mills, mines and factories against the
murderous attack of the American bourgeoisie
upon the working class.
A wide campaign is already started involf-
ing DO national mass organizations including
all the revolutionary unions of the T.U.U.L,
the LID, the W.I.R., etc. Other organiza-
lions must be drawn in. The workers who
are members of organizations under fascist or
social fascist leadership must unite themselves
with their fellow workers in the organizations
already engaged in the struggle-they must
fight against their own leadership, which
works hand in hand with the capitalists and
their agents, the police. Workers by the hun
dreis of thousands are already raising their
protest. Millions more must join them.
American born workers, foreign born work
ers, Negro workers, all must unite in one
vigorous protest against this new attack From
the shops, mills, mines and factories, delegates
must be elected for the conferences that will
be held all over the country during September
for the protection of the foreign born workers.
Resolutions of protest against finger printing
ana deportation must be sent TO the Labor
Department in Washington.
Stop the Boss Offensive.
From this campaign a tremendous mass
movement must develop that will stop the CAPT
talist offensive and the fascist attacks upon
the working class. In this campaign, our
fractions inside the mass organizations, and
our shop committees in the factories must be
the driving force. Every member of the revo-
lutionary unions and of the language mass Or
CARNATIONS must become active agitators and
propagandists With from fifty thousand to
one hundred thousand agitators and organizers
we will succeed in organizing millions of
workers. Our attack will smash the fascist
reaction.
Workers. American workers! Negro work
ers! Foreign born workers! Elect delegates
to the district conferences for the protection
of the foreign born This struggle is your
struggle. 1t is a struggle for your defense.
1t is a struggle of the entire working class.
Smash the fascist reaction! Down with de-
portations and finger printing! Stop the de-
portation of Comrade Serio to fascist Italy
and the continuous deportation of Mexican
workers! Demand that the Cuban agent of
American imperialism, the bloody Machado,
cease the deportation of the revolutionary
workers. Demand the release of class war
prisoners!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
BY CYRIL BRIGGS.

VAGRANCY laws constitute one of the most
brutal weapons of repression in the armory
of the southern bosses for use against the OPP
pressed Negro and exploited white masses.
These laws in their present form, first APP
peared during the so-caled Reconstruction
Period" when, the Northern forces having
withdrawn on the basis of an agreement be-
tween the former slave holders and the north
ern capitalists, the former slave holders turn
ed to the job of re-enslaving the 'freed" Negro
One of the most effective means towards this
end was the Vagrancy Law, utterly Vicious in
character and sweeping in scope. While form
uations differ in the various states, the fol-
lowing, from the Mississippi Vagrancy Laws
is good example of how the southern bosses,
encouraged by the northern capitalists, set
about to re-enslave the Negro masses
"That any freedom, free Negroes or mu-
lattoes, over eighteen years of age; found on
the second Monday of January, 1885, or there
after, with no lawful employment or business,
found unlawfuly assembling together in
the day night time, and white persons 50
assembling with freedom, free Negroes mu-
lattoes on terms of equality, or living in ad-
ultery or fornication with freed woman, free
Negro or mulatto, should be considered va
grants.
The fear held by the oppressor class for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
BY PHILLIP RICHARDS.

THE attack upon the foreign born workers,
upon the best fighters in the foreign born
sector of the American working class is in
creasing from day to day. In Los Angeles
foreign born workers are faced with deporta-
ton. From Ell Paso alone more than 100
Mexican workers were deported during the last
week. The condemnation of Comrade Sero,
who is to be deported to fascist Italy, shows
clearly how the United States government
works hand in hand with the government of
Mussolini.
Many months ago Serio spoke at meeting
in Erie, Pennsylvania, against the reactionary
attacks upon the working class. In spite of
the fact that he was legally in this country
and that witnesses deny the charges made
against him by the agents of the fascist con-
sulates in the United States, he has been con-
victed of criminal anarchy and condemned to
deportation. This shows clearly how the
United States government uses the methods
of fascist Italy against the workers. The
United States government in it's secret coun-
ellis, has decided to deport to their native
countries, all foreign born workers, whether
naturalized citizens or not, who are active in
the revolutionary movement This is not only
a persecution of the foreign born, but is an
attack upon the entire American working
class.
Workers Unite!
Capitalism is trying to divide the proletariat
by terrorizing the Negro and foreign-born
workers, in order to bring greater pressure
upon the entire working class. With the fas-
cist attack against the best leaders of the
proletariat, against the Communist Party, the
forces of reaction are trying to crush the
leadership of the proletariat and thus to make
the masses helpless.
Boss Hopes
Thus with the terrorization of Negro and
foreign-born workers, with the crushing of the
Communist Party and of the revolutionary
unions, with the effort to divide the American
working class and turn one section against the
other, capitalism hopes to overcome the crisis
by placing the entire burden upon the Shout
ders of the working class 1t hopes to be able
to prepare itself for the next imperialist war
without protest from the workers, to send,
without interference, guns, airplanes war
ships and money to the Chinese warlords in
order to smash the workers and farmers of
China and the Soviets which they are estab-
fishing.
To the attack of the Fish Committee to the
continuous deportations and the threat of
finger-printing of foreign-born workers, the
working masses must respond with tremen-
dous protest. The protest must come not only
from the organizations of revolutionary work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
By L. TODDY.

By L. TODDY.
ONCE again the butcher Machado govern
ment of Cuba cowardly murdered one of
the best fighters of the Cuban workers. Com
rade Jose Wong!
Machado, the puppet of Wall Street mper-
ialism, maintains his bloody rule with a most
brutal terrorist campaign against the workers.
Antonio Mella and hundreds of other leaders
of the working class and anti-imperialist strug-
gle, have been assassinated one way or an
other. Many times these workers were secret
ly thrown into the ocean to feed the sharks"
With the increasing and deepening of the
crisis in Cuba, workers no longer can bear
the increasing exploitation of the National
City Bank, sugar barons and their native
agents. Workers of all natonalties, Cuban,
Spanish, Negro, Hebrew, Chinese, are uniting,
under the leadership of the Communist Party
and revolutionary unions of Cuba, to fight
against Yankee Imperialism and the native
bourgeoise of Cuba.
Revolt Grows.
1t is with this increasing revolt that Ma
chado is carrying savage persecution against
all revolutionary workers. Four militant
Chinese workers were deported last January
Many union leaders have been imprisoned or
murdered since then. Last week Spanish
workers were deported through New York
And on August ID Comrade Wong, one of the
10 held in the dungeons, was murdered! Many
others are facing the same terror!
Machado came out with the pretense that
Comrade Wong Committed suicide in jail for
fear that he would be sent to China where he
would be executed" This is a cowardly and
deliberate lie of this butcher. Comrade Wong
is known to the Cuban workers as well as to
the revolutionary Chinese workers in America
as one of the most brilliant and brave fighters
1t is precisely since Machado deported four
Chinese comrades to Chang Kai-shek to be
executed, that Comrade Wong took the leading
part in organizing the Chinese workers for
struggle. And it was his credit and effort
that the revolutionary activities of the Chinese
workers were increasing as a result of Ma
chado's deportation campaign. Such fighters
do not Commit suicide"
In one of Comrade Wong's letters, he wrote
Our best comrades were deported, but we will
not give up the fight; on the contrary, we
must work harder than ever before"
Prior to his arrest, in connection with the
converting of the Soviet Conference in China,
he drew up a leaflet in which he urged the
Chinese workers in Cuba mot only to cele-
brate and defend the Soviet Power in China
but to also unite with Cuban workers to fight
for Soviet Government in Cuba"
Just few days before his assassination,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-21
Conditions in Moline, III.

We will quote the reports on the conditions
in Moline and Rockford since they are typical
of the conditions in the state:
Moline: The decrease in employment in ma
nufacturing plants during the two preceding
months was accentuated by drop of 1873 per
cent in June. Payroll totals decreased by more
than one-fourth, the exact percentage being
25.3, Much of this decrease is due to reduction
in forces and time schedules by the farm
implements plants, which are now in their
Slack season. The supply of labor in all lines
exceeds the demand, Building activity is ex-
tensive. and road work which is TO begin in
the near future will give employment to
considerable number of men,
Rockford: The tenth successive decrease in
factory employment was recorded in June,
with decline of 3.9 per cent. Payroll totals
decreased 10 per cent during the month The
unemployment ratio increased from 1900 in
May to 1854 in June AMI there is a surplus
of labor in all fines All factories are reported
to be working part time. and number g
closing for two or three week vacation period