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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
RALLY TO PARTY
IN SACRAMENTO
$50 Workers Attended
Two Meetings

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 1S.-
Two Communist meetings here. one
in City Plaza Park and one in For.
esters' Hall, found $50 workers in
this, the capital city of the Golden
State" ready to hear the message
Of revolt. About 20 per cent of the
indoor audiences was from the
Southern Pacific Shops, others there
were agricultural and construction
workers.
The keen interest in the Unem.
ployment Insurance Bill, and the
Communist Party's struggle against
wage cuts and sped-up and imperial.
ist war was seen in the purchase
/ by these workers suffering from the
crisis Of SIS worth OF Communist
literature including Daily Workers,
and contribution of $I4 to the Com
munist election campaign fund at
these meetings.
Mike Daniels. Sacramento organ.
! ige. of the Communist Party was
I ch-irman at botn meetings, and
speakers We're William Simons, can.
/ didate for governor; II. Kenamotsu,
agricultural worker and Jim Lacey
Of San Francisco.
Simons the leader of the $4,000
unemployed who demonstrated
against the capitalist candidate
ROlph and his government last
March 6, raised the issue of class
against class in the election cam.
paign. Rolph who has received the
endorsement of the exploiters of all
the capitalist parties will receive no
opposition in his campaign except
from the Party of the workers, the
Communist Party.
Some time ago Simons visited os'
car Erickson, serving AZ years in
San Quentin on criminal syndieal.
ism charges brought to prevent the
Imperial Valley strike. Erickson is
Communist candidate for lieutenant
Igoyernor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

DAYTON, O., Sept. 19.-The I'm
employed Council No. 1 of Dayton
has been making some investiga-
tons Of unemployed workers in this
city and found very interesting
facts. The purpose of the investiga.
ton is to find out to what extent
evictions are taking place so that
the Council can begin a real cam
paign against evictions.
Most of the unemployed who gave
their stories have applied to the
Charity organizations for help. On
the average of three out of five have
been refused help.
Work at Cut Prices
Those that have received help are
taken care of in this manner. The
Family Welfare Association hands
them slip to work for the city.
If they have a large family of six
or seven they are given slips for
two days work. The next day they
go to work at ditch digging, grass
cutting, brick laying; or other siren
uous labor. At the end of the day s
work they do not get paid in cash
but receive a slip for $3.50 worth
of groceries. The workers cannot
go to any grocery store; just GER
tain ones designated by the Asso
citation; and they cannot order the
food they would like to have. They
are told what to get and how much
to get of each. Naturally the cheap
est food is allowed; such as cab
bage, beans, -four.
Before receiving this starvation
charity the worker must be on his
last legs. He is even asked if there
is a "boarder" in the house; or i
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
2 Workers Arrested
in Jersey City For
Organizing Y.C.L.

Two young workers, Frank Guido
and Buck Olden, members of the
Young Communist League, were ar
rested last night and held "incom-
municado" for 16 hours without hav-
ing any charge placed against them.
These young workers were arrested
when standing in front of the Work.
ers Center in Jersey City waiting
for the first meeting to organize a
unit of the Y. G. L. An officer came
and demanded to know who they
were, what they were doing, etc. He
tried to grab a portfolio out of
Guido's hands. When comrade
Guido refused to let him have it he
placed the comrades under arrest.
They were Immediately put into
a cell without being allowed to send
word to the I. L. D. In the morning
the judge decided to place them un-
der $1,000 bond each. No charge
was made they were told, the police
would Investigate them. After a
while they were brought before the
Chief of Police who said that the
case should be dismissed.
The bosses of Jersey City know
that the young workers are militant,
that they are beginning to fight I'M
der the leadership of the Young
Communist League for the six-hour
day five-day week, better working
conditions and all the other de-
mands put forward by the Y. C. L.
The bosses are trying to stop this
organization by arresting those who
are active in the struggle for the
workers against the bosses. The
young workers Of Jersey City are
fighting back by organizing into the
V n T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
INTENSITY RED
ELECTION DRIVE
IN VISIONS SIN
Fight the Boss Agent,
the Socialist Party

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. IL
Edward Nehmer, Communist candi-
date for Secretary of State, and
Donald Burke, candidate for State
Senator and two other Communist
Workers left today for months
tour through the state in order to
rally the workers and farmers in
support of the Communist Party.
The car left with one thousand
Daily Workers, two thousand cleo
ton platforms, and fifteen thousand
State leaflets and pluggers.
The tour will cover such impor-
tant citis as, Sheboygan, Manitovas,
Two Rivers, Green Bay, Superior,
Ashland, Appleton, Oshkosh, Fond
du Lac, etc. In all of these towns
mass meetings will be held preceded
by general distribution of leaflets,
sale of Daily Workers, etc. In these
towns organizational results will be
stressed.
In addition to this, thousands of
farmers will be reached on the tour
and in many small towns where nc
meetings will be held, there will be
a general distribution of Party
literature.
The landslide victory of La Fol
lette over Kohler in the primaries is
sign of the discomfort of the farm
ing masses, in particular, with the
old guard Republicans. The party
in its tour will sharply expose the
role of the La Follettes who are
utilizing the discomfort among the
masses by shouting progressive
phrases to save the name of the Re
publican Party, the party of unem
ployment and mass misery, and tC
help the bosses to increase their
offensive against the working
masses. However, the main danger
comes from the Socialist Party
which is receiving open support
from the big capitalists of Wiscon
sin and is using more left" phrases
as the masses become more radical
lied under the pressure of the crisis
The Communist Party, the party
of the entire working class, agricul
tural laborers and poor farmers
calls for a struggle for Work OF
Wages" and real social insurance
for better working conditions, nc
payment of taxes and annulment o.
all debts and imbargoes for pool
farmers, for strikes against wage
cuts, for struggle against war, anC
for the overthrow of the system O
unemployment and misery for tn,
masses, or bosses war and lynching
Workers and Farmers of Wiscon
I sin support your party, VOTE COM
MUNIST!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
CALF. ELECTION
DRIVE is NOW ON
Communists Out to Get
$4,000 Signatures

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1S.-The
campaign to get $4,000 signatures
to put the Party on the ballot in
California began Sept. 1st. The
laws of this state give only % days
in which to get these signatures,
but with the mobilization of the
entire Party membership and sym
pathetic workers behind this is 60
ing to be done.
Three candidates will run for
state Offices. VIM. Simons, District
organizer of the Communist Party
in California is running for Cover.
nor, oscar Erickson, now serving a
sentence of 8 to AZ years in San
Quentin for organizing the agricul.
tural workers of the Imperial Val
ley, will run for Lieutenant Cover
nor. Edgar Owens is running for
Secretary of State. With Oscar
Erickson as one OF the state ticket
the repeal of the Criminal Syndi-
calist Law, under which he was SEN
fenced, will be made a leading issue
of the campaign.
With the campaign for signatures
under way, tour Of the state is
being made by VIM. Simons.
The unemployment Insurance Bill
is finding fine response among the
workers here. Many workers sign
the petitions very readily once they
hear that the Party is proposing a
bill for unemployment insurance.
Fight Filipino Exclusion
Ed. Harris, member of the Ma
chinists Union Local IS, running for
congress on the platform OF the
Communist Party in the 9Th Con
gressional District of San Francisco
will make the fight against Filipino
exclusion one of the main issues O
his campaign. He is being opposed
by Richard j, WEIGH, Republican
who was supporter of the Filipino
exclusion act in Congress.
With the crisis in agriculture be
coming depeer throughout the Stat'
of California, the bosses are organ
izing "race-riots" against the Fill
pino workers, putting on them tn,
blame for the wage cuts and thu
mass unemployment among agricul
tural workers in this state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
TICKET
IN PENN. FIGHT
Jobbers' Insurance Is
Big Issue

HARRISBURG, Pa.-With a full
state ticket and large number of
other candidates filed Sept. 3 at the
Secretary of Commonwealth by a
committee including Frank MOzer,
Phila. plumber, candidate for Cover
nor and Samuel Lee, Negro Long
sherman, candidate for 1t. Governor,
the Communist Party will participate
in the coming elections, in order to
"ffght for the Working Glass against
the Capitalist Glass. There We're
signatures fled for the State ticket,
consisting besides MOzer and Lee of
Patrick E. Cush, Pittsburgh steel
worker for U. S. Senator, Frank
Note, Houston miner for Secretary
Of Internal Affairs, Charlotte F.
Jones, Pacli Attorney for Judge of
the Supreme Court and Max Silver,
Phila. knitter and Peter Ambridge,
barber, for the Superior Court. Be
sides them. there will be five candi-
dates for the House of Representa-
tives, for the State Senate and for
the General Assembly, from Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and other indus
trial cities of the Commonwealth.
Frank Mozer, Communist candi-
date for Governor, also stated that
the campaign will mainly concen-
trate on the fight for the Workers
Social Insurance Bill and immedi
ate relief for the unemployed in
stead of the fake issues of the other
parties. THE Communist election
campaign will expose the candidates
and the so-called issues of the cap
italist parties, the fake liberal Pin
chot, who is promising everything
who is laundering against the mo
nopolies, but who, a millionaire him
self, Is the agent Of Jos. r. Grund!
and other capitalists advocates o
the open-shop, child-labor and of tn,
high tariff.
We will show off the so-callet
friend of labor, endorsed by the mis-
leaders OF the American Federatio,
OF Labor, ]. j. Davis, whose recor,
as Secretary OF Labor during t.
past three Republican, strlke-breaE
ing, open shop administration, speak
for itself. The attacks Of the Den
ocratic candidates against tn
Hoover prosperity" and their rails
ing OF the smokescreen of prohib
ton as the main issue does nc
| cover up their being Party G
, big capital, just as the G. o. p"
"The Socialist Party is offerin
its service to capitalism by comm
forward as the third Party of tn
bosses In order to prevent the worl
: ers from coming over to the side c
Communism. Just as in Great Br
tain, Germany, etc, where they hav
been given the government by tn
bosses, the Maurers and Van Essen
, are out to Improve on capitalism
, to come out with mild demands 70
certain reforms, in order to max
the present system more acceptabl
! to the working masses, who mus
establish a mass-party of their own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
new LAY-OFFS
CONVINCE THE
MD. WORKERS
Need 5000 Names to
Put Party on Ballot

BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 10
The Communist Party is taking ad-
vantage of the election campaign
to strengthen and intensity it's
work in the city of Baltimore. In
conjunction with the election earn
paign workers are being organized
into Unemployed Councils and the
Trade Union Unity League. Or
ganizational work in the shops is
also being intensified.
AS it requires the names of 5000
registered voters before candidate
can appear on the ballot, squads of
workers have been modified for the
purpose of obtaining them and
bringing the message of Commu-
nism into the homes of the workers
and enlisting new members into our
struggle against capitalism.
Election Rally.
Many factory gate and open air
meetings are being held. A huge
election rally in Baltimore, Oct. 8,
at 8 p. M, at Lithuanian Hall, s53
Holins st. Richard B. Moore and
the local candidates will speak.
The candidate for governor on the
Communist Party ticket is Samuel
Parker, Negro waiter, former
longshoreman, and member of the
American Negro Labor Congress.
The Communist Party candidate for
comptroller is Lena Shipman, mill
tant needle trades worker; Isadora
Samuelson is the Communist Party
candidate for attorney general ard
George Kelly, young laborer, is
running for clerk of the court of
appeals.
This will be the first time the
Communist Party will appear on
the ballot, under it's own name, in
the state Of Maryland.
Unemployment.
Generally, conditions are such in
Maryland that the workers easily
sec the extent Of the intense en-
rloitation.
The American Refinery has shut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

"The Democrats and the Re-
publicans are trying to get the
unemployed workers drunk with
the prohibition ISSUE" Comrade l.
Amter, Communist candidate in the
23rd Congressional District, Bronx,
declared in q statement issued at
Harris Island Penitentiary yester-
day.
Fake Isse
"Many workers, not knowing
what the capitalists areafter, will
be astounded to nd prohibition as
the main issue Of the present cam
paign, as witnessed by Tuesdays
primaries. In a situation of un-
employment, which is matter of
life and death for s million un-
employed workers, who with their
families comprise population Of
between 25 and 35 million people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

tie to refuse to continue as United
States ttorney. He chose the is
sue of prohibition. In his resig-
nation, Mr.. futile expresses his
opinion for the repeal of the 18th
amendment which, in spite of his
denials will serve as vehicle for
getting nominated as the head of
the Republican ticket in New York
State.
"In Massachusetts, Delaware
Connecticut, Ohio and other states
where primaries were held on Tues
day. the issue between the various
contestepts on the Democratic and
Republican tickets was the 18th
Amendment. Both parties are u.s.
ing prohibition as a means of get.
ting the working masses drunk, ir
order to make them forget the reaI
problems Of the campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
Hilquit Cannot Lie His
Way Out of
This

Socialists in U. S." says Morris
HilIquit, will not handicap the U. S.
Government by Strikes. If the ar
mics are raised by CONSUMPTION, of
course, we will have to serve as
other citizens. do not believe that
the Socialists will advocate any gen.
eral industrial strike to handicap
the country in its war preparations
and / do not believe there will be
any such strike. l know of no in
stance in any country where we
have tried a general strike either
to prevent or to end war"
This is what the American $50
cialist," Morris Hillquit, said in New
York Times, the voice of Wall
Street, on February II, 1917. This
was only short seven weeks be-
fore Wall Street, thru the mouth of
Woodrow Wilson and Congress, de-
clared war on Germany. This ar
ticle of Hillquit's came out, just a
few weeks before emergency meet
ing of the National Executive Com
mittee of the Socialist Party which
was going to take up the question
Of the war. Hillquit's treacherous
words helped to put pressure on the
committee.
Hillquit knew at the time what
Col. House, Woodrow wilson's Wall
Street pal and direct boss, told
years later-that it was a war for
Wall Street, pure and simple. He
knew that it was a war to protect
the millions of dollars of loans that
Morgan had lent the Allies. He
knew that any talk of "War to
End All Wars" and war ITO Save
the World for Democracy" was all
fake. He knew that the stuff about
Hun atrocities" was all pure in.
ventions, dished up in order to whip
up war frenzies. He knew all this
and yet gave the American bosses
gave Wall Street, gave the Morgans
and Rockefellers and Schwabs, a
fiat guarantee that he would do his
best to hamstring the workers OF
America. He told the bosses open
ly in their own paper that the So,
cialists would not advocate any
general strike to handicap the coun
try in its war preparations. >
Hilquit also told the bosses that his
brother Socialists in the other cap
italist countries served their bosses
faithfully and well, too. 81 know Of
no instance in any country where
we have tried a general strike either
to prevent, or to end a war;" Hill
quit said.
Hilquit's own words stand up and
lash back at him thirteen years af
terward like so many whips. The
$4,000 (this is what the government
says, there must be more) soldiers
whose bodies lie in many a field in
France are $4,000 proofs of the
treachery of Hillquit and his kind
Norris Hillquit and his brothers
eading the Socialist Party helped
70 send these $4,000 American work
Nrs tn their prayeSi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
JObless Workers Hear
Exposure of Graf t

The usual line of job-seekers,
from two to three thousand, was in
line before the Free" Employment
Agency when the Unemployed Coun-
Gil arrived yesterday.
AS soon as the Unemployed Coun-
Gil speakers began their meeting the
jobless workers left the lines in
front of the Free" Agency and
gathered to hear what our Com.
rades had to tell them.
H. Williams, Negro Worker,
was the Chairman of the meeting
and told how the Tammany Hall
takers and the Democratic Party
are attempting to mislead the work
ers into voting for them at the com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
CHILD LABOR IN
FACTORY OWNED
BY "SOQALIST'

worker, II years old, was COM
pletely scalped by a machine in
whic hhis hair was caught. He
worked at the Syracuse Ornamen-
tai Co., notorious for it's low wages
and employment of child labor. The
young worker will remain disfig-
ured for life, being made completely
bald by the accident. The owner Of
the factory is an "oldtime" social
list and still contributes to the So
cialist party treasury.
The Young Communist League
has been conducting activity in this
factory, for the last month and has
succeeded in or. AIMING a shop nu-
cleus Of the League, around which
r. U. U. l.. work is being carried on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

Committees in the shops. Build up
the revolutionary unions of the
Trade Union Unity League. You
must help to mobilize the workers
behind the Communist program
and candidates on the slogan of
class against class, for struggle to-
day and to continue till a Work
ers' and Farmers Government has
been established in the United
States.
"Women workers! Rally to the
conference to be held at Irving
Plaza on Saturday, Sept. 20. Make
this conference the beginning of a
campaign that will establish the
Communist Party as the fighting
party in the interests of the entire
working class!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
"12,500 REDS
SHOCKS PENNA.
BOSSES PRESS
Communists Have Full
Ticket for Election

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 10.
The Pennsylvania Communist
state election campaign committee
calls for more intensive struggle to
carry the facts to the workers. A
mass conference in Philadelphia on
Oct. 10 is one of the methods.
The capitalists are shocked and
worried land their press reflects
their state Of minO at the appear
ance in Harrisburg, the state cap
ital, of a formal committee with
12,500 signatures to put the Com
munist candidate on the ballot.
This is many more than are needed.
The newspapers all ask querilously,
care there 1880 Reds in Pennsyl-
vania? >"
Hate Worker Judges.
The socialist party, partly be-
cause of its self-exposure in Read
ing, where it holds the city govern
ment and clubs unemployed like any
capitalist government, has no such
number Of signatures, and does not
file a complete ticket. The Com
munist ticket is full one-4 for
congress, ? for state senate, u for
general assembly and candidates for
Judges. The capitalist press is in
( dignant at the idea that candidates
for judicial office include "a tex
/ tile worker and a barber" The
fact that the barber is Pete Muse
| lin, serving five years in the Wood
lawn sedition case, does not make
II the bosses like the situation any
better.
Negroes On Ballot.
Of the "a Communist candidates,
headed by Frank Mozer for Gov
ernor, E. P. Cush for United States
Senator and Samuel Lee for Lieut..
Governor, six are Negro workers
and three are women. The Party
has full ticket in Ken ngton, the
industrial heart of Philadelphia.
with an overwhelming native popu-
lation where over 1000 signatures
were secured during the election
campaign.
The socialist party doesn't dare
to say much about local issues or
Reading, but runs on a Haywood
Broun national platform. The DEM
ocrats and the Ware (republican)
machine in Philadelphia promise
+ hight wine and beer, but don't say
how anybody among the starving
millions are going to be able to buy
them if they want them. Pinchot
promises road building (Which
hire many as a cure" for unem-
/ ployment, and repeats the promise
ne has already broken once to abol-
lsh the coal anl iron police. Sec
/ rotary of Labor Davis runs for sem
tor with the boast that Hoover
has reduced the number of the Job
/ Iess!"
The Communist campaign COM
mittee calls on all workers to vol
unteer their services to use the
campaign to tell the workers of the
Unemployment Bill, to organize
shop committees, to build the mill
tant unions and the councils of
unemployed, to fight for work or
/ wages. 1t will rely on house to
hoose campaigns, factory gate
meetings, mass and street meet
ings and distribution of literature.
Oct. 4 is the last day for registra-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
Ialled Delegation OF the
T0bless Call on Working
Women TO Vote Communists
Urges They Rally at Conference Today in Irv-
ing Plaza Hall; Intensity Election Campaignn

tions, for defense of the Soviet
Union.
"Women workers! Negro wom-
en- workers! Young women work
ers! You suffer just as all work
ers do! You must throw your full
energy into the election campaign
behind the Communist Party. You
must organize Vote Communist
|. AMTER.