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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

LONDON, Sept. 22.-Unemploy-
ment is constantly growing worse
here, as we'll as in other capitalist
lands. The Shiny British Labor
party, which came into power with
all sorts of promises about alleviat-
ing unemployment by supporting
the Mond naturalization schemes
is now forced to admit that unem-
ployment is worse now than ever
before.
When the figures several months
ago hit the 100000 mark the
bosses, as well as their lickspittles
in the Labor government became
alarmed. They called all sorts of
conferences to "solve" the unem-
ployment problem. What was the
effect of these conferences? Merely
plans to attack the unemployment
insurance system which was rapid
ly being depleted because of the
heavy drains due to worsening IN
employment. Now the latest figures
show a very big increase in the
jobless army. This weeks return
shows 2,139,571 unemployed.
As an excuse the Macdonald
regime says unemployment is
worldwide" and because it is not
their fault if their class collabora-
ton tricks fail in the least to lessen
unemployment. They point out
they have tried their best to speed
up the workers, lengthen hours,
cut wages, but they blame the
world crisis for unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
INTERNATIONAL
. - EVAS O.
UwbuY1t Picks
Agent TO Aid
3. S. Bankers

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 22.-As
a pledge to American imperialism
that it intends to cooperate with it,
as against the pro-British policy
of Irigoyen, the Uriburu govern
ment has appointed Don Manuel E.
Malbran ambassador to Washing
ton. Irigoyen when he became
president refused to appoint any
ambassador. Malbran, who was
ambassador at the time, got into
a rift with Irigoyen over the pro-
posed trip Of Hoover to Latin
America, and particularly Argen-
tina, just after Hoover's election in
1928.
Irigoyen started out his regime
with direct offers to British imper-
ialism in its fight against the Yam
kee invader, who was rapidly cap
turing the Argentine markets. Hoo
ver's trip was proposed to win away
British trade. This did not meet
with Irigoyen's approval. Hence he
refused to invite Hoover and put
all sorts of obstacles in his way
Now with Irigoyen out of the way.
and Uriburu promising Wall Street
close support, the first step after
recognition was to put Malbran
back into the Washington post, 50
he could continue the work with
the American imperialists. Nal
bran has always been close friend
of the big American exploiters.
His appointment shows that the
Uriburu government is following IN
its words of Cooperation with
deeds.
There will follow a sharpening
of the rivalries of the British and
American imperialists not only in
Argentina, but in all Latin Ameri-
can countries as well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
Jersey Central Workers on Short Time In
A Jersey City Shop

more than two weeks vacation and
today we received notice that half
of US carpenters, machinists and
iron workers will be laid off two
days every week.
OF course thu usual explanation,
"must save operating expense"
Well, the head of the marine de-
partment, Mulligan, will not suffer
from starvation. By no means.
The company will not lay him off
to save operating expenses. But
we workers in order to fight such
operating expenses must join the
Railroad Workers National League,
affiliated to the Trade Union Unity
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
UNEMPL dyed ARMY INENGLAND
GROWING; 2,139,571 ARE JOBLESS
Labor" Government United With Bankers
and Bosses Against the Workers

Anything, in fact, but to blame
their best friends, the British i'm
perialists and their rotten system.
The Morning Post" predicts
100000 unemployed by Christ
mas" The figure will possibly be
higher by that time. The interest
ing fact is that this capitalist sheet
readily admits unemployment will
grow worse later on.
When the Labor party took power
there were 100000 unemployed.
Since their assuming power in the
interest of the British bosses, they
have added over 100000 to the
ranks of the unemployed.
The crisis in all basic industries
is constantly worsening. Very
soon the imperial conference will
take place, and the attempt Of the
Beaverbrook bnch, together with
the Labor party and trade union
lackeys, to put over an Empire
Free Trade" plan will be made. The
action of the Canadian bourgeoisie,
which is reaching out for itself,
as an independent imperialist pow
er, IS putting somewhat of crimp
in the nicely turned plans Of the
British bankers and their Labor
Party supporters. The contradic-
tions within the empire are growing
worse, and the British threat of
empire free trade" and tariffs for
other countries is arousing the ire
of the Argentine and other bour-
geols countries, similarly situated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

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wheat price in September was due
to the Russian sales.
Among Themselves.
The Journal of Commerce, a
paper of and for big business,
which has no circulation among
workers whatever, and therefore
dares to eliminate the boss class
propaganda in its pages in the in
terest of clarity and understand
ing among the masters, runs an
editorial today entitled, Another
Russian Mares Nest" The
editorial b egins, Government
authorities in Washington must
feel hard pressed indeed to ex-
plain the failure of the farm re-
lief program to hold wheat prices
in line. Or else they must feel
urgent need of justifying some of
the anti-Russian agitation that
has recently been occurring. e.
Possibly some politicians have
been driven to desperation of
grasping at straws in their en-
deavor to keep their heads above
water in the coming election"
British Sold More
The editorial goes on to say
that the clamor would lead one
to suppose that several hundred
million bushels of Russian wheat
had been sold, and accuses the
officials of insincerity. It ex
plains that the practise of Short"
selling as a means of Hedging"
eliminating the speculative ele-
ment in sales) is common among
foreign customers as well as
and sums up, Gone
strongly suspects that if our Off
cials at Washingto nwished to dig
deeply enough, they could easily
find short sales of much larger
for the account of
British groups during the same
period of time, transactions, more
over, that were purely speculative
in character"
The editorial ends: "Has the
time not come when in the in
terest of self-respect we ought to
shed some of this arrant hypocrisy
about Russia and all things
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

land unemployment conference on
Sept. % will lay special stress on
a hunger march on President Hoo
yer, Oct. 2, when he addresses the
national convention of bankers
there. The Needle Trade Work.
ers Industrial Union has taken over
Camp Nitgedaiget for a week to
raise funds for their $4,000 quota
of the "Organize and Strike Fund"
The NJ T. W. 1. U. has worked out
an elaborate system of leaders and
committees to take charge of the
campaign in all its locals and dis
tricts.
The Food Workers Industrial
Union and the Independent Shoe
Workers Union are moving in The
same direction. Greater activity is
required.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
WINTER TO Be
WORSE THAN 1893"
Must Fight for Relief
Thru Class Action
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
flciency" - new machinery. This
shows that even if an upturn comes
about, it will create unemployment.
Nearly half of the unemployed in
Boston had families, averaging three
dependents. The average age was
80, and the group of jobless from
20 to 80 years was far the largest.
In Washington, D. c., the coffee
and-slop charity institutions are
complaining about the big increase
in unemployment and that they ex-
pect worse this winer. John Ben
nett, superintendent of the Central
Mission said: For the first time in
Is years. experience, office workers
are appearing. The number of
skilled workers is also much larger.
The drift from the distinctly in
dustrial cities, such as the textile
and shoe towns of New England, is
especially noticeable"
A Federated Press dispatch from
Youngstown quotes a gray-haired
veteran at the mills as saying:
They say things can't get no worse.
But they've been a-tellin' us that all
year now. I hate to think of what's
going to become of US this winter"
Latest figures from Illinois, doc
tored as they are by the Illinois
Department of Labor, confirm the
story of constantly increasing unem-
ployment, and the promise of the
worst winter in the history of Am
erican capitalism. Employment in
Illinois was Is per cent lower than
in August of 1929.
The same cry everywhere: "The !
worst winter ahead for the workers
ever experienced" Certainly the |
workers won't expect the bosses or
their fake charity organizations to
do anything about it. The fascist
leaders of the A. F. of L. have al
ready made it clear where it stands |
with the bosses against the work /
ers. Only the united action of the
employed and unemployed, demand
ing unemployment insurance and
emergency relief in the various
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
Hundreds of Workers Laid Off on Southern
Railroads

long to these unions, SO our help
ers are non-union men (mostly col
ored). Many of them are as good
mechanics as we white men but the
bosses won't let them have a me-
ehanic's job. AS result the bosses
have scores of good colored mechan-
les they can put in our places if
we ever went on strike. The unions
have refused to take in the colored
workers so a man couldn't blame
them if they told the union go to
hell in case of a strike. This shows
clearly that the T. U. U. L. with
it program of full equality for the
Negro workers is the only organiza-
ton which can ever really fight
the Southern bosses.
Negro grease vipers get only 20
cents an hour in this shop. We are
going to build the T. U. U. L. fast
in this shop with such conditions.
The L. N. Railroad has laid off
over 1900 shop men on their sys-
tenn since July 1st have given sew
eral of them the Southern Worker
to read and they sure like it. l
will write more for your next issue.
"A RAILROADER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
(Continued.)
BY MYRA PAGE,

Upstairs the show was in full
swing. Lets see, how is this thing
worked" and the older ones in the
audience tried to figure it out. The
comrade inspector from the Society
came behind scenes to confer with
Vanya. There was still no news of
Fatima. Maybe she had left the
city. A search would be started
for her at once in the neighboring
countryside, and word sent to Mos
COW to keep a watch-out.
Meanwhile Fatima pulled at the
Stats and ran back to beat on the
door calling again and again, Help!
Help" and Gurk barked with all
his might. But no one could hear
them. The water had reached up
to her waist. Fatima climbed with
Gurk to the ledge by the closed
window and watched the water
climb higher and higher.
Comedy and Tragedy.
Overhead, in the courtyard, there
were sounds of laughter and hand
clapping. Below, in the basement,
the water crept nearer and nearer
to the window sill, just as Gurk
wriggled himself through the Stats
and into the street. Barking and
shaking water, with little trickles
Of blood running down where he
had torn himself in getting through,
he ran straight up to Vanya. It
was between scenes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
JERSEY CITY, N. i'm yester-
days issue of the Daily Worker
I read the news about the layoff
of the three thousand workers in
the Elizabethport, N. j., shops.
Well, right here on the Jersey side
opposite Liberty Statute" are four
hundred workers in the Jersey
Central Railroad Marine Repair
Dept.
Here the workers are engaged
in repairing various kinds of float
ing equipment from car floats,
ferry floats and tug floats down
to floating pleasure palaces.
Not long ago, in August, we had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
BEGIN TO SPEED
ORGANIZATION
Continued From Page II

Continued From Page II
the 100000 "Organize and Strike"
fund by affairs and mass events
for which it shall mobilize the
workers which it will organize and
lead into struggle.
Especial attention must be given
to the problem of winning Negro
and youth workers for participation
IN all aspects of this campaign
More Shop Meetings.
"The number of mine, mill or
shop meetings must be greatly in
creased, so as to acquaint all work
ers in the industry with this cam
palgn. The number of shop papers
must be augmented. The campaign
must be carried right into the shop.
mine or mill with the definite object
OF securing contacts, organizing
committees of action, etc. Every
wage cut, every measure of oppres-
sion by the bosses must be con-
nected with this campaign. Cen
eral mass meetings of workers in
the industry of the national union
or national lea ,e must be called
upon the basis of the situation in
the industry, to win new members
and broaden the collections for the
100000 "Organize and Strike"
fund, these meetings to be proceed
ed by factory gate meetings. shop
papers and leaflets.
The campaign must lie so wide
spread as to involve every affilia-
ton, every shop committee and
contact, every member, and actu-
ally masses of workers in the in
dustry."
Unions Respond.
All the unions and leagues are
responding to some degree to the
call of the 4. U. U. L. The Cleve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
AKRON RUBBER
WORKERS STARVE
BY THOUSANDS
Mayor Says City Is
Bankrupt
Akron, Ohio.

AkrOn, OHlOs
Daily Worker:
Here in the city of rubber barons,
bootleggers, grating politicians
flaunts its dirty hand in the face
of the starving rubber workers.
The air is charged with an atmos-
phere of gloom.
The rubber workers standard of
living is falling lower and lower.
These once proud rubber workers
can be seen lined up in the res
taurants (both unemployed and
en1ployed) making meal of
few doughnuts and cup of coffee.
Wolf OF Hunger
The wolf of hunger keeps prowl-
ing around the homes of the few
that are lucky enough to have one,
and is swapping at the heels of
thousands out of work.
The clothing the workers wear
is the flimsiest. Misery and hope
lessness is written on their faces
as they drag their weary bodies
along the streets.
Every day more workers are
laid off and adjustments" made
to keep them from rising in open
revolt.
The conditions are no better in
the other industries located here.
In order to head off any de-
mand of the unemployed workers
for relief the Mayor has made a
statement thru the press that
shows the city is bankrupt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
Children of the Neev Day
"A Story of Soviet Youth
A Written Version of the Russian Movie For
American Working Class Children

"Gurk, wherever have you come
from? Quick, Nick, follow him.
Something must be wrong" Mean
while, the last scene of the show
must go on. Nick and two others
ran rapidly after Gurk down the
basement stairs, and tried the door.
1t was fact, Fatima must be in
side, and the sound of gushing
water told Nick what had hap
pened. "Quick, get the csre-taker."
Would they be in time?
Soon, he came numbering down,
very white in the face. As he I'M
locked the door, a river swept out
over his feet. Gurk started swim
ming toward the window and Nick,
shedding his shoes, started after
him. "Fatima, we're coming" he
called. Only Fatimas head was
above water. She slipped and dis
appeared into its flow. AS she
came to the surface Nick grabbed
her IN one arm, and holding he,
head above water, swan back tc
the entrance and safety.
This settled the whole matter. Fa.
TINA went to live in the Pioneer
camp for the rest of the summer
and in the fall she joined one Of
the children's colonies and as g
happy and well-cared for Pioneer
member of this community begar
her new life as one of the Children
of the New Day.
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

past and present, Tweed, Murphy,
Croker and Kelly, the "Forty
Thieves, ct al. Whenever an in
ternal row brings some graft to
much in the open, Tammany
makes haste to get a reform"
candidate.
To Tamany, to New York CAPT
talism, such a candidate is known
as SHOW window" There is al
ways an over-supply of cultured and
most respectable bourgeois to run
for office. If they don't themselves
take graft before they get into Of
flee, they do afterward. They ac-
cept capitalism, which is graft in
carnate. With graft all around
them they remain silent or at most
salve their cor ciences with such
criticism" as Tammany merely
laughs at.
Crisis Affecting Tammany.
Since the March demonstra-
tons of unemployed threw fright
into New York capitalists, a Sec
ton Of them began to feel that
Whalen and his plain-clothes black
jackers were carrying things too
far, and that Tammany not only
needed a new police commissioner,
but that with increasing crisis and
mass discomfort the Walker gang
would have to 60 through a "white-
washing" to maintain its prestige,
or the capitalists would have to
get a new political "show window"
Since that time, this movement
to give Tammany an enema, to rid
it of a few Ewalds, Healys, Tom
naneys, and SO on, to make it more
presentable, has been going forward
on one hand, while on the other
brand new Show window" is being
brought forward in the form of the
fake socialist" party, to serve as
a safety valve, Roy Howard Zone
Of 'the 59") Of the Scripps- How
ard papers recently said, against
mass discomfort.
1t is for this reason that we see
the great capitalist papers, who
would not think Of doing anything
really hostile to Tammany, who are
in fact bribed to do what Tam
many wants, giving generously Of
both space and approval to the fake
socialist" party. Norman Thomas,
with his careful separation between
Tammany corruption and capitalist
rule, makes precisely an ideal
SHOW window" for the capitalists
behind Tammany.
Tomorrow we will tell some de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
I 4 NJ M 4 N Y IS
R0bBER ALLIANCE
Continued From Page y

to feed the poor.
Aaron Burr became Tammany
boss in 1900. Burr was, all history
shows, traitor to the republic.
He tried TO raise an armed force
to split the nation and found a
monarchy in the lower Mississippi
region. He was. as vain and as
interruptions as Grover Whalen.
Tammany Hall is governed since
its foundation by Mooney, by 10
"sachems," "grand sachenl" and
an executive officer called "sec-
rotary" Tammany is not exactly
political party. 1t is a racket"
a criminal business organization,
the function of which is to act as
the connection between the capital
lists and the gangsters, the inevi-
table companions of capitalist rlue.
The function of the alliance as
whole is to rob the workers; the
capitalists robbing them as wage
slaves, while the gangsters take
their share by cornering the profits
Of the underworld of crime and
vice.
Of course, the robbery is to be
made as painless as possible, the
attempt is always made to keep up
the appearance Of things. Wage
slavery is legal under capitalism.
1t is customary and workers are
taught to think that it is fright"
Similarly, Tammany (capitalist)
politics is always disguised as "civic
virtue, "honest government" ode
mocracy" and what not.
For keeping the masses deluded
with democracy, the capitalists
permit Tammany to engage in the
rich business of the underworld.
There is no form of vice or corrup-
tion which it doesn't actively en-
gage in. Just a partial list will
give an idea. It has included mur-
der, arson, provoking race riots to
insure the election of its candi-
dates, the setting up Of promising
young men" as pimps, procurers
proprietors Of brothels, gambling
houses and opium dens, the sale
and purchase Of judges, prejury,
bribing Of the newspapers, acting
as fences dealers in stolen goods),
white slavery, strike1breaking.
Tammany the Strike Breaker
The gangsters are particularly
useful to the capitalists as thugs
during strikes. Although not all,
perhaps, Of the Tammany leaders
directly engage in those crimes,
they know Of it and protect it be-
cause it fills their pockets with trib
ute from the actual criminals.
On the principle Of mass produc-
ton, Tammany wants more crime.
because the more crime, the more
money for Tamany. And since
money rules capitalist society, and
even poets as well as prostitutes
are for sale, there is always a
chorus to laud the administration
and defend it as system when it is
attacked or suffers some trouble by
internal quarrels over sharing the
spoils.
Of course it is beneficial now and
then for some Tammany leader to
pretend to quarrelwith Tammany in
order to assume a virtue he has
none Of. Such a hyocritical scheme
was the recent well advertised
he was having "Tammany j
"hint" Of Gov. Roosevelt that he
was having "Tammany trouble"
Simple boloney.
Tamnany is not Just Walker
and Snlith.It is capitalism work
ing through Tammany leaders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
JAIL AND EXILE.
OREGON WORKERS

continued From Page II
workers nearly mobbed him as he
fed from the scene.
The speakers at the meeting were
R. Futter, Fred Walker, district or
ga1nzer of the Young Communist
League, and Anna Frommer, district
organizer of the International La
Dor Defense. Walker was arrested
Sept. 10, on a vagrancy charge and
held on $1,000 bail. Edward Krause
was arrested Sept. IS, rushed to
trial and sentenced without being
allowed to consult the I. L. D. at
torney.
Those held for deportation are:
Steve Okicich, Jugo Slav; Miro
Lucof, S. Jafer, Bulgarian; L. Nit
self, Bulgarian; V. Goshen, Bull
garian; (all these arrested on the
street coming from a meeting and
first charged with vagrancy) Tom
Evanoff, Bulgarian; Dan Stosff, Bull.
garian, Pete Melish, Austrian; En-.
gelbrecht Nilsson, Swedish Clause
Strive, German; and George John
son, Swedish (all these last six ar
rested in the raiu on the Workers
Center). All deportation cases have
bail set at $4,000.
Those held on criminal syndical-
ism charges are John Moore, Paul
Ellis Bjorkman, R. Sand
strom, NJ. Levitt, William Worsel,
John Torio, P. Howell and one other
They were arrested in the raid on
the Workers Center and bail is fixed
at $4,000 each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
lombard c I'll IN A RED
VILLAGE
French Gunbeat Destroyed Part of
Village

PARIS, Sept. 16.-According to
dispatches from China, the French
gunboat, Francis GARNER, lombard
ed the Soviet village of Kulang San
near the Yagt-3 River.
Armed workers and peasants
bravely answered fire, and repealed
the attack, but part of the village
was destroyed by the bombardment.
Another French gunboat stationed
in the Yangtze River, by the name
Of Algol, also bombarded Com
munist forces on the shore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
Canton Workers Get 40
Per Cent Wage Cut

Continued from Page Onel
ers nthe Wisconsin Bridge and
Iron Co. plant have been handed
a 10 per cent wage-cut. Besides,
the bosses are sharply reducing the
working force and placing many
on part time work.
RALEIGH, N. c., Sept. o.
Wage-cuts in Southern cotton mills
run to an average of Is per cent,
declares a mill worker, H. E.
Marks, in letter to the Raleigh
News and Observer, and over so
per cent are out of work because
of stoppage of night work, while
others are on short time.
GREENVILLE, S. c., Sept. o.
Wage-cuts of Is per cent have
been given all workers at the Issa-
queena Mill.
NEW YORK.-Wages of office
workers in New York City have
dropped S. to $40 a week in the
past four months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23

cities, will be able to save them
selves from the bitter winter that
faces them, With its starvation and
evictions. Organize for Unemploy-
ment Insurance. In the coming
elections, Vote Communist,