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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
HATES TAMMANY
GRAFTERS AND COPS
New York.

New York.
The Daily Worker:
Gentlemen:
l am not a Communist, at least
mot YET, though I may vote
Communist" on next election day.
l have read of the latest out
rage of the most brutal police
force in the world, police, whose
only duty is, to protect gangsters
and grafters, particularly the
Tammany Hall gangster Curry
and consorts.
I wish, the day would be near,
when they would drive that big
gest buffer from citf hall, that
Tammany gangster, mho thinks
he can quiet everybody with his
silly jokes. Then, that guy should
be driven out with blackjacks and
rubber clubs blowing down on him,
as it is being done now to those,
who only seek relief and honest
work.
With all good wishes and sue
cess, and the desire, that you get
with your demonstration next
time right into Tammany Hall,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
HALL DENIED FOR
FOSTER MEETING
Bosses Try to Block
Newark Meet

NEWARK, Oct. 16.-Returning a
check for the amount deposited as
security on Kruegers Auditorium
for the Foster meeting on Sunday,
November End, in Newark, N. j.,
the management of that institution
has stated that it is impossible for
the hall to be had on that date.
The excuse given is that the per-
son holding the lease at the time the
hall was secured has now given up
the lease and therefore the owners
disclaim responsibility. Also it is
claimed that the owners are not
going to run thee hall themselves
but are trying to get another lessee
for the place. This is the hall
where Wall Streets candidate for
the U. S. Senate from New Jersey,
Dwight w. Morrow, held his pow
WOW last Monday night and the
same place where Alexander Simp-
son, agent of the notorious Hague
machine of Jersey City, will speak
tonight.
The committee in charge Of this
meeting is now seeking another hall
and in spite of the fact that all
printed matter for the original hall
has been printed and some already
distributed, the working class will
answer this sort Of attack with a
larger hall and a much larger
crowd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
CHI. COPS ATTACK
NEGRO COMRADES
R e d Candidate and
Harper Beaten Up

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-Two leading
Negro Communists were attacked
and arrested last night by yellow
flivver squad. Brown Squire, Com
munist candidate for Congress from
the 4th District in Chicago, and Sol
Harper, District Negro Work Drec-
tor, were on the pont of entering
Squire's home after having returned
from meeting when the police Of
ficers drove up. The attack was
made upon the porch of the house,
Harper being severly beaten up.
Both workers were taken to jail, but
when the LID. attempted to find
out what had happened and how
badly they had been hurt, they were
moved from police station to police
station to prevent the LID. locat-
ing them.
The cause for the attack is mys-
terry, except insofar as it is part of
the general campaign Of terror being
conducted by the Chicago police
against militant workers. It is be-
lieved that the two Communists
were followed from their meeting
by police spies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
DAKOTA FARMERS
HEAR COMMUNISTS
Knutson, Loesch Tour;
Call to Organize

JAMESTOWN, N. D., Oct. 19.---
Alfred Knutson of Bismark, N. D.,
for years a leader of the farmers
here, now candidate for congress in
the Second District of the state,
and K. P. Loesch, of Montpelier,
N. D., prominent militant farmer,
Communist candidate for secretary
Of state, are on a speaking tour,
urging the farmers to Vote Com
munist and to join the United Far
mers League.
Farmers are now becoming dis
gusted with the capitalist Farmers
Union, the "Non Partisan League,
and the fake progressives (Nye,
Frazer, Sinclair, esq., Knutson
and Loesch point out to them that
the Communist Party is the only one
in this campaign defending the in
terests of the poor farmers.
The United Farmer, militant
farm paper, is being widely distri-
buted.
The remaining speaking dates of
Knutson and LGesch are:
Cookie, Oct. 27; Litchville, Oct. 20
Edgeley, Oct. 20; Kuhn, Oct.3o; La
Maure, Oct.31; Valley City, Nov. L;
Courtney, Nov. 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
MLGREEN, AFL
JAIL POCKETS
Conference October %
Against Injunctions

NEW YORK.-After being brut-
ally beaten and knocked unconsci-
GUS by drunken police man on the
picket line at the Zelgreen cafeteria
strike, Napoleon, a militant food
worker, was held for felonious as
sault at the jefferson Market Court
under $500 bail yesterday.
Tresca, another picket, was also
severely beaten up when the police,
assisting the Zelgree bosses and the
A. F. Of L. misleaders ordered him
to march up and down the curb away
from the passing crowd. The club
bling resulted when the picket re-
fused to do this.
Police become more brutal as the
time for the injunction hearing
draws near. Epstein, business agent
of Local 302 of the ALL. union to-
gether with the Zelgreen manage
ment have jointly secured an in
junction forbidding further picket
inS.
The hearing will be held at the
Supreme Court, New York County
on Monday at 10 a. m. Workers
should attend the hearings en- mas
Sc. The Trade Union Unity Coun-
Gil has called special delegate con-
ference on October % to lay plans
for mass violation to smash the in
functions.
Three militant food workers, Sid
ney Roth, Louis Rotman and Carl
Epstein arrested for violating an
injunction taken out by the West
chester Avenue Markets, were held
for special sessions yesterday un-
der section 600 of the Penal Code.
They were placed under $500 bail.
Charges under section 600 will in
evitably result in jail sentence of
so days or longer. Workers are
railroaded to Jail without right of
jury trial or appeal by this vicious
method. The only remedy for this
growing menace against militant
workers is the smashing of injunc-
tions together with section 900 by
mass violations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
SEDTTION TRIAL
IN PHILADELPHIA
Lawrence Faces Court
for Election Speech

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Oct. 49,
The trial of Bill Lawrence, Trade
Union Unity League organizer here,
on charges of sedition which carry
ten year sentence on conviction, be-
gain Thursday.
Lawrence was arrested two years
ago in the election campain, when,
speaking for the Communist Party,
he called on the workers to organize
against capitalism and criticised the
grating policies of Mayor Mackey
and the city government.
Lawrence is defended by the In
ternational Labor Defense, through
its attorney, David Levinson.
The prosecution is trying desper-
ately to get a conviction. The jury
was selected after eight challenges,
The jury and the judge are both
hostile to the defendant.
LAWRENCE ON STAND
Lawrence took the stand today,
outlined the campain issues of the
Communist Party, against the fake
issues of the democratic and repub-
lican parties who collaborate to sup
port the employers drive for low
wages, long hours and unemploy-
ment.
He told of the growing unemploy-
ment and the deportation, finger
printing and registration and lynch
ing terror by the bosses against the
foreign born and Negro workers. In
court room he called for mobiliza-
ton of workers against the coming
imperialist war, and for the defense
of the Soviet Union.
Tuesday, Oct. FL, there will be a
mass meeting of protest against this
attempt to gag the voice of the
workers to send the workers lea
ders to prison. The meeting will
be held at Garrick Hall, 507 South
Eighth St. It is an election rally
for the Communist Party campaign
and speakers will urge the workers
to organize and strike against all
wage cuts, to demand unemploy.
ment insurance, and immediate re-
lief for the jobless, whose leaders
are released on that date, in New
York after serving term in prison
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
ADMIT A.F.L. J0RLESS
FIGURES ARE FAXED

NEW YORK-When Green issu-
ed his Semptember FIGURES on I'M
employment, the Daily Worker ex-
nosed them as fake. Now, one of
the Wall Street newspapers. very
anxious to believe Green's fakery,
is nevertheless forced to admit that
Green's firures are worthless.
The Fridays issue Of the Journal
of Commerce saws that the elm
nrovement" found by the A. F. L.
in the September employment stu
alton among trade union members
is hard to discover in the report inst
released bv the United States Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics"
What is more. it is harder to find
amonc the ranks Of the A. F. Of L.
itself. which are feeline the heavier
hand Of unemployment every day.
But that is what Green is paid for,
to lie and mislead the workers about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
HOOVER BOSSES
PREPARE FIGHT
Admit Winter w i'll
Bring Hunger, Cold
Continued from Page

(OOnClnueQ from rage
tect the profits of the bosses against
the demands of the jobless for I'M
employment relief to come out of the
war budget, and a special levy on
big incomes and fortunes.
There is not a single difference
in Hoover's latest broadside from
his November, 1929, program. Not
one cent is provided for unemploy-
ment relief. Hoover talks about
public building works. The fact is
that in spite of Hoover's efforts"
building activities this year have
gone down 10 per cent, and more
than so per cent of the building
trades workers are out of work.
He urges the local grating poll
ticians to handle the question, SO
that the war funds of the federal
government xviii not be touched.
How the local politicians are handl-
ing the subject can be seen from the
repeated clubbing of the unemployed
in New York City, and the threat
of Murphy, mayor of Detroit, to jail
all unemployed who dare to come to
Detroit. Hoover praises both the
organized efforts which the Mayor
of Detroit" and the Tammany
grating committees created in
New York"
Secretary of Commerce Lamont
who heads this latest grouping Of
bosses to fight against the demands
of the unemployed, rushed to New
York, where he had a conference
with the leading Wall Street bank.
ers.
The Journal of Commerce, the
day before Hoover issued his state.
nent, stated that taxes must not gc
up to pay for unemployment relief
The bosses are entrenching for g
fight to save their profits and force
the workers. to stave.
Every worker, unemployed or EN-.
ployed, must answer this attack
against the demand for unemploy.
ment relief. Fight for the Unem.
ployment Insurance Bill, advocated
by the Communist Party! Vote
Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
ANTI-LYNCH MEET IN
STAMFORD, OCT. q

STANFORD, Conn, Oct. 10. -
A mass Anti-Lynching Conference
called by the American Negro La
Dor Congress will be held here next
Thursday, Oct. %, at the Blackstone
Hotel, on Gay Street, at which del
egates will be elected to the national
convention of the ANLC in St.Louis
Nov. Is.
Herbert Newton will be one of the
speakers at the Stamford Confer
ence. Another speaker will be Will
liam G. Hearing, former secretary
of the Central Labor Council Of
Stamford, and member of the Mold
ers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Red Deputies
EghtBruenlng
Hunger Plan

BERLIN.-Very soon in the
Reichstag the Communist fraction
will move the rejection of the
Bruening program which plans to
obtain SIP million marks at the
cost of the toilers, and make the
following contemporaries:
Immediate stoppage of all Young
Payments, 1000 millions; Striking
Of all Reichswehr expenses, 750
millions; Striking Of all civil war
ornaments for the police, 600 mil
lions; Special 20 per cent tax on
millionaires, 1900 millions; Special
20 per cent tax on dividends, 800
millions; Special 20 per cent tax on
directors fees, 200 millions; Special
20 per cent tax on all incomes ex-
ceeding $4,000 marks annually, $50
millions; Striking of all subventions,
500 millions; Cuts for salaries and
pensions over 5000 and 5000 marks
respectively, 200 millions; Striking
of all expenses for censorship, the
church and arbitration, 300 millions.
Making total Of 1850 millions.
Referring to these proposals
"Rote Fahne" writes: Supported by
as million voters the Communist
Party puts forward the demands of
the working people against the
hunger program of the Bruening
government which is supported by
the fascists and social fascists. The
Communist Party calls for the for
nation of a great anti-capitalist
snti-fascist united front of the
working masses!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
10 Placed by
lob" Bureau
Still T0bless
(Bg d Worker Correspondent)

(By q Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Exposing
the politician vote catchers and the
lying New York Times for printing
that the fake city employment
agency found work for $50 in one
day.
This scab agency sent. ]. Moncay
as solderer to a radip place at
829 East 134th st. and told him
to ask for Miss Pessoni.
Other Applicants.
When he got there they said they
were sorry because the job was
given out already. Six more solder
ers and handymen were sent by the
same agency to the same place but
all had the same fate.
This company used to pay so
cents an hour before for solderers
and now the scab agency furnishes
this company with men at SO cents
an hour.
Maybe the New York Times and
the Tammany politicians count these
ten men as employed but they are
still out Of work.
Moncay applied two weeks ago
as laborer because his three chill
dren are starving.
Workers, it is about time to wake
up and answer to all Tammany
schemes. Vote Communist.
Andy Lewes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
SOVIET WORKERS SHOCK BRIGADES
PLEDGE CARRYING OUT 5-YEAR PLAN
Meet on End of Second Year of Plan to Devise
Methods for Increasing Efforts

other shop is behind hand in deliv-
ering its semi-finished article.
To meet this situation two kinds
of organization have been devised.
One, where single job is under
way, is the temporary control COM
mission, composed of one worker at
the bench, one works or shop en-
gineer, and one worker specially re-
leased from the bench to act as
president, and paid by the manage
ment.
This control commission, while it
lasts, acts as speeder-up on behalf
of the job engaged upon; utilizing
every method of publicity and moral
pressure, up to going as deputa-
ton to the Supreme Economic Coun-
Gil in Moscow, if necessary.
Industrial Volunteers.
For more permanent working
some months ago, one of the Lenin-
grad engineering works devised the
continuous shock brigade. It's con.
continuity consists in the fact that
it is composed of workers in every
shop through which a big job has
to pass in a complicated process Of
production, especially on the con
veyor system.
The appeal of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party, or
September 8, for exceptional efforts
to complete and exceed the Plan fol
1929-30, has produced a still higheI
development of the shock brigade il
a number of the biggest works-tht
industrial volunteer battalion.
In this the shock brigades CONF
together with a mutual pledge t.
remain in the factory until the enc
of the Five-Year Plan, to cooperate
in training the unskilled workers
newly brought into industry and tt
fight against all disorganizatiol
caused by workers (chiefly thos
fresh from the country passing
from factory to factory IN search o.
higher wages, irrespective Of class
interests.
This account would be incomplet
without mention of the "communit!
tow" into which a works which il
carrying out and surprising its plal
takes one of it's subsidiary factorie
on which it relies for some detail o
material, and which is failing t.
keep up to scratch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Bv ANDREW RoTHSTEIN

MOSCOW (By MaiD.--October 1,
the day of the ending of the second
year of the Five-Year Plan, was
"Shock Brigade" day in the Soviet
Union.
The bare recital of the different
forms of mass initiative in the fac
tories is sufficient to show that in
the Soviet Union there exists today
a new kind of working-class-in-
spired with the spirit Of mastery, Of
responsibility, of determination to
build and to rule in its own house.
First, in point of time, come the
rationalizers' groups groups Of
active workers in each shop, who
meet in their spare time to discuss
practical problems of rationalizing
production in their own shop.
Next come the planning and
operative groups. These, as their
name implies, represent a step fur
Their. Instead Of tackling isolated
problems of naturalization, they
strive to improve the general plan
of production of the shop as a
whole.
The Vast Mass Drive.
AS the continuation of, and sup
plementing this system, came the
vast mass drive known now all over
the world as the shock brigade
movement.
Groups of workers engaged on
different parts of the same job
pledge themselves to cooperate as
unit in fulfilling and surprising
the programme of output, raising
productivity per head, lowering
costs, utilizing raw materials 100
per cent, etc.
In many cases, when the output
planned was not being reached, e.g.,
in the mines, at the docks, shock
brigades acted as voluntary break
down gangs.
Hundreds of thousands of
workers have entered these shock
brigades, entering into friendly
rivalry with one another known
as Socialist competition"
But the shock brigades in then
work come up against difficulties
sudden lack of some essential raw
material, metal or spare part, an
unaccountable delay in delivery of a
new machine, a hold-up in the shop
for several hours because some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
NEW SLAVERY
FOR WORKERS
DARING TO QUIT
Green Also Has En-
slavement Plan

(By a Worker Correspondent
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-Yester-
day this advertisement appeared in
the Grand Rapids Press, "Molders
wanted at the Keller Brass Co.
Only former employees need apply"
This morning found me in the job
less line at the company employ
ment office. A few years ago I
had worked there for six months in
the copprous laden atmosphere of
this slave-driving hell-hole and had
quit in order to save what was left
Of my health. But now in despera-
ton after months Of fruitless search
for work and a long series Of meat
less and eatless days and weeks I
was willing to go back again even
though I knew that wages had been
greatly reduced and the speed-up
intensified during the last few
years.
The employment manager appears
"Any Of our old molders in the
line" he shouts. He is answered by
a chorus of 81 am" Then he asks,
"Did you quit or get Iaid-off?" of
one after the other of the avowed
old molders.
New Slavery Methods.
For years, the term 'flayed-off"
has been a very ambiguous one
among industrial workers. When
you begin to drop on the job and
lag behind little bit, or if you get
a little careless in the rush and
make too many unacceptable mis-
takes, the boss is apt to slip up to
you just before quitting time some
night and quietly inform you with a
blank expression on his face that
he is very sorry but he will have to
clay you off" In this sense, it is
only a polite form of the word
fired"
So in spite of the fact that
many workers have learned espe-
cially the lear or SO that the
words, 'layed-off" are also used
in their true meaning, nearly all
of the molders answered that they
had not been layed off, but had
quit. We have always considered
in the past that voluntarily quit
ting job was an honorable meth
cd of parting ways with an en-
ployer. But the employment man
ayers answer showed us that we
had another guess coming. He
said that only those who had been
laid off would be considered and
that those who had quit of their
own accord would not be hired.
Green In 1t.
William Green, the well fed
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, has similar pro-
posal for. making workers bond or
chattel slaves of the bosses. His
proposal is to pay the workers by
the year. The worker and the
boss sign a contract which keeps
the worker as the bosses slave
for year. This is the first step
towards tying him up for life as
the slave of an individual boss.
But we workers, under the lead
ership of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party
will have something to say about
this.
-Jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
B @ SSES COURT
CONVICT MURDOCH
Make It Crime to Elk
pose A. F. Of L.

DANVILLE, Va, Oct. 19.-Wm.
Murdoch, National Secretary for
the National Textile Workers Union
has been convicted and sentenced to
100 days Imprisonment for expos
ing in a leaflet, distributed to the
Danville mill strikers, the treachery
of the A. F. of L. leaders in the
conduct of the textile strike.
The international Labor Defense
is appealing the case through their
attorneys in Danville, and rousing
mass action against the mill owners
tools, the courts of Virginia. The
official transcript of the charges is
clear proof of the class character
of the curt and the role of the A. F..
of L. Charge / reads:
'He did falsely write and publish
of and concerning the said Francis
German, "Gorman is liar"
German is an official of the
U.T.W., the A. F. of l.. organiza-
ton leading the strike.
The second charge reads:
Returning of the 10 per cent
wage cut stolen from the workers
in February, meaning by this that
the said H. R. Fitzgerald of the
Riverside and Dan River cotton
mills had been guilty Of theft"
Fitzgerald is one of tn EMIL own
ers.
A militant fight will be put up
by the international Labor Defense
against the mill owners courts who
are directly protecting the interests
Of the mill owners and their COM
pany union the U.T.W.