The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
W.. FOSTER BEFORE FISH
COMMITTEE EXPOSES 1T
AS PART OF BOSS TERROR
n Smashing Attack He and Amter Tear Into
Capitalist Systems Exploitation, Mass
Misery for 100000 JObIess
Show Up Lynch Law of States Represented on
the Committee; Expose War Plot Against
USSR.; Denounce Attacks on Workers
BY HARRY CANNES
Especial to The Daily W0rker)

z. Foster, Israel Amter, and Harry
Cannes of the Daily Worker on the
stand, and suffered defeat. Foster
and Amter turned the attack by the
Fish Committee into counter at
tack on capitalism. They tore the
hypocritical mask off the commit
tees investigation" and exposed Mr..
Fish and company as out to do the
dirty work of trying to bind the
American working class into a still
deeper slavery in preparation for
the most terrible of world wars.
The Daily Worker representative
nailed the yarn about Moscow
gold" and told how the exploited and
unemployed working masses them
selves supported their own paper, the
Daily Worker All-three had been
served with special subpoenas.
In the course of the hearing the
committee showed plainly that it is
going to advocate laws for the finger
printing and registration of foreign
born workers, that it is going to try
to outlaw the Communist Party and
militant workers organizations, that
1t is going to call for an embargo on
Soviet products. Fish stated that,
you can quote me one hundred per
cent for that"
Reads Statement
aa Fosters written statement pub
lished in full in this issue Of the
Daily Worker) had tremendous eff
feet, and most of the Committee
members visibly WINGED.
Then, after the reading of the
statement, Bachman referred to the
part which tells of the horrors of
capitalist rule in West Virginia from
which state Bachman is represen-
tative) and tried to deny discrimina-
ton against Negroes there.
Foster brought out facts proving
it and Bachman shut Up.
Some of the questions asked makes
it evident that the Fish Committee
is proposing a whole series of laws
against the revolutionary workers. es-
pecially against the foreign-born.
Nelson asked a whole series OF
questions on the foreign-born work
ers, whether the idea of fl ger print
ing and registering them was all
right.
Against Finger Printing
Foster declared that this was a
direct move<of the bosses to carry on
the wage cutting campaign, black
listing of the foreign-borr. workers,
discriminating against them, and in
general, is in line with the terrorist
campaign against the foreign-born
and native workers as the crisis in
creases
On the question of unemployment
Nelson asked Foster what the Com
munists propose to do about elimi-
mating unemployment. Foster brought
forward the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, around which large
numbers of workers are rallying.
Nelson asked: "How will you do
away with Unemployment
Foster replied, "You can net do
away with unemployment under cap
italism. We propose the seven-hour
day and elimination of speed-up the
five-day week and immediate unem-
ployment insurance. The bosses an
swer is terror and bread lines For
instance, in New York City there are
fifty-three bread lines. Out of bud
get of 620,000,000 it was only after
a tremendous protest led by the Com
munists in which unemployed work.
ers were slugged, that measly ST.
100000 was finally allocated for UNI
employment"
Worried Over A. F. L.
The committee dwelt on the A. F.
l.. in relation with the Trade Union
Unity League. Bachman asked, isn't
1t your function to supplant the A.
F. L.? Foster replied, TT is not our
function to supplant any capitalist
institution. It is our task to organ
lie the great masses of workers to
, fight against wage cuts, against
speed-up and fight for unemploy-
ment insurance. The A. F. l.. is car
rying on the noAstrike agreement
under which the bosses have already
cut wages to the extent of $8,000,-
100000. The A. F. l.. is part Of the
capitalist system, one Of its best sup
porting institutions and in all our
struggles against the capitalist sys-
tenn we are struggling against the
fascist leadership of the A. F. L.
which is closely allied with the bosses
in all it, terrorist campaigns and
Wngo cut drives. The socialist party
Ncm&tuued pD Psge Eiyel