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the immediate future Russia must
be regarded as a large purcha
of industrial products of all kinds.
At the moment the United States
with its great financial resources
has a great start over all other
countries on the Russian market.
For Germany it is very difficult to
finance such great industrial orders
as are placed by Russia. The sums
involved in the carrying out of the
Five-Year Plan total many milli-
ards of Marks, whilst the mode of
payment required by the Soviet
government usually extends over
years so that for German industry
which is financially weak such
great orders would represent q
considerable risk. Russia is how
ever inclined to place consider
able portion of its orders in those
countries which suffer particularly
from unemployment. On the other
hand, the Russians examine very
closely into whether a country TAX
ing over an order is really able to
guarantee that it will be complete
ly and promptly carried out. The
latter considerations have probably
been decisive in sending many or
ders to the United States which
otherwise might have been placed
in Germany. German industry is
now suffering severely from empty
running, and undee the circum-
stances it would be wise at least
to consider the possibility of Ger
many obtaining a reasonable por-
ton of the tremendous Russian or
ders. The Russians have the high
est opinion of German technique
and of German technicians. If the
financial side of the question can
be solved, then German industry
will undoubtedly obtain very con-
siderable orders from Russia. We
should give close attention to the
question of whether we could not
cooperate with British and perhaps
also American capital and obtain
their financial support to divide the
Russian market in such a fashion
that Germany would obtain it's fair
share of orders. Great orders are
at stake which could be fulfilled
best of all from the technical point
of view by Germany industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-15
Oakland JObless
Find Big Shut Downs
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
There have been rumors in the
capitalist press that last few days
that business conditions are on the
incline. Three of us were trampina
the streets of Oakland in search OF
a job. Here is what we found.
Heinz's-They hired A men and s
women. The men were paid 81
cents an hour and the women work
on piece rates.
Petes' Soap Factory--Haven't
hired anybody for the last two
months. i.
Parafine Products--Laid off 1s
men the last week.
Westinghouse Electric Co.-Laid
off.
Pacific Manifold-Not hiring.
Magnovox-Closed down.
Judson Steel-Operating on re-
duced forces.
California Packing-Closed down.
Southern Pacific-Laid off.
characteristics Body-Laid off.
Contra Costa Laundry-Laid off.
New Process Laundry-Laid off.
Montgomery Ward-Not hiring
anybody.
California Cotton Milfs-Not hir-
ing anybody.
Housework-Can be gotten, but
wages and conditions are rotten.
Does this look like prosperity in
Oakland?
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Vote Communist!
BY ALLAN JOHNSON.

(This is the goth in the Series o.
Articles on Tammany Hall)
A list of the crimes of Tammany
Judges would stretch from here tt
the end of the moon. And wha-
has been said about VTammany
judges in this series might be sale
about capitalist judges in general
The outline of the biography of each
would remain the same; only rela'
lively unimportant details would be
changed.
The study of these judges has
been confined to typical cases, anc
sinse lack of space requires that this
be the last article on the New York
judiciary it is hoped that workers
will remember these brief biog'
raphies whenever they are brought
before cultured looking gentle
man" who will have no compunctior
about railroading them to long jai
terms for picketing or propaganda
izing their fellow workers. The
chances are something like a mil
lion to one that the cultured look.
ing gentleman" will be an uncon.
scionable crook whose brutality to-
wards militant workers will be in
direct proportion to his own ras.
cality.
The last two examples of this
general condition are Judges Ewalc
and oRsenbluth. Ewald was ap.
pointed by Mayor Walker in 1927
after paying $4,000 for the job
The unusually low price is explain.
ed by the fact that Ewald was te
be put to special use after his ap.
pointment.
AS in Judge Vause's case, Ewald's
present difficulties" were brought
about because of the protests of in.
vestors who had been robbed because
they had been gullible enough to lei
a judge safeguard their money;
When Charles futile was federal
district attorney, he was asked to in
vestigate the Cotter Butte company
which owned several mining claims
near Butte, Montana. futile, be-
cause he had not been bribed to clay
off," as a matter of routine decided
to investigate. When he did, he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-15
futile, COP. Leader, Honorary Member
of Tammany Club That Frees Criminals

found that Judge Ewald was the
person behind the scenes in the
crooked mining" company.
Tuttle Told to sect" Tan,many
futile got a tip from the Ma
tional Republican Committee to get
Tammany for campaign purposes, as
prosperity" had disappeared. And
Tuttle himself had an eye on the
governorship. In the subsequent in
vestigation it was discovered that
Ewald had loaned" Tammany dis
trict leader Healy $4,000 just be-
fore Ewald was appointed magis-
trate. Talk Of a ''loan" is poppy
cock, of course. Ewald paid the
$4,000 for his job, and the reason
he paid so little is explained by the
following.
A bitterly fought strike took place
in the fur trade in 1927. Matthew
Vol, A. F. Of L. Red-baiter and
insurance CRATER, had decided that
the left-wing fur workers union had
become too powerful and laid plans
to destroy it and "reorganize" it as
company union. This "reorgan-
ization committee" comprised Woll,
Edward F. McGrady, associated
with Paul Vaccarelli, convicted gun
man and strikebreaker, and Joseph
Ryan, head of the Central Labor
Council in New York.
Woll and his conferes bought
scores of gunner and cops to as
sault those of the workers
who realized what would happen if
Woll and the A. F. of L. got control
of the union. However, it wasn't
practicable to assault every member
of the union who showed fight, and
as a result the Reorganization COM
mittee' an dthe fur bosses were
forced to put Judges Ewald and
Rosenbluth under contract. The new
tactics were to arrest pickets by
the hundreds and have them brought
before either of these two judges,
who would send them to jail, usually
for a six months sentence.
Judge Ewald alone sent more than
$50 pickets to prison. Sitting next
to him on the bench as he handed
down his brutal sentences, was
Samuel Markowitz, lawyer for al
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but don't fight. Oh, moi Just hope
that the hokum dished up by Hoo.
yer, Hearst, Ford, Edison, ETC., will
come true in go days, next summer
next fall next winter. Anyone that
fights against the greedy and bru-
tai capitalist system is either ode.
generate foreigners or else crazy
American"
Cleaning Up"
And they have decided to clear
up on the foreigners-send all OF
them back to Russia, One of them
Nels Kjar, an unemployed ~carpen.
ter, is being held by the imnigra.
ton authorities without bail for in
vestigation. Two workers were re-
leased, because they could not hang
any charges on them. The other
five, including B. Stevens and H.
Schwartz, will be tried tomorrow.
They are out on bail.
As winter comes the unemployed
workers will have to organize their
forces in Unemployed Councils and
make the bosses and their govern
ment suspend all evictions of un-
employed workers.
Fight against evictions! Organ
ize and demand unemployment in
surance! -
AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
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1000 JOBLESS
PROTEST AT AFL
Defy Police; Demand
Unemployment Relief
Continued from Page One)
its ability to prevent strikes during
the industrial depression.

~'NNN'NNSSNN
its ability to prevent strikes during
the industrial depression.
A. F. L. Glories In Clubbing.
And the A. F. of L. bureaucrats
who make up the convention leaned
from the Bradford Hotel windows
and urged the police on again and
again to brutal clubbing Of the I'M
employed workers.
1t was 11:40 a. M, with the huge
crowd assembling rapidly, that R.
K. Glines, secretary of the Council
of the Unemployed, started speak
ing from a truck in front of the
convention hall. The police had
been outwitted and it was five mn-i
utes before they got Strengthened
out. But then began a vicious club
bling of the jobless workers.
Glines Comes Back.
Cops boarded the truck and threw
Glines bodily off, but he defended
himself and came right back and
began to speak again. The cops at
tackled again, with the crowd shout
ing, "Let him speak," eve want
workers unemployment insurance"
Down with the labor takers insur-
ance swindle!"
The A. F. of L. convention came
to an abrupt stop, and the fat boys,
these "lebar leaders," leaned from
the windows and whooped the police
on to club down the workers out
side.
The crowd rallied again after the
police attack, and continued the DEM
onstration before the Metropolitan
Hotel, next to the Bradford. Fem
gold of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, spoke from the
roof of first floor hotel room I'M
til he was finally dragged into the
room.
Workers Resist Police.
The crowd still stuck, milling
around and singing workers songs,
shouting slogans for "Unemploy-
ment Insurance." "Vote Commu-
nist," Shorter Hours and More
Pay" "Organize and Strike Against
Wage Cuts" "Join the Unemployed
Councils" Don't Starve, Fight"
defend the Soviet Union Against
Capitalism and the A. F. of L." etc.
Rescue Prisoners.
The police continued their attacks,
and the workers continued to defend
themselves militantly. Charging
squads of workers often tore away
from the police the prisoners they
had captured.
The crowd was finally dispersed
by masses of police, clubbing most
beating up women work
ers, worn with hunger and already
struck down to the sidewalk by other
police batons.
Rifteen were arrested and taken
to Jail.
After the demonstration was over
seven police rushed into the Com
munist Party office looking for
lost police blackjack. They picked
out young worker and arrested
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-15
FURNITURE OF
EVlCTED STOLEN
Newest Tricks of the
Boss Government

(By a Worker Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-A group of Ne
gro and white workers on an emer
gency call of the eviction of Scot
Whitley, an unemployed Negro
worker, demonstrated against i
and eight were arrested yesterda,
at 7:45 a. m. The police said thai
the workers were interfering will
the execution of the law and wert
charged with disturbing the peace.
STEAL FURNITURE.
The deputy constables, who are
doing the actual throwing out,
were early and bright. They also
brought with them a storage
house van. The number of evic-
lions of unemployed workers is
reaching such proportions that the
Claw" is forced to change the tao
tics. They come early, before
there is any people on the street
so attention won't be attracted.
Besides, they don't put the furni-
ture on the sidewalk, but load it
on a furniture van and take it to
the storage house.
The purpose is two-fold. First,
not to attract the attention of
other unemployed workers and
force them to organize against
evictions, and, second, this is
good graft. The storage company,
knowing the worker is unem-
ployed, demands payment and sells
the furniture for charges, at
fraction of the price. In most
cases the furniture of worker
represents his life savings, but
the 'law" don't give damn for
that. All it cares for is the in
terest of the greedy landlords.
The arrested were held incommu.
nicado for "a hours. During that
time they were questioned by immi-
grafton department officials. Owen
Lutz, Norman Wilmington, Allen
Brooks, Ethel Beran and John Peer
are American-born unemployed
workers. The federal officer was
very much disappointed. His simple
mind cannot understand why not
only militant foreign-born but also
American-born workers refuse to
starve and be sevicted peacefully.
When one of the American workers
was asked how he likes the United
States government and answered
that it would be better if the work
ers were in control, the dick told
him that "We'll deport all foreign
ers and send the American-born to
the City Hospital for mental exam
nation"
100 Per Cent Means Starvation.
Such is the boss agents opinion.
The American workers are "sen-
sible" fellows. They believe in
american" principles, that is, walk
the streets for months looking for a
job, starve, get thrown on the street,
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most all the socialist" unions ir
New York, who pointed out the more
militant Of the pickets-those who
were to be given the longest sen.
fences.
Is it strange that Judge Ewald
was good friend of Legs" Dia-
mond, the largest provider of
gunner strikebreakers in the
Metropolitan district? Is it
strange that when Legs" was
given dinner in a 41st Street
restaurant for being able to buy
his way out of being charged with
the murder of two gunner, Judge
Ewald attended and delivered an
enthusiastic speech in which he
praised Legs" and congratulated
him for convincing" Commission
er Whalen that he hadn't killed
the two gangsters? Is it strange
that Legs who has been in
FoifCu al iOlty NtuIucIS, udSU
been in Jail for almost twenty
years, except for a few hours in
Philadelphia on his recent return
from Germany?
Is it strange that Judge Ewald
The other Of the two judges who
were hired to send the militant fur
workers to prison, Judge Rosen-
bluth, is one of the half-dozen New
York judges now on the bench
through the efforts of ambitious
father-in-laws. To Judge Rosen-
bluth goes the "honor" of being the
first judge in New York to Jail pick
cts for long terms. 1t is quite I'M
derstandable that a man who hi
lacked his father-in-law into buying
a judgeship would be the sort who
would institute such a custom, and
a further investigation of Rosen-
bluth clarifies both the hi-jacking
and the long Jail sentences for pick
cts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-15
GERMAN ENGINEER WARNS BOSSES
OF ADVANCES OF FIVE-YEAR PLAN
Urges German Capitalists to Win Trade Away
From the United States

BERLIN (IPS).-The bourgeois
heavy industrial daily newspaper
"Deutsche Bergwerks-Zeitung" pub
fishes an article under the above
title dealing with the constructive
work being carried on in the Sow
let Union and written by the Ger
man engineer Peter Eyermann of
Dusseldorf who spent a consider
able time in the Soviet Union in
vestigating industrial conditions at
the invitation of the Soviet gov
eminent. The following represents
a digest of his article:
With the Five-Year Plan Russia
has opened up a great drive to Gev-
elop its industrial resources and
possibilities. Opinions as to the
possibilities of success for this plan
are varied. On the one hand the
opinion is expressed that in from
8 to 10 years Russia will be in
dustrially completely independent
of foreign countries, whilst on the
other hand sceptical minds doubt
the possibility of building up a ca
pable and prosperous industry in
Russia at all. 1t would be best to
draw line somewhere between
these two extremes. In a country
with such tremendous natural re-
sources as Russia industrial devel-
opment is inevitable. In any case,
Germany as the nearest industrial
neighbor to Russia would be well
advised to pay more attention to
the happenings in Russia than she
has done up to the present. For
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aa zzkl - H . - - 49,
Disabled Yet
Urges Big Red
Vote Nou. 18th

Bronx, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
On May, 1917, l was one of the
fools that volunteered in the world
war to fight for democracy"
was over in France in real fire
line firing at the Germans.
Today instead of having a demo-
cracy l am sick as dog, no money,
no clothes. Winter is coming. l
swear l will never fight another
capitalist war.
/ have been out of work over five
months now and things look much
worse in the future. Today went
to register but my vote will not go
to any capitalist parties, republican,
democrats (or democrats) or the
fake socialists, but to the only Party
that every worker and ex-service-
man should vote for, the Communist
Party.
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RATION WORKERS
In A M E RIGA
Must Answer Murphy,
Roosevelt BY Fight
CONTINUED from Page y

Continued from Page y
for the use of the workers anc
peasants in ever larger quantities
At the same time nevertheless
wages are going up steadily, hours
of work are being reduced, new mo-
dern workers homes are being
built-whole new villages with all
all modern accommodations are be-
ing erected for the peasants. The
general well-being and the standard
of living of the entire working pop
ulation are rising.
Roosevelt Like Murphy.
Now turn to Detroit and New
York. Mayor Murphy is putting the
unemployed on ration cards-char-
ity to keep the workers from taking
drastic steps in the midst of the
sharp unemployment situation and
starvation that face the workers of
Detroit.
Governor Roosevelt says the state
cannot perform such function.
That is the duty of the cities. In
New York City, we have already
witnessed it, with 10000 workers
standing in line for hours to get a
sloppy handouts. Roosevelt pro-
poses "loans" to the workers that
they will pay back when prosperity
returns. The workers are to saddle
themselves with accommodating debts
because capitalism cannot give them
jobs.
Hardest Winter Coming.
Neither rations nor loans will set
tie the question even this winter,
which will be zone of the hardest
winters the American workers have
ever faced" The starving workers
and impoverished farmers will not
stand idly by, while the other section
of the American population, the cap
italists, live and squander in idle
luxury.
The American workers under the
leadership of the Communist Party
and Trade Union Unity League will
fight and battle using the most mil
liant methods against the barbarism
called capitalism, which forces idle
ness and starvation upon 100000
of them and their families.
Workers. Answer Hoover, Roose-
Uelt and Murphy! Give resound-
ing reply to American capitalism's
proposal to make charity-receivers
of as. Join the Unemployed Coun-
ellis and revolutionary unions of the
Trade Union Unity League. Or
ganize, demonstrate, demand i'm
mediate unemployment insurance.
Strike against wage cuts! Support
the Communist Party and its can
didates in the election campaign!
But prepare to struggle in this "the
hardest winter we have faced in
many years., as Roosevelt now adj
mits!
Don't Starve-Fight!
Vote Communist!
(Written at Harris Island
Penitentiary).
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lights being turned off and
wives and children half
starved. Who can they look
to for help. No, the bosses
and the A. F. of L. don't want
to be bothered with factory
slaves.
Short Time Work.
I get the Daily Worker from a
friend of mine working at the Dur
ant, one of the biggest slave driv-
ing, piece cutting shops in Michi-
gan and that is something.
I work for the Motor Wheel Corp.
Sometimes two hours week and
even to get that I must go every
morning at $50 and stay around all
day.
/ have four small children and my
wife and her aged mother to keep
on that. And have been refused
help from the city because / have
rusty old Ford six years old and
with, about five dollars. They don't
keep families that own cars. You
must sell them and buy your gro
ceries.
Isn't it possible for something to
be done in Lansing?
TX. D. L.
A Motor Wheel Slave.
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District Attorney Grain; Supreme
Court Justice Peter Schmuck;
Magistrate Simpson; Frank Bow
ers, Collector of Customs, and the
aforementioned Judge Rosenbluth.
This organization is clearing
house of crime and is mon
partisan" for all crooks. Ordinarily
the Tammany district leader "takes
care" of those criminals who through
some accident gets arrested. If the
criminal can be useful to Tammany
Hall at election time, the price he
will have to pay for his release will
be proportionately smaller. Tam
many treats its criminals squarely;
it pays. 1t is only when some OBJ
stacle presents itself and interferes
with the release of the criminal that
the clearing ohuse" begins to func-
ton.
Criminal Pays $4,000 for Freedom.
Such an eventuality occurred re-
Gently when a third-termer was
caught in the act of burlarizing a
house by tactless cop. If the bur-
glar were convicted on the charge it
would have meant life sentence.
The Baumes Laws, which have re-
vised the constitution so that pun
ishment can be given twice or more
for the same offense, have been an
important item in Tammany Halls
graft income. When a criminal
faces life term he will pay heavily
to escape sentence. In the case men,
toned above the burglar paid $780,
coo for his freedom. The magis-
trate who freed him had to be con-
tent with $4,000 of this amount. A
half-dozen Tammany chieftains di-
vided the rest.
The clearing house," however,
was never quite as profitable to
Judge Rosenbluth as the contract he
signed with the fur bosses, which
obligate dhim to send picketing fur
workers to Jail. Moreover, none of
the criminals who avail themselves
of the clearing house" would have
the heart to praise him as he was
praised by Barindess, Tammany
chief, friend of socialist" leaders,
and Zionist, who publicly thanked
Rosenbluth Gin the name of the
Jewish nation" for sending the pick
citing fur workers to prison!
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ton offices where 1000 workers
were supposed to have been engaged
for pick and shovel work The
jobless workers have tainted from
hunger while standing in the line.
1t has become a usual matter to see
unemployed workers searching for
food in the garbage pals of the
fashionable districts where the
parasites live.
"The delegation of the Unem-
ployed Councils of Greater New
York and the Trade Union Unity
League will lay these facts tomor-
row before the Tammany Board of
Estimates and will demand that i'm
mediate unemployed relief be insti-
tuted.
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CLEARING HOUSE FOR
CRIMINALS.

In a midtown hotel there ex-
lists an organization whose one
function is to step between gang.
sters and the law. Among its
honorary members are Senator
Royal Copeland; Charles futile,
republican candidate for governor;
Supreme Court Justice Collins;
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Great Falls, Mont.
JObless Council Formed

Great Falls, Mont.
Daily WORKER
We have succeeded in getting
a group of jobfess workers to-
gether and have formed an Unem-
ployed Council.
We have circulated a petition
in the city to force the City Coun-
ell into action openly either for
or against the workers.
of course l am not guessing as
to where they will stand.
L r K
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-15
LANSING AUTO WORKERS WANT MORE
THAN PROMISES OF ORGANIZATION
Where Is the Auto Workers Union and the
Communist Party? Workers Now Ask
Lansing, Mich.
Editor, Daily Worker:

Editor, Daily Worker
About year and six months ago the Auto Workers
Union of Detroit started in to hold meetings in Lansing and
promised the workers of Lansing many things such build
ing strong militant union backed by the Communist Party
but up to date all we have had is promises
Lansing in better condition to organize than
it Automobile slaves losing their homes gas and
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him on charge of the larceny of
the blackjack. Three were arrested
the night before the demonstration.