The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
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N this pears Fan Elections November 4,
1esol many important issues raised in which
the international Labor Defense lie deeply inter
ested.
These elections Estate and nationally are being
held in the midst of growing unemployment that
continues to arouse and sharpen the discomfort
OF the impoverished masses.
The demands Of labor for Work or wages!",
for unemployment relief for social insurance,
against sickness disability, old age, meets an
increasing resistance from the employers and
their government, attempting to place the whole
burden of the crisis the working class. The
boss class in its efforts to escape from this d.
lemma also theoretically seeks markets as
sources Of plumber, for the conquest and holding
Of which war preparations are being pushed on
scale never before attempted.
In the cities many workers die in the streets
OF starvation. Others collapse in the struggle for
Jobs before Employment Agencies in name
only, since they have no Jobs to offer, except to
aot as scab-herding, strike breaking agencies.
There was 600 daily increase during 1880 over
1899 Of victims sent to New York City's prisons,
a direct result of the jobless situation with its
eight to nine millions OF unemployed. Winter lies
country, the agrarian population faces both
drought and food.
The rapidly developing employing class terror
against every working class protest against these
conditions is revealed in the 4,6SS arrests of
workers fought by the International Labor De-
tense during the first seven months Of the year
S4ss during July).
The cry Of the millions Of workers for jobs Is
met with the most brutal oppression. On the
anniversary Of the savage mob murder Of Ella
Mag CBessemer City, September H. 1929, the
list Of our martyred dead has grown with the
nauaes OF Steve Nina, Steve Katovis, Alfred Levy,
GouEalo Gonzales Harzel Weizenberg, George
Horkon. and Lee Mason, while the wave Of
tznching orgies against both Negro and white
workers continues to mount, taking its increas-
ing toll of victims North as well as South.
Congress appoints Fish Committee" an Of
hciaI rnouthpiece of the United States Govern
rnent TO develop the propaganda campaign Of
malicious falsehood to provide the basis for new
legislation calling for special anti-labor police
with drastic laws against the foreign born-reg-
fstretion, photographing, and finger printing. Its
poisonous propaganda has melted new attacks
against workers by such extra-legal organiza-
tons as the Ku Klux Khan (childrens camps
Van Etten. New York;. Injunctions and de-
portattons are used 60 break strikes and smash
working class activities, Farcical trials result
ing IN inevitable guilty verdicts are followed by
the most vicious sentences to long terms Of i'm
prisonment (Gastonia, Imperial Valley. New
York. and Milwaukee Unemployed leaders; VIC
tins OF sedition laws pennsylvania, California;
at the same time the prisoners of the last war
mooney and Billings, the Centralia victins) are
still held behind bars BY the orders of the great
business interests.
The American Federation Of Labor through
It's vice-president Matthew Vol, recognized head
OF Easleys anti-labor National Civic Federation
appears as an outstanding supporter of the Fish
Committees drive against militant workers, and
as an ardent champion Of Ex-Police Commits
sioner Whalens ridiculous and blasted forgeries
against the Soviet Union. In Milwaukee with
It's Socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan, workers
are in prison for having been the leaders Of the
March Sixth Demonstration of the Unemployed
Repeated arrests take place in Milwaukee. of
workers carrying militant working class ac-
tivities. In New York City, with its Hillquits
Brouns and Thomases the Socialists seek to be-
come the best advisers of the police on how to
break up demonstrations of militant workers
crying more efficient" police department
Workers are sent to prison, workers demon
strations are attacked, working class activities
outlawed in republican Pennsylvania, Ohio, H.
nnois, and California; in democratic Georgia,
New York City, Alabama, and Virginia; in So
cialist Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Reading,
Pennsylvania Everywhere however, the Com
munist Party fights for the working class and
against capitalist class justice under the slogan
Of CLASS AGAINST GLASS;"
The class character of the election campaign
struggle is also revealed in the fact that Com
munist candidates for governor (Foster, New
York; Bassett Wisconsin; Story, Georgia)
prisoners of capitalism; that Lee Mason, Negro
candidate of the Communist Party for Congress,
is murdered by the police in Chicago.
Labor in increasing numbers awakens to the
fact that the 1928 national platform of the re-
publican, democratic and socialist parties all en-
tirey ignored mention of political prisoners; up
held through their silence the whole system of
sedition. criminal syndicalism and insurrecton
laws adopted by the various states and used
solely against workers; and raised nowhere men
don Of the right of asylum for political refugees,