The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1029 pmLOTEROF HARLEM WORKERS SAYS ‘KEEP MUM’ Makes Use of Barriers of Prejudiée (Continued from Page One) in the mold of society would mean ld be deprived of their s as exploiters of workers of their race, be de- ir self-glorious position humanitarians and oe When this system of segregation and exploitation is wiped out these petty exploiters will lose their thrones. On Other Side. They like to make people think the: re liberal. But in reality, they participate as actively as anyone in the class struggle—on the side op- New York Workers Hold Their Greatest May Day Demon stration Photo shows part of crowd of thousands of workers in Union Square at the May Day parade, one of the greatest demonstrations of working clas solidarity ever seen in the U. S. posed to the workers. * reader of the Daily Worker, even | while still in Porto Rico, py ae Perched On Wall. ‘HAT is the nature of one of the Porto Rican “leaders.” He will to convince the Porto Rican . * “it “Liga Puertorriquena E, Hi pana,” the American Porto Rican | League, located at 75 West 113th Street, is such an organization. A, R. Hernandez, president, makes his living from this organization, ~ It is supposed to be a ben society, try workers that this concrete wall of | perched on this wall, waving wands of humanita: ism and should the | charging regular dues and giving $500 in case of death and a few dol-| A r | wall be o hrown, he too would} Ys veek ir se of sickness. Her-| . A és lars a week in case of sickness. Her" | fall. He is said to have been some Cpe idk aadaniaal * pes sort of a socialist in the early stages | members. The emergency housing situation existing in Lower Harlem gave Her- nandez—who, it is said, has political | aspirations in coming with one o: the machines in Harlem—an oppor N K ieee tunity to practice more posing as a| “°8to bourge e ; is id ms humanitarian. He called a meeting | °f, the white exploit or the a few weeks ago to discuss the| Privilege of being allowed to exploit Multiple Dwellings Bill, then on| the Negro workers, We found the Governor Roosevelt’s desk, and the| Church, politicians and courts help- expiration of the Emergency Rent| ing them. _ ; ET Laws—a discussion which was|, The Latin-American bourgeoisie forced by the activity of the Harlem | '§ 7° different, They too are the | Tenants League during its agitation | memies of the Latin-American work- | against these measures. ers. They are just as despicable, a iw parading under humanitarian sur- Workers Talk. faces, keeping the workers in slavery Many Porto Rican and other Latin- | the better to exploit them. American workers, very intimate “Centro Obrero de Halbo Espan- with the “housing emergency,” at-) ola,” which holds its regular meet- tended this meeting. Some Latin-| ings on Thursday nights at 55 W. American workers, representing the| 133rd St., talks the language of Harlem Tenants League were also! workers fighting against the whole present. | system of exploitation with its Her- The meeting would have ended | nandezian hanger-ons. with a bunch of ballyhoo, and long- * * 8 winded eruptions from the kind Mr. Continue following the Daily Hernandez, if the militant Latin-| Worker in its exposure of housing American workers present did not conditions in Latin-American Har- take matters into their own hands. Jem. The concluding article on They took the floor to expose the, Lower Harlem will appear to- fake nature of the laws passed by) morrow. Monday we will take you the state legislature, which has done) to “Hell’s Kitchen.” nothing in regards to housing but) ‘Tenants! Write in to the Daily pass laws for the last half century) Worker, describing the conditions and then forget all about them. In under which you are forced to no uncertain terms they showed the live. true nature of the capitalist system, So Ee a “FOOD DECISIVE” of his ‘career. Maybe that accounts | |for his aptness in the role of a be- trayer. Our Enemies. In upper Harlem we found the | a which segregated the foreign and colored workers in groups all the better to exploit them in the factor- ies and in the tenements. Hernandez Betrays. They. summed up all this, and! +» more, in a resolution, which proposed | that those present at the meeting SAYS PERSHING send a committee to the Harlem Ten- ants League, which has a fighting program for workingclass tenants. The resolution was passed unani- mously over the heads of Hernandez and his friends. The president see- ing that the tide threatened to drown out his humanitarian pose, expressed agreement with the resolution. But now, weeks after the meeting, that committee has not yet reported at the office of the Harlem Tenants League. Hernandez, working from his office, saw to it that the commit- tee did not arrive. * * A Good Talker. IE visited Hernandez at his office. He spoke many kind and long phrases, flowered with the many- ‘colored words of a typical liberal. ‘He talked long trying to convince us * ization, of his own charitable Ria ‘and plentiful hand. But* finally we got him to the erucial point. He had been telling us of the suffering of the Porto Ri how they toiled in restaurant and tendey for miserable wages and lived in unhabitable houses. He had a word about discrimination, of which the colored Porto Ricans » most frequent victims, often to find their bread and butter ‘oldest trade in history. ‘= The Crucial Point, ie fit do you no+ think,” we asked, i by far the greatest difficulty orto Ricans must face is the violent prejudice instigated against them idez leaned back in his chair, pickirg for words with athpick. & » “Don’t Talk.” 11,” he said, after considerable , “we don’t talk much about there. It can’t be helped. That’s way America is. They'll just damn the foreigner. We might the second nature of the in.” is his attitude. It cannot be It is the second nature. He talks about it. For to fight it would mean removing his ain of exploitation. ndez is either a Creole or an and it is unlikely that he om Porto Rico, Working ir, while he was talking was Rican Negro. He listened y and we saw him prick up when we asked the question us later that he was i cannot be removed. ll them to accept it as fin- ible, to remain cowed walls, rather than to ses and overthrow them, of the beneficial services of his or- | \Gastonia Strike Leader | Asks Aid for Pickets | (Continued from Page One) | the workers joined the struggle last | | week, more than 800 families are | fed daily. This means that in Bes- {semer City alone we have to fur- |nish food to more than 3,200 men, women and children, In addition, | hundreds of others must be taken care of in Pineville, Lexington and! Charlotte. The responsibilities of the Workers International Relief are great but I am sure that it will) fulfill its expectations. Vary Diet. “Before the beginning of the| |strike a typical meal of a North} | Carolina textile worker consisted of | | biscuits, sour belly grease, sorgum | and potatoes. “Among the food-stuffs distribu- ‘ted at the W. I. R. stations can be | found flour meal, potatoes, lard, salt | pork, gritz, milk for the babies, coffee beans, cabbage and carrots. All of these are not given every | day, but varied from time to time. Boss for Starvation, “The Workers International Re- | lief is being watched closely both | by the strikers and the mill own- |ers. The strikers are watching it | to get food, so they will not starve | and will be able to fight on until j they win. The mill owners are | watching hoping that the food will | | give out so the workers will starve! \It is a grim game and if the re- lief distribution centers continue to | furnish food, can only bring one | result, the victory of the workers. | “As an organizer of the National | | Textile Workers Union, I appeal to | | all supporters of the militant work- | | ing class to contribute funds to feed | the strikers. Do not delay, as hesi- tation is dangerous. Send a lib-, eral donation to the national office | of the Workers I ternational Relief, | located at 1 Union Sq., New York City.” | | ‘Adopt Amendment for | Farm ‘Relief’ Measure WASHINGTON, May 2 (UP). —The Norris amendment to the McNary farm relief bill, providing | for a graduated decrase in the de-| benture whenever an increase in| crop production is predicted, was | adopted by the senate today with-| out a record vote, Of al the clanses thut stand fae to face with Cre bourgeoisie tod the pro‘ctarint ulone in a really revo: lutionary Karl Marx (Com- munist Manifento). 2 Cement (Continued from Page One) I am worn to pieces. In order to get a handful of flour, didn’t I pillage our home? Didn’t I almost strip myself? I shall soon have to drop all modesty and go naked. I had children —little boys—and was a decent happy mother. Where are they now, Gleb? Why am I no longer a mother? I want a nest; like a hen, I want chicks. But they have perished... . Why amTalive? Let my eyes burn out, Gleb; they were not made for the night, but for the shining day.” Her lips and cheeks quivered, and she looked at him with eyes dim with tears. She kept on pulling her skirt down over her knees, and pulling up her blouse over her bosom, until she almost split the stuff. Yes, this was a different Motia, suffering and angered. In the drooping corners of her mouth and in her pain-scorched eyes, there lurked a feverish and still unrealized force. Gleb remembered her still among her noisy brood of young children —one at the breast, one clinging to her skirts, and the others playing around her; and she in their midst like a busy cluck- ing hen, while in her eyes there shone the quiet happiness and cheerful self-sacrifice of a mother, Seas seized a stool and threw it violently over towards the table. Then sat down, like a worn-out beast, and banged his fist upon the table. “We've come to the end of things, curse it! We're starving! Brother Gleb, I’m giving up. There’s nothing but emptiness and the grave. I’m dying from too much strength, dear Gleb. I’m full of strength, and yet I’m afraid, Tell me, why am I afraid? I’m not afraid of death: that means nothing to me. I’m afraid of the gloom and devas- tation here.. heap. Gleb?” Motia looked at him, the grimy tears trickling from her tormented eyes; and Gleb saw in her face an anxious love for her husband. “Dress yourself, you big animal! Aren’t you ashamed of looking like a tramp? Your face looks like a dented old bucket. Mine is pretty well beaten up—but yours has been smashed by the devil.” F And in this deep cry of Motia’s there’ was only a feigned anger, for her voice was broken with tenderness. Gleb burst out laughing. “You're a funny lot, you are!” “Motia, come here. Kiss me, my little wife!” Savchuk lifted her up like a little girl and set her down close to himself, FRM far behind the hill the tops of the dead smoke-stacks glittered like empty tumblers. And along the mountain slopes, clothed in dark brown bushes, the silent trucks, like dead tortoises, were perched upon the rusty cable-way. “The factory. . . . Oh, Gleb, think what it used to be and what it is now! Just remember how the saws used to sing shrilly in the cooper’s shop—just like young girls in spring- time. Ah, old friend, I was hatched here. I knew no life out- side of this hill.” Savchuk was longing for the old whirr and din of the factory. He shed tears at the death of once active labor. In his yearning for the vanished life of dead machines, he re- sembled a blind man, with his wistful smile and lifted face. Motia stood close beside him, like him, as one blind and weeping. A mother bereft of her brood. “You can beat me, Savchuk, if you like, but my home is everything to me. Well, at least do your beast’s job properly. Come, hit me!” : “Motia, do you want me to be like all the others? Must I make tubs for the peasant on the sly? And didn’t you go with your rags, selling our household remnants from village to village, you poor stray beaten dog?” ° He cienched his fists and ground his teeth. And Motia stood, speaking as in a dream, “We had a decent home, Savchuk, and our children were such dear little things. Your blood and my blood. Let’s make a new home, Savchuk. I can’t bear it; I can’t Savchuk, I shall go along the highway to find homeless children.” 'HEY stood there: Motia on one side, Gleb on the other. Gleb, deeply moved, laid his hand on Savchuk’s shoulder. “Say, Savchuk, my old pal. When we were kids we used to go to work together. And Motia was our companion then. You’ve been sitting here like an owl hooting your misery through the night, while I was shedding my blood, fighting the enemy. Now I’ve come back. And I’ve no home any more and the works are closed. Motia’s a good woman. Let’s get our strength back, Savchuk. We've been beaten, but we've learned how to hit back. Damn it, we’ve learnt it well, Savchuk! Give me your hand, you damned old cooper!” Savchuk gazed at him wildly and shook his head. He didn’t understand. He saw him through a blood-shot mist. Motia leaned towards Gleb and, without shame, put her arms round his neck. “Dear Gleb. se Savchuk is a good fellow. It’s his strength which has driven him mad. Savchuk’s all right, Gleb. I don’t want anything except to have some children to take care of, Oh, what a fate, what a fate!” “Don’t make such a fuss of him, Motia, he isn’t your lover!” Gleb caressed Motia’s hand and laughed: “What a funny couple you are!” It doesn’t exist any more. And where am I then, Look at it: this is no factory—it’s a rubbish — THOUSANDS IN DEMONSTRATION “THRAOUT U, S. May 1 Parades, Strikes, | Great Mass Meetings (Continued on Page Five) | held at the gates of factories dur- | ing the noon hour, and hundreds of workers who had listened to the Communist speakers at that time |} \left their jobs in the afternoon to | attend a great demonstration Inion Park, near the scene of the | Haymarket affair, forty years ago. | | In the evening Street Carmen's | |Auditorium was packed during a} |huge mass meeting. | At McCormick Works. For the first time the Harves- ter Workers’ shop paper was sold | in many thousands of copies at the |McCormick Harvester Works, where lon May Day in 1886 the eight-hour strike movement was launched, re- {sulting in vicious resistance by the | lemployers and the killing of four | | workers and wounding of 30 on May |8, with the Haymarket demonstra- |tion being called as a protest next day—and that resulted in the Hay- market tragedy and the hanging of the Haymarket victims. With this tremendous _ history |back of them the meetings this year lvevived the militancy of 1886, and jdemanded organizational forms to |give it strength, outlined the build- ing of the new militant unions and the Trade Union Unity Convention. Engdahl at Webster Factory. | Speakers at two big noon meet- \ings at the Webster Electric plant |were Engdahl, Kruse and Chilovsky. |The Webster plant is the second largest in America, employing 29,000 jat present, including 10,000 women. |This number is considered the larg- |est number of women employed in jeny single industrial plant in the | world, Other meetings were held at the | the Crane Co., the Deering Farm Tmplement Co., throughout the Goose Island district and before |cther factories wherever at least |3,000 are employed. All the meetings were advertised iby 100,000 leaflets distributed the day before, * * Demands in New Bedford. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 2, —The militant New Bedford textile |workers celebrated May Day witha mass meeting in which 5,000 gath- cred in Bristol Arena and adopted ja fighting resolution for abolition |of the speed-up in the textile mills, 1a 20. per cent increase in wages and \the establishment of a 40-hour 5-day week. The keroes of the New Bedford * strike showed their solidarity for) munist Party in New York City, in| marched under their banners. \their fellow-workers _ striking North Carolina by raising $200 at |the meeting. |Pullman carshops, the steel plants, | ‘BIG MAY 1 PARADE | Working Class Chil ¥ s et 4 in|} Organize A. F. of L. Hundreds of work. ing class children re: sponded to the call of ‘Out of School on May Day!” of the Young Pioneers, Over 500 Pioneers marched in the greatest May Day demonstration and parade ever held in the United States. Photo shows some of the children in the parade, Post of Strikebreaking Legion LOS ANGELES, (By Mail). — | revolution and shouting “Down with | START EVICTIONS TO SMASH MILL STRIKE IN. SOUTH with the legion, which has many W.LR. Asks Tents to times, as at present in the southern | textile strike, acted as a esl House Workers strikebresitog agony | (Continued from Pege One) the mill workers were compelled to Final steps toward the organiza- tion of an American Federation of Labor post of the American Legion have been taken here. The post is dedicated to the late misleader and traitor to labor, Samuel Gompers. The local A. F. of L. officialdom has also endorsed a legionnaire and bitter foe of the workers as mayor of this city. The officials of the| | reactionary unions are cooperating {buy at the mill company store. oda | If the Workers International Re- lief Store has not enough food for all the strikers every day, the work- ers have to go hungry until the re- lief store is re-stocked, Immediate and generous contribu- | s\tikers |Send money at once to the Workers |International Relief, Room 604, |Union Square, New York City. Beal and Reeve Arrested. Organizer Fred Beal and Karl !Reeve, local representative of the [International Labor Defense, were \arrested late last night in Gastonia, where they were searched and threatened and driven to their room. Taken to the police station, they were finally released, the authori- \ties finding it impossible to muster - eye up enough “evidence” against them. ees ticapibetcce cel uaiatie me Ellen Dawson, local organizer of Keke the National Textile Workers’ The various sections of the Com-| Union, has been summoned to New | York for hearing May 6, where the federal authorities are attempting to Many Demonstrate; Precedes Mass Meet (Continued from Page One) Chiang Kai-shek,” marched the Chi- nese workers zccompanied by two revolutionary Japanese sailors who had left a warship to participate in the parade. Seamen Advance. The Marine Workers Progressive League, rallying point for militant. Delegates from all parts of the |srame her tions to buy tents for the evicted | are absolutely necessary. | 1| | The speakers were: Pires, a Gas-| the Young Workers (Communist) jtonia striker; Weisbord, secretary | League, now holding its apes) lof the National Textile Workers | here, presented an imposing division |Union; Ben Wells, ‘rom England, | of the parade. in connection with her | country to the annual convention of | naturalization papers, oe By GEORGE PERSHING. Bessemer City Strike Demands, dren Quit Schools May Day WORKERS MAN. ‘ BARRICADES IN BERLIN BATTLE ‘Many Killed as Police Attack May 1 Crowds (Continued from Page One) cant May Days in its whole history with the inauguration and distribu- tion of new shop bulletins and other literature at scores of factories in morning hours, Twenty open-air meetings were Over 3,000 have been arrested dur- ing the last 24 hours in Berlin. Workers Aroused. Feeling among the workers, in- \cluding those in other parts of Ger- |many, runs high. The factory work- jers of Hamburg are organizing a huge demonstration tonight to pro- test the police terror in Berlin, and |hundreds of thousands who did not |take part in the fighting at all are | shocked by the brutality of the po- lice and their social democratic lead- ers and capitalist masters. Already the conservative organs of Berlin and otner cities express the fear |that prohibition of the May Day |demonstrations and the attempt te break them up was a serious error in tactics, and will be reflected by an enormous increase in Communist ‘votes in the coming elections. May Day demonstrations, which were not attacked in cities other than Berlin, drew millions of German workers into participation. * * Defend Vilna Demonstration. ~ | VILNA, Poland, May 2.—Polish |police attacked the May Day dem- {onstration of workers led by the Communist Party here, and a street battle resulted, in which many shots were fired. Although eighteen | workers were wounded when rifle and machine gun fire was turned | upon the massed crowds, the work- jers gave a good account of them- selves and wounded six police when |the demonstration was charged. oe. © Strike, Arrests in Paris. PARIS, May 2.—Troops were mobilized and extra police placed on the streets all day May 1, but in spite of this a one-day strike tied up communications, cabs and street |cars did not run, and most of the factories here were stilled. Hun- dreds of open-air demonstrations in the suburbs where workers live | were attacked, the workers ridden | down and arrested, only to have the | demonstrations continued with fresh recruits at nearby points. at ae * Belgian Workers’ Demands. BRUSSELS, May 2.—Working | class organizations paraded today at |the call of the Communist Party, | preceded by Red Guards armed with | sticks. No attack was made cn the demonstration, which ended with jhuge mass meetings at which reso- lutions were passed to fight for the | lehehoue Gay. A similar demonstration in Ant- |werp had to throw out a handful land Eli Keller. | aha ame | Minneapolis Labor Defies Police. | MINNEAPOLIS, May 2—The |Communists held a May Day meet- ling in Minneapolis yesterday nite of police intimidation. Twenty- five motoreycle police and as many detectives and stool-pigeons threat- icned the speakers with arrest if the meeting were held. In answer to this attempt at ter- rorization, over a thousand workers, harassed by the police continu- jously, fearlessly demonstrated. Denounce Imperialism. Pat Devine, Communist district orgenizer, scored Mayor Leach in {his speech and called upon the |workers to rally to the support of \the colonial peoples, the Filipinos, \the Nicaraguans and Latin Ameri- cans, struggling against imperial- jism. | The crowd broke into espetially jhearty applause on mention of the Soviet Union and the southern tex- tile strikers, | The speaker was thereafter taken ‘from the platform by a police lieu- tenant, and the crowd proceeded to |Humboldt Hall and listened to Tom \Foley, Communist candidate for ‘mayor; Nick Maki and Dave Moses, |Communist candidates in the 'Phird |and Fiurth Wards, tell of the revo- lutionary significance of May Day. de +e # Seattle Workers Protest Fascist. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 2.—The |workers of Seattle rallied to the call \of the Communist Party to hold a ‘great protest meeting here yester- iday, simultancously with the Swed- lish fascist, meeting in the Civic Auditorium, The Communist Party district or- 'ganizer, Sorenson, was the principal speaker at the workers’ May 1 mect- ing; others were a representative jof the Young Communists, three (ther speakers in English, including .a Negro speaker, and speakers in |Swedish, Finnish, South Slavic, Rus- sien and Jewish, Consul Has Communist Jailed. The workers’ meeting was a suc- cess to the finish, although the Swedish consul here appealed to the police to do something. Thirty po- lice were on guard at the fascist’s meeting. The consul personally had one Communist arrested. The jailed worker was Comrade Pitkin, who lwas distributing leaflets in Swed- \ish’ which exposed Lundborg as an enemy of the working class and a fake hero of the capitalist class. The leaflets were confiscated by the police wherever they could find them, , ca in| Captain Lundborg’s | | | | | Needle Trades Workers. The Needle Workers Industrial Union, brave fighters est and most impressive battalions. Marching thru the crowded down- town section, the parade was view- | ed by thousands of workers forced to remain on the job, Workers in the shipping houses stopped carting the crates to look at the parade. Workers on a huge building con- struction on Uni~ersity Place, for- got to listen to the tinkling of the shift bell, and gazed at the paraders who urged them t> come and join | the mass demonstration of solidar- ity. Massed on Union Square. For three hours Union Square re- mained a milling mass of workers, drawn to the scene of the mass dem- | onstration, even aftc> the parade was over, singing revolutionary songs and cheering. Workers’ Cen- ter, decorated in red from top to bottom, festively overlooked the en- tire square. Mounted police, drawn up in large numbers, swung their horses on the pavement in front of the Center, attempting to disperse the mass of workers. 3 Workers Arrested. Three workers were arrested dur- ing the course of the day. A. Hou- dima and Brosman were arrested in the morning near South Ferry for distributing May Day leaflets and the May Day edition of the Daily Worker to the seamen. After being taken to the First Regent Police Station, they were tried in the First District Magistrate Court before Magistrate Weil. The workers were held without bail pending submis- sion of briefs for trial May 7. Minnie Lurie, delegate from Chi- cago to the convention of the Young Workers League, was arrested in the afternoon at 14th St. and Irving Pl. after detectives attacked a group of young workers with brass knuckles and blackjacks. She was thrust into a cab and taken to 67th St. police station, charged with lead- ing a parade without a permit and disorderly conduct. Bail was placed at $500 which was provided by the New York District of the International Labor Defense. When she «ppeared for trial yester- day morning, she was virtually re- arrested, and bail w: ain placed at $500, which was again supplied by the I. L, D. The trial was post- poned until May 6. The I. L, D. is d CASeS, —-~-++—- HARD.” GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail).— | cf Trotskyists who attempted to in- The workers in the Goldberg Spin- | terfere, The police rushed to the in many| struggles, formed one of the larg-| ing all brs ning Company of Bessemer City presented to the manager of the American No. 1 Mill the following demands which were voted on at a |mass meeting just prior to the cali- | City: | 1, an 8-hour day; 2 20 per cent 8, pay for all hanks run; 4, 50 per {cent reduction in rent; 5, abolition jof the stretch-over system; 6, rec- jognition of the National Textile | | Workers Union. These? demands characterize the growing militancy of the workers in their fight for better conditions. The demand for an 8-hour day, com- ing in the face of a state law that makes the 55-hour work week legal, is proof of a general awakening among the textile workers in the south. hanks run, was made after it was learned that the company had re- |adjusted the “hank-clocks” so that they would register 866 yards to the hank instead of the standard 840 yards. In this manner the boss had been gaining 26 yards on every hank that was run. It had also been the custom of the boss not to pay for ony fraction of a hank run. This enabled him to make additional profits amounting to thousands of dollars over a period of one week. Bosses Violate Own Laws. U. F. Taylor, a former worker in the Loray mill in Gastonia, was fired from that mill because he threatened to expose the resident |manager, Tabor, for having these hank clocks changed so that workers. jrun 150 yards more yarn to rake |the clock register one hank. This custom was—and still is—practiced by the company in gross violation of the state law and the United States law on weight and measure. Campaign to Abolish Death Penalty Grows BERLIN, May 2 (UP). —A vigorous campaign for abolition of capital punishment in Germany appeared to be gaining ground to- day as various factions in the Reichstag swung around to a posi- tion favoring a proposed measure making murderers liable only tc life imprisonment. The campaig has been a long one, but German counts recently have given indications that the general public would support enactment of Ee aa ne ing of a general strike in Bessemer | j increase in pay. for all operatives; | The third demand, pay for all) }on speeder frames would have to) jaid of the disrupters and arrested | two workers who took part in eject- \ing the followers of Trotsky. re ar { 15,000 Parade in Tokio. TOKIO, May 2.—Daring the rain- storm which continued all day, and the 8,000 Japanese military and po- lice who came out to enforce the laws against “dangerous thoughts” and those which provide the death penalty for Communists, 15,000 Japanese workers marched across | Tokio yesterday. The police arrest- ‘ed 150 during the parade, but see- \ing the determination of the work- ‘ers, released them later in the day. Similar demonstrations took place \in’ Osaka, where 10,000 paraded |after a mass meeting, and in Yoka- hama and Kyoto. * + * Denounce Morgan in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, May 2.—Portes Gil’s police, armed with loaded rifles which they did not fire but | wielded as clubs, assaulted the head of a parade of several thousand | workers led by the Communist Par- jty and the new militant trade union |center when it appeared before the American embassy. The workers were shouting, “Down with Morrow |and Morgan, the present rulers of Mexico.” “+ * Arrest Palestine Communists, JERUSALEM, May 2.—Commu- | nists demonstrating in Telaviv were jattacked by the British police, and three arrested. A one-day strike in |all industries took pla Me age Celebrations Everywhere. Mobilization of police and troops in Bulgaria, Jugo-Slavia, Greece, | Lithuania, and Finland stopped May \Day demonstrations. | Communist demonstrations on a large scale took place in Vienna and Prague. All factories in Spain were closed jon Moy 1, Terrific gales and wind storms prevented the May Day par- ades in Norway and Sweden, and these have been postponed until Sunday. A one-day strike, with parades took place in Havana, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, All work was stopped in Bolivia. GRANITE WORKERS STRIKE ‘granite quafriers are striking in Cornwall for a wage increase from a shilling and four pence to a shilling and six pence an hour, ‘The proletaria the aclf-cons movement of movement ig a, 4 manjor= ity-——Karl M: ‘Communist Maetz ar) jarx aan ea J we eS yee LONDON (By Mail).—Over 500 °