The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1930, Page 1

Each Capitalist Power Is Willing to Dis- arm—Its Rivals! They Can Agree— Only to Make Imperialist War Against the Soviet Union! Every Worker Must Defend the Socialist Fath- erland Against the Hyenas of Capitalism! ntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef Ma FINA rker h 3. 1879. Li GFFY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing gg ., Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail, $5.00 per Outside New York, by mail §6.00 per year. year. Price 3 Cents Vol. VI, No. 273 ORKERS JOIN COMMUNIST PARTY AT LENIN MEMORIAL! Today Marks ‘Anniversary of ‘Lenin ’s Death The Police Spill Blood The police resorted to gun fire against the workers on the streets of New York last Thursday night, not for the first time, but with a particularly cold-blooded style. Having shot down Steve Katovis in the effort to break up a meet- ing of workers in front of the Miller Market, the uniformed gunmen resorted again on Saturday to the forcible occupation of a hall in order to prevent the workers from holding a protest meeting against the police crime. Throughout the whole country the watchdogs of the capitalist class are getting uglier as the economic crisis begins to frighten their Wall Street masters. This New York example goes to show that the con- | stantly recurring violence of the police against the workers in IMlinois coal fields, and in the South, such as the murderous assault last July against the Gastonia union hall, and the subsequent murder of Ella May Wiggins as well as the murder of six strikers at Marion, N. C., the increasing thuggery of the police in Chicago, etc.—all constitutes a wave of more violent repression on the part of the uniformed flun- keys of the bourgeoisie. Police Commissioner Grover Whalen, ex- floor-walker for Wanamaker’s department store and now the chief floor walker, or rather the chief street walker, for all of the New York capitalist bosses, is trying to make a scientific system of his vepressive measures. It was necessary, of course, for Whalen to pro- tect the higher-ups in the Rothstein murder, just as he is now doing all in his power to protect the magistrates of New York who are in profits of the murder-ring of His Honor, Albert H. Vitale. But Whalen is trying to offset the necessary stink of the crime and cor- ruption of the New York police with the perfume of propaganda. Whalen says: “We hope to have a branch of the Bureau of Crime Preven- tion in every police precinct of the city, to turn youth into right channels of living and make him the friend of the law.” Six years have passed since the news of Lenin’s death spread to the oppressed and exploited in every | corner of the earth, Millions of hearts weighed heavy with mourn- ing. Lenin was dead. The great leader of the revolution had died on |January 21, 1924, Slaves the world over, in the shops _and fields, and the whip-lashed colo- |nies knew that a great leader had |gone. He was no petty-bourgeois | Lincoln driven into the role of “great emancipator” by the revolu- tionary pressure of history. He was no herald of bourgeois society “free- ling” Négro chattels for the wage- slavery of capitalist society, Lenin expressed the deepest hopes and yearnings of all those who toil and suffer under the yoke of capi- talism; he organized a vast revolu- |tionary army to fight against the oppressor and to establish the rule of the workers throughout the world. He stood at the head of the Continued on Page Three) But he intends more than propaganda. He continues: “Another fanction we have in view for the Crime Prevention officials is the finding of jobs for the boys, and we shall look for the cooperation of employers in this project, not only for their own sake, but for that of the city.” Such meazuves are a slight indication of the efforts being made by the capitalist class, not only in New York, but throughout the sountry, to consolidate their machinery of control over the working slass by semi-fascist means. Not only does a prostitute “socialist” such as Mr. Charles Salomon serve the bosses in direct strike break- ing, ‘but the police are attempting to build a semi-official, semi-private reserve cf organized strikebreaking gangs of reactionary youth of all classes. The increasing open aggres: tial strikebreaking gangs of the boss day throughout the entire country the immediate queston of self de- fense. by the workers. Without organization of their means of self defense the workers of North Carolina would have been murdered by hundreds instead of half dozens, and it is no secret that the loss of six lives of our class at Marion, N. C., was due to the treacherous advice ‘of the A. F, of L. strikebreaker, Hoffman, against every effort of the workers to protect-themselves. ° | | ness of the official and semi-offi- s is raising more sharply every But nevertheless it must be understood that with the capitalist 3lass in control of state power, the capacity for violent suppression of che workers is in the possession of the bosses, regardless of occasional incidents of successful self defense. Mass organization must be the order of the day. Build the new revolutionary trade unions to the vapacity for powerful mass action. Build the Trade Union Unity League. © Do not forget that the Communist Party is and must always se the powerful organ of leadership of all of the struggles of the workers on every front, small or large. Join the Communist Party! TWO STRIKES IN --COKE COAL FIELD 4uto Bosses Sharpen World NMU Calls All To Get Merket Fight; U. S. Crisis — cut Eight men were killed and two PICKET MILLERS MARKET AGAIN; COPS SLUG TWO Police, Use Lead Pipe on Strikers to Plan Self Defense Market last Thursday, ja late hour last night, Clerks’ Union of the Amalgamated ‘the place again. Millers Market, 161st St. and Union Ave. was struck some time ago because the boss discharged his union workers, and signed up with the United He- brew Trades to furnish him scabs at a much lower wage than he was paying for real workers. The U. H. T. lawyer, Solomon, who is socialist party candidate for alderman, got the boss the injunc- |tion, under which Katovis was shot, probably fatally. | Lousy With Cops. | The Miller's Market section has been practically under martial law lever since, with armed gangsters, plain clothes police, and patrolmen thick for blocks around. Yesterday |Tammany plain clothes police ar- rested two pickets after brutally |beating them with lead pipes. They ‘are on $500 bail charged with dis- orderly conduct, and their case ‘comes up tomorrow in the Sixth |Magistrate’s Court, 161st and Third ve. | Today, at 8 p. m., at union head- quarters, 16 West 23rd St., there |will be a general mobilization meet- ling to protest the shooting of Ka- ltovis, and to devise ways and means | jof defending the strikers against further brutalities by the Tammany ‘police. Fakers Provide Scabs. Two pickets arrested at the public market butcher shop at 2311 Ave. |U, Brooklyn, are held under Para- lgraph 600, “violation of an injunc- tion,” the injunction being one ob- tained against the Progressive Butcher Workers, though the strike and the pickets belong to the Food Clerks. The boss and the United Hebrew Trades, which furnishes the seabs for $30 a week are pressing District Swarms With| nion Wins 2 Markets) Protest Meeting Today Undaunted by the police bullets lwhich swept the street at Miller’s and put Steve Katovis in the hospital where his life was still in grave doubt at| the Food| |Food Workers yesterday picketed | Crippled Old ‘STIMSON AIRS — EXPECT | Worker Sends _ All to Miners | | O. S. Curtis, of Newhall, Cal., is a crippled old worker, but is one of those who have not been deaf to the | appeal of the Workers International | Relief for funds to furnish relief for the striking and victimized Illinois |miners. This is the letter he has sent. “IT wish I could help those strik- |ing miners a whole lot, but being an old cripple in the mountainous hills here, I can do but little to help ithe poverty of those miners and their |famliies. But have just received a | little money from a relative back East and am enclosing $2 to help |the striking miners. z “From a poor old hermit, “O. S. Curtis.” “How many workers have made jeven a fraction of the sacrifice of this destitute old man?” says the W.L. Reports from Southern II- linois indicate that the plight of | thousands of miners and their fam- | ilies grows steadily worse. Funds }are needed at once to save them from starvation and enable them to |continue their struggle. Rush con- tributions to the National Office of |the Workers International Relief, 949 Broadway, room 512, New York City. | | | BOSS WAR MOVES Thomas Prays for Navy | third capitalist party, which hides jits carcase under the name -of “so- cialist party” than to wish and work {for the success of the armament moves of the imperialist powers? Rev. Norman Thomas, the very first thing in his weekly screed in |the New Leader for Jan. 18, asks | ia benediction on the war prepara- | 'tions of the imperialist bandits {meeting in London. In blessing the war moves of the capitalists, the | social-fascist sky-pilot says: “To the | {London Naval Conference we wish | success.” | | The same prayer is on the snarl- jing, imperialist lips of Hoover him- self. Stimson, Wall Street's own secretary of state, is striving for | |that identical end. Here is the| united front of all the imperialist | 20,000 AT LENIN HYPOCRISY AT MEET, MADISON SQUARE | LONDON MEET Discloses No Change “SOCIALISTS” AID | Race Success | | | What is more natural for the | Trip to U.S. | Tomorrow 22 | Secret Talks Rule yge Members to Push 4 Pee p Soviet “Izvestia” in| to Quota of 750 Seathing Analysis | January 22, at 7 p. m., the monster 20.—After! memorial meeting for Comrade meeting the king today, the | Lenin takés place in Madison Square Y; Naval Conference delegates, at) It is expected that 20,000 workers et given by the British | will gather in a demonstration of aopananet: & " | solidarity under the slogans of: The to a speech by Secretary Stim- jing war against the secu aee: * ; | Demonstrate against imperialist war son, mostly blah, but contain-| arations at the Lenin Memorial i i unemployment, wage cuts and speed- ene a ae the wp! Demonstrate against the gov- ace cording to Stimson, “is to re-|the working class! Demonstrate for mutual irritation,” is notable all races! Greet the Colonial up- aa’ Pes «| risings! Demand complete inde- for ite Zank hypocrisy. since! pendence of all colonial and_semi- three hour conference with Mac- Donald of which he refused to speak, the second act, a conference | to speak (but of which the French WIN SHOE STRIKE spoke in a way that showed that| they certainly regarded London as| oa Union Will Attend the Lenin Memorial | night, Wednesday, LONDON, Jan. Garden, 50th St. and Eighth Ave. “labor? government, listened! ing two points worthy of note.| meeting. Organize to fight against ernment’s reign of terror against move the secrecy, rivalry and/| full social and political equality for landing in London was to have a WOMEN RALLY T0 |with the French of which he refused a rival to Geneva and were “irri. | tated” at it), while the third act was another secret conference with the Italians, about which all Stim- son would say was that he was their| The women’s department of the “disinterested friend,” both words | Independent Shoe Workers Union being false. | calls.a women’s shop delegate con- speech was a disclosure, among!/16 West 2ist St. (Continued on Page Three) LL. D, FIGHTS TO SAVE ZINICH Radnik Editor on Ellis Island, Faces Death They have sent out instructions to all shop chair- |men to make immediate efforts to elect women delegates from their respective shops. In their call for | this conference they state that wo- {men must take a direct and active | part in the union’s struggle for the | 40-hour five-day week and the aboli- tion of the slave system of piece Attend Lenin Meeting. The union reports that its mem- Lenin Memorial meeting in mass; The International Labor Defense | they will meet at the eri aaie * + es <oq. | at 5 p. m., where tickets will be dis- is making every effort by applica-| tinted.” From there they will tion for stay of deportation and by | march to Madison Square Garden. London Naval Conference is prepar- | The second point of Stimson’s| ference for Monday, February 3, at | work. | bers are organizing to attend the | Deeper, Admit Capitalists ithe charge. The boss had to pay his agents preparing for the next world were injured today in an accident | nion men $40 a week. The U.H.T.|war—and for war against the So- in No. 1 mine of the Lillybrook a writ of habeas corpus yesterday| Morris Bock, striking shoe worker, Made By MacDonald To Mobilize Workers Against Unemployment Wage-Cuts, Imperialist War Danger Party Recruiting Driv At Lenin Meet colonial countries! Unite all worl Jing-class struggles into one movi |ment against the capitalist class ar its government! Only by fightin under the banner of Leninism ca |the workers emancipate themselve Join the Communist Party! | Tomorrow night, at 7 p. m, f Madison Square Garden, all Ne York workers will join their strug \gles in a common demonstration fc |the defense of the Soviet Union an ‘against American imperialism. Com and bring all your fellow worker ith your banners and deman¢ against imperialist war and for bet ‘ter conditi-~~ to the Lenin Memorir | meeting, at Madison Square Garder Wednesday evening, January 22, 2 |7 p.m. A splendid program has been ar |ranged with many workers’ organ izations participating. The Communist Party yesterda; announced that it is within 150 mew {bers of filling its quota of 750 u |to the Lenin Memorial meeting. 1 is hoped that by tomorrow nigh another 150 workers will have joine | the Communist Party in the Nev Yor: District thereby filling th }quota. The installation of Commu |nist recruits which will take plac: jwill be one of the best demonstra tions of the solidarity of the work ers of New York against the bruta attacks of the bosses, the police, thc (Continued on Page Two) International Wireless News CONNECT LENINGRAD CZARIS1 WITH BERLIN COUNTER- FEITERS. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) { BERLIN, Jan. 20.—On Friday | the trial of five monarchist ex | officers commenced before the su preme court of Leningrad. They arc | charged with espionage and passing |forges chervonetz (Soviet paper |money—Editor). The chief of the Coal Company, at Lillybrook, near | BECKLEY, W. Va., Jan. 19.— Expose the Fake “Prosperity” Propaganda of here. Six of the eight were Hoover, Green, Lamont, Barnes gta nO ar te PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 20,—The coke region miners are striking Big Unemployment Shown By Latest Facts From Ohio Industries against wage cuts. In Bittner and Waltersburg the men came out when wages were reduced from $4.50 a day to $3.78 for day work, and from 90 cents a wagon to 78 cents. The Bittner strike is 100 per c strong. !united against the threatened dump- ing on American automobiles. Pro- developing as a result of the severe | duction of automobiles in Germany sconomic crisis in the United States. | and Italy have dropped in the past The automobile industry is nit |year, with drastic unemployment in | worst of all with production now 60 | these industries. per cent below the average of 1928, | Now the British automobile manu- | ing: and mass unemployment and drastic \facturers, through their organiza-| “Now is the time to fight. \fage cuts facing the workers. All’ tion, the Society of Motor Manufac- must fight against wage cuts, un- t}e American. automobile bosses |tyrers and Traders announce that|employment, speed-up, bad condi- r that tad pe ineke tes | ney will increase their efforts ta | Bobs) gad against discrimination of ic onslaught on the wor! | , \the Negro miners, in ue to attempt to avert even) (Continued on Page Three.) |fighting National Miners Union. a sharper crisis. i a a ten | “The National Miners Union is The automobile capitalists of; Write About Your Conditions | joading the miners in struggles in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium,| for The Daily Worker. Become a B every district. In Illinois where Austria and Czechoslovakia have Worker Correspondent. 1 (Continued on Page Two) Ferocious competition for the world markets for au.omobiles is sued a leaflet to these miners stat- You U.S. SETBACK Shoe Workers Fight Against AT HAGUE MEET Union Smashing by U.S. Gov’t ae 'To Answer Intimidation Campaign of Bosses’ “Tavestia” Comment on Tools With Greater Militancy Reparations Meet ; The Independent Shoe. Workers|unions endeavoring to keep the THE HAGUE, Jan. 20.—The 18 | Union is conducting a struggle to| workers from organizing into fight- ations which signed the revised | organize 45,000 shoe workers in the/ ing unions. ee Plan ee hive the credit | city of New York. The shoe work-| The shoe manufacturers in an f Oe pa tf the customary | °T® of New York have built up a effort to destroy the Independent s Denes! phic teats that | {ishting organization through Shoe Workers Union have applied eee titae ite impossibility of | St'Ussle, enrolling 5,000 of the best | to,the courts for injunctions which The National Miners’ Union has is-_ by joining the | working will lead to another confer- | i#hters ence. This was rather frankly the expressed hope of the Germans, who are smarting under being whipped into"line by France on the matter of “sanctions,” the French insisting on the right to invade German soil if Germany does not pay reparations as amreed, This is particularly hard for the Germans to swallow, since France, when the Young Plan was first (Continued on Page Two) Nevertheless a big caida 7 been freely used against the is still to be covered. In this strug- | un\on, with the result that today in gle it taces uot merely the manu-| 22\shops the workers have been facturers, both big and iittle, the | locked out and are fighting mili- Board of Trade, the police and the| tantly on the picket lines. Scores city government, but also the State |of arrests have taken place, but Labor Department and the United|this has not affected the vitality States government as represented |and militancy of the workers who, through the Federal Department of | through mass picketing and demon- Labor. 'strations, are fighting to build up The Independent Shoe Workers , their union. Union has also to fight the Boot] The shoe manufacturers have and Shoe Workers Union ard the! sent letters to their workers de- Protective, which are open company | (Continued on Page Two) came in after the strike had been on a week. A new shop was struck by the Food Clerks yesterday, at 272 East [170th St. One picket was jailed in the first morning's _ picketing, charge, “disorderly.” | Win at 2 Shops. The Food Clerks record some vic- tories yesterday in its persistent campaign to organize the unorgan- ized and compel union conditions. nt The public market butcher shop at!peasants of the Soviet Union. | (Continued on Page Two) JOBLESS PLAN | BUFFALO MARCH \Organize Mass Meets and Demonstrations | BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 20.—The | Buffalo Unemployed Workers Coun- |cil, with headquarters at 200 Elli- |cott St. is reaching out to all the unemployed workers in the outlying industrial districts as well as in | Buffalo itself. | The Black Rock section of ,the | Buffalo Unemployed Council has |affiliated with the Trade Union [Unity League, and accepted its leadership. Last Friday a successful meeting |was held by the unemployed work- ‘ers at Liberty Hall. Plans were laid for another mass meeting of the un- employed workers within the next few days. On Friday, January 24, the work- jers will assemble in mass meetings jin various parts of the city and {march to the City Hall, where.they will put forth the militant demands for the unemployed made by the T.U.U.L. Pre, ae | 106 Delegates at Unemployed con- ference. DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 20.—The ; conference called by the Provisional Committee of the Unemployed !Council with the support of: the (Continued on Page Three) | viet Union. | | To add support to their policy of | |supporting the imperialist attacks | lon the Soviet Union, end the war |preparaticns of the imperialist rob-| bers, the same issue of the New Leader prints a diatribe by Rafael | |Abramovitch. enemy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. | } Abramovitch links up the inter-| jnational struggle of the social- jfascists against the sworkers and He says: “We, the Russian Social | Democrats, members of the socialist ‘and labor international, together {with MacDonald, Henderson, Her- man Mueller and the others in the ocialist international are against | e Soviet government. ‘Bolivia Counters to | Charge of Paraguay; a World Oil Conflict LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 20.—In re- jhad attacked an outpost in the |Chaco and killed one Paraguayan soldier, the Bolivian foreign office | has issued a counter charge, alleg- | ing that it was the Paraguayan troops which did the attacking, and that one Bolivian soldier was killed. The allegation by Paraguay, that ithe attack was made to stir up and/ junite Bolivia back of the present! president in seeking re-election, is | sarcastically denied. “Such things }could happen only in Paraguay.” The whole affair indicates a re- opening of the conflict between the two nations, over the Chaco terri- tory, behind which lie the rival im- perialisms of the United States, on Bolivia’s side, and England, the sup- porter of Paraguay. The clash is over great oil fields in the Chaco, and more particularly, the route to ‘|the sea through Chaco from the {Standard Oil holdings in Bolivia. UNEMPLOYED MEMBERS OF PARTY. All unemployed members of the Party are instructed to be at 1179 ply to the charge of the Paraguayan | government that Bolivian soldiers | He was arrested five years agolaicg. 1928: tionary elements among the Jugo- |nigher wages. 1921: Italian Com- Slavs in Chicago. The dictatorship | wunist Party organized at Leghorn. of King Alexander ‘and his “White }1991: Spanish sydnicalist leader, Hand” gang of murderers want to Kill him for his revolutionary and | shot hy troops. 1919: 35,000 dress union activities in Serbia shortly! ing waist makers fa: NOW York has after the world war, He has been | can general strike. 1870: Alexander very active for the workers since |Hertzen, prominent early Russian coming to America. His deportation | yovolntionist, died. 1798: Louis XVI case has gone through many courts. | o¢ France executed by revolutionary The I.L.D. demands, on the prece- | government. dent set in the Gilletti case, that Zinich be allowed to leave the coun- try voluntarily, and has wired to Mopr, the International Labor De- fense organization, to arrange for his entry into the union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The charge against Zinich is a trumped up case of “illegal entry.” T.U.U.L. Discusses Program of Action Before Conventio Lays Basis For Coming Struggles in Many Industrics in N. Y. Area strikes in this area. It lays the basis for development and a general offensive. At this conference the Lovestone renegades appeared with a right wing resolution, policy of the great majority of the T. U. U. L. members, but after a A resolution on the immediate program of action for the Trade Un- ion Unity League, in Greater New York and New Jersey was adopted at its pre-convention Metropolitan Area Conference held Dec. 21-22, in E s Syed 50,000 German metal | | through stool-pigeon work of reac-| workers locked out in struggle for | |Hermene Gildo and three comrades | attacking the militant | Broadway at 7 a. m. without fail. | Irving Plaza Hall, New York City. Representation from all the prin- cipal industries of the area was present and the delegates came from the shops. The resolution is based on self- criticism and outlines corrections in the policy to be followed and tac- ities to be used in the future, It |analyses the immediate tasks and the opportunities for organization. It reviews the work of the T. U. U. L., and the struggles and numerous thorough discussion, they were so badly beaten that they did not even dare vote for their own resolution and the one printed below was adopted unanimously. | The T. U. U. L. conference pro- | poses that all local unions and shop | committees read and discuss this resolution as a basis for the elec- tion of delegates to the T. U. U. L. | to save the life of Steve Zinich, edi-| was arrested yesterday morning | accused was a staff cavalry c: A tor of Radnik, Jugo Slax language| (Continued on Page Two) | aibert Schiller, now a ua Communist paper. Zinich is on El- ars = |the spurious Czar Cyril. The forg- lis Island, where he arrived yester- TODS LE Te BOR eries found on Schiller are declarec day, having been taken up at the were! * | by experts to be exactly similar tc request of the Jugo-Slav fascist gov-|_ JANUARY 21.1924: Vladimir | the forged chervonetz made in Ger- ernment by United States immigra-|Ilyitch Ulianov (Lenin), leader of | many. tion agents 2 week ago. |Bolshevik Revolution and_ first! + * g |Prime Minister of Soviet Russia,|GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY BATTLES FOR LEGALITY. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 20.—On Saturday morning the offices of the Commu- nist paper, the “Rote Fahne,” were |again raided and Saturday’s issue |confiscated. The bourgeoisie and the socialist press are conducting a furious incitement campaign to se- cure the suppression of the Commu- nist Party. The Reichstag has re- jected a Communist proposal to jwithdraw the general prohibition against open-air meetings. On Sat- urday, prohibite? demonstrations were held at Essen, Hamborn, Rort- mund, Duisberg, Bochum and |Hernes. The police attacked these ;and there were many violent colli- | sions and many wounded, with mass jarrests. There were also collisions |at Koenigsberg, Gumbinnen and Beuthen, where police attacked | workers leaving indoor meetings. |POLICE UNEMPLOYED OVER- | COME POLICE. | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | WARSAW, Jan, 20.—Two thou- sand unemployed have demonstrated jat Vloklavek. The police broke up |the parade three times, but the workers succeeded in reaching the \city hall and demanded work or | maintenance. \No Masks; Two Toilers Gassed As Main Leaks Two employees of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company were overcome by gas yesterday when wadding blew out in a six-inch gas main which they were repairing. The men are Matthew Gibbons, 31, of 489 13th St., Brooklyn, and Patrick Mally, 37, of 180 Park Pl, Brooklyn. convention for Greater New York and New Jersey, to be held March (Continued on Page Two) They were calking leaks in the main, Gas masks had not been pro- vided. 4