The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1930, Page 1

Hoover Says “Employment Is Better”— no need for the Millions of Unemployed Workers to Organize. The Communist Party says the Wall Street Flunkeys Are Lying—Unemployed Work- ers, Organize! Don’t Starve! daily ex Company, Inc., 26 Vol. VI, No. 274 jay by ‘The Comprod Squar. ontered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Hy Publishing gi, New York City, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION mail, 85.00 per Outside New York, h EW YORK WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930 At Lenin Memorial Meeting-- Join the Party of Lenin! Tonight will be held the giant Lenin memorial demonstration at Madison Square Garden in New York. Twenty thousand workers—the best blood of our class of all na- tionalities and all races, black and white—will join in this demonstra- tion to dedicate themselves again to the world-wide struggle of our class for freedom—the struggle of which Lenin’s name is the summary and symbol. Throughout the vast audience at Madison Square Garden tonight will be many thousands of workers who have learned to know the Com- munist Party through the struggles on the picket line but who are not members of it. Many will have fought shoulder to shoulder with our Party in the Needle Trades struggles, in the Shoe Workers’ strike, or in the Food Workers’ struggles, or those of the Textile Workers. Many already are deeply acquainted with the valiant Party of Lenin which has shown itself to be the backbone of the new revolutionary unions—the Party which stubbornly fights for our class in every struggle, however small or large. But the class struggle is not a fight of one day nor it a single campaign of the picket line. The class war is one which involves the whole of the human race with ever growing intensity and which will and must continue until the last victory is won by the working class. (For this struggle and this victory the working ¢ must build its organ of leadership, its organ of revolutionary discipline, its body of shock troops of the class struggle which will carry the fight through to the revolutionary triumph of our cla: This organization of lead- ership has already shown itself as the Communist Party of the United States, section of the Communist International. 9 To all class conscious workers, we appeal to take the Lenin Mem- orial Demonstration as the occasion to join the Party of Lenin! Join the Communist Party of the U. S. A.! Workers of New York! The Daily Worker, Central Organ of the Communist Party, is the chief fighting instrument of our Communist Party. You must build the Daily Worker as your instrument of struggle and victory. Read the Daily Worker every day! Spread it among your fellow-workers in the shop! The Daily Worker every day is the voice of leadership of our struggles! Behind the Royal Spoofing the War Plans Proceed ‘The imperialist’ war-makers” representatives at London are hold- ing exhibition sessions for the public with such vaudeville attractions as the king of England in a recitation of a speech written for him by Ramsay MacDonald under the dictation of British finance-capitalists. Between the public show sessions are held secret sessions at which the real business will be done. The public meetings are “disarma- ment” sessions. The secret meetings are armament meetings at which all of the rival imperialist powers maneuver, threaten and bribe in the hope of securing the best possible relative naval armament for them- selves and the best possible military alliances for the coming second KATOVIS, NEAR | DEATH, WORRIED BY POLICE QUIZ \Mass Meeting Friday to Protest Brutality BULLETIN. The police department has finger-printed Katovis as he lies | in the hospital near death. - i ! Steve Katovis, near death in the Lincoln Hospital, his spine shattered ‘by a bullet fired by a Tammany cop, last Thursday, has begged his | comrades to force the removal of a policeman from his bedside, who guards him day and night. Kato a building maintenace worker, and a Communist Party member, was attending a meeting called by the Trade Union Unity League to rally the workers of the neighborhood to show solidarity with the Food Clerks Union of the Amalgamated Food Workers, which | has a_ strike in Miller’s Market, | 161st St. and Union Ave., Bronx. | The meeting was held across the! street from the market. Patrolman | Harry Kiritz and a detective at- tacked the meeting with gun nd /| club. The workers resisted, but did | not succeed in smothering the gun- | five until Katovis had fallen. A so- | cialist candidate for alderman, | Charles Solomon, attorney for the} United Hebrew Trades, which fur- | nishes the scabs for Miller's Mar- | ket, got the injunction which gave | the policeman his excuse for shoot- | \ing down workers, ‘ | “T have much to tell you,” Katovis | |whispered to several friends who} were allowed three minutes to see} him, yesterday, “but I haven’t got! the strength to do it.” The International Labor Defense, | which is demanding that the police- | man be removed, and that they be | allowed to take Katovis to a private |troops to repel such attack—or make LENIN MEMORIALT Workers Fight HOQVER ISSUES War Danger in LES ON MASS eri ann, UNEMPLOYMENT | Facts Show Growing Army of Jobless Hoover announces that “employ- WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—While the race-for-armaments conference goes on amidst a bombast of paci- fist phrases, sharpening antagon- | isms in Latin America between Brit- ish and U. S. imperialism are de- veloping to a war stage in the di ite betwee ivi iy y A * The Paraguayan government at calls the ‘statement of the imperial- Asuncion, which is backed by British | St chief in his message to Congress imperialism thatcaucieaie the repre- | that “conditions were fundamentally sentative here to inform the State |S°Und,” while more than 1,000,000 ddbartment. at once. that Bolivia, | Workers were being thrown on the which has the support of Wall {streets as a result of the sharpen- Street, has ordered an attack upon |1"& Crisis. fey ii d from the the Paraguayan frontier positions) Statement issued \ on the central Chaco tomorrow. | White House, in line with the lying Obviously, with the “information” | “Prosperity” campaign maintained given Washington by Paraguay of |by Hoover, and his business coun- the expected attack, goes the infer-|*il, since the beginning of the sev- ence that Paraguay will mobilize |e crisis, says that “data kept by the department of commerce from one. The futility of trying to figure |the time of the stock market crash, out which country is the “aggressor” |until December 25, showed a con- land which is merely “defending,” |Stant decline in employment,” but was taken up in a recent conference |that since Christmas the trend has (Continued on Rage Two) been upward, “and although no | turbance.” | This is a lie out of the whole icloth. It is an attempt to hide the employed. : — Ks bers of The Joint Board of the Needle | Several weeks ago mem Trades Workers’ Industrial Union |{?© Economic Association and the calls on all needle trades workers to | *™erican the Lenin Memorial meeting as a/|! A e show of solidarity and as a demon- |i" the United States” | | stration for the coming struggles. ohert B.. Warren of+New’ Yor exact figures are available on the jemployment situation, jobs were NEEDLE WORKERS |said to be much more plentiful than jat any time since the market dis- MARCH T0 GARDEN | smashing fact announced by the De- ERE . {partment of Labor that in Decem- Union to Attend Lenin |ber alone more than 276,000 work- s : ers were thrown on the streets, un- Memorial; Many Strike | Statistical Association " . | ting in Washington agreed that gather at the office of the union to- | Mee P i ‘“unemployment during the next ten mérrow and to march together boa eres Wilibe the \gbebtest ‘probleta The organization campaign of the |S#id: “Unemployment, now t dadustrial union is Gevlentie. A [nightmare of five out of every ten number of additional shops have | Europeans, has’ never been a prob- \Todav Is 25th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday | Not January but “bloody | Sunday” is What every class con- scious worker calls this day. For| twenty-five years ago, on January | 22, 1905, the first Russian Revolu-| tion was initiated over the dead bodies of a thousand work A [vast movement agitated the Ru an jmasses; the yoke of czarism lay| jheavy across their backs, Strikes! and demands for a constitution swept across the empire. Call On Negro Work On January 22, thousands of | workers in St. Petersburg, led by A \the priest Gapon, marched from|the anniversary of the death ‘COMMEMORATE DEATH OF LENIN AT GIANT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MEETING Thousands to Mobilize At Demonstration Called By N. Y. Communist Party FINAL CITY EDITION 3 Cents fee year. Pr ers to Participate and Organize Agaifst Exploitation Tonight the great mass demonstration to commemorate of the great proletarian leader, every section of the city towards| VY. I. Lenin, takes place in Madison Square Garden, 50th St. the Winter Palace of the czar in| and Sth Ave. yorder to transmit a petition for sre ae = democratic rights. The workers, MObilization of thousands of jearried banners of sacred images,| 7. |and Gapon had written to the czar begging him to appear before the | people, with the assurance of com- |plete safety. | Instead of the czar, the mas: |met the savage attack of the ezar’s soldiers. Uhlans and Cossacks (Continued on Page Three) BYERS IN BEDFORD JAIL UNDAUNTED [3 New Organization Centers in South NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan, 21. |—While New Bedford workers pre- pare for mass resistance to police | |attacks on their mill-gate meetings, four arrested at the battles around the mill gates last week come to |trial tomorrow. They are Martin | Russak, National Textile Workers | | Union district organizer; Fred Beal, | | Police wall: Up pper picture: hospital, believes that Katovis is|been declared on strike, and some lem for a sufficiently long period in | Gastonia defendant on bonds while the United States to influence our |a convictio I Emanuel Pergy, extreme left, Fred Final arrangements have been completed for the workers for the demonstration. At 6 o'clock tonight all mili- tant union headquarters will be gathering places for work- ers in various industries who will from these headquarters march+with banners carrying their demands to the Garden. Resolutions keep coming from many labor organizations endorsing | the demonstration and pledging participation. Among these was the statement issued last night by {the Central’ Committee of the Coun- cil of Working Class Women. In addition, resolutions endorsing the | meeting were adopted by the fol- lowing organizations: Japanese | Workers Club, Branch 122 Indepen- {dent Workmen’s Circle, East N. Y. \Wo ‘kers Club, Prospect Workers cig, Couneil 10, Workers Club of |Bréwnsville, International Branch tof Union City, Downtown Workers | Club. In Negro special leaflets addressed to workers, women workers, Sand young workers issued in 50,000 copies, all were called upon to join in the demonstration. The leaflet issued to all Negro workers ex- poses the misleaders and calls upon all workers to join in the demon- world imperialist war. bein; rf : ‘ have b ettled, with union con- | resulting in a twenty- Beal, s > Se g tortured with questions by the | have been si dy i Ae it i shi * a x Feal, center, and K. O. Byers ‘on : Behind the spoofing by “His Majesty” about the “high mission” (Contteued on Page Two) ditions obtained. The Joint Board |Pelitical thonght, bug it is doubtful |year sentence is being appealed; | Gay from mill gate sneeting to CUMS et Ege Tae) and “the interests of peace which we are seeking to build up” is the - — is going through with the campaign. |if, ‘RIS issih: state mill rontinue. porece ueeelise, Commpnise PREY | japt. ess reality, only faintly veiled. Hoover felt himself compelled to give a NEWS FLASHES Shop delegates are now being elect-| FOr Tires 30) nore eee ane imatuel Ferry,.N. |" “Lower pictures, An-ineident-of , threatening hint of the reality on the eve of the opening of the fondoh | AS! ed to the council of the N.T.W.LU. Beda abe Bistes cde opel Be Ww. ae s & - me | the struggle where 6,000 textile | : Conference. Through Representative French in Congress, Hoover ex- RUBIO. LIKE: HOOVER; DON'T There are daily many shop meetings The Hoover; LaniGnt Green ataie: ers Holds His Own. | wor defended their meeting . pressed this reality in the form of a warning that the United States government will begin the expenditure of $2,000,000,000 on a colossal navy immediately after the London Conference if the Wall Street repre- sentatives are not permitted to dictate the terms of the conference. Stimson is in London under orders from Wall Street via Washing- ton to secure the hegemony of the world market for American imper- ialism. The most disadvantageous position in which he can succeed in placing the British, is the task of Stimson. But this is not all. The British king spoke of welcoming of the delegates of “the five principal naval powers.” There are certain very significant uninvited powers. The report that two warships of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republi ailed through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea just prior to the conference is probably true. Much anger and dismay is expressed by the capitalist press over the fact that the Turkish government did not undertake to prevent the entry of these two ships into the Black Sea, the claim being that Turkey was obliged to prevent any such movement by the so-called Internationalization ar- rangement concerning the Dardanelles. The fact is that the secret conferences at London wil be stormy sessions, fight and squabbling over the relative naval strength of the big imperialists not only on the Atlantic and Pacific, but also in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, etc. In regard to the Mediterranean, France and Italy have an open issue, each being a Mediterranean power and each at daggers’ points with the other. Great Britain’s interest is deeply involved in the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal, and the United States is interested in helping Mussolini's plan, which would increase the amount of war tonnage in the Mediterranean and thus keep a large part of the British navy tied up on the Mediterranean, thereby reducing the number of British ships remaining for use in the Atlantic and Pacific, etc. But the concern in regard to the Black Sea is necessarily most directly connected with the one point in which all of the great im- perialist powers can agree—the united front of all imperialist powers against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This is expressed clearly. in their hope to be able to strike at Soviet Russia through the Black Sea. The Soviet Union, in the tremendous accomplishments of the present industrial construction—which is unprecedented in all of history—has had very little possibility of strengthening its naval equip- ment for the repelling of the coming general capitalist offensive against the Workers’ Republic. The two ships just sent to the Black Sea are of.an antiquated type which do not compare in strength to the types of warships now being built. They are confined in their value to-defense. Turkey very logically sees itself as an object of imperialist attack and a victim of the present intrigues at London, and it would have been extremely unwise for Turkey to have made objections to the strengthening of Soviet Russia’s defense in the Black Sea at the moment of the London conference, The London Conference must be heeded by the working class of the entire world as a warning of the impending war. Out of the sec- ond imperialist ‘world war must come not one but many successful revo- lutions and colonial revolts and the establishment of several new Soviet Republics on the ruins of the predatory imperialist governments whose representatives are now sitting in London, conspiring for the world holocaust. The working class must exert every, ounce of its energy in the struggle against the impending imperialist war. "The building and strengthening of the revolutionary trade unions throughout all countries and the concerted resistance to the capitalist offensive must be pushed. The organization and stimulation of colonial resistance must be systematically aided by workers in each capitalist country. The workers everywhere must systematically be trained to understand their duty in the coming war to defend the Union of So- LIKE MEXICAN COMMUNISTS. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21.—The servility of president elect, Ortiz Rubio, to U. S. imperialism was | never more obvious than today when | he fulsomely praised Hoover in a! press interview. Rubio further said his invitation to Mexicans in the U. to return home, did “not ap- ply” to Communists. COMMEMORATE LENIN’S DEATH, MOSCOW, Jan. 21.—The masses of the whole Soviet Union will halt tomorrow in the drive forward for the Five Year Plan, to commemor- ate the death of Vladimir I lyitch Lenin. The new mausoleum in the Red Square is yet unfinished and s. {Louis Hyman this coming Sunday | It ex-| in the office of the union. pected that by the end of the month | elections will be over and the new | council will be installed. Hyman Reports on U. S. S. R. They are also arranging a big | demonstrati.n for the reception of | s ments that unemployment is “im- proving” is based on baseless re- (Continued on Page Three.) at the New Star Casino. At this meeting Hyman will give a report on the Soviet Union, which he | ited as a member of the workers’ | delegation this year, and will also | ras connect up the situation in the So- Big’ Strikes Soon in viet Union with “our own strug- | *| Hard, Soft Coal The active needle trades workers | are called upon to report at the of- fice of the union this morning toj|vesant Peabody of the Peabody Coal help picket those shops called on|Co., the largest coal company in gles.” t CHICAGO, Iil., Jan. 21.—Stuy- There are sixteen more coming up for trial later. One is K, 0. Byers, | Gastonia defendant in the first trial, but dropped from the second trial. Byers was beaten up in jail, but is | undaunted. He wrote yesterday: | “Now that I have visited the jails in New Bedford, I can say that I have toured American prisons and | found their hard benchc. extremely uncomfortable, and that the coffee, | when dished cut, tastes more like | muddy dish-water than like any- |thing eatable. 1. Iso was presented | with a few ¢'fts from the local po- ‘lice force in the form of a few up-| percuts and left jabs i~ the ‘cozy’ jcell of the Ne~ Bedford prison. I (Continued on Page Three) against 200 armed police. The worker is putting up a desperate fight against the brutality of two cops. ZINICH CASE IN Deportation to Jugo- Slavia Means Death The International Labor Defense, | which is fightir to savegSteve Zin ich, editor of the Communist Jugo- COURT FRIDAY - RELIEF DEMANDS Pontiac, Cleveland Demonstrations PONTIAC, Mich., Jan. 21.—More than 500 jobless workers, under the leader » of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League to- day stormed the city hall demand- ing unemployment relief. A squad of police attempted to break up the demonstration. Three jobless workers, heading a delegation to the City Hall were ar- rested. Various speakers addressed strike by the industrial union. IMPERIALISTS SIZE ARMS. ORAN, Algeria, Jan. 21.—Pre-, {sumably intended for Moroccan in- ‘dependence fighters against French | Lenin’s body lies within the Krem- lin. ee 8 |DEMONSTRATION IN BRAZIL FOR MEXICAN WORKERS. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan, 21.— Illinois, the one that bribed Frank Farrington for $25,000 a year whil he was president of District 12 of | IMPERIALISTS. the United Mine Workers, is lead-) APIA, British Samoa, Jan 20 (De- ing a drive to raise money for a layed by censorship).—Under condi- | larger and more deadly equipped |tions of martial law ordered by New AWKWARD EVIDENCE FOR Slav language paper, Padnik, from the meeting of unemployed in front deportation to certain death in King |Of the City Hall. City Manager C. Alexander’s prisons, states its writ | W- Ham would make no statement ‘of habe about relief for the unemployed, pus has been served. | e wt h b t of Zinich 1 be brought into the|™=nY o© Whom have been out o| fi wale work for months. United States District Court in New ¥ * * Shouting “down with the white ter- | | ror in Mexico!” “Down with the | Mexican bourgeois government, sold | ‘to Yankee imperialism!” and other | | slogans, a crowd of workers, led by | {Communists of Brazil, today be- | sieged the Mexican Embassy here, | stoned the building, smashing the | windows and injured the embassy’s | chauffeur when he tried to drive them off with a show of arms. imperialism, huge stocks of arms | were seized today on the Morocco- | Algeria frontier by police, who ar- rested many supposed smugglers. SPECIAL NOTICE. Section and Unit Functionaries must report for instructions and| | duty in the Madison Square Gar- len by 5 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 22nd.—Org. Department, Dist. 2. national guard. The National Guard is used against the National Miners’ Union |strike. Peabody proceeds by divid- y \ing the whole group of business men jin Tllinois into sections, and fixing a quota for each. B, E. Sunny, a telephone magnate, and Sam Insull, jelectric power baron, are on the commission to raise the money. 92587 Oe. — a W. I. R. Saved Miners. Naval Confere LONDON, Jan, 21,.—Delayed by a fog which, fitting to the speeches |made by MacDonald and the other | heads of the delegations, fell over London, naval conference and all, the formal opening of the confer- ence finally occurred, only to ad- journ until Thursday, to allow for secret “conversations.” 1 ‘Secrecy and Fog Descends on Hoover Is Annoyed At Disclosure That What/|° He Says Differs From What He Does “If it hadn’t been for the Work- ‘ers International Relief, the Illinois (Continued on Page Two) Today in History of the Workers nee at London ry January © 22.—1905: Bloody Sun- jday in St. Petersburg; 500 killed, delegation heads, including Stinson |:000 wounded by troops in demon- and Morrow, MacDonald and Snow. |Stration before czar's Winter Pal- den, met Tardieu and Briand FS bpserr me Street oF strike in France at a “dinner” in the home | Mexico City —1922: First congress of Stimson's friend, Keith Merrill, Of Tevolutionary and Communist or- This was supposed to work out some ganizations of far east opened in e Moscow.—1921: Ludwig C. A. K. t Way 2 tnest the French demand tht, Martins, Soviet Russian envoy to the conférence be only “preliminary” Tardieu of France and Grandi of |to the Teague of Nations. Since | [Italy, “met privately” at a luncheon | Snowden’s protest at Geneva only in a hotel to try to adjust the de-|@ few days ago that nothing took Directly after the formal meeting. United States, deported. — 1920: 39 Communist Party members in- dicted in Chicago on criminal syn- | dicalism | Zealand “magdate” power over Sam-| York, Friday. The I. L, D. demands cans, and with all civil affairs |the right for him to leave the coun- |Paralyzed, an inquest into the | try voluntarily, instead of being de- jShooting of Dec. 28 when eight ported. hTis will allow him to go |Samoans, among them Chief Tam- to the U. S. S. R. instead of Jugo- jasesse, were killed, was going on. Slavia. * |Two witnesses testified Tamasesse| Zinich was active in the revolu- | was standing with his hands over tionary movemen’ in Sczbia before |his head urging calmness, when coming here, and was arrested five | shot down by New Zealand police | years ago at the instance of Jugo- \with rifles, Slav govern spies in Chicago, | 'T.U. U. L. Discusses Program of Action Before Convention iLays Basis For Coming Struggles Industries in N. Y. Area The first installment of this resolution, now being discussed by local unions and shop committees as a basis of election of delegates to the New York and New Jersey District Convention March 1 and 2 of the Trade Nnion Unity League told of the impending struggles in the various important industries of New York and vicinity, and the part the T.U.U.L. unions and leagues must play therein. The resolu tion was adopted by the Metropolitan Area Conference of the T.U.U.L. held in New York December 21-22, “The second installment of the resolution. follows: ce in Many 2. Shoe Situation, | d the Independent The Shoe Manufacturers’ Associa- | Shoe Workers Union, to force w age Cleveland Unemployed Demand Relief. CLEVELAND, Jan. 21.— More than 500 unemployed workers, under the leadership of the Trade Union , Unity League, demonstrated for un- employment relief in front of the city employment buro, where they |were addressed by Comrades Van veen and S. Jagoda. | The jobless workers then marched to the Community Fund, where they were met by armed guards, ané were not allowed to enter, A mast meeting of the unemployed work- ers was held on the square to or- ganize an Unemployed Council Vanveen was arrested. Huge crowds of unemployed and sympathetic workers filled the streets an¢ |marched to the jail demanding Van: iveen’s release, * * | Thousands Unemployed in Butte, | BUTTE, Mont., Jan, 21—Masi | unemployment is facing the work ers of the Anaconda Copper Co. Or |January 17, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. posted a notice an- |mouncing that “these properties {would be shut down with the night ishifts last night” and that begin: ining Jan. 21 “the operations of the |Butte mines of this company will be jcarried on through a system of ro- ‘ 8 ‘i charges. — 1919: 40,000 | tion, and the Board of Trade in con- cuts, yellow dog contracts upon the | |mand of Italy for “parity” (and |the place of the League, Americo|men's clothing workers in New | junction with the Department of La. | Shoe workers, In this situation the | U |colonies) with France. may have a hard time to keep up| York won 44-hour week after 10 (bor and the strike-breaking Boot and | bosses took the offensive at the di-| | Later, the British and Amevicar (Continued on Page Two) jweeks’ strike, iShoe Co. Union are engaged in a| (Continued on Page Two) cialist Soviet Republics with the last drop of their blood and to defeat their own imperialist ruling ‘classes. doin the Communist Party! tating regular employes.” | This means that more than half {the usual workers employed will be (Continued on Page Three.)