The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1930, Page 1

( \ ea ee A ee eee eee ae If Your Boss Speeds Up You and Yovr Shop Mates, Some of You Are Thrown Out of a Job, While the Rest Work Harder, and Always in Fear That the Jobless May Take the Job. Don't Be Divided! Unite for 5B7 a Fight for “Work or Wagés!” Po < . Demonstrate on Feb: 24! % e« on February 24! i ‘ EON ? < re atter at the ‘ost Office at New York, N. Y., under the act o f ¥ : ft st ee — ———— — EE ————————— oo¢ 4 Published daily except Sunday by The ¢ daily Publishi Z i 7 J SUBSCRIPTION RAT 2 “eis J0. 278 Company, Incy 20-28 Union Square, New York City. Xe xe ee! = NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, . ce € abr eeeaneey EES Thousands Battle Police for Hour and Halt in City Hail Demo Political Significance of the 200 Police Assault with o- International Unemployed | « Demonstration 1, The world demonstration on Fe’ growing unemployment on a world-wi ale, involving tens of mil- lions of workers in starvation, misery and degradation, which is the first fruits of the international economic crisis of capitalism. The crisis in the U. S. A. was the first expression of the international eco- nomic crisis, which ended further in the east European countries, and now shows itself in almost every capitalist nation of the world. 2. The international significance of the world economic crisis and its consequences may well become as deep going as those of the world war of 1914-1918. The further radicalization and revolutionization of broad masses, the development of economic struggle into political fights, the combination of mass strikes with aprisings, and a direct struggle for power by the proletariat—such is the line of development of the growing class battles of the international proletariat. We have en- tered a period of decisive class battles. In the U. S. A., as in all capitalist countries, the bourgeois is mobilizing all its forces for fierce attack against the working class, determined to put the whole burden of the crisis upon the workers. Instead of measures to alleviate unemployment, all capitalist govern- ments (Hoover, MacDonald, Mueller, etc.) are cutting down all appro- priations for social purposes, and instead are presenting the biggest capitalists with vast sums (Hoover’s tax remittance to finance capi- tal of $165,000,000, etc.). The intcrnational answer of the working class to this international capitalist offensive must be organized on an extension and development of the great action against the War Danger, the Red Day of August 1, in the form of International Demonstration Against Unemployment. Comintern for February 24. The demonstration attains the most profound political importance, summing up all the most burning is- sues of the class struggle, and combining the most elementary demands of the masses with the broadest political questions—fight against the bourgeois state, social reformism, against imperialist war, for defense of the Soviet Union. 4. The International Demonstration Against Unemployment is the working-class answer to the first, immediate, most terrific consequences of the crisis-unemployment. Our campaign must begin with the most immediate, most keenly felt, needs of the working clas ‘ising from the most brutal expression of the crisis and the capita ystem pro- ducing it. But the political importance of the demonstration passes far beyond the bounds of the immediate economic issues, taken as the starting point, and beyond its external organizational forms. It is a continuation and development of the Red Day, the continuation of co- ordinated international action; it is the answer to the eapilalist crisis; it is resistance of the capitalist. offensiy ary 24 is centered upon the and to the fascization proc- ess now developing with multiplied speed; it is a mass break with social- democratic illusions and traditions about prosperity, class Collaboration, ete.; it is part of the struggle against war and for defense of the So- viet Union; it is a step in the preparation of decisive class battles which will test the revolutionary qualities of all workers’ organizations, and seek out the weakest links in the chain of world imperialism. 5. In the U.S. A. the February 24 Demonstration must be directed against the Hoover-Green plans, against the clas A. F. of L. and its “left” shield (Thomas, Muste), against the opportu- nist and renegade theories of “prosperity, “organized “capitalism” and “exceptionalism” and all illusions based upon them. It must be a demonstration of the unemployed, those directly struck by the crisis, in united front with the employed, with those still in the shops and with the partially employed, who suffer from wage cuts. worse conditions, and the constant threat of unemployment; it must be a demonstration of international solidarity of the workers of all capi- talist countries, with the workers of the colonial and semi-colonial lands; it must be a demonstration in defense of the Soviet Union, and against the war provocations and preparations of United States im- perialism. i 6. With the growing crisis and unemployment, more than ever must be emphasized the importance of organization of the most exploited sections of the working class. Youth labor rapidly increases in its proportions of the workers in the factories; women labor becomes a larger proportion of the employed; at the same time that both consti- tute a considerable section of the unemployed who must be mobilized. Negro workers are especially hard hit, because of the special oppr sion under which they suffer, which multiplies the effects of unemploy- ment. The revolutionary trade unions acquire additional importance, as the principal centers of mass mobilization for resistance to the capi- talist offensive and organization of the unemployed in united front with the employed, in unemployed councils and committees of action. Com- mittees of action must arise as the organ of connecting and co-ordi- nating all phases of the struggle. The I.L.D. and W.LR. must be pre- pared for new tasks and multiplied duties. 7. The slogans of the struggle begin with the economic demands of unemployed, and of those working, according to the program already broadcasted. Out of this must be developed the consequent political * slogans, against the Hoover government of Wall Street servants; against | the $160,000,000 gifts to the capitalists; against the treacherous A. F. of’L., ani the Green pledge to Hoover; against the socialist servants ¢et Hoover; to organize the soldiers and sailors in solidarity with the workers; for solidarity with the revolutionary masses of Haiti, India, Philippines, etc.; aa nst the war danger; especially the danger of war against the U.S.S.R., as expressed in the new hostile act of the Mexican gcvernment, dictated by Hoover, Stimson and their bosses in Wall Street; for defense of the Soviet Union; against the capitalist system which produces crises and unemployment; for a Revolutionary Work- ers’ Government, POLITICAL COMMITTEE, Communist Party of U.S.A. HOWL FOR SUPPRESSION e} qe OF COMMUNIST PARTY International | OF GERMANY Wireless | (Wireless By Inprecorr) News | BERLIN, Jan. 26.—The centre and | democratic press is joining in the 4 ,| howl for illegality of the Commu- ATTACK ON BRITISH “DAILY jnist Party, including the Vossische WORKER” ‘Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) |The “socialist” police president at LONDON, Jan. .26,—— Thursday | Hamburg has prohibited demonstra- evening a boycott of. wholesale news tions, admittedly to prevent the un- set ie enue the pei | ploved Hunger-March on Hamburg age! — ‘the first of February. The respon- Vorker, organ of the Communist | sible editor of the Rote Fahne, or- farty of Great. Britain. It com- | gan of the Communist Party, was mvunced with telegrams from whole- hack Thursday. The reason is seiers in Manchester, Oldham and ** Yet unknown, other rge industrial northern | towne, cancelling orders. i similar telegrams were received) CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—The Young from wholesalers in Cardiff and! Communist League of Chicago will pel Nee wc Ser sane hold a Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg pathizers to break the bourgeois, memorial meeting Sunday, Feb. 9, sabotage and distribute the Daily 2! 2 p. m. at Peoples Auditoriun, Worker. [2457 West Chicago Ave, Such a demonstration has been set by the | betrayal of the | longer hours, | { Friday CHICAGO YOUTH LENIN MEET _ Crowd Came Back — % Katov Blackjacks and Clubs; | Thousands of Leaflets Distributed; Plackards Denounee Murderous Police; Unemployment Minor, Others, Stunned With Blackjacks; Few) Arrests; Katovis Funeral Tuesday, Noon } BULLETIN. “If L die, keep on fighting!” were the last words of Steve Katovis as he lay dying from a policeman’s bullet. Pe ae Reforming again and again, broken up at one point by a. charges of 200-foot and mounted police, turning to fight in 2 as ee scores of points at once against the club and fist-swinging pa- trolmen, yielding to superior force and retreating, taking their wounded with them as they went—but always return- ing to the scene—that is the main Worker outstanding feature of the demon- | stration by 3,000 militant workers of | New York, in City Hall Park, Sat-} urday. | It took the police from 12:40 un-/ til about 2 p. m. to clear the grounds of those wp followed the call of} the Communist Party, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial nion, the Food Clerks Union, the Building Maintenance Workers Union and many other class unions in New York, to protest the murder by po-| loce of Steve Katovis, police brutal- ity in strikes, unemployment, low | wages, speed-up and imperialist war. | During the course of the demonstra- tion, some 10,000 workers in the downtown section of Manhattan} were attracted.to, the sceng,. picked! up handbills which were plentifully | . scattered about, and either joined} a “°F jin the protest or were driven into it | — aia | 12:00 noon, January %. Worke Slug Daily Editor “ |by the police attack, which raged | against demonstrators and specta- | tors indiscriminately. Body at Workers’ Center. The demonstration in City Hall Park was followed later in the after- noon by the bringing of the body of Steve Katovis to the Workers’ Center, where it lies in state in a hall on the Fourth Floor, and by a Pa.—Electrical workers of Beorenerya march of scores of : ,, Workers up to Irving Plaza Hill, the + Mutual , Telephone Company’ where they sang.the International as jstruck against the employment of|a protest against the socialist party, | |non-tinion labor on the job. 1 (Continued on Page Three) | Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, who was clubbed down | when he spoke from the City Hall steps, and then singled out again and black-jacked on Broadway by | police. ERIE, conscious with their lead billies. orkers, the police, in tw lated demonstrators, beating and , knocked down. | Tvade Union Unity League Demands Tobiess Reliet; Fights Six million of workers are out of} ized or unorganized, whether work, tens of thousands are being | employed or unemployed, Negro or tes from thrown on the street every week; | white, wérking women or youth, with repr | the prospect is that in a short time | unite in common struggle against the | class organizations. | there will be ten million unemployed | vicious attack made upon our class.} Action Commitices should be or- | workers. This occurs because capital- | Organize councils of the unemployed, | ganized by these Councils of Unem ism is in a crisis, and the capitlaist: | are trying to make the workers, by, strations in every city in the United | ers with the unemployed and all | their snuffering, pay the cost of the | States, not a mere protest demon- | wor’ , both organized and unor- cris’ st by wage cuts, increased | stration, but an organized, fighting | ganized, should combat the attempt speed-up | bers of workers to starve on the| fight for “WORK OR WAGES"— employed and unemployed against | street. |“IMMIEDATE RELIEF”; fight for | each other; all efforts to be made to | lunite the whole working class for of del mass org tions, ation from all working you be!the unemployed, conference: a Those now unemployed have no| unemployed insurance, against the hope of getting jobs. More will be| speed-up, against wage-cuts, for the | persistent struggle, and to partici- | added to those out df work. Still! seven-hour, fiveday week. Demon- | pate tively in the MASS UNEM- {more will be working part time. To| strate for these demands in every | PLOY DEMONSTRATION, of successfully struggle against this | city on February 24, | Monday, February 2 j attack upon the whole working class| The Trade Union Unity League | \ and its living standards is the chief | (T. U. U. L.) calls upon all workers | {functioning councils of unemployed | task now confronting all workers, | immediately to build up Councils of | set up in every indsutrial city, TU. both employed and unemployed. | Unemployed, through meetings, at | U. sections, minority within the Workers, whether you be organ- factory gates, géeneral meetings of A. F. of L. and these unemployed es | Aaa ane: Trot as the worners raised theiy baniere und placards, the hundreds of police that surrounded City Hall, | using their clubs, Mounted police rode in, The demonstrators fought back as more and more cops kept arr Murdered is at the headquarters of the Commun A mass, revolutionary funeral will be held j funcral of your fellow-worker, Katov By Police our dead co Stop work and come. to rade, the is, threes or four prepare for huge, militant demon- | ployed to link up the employed work- | and firing of great num-|demonstration of all workers ts! of the employing class to divide the | The middle of Feburay should see | Before City Hall. Against the ‘ ve hue he Two cops manhandling a worker after they have beaten him un- Because of the militancy of the invariably attacked iso- kicking them after they had been ORGANIZE COUNCILS OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS Cuts and Speed- Up !eouncils must carefully guard against any separation of the em- ployed from the unemployed work- ers. Daily mass meetings and dem- onstraions of unemployed worke ar2 essential, but they are not si ficient. Meetings at factory gates, union meetings to ize the un- organized, must be incr so-that the local unemployed conferences and councils of unemployed as they are organized, shall have deep roots in | the factories. \" Wor | jischarge from the factory as final. Those who have been thrown out |for some time must, with other work- ers, go back to the factory gates and demand “work or wages. They must challenge the right of the em-| ployer to throw them out to starve, (Continued on Page Three.) Murder of dud were hidden inside of the buildin, who are béing thrown on | \the streets must not accept’ their | D.ONSTRATE AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT, FEBRUARY 24! FIGHT OF \Mobilize All Workers |\Communist Party, U. Immediate Organ ment demonstrations demandi the LU NAVAL MEETING PROSEEDS WITH MacDonald Asks Press| Not to Expose It LONDON, Jan 4.—Marked by an interview with correspondent with MacDonald, in which he urged the journalists not to .expose: the ¥ d-called Naval’ Conference in stories ent to their countries, the confer- ence is still in secrecy, which an at- tempt is made to hide by oceasional interviews with the press by this or ithat diplomat. The chief item today which pre- tended to give news, was an inter- view with Premier Tardieu of France, in which the Frenchman hid al' the real issues of the conspiracy by long and mystifying arguments about “globel tonnage” and “trans- fer of categories,” and such techni cal matter: Of course, the French are anxious |for what is called “global tonnage,” | (Continued on Page Two) MEXICO LIES IN. | SOVIET BREAK Mexican dispatches give the ex cuses vf the government for break- ing relations with the Soviet: Gov- ernment, as being the demonstra- tions agains} the “deportation of Russians.” This is an outright lie, s|as, to begin with, there have been no revolutionary “Russians” denort- ed from Mexico, but many Cubans upon whom the bloody dictatorship of Machado in Cuba itched to set a hand, By thus manufacturing “Rus- sians,” the Mexican government, which has sold out to the United States, finds an excuse to break re- lations with the Soviet Government, thus doing the work of U. 8, im- perialism in its war plans against | the Soviet. Union. The demonstrations, on the* other hand, were against the persecutions by the lackey Mexican government against Mexican workers and peas- (Continued on Page Two) Katovis | J, rushed on the workers und began iving, beating women and children in a furious effort to break the protest. i Against Growing Mass Unemp | On February 24, throughout the wo ship of the Commurist Parties, there w army of unemployed is mounting by ited States over 6,000,000 workers | mayor and c NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents nstration for Katovis CALL WORLD WIDE JOBLESS in Capitalist Lands sloyment . A, Issue Call For ization For Relief d, under the leader- be mass unemploy- ng work or relief. The world s and bounds. In re unemployed, 2 leading undreds g thrown with latest reports fre | indus ee f the U. wing } f the 3. A. ‘esto ployed and em- y city in the > for this ». 24, The UTMOST SECRECY Workers of the United To all States! More than thrown f n workers are es on to the vossibility of 1s of liv- titron the” time empl¢ eral. The throughout ome gen- is grip- spreading capitalist vernment of the by Hoover, is the len of eco- . The enting the capi- like the cut, d helps the their profits by <ploitation and spend- ional hundreds of millions th > work ing a on police, army and navy, but not one cent to relieve unemployment. Starvation, misery and death are the companions of millions of work- ing women and children. crisis at the same ie preparations fo struggle e imperial- The economic time tens imp for ist feeri gainst one an- other and especia against the al ‘ the only r hich mployment is being al Ar he work- ers enc soc t prosperity because t have hed capitals ism and reconstructed industry un- en! Young oO re- lief from possi- ble unles: ize and fight for it, Div’ you are ab- solute of the bosses and t You must act and the be that of mill- ions of (Continued on Page Three) JOBLESS MARCH IN AMINEEAPOLIS Hold Unemployed Meet in St. Paul Minn., Jan. 26, loyed workers, » of the Commu- Trade Union Unity ated in f rning of nd demon- disappeared the jobless m stration, and could not be conve unemployed in S 1er-labor party f: s is lo- cated, was es} r Many of jobless joined the Unemployed Cour nd some joined the Communist Party The unemployed mass meetings were addressed by members of the Trade Union Unity p, who spoke from the court house Another demic for next Friday