The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1930, Page 1

_ GROWING BREADLINES AS TEN THOUSAND EVERY WEEK ARE THROWN ON THE STREETS IN CRISIS! Thi jobless wo the world-wide demon doviess wegro and white workers. The mobilization of the am- employed for the mass demonstration to culmianate on February Photograph taken 28, 1 bid dad these long lines of unemployed. workers coffee and stale bread in the breadlines. Jan. of breadlines containing mare than 8,000 jobless in New York City. All over the United States is duplicated by the thousands—in front of factory gates, at employment offices, waiting for slop strat 26, is the first task of every worker, employed, or unemployed. Hoover, Champion Liar of the Capitalist Class, Says “Employment Is Improving.” This Bald-faced Lie. Will Spur the 6,060,000 Jobless in the U. S. to Increased Action. Fight Growing, Mass Unemployment. Organize For the World-Wide Un- employment Demonstration on February 26! as second-class matter at the ost Office at New York, N. Yo under the act o f Marob 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily ¢ Company, Ini re, y by The Comprodaily Publishing x. 2. New York City, NEW_ YORK, WEDNESDAY, "JANUARY 29, 1930 SUBSCRIP TON RATES: In New York by. mall, $8.00 per year. : Outnide New York, by mail $6.00 5 Price 3 Cents 50,000 NY. WORKERS PROTEST THE MURDER 0F KAT r AND MOBILIZE FOR THE WORLD JOBLESS DEMONSTRATION The NewYork Denonstration| Is Not a “Local” Affair Yesterday the biggest gathering ever seen of Union Square paid a tribute to Steve Katovis, a member of the Communist Party and of the revolutionary trade union movement, the police on the streets of New York. shot down by This demonstration has deep political significance. The tens of thousands of workers who participated were c not personal acquaintances of the murdered worker. The r their manifestations of deep respect and love the de worker has to be found in the social conditions affecting the lives of the whole working class. for Yesterday’s demonstration was a proof of situation in which the American workers are b old stagnant faith in a Wall Strect ruled civ have already begun to feel that American capital of classes ruled and run for the benefit of a pe experiences have been rapidly teaching them that t can not offer them anything but unendurable slaver ing been introduced to the class struggle through rapidly intens exploitation, through wage cuts and unemployment, through strikes and the naked violence of the capitalist class for their suppression— these workers have by tens and scores of thousands, been. prepared 10 see that the shooting down of an obscure member of their class on the picket line is a crime directed, not simply against the workér whost life is taken, but against the tens of millions of his fellow forkers who must go through the same class oppression and class struggle. a rapidly developing ig torn away from th These w 20,000 MARCH BEHIND | RED FLAG A OVER 100,000 WATCH IT Police Captain Admits 500 500 Cops There; in Reserve; Orders Press to Belittle Crowd | Speakers, Handbills, Tell of Unceasing Fight, to demonstrate its independence in | Against Capitalism, Its Wars, Unemployment res policy. Fifty thousand New York workers massed in Union Square, Was then fighting U. S. imperialism. ‘quickly filling to overflowing |north end, to which the police | tions must limit themselves, sj i disregard of police Bs shrscon over a large part of the rest | movement, and has joined United jot the. square,--¢ | sidewalks all Sroind et 25 or 30 | deep—and more were coming ‘from all directions when a | solid wall of police cars; motor- ‘Soviet Notes Mexico’s Act As from U.S. (Wireless by Inprécorr.) MOSCOW, Jan. 28.—The govern-! | ment organ, “Izvestia,” commenting | jon the Mexican breach of relations, | | states that this was carr un- Armies picreied ott der the dictates of the United States, |In 1924, Mexico resumed diplomatic \relations quite voluntarily, wishing ND COFFIN; The Mexican petty bourgeoisie the “restricted space” at the | Since then, however, the petty bour- department decrees demonstra- | geoisie has been shocked at the pread rapidly, with a -healthy| |rapid advance of the: proletarian States imperialism against its ‘own | workers. a ene ‘OK ATOVIS PROTEST The present breach was a demon- stration of the dependence of Mexico ee the United States, and was en- DEMONSTRATION FEB. 26 OF WORKERS OF WORLD AGAINST CAPITALISM Sea of Misery As Deep As War Sufferings Spreads Over World As Un- employment Increases, With Capitalist Crisis England, Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hungary, Japan and Italy, Everywhere, Millions Are Starving On February 26, the growing mass army of unemployed of all lands, under the leader- ship of the Communist International, will carry on gigantic demonstrations for “work or wages,” immediate relief and other imperative demands. In all capitalist countries, the jobless armies are growing rapidly. In Great Britain, A cable from London to the New York Times says that The militant revolutionary character of the Communist Party, seen the unemployed army is mounting. in action before their eyes, has much to do with the development of this consciousness. Because the Communist Party did not hesitate in defying and fighting the uniformed police gunmen of the capitalist class in order to expose to the workers the political nature of the crime that was committed, tens of thousands of given a clearer understanding and a greater class-consciousness than before, on the basis of their own experiences. But it would be a mistake to regard the splendid demonstration of class solidarity in New York as merely a “local” affair. There is an intimate connection between the shooting of seven tex tile strikers by the North Carolina police in the past few months and the shooting of Steve Katovis on the streets of New York, There is an intimate connection between the kidnapping and beating of strike leaders in the South and the clubbing of workers on the City Hall steps in Ncw York last Saturday. There is an intimate connection be- tween ‘the splendid defiance of the capitalist police by the workers who demonstrated on Union Square yesterday and the incomparably mére dangerous and daring struggles of the Illinois coal miners against whom the capitalist class is using all of the means of violence at their dis- posal, including the state military forces. There is a connection be- tween the struggles of the agricultural laborers in Imperial Valley, Cal- ifornia, and the struggies on the picket line in New York. There is a general sharpening of class struggle throughout the whole States, manifested by the increasing brutality of the capitalist govern- ment and the more than equally increasing determination of the work- ers to struggle. : This connection will be seen more and more each day. The fast- gathering volume of working class determination not to permit the capitalist class to throw upon the workers the cost of the economic crisis is being expressed in all of these militant actions. Rapidly the “American” economic crisis is showing itself to be a capitalist world economic crisis. Just as the struggles of the Amer- ican textile workers in North Carolina and the struggles of the Amer- ican coal miners in Illinois have echoed throughout Europe as an insur- ance to the workers of those countries that American capitalism is no “exception” to the present general crisis of the capitalist world - tem—so the manifestation of the Americar workers against the police- murder of Steve Katovis will be an inspiration to the working class around the globe. The police “prohibited” the ereeaey meeting on Union Square for the burial of their fellow-worker whom the police had murdered. But because of the determined leadership of the Communist Party the meeting was held and the police found it better not to interfere. The character of social-fascism has not often been better exhibited than in the conduct of the “socialist” party in this affair. One of its leaders, Charles Solomon, as a lawyer, secured against the strike the injunetion under which the police fired the shot that killed the worker, Steve ‘Katovis. Then the Rev. Norman Thomas, leader of the socialist party, telegraphed to the capitalist mayor of New York to express his_solidarity with the police, declaring that the violence against the workers gave them the chance to “pose as martyrs.” This, while Steve Katovis was “posing as a martyr” in his coffin. Fiendish hatred of the working class is the chief characteristic of this social-fascist party. ‘ * 8 Steve Katovis must not be allowed to die in vain. tide of working class militancy must be carried forth to victorious gains of the working class. Between six and seven million workers are facing hunger and exposure in the Unfited States through unemploy- ment. The world-wide economic crisis is ‘swelling the ranks of the unemployed by many more millions in all capitalist countries. On February 26 the working class of the whole world must be mobilized for the struggle on the issue of unemployment—the struggle against the efforts’ of the capitalist class to force the cost of the economic crisis onto. the shoulders of the workers in the form of starvation, out of a job, unbearable speed-up in the shop, and unendurable lowering of wages; below the existence standard! Put more momentum every day into the militant movement of the, workers—to build the revolutionary trade unions under. the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and, the Red International of Labor Unions, into the world-wide dem- mneGaton of our class which is to reach its climax on February 26! ~ Oniy’ the. Communist Party leads and can lend the mov ement. En- oe of the best members of our class in’9 the Communist Pai rages The mounting’ | cycles equipped for machine guns, mounted police and patrolmen * blocked the streets leading to the | square and even the subway exits. Great and unnumbered crowds gath- jered in all the side streets behind the police barricade. A procession ‘of 20,000 with red flags and pla- sang the “International” and “Solidarity” as they followed the body of Steve Katovis and the flam- ing red banner of the Communist |Party to Queensboro Bridge. Tens of thousands were unem- ployed, and other ‘tens of thousands were workers who had quit work. All were there at the funeral of Steve Katovis to denaunce his mur- der by the polic. while attending a Trade Union Unity League solidar- | ity meeting across the street from} (Continued on mares Bees Three) ONTARIO JOBLESS : DEMONSTRATE Gogaties “Under Lead | of Communists PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Jan. 28.— Militant demands for the unem- ‘ployed workers will be among the ‘cardinal points in “the platform of the Communist Party in the election campaign here, Following a mass meeting called | by the Communist Party at. Work- ers Hall, 3% Bay St. a committee of eleven was elected to draft a program for the organization of an unemployed association of the Twin Cities. A. T. Hill is chairman, and John Carey, secretary of thé com-| mittee, The committee called a mass meeting for the unemployed work- fers last Friday and Saturday. | This was followed by a march to the City Hall by 300 unemployed workers, * The mayor of the city was absent, ‘and a note was left demanding a reply to the unemployed workers ‘before an unemployed workeys’ mass | meeting at three, Saturday after- noon, A telephone message was re- ceived from the city clerk before the mass meeting, stating the mayor declined to call a special meeting of ‘the city council, The mayor stated ihe would receive a delegation of the |men unemployed Monday, but was jabsent at the time he stated he would receive the workers, e SHOWS GROWING MASS STRUGGLES Expresses 5 Will to De- fend Soviet Union The Communist Party @ the U.) oes by the United States goy- rmment, among other things, in Grdee to give a broad hint to the |London Naval Conference that the “the percentage of unemployed among the 12,000,000 work people at the middle of last month |was 11.1 per cent, compared with 11 per cent a month before.” The same dispatch indicates that conditions are growing wo the unemployed, S. A., New York District, has issued | |Starving beggars on the following statement on the Ka- | This is some of the “benefits” of the tovis Funeral Demonstration: alliance of the Mexican bourgeoisie “The demonstration on Union |ad its government with Wall Square for Comrade Steve Katovis Street, and against this, the Mexi- | was a demonstration that will not |caM proletariat, led by the Commu- be forgotten by the workers of this jnist Party, will demonstrate on city. It was a sign of the grow- | February ee SPAIN'S FASCIST Fatherland, the Soviet aa | J, my against the threatened attacks un- = Worla ci Knocks Out Six Year Rule der the leadership of United States imperialism, and against the grow- (Continued on Page Two) MADRID, Jan. 28._-King Alfonso ‘ | has received and accepted the resig- |nation of General Primo de Rivera, | ing determination, under the ihe ship of the Communist Party, [es workers to fight against the rowing mass unemployment, and) to mobilize for the world- wide dem- onstration against canenployntent | set for February 26. International] iz for a and i ate ae . ly from September 1 AS Wireless ruled as a fascist dictator by: mili- | News \ tary decree for the Spanish bour- : geoisie. General Demasso Beren- |guer, another of the military clique | . A OS'S |which has held the*toiling masses BOYCOTT ON “DAILY WORKER” | of Spain under its iron. boot, is (Wireless by Inprecorr.) |named by the king to form a new! LONDON, Jan. 28.—The capital- | “cabinet”—another dictatorship. | ist boycott against the British | The resignations, immediately | “Daily Worker” is spreading. The | precipitated in the superficial sense | provincial wholesale Newsagents} by unrest among the army cliques Federation has resolved to prohibit | and the strike of petty-bourgeois its members from handling the/ students, has a more fundamental “Daily Worker.” Wholesalers every- |base in the sharp crisis in Spanish where except in London and Scot- | economy. land have cancelled orders. With! ‘The unit of money, the peseta, has | the assistance of the Unemployed |been and cohtinues to drop to alarm- | Councils however, the ‘Communist | ing degree, causing and reacting | Party has already succeeded in over-|again to the flight of capital from | coming disttibution difficulties in | ih country, ipereasing the cost of | the Manchester district where the | small. strikes and surging wave of | boycott commenced. The organiza- | antagonism to the monarchy as well tion of distributive apparatus is pro-)as against Primo de Rivera. This ceeding dauntlessly, all, of course, reflects the whole 1 RARE: | world crisis, | “SOCIALISTS” WAIT FOR $ The king undoubtedly felt that) , OPPORTUNE TIME |De Rivera was becoming more of a (Wireless By Inprecorr) |liability than ,an asset, and seized | PARIS, dan. 28—The congress upon De Rivera’s “insult” in asking of the “socialist” party has re-af- the army commanders rather than | firmed its adhesion to its bitter anti-|the king, for an expression of con- | Bolshevist struggle and for defense |fidence, to dismiss him. Red flags | of its capitalist fatherland. Ren-|and cries of “Down with the mon- audel’s motion for immediate parti- archy!” With growing strikes that | cipation in the governmént with | break out despite the efforts of the | other capitalist parties was rejected | “socialist” party of Spain, which | UNEMPLOYED BREAK BOSS | | | \ | Three hundred menrbers joined \the Unemployed Association at wet neeting, for Faures’ motion, agreeing to par- | supports De Rivera's fascist rule, no | ticipation in principle, but declaring ; doubt, aided King Alfonso to make | the present moment ee ne up his mind, ¥ of L, misleaders headed by William EMPLOYED IN STRUGGLE Meant to Keep Starving Sites With Hope, Are Refuted by Coid, Hard Fact Hoover's Lies, Councils of Unemployed Must Be picnics to! ‘a Fight for Immediate Relief; Work or Six millions or more of jobless American workers, starving as they hunt for, jobs that don’t exist, will not only learn by tz fruitless searching that Hoover lies about “more jobs,” | the call of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League to | organize in Councils of Unemployed, and together wjth the workers left in the shops ‘harassed by speed-up @— and wage cuts, will begin in every city to struggle for immediate Te- lief, for “Work or Wages” for the jobless and against wage cuts and | health-wrecking speed-ups, to cul- minate in great demonstrations on| February 26. Daily, the lies of Hoover about} “prosperity,” lies supported only by | other lies of the treacherous A. F. “socialist” party of refutation Green and the capitalism, find further {by cold, stubborn facts. More expésure of the lying state- ments by Hoover and Davis that the “employment situation is im- proving” is contained in one of the leading mouthpieces of the big capi- | talists, the Journal of Commerce. In an editorial on January 25, this capitalist sheet, writing on “Em- ployment Facts and Fancies,” says: | “A rapid examination of the H material on hand, representing over half the concerns regularly reporting, leads the New York De- i | Partment (of Labor) to conclude that during the first fifteen days of January there was a marked decrease in employment in seven out of eleven industries covered as. compared with December, which, the department says, was the worst December since 1914, Fig- ures ‘so far gathered for January, it is added, indicate that unem- | ployment in New York State will | be greater than for any previous i (Contihuea on Page Three) | j i ‘Caudle Case in Court \T. | arming himself for defense again: ithe textile companies’ lynchers, now |out on bond, has a trial on appeal !tomorrow. | Subs, hans controls the American con-| «Returns subsequent to those on W hich the December percentage was figured . indicate pes e # @ that the present position has tended tp grow worse since the turn of . ss i wet he in Great There is twemendous unemploy- rit reani {ment i in Mexico. Out of a total popu- ates ized manages se TY MILLION JOBLESS «= yt oe |700,000 unemployed, with masses -of C ‘ommu to demon- clIN U. 8. TO JOIN WITH: ee of the treacherst jabor” party q| with the bosses against the unem- c | ie workers. nV ers To Fight. 10,000 job- ,000 work- Chancellor Wages hober for mild relief measures, The Communist Party of Austria is freezing and mobilizing the unemployed to par- ke in the int Ss but will answer tion on F Mass Unemploy More than 1 cent of the Aus- ian proletariat are jobless. Out (Continued on Page Three) WORKLESS FIGHT wy Australia, . 1,000,000 Leaflets _ There will be distributed | one million leaflets in the! | campaign against unemploy-| | ment leading up to the Inter- | HNO A AR A 09 PS national Demonstration, Feb-| Eau Read iN i) ruary 26. 1 he ae These leaflets are ready.) ,H BUDAPES' I om ) Set th ediately from your District Office. | Mass distribution of these leaflets is the first Party duty. Have you got your bun-| ‘dle? Every unit must insist that its District Office fur-| lnish their copies at once Prepare a tremendous! mass demenstraticn against | | unemp! yyment February 26.) t continuous! een going on < police, after Sooner would the p break up the e collision be- nd police the | ‘ not, forthcomir unemp gle to force the Horth tatorship to the wall Aes <e| climax with the Today; Self Defense tions of Feb, 26. ee : Ae} SRTON. 5 a 2—- . Stee ne cet os | Guach, cWeRkas Betrayed M, Caudle, sentenced once rnment authorities who aid the capitalists at the expense of the unemployed. The bitter discontent in the north- ern Bohemian textile district has (Continued on Page Three.) i Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New