The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1930, Page 1

MASS DEMONSTRATION IN CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT A Worker f March 3, 1879. GAINST MEXICO’S ATTACK ON USSR In Washington and Detroit, hundreds of workers demonstrated against the threatened attacks on the Soviet Union by the Wall St.-ruled FINAL CITY EDITION Mexican government. This is the workers’ reply to the lame excuse of Estrada, Workers, mobilize for the defense of the Soviet Union! | Entered us second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, » under the act o NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1930 paces ae =% SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing, Company, Inc. 28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. SPs Vol. VI., No. 284 Price 3 Cent ILLINOIS MINERS STRIKE AGAINST FIRING OF MATES Mr. Delafield of Wall Street-- MASS UPRISINGS Alias “Grand Jury” ‘Whe murder of Steve Katovis “reflects credit upon ‘the officer ani the police department of the City of New York;” is the decision of the Bronx County Grand Jury. The shooting down of workers on the streets of New York is the sanctioned program of the capitalist class which rules this city and the entire American “democracy.” It is absolutely logical that this is the outcome when brutal capitalist repressions are “investigated” by the brutes of capitalism. This is capitalist justice. There are only two kinds of justice—capitalist class justice which is merely a system to regulate society for the benefit of the capitalist class, such as we have in this country, and working class justice, which so far exists only in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and which is a system to regulate society for the benefit of the working class. Some “liberal” persons and newspapers are busy trying to convince the workers of New York that there-could be a possibility of a differ- ent outcome than this of the investigation of capitalist brutality by the brutes of capitalism. The greatest necessity is to show the working class that the whole machinery of government of capitalist “democracy” is merely a dis- guised machine for the dictatorship of the capitalist class over the working class. This is not hard to do in the case of the murder of Steve Katovis and the enthusiastic official approval of that murder by the Bronx County Grand Jury. The statement of the Grand Jury it- self is one of the most remarkably transparent evidences of this. The Grand Jury report, which goes out of its way to give enthusiastic praise and commendation to the police murder of strike pickets, in this case, by remarkable coincidence is signed: “E. C. Delafield, Foreman, President Bank of America, 44 Wall Street.” Who is Delafield? He is listed as president of the Bank of Amer- ica and of two other corporations connected with it, vice president of the Parkway Gates Corporation, secretary-treasurer of the Delafield Estate, treasurer of the Fieldstone Realty Association, director of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of the Savage Arms Corporation, and of a string of other large companies, a member of the New York Cham- ber.of Commerce, a republican, an Episcopalian and Senior Warden of Christ Church at Riverdale. Of course, it does not really matter which member of New York’s ruling class served as foreman of the Grand Jury. It is interesting in this case only because the appropriate signature of the president of a Wall Street bank to the approval of the murder of members of the working class helps'to show even to the blindest member of our class the fact that the machinery of state is simply the machine owned and controlled by the capitalist class for the suppression and to facilitate the exploitation of the workers. .+Mhe- example of the grim reality of the class.struggle, found in the recent ‘events in New York, is being repeated today in Pontiac, Michigan, with the police attack upon the unemployed workers, the wholesale arrests of their leaders and the attempt to outlaw the Com- munist Party. It is exampled in the class struggle in the mine fields, in the textile field of the South, and in the present world-wide struggle in all capitalist countries. ies : Only by dismissing all petty-bourgeois illusions, only by taking up the struggle of our class—and carrying this struggle forward fear- lessly to victory, can any worker intelligently serve the cause of free- dom. The workers must fearlessly and intelligently face the fact that American “democracy” is a dictatorship of the biggest finance capi- talists over the masses of toilers, The words “Grand Jury” are noth- ing more than an alias for the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Mitchells, the Delafields, etc. As a result of their struggles, the American work- ing class will yet establish the dictatorship of the working class to displace the dictatorship of the capitalist class. cae ; Join the Communist Party, that will smash the capitalist machin- ery of brutality and suppression and the capitalist Justice under which a police murderer is merely “discharging his duty” when he shoots down an unarmed worker in the street. NTWIU STATES SOVIET PLANES, STRIKE TACTICS | TEAMS IN SEARCH Bd When Fake Strike Is on) Come to 181 W. 28 St. BULLETIN. Tonight. right after work, in * Irving Plaza Hall, there is a mobi- filization meeting called by the “Needle Trades Workers Indus- { ' trial Union to prepare for in- creased activity in the strike cam- paign for union conditions in the dress shops. Workers are urged to come early to finish the busi- ness and march in a body to the | / Central Opera House mass demon- | stration against the use of Mexi- co by the U. S. government in its war preparations against the So- viet Union. 4 { | | | { | ¢ { “The Needle Trades Workers In- | dustrial Union has issued a state-| ment to all dressmakers, organized and unorganized. Tomorrow the fake strike of the International! Ladies’ Garment Workers Union is supposed to start. The N.T.W.1U.; says: . | “Organize your shop committees | to fight for union conditions under | be: leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. | “Organize your ranks to fight against the bosses and their com- pany union who want to company unionize the dress trade through « fake strike in order to continue the miserable open-shop ‘conditions for the workers in the trade. “Organize your ranks to spread the organization campaign for bet- ter conditions conducted by the In- dustrial Unign. “Organize to fight the Schlesinger agency andthe bosses who in a day or two will order you to go down) in their fake strike and lockout. “Do not permit yourselves to be terrorized by the company union, * f Aviators Risk Lives Seeking EHielson NANUK, North Cape, Siberia, Feb. 2.—Soviet dog teams and air- plane searches for Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, American avia- tors, whose plane was reported to have been found wrecked in this | vicinity, are under way. The expe- \ditions are organized by the Soviet Arctic Commission. All Soviet dog teams in this vi- cinity have been commandeered for the search and are rushing supplies to the temporary camp that has been established at the scene of the wreck. There is a shortage of gaso- line for the planes and feed for the dogs. The Soviet Arctié Commis- sion is rushing 1,500 dried ‘salmon from Provident Bay for’ the dogs. The Soviet aviators are risking their lives in ‘the search. Arrest 2 Communists Urging Filipino, U.S. Workers Unite American Legion Gunners Killed Filipino;. Prepare to Send Militia to Imperial Valley SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 2. —The American Legion attacks on | a | | | | 1 1 | SHAKE JAPANESE BOSSES IN KOREA Over 800 Arrested by Imperialists Who Fear Revolt: Masses Are Militant World Crisis Hits Japanese Imperialism Korea is being shaken with a great mass movement against Jap- anese imperialism. Further accounts of the recent uprising, published ex- elusively by the Daily Worker due not only to the censorship of Jap- anese imperialism but also to the fact that New York capitalist pa- pers refuse to print the news when given them, have arrived giving more details as follows: The demonstration on Dec. 9, when 800 were arrested took place chiefly in Keishonando ' Province, over the arrest by Japanese police of a Korean who defended his sister from two Japanese. Shortly after-| ward, Japanese imperialism, in the verson of Governor-General Admiral Saito, attempted to pacify the Ko- teans with a vague promise that he was working on a plan to “grant” Korea a “peoples’ assembly”—in 1933! But the movement had passed the stage of believing in promises, and a general sweep of protest at the arrest of the 800 arose throughout Korea. It was this protest 1fiove- ment which came-to a head on Jan. 29, in gigantic demonstrations. These demonstrations were attacked by Japanese forces and 78 persons were killed, while those arrested totaled some 17,000, This is the biggest protest move- ment against Japanese imperialism since March, 1919, and embraces 50 per cent peasants. All the 17,000 arrested are charged by the Jap- (Continued on Page Two) 10,000 PROTEST TOBRERA MURDER Great Manila Meeting Demands Freedom MANILA, P. I, Feb. Ten thousand Filipinos, bearing wreaths denouncing the murder by American | Legion machine gunners of a Fili- pino worker near Watsonville, and the bombing of Filipino club house in Stockton, Cal., attended a mass meeting here today. The bourgeois politicians and Catholic clergy were out trying their best to drift the resentment of the Filipino masses into harmless courses. A priest named Jose Mer- cado delivered a public prayer for the repose of the soul of Fermm Tobrera, the man killed at Watson- ville, Representative Thomas Con- fesor and Dean Jorge Bocobo spoke of independence for the Philippine Islands “but only by peaceful means.” The real applause, however, show- ing the temper of the masses, greeted speakers who shouted: “The Americans were welcomed to the Philippines with open arms, but Filipinos are welcomed in California with coffins. Rise and seize the island!” 2. ) cut. Facing Loss of Job He Commits Suicide Facing the scrap-heap of indus- try at sixty-one years of age, New- ten Golden, a New York worker, last Friday was driven to his death by tte load of anxiety Jaid upor the working class by capitalism. Hearing talk in his work-place that he was to be fired, and knowing that he could never hope to yet an- other job, he went home, entered his bedroom and blew his brains out. No revolutionary worker does such things. No worker should do such things. Better die fighting! Re- fuse to starve! JOBLESS MEET FOR CHICAGO © i In Jersey, Too, TUUL Organizes Struggle CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—The Chicago Trade Union Unity League, the le: er of the broad. masses of work in the Chicago District against the bosses and their agents in the Chi- cago Federation of Labor, is calling a great mass meeting on Tuesday evening Feb. 4, 8 p. m. at Parkview Hall, 2739 West Division St., to or- ganize the thousands of unemployed workers now walking the streets STRIKE WEAPON USED AGAINST BOSSES’ WAGE-CUT AND UNEMPLOYMENT ATTACKS IN UNITY OF EMPLOYED WITH JOBLESS i Trade Union Unity League and Revolutionary Unions R allying All Workers in Daily Struggles for Demonstration Feb. 26th employed, and fighting wage cuts with the major weapon of the workers: the Strike! The srising resistance of the miners is so easy to see that the Peabody Coal Co. has again placed | machine-guns at some of its mines, particularly at Tovey, Mine 8. Both the employed and the unemployed! miners will unite their forces | against the bosses’ attack in dem- onstrations on Feb. 26. Intensified speed-up is reported from all parts of Illinois. The Fish- wick-Lewis fight is exposing both of the reactionary factions as cam-| ouflage for the operators’ plans to destroy conditions and lower wages. The National Miners’ Union dis- | trict headquarters here leads the struggle against | unemployment,}| with the demand, “$35 a week mini- mum wages, or $35 a week relief from the operators or the state, if unemployed.” Around such demands, American workers everywhere must be rallied to the revolutionary unions, and all Unemployed Councils organized be fully brought into the Trade Union Unity League, the organizer of the unorganized, both employed and un- employed, | FIGHT WALL ST. MOVE IN MEXICO Breach of Relations Is jobless in Chicago. Hundreds of thousands are out of | work in Chicago, with no hope of} “things getting better in the sprinj and T.U.U.L. speakers, Nels Kja' Order of Imperialists | Tonight at 8 p. m. there will take place the mass demonstration against the Mexican government’s! and N. Green, will set forth the| war preparations against the Soviet | T.U.U.L. program of action for re-| Union. The meeting will be in Cen- lief for these starving masses. Fac- tory gate meetings are to be held, workers discharged should refuse to accept the bosses’ verdict as final, but under T.U.U.L, leadership to} return to the factory gates and unite job, against the speed-up, wage cuts, and for immediate relief for the job- less under the slogan of “Work or Wages!” “No Evictions for Non- Payment of Rent!” * * . NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 2.—On Monday, Feb. 8, a demonstration of jobless workers will take place in front of the News Building, at 10 o’clock a. m., under the leadership of the Communist Party and Young Communist League. On Tuesday, will be held at 93 Mercer St. under the auspices of the T.U.U.L. With mass unemployment throw- ing ten thousand workers out of work every week in the United (Continued on Page Three) Seventh Year Workers School Shows Great Grewth; Gains Value In a bulletin issued recently the Workers’ School commenting upon the achievements of its fall term of 1929, states: Francisco, and the troops stationed at the Monterey Presidio are being the Filipmo and Oriental workers | held in readiness to send into these continue, affer the Watsonville as- sault of a week ago has spread to the entire Pajaro and Santa Clara Valley, and into the San Joaquin Valley. The latest reports show that attacks on Filipinos took place in Watsonville, Salinas, San Jose, Stockton, and San Francisco. The county authorities have done noth- ing to disarm the American Legion bands who-roam the highways at the bosses and the underworld. _. (Continued on Page Two) r will. The governor applauds their actions. The National Guard in San areas. National Guardsmen in San Francisco are receiving special in- struction in “riot duty” for Watson- ville. Legion Clubs Japanese. A Japanese family on a ranch were beaten up by Legion hoodlums, It is reported that the unarmed Filipino shot to death last week was killed by a machine gun in the hands of the American Legion “The Workers School is now—in the spring term of 1930, finishing the seventh year of its existence. Its phenomenal growth since its found- ing was increased between the fall term of 1928 and the fall term of 1929 in ratio of increase as well as in actual numbers. The curriculum has been put on a sounder Marxist- Leninist basis, and is proving very much more effective in providing able organizers, speakers, writers and other functionaries for revolu- tionary organizations. This fall thugs. An American was stabbed |term was marked by tremendous ad- (Continued on Page Three) ¢ vances as td regularity of classes, their forces with those left on the} Feb, 4, a mass unemployed meeting | tral Opera House, 67th St. and | Third Ave. b | Added to the already announced | jlist of speakers is T. Ichida, who} will speak on behalf of the Japan- ese workers of New York organized | | into the Japanese Workers Club. | The other speakers are: M. J. Olgin, editor of the Daily Freiheit; Jorge Paz, member of the Latin American secretariat of Revolutionary Trade Unions; Beatrice Siskind and A. Moreau of the All-American Anti- Imperialist League; Nat Kaplan of the Daily Worker, and others. The momentum of preparations | by the imperialists for war against the First Workers’ Republic is ob- | viously making considerable head- |way. In Germany the police have faked a “pitch” by workers and are under this pretext now attempting to railroad hundreds of workers to jail. All over Germany sharp at- tacks by the police on workers’ dem- onstrations are taking place. It will be remembered that similar at- tacks marked the prelude to the break with the Soviet Union in Mexico. Undoubtedly the recent flirting between Germany and the other imperialist powers for an open alliance against the Soviet Union is now finding expression in these at- tacks on the workers’ meetings. Only the most determined organ- ized onposition of the world’s work- ing class will strengthen the de- fense of the Soviet Union. The Central Opera House meeting to- night must be the scene of the greatest participation of rkers for this purpose. Workers’ organ- izations are invited to send delega- tions and speakers in thoit name. | nee devotion to studies, and responsibil- ity of students and teachers.” The Workers’ School begins its spring term tonight. Workers are urged to enroll now in one of the many Marxist-Leninist classes at | | Unemployed Join With Employed Against Wage-Cuts and Speed-Ups; Employed Support Demand of Jobless for “Work or Wages” WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Feb. 2.—Coal miners are striking back hard at the attempts | of the companies to increase unemployment by speed-up and wage cuts. At Sparta, Ill., 375 walked out Friday when they were left at work, after 25 had been discharged, to do the work | of the full crew of 400. Logan mine was shut down when the men refused to take a wage! The miners are setting the slogan for all workers: “Strike Against Discharge!”, unit © ing the employed with the un-@———-—__-- * Unemployment Aids Bosses’ Industry | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 2— “Unemployment is an aid to indus- try,” boasted Dr. D. D. Lescohier, professor of economics at the Uni- versity of Washington and a con-| sultant on “labor management” in a speech before the American Man-| agement Association here on Jan. | 30. Unemployment is just what the bosses want, Lescohier pointed | out, as it helps them to cut wages | of those left on the job, and the American Federation of Labor is} giving great help to the bosses by | opposing strikes. | HOLD CONGRESS In All Countries They Prepare for Feb. 26 Reports from Germany Sunday stated that the Congress of Unem- ployed at Hamburg opened at noon on Saturday,“as scheduled “without trouble,” though capitalist sources admit that police attacked many | groups of unemployed marching on Hamburg. At Berlin, the “socialist” police chief, Zoergibiel, apparently seeking to provoke a_ bloodbath, dramatically announced a raid on| “Communist plotters’ at Konig’s ; Inn, where he stated 77 “Communist | chiefs” were arrested. Likewise, | tanks were sent into the streets | menacing the tens of thousands of jobless workers, while the police raids were going on, and, through- out the day, Saturday, in which Zoergibiel announced a “revolution” was scheduled as engineered by “the Red General,” Heinz Neumann. This provocation by the “socialist” government against the workers is undoubtedly an effort to manufac- ture justification for outlawing the Communist Party, and to check the unemployed of the millions of job- less who are organizing and prepar- ing for the great demonstration on International Unemployment Day on February 26. * * 8 The fight against the growing mass unemployment in all capitalist countries, to culminate in an inter- national demonstration on February 26, becomes of the utmost impor- tance in the face of the rapidly (Continued on Page Two) Tremendous enthusiasm among the workers of the Soviet Union for the Five-Year Plan of Socialist In- dustrialization and Construction was the outstanding impression brought away from the first Workers’ Re- public by Walter Burke, National Secretary of the Labor Sports Union, who has just returned to this country after spending two months in the U.S.S.R. Burke was a member of the American Workers’ Delegation to the Soviet Union sent under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet the school, 26 Union Square, before classes fill i Union, American Section, 175 Fifth GERMAN JOBLESS © [4 East Indian NT W Members Shot by Thugs PATERSON, N, J., Feb. 2—Four | National Textile Workers Union members, East Indian dye house workers, are in the hospital, some }of them almost certain to die, as | the result of a massacre staged by a blackmailing and terroristic gang at 9:30 Friday night. The gang works with the employers, immigra- tion authorities and the British white terror. John Alli, aged 40, is in Barnet | Memorial, his spinal cord cut by a bullet; he will probably die. Sorug Alli, aged 28, is in General Hospital shot through the right breast and lung; recovery is doubtful. Cather Alli, age 27, is in St. Joseph’s hos- pital. He was operated on for a bullet in the left lung. His condition jis serious. Samir Alli was shot through the left breast, and has a broken collar bone. It is a serious wound, Three Gunmen Enter. These four workers, with Abdul Wahid, another N.T.W. dye house worker, were in a rooming house at 13 Bridge St., when three gunmen came in. The killers had arrived during the day from New York, it is said, and had spent the day scouting around Paterson. They opened fire as soon as they entered, Wahid es- caped serious injury by slipping un- der a table; the others fell in the fussilade. The police made little at- tempt to head off the gunmen, but Abdul Karin, another worker, who heard the shooting, grabbed a ham- mer and chased the killers. Con- stable James Connors showed agility ‘\asing down the worker, and ar- rested him at North Main and Arch (Continued on Page Three) Picket Again Before Miller Market; 3 Jailed on Vacated Injunction Three pickets were arrested Sat- urday at Miller’s Market, 161st St. and Union Ave., Bronx. Though the police killed Steve Katovis here a couple of weeks ago, the Food |Clerks Union of the Amalgamated Food Workers continues its picket- ing, determined to let the whole world know that the “union house” signs displayed by the manager is a lie. Although the injunction under which Katovis was shot (it was ob- tained by a socialist lawyer) has been vacated, the charges against the three workers are based on “Paragraph 600,” violation of an in- junction. There will be a big membership meeting of food clerks tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the union headquarters, 16 West 21st St. The union is going on vigorously with its organization campaign and has a considerable | number of recent victories to report. Today in History of the Workers PARES F2SEN Tie ER RS February 3, 1811—Horace Greely, American anti-slavery and liberal editor, born at Amherst, N. 1813—Inquisition and its tortures officially abolished in Spain. 1919— Textile workers of eastern United States struck for forty-four hour week. 1919—General strike on London subways. 1922—Wages of cent. 1923—Communist Party of- fices in Rome seized by police. “Enthusiasm of Soviet Union Workers Makes It 4-Yr. Plan” Labor Sports Union Head, Just Returned from USSR, Tells of Revolutionary Construction Ave., New York City. In two weeks he teaves on a joint organization tour of the New England states for the Labor Sports Union and the Friends of the Soviet Union. “The enthusiasm for the Five- Year Plan is so dynamic that one feels it at once,” Burke said. ‘“So- cialist competition is the order of the day and the workers are eagerly vying with each other in raising production and in the other tasks of the Five-Year Plan. They all feel that this is no longer a Five-Year Plan, but that the entire program will be accomplished im four years,” Pacific Coast seamen cut 12% per} DETROIT, WASH, WORKERS EXPOS” WAR THREAT Hundreds Demonstra* > Against Mexico-Wa! Street Attacks 13 Arrested in Detrc |. Show War Preparatic Against Soviet Unio: DETROIT, Feb. 2.—Hundr | of workers participated in a dem |stration before the Mexican conc ate in this city against the + | preparations of Wall Street agai | the Soviet Union, aided by the : | perialist-controlled Mexican gove |ment. Large masses of workers |the neighborhood who watched 1 |demonstration were sympathetic | slogans and leaflets distributed. Thirteen workers were arrest The banners bore slogans for ‘ defense of the Soviet Union, : against the active aid given by 1 Rubio-Gil Morrow Mexican pup government to the war preparati: on the U.S.S.R. by American i perialism. “Workers, fight agai unemployment; participate in i February 26 international dem: |stration for work or wages; Re: |the bosses attempts to jail work under the Criminal Syndicalist Le This is a move of the bosses to : - jtempt to forestall the mass mo ment of the unemployed worker were some of the slogans. Despite police attempts to br< up the march, three speakers : « dressed the crowd before more ; lice reinforcements arrived. Mou ed police rode into the crowd on « sidewalk, and after considerable sistance of the workers, the dem stration was broken up. The capitalist press here repor that the day before the demonst tion the Mexican consulate 1 (Continued on Page Three) WAR PLOTS RIFE AT LONDON MEE Robinson Reveals ti - Secret Conflicts LONDON, Feb, ‘The delege to the naval conspiracy are said be “resting up” today, follow two weeks of secret quarreling o what they are going to discuss w! they get an agenda. As previou noted, the secrecy is so thick « can cut it with a knife, though attempt is made to keep the pul of all nations kidded by daily “ terviews” with this or that imp ialist diplomat and with radio tal But most of these say nothing « what is actually going on, and ca * talist correspondents are reduced the necessity of writing articles « ) the kind of stockings the ster graphers wear and what the weatl: . is like in London. Today, the democratic Senat | t | | H.| Robinson, one of the American de. gates, kept the American pub diverted by a radio speech acre the Atlantic. His remarks contai ing only one or two items of no’ though keeping the course of even going on underground still dar thus illustrating that the democrat party is united with the republic administration on war preparatio: and general imperialist plans. Robinson said the America: would like to “abolish submarines which is natural, considering th: America at this moment must be «> the offensive in a fight for ma kets and also because submarinc are one of England’s chief arn: against attack by sea. Which e: plains also, why England proposc + to “abolish battleships, but finc American imperialism most unwil. ing even to talk about it. This conflict of imperialist inte: ests was touched upon, even if br scantily by Robinson in his speeci when he said: “The inherent complications i» the relations of the five natior raises an infinitude of questions, and he asks his fellow imperialist (Continued on Page Two) FIGHT FOR UNION SHOP. CHICAGO (By Mail),—Severe™ hundred building trades workers the Board of rade Building jo! walked out when non-union boiler makerg ware used, 4 ¢