The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 3

AFTER SPAIN, ITALY, WILL SEE THE FALL OF FASCISM FROM CRISIS Mussolini Abandons Pet Housing Policy, Rents! Soaring and Discontent of Masses Grows Revolutionary Upheavals Occuring in North as| Starving Workers worker how it happened. Fascist Rule Resorts AMSTERDAM, Holland (By In- precorr Press Service).—One of the most reactionary bourgeois news- papers in Holland, the ‘“Handels- blad” publishes’ an extremely inter- esting report of its Italian corre- spondent concerning the serious cri- sis of Italian fascism. The article points out that for practically a year now Mussolini has been confined to the Palazzo Vene- zia, which he hardly ever leaves, and that in consequence his popular- ity is suffering. On January 30 Mussolini delivered a speech in a meeting of the Po- desta, the appointed dictators of the Italian municipalities, concerning the serious economic situation and the policy of the government. In this meeting he announced the ahan- donment of the fascist housing pol- ie: This was always the main plank in the fascist “social” platform, and the fascists were never tired of talk- ing about it and declaring that in a short space of time fascism would make an end of the housing misery left behind by the bourgeois gov- ernments. In the meantime the housing sit- | uation in Rome, Naples and other g towns has become no better and rents are high. Mussolini declared to the Podesta, “the eighth year of the fascist dic- tatorship will see the end of govern- ment interference in building opera- tions, etc, Individual initiative will now be given free scope. I am of the opinion that nothing extraord Police Force, Militia |Edwards Trial Today; 70,000 JOBLESS from a brutal slugging given him | by police and detectives after they had arrested him, and his face torn \and swollen from the effects of a blackjack and fists wielded by some | of Whalen’s thugs, told yesterday in an interview with The Daily NY CITY HALL ‘Police Brutality for | Edwards was in the group of sev- eral hundred young workers who \carried John Porter, released from military prison, in triumph through to Naked Repression’ (Continued from Page @ne) | the crowds to break them up. The | thousands of unemployed showed a nary wi” happen, although we mus‘ os legion with an increase of’ rents.” | stubborn determination not to leave.|the streets of lower Manhottan | The only governmental action re- | For over an hour and a half they| Wednesday. Police attacked the | | kept the plaza, parading continually | as a living protest, yielding hefore | police charges, reforming and flow- | ing back, many rising to speak here and there, others rising after those |working youth in Wall Street, and | | Edwards roused their ange by his |vigorous defense of several girl workers who were being beaten up | by the police. He ran when a group ferred to by Mussolini is the comin,: erection of temporary dwelling and barracks for those workers who will be turned out of their homes on |account of inability to pay the in- creased rents! Mussolini also an. | “cre Pulled down. The demonstra-| of police started for him, but was nounced that all public expenses | "1°" Buried Bes eanolcor tt 107 the | caught and londed into a taxi with é | streets around City Hall, in front} On two detectives and a policeman, of the Woolworth building, north of |i. way to the police station they moment Jat ere the Municipal building onto Broad- | procees ito Bent Him. up, one of Dvirb bi nbcesiaigy toreive ‘the ay and back to the City Hall. | 11. detectives using a blackjack. | , Placards were held up demanding | : i |payer a breathing space, declared | work or wages, calling on the work: | Naboeas oa Boule Ba DOr would be limited and that the regime | |would limit itself for t.: |to administrative tasks. |Mussolini, “because the number of | ers to fight in order not to starve,|__ He was charged with “assault in | the third degree,” came up for hear- | bankruptcies has increased rapidly | and voicing the demands of the un-| ‘he thi am |of late, The economic situation is| employed councils of the Trade |'"& Wednesday morning, “and bee | very delicate.” _ |Union Unity League which had| cause the lawyer was not there | It is clear that the fascist dicta-| called this demonstration. |was bound over in $500 bail for |torship has been hard hit by the | q trial in the First District Court to- | protracted financial and industrial | crisis which Italy’s backward indus- In some cases workers defende themselves resolutely against the} | : | pushing and shoving of the police, | ,, try is ill-equipped to weather. It) in some cases police ran amuck E is abandoning all pretenses at “social | swinging and clubbing with their | Progress’ and concentrating on the | blackjacks. In Beekman St. Hos- jnaked dictatorship alone “pure ad-/ pital badly beaten and thought to |ministration.” ; have fractured skulls are Sam Lieb- | a ne Pauline, to |_ This must lead to a great intensi- | owitz, Isadore Klinghofer, and one |t? the I.i..). c'fice, 799 Broadway. |fieation of class ‘contradictions and | other. | ——— | to inereasing resistance on the part | Among the arrested are Kling- | hofer, Randolph McNeil, Sadie ven WORKERS DEFEND is nouncing the demonstration, and Hee cial sources, but there would appear | case comes up Saturday. Thou- | A H NEW BEDFORD, Mass:, Feb. 27. . . ployed councils, Sadie Van Veen.} es oe ‘Minsk Rabbis Declare She spoke half a dozen times, being Since Tuesday the trial of 16 New Attorney Buitenkant, defending dwards for the International L | bor Defense, calls on all girl wor! lers who were in the Porter demon- | stration, and especially those at- | tacked hy the police, to rep rt today of the toiling masses to fascism. In- | jdeed, “Handelsblad” writes: “The /Veen, and Rebecca Forman, Anna | |rumors concerning revolutionary up-| Rolling was arrested earlier in = SELVES IN COURT |nevertheless, to be more than a lit- sands of leaflets were distributed | ane ee tle truth in them. particularly in the Bowery slave/ New Bedford Trial of me | markets, - 17 Textile Workers |heavals in northern Italy are being| day for distributing leaflets an-| persistently contradicted from offi- | Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw A . = at mong those slugged and beaten Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” | 1» was the secretary of the unem- | AGAINST POLICE Defend Jobless Meet! Against Police CHICAGO, Feb. Over s ‘ ‘ a 2 “f ‘eedle ichaealnetnlvee Chiukivn: OL eeopeniia ‘When Business Gets Better ae vs jammed the Musicians’ Hell 2 A mar when terday while thousands outside were | Men Were Working 12 Hours a Day at 45 Cents) a. unable to get in, at a mecting called | an Hour; Plant Was on 4 Days attey by the Chicago Council of Unem- are ployed. | PITTSBURGH, Cal.—The Colum-} Some departments have been pay-| 4) 4. Police Commissioner Stage, with | bia Steel Mills here (not Pittsburgh, |ing only 45 cents an hour, working ee nter two hundred police, surrounded the |Pa., but Pittsburgh, Cal.) recently |the men 12 hours a day. | Previous | Garment Worker hall and invaded the meeting, trying | bought out by the U. S. Steel Corp. | ¢ the lay-off the plant was averag-| 114 tosses has failed jin vain to brak it up and terrorize jthe workers. They arrested three hundrd workers, picking out espe- cially the for born. Negro and Mexican work has completely shut down for at least 10 days, and 2,400 workers, | "s were | Girl int putial Todays AMICAGO JOBLESS, scans CORRESPONDENCE -FROM THE sHOPS BOSTON STR KER HOLD THER OWN COLUMBIA STEEL MILL, PITTSBURGH, Shuts Down Completely With Vague Promise now the whole working force, have | with other been laid off: Vague promises were | demonstrating made that they would be rehired | ment on March 6. | WIN MORE POINTS AGAINST BOSSES Judge Jail Pickets BOSTON. ing four days a week. The steel wo € ... | hurt th here must:jont Dubins a workers in| ie 7 unemploy- | alifor against ab agen to the struck y, and | viy militant in ting the brutual |“‘when business picks up.” | -STEEL WORKER. | another hot sited sonuthe attacks of the pclice. | picke r of arrests As am answer, the Unemployed | ere mad who defended Council is intensifying its pr pa New, Worse Ford Speedup Increases if themselve tions for March 6 demonstrations Unemployment | Socialice Howls: for J jcn International Fighting Day heat } sib ae | Against Unemployment. 2 (By a Worker Correspondent) "The men are working sev’ days in|, 1" ¢o ; Enea aee | é N FRANCISCO, Calif—The | the week, and the workin rs per | Be rail epbeata sa the -aturney 152 Tl . Ford plant has installed a new and | “@y is from 9 to 11 hours. peas \Three Entombed in A 3 | Both the auto workers working | by Dubinsky more efficient speed-up system, and Tacoma Power Cave-in, a: the pr {1 Dead; One Rescued 700 worke Jears a day, v" Res-|ag before tke la TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 27. t time is employing | together to enc spe} who are producing 240| workers on the street reas a few months |onstration March 6 will be a big |" y-offs 1,200 men} step towards this and those laid off have to orga: The dem- The union , and he is out a fi is appealing the ¢ 1 |eue erews of volunteer workers bat- | were producing 210 cars a day. | —FORD SLAVE, [07 bail. : ae |tled against a barricade of fallen 1 Me scabs, 90 fat provided by Du- rock in an effort to save 0, Hal- x des Padus insky and his « are being d strom, 30, trapped in a cave-in at| Southern Pacific Kills in Speedup tcharged by the’ employers, as the} the Cushman power project of the | (By a Worker Correspondent) nucleus, is being received very fav- i rai ts aeebeta Grit on City of Tacoma. Only faint hope = 5 ‘ali rably by th 1 ndmawilerc ee oor ey nal s from |remained that Roy Werd, 40, whe| SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Alorably by the workers, and new | New York be sent by the LLG.W. |also was trapped, remained alive. | SWitchman was killed and a worker members are being recruited to the} 471 of Dubins ike maneuvers in the wood-car shop was injured in the Southern Pacific Railway shops L. L. Shafer, third member of the crew trapped late Tuesday, was res- shop nucelus of the Party. |to fool the the workers have been S. P. WORKERS. d and defeated completely, An s meeting was ad- {expos iasti jtgaliene ere due to the intense speed-up intro-/ POUR FILIPINOS ARRESTED. 1 this afternoon by Louis Hy- Communications with Ha!strom | duced, ‘The accidents were due to Beene eee pe by Louie i ; i LOS ANGELES, Cal. F rades Workers established by crews being switched without the! yetreio Andrion, Willy P. Day in order to pull out the cars|Nevcrcg B. Meriano and E quicker Workers of ‘World Dasalla, all Filipinos, were haled to |s Fail to Awe Jobless Lies Aim War on Soviet ‘eged down each time, and was Bedford workers and K. 0. Byers, ee |finally taken to court on a 300 Gastonia defendant and National (Continued from Page One) | Pound policeman’s charge that she) pextile Workers’ Union organizer, (Cones Siemeavenasey = hae : /attacked him.” In court at the and detectives sifted the downtown |‘ituation of the Soviet Jews who, for | pears’. wink’ om CONTE at THe’ has proceeded in the court here is still going on, with the wor' districts to promptly squelch any the first time in history, received | Van "Ss It} rioting.” The provocative intentions of the police are clearly revealed in the quoted remarks of police officials: “We're all set to give them race- horse treatment,” Police Inspector Doyle is quoted as saying. “We’ve got the men and equipment to give | ’em the works,” he added. It is also admitted that preparations against the workers “began secretly” weeks | ago. Undoubtedly the “secret prepa- rations” inelude the planning of “plants” and frame-ups to serve as an excuse to attack all real working: class organizations. legal. WATERBURY, Conn., Feb. 27.- The local police underwent a special drill Tuesday to suppress the -dem- onstration they looked for yesterday. Definite instructions were given to “get” the militant women workers and Communists who have built up ». strong Unemployed Council and a branch of the Trade Union Unity League to fight the attacks of the brass barons. For the last few weeks, all work~- ing class activities have been treated as illegal, leaflets, Daily Workers and Labor Unities are confiscated and distributors arrested daily; bail is increased and capitalist judges give ten day jail sentences instead of fines. Active Communists are followed day and night. But in spite of dif- ficulties the work goes forward, The Daily Worker is a great heln in uniting the workers, organizing them and preparing them for World Fighting Day against Unemploy- ment. No wonder that .the local capitalist papers slam the “Daily.” But the workers like the “Daily” ust because the bosses don’t like it. es * * The national office of the Inter- national Labor Defense, responding to the call of the International Red Air for the support of its adherents throughout the world to the Inter- national Fighting Day against Un- employment, March 6, yesterday issued a manifesto asking all mem- bers of the LL.D. to “support the revolutionary struggle of the unem- ployed with all strength.” “Unemployment is in the hands of the bourgeoisie a whip,” says the LR.A., “against revolutionary work- ers. The first to be dismissed are always the revolutionary workers. Among these the I.L.D. workers are also counted. In the ranks of the I.L.D., which is based on the prin- vie or international solidarity of all workers, are also unemployed and their families, part-time workers as well as full-time workers who tomorrow may be also unemployed. Therefore the IL.L.D. workers must give an example of international solidarity in the revolutionary strug- gle of the masses. Support with all your power the revolutionary strug- gle of the unemployed, never forget- ving that the international unem- ployed movement is a part of the revolutionary struggle of the work- ing class! CHICAGO MINE RELIEF MASS MEET. CHICAGO.—Freeman Thompson, oresident of the National Miners Union, and Arthur Herchey, N.M.U. organizer and one of the leaders of the Taylorville strike, will be among the speakers at a big mass neeting Saturday, March 1, at 8 pr. {real religious Soviet Power. The manifesto declared categori- cally that not a single rabbi has | been executed or otherwise punished for religious convictions and that no | synagogues were closed by the au- | thorities. freedom from the | Exposing the stinking hypocr jof the Christian gentry in the i perialist countries, the Minsk Mani 'festo asks the Pope and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury why they re-| mained silent in 1918-19 “when Denikin’s hordes were massacring Jewish men, women and children, }eommitting frightful atrocities, de- filing synagogues,” ete. * The rabbis appealed to orthodox Jews to energetically oppose the an ialists. ‘Domingo Fakers Sell-Out to U. S. ' (Continued from Page One) man, under a similar charge. |Veen in her testimony detailed the |whole T. U. U. L. program for the unemployed, and outlined their de- mands. Both got a suspended sen- tence. A seaman, C. S. Johnson, “blackballed” out of the Standard | Oil of New Jersey, fought to defend speakers in three different skirm- ishes. He was badly beaten about | the face and head and has a cracked rib, but, is as determined to fight on as ever. | A sereen has been placed around the bed of Klinghofer to prevent his \talking to the other patients, and telling them of the need for organ- lization of the unemployed. The committee to see the mayor was made up of representatives of yall the unemployed councils, and | Otto Hall, Negro organizer of the | Communist Party; Sadie Van Veen, | secretary of the unemployed coun- \cils; Michael Obermeier, of the cafe- | teria workers; Fred Biedenkapp, of |the Independent Shoe Workers; Julius Portnoy, of the Needle ‘handling their own defense, and | proving that their meetings were ‘deliberately attacked by the mill + owners’ police, who are trying to break up the N. T. W. here. The workers are part of those ar- rested as the result of the two days’ struggle of 6,000 New Bedford tex- tile workers with several hundred police for the right to hold mill gate meetings. On Jan. 16 mill gate or- | ganization meetings of the union were broken up by police, and 5,000 workers defended the speakers. The next day, with enlarged numbers on both sides, a series of struggles | took place, as the meetings contin- ued, The police attacked the N. T. W. hall. Those arrested are charged cwith resisting, breach of peace, as- ‘oviet campaign of the impet-| also George Siskind of the T.U.U.L., sault, ete. Other Trials Before. In previous trials, a number of workers, including Martin Russa, district organizer of the N.T.W., and Emanuel Perry, N.T.W. youth or- ganizer, and others, were given sen- tences up to 30 days. The shop paper, “The Headlight,” | night court the other day for pick-|tion of the cloak and dress industry sued by the.Communist Party shop!eting the Red Mill dance hall, _J here. Ms Prepare March 6. (Continued from Page One) thusiastic in support of the program of demands and plans for action. oe eco while being “questioned” | ei 5G 1852 THE SAME ADDRESS FOR 78 YEARS 1930 TROPOLITAN. Interest § or before the T. > draw interest from the Yet the Jobless army is growing. Dr. Block of the California state la- bor department, admits that unem- ployment in January increased de- cidedly over December. Last week one day the Southern Pacific On the same day 1,700 d off in San Francisco, and thousands of metal workers have | been laid off in the Vallejo Navy Yard. California Unemployed, Active. OAKLAND.—Last busy ene for the polic On Thurs: day five cops tried to “relieve traffic congestion” at 10th and Franklin, +! where hundreds of unemployed work- | ‘ ers gather da when | Brown spoke for the Unemployed |Council that has opened a headquar- ters at 357 Ninth St. Brown was arrested early in the week at the same corner by Police Captain Lynch (aptly named). Wednesday the performance was re- h the additional arrest of and then on Thur: ¥ man, John Mutig Joe Studevan week was a Last Quarterly Di Amonuts from the rate of 434%). Open Mondays (all Banking by Mall 10 to $7,500.00 at untill 7 P.M. ety Accounts Accepted * * * TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb, 27.—The Un- | employed Council here held another large and successful demonstration Monday with over 2,000 workers at- tending. After the demonstration raded to the Workers’ Center, where an enthusiastic meet- ing was held and the Council of Un- employed of the Trade Union Unity | League proceeded with organization. March 6, World Fighting Day against unemployment, will be a red letter day in Toledo history. The Council, the T.U.U.L. and the Com- munist Party and all growing r2- Ba and Wang |taken down one by one in a bulging were Party Districts ATTENTION Party Members! Party Units! while the workers nd cheered for the |speakers. es from vagrancy to inciting to riot were made, but the I.L.D. got bail. The unemployed will turn out with the employed in patrol wagon | booed the police sign, and demands his elimination Trades Workers’ Industrial Union; ch . é Ifrom the election which is sched. |Paterson, a young Negro pronicers' | cae, epee (een pee uled for May 15. |H. Hymes, of the Marine Workers’ | eee eee ervad te the end He does not put forward any de-|League; Albert Tate; a Negro wo- pasu sane retonyen mands for the betterment of the|man worker; H. Weinstock of the | f conditions of the masses, and re-|unemployed building woikers. strike against Horthy fuses to fight against American im- | for regime and wage increases. 1922—New the demonstration on World Vight- ing Day, March 6, in Oakland as elsewhere. pidly in membership. In U. S. Capital. WASHINGTON, Feb. 500 workers, mostly Neg: tended a meeting at Seventh and P der thesexcuse of a drive against | Sts., Tuesday, called by the Unem- © ok 8, | | Down With “Vag” Laws! | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.—Un- perialism which practically owns Santo Domingo. In fact Estrella and Urena have co-operated with Curtis and Cabot, legation secretary, and have given these Wall Street dictators full as- surance that the stolen lands of the American sugar corporations and would be fully protected against the masses. Vasquez and his followers are hid- ing in the U. S. and other foreign legations. Estrella and Urena who are taking over the government are do- ing so with the full consent of the American imperialists with whom they are co-operating. Every new Daily Worker reader you get is a potential Party mem- ber. Workers School Forum Topic Sunday, Fascism; The subject of fascism and its de- velopment in Italy and in other Eu- ropean countries will be the topic of the lecture to be given Sunday at the Workers’ School forum. A. Anti-Fascist Federation, will also speak on the developing of fascism as it strikes America today. lecture is to be given this Sunday, March 2, at 28 Union Square, at 8 p.m. The students’ body of the Work- ers’ School through its students’ council is arranging a banquet on Sunday, March 9, at 8 p. m. The program includes a Sovkino film, music solos, and plenty of food. The banquet may be partaken of by stu- dents and their friends at the small cost of 50 cents. Talk to your fellow workers in your shop about the Daily. Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to become a vegular subsgriber. m., at People’s Auditorium, West Chicago Ave. 2457 | York pressmen on 22 newspapers “crime” the police are arresting hun- | ployed Council. The police came in j went on “vacation” against Judge | dreds of unemployed daily for “vag- | force to break up the meeting, but Today in History of | Your Central Organ MUST PARTICIPATE in all School Banquet Mar. 9) Markoff, who is secretary of the} The | ___ the Workers February 28, 1919—German revo- |lutionary councils of workers and soldiers ordered general strike to |Ebert government. 1921—Printers of Hungary started first general | Manton’s award abolishing six-hour di and worsening working rules. 1925—Red International of Labor Unions called for resistance to fas- cist terror in Spain. 1928—Ales Campbell and Peter Reilly, left wing | thé National City Bank of New York force hand of Social Democratic miners’ leaders, ambushed and killed by machine gun fire in Pitts- ‘ton, Pa. | and baths on every floor. NEW YORK TELEPH WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET NEW HOTEL NITGEDAIGET, Beacon, N. Y. The newly built hotel has 61 rooms—two in a room—hot and cold water in every room. Showers WINTER SPORTS—Skating and Sleighing to your heart’s content MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Price same as in summer—$17 a week. CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 731—862 ONE: ESTABROOK 1400. raney,” 300 being in the county jail | noting the spirit of determination of at one time. One worker was beaten the workers, didn’t dare do it. Join the Fight Against Criminai Syndicalism Laws By Joining the I. L. D. By Helping the I. L. D. RAISE FUNDS! Don’t Let the Bosses Bury in Prison— —The Gastonia Strikers. —George Saul, I.L.D. Organizer in South. —Fred Beal, facing ten more years in prison in Michigan. —-Shifrin and the Mineola Defend- ants. —The 9 Newark workers facing 20 years imprisonment. —The five California women work- ers. —The 27 Chicago workers. —Eight workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, charged with sedition. RUSH FUNDS! Unemployed Demonstrations Read and Act! No unemployed demonstration is complete politically, agitationally, organizationally, unless the Daily Worker participates. District offices, in cooperation with Daily Worker representatives, must organize groups of comrades who will sell and distribute the Party central organ to employed and unemployed workers who are mobilized for these demonstrations. The Daily Worker publishes daily valuable news and information about the capitalist crisis and the movement of unemployed workers for Work or Wages, social insurance, etc. This news must reach ALL WORKERS at factory gates, in house to house sales and distributions. Every Party member must assume the task of selling ten to fifty copies of the Daily Worker in his shop, in his neighborhood. Every Party District must organize to reach tens of thousands of workers with tens of thousands of copies of the Daily Worker. WE WILL ISSUE EDITIONS OF THIS PAPER TO REACH ALL UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTP.ATIONS The West Coast Edition Dated March Ist The Midwestern Edition Dated March 3rd The East Coast Edition Dated March 5th Comrades in all cities. large and small, should send in their orders at once, by mail or telegraph. Orders received for the Daily Worker will be outstanding proof that you participated fully in the unemployed demonstrations. No order from you will indicate decided shortcomings in your Communist tasks, $1.00 PER HUNDRED COPIES $8.00 PER THOUSAND COPIES Remittance must come forward with order to enable us to publish the tens of thousands of copies that the Party everywhere will order. JOIN INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 80 East Eleventh St., Room 402, New York City Daily 3Q5 Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY