The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1930, Page 1

EE PAT SE ROI 8 TN I / a Negro, White Workers, Off the Breadlines! and Factories! the Unemployed March Tomorrow,’ March 6, Throughout the World, Monster Unemployed Demon- strations Will Take Place. Workers, Down Tools, Strike! Jobless and Employed Workers, Mobilize to Demand “Work or Wages’! {ter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. ander the act of March 3. 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Company, Ine., 26 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily n Square, Publishing Zo, New York City, N. ¥. ‘NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1930 Vol. VL, No. 310 Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. In New York by mall, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cent: WORKERS! STRIKE AND DEMONS (GE RUTHENBERG National Guardsmen in Detroit Resent Arrest of Jobless by Officers Los Angeles Workers Teach Police a Lesson;) Ten Thousand at Canton Cheer for U.S. 8. R. Tens of maaan sept DETROIT, March 4.—Eight girl members of the Young Communist | League were arrested here last night by military officers at the Detroit | armory, after distributing hundreds of leaflets appealing to the National Guardsmen to fraternize with the unemployed workers at the demon-! stration on March 6, at 1 p. m. at the City Hall. The Guardsmen have, —tbeen ordered to report on March 5} JOBLESS IN ALL | by the bosses’ government which in- tends to attack the workers. The response to the appeal was | Minnesota, Ohio, N. Y., Penna., Mobilize approving of the idea to join with |who are starving by the tens of and not shoot them down because they demand food and shelter. The} ‘excellent, the National Guardsmen | Guardsmen showed in deeds that BULLETIN. BUFFALO, Mar. 4.—Derwood Nunemacker, 17-year-old jobless worker died today from the bul- let shot into his head by a *op because ‘he stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. He the aid of the Communist girls and | protecting them from the officers, Many young workers of the var- |ious auto factories are going on had been looking fruitlessly for | (ja. work for a long time. The work- | ent, ers in this city are enraged over “No soup-kitchen charity, but! the murder of this unemployed worker who was killed because he stole 5 cents’ worth of bread to keep his small brothers and sisters from starving. Work or Full Wages for the Job-| less!” “Down with wage cuts!” “For the 7-hour day, 5-day week | and wage increases!” al “Unemployed insurance at the ex- pense of the bosses’ profits, admin- istered solely by the ~Unemployed | Councils!” H “Down with imperialist war! De- | fend the Soviet Union, the Workers’ Republic, from imperialist attack!” These are the main slogans of the demands of the Unemployed Cosme cil of the Trade Union Unity League (Continued on Page Three) | the speed-up and Ree cee MINNEAPOLIS, March 4.—Un- employment demonstrations are be- ing held at St, Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Hibbing on the Iron Range and Ironwood. Meetings and dem- onstrations are on throughout the mining and lumber regions. The workers are responding to the call for demonstration on the basis of | the demands of the Trade Union Unity League and the World Fight- ing Day demonstration March 6. Hundreds of unemployed at the Ford factory gate in St. Paul re- fused to allow police to stop the speakers and finally prevented their arrest. At the Milwaukee Railroad shops in Minneapolis, regular shop meetings are. held showing many will strike on March 6. The same can be (Continued on Page Three) Spanish Strike Spreads. ‘to Valencia; Police Fire, and Stop Relief Work | VALENCIA, Spain, Mar. 4—Po- | lice fired on a mass-picket line in — |this city today -when the general | RATIONALIZATION AT WORK. |strike at Sagunto spread to furni- WASHINGTON, D. C.—More than | ture and leather workers here. In- | 2,500,000 workers in four basic in-|tent on starving out the Sagunto | dustries—mining,. railroads, farm-| metal workers’ strikers the govern- ‘WORLD JOBLESS ing and manufacturing—have been | ment has forbidden the sending of A totally eliminated by new machinery children to workers’ groups in other within the last 8 years. % cities who offer to take care of them. A Study in Headlines An interesting contrast is contained in yesterday’s papers, of American capitalist newspaper methods of presenting, on the one hand, the news of industrial developments in the Soviet Union, and on the other hand of developments of United States economy. Regarding Soviet industry, the New York papers summarize the news in a head- | line: “Red Industry Fails to Meet Program”; while for America the | news is summarized in the words: “Business Normal Soon, Lamont Says.” Certainly, judging from these news summaries, Soviet economy is in a crisis while United States economy. is doing quite well thank you, | But what is hidden behind these headlines? The fact that Soviet | industry advanced only 27 per cent, whereas the plan called for an | ‘advance of 32 per cent; while United States industry declined about 20 | per cent, which Mr. Lamont says was “not as extensive as had been | feared.” | In the United States more than seven million workers are unem- | ployed. Capitalist America has nothing to offer these unemployed workers except the policeman’s club, Meanwhile, the safe and sane | correspondent of the New York Times reports in the Soviet Union “more work today than there are men to do it,” and unemployment has practically disappeared. Such damning facts, which display the bankruptcy of the whole | capitalist system and simultaneously the tremendous expansion of | planned economy under the proletarian dictatorship, the New York capitalist press feels that it must hide from its reade: So it puts above the Soviet news the headlines of “crisis,” while above the econ- omic news of the United States it puts the sign “all’s well.” But such tactics solve no problems, and satisfy no unemployed. And these ‘unemployed, finding leadership in the Communist Party and in the Trade Union Unity League, are demanding Work or Wages! | And always the workers can see in the Soviet Union an example of how their demands have actually been realized in life! | Hit A. F. of L. Fascists ‘Ryan Joins Police Cry) 0 “wage carers. the other workers not in uniform|Qyera House, 67th St. Ave., | thousands, to fraternize with them | Meeting will take place. {against other workers, by going to|aiso be the mobilization meeting for | |the gigantic unemployment demon- | stration to be held tomorrow noon at Union Square. | strike March 6, to join the demon-|been arranged for the Ruthenberg istration of the world-wide working | Memorial fighting against unemploy-|W.I.R. Brass band and a list of | lvery prominent speakers: Wm. 2. lkind and S. Darcy. Da vis Lies MEET MOBILIZES A9¢’" About l FOR UNION $0, Unemplovment | |_ WASHINGTON, March 4.—Liar |Davis, secretary of labor, is again | unemployment situation. He was! . caught in a deliberate lie last month | Fight Unemployment, | when he declared that unemploy- Hunger Jay |ment was improving in January. | nee! and War Figures issued by his own depart- ment blasted his fakery 000,000, unemployed, out of 46,000,- Department of Labor figures show that since last | September more than 10 per cent of | |the workers lost their jobs. ' Tonight at eight o’clock at Central} Using Davis’s own figures this and Third} would mean more than 4,600,000 | Memorial |were unemployed. This meet- | Against the Workers the Ruthenberg | But Davis’ figures are clearly} jing will not only mark the anniver-| faked, ‘The American Federation of would be the greatest ever seen. |Sary of the death of one of the out-|Tabor, which works very closely with e |standing founders of the Communis |they resented being used as tools | Party of the United States, but will | Davis, admitted that 22 per cent of lits members were out of work. The unskilled work outside of | the A. F.of L. are harder hit. Using |Greer’s figures for the entire work- ting class, the result is well over 7,- A. very. interesting program has | 09 oq jobless workers in the United States. | Meeting including the | | J. Olgin, Otto Hall, George Sis: bs Tomorrow at 1 p. m., Union Sq. | at his favorite sport of belittling the | Now he says there are only 3,-| EMPLOYED UNITE SAYS T.UUL Meeting Tomorrow Biggest Ever Seen, But Not the End ‘Call Nat'l Conference. , ‘Strengthen Your ONSTRATE ON MARCH 6! UNEMPLOYED ANO COMMUNIST. PARTY CALLS JOBLESS AND EMPLJYED WORKERS TO MASS ACTION FOR UNEMPLOYED DEMANDS Fight Against Capitalism! Prepare the Powerfu/! Arm of the Political Mass Strike! In New York, Mar. 29; Fight Against the Imperialist War Now Being Prepared! Defend the Big Convention Later | Soviet Union, Stronghold of the World Revolution! | ALL WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES: Temorrow you are demonstrating in every city in the country, at the same time as your fellow workers throughout the world, to demand relief from unemployment, misery and starvation, which has been thrown upon you by the capitalist system. In hun- dreds of thousands you will.march in the streets in the fight for the unemployment pro- ¥ gram of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. The Central Committee of the Communist Party A statement was issued yesterday by the National Committee of the Trade Union Unity League, predict- ing that tomorrow's world-wide demonstration on unemployment “The jobless will fight, and the employed workers will fight shoul- der to shoulder with them,” says the CABINET MEETING statement, and furthermore, the calls upon you to learn the results and lessons which these fight does not end with the demon- few days before the demonstrations have already brought stration. The T.U.U.L. is calling out in order that they can be made the starting point for wider, more effective actions. One lesson: Only when tens of thousands of workers began to organize under the leadership of the Coiimunist Party, and to march and fight in the streets during the past few weeks heroically resist- ing the police who brutally used clubs, blackjacks and gas bombs— only now is the ruling capitalist class grudgingly admitting that there problem of unemployment. Already by our struggle we have forced the bourgeoisie to recognize unemployment as the most press- ing immediate national issue of the day. For this purpose one revolu- on March a national conference on unemployment, leading up to a great national unemployment convention. The statement says: “The 7,000,000 totally unemployed and millions more of part-time work- ers in the United States are not go- ing to passively starve. They will fight, and fight militantly. And he employed workers will fight FLOUTS JOBLESS ‘Hoover Says Trouble Is | All Beeau riff Finally giving up the fiction that “this is an era of prosperity” Pres- ident Hoover called a cabinct meet: (Continued on ‘Page Two) BY POLICE ARMY, shoulder to shoulder with them. The To | Bosses Preparations | morning raided the headquarters of WOMEN’S MASS |Cops Seanad te Leaflet | on Unemployment The whole police force of Vitale- jland led by “Gorgeous Grover” with | his latest coat of tan and his turned MEET MARCH 8 Celebrate Intl Women’s Day An ‘interesting revolutionary pro- |@"¢ l Laaencs gram has been arranged for the big | Gorgeous Grover gritted his teeth celebration of International Wom-| grimly and rasped: “The police en’s Day this Saturday, March 8, at | never laugh at anything,” and sum- p. m. at Irving Plaza, 15th St.) moned horse and foot, boots and and Irving Place. The celebration | Saddles, machine guns, tanks, is being arranged by the New York | poison jacks decorated district of the Communist Party and | with press cards, mountains of mule two halls have been engaged to|meat and carnation boutonniere, to handle the large crowd that is ex-|repel a reported invasion of the City pected. Hall by obstreperous “reds,” hu- mored to be descending in millions, each with pockets full of Russian gold, furnished by Matthew Woll, and lynamte supplied by the man who killed Rothstein, on the head- (Continued on Page Two) atrical work yesterday in a regular |Sovkino masterpiece, which might ihave been entitled: “Three Comrades |and a Whole City Government.” International Wireless News OUT ON STREETS; Will Not Cow Them ‘Wireless By Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Mar. 4.—The police at eleven o'clock this GERMAN RED IONISTS WIN SHOP COUNCILS, (Wireless By Inprecorr) | | | the Communist Party, the Red. GieadeUnionm aud te Rew Avdsniane [os ne ance councils” at the Bale baum Chemical Works, the revolu- ing a “search.” tionary list got 349 votes, the “so- At midnight, the police raidedgthe | 0-142) oot: Saar yee” ee » the leialists” getting only 13.’ The “so- workers from bed under arrest, The yon; the Workers’, Council, now they have only two seats against the six of the revolutionary opposi- tion. At Heilbronn, the leather workers voted to give the revolu- tionary list five seats and the “so- cialists” only one. Pap POLISH LEFT-WI SOCIAL- ISTS SUPPRESSED. , (Wireless By Inprecorr) WARSAW, Mar. 4—The trial of local headquarters of the Commu- | nist Party at Prerau and Komotau were raided also, the local secretary at Komotau being arrested. | A meeting of the Unemployed) Committee at Bruex was raided and | everyone present arrested. The last | two Communist dailies not already suppressed by the “socialist” gov- ernment, the “International” and) the “Kaempfer,” have been ordered suppressed for a month. PS eas * A United Press cable from Paris | ling 40 years, or approximately two states that the capitalist and social- years each of hard labor for each fascist governments are organizing defendant. The court requested the in an attempt to prevent the mass | government to suppress the party as \demonstrations of the unemployed |the court alleges that the ,arty 1s | are held on $500 bail each as the| the whole working workers under the leadership of the | dependent on the illegal Communist Communist Parties and the reyolu- |Party. tionary trade unions. | It has leaked out that the volitical The fascist General Henri Gour- | prisoners held in Vronki, have been ard, military governor of Paris, an- on @ hunger strike since the last nounces that he is mobilizing 10,000 !days of February. They demand soldiers and 15,000 police in an at-| humane treatment from the Lrutal (Continued on Page Two) i prison officials, . !down pantaloons, went into the-| BERLIN, Mar. 4.—In the election | | the left-wing “socialist” party lead- | jers has ended with sentences total- | ing yesterday to consider the prob-| lem of unemployment, or rather, ous cities show that. The capital-|what could be done to make the ists and their lackey labor leaders | jobless workers shut uv about their | have tried to minimize and hide the |troubles and starve quietly. mass starvation now goingon among| The net result of the cabinet the unemployed. With policemen’s | meeting was a weighty announce- | clubs, empty Hooverian construction | ment by Secretary of Labor Davis, plans, fake dynamiting plots and/, White House spokesman, recent great demonstrations in vari. who ‘Deadwood Dick’ stories of Russian | pounded on the desks as he talked, | gold, etc., they have tried to demor- /and declared that the whole trouble alize the unemployed. But under was because congress was so lazy | jthe guidance of the Communist |about passing the tariff bill. Davis! |Party and the Trade Union Unity |also said that the provosal of Sen- League the great masses of unem-|ator Brookhart to let the Red Cross Alsq Attorney Gen ployed have found organization, |and the Army hand out $50,000.000 leadership and program, Their mili-| (about $7 a family) to the jobless! (Continued on Page Three) |wouldn’t do at all, “That would be | - _ charity,” said Davis. Better for } them to starve! hd) * anxious to deny that the American A can possibly understand | s wrong and turn Bolshevik | IN MANILA \did give Matty Woll a dirty stab in| the back. “The government know: . a * nothing about any $1,250,000 from |Moseow to American Reds.” he said. Police Are Beaten in|whrich considering that Woll says Attack on Strike [he got his figures from the gov-| sjernment, looks rather bad. MANILLA, Mar. 4.—Ten thou- sand high school students battled the entire police reserves of Manila tonight when a demonstration of the students was* attacked by the police. Two policemen were beaten, |@s were several students, and two |school officials who butted in were | threatened with being lynched. The affair grew out of the recent strike of students that forced the dismissal of an American teacher, Mabel Brummitt, who used the regu- | jlar imperialist insults freely at the | jstudents, calling them vile and | | abusive names, gamated Food Workers showed} | Though she was dismissed the | plainly at. the board meeting Mon- | strike grew and continued because | day evening that splits mean noth- |four of the student deaders were |ing to them if avoiding a split] | suspended from school. The demon- | threatens their jobs. A sharp dis- | stration tonight was to force their | cussion took place over sending a/ | re-instatement. ‘delegation to the Hotel, Restaurant | and Cafeteria Workers’ Local and/ ca * * geye Other locals dropped on the thin ex- | Picket Millers Again; cise oc noc paving per capita” to, | Police Defied; Union; aon out ways and means to re- * | establish these locals in the union. | Calls All to Union Sq.) “tt was pointed out that these sus.| ? R |pended unions are the best fight- | Millers Market, Union Ave. and|ers in the Amalgamated, and have 161st St.,eBronx, was full of police | strikes on at the present time. again yesterday, but the Food| Burkhard rallied his forces | Clerks’ Industrial Union picketed | against this proposal with sarcasm janyway. Four were arrested, and/and abuse of the loca Although | s knows of the militant strikes going on, Burk- | Loe said, “There is no strike, ex- Par- | cept in the Daily Worker,” and man- aged to vote down the motion. Delegates Walk Out. A motion to send a committee to! the Trade Union Unity League was (Continued on Page Two) TS worke: what BURKHARD WANTS TO SPLIT UNIGN \Deliberately Smashing, It to Save His Job Burkhard and his henchmen in the | executive committee of the Amal- result of a frame-up by Miller, the | United Hebrew Trades from whom | |he gets scabs, and the socialist ty lawyer, Marcus. The same gang yesterday had an |injunction issued through Judge | Mitchell May against the union, or- (Continued ot Page Two) tionary demonstration has proved more valuable than 10 years of reformist talk could have been. Only the mass action of the workers cam wrest a realization of their demands. Forward to revolutionary mass action! Another lesson: The only fighters for the unemployment program have been shown to be the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, with the hundreds of thousands of workers who have rallied to their lead. The American Federation of Labor and the social- ist party have been again exposed as the agents of the capitalist class, as the most vicious fighters against the demands of the unem- ployed workers, as the supportérs and instigators of police clubbings and brutality. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., openly acts as the political leader of the fascist offensive of the capitalists against the workers. With ‘his brazen lies about “Moscow money,” he demands more brutal police suppression of the unemployed movement. He appeals for war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The socialist party and the Muste group have nothing to say but words of support for the police, the bosses and the A. F. of L., and slander against the unemployment movement. Down with the social-fascists of the A. F. of L. and the social- ist party! Organize in the revolutionary trade unions! Join the Com- munist Party! Third lesson: The capitalist government, from Hooyer and his fake “opposition” in congress, down to the lowest city official, acts as the machinery,of the bosses against the workers. It is a class government. the dictatorship of the capitalist class to suppress the workers. All its high-sounding phrases about “democracy” are only a mask to hide the fascist nature of its rule by clubs, gas bomb: and guns, Towards the overthrow of this government must be dit i the revolutionary struggles of the workfng class. Down with the government—watchdog of the capitalists! Fourth lesson: While we have forced the capitalist class and gov- ernment to face unemployment as a burning national issue, we must have no illusions that the capitalists will do anything to remedy the situation, except as the revolutionary tmass action of the workers forces them. All their hypocritical gestures, such as the Brookhart bill for $50,000,000 relief, are merely scab-herding or war-preparing measures, as witnessed by the provision that such money should be expended by the Army and the Red Cross. Even if such a miserable sop would be thrown, it will be mainly used, as even the bill shows, for preparation of war, and will be eaten up by hordes of governmental bureaucrats. This is a good sample of the kind of “relief” which the capitalist pol- iticians-will attempt to fool the workers with. Down with the heggarly charity of bourgeois fakers! Demand work or wage unemployment insurance equal for white and Negro, administered by the workers themselves. Fifth lesson: While the whole capitalist system is paralyzed by a deep economic crisis, throwing 20 million workers out of employment in all capitalist countries, in the sharpest contrast we see socialist in- dustry in the Soviet Union expanding, doubling its production over the pre-war rate, increasing by one-third this year, raising wages propor tionately, and entirely eliminating all unemployment. Capitalism is dying, and in its death agonies it creates mass unemployment, misery, and starvation for the workers. Its place must be taken by socialism, which can only be done by overthrowal of the bourgeoisie, and estab- lishing a revolutionary workers’ government and Soviet form, of state, along the path already shown by the victorious working class of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which is successfully building social ism in one-sixth of the world. Strengthen your fight against capitalism! Prepare the powerful arm of the political mass strike! Sixth lesson: Unemployment is not a separate problem that can be solved for us by some “clever” politician, It is a part of the whole problem of the working class struggle against oppression. It is a part of the struggle against wage cuts and against speed-up, which are in- creasing at a tremendous rate because af the extent of unemployment. It is incurable under capitalism. It is directly connected up with the impending war danger, which is brought closer by the world economic crisis, The struggle against unemployment is at the same time a (Continued.on Page Two)