The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1930, Page 1

Today, March 6th, Througheut the Demon- Workers, Down Tools, Strike! Jobless and Employed Workers, Mobilize to Demand “Work or Wages”! World, Monster Unemployed strations Will Take Place. Company, Ine. TR Vol, VI, No. 311 Workers! Strike and Demon- RED FRONT HOLDS /7avgs Self on INDIGNATION AT strate Today at Union Sq. The workers of the whole capitalist world will show the capitalist bosses today that their system of capitalist wage slavery, which has already condemned 7,000,000 American workers to unemployment and hunger, will not much longer be tolerated by its millions of victims. Capitalism has no remedy for the break-down of its own system of pillage, exploitation, murder and starvation of the useful members of society. e Only the working class, by its own revolutionary action against the capitalist class and government, can and will solve this problem. Capitalist politicians of the democratic, republican and cialist parties and the A. F. of L.—are now putting for d hypocritical pro- posals pretending to mieet the unemployment situation, but hoping only to deceive the working class, to quiet down the mass movement of the workers. But only by the mass movement itself—only because the workers have massed in the streets and have by direct action taken their right of speech and assemblage—only because of the mass pressure of hun- dreds of thousands of workers—have the capitalist fakers been com- pelled to admit that the unemployment of millions of workers is the most pressing national political issue of today. The lesson is clear that more mass pressure is the only way to compel even the slightest concession for the benefit of the workers. The workers will supply that mass pressure by demonstrating to- day at Union Square in New York in many tens of thousands,’ just as they will demonstrate in every other city of the United States and every city of the capitalist world. Unemployed workers and employed workers are equally involved. Not only class solidarity, but also the present capitalist offensive against the workers in the shojis, demand that the workers now at work should strike the whole shop and walk out as a mass to Union Square. The workers demonstrate not only against unemployment but also against the speed-up system which saps the life of the workers who remain at the bench, while more millions are thrown out of work. The workers demonstrate against the wholesale wage-cuts and whole- sale discharges of workers now being enforced in every industry. We demonstrate against capitalist “rationalization,” against the discharge of more hundreds of thousands of workers: We demonstrate for the shortening of the work day to seven hours, without any reduction of ay. ue The proposal of Senator Brookhart to appropriate money amount- ing to a few cents per head of the unemployed workers and their families, is directly connected. up with the hope of the capitalist class to plunge this country into world war; the proposal being to place United States Army officers and Red Cross bureaucrats in charge of the situation. The capitalist government at Washington is planning the bloody crime of imperialist war for the purpose of destroying the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the revolutionary workers’ gov- ernment which has already solved the problems of capitalism by over- throwing the capitalist class. But the American working class will defend the Union of Social Soviet Republics against our own Wall Street government of labor exploiters. The fascist tools of the capitalist class, such as Matthew Woll and other bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. and of the Socialist Party are coming forward as the political leaders of the fascist offensive of the capitalists against the workers. But the workers will depend upon themselves and their own mass strength, and will develop this move- ment toward a mass political strike! The only fighters for the unem- ployed workers and the workers in the shops have proven to be the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, together with the hundreds of thousands of workers who have come to their support. Down with the social-fascists of the A. F. of L. and the socialist party! Organize in the revolutionary trade unions! ~Unemployed workers, form Councils of Unemployed and unite with the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League! Join the Communist Party! Fight for unemployment relief—full wages for all unemployed workers, men and women, for the whole time of unemployment! For full wages for all workers working part time! For the seven-hour day—five-day week! Against capitalist “rationalization,” the speed-up, against dis- charge of workers. Against the fascist labor fakers of the A. F. of L. who aid the bosses! Defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! Against imper- ialist war! All ‘workers, employed and unemployed, men, women and youth, Negro and white—all out to the demonstration today. Eleven Years of the Communist International It was eleven years ago today that the Communist International, meeting in its first World Congress under the leadership of Lenin, issued its call to the workers of the world to organize a revolutionary werking class Party against the traitorous and bankrupt parties of social democracy, the Second International, and began its practical work of organization and leadership of the toiling masses of the world. Today, on its eleventh anniversary, the Communist International is preparing and leading a new advance of the world proletariat. With the capitalist world in the throes of a deep-going economic crisis, with mounting millions of unemployed tasting the real essence of capi- talism in hunger and misery, with hundreds of millions of colonial peoples in revolt—capitalism is entering a new period of its break- down, in which the working class will again take up the struggle for power as the pre-condition to the reorganization of the world on a socialist basis, The new wave of revolution now rising proceeds from the basis of the already successful revolution of the proletariat of the Soviet Union,: Over one-sixth of the earth, with 150,000,000 population, has not only thrown off the capitalist class and its system of organized starvation, but it has proceeded to the complete reorganization of life on a socialist basis. And in these short years, already the socialist system, under the dictatorship of the proletariat, has proved its enormous advantages over capitalism, not only in the abolition of capitalist oppression, not only the liquidation of capitalist starvation of the masses, but in the release of such tremendous expansive forces of ,production as the world has never seen before. What is going on now in the Soviet Union, the socialization of agriculture, the bringing of socialism to the peasant masses as a whole and their incorporation into the socialist system, is the final seal upon the correctness of the program of the Communist Inter- national. Eleven years has witnessed the consolidation of the Communist rule in the Soviet Union, the building of Communist Parties. in 47 coun- tries, the further collapse of capitalist imperialism, and the beginnings of a new period of revolutionary upheavals. e b It is a glorious history of eleven’ years, which are the realization of the program laid down by Marx in the First Tatemational, and carried forward by Lenin in the foundation of the Third (Communist) Tnternational in March, 1919. ME! DE Ye oe ily 2 Entered as second- prodaily Publishing gy 5, Kk City, x. Hoover's Sign ot Prosperity A worker dressed in blue overalls, clearly unemployed, broke and starv- MASS MEETS IN BERLIN STREETS “Suppressed” Group Is ing, was found hanging dead across | “\the face of a big signboard at Lin- | Ready to Defend the | Jobless Parades den Bolevard and 58th St., Brooklyn, the bearing one of the innumerable lying slogans yesterday, signboard put out by Hoover throughout Amev- *“Let’s get to | Jobless Hit Socialists iea on signboar Rochester. Unemployed ‘°""! iDsuzestar (CHR Catal he poor jobless worker, about 40 years old, unidentified by anything == on his body, had evidently gotten a (Wireless By Inprecorr) clothesline rope somewhere, climbed BERLIN, Germany, Marci 5.— to the top of the signboard, fastened Yesterday evening in various parts the rope to a bracing timber and to of Berlin there were demonstrations jhis neck, and thrown himself over of the workers’ deiense organization |the front across the “prosperity” Prosperity! called the “Red Front Fighters.” sign of Hoover as a mute protest at | which was~ “prohibited” by the | capitalist starvation, “socialist” governinent over a year Se a “Negligibles” Lead Masses. king class distri ‘socialists’ and other pinheads are eukoelln and Wedding, the declaring that the Communists are welcoming the “Red Front “negligible” and “insignificant,” the ” with great joy. Short | following little items show that the | collissions and no arrests. were held also in the industria! town pe meetings were held and speeches eContetoubuge Top | The “Red Front” demonstrations | of Spancau. Contractors, Thugs Are made, at which the police somehow |arrived too late. ‘There were few BOSTON TR K were a magnificent gesture of warn § | E ling the police against attempting to employment demonstration:. Si-_| |. The eapitalist press, including the Schlesinger’s Audience | “socialist” papers, are conducting a milar “Red Front” demonstrations morrow’s unemployed demonstra-| Needle Trades Workers |ticns. The whole police force is held} Union has won its strike for tle 40- in a state of readiness and the fas-|hour week and union conditions cists are threatening counter-dem- Many more have | shops already. jonstrations. "The press is trying to made application for settlement. create the atmosphere for a mas- satre of the workers. full force against those which have id = : |not yielded to the union demand Czech Police Attack Workers |and this morning, as usual, a mi (Wireless By Inprecorr) |tant picket line dame out. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Mar.| The meeting held in a small hall &—Yesterday six Communist offi-|last night by the International La- cials were arrested here. At Komo-|dies Garment Worker chiefs had to tau there vere five new arrests and|be packed by contractors, imported searches have been made everywhere. | £2ngsters, and scabs, in order not to| Meanwhile the strike goes on rat the Vost Office at New York, -| Although Senator La Follette, the | ee incitement campaign against to- | BOSTON, Mass., March 5. — The| Ni Industrial under the act THE KILLING OF A ~ JOBLESS YOUTH Officer Shot Him For) Taking Loaf of Bread | for Starving Family | Crowd Defends Talkers Negro, White Workers in Chattanooga Protest BUFFALO, N. Y., Mar. 5—A wave of intense indignation is ris- ing among the workers here at the murder of a hungry young worker, Derwood Nunemacker, 17, caught stealing a loaf of bread and shot down by a policeman. His family has eaten nothing for three days. | Nunemacker died in a hospital, and the Buffalo working class, both employed and unemployed is en- raged at the cold-blooded murder of the jobless youth. The Council of Unemployed has issued a statement. condemning the murder as typical of capitalist class brutality against | | the workers and calling all workers | to participate in a funeral to the, | med worker in a protest, such as that with which the New ‘York City workers resented the murder | | of Katovis. | Derwood Nunemacker had been vainly. looking for work since last September. He lived with his mar- | ried brother, Lester, who also has | been out of work for months. They | had applied for “charity” and been refused. Genuine starvation faced them. In desperation the two brothers went in the early morning to the box outside a grocery store, where bakers’ wagons leave bread, and the young worker was taking a loaf of bread when policeman Andres shot him down with a bullet in the head. The police, who are holding his (Continued on Page Two) SCRANTON MINE The workers at the chemicai fac- | |tory “Hungaria” at Prague, are | striking against wage cuts. Yester- | expose too clearly the bankruptcy of the Schlesinger-Dubinsky compa- ny union here. Frank Amdur, the ‘ | Boston vice president of the I. L. G. CO ee 8 te) | W., was chairman and urged the an- eee Le |dience to rise and cheer for “the poor sick old timer” who leads them.| The I. L. G. W. officials spent a| | great deal of time mouthing threats against the Industrial Union, and e 5 arguments that “the Communists have ruined Rus | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, (Continued on Page Two) OUT ON STRIKE Come to Nat’l Union; Lewis’ Secret Sellout SCRANTON, Pa., Mar. 5.—Fifty miners in the West Ridge colliery of — meaning the| the Scranton Coal Co. walked out on| strike Monday because of the com- Exploiters, A. F. of | Unite Against Toilers| Jobless Demonstrate In all industries the "bosses are|in New Jersey Despite using the excuse of the vast unem-| Edict of Police Depts. ployed army to cut wages. Hun-! dreds of steep wage slashes have | been reported to the Daily Worker. Undoubtedly there are thousands of | paterson have forbidden any and all such instances. | demonstrations, but the Communist It is of the utmost importance Party and the Trade Union Unity that the employed workers join their | League will not be terrorized into si- class brothers out of work in the|lence on this day of international world demonstration for “Work or) protest against unemployment and Wages,” today. Do not. let the|are rallying the workers in those bosses play the employed against cities to demonstrate. | the unemployed in their wage slash-' Following is the schedule of dem- | ing campaign. onstrations for New Jersey cities on Searcely had the bosses made Thursday, March 6. |their lying hypocritical statement passaic: 12 o'clock noon at Sec- | four months ago about not cutting ond and Passa wages; scarcely had the well-fed, perth Amboy: 2 p. m., big indoor well-pai@ misleaders of the Ameri- meeting in Columbia hall, 385 State can Federation of Labor agreed to | Street. attempt to prevent the workers in) Newark: 12 o’clock noon, Military ‘the A. F. of L, from demanding Park, (near Hudson Terminal). wage increases, than the slashing of | Paterson: 12 o’clock noon, at City wages began. Hall Plaza. Four months ago Hoover an- There will bea preliminary demon- nounced thag “the president has, stration Wednesday at 12 o'clock been authorized by the employers noon st the same place. who attended this morning’s confer- Soe eT as ence (in a desperate effort to stem Okla, City A. F. of L. the advancing crisis.—Ed.), to de- ef . clare upon their individual respon® Head Unites With Cops sibility that they will take no steps| A i to reduce wages and decidedly, Against Unemployed recommend this standpoint to all the, ok 1, 4HOMA CITY, March 5. — Jack Wood, strike breaking head of country, The president has been (Continued on Page Two) | the American Federation of Labor City Trades and Labor Council, is NEWARK, N. J., March 4. — The {TWO COPS, DRUNK, SHOOT UP STATIO Patton, state commander of the | LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 5.—) American Legion, against the unem | Two “law and order” artists, Pa- ployed workers who are planning to | trolmen Roy Berg and Dick Moun- | demonstrate today. |ger, celebrated Washington's birth-/ Wood said that he would help the day by violating the 18th amend-; police and the fascist legionnair ment of Uncle Sam’s constitution, attempt to stop any demonstra’ lights at the police station. Sor Wages.” 5 uniting \with the police and B. (.) |pany’s announcement that the mi-| |ners must produce five cars instead {of four. At the same time the com-/ pany intends to put across a reduc-! tion of wages. | Some of the miners came to the \office of the National Miners Union jand asked for an organizer to lead them. Charles Guynn, representing police departments of Newark and the N.M.U., will speak to the strik- | Frankfeld, | Jers Tuesday, morning. organizer of “the Communist Party, has offered the aid of the Commu- nist Party to the strikers. y The N.M.U. has already issued a leaflet calling for the spreading of ithe strike to the night shift, and to ithe other collieries of the Scranton |Coal Co, The demands raised are against the increase of production iby one car; against the wage cut; \for an increase of $1 in p&y for the | (Continued on Page Two) CLUB JOBLESS SAYS FISH, JR Congressman Urges . Brutality | WASHINGTON, March 5.—Ham- ilton Fish, Jr., capitalist congress- man from New York joins with the democratic exploiter’ in calling for | brutal suppression of the mass un- \employment demonstrations on Mar. |6, in a statement issued today. Fish wants to solve unemployment by denorting all foreign-born work- ers who are not American citizens. A resolution has been introduced | in Congress by Fish asking for “an | investigation of Communist activi- | wot choose to starve. i of Maro 3 » Jobless Ha ve Only Rights They Fight For, (District Organizer, Communist | Party, District 2.) | On Tuesday Mayor Walker had | armored ‘ars, as bombs, ma- chine guns, mounted and foot police and detectives prepared to meet the | uffemployed of New York. That is the answer of the bosses of this city through the Tammany-Walker-Wha- len machine to the more than 500,000 unemployed in New York. There is “free” speeth and “free” assemblage in New York, but “only by the permission and under the trict supervision of the police,” says Walker. This means that un- less the workers fight for their rights, they have none, for the police fully armed and supported by every character of fascist organization— which are given a free hand—are prepared to smash all pretenses of rights. Walker talks about the tremend- | ous construction program underway in New York. But despite this pro- gram 43 per cent of all organized building trades workers are jobless. The case is reported of only 100 members of a building trades local (Continued on Page Three) WORLD JOBLESS _ PREPARE TODAY Will March Despite, Boss Order VIENNA, Austria, March 5.— Mass mobilization of the workers forced the police authorities to grant permission for a huge job- less demonstration today. The workers, under the leadership of |«the Communist Party, will march to the Ringstrasse, between Karl- splatz, past the National Parlia- ment and the City Hall. * * BERLIN, March 5.—Despite the social-fascist police chief Zoergiebel’s order that no open air demonstra- | tions be held, a huge crowd of work- | Jers gathered in the Moabit Gistrict of Northwest Berlin tonight. An official gunman who tried to stop the demonstration was pummeled by |the indignant workers. | A United Press cable from Lon- don states that the capitalist police in every European capital and in-| GHICGAGO, March 5. — A mass dustrial city are being mobilized! meeting attended by o. .000 against the unemployed demonstra- | workers to protest the po... raids| | tions on March 6. and brutality against unemployed | All roads leading to Paris from the “red” suburbs and industrial sections are heavily guarded by the | fascist general, Henri Gourard’s | troops. The government of Saxony has prohibited open air demonstrations for eight days, beginning on March 6. | Capitalist, fas: preparations were made against the jobless masses in Prague, capital of Czecho- Slovakia, Bucharest, capital of Ru- mania. The fascist police in Rome | are very nervous about the growing the fact that the Communist Party (Continued on Page Three) i White Workers Meet, |Plan a Demonstration | WASHINGTON D. C., March 5.— Over 200 Negro and white workers | met here tonight and adopted a resolntion concurring in the call of the Trade Union Unity League for |a demorstration tomorrow on unem- | | ployment and against lynch law. | There will be a demonstration at the | White House. | French Imperialists Put Tardieu in Again PARIS, March 5. -After a long, | turbulent session, the new cabinet of | | Andre Tardieu. representing the | leading imperialists was confirmed | | by a vote of 816 to 263. | Tardieu said that the delegates to {the race-for-armame nt. conference | would ‘eave immediately for Lon- don, excepting himself. Marcel Cachin, Communist !Jeputy bombarded Tardieu with questions exposing the imperialist role of the yy ties in this country.” Fish is silent | Tardieu government, and the war getting drunk and shooting out the|of the workers demanding “Work | on the 7,000,000 unemployed who do | preparations against the Soviet Union, FINAL CITY EDITION In New York by ‘ork. by mail 1, $8.00 per ¥ year. COME TO UNION SQUARE AT 1 P.M. AT CALL OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY —— Don’t Starve, Fight For Work or Wages! Stril > Against Wage Cuts, Speed Up, Dismissals! Make International Fighting Day a Warning Capitalism That Millions Refuse to Starve! Tens ef thousands of New York workers, the employ: ! throwing down tools and marching. with their unemployed coz rades in masses to Union Square at 1 p. m. today will give warning of their’ mass protest against the attempt of t American capitalist class to unload upon working-class sho: ders the burden of capitalist crisis in the form of starvatic of the unemployed and speed-up and wage cuts of those le at work, : : Attacking Hoover’s pretended “solutions” for unemplo, - ment, the Communist Party Bureau (New York) District N last night summoned all New? 3 York workers to participate in 4 000 H 0 N OR the Union Square demonstra- | "5! tion, and pointed out that the Hoover “program” has turned | out what the Communist Party pre- | dicted, “a war council of open shop- | pers, trust magnates and the labor | . fakers of the A. F. of L., with Wall Memorial For Street and the Hoover government, in order to shift the burden of the | crisis upon the workers and to de-| isi he work~ eee eee event) Wage Central Opera House to capacity las cuts and speedup.” | night in a meeting called by the Cammunist Party, in honor o “The American masses,” says the Ch: s s. “ 4 arles E. Ruthenberg, its first sec- call, “under the leadership of the | retary and as a mobilization meet- Communist Party and the Trade | ing on thé :éve" of: the great’ world- Leader: Rally Today Four thousand workers packe Union Unity League, are resisting | most militantly the attempts of the . boss class to shift the burden of the crisis onto the workers. We intend to force every possible concession in order to infprove the conditions of the masses. “If the police and the city ad- ministration think that the workers (Continued on Page Three) | | | | ponanattced, JOBLESS MASS wide unemployment demonstration which takes place today. The entire building was surround- jed by police, who scowfed viciously {but without avail. The workers brushed past Whalen’s cops and | flocked into the meeting, which they | opened by singing the International | with vigor, “Fight on.” “Ruthenberg’s last words, “Close the ranks and fight on, under the {banner of the Comintern,” said Sam Darcey, chairman of the meet- ling, “apply doubly to this day and |this situation, ‘Starve or fight? is | Prepare Big Mass Meet For Today |000 workers today in the land of ‘Hooverian prosperity,’ and the |Communist Party, in the words of Ruthenberg, calls to them, ‘Close the {ranks and fight.’ Police clubs won't stop the workers.” Speaking for the many Negr¢ workers in the audience, and for the | growing thousands in industry, and in the bread lines, Paterson, young | workers and members of the Com- |masses of unemployed, in spite of | the fight for “Work or Wages.”” | Washington Negro and 1161 St. and Union 4 munist Party was held today. Despite the repeated blusterings of gunman. deputy commissioner (Continued on Page Three) | John Stege, a monster thenne demonstration will take place today. b ronda | Stege has been manufacturing} “bomb” and “assassination” plots by| the wholesale in order to attempt to stave off the jobless demonstration. | A statement issued by the Chicago) « cunvievecte: PAPAL FAKERY the “name of hundreds of thousands Shows Real Object Is of unemployed workers in Chicago,” | War on Soviet Union calls on all workers to take part ini | MOSCOW, March 5. — Today Ir vestia publishes reproductions oi doucuments showing the brutal sup- |Pression of the Rugsian Orthodox & 4 MORE STRIKE | Church in Poland by the Pope and * his cohorts in 1919 and 1921, The MILLER MARKET very same religious opium peddlers ‘who support the imperialist war plans “against the Soviet Union un- ‘der the manufactured pretext of “religious persecutions,” confiscated churches and carried on wholesale suppressions against ogher sects. One of the documents, photograph- reproduction’ of which Izvestia , e., Bronx, came | publishes, is a report to the white cnt on strike Tuesday, joined the | guard general, Denikine, by leading Food Clerks’ Industrial Union, ap-| Greek Orthodox laymen, acefsing peared on the picket line yesterday, | roman catholies of persecuting the and weve one by one arrested at the | Orthodox Church believ another orders of their enraged former boss. | dochme:. is one that was signed by They were also singled out for spe- | Archbishop Eulogie, now in Paris, cial attack by Mi Miller apd his protesting agaiyst violence by the gang of sluggers. When they re-| catholic church and Polish military. sisted the thugs, the police. .who| Izvestia says that these documents paintain what amounts to-martial |<nd many others in its possession, law all over the neighborhood came | show that Pope Pius XI is not in- down and arrested them. | terested in “Saving the Greek Ortho- These workers were tricked into dox Church, but is only desirous of becoming unconscious seabs by the | halting the cultural and economic slick arguments of the reactionary | building of the Soviet Union,” and | United Hebrew Trades officials, and in aiding the war plans of the im- until convinced by their experiences | Pevialist power ‘in the market, and what they saw | = | the day by day picketing of the Food PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Mar. Clerks Industrial Union had thought | 5.—Unemployment is growing in they were union men themselves. | this country of fascism and yellow (Continued on Page Three) | spcialism, a Come On Picket “Line; Boss Orders Arrest Four workers in Miller’s Market, | je » ‘