The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1930, Page 1

4 i) The Workers of America, the 7,000,000 Jobless, the Millions Driven by Speed-Up at Low Wages and Long Hours, Know by Their | Own Experience Yesterday, That the | Party of the Workers Is the Commu- | nist Party, the Party of Revolt Against Capitalism! Published daily Compan Union Saare OVER 100, 000 DETROIT WORKERS STRUGGLE | WITH POLICE; 2 HOURS Pokice Cannot Disperse ‘Biweat Demonstration in History of Detroit Twenty-Six in Hospital (One Cop); 26 Are Known To Be in Jail (By Special Wire) DETROIT, Mich., March 6.—Over 100,000 workers, including thou- sands from the automobile factories and other shops answered the call of the Communist Party to demonstrate today on world NR ae day. tt paces _ elles, armed with machine guns, armored cars, | rmed deputies, mobilized at City Hall. —* The police were determined to Met MAHON ST ARS prevent the workers from going into vw City Hall. Thousands upon thou- |sands were waiting from early 4 ‘morning, gathering at City Hall BR Moi RPA GARBAE-GA& == The demonstration reached its height at one o’clock, when 25,000 No Relief”: workers succeeded in gathering in Campus Martius. Hundreds of ban- “No Dues, ners were displayed and speakers Pickets Battle Scabs began to address the workers. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, Mar. 6. Immediately the police charged A real battle with stones and| With clubs. Mounted cops armed —A real battle with stones a0 | with clubs rode into the crowd, sticks took place this morning when mping down men, women and hildren and beating right and left. The workers refused to disperse and clashed with the police. When the ranks were broken they Te- formed again following each attack b y the police. There were dozens of clashes: all over the square. The attack of the police and the splendid resistance Aina Sek on Page” Three) ~~ wad MARCH IN scabs guarded by deputized company gunmen tried to drive their through a line of 200 striking rayon worker pickets at a bridge about five miles from here. Most of the cars were stopped and some of them smashed. The list of inizred is not yet known, Over a thousand str’ their struggle against mass urem- ployment and discrimination by the American Bemberg and Glantzstoff corporations. But President Thomas | ear’ F. McMahon, of the United Textile , the union w h sold but already at WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6, —More than ten thousand workers v were present at the mass demonstra- recently he disclaimed ion on Unemployment Day. Police for the strike and said tt Lrutality would have killed one work- had appealed to the umor national eh office for financial help, but “the y of them are non-unionists,| Edith Briscoe workers who failed to pay their dues charged with assaulting a cop. Di into the union after the strikes of kin w last year, Neturally we must in- on bail furnished by the Interna- sist that woihers who refuse to do tional Labor Defense. their share in buildi>s up union | Tear gas bombs thrown by the po- treasury shall realize th lice affected several spectators and of strike action and the employed workers in front of the! ntails on labor erg White House opposite the U. S. Vet- Bureau. Hoover veceived members of | hon Denies Relief. the pr with defended him and Bill Lawrence. nancial drains it ¢ irs. time that “every effort is being the D.A.R. during the demonstra- oid chaos and a strike” tion. | le, where the U.T.W. has} The Communist Party and the | Unemployed Council is protest meeting <t 606 M Street | N. W., at Odd Fellows Hall tonight. NEGRO, WHITE IN SQUTH MOBILIZE WINSTON- SALI aM, N. C., Mar: 6. -— Three thousand’ Negro ani! white workers demonstrated in ffoat! of the Charlotte City Hall and lis-) ‘tened to and cheered Dewey Martin, Charles Cooper, Flerence Wagner,, Whalen-Walker Crony| Tries to Fool Jobless and Ledell. This demonstration was! the first time Negro and white work: Wi aa aitetin a eat ers openly demonstrated under the} public hearing i eve Ma Party o the Senate Commerce Committee by Communist Lt Pe Senator Wameer oF Meee orks Smeg The workers solidly backed the Hee eeae pontible for beat. esolution containing the demands of ing up hundveds of jobless in the! we unemployed workers, sent to It New York demonstration. Paes f 7 The Wagner scheme provides for, The crowd followed the Unemploy-! a lot of graft for building contrac-| ed Council back to the headquarter: tors, but neither work nor wages | Thugs present next door at the “Ella for the unemployed. ‘ May trial did not dare to attack the, ; Sie ues militant demonstration. Workers! This Is Your Paper Communists Battle in H Writ fe It. Distribut ty | Streets of Spain for! jong Your Fellow Workers: Workers Labor Hatrs. sting it has signed up the fhe -W. policy is to et them pay their dues, because that means salarios tor 4 U.L.W. ma- ything for FAKE NEARING ON peer ha oe BILBAO, Spain, March 6, — Four} | Today in History of | vowed Souemuniats and “socialists” | ; ‘ought a battle in the streets here] the Workers if oday, using firearms, in an attempt! o gain possession of the Casa del Pueblo (labor temple). The build- MARCH 7, 1885, Shop men on! Gould railways in Missouri, Kansas, | ing formerly belonged to the “social- | and Texas began general strike ist” party, but had been closed by|against wage cuts. 1915—German) the government since the dictator- Social Democratic Party executive| ship was established in 1923,*while; approved credits for imperialist most of “socialists” became world war. 1921—General strike in Communists, The police intervened! Mexico. 1914—Police fired on tex- against the Communists and arrest-| tile mill strikers at Bombay, India, ed forty. Four perseas were wound! killing several 1925—12,000 coal | ed, including one policeman, ‘miners struck in Nova Scotia. John Worlend, had not Waker | was arrested and released with eleven others avrodaily Publishing <>, y City, N.Y. : FORWARD TO NEW BAT! Millions of workers throughout the United States, to- rether with the workers of the whole world, answered the call of the Communist International, the Communist Party of the U. S. A., and the revolutionary trade unions, and came into the streets and demanded Work or Wages. These mass demonstrations were the first really national mass action of the working class in the United States. It was not only an economic battle but also a major political action against the bourgeois state and its polce forces. It was the final proof of the rising tide of the revolutionar proletarian movement in the United States. It was an evi- “0, te Workers Demand Work or Wages in New York Demonstration! Leaders of N.Y. Jobless in of IN ALL CAPHVALIST LA FO DEMANDS, AGAINS! BOSSES Workers, Jobless Ciash in Berlin, London, Dublin, Manchester, ¥ speed-up cheered all the fighting demand dence that the Communist I the ma: Millions of workers in dozens of streets for Werk or Wages. capitalist class? Machine guns, gas bom| on men, women and childrer starving unemployed, the answer to the demand for or Wages! Once more the workers (Continued The views of the huge deme ation yesterday in Union Sq which 110,000 , workers, ew ployed and unemployed, led by th mmunist Party, demanded wor wages, end of rationalization and wage cuts, cn the Communist Party and th WASHINGTON.BS. WORLD JOBLESS DEMONSTRATIONS — NDS FIGHT jenna Halle, Hamburg, Munich, Bucharest, and Elsewhere Furious Fighting at Liebknecht House in Berlin; March on Tower Hill, Smash Police Attacks BERLIN, March 6 (5.30 p. m.).—Today’s unemployment demonstrations were held every- where in Beriin, with violent collisions in many places where the jobless assembled repeat- edly in spite of the “prohibition” of all street gatherings by t! giebel. There v furious police clubbing in all sections. ilized, patrolling the street, rac-? ing along in auto-trucks. Heavy | forces were concentrated in al MN.000 AWE COPS 1 eke Abendblatt,” complains bitterly at he police brutatiy w ing in injuries to na orkers left the Legion, of the Legion members coming t * ‘ Rt cheer the Communiéts. Later-—United Press reports state} Were awed by the great that severe fighting continued late | did not interfere. into the night in Berlin, police at- ‘tacks everywhere being greeted with howls of derision and cries of 0f repeated police cy atees |“Neider mit der Hunger Regierung” ‘ . y —Down with the starvation govern- London, Toilers Fight ment! Police with drawn revolvers| | LONDON, March 6.=In four | patrolled the Unter den Linden beat-| great streams, capitalist sources: re- ing all persons encountered who| port, the Workers of London march- look like workers. Scores of trucks} ed on Tower Hill with band playing with searchlights attached tore “The Red Flag,” in what is ad- through the city, the police leaping | mitte1 to be the biggest demonstra- out at times to pursue workers. At tion and the “worst clash between 7.30 p. m. firing was going on inter- | police and radicals since the general | mittently, the firing being heard in| strike in 1926.” Yet the capitalist the United Press office on the Unter | press agencies try to put the num- {den Linden. One worker was killed, | ber of demonstrators at a mere 5,000 shot down by police near the Unter —which is ridiculous. den Linden and three were wounded in the West End. Five police are reported injured. Small groups ha. rassed the police and despite all the force used the Communists occupied and held Buelow Square, in the face ! erowd and Jack Gallagher led the demonstia- tion, the crowd cheering denuncia- ment. After the speaking the work- (Continued on Page Three) ¥ ' even some} Tom Mann, aged but agile, and) he “socialist” police chief Zoer- Tremendous forces of rees of police w were mob- S000 STROM held ‘another demonstr an hour and a half. ion for abou to the city Hall, where they were at demonstration, arresting 12. Wom len workers were beaten up. | Harvey and Larson. This was one of the onstrations ever held larger than the Sacco-Vanzetti pro i tests. \police stated that thev would not ve. {sort to violence, but they broke uy |the demonstration at the City H»i with clubs. largest dem FIGHT I | MONTREAL, Que., | Thousands of work: in the world unemploym trations. The wo CANADA March 6 tions of the fake “labor” .govern- 0 city hall. Speakers addressed peiween worke them. Police attacked the crowd bu were effectively resisted. « London Workers From McKinley Sq. they marched tacked by the police, fully armed with machine guns, and detectives. ; |After a battle they broke up the Among |those arrested are Melvin. Donald, in Buffals. Before the demonstration the | JON RATES: In New Y FINAL CITY EDITION _ Price 3 Cents -arty is becoming DEMANDS; - NEW YORK FOR JOBLESS DEFY POLICE cities fought on What was the ans | Communist Party and 70,000 Unemployed and Strikers Mobilized by. TUUL; 40,000 Join In 9s, clubs and a merciless assault | n—that was the answer to the Commmittee Elected to See Walker Arrested; Work Hot Battle When Cops A Attack Parade real value of have learned on Page Two) digests two great sections of Union Sq the side streets, St., north on Fourth the sidewalk across the SEP ORT OTHER IOBLESS MEETS jitalist Sources Lie on Demonstrations Ave. for stree on Jailed Yaw JOU onstrati The following are unverified re- ports of unemployment demonstra- tions from capitalist sources, Just as soon a information about these struggles of the workers is received from relia- ble sources, it will be published in the Daily Worker: STAMFORD, Conn, — Capitalist state that five work- sted in front of the tamford during an un- nonstration, WATERBURY, Conn. The “Brass barons” center of Waterbury CRomrennee: on Page Three.) Ph) ann MARCH CLEVELAND (By Special Wire) CLEV AND, Ohio, March 6.— Twenty-five thousand workers par- ticipated in the world unemployment demonstration staged here today. Over 15,000 more were onlookers who expressed sympathy. The marching workers went to the > City Hall. Marshall met the workers on the steps of City Hali and claimed he was impotent to al- |leviate unemployment or offer any relief for the hordes of jobless. He ‘stated that nothing could be done. The workers th marched thra the main streets to the main square. Many speakers addressed the crowe joined the Com- munist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. - OVER 20,000 MARCH Above, William Z. Foster, Gen crol Seerctary of the Ty places where meetings werg IN YOUNGSTOWN BUFF AL fn MEET U * H ce 5, Q APA: fe § S Untty League; Robert Minor, Ed. -- thought likely. PLL uy 55 Me ios Of the Doty Wi (By Spatial Wire) At this moment, 5.30, violent col- ilies Dieite. Ores : PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mareh 6 Tine chk A ea NS mee | Amter, viet Organizer, New Joining the world wide demonstra- rene mA some on eee ed a (By Special Ww ire) (By Special Wwe) York District, Communist Party. | tions against unemployment, ant ee coninehlis Bev Gretbing 9g YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. =- Over), BUFFALO, N. Y., March 6.—) They were arrested ax they sands of jobless workers in basie in-| faeerective anit: har weakens ace ONY. thousand workers demon-| Over 15,000 workers responded to! mounted the steps of City Hall to | Gustries in this district mobilized to fighting back. ‘The police have just Stated here today in the fight|the dall of the Communist Party and! present the demands of the job \4emand work cr wages in the larg- “tired several volleys. But the work- against unemployment. The Ameri- came to LaFayette Sq. today to d less to Mayor Walker jus snateattbnt vate Biter on ers have re-assembled and the dem- can Legion tried to split. the demon-)onsttate against unemployment. At! oe nll ME in eee ioe ti], are i ine r MY" “3 [ } onstiations are continuing stration by holding a meeting in othe to Me ay commen ae | More than 20,000 unemployed} The capitatist pare vosition, but the result was that the y. 50ST : workers activ articipated+in al ‘a ESS MARG } demonstration before the huge ro- tunda of Pennsylvania Station, while more than 50,000 other work- ers crowded twelve blocks (Continued on Page Three) (By \Spepidd Wi CANTON, HHO unemployment today on Boston Com- mon. When the police attacked the (By Special Wire) Hoag wo! battled back and seven were arr id, including R. Stephens, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communisc Party. When Step s called fe » starch on the s the ii | erowd moved as one. The police ta permit to The worke; .| House. hou sand workers vwurned out to have a huge and successful demonstration eked down and gave in front of the court house steps in at the beginning. | Canton, the greatest dem marched on the State ever held here. The enormous wd e the crowd, tin spoke for the Communist Part still growing and| 2nd the police did not dare to inter- fere due to the temper and size of; the mass of worke Later—-Fighting s still going on ————. and mounted police, — Write About Your Conditions tthe work il holding the Com-| for The Daily Worker. Become a mons. Daniels als» arrested. Worker Correspondent, reached North on Broadway full, detailed and correct | PITTSBURGH along! A CANTON, Ohio. — Fifteen thou-| ion! The police at this hour are halted all traffic while David Mar-| | STALINGRAD, | first The greatest demonstration ever seen in New York parked uare yesterday, extended up all to Seventeenth a similar distance, massed on t on Union Square West and Union Square East, and on the | sidewalks on both sides of 14th St. In the face of 25,000 police and firemen mobilized against them, they demonstrated and they paraded. The crowd cheered the speakers from five stands, four at the north end of the square and one impro- vised on the top of a contractor’s shack in the center of the square, and later from two more stands. Those actually mobilized by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League numbered 70,- 000. At least 40,000 more joined the demonstration. Thousands pro- ceeded to the City Hall for a second demonstration and were joined there by still more thousands. No one knows how many more were grouped up the side streets, kept away from the square by some of the 500 or 600 police mobilized ; around Union Square for that pur- | pose. The demonstrators were un-- employed workers, and worker's: who struck at the call of the Communist Party and the T.U.U.L. Most of the rest of the police were kept in am- bush up side streets. The huge throng voted thunder- ously to adopt the demands of the Councils of the Unemployed and of the Trade Union Unity League for immediate relief for the jobless from the funds of the city treasury |and from taxes on the wealthy ex- ‘ploiters, for unemployment insur- ance paid for by the employers and administered by committees of the | workers and unemployed, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, ete. With cqual enthusiasm they elect- ed a committee headed by William Z. Foster, general secretary of the T.U.U.L., Robert Minor, editor of The Daily Worker, I. Amter, New York district organizer of the Com- munist Party, and represeatatives of the young workers, the 2-0 werk- (Continued on Page Three) 30,000 JOBLESS OUT IN PHILLY (By Special Wire) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Mar. 6.— The largest mass demonstration of workers ever held in this city took place today on world unemployment day. Over 30,000 workers massed ,at City Hall Plaza. Four groups of ‘workers, mobilized by the Unem- ployed Council, the Communist Par- ty, the Trade Union Unity League, | marched to City Hall ‘Plaza, | There were three platforms from which speakers addressed the crowd. Enthusiastic response greeted the demand ‘Work or Wages,” as well as a call of unity of the employed and unemployed to fight for the unemployed demands and against | wage-cuts, and for the defense af | the Soviet Union: Bt: Over 100 applications» were ‘re- ceived for membership in the Com+ munist Party, and many. ‘subserip~ tions were taken forthe Daily Worker. Then a march was formed to In- dependence Square. The workers marched through ten blocks of the business district here. In front of | Independence Hall another mass meeting took place with over 5,000 workers participating. The speakers wore: Gardos, Muz- doch, Solway, Croll, Moser, Niedon, Walters, Gitts, and Chandler. Though many police were massed at ‘the City Hall Plaza and other places they did not attempt to in- terfere with the mass demonstxr@® tions. ALINGRAD TRACTOR. US.S.R.—~ The experimental tractor was was turned out in February, Mass —— will start soon, | FIRST $1