The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 1

Police Commissioner Whalen and His Kind the Country Over Provoked the Workers By War Mobilization, Forgetting the Lessons of His- tory With Its Stolypins and Bismarcks. And the Earth Shook As the Workers ‘Took the Streets—Class Against Class! Entered as secohd-clasy maticr at the Vost Of! fice at New York, N. Y¥. under the act 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by Vol. VI, No. 313 Company, Ine., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. ‘The Comprodaily Publishing > ,, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RB. Outside ® yy mail, $8.00 per sear. mail $6.00 per year. ATES New York, Learn to Kane Our Class Enemies--- And How to Defeat Them The American working class day before yesterday shoved the mil- lion lies of the boss class down its fat throat. Hoover, Wall Street’s chief clerk, and his bosses, are still choking. But they have arrested three Communist leaders—Foster, Minor and Amter—as a vengeful gesture in reply to the millions of jobless orkers who responded to the call of our Party and the Trade Union Unity League Thursday. They are astounded, angry—and anxious. They are so angry that they are almost inarticulate. The capi- talist press is filled with lies as usual but it is clear even to a ten-year- old child that the lying is being done without direction. The executive committee of the American capitaist class is badly demoralized. But that it is angry is also clear. Its spokesmen are foaming at the mouth. The marble steps of the White House are sprayed with the bubbly white spume emitted from the classically chiselled lips of one Herbert Hoover—hitherto considered am engineer of great talent who had only to reach into one of the pockets hanging from his ample posterior and produce a panacea for unemployment. The Hoover myth has been shattered along with the tale of ‘“‘per- manent prosperity” in the United States. The same blade pricked both bubbles—the Marxist-Leninist pro- gram of the Communist Party of the United States based solidly on the insoluble contradictions of the capitalist system and the class struggles which arise inevitably out of them. “Permanent prosperity?” The American working class on Thursday, responding to the call for struggle against starvation resulting from unemployment and ra- tionalization issued by the Communist International and its American section, the Communist Party of the United States, and organized by the Trade Union Unity League, made its answer to the masters whose grip grows less secure each day. In the face of such a mighty mass protest the obscene stool- pigeon efforts of a Matthew Woll are seen in their true perspective— things to be scorned and hated and destroyed—but: efforts which show the desperation of a ruling class confronted for the first time in history with a determined movement of working class revolt led by a disci- plined, conscious and skilled political party of the proletariat, using for the interests of its class every lesson learned and every weapon forged in all worker and farmer revolutions of the last four centuries. The “backward” American working class? It mobilized in millions last Thursday—and fought for the streets. Native and alien, Negro and white, Jew and gentile—the relentless pressure of American imperialism has welded the hundred-tongued masses of the United States into a proletarian army. Its shock troops were on the streets last Thursday. Their number grows. The Communist Party of the United States is fighting against American imperialism and all itseagents, open and concealed, those at the head of the capitalist brigades, the’ spies and traitors in the ranks of the working class, every day and every hour, for the majority of the American working class. “Communists disdain to conceal their aims,” said Marx and Engels. We write again today this statement in bold letters. The working class in the United States on Thursday took one strong step in the struggle for power. | Our Party called for struggle openly. — — Masses of our class responded. More organization is needed. More struggles will come and ‘in each of them revolutionary lessons will be learned. Last Thursday we workers learned to know some of our worst enemies—the Wolls, the Norman Thomases, the social fascists and their smoke screens. We know the Whalens—open tools of Wall Street—whose remedy for unemployment is. rosewood clubs in the hands of his sadistic cops. The fight for Work or Wages has just begun. Build the class struggle unions. Form Councils of Unemployed. Begin the organization of a National Unemployment Convention in Chicago. Join the Communist Party of the United States. Defend the interests of our class against every attack by the bosses and their agents. Unconditional, immediate freedom for all prisoners of March 6th battles! Defend the Soviet Union—the only country in the world where, because workers and farmers rule, led by the Communist Party, wages ‘COMMUNIST LEADERS OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS! CON YOUR TINUE SPLENDID FIGHT OF MARCH 6! The capitalists, in their class rage and hatred, not satisfied with the blood spilled on March 6th, begin further to revenge themselves _ upon the American workers. They revenge themselves in .cowardly manner for all the fear and panic they felt on March 6th, in face of this tremendous mobilization of the working masses, in face of this serious warning and menace given by the unemployed and employed workers of the U. S. to the capitalist order of starvation, unemployment and misery. Throughout the country scores of demonstrators are arrested by the police and put in jail. In New York the valiant watchdogs of the | bosses arrested the delegation of the unemployment demonstration— the unemployed workers—Joseph Lester, Harry Raymond, Comrade Foster, secretary of the TUUL; representatives of the Communist Party in this delegation—Comrade Minor, editor of the Daily Worker; and Comrade Amter, the N. Y. district organizer of the Communist | Party, as well as many other workers, put them in jail charged with “conspiracy,” “inciting to riot,” etc. The commander-in-chief of the capitalist battle against the work- ers on the streets of New York on March 6th, Police Commissioner Whalen, personally presents the charges. These arrests and persecutions of the unemployed demonstrators throughout the country, and of the delegation elected by the 100,000 N. Y¥. demonstrators, is an outrageous challenge of the bosses, their police and their courts, to the millions of American workers who dem- onstrated on March 6th for Work or Wages. This is the answer of the RECRUITS 6167 — |\T. U. U. L. Sets March \A Decided Victory for} Communist Party With 6,167 new members recruited in the Membership Drive, which closed on February 28,:is a decided vietory for the Communist Party. Of the new quota 123 per cent was recruited. yesterday called on all its members The full details, together with a | 4nd all other workers to take or- chart, will be published in tomor- |ganizational steps among both job- row’s issue of The Daily Worker, less and employed, to join their The recruiting drive had been in forces in one, create a mass move- progress fot 11 weeks, Most of the | ment that will win their demands. new members were recruited from| he statement of the T.U.U.L. is the mines, shops and factories, \as follows: This is the answer of the workers | 5.7 he | tremendous demonstration that took place |to the attacks of the bosses on the lGommunistaBareeeinvetieir wae Thursday, March 6th, throughout | preparations against the Soviet |the United States in which partici- 1 Whion re « _ | pated millions of workers, ex- Mee ba als | pressed the firm determination of PONE. 58 25s Se | the working class to fight against | |the employers’ campaign to make the workers pay the cost of the economic crisis. “In every city the workers saw | A more clearly than ever the united Bite’ F. of L. City Central Councils, the ,| Socialist party, the Muste Group, | the police and the underworld. This \was the line-up on March 6 against the workers’ demands voted for in Pointing out that the tremendous | demonstrations on March 6 through- ‘out the country show that the unem- ployed workers will fight against starvation, the National Committee of the Trade Unicn Unity League unemployed front of their enemies, Hoover. ‘We Will Die Fighting They Say MEMBER DRIVE . ‘Class Against Class, Now, Prepare Jobless Conference Gathering, Urges Active Organization increase, working conditions get better and the whole living standard of th masses rises—steadily and rapidly. The American working class today fights back. Thursday proved it, GONFERENGE FOR USSR, DEFENSE | | A broad mass movement, rooted | n the shops and factories, in defense of the Soviet Union will be launched | PORT AU PRINCE, March 7.— Hoover’s imperialist commission now in Haiti, headed by the Wall Street Organize to continue and extend our counter-offensive. banker, Cameron Forbes was told today that the women of Haiti were ready to face the marine machine guns in their fight against American imperialism and its Borno puppet regime. | “Turn your machine guns on the E ET T0 DA Y women,” said Mrs. Brun Ricot, rep- | resenting the Patriotic Association \of Haitian women, an organization Today the workers: of New York |l!ed by petty-bourgeois leaders, but will celebrate International Women’s containing in its ranks many. Negro Day, the day when the proletarian | Working and peasant women. | “In women of the world, together with |the hearts of the women are en- | the demonstrations: “For social in- surance, against rationalization, MINERS PROTEST IN. SPRINGFIELD (By Special Wire.) SPRINGFIELD, Iil., Mar. 7.—Un- employed and employed miners and factory workers came out in demon- ployment, and for the demands of by a conference of representatives | the men, will demonstrate against |Crusted the feelings of husbands and | the Trade Union Unity League for of labor unions, workers’ fraternal organizations ‘and factories on Thursday, March 13, at 7 p. m., in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. The conference has been called oy the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave. Coming only three days before e huge mass-protest meeting called y the Friends of the Soviet Union, Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and ronx River, the conference will nake the final preparations for this yreat demonstration. The meeting will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday, Mar. 16, the day set by Bishop Man- iing, the American Jewish Congress and other “holy” inciters’ of war against the Soviet Union for pray- 2s. The meeting is expected to be one of the largest indoor demonstrations sver held in New York. Speakers vill include former Bishop William Montgomery Brown; William Z. Voster, national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Charles Smith, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism; Joseph Lewis, president of the Freethinkers of America and others. vi |tonight at 8 o’clock at Irving Plaza, unemployment and against the war |80ns. We know they have decided which the imperialists are threaten-,t0 die. All Haitian women share ing to launch against the Soviet this sentiment. You cannot prevent Union. ~ us following our husbands and sons, The celebration, which has been) 1#¢ Women also would be shot, but jarranged by the New York District |“ would not abandon our men.” of the Communist Party: will be held) “~~ 15th St. and Irving Pl. In Newark the celebration will be held tonight at the Workers Progressive Center, 93 Mercer St., and in Paterson to- morrow at 3 p. m. at the hall of the National Textile Workers Union, 205 Paterson St. ~ A great crowd is expected at the, By ANNA DAMON. New York celebration and two halls} International Women’s Day, 1930, have been engaged at Irving Plaza, is being cclebrat&d all over the world The. speakers will include I. Amter,| under the leadership of the Commu- District Organizer of the Communist "nist International, champion of the Party, provided he is out of jail in| workers of the world. The Com- time. Amter was arrested Thursday | munist International calls on the at the huge unemployment demon-| occasion of March 8 upon all the stration. workers of the world and particu- A stirring entertainment program |larly the women workers to mobil- jrelief, insurance, shorter work day, no speed-up and defense of the So- viet Union. A. Newhoff, R. |Jones and C. Thompson were arrested, and are held without charges so far. stration yesterday against unem- | Demand the Liberation of All Arrested Throughout the Country; Demand the Immediate Liberation of the New York Delegation Elected By 100,090 Unemployed { capitalist state to the demands of the unemployed workers. | In New York Mayor Walker, this dancing parasite who is eating | up $40,000 a year, municipal wages per year, when unemployed work- | ers starve, promised on the eve of March 6 “free speech, free assem- blage fox demonstration,” and other riches to the workers’ demonstra- | tion. And when unemployed workers assembled to go to the City Hall | to present their demands, this butterfly of the speakeasies fled away, | closed and barricaded the City Hall, which was transformed into a kind of fortress, and put between the seat of government and the unem- ployed workers, a police camp armed with machine guns and gas bombs. Chief of Police Whalen, when workers wanted to exercise th right to walk upon the streets, openly and brutally stamped upon this right won by the workers in scores of years of struggle. While the workers starve he himself enjoyed the “rights of the beach” in Florida in company with millionaires whose profits he defends against the un- employed workers. They are accused of “inciting to riot.” The real provocator of the bloody clashes on the streets of New York was the capitalist state and its police. The war mobilization of all police forces and reserves was already a provocation for clashes. This measure is responsible for the situation which is now charged against your delegation. | The delegation. in order to prevent the attack upon the workers | already prepared by the police, during the demonstration approached | Chief of Police Whalen and demanded of him to stop this provocation (Continued on Page Three) CROWDS BATTLE EUROPE POLICE Thousands Everywhere Capitalist Press Lies 29 as Date for National speed-up, wage cuts, for the 7-hour |5-day week, egainst imperialist | wars and for defense of the Soviet Union.’ “On the eve of the (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIEN Austria, March Seven thousand jobless workers pi ch Gth {ticipated in yesterday’s demonst: demonstration, the most vicious con-|tion and fought fascist students in centrated barrage was launched|collisons in front of the university against the unemployed werkers by eapitalists, A. F. of L. and social- ists alike. Abramovitch, the inter- rational socialist traitor supported by Thomas and Muste, led the at- ack for the socialist party. Woll, vice president of t millionaires’ club, the Civic Federation, speaking for the A. F. of L. bureauc and the socialists with’ their poisonous slander, proposed fascist methods of attacking the workers and for the In the evening three mass meetings took place which were overcrowded. * Defy Police in Prague. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Mar. 7.—In spite of the prohibition of all demonstrations: already a number of smaller demonstrations of unemploy- ed workers took place during the day and wound up in a demonstra- tion of a thousand workers in the smashing up of tne unemployed where they were addressed by Com- demonstrations. These traitors | munist deput In the collisions openly expressed their alliance with | with the police several were injured Wall Street in the general land arrested. The biggest of the s of any struggle ag: demonstrations in the provinces were the millions of wo! who are|in Reichenberg with 3,000 and Ko- fighting against rvation. The motau with 2,000 participants. In role and program of the socialist the latter town 180 workers were party and the A. F. of L. is the arrested. role and program of imperialism. r “ * Class Lines Fighter. Slash Jobless With £~hers. “The March 6 unemployed dem-| gTOCKHOLM, Swede {arch 7. onstrations expressed the rapid /—Demonstrations on 1 rational tightening of class lines in the U. Fighting Day against unc:..ployment took place in all industrial towns of Sweden. In Stockholm 10,000 work- ers attended three mass meetings NATIONAL MINER (28 | LEADER JAILED, S. A. It shows that the Amevican | (Continued on Page Two) eedle Trades Open Forums; All to Help Picket Kabek Shop The Propaganda Committee of the | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 7.} Unemployment rages in the anthra- cutive Council of the Needle cite coal fields, and many came out|Trades Workers Industrial Union | yesterday to demonstrate against it. ‘has decided to arrange a series of The police arrested Charles Guynn, open forums, where the present national secretary treasurer of the situation in the needle trades unem- |National Miners’ Union; Philip ployment, open-shop conditions and Frankfeld, district organizer of the | what the workers must do to change Communist Party; and Kingston, | the present conditions will be dis- Young Communist League district | cussed. organizer, and a member of the Na-| The Industrial Union is conduct- tional Textile Workers’ Union: A!ing a strike against the firm of rested. Street. ‘WORKING WOMEN! RALLY ON INT’L WOMEN’S DA Soviet government in every country. International Women’s Day takes place at the time whe» the economic crisis is gripping the ntire country, spreading throughort the capitalist world, at the time when preparations for imperialist wir are hastening. In their s'ruggle for the world ~ar- kets, the imperialists feverishly arm jagainst one another and especially has been arranged. Among the features will be revolutionary dances by Edith Segal and Alison Bur-. roughs of the Workers Dance Group, and a proletarian play, “White ize for struggle age'n.t fascism, against unemployment, speed-up, low wages, under the leadership of } the Communist Party of their coun- try, and to follow the lead of their against vhe Soviet Union which is the only country in which unemploy- |ment is being abolished and where |the workers enjoy a socialist pros- perity because they have abolished Trash,” by the Workers Laboratory | Russian sisters and hroihers to ov- | capitalism and reconstructed indus- Thanten _ establish a i ‘try under workers’ control. Workers to Mobilize Today in Face of Growing World Crisis \ The Workers’ Rule. ,fully completed. The vesults have While every imperialist country | surpassed all expectativis. Already is in a serious economic crisis, the | it is clear that the plan will be com- Soviet Union is enjoying prosperity. | pleted in four years. The devotion, Wages of workers are going up.|energy and determination ,of the | Working hours have been reduced | working men and women of the So- to six and seven daily with one day’s | viet Union who have taken the rest in every four, additional social | power into their own hands and are insurance for all workers, especially | building Socialism, has made this women. Unemployment is being | tremendous undertaking possible— stamped out. Millions of more and has proven conclusively, on the workers are being drawn into indus-| one hand, the correctness of the \try. This has been made possible | policy of the Communist Interna- | by the Five-Year Plan of industrial- | tional and the Communist Party of ‘ization, the plan for building social- | the Soviet Unjon, and, on the other ism in the Soviet Union. The first | hand, the bankruptcy of the right- lyear of this plan has been success- (Continued on Page Two) IED BAIL! U.S. MASSES MARCH AGAINST HUNGER AND POLICE TERROR INBIGGEST MOVE OF CENTURY Earth Shakes Beneath Capitalism As the World Proletariat Takes Streets Demanding Bread DE Workers Rise After Day of Battle to Organize New Struggles and Defend Police Victims (BULLETIN.) Late Friday it was learned that the police officials headed by Whalen, carrying out their policy of class ven- geance against the arrested delegation of the New York unemployed demonstration, were to attempt a new trick to hold the workers in spite of a habeas corpus writ to be returned today. The scheme is to add to the present mis- demeanor charges, new charges of “felonious assault,” and when the habeas corpus hearing is held, to have the work- ers again arraigned and again held without bail. The hope of Whalen that the injured cop would die and give Whalen | a chance to prefer manslaughter charges vanished with | the news that the injury was not fatal. t With the ground still shaking under the march of millions of workers protesting against starvation by capitalism in the United States, while millions more marched throughout the world, with 165 arrests reported from only five American cities along with 197 injured from the same, the capitalists of the “richest country on earth” which permits 7,000,000 jobless and their families to starve, have received'a warning that the workers will not starve quietly but will fight for bread even number of workers were also ar-| Wasserman & Kabek, 247 West 37th | harder in new battles ahead. The only answer of the capitalist class and their govern- ment is clubs and repression, leaders Committee arrested by the or- der of New York Police Com- missioner Whalen, William Z. Fos- ter, Robert Minor, Israel Amter, Jo- seph Lester and Harry Raymond, are still in jail, brazenly held in de- fiance ofthe right of bail and even ~ denied immediate answer to a writ of habeas corpus. Furthermore, ‘the prisoners are held incommuni- cado and no one knows how they are being treated. A Daily Worker reported was forbidden an_ inter- view. When summoned before Chief Magistrate McAdoo yesterday morn- ing, they were refused bail and the hearing was postponed till Monday morning, while District Prosecuting Attorney Crain hinted that addi- evening at the center of the city,|tional charges of manslaughter and second degree assault would be added to the existing list of “un- lawful assembly,” “conspiracy to riot” and “aiding and abetting riot.” Whalen, the dandified agent of New York capitalists, who thinks that with a police club to stop the strug- gle of the working class against starvation, was present, surrounded as always with a strong-arm squad, to make the charges against the workers’ leaders. When the judge refused to set bail, the International Labor De- fense proceeded, through its attor- ney, Joseph Brodsky, to obtain a writ of habeas corpus from Judge | Alfred H. Townley of the state su- preme court. “These men are being held with- out bail,” said Brodsky. “Under |the law bail is mandatory. Cer- tainly they, the chief magistrate land the chief prosecuting attorney, | knew that. But they deliberately | tried to hold them without bail.” Whalen and Crain want to bring | the leaders of the Communist Party |and the other Unemployed Commit- tee members, before a special ses | sion of three judges of the Vitale ,and Sabatini stripe, who would un- | doubtedly try to impose a sentence of from three months to three years jagainst the workers and | quickly. | The writ was asked to be return- ‘able at once, which would hay forced Whalen to bring the prison- ers into court yesterday; but Judge Townley would not do that, and made it returnable today. It re- quires Whalen to producé:the five prisoners before Judge Townley in | the county building. | The I. L. D., in a statement issued yesterday said that, “All ‘members ‘of the LL.D., workers’ organizations | affiliated to it, and all sympathetic ‘elements will be called to demon- | strate in protest against the arrest jof the Unemployed Delegation, the | methods used against them, the bru- \ tality of the police in breaking up the demonstration Thur: this protest jointly made for the free- of the Unemployetl¢- do it, As this is written, the five HOOVER ISSUES FAVORITE LIES Tells Unemployed to Go and Starve WASHINGTON, March 7.—Hoo- etary of Commerce Lamont, y of labor Davis, and as- sistant secretary of commerce Klein, i;were forced by the tremendous un- employment demonstrations yester- day to meet today for nearly two hours to consider the question of un- employment. As usual, these im- perialists issued a lying statement which was no different from their previous gripe about ‘improvements.’ Hoover said unemployment in the present s is not as bad as it was ir: the er of 1907 or 1922. How- ever: the figures issued by the Com- missione! of Labor in various states, as well as reports from work- ers themselves, show that in many states it is worse than the crises referred to by the lying Hoover. State Commi oner of Labor Frances Per said that the pres- ent unemployment in New York is worse than for any time that sta- tistics have been kept. She started collecting figures in 1915. Hoover again repeated his ex- ploded line of bunk about improve- j (Continued on Page Two) UNIT MEETINGS. The unit meetings of the Party will take place at the regular time and place. All members must at- tend. DISTRICT ORG, DEPT. COSSACKS IS TOO MILD. Mounted cop, 4219, Troop C, said to another cop at 2:30 p. m., yester- day: “Go ahead George, ride them down, let’s see how many you can kill.” Today in History of the Workers ae eo March 8, 1793—-French revolu- tionary National Convention abol- ished imprisonment for debt. 1876—German Social Democratic Party dissolved under exceptional laws. 1919—End of revolutionary general strike in Berlin, insurgent troops surrendered, savage repri- sals by Noske. 1922—Strike of 17,000 silk workers in Paterson, N. J. 1924—-171 Coal miners killed in explosion at Castle Gate, Utzh. 1925—Railway workers of Greece struck for eight-hour day and against wage cuts. Unemployed Councils of ‘the Trade dom of Potash and Winogradsky, Union Unity League took on » far the Mineola defendants, the Shifrin wider mass character and organiza- case, the Gastonia defendants and tional steps were followed to unite the hundreds in jail throughout the them nationally and press the de- | country. . mands for relief, for social insur- While action is being taken to ance, “Work or Wages,” against release the workers arrested sthtu- wage cuts and the speed-up, in joint out the nation, the movement of the | action (ith the employed workerg, HD ony