The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1930, Page 1

ae) “Cowards!” Shrieks Whalen, from Behind a Regi- ment of Armed Cops, and Proceeds to Spread Weird Yarns About How His Dicks Know Exactly When the Reds Will Hold a Dem- onstration. Hence the War Mobilization Last'Tuesday When There Wasn’t Any Demonstration! ut the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 314 Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing @@ZB>,, New York City; N. ¥. NEW YORK MONDAY, “MARCH 10, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York py mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall §6.00 per yenr. Price 3 Cents DEFEAT THE BOSS CLASS REVENGE AGAINST THE JOBLESS Demand Immediate Release of Heroic March 6 Fighters 1 for “Work or Wages”! Killers of EI Ella May Go Free--- PREPARE MARCH Unemployment Delegation | Held Without Bail On the same day when the delegation, elected by the New York Unemployment Demonstration of 100,000 workers, was held in jail without bail, the murderers of Ella May in North Carolina were being | set. free by the capitalist courts. Capitalist class justice revealed it~ self again, as capitalist class ‘dictatorship. To lead the unemployed millions to demand relief from misery , and starvation—this is a high crime in the eyes of the capitalist state. To kill striking workers on the public highway—this is a meritorious | deed in the eyes of the same state. ‘ A day later the sheriff at Elizabethtown, Tennessee, resigned his office, saying it was impossible to hold his job if he refused to go out on the highway to beat up and kill the striking rayon workers; being a very unusual sheriff, he resigned his job. His successor will carry out the measures he refused, with the firm support of the capi- talist class and its hangers-on. In Chicago the city government has carried out a reign of terror. entering private meeting halls and beating up all present with clubs and blackjacks; beating up arrested workers inside the jails, so tha‘ several are lying in hospitals in danger of their lives; raiding offices and,book stores and destroying equipment and stock—all with the spoken or silent approval of the entire capitalist press, government. pulpit, and lackeys of the socialist party and A. F. of L. Throughout the country, several hundred workers are jailed for the “crime” of appearing on the streets to demonstrate for work or wages. Workers must learn the lesson of these events. is their enemy; it is the dictatorship of the capitalist class. can only obtain their demands by The governmen Work organized struggle; they can obtain justice only by establishing their own government, the dictatorship of the working class. More Lies from the White House In panic before the demonstration of 1,250,000 workers on March 6th demanding WORK OR WAGES, Herbert Hoover has again rushed into print with an “optimistic statement” that unemployment will be over in 60 days. Such Ties, at which every well-informed capitalist | laughs, are intended to “calm” the masses, to keep them use while new assaults are prepared against them. The facts are, that the crisis grows ever deeper. figures of the most authoritative capitalist sources: Steel production for the first two months of this year was nearly a million tons less than in the first two months of last year. Building contracts awarded in January and February were almost 17 per cent below last year, and 28 per cent below 1928. Car loadings are decidedly lower than at any time in the last five years, being 6 per cent below the five-year average. Automobile production is 80 per cent below last year. Here are some “There are now current estimates that automotive consumption of steel this year | will be only 60 per cent of that last year.” (Annalist, Feb. 28.) Hoover’s lies will not change these facts. Neither will they change the fact that unemployment has become permanent, and that even before the crisis there were 3,000,000 out of work. The lies from the White House are an insult to the entire working class. answers with fairy tales about the “good times coming.” Only the organized mass action of the workers, employed and un- employed, will gain the workers’ demands. Forward to the Unemployment Build the revolutionary trade Councils! to the lies from the White House! HUNDREDS JOIN COMMUNISTS Vlarch 6 a Triumph for Cleveland Workers (By Special Correspondence) CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 9,-— m Thursday, 25,000 workers of ‘leveland massed on the Public ‘quare on the call of the Communist ‘arty and the Trade Union Unity ague to demonstrate against un- mployment. After a march to the ‘ity Hall where the demands of the rorkers were presented to the city ‘vernment the workers returned > the Public Square marching in he main streets, and finished the emonstration by raising two red lags. The meeting on the Square began t 11 a, m. when three stands were (Continued on-Page Three) trial of 45 Counter-Re- ‘olutionists Starts in| tharakov, U.S. S. R. A United Press dispatch ese! iharkov, U.S.S.R., reports the open- 1g of the tria, here against 45 tech- icians for their counter-revolution- ty activity as organizers of the Union for the Independence of the fxraine,” an organization supported y British and other imperialists. Soviet officials announce that rof. Sergei Yefremov, former vice- resident of the Academy of Science ? the. Ukraine, who heads the Union for the Independence of the :volutionary activity. Wholesale as- issinations were planned by the | ipporters of the imperialist inter- sntionists, a nn eae Join the Communist Party! Conference of March 29th! unions! Build the Unemployment These are the answers to give FOOD WORKERS’ SHOP MEETING Come in “April; Mass Meet for NewUnion At a packed mass meeting in Man- jhattan Lyceum, 66 EF. Fourth St., called by the food workers’ section of the Trade Union Unity League {an expose was made of the splitting | tactics of the officials of the Amal- |gamated Food Workers who refused to carry out the will of the member- ship who have decided to affiliate to the T.U.U.L. by a majority vote in the last referendum. Rank and file workers from the (Continued on Page Two) On Wednesday, March the teachers in the public schools of New York City were sent the follow- ing notice, which—it should be ob- served—does not even inform th2 teachers what sort of stool pigeon tricks the Board of (capitalist) Edu cation was asking them to perform “There is a special reason why we would like to see a maximum of at- tendance in school tomorrow. Will jyou, therefore, do all in your power to make tomorrow as important and, [ae attractive as possible? for special lessons and tell the chil- 5, Arrange t 29 CONFERENCE _ OF UNEMPLOYED - U.Usk. > Organizing| | National Meet of | Jobless Workers ‘Broaden the Struggle Sharpen March 6 Fight for Work or Wages With the unemployed movement | leeaiy expanded by the demonstra- tions throughout the country on} March 6, reports are arriving at the | national office of the Trade Union} Unity League of preparations for, the National Conference on unem-| ployment to be held in New York} ‘on March 29. . The conference will embrace em- (ployed workers through the repre- |sentatives of the revolutionary trade |unions of the T.U.U.L. representa- | tives of revolutionary minority in- j dustrial leagues, and expectations of representatives from the principal | Councils of Unemployed throughout | |the country. | The conference will be in the na-| ture of an organizational prepara-| }tion for a wider campaign on the! subject of unemployment to organize | |@ great convention some time later | _in Chicago, and to shape out the; jmeasures of the struggle for work | lor wages, social insurance, the fight | jagainst speed-up and wage cuts and |for the seven-hour day and five-day | | week, and the release of all fighters | \v ictimized by capitalist class revenge | \for the warning served on the capi- |talists by the workers in the s 1G demonstrations. MILLIONS FOR GRAIN GAMBLERS ‘Nothing for Jobless;) Demand Work or Wage! | WASHINGTON, Mar. 9.—Yester- | day in a letter to Speaker Long- | | worth, Hoover asks that Congress | To the demand for work or wages the president of capitalism | other $100,000,000 to help the grain speculators. Over $150,000,000 has already been handed to the bankers | controlling the grain speculators. { While Hoover finds millions for the very bandits who rob the fatm- ers, he is ominously silent on unem- ployment insurance for the 7,000,000 unemployed. He knows that the jobless workers cannot eat his vol- uminous lies, The Hoover imperialist govern- | ment plans to spend $500,000,000 | to keep the grain gamblers from los- ing money because of the rapid drop in grain prices. Not one penny for the starving jobless. However, millions of workers have already expressed their determina- tion to fight for work or wages. It is becoming more and more difficult for the capitalists to blind the work- ers about the real nature of the capitalist state. The workers know that only by organization and mili- tant class action will they be able to force the bosses to discourage some of the billions of profits for unemployment insurance. Ask Teachers to Be Stool- Pigeons Against Children | Were drdered to Report “AT Those Missing on) World Unemployment Day dren about them today. At 8.30 and 4.80 the list of absentees are to be sent to the principal's office.” The swarms of cheap dicks and thugs that parade as “truant of- ficers” that descended on the chil- dren demonstrators was the acconi- the teachers.» And the following is the statement of the Committee of District No. 2. of the Young Pioneers of America, on the events of March) ;8: “Over 2,000 children under (Continued on Page Three) A Victim of Class Revenge | there by McNulty Bros., | million pounds of coal piled on a} | floor supported by little “I beams, | with only a quarter-inch thick cen- William Z. Foster, General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, jailed in revenge by the capitalists for leading the workers in demanding relief for the unemployed and protesting against capi- talism and its hunger, misery and war. In a country where workers rule, in the Soviet Union, there is no unemployment and misery for workers. Foster tells of it in his new pamphlets “Victorious Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union.” More Reports ot March 6 As Workers Prepare tor Future 5,000 at Rockford, Iil.; 5,000 at Stamford, in give the Federal Farm Board an- | paniment of the above instruction to | the | (By Special Co: ROC ‘ORD, Ill., Mar. 9.—On last Thursday fully 5,000 workers gath- lered at the demonstration on Unem- |ployment before the City HaJl. A |march of many hundreds was made, six abreast, from the I.0.G Hall in perfect order with banners bearing the slogans for work or wages and other demands, the workers singing the “Internationale” en route. | The delegation to the (Hallstrom, an ex-socialist) report- |ed that the mayor refused to aid the unemployed, stating that the best the could do w: {ers a mont! struction. The speaker pointed out rrespondence,) a protecton of the bosses against the ANTI SOVIET DRIVE FOUGHT Two More Gr Groups Join| FSU in Mass Protest | Two more aepanlekts today an: nounced their support of the move- ment launched by the Friends of | the Soviet Union, to combat the try. The organizations are the Non- Partisan Workers’ Children’s Schools | and the Icor, the organization in charge of activities in this-country lin behalf of the Jewish colonization work in the Soviet Union. ganizations also announced that they would participate in the protest- mass meeting called by the Friends |of the Soviet Union in Bronx Coli- |seum, 177th St. and Bronx River, | | for next Sunday (March 16) after- | noon, the day when Bishop Manning has called for prayers for alleged | victims of Soviet “religious persecu- | tion,” The John Reed Mth S! n org tion of Ameri- ean writers and ists, today au- (Continued on Page Two) Club, 10 Fast mayor | to promise 300 work-/| work on public con-| the nature of this paltry promise as | Both or- | | Spite of Bosses Locking Workers in Factories One Hundred Join Party at Youngstown; Roch-, Banker’s ester to Carry on Struggie at Factory Gates | demands of the unemployed workers | for something real and substantial for the 8,000 unemplyed in Rock-| ford. As a direct result of this demon- stration, several hundred employed and unemployed workers joined the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed“ Council. Already we have several factories 50 per cent ‘organized and Rockford will become | a stronghold of revolutionary union- ism in the near future, eee (By Special Correspondence.) STAMFORD, Comn., Mar. 9.—On nternational Fighting Day Against nemployment, last Thursday, 5,000 (Continued on Page Three) ‘SOVIET ACCUSES BRITISH GOV'T 14,250,000 "Farms Are Now Collectivized United Press reports Sunday from Moscow stated that the “Izvestia,” organ of the Soviet Government, anti-Soviet agitation in this coun-| states that since the Church of| England is a State Church and is subsidized by the British govern- ment, the actions of the church | against the Soviet Union constitutes a violation of the Anglo-Soviet agreement for mutual non-inter- ference in internal affairs. Reports also gave the statement that today 55 per cent of all farms, | | or 14,250,000 individual households, | containing a total of 70,000,000 per- sons, were merged into collectives | by March 1. In some important grain regions, | | such as the North Caucasus, more | than 70 per cent of the farms are collectivized. The press reports that this figured exceeded the hopes of Lenin in the progress of the so- cialization of agriculture. « workers demonstrated here at the! GOAL COMPANY CAPITALISTS PREPARE TO DEATH TRAP OX. RAILROAD LEADERS OF WITH TAMMANY MASS JOBLESS MOVEMENT MeNutley Bros. Killed: 3 Workers, But Are Safe From Law Re-Arrest Raymond, After hot Atees Release on $2,506 Bail; Manufacture New Charges Only Class, Justice Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lester Still in Jail; Mobilize Workers for Defense (Prosecution B Busy With| Jailing Mar. ( 6 Leaders| The district rns 's office, their | time all taken up with capitalist | class revenge on the leaders of the | unemployed workers of New York, have refused to take any steps to| prosecute McNulty Bros., coal dig- gers, who constructed a death trap at 171st St. and Harlem River, in which they killed three workers, | and perhaps more, on February 21. Though it is openly admitted that | the coal bins built over a coal pocket | had over a ter web, and that it was the collapse of these beams and of bolts in the ‘flooring, which were not riveted, but fastened only by hand-turned nuts, that burried five men in the coal. “No proceedings are possible. Three of the victims were taken out ey the other two just vanished from | the news. Assistant Attorney George de | Luca says: “The collapse was purely ‘accidental. How can I hold McNulty Bros. criminally responsible?” The coal bins were erected with- out any sort of city supervision or | permit, and this, too, it seems, was | quite legal and all right. | Monroe Goldwater, who has been | counsel for the firm, is a partner |ot Edward J. Flynn, secretary of BULLETI Three years’ imprisonment for the five members of the Delega- tion of the March 6th Unemployment Demonstration, to be secured this week through the hurry-up action of the capitalist courts, is the plan of the Walker-Whalen-McA City’s employing class. The well-oiled combination of and the prosecutors’ office, working in an open conspi rush through before the week is over a guilty verdict aga’ doo-Crain regime of New York the police department, the courts y, plan to st Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lester, on the charge of “unlawful as- sembly” three months to three years’ impr which carries with it an indeterminate sentence of from ‘isonment. It is planned to give the heroic March 6th fighters for Work or Wages!” the absolute limit. * * * | Angered at the determination of the workers not to stan¢ by and starve while unemployed, as shown by the tremendous demonstration of 110,000 in Union Square and the millions al over the United States Thursday, the entire capitalist state machinery in New York is being oiled by the hysterical bosses M’DONALD SPIELS NAVAL WAR LIES, ‘Is Sereen of Bosses! Who Arm for War LONDON, Mar. 9.—British +im- perialism brought up its main propa- ganda gun, J. Ramsay MacDonald, in to railroad the leaders of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity. League and the tcommittee representing 110, 000 New York workers to long terms in the penitentiary. The tactics of the capitalists, | expressed by their representatives. Whalen and Crain, district attorney. are a challenge to every class con- scious worker, Supreme Court Justice, Alfred H: Townley, after a hearing on the | habeas corpus writ obtained by the International Labor Defense, thr ‘state, and Tammany boss in the order to try to dispel some of the | its attorneys, Joseph Brodsky and \ disillusionment of the masses over Jacques Buitenkant, set the bail fo | Bronx. HOOVER DEMANDS : HAITI DICTATOR ~ Commission Approves Step PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, March 9.—The Hoover imperialist commis- sion to Haiti, headed by the Wall Street banker, Cameron Forbes, has recommended a dictatorship of Haiti on May 15, when Borno’s term ex~- pires. The Wall Street commission wants | one of its puppets to take over pow- er for the bankers who control Haiti. The plan of a dictatorship is so rot- ten that Borno has consented to it. Hoover approves of the idea too, and will appoint one of his boys to handle Wall Street’s interests against the Haitian masses when Borno steps out of the job he has handled so | well for his imperialist masters. ——— UNIT MEETINGS. | The unit meetings of the | Party will take place at the regular time and place. All members must attend. —DISTRICT ORG. DEPT. "the London race-for-armament con- ference. MacDonald spoke on his usual tripe | “peace” over the Columbia system} yesterday, which was broadcasted all! over the United States. @acDonald William Z. Foster, Robert Minor | Israel Amter, Harry Raymond an | Joseph Lester, the arrested leader | of the unemployed demonstration, @ $2,500 each. Demands $25,000 Bail Each. Immediately Crain, through h’ fee viel ann treaties would result five-power conference, but) tee si their attention would be} given to naval war arms. “It may not be our happy lot to, get as far as some of us would like) t at this conference,” said MacDonald, | threatening to go to the limit meaning that he will not be able to| keep the arrested comrades in je! help the British imperialist build as| the longest possible time. : big a navy as they would like to} Ever since the March 6th wor against their rivals, but he would! unemployment demonstrations the do the best he could for his bosses. .| have been long conferences betwec assistant district attorney, Felix Ber vega, let lose a flood of vitupere | tion and class hatred against th ‘Communist leaders, demanding the bail be set at $25,000 each, ar No agreements have been reached on| Commissioner Whalen, and Distri future war armament building. The} Attorney Crain on how most eff only harmony is in hostility to the} ciently to railroad the five arreste ~ Soviet Union. | leaders of the demonstration in Ne Today in History of ___the Workers March 10, 1917—Russian Revo- lution began with general strike in Petrograd, troops fired on workers’ demonstrations, -election of delegates to Workers’ Councils in factories. 1922—Clash between striking coal miners and police in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1923 \vador Segur, Spanish syndi- calist leader, assassinated in Bar- celona. 1924—50,000 Bombay, In- dia, textile workers struck. 1925 —International Anti-Fascist Con- gress held in Berlin. Lies Against Soviet W. J. MOO. The New York Times is getting nervous . . . hysterically so. ‘Capitalist Press Foams with Jobless Masses Distort Facts About Unemployment in the Union )Servative estimate, from 175,000 to | 100,000 political prisoners.” Just four days before (March 2),! Its editors, like La Fontaine said,| however, the same New York Times’ are paying tribute to the devil. They| printed a report fresh from Moscow own tongues, One glaring example out of thou- sands. On march 6 the Times flared/ reached nearly 1,000,000 among the up with the usually attractive head-| organized workers a year or two | line: “Jobless in Russia Meet Redjago, to say nothing of the almost | Bayonets,” Inter alia the lengthy ac-| chronic unemployment among a large | count following, there was the “Ob-| percentage of peasants who used te |Servers” report that “there are now| go to towns as unskilled labor, there in Soviet Russia from 7,000,000 to|is more work today in Russia ne 10,000,000 unemployed, and on a con- (Continued on Page Three). | | Walter Duranty, that: slap their own faces and cut their, by the Times own correspondent, Mr. | “Instead of unemployment, which! | York. Details of the open capitali< | class vengeance against the uner | ployed movement are being work« * | out, with help from every agent « | the capitalist state that Whalci land Crain can enlist. | Re-Arrest* Raymond. | After Justice Townley set bail r*_ | $2, 500 each, an appeal was mac | before Magistrate Gottlieb of tl | night court to release Amter, Ra: | mond and Lester. Raymond’s be’! papers were signed by Gottliet” Just as soon as Raymond got ou! of the court room a dozen « Whalen’s henchmen pounced on hir? and rearrested him on anothe~ framed up charge of felonious a= |sault. Raymond was taken to th> | 47th Street police station where h2 | was booked and held. | Bosses Want To Send Them To Jail For Five Years. The charge of tj jond degree enrr : tentiary sentence of up te fix! | years, including a | Whalen: and Crain have openly ar nounced that they will leave n | stone unturned to give all the ar rested leaders the limit. They als: made it clear that they will re | arrest every one of those already ir | jail and booking them on the felor | ious assault charge, with the five ‘year penitentiary as the object c‘ the capitalist blood-hounds. Stool-Pigeon Quinn Signs New Complaint. Stool-pigeon (otherwise known a “detective’) Robert Quinn signe {the complaint against Raymon: | when he was re-arrested. The as (Continued on Page Three) Do your working rlass neighbor read the Daily Worker? Sell it t: them every day ind make, nev. V Party members, sacousdahematonm