The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1930, Page 2

Page Two WHALEN, GRAIN ACT FOR BOSSES AGAINST JOBLESS Class ores * Seek Revenge Against Leaders the f the capita New York to revenge themselves against the leaders of the Commu- Whalen says thot every lead cold by one of his thug’s blackjacks DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, M. ARCH 10, 1930 n’s “Brav e” Cossacks in Action; 4 With Clubs, in the unemployed demonstration is “a coward.” nist Party and the Trade Union Unity Leagu e, for mobilizing the unemployed workers to de ree or Wages, the v says in its statement on the Minor, Amter, Raymond and “This of New York, “SHOWS UP COPS Abandon ” Pretense of ‘Fairness with Jobless n attempt of the bosses through their police commissioner, Whalen, and District Attorney € as well as the whole gamut of the capitalist court ma- chinery, to railroad to jail the rep- resentatives of 110,000 workers at —— Square unemployment BULLETIN. arch 6th. Im- Whalen, chief policeman of the hesses, admitted in yesterday’s issue of the New York Times that his agents started the clubbing against the unarmed unemployed workers on March 6. “But the fun started,” says Whalen, “when one of the undercover men started to razz a cop.” The workers at the demonstra- tion who heroically fought the po- lice brutality were acting in self- defense. ilization of the workers imperative to stop the attempts f the capitalists to bury our lead- jail for long tern revenge aga obless!) Demand the immed lease of the he March 6th fight ers for work or wages! “Whalen through capitalist state and courts, his Vitales and Sabattinos, and enemies of the w is seeking revenge for the capital- ts against the leaders of the revo- nt because of thei successful mobilization of the unem the boss cla: his corrupt * * * zation of the New York police for strike-breaking and other force ployed workers for a struggle for nti-labor activities, especially the Work or Wages. on against unemploy- | “We can also assure Mr. Whalen finite purpose of Police | Whalen’s announced s week with the hea ~ of the so-called largest corporation in New York City,’” says the Inter- , national Labor Defense in a state- ment issued yesterday, and con- that the workers are not at all im- pressed by his efforts to str t about conference t Z, Foster, Robert Minor, and I. Am- ter, who have a record of years of tinues: ba participation in scores No Pretense at Fairness, lass struggles, ran’ “The reply of the police depart- from the struggle at the| ment and the city administration to Square demonstration. All the ery of the hungry for bread is ‘s who were there saw, more riot trucks, more heavily arm- them take the lead of the march ed police on horseback, more tear gas and fight side by side with them to bombs and more machine guns. defend the unarmed men, women,) “Capitalist cli justice puts asid and children who were savagely as-| all its former pretense at ‘fairnes saulted by the fully armed, uni-|in the vicious methods employed to formed and plain clothes thugs on|keep the delegation of the March 6 the orders of the ‘brave’ Mr. Wha-| Unemployed Demonstration locked len, who sat surrounded by a small/in their prison cells, denying them army of personal bodyguard. the bail through the use of various “Foster, Minor, Amter, and the/technicalities that even magistrates | other members the delegation and prosecutors in the open courts | who are now in jail, are there be- admit they are entitled to: even un- cause they carried out the will of der the most vicious interpretation the workers who elected them and of the anti-working class capitalist proceeded to City Hall Park which law had been turned into an armed en-| Whalen Uses Czar Spy System. campment as soon as the “Police Commissioner Whalen around Union Square was prides himself on having adopted the They went to City Hall to present m used by czarism in its the demands of the unemployed to but also by ruling class tyran- Mayor Walker regardless of per-'"y & ywhere and at all times, in sonal conséquences to themselves. /its war upon the oppressed cla In doing so they acted in accord-| There is nothing new in the system afite with their duty to the unem- | of spies and provocateurs Whalen ployed. claims to be promoting as a weapon “Neither Whalen’s yarns or at- against working class organi ations, témpted class revenge, nor the pres- especially the Communist Party and ent efforts of the treacherous re-|the new industrial unions. In this the mantles of the fallen of formists of the A. F. of L. and the |Tespect ‘socialist’ party, can stem the rising |¢7aT, Nicholas, the last of the Ro-| tide of revolt on the part of em-|manoffs and the deposed kaiser, ployed and unemployed workers, Wilhelm of the now extinct line of Fhe conference called by these Hohenzollerns, seems to fit snug agents of the bosses intended to upon the shoulders of Police Com- confuse and defeat the movement of ™issioner Whalen. the unemployed. -__ “The Communist Party will sup- Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. port with all its forces the national eonference called by the TUUL for March 29th. The workers who have | seen the A. F. of L. and socialists make previous attempts tab Communist Party in revolutionary jstruggle against capitalism and] against the capitalist agents within | the|the labor movement. their movement in the back, will not will be misled. They follow Get Them Out! Fight to liberate the hundreds of workers arrested for fighting against hunger! Save FOSTER, MINOR, LESTER, :_RAYMOND and AMTER—the March 6th Unemployment Delegation—from Prison! The bosses’ attack and arrests of these workers 4s an attack on the whole American working class! Protest in Masses! Free the hundreds of workers clubbed, beaten and behind bars for demonstrating against starvation! |2, $50,000 Bail Needed Immediately ! Rush cash, Liberty Bonds, securities and property to the Iaternational Labor Defense SAVE THE FIVE COMRADES FROM BEING RAILROADED TO PRISON! Rush Funds, Donations to the LOCAL OFFICE OF THE I. L. D. intensified and careful New York City Cops Prohibit Film Showing March 6th Mass Demonstrations! { Whalen’s cossacks do not want the | workers to see the photographic evi- dence of the police brutality in the mass unemployed demonstrations, j and have ordered the Second Avenue |Playhouse to discontinue showing | movies of the March 6 meetings in New York and Washington. | The films were definite proof of} | the lies of the capitalist press about |the number of workers ¥ part in the demonstrations showed the vicious brutality of police, and the militant spirit of the} workers in defendir themselves | |against the armed official gunmen. ‘Food Workers’ Shop | Conference Voted For) th (Continued trom Page One) A. F, of L. locals 500 and one spoke} on the growing revolts of the mem- |bership in the A. F. of L. against | this company-union graft machine. The condemnation of these bureau- crats and the call to prepare for the/ building of an industrial union was! | greeted with thunderous applause. Shop Conference. | A resolution was adopted calling} |for the organization of a broad shop conference representing all food |shops in the city of New York to} {set up an Industrial Union. This hop conference is to be held the} | first week in April. A committee of |21 from the mass meeting was elect- ed as a conference committee to make the preparations for the call- ing of this shop delegate conference. In the same resolution it was | pointed out that the situation in the} country is ripening very fast and/ that in many centers throughout the} country local indusirial unions have |sprung up and that there is a great necessity of building a National In- dustrial Union of packing house and \ealling of a national convention to Ol held in Chicago this coming July.| The resolution was adopted unani- mously. | | Anti-Soviet Drive | (Continued from Page One) thorized the Friends of Soviet Un |to announce it had sent out appea to more than 500 leading American writers, artists, scientists and educa- tors asking them to endorse the {campaign against the anti-Soviet Jagitation. Among those to whom the appeal has been sent are Theo- ‘Gore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, John Dew James Harvey Robinson, } Waldo Frank, William Ellery Leon- ard, Heywood Broun and Dr, John B. ; Watson. | Three days before the protest | | meeting, on Thursday evening, at 7 | o'clock, the Friends of the Soviet | Union has called a conference of | | representatives of trade unions, la- jbor fraternal organizations and |shops and factories to make final | preparations for the meeting Communist Activities Paris Commune Mass Meeting. March 18, at Central Opera House, i67ih St, and’ Third Ave, 8 p. m. Speak- ers: Engdahl and otliers. Unit Meetin J Tonight. Unit A, Section 4, De m,, 386 Lenox Ave.; Unit 12F, Sec. 2, 6.30 Broadway Unit 58, Section 8, 6.39 m, Eros ayy Unit 7F, Sec- tion's, tao. }- 1179 ‘Broadway. Unit 21 ¥ Hllamaburg, 8.30 p. 6s Whipple St. Discussion on Pry of Communists in old and new unions. ALL welcome, Here is the brav armed» unemployed worker r being beaten up by four Tammany gangster against unemployment, } ked One un- who didn’t actually get kno ery of Whalen’s men: WOMEN PLEDGE FIGHT AT MEET am Hall on Internat’l {Women’s Day; Mobilize) | NEW YORK, Aine, .—Over 1,500 | men and women workers jammed |Irving Plaza to overflowing last e Following directly | {after the giant demonstration Jagainst unemployment in Union Square on Thursday, the meeting was alive with a splendid fighting spirit as the men and women work- | ers demonstrated against the savage | brutality of Whalen’s cossacks. The unconditional release of their arrest- ed comrades and leaders whom the | bosses cut wages.) |Tammany boss police are attempting | to railroad to five years’ imprison- | ment was demanded by the workers. | As speaker after speaker ad-| dressed the enthusiastic audience, the workers manifested their deter- mination to continue the fight against the imperialist war preparations and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The meeting was opened by Olga| Gold, director of the District Wo- | men’s Department of the Communist Party.. Rose Wortis, Louis Engdahl, | Fred Beal, Herbert Newton and Sam Nessin were among the speakers. Delegates elected from shops and | unions brought greetings full of de- termination to carry on the class struggle together with the working | men. Cabled greetings were re-| ceived from the women workers of | the Hammer and Sickle Metal Fac- | | tory in Moscow and from the Red! {International of Labor Unions’ omen Workers’ Committee. | ALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every |food workers and recommends the) day for a week. Then ask him to (not commit ‘suicide. |consider unemployment. | himself—up | work, — PLANIS A FAKE Acts for Bosses Not for Workers Daneing Jimmy Walker, who spurs | the night from Nanking to Soochow, The “China Express,” now at the| Cameo, is a revolution en wheels, This Sovkino film, directed by Trauberg, American titles by Mike |Gold, shows a fast train, reeling thru | his police to club unemployed work- | half the time with no one at the Jers, is trying to fool the jobless in- | throttle, but with a cro section of to the belief that he has a plan to|the Whole class-struggle on board, His poe ete bulge with money as a result of nd no end shown, for that struggle in China is still going on. Most of the recent raise in wages he handed | the cast are Chinese workers, whose to Walker, in the sty about “public construction work.” 0,000 a year. This would be a good scheme for | 4 |dictates to a province, and who is the grafting contractors, of whom there are many in New York who know how to coin money—that is, if Walker’s talk is not hot air, which it most likely is. No worker would benefit, and/ meanwhile the jobless would starve. | This is a trick, which will not work, to try to detract the workers from | the struggle from unemployment in- | Surance, Another similar fake scheme is mouthed by Frances Perkins, state commissioner of labor, Miss Per- kins knows that unemployment is | > 3 \incessant and revolutionary strug- took | night in celebration of International |Stowing rapidly and admits it is pins rs igle against capitalism to bring about | |Women’s Day. worse than at any time since 1915. | But her scheme, while labeled with “peace,” ete, means that the capi- talist should start a war in order to keep up their profits. She says “America’s machinery is terribly | productive. Hoover has said that this country can produce in eight months all it can consume in 12,” | (Yet the unemployed starve and the She urges the |bosses to push their exports—the | bosses do not wait for her but build bigger navies and armies to fight for world markets. 2 Die; Taft an Agent ‘of Imperialism; Waters ‘an Unemployed Suicide, Two men died yesterday. “One of |them, “Injunction Bill” Taft, fast- ened on the backs of the workers he jailed and fought against, grown old and decrepit after long service for imperialism in every type of office, died yesterday amid the sick- | |ening tribulations of the very slimy | capitalist sheets who the day before |maligned millions of jobless work- | The other was Patrick Waters, ; ers. Patrick Waters was an obscure | worker, who killed himself in des- peration because he could not get | He turned on the gas in his | home at No. 460 West 33d St. Wa- |ters slaved his life away for the. bosses, and when unemployment | came he verged on starvation. The class-conscious worker does VION SQUARE A SOVKL Vivid! Acme Theatre ‘* Continuous Performances Daily 9 9 A.M. to5 PLM 256 ae Play ing! & First Time at Popular Prices! | 46 CAUCASIAN | VY LOVE —on the same program— U BOAT NO. 9 ries! After 5 P. NiON sau NO FILM The true story of the struggle of the Cauensian people against the rule of the ezar, Daring! 14th St. Between way and 4th Ave. UNION SQUARD A.M, to Midnight. Prices: from M. Sat, and Sun, 35e all day dbe Eni Bri But joins the | ARE | names have been hithy £ Hoover, talks | s: {filled with big exploiters of every | | Phone: LEHIGH 6382 International Barber Shop W. SALA, Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New York (bet, 103rd & 104th Sts.) Ladies Bobs Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor WORKERS’ CENTER BARBER SHOP Moved to 30 Union Square , FREIHEIT BLDG——Main Floor Unit 4F, Section 6 (Borough Hall, Brooklyn), 6.30 p. m., 68 Whipple St. Roll call. Section 1: Units 1F, 3F, 4F, 10F, Ri, 6 p, m., 27 B. Fourth st. Section 2: All members must at- tend their unit meetings tonight and tomorrow. * * nard Weekly” Banquet. March 12, 7 la darin Reataurant, 30 Bowery, Tickets $l at ‘Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Sq. Pageant “Rehenrant ’ ‘Tor for next Sunday at Bronx C p. m, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 ¥. . # nd Underwear Workers White Friday, reh 14, 8 p. m., 1800 devanth., Av. Labor and Fraternal Organizations Workers Organ! at Attention! Order blocks of tickets now for the Daily oe costume ball, to bo he:d larch 15. Distribute them among key members and their fel- low | wo! Tickets in advance are 50 cen at the Go0F, 15 cents, int Rehearsal. For Thee Soviet Union Porges Ahead,” March 16, Monday, 7.20 p. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 ‘Fourth Bi Undes direction of Emjo- Basshe and Idith Segal. are people needed. Fou area LD, Danes: t. R ntain n and address list, 0 turn to A. 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Special Rates to Daily Worker Readers, Bronx, N. ¥. —— blessii system which fi rto unknown. You see the first el section description, a Chinese general who selling that province to.an unnamed, ister agent of foreign imper ial- | (who looks like Stimson, and| 15- inch naval guns); who pays the | dumbfounded icksha coolie with a ng instead of cash, big busi | ness men, swindlers and their prost tutes and sycophants. The second class section is full of the petty bourgeois and student “leaders of the masses” who try in| vain to arrange a conference of both | ism the wave of hs hand materiali: the death of th rotten, corrupt tens on the misery | of the worker: “AMUSE CAMEO Amkino Presents—American Premiere CHINA EXPRESS A Realistic Episode of t PRODUCED BY SOV Enacted by an Eminent Cast of Soviet and C —and on the same program— Latest Sovki Mobilize tor es National U nemployment Conierence tor Work or . Wages on . March 29! a Se WALKER JOBLESS. “China Express”, a Cross Section of the ee lie 1 PROVIDENCE ” JOBLESS IN MEET ive (By Special Wire.) 4 and peasanis, anu 2) PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Mar. 9.—A shipment of child slaves, little beys| (wd of workers estimated at 6,000 and girls sold to the textile mills. | heid demonstration here yesterday A worker revolutionist and the ° | under the auspices of the Council of firemen of the train try several Unemployed. James P. Reid |ad- times to rouse these » de-| dressed the multitude in a_ brief uF go et OURS Sh s to speech from the steps of the City seize the shipment of arms on board] ta), A committee was elected to and seize the train. Finally the confer with Mayor James E. Dunn tempt of two drunken white ove lidomandine work or wages. ‘The seers to rape one of the textile/ gomonstration proceedings went on slaves, and the ruthless slaughter/ yymolested, even though no police started by one of them stirs the! permit was issued. workers and peasants to action, The] — rms’ boxes are broken open and a | desperate struggle begins. During a fight up the aisles of the cars and over the roofs, word is tel graphed ahead to wreck the train. A switchman gives his life to pre-| vent the wreck. The most murderous of the over- seers tries in vain to stop the loco- motive, but he doesn’t know the lev-| ers. The general is knocked in the head while he pleads that he has |always “been a friend of the peo- ple.” The workers take over the train, with the imperialists and the priest dead in the fight, and the fire- |man in the cab once more, running | ‘the engine. 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