The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 1

Capitalist “J ustice” at W Chattanooga Judge Says hinks the Workers Have a Right to the Streets Is Crazy,” and Li Schechter, Unemployed Leader, for “Lun- acy. Capitalism, ducing So Much Food Starve, Is Crazy, Not the Unemployed. With Workers Pro- : “Anyone Who ocks Up Amy That They — Daily Entered na second-clans matter at the Vost Office at New York, N.Y — under the net ef Ma | ’ FINAL CITY or [4 EDITION 3, 1879. ene + No. 315 Vol. V Published daily except Sunday by 1 Compa Inc,, 26-28 Union Squa NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1930, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by muil, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by wail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cente ork On March 6 the “justice’ of capitalism for the unemployed and employed demonstrators was delive réd with clubs against workers’ heads, stamped in with horses’ hoofs and sealed with gas bombs, This was followed by hundreds of arrests all over the country. and “justice” expressed itself in jail cells for the victims of -policc violence. The delegation elected by 110,000 workers were jailed withou were pyramided, they are held ine Ella Moe of the ist courts, FP > Whalen boasts to his merce his own un the unemployed. the New York demonstration of t bail, the charges against them ommunicado—while murderers of the North Carolina striker, walk free with the blessings masters in the Chamber of Com. srcover detectives acted as provokers of vio- lence, io furnjsh him his “excuse” for organized bloodletting against The. Chamber of Commerce sends Whalen a beautifully engraved | testiinonial of appreciation for | strators for W ork or Wages. 1 committee has been “by the shipload The capitalist state, press and cl cf vie Delegation of the Unemployed. represent will put er. set up by the Chamber of Com- if they are so bold as to demonstrate for itch out “Reds” from the indus- ‘ow them out of their jobs. hurch howls for the “punishment” Whalen, McAdoo and Crain, the “majesty of the law” of capitalism, boast that they Minor, Amter, Lester and Raymond in prison for eight years, for the “crime” of representing*110.000 workers demand- ing Work or Wages. Workers everywhere must answer the mobilization of the capitalist | class for vengeance, with the mobilization of the working class for the Build the Un- | business of a police * iOBLESS DRIVE TEFYING BOSSE. WAR ON ALIENS Deportation Scheme of Chamber of Commerce Will Be Fought ‘Bosses Ad mit Fear, mashing of the heads of demon- Whole Working Class Saturday, a demonstration in Backs Foreign-Born BULLETIN. Commissioner Whalen yester- day called for a war between “Blues and Reds,” the police de- partment against. all workers, and particularly the jobless. His speech was made before the police benevolent societies’ representa- tives, and he didn’t even once mention the name of Rothstein. He was talking about, the real force. * With the unemployed millions the BOSSES PLAN 10 DEPORT UNEMPLOYED - JAIL LEADERS Zorgiebel Kills OMAT WORKS A MILLIONS OF JOBLESS AND VICTIMS cerman Jobless Demonstrator (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, March 10.— Comrade Frischmann, an official of the Young Communist League of Charlotten- burg, shot through the stomach by the “socialist” Zoergiebel’s police on March 6, died Saturday despite | blood transfussion. | { edding district was attacked by |the police, who fired their arms but |were unable to disperse the workers. ‘In the collisions two police were in- | cured. “oo ‘ | GERMANY PROVOKES SOVI ! (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, March 10,—The Demo- jeratie party has introduced inter- |pellations in the Reichstag, request- {ing foreign minister €urtius to act jegainst the Soviet Union because }the Communist Internationa! con- +ferred with Thaelmann, leader of jthe Communist Party of Germany. DOUBLE CROSS ON FISHWICK National Miners Union President Challenges Howat to Debate QuestionsFake Militant Lives of Ohio Miners BULLETIN SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 10. —An open struggle broke out af- ter the Fishwick “reorganization convention” today, and the motion of the Fishwick- Farrington credentials committee report to seat all delegates was defeated, and John Brophy’s mo- tion to seat all but Farrington car- ied, against opposition of the Fishwick group. Fishwick ran against Howat fer chairman of opened here OF WAGE ‘JTS MUST ANSWER BOSS COURTS RAILROADING ATTEMPTS Capitalist Court Re-Arrests Foster, Minor, Amter, Lester, and Ray- mond, Committee Representing 110,000 New York Workers ‘Dust Explosion Perils) Magistrate Flood Exposes Class-Vengeance Against Dyer, A Worker | ’ Brutally Beaten Up by Whalen’s Armed Thugs Express train speed characterized the action of the capitalist courts of New York, un- der the grooming of the Walker-Whalen-McAdoo-Crain regime, in their hu to reap ltheir class vengeance against the committee representing 110,000 New York workers at the March 6 unemployed demonstration. | Following the snap hearing yesterday on bail and a continuance of the case before SER CT —~;” Magistrate Flood, bail was pro- ] vided for Foster, Minor, Amter and Joseph Lester. No sooner were they released than sev- eral of Whalen’s dicks pounced arrested them on [= ot Ls upon them and 1 Forward with the movement of the unemployed! employed Councils. Prepare for the Unemployment Conference on March 29! Build the revolutionary trade unions! Join the Communist Party! Prepare the powerful arm of the political mass strike! For work or wages! Release the class-war prisoners! é country over along with the employ- | phe “socialist” oy>| press reports that scialotive! a = sae led by ea Trade ae Curtius approached Soviet Ambas- the Spent and Howatamons Danthys: Meamye eke ow. Ore! , | sador. Krestinski, protesting at the SUBE f Ohi ‘ti r ‘i ji i * 4 STEUBENVILLE, , March 10. tional preparation for the national \alleged “offense” and declaring that | _"Th¢ pate Nae Wale The Crisis Deepens While Hoover issues his lying statements from the White House loyment conference at New jj, | York on March-20, it was anndunced | tre future the German govern: /Ron mine of the Warner Collieries Boots , ted ment will hold the Soviet Govern- Go. had feulen “Eis “atts | yesterday that the New York City f A jo. had an explosion this atter- | Hy ment responsible for the actions and | ngon followed by fire which h Chamber of Commerce, without even | fi _ndon, followed by fire which has = it eve’ utterances of the Communist Inter- | a going to the trouble of masking it- | national. | (Continued on Page Three) self with governmental authority * * te thei Mess EER % launching an attack on the working | GERMAN CABINET CRISIS | that the crisis is being overcome, the crisis actually deepens day by day. | class with a statement that it is Wireless By i Every month since October has seen a constant decline in the number |going to deport “shiploads of Com-/ CWwireives By feprecstr) | of employed workers, which continues*into March. Even in the smali | munists.” Lae : BERLIN, March 10.—Owing to the | instances of pattial increases in cértain lines, these are entirely sea- « The bosses’ organization plans ta intransigent attitude of the German | sonal and smaller than the usual seasonal increases. The bottom of do this by itself compiling a list «i | “Peoples Party,” the Mueller “so- | the crisis has not been reached, and-cannot be reached for many months. foreign born workers through its cialist” government is in danger of Leaving aside for the moment the inner forées deepening the crisis, WM 1>Y system, it sties one ets collapse. despite the “socialist” will- | ; —+ the international development of the crisis makes inevitable its deepen. i"& the government the bosses have ingness to make every, concession. | A ye arry. Eisman; ing?in’ the Us Se-With-prices.en the world market having dropped Wontinued on Page“Three, | A fall of the goversiment is possible, | " st. Harry. Ki ies more than 10 per cent since the first catastrophic drop in production ~~ | With new elections: or @ dictatorship Threaten Depor tation with the consequent dislocation of the markets and spread of the crisis government appointed by Hinden- —— into the most remote corners of the capitalist sysem, the repercussions ‘burg under Paragraph 48 of the Because the Young Pion- FASCIST ‘ETHIC’ eers were ac- tive in helping Constitution. A Weimar coalition wihin U. S. economy must necessarily bring further readjustment down (Continued on Page Three) ward. Agrieulture is only now bringing its full contribution to. the crisis, with the tremendous crash of prices on the wheat and cotton markets. to organize The same Hoover who promises “nérmalcy” within sixty days, is at the | the mass job- same time warning the farmers to produce 20 per cent less crops this fe less demon- year, in the face of a gigantic slump in prices. And the farms report, Wor kers Must Starve strations of the workers at this moment, 619,000 farmers less in 1929 than the year before, with the exodus continuing and increasing. riper: All Hoover’s “remedies” of more building and capital construction, WASHINGTON, D. C., March 10. to the extent that they are not simple humbug as they largely are, in- |—In a speech laying down the iden- tensify the basic problem of markets without in any way lessening the tical “ethics” as Mussolini, President crisi If the tempo of crisis development is slowed up a bit, this is | Hoover today in addressing Boy ouly at the expense of deepening the pit into which capitalism is | Scout leaders’ gave indirectly but | plunging. . +i | plainly the refusal of the capitalist | For the working class, employed and unemployed, the lesson of these | class of this country to the demand facts is the necessity to prepare greater, more bitter struggles. The |of the unemployed for work or capitalists are determined to make the workers bear the entire burden | Wages. of the crisis. They will fight with all means against any measures of relief, that threaten their huge profits. They fight against unemploy- in essence, that the individual exists | A Tnifi ment insurance. They fight for wage cuts and longer hours, They. | for the government, while the gov- [eaersnes seas. to Bien 1 up the workers mercilessly in the factories—all in the name of | ernment has no obligations to the q i ving business” and “curing unemployment.” Nothing can help |individual. This is directed against the workers except organization and struggle. |the demand that the government be Organize and fight! That is the only possible path left open for | held responsible. for the lives of | the working class, misery and starvation of the work- for “Republic” demand- ing Work or Wages on ‘March 6, the iseman capitalists are |directing vicious blows against this organization of the workers children. Yesterday afternoon Judge Hoyt |had Harry Eisman re-arrested and held him: i A hearing has been set for March 20 to determine whether he should be deported to Rumania. Harry Eisman is being held a prisoner in Yesterday, in two shops, the Regal|the Hekscher Foundation, at 105th | Cafeteria, 125 Street and Columbus | (Continued on Page Two) Ave., and at the G. & G. Cafeteria, | EER Davis Irks the World; : REGAL CAFETERIA ‘Militant Picketing in Union’s Campaign Following a real general strike ‘in. all cafeterias and restaurants | where the workers are organized in 4 s |the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria This was voiced by the statement, | Workers Union, the members militant picket demonstrations were carried out. Large Sum Will Be Needed to Secure Release of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond, Lester and Many Others Police Commissioner Whalen, in league with Prosecuting Attor- ney Crain and Chief Magistrate McAdoo, are exerting themselves to the utmost to keep the delegation of the March 6 Unemployed Demonstration in prison until they can convict them in their own sapitalist courts and rush them off to prison. The International Labor Defense has already furnished $12,500 in bail—$2,500 for each one of the five prisoners—to secure their release on the “unlawful assemblage” charge. But they are being re-arrested in a new charge of felonious assault. The bail on this charge has not yet been set. Whatever it is it must be provided to secure the release of our comrades. The International Labor Defense calls on all workers and sym- pathizers to come forward with bail funds, whether in the form of cash, Liberty Bonds, stock ‘certificates, or property: bail can be used in New York City. Rush this in at once. Rush through the mails or by telegraph, or call personally at the offices of the Inter- national Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East Eleventh St. New York City. Do it now! SONFERENGE FOR WORKING WOMEN USSR, DEFENSE FOR ' Meet Thursday Night Splendid Success Many workingclass organizations have already elected delegates to (By Special Wire) | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 10.~ the big Metropolitan Conference of | Over a thousand women workers demonstrated in International Wo- mass the Friends of the Soviet Union, which will be held Thursday at 7 p. m. at Manhatten Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth Street. The conference will | form plans for rallying thousands of workers in eater New York and New Jersey to defend the Soviet Union against tke present imperial- ist war crusade and to support in men’s Day in Ohio. Seven meetings were held. At the Akron meeting seventeen working women joined the Commun- ist Party, and five joined the Young Communist League. Seven joined the |Party in Youngstown, six joined in Toledo. OMMUNISM Workers Delegates to, Women’s Day in Ohio the felonious assault charge, with its five entence, the object of the capitalists. Hearing for bail on the new charges was set before Flood for today at 1 o'clock. Whalen on the Job. Whalen personally fore Magistrate Flood the Yorkville Court on was very plain that the entire capi- talist legal machinery was working appeared be- lwith ¢ ng speed against the ‘leaders of the movement against unemployment. More than ever quick mobiliza- tion of the workers is necessary to defeat the boss attempts to carry vengeance against oster, Robert Minor, out their clas William Z. el Amter, Joseph Harry Raymond. Isr Lester and When the after Magistrate } an example of his class preju against workers by finding Victor yer, who had been mauled and bat- tered by the police, of framed up assault, Unger sistant dis- trict attorney, s ed for an im- ial, e You Three Minutes.” nd these men be let out aid Joseph Brodsky, attor- te Amter, Les- mond. We want two sage this case.” “We won’t give you three min- utes!” snarled Unger. Bourgeois Whalen gave the judge a knowing look. “When He leased on bail Brodsky, “he w arrested ault charge ornoy Minor, Raymond was re- aturda, went or as immediately re- don the feloni- Ve ask the dis- any war- others on and booke trict a rants out the same charge that, he servé them nst these FACTS REFUTE | HOOVER LIES iltara Times Getting! Still Harder Contrary to the obvious lying of | Hoover, Davis and Lamont, the lead- ing Wall Street organs, which are not supposed to be for the consump- | tion of the masses, admit that the | erisis of American capitalism is) ‘worsening. Says the latest issue of the An- malist (March 7, 1930): “Further signs of a turn in busi- ness have been observed this week. Motor output, allowing for seasonal variation, is definitely’on the down | grade. Steel production on a season- | ally corrected basis is a shade lower than at the close of February (5 per cent to be exact). February- building contracts on a corrected for seasonal variation basis are lower than in January. Seemingly the business recovery has run its course ie and a reaction has set in,” Nor is this all. The agrarian cri 1s becoming sharper and sharper. No attempts of Hyde or Legge of the Federal Farm Board can hide this fact. ‘ The chief financial writer in the | New York Times (March 10, 1930) | sweeps aside Hoover’s predictoins as | 2 lot of boloney and says that the eontinued decline in.the basic in- dustries “has caused doubts as td whether the period of reaction (fur- ther depression and decline) may not | be more prolonged than hopeful spirits predicted.” | y The Journal of Commerce, another | | for unemployment: mouthpiece of Wall Street, which | the situation is that the govern-| is not supposed to reach the eyes of the 7,000,000 unemployed work- ers, becomes very pessimistic about unemployment. In an editorial on “Unemployment,” the Journal says (March 5, 1980): . “But the truth is that the mod- ern industrial world (capitalism) has so far failed to find remedies . We may say, therefore, that not only should we face employment facts frankly but we should also be willing to admit the unpalatable truth that unemployment is apparertly an “inseparable accompaniment” of modern industrial organization.” Here is a capitalist spokesman frankly admitting that capitalism cannot remedy unemployment; that. the more the workers produce, the harder they are speeded-up, the | greater the consequent unemploy-, ment and misery for the working class. Quite different from the Hoover, Green, Davis, Lamont spoutings! The big bosses know unemployment is here to stay. The capitalist state must be forced to pay unemploy- ment insurance. Only the mass or- \ganization and struggle of the work- ers will do it. Today in History of ___ the Workers _ March 11, 1811—Workers’ up- rising in Nottingham, England; beginning of Luddite rebellion against introduction of new ma- chinery. 1917—Tsar’s govern- ment overthrown by Petrograd revolt, Workers’ Councils set up. 1922—250,000 English machinists locked out to enforce wage cuts and worse conditions, ers without work, But the fact of | (Continuetl on Page Two) | ‘Hoo er’s Wall Street i\Commission Tries Trick ‘to Fool Haiti Masses |. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, March |16.—In order to smoothen Hoover's lattempts to fasten a new dictator jor the back of the Haitian masses, {Luis Borno, puppet president who is Brig. Gen, Russel’s office boy. is | putting up a sham opposition to the | appointment of a dictator to replace him on May 15. ‘This little comic-opera sham will ‘not fool anyone. Hoover, through his banker-led commissioner, and the ; marine High Commissioner Russell jare trying to make the masses think jthat they oppose Borno. when they have sepported his murder andra | pine against the Haitian workers und peasants for years. i The police attacked with consider- ‘able brutality, and arrested three pickets at the Regal and six at the other cafeteria. 4 The Regal shop was placed on strike yesterday, ard all came out at the call of the. union. The Elkwood ¢afeteria, in the | Bronx, an A.F.L. shop, was never- theless forced to sign up with the ‘cafeteria’ workers yesterday, all junion conditions being granted. ‘28 Negro Miners in Jim ‘Crow Cage Die in Fall JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, | Mar. 10.—A rotten cable broke and plunged « mine cage (elevator) | 1,600 feet in the Crown mine here itoday. It killed 28 native Negro | workers, and one European. The Eu- |ropean mine boss and two others |were riding in a safer cage, but it |was struck by the one falling and broken open. LiarMixes His Figures “Mr. Davis” (secretary ‘of labor Davis) the New York World says editorially, “has flopped around so much with his half-baked statistics that it is impossible to take any of his statements seriously.” Which is quite an admission from one of cap- italism’s spokesmen, intent on prov- ing that there is nothing much wrong with this glorious land of America. The World has to chron- icle the fact that Davis on Tuesday last week reversed his statement that unemployment was disappear- ing, and said it was distressing. Then he switched again, and yet again, contradicting himself badly each time. On the same date that this edi- torial appears, is a statement from the New York state industrial com- mission contradicting all Federal figures, and admitting nearly ten per cent reduction in employment in this’ state since October, and unem- ployment still growing. every way possible the gigantic Five- Year Plan of Socialist Construction. | The conference will make final preparations for the huge’ mass meeting galled by the Friends of the Soviet Union for Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River, where the workers of New York will de- monstrate against the priests, rab- bis, “socialists” and other tools of world imperialism who are trying to | incite against the Soviet Union. Speakers at the meeting will in- clude former Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown; William Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Union Unit} League; Charles Smith, war president of the American Associ- | ation for the Advancement of Ath¢- ism; Joseph Lewis, president of the Vrecthinkers of America; .E. Wat- tenberg, of the Icor; Walter Burke, national secretary of the Labor Sports Union; and Harold Hicker- son, co-author of the famous Sacco- : (Continued on Page Two) |2 West 15th St., has issued a state- | ment to all affiliated unions, na- | tional leagues, local T.U.U.L.’s and |local councils of the unemployed, urging them to make intensive and immediate preparation for the March 29 national unemployment conference to be held in New York City. The T.U.U.1. calls upon all its organizations to realize that unem- i ployment increzses, and continues to increase, and that the nation-wide t OUTLINES UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE DRIVE Unity. League Announces Program to Bring 200 Delegates March 20 ;on March 6 must be crystallized in- | t6 organizational form, to carry on! | the struggle and win the demands. | The conference call, which is} | signed by the general secretary of ‘the T.U.U.L., William Z: Foster and by Clarence Miller, the Secretary Pro tem of the Unemployed Com- mittee of the T.U.U.L., issues cer- tain instructions voted at the last meeting of the executive board of the T.U.ULL, , In regard vo. representation to the, The Trade Union Unity League,} demonstrations of protest against it! March 29 conference, it says: “The national conference shall be composed of about 200 delegates representing many districts as pos- sible. “The representation shall be based upon the unemployed councils and’ shop committees through the T.U. ULL. locals. “The delegations from the local unions and shop committees must be elected by the local T.U.U.! “The delegates repvesenting Jelected by the membership meeting | Coal gas allowed to accumulate in of the local unemployed councils. “In regard to finances, it must be understood that the different dis- tricts must make the arrangements to raise the necessary money for the expenses to, from and during the stay in New York of their own re- ‘ spective delegations. Build the Unions. “There is very little time left for | the building of this preliminary con- the ference, but if all of the forces be has closed down indefinitely. local employed councils mises weg 7 (Continued on Page Three) Fifty per cent of the audiences id of the working women who joined the Communist Party, are \Negro working women. There is a |splendid fighting spirit of revolu- {tionary determination in struggling now so we can get the bail for all the ¢ OW do noi! barked Unger, Jen and hi to impress Whae Ww é d § in t cou he kn against imper war, for the de- what the bosses of vy York want fense of the Soviet Union, and jn this case. against unemployment. “You can't put ey for | CARTER RN ara two weeks,” said We must try it this wee Rumor Company Union Will Not Dare a Fake \Childrens Dress Strike Warned by the workers’ | against the fake dressmaker: ‘conducted in New York by the In- ‘ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers, the company union has decided, according to latest reports, not to try the same scheme in the chil- dren’s dress trade. This fake strike /Was announced even before the de- cision was made public to have one for the dress bosses, but it has been , continually postponed. |. Meanwhile the Needle Trades i Workers Industrial Union continu \its organizing campaign, not onl) in this trade, but among all other needle workers. “The most I will hours,” give you is 48 said the judge. Demotion Is All Police Aid of Crooks Get; from Whalen, Foe of Jobless fines » month's pay, af- proved to have been a } a dinner one gang gave’ their The cop is fou ing a speake: comp, and: as ing hi ded t of 1 Judge V ilty of frequent- ining in the jovial ous criminals, besides a rival gang at’s all right, f just fon and ’t be dis- tracted by such a little thine from his speaking tour of the chamber of commerce and pro: al otic societies, where he cooks up a de- portation campaign against the Communists, or from sending sev- iFour Workers Injured in Dairy: Explosion LAKEWOOD, N. J., Mar. 10.— ting Whalen’ a minor | the boiler room of the Glendale Farms Dairy at Monmouth and Fourth St. exploded today and en- dangered lives of workers. Four employees were hurt. Postmaster | Hagman was buying a pint of milk at the dary and was hit, too. MORE JOBLESS IN ENGLAND. BURY, Eng.—The Kirkless Arti- ficial Silk Mfg. Co. at Tottington, Six still free and in very little dang vith his fellow Tammany judge plotting long sem tences against (hose arrested in the \ hundred workers were laid off, 1 abet demonstration. > 4 mi 6 ‘ina lee aie tele ee |