The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1930, Page 1

—— Police Persecution of the Unemployed and Jail- ing of Their Leaders Is Part of a General War By the Bosses Against Workers’ Standards United Strug- of Living; Answer It By a gle of Employed and Unemployed; De- mand Release of _ Foster, Amter, Reynolds, Minor, Lester ail Entered as second~ Vol. VI, No 316 Published daily except Sunday by The Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, : daminedatte Publishing >. New York City, N.Y. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mall, $8.0) per year. Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents ‘PROTEST! DEMAND LEADERS OF THE JOBLESS BE FREED! Dewi aa Capitalist Lies! -/ ABOR” RECIME Forward Class Against Class! FAKES A FIGHT The New York American announces that “a thousand hungry job- less men are denied nightly in one bread line” even the miserable char- ity crust of half a loaf of stale bi starving men to feed. read, because there are too many The New York Times announces that the “largest private yacht ever built,” will be launched at Bath, Maine, in April for J. Pierpont Morgan, at a cost of $2,500,000. The capitalist government, headed by Morgan's office boy, Herbert Hoover, after giving the capitalists a tax reduction of $165,000,000 is asking $100,000,000 more, besides finance capitalists who are creatii $150,000,000 already given to the ng matketing monopolies in farm TO FOOL MASSES: Defeated, It Carries! Out Tory Program | Against Workers Court Refuses Bail The New York Chamber of HELD ON $52,500 BAIL! SS ae | Minor, Amter and Lester Held on Extor- || tionate Sum While The Delegation of Five of the March Sixth Unemployed Dem- || onstration in New York City is still locked behind.prison bars. in Any Amount for Foster Commerce, richest business-men’s organization in the world, have gotten “felonious assault” charges | products under the disguise of “cooperatives” at the expense of both the poor farmers and the working class, in the guise of “relief” to help the capitalist swindle known as the Farm Board to get out of a tight hole. Hundreds of millions for the capitalists—but not a penny for relief of the starving army of unemployed workers who produce all wealth. This is the policy of the capitalist government. But Hoover comes forward with the allegedly new and _ socially ethical formula that the “individual” exists for the “republic,” and that the idea “must be eradicated” that the “republit” was. created for the “individual.” Capitalist society is a society of economic classes, and not of “individuals,” and Hoover’s attempt to make believe that the working class and the 7,000,000 jobless members of that class.are to be considered as “individuals” is an attempt to make the work- ing class shoulder the burden of mass misery and starvation under the lying guise that each “individual” must “bear his part of the duties and obligations of citizenship.” Hoover’s formula is not new. It is the formula of fascism as continually voiced by Mussolini who, under the same ethie that “the individual exists for the state” or for “society in general,” finds it easy to murder thousands of workers who object to their class being robbed to support a parasite capitalist class under the guise of such fake “social ethics.” The statement of Hoover amounts to the declaration that the “duties and obligations” of the working class is to live lives of mis- erable starvation, of wage cuts and speed-up, of hunger and maddening anxiety, while the “duties and obligations” of the capitalists is to eat fine food, wear good clothes, live in comfortable houses, sport at Florida beaches or in the mountains, and never have a care in the world—so long as the working class accepts such an arrangement. It is precisely because the American working class is rising in struggle against such a system of robbery and lies, that Hoover ad- vances this capitalist ethic in defense of capitalism. But if we would even go back to the historical sources of American capitalism for its own éthics when it was fighting the exactions of the capitalists of Great Britain, we might see that their own ethics toward government was-that-when “a long-train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in- variably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, itvis their right, government.” it is their duty, to throw off such ‘McDonald Hangs On) Jobless on Increase in| Great Britain | LONDON, Mar. 11.—The farce | played in the House of Commons to- | day when the “labor” government | |was defeated on an important point | lin the coal bill, again illustrates how the “labor” government regime of | |Ramsay MacDonald continually pre- tends to struggle against the capi- talists in order to hold its worker |following, meanwhile just as con- tinually doing what the capitalists want done. The vote against the government | coal bill was 282 against 274, on a! |motion by the conservative (tory’) party to eliminate from the govern- |ment bill, the provision that the profits made on English coa’ sold in | England, should be taxed to subsi- \dize exported coal against a loss on ‘the world market. By eliminating | |this point, the coal owners may make | the government subsidize their ex- | ports while keeping in their own pockets the profits made by sales in England. After the “defeat,” which can eas- | ily have taken place by agreement | )as a purely fake fight, MacDonald | ‘announced that the government | | would not resign, but simply elimi- | ‘nate proposal in the coal bill. By | +hanging on the government and car- | ‘rying out the policy of the Tories, | (Continued on Page Three) clapped against the workers. They placed four under $10,000 more bail. They have refused to release Foster on any amount of bail. It is a clear show-down of class against class. The workers must rush to the aid of their comrades. We must get Amter, Ray- mond, Minor and Lester out ‘on bail. The International Labor De- fense will fight for a writ of habeas corpus to free Foster. In New York the big need is PROPERTY SECURITY FOR BAIL. From the rest of the country we need Liberty Bonds, stock | certificates, cash contributions and loans. The International Labor Defense has already furnished $12,500 in bail to secure the work- | ers’ release on the “unlawful assemblage” charge. Rush through mail or by telegram, or call personally at the offices of the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. TODAY! NOW! ‘Demand for Free Speech in 1907 Is Foster ‘Crime Record’ Tammany Judge Holds It Keeps Him from Get- | ting Bail on Charge of Leading Jobless in 1930 T MONTHS CHAIN GANG FOR MARTIN | Textile Oveanizer TS|in 1607 tor demanding the Hght to Railroaded 1 Through |free speech. In the eyes of capitalist courts it Capitalist class-justice exposed it- | William Z. Foster, arrested as one of the leaders of the mass-unem- | ployed demonstration last Thursday, | was refused bail on the ground that WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Mar. |, |11.—Dewey Martin, district organ- | lizer of the National Textile Work- lis a crime for workers to fight for freedom of speech in the public BY NTWU FIGHT ABERLE SCABS, Crash Through Line of | Police and Leaders | of Fake Unions |92 Arrested in Battle \Militant Union Urges Spreading of Strike BULLETIN. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 11—About 30 men and women strikers were injured tonight when a scab named Peter Mar- pone fired into the picket line with a shotgun from his house. Police pretended fear of a crowd of strikebreakers in the house, and refused to go in and arrest Marpone. * * * PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 11. Thousands of strikers fought a bat- tle with Aberle Hosiery Mill scabs and police in the streets of Ken-| | sington today, in spite of the orders |of the United Textile Workers full |fashioned hosiery section to be peaceful and do nothing to avenge | the death of a 22 year old striker | killed by scabs last week. While the great crowd of strikers | self with a vengeance today: when | and workers showing solidarity with them were assembled around the} mills, National Textile Workers’ Union speakers addressed them, calling on them to break through the police lings and stop the scabs. Previously, and also after the struggle, the N. T. W. U. mill com- mittee has been distributing thou- sands of leaflets daily, urging mass} picketing and spreading of the strike, which has now been going on in certain departments for weeks. Scabs flourished pistols, and high ‘THOUSANDS LED DENY BAIL FOR FOSTER; $10,000 MORE EACH FOR OTHER JOBLESS LEADERS Telegrams and Resolutions Demand Freedom for Committee of 110,000 N. Y. Workers Brodsky Exposes Open Class Vengeance of Bosses in Flood’s Court z “Workers and friends of the working class all over the United States, and especially in New York, are sending tele- grams and resolutions offering their support in the fight to | free the leaders of the unemployed workers,” said J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, today. “They will also rally to the workers’ support with the necessary bail. In New York property bail can be used to free the heroic fighters for ‘Work or Wages.’” * ’ Open, vicious class vengeance against the leaders of the mass unemployed movement was again expressed in the court action yesterday, backed by the whole capitalist state. William Z. Foster was held without bail on the charge of “felonious | assault,” because “he took part in a free speech fight in the ©state of Washington in 1907.” Bail of $10,000 each was set oo Robert Minor, Israel mter, Joseph Lester, and [Hany Ray: mond. At the time MEET TOMORRO iBig (OAT Teads| Another writ of habeas corpus | was taken out in the Supreme Court to Protest, Sunday to reducdlthe bail on Minor, Amter, Lester and Raymond, and to demand Tomorrow night the workers of | that Foster be let out on bail. Hear- Greater New York and New Jersey| ing on the writ of habeas corpus will act in defense of their father-| Was set for two o’clock today in the land, the Soviet Union. Through Supreme Court, Special Term, Part |their representatives, elected by! II, at Lafayette and Worth Streets. militant organizations and by shops] The obscure Magistrate Flood, and factories, they will launch a|who undoubtedly had never in his movement that will rally tens of} life troubled his mind with the revo- * The working class of this country will not be fooled by any re- : jers Union, was this morning sen-|strects. Back in 1909 the Industrial | 1o1;-. officials threatened, but the| thousands to the defense of the) lutionary movement: or its leaders, polished ideas of Mussolini that they must die of starvation in the Internationa] | tenced to seven months on the chain | Workers of the World, of which Fos- Pikes: Seal is Saag ated, | Workers? Republic. Gathering at had been “wised up” on details by streets, or be clubbed into subjection when protesting against starva- | Wireless |gang, and though the case is ap-|ter was a member at the time, began| 1, one demonstration a paca of| the big Metropolitan Conference of | Whalen’s stool-pigeons so that he tion, under the notion that the police blackjacks are falling on their | pealed, is held under $600 bail. The |a fight for this ‘most elementary | jor 300 strikers suddenly charged | the Friends of the Soviet Union, at could use them against the commit- heads in defense of “society in general.” Hoover and the government | News International Labor Defense is try- | democratic right which the capital-| 2 gang of 50 scabs, who were|7 P-™. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 tee of 110,000 New York workers is defending the profits of the cap italist class, and the working class is advancing against capitalism and the capitalism government. The unemployed movement is class, and it is organizing for new battles. a movement of the whole working The National Conference called by the Trade Union Unity League for March 29 will be a new step toward struggles greater and more effective than even March 6. Implacably demanding that the capitalists and their government provide work or wages, the working class raises the demand as well for the freedom of every one of their fighters taken prisoner by the capitalists for their part in the March 6 demonstration. These fighters for the working class are being persecuted by the capitalists in revenge for their brav an attempt, stupid and futile, to workers. interest they fought. ery in behalf of the workers and in check the growing battles of the They will be defended by the whole working class in whose The organized struggle of the masses will free them, and defeat all the other revenges of the Wanamaker show- window Napoleon who poses as a hero meanwhile he sends police thugs to chase little school kids. The American working class will not shrink from marching for- ward from March 6 to newer battles—Class against Class. WALKER ASKS AFL HELP RULE U.M.W, Moundsville $ trikers Need Aid; 4 Killed SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Mar. 11— While what appeared to be a bitter struggle among fakers raged for possession of the Illinois split in the United Mine Workers of America, “convention” here, a move aunched by John Walker, pres-{ fant of the Tllinois Federation of Labor, and one of. those who called the convention, to lead the march back to the Lewis gang, though perhaps without Lewis, Undoubted- | ly Walker and Fishwick would ask to lead the united forces and handle check-off and sell-out privileges. Walker today introduced a resolu- tion asking a joint convention of the Lewis and the Fishwick-Howat fac- tions, under the chairmanship cf former Secretary of Labor Wilson, and with William Green, A. F. 1. president, as secretary. According to Walker’s resolution,e the A.F.L. chiefs would pass on credentials. This would insure that there woul: be a majority of the agents of the coal operators, and also make pos- sible a compromise between the two factions. The proposal is at the same time a bid for Green’s support against Lewis if he,should be stub- born. Fight Over Name. The Illinois splitters have kept the name, United» Mine Workers of America, and claim to be the real U.M.W.A. This will lead to a court (Continued on Page Three) ‘000 IN FRISCO DEMONSTRATION? Give Demands to City SAN FRANCISCO, -Cal., March 11.—Another unemployment demon- stration in this city. Yesterday 2,000 led by the Trade Union Unity League and the Council of the Un- employed marched with banners from Third and Howard Sts. to the \City Hall. It grew to a crowd of 5,000 by the time it assembled around the city hall entrance. A/ committee from their ranks present- | ed to Mayor Rolph and the Board of Supervisors the demands of the unemployed, for immediate relief for the jobless from the city treasury and by means of a tax on capitalists, for unemployment insurance paid for by the employers or the state and administered by the jobless, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, ete. Rolph and other city officials | made vague and evasive answers, promising to “see what they could do.” 17 COLUMBIA LAW PROFESSORS FEAR EXPOSURE OF CLASS STATE. Seventeen Columbia law profes- sors, feeling that Whalen is going a little too far in exposing the class 'nature of the capitalist state and its legal machinery in acting as a spy for the bosses, and in his crude ! attempts to railroad workers to jail, have signed a_ petition protesting |} against Whalen’s actions. ing to raise the bail as quickly as possible to release Martin for his lorganizing duties. GERMAN GOVERMENT CRISIS. (Wireless By Inprecorr) Fuel iietcnsagaricnsts Marcaicras ae! | BERLIN, March 11—The “Peo-) imsy one, based on a technical ples” Party” the party of German) gisgiculty with a check, for which heavy industry, has rejected the fin-| | the money on an out-of-town check | ance program of the Mueller (“‘so-| (Continued on ned on Page 1 Three) latter grants the demands of the| capitalists. The result will probably Le the withdrawal of the Peoples} ‘cabinet, and the continuation of the | lgovernment on the basis of the| MARCH 6 PHOTOS. National J obless Con-, ference, March 29 cialist”) government, althoush the! |Party ministers from the "sev WHALEN CENSORS Whalen is running around tow! au ;“Weimar coalition,” that is the \Catholics, the Democrats and the} “socialists.” The Peoples Party! reckons on enjoying the advantages| of the acceptance by Germany of the Young Plan and the finance “re- form,” while avoiding the odium of lvoting for such. The Weimar parties | ists have systematically attempted |to deny to the working class. In | Spokane, Washington, for example, the city council had passed an ordi- nance forbidding all street speaking jwithin the fire limits, the only dis- |larger numbers. Later this law was amended to permit sky pilots like the Salvation Army to hold meetings. One of the Wobblies by the name of wats Thompson was arrested and tried on November 2 for speak- eae on peepee Th Three) SCORE EXPULSION, | lay | OF 2 MILITANTS are working out a uniform finance feos for the continuation of the »vernment. * % * | stopping all movie photos of his | sacks in action, “In spite of his pre- | White Goods Union lied op tees rheuel tat oa (rames Them as Spies Second Jobless March; YOUNG WORKER, SHOT MARCH ‘ 6, DIES. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, March 11.—George Kar-|ness are “undesirable” kovski, leader of the Youth Section|ism. The workers ‘shouldn’t see of the Red Front Fighters League. |such films. Whalen announced yes- died Monday from a wound in the|terday that several’ movie theatres |spine received at a distance of three| were cutting out of the news reel |paces during the unemployed dem-|pictures of the demonstration Thurs- | jonstration on March 6. day scenes he “considered objectidn- .* * * lable.” It was also’ announced that | | FASCISTS HELD FOR MURDER, | Whalen would visit and censor a (Wireless By Inprecorr) film called “Riot” in “an uptown BERLIN, March 11.—Seven fas-| theatre,” the picture being hased on ists are under arrest in connection |the March 6 demonstration in Union with the mutder of the Communist | Square. - Kubov and wounding of three others! Chief capitalist gunman, Police Jat Roentgenthal. Commissioner Whalen, yesterday an- nounced that he would do the work |of the bosses industrial spies, and ‘had turned over what he claims are 300 names of members of the Com- licemen blackjacking individual un- employed workers into unconscious- * \TAKE AWAY RIGHTS OF COM- MUNISTS. (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, March 11.—The Reich-| |stag yesterday voted to withdra, parliamentary immunity from the|instructions that’ these workers be |Communist deputies: Remele, Schei- fired because of their political stand. ler, Maddalena, Ulbricht, Kippen-| Whalen asked a number of ex- | berger, Blenkle, and Stoetzel. ploiters of labor to call on him per- | * * bd ‘sonally. After a long talk he hand- | UKRAINE COUNTER-REVOLU! TIONIST ON TRIAL. .. (Wireless By Inprecorr) ‘employed in their plants. MOSCOW, March 11,—The trial! When asked whether he would has commenced before the supreme |make known the names of the bosses court of the Ukraine at Kharkov,|he called into conference, Whalen lof the case against forty-five mem jcringingly said, “No.” |bers of the counter-revolutionary| Meanwhile, active preparations | “League of Ukranian Freedom.” The jare going ahead rapidly for the pre- accused are charged with conspir-| liminary conference of the National ing to overthrow the Soviet by vio- | Conference on Unemployment, called lence. There are- fourteen lawyers|by the Trade Union Unity League, defending the accused. Among the|for New York City, March 29. accused are: Yefremov, the ex-pres-| Workers are being mobilized in ident of the, Central Rada; Tchekov-| Unemployed Councils and on the job ski, the ex-premier of the counter- | to broaden the fight for Work or | revolutionary Petlura government; Wages, and to organize the millions | Nikovski, ex-foreign minister of the |of workers who participated in the same, (Continued on Page Two) . for capital- | munist Party and the Trade Union | nity League to various bosses with | ed them what he claimed were names | of revolutionary workers who were | realized or been informed, that news | reel pictures of seven or eight po- The White Goods Workers Trade Union Unity League has issued a statement on the expulsion of two | militant workers, and the next tasks of the white goods workers. The |statement tells of the rank and out- |rageous “trial” and expulsion by the Schneider machine in this union of |two militant workers, Bessie Helfand and Lillie Weks. These two have been members of many years good standing in the union and leaders in the workers’ struggles for better ‘eonditions. But they oppose the Schneider machine, and for that, out they go, branded ag “spies and scabs” and without any trial except before the hand picked advisory board of the local. The statement says: : | “They were expelled because for (Continued on Page Two) ° PIONEERS FLAY BOSS ATTACKS /Will Go on Organizing Workers’ Children Branding the capitalist attack on the Young Pioneers as part of the general boss fear of the mass un- employed moyemént demanding work lor wages, in'which the Young Pio- neers took an important part, a statement issued by the Young Pio- neers today says: “Every class conscious worker must understand that it is no ac- cident that the burden of the pres. (Continued on Page Two) threatening the pickets with their | guns from behind the protection of automobile loads of police, led by Director of Public Safety Lemuel B. Schofield, Police Inspector Charles lictee cacleva'< warner cmalnened in | eee: and William F. Kelley, vice | COoneeen ya on ange Three) WAR ON JOBLESS | SAME ON STRIKES Needle Union Shows Is General Campaign The Needle Trades Workers: In- dustrial Union points out in a state- ment issued yesterday that the po- lice attack on unemployment dem- onstrations, and the holding of the leaders of the jobless for prosecu- | tion in the Tammany courts is one piece with the murderous assaults on pickets fighting for a higher standard of living. The statement says: “The brutal attack of the police department, under the direction of Police Commissioner Whalen, on the tens of thousands of workers gath- ered last Thursday at the unemploy- ment demonstration in Union Square | to voice their protest against un- ‘employment, misery and starvation and to demand work or wages; the arrest and imprisonment of leaders of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, who initiated this demonstration, shows clearly that the city administration together with its police department have embarked on a policy of sup- pression and persecution of work- ers who dare to raise their voices against the present intolerable con- ditions. “The vicious campaign conducted by Whalen in the press, the organ- ization of committees to persecute and hound the workers, the whole- |< sale arrests and imprisonment of workers during strikes; all this is but one huge campaign directed (Continued on Page Two) oo Today in History of. the Workers | March 2, 1885—Anti-Socialist laws introduced in German Reichs- tag. 1921—Communist Party of Czechoslovakia founded. 1923 200,000 Chinese workers in indus- and _ political strike. 1925— -sen, leader of Chinese Sun revolutionary movement and friend vf Soviet Union, died. It} —© |resulted in two dismissals, $5 fine |E. Fourth St., the rank and file | delegates will pledge the support of their organizations to the struggle against the religious and “ |flunkeys of imperialism who are trying to incite war against the | Soviet Union, | The conference tomorrow night) will also make final plans for rally- | ing thousands of workers to the big} | protest meeting Sunday at 2 p. m. |in Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. andj |Bronx River. This meeting will be | a fitting answer to Bishop Manning} and his fellow dope-peddlers who! | have called for prayers against the] Soviet Union on that day. “socialist” Mass Pageant. | Interesting speakers, a mass pa- |geant, “The Soviet Union Forges Ahead,” mass singing, and other jfeatures will be on the program of the meeting Sinday. Speakers will include former Bishop Montgomery Brown, J. W. Ford, of the Trade Union Unity League; Charles Smith, president of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Atheism; Joseph Lew- |is, president of the Freethinkers of America; Max Levin, vice president of the Icor; Norman Talentire, of | the Friends of the Soviet Union; / Walter Burke, national secretary of | the Labor Sports Union; and Harold | Hickerson, of the John Reed Club. CLASH ON PICKET LINE AT MILLERS Union Wins C Conditions in Three More Shops | The Food Clentts Tadasevial Union | keeps right on picketing Millers’| Market, to the despair of the police force, which comes out in armies, | of Mr. Miller and his family, and! ‘of. the scab- loving socialist lawyer he uses and the strike-breakinz United Hebrew Trades. Monday and! yesterday there were the usual at-| tacks by the police on the picket line. | Two strikers were arrested Monday, | with one suspended sentence and one case postponed in court. Yesterday, trials of pickets arrested at Millers’ for two, and other cases postponed. | More Victories. | union conditions at the fruit market | at 911 Intervale Ave., in the store at 2116 Morris Ave., Bronx, pe a Katz Bros., fruit market, | ort Hamilton Parkway, Boro | Park | ‘ yin the sum Brocery | to be the cops. cops!” who demonstrated on March 6 for Work or Wages. Albert Bogg Unger, assistant dis- trict attorney, demanded that all of the leaders of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League be held without bail. “These men are political prison- ers,” Joseph Brodsky reminded the fishy-eyed judge. “What the district attorney wants is class justice against these leaders of the mass unemployed demonstra- tion. These men have spent most | of their lives fighting for the rights of the workers, and were arrested | when acting in the name of the hun dreds of thousands of unemployed who demonstrated on March 6.” This made the judge squirm a bit and he tried to interrupt Brodsky, but the attorney for the arrested leaders went on: * “These men are not running away. They have never run away. from their tasks in the working class They were arrested at an unemployed demonstratien that was attacked by the police, and when hundreds of workers were vi- ciously and brutally beaten by the police who were violent in their ef- forts to break up the demonstra- tion. The courts are now being used movement. | in the same way. “T have made up my mind,” ent in Magistrate Flood, “on the ques- tion of bail.” Undoubtedly he had made up his mind on more than one question. “Wasn't Foster arrested in 1907 in Washington in connection with a Free Speech Case?” said the judge as if he had just picked that information out of the thin air. “De you know whether or not that is a | felony 2” Nobody seemed to know, but the judge took it for granted that it was. Anyway it was as good an excuse as any to hold Foster with- out bail: And so the magistrate said: “Hold the defendant Foster with- out bail. Each of the others, bail of $10,000. Tomorrow ; We proceed with the other charge against them.” All of the arrested working class leaders will be tried before Magis- | trate Flood Wednesday, at 10 o'clock on the first charge against them, OVERHEARD IN A QUIET BROOKLYN HOME. Two kids are playing on the floor, First Kid—“Now, you be the cops ‘The union has won and established |and I'll be the Communists.” Second Kid—“G’wan, I don’t want IT dont like them First Kid—“Well, I don’t like ’em either, but somebody’s got t to be tea dcops in this mania