The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1930, Page 1

<a if ‘The Government---Watchdog Militant Unions Call All To Organize And Fight For Jobless Demands And Freedom Of Their Elected Delegates Jailed In New York; Bestial Police And Crooked Courts Would Make Unemployed Starve To Save Plunder Of The Bosses Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act © orker f March 8. 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION he Comprodaily Publishing gay an New York City, N. ¥. except Sunday by 26-25 Union Square Published dail Company, fh Vol. VI, No. 317 Price 3 Cents Outside New York, by mail $6. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930 UNIONS CALL WAR ON JAILING DELEGATES OF 110,000 Benin the Uneonditional TUL, CALLS ‘Moscow Hits MINER Release of eeor ment FOR ACTION 10 hace FREE FIGHTERS After six days of illegal jockeying to prevent the release on bail of the New York Delegation of the Unemployed, the courts yesterday Jobless Organization Must Gather Hosts finally handed down more “justice” in the form of $12,500 bail. This exhorbitant sum, totalling $62,500 for the five members of the delega- of March 6th tion, is set to emphasize the “enormity” of their “crime” in represent- ing the unemployed wor in presenting to City Hall the demand jor Conference March work or wages. Because this demand threatened the tremendous pro- fits bf the-capitalists, is the reason for the police beatings, the use of mounted police to ride‘down the workers, the whole orgy of bloodshed 29 and brutality of Whalen’s ruffians. The same reason is behind the demand for enormous bail, after refusing bail entirely for six days in : open and cynical disregard fof their own law. It is another answer Campaign for Release to the unemployed masses who elected the delegation. . * Tllumiinatingly, the case of Magistrate Vitale, whose well-known to Sw eep Unions connection with the underworld grew too notorious and threatened to ets cause a scandal even in New York where such things are taken for granted, is being heard at the same moment in another court. Vitale is charged with and is known to be guilty of corrupt relations with bootleggers, gamblers, dope peddlers, and the whole underworld which is one of the pillars of Tammany’s power. But Vitale is released with- out any bond whatsoever, upon his own recognizance! This is be- cause Vitale does not demand anything for the unemployed, but on the contrary helps to suppress them! Again the entire working can see the capitalist c! naire of the government apparatus, which in all its ions is merely .n instrument of capitalist dictatorship, directed tp suppress the working class. The case of the New York Delegation, which includes Foster. Minor, Amter, Raymond, and Lester, is a pure class case. It is an episode in the class war. It is part of the frantic efforts of the eapi- talist class to protect its profits, to put the entire load of unemploy- ment upon the shoulders of the workers. Workers everywhere must demand the unconditional rel fighters of the Unemployment Movement! Demand the imme! lease of the New York Unemployment Delegation! Calling upon all workers to rally to the movement for the release of the workers jailed in the March 6th demonstration, while pressing for- ward on the orgs employed movement around the na- ional cons Y Uni structions to ail connect’ o: . irg the steps to take in, pressing the demand for release of all arrested workers. ization of the un- ence to be held in New the Trad» Union lay issued in- on March 29, Le: gue yt is In part, the lctter states: of.the Wall Sireet i the unemployed work- in the international unemployed monsirations held’on March 6. in all of the indust: jes, was po- lice brutality, jailing of the unem- ployed delegations and other active workers in the struggle, as well as (Continued on Page Three) WORKERS PLAN DFFENSE USS of the Capitalists! President Hoover in addressing leaders of the Boy Scout movement Jast Monday, took occasion to reject the idea that the capitrlist gov- ernment is responsible for the starvation of masses of workers, and to refuse thereby the demands of the working-class of this coumtry’that the government tax the capitalist class for the relief of the unem- ployed—for work or wages. i Frightened by the onrushing wave of revolutionary class struggle | (~* x . led by the Communist Party, Hoover searched in the grab bag of capi- Confer ence | of Fr iends talist “solutions,” any one of which solutions is, of course, a rejection Soviet Union Tonite of the demands of the unemployed, and dug out the following: GEES Representing thousands of work- ers throughout Greater New York # and New Jersey, rank and file dele- While Hoover as the spokesman for the capitalist class is trying | gstes will gather at a conference to give the false interpretation that capitalist society consisis of “in- tonight at 7 o’clock at Manhattan dividuals” and not of economic classes with economic interests hostile | Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., and form to each other, it might be well at this time to remind the working class zing tens of thous- of what this same Mr. Hoover said in behalf of those ndividuals” who make up the capitalist class, as regar Is the responsibilities of the | Union from the intensified imperial- government to look after these individuals’ class interests. In his Armistice Day speech, November 11, last, Hoover, in behalf of imperialist “American citizens flung into every quarter | Socialist Construction. of the globe,” declared that: “We must realize that some of them will get into trouble somewhere. Certainly their troubles will multiply if other na tions are at war. of their lives, and that justice is done to them.” “The idea that the republic was created for the benefit of the individual is a mockery that must be eradicated.” plans for mobi tropolitan District on + firm basis. Among tie speakers will be Robert We have an obligation to see to the protection W. Dunn, noted labor economist; Again in the same speech he said, speaking of wars: J. W. Ford. of the Trade Union Inity League. and Norman Tallen- of entanglom of “In such wars we are in constant danger with d Harriet Silverman, of the because of interference activities our citizens.” widespread Final plans for the huge Soviet Union defense and protest meeting Sunday afternoon will also be made at the conference. The meeting. : _ |which has been arranged by the We thus see that Hoover, the spokesman of the American capi- | friends of the Soviet Union will talist class, is quite ready to plunge the nation and the world into | war, in defense of those specially chosen “individuals” who are engaged in imperialist suppression abroad and exploitation at home. Since no worker can say that he has any foreign investments abroad to pro- And again: . “In our day it is simply the rights of priva’ trade in time of war.” te citizens to |start at 2 p. m. in Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River, at the |same time as the prayer service an- ;nounced by Bishop Manning as part tect, it is clear that Hoover's Armistice Day speech was definitely de- | of the campaign to instigate a war! signed as a defense of American capitalist imperialists as a ruling class | against the Workers’ Republic. New Yarn on the Churches (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, March 12.—The United Press service report, taken up by the bourgeois press, according to which demonstrations were made in the Soviet Union by religious be- lievers -against the recent public statement of Metropolitan Sergius of the Orthodox Church against the Pope and the Archbishop of Canter- bury, saying that such demonstra- |tions had occurred in the churches, absolutely false. On the contrary, |Sergius secured the unanimous and enthusiastic support of religious be- lievers everywhere in the Soviet | Union. ANTI-BRITISH CRISIS IN IRAQ (Wireless By lnprecorr) LONDON, March 12.—The crisis in Iraq affairs has caused the resig- nation of the Iraq government. This is the fourth crisis this year and proves that the British are unable to secure the support even of the “notables” Iraq is also suffering a severe economic crisis, The trading (Continued Page Two) LONDON NAVAL MEET FAILURE Only Agree on Fight Against the Soviet LONDON, March 12.—As foretold in the Daily Worker when the secret conspiracy known as the “five power naval conference” began seven weeks ago, the whole thing is now admit- \tedly broken down, the only point lof agreement ditiong the imperialist ‘powers being one of hostility and war preparations against the Soviet Union. The conference which started off with such a braye sounding of trum- | pets is a flop. Now, even the cap- italist journalists are admitting it, though all have been pledged to give the conference favorable publicit |One correspondent, Frank H. Sim- ‘onds, opens his dispatch to the New | York Evening Post by saying: “The ands of toilers to defend the Soviet | failure of the London Conference | lean no longer be disguised or land programs, the simple truth is Friends of the Soviet | that the hour of liquidation has ar-'a vote of 270 to 192. 's conference will aim |Tived, and the problem is to find! Democrats and the German capi- ‘some face-caving device.” | The entire capitalist press group from America is trying, of course, to give the idea that it is because (Continued on Page Two) KEEP MARINES IN ~ HAITEHOOVER | | Military Puppet Speaks for Wall St. Boss WASHINGTON, Marck 12.—Brig. 'Gen. John H. Russell, military di -FISHWICK-MUSTE CONVENTION Showed Their Militancy | by Facing National | | Guardon March6 | Fishwick Man in Chair | Howat Gesture Is Only Move to Confuse SPRINGFIELD, Ul., March 12.— The miners of Illinois give their an- swer to the Muste gang and Fish- wick-Farrington “convention” called here by not sending delegates. The so-called convention of the U.M.W. is nothing but a hand picked group of the henchmen of Fishwick, and with some mobilized by the Howat- Brophy forces. Miners point out that the Illinois coal diggers gave part of their an- swer in the great unemployed de- monstrations, which were attacked by Fishwick & Co. Five thousand miners and other unemployed work- ers demonstrated in the state capital for the demands of the jobless, and faced resolutely the national guard mobilized to suppress them. Local police, and state highway police patroled all the roads leading into Springfield, with machine guns at the capitol building. Armed forces broke up the demonstration, and Freeman Thompson, national presi- dent of the National Miners Union, Newhotf and Jones were arrested for speaking. At the Fishwick “convention” to- day it became apparent that there is, in» spite of a probable personal ‘fight for control, a united block of | (Continued on Page Three) SHACKLE YOUNG PLAN ON MASSES (German ‘Labor Must Sweat Out 24 Billion | BERLIN, March 12.—The Young list attacks and to give all possible doubted. While there is still much |Plan, devised to take the place of the | eaking ‘aid to the mighty Five-Year Plan of |Tather loose talk about new plans earlier Dawes Plan, has finally been |approved in the Reichstag today by The Social- | talists fought together for the pas- | jsage of the Plan as a more effec-} |tive means of pressing billions of dollars out of the working class. The Young Plan in effect means that the workers of Germany are being saddled for more than half a century to come with a debt of nearly $24,000,000,000 which is to} be paid to the imperialist robbers | of France, England, America, Japan, | ete. The Social - Democratic fascists proved once more that they would | defend the interests of the Ger- man capitalists regardless of the \eost to the German working class. |The Social-Fascists lead the fight for the adoption of the Plan, the burden of which falls not on the! these representatives of the workers on fake charges every time they Militant Unions Swear S DESPISE MASS MOVEMENT AGAINST POLICE, THE COURTS BLOW AT JOBLESS AND THEIR ELECTED DELEGATES; BAIL $62,500 Carry on Fight for Unemployed Demands, Mass Meeting in Detroit and Other Cities; National Conference March 29 in New York Whalen Chief Prosecution Witness in Court, Withers Under Cross Examination; Admits Bomb, Machine Gun and Blackjack Provocation The workers and the unemployed are answering with speeded organization and sharp denunciation through their militant unions and unemployed councils the brutal attacks of po- lice of a hundred cities on the March 6 demonstration. * While they prepare the great unem- ployment conference of March 29, they are demanding that the committee elected to represent them by 110,000 workers assembled in New York on March 6 be freed. The arrest of these workers, the delegates of the unemployed and the workers who support their demands, is an insolent challenge to the entire working class, and a challenge that shall not be allowed to pas They see that the police and the courts are brazenly clubbing, assaulting and jailing workers and jobless, in defense of the profits of the bos: with a determination to starve any number of them rather than lose a cent of corporation loot. Yesterday, while the case of Amter, Foster, Minor, Raymond and Lester, the committee elected at Union Square to see Whalen and Ma yor Walker and demand the right to march to the city hall and present demands for immediate relief, unemployment insurance, seven-hour day and five-day week, was going through two courts, executives of the Trade Union Unity League, Marine Workers League, the Negro workers, and the fighting National Textile Work- ers, spoke out, calling for struggle. The day before the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union did likewise. Other unions have signified their intention to follow this example. In Detroit tonight a mass meeting will demand the release of all March 6th fighters. A great movement is under way. Yesterday morning, after a farcical hear ing before Judge Flood, Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lester were bound over to general sessions, where there is no, jury trial, but where a three year sentence can be given. The committee of the unemployed and militant workers, then had their bail raised from $2,500 to $5,000 each by this same Flood, who had refused to grant them bail at all when arrested. At a hearing about 2:30 p. m. in Judge Townley’s office yesterday the bail was again reduced to $2,500, but in addition, $10,000 is still required on the fake felony charge of “sec- ond degree assault of a policeman,” on which all who put up the $2,500 bail the day before were re-arrested. Townley, in spite of argument, refused to interfere with this bail amount. So $12,500 each is required, and the International Labor Defense is trying to raise it. Fostev, who had been refused bail entirely in the felony charge was admitted to bail by Judge Townley, after some argument by attorneys, Brodsky, of the I.L.D., ridiculing the denial of bail because Foster served a 30 day sentence 23 years ago in a free speech fight in Wash- ington. The prosecutor squirmed under Brodsky’s accusation that a conspir cisted t@ re-arrest are released, but did not promise to stop doing it. Mrs. Aline Hays, wife of Arthur Garfield Hays, oifered her house, assessed at $85,000, PROTEST GROWS Bail Grarters; WHALEN CHIEF LIAR IN COURT AGAINST ARREST /22/ Leaders — Inio But Is Forced to Admit of the Jobless Cops Attacked Crowd ‘ “While Fall, Doheny and Sinclair to Continue Struggle | were released on bail after robbing |millions in oil resources, for brazen | The revolutionary trade unions,| acts of bribery and swboraxtion of under the leadership of the Trade perjury, while McManus was freed Union Unity League, are organizing] on bail in the Rothstein murder to broaden the demands of the mass | while Vitale walks free without bail unemployed movement, and are mob-| for most outrageous corruption in ilizing to smash the bosses’ attempts | court, the New York authorities “in- to railroad the elected representa-|voking capitalist justice have place: ives of the New York demonstration | extortionate bail against the com- to jail. mittee chosen by the unemployed Yesterday the following state-|demonstration of 110,000 workers ments were made to the Daily |struggling for Work or Wages.” Capitalist class justice against the committee elected by 110,000 un- employed and demonstrating work- Jers in New York City on March 6, acted through Magistrate Flood and |Chief Gunman Whalen, again yes- |terday morning. Flood, after hear- ing oily Whalen distort the facts of the mass unemployed demonstra- |tion in New York on March 6, Or= dered Foster, Minor, Amter, Lester of this country. William Z. Foster, who is expected ctor in Haiti, who in -eality ex- capitalists, but upon the toiling Ths xposes the hypocrisy of his speech on Monday to the effect |to be out of jail by that time, will | Presses the opinion of his boss, Her-' workers. | that the “Republic” has ‘no responsibility for its “citizens.” Hoover |be one of the chief speakers at the | bert Hoover, who in turn talks for The Young Plan fixes once for is ready enough to have millions of American workers thrown into | meeting, Others will be former | Wall Street, said that the marines | all the amount of reparation pay- iy 4 | Ss the shambles “of world war in defense of those “individuals” who make | (Continued on Page Two) up the capitalist class, but he rejects the demand upon the capitalist = government that the millions#of starving unemployed be given bread | © * at the expense of the capitalist class. Doheny Oil Thief Gets ‘As the Daily Worker said at the time the Armistice Day speech Bail in $100,000 Bribe was made, his solicitude for imperialist trade can not be masked under H 4 the excuse he gives, that such trade is necessary to “remove starva- Case; Workers in Jail tion of women and children.” Pee Hoover follows hypocrisy with lies and lies with hypocrisy. Pretending to be overcome with heart-ache at the thought of starvation of women and children in some future war when the in- terests of imperialist commerce demand that he weep, he not. only has Opening arguments started today in the case of Edward L. Doheny, mil- lionaire oil bandit, who is accused |should be kept in Haiti, | “Russell said that he is building up another military machine to*pro- - itect Wall Street’s interests against | jthe masses of Haitian peasants and | (Continued on Page Two) Many Workers Groups Rally to the Support of |workers, the Garde d’Haiti, which | lis one of Borno’s tocls, and when , that is big enough to murder enough WASHINGTON, March 12.—|Haitian workers, then the matines | CAP HAITIEN, Haiti, March 12. might be removed. * * Five thousand workers from the needle trades, food workers, metal workers, shoe workers, ! “ling trades, waterfront, etc., are ¢. oLed \Daily Worker Affair’ t jof bribing government officials to|—The Hoover banker-led commis-|to attend The Daily Worker Cos- no tears for the starving women and children of 7,000,000 unem- | turn over valuable oil lands to him. ployed workers, right now and right here suffering untold misery, Doheny, of course, with his mil-|is en route back to Port au Prinee.|night at the Rockland Palace, 155th but sends his police to fling poison gas among these women and chil- \lions, is out on small bail, and has|Cap Haitien is a revolutionary jstreet and Eighth avenue. dren at thé door step of the White House, to club and blackjack thou- been out for years awaiting trial.| stronghold, and the workers hereon) Hundreds of Negro workers, real- sands of starving workers throughout the country and to persecute | Meanwhile leaders of the mass un-|more than one occasion have joined | jzing that The Daily Worker is their in the most revengeful style the leaders of the unemployed millions, employed demonstrations represent- | in armed struggle against American | fighting Daily, are helping support and has the audacity to accompany his violence by saying that it is ing thousands of workers are in jail, ;imperialis.». At hearings held here | 'phe Daily Worker by coming to this the “duty and obligation” of the workers to starve to death quietly as /with the capitalist state using its, witnesses spoke against the out affair, | The Young Communist @ part of the “patriotism of peace.” entire machinery to attempt to deny | rageous taxes and against Wall St. League has mobilized its member- Rarely in history has such an outrageous piece of hypocrisy been them bail pending trial. lominaticn. ship for the sale of tickets to young inflicted upon the working class, and the working class will reject this workers in the shops and factor’ damnable lie that the capitalist government is not responsible for | i if ve "9 | A splendid program of entertain- their misery. The working class of America, tortured by starvation off | Unemployment Relief, to be paid from the profits of the bosses. | the job, wage-cuts and speed-up and 2 hell of anxiety even when em- Against Mass Dismissals. ployed, is organizing for struggle against the capitalist government, Full time Wages for Part Time Work. affair. 'Dances by the Workers’ Dance sion which is “investigating” Haiti|tume Ball to be held this Saturday | ment has been arranged for this | Russian and American Folk | Worker by various leaders of unions affiliated to the T.U.U.L. Marine Workers League Mobilizes George Mink, secretary of the Marine Workers League, declared: “The Marine Workers League protests against the vicious attack by Whalen and the bosses, and his gangster methods used against the unemployed workers, and the com- mittee elected by 110,000 New York ‘workers, including {marine workers who participated in Heel mass demonstration, and who will continue the fight for Work or | | Wages. Two of the delegates ar- rested, Kaymond and Lester, are members of the Marine Workers League. “The Marine Workers League, and its organized Unemployed Council on the water front is carrying on a |campaign, not only on the water front but on every ship we ci reach, wontinved on Page Three) Strike Stops Sailing of Liner Paris; Send for Navy Men to Scab This statement, made by J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the \International Labor Defense, bitter- and Raymond held over to the spe- cial sions for trial, and although the charge against them can by no ly condemned the $10,000 bail placed | stretch of imagination be consid- against each of four of the five ar- jered as more than a misdemeanor, he rested workers on felonious assault |bligingly raised the bail from $2,500 charges. to $5,000, “This is one of the clearest ex-| There was considerable confusion amples of capitalist class justice in|#bout the charge, and the prosecu- said, Mass meetings by the Internatior al Labor Defense throughout. the jeountry March 16 and March | will mobilize the working class t» struggle fiercely to free all the |workers arrested on said. Meetings to be held March {18 in honor of the Paris Commune ef 1871 will also “fight against this |class justice” as well as organize \the working class to halt the laws discriminating against foreign-born workers, and the proposed crimin syndicalism and sedition laws over the country, Engdahl said. ‘Carolina Blanket Mill March 6, he’ the whole history of American Ia-|tion, out for blood, deliberately in- bor, especially the absolute refusal |creased it. thousands of {to release Foster on bail,” Engdahl |Seems to have been sworn out by |Whalen for “unlawful assembly and The original complaint inciting to riot.” The assistant dis- ict attorney, Unger, yesterday placed in the iecord as basis for the charge that section (Sec. 38, Art. 3, Chapter 24) of the city ordinances which prohibits “parading without a permit.” Thereafter he persistently referred to the charge as “rioting,” on the specious argument that “an unlawtul Whalen Loses His Wreath. The, chief witness for the bosses in yesterday's hearing before Flood was Whalen. Grinning from ear to ear, dvessed like the dancing part- ner of dancing Mayor Walker, just returned from his carousing with the bourgeois parasites in Florida, Whalen let loose a tirade against pero ne ore te ae LE HAVRE, France, March 12.-| Weavers Strike Despite cast 0 e Workers’ Laboratory | A strike aboard the French liner | 66 0, : Theatre, liave arranged a number |Paris prevented “the vessel fror| Fried Plan Co. Union jof class struggle group costumes, |among them a scene from the Paris the unemployed masses and their jleaders cf the March 6 demonstration in the fight for Work or Wages. Whalen admitted that on Seven- th street alone there were “more than 4,500 workers” (there were really 20,000 at that point) peace- xs fully demanding Work or Wages, ased pening attentively to the snouts (Continued on Page Three) ou J strike. timized by the police for their courageous fight on March 6, Everywhere the Communists will expose the hypocrisy of the i i capitalist government and its chief afthiehan in the White House. | ang LVeENUNTaNGR TAL paige Pewee aa es Everywhere all workers will rally to the National Conference on Un- rn. employment to be held in New. York City March 29. pation ht Babe eaten Mindat eats organization must be pressed of the millions who demonstrated in pro- Against the speed-up and wage-cuts in factories. test at starvation on March 6, and everywhere the slogans more than Down with the government, watch-dog of the capitalists. : ever myst be shouted into the ears of the capitalist government: Defend the Soviet Union, the workers’ republic, where Socialism | + Work or Wages! . |. is being built-up and unemployment abolished! " |sailing for New York tonight. It} SWANNANOA, N. C., Mar, 12.-- : {was believed naval seamen may be! Weavers employed in the Beacon Commune, a group scene from |foreed to substitute for the regular | Blanket Co.’s Southern mill at )“Marching Guns.” Many other jerew to enable the liner to leave | Swannanoa have struck against the groups of workers have arvanged|tomorrow morning. A strike was stretchout System. The st ‘group costumes of Daily Working- | won recently on the Isle de France| predict their ranks will be in ‘class events. 4 lof the same Vx by other workers. to prepare the powerful arm of the working class—the political mass | The release from prison of every one of the heroic fighters vic- \