The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1930, Page 1

If the Kulak—and God——Depend Upon the With- ered Spinsters and Pot-Bellied Priests Who *rayed Yesterday Against Bolshevism, Then ‘Fhey Are Depending on Darn’ Little. The 7,000,000 Jobless and Their Families Fail- ed to Pray on an Empty Stomach; Also the Workers Suffering Wage Cuts and Speed-Up. daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing gg, Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. ' FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Union Square, New York City, DEFENSE MEET | Vol. VI, No. 320 NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1930 25,000 WORKERS AT NEW YORK SOVIET PLEDGE FIGHT ON Workers Hit MUSTE, FISHWICK ™°,'3"°"""* NATION WIDE MOVEMENT CAPITALIST WAR 2742/2¢y of DIVIDE -OFFICES, ime TO SMASH BOSS REVENGE FOR MARCH 6 BATTLES The ‘Springfield ‘Convention’, Proved Our Estimate Correct The seating of Frank Farrington, the $25,000 stoolpigeon of the Boss Police | Capitalist newspapers all over the! Peabody Coal Company, by the Springfield “convention” Thursday, and the vote of 225 to 145 on this question stripped this assemblage of what little working class camouflage it had. Seldom has a Communist analysis of a situation and the role to be played by all factors and forces involved been so completely vindicated in so short a time as by the actions of that stoolpigeon gathering euphemistically termed “the Springfield convention of the United Mine Workers of America” by its supporters. Our Party and the Trade Union Uni eral and miners in particular that th’ bought and paid for by coal operators. the complete proof of this. The miners of Ilinois boycotted this the great coal producing state of Penn “delegates”—Brophy and Hapgood—representing no one selves, The miners answered the conspiracy of stoolpigeons, gunmen, coal operators and Musteites by staying away as they were advised to do by the National Miners’ Union and the Trade Union Unity League. The carefully planned and widely advertised “insurgent conven- tion” has been proved to be exactly what we said it would be. It was orgasized to fool miners into once more placing themselves in the hands of their class enemies and their agents of varying hues. The role of the Musteites—Howat, Brophy, Hapgood, ete.—the “left wing” of social-fascism has been made clear to thousands of workers who hitherto have been confused as to their place in the rapid- ly shifting battlefront of the class struggle. Workers have seen them helping to organize a convention of stool- pigeons, of adopting publicly the same program as Lewis and his fel- low social-fascists—“‘worker-management cooperation”—which is the program for surrender by workers to wage cuts, speed-up and_per- manent mass unemployment, Thousands of miners in every coal field know now that John Brophy demanded of the handful of honest workers who were in the Springfield meet that they prevent “this convention being stamped as a red convention.” Brophy, Howat, Hapgood, Germer, Watt are too “intelligent” to associate with the “Reds”—Communists. But they can sit in the same convention with the foul Farrington and denounce the “reds’—Communists, who together with thousands of militant miners have challenged and are challenging the coal barons, the capitalists in other industries, and their brutal government, on a hundred picket lines and in hundreds of unemployment demonstrations. This is their role—to distract attention from the betrayals of other agents of the bosses by joining the capitalist class chorus of black- guarding the Communist Party and thereby justifying all atrocities perpetrated upon Communists and workers who fight for the Commu- nist program. “Fight the Communists—cooperation with the capitalists’—that is the Muste program. It is the same in the textile industry. A Federated Press dis- patch of March 11 quotes Vice-President Gorman of the United Textile Workers—dominated by Muste—as stating that he had “sharply criti- cised the management of the Riverside and Dan River mill and had of- fered U.T.W. cooperation in stabilizing labor costs and removing in- efficiency in accordance with the labor-management cooperation plan worked out on the Baltimore and Ohio R. R.” The National Miners’ Union now has the immediate task of de- livering more smashing blows to the wage cutting, speed-up and starva- tion drive of the coal operators in Illinois. The exposure of the self- appointed saviors of the miners in cooperation with the coal barons who gathered in Springfield has shown still more clearly that the pro- gram of the N.M.U. alone gives the basis for successful struggle. The N.M.U. must now proceed with all possible speed to the for- mation of Rank and File Committees of Action—to unite the unorgan- ized and unemployed miners, the rank and file members of the UMWA and the NMU—in one solid front against the coal barons and their agents. The developments of the class struggle in the coal fields have shown the correctness of the line of our Party. Now we must see that our forces are organized to take a leading part in the new mass struggles that are arising. Strengthen the Communist Party in the coal fields for the great tasks ahead. League told workers in gen- onvention” was organized, The convention itself furnished -fascist meeting. From vania there were exactly two but them- | |be taken to Raleigh, the state Capi- ey by Flowers, for docketing and COURTS RUSHING «: printing of the record as soon jcase is swelling, in union with the Paris Commune Meets, |* is swelling: Others Protesting Tested March 6 be freed. | Paris Commune meetings Judge Barnhill completed his | Tuesday, March 18, and next Sun- tatemant of the case on the appeal jday, are passing resolutions on be- of the seven half of these workers, demanding Gastonia} @\thcir release and collecting funds strikers s en- for their legal defense. On April 6 tenced to 117 |to 18th mass protest meetings de- years’ impris- jmanding freedom of seven Gastonia onment last im | prisoners will be held all over the Saturday. | country. North Caroli- na courts speeded ahead the legal proc- esses to com- plete railroad- ing the work- ers to living death. : |as the appeal bond is posted by the | LL.D. ($500). | Everywhere throughout the United | States, where meetings jare being held, protest against the Gastonia BREADLINES GROW. A record bread line of 6,000 job- less men formed Thursday before he Bowery Y.M.C.A. i \t | In the mean- ©” = while, however, three International Labor Defense lawyers are prepar- ing argument and a brief to submit to the State Supreme Court, which will hear argument April 15 or 22. A postponement is practically out of the question, J, Frank Flowers, LL.D. attorney declared, although the defense is asking for more time to prepare the argument. Another 10 Years. Meanwhile, Fred Beale goes to trial in Michigan, March 20, on his criminal syndicalism case, where he Cuban reports show that on March 6, despite the terror against the workers used by the fascist gov- ernment of Machado, thousands of workers demonstrated in many Cu- ban cities under leadership of the illegal Communist Party, against unemployment. In several places |collisions occurred with the police forces and many were arrested. In the past week the Cuban “gov- ernment” (a mere device masking faces a further 10 years’ imprison- the rule of Yankee imperialism) ment. He is now out on $10,000 bail /“suspended” the principal national in the Pontiac case. : un‘on | n, the “Con- The transeript of the Gastonia uv! Obrera de i record was ready today, and it will'Cuba’ and: alay the “Zederacion is the workers ar- | on| Cuban Workers’ March 6 Shook the Fascist Rule PREPARATIONS Tremendous Cheers Greet Foster and Minor Whalen Is Nervous (Call for Smashing of ‘Capitalist War Threat Over 25,000 workers met Sunday at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx River at the call of the Friends of the Soviet Union to de- | mand a stop to the orgy of lies from }the imperialist-religious dopsters, ‘backing the war plans against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Tremendous cheering lasting over seven minutes greeted the presenta- tion of William Z. Foster and Robert Minor, members of the committee representing 110,000 workers at the New York March 6 mass unemploy- ‘ment demonstration, The entrance to the coliseum was |like an armed camp. Whalen’s cos- ;sacks massed on the outside, and ithe plainclothes clubbers gathered on the inside. There were 50 mounted gunmen around the build- jing; 200 blackjack swingers on the jinside, and about 200 uniformed |sluggers scattered here and there. | Sleek, oily Whalen was there in per- |son, well surrounded by his personal | guards. Joseph Brodsky, attorney for the |International Labor Defense in the | class-vengeance case against the un- |employed leaders, was chairman of |the meeting. | Walter Burk, the first speaker, (Continued on Page Two) HAITI FREEDOM MOVE DEFEATED Hoover Commission Puts Over Trick PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, March 16.—Before the whitewashing com- mission named by Hoover visited Haiti, the masses of the people were on the point of revolt. What was their chief complaint? It was that | the so-called “Council of State” who lare the creatures of “President” Borno, as Borno is the creature of American imperialism, was going to “elect” the next president. The bourgeois led “opposition” was very much opposed to such an lelection. But what has the Commis- jsion of Hoover done? The Commis- |sion has persuaded the “opposition” |that it will be all right for the Coun- cil of State to elect the next pres- ident on April 14—with the “oppos- |tion” selecting the candidate, 9 broker named Roy. He will be dic- | | | i tator. The workers and peasants will still starve. The “solution” solves nothing. The trick was neat. When the proposal was made, Borno was tipped off to “object.” That made the “opposition” frantically in favor ‘of it. So the Commission could play at being “strong” and insistent, and Borno’s “objection” was “overcome.” And the marines will be ‘withdrawn “gradually"—which means never. Moral: A bourgeois “opposition” to imperialism always is unreliable. TORNADO HITS OPEN-SHOP C A Tornado swept through Los Angeles Saturday and damaged 150 houses in the suburbs—Hawthorne, Lennox and the working-class sec- tion of Los Angeles. Two persons were injured. Obrera de la Habana”—the trade union center of the city of Havana —that is to say, the government ‘suspended” the revolutionary unions of the capital city and the whole country. Recently a wave of strikes broke jout in Cuba, where the crisis, even 'as bad as it was previously, is rap- lidly developing. There is a general jstrike of hat makers, strikes in many cigar factories and textile mills. Under revolutionary leader- pt: | ship, many of these ‘ikes have been won by the workers. Just now | che brieklayers and other building (Continued on Page Three) country are being flooded with let-| IN FAKE “UNION” ters from workers protesting against | police brutality as the answer of the capitalists to the mass unemployed! demonstrations on March 6th. Very,| Same Old Gang, Same| Constitution, With very few of these letters ever see the light of day in the capitalist sheets. Many workers have sent copies of their letters to the Daily Worker. Below we print extracts from some of these (due to lack of space), and will continue to do so as long as we receive others: Replying to a vicious editorial in the N. Y. Daily News (the sheet owned by the McCormick interests, exploiters of thousands of American workers, and vicious enemies of the) Soviet Union), a worker writes them: “Daily News, “Editor: “I was born in New York and was }a constant reader of your paper. Your editorial in teday’s issue (March 14) is an insult to the in- (Continued on Page Three) LIBERATOR ASKS WORKERS’ HELP Must Have $1,000 in. Ten Days Time After appearing regularly for 12 weeks as a weekly newspaper, ac- tively leading the struggles of the Negro masses and waging the fight of the working class as a whole, the Liberator, official organ of the American Negro Labor Congress, is forced to issue an urgent appeal for "The Liberator, whose importance in this period of tremendous and ever-growing mass unemployment and suffering, wage cuts, etc., of radicalization and readiness for struggle of the toiling masses, can- not be overemphasized, must have $1,000 within the, next 10 days in Germer-Howat Face | Arrest Thompson iTry to Frame National| Miner Leader SPRINGFIELD, Il., Mar. 16.— | The “re-organizing !convention” |of | the United Mine Workers of Amer- | ica ended here yesterday, with com- plete evidence of a whole united front of all the agents of the coal operators who do not quite line up with those supporting Lewis, and ;his convention in Indianapolis. Al- exander Howat was elected interna- tional president of the new company, |with Adolph Germer as vice-presi- dent, and John Walker as secretary- treasurer. Fishwick (or some of his associates) undoubtedly is to re- | main as president of the Illinois dis- | trict, which is the only territory | where the new company union has any power, and that power consists |of an agreement with the Peabody and other coal companies to sell out | |the miners, and collect dues through | ‘the check-off miners’ wages. Same Old Gang. Walker, who was elected unani- | |mously, is president of the Illinois | Federation of Labor, and part of the old Fishwick, Farrington gang. This | trio push Howat and Germer for- | ward, as fake progressives, hoping to give the new “union” a little dis- guise, and make it easier for the (Continued on Page Three) MORE AND MORE ARE UNEMPLOYED Elizabeth Jobless Meet: order to continue as a weekly organ | in the important work of mobilizing | the Negro workers and agricultural | Despite Cops laborers for the struggle against | capitalist rationalization and wage cuts, against unemployment and at- tendent misery, and against the scheme of the capitalist class to saddle onto the backs of the workers the effects of the recent stock mar- ket crash and the international cri- sis of capitalism, of which the stock market crash was a part. The Liberator urgently appeals to | |all workers interested in supporting | the struggles of the Negro masses against imperialist oppression, and the various forms of white ruling- class terrorism by which it is main- tained, to at once come to the aid of the paper which constitutes today (Continued on Page Two) Anti-Fascist and Anti- Horthy Delegates Fite Attack on U.S. Jobless Meetings of the National Council of the Anti-Fascist Federation Sat- urday in New York, and of the Anti- Horthy League national conference, yesterday, adopted strong . resolu- tions demahding the release of ali the striking and unemployed work- ers arrested at the March 6 demon- strations. Each organization made extensive plans to carry on the struggle against. European fascism, Mussolini and ELIZABETH, N. J., March 16.—| | Although the police refused to per-| mit a meeting of unemployed work- | Jers, stating that if one held the, workers would find themselves in the jail or in the morgue, the work- ‘ers of Elizabeth were not freighten- ied and held a meeting yesterday. Two hours before the meeting was scheduled, 200 police, motorcycle ;cops and plain clothes dicks, en- \ circled the square. In spite of this, \a thousand workers assembled, anxi- jously awaiting the speakers. } When the meeting began, it was| penis, attacked by the police. The | speakers were dragged off to jail. |Thus Albert Cornilli and Joseph | Morris were arrested, though the workers presented a vigorous protest and many declared that this ended their illusion about capitalist “dem- ocracy.” . ° * Admit Unemployed Increase. Hoover’s lies about unemployment have just received another smashing blow by “facts” issued by the gov- ernment Bureau of Agricultural Economics. In a statement publish- ed on March 15, the Bureau stated (Continued on Page Two) * Picket Grocery Store; Horthy brand, and at the same time) Four Arrested; Keep took a determined stand against the | attempts of American business men | to use fascist tacties on the jobless | workers and militant unionists of | America. | The Anti-Horthy League national | conference had a large delegation, representing the chief industrial centers, where Hungarian workers toil. One speaker at their confer- ence was the national secretary of the International Labor Defense. Editor “Rote Fahne” Given 15 Months Jail LEIPZIG, Germany, March 16. —- Richard Schulz, editor of the Rote Fahne, official organ of the Com- munist Party, Germany, was sen- fenced to fifteen months imprison-| ment in the fortress here for his working class activities. The capitalist vengeance against Schulz is based on several articles he wrote, namely, “The Bourgeois, Constitution,” and “Away with the! Bourgeois Republic. Fight for Sov-| jet Power.” pani Up Struggle at Miller The Food Clerks’ Industrial Union is leading a strike, which started Saturday, against the’ “Cut Rate Grocery Co.,” 253 East 168th St. Good picket lines have been formed, and as usual, the police are on hand trying to drive the work- ers back to scab conditions. Four pickets were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, and with bail set at $500 each. icketing is still going on as mili- tantly as ever at Millers Market where the police shot Katovis. All the housewives in the neighborhood support the strike, and if it were not for the United Hebrew Trades and business men financially aiding the boss, he would have been broke | long ago. No one can tell how long} they will stand the strain, and the | union is determined to fight it out if it takes a hundred years, | Mobilize Mass Protest Demonstration at Bronx Coliseum Wednesday, March 19 Freeman Thompson, national president of the National Miners Union. When he challenged the faker Howat to debate, Howat ig nored him. When Thompson tried to enter the audience at the How- at- Fishwick- Peabody Coal convention, a gang of thugs ed on him, then had him ar on the false charge of “carr: @ gun.” SEEK TO HIDE MEET FAILURE The Fake Three-Power Pact Doubtful LONDON, M: 16.—Desperate efforts to administer pulmotor treat- ment to revive the dying “five- power naval conference” are being made in secret, as all the imperial- ists, particularly the working under orders from Hoover to cook up some pretense of “suc- cess,” search for a face-saving de- vice that will serve to p: off on the world as an “accomplishment.” The French, with Tardieu, re- turned to London as firm as ever in denying the Italian demand for “parity” and now adding openly that the Italian demand is made only as a swapping point for ‘he alter- nate demand of Italy for French colonial land in Africa, are the cen- ter of the funeral ceremony. The French demand “security,” by which it means hegemony on the continent as the leading imperialist Power. Especially does France de- mand this in the plans for joint war upon the Soviet Union, The Americans demand “pari with Britain, by which American. perialism means an advanta the coming war between the United States and England for American conquest of colonies and markets now held by Britain. The British are conten’ to demand “reductions,” by which they mean Americans to reduce both the French and American ambitions and naval strength, and “peaceful means of settling disputes,” since England al- ready has the colonies ¢esired by the United £tates, The Japanese demand a 7-10-10 ratio for “defense,” by which they mean, taking into reckoning Japan’s nearness to and America’s distance from Asia, a military advantage in (Continued on Page Three) 100 BUS DRIVERS- OUT IN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 16.—Be- jtween 700 and 800 bus drivers on the “Green” lines (Peoplés Motorbus Co.) are on strike here, with no ef- fective attempt at strike breaking yet. They walked out after a meet- jing of 500 drivers and conductors; Friday. The mortormen have been getting 65 cents an hour, and the conductors 60 cents. Both demand 76 cents, recognition of the union, fo: union activiti “= MASS PROTEST * |New Workers Center Opened in Charleston to | Theme of Protest Against Jailing Leaders With the trial before three Tammany judges, already determined to convict, set for next Monday in the case of the five arrested delegates of the 110,000 unemployed and striking demonstrators March 6 in Union Square, and with over a thousand arrests all over the country by police attacking unemployment demonstrations, the voice of the working class a | ae “demanding their release and the end | of prosecution against them grows | higher. 25,000 workers meeting in New York City at Bronx Coliseum yesterday to defend the Soviet Union cheered for seven minutes for Foster and Minor, two of the committee of the unemployed who were arrested in New York, and voiced a thunder- ous demand for their freedom. | Similar meetings were taking place lin many cities yesterday. At Paris Commune Meetings. MEETING WED. TUUL Calls for Active Organization The Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League yesterday is-| Th ; sued a statement on the attempt to|,, .n° meetings to be held in all eh ‘ rge cities this week in honor of raiit 2], ee eae omni ee | the Paris Commune will swell the : . |volume of this protest movement. strators, calling on all workers to| ‘me capitalist press and numerous attend the mass protest meeting in; ‘i Re Brolix Gollaenin’ on» Wednelday, Tammany and business officials are March 19, which is being arranged |DUttins the best face they can on the fact that in spite of every at. y the T.U.U.L. of Greater New EE . ; | York, the Communist Party, and tempt at intimidation, in spite of ¢ e | week in jail with bail denied by onc the Councils of the Unemployed. || subterfuge or another, the Unior phere Si demonstration’s ittec workers to attend their union meet- 31747 em J A age did, nevertheless, force its way into ings, from Monday on, and all un- 3 gags 54 employed workers to be at the meet-|the Presence of Mayor Walker a I City Hall Friday, and publicly the ings called by the Councils of the démauids. of the jobless for: Unemployed, to elect the Labor 2 ah Jurors, who will render the work-| “1. Work or unemployed insur- ers’ verdict on the boss class court| ance for the workers, without dis- | that is thrusting their elected dele-| crimination as to race, color or na- gates into prison, perhaps for as| tionality. To be raised by taxation long as eight years. Delegates must} on large income and to be admin- be elected to the City Conference on| istered by the workers. Unemployment, to meet in Manhat- | “2. Immediate relief out of gov- tan Lyceum, March 27. There will| ernment funds. be a National Unemployment Con-} “3. No eviction of the unem- ference in New York March 29, and} ployed. a National Convention in May. | “4, For the right to organize. Solid Fighting Unit. | strike and picket without interfer- The statement points out that the | ence of court, police and injune- (Continued on Page Two) tions. “5. Seven-hour week. “6. Against speed-up wage cuts, and lengthening of hours. “7, Abolition of child exploita- tion. “8. Equal wages for equal wor! day, five-day wees. NEWS BRIEFS § | NICARAGUAN “REFORMS.” | for women and young workers. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Mar. 16.) “9. Defense of the Soviet Unior —Nicaragua is going to be “re-| by the Américan workers agains formed” if it takes the life of every | the capitalist government.” $ $ Nicaraguan worker and peasant. The bosses’ press usually fails Ne proposals called “reforms” are | quote the demands, and lauds May given in the press. Among them are | Walker for “permitting” them, ov« a seven-year term for the “pr (Continued on Page Three) Ex-Spanish Dictator dent,” elected by the U. S. marines, instead of the present four-year ({ |term; a nine-year term for higher | judges, votes for women (if the Dies in French Exi’ marines count ’em!), longer terms | pois, Ne - jalso for senators and deputies, and| PARIS, March 16.—Gen. Migi jone most blessed “reform” that | Poses all the chicanery of Yanke | rule—“abolition of jury trials.” €X" | Primo de Rivera, former fascist d — \tator died today. Rivera’s dictate * {ship which was undermined by t | NOTHING STABLE IN ARGEN- | growing economic and political cri: TINA. jin Spain, forced him to leave t BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 16.—The |S2Utry- Another dictator, Bere. defeat of the party of President &¥eT has taken Rivera’s place, Trigoyen in the elections to the! House of Deputies, is a reflection of | NEGRO PRISONERS FLOGGED. the general crisis in Argentine capi-!__ WILMINGTON, Del., Mar. 16. |talism. The “socialists” defeated | Warden Elmer J. Leach personal Trigoyen in Buenos Aires, getting all [applied the last to three Negro pr’ - |14 seats from the city with 105,000 | Pers, erving one and two-year se votes against Irigoyen’s 47,000,|tences in the Newcastle Coun where two years ago Irigoyen’s| Workhouse. Negro prisoners party won all 20 wards. Of course, Delaware are especially signaled o the “socialists” have no solution for | £0 flogging. the economic crisis any more than! | | Trigoyen’s party, the “personalista,” has. So the election settles nothing but the fact that the crisis is being and reinstatement of men discharged | reflected in polities, and Ivigoyen | 7; thas lost his majority in the Chamber The Daily Worker has obtained interviews from all the members of the committee elected by the 110,000 workers at the March 6, mass unemployed demonstration. Statements have also been ob- tained from other workers ar- rested and beaten by the cops at the Work or Wages demonstration. The following is an interview with Joseph Lesten. (Name at first incorrectly spelled Lester). Others will follow in later issues: UNEMPLOYED PARTY MEM- BERS. Must come to the section head- Joseph Lesten, one of the mem- bers of the committee elected by the 110,000 workers at Union Square Member of Committee Elected By 110,000 Raps Whalen Lies demonstration on March 6, who has just been let out of jail on $12,500 bail, was interviewed by the Daily Worker. “Whalen and his stool-pigeons dished up a lot of lies about the committee ‘running away’,” said Leston; ‘in fact, Whalen and his armed thugs were too busy beating | Ghandi don’t wa’ up workers to pay any attention to | the action of the committee. “When we visited Whalen in the park house, demanding the right of workers to march to city hall to present the demand of the hundreds of thousands of unemployed work- ————$—$$ _______. of Deputies. A big unemploy |demonstration is due in Argentir }as in all Latin-America, on Mar 20, called by the Latin-Amerie: rade Union Confederation. A REVOLUTION AT REDUCE) RATES. BOMBAY, India, Mar. 16.—T > | miserable pretense of an “indepen” |ence movement” as run by Mahatr>» | Ghandi is taking its course, Sin the British imperialists have a sz monopoly which forbids manufa>- ; ture of salt by private people, Gha»- |di has picked out this complaint : ° the basis for a “peaceful revol tion” and, with 79 others, is “mare’ ing to the sea” to make a handfi of salt from sea water and get him |self pinched. While millions a half-starved because of low wage int them to strik because he really fears the ma# would throw off all bosses, as well as British. "So he promis to get them a revolution cheaply | such futile method: making a li tle salt and getting jailed, posing : a “fighter” to sidetrack the mass: » 3 (Continued on Page Two) a. from real fight for independence 5 pe , \