The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1930, Page 3

er i- I] WORRY AT INDO-CHINA } REVOLT MAKES FRENCH FORGET MR. KOUTIEPOV Revolt of 20,000,000 Starving Colonials Is as Usual Charged to “Wicked Bolsheviks” !'vench Workers, However, Rally to Defense of Indo-Chinese Fight for Freedom PARIS (By Inprecorr Press Ser- —The attitude of the press from the extreme nationalist right to the social democracy ha: g unanimity in asc’ s in Indo-China to the machina- tions of the wicked bolsheviks. The Kutiepov affair had | ttraction, and the press ¢ eized on Indo-China as new terial for the anti-communist anti- soviet campaign. The press ‘ull of stories about the “i Yesterday’s “I’Humanite” writes, “There is no doubt that the com- munist idea has developed rapidly in Indochina, and we ar shown @ | thousands and thousan bing the |ers and peasants there have 1 ized that their only hope lies in cor |munism, but we know very well that its |there is nothing artificial about the |revolutionary movement in Indo- \china, that it has developed logically | from the regime of feudalist and im- | v | perialist oppression and exploitation. | The 20,000,000 workers and peas- ants in Indochina demand indepen- of work- in of the Comintern in the Far East.” The idea that the revolt of Yen-Beri, Hunghoa and Hanoi came as the re- | sult of the objection of the Anna- mites to the oppre: French Imperialism is unpopular. | movement in blood.” Only a little while ago the com-| Yesterday evening the situation in munist deputy Jacques Loriot dealt | Indochina was discussed at the mass in a long and detailed speech with | meeting called to defend the Soviet | the situation in Indo-China. He ex-| Union. The workers at these meet- posed the semi-starvation of the |ings enthusiastically approved of the | peasantry under French. rule, the |message of the Communist Party regime of police repression and the |and themselves sent their revolu- | growing dissatisfaction of the native |tionary greetings to the workers and | population. peasants of Indochina. unreservedly and the French work- drown ON WITH THE FIGHT FOR Work or Wages. @ MASS @ Demonstration Wed.Mar.19 at 7 p. m. Bronx Coliseum 117th Street and Bronx River; Speakers: WM. Z. FOSTER ROBERT MINOR ISRAEL AMTER JOE LESTON HARRY RAYMOND and OTHERS WORKERS: Show Walker, Whalen and Wall Street that we will con- tinue the fight for the work- ers’ rights, for Work or Wages! Demonstrate in Support of the Leaders of the Unemployed! THE FIGHT GOES ON! Auspices: COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S, A. TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS OF N. Y.C. District Office of Communist Party: 26 Union Square, New York City proud that |, |dence and we support this demand | ers will not permit imperialism to | national-revolutionary DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ™ MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1930 Page Three MASS | MOVEMENT WORKERS: CORRESPONDENCE -FROM THE '3 GROWS TO BLOCK 15,000 WORKERS IN BOSSES REVENGE Drive On ‘To Organize the Unemployed (Continued from Page One) looking the fact that he did his best |to run away from them. * * Protest at New Center. ar. ‘enter was | SEATTLE POLICE ON MAR. 6 ps pra BATTLED ‘Police, Bosses Challenged “Workers and They Gave Their Answer, Says Worker DIVIDE OFFICES IN FAKE “UNION”: ‘ame National] Miner Leader (Continued from Page One) miners to be fooled. The loud noise |about the “struggle between Howat |Battled Police to Free Workers Who Had Been |" Fishwick” has now quieted down | Arrested in Attack on March The only basis in fact that entir it ever had may have been due to the ambition of Howat and Broph: ny with a crowd of (By « Worker Correseendent) The mayor and police chief had h , to take a little more nt _at the beginning which | g [TLE, Wash—The Seattle|challenged the workers and the |of than Fishwick and {grew continually as the meeting workers poured out into the streets | workers were giving their answer, | Walker thought necessary, cer jprogressed. The workers turned to demonstrate on March 6 by the |Led by the T.U.U.L. and Commu- | there is no conflict in principal, and | this occasion into a protest move- | thousands; somewhere in the neigh- | nists the workers responded in good | the Howat forces quite cheerfully ment against the arrest of the | horhood of 15,000 were present. We |shape for the march, j elected representatives of the un- jemployed demonstrations on March |held great meetings at the factory | | gates. before the March 6 demon- They had hardly gone half a block | when the squadron of mounted po- 6, and demanded release for all of | stration; some of the best were held | lice charged into them, clubbing left them. The descriptions of the demonstra- tions, and the pol attacks on them jwere read from T Jaily Worker by one of the speakers. The meet opened by Fred | Walsh, organizer of the Marine Workers’ League and of the Inter- jnational Labor Defense; plans were made to speed up organization | among the longshoremen. To train new fighters in the class struggle a Workers’ School is jopened in the n center. From | four to six, daily, beginning tomor- row, yi wor s between the Jages of 10 and 18 will have classes. |Older workers meet at the same |time, Wednesdays and Sundays. Un- |der the auspices of the LL.D., to ag funds for the defense of work- | ers’ leaders arrested, th la package party, March 2 | new Center. | A worker! at union meeting: \the unemployed that will sit in at every session of the court tr is being elected Lesten. meetings pees A and rally mass ddtipore for them, demanding the release of all arrested a result of the March 6 demonstratio These meetings |likewise elect delegates to the New York York City conference on un- jemployment, which meets March 27, at the call of the Trade Union Unity League and the unemployed coun- cils, three days after the fake triai of the committee begins in Special Sessions court. Everywhere dele- tes are being chosen for the na- tional conference in New York on ch 29, Yonkers Council of the Unemploy- éd and the T.U.U.L. building trade Council of the Unemployed met Sat- urday. Many Meetings. Today, at 11 a. m., the Harlem | Council of the unemployed will meet, ithere will Imass meetings at Marine Workers | League headquarters, 139 Broad St., ie .m; and at 27 East 4th St. The eedle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Jnion, the National Textile Work- Union, the Building Maintenance Union and others hold U ers Worl | meetings for the same purposes to-} day. In Milwaukee a huge protest meet- ling is scheduled for tomorrow, at |Liberty Hall, 8 p. m. Eighth and Walnut. Milwaukee has 58 arrests of its own to protest. In Columbia Hall, Perth Amboy, N. J., there was to be a protest and lorganization meeting for the unem- \ployed yesterday which adopted res- | olutions and promised support to the | delegates of the unemploy: York. Similar meetin in Elizabeth and in Newark. Block Boss Vengeance. Yunctionaries of the New Yo district of the ILL.D. adopted a reso- lution, which the members of the L.L.D. will introduce into union and workers’ fraternal organization meetings everywhere. It states: “The March Sixth demonstrations against unemployment were tremen- dous mass mobilizations in defense jof the interests of the whole working class. “The reply of the employers’ gov- ernment to these giant protests of labor, to the thunderous demand for work or full, wages was the wholesale arrests of the March Sixth |fighters for the jobless in all sec- itions of the country. “These hundreds of arrests fol- lowed the concentration for capital ist class warfare against the work- ers in all cities of armies of police, on foot and on horseback, with ma- chine guns, armored cars and so so- called riot wagons. “In New York City the Committee of the Unemployed was arrested at the City Hall when it attempted to earry to Mayor Walker the demands of the 110,000 workers demonstrat- ling in Union Square who had elected | |the committee. The effort is now being made to railroad to long terms of imprisonment the members of the unemployed delegation, “We demand freedom for Foster, | Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten, the members of the New York dele- gation of the March Sixth unem- ployed demonstration. “We see in this capitalist class} vengeance against the March Sixth fighters for the unemployed the |gvowing attack of the boss class in lits efforts to outlaw the class strug- ele organizations of the working | class. “We pledge our support to work- ers in their right to self-defense, to organize, to strike, to picket, and in| their struggle for their every-day | demands, for | inerersed Wages, no wage cuts and| the demand for Work or Way ‘ also be unemployment |} ed in New, were held| jat Ford’s and General Electric, At | the General Electric lots of young workers shut down their machines | |to come out to listen to the speak- Jers. | On the days before the big de |stration the boss papers made jous attacks on the Communists and the unemployed. The Seattle Intelli- jgencer had the headline “Machine Guns Ready for Reds.” these things the workers pouring in the Skid Road, the wos:- ers’ quarters, towards noon, Thurs- day, on New Britain Workers (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—We, the | workers of New Britain are getting | wise to these “free speech” and con- stitutional laws, as they call them. | They pass the laws themselves and selves do not obey them. We ask ng |for a permit and they refuse when |one that fights for us whether Forter, ene Minor, Raymond and / we want to demonstrate, so we have | jare employed or unemployed.— o adopié | found out the laws are for the bene- |Britain Workers, Jand r ight, followed police. by motorcycle The workers were forced to break ranks to keep from being rid- | den down. One militant worker after another | was arrested and carried to jail on | he sidecars of police motorcycles. The workers were battling to take | the arrested workers away from the police by force, so whenever a In spite of | worker was arrested a strong guard | ton, $25,00( beggn |of police instantly surrounded him. | the Peabody € | We'll show even greater militancy | next demonstration. | —SEATTLE Came Out 4,000 Strong’ |fit of the bosse: | But we, the workers of New Bri- |tain, came out, 4,000 of us, demonstrated against starvation. The bosses sent the police to ar- |rest our speakers. WORKER. Communist Party, which is the only | March 6 in Detroit—and Its Effect on One | Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich_—Comrades, I am a Red. Was in the demonstration March 6 at Cadillac Square, and guess everyone knows by now how it | went. to see so many people there. bosses had their 1,800 brass-button babx. catchers there with their | Thompson subs. sooner the better. I have been out of work for five months. Am a metal worker by trade. Am (By « Worker Correspondent) | tion held in front of the state capitol | at 6 p.m. March 6, There were be- jtween 5 and 6 thousand there. There were over 200 state highway police, the militia was held in reserve, in jthe state arsenal across the strect. All the day forces of city police ‘The | Hope their day is coming and | Worker |vears old and have a wife and child. Six months ago I didn’t know what |a Communist was. amination for the police force, and | month, so I was informed. But 1| \hope I am stricken dead if I ever put on a police badge. I have other plans now—for the working men. have got five men to join the Com \munist union (probably Trade Union | Unity League.—Kditor’s note.) —JOBLESS WORKER. Springfield, Hl, Workers Demonstrate 6,000 Strong j were held at the station till 9 p. m.! to kill me 3 times. Tried to get the | inmates to beat hell out of us but | couldn’t succeed, I think we can hold some good | meetings from now on and take in some new Party members. Workers Hit Boss Police Brutality (Continued from Page One) | telligence of the people (the editor- ‘ial is of a perfect moron type—DW). According to your write-up, you have to be good-looking in order to have brains. Your slaves who printed your editorial may not be | good-looking, so long as they help you to buy buildings with the sweat of their labor. Advertising pays jand pays. I am through reading your filthy sheet. “Disgusted.” Police Brutality. Another letter reads: “The way the police treated the workless on March 6th on Union Square was outrageous. “The police clubbed the demon- strators, and followed them up with their blackjacks and nightsticks, These actions remind me of Czarist Russia. “Thinking of Whalen’s actions re- minds me of the barbarism of the Roman empire which has fallen, “Yours, “Lou Rosenkind.” Ex-100 Percenter. “Being an American citizen, born here in the U. S. A. I always re- spected the laws of the United States. But after what I saw on Union Square March 6, I was ab- | solutely appalled and disgusted with the way our honorable protectors carried on with the jobless, people | who only want better living condi- tions. I happened to be a curious bystander when this slaughter was going on . . . backed by the whole | force of corrupted politicians with Whalen heading the list. “Yours, Ex-100 per cent Citizen.” Marine Slams Anti-Soviet Dopesters. The following are extracts from a letter written to the New York | Herald-Tribune, “Religion—and how the whip of religious fear is held over the work- er’s head—this will never happen in Russia, Tho Russians fought for their freedom, The Russians in at- taining their freedom went the Americans one point better—they eliminated class distinction, Why should they permit a class of non- ,| Workers, non-producers to be a drag on their country and secure a soft, easy living from the uneducated dissolution of the ynitary trade union | workers under the guise of religion? Almer J. Donner, U. S. Marine Engineer. P. S.: I suppose there will be a number of your readers who will ery “radical” when they read my letter, but they will be greatly mistaken, as I am a native of native parents, a war veteran covering the Spanish- American War, 1898, China Relief} Expedition, 1900, Mexico, 1914, Eur-| ope 1917 (four wars).” The Fight of the Greek Masses ATHENS, Greece (By Inprecorr Press Service).—At the beginning of February the general meeting of the tobaceo workers took place in the tobacco center Serres. The indig- nation of the tobaco workers at the | federation was so great that extra forces of police were drafted into the neighborhood. The police, how- ever, did not succeed in arresting | the speakers. | A strike of the whole staff is | threatened in the shoe works Kakto, | in Pireaeus, on account of the dis. missal of 45 workers, In the Almyros district in Thes- saly the police have organized a wild drive against peasants who have not paid their taxes. At the end of | January 80 peasants fled into the mountains. Peasant committees and delegations demand that this police Workers! This Is Your Paper. | Write for It. Distribute It | Among Your Fellow Workers! and | Fellow workers, | and meetings, of tell us to obey, and they them-|we must give all our strength to the ,|Loda, a notorious Peabody henc "© man and U.M.W.A. " |from Springfield. stitution. [tural |counts |the campaign should be discontinued, | ¢ in the end, permitted Farrington to | take a scat among them. Assault Thompson. Friday, Freeman Thompson, pr dent of the National Miners Union was slugged by an official stro arm gang as he entered the Knigh’ of Columbus hall, where the “reor- tion” convention w id. He arrested on a trumped up charge of carrying concealed wea- pons, and is now free on bond. The attack on Thompson coincided with the seating of Frank Fat » stool-p |quently symbolized the real charaec- |ter of the convention. Farrington \had been given by | Fishwick-Howat forces in which to “defend” himself. The proposal to give the Peabody man the floor was made by Powers Hapgood, of Colo- rado, and one of the two delegates from Pennsylvania—the other being John Brophy. (There are 300,000 |miners in the state.) As he entered the hall, Thompson was met by a gang of 50 organized |thugs under the leadership of ve hour: 2: board member Armed with guns jand black jacks and hurling murder threats at Thompson, the thugs mauled the N.M.U. president, at the !same time pretending to search him | for weapons. Loda’s Frame-Up. Undaunted by the fact that non2| | was found, Loda leaped to the plat- | I put in application and passed ex- form, flourished a loaded revolver, |tance of the hat workers, and this and informed the “delegates” that| I got satisfaction out of it|/can get on about the 20th of this |the gun was found on Thompson. Thompson's | been Loda then engineered arrest. A few moments before Thomps vas assaulted, one of the hand-pick ed delegates had concluded a wordy attack on John L. Lewis, charging jthat his reign had been character- lized by “packing of conventions, slugging of delegates and all oppon- ents.” Lewis henchmen in intimidation, coercion, graft and coruption” on the part | SPRINGFIELD, Ill—Just a few | There were 3 of us arrested, taken |0f the officials of District 12 and | lines on the Springficld demonstra- to the station, and they threatened | Sub-district 9, sponsors of the Springfield gathering. The last hours of the convention were taken up with a listless dis- cussion of the constitution adopted, which is almost a complete reproduc- tion of the official U.M.W.A. Thirty-five jobs at an- 1 salaries of $5,000 each have already been provided for as a na- preliminary. Expense ac- are of course unlimited. These salaries will be paid for out of the check-off which they will try to force upon the miners, and through com- pulsory assessments. Still Discriminate. No pretense has been made toward elimination of discrimination gainst Negro miners except the formal clause in the constitution. The same dictatorial appointive | powers which characterize the rule lof John L. Lewis are to be vested in the president of the new outfit, laccording to the constitution adopt- | jed. Thompson, for weeks before the} jopening of the convention, has been' in On exposing the gang behind it speeches to the Illinois miners. \the eve of the convention he chal-, lenged Alex Howat, leader of the jdiseredited progressives to debate, jbut the Kansas U.M.W.A. official feared to meet the N.M.U. president. The so-called “convention” formal- ly adopted Walwer’s appeal to Green for consolidating the two company unions under the direct control of the A.F.L. Green will speak tomor-, row at the Lewis “convention” in Indianapolis. SMALL FARMS ON LON to $830 an acre. We poms, flower gard or that’ Bungalow or How site plenty of land, You buy one le block for the price of 2 lot. beaches, one 2 5 to RIGO sm a 138-15 Jnmiicn A Phone Ja PRESS, Inc. 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY al Company, and elo- | the | Almost at the same moment, | Indianapolis | |were detailing facts dealing with |“murder, con- SEEK TO HIDE LONDON NAVAL MEET FAILURE The Fake Three-Power Pact Doubtful (Continued from Page One) Explode Myth ay | Workers “Prosperity” | |“defense” of pan’s imperialist | }gobbling of huria, Shantung ) and other parts of China, against ) America’s lust for the same loot. From the beginning two months | ago, when with a lot of drum thump- ing, it was opened as a “five-power” | conference, the best that can now be seen by the pulmotor squad is a “three-power” pact, which they are | talking of as if that was what they | counted on in the first place, aml even this “three-power” agreement loom jis still very doubtful. eee pierreanondents of | ‘The only hope for such a “three je eee PD as a myth the “Pros | France and Italy out of the picture, | perity nk spread by Hoover, | ¢ A : is one now based on an agreement the capitalist press and all the i Rae ernie Nat ateesccas nas et to American proposals \eghtes guia nile the Americans pretend— poses e to pretend—that Japar certainly accept their ideas, the Japanese delegation raise their eye- brows at the reported assurance of |the Americans, undoubtedly correct jin thinking that the Americans are trying to make everyone believe that Cuban Workers March 6 Shook Fascism | (Continued from Page One) rades workers want to declare a : ites ; lif the Japanese don’t accept that it he white terror, a chronic con- | is “not Ame fault.” But the a n under the fascist rule of Yan- | io government has not yet ac- | kee imperialist tools, y akened | cepted. Furthermore, even if Japan does accept, the result depends again on |by the onrush of the working masses. |The December 14 and the January ; 10 demonstrations of the Cuban | whether England would agree, since prolet: proved that the might of | the Japan-American part of such a the working class made the imperial- | “three-power” agreement counts on ists unable to kill the movement by all its murders and deportations. England agreeing to a cruiser strength by such agreement, which The economic crisis, affecting the | would be less than the cruiser workers first of all, also hits a wide | strength insisted on by France. Sc | strata of the petty bourgeoisie. it comes back around the circle of Formerly, when a strike broke | France, and France is hard-boiled out, the leaders were jailéd and |for its big navy program. murdered or deported as “reds.” But | The net result, whether some fake today when the government tried to | “agreement” is found or not, will treat in this way the leaders of the |be a new armament race, hastened hat wor strike, a nation-wide |by the world capitalist crisis, and jgeneral strike started after the |immediate sharpening of the war |lockeut of the workers of one fac-j|danger, especially against the So- | tory. | viet Union, since all imperialists are The “Confederacion Nacional | filled with fear and hatred of the Obrera de Cuba” came to the a: Soviet push forward toward social- ism of Soviet economy. the reason why the Confederation and the Havana Federation have “suspended” by the author- of the fascist government, the work- ers will reject this fas “anion,” and the revolutionary unions, by not only exposing its character in the leonerete issues, but by continuing | the struggle for the workers’ inter- lests under their own banner will re- |establish the legality of the revolu- tionary unions by the power they have and will gain with the masses. ities. This “suspension” is an attempt to destroy the real labor unions of | the workers’ choice and to aid the | |imperialist fascist unions connected |with the American Federation of Labor. This fascist ‘union” is called “Federacion Cubana del Trabajo.” Naturally, receiving the assistance Ewin Men Fight! Cowards Starve! HONOR OUR WORKINGCLASS MARTYRS PARIS COMMUNE Commemoration Meeting Auspices: International Labor Defense Tuesday, March 18, at 8 p. m. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and Third Avenue Come and Hear Workingclass Leaders J. LOUIS ENGDAHL General Secretary of the International Labor Defense M. J. OLGIN Editor of the Freiheit HERBERT NEWTON Of the American Negro Labor Congress SAM NESIN New York District Organizer of the I.L.D. will preside A play: “THE PARIS COMMUNE?” . by the Workers Laboratory Theatre ic by Workers International Relief Band Admission 25 Cents us citer Cotton Mills and Labor By Myra Page 96 pp. 25 Cents. EARLY REVIEWS “Myra Page is well qualified to write of Southern textile workers. As a southern woman herself, she has lived and worked in mill villages and knows the situation at first hand. “SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AND LABOR” should be read by every worker in order to understand what is back of the great struggles in the southern textile field.” —GHACE HUTCHINS, author of “Labor and Silk.” “ + +. The author performed a surgical operation upon a portion of the body of American imperialism, an operation which discloses in detail the misery of the masses, This is no ‘study’ by a social welfare worker. Sympathy and un- derstanding are there, but primarily it is an incision, sharp and merciless, by a scalpel with a Leninist edge.” WILLIAM F, DUNNE. Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th Street New York City Discounts offered on orders in quantity lots