The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 1

Mass For Protest Meetings This Week to Stop Railroading of Representatives of the Unem- ployed; Defend 1,181 Victims of Attacks by Bosses’ Police; Organize Unemployed, Prepare For National Conference, March 29 Daily Entered as second-class stter at the Pout Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Ma FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Vol. VI, No. 321 Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ss In New York by mail, $8.00 per e New York, by mail $6.00 per year. year. Price 3 Cen’ ; NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930 BIG JOBLESS DEMONSTRATION AT COLISEUM TOMORRO ‘The Paris Commune--First Dictatorship of the Proletariat Fifty-nine years ago today, on March 18, 1871, the first revolu- tionary workers’ government arose in the City of Paris—the Paris Commune, first example of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The traditions of past struggles of our class have immense value for the struggles of today, and for nearly half a century the heroic deeds of the Paris Commune served as the most powerful light for all of the working class that was loyal to its cause. It was through the historical lesson of that great struggle of Paris that Karl Marx, the founder of the Communist movement, was able to define the character of the revolutionary workers’ state which the dictatorship of the capitalist class. And it was through these lessons, as studied by Marx and applied to the further experiences of the Russian revolution of 1905, that Marx’s successor, Lenin, was able to define the forra of the Soviet state which would arise in the prole- tarian revolution of October, 1917, and its triumph. The establishment of the present victorious Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the “continuation of the Paris Commune,” and this alone can serve as the still more brilliant beacon light of our class. Never before was it so necessary for our class to understand and honor the glorious revolutionary traditions of our class as today. Today!—when the “second Paris Commune” spreads its crimson ban- ner from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and the new, free Socialist society is being built up with a power and a rapidity beyond the boldest hopes of men! When the counter-revolutionary forces of capitalism are feverishly mobilizing for the bloody onslaught intended to destroy the workers’ revolutionary state! Toda: when the capi- talist world system faces a c —when 20,000,900 workers in capitalist countries are facing starvation in unemployment and, they, with other tens of millions, are learning that only revolution can bring abolition of their misery! Today—when the whole of Asia, which is half of the world, smolders and flames with colonial revolt against imperial- would replace | Rob Berlin Workers of Their Dead (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, March 17.—The funeral of Frischmann and Karkovski, two | victims of the murderous attack by the police under the “socialist” po- lice chief Zoergiebel, was due to be |held today. Although the order of |the Minister of the Interior which |prohibited demonstrations expressly excepted funerals, Zoergiebel prohi- bited the funeral procession ar- jvanged for the two murdered 31 WORKERS OF MEXICO JAILED, HUNGER STRIKE Solidarity Protests Is Asked by Mexican Working Class U. S. Workers Protest Wall Street Rules by workers. Murder and Torture | Upon this autocratic action, the - |Communist Party appealed to the (By Special Wire.) \workers to line the streets on the MEXICO CITY, March 17.—On |road to the cemetery. But yester- Saturday, Valentin S. Campa, gen-/day evening this “socialist” police \eval secretary of the revolutionary | chief, Zoergibel, ordered the con- ‘trade union center, the Confedera-/fiscation and seizure by police of {cion Sindical Unitaria de Mexico,/the corpses of the two murdered (Continued on Page Two) and thirty other revolutionary work- lers imprisoned by the fascist gov- | | | ‘ernment of Ortiz Rubio, declared al | hunger strike until they attain lib-| erty. | We urge solidarity of the work- | ers of the United States with the | revolutionary workers victimized by | the Mexican governmental lackeys | of Yankee imperialism. | | JOIN DEFENSE AS HONOR TO COMMUNARDS. Mass Meeting Tonight) at Central Opera | House, 8 p. m. “Fight! Don’t Starve!” Commune Inspiration| in Struggle Period (Wireless By Inprecorr) | MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., March 17.—) The Exécutive Committee of the In-| ternational Red Aid, has issued an appeal on the anniversary of the Paris Commune, March 18, pointing out that the anniversary occurs in| the midst of a rising revolutionary wave of the world proletariat and an increasing crisis which is shaking the foundations of capitalism. world engaged in constant collisions | with the armed forces of the cap-} in colonial and semi-colonial coun-| Todav Is 59th | Anniversary of | “Dictatorship of the proletariat! | Do you want to know how this dic- | tatorship looks? Then look at the Paris Commune. That was the dic- tatorship of the proletariat!” Forty years ago, when the first perma- | nent workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment had not yet been victoriously established as in the Soviet Union | today, Frederick Engels correctly pointed to the Paris Commune as the first example of the dictatorship | of the proletariat. For two whole months, from | March 18 to May 29, 1871, the work- ers of Paris, those “heaven storm- ers,” Marx called them, fought Ss heroically to maintain themselves against the parasites and their armies. For two whole months the work- | greatest odds to establish a workers’ republic free from oppressors and exploiters. | “After six months of starvation | blood of over 14,000 workers, “they | DELEGATES OF 110,000 the Commune AGAIN DEMAND WORK OR WAGES FROM CITY GOV eis SS Report of Ma Protest Meetings Tomorrow Will Hex Fight Against Starvation 'Paris Commune Meetings Plan Their Defens: Workers Pick Labor Jury, Build Convention “The fight goes on,” says sent 110,000 unemployment de the Committee elected to repr monstrators in New York Cit The full committee: William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Ar ter, Joseph Lesten and Harry Raymond, will appear hefo;~ the great crowd of workers and the unemployed gathered : 7 p. m. tomorrow River, to report on the pro- gress of the unemployment movement, and the attempts There are twenty million unem-|and ruin,” Marx wrote just before | of the bosses’ government here ployed throughout the capitalist| the Commune was drowned in the | to check the protest against starva- tion of the jobless workers. The ihe » AP-/ arise beneath the Prussian bayonets, | meeting tomorrow is a great _pro- italist governments, peasant risings| as if a war between France and test against the railroading of the| in. Bronx®, ers of Paris fought against the’ Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx! workers at the meeting tomorro ten are before the masses « there will be before the Tammai city government’s board of estima a formal set of demands, sent the |today, and signed by the who committee, in confirmation of tl |Tesolution and demands of ti | Union Square Demonstration, whi | they presented in person to th same board Friday, as soon as thc the | elected representatives of the Uun-j| were out of jail. Their trial is set) In the Name of 500,000. ism, our common enemy! The traditions of the Paris Commune must be cherished this Germany never existed and enemy were not standing before the | employed to jail. The International Labor Defense Reinstatement of Shop | tries. Faced by such a revolutionary } year as never before. The workers of New York should attend en masse the commemo- ration of the anniversary of the Paris Commune at Central Opera House tonight. |The Battle With the Bishops Bishop Manning had 3,000 or so of the capitalist and petty-capi- talist class in the cathedral, and Cardinal Hayes had a similar number. At the same hour of the same day the counter-demonstration of the workers gathered 25,000 of our class in the Coliseum, New York. Even the capitalist newspapers, the most venomous enemies of the working class, could not avoid acknowledging that the workers’ coun- ter-demonstration overshadowed the church demonstrations and was the biggest thing of the kind ever seen in the United States. This is as far as New York is concerned. Undoubtedly reports from other cities would show something of the same sort. We can say that the workers won the first round of this fight. But the mobilization of the forces of religious superstition, in support of capitalist greed, for the preparation of the minds of the masses for the coming imperialist war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, will not subside, but will proceed at a more rapid pace. Religious freedom? The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has established, for the first time in history, complete religious freedom. That is precisely what these holy men are crying against. They, who never in their lives favored religious freedom, but always depended upon religic compulsion, are shouting against the workers’ Soviet Republic precisely because all forms of compulsion in matters of re- ligion have been abolished in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This is the meaning of the cry behind which the finance capitalists are building up their war plans. History has shown that religion dies when “religious freedom” begins. Religious superstition is in- separable from human slavery, and freedom of man in questions of religion can only be established together with the emancipation of man from economic and political slavery. The church was one of the main instruments of the class oppression of the landlords and capitalists in old Russia as everywhere, and was maintained by a thou- sand forms of compulsion used against the masses to force them un- der the control and to the support of the priest. (Manning and the pope said nothing for “religious freedom” then.) The overthrow of the political rule of the capitalist and landlord classes was naturally accompanied by the destruction of all of these measures of compul- sion which had been forcing the masses into the stupefaction and tyranny of the church. Then the process of socialization of the eco- nomic system has advanced far in the complete destruction of wage slavery. The trmendous building of the new free society without ex- ploitation, without wage slavery, without compulsory superstition, has inevitably resulted in the complete abandonment of the “opium” with which the masses had been saturated when in slavery. The hypocrites and liars of church and synagogue try to make this appear as “deny- ing the right of religious opinion!” But it is the establishment for the first time in history of the full and unrestricted right of opinion on the question of religion. It is the proof in real life that religious superstition, when no longer sustained by police compulsion and when no longer instituted as a social opium in connection with a form of slavery—efther chattle slavery, feudal slavery, or wage slavery—in- evitably passes out of existence, giving way to a scientific attitude toward life im which there is no roonp for the ancient sorcery of the priest. These holy men, the voices of Wall Street, seeking war for the destruction of the workers’ revolutionary republic, show their own hypocrisy, when they complain that the Soviet Republic does not permit immature children to be forced into the tender mercies of the priesthood, submitted to the systematic degradation of mind thru medieval teachings of hellfire and superstition. Is there anything conceivable more necessary than the protection of children from this perversion by magicians of the dark ages? But, whine the priests, if they are not permitted to impose their mental diseases upon chil- dren, “the church will die,” because no person can be influenced by them unless he is taken under their control during helpless childhood! So we see what Bishop Manning and Cardinal Hayes and Rabbi Wise really want is not religious freedom but religious compulsion. These parasites who enjoy the results of a great measure of police com- pulsion in the United States today exercised against the children of the masses, in order to inculcate superstitions of the dark ages in their minds, pretend to imagine that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics can be persuaded to restore some of these forms of com- pulsion. They wish to have the masses of the free workers’ republic again submitted to the 2,000--year-old bleeding of the masses in taxes for the support of a parasite priesthood. These American holy men, whose institutions, profiting from tax exemption and a hundred other privileges, possess hundreds of millions of wealth (and we have not forgotten that at least until recently some of the properties were in the form of houses of prostitution in New York)—know perfectly well that the workers’ revolution will be the end of the parasitic system they represent. Even now these hypocrites are moving for the suppression of all woing-class freedom of political and other opinions. This, however, is nat due to s» abstract interest in theological questions. What they are ixtesested in is the conservation of the system of wage slavery by which they live and profit and whose agents they are. The reason for the church drive against the workers’ republic is |yesterday issued a call to all its! | sections to appeal to the workers attending the anniversary meeting of the Paris Commune, to protest) Workers of the Vanity Knitting the white terror persecution against | Mills, 140 West 25 St., voted to the workers of Mexico by the Mex-|strike today and already the boss ican government. |has given into their demands and | * * the workers return tomorrow. The Wall Street Admits. It. strike was led by the National Tex- The situation in Mexico as re- tile Workers Union. | gards the savage white terror being| On Friday, March 14, the chair- ‘used against the workers, including | lady and two other workers, mem- the outlawing of the Communist |bers of the shop committee of the Party, the red trade unions, the| union were fired. Already the boss |Anti-Imperialist League, the Red|had policemen at the door and Aid and all genuine workers’ or- jganizations, is brazenly admitted | weeks’ pay and told them not to by no less an authority than the |come back anymore. Immediately the Wall Street Journal in an editorial |bess tried to split the union, He of March 17, speaking as follows: | called a meeting of some of the “In Mexico, an unavowed but ac- | Workers, promised them a raise pro- tual counter-revolution has alone |Vided they break all connections with saved the people from anarchy. So /|the union, also promised them time far as the masses are concerned,|@nd a quarter for overtime after they have gained no more real free-| they “proved their loyalty” to him. dom to govern themselves than| The shop committee and the union they enjoyed under the repressiye | (Continued on Page Two) but orderly rule of Diaz, while their | | living conditions are no better. The |having “benefited” the workers is shift of power from a single hand | false. | to changing groups of political ad-| Latin American Labor Protests. venturers supported by bands of| The Latin American Trade Union armed parasites upon the country, | Confederation, with headquarters at has done less than nothing for the | Montevideo, Uruguay, uniting the proletariat.” revolutionary unions of all Latin | We see that from the above even) America, including the ones of jthe Yankee imperialists detest the | Mexico headed by the hunger strik- boot-licking lackeys of Calles,|e¢t Campa, has called upon its ad- Portes Gil and Rubio, who carry|herents to protest and demonstrate out Wall Street’s attack on the| against the Mexican white terror. |Mexican workers, and that Wall | After relating the numerous Street itself admits that all the bunk | crimes of the Mexican government, |about the regime of these lackeys (Continued on Page Three) Committee; More Pay (—__ the capitalist class’ growing fear of the workers’ world-wide revolu- of wage-slavery throughout the world. handed the three workers their” struggle, plus the rapid building up of socialism in the Soviet Union,} capitalism attempts to save itself by | intensified exploitation of the masses and a crushing of the revolutionary movement in blood. The I.R.A. appeal calls upon work- (Continued on Page Two) TO ELECT LABOR JURY AT 4 MEETS Also Select Delegates for Jobless Conference Today there will be four meet- ings of unemployed workers called by the Unemployed Council, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, to elect members of | the Labor Jury to sit in the trial of the representatives of the mass un- employed demonstration on March} 6, and to elect delegates to the New York City Conference on Unemploy- ment, which will take place in Man- hattan Lyceum, March 29, These meetings are as follows: 136 15th St., South Brooklyn, at 2 p. m. Columbia Hall, Lake and Stone Sts., Brooklyn, 1 p.m. 1330 Wilkins Ave., Bronx, 1 p. m. Broad- way and 37th St., Astoria, L. I., an | open-air meeting. Another general meeting of all unemployed workers is scheduled for the central office of the Unemployed h Councils, 13 West 17th St. for tion against capitalism. Their program is not “religious freedom,” but | Wednesday, at 2 p. m, an orgy of political reaction and preparation for the imperialist war against the Soviet Union which, if it is not destroyed, means the doom R ALLY SUPPORT But the working class is already showing that it is also capable of } campaigns. It is not accidental that this matter arises at exactly the same time as the economic crisis and unemployment. It is not an accident, either, that just at the time when 1,250,000 American workers have newly come under the leadership of the Communist Party of the United States, it is possible to mobilize the American workers to a counter-demonstration against the drive of the churches. The move- ment of the workers, and the leadership of the Communist Party over ; this movement, must be made to rise to greater heights, greater mili- tancy, and greater, consciousness every day. This movement must be made powerful and must be prepared to throw itself into the defense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics by every means, when the imperialist war which Hayes, Manning and Wise are now preparing, is precipitated by the Wall Street government. Leon Lewis, Arrested Worker, Tells of Whalen’s Slugging Capitalist Government Cannot Stop the Fight of the Unemployed Leon Lewis, who was arrested at jthe March 6 mass unemployed de- |monstration for “striking a cop,” |when interviewed by the Daily Worker said: “I was at the demonstration and after the speakers had finished I joined the march to City Hall to stick. When they first brought me into court, they said I-hit a cop by the name of Dempsey. However, Dempsey said I didn’t hit him, some- one else threw a rock at him. Then they conveniently adjourned court to dig up some cop who could say I did hit him with a stick, Finally, help in the demand for work or|they dug up some cop who would wages, At the corner of Seven-|say I hit him with a stick —he teenth and Broadway, when the}wasn’t sure, however, that’ it was police on horseback were scattering | me. the crowd, a cop walked up to me ‘and said ‘keep going,’ and raised his club to strike me, © “I grabbed the cop td block his | blows, and: he fell on top of me. |'Then four or five more cops rushed |up to me and started kicking and | hitting me. After this beating, 1 | was pinched. . “First I was pinched for having supposed to have hit a cop with a All he knew is that he was struck, . “Two cops led me to the police station. Two more were behind me hitting me with their sticks all the time. “The charge against me is feloni ous assault, I am out on $1,009 baik This 1s how the capitalist government is trying to answer the struggle of the millions of unem- ployed workers for their demands.” FOR ‘LIBERATOR’ Plan to “Build Mass Circulation Under. the leadership of the new industrial Negro proletariat the Ne- gro masses of America have entered the struggle for liberation. Tens of thousands of Negro farm hands have deserted the farms with their wives and children and have en- tered industry where, faced with capitalist rationalization and dis- crimination in ages, etc., they are rapidly becoming radicalized. Mil- lions still on the plantations are ripe for organized opposition to the brutal rule of landlordism, which uses peonage, convict labor, lynch- ing, ete, to whip its Negro victims into submission. Because the exploitation of the (Continued on Page Two) Today in History of __ the Workers an March 18, 1871—Paris Com- mune, first workers’ government in the world, proclaimed. 1835— Dorchester, England, farm labor- ers exiled to Australia for form- ing a union. 1919—“Pravda,” of- ficial organ of Russian Commu- nist Party, reappeared in Petro- grad. 1919—Unemployed in Tor- onto, Canada, marched to city hall to demand work. 1922— General strike of Italian harbor workers. 1925 — Employers of Denmark began general lockout to compel wage cuts, gates of Paris.” The France of the Second Em- pire, of Louis Bonaparte, had col- ) lapsed like a house of cards in the | face of the Prussian onslaught. On | January 28, 1871, starved-out Paris | capitulated before the Prussians. After the capitulation, Thiers, the new head of the bourgeois republi- | can government, which had been es- tablished after the fall of the Em- pire, made every effort to disarm the Prussian workers organized in | the natiénal guard, for the rule of | the landlords and capitalists was in danger as long as the Parisian work- ers held on to their arms. | On March 18 he sent troops to} steal the artillery belonging to the | national guard. “The attempt mis- carried,” wrote Eng later. “Paris armed it man for resistance, and war was de- | clared between Paris and the French | bourgeois government sitting at | Versailles. The 26th of March, the | Paris Commune elected; on the | 28th it was proclaimed. . . . On the 30th, the Commune abolished the conscription and the standing army and declared the national guard, to which all citizens capable of bearing | arms were to belong, as the sole (Continued on Page Three) POTASH, WEISS BAIL 1S $10,000 : j now find Governor Roosevelt re- |vomiting the exploded lies of A Hoover, Lamont and Davis. Furriers Attacked By Roosevelt cannot say that there jy oT is an improvement in unemploy- Thugs to Trial Friday ment. “The latest figures of his own The case agai Irving Potash | Labor Department for February | and the furrier pickets arrested | : “ after an attack on them by hired |#*™Y- What does he do? He re- |peats the outworn and_ blasted thugs of the International Fur Workers Union, which supplies the scabs for B. Abel, where the picket line was attacked, came up in Jef- ferson Market Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Dodge. Potash has been held without bail. He is charged with felonious assault, though he was the one assaulted, and cut by the gangsters, Moratzky (Continued on Page Two) |for next Monday. | The committee continues to carry | out the task assigned to it, and for which it was arrested. While Fos- ter, Amter, Minor, Raymond and FACTS BLAST BOSSES LIES Expose New Campaign of ‘Prosperity’ Bunk Precisely at the time that the sharp economic crisis in the United States is worsening, the capitalist press has started a new campaign of perversion and lying about un- employment and the growing of the depression. It is very evident from the uni form manner in which this propa-| « ganda appears in nearly all the capitalist sheets,.that the hand of Hoover, Lamont & Co. is behind this new maneuver. A special section on the front page appears in all the Hearst pa- shrieking about “returning prosper Nor are the Hearst dope sheets an exception. In New York, where the Commis- sioner of Labor has repeatedly con- tradicted Davis’s lying statements improving employment, The communication states: “In the name of the 110,000 wor! yers who assembled in demonstratio |in Union Square on March 6 on th jeall of the Communist Party an: the Trade Union Unity League, an |who there elected the undersigne |delegation, and on behalf of th {500,000 unemployed workers in Nev | York City, and in view of the stat- lof emergency existing in New Yor! City as a result of this unemploy iment which has assumed the pro- | portions of-a national catast¥dphe |for which the proposed building |programs and other fake remedies promise no relief of any substan | tial character but, on the contrary, will be used against the entire work- ing class, we demand: “1.—Work or Wages; the govern- ment shall guarantee every worker regardless of race, nex, age or creed, ordinarily engaged in industries Iceated in New York City and now |a resident thereof, a job at his usual rate of pay, or, if unemployed, in- rance compensation equal to full ages; all workers partially em- | ployed shall receive compensation | Sufficient to bring their income up jto the amount of full wages. This junemployment insurance shall he |financed by a tax on all profits, inheritances (which were greater in |1929 than any time in history by |billions of dollars), by redueng in |the salaries of all high officials, beginning with Mayor Walker, who now receives $40,000 per year, and by the removal of the tax exemp- tion now enjoyed by the churches on their tremendous properties; and shall be administered by representa- }tives elected directly by the workers, |both workers in the shops and the ; unemployed through their councils. “2.—-Until the unemployment in- showed an increase in the jobless surance is operative, the city shall promises of Hoover. He says, “The coming spring months will relieve the stress,” ete., ete. What are the facts? All along the line the crisis is worsening, deepening, sharpening and with it unemployment is grow- ing. Hs Steel and auto production are dropping fast at the most favorable (Continued on Page Three) Letters to Boss Press Show Workers Not One Writes School Prin Fooled by Lies cipal Steals Food From Jobless; Other Smashes Lies on Soviets The following are quotations from | letters written by workers to cap-| italist newspapers and other capital-| ist agencies, on unemployment and | the “Work or Wages” demonstra- tions: Courts Steal Food From Jobless. | “To The Principal of P. S. No. 19: “T hope that you, the principal of P. S. No. 19, are now satisfied. “You took the ‘whole pound of meat’ from the unemployed parents that kept their children away from school at their unemployed demon- stration on March 6, making them go to court and pay their Aollars, | which reduced the bread of the un- employed parents’ children for an- other few days. } “Yes! You are satisfied! You are the cause of another breadless | | | days for the hungry children! But, | I am not satisfied yet.” Morris Shikman, an unemployed father.” Cae Rotten Lies About the Soviet Union. . Royal J. Cunningham, an Amer- ican of American parents, writes to |the Evening World against the “rot-! ten lies,” printed by the capitalist press about the Soviet Union. ningham says, in part: “I arrived back in New York af- ter spending four months in Mos- cow, Russia, and I aim amazed at! jthe lies your newspapers have been | quoting about the Russian people... “The Russian people today are a healthy, athleticerace. I know be- | cause I have seen them with my own! eyes... I have hundreds of photo graphs of Russia as it is today, and (Continued on Page Three) Cun- | |make an emergency appropriation |for emergency relief equal to the in- |surance of full wages, and admin- istered as in point 1. “3.—The sum of 200,000 shall be |immediately appropriated as an in- itial sum for building workers’ dwel- lings, which shall be rented by the city to workers, preference being | Siven to the unemployed, without | discrimination against or segrega- ition of Negroes, at the rate of ten per cent (10%) of their. income, All evictions of unemployed workers for non payment of rent~shall be prohibited. “4.—In order to reduce the |amount of unemployment there sha!] be established a seven hour day and |five day week without reduction of | wages for all employees of the city and all workers in public works (Continued on Page Three) FOUR VASCONCELISTAS HANGED, MEXICO CITY, Mar, 16.—Four jmen, all reported to be followers of Jose Vanscocelos, petty-bourgeois candidate for president of Mexico in | the last election, were found hanged along the Topilejo road near here | the other day. Who killed them has not been revealed as yet. USHERS WANTED FOR DAY All comrades who acted as ushers in the Coliseum on March 16, are requested to report for similar duty at 6 P. M., Wednesday, March 18, in the Coliseum. FURRIERS MEET THURSDAY. There will be a meeting of fur- riers, members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Thursday, in Irving Plaza Hall, right after [work, All should come, «