The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 3

Page Three = SOFIA, Bulgaria (By Inprecorr Press Service)—The trial of 10 members of the anti-war committee commenced here today. The accused represent the legal mass organiza tions of the Bulgarian workers, the workers’ party, the independent trade unions, the young workers’ league and a number of large fac- tories, and have already been in prison awaiting trial for over six months. They are accused of having con- ducted an action against the exist- ing order of society on the August 1 last year at the instructions of Moscow, Under paragraphs 6 and \ of the Law for the Protection of he State they are liable to form ive to eight years hard labor. Their crime is that they organized anti-war demonstrations which took place despite prohibition and de- spite police terror. ‘Luise Michel — Heroic BULGARIA, SIGNER OF KELLOGG PACT, JAILS ANTI-WAR COMMITTEE Court Refuses Workers Who Demonstrated 1st of August Right Even to Read Kellogg Pact | Fears Workers Who Don’t Trust CapitalistWar Makers to End Wars, Who Mobilize Masses One of the chief accused, Petkov ers’ Party, marched at the headj of the demonstration in Sofia carry-| ing a red -flag. Boyadyen a member of the execu. tive committee of the independent trade unions and chief editor of their | official organ. | The accused demanded that al jnumber of prominent witnesses | should be called in order to give | evidence as to the real danger of | |war and to the fact that the August Hl 1 demonstration against war was international. | The court rejected the demands | and also refused a motion that the | |Kellogg Pact should be read. Com- | rades Ganka M. Masheva, the editor | of the “Working Woman” and N. W. Lenkov, the editor of the “Am- nesty,” are also amongst the ac- cused, ON WITH THE FIGHT FOR Napekov, the secretary of the Work- |- Another of the accused is Assen Fighter of the Paris Commune (1830-1905) “I give my heart, niy life to the revolution.” Luise Michel has been called the soul of the Paris Commune. Ever fighting at the head of the masses, Luise Michel joined the 61st battalion of the National Guard, when the Com- mune was proclaimed, Side by side with her fellow workers, Luise | Michel fought heroically on the barricades of Pa NEW LIES TO KID THE UNEMPLOYED Expose New Campaign of Prosperity Bunk (Continued from Page One) period of the year. This is uncon- tradicted by capitalist statisticians and economists During March the steel industry usually reaches its highest point of production. What is happening @ MASS @ Demonstration Work or Wages at 7 Wed.Mar.19 p- m. Bronx Coliseum 177th STREET and BRONX RIVER . Speakers: WM. Z. FOSTER ROBERT MINOR ISRAEL AMTER JOE LESTON HARRY RAYMOND and OTHERS ll 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! I 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 | now? For the past three weeks there has been a constant drop aver- | aging from four to five per cent of | capacity! Auto production is drop- ping below 50 per cent of last year’s production? Are ‘these signs of “prosperity ?” The Journal of Commerce, Wall Street mouthpiece, in an article headed “Declining Tendency of Steel Output Still Noted,” (March 17, 1980) says: “It is probable that the figures pertaining to the rate of ingot at the middle of next week will show further declines. It is re- ported from Youngstown, for in- stance, that starting this week operations will be 4 per cent low- | er, to a general average for the district of 65 per cent.” What about the building industry? During 1929 there was a drop of 13 |per cent in building activity below |1928. During 1930 the drop is con- tinuing, in spite of the low money rates, in spite of the extraordinary efforts of all the state and national government agencies, and in spite of the thousands of promises by rail- roads and public utilities to increase their building programs. Building contracts for February, 1930, show a drop of 50 per cent be- Yow last year, according to ‘S. W. Straus & Co., from reports from 572 principal cities and towns in 48 states. The Journal of Commerce thinks it is “distressing to note from these data the continued downward trend of building operations.” No amount of lying by Hoover and the entire capitalist press can jhide the fact that the crisis is |sharpening and that unemployment will grow. It is no accident that these lies increase in number and degree im- mediately after more than 1,250,000 workers demonstrated on March 6, under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party and Trade Union Unity League, demanding Work or Wages. iis campaign of perversion and il- lusion is the bosses’ attempt to fool the unemployed workers and quiet them down with empty words. But it will feed none of them. With the worsening of the crisis and the growth of the unemployed army way beyond the 7,000,000 now exist- ing, the fight for Work or Wages will grow sharper, more determined. The militant workers everywhere must expose the new lies of the bosses and their government. * Greek Unemployed in Battle ATHENS, Greece (By Inprecorr Press Service)—In Salonika this morning a crowd of unemployed to- bacco workers collected in front of the tobacco factory Vix and forced their way into the workshops. Hur- riedly summoned police made two arrests, but the remaining workers commenced work in the factory. In the end police reinforcements eject- ed the workers from the building, Tn the afternoon about a thousand unémployed workers collected in front of the factory of the Austro- Greek tobacco company. Police ar- rived and were stoned by the work- ers when they tried to disperse the crowd. Only after the police had used their revolvers did the workers disperse. Later on similar scenes occurred in front of the Hadijgeorgiu tobacco works where a number of police were badly mauled. Mounted rein- forcements attacked the workers and a bitter struggle took place during the course of which a number of po- lice were dragged from their horses and thrashed. Thirteen workers were arrested and maltreated, production in the United States | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930 | Strikers and Sympathiz WORKERS: CORRESPONDENCE - FROM THE MUSTEITES PLAN SELL-OUT, STRIKERS FIGHT ON ABERLE ers in Kensington Sec- | tion of Phila, Battle Scab Gunmen and Police Pay No Attention to Full Fashioned Hosiery | Fakers Appeals for “Law and Order” (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA.—W hile the} |treacherous officials of the Ameri- can Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, Muste controlled U.T.W., are making a hard attempt for “peaceful” settlement with | Aberle and other bosses, the disord- ers in Kensington and Germantown ‘continue unabated. The scabs by | their use of guns have aroused the | entire working class of Kensington. On Monday, March 10, battles oc- curred throughout the entire north- eastern and Germantown sections, Monday evening at about 5 p. m. the Director of Public Safety, Scho- field, himself, derby hat and ail came up to see the pickets at the |Aberle plant. Thousands of work- |ers, sympathizers of the strikers | had gathered to watch the 200 po- | lice “protect” the scabs. Two pri- vate detectives probably hired by | Aberle started a fist fight to im- {press the great man. Immediately a riot in which 5,000 people partici- |pated took place, even the director being shoved about. The scabs were |Jeered and hissed by the strike sym- |pathizers. The police immediately |got into action for the scabs, and the strikers and their sympathizers | (By «@ Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA.—In the Ken- sington and Port Richmond sections, where unemployment as well as low | wages and speed-up and part-time work are severest, parents are forced to send children to school | without breakfasts, and also without luncheons after the noon recess, —_| | Also many children come to school | | (By @ Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—Amongst the 23 chain store concerns showing an increase on the average of 7 per |cent in the month of January, 1930, | over the month of January, 1929, is Sears, Roebuck & Co., conducting a | national business. A short while ago the Philadelphia branch of this colossal concern fired | hundreds of men who had been working seven and eight years in} to receive the company bonus. Sears, | Roebuck & Co. therefore, saved (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA. — The Curtis- Martin Company, owners of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the | Philadelphia Ledger and the New) York Evening Post have now pur- chased the Philadelphia Inquirer, the largest morning paper in the city | of Philadelphia. Newsboys have been informed that in the future the sale of both | the Inquirer and the Ledger will be | in the hands of just one newsboy | at each corner, Thus hundreds of | newsboys selling the Inquirer sepa- | rately will be deprived of the $6, had to fight in self-defense against the scabs and police. Many arrests of innocent workers were made, At the same time a battle took place at the Rodgers Hosiery Mill in Germantown about eight miles distance. Here 80 additional arrests were made. In a battle Tuesday night, Eighth and Venango Sts., between scabs and sympathizers of the strikers at the Aberle plant, 15 were injured and 10 were shot by a scab, Peter Marpone. The police did not get the best of it until many patrols full of reserves arrived. These reserves brutally at- tacked the workers, whose number had now grown to 1,000, The workers are not being Nti- midated by the scabs and gunmeitg | guns or by the “impartial” brutal tactics of the police against them. Neither are they listening to the | statements issued by Emil Rieve, president of the union, for “law and order.” They are determined to win the strike and already many scabs have quit working for the speed-up kings and wage-cut dukes of the hosiery industry, Aberle, Rodgers and others, —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. DELEGATES OF at | 110.000 PLACE THEIR DEMANDS Huge Protest Meeting Tomorrow at Coliseum (Continued from Page One) whatsoever. No overtime work shall |be allowed. A general law provid- ing for the seven hour day and five day week shall be proposed to the State legislature. “5.—All city officials and poli officers responsible for and parti eipating in the brutal and bloody attack upon unemployed demon- stration on March 6 shall be dis- missed and punished, beginning with | Whalen who was personally respon- | sible for the attack. | “6.—The blacklis ing of workers or their political opinions or union activities shal} be immediately pro- hibited and all attempts at such blacklisting shall be rigorouly | punished. | Free The Streets. “7.—The streets and squares of the city shall be declared open and free for all workers’ meetings and demonstrations, | “8,—Free unemployment agencies trol of the workers. “9.—All workers arrested for rep- resenting the unemployment move- ment or for participating in unem- ployment demonstrations shall be immediately and unconditionally re- leased. “In presenting these demands, which the delegation will report to the councils of unemployed at the mass meeting in Bronx Coliseum, |March 19, at 8 o'clock, the delega- tion warns the workers to have no lillusion that the city government | will grant these measures of partial shall be established under the con- | Wall Street Bankers Start Big Rail Merger; More Jobless R.R. Men | WASHINGTON, March 17.--The |Interstate Commerce Commission has not been asleep on the job since it recently proposed a giant merger of United States railroads into unified systems. i authorized the New tral I e control of the Fede Co. of | Ohio. The F oly one {of a number of short lines which the New York Central was to take over as t of its own merger program. | practical steps towards realizing the dream of the rail mag- 1 the Wall Street govern- ment h already been undertaken. The complete realization of these merger plans in the immediate fu- | ture will throw at least 500,000 rail workers out of work in addition to {the 250,000 that have already been dropped from the industry in the last 10 years, due to improved methods and machinery. nates | Letters to the Boss Press Exposes Lies (Continued from Page One) I show them to people and prove what liars your newspapers are. “You wouldn’t dare go into Russia today and say any of the things said here to their faces.” ce Nails Whalen’s Lies. Another letter in the World, dated March 14, si “It is my opinion that the Com- jmunist leaders did not deliberately provoke the riot in Union Square, as |I was standing at No. 41 Union Square and saw the whole thing. “A young man struck a policeman and started to run. Another officer gave chase and caught him. The young man tried to explain and ran again. He was caught and this time produced a small, brown leather case and showed the officer a detective’s TODAY IS 58TH “ANNIVERSARY OF "PARIS COMMUNE First Workers State Established in 1871 (Continued from Page One) armed power... .” “Thus,” wrote Engels, “since the 18th of March, the class character of the Parisian movement, Witnert’ forced into the background by the struggle against the foreign inva- sion, came sharply and clearly to the fore. Just as in the Commune there sat almost exclusively work- ers or recognized representatives of the workers, so their decisions also bore a decidedly proletarian char- acter All this, however, could, only begin to be realized ged city. And from the beginning of May, all energies were claimed by the struggle against the ever increasing masses of the col- lected army of the Versailles gov- ernment.” The heroic Communards were struggling against the greatest dif- ficulties. They had committed seri- ous blunders in allowing the bour- geoisie to rally their forces; they had hesitated to begin the civil war against the treacherous bourgeoisie, although Thier had already begun the civil war against the workers by attempting to disarm them, THe Commune was overwhelmed by num- bers, Only after an eight-day ‘struggle did the last defenders of the Com- mune succumb on the heights of |Belleville and Menilmontant; and now the murder of defenseless men, women and children whieh raged the whole week through in increasing proportions, was started by the bourgeoisie. Phila. Jobless Workers Kids Starving | relief, although they arg well within without sufficient clothing and shoes | the material possibilities now exist- worn out. jing. Only by the way of revolution- This section of Philadelphia is the | ary mass action can the workers conter of the textile industry and |fight for these immediate demands, also contains large metal plants and |as well as fight against the whole tanneries. capitalist system with its inevitable The capitalist press of this city | consequences of crisis and unem- has as yet not seen fit to print any- | ployment. Only by the establish- thing at all about these investiga-| ment of a workers’ and farmers’ tions now being conducted. |government, a Soviet state, such as —WORKER. list society in the Union of Socialist joviet Republics can the workers |now is successfully building social- | |badge. I believe that this action! The working class of the world really caused the riot. will not forget the crimes of the “The boy was a young man with a|bourgeoisie. The toilers of Russia young-looking face, wearing a gray |did not fail to learn the lessons of cap, a blue overcoat and a brown|the Paris Commune. . .The Com- suit, and he couldn’t have been more|munards made many serious and than eighteen or nineteen years of |costly mistakes. But they did not age. He had an exceedingly hard|have a Communist Party, steeled time trying to explain to the officer |and disciplined, to guide their strug- until he showed the badge.” |gle against the French capitalists. i (Editor’s note—In regard to the| The Communards made the. seri- above letter, the basic fact remains !°US political error of not seizing the éiait ‘ .|Bank of France. They failed to that the capitalist city government| e of New York had a conscious policy |™arch on Versailles when the reac- Firing Hundreds, Sears-Roebuck Profits Soar fi huge sums of money, as in nearly all departments they retained only new employes working at lower wages and under the speed-up sys- tem. These men are now walking the streets, unable to secure work of any kind. In discussing the matter one of them referred to the dis- charge as a “dirty trick.” “No, this is.not a dirty trick, this is ‘effi- | o replied an alert-minded t ciency,’ worker. Mail-order workers. mus‘ various departments and were about | organize into the Trade Union Unity | League. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. Newspaper Merger Hits Phila. Newsboys jfinally solve the problem of unem- | o¢ answering the demand of the un- Pithe ‘meeting in Bronx Coliseum |*™Ploved workers for bread with . lied by the Communist Party, | violence. It was the conscious policy epee see it lactis id lof the capitalist government to pre- |the ‘Trade Union Unity league anc |vent the workers from using their by the Councils of Unemployed. | ignts to the streets, to march to arene at te tenes ic (the seat of the city government with | _ It follows closely the enthusiastic /their demands, ete. The complete rane ean oe er cance eg (Police mobilization (tear gus bombs, [ep enee u, |machine guns, etc.) was already a |the Soviet Union, where members | vocation for the clubbing which jof the committee also spoke on the | rotiowed. The’ democratic cloak | unemployment situation, and the big | hiding the capitalist dictatorship is ing calléd by. the International [Wane the 8p! : y Mi f the Pari |temoved, the government stands for- Deis teva kant nee the Paris |ward in all its naked ugliness as the [epee os - mM. tO- | armed fist of the bosses—the ex- Bail eee arn ctareeiasee read ELE jthe unemployed and em- ‘see 3 | ployed . |will be a rallying point for defense pee sas) jof the 1,118 workers arrested just | Mee eT o ; | before, after or during the March 6| {ALK to your fellow worker in | | meet | $7, $8 and sometimes $9 a week they |demonstration, at which the com- | your shop about the Daily tionary part of the Parisian Na- tional Guard had quit. the. fiéld. They did not win over the poor peasantry. They failed to rid them- selves of legalistic superstitions and respect for parliamentary forms, But the Communards learned right from the beginning that they must |destroy the capitalist state and buiid ja workers’ state. A | Such a workers state, a dictator- |ship of the proletariat, was fully |developed only in the Novémber Re- |volution in Russia and exists today in the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics. | All over the world, class-conscious jworkers will remember the Paris |Commune today; with fists clenched and steeled determination in their hearts, they promise the heroi¢ Com- munards to carry on the struggle. make working in rain, snow and cold as well as on sweltering sum- mer night, yelling their throats out | for bigger circulation through the early editions of these papers. They are required to work seven days a week for these miserable pittances. Most of these boys come from} workers’ families to whom cven these small amounts of money help to feed large families, where from | these families many of the parents | are unemployed or working at very | low wages. | —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. 31 Workers of Mexico Jailed; Hunger Strike backed by American imperialism in the “election” last November, was en route here today for Central mittee in New York was also ar- rested. in addition, numerous meetings of the unemployed and of the militant unions are being held to elect dele- gates to the New York City Con- ference of Unemployment, to be held March 27, just after the trial of the committee, in Manhattan Ly- ceum. All over the country, similar meetings are taking place to elect representatives to the National Con- ference on Unemployment, called by the T.U.U.L. and the Councils of ithe Unemployed, to meet in New § | York, March 29, These meetings elect labor jurors to try the capital- ist courts which plan to railrodd the committee. |The Paris Commune failed; but it lives in the great revolution of the | Russian proletariat. | Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to | become a regular subscriber. IMPORTANT WORK FOR AN ACTIVE COMRADE The Daily Worker needs a comrade who will take charge of daily sales at workers’ meetings, workers’ headquarters, needle trades market, other centers where workers congre- gate, up on the streets, factory gates, etc. If this work is properly organized including the securing of news boys and unemployed workers to assist, the comrade taking |] charge of it can make an average wage out of the proceeds. | America, where, he said, he would Jawait a “call from the Mexican people” to cross the border and lead (Continued from Page One) A series of protest meetings in the | industrial cities of the country, against the police attacks on the) Apply at Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. the assassination of twenty-five revolutionary worker and peasant leaders throughout the country, be- ginning with the murder of Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez and Hipolito Landeros, the jailing, exile and tor- ture of dozens of the best leaders of the workers, the manifesto of the Latin American Trade Union Con- federation states: “Confronting these facts, we ask that all workers stand up and fight for our brave brothers of Mexico. In all countries, you should carry out mass demonstrations in defense of the persecuted workers and in protest against the reactionary and criminal work of the social fascist | and traitorous government of Mex- ico. “Send telegrams and notes of protest to all the embassies and representatives of the fascist Mex- ican government from abroad, in order that the proletarian protest from all countries may be well docu- { mented and may echo throughout the world. “Comrades: For our brothers of | Mexico, all into the streets, all into action! “Down with the traitorous Chiang Kai-sheks of Mexico, Calles, Portes Gil, Ortiz Rubio! Death to imper- ialism and its lackeys! Long live the revolutionary and antt-imperial- ist proletariat of Mexico’ Long live the Unitary Trade Union Con-| federation of Mexico!” Vasconcelos the British Tool. SAN PEDRO, Cal., Mar. 17.—Jose Vasconcelos, once Mexican ambas- sador to Great Britain and the can- a revolt against the government of } Ortiz Rubio. “It is merely a change of address,” | said Vasconcelos, who fled from Mexico after the “election” of the choice of Wall Street, Ortiz Rubio, was “won” by the soldiery batring all voters except those supporting Rubio. “I will live in Guatemala, awaiting the moment to go into Mexico to start a revolution against Ortiz Rubio.” Southern Cotton By Myra Page March 6 demonstration continues. a eiceeencnieeenenenemamenanntees SMALL FARMS ON LONG ISLAND— $225 to $330 an acre. Well suited for raising poultry, vegetables, farming, mushrooms, flower gard ing, or that Bungtlow or Homes! with plenty of Innd. You buy o whole block for the price of a 1 Short ride to two beaches, one acre (17 city lots) for 8225 to #330 an acre, You can buy trom one acre to ten! acres, Write for pamphlet. POULTRY FARMS SALES COMPANY 188-15 Jamaica Ave. Jnmatca, N. Y. Phone Jnmaica 8065. Mills and Labor 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 ae and knows the situation at first hand. “SOUTHERN CO read by every worker in orde: ‘ON MILLS AND LABOR” should be r to understand what is back of the great struggles in the southern textile field.” —GRACK HUTCHIN « . The author performed & author of “Labor and Silk.” 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. derstanding are there, Sympathy and tn- but primarily it is an incision, sharp and merciless, by a scalpel with a Leninist edge.” Order WORKERS LIBRA 39 East 125th Street Discounte offered on. o didate backed by British imperial- ism against Ortis Rubio, candidate WILLIAM FL DUNNE. from RY PUBLISHERS New York City rders in quantity lots truck Men Fight! Cowards Starve! HONOR OUR WORKINGCLASS MARTYRS PARIS COMMUNE: Commemoration Meeting Auspices: International Labor Defense TONIGHT AT 8 O’CLOCK 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 LL.D. will preside A play: “THE PARIS COMMUNE” by the Workers Laboratory Theatre Music by Workers International Relief Band Admission 25 Cents