The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1930, Page 1

: Reni a ae eee = Protest Representatives of the 110,000 March 6 Dem- onstrators by Being at Bronx Coliseum To- night at 7 p.m. Make Your Against the Rai ading to Jail of the Demands For Work or Wages Felt by the Tam- many Chiefs Who Flout Your Hunger. ee Ba Enter as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act ef March 3. 1879. Vol. VEL, No. 322. ‘Subtsbet dutty Union Square, unday by The Comprodaily Publishing gg New York City, N. Y. » NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION : In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail $6.00 per yenr. Reverend Thomas Defends PRISONERS Al) Enemy ot Arab CHINESE REVOLT Whalen’s “Right” to Club Unemployed Workers The present unemployment movement led by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League has already brought into activity about one sixth of the 7,000,000 unemployed workers in this country, as well as many employe. Frantically the spokesmen for capit very few day: that the employment situation is gettin » New York Board of Trade announced that it has discovered a “decided improve- ment” in the employment situation. This lie can be added to the lies that have come repeatedly from the White House and the U. S. Department of Labor. ism @ Meantime the situation grows worse, with about 200,000 more workers added to the army of unemplpyed cach month, The serious financial papers, published for the information of capitalists, admit more or less frankly that the situation is getting worse and will continue to get worse. The N nal of Commer » decrease in building from Janu and a decrease of 50 per cent from same capitalist paper, quoting figures gi Corporation, showed that in the metrove of New York during the week ending March 14, the building ing work con- tracted for showed a decrease of 34 per cent from the same time last year. The production of ingots by the U. S. Steel Corporation shows a drop of 17 per cent below last year, wh e independent steel pro- ducers show a decrease of 2314 per cent from last year. The Cleveland Trust Company Business Bulletin of March 15 shows that the usual seasonal increase in automobile production at this time is negligible and that “it seems probable that the March output will be relatively low.” nn Monday admitted by two per cent, ast year, Yesterday the on out by the F. W. Dodge But the capitalist authorities continue to lie to the workers about “decided improvement” which they admit among themselves is a lie. The peculiar characteristic of all methods fighting the unemployed workers is that they all try to prevent any action by the working class itself. For instance, the canitalist police arrested days to send to the penitentiary the Committe hy more.than 100,000-workers at Union Sq their demands on unempl At the Board of Estimate meeti on the subject of unemployment on March 14, when the unemployed workers’ committee appeared to make their demands, the Reverend Norman Thomas, leader of the So- cialist Party, together with his follower, Louis Waldman, openly re- quested the mayor to arrange a conference on unemployment to which, he requests, the elected representatives of the unemployed workers should not be admitted. The capitalist mayor gladly complied with the request. Next, we find the yellow socialist Abraham Shiplakoff proposing yesterday to turn the whole question of unemployment over to the po- lice! Shiplakoff, speaking for the So: st Party (social-fascists) and the corapany unions under its domination, proposes to give the police department a free reign to conduct what he ca “census of unem- ployment,” which is intended, of course, merely as a scheme for police registration, ter: ism and suppression of all activity of these unem- ployed worke Very nice, Mr. Shinlakoff! Arrest all whom the work- ers elect to represent them, and then let the police represent the workers! Ard now the capitalist press is giving enormous publicity to a petition drawn up by these same yellow “socialists,” headed by Nor- man Thomas, which was signed by 95 other petitioners, which purports to demand the removal of Police Commissioner Whalen, the Wall Street thug who was in direct charge of the violent attack of the po- lice against the unemployed workers’ demonstration. This ts intended to give the appearance that the Reverend Thomas is in some way and expect within a few of Five that was elected con March 6 to present ment to the city government. taking sides with the unemployed workers against the Wall Street police. But, as the workers’ committee declared at the New York Board stimate’s hearing, the Reverend *Thor and his associates are only the “political undereover men” of the capitalists against the working class. Even a glance at the so-called petition of the Reverend Thomas sho that this crew of yellow traitor s not one word on behalf of the workers, but on the contrary endorses the clubbing of the unemployed at Union Square on March 6, and particularly takes the nosition that Whalen had a “right” to suppress the demonstration of the workers and to deny them the right to public streets and squares. For, Thomas said in his petition, that: . . « instead of confining themselves to preventing, AS THEY HAD A RIGHT TO PREVENT, the parade the commis- sioner refused to permit,” the police “charged down on thousands of people who were at a dis- tance removed from the point on which the parade was being organized, WHO HAD NO INTENTION OF PARTICIPATING IN IT AND WHO WERE WITHIN THEIR RIGHTS IN BEING WHERE THEY WERE.” The words which we have emphasized here, show that Thomas is pt blicly trying to establish that the police “had a right to prevent” the use of the streets to the unemployed workers, and that Thomas’ only criticism of the police is that they *attacked “people who. . . had no intention of participating in” the unemployment demonstra- tion. Thomas continues: “This exhibition of police brutality during which INNO- CENT MEN AND WOMEN were indiscriminately clubbed and beaten for no reason at all Bec! —showing that Mr. Thomas will not defend the right of the workers to protest against unemployment, declaring them “guilty” of a crime for so doing, and defends only the “innocent” persons who were not “guilty” of being in the workers’ demonstration. The police, accord- fng to him, should have “discriminately” clubbed only the members of the working class who were in the demonstration. It is clear that the workers’ movement has a more dangerous enemy in the social-fascists, Norman Thomas, Abraham Shiplakoff and Joseph A. Ryan, than in the uniformed police thugs. Perhaps the Reyerend Thomas sees himself a candidate for appoifitment as a “dis- criminating” police commissioner, who would suppress the workers for the bosses in the fashion of the bloody-handel “socialist” chief of police, Zoergiebel, of Berlin. What can the workers depend upon in this struggle? They can and must depend only upon their own working class or- ganizations, led by their own class party, the Communist Party, and the Trade Union Unity League, in bitterest struggle against the capitalist class, the capitalist government and the capitalist class's political underegver men, the social-fascists of the Socialist Party and the A. F. of Ds bureaucracy. Organization and activity of the whole working class must be the" watch-word of today! We are already at the beginning of a wave of organization in this country as has not been seen before in 50 years. The organization of unemployed councils. must be pushed forward with utmost energy, mobilizing both employed and unemployed work- evs. Behind the demand for Work or Wages, social insurance against EMONSTRATION WORKERS MASS AT BRONX COLISEUM TONIGHT! FIGHY FOR WORK OR WAGES: DEMANL REEDOM FOR YOUR COMMITTE Delegates Elected to Present Demands to Tammany Government fro. 110,000 Demonstration in Union Square Will Report to Workers MINE STRUGGLE _ IN MOUNDSVILLE \Muste Gang Quarrels'| workers and peasants in Palestine, jon Question of Found- | ing One More Union Leader Accepts Walker |A.F.L. Supports Lewis | and His Coal Bosses MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Mar. 18. | * * * —The story of the courageous strug- | miners On) LONDON, March 18.—Yesterday | | gle of the 1,000 coal strike here and in Powhatan, O., | since February 2, has seeped thru the walls of the Moundsville State Penitentiary here. From the prisoners has just come the sum of $89.92 as a contribution to the strikers’ relief fund, The |sum was accumulated from the pen- | allowed the prisoners from their | work on contract products. In the penitentiary are four living symbols ‘of the worl ‘uggles—Frank Brobot, Alex Chessman, John M. | Lynch and Lawrence Allen, who are |serving terms of varying length for | activity in the militant labor move- ment. Brobot, a coal miner, is now serv- ing a term of from five to seven years in the penitentiary here, after being framed up on a dynamiting | charge during the 1928 strike in| Triadelphia, W. Va. under the leadership of the “Save-the-Union” forerunner of the National Miners Union, which is conducting the pres- ent struggle. The men in Moundsyille and Pow- hatan, across the river, are fighting a wage cut, instituted by the J. A. Paisley Company, which would re- duce rates for loaders from 51 cents a ton to 45 cents, for the recognition of the N.M.U. pit committee, check- weighman, and for a series of other (Continued on Page Three) SENATE BARS REBEL WRITINGS Votes to Deny Entity to Revolutionary Papers BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—The senate adopted today, by a vote of 54 to 24 an amendment to the tariff bill which forbids the importation of revolutionary literature. The amendment states, in part: that there shall be pro- hibited “any book, pamphlet, writing, advertisement, circular print, picture or drawing contain- ing any matter advocating or urging treason, insurrection or forcible resistance to any law of the United States... °” Further items of the same amendment prohibit whatever a special court may class as “ob- scene” and anything that may be used for birth control. |. WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 18.— |Realization that the Grundy “gentle- ‘men’s agreement” in the senate has |made inevitable the eauctment of |the highest tariff rates the country has ever borne, and that the added |burden on American consumers will be between $800,000,000 and $1,000,- | 000,000, has finally come to head- quarters of the American Federation of Labor. The Woll-Flynn high- tariff lobby, co-operating with the Grundy lobby, has been more than successful, The added burden to consumers from Schedule K alone— | between $50,000,000 and $75,900,000. n short, the cost of living for every | Wage earner’s family is going up, and Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A.F.L., has been one of the most active lobbyists for high tariff. When these new tariff rates take effect the weekly earnings of every wage earner in America will buy lless goods. From sugar to furniture | the pinch will be felt, the wool schedule—is estimated at | Masses for a i ae SS SPREADS; POLISH, LONDON, March 18.—The Anglo- ‘TROOPS M UTI N Y Jewish Association, which supports | Kuomintang Soldiers Join Red Guerillas | in Shansi Rising | British imperialist murder of Arab | today issued a resolution backing the war plans of the imperialist powers against the Soviet Union “on religi- ous grounds.” —_—— Their support of war maneuvers | i ies i S, against the Soviet Union is based no Polish Spies in USSR. more “on religious grounds,” than the support of British imperialism in Palestine, which is a move to de- | prive the Arab masses of their land. | | } | | Repressive Law (BULLETIN.) Peking dispatches Tuesday stated that local authorities, act- ing under the orders of Yen Hsi- shan of Shansi province, had taken over all government offices and affairs supposedly controlled by the Nanking “government” of Chiang Kaishek. The dispatch states, with unconscious humor, that “the action implied a very definite widening of the breach “between Chiang Kai-shek and the Shansi Kuominchun generals head- ed by Yen. It also implies an offensive by the British-Japanese Henderson Helps. |in the House of Commons attac demonstrators. |against the Soviet Union continued, | with the so-called religious issue re- ceding in the back-ground and the more open, war issues taking the jupper hand. Sir Kingsley Wood, |conservative. questioned Arthur Hen |derson, “lal xr” foreign minister, if \he could not bring pressure to bear jon the League of Nations, under |article XI in order to unite the im- \perialist powers for war on the | workers republic. Henderson reply- | jing, said that he didn’t think the work or wages. ag L ff Nati t this ti controlled clique against the ueague 0 ations, at ‘is time,| American-Nankin ag | i y could take up the matter. Hender- | sa iN = Loci the delegates of the jobless. son expressed sympathy with the| |war maneuvers against the Soviet | (Wireless By Inprecorr) SHANGHI, Mar. 18.—Red guerilla hess Pree troops have occupied Anfu inj veice of thousands at the Coliseum tonight. bone eee oma |Shansi province. Two Kuomintang Can't Hide Imperiatism’s Hand. | regiments mutinied, killing their | ROME, March 18.—Chagrined at | officers. Nanking dispatched a pu- his failure to rally the great mass | nitive force consisting of three of workers in the capitalist lands, | monitors and considerable infantry many of whom are suffering acute-|The local peasant formations ar (Continued on Page Three) | Supporting the mutineers. The gov- |ernment troops show a. disinclination the thr the m at mittee, beat and slugged the jobles: | Tens of thousands of workers will mobilize in Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. River, tonight at 7 p. m. to hear the report of the committee elected by 110,000 March These fighting unemployed and striking workers elected Foster, Minor, Ar- ter, Raymond and Lesten to take to the city hall their demand on the boss The capitalist city government has flouted the demands, jailed the cor and jeered at their starvation. This meeting will consider whatever reply the Tammany lords have chosen to make their declaration that they will not starve but fight, and will register a mighty prote:. st Walker’s plan to continue dancing over their misery. certain terms that the Tammany court of special sessions, which has their committee befor it Monday, with intent to sentence it after a farce of a trial to years in prison, reconsidc: that decision and free the committee. The committeemen will speak in persen, all five of them. and rumors that Tammany police commissioner and bosses’ newspapers have released agains German Workers Fight Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond, Lesten Will Announce City’s Rep x to the Unemployed; Were Jailed for Representing Jobless and Brox ’ government f They will demand in no ur: They will bl the lic They will outline the plans for newer and more powerful prc employment called by the Trade Union Unity League for Mai to attack the revolutionists. | * * * | Polish Conscripts Mutiny. | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | | WARSAW, Mar. 18.—Three hun- dred recruits, travelling to join regi- |ments at Vilna, demonstrated con- | | hegre | tinuously at all stations against the |Slander, Threats, Used| (Continued on Page Three) by Washington Police Under the eye of President Hoover | | police shot tear gas into the crowd | | of demonstrators before the White | 6 | House, demanding work or wages for the unemployed. — But before this, a campaign "4 7 « jo started which continaes to: thie day, (CCC Notoriety and Big Graft in Washington of trying to intimidate the workers and particularly to split the Negro WASHINGTON, Mar. 18.—Sena- to give instructions to his fi announced here today. Meanw Valentin S. union center, Rubio government is still on. workers from the white workers. | tries of in America. lackey of Wall Street, is shown in the so-called “stern measures taken in an effort to prevent Thurs day’s action, Seven alleged “agi- tators” name: given as: Fernando Delago There were police threats to beat | tor Wagner, of New York, bosom any workee who tried to speak. | friend of Walker and Whalen, who " -olice and their plain clothes | 110,000 workers at the March 6 |i, in dread of a general strike ir (Continued on Page Three) demonstration, today said before states ; strike movement made by, appar- than at any time in the history of | ently, some leaders of the chauf- point is precisely that of Walker cow” was behind the movement in and his Tammany Hall grafters, who | Cuba and that demonstrations had | NEWARK, N. J., March 18,—At crawl into the limelight on the un-| The fear of the fascist govern- a ‘meeting of the Unemployed Coun-|¢™ployment issue is the so-called’ ment of Machado, the despicable t the M 6 | workers, will appear before the sen- Wee cane, th unemployment | ate committee so that How may meeting of the Commissioners to-| | morrow (Wednesday) and present a representative of the Young Pion- workers will be held Friday, March | Sati ; ) } Bi, at which the delegation ‘will ve, “4180 Fiction That Last Cent Taken for Food | Street at 2 p, m. (Police permits to the unemployed | slugged and beat unemployed work- or to militant workers to speak arejers at the orders of the big bos 4 f volving all industrial, commercia! | zs the Senate Commerce Committee) anq public utilities in Cuba, inf spite NEWARK JOBLESS that the unemployment situation in i | the country. feurs, street car and railway men. | H Lots of Graft. | The dispatch states that the se- j | Wagner is not at all interested in cret service had discovered (!) that the unemployed worker. |Delegation to'See Com |tried to “laugh off” the demands of |“been ordered not only for this but | missioners the jobless workers. | for all other Latin American coun- ‘cil today, it was decided that fie | contre ly yen a rh | delegation of eight elected by thou-|—the Barnum of the flop houses. | thrown down the steps of city ball, [eye the ees gr Peeing, tis name | when they wanted to present the |" the papers, cae ‘Raymond Tells of March In the delegation there are two| ye e on City Hall; In Crowd |eers, the Communist Party and the pat ah Trade Union Unity League. port on the presentation of the de- mands to the Commissioner. The never granted.) and arrested the leaders, elected by |:nat the Cuben fascist government the United States is more severe | nite’ ee, scenaek” to the His view- “the Third International in Mos- Pe Another publicity seeker trying to | tries.” sands of workers who were present | ow, together with 25 unemployed jobless demands, would go to the Negro workers, one woman worker, A mass meeting of unemployei| Blasts Whalen’s Tie ‘About Brattice Runni meeting will be held at 93 Mercer Another member of the commit-;a band of armed thugs and stool- tee, elected by 110,000 workers at! pigeons with his hand in his left- the March 6 demonstration against} pocket, undoubtedly holding it on a unemployment, must be summoned against the ruling class. tonight. New York workers must The second tremendous unemployment demonstration for New York City will be held at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th Street and Bronx River, unemployment, Harry Raymond, on! gun. He extremely nervous being interviewed by the Daily Work-' when he er, said: | “I am a member of the Marine ers demanding Work or Wages. | Workers League, and was elected on Foster talked for the committee, I the committee by the 110,000 work- ed him one question: I said some- was the mass pressure of the workers jam the hall to the doors. At this | Vera, Teodoro Roman Sanchez, An-| y a committee represent- | ing thousands of unemployed work-} meeting the committee of the unemployed will report back to the work- ers the insolent answer of the capitalist government of New York and will make proposals for the next step in action, ‘ ers who took part in the demonstra- time in the summer Mayor Boess of tion. When we went in to see Whalen | Berlin, who later was thrown out the brave ‘hero’ was suftounded by, (Continued on Page Three) MARCH 20 UNEMPLOYED DAY IN LATIN AMERICA General Strike Looms in Cuba as Red Unions) | Call Workers to Battle Bosses’ Attack BULLETIN. MEXICO CITY, March 18.—Hoover will visit Mexico in person ist office-hoy, Ortiz Rubio, it was le, the hunger strike declared by Campa, general secretary of the Confederacion Sindical thirty other revolutionary workers imprisoned by the fascist Hoover- : d "|tonio Chao Lopez, Havana dispatches Tuesday stated | {Nie Chao lopez, are already arrested, their | } the revolutionary trade Unitaria de Mexico, and 1 ao Lopez, Joaquin Landeria eyva, Joaquin Faus Rodriguez, Antonio Perez Lopez and Miguel ‘e Busto Garcia. Apparently, the general strike movement is not only against un- employment, which the government does nothing to solve or relieve the distress, but is joined with a fight against the “suspension” of the Na- tional Confederation of Labor and the Havana Labor Federation, a re- ive action taken by the govern- ment last week. In a flaming manifesto calling on the workers of all Cuba for a coun- ter-offensive against the bosses and the imperialist lackey government, the National Confederation depicts the terrible effects of rationaliza- tion (speed-up) of the machinery of (Continued on Page Three) All Jobless Councils Arrange MeetsToday ' Today the candidates for the Labor Jury, and members of the Unemployed Councils will meet at 2 o'clock sharp at the central headquarters of the Unemployed Council, 13 West 17th St. Unemployed Meetings in Manhattan, Marine Workers League, 1 p. m. today, 140 Broad St. 27th East 4th St., 11 a. m. 336 Lenox Ave. 2 p. m. | Jobless Meets in Bronx. | 1330 Wilkins Ave. 1 p.m, In Brooklyn. 105 Thatford Ave, 1 p.m. | After these meetings, all job- less workers will assemble at the | central headquarters, 17th St. to organize for the! mass protest demonstration to-; night at the Bronx Coliseum | {177th St. and Bronx River. er | 18 West | test against unemployment, for organization of the jobless and the workers together in : battle for common ends. “The fight goes on,” is the slogan of the committee, and will be tk All workers should come, the battle is on! Refuting with facts the lies of worried capitalist apologists that unemployment is dc easing, rejecting the swarm of fakers with all manner of quack “remedies” and “socialist soft soap about having the police “take a census of the jobless,” and entirely unafraid of a and class revenge of the bosses’ police, the Unemployed Movement is organizin; s who demonstrated on March 6, in preparation for the National Conference on Un rch 29 in New York City. ) In every city where Unen ployed Councils are forme: jand growing enormously as : result of the March 6 Fighting Day Demonstrations, prepara tions are being made not only to unite the Unemployed Counci executives with the employed work- |ers through joint Committees of | Action representative of the Coun- jcils and of local T. U. U. L. red | trade unions and minority leagues jas well as all A. F. of L. and other unions supporting the demands for “Work or Wages,” but to send dele- gates to the March 29th conference. The conference will outline plans for further intensification of the fight for immediate relief for the On March 20, the workers of all Latin America are expected to fol- | Unemployed, social insurance, the low the example set by the masses of Europe and America on March 6, | Struggle against speed ups, wage the Latin American Trade Union Confederation with headquarters at | Cuts and mass dismissals, for full Montevideo, Uruguay, having late in January set March 20 for mass|time pay for part-time work, the demonstrations and strikes against unemployment throughout all coun-|Seven-hour day and the five-day | week and | other | movement. demands of the The bosses will be given to un- derstand that the March 6 demon- ‘ strations did not end, but only be- gan the fight of the whole work- ing class against the capitalist sys- tem of misery, starvation and war. The Unemployed Councils of New York are at present engaged in electing a Labor Jury to render a verdict upon the class vengeance trial of the delegation of five elect- ‘ed by the 110,000 demonstrators of March 6, the unemployed also are preparing a local conference pre- paratory to the National Conference of March 29. Yesterday was marked by the an- nouncement that Whalen and an- other watchdog of the bosses, Dis- trict Attorney McLoughlin, are studying transcripts of the speeches made at the Bronx Coliseum on Sunday, snooping for “sedition” which they say they'll “report to the federal authorities.” Demand Jury Trial. District Attorney Crain w with papers by Joseph Brodsky, at torney for the committee of the un- employed, yesterday, ordering him to show cause in S jmorning as to why the case of Fos- ter, Amter, Minor, Raymond and Lesten should not be changed from |Special sessions, where there is no |jury trial, to general sessions, where it is possible to get a jury. The order was signed by Justice | McCook on the argument of the de- fense that the conduct of the three special sessions judges Friday show- fed that they would not give a fair trial. Another development exposes the | slimy character of the cialist” |party and A. F. of L. leaders who | all by themselves created an “emer- (Continued on Page Three)