The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1930, Page 1

Yesterday the Pope Fanned the Religious Flame as Part of the Imperialist War Preparations Against the Soviet Union. While the Lon- don Navy Arms Race Smashes Over the Imperialist Rivalries, the War Plans of the Bosses Against the Workers’ Re- public Go on in Secret Meetings. Workers, Defend the Soviet Union. Daily Enter o an second-class matter at the Vost Uffice at New York. N. , under the act of Marah 3. 1 Published daily except Sunday by | Company. ine. 26-28 Union Square, Vol. VI » No. 324 © Comprodaily Publishing g%,, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Yo Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. $8.00 per "SOCIALISTS CALL BOSSES TO The Capitalist Senate Talks of “Obscenity” and Bars Working Class Literature The efforts of American capitalism to check the rising wave of working-class struggle, as seen by the vengeful persecution of the | Unemployed Delegation elected by the March 6 demonstration of 110,000 workers of New York C and the 1,188 arrests throughout the country, has another phase in the recent passage by the United States Senate of an amendment to the Tariff Bill, barring not only “obscene” but also “(reasonable” literature. It is not strange that the debate upon the amendment was entirely free from any talk about revolutionary literature, but dealt solely with so-called “obscene” worth remark that the most valiant fighter against ‘ was Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, since 1900 an “apostle” of the Mormon-Church, which has never repu- diated the Mormon “principle” of a plurality of wives, and the writings of which are equally obscene as many passages of the Christian bible. The fuss about “obscenity” is merely a camouflage to put over the bill to bar the revolutionary writings of the international Com- munist movement. Even the rantings of Smoot about “obscene” books, contained an admission that he had not read them. And the amend- ment he introduced, and which was passed by the Senate, opens sig- ficantly with the following first lines: “Prohibition of importation: All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country, any book, pamphtet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, pic- ture er dry e >”, containing any matter advocating or urging tre2son or insurrection against the United States, or forcible re- sistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or any obscene -book, pamphlet,” ete. The horse play in the Senate about “obscenity” is thus exposed as a mere blind for passage of legislation intended to deprive the American’ working class from perusing any literature which, in the opinion of capitalist authorities, might encourage “treason or insur- rection” or “forcible resistance to any law of the United States”— which can be construed by the watch-dogs of the capitalists to mean almost anything and everything in the line of radical and revolutionary literature. | ' | | Not long ago, in the campaign of the American working class in behalf of Nicaraguan independence, the All-America Anti-Imperialist League issued stamps affixed to letter mail bearing the slogan, “Get the Marines Out of Nicaragua,” and this was prohibited by the U. S. postal authorities on the ground. that these words were “obscene”— which illustrates what the capitalist government means by “obscene” literature. How much easier it will be for the customs collectors, armed with the new law, to bar all literature of the international workers’ movement can be seen by anyone. But the effort to isolate the American working class from the influence of the international revolutionary movement will fail. Bis- marck failed to suppress by such measures the growth of the so- cialist moverzent of Germany in the last century, and the Romanoff czars with all thejr rigorous censorship were unable to repress the revolutionary movement that finally swept czardom and capitalism alike into the dustbin of history and established the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Smoot amendment is a symptom of the effort of the bour- geoisie to prevent the American working class from learning that the revolutionary overthrowal of capitalism by the Russian proletariat has brought an end to the misery, starvation and anxiety suffered by workers in imperialist America; it is another of the phases of the “moral” preparation of the masses in capitalist countries for war against the Soviet Union, quite in line with the so-called “religious” campaign against the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States flatly declares that no literary quarantine will stop its work of educating and organizing the American proletariat for the revolutionary overthrowal of capi- talism in the United States. American capitalism cannot solve the crisis which compels wider and wider masses to take the path of proletarian revolution, nor can it prevent the gigantic but simple fact that the Soviet proletariat is building a socialist society from reaching the exploited and starvings millions of American workers, nor stop these workers from drawing conclusions therefrom. Just the same as the arrests and persecutions of the leaders of the Unemployed Movement has resulted in an intensified campaign of the American workers for the National Conference on Unemployment to be held in New York City on March 29, so all the censorships and repressions of the governmental watch-dogs of capitalism will not halt the Communist Party from carrying on its work. until a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government is established in the United States, ) 204 K E NTUC K |Mass Conference for Release of Jobless MINERS STR | K E Leaders March 23rd } International Labor Defense is hold- eat ae . ing a mass-defense conference on Western Pennsylvania ihadien va ibearet 23, at Miners Meet Sunday jIrving Plaza Hall, for the defense lof the unemployed delegation of |New York, and all oth loyed JENKINS, Ky., Mar. 20.—Nearly Pauls ues thats half of the 2,200 striking miners here in this company-owned town paraded through the streets of |ment for their activities in the move- Kentucky's model mining camp” ment which demands work or wages Monday night, The company per- [for the unemployed. pe hee Halbert, then All working-class organizations Superintendent |C. A. Reed has refused so far to see a committee of the strikers. The men struck Monday over an announced wage reduction, which the company, the Consolidated Coal Co., is representing as “merely a slight adjustment of wages in an effort to standardize the scale.” 7 eee PITTSBURGH, Pa, Mar, 20.— Two sub-district conferences of the western Pennsylvania district of the National Miners Union will be held on Sunday afternoon, March 23, at 2 o'clock. Delegates representing Allegheny Valley locals of the union | Fired in (By James W. Ford, Former Mem- ber of the Postal Workers Union of Chicago.) The number of postal employees will meet in New Kensington at 2 o'clock. At the same time another sub-district conference of the N. M. U. will be held in Russian Halli, Charleroi, At the latter conference delegates will be present from Mon- ongahela Valley locals from Finley- ville to Frederickstown. These conferences are preliminary to the western Pennsylvania district conference to be held in Pittsburgh on March 30, under the direction of ?Vincent Kemenovitch, District 5 sec- /xetary, of the aa: in the United States comprises ap- proximately 400,000 persons. The office postal employees and the city iletier carriers, numbering 197,000 men, are the most active elements. Next come the railway postal work- ers, but in view of the fact that they have better conditions and re- ceive higher wages, they make up the aristocratic section of the postal jemployees. The village lctter car- viers, numbering, about 46,000, are comprised chiefly “tf the village ele- |meuts, and ivecause of their. being MASS _ STRIKE TIES UP GUBAN INDUSTRY ‘Boss Press Admits at Least 200,000 Out in Demonstration |Defend the Red Unions | Protest Ban by Lackey of U.S. Imperialism | | levening indicated that the general \strike called by the National Con- federation of Labor and the Havana Federation of Labor had paralyzed throughout the “Yankee plantation” that is known as Cuba. Even the capitalist press admits that 200,000 workers struck at the call of the revolutionary National Con- federation, which is affiliated with the Red International of Labor Unions and also to the Latin Amer- ican Trade Unio Confederation, the latter body having called for dem- onstrations and strikes against un- employment throughout Latin Amer- | ica on Thursday. While the capitalist press admits that the strike is a proletarian pro- test against unemployment, the fact is concealed that the Cuba workers are also striking in protest at the fascist government of Machado, the | “presidential” lackey of Wall Street. lin “suspending” the National Con- federation of Labor and the Havana Federation. The industrial working class of Cuba comprises some 250,000 work- evs, with another 250,000 or more ‘agricultural wage workers, and thc influence of the National Confedera- \tion of Labor which has around 90,- 000 members is seen to be far wider |than its membership in the figur admitted by the capitalists, of ther being 200,000 ‘on strike. The strike was voted overwheli ingly by the members of the unions. and though the social-imperiali ; Pan-American Federation of Labc: has. some few traitors following among the Railroad Brotherhood, out of the 43 branches of this Brot! - (Continued on Page Three) LIBERATOR VITAL TO CONVENTION Must Raise. $1,000 in Ten Days’ Time Pointing out that the national con- vention of the American Negro La- bor Congress, June 6, 7 and 8, in St. Louis, Missouri, is only two months and a half away, Cyril|part in a demonstration against the | ‘Briggs, National Secretary of the Congress, makes an appeal for finan- onstration he was re-arrested and! cial support for the Liberator, offi- cial organ of the Congress, in order | tion Home. at 104th St. and Fifth | to enable it to effectively carry out, The New York District of the | its tasks in the preparation and | | building of the convention: | “To suspend publication at this |moment would be nothing less than la disaster,” says the appeal. | Convention Needs Press. | “It is clear that the convention jthem for support of the convention.” | Workers of all races are urged to | send contributions immediately: to ithe Liberator, 799 Broadway, Room must be represented by delegates.388, New York City. ‘Speed Up, Persecution, Men U. S. Postal Service Inspectors Dog Steps of Workers, Figure Ways; to Make Men Work Faster; Hard on Negroes) extremely scattered, do not play much of a role. The number of la- borers and unskilled workers, who |up till now were very few in num- bers, is beginning to grow, and with the introduction of capitalist ra- tionalization and the system of in- tensification of labor, these categor- ies are beginning to be of more sig- nificance, substituting for the more skilled ‘workers. Capitalist ration- alization is particularly severely af- fecting the labor and living condi- tions’ of the postal employees. The postal administration {s car- rying out capitalist rationalization at an intengfied rate. And it is due (Continued on Page Three) Havana dispatches early Thursday | Arms Building As Meet Shuts LONDON, March 20.—Though not officially announced, the Five-Power tonference ended some time ago, This fact is slowly trickling through | the capitalist press. | However, the final word has noi |been pronounced by the imperialist bandits because of the flood of “peace” propaganda which preceded th ie race-for-arms meet which was) intended to hide the rapid war build- ing that was the real object of the capitalist robbers at the London | meet. It is more difficult for them to cover their war rivalries, and their huge building programs now with |the complete collapse of the London ‘conference. Both MacDonald, for’ British im- |Perialism, and Stimson for American imperialism are in an etremely em- \barrassing situation because they have been issuing tons of propa- gandistic slop about all being jake in London, The fact is that every minute of he secret conferences was filled wit! ithe sharpest antagonisms and riva! ries, which were intensified ‘by the growing economic crisis. came out of the Rapidan meet last summer is now openly branded for (what it always was—namely, tripe —the sheerest imperialist maneuver- \iag to attempt to hoodwink the (Continued on Page Three) ISMAN GIVEN 5 YEARS BY COURT dass. Protest Saturday at Heckscher Home Harry Eisman, ung Pioneers member of the and the Young Commu nist been made a victim of the bosses’ ven- geance against the militant work- ers at the March 6 mass unem ployed demo nstra- tions. He was sentenced to five years in the Hawthorn Reformatory at a sham hearing in the Children’s Court yesterday by Judge Young, for having partici- pated in the Union Square jobless Harry~ Eisman demonstration of over 110,000 work. | ers, Eisman had recently returned from the state reformatory, where he had served six months for taking boy scouts. After the March dem- clapped into the Heckscher Founda- | Aye. A statement issued by the Young ‘Communist League, New York dis- | trict, calls upon all workers to par- ‘ticipate in a demonstration on Sat- | urday, March 22, at 1 p. m., in front | of the Heckscher Foundation, to pro- |test against the railroading of | Workers and their children that have | cannot be built without a newspaper | Harry: Eisman to jail for five years been arrested and who are threat- | to take the message of the A.N.L.C.|.and to demand his unconditional re- ened with long terms of imprison-|to the Negro masses and mobilize | lease. The statement says: “The bosses unloosed a wave of |terror against the Young Pioneers jin the schools. Over 50 members of the Young Communist League atu | the Young Pioneers have been ex- pelled, suspended and demoted. The |Superintendent of Schools O’Shea jcalled a special. meeting of school !principals to organize the attack | against workers’ children. “Only mass pressure of workers can stop the terror unloosed against (Continued on Page Three) ‘Protest _ Expulsion of ' Student For Jobless | Leaflet Distribution Max Weiss, member of the Young Communist League, was suspended }from the Tammany controlled City College by Dean Redmond because he was sentenced to five days in the workhouse, for distributing Un- employment Day leaflets. Mass protests are to be conducted by the Social Problems Club, the Student Forum and, the Campus, a | publication, demanding unconditional! jreinstatement. The Liberal Club , Evening Session, wilk hold a prot meeting, next Wednesday, at which a large attendance is expected to denounce the action of the Dean. The Hoover-MacDonald tripe which , league has; POLITICAL “Rush Navy War'MISLEADER RYAN FEARS REVOLT OF THE UNEMPLOYED Favors Bosses Brutal Tactics as Answer to | “Work or Waegs” \Aids Walker Whalen ‘Thomas Wants Police | to Fight Communists j BULLETIN. | Alexander Kelso, secretary of the local Carpenters’ and Joiners’ District Council, a faker of the order of Ryan, admitted yesterday that 40 per cent of the 31,000 union carpenters in this city were out of work “because of the ab- normal depression in the building industry.” The “normal* unem- ployment at this time of the year, Kelso said, is 5 per cent. This means that at the present time there are over 12,000 unemployed carpenters in the unions, * * * “I say, as a representative of the Central Trades and Labor Council, |that there is a great deal to fear,’ |said President Joseph P. Ryan, to the regular meeting of the Central ‘Trades and Labor Council in Bee- | | thoven Hall, last night. He was {speaking under a special order of | business, the report of the commit- tee appointed by the council to in- terview Mayor Walker and the Board of Estimates last Friday. Ryan was chairman of the committee. He was very definite in his re- marks. that what there was to fear was the growing organized move- ment of the unemployed, led by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. “If the police do not use a little violence now in the end they will have to use a great deal of vio- dence. A little clubbing now is better than to call out the militia and shoot a lot of people later on, said Ryan. | The report’ of the committee did not involve any practical suggestions |for solving the unemploynint que: | tion, but merely stated that they ; would meet with the mayor again, |along with the socialists and try to ‘work with him “not against him.” | Ryan read a letter from Norman | Thomas, in answer to his commit- tee’s recent letter commending Wha- Hen for his “suppression” of the un- | (Continued on Page Two) j } International } Wireless | News | | Workers Force Withdrawal of Pro- | hibition to Demonstrate. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Mar. 20.—In view the growing indignation of workers over the prohibition demonstrations, the new minister of the interior, Waentig, | intends to repeal this prohibition, as the frequent demonstrations which |took place under Communist lead- \ership despite the prohibition, have jshown that this measure is ineffec- tive and further slaughters like the ‘one of May 1 only help expose the social-fascist role of the social- democratic party and its ministers | and police presidents, | v | Journalist Dies From Beatings in Demonstration. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Mar. 20.—Paul Kiess- jling, @ bourgeois journalist and pub- lisher of a juridical journal, died yesterday as a result of a beating up by the police in a demonstration ‘of unemployed workers in Dresden on March 13. He had ‘passed the police cordon with his press card, but when he came to the police presidium a gang of police set on hii, although he was alone in the square, Kiessling received fearful injuries. The socialist police presi- dent Dresden Kuehn declared that he does not intend to investigate the \charges brought against the police, ‘as they have his full confidence. . of the of | a \“Down With Rome, Up With the | Soviet Union!” (Wireless By Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Mar. 20.—Ten dents were rested in Brodny and accused of having climbed up the side of the biggest church in that place and painted on it “Down With Rome, Up With the Soviet Union.” Owing to the height at which the in- scriptions were painted it was very iificult to reach and remove them. nilar inscriptions were found on other buildings, slu- AT Prussian | | LEADERS RELEASE Set Hearing for April | 11 in ‘Assault’ Case i puacaits | Magistrate McKinery, {Fourth District in the Court yesterday, held Foster, Minor, Amter, Ray- mond and Lesten, the committee elected by the 110,000 unemployed and striking workers in Union Square, March 6, for a hearing on April 11, on the strange charge of “assaulting Patrolman Talbot.” At ‘the same time will be heard the Lewis. charge is still maintained for the 'five representatives of the unem- ‘ployed. Luzi is on $2,000 bail, and Lewis on $1,000. The policeman is practically a ‘prisoner in St. Vincent’s hospital, | from which he has tried several) \times to go home. He has admitted | that he was not hurt, but it is part ‘of the campaign to cripple the un- ‘employed movement for work or | | wages that he is “dying.” | Two Victims of Police. | Luzi is accused by the police of |ectually striking Talbot. Lewis is icharged only with “abetting in the riot,” which means that he was one lof those who happened to get beat up by the police, and that for that | \rveason he must be convicted of some- | thing. Just what devious argument the} this policeman, when the police com- missioner, Whalen, argues at the) same time that the committee “ran| from the meeting” is not clear. So} far the prosecutors have used this | assault case primarily to keep Fos-| ter, Minor, Amter, Raymond and} Lesten from being released on bail. | Now that the bail is raised anyway, they will probably go ahead with a! |batch of hired liars and make a case | lofit. | A Jury Trial, or Not. Court Justice Ford was given a memorandum from Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Unger arguing for railroading the “unlawful assembly” charge right through the special ) Sessions court, without trial by jury. The judge had, the day before, raised the uestion in open court as to whether denial of trial by jury might not give “these people” an argument, and had consulted in friendly fashion cases of Raymond Luzi and Leon} Bail of $10,000 each on this } w prosecution has to try and convict|/peen said by the authorities. Hi the committee of five of “assaulting” | emanded the right of working class | rapidly. Yesterday at 4 p. m., Supreme| have been sent to the boss courts, Jobless Conference | On March 27th All unemployed councils and other workers’ organizations are | called upon to elect delegates to | the New York Conference on Un- | employment to be held on March 27th at the Manhattan Lyceum. | The unemployed councils are requested to report daily on their meetings to the local Trade | | Union Unity League in order to | | get proper publicity in the Daily | | | Worker, \@ © WORKER PARENTS ‘Won't Pay Fines for | Children on Mar. 6 Working class parents of schoo! jchildren who stayed away from classes March 6 and demonstrated with the unemployed on Union | Square were sentenced to $5 and $10 fines by Magistrate Ewald in Morrisania court, the Bronx. They in jail serving one and two day sen- tences, The defense was conducted by the International Labor Defense, which tion of a constitutional Attorney Buitenkant pointed out away to go to a mass or other re- ligious service, nothing would hi |children to conduct working class ac- tivities. Ewald howled denunciations the March 6 demonstrations when he sentenced the parents. on jury trial is not alowed, it will come up Monday. The mass protest movement against the capitalist vengeance against the leaders of the mass un- employed movement is growing Hundreds of telegrams jin New York declaring that work- | ers throughout the United States demand the immediate and uncon- | ditional release of the leaders of |the March 6th fight for “Work or Wages.” * 8 8 2500 Minneapolis Workers Protest. MINNEAPOLIS, March 20. — Twenty-five hundred workers at- tended a mass open air demonstra- 'with Unger as to the best way to javoid publicity in this case If the case stays in special sessions and ‘Auto Workers tees in Shops; Some ) DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).— The Auto Workers Conference took \ place in Detroit, March 8, with 32 | delegates present from five cities, } representing about 1000 workers. 24 delegates were present from De- , troit, two from Cleveland, two from ‘Toledo, three from Flint and one from Lansing. The delegates from Pontiac could not be present because they were jailed in connection with the March 6 unemployment dem- onstration. The conference was opened by the , president of the Auto Workers | Union, Alfred E. Goetz. the Auto Workers Union, reported tion at Bridge Square, and passed a resolution protesting against the| (Continued on Page Three) Meeting Held ‘in Detroit; Program of Action \Coneentrate Especially on Building Commit- Already Functioning | on, the conditions and tasks of the union. New Situation. Raymond pointed out that the con- ference was meeting under different ‘circumstances than on August 24, 1929. Up until August of last year ! production records were being brok- | |en month by month so.that the total | Year’s production was over 5,600,000 |ears. Nevertheless long lines of | workers could be seen even in that | period. Wage cuts, speeding up and | Worsening of conditions confronted | the workers every day. Many strikes resyjted, demonstr: (Continued on Page Three) THROWN IN JAIL all refused to pay the fines and are} argued that the arrest was a viola-| privilege. | that if these children had stayed. ing they Philip A, Raymond, secretary of | growing fighting mood of the work! Avglo, administrator of the FINAL CITY EDITION year. MILWAUKEE LEADER SHRIEKS: “NIP ~ THE REVOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA IN THE BUD”: A.E.L. LAUDS CLUBBINGS Social Fascists Horrified at Growth of Workers Demonstrations “from Handful to Thousands” in a Few Weeks Time Delegates of Unemployed Force Demands on Newark Mayor; Rush Preparations for National Conference in New York, March 29 MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 20.—Four demonstrations of workers and unemployed in this “socialist” city since Feb. 5, each one at least twice as large as the one before, and the ‘last, on March 6, mobilizing 25,000 who marched back and forth through the working class |part of town, invaded the sacred territory around the city hall from which socialist mayor Hoan bars all workers’ meetings, have unmasked the social fa DEMAND JOBLESS | cists completely. Recognizing that the work- ers are growing more militant the yellow “socialis Leader became frantic and came out with a big editorial urging the employers to take energetic mea- sures to save themselves from Com- munism and a revolution. “Do the employers want a world bi s the Leader. revolution ? “Do they confiscation property?” “Do they want to be lined up and shot? “True, there is no immediate danger of violent revolution, but the conditions give the Communists the chance they want. The condi- tions lead directly to trouble and more trouble. If allowed to con- tinue long enough, no one can tell what may happen. There is an in- fallible way -to nip. revolutionary propaganda in the bud and make it fruitless,” continues the Leader, “and the employers have the power to do it. Let them stop over-eating and basking in Florida and Cali fornia sunshine long enough to ac of Thus the “so s,” in their over-anxiety to save capitalism for the capitalists and slavery, warn the employers to return from Flor- ida and California to act—to sup- | press the working cla: Mayor Hoan, the “socialist,” was very pleased with the clubbing of the workers by the police, but he said the police were “too patient” with the Communists. He implied he would have been much more pleased had they opened up with the ma- chine guns that they brought to the demonstration. The A, F. L. is completely united with the socialist party in all es- sentials on the way to treat jobless workers, Charles C. Thurber, pres- ident of the building trades council, was an interested onlooked when, at the end of the parade and meeting of the 25,000 unemployed, police on horse, plainclothes men and patrol- men assaulted the crowd with elnbs and bl: ks and in a wild fight, for the workers resisted militantly, beat scores unconscious, and ar- rested 58. “We are glad it is over,” Thurber, in the “We have seen their gatherings growing from just a handful to (Continued on Page Three) said capitalist press, EXPOSE POPE'S WAR PRAYERS Workers Answer the Boss¢s War Plans United Press dispatches from Moscow quote the Soviet Govern- ; ment as de ing that Pope Pius’ religious crusade, on the basis of news cables received from Rome, London, Berlin, Warsaw, and other large cities, was a complete failure. They pointed out that throughout the world working class organiza- tions held large mass demonstra~ tions against the imperialist war mongres, and their religious opium- venders, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The Pope is the target of num- erous cartoons, most of which show jhim as the “protector of fascists, imperialists, kulaks, and other ene- mies of the Soviet Union.” Hundreds of mass meetings were held throughout the Soviet @Gnion condemning the war preparations of the ‘imperialist’ powers, under the religious guise, and pledging the workers and peasants for the de- fense of the Soviet Union against capitalist attacks. Catholic Priest Hits “Persecution” Lies, MOSCOW, March 20.— Father ish (Continued on Page Two)’