The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1930, Page 1

THE RELEASE OF HARRY EISMAN! The Elected Representatives of the Unemployed Are To Be Tried Without a Jury and Sen- tenced To Jail For Presenting These De- mands to the Mayor; Organize the Unem- ployed, the Workers on the Jobs; Swell the Demand for Work or Wages! re} Enterea DEMONSTRATE TODAY AGAINST BOSS VENGEANCE AND FOR as s matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act FINAL CITY ‘ EDITION of March 3, 1879 Vol. VI., No. 325 Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodally Publishin= QB, New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930 : SUBSCRIPTION RA Outside New In New York by mail, $8.00 per year rk, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents Since the mass action of a million and-a quarter workers on March 6th frightened the bosses so much, worse than they have been fright- ened in years, all the political witch-doctors and medicine-men have come to the fore with their incantations to drive away the horrid spectacle of millions rising in revolt. The boasted “engineer,” Hoover, tried his brazen lies about all being well again “in sixty days,” but the bread lines grew longer, just the same, and even more chimneys ceased to smoke. The socialist party rushed in as emergency help, and its secretary, Senior, Jr., appealed to the workers to trust in Hoover and demanded) of that gentleman to solve the problem; while the Rev- erend Thomas and consorts appealed to Mayor Walker in New York to hold a private meeting with them, “excluding the ungentlemanly Bolsheviks’—a request graciously granted by the mayor, who doubt- less needs help to explain just why “it is impossible to do anything just now.” aaa, Now the august Senators in Washington put on their act. Sen- ator Hiram Johnson cooperates with. Senator Wagner to put on a solemn investigation to decide authoritatively whether there really is any unemployment. This is a very important question, and of course no one would expect a senator to do anything until it was decided beyond a question of doubt that there really is unemployment. So the Senate Committee holds its solemn sessions in “search of the truth.” This “search for the truth” has the object of putting up an ap- pearance of doing something about unemployment, while nothing what- ever is really done. clubs, gasbombs, mounted police, and_machine guns.. It is the policy which sends young Harry Eisman to prison for five years for the crime of attending the Union Square unemployment demonstration. It is the policy which jails without bail the delegation elected by the un- employed demonstrators. It is the policy of the Chicago police in prison so that they are under a doctor’s care for weeks. against the working class. Meanwhile production and employment continues to drop, even ac: cording to the statistics of the capitalists themselves. The Annalist index of factory employment shows a further decline in’ February, a month which has for years always shown a seasonal increase. March continues the decline, as shown in carloadings for the week ending March 8th, which are nine per cent lower than the average for the past five years. Export, which Hoover assured the world would take up the slack in the domestic market, declined more than 20 per cent in February below last year. Automobile production is more than a third below last year. Steel production continues downward, with plants operating at about two-thirds of capacity. Building operations are more than 20 per cent below 1929. And so on, The jobless workers,-with their homes: broken up, starving and in large number being thrown onto the streets to die, feel in their own bodies the deepening of the crisis of capitalism. The employed work- ers, their wages being cut, their machtnes® speeded’ up; driven. by the fear of themselves being thrown outside, can also taste the full bit- terness of the fruits of capifalism. For the workers, unemployed or employed, it is not necessary to conduct a “search” to find out that unemployment is a question of life or death for millions. Life or death! To fight or starve! That is the bare and bitter issue before the workers of the United States, the land of “glorious” capitalism, of Hoover’s “prosperity,” of limitless profits for the rich and limitless misery for the poor. On March 6th, one million and ga quarter workers declared that It calls for further action. Only by independent organization, against the capitalists, the capitalist state, and their lackeys of the A. F. of L. and socialist party, and by the most stubborn struggle, can the workers win any of their demands. Organize! Send delegates to the Unemployment Conferences called by the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Coun- ceils! Demand work or wages! Fight or starve! PATERSON MILL (MINERS STRIKE GATE MEETINGS’ HITS CHECK OFF 7 Arrested at Whitman Mill; More Meetings PATERSON, N. J., March 21.— Picketing in the Liberty mill strike, ELDORADO, Ill, March 21.—Re- volting against the attempt of the It is designed to draw attention away from the ! real: policy of the capitalist class and its government—the policy of i arresting six hundred workers, and beating up scorés of them while in. | It is the | policy of brutal violence—class violence of the capitalists. directed | they would fight, not starve. This declaration is only the beginning. | '450 Quit Illinois Mine ‘Refuse Fishwick Dues} The Fakery in Washington LATIN AMERICAN ‘Letters tro m EISMAN DEMONSTRATION, _ STRIKE, SUCCESS Boss Press Conceals Great Fighting Day of March 20 {Fight Mexican Terror Only Part Told About Cuba and Ecuador BULLETIN. MEXICO CITY, March 21.— | The fascist government, unmask- | ed in its lying efforts to conceal its persecution of the Communists by the demonstration here yester- day, declares it will send another “batch” of Communists to the prison on the Maria Islands. It is unknown if the 31 hunger strik- ing workers will be included or not. The ten arrested yesterday in the demonstration may be in- cluded, the police under orders from “President” Rubio stating that they are going to “give short shrift” to Communist itators.” International solidarity protests becomes more necessary thanever before. ' * * * Mexico City dispatches state that 10 Communists were arrested at a demonstration in the center of the city, two of those arrested being jstated as having been released jearlier in the day after their arrest weeks ago under the pretext of the fascist government that they were connected with the shooting of Ortiz Rubio by a follower of the capitalist (politician, Vasconcelos. The demonstrators carried ban- ners demanding resumption of re- lations with the Soviet Union and a war against Yankce imperialism. The demonstration gives the lie to government reports that the Com- munist Party of Mexico had “prom- ised to cease attacks on the govern- ment.” Unverified reports that the 31 hunger-striking workers now on ‘strike for a week, nave been re- leased, cannot be credited until con- firmed by Communist sources, and all protests of workers of the United States in their behalf must ener- getically continue. While the capi- (Continued on Page Four) BAKERS TO HEAR NEW UNION CALL T.U.U.L. Mass Meeting | in Brooklyn CAPITALIST SENATE REFUSES TO HEAR Workers Hit Unemployment C | ir f fight against unem- | ployment and police brutality breaks \through even in the letters of work- ‘ers to the capitalist press. We al- |veady have published many of these letters, and now print several more. A worker from Stamford, Conn., writing to the New York Graphic, | | says: “Reading your MARCH SET TODAY AGAINST JAILINGS |Answer of Bosses to | Demand of “Work or Wages” Is Jail ... «Gets Five-Year Term editorial ‘These | Anti-Red Drives, you are sure a _good representative of the greedy bosses whose aim is to squeeze out | more and more of the workers and Young Communists to Broaden Fight } then throw out’ in the street to Cee stave. Tete eany (to understand| “EsPosing the: class Nengeances) that with the editor’s fat salary and |#@ainst the jobless workers and his stomach well filled he can call )their leaders who took part in the all the: unemployed and underpaid |March 6 mass unemployed demon- | workers soreheads and childish slo- \strations, the following statement gans, ha? Did you read the French |was issued by the National Youth | revolution? When the people de-|Committee of the International La- manded bread. Queen Antoniate | bor Defense: told them to eat cake. Well, you) |know what happened to her. So {don’t be such wisecracker.” “The sentencing of Harry Eisman, militant Pioneer, to six years in the Hawthorne Reformatory by the capi- A Lot of “Hogwash.” talist lackey, Judge Young of the After reviewing the imperialist |children’s court, is an indication that army of religious opium venders on!the tammany hall-city administra- (Continued on Page Four) ftion is prepared to continue its cam- - jpaigns of class vengeance on the workers and workers’ children that participated in the March\ 6 demon- stration in Union Square. Not sat- isfied with the blood bath it un- jloosed on the 110,000 unemployed jand employed workers on March 6, | \the capitalist governments not | only attempting to railroad f ad- ’ - ers of the unemployed to jail, but | Jobless Delegates’ De has ‘atready railroaded ‘militant fense Planned |workers’ child, Harry Eisman, for | a long term in the reformatory. | » Representatives of all working! “The Youth Committee of the In- iclass organizations will gather to-| ternational Labor Defense, will im- jmorrow at 10 a. m. in Irving Plaza mediately organize the broadest pos- | Hall at the call of the International | campaign to expose this |Labor Defense, to lay plans and justice of the capitalist government, work out a program for the defense| and to demand the immediate re- of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond |jease of Harry Eisman, as well as and Lesten facing trial Monday, and |a stop to the jailing of workers who for the defense of all other unem-/ participated in the demonstrations ployed workers and their children }for Work or Wages. As a first step who are threatened with prison|in this campaign we call upon all terms because they did not choose /young workers in factories, youth to starve mute and resigned as the | organizations, trade unions, etc., to bosses expected. Over 1,080 workers | participate in the demonstration of were arrested in U. S. either during) protest on Saturday, March 22, 1 or in connection with the great day'p, m., in front of the Hecksher of protest, March 6. |Foundation, where Harry Eisman is | ‘being held until the time he is to CONFER SUN, TO AID COMMITTEE International be sent to the reformatory. Wireless Porter Tour Meetings. | The following meetings have been News | larranged for Porter for the next two | y | weeks: (Wireless By Inprecorr) | ch 21 in Boston, BERLIN, March 21.—Today, the ‘24 in Worcester, Ma: Thuringian government answered | Providence, R. I.; Ma Severing. (See Daily Worker, Mar.' London, Conn. d !20.—Editor.) In its letter, it gave Haven, Conn.; March 29 in Bridge- its support to Frick against Sever-|port, Conn.; March 30 in Newark, ing and denied the latter’s right to! N. J.; March 31 in New York City stop the Reich’s funds. ' April 4 in Baltimore. | Severing expressed satisfaction at| The District Committee | receiving the letter and withdrew | Young Communist League issued an of the “PROTEST y | the last Friday and joined the National Textile Workers Union in a fight against a longer work day, and mill- gate meetings featured this week in Paterson. Yesterday the Whitman Silk Mill workers attended a factory-gate meeting, After the meeting the police rushed in and arrested seven work- ers, charging them with disorderly conduct, m fe unorganized workers came out LIBERATOR-UNITY : DANCE TONIGHT |e the workers of New York, th Negro and white, will join tite great international movement among the Negro workers in their fight against imperialist oppression and exploitation. A huge demonstration will be held at the liberator-Labor Unity Ball, Saturday, March 22, at Rockland Palace, 185th St. and jighth Ave. Thousands of workers ill be at this demonstration to lend their support to the press of the two organizations, the American Ne- gro Labor Congress and the Trade Union Unity League, which are con- ducting consistent and militant cam- paigns for the organizing of the Ne- gro masses in the United States to- gether with the workers in the co- semi-colonial countries. superintendent to force them to pay dues to the Fishwick machine by means of the checkoff, 450 miners at the O’Gara Mine, No: 10, Saline county, struck here yesterday. Ac- cording to word received here, the superintendent threatened to shet down the mine unless the men agreed to contribute part of their |wages -to maintain the Peabody union, | Three N.M.U. organizers, Tierney, Groves and Hodge, are now active lin this field and are urging the men \in the other O’Gara mines, 1 and 3, to join the miners of No. 10 in a sympathy strike, |. It.is reported here that 60 miners jin Norris City, Saline county, have not been paid for six weeks, and that more mines are qhutting down each day. ‘ Leading up to the state conven- tion of the National Miners Union, to be held in Liberty Hall, Aeigler, Tl, April 5 and 6, there are being arranged a series of sub-district conferences. The dates are: Belleville-Collinsville . territory— Sunday, March 23, at 6:30 p. m., at (Continued on Page Four) MEMBERSHIP MEETING. A very important membership meeting of the Party will be held on Sunday, March 23, at 2 p. m., at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. All Party and YCL members are in- structed to be’ present.- ° ir | So “progressive” has the Burk- | the embargo, but declared that the appeal yesterday to all youth organ- | hardt-Grundt-Lore clique of the |funds were stopped because of the izations and all workers’ fraternal | Amalgamated Food Workers become | !ack of means. that the only “rights” remaining to | f the membership of Bakers Local 3| ANTI-SOVIET CAMPAIGN in Brooklyn is to stand on the | GERMANY. a “anion” bread line with 700 or 800} (Wireless By Inprecorr) p. m., against the “savage sentence others and beg for a job. | BERLIN, March 21, — Today's | Posed on Harry Eisman. Today’s mass meeting of bakers, «welt Am Abend” questions the) “The Young Communist League announced in leaflets for Schwaben | government concerning the recent | appeals to all workers to join into | Hall, will meet instead at Tolas Hall, anti-Soviet Congress, first on what|/a mighty protest against the sen- 253 Irving Ave., Brooklyn, because | action the Foreign Office intends to} tence and for the release of Kisman. | the A.F.W. bureaucracy forced the | take in view of the fact that a|The demonstration is but the first Schwaben hall management to can- foreign state (the Papal State) is/step. -Conferences, mass mectings cel the engagement. A $20 deposit | sending monies (contributions to|thronghout the whole country will was refunded to Simoli, the militant | the congregations “for propaganda/ follow.” left-winger, who is leading the fight | 4¢ the faith”) for a campaign for the Trade Union Unity League | against a friendly state (the Soviet in Local 3. bs Union). Secondly it asks what ac- This afternoon’s meeting, at Talas | tion the government intends to take Hall, beginning at 2:30 p. m., will against official persons propagat- hear the T.U.U.L. program for im-| ing intervention against a friendly mediate building of a new industrial | -tate, Thirdly, it asks whether the food and packing house workers | Foreign Office has contributed to union, explained by Sam Weissman, | the Anti-Soviet campaign from se- secretary, and M. Obermeier, organ- | cret funds. izer, of the Cafeteria Workers | Union; with Simoli Korin, organizer of the Food Clerks, and Goepfert, organizer of Bakers 164 as the other speakers. Vote for Conference. Yesterday afternoon at a meet- ing at Great Central Palace, Clinton St., the Progressive Bakers Clubs of Local 3 went on record in support of the T.U.U.L. food workers’ shop delegate conference on April 20, when the new local union will be ‘established. A committee of 15 was elected to join other food workers’ ‘committees in preparing for the con- vention. Talk to your fellow workers in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Tren ask him to become 2 regular subscriber, ‘organizations and children’s clubs | *o demonstrate in front of the Heck- | sher Foundation at 104th and Fifth | Ave. on Saturday, March 22, at 1! * * IN ‘John Reed Club to | Hold Soviet Defense '. Meet, Tues. March 18 i The whole imperialist “holy cru- sade” war preparations aganst the Soviet Union will be shown in its true colors by several of the leading proletarian artists at the big protest meeting Tuesday night in Central Opera House, 67th St. near’ Third Ave. William Gropper, Hugo Gel- lert, M. Pass, Jacob Burck and L. Klein will do a little drawing right on the stage that will make the pope, Matthew Woll and their tribe look | j pretty sick. | The protest meeting Tuesday has’ been arranged by the John Reed Club, an organization of revolution- | ary writers and artists, with the co-| operation of the Friends of the So- viet Union. It will be an answer to another meeting being’ held the same night at Metropolitan Opera! House at which the priests, bishops, rabbis and Woll himself ‘will co: tinue their efforts to incite wat against the first workers’ Republic. * * DISCOVER SABOTAGE IN SO- VIET UKRAINE. - (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, March $1,—Reports from Kharkov indicate that author- ities discovered a sabotagers’ or- ganization whose members pene- trated into the highest positions of the Ukrainian Commissariat of Agriculture, the Planned Economy | Commission, the Agricultural Bank, and the Agricultural Cooperative Association, where instructions of the authorities were sabotaged and the Communist Party policy dis- torted in the interest of the capi- talist. development of ‘Ukrainian agriculture. The sabotagers are former landowners, members of the Cadet Party, monarchists and Men- | shevists. * \ UNEMPLOYED TAMMANY JUDGE DENIES RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY 10 ELECYED DELEGATES OF THE 110,000 WHO PROTESTED UNEMPLOYMENT Excuse Is That Capitalists Would Have to Pay More for Jury Trial; Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond, Lesten Face 11 Years in Prison World Wide Demand For Release Grows; British Communist Party Sends Solidarity of Workers; Prepare National Jobless Conference (Bulletin by Wire.) WASHINGTON, D. €., March 21.—Wm. Z. Foster, Robert Minor, and Joseph Lesten, the delega- tion representing the National Unemployment Organizations of the 1 rade Union Unity League, today demanded a hearing before the U. S. Senate Committee now in session pretending to “investigate” un- employment. The Senate Committee is headed by Senator Hiram Johnson of California. Johnson refused even (o promise the delegation a right to be heard, declaring that the senators have no time, and are probably not inclined to listen to any presentation of the subject by representatives of the unemployed. The delegation left Washington, declaring that Johnson, the Tammany Senator Wagner whose fake “remedy” is being chewed over by the committee, and the whole U. Senate, are interested only in hushing the voice of thé unemployed with a fake hearing and fake bil The Senate committeemen, it is stated, will “decide later” whether to admit workers’ repre- sentatives to the hearing. ‘his insulting refusal to hear real representatives of the workers is taken after the Senate Committee has heard all kinds of bourgeois preachers representing nobody and such EIGHT DAYS TO DENY JURY AND |{Send your Delegates | All. unions; ‘TLU.U.L.” groups, JEER JOBLESS | shop committees, councils of un- \employed,- workers’ clubs and ae working-class fraternal organiza- T.U.U.L. Board: Meet, {tions must elect delegates to the Judge Had Time to Ask Friday on Program |New York City conferencé= to |’ | | take up.the struggles for work or His Bosses’ Orders | |} Wages. unemployment insurance, The national office of the Trade| | for the immediate unconditional | | Tammany Judge John Ford yes- Union Unity ‘League has sent a| | release of the delegations of the Aste mine eee Sto bes Se Wise tia. we Re lunempioyed, and the other de-| |Amter, Minor, Raym , SUE EUR aie ae |wnands of the T.U.U.L. and the| |should be railronded to anything up unions, leagues, district 7-U.U-1.| | imemployed councils. The con-| |to six years each without trial by executives and councils of the un-| | . | employed, stating: i “It is only eight days until our |jury for their temerity in accept- }ing the trust given to them by | 110,000 demonstrators against star- |vation and unemployment in Union |Square, March 6, and present the demands for work or wages, etc., to | the capitali y government. Ford, ference will-be held at Manhattan | yeeum, on March 27, at 7 p. ms | sharp. | The Labor Jury will meet on |Sunday, March 23, at 11 a. m.,| at the central headquarters of | the Unemployed Council, 13 W. | National Preliminary Unemployment Conference which is called for March 29 in the City of New York. We, | | therefore, strongly urge you to make | |17th St, |who debated h Assistant Byes all necessary arrangements such as All unemployment councils are | | Attorney Unger in open court when the election of delegates, raising of | {called upon to hold meetings| |the application for a trial by jury |was made to him, whether the job- jle would be more excited and the |militant labor movement grow more \if their representatives were simply _. |shot through to jail by three Tam- MAISTEITES CALL [many judges, or if it would not be finances, ete. The conference will open on Saturday, March 29 at 12 k sharp in Manhattan Lyceum, Monday morning and elect the| Idelegates to the unemployment | conference, March 2 Leaflets ve available at headquarters. Committee of the a program read ed before the cot better from the ruling class point of view to allow them a trial by ference for n : ‘The lett points out that expenses ry, has decided against the jury of the de must be paid from | ltrial. Two days’ consideration gave organizations sending them. jhim time to co) ult his bosses. The draft program for the con The five delegates of the unem- ployed will, by this decision, face (Continued on Page Four) being worked out now at the .. national office, 2 West 15th New York, and one of the main (Continued on Page Four) tion su ‘Ask Governor to Send | Killers to Nazareth Painters, Cops Know NAZARETH, Pa, Mar. 21—The| Who Is For Workers Sheu At a mass meeting of painters Hosiery Workers, section of the held Thursday night at 73 Ludlow United Textile Worl . have issued | St., the painters who came to this an invitation to Governor Fisher to , meeting eee ive police aes send his murderous state troopers | Mtrance to the hall. It looks ke |to Nazareth, where the Muste lead-/ the A. F. of L. is getting worried . ership har been trying for months | over the fast growing membership Kaufman Union Thug eyraar the The call for| in the Painters’ Industrial League. Hose Reeds t by Budenz, A’ Joe Harris pointed out, if five ee va i Started Fight ior the national cities of the “union,” Police are necessary now, when the Some of the workers stabbed and] editor of Labor Age, the principal Painters are only coxanitings ee cut while picketing the B. Axel fur, org’ of the Musteites, Budenz or ne Lepetend ed desias tovact. ae shop March 14, yesterday identified | himself is higa in the councils of | Win Tee Dalit een ee volice some of the professional gangsters the ‘Con’ nce for Progressive La-| SPite © ibs aby . ‘ * ; Seba Scheme thar about 75 painters were present, pie ay soe ee ce ns bor Action,” the Muste organization. many joined, paid their inittattom th re A fee and are helping to build a strong to try and break this strike. The 7 + Roe uae x strike is led by the Needle ‘rages Grover Whalen Denies Painters’ Union. Workers’ Union. The thugs knifed, il it: to Go on maps sae cut, stabbed and cingeat the. wickets, db fig is ne Meee ook ; IDENTIFY THUGS WHO CUT PICKETS officialdom of Fashioned as but got a good battle themselves, | for the workers defended them- § selves. Chief Cossack Whalen, and Jazzy! SACRAMENTO, Cal.— Governot Thug Started Attack. Mayor Walker both emphatically de- |Young will not pardon Mooney “4 Yesterday, R. Leterfine, whose nied the rumor which was published | Billings, no matter what the public face was cut badly by the thug Widely in the capitalist press that demand. This is the governor's Weiner, identified this gangster, a| Whalen would resign on May 2, __/latest announcement. hired slugger of the Kaufman gang. Whalen said he would cantina int ee Weiner started the whole fight by his job of slugging workers in the | e * stabbing Irving Potash. Tt was interest of the bosses. So far as the'| Today in History of after this first blow was struck that workers are concerned, the resigna- | y, * the other gangsters attacked the tion or the retention of Whalen in: the Workers pickets. \the job of chief gunman makes no ®— ne aT ea ee Milton Coleman identified the | difference, as Whalen would be re- March 22, 1794—Hebert and thug Bernstein, and Jacobson, who|Placed by another tool who would) other French Communists exe- was stabbed in the back, has iden-|do the bidding of the bosses in slug- | tified his assailant, Siegel. ging and murdering strikers and job- | Bernstein is held on $1,500 bail,'less workers. | Siegel on $2,500, and $5,000 is/ placed on Weiner. All their cases! come up March 28. All other cases | based on the fight were postponed| yesterday by Judge Dodge, in Jef. | phlet, “Militarist Wars and Revo-) ferson Market Court. lution in China,” will speak tomor-| See row at 8 p. m. at the Workers; Every new Daily Worker reader | School Forum, 26 Union Square, on you get is a potential Party mem-| the London Naval Conference as a ber. ih ere f'] preparation for way cuted on the guillotine in Pi 1922—Harbor strike in Ital spread to all ports, tying up all shipping. 1924—30,000 British } commercial workers, ship carpen- } ters, and clectrical workers, struck. 1925—Printers in Greece struck in sympathy with railroad workers. 1927 — Boston milk drivéys’ union sentenced to pay empleyers $61,971 for loss of trade and cost of police and de- tectives during strike DOONPING LECTURES TOMORROW. | R. Doonping, author of the pam-: