The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1930, Page 1

| Doheny tried to steal millions in government oil lands. The court says he had no “evil intent”; Derwood Nunamacker, a jobless, starving worker, stole a loaf of bread; today he lies dead, shot by a Buffalo policeman, today he ds free. ‘ FINAL CITY | EDITION Vol. VL, No. 326 Sunday by The © Union Square. DUSHI Ng GBD 0, New York City, N.Y. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1930. SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Outside N. T ev In New York by mall, $8.00 per year. ork, by mail $6.00 per year. The session of the Enlarged Presidium of the Comintern which as just come to an end, dealt with a number of important questions relating to the policy of the working class and its advance-guard, the Communist Parties: the approaching world economic crisis, mass un- employment, dnd the strike struggles, the municipal p: y and the preparation of the forthcoming V. Congress of the Red International | of Labor Unions; in addition the Presidium received the reports of the | s-tuetion in the Soviet Union. | trast to the growing crisis of capitalism. Communist Parties of Great Britain, Italy, Germany and of the Soviet. Union, The fundamental feature of the present period characterized by the economic crisis in the United States, which has already seized a number of European and colonial countries, consists in the accelera- tion of the pace of the revolutionary upsurge, in the further develop- ment and accentuation of the economic struggles of the working class and in their growing into political struggles. The elementary move- ment of the unemployed {mass demonstrations, street manifestations, collisions with the bourgeois and social fascist police) is playing a tremendous role in this upsurge. Simultaneously the cris social democratic parties, particularly those, which are in office (Great Fritain, Germany) in the eyes of the broad working masses. Social « mocracy is becoming more and more fascistized, is being converted i to an apparatus of the immediate violent suppression of the develop- ig proletarian movement, an immediate organ for the preparation of imperialist wars and in particular of war against the Soviet Union; its upper strata is being converted into a proper police and stifke break- ing band. It is very significant that during the insane anti-Soviet campaign which has developed during the last few weeks in the whole ¢gapitalist world, the social democratic papers have vied with the most dirty, yellow, kept bourgeois press. This process of self-exposure of the social democracy is accom- panied by the self-exposure of the Right and Left Communist rene- gades as the immediate agents of social democracy. The Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, which declared adherence to the views of the Right opportunists as incompatible with membership of the Comintern, has confirmed the ex- pulsion of the Right groups in Germany, Czechoslovakia and in the United States. We can now state, that in all fundamental questions of the policy of the working class the expelled Right renegades have slid down to social demoeracy, and that the “younger” Right rene- gade groups are following them in this path (the Kilbom group in Sweden, the French and the Austrian liquidators). The Right renegades not only attempt to prove the consolidation of capitalist stabilization, they are also furnishing the social demo- erats with the main arguments for their anti-Communist and anti- Soviet campaign. The most dirty calumnies which are fabricated in the kitchen of the renegades, are printed by the social @mocrats in the columns of their papers and are made use of by them in their strtggle against Communism. In this dirty work every boundary line between the Right and the Trotskyists is obliterated. The Tenth Plenum also stated that the “reconciliators” had slid down to the positions of the Right. A certain portion of the recon- ciliators, in particular in Germany, have by this means maneuvered themselves out of the ranks of the Comintern. Another considerable fvoup of the reconciliators, headed by Ewert, has seen fit to issue a sry belated declaration regarding the correctness of the line of the omintern and the abandonment of its former errors. The Enlarged Presidium has laid down a number of concrete tasks for the Communist Parties such as the further d&elopment of the economic and political struggle, the combination and coordination of the movement of the unemployed with the strugele of the workers, the raising of the level of the movement on to a higher political stage {slogan of the general political strike), the consolidation of the Party organizations and the change of their working methods in order to enable the Parties-totead-the- mass-movements; the consolidation of the revolutionary trade unions, where such exist, and strengthening our work in the reformist trade unions, the further dévelopment of the revolutionary trade union opposition, the strengthening of our work among the unorganized masses, the continued ruthless struggle against all opportunists vacillating, both of a Left and Right tendency. In such countries, as in Poland, where there exists a profound shi tering of capitalist stabilization and the maturing of a political crisis. the Communist Party must be politically and organizationally prepared to lead the growing movements of the workers, peasants and national minorities against the fascist dictatorship. In a number of colonial ¢ jintries, such as India and Indonesia, it is imperative in this period revolutionary upsurge to form Communist Parties. | The Presidium devoted special attention to the municipal work of the Communist Parties. The Communist fractions in the municipalities could play a great role in exnosine the policy of the bourgeoisie and of social fascism. Up to now this has not been the case. It has on the contrary frequently happened that these fractions have become the breeding places of opportunism in practice, of collaboration with the social democratic leaders, in some cases even of corruption and rene- gadis The case of the six Paris town councillors is still fresh in our memory. In Germany, the Brandlerists did not find the least sup- port among the working masses, but they have a considerable num- ber of individual sunnorters among the trade union officials and the town councillors. The Presidium adopt®d a resolution declaring it necessary to make a decisive break with this opportunist practice and clearly outlining the paths of a real revolutionary municipal policy of the Pa’ The Presidium further pointed to the mistakes and shortcomings in the work of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which have hitherto prevented the Party from becoming a leading factor of the growing revolutionary movement of the masses. The situation of the Communist Party of Italy has greatly improved in spite of the savage fascist terror under which it has to work. Our Party in Ttaly is the only force opposing the fascist regime and in fact heading the revo- Jutionary movement of the masses. At present this movement is grow- ing as a result of the appalling economic position »f the masses both in the towns and in the country. The Communist Party of Ita’ T} perfectly clear, that the fascist dictatorship of he bourgeoisie je be renlace] by a sort of democracy but only by the revolutionary «Jetatorship of the proletariat. The Communist Party of Germany has rightly aconired a nlace ef honor in the phalanx of the Communist Parties of the capitalist countries. It has hitherto most successfully applied the Bolshevik methods in the struggle against the bourgeoisie and in capturing the masses. The Bolsheviki began to capture the workers in St. Petersburg. The Communist Party of Germany is now becoming the heremon in the working class quarters of Berlin; as the last sessions of the trade union opposition have vroved. it has achieved considerable successes in trade union work, It has been able to deliver a number of hard blows to the social fascists of Germany who are a leading force of the Second International. It is fighting within the Comintern in the front ranks for the Leninist line. But the Communist Party of Ger- many must also improve a good deal in order to be able to give vic- torious battle to the bourgeoisie and social democracy. At the present moment of the most bitter anti-Soviet incitement in the whole capitalist world, of an obvious threat of a new imperialist intervention against the first proletarian state of the world, it was © particular significance that the agenda of the Presidium contained a report of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on socialist con- The great achievements of this con- struction in the last few months and weeks stand out in glaring con- It is precisely because the bourgeoisie and the social democracy have realized the great impor- tance of the Five Year Plan and the collectivization for the interna- tional revolutionary movement, that they are raging so furiously against the Soviet Union. But for this same reason it is necessary that the international proletariat, the toiling peasantry and the sup- pressed colonial peoples should be better enlightened as to our splendid achievements on the front of socialist construction. It is for the same reason necessary to make the defense of the Soviet Union one of the most important parts of the struggle against the war danger. The growing crisis accelerates the revolutionary upsurge and con- fyonts all the Communist Parties with great and complicated tasks. The International proletariat is approaching new and decisive strug- to be victorious. (Leadinggarticle of “Pravda” Marelt 1, 1930.) is accelerating the self-exposure of the | gles. To learn to lead the masses in these struggles means to learn { NOT STOP WORK OR WAGE FIGHT” ‘Foster Exposes Class Vengeance of Bosses Against Jobless Unemployment Grows Bosses Offer Fake Bldg. Programs “The bosses through their cour are railroading us to the penitentia: right away as an answer to the de- mands of the 1,250,000 workers who demonstrated on March 6, demand- ‘ing Work or Wages,” said William 2. Foster, speaking before a n@eting of the Civil Liberties Union Sat- urday at the Hotel Manger. Foster was speaking in the name of the committee of five elected by the 110.000 workers who took part in the Union Square demonstration in New York on March 6, “What was the issue which ought all these people together?” aid Foster. “It was not an ab- stract question of civil liberties. We are living under capitalism, with the state in the hands of he capitalist class, directed against the workers. | The 0,000 workers who demand- {ed “Work or Wages” on March 5, under the leadership ef the Commu- nist Parties had a right to march to the City Hall and present their demand This right was refused rs by Whalen, acting for the capitalist bosses. “Now they are going to railroad Minor, Amter, Lesten, Raymond and myself to jail. They denied us bail ‘ona misdemeanor charge. The capi- |talist courts showed their open brutality against the workers in this (Continued on Page Three) DEMAND RELEASE OF HARRY EISMAN | ‘Demonstration Carried ie Thru Militantly More than 600 workers and work- ‘ers’ children gathered at the Heck- scher Foundation, 105th St. and 5th Ave., Saturday, under the leader- ship of the Young Cgmmunist League, to protest against’ the sen- tencing of Harry Eisman, militant Pioneer, to jail for five years, Eis- ;/man was sentenced by Justice i | Young of the Manhattan Children’s | | Court, for taking part in the March{ |6 demonstration for “work | Wages.” | As soon as the demonstration be- | gan, 50 of Whalen’s cossacks, under | | Deputy Inspector A. MeNeil, rushed | in and started beating and Sugging | the workers’ children. The demon- strators resisted the clubbing. The police arrested Perey Blumkin, a Pioneer, charged with beating an officer. Others arrested were Mrs. ®. Wagner, H. Blumber, J. Hart,| L, Katowilz, D. Greenberg and J. (Continued on Page Two) ‘Whalen’s Thugs at | Membership Meet; Get Another Hall e Whalen’s cossacks refused to leave New Star Casino hall Sunday, where a membership meeting of the New | York District of the Communist Party has been set. Fifty uniform- ed cops had been stationed inside or ‘the hall, and a large number of | | bomb-squad stool-pigeons were pres- ent. An official gunman by the |name of Quinn was in charg® and | said he had been sent by Whalen to preserve “law and order,” and’ de- clared that “nobody could. make us | leave, except Commissioner Whalen | himself.” Whalen was conveniently absent fronr all his wsual haunts. It was finally decided to transfer the meeting to the Workers Center | where the meeting was held, minus | the presence of Whalen’s cossacks, At the meeting there were reports |and a thorough discussion by the membership on the lessons of March | 6, the immediate tasks of the Party, ‘in particular the preparations for the May ist demonstration, Whalen’s new attack is a direct challenge to all working class or- ganizations and an attempt to keep them from meeting without the | presence of the bosses’ official gun- men, FASCISTS MAKE WAR ON LI- { BIANS. _ | ROME, March 23.—Fascist Gen- eral Rodolfo Grazani, new vice- gov- ernor of Cyrenaica, the eastern half of Libia, Africa, will depart soon to make war on the native Libians. | WRITE about your conditions | for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent, ‘Howat’s Yellow Dog Document PITTSBURGH, Pa., March A copy of the letter which Alex | Howat, new chief of the Peabody | wing of the U. M. W. A. sent to |John L, Lewis, pleading for re-in- |statement in the United Mine Worl ‘ers of America, has just come into ithe possession of the National |Miners Union. Howat was picked | to head the outfit formed at the “re- |M. W. A. held recently in Spring- | field. The letter, which is dated Oct. 1928, is characterized by the N.. M. ment.” It reveals ouce more, the union says, “the shameless, craven character of this man Howat.” How Howat’s letter to Lewis follows: “I desire to confirm in writing the representations I have made to Howat Crawled. desire to be reinstated to full mem- bership in the United Mine Workers of America. “If reinstated, it will be my pur- pose as a member to conform to the laws of the United Mine Workers | of America twith respect to the ad- ministration of its internal affairs | and with respect to its contract ob-| ligations. I fully recognize the ne- | SOVIET DEFENSE MEET TOMORROW John Reed Club Hits Capitalist Attacks The John Reed Club, an organiza- tion of revolutionary writers and artists, is calling a protest meeting against the clergy who b: the war plans of the imperialists againstgthe Soviet Union. The protest meeting, which has been arranged in cooperation with the Friends of the Soviet Union, will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m. at Cent- ral Opera House, 67th St., near Third Ave. On that same evening the “holy” imperialist crusaders are ;Rolding a meeting in Metropolitan Opera House where Matthew Woll and other notorious enemies of the Soviet Union will do their best to | incite war against the first workers’ | republic. Speakeys at the protest meeting tomorrow will include Count Michael Karolyi, Waldo Frank, noted novel- ist and critic; Michael Gold, M. J. | Olgin, Harold Hickerson, co-author of the Sacco-Vanzetti play, “Gods of the Lightning;” Robert W. Dunn, Harvey O'Connor, Louis Lozowick and Melvin P. Levy. Robert Bald- win, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, will be chairman. A feature of the meeting will be cartoons of the holy crusade drawn on the stage by Wi Hugo Gellert, M. Pass, JacobeBurck and I. Klein. Tickets are 25 cents in advance, 35 cents at the door. They are on jsale at the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave.; the John Reed Club, 10 E. 14th St., and New , Masses, 112 E. 19th St. 100 DAYS FOR JOBLESS’ LEADER Harvey Held Without Bail in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., March 23.— Arthur S. Harvey, Trade Union \Unity League organizer in the Buf- falo district and leader of the unem- \ployed demonstration, has been sen- tenced to 100 days for his participa- tion in the March 6 meetings. This is the second 100 day sentence given in the attack of the bosses here against the unemployed workers, who refuse to starve quietly. Harvey was also arrested March 14 for speaking in front. of the Chevrolet plant. His trial comes Wednesday. He is refused bail on the March 6 sentence appeal because the authorities know that he will start work organizing employed and unemployed workers as soon as he is free. The International Labor Defense is fighting for his release. A mass protest meeting of 500 was held here March 16, ARAB DELEGATION TO LON- DON. JERUSALEM, March 23.—An Arab delegation is on its way to London to present the case of the Arab’s in connection with the strug- gles against British imperialism and Zionism in August. The delegation is composed mainly of petty-bour- genis Arabs, organization convention” of the U.! “a_yellow-dog agree-| !your committee today, affecting my | BOSS WAR PLANS Meetings Thruout U.S. Rally for Defense of Soviet Union Expose _ Imperialists Capitalists Fear 5-Year, | «Plan Success | | | BULLETIN. i A “liberal” mask on the imper- ialist attack against the*Soviet , Union by means of religious prop- aganda, has just been donned by an organization called “The Ameri- can Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities.” It “urges the Soviet Government to adopt a more liberal icy” in religion, although admitting that the U.S. ; SR. has a legal right to make | such internal laws as it sees fit. Through this latest mask peep the faces of members of the commit- tee, like Morgenthau, Rabbi Wise, Ochs, proprietor of the Times, or- gan of the finance capitalists, etc., who have been leaders of the cru- sade from the beginning. MANY MEETINGS SEND PROTESTS } Age 'A. F. L. Local Demands | Release of Five Yesterday a hundred delegates | representing 42 workers’ organiza- tions met in Irving Plaza Hall to plan for energetic defense of the} committee elected by the 110,000 demonstrators in Union Square | March 6, and to plan general de-| jfense activities in the New York! Mass Protest Movement Sweeps Countr: Demonstrations in Many Cities; Contrast With Doheny Case Hold Jobless Leaders, But Free Doheny WASHINGTON, March 23.— While thousands of jobless work jall over the country were clubbed and beaten by the police for demon- | istrating against unemployment on} |March 6 and their elected leaders jin New York were arrested, held without bail and finally refused a jury trial on the openly mocking pretext that it woul waste the time of the jurymen and add an addition- a > 1 | e : | area. MOSCOW, March 23,—Over 750,-1 There were representatives at®the m. Gropper, | 1000 workers took part in a demon- \stration Saturday against the “papal | prayer campaign,” which is part of jthe imperialist war preparations \against the Soviet Union. One col- umn of the demonstration marched jpass the Italian Embassy. All the | workers then marched to the square ‘near headquarters of the trades |unions, Speakers exposed the im- |perialist war threats under the guise jof a religious “crusade.” | * : ake | For USSR Defense in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 23. —Two thousand five hundred work- |ers gathered on call of the Commu- vist Party and the Trade Union | Unity League, and the International ;Labor Defense and demonstrated egainst the imperialist war cam- raign throughout the world against the Soviet Union, under the cloak of religion. Karl Reeve, Disrict Organizer of | the Communist Party dealt with the | situation of the workers in America, | their recent struggles and explained | the next step of the workers after {the March 6 demonstration. | Rebecca Grecht, of the Communi: Party, followed with a GROOKED CLIQUE EXPELS WAITERS 'Resentrfent Rises e | Local 1 in How fast the officials of Local 1, Waiters, A. F. of L., are travelling toward social fascism is indicated | by a series of events last week, end- | ing on @aturday with the announced |pulsion of three rank-and-filers | by the International President, | Flore (without either charges or trial) and by secret orders given out | | to shop chairmen for the immediate | | discharge of any worker heard to speak against the “union.” Shop, | chairma® in Bronx restaurants and | some others downtown, feared to be “progressive,” were not yet given the order, pending certain “changes.” Along with this news comes the of- ficials’ statement that the new |agreements (to be bargained for in | May behind the workers backs) will be based on a $15 weekly wage, in- stead of the $20 previously de- manded. Since the membership’s vote last spring to remove leading officials | on charges of accepting bribes not |to call strikes, the “International” in the person of strikebreaker Mc- Devitt has taken charge; with Leh- man, the biggest crook, replaced as secretary; and an executive commit- tee from the underworld in charge. No membership meetings have been held for almost a year.. All of the officials’ energy went into attempts to break strikes of the Cafeteria | Workers’ Union, Much Discontent. Rank and file discontent grew so strong that McDevitt landed in the hospital for a week or so continual- ly showered with flowers from the bosses’ association. An expelled | waiter, Chas. Butter, is now under arrest. on charges of assault in this connection. The windows of the employment office also suffered a few cracks, shaken up by the grow- ing hundreds of jobless waiters. Finally a new International flun- key, Pres. Flore, came to restore! “law and order.” Last week Flore departed, leay- (Continued on Page Two) | | | s crn | (Continued on Page Three) conference from all the militant | unions in this d , from the Communist Party, from the T. U. U. L., from the I. L. D., from the Councils of Working Class Women, the Councils of th@ Unemployed, the American Negro Labor Congress, the Harlem Tenants League and others. The representatives of these va- rious organizations pledged their support not only to all the workers {arrested on the picket line and for unemployment demonstrations, but particularly for Foster, Minor, Am- ter, Raymond and Lesten, arrested March 6 while carrying the demands of the unemployed to the city hall. The resolution adopted points out that trial by jury is denied, exces- sive bail has been demanded, after an | attempt made-by the bosses’ courts to grant no bail at all, that when the workers go on trial today they face a sentence of six years for misdemeanor charges, and may be each given five years more on a flimsy charge of assault, ton which hearing is set April 11. * * * 00 Demand Release. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 23. ys munist Party, the Trade Unity League, and the International Labor | Defense, 2,500 workers and unem- |ployed adopted a strong resolution demanding the release of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten, and of the hundreds of others ar- rested during the larch 6 unem- ployment demonstrations. | “We look upon the persecution of ‘the leaders of these demonstrations jas acts of revenge by the capital- jist class upon the millions of work- jers who struggle against unemploy- ment, and for “work or wages, states the resolution. 500 Protest in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 23. —Five hundred workers and unem- ployed at the Ruthenberg Memorial meeting held here March 16, adopted a resolution promising to struggle continuously against the brutality of the police who have attacked demonstrations of the jobless here Feb. 26 and March 6, and conducted dozens of raids on workers’ homes and their organization offices throughout this period. The meet- ing was held at Sons of Herman Hall, and a good crowd came in | spite of heavy rainstorm. | Spector was chairman, Waldron was the principal speaker, and others were L. Sherman of the Young Com- munist League; Arispe, in Spanish, and L. Silverman, representing | women workers. * * * Painters Protest Arrests. Painters Union Local 905 (A.F.L.) at its meeting Friday in Hunts Point Palace adopted enthusiastically the resolution sent by the Trade Union Unity League which calls for the support of all organized and unor- ganized labor in freeing the com- mittee of the unemployed elected at Union Square March 6 to present the demands of the jobless to Mayor Walker, and which faces trial in special sessions court today. ntl ae For Class Struggle. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 25. —Over 700 workers, Negro and white, many of them recently having joined the International Labor De- fense, met Friday night in Girard Manor Hall, and after hearing | Cooper, Gardos, Maurer and others expose the capitalist attack on the workers’ organizations and the need for struggle, unanimously respond- ed to the program of the class strug- | gle. They passed a resolution de- manding the unconditional release of (Continued on Page Three) —At a meeting called by the Com-| Frank | jal burden to the taxpayers—it took |a jury in the District of Columbia | Supreme Court only a few minutes more than an hour to declare un- animously that Edward L. Doheny, | billionaire oil magnate, was not guilty lof bribing Alfred B, Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cab- inet, with 100,000 to lease the Elks | Hill naval oil reserve to Doheny. Doheny was acquitted on the ground that he had no evil inten- (Continued on Page Two) |Jobless Councils and| Bldg. Trades to Meet; Unemployed Council meetings will be held today and tomorrow at the headquarters of every council, to elect delegates to the city conference on wunemploy-}| ment, March 27 in Manhattan Lyceum. All executives of the councils of the unemployed will hold a joint rfeeting at the central | | headquarters of the unemployed | |councils, at the T.U.U.L. office, 13 West 17th St. This meeting will take steps to set up a cen- | tral committee for all the coun-| | ceils, and will discuss final ar- rangements for a mass confer- ence of employed and unem- ployed wogkers on March 27. There will be a mass meeting of unemployed building trades workers at 13 West 17th St., to- | morrow at 2 p. m. sharp, LABOR JURY TO * DEMAND TO SIT States It Represents Interest of Masses The Labor Jury held a meeting | yesterday at the Greater New York | district office of the Trade Union Unity League, 13 West 17th St., an states | “We represent the interest of the | millions of workers who suffer from unemployment, and exploitation on \the job, in the trial of our repre- | sentatives, Foster, Amter, Minor, | Raymond and Lesten. We will ap- |pear in a body in court today, in | this trial where the bosses provide |no jary, and demand to sit as the | jury of the working class, to judge |the administration of capitalist class justice, “We will faithfully and carefully watch and consider every move made in this trial, and will truth- (Continued on Page Two) VETERAN PLEDGES NO WAR ON LABOR Says War Victims Must Not be Tools “The capitalist government is | making a big mistake if it thinks |it can mobilize the veterans of the world war against the workers on May 1,” stated Joseph Fofrich, crip- representing the World War Veter- |ans branch of the International La- bor Defense, speaking at the Defense ear age yesterday, called by the “More and more the veterans of | the world war realize,” said Fof- rich, “that their place is with the (Continued on Page Two) pled in the slaughter in France, and | Towards New Struggles! “JAILING WILL = NZU Exboses 750,000 MOSCOW FIVE DELEGATES ELECTED BY 110,000 ON WORKERS COMBAT MARCH 6 FACE TRIAL TODAY BECAUSE OF JOBLESS FIGHT; CAN GET 11 YEARS A.F.L. Locals Join It; Big More Delegates Elected to City Conference on Unemployment Tec Be Held March 27; Big National Conference Certain, Mar. 29 LABOR JURY 10 ATTEND COURT | Whole Case Filled With Outrageous Conspiracy With a rising wave of protest ringittg in the ears of the capital- ist judges and their corporation bogges, William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Amter, Harry Raymond jand Joseph Lesten go on “trial” today before what amounts to a drum head court martial, conducted by hired mercenaries of capitalism. They are the victims of capitalist vengeance and fear, because they lare the elected delegates of 110,000 |unemployed and striking workers, protesting the Hoover Hunger in a mass demonstration in Union Square, March 6. While the delegation of the job- less is being railroaded through special sessions court, the fight of the jobless goes on with increasing force. Rapid preparations are be- ing made for the National Unem- ployment Conference, March 29, in New York, with representatives of militant unions and leagues all over the country, preparing a national {convention on unemployment, to be held i nChicago in May. On March (27, three days after their delegates }go on trial, the workers and the junemployed of New York are hold- ying a city conference’ on tnemploy- jment. A large number of delegates |have already been elected last week \at meeting of local unions, councils | (Continued on Page Three) WALL ST. WRITES ITS OWN TARIFF 1S ‘Will Sharpen Cris and War Danger WASHINGTON, March 23.—Mon- day the Senate will vote on the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, which was written in the interest of finance- capital against the workers of the | United States. After long wrangling since last |September, with fake opposition from the so-called insurgent sena- tors, the Wall Street bosses have won an overwhelming victory in the |tariff as it will be- finally voted {on tomorrow. It will undoubtedly pass in its present form. One of the leading features in the jtariff bill, directed against the work- jers is the provision against revolu- tionary literature from abroad. Sens- |ing the growing radicalization of the |workers, the senators, always quick to act against the working-class, | voted to prohibit any form of work- jing-class literature directed against capitalism. The Hawley-Smoot tariff is in ac- cord with the interests of the big trusts in the United States in their |drive for world markets. It will be lused as a lever to lower wages of jall workers in the United States, |and to increase the monopoly profits of the imperialists. The big increases in tariff duties on agrarian products will help to intensify the world agrarian crisis. It will sharpen the conflict between the United States and the chief ag- rarian exporting countries in the world, That the effect of the Hawley- Smoot tariff will be to sharpen the rivalries of the imperialist powers, in view of the sharpening world crisis, is clear by the retaliation threatened by B , French and }German finance-capitalists. In France, as an answer to a 300 per cent. increase in the tariff on French laces, the French capital- ists threaten a big increase in tariff |on the importation of American au- tomobiles. Reports from France in- dicate that the lace industry in France is undergoing the severest depression in its history. The Ameri- ean tariff will intensify the crisis in this industry. This is but one example of the effect of the Wall Street-Hoover tariff. Together with the sharpen- ing world crisis, it raises the war danger to the highest pitch,