The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1930, Page 1

—-s While American Police Invent Fake Bomb Plots With Which to Jail Communists, U. S. Im- pe sm’s Alli Against the First Work- ers’ Republic Are Led by the Admitted Dynamiter, Papen; Workers! Rally ‘To the Defense of Your Socialist Fatherland! | ass matter at the Post Of <= fice at New York, N. ¥., under the act o f March 3, 1879. 9 Poblished daily except Sunday by The Compa Comprodaily Publishing i1 $6.00 York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930 ON RATES: In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price Cents “Religious Tolerance in the WORKERS MUST Many Facts Czar’s Holy Russia” WIN STREETS ON. Prove Crisi SOCIAL-FASCIST ENEMIES Center, 26 Union Square, 1s The full import of the united imperialist war drive of the catholic, protestant and Jewish churches was shown more clearly perhaps than ever before in Tuesday night’s demonstration in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House, where the slogan was proclaimed: “Back to the religious tolerance of what Russia.” once was holy The utterly dishonest men who proclaimed this slogan are lia but they are not crazy. ground for war. The Jesuit priest Edmund A, Walsh, who has made himself one of the most spectacular among all of the liars and forgers now engaged in this drive of imperialist blood-lust, has openly falsi- fied quotations from the newspapers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in such a way as woul] not deceive a ten-year-old child under ordinary cire This notorious blatherskite priest continues to use the old manufactured anti-Bolshevik “atrocity” stories of 12 years ago, and to pass them off as being new, after even the capitalist newspapers have admitted the fraud. They are just busy working up the back It is very clear now, even to the blindest, that the drive has the purpose to restore the “Holy Russia” of the czars, priests, landlords and capital the bloodiest and most violent regime of absolute auto- cracy, unqualifiedly suppressing the slightest liberty and using the most brutal forms of compulsion to force an entire population to sub- mit to the medieval superstition and practices of the Greek Orthodox church of the regime which was overthrown in the Russian Revolution. It is to this hideous slavery that these Jesuits, rabbis and protestant hypocrites wish to force the Russian masses to return by destroying the workers’ government. And the fundamental purpose is, of course, the return of the chains of political and economic slavery in the present Soviet territory for the benefit of the Wall Street banks who hire the holy liars who held forth at Tuesday night’s meeting. Michael Williams, who acted as chairman, openly expressed the in- tentions of the movement when he naively told of a political act of the Roman church in sending a French Jesuit priest as a political and military spy into the Soviet Union some years ago. Matthew Woll, the most virulent of fascist agents of the American employers, proposed to the capitalist class government a still further step toward the consolidation of the imperialist war front in the im- mediate shutting off of all credit to the economic institutions of the workers’ Soviet Republic. Of course, Woll meant this to be just what all understood it—a proposal to pave the way for blockade, inter- vention and imperialist war. The participation of District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain in this imperialist orgy furnishes another significant key to the meaning of it all. This man is the prosecutor whose present chief activities are divided between “fixed” prosecutions intended to conceal the crimes of the political machine of Tammany Hall and the underworld, with the connection between this underworld crime and the ruling oligarchy in New York and, on the other hand, the most savage persecution against any and all representatives of the unemployed workers, against trade unions, other working class organizations, ete. The connection of the present economic crisis :and unemployment in the United States with the drive of the American ruling class to solve the crisis by means of imperialist war, is known to all serious workers. * * * There is unmistakable evidence, however, that the workers’ move- ment against the church’s imperialist war drive has attained and will attain more success than the church drive itself. Already with all of the a@istance of the prostitute capitalist newspapers the priests and rabbis have not succeeded in getting demonstrations of more than a fraction of the size of the workers’ counter-demonstrations. Every effort should be made to bring into existence a mass movement, such as never existed before in the United States, directed specifically against the church arm of capitalist class dictatorship. * . There is one very sinister aspect of the activities of these scoun- drels which can not be allowed to pass unnoticed. In trying to whip up a large crowd for the orgy of Tuesday night, the capitalist press cooked up and published a contemptible fabrication about a supposed threat to “blow up” the meeting, deliberately connecting the alleged threat with the name of the Communist Party. Of course, every editor, every lying priest, preacher, and even every dull-witted po- liceman knows that this was an atrocious lie. As has been said of- ficially and otherwise many times in all of the literature of the Com- munist movement, the Communist Party does not employ any such methods, openly declaring that such methods can not serve the inter- ests of the working cl: but are, on the contrary, harmful to the workers’ cause. Methods of individual violence and terror are the typical methods of monarchists, religious fanatics, and especially of confused middle class reactionaries. Such methods have nothing in common with a clear-headed working class revolutionary movement, which must depend upon the broad mass activities inherent to su cessful working class movements. Never has there been a single in- stance in which the Communist Party or any of its adherents have employed such methods, and on the other hand the Communist Party constantly appeals to all of its sympathizers to disdain the petty- bourgeois, confused ideas of this sort and to engage in revolutionary mass activity. . But the serious fact is that there has been so much foul-smelling police propaganda on this subject in the past few days as to point toward a possible intention of the police to put into practice some hideous action of provocaticn in the hope of striking an effective blow | thereby for the suppression of the growing mass movement of workers | under the leadership of the Communist Party. One of the specialties | of police agents, strike-breaking agencies,’ private detective bureaus, | ete., is to write “threatening letters” to their employers or to them. | selves. And we have not forgotten also that only a few years ago a policeman in New York City lured a couple of Italian boys into a trap ei typical police provocation. The city detective himself admitted faving manufactured with his own hands, and with the supposed “as- + sistance” of the Italian boys, a bomb which was later placed in St. Patrick’s Cathedral by one of the boys under the physical compulsion of the disguised policeman. Then a corps of detectives disguised in skirts as scrub women seized the naive boys, who were prosecuted, convicted and given savage sentences in the penitentiary, while the police rat was promoted to a higher position. Tf that was years ago, nevertheless we know that the present police commissioner, Whalen, is, by his own admissions, fully equal to methods of the lowest type of agent provocateur crime. The Communist Party warns all workers against allowing themselves to be lured away from the mass struggles of our class, into the sort of traps which degener- ates of the capitalist police system would be only too glad to entice them in order to demoralize and destroy the splendid movement of the revolutionary working cl | Revolutionary mass ty must be the method of procedure of the workers, against the priests’ and rabbis’ bloodthirsty war drive, against the unemployment which now holds 7,000,000 American work- ers in its grip of misery, against capitalism and wage slavery—and for the defense of the Union of Sreialist Soviet Republies at the cost of our Ives if need be—for the overthrow of the dictatorship of the capitalist class, for the establishment of the dictatorship of the work- ing class and our emancipation from wage-slavery. “What once was Holy Russia” will remain, with the protection of | the workers’ Red Army and of the working class of all countries, the citadel of the world revolution and freedom of the laboring masses, Council Women Call | * sis Membership Meeting’ ie working class women behind the | |campaign for immediate release of | The’ United Council of Working | Harry Eisman, who was sentenced | Class Women will kave a General| to 5 years in a reformatory. | Membership meeting, on Thursday | night, March 27, at the Workers) W/7RITE about your conditions at 8:30) for the Daily Worker. Become | p.m. The purpose of the mecting' a Worker Correspondent. | ~-FIRST OF MAY Communists Demand | Right Given by City to Fascist Gunmen The Voice of 1,250,000 Call to Form Defense Corps Immediately The New York District Bureau of the Communist Party issued yester- day the following statement on the| struggle for the streets on Interna- tional Labor Da; “Police Commissioner Whalen has Grows Worse | All latest indications show a | sharpening of the economic crisis. This is especially important in face of the fact that there is a concerted | drive in the capitalist press, in- |spired by Hoover and followed by \the strikebreaker Green, to try to |spread illusions among the workers that conditions are getting better and unemployment is being relieved. Here are the facts taken from capitalist sources: Steel production | | is lower now than it has been since January. The Department of Com- merce reports that fabricated steel plate factories during February ran at 34.6 per cent of capacity as com- pared to 63.6 per cent in January and 73.5 per cent in February, 1929. | This shows a drop of 39 per cent | below the’ same month last year! steel JOBLESS DEMA | ND UNITES STRUGGLE WITH EMPLOYED ‘Elect More Delegates Than Expected Full discussion of the draft pro- gram to be submitted for approval to the National Preliminary Con- JOBLESS SMASH HOAN'S MEETING SEIZE PLATFORM California “Socialists” Call in Police SAN FRANCISCO, March A socialist mass meeting arranged for the social-fascist enemy of the “Socialist” Police Attack Jobless in Milwaukee ! | OF JOBLESS GET ANSWER Pad ference on Unemployment in New | | unemployed workers, Mayor Hoan declared that the Communists will | Petow the same» a ade ver hold en air not be allowed to hold any op | there have been tremendous drops, demonstrations. This unquestion- ra th . 1 at ably has been done in recognition of | increasing the mass unemployme the fact that as United States Com-|in this important basic industry. missioner of Conciliation Wood says, Says the Journal the “Communist movement has out- grown the soap box stage of oratory land has become a mass movement.’ | “Police Commissioner Whalen, leading the vicious cossacks of the jcity, spoke not for himself but for the Walker administration, which acts as the agent of Wall Street. “The Communist movement of this country is a mass movement, repre- senting today, 1,250,000 workers, and speaking for the entire Amer- ican working class’ and a. declara- tion such as Whalen’s is a declara- tion against the American working clas | “Tt is not at all astonishing that} \the city administration which we!- | comed the crooked mayor of Berlin,} A meeting tonight of unusual in- | not so long ago, which granted the terest to needle trades workers freedom of the city to the queen of | marks the active entrance of the Roumania, who was found in a| organization among the white goods drunken orgy at Cotzenfanesti dur-| and underwear workers. It will be ing the war while soldiers were | held under the auspices of the White being slaughtered at the front,| Goods and Underwear section of the should try to deny the workers of | Trade Union Unity League, in Irv-| of Commerce and strips (steel) March demand hag fallen behind. ot only has Ford Motor buying (Continued on Page Three) UNION CAMPAIGN ‘Mass Meeting Tonight) for Most Exploited | (March 26, 1930): “In both sheets | the aggregate | York, at Manhattan Lyceum, 12 }noon Saturday, will be the main {cutive board of the Trade Union |Unity League, which mets to- morrow at 1:30 p. m., in 16 West 21 St. The board will take up detailed plans, also, for the campaign to | win 50,000 new members for the | militant industrial unions affiliated to it, and proposals for intensifying |the campaign for election of dele- lgates to the Fifth World Congress 0: S f the Red International of Labor Unions. The R.LL.U. is the inter- jorder of business, before the exe- | The Milwaukee “socialist? administration gave the workers of that city an object lesson in social-fascism. When thousands of work- ers, jobless and hungry, demonstrated against unemployment, police clubbed the demonstrators and arrested their leaders. Photo shows | demonstrators being herded in the “Black Maria.” Storm ot Protest Against Plot to Jail Delegates of Jobless | lawyer | | IN WHITE G000S |national organization of revolution- | ary unions, of which the T.U.U.L. is | | ers. the American section. The R.LLU. | congress will he held in Moscow,} Hot on the heels of the refusal) U.S.S.R., on July 15. of the United States senate to hear Another important matter con-| William Z. Foster, Robert Minor and sidered at the board meeting will|Joseph Lesten, representatives of be the organization of railroad work-|the Trade Union Unity League, or- Otto Wangerin, secretary of |ganizations of the unemployed, and |the barring of the committee of the Junemployed from the board of esti-| mates meeting, discussing new plans | i, |to trick the jobless, Tuesday, come "new protests from the jobless work- ers and the militant employed work- the railroad league of the T.U.U.L. will make the main report on this. More Delegates. The national office of the T.U.U. reported yesterday that the election | a charge of “assault,” the date for the hearing of which is likewise set for April 11, but will probably be postponed to make way for the rail- roading on the other two charges, which are, “unlawful assembly” and “public nuisance.” 50 Per Cent Out of Work. In addition to the storm of reso- lutions adopted by unions and other organizations of workers, and mass- protest meetings, immediately after ew York the right to use the reets. “May Day is the International Working Class Day. It is the day when the revolutionary workers of the entire world celebrate their day. (Continued on Page Two) COMMUNISTS IN ~ CHINA TAKE GITY Capture Nanchang and Plan New Campaign PEKING, China, March 26.—The Communist troops in Kiangsi pro- vince have just occupied the impor- tant city of Nanchang. * ie ere | Nearly the whole of South China is seething with peasant revolt against the capitalists and land- lords. In many provinces Soviets have been established. In May, there is being called a Soviet Con- gress which will further consolidate the gains of the revolutionists and plan new offensives. Capitalist news dispatches yesterday reported that the cities of Sinfeng and Taiyi in Kiangsi province were also cap- tured by revolutionaries. Today in History of the Workers ————_—___. March 27, 1868—Maxim Gorki, Russian and revolutionary writer, born at Nijni-Noygorod. 1922— Marty and Badina, French Com- munist leaders of revolt in Black Sea fleet, elected to Paris City Council. —1925— Fifty-one coal miners killed in disaster at Merle- bach, Lorraine, KIDNAP REBEL CHILD CHICAGO, March 26,—Because Frank Smith took part in the March 6th mass unemployed demonstration, and because his three year old daughter Sylvia sings the “Red Flag,” and “Solidarity Forever,” the capitalist government through the Juvenile elke Association is attempting to put the child in an institution so that it can be taught “allegiance to the capitalist master Yesterday the case again went to trial after several sky-pilots and epresentatives of the Juvenile Pro- tective Association had _ testified against Frank Smith. Sylvia was kidnapped by Juvenile authorities while her father was at the March 6th demonstration. At the same time the raiders took some copies of The Daily Worker, 1.W.W. papers and Gastonia defence pamph- lets from Smith’s room, and are ing Plaza Hall, right after work. Among the speakers will be Ben} Gold, national secretary treasurer of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- | dustrial Union, Bessie Helfand, secretary of the white goods branch | of the union. There are in New York, the cen- ter of the white goods trade, about | 15,000 bitterly exploited workers, | most of them young workers, and |many of them Italian, Spanish and Negro workers. The reactionary | | union in the field, Local 62 of the | I. L. G. W., is weak in numbers, but | useless to those that do join it. Reactionary Bureaucracy. The officials of Local 62 Schneid- | r and Mary Goff, have worked | and in hand with the bosses. | These workers can tolerate these | conditions no longer. They are now | going to organize a real union for | a real fight under the leadership of | | the N. T. W. I. U., and the T.U.U.L. RANDOLPH M’NEIL ON TRIAL TODAY Almost too weak to stand up, still | marked with bruises from the bat- | | tering of the police, Randolph Mc- | (Neil, 26-year-old seaman, goes to ‘trial today before the Grand Jury | in Criminal Courts Building, charged | with “felonious assault” on a cop. MeNeil marched in an unemployed demonstration before the New York city hall a month’ ago. Police set on him like fiends and slugged him |unconscious. He was taken to Bel- \Jevue Hospital, and even while he | lay in bed, was guarded by police. When MeNeil recovered enough | ‘to be taken out of the hospital by | the International Labor Defense, the | cops threw him under $5,000 bail, | raising the bail by $4,000, charging ‘him with “felonious assault.” Jusing this material in order to put Sylvia .in a detention institution. |Even though she has been segre- | , gated in the Detention Home, little | Sylvia persists in calling herself a, | “young red.” “I would ask that the Daily | Worker, through its columns,” writes Frank Smith, “try to find some radical family to take the child permanently and take care of her.” In this case, the persecution of the bosses against an unemployed worker who supports the fight for “Work or Wages” is being directed against his three-year old daughter. Smith's wife who died when the baby was seven months old and he has taken care of her ever since, He asks that any class conscious | working class family who wants to j adopt Sylvia should immediate com- municate with him through the DYNAMITER IN of delegates to the National Un-| : Ate 0 employment Conference is continu- Pe ar co dinteicts creeds | They denounce the schemes, trick: 7's, from ee fhe is it the city and Unemployed Council of the Jewelry ing their quota, Philadelphia |°TY, 9N4_brutality of the city and : ;, f United States governments, the A.|Workers Industrial Union, New unions and unemployed councils have |p 1, and the social-fascists of the| York, which states that 50 per cent clected 22 delegates. The New Yorkin ynan Thomas stripe. They de-|of the jewelry workers are out of | district will probably elect 80 dele-| ond release of the delegates of work. The resolution raises unem- | gates at its city conference on un-!119.999 New York demonstrators, ployment demands and the demand employment, which is being held ho are facing trial April 11, before |for the release of the committee rep- tonight at Manhattan Lyceum. | tree Tammany judges, without a|resenting 110,000. The New York city conference | i114 and liable to three years’ sen-| A similar demand comes from th will work out plans for ex- tenees on each of two charges. Junemployed council at Rockford, tensive organization of the un- | “The delegation, Foster Minor,|which declares full solidarity with | employed in this vicinity, and | amter, Raymon and Lesten, also|the movement of the unemployed in| (Continued on Page Three) face sentences of five years each on| New York and elsewhere. | come in. The latest is'from the March 6, additional resolutions still | of Milwaukee and the corporation of the socialist party of New York, Morris Hilquit, was broken up by unemployed workers, including Communists, who took over the platform... This was the un- employed workers answer to Hoan’s fascist attack on the March 6 demon- stration. The socialists who got the worst of the battle called on the police riot squad. After a hard battle, the unemployed workers were ejected from the hall. Ten were arrested for rioting and numerous other charges involving thousands of dol- |lars in bail. Several workers were injured by police thugs. Five workers who were arrested yesterday at the Board of Super- visions mectinz for denouncing Hoan jand speaking on unemployment, ap- peared in court today and demanded |jury trials. They delivered militant speeches against unemployment and | the capitalist government. The trial was set for next month, “* Came For Help. Mayor Hoan seems to have gone to California to add his personal ap- peal to the howl of Milwaukee soc- jialists for all absent capitalists to jet back to that city and smash the jobless workers. The Milwaukee Leader, organ of Hoan’s party, short- |ly after the police had brutally at- tacked a demonstration of 25,000 workers and unemployed, raided the Communist Party offices and smash- ed them, raided other working class organizations’ offices and smashed (Continued on Page Three) | ee ee International ternational | MINE EXPLOSION sen MURDERS TWELVE |Men Forced to Work in Dangerous Gas | ARNETTSVILLE, W.' Va. March | —Once more the criminal greed | DRIVE ON SOVIET : BERLIN, March 26.—Communis' Councillor Weber, who was elected mayor of Solingen, has been refused confirmation. The socialist minister of the in- (Wirelesa By Inprécorr) |terior of Prussia, Grezesinski, was BERLIN, March 26.—Reyelations | again elected by twenty-six votes of the Welt am Abend disclosed that | 2gainst twenty-one bourgeois votes. the leader of the German anti- of + = Soviet campaign, the Centrist Cath- | Woll Urges Bosses to Quick War on USSR 26. jof a coal mining company, foreing unorganized and helpless miners in- GERMAN COMPOSITORS olic politician, V@j Papen, was for- TRIKE. to a gas-filled mine, has taken a toll merly a military attache at Wash- | (Wireless By Inprecorr) |of workers’ lives. A gas explosion | ington who instigated dynamite out- BERLIN, March 26.—Composi- at 2 a. m. this morning has killed rages in the United States during tors on the reactionary’ “Deutsche |12 men, some of them being so the last imperialist war. This is the same Von Papen who is today the bosom companion: of | Tageszeitung” have gone on strike) burned and mutilated as to make ‘demanding as a minimum one hun- recognition impossible. we dred and eight marks veek, and af ae the American imperialist robbers in| eaaeinfain a lat ae ate tive: natal The explosion occurred 4,000 feet their feverish attempt to stir up a}, daci: ; A | from the mouth of the Yukon slope | war against the first workers’. re-| paper Peet ACHES ake the. mine of the Crown Hill Co. public. | | * | CLASS PRISONERS IN POLAND ON HUNGER STRIKE. The national office of the Trade (Wireless By Inprecorr) Union Unity League reports that WARSAW, March 26. — Thirty |its organizers in Chattanooga, Tenn., proletarian political prisoners |and National Miners Union organ- viet Union, searched the rooms and on a hunger strike in Sambor jail, | izers from Pittsburgh are on their arrested everyone present. The ex-| Western Ukrainia, against common Way to the strike of 2,200 unorgan- cuse was that they were seeking criminal treatment. lized miners at Jenkins, Ky., which the origin of an illegal pamphlet. | ———— started March 17 against a wage (Continued on Page Three) Workers School Gives cut. Literature Symposium) * > * * (Wireless By Inprecorr) Raid Friends of Soviet Office. | BERLIN, March 26,—-Yesterday | noon. the police raided the head- quarters of the Friends of the So-| * * Organizers to Kentucky Strike. SAILORS DROWN ON FREYA. OPORTO, Portugal, March 26—- Reports reached here today that the! A symposium course in Contem- freighter Freya, carrying a cargo of | porary Literature and Drama has coal, went down off Biscay with all| been specially arranged by the hands. The Freya was overdue| Workers School for Friday nights five days. at 8:30, M. Blechman, proletarian writer, will speak on Yiddish liter- ature, Of the succeeding lectures | to be given, H. L. Potamkin follows i April 4 with Soviet Movies and Hollywood. WATER -FRONT EXPOSE + Today in the Daily 32: Worker Two Hundred Thousand Young Workers Demonstrated March 6. Page 4, ba A series of first-hand articles. the result of a special investigation How the Allentown Textile} | on the waterfront in New York, exposing the conditions of the sailo’ Workers Fight Unemployment longshoremen and dock hands, by Harry Gannes, will begin in Th Page 3. Daily Worker, Monday. These articles will reveal the amazing explo’ Two Events in Working-Clase| | tation of the toilers of the sea. Education. Page 4. These feature articles illustrated by original photographs and Imperialist’ Spy Leads Anti- drawings, will delve into the mass unemployment among marine work- ers, rationalization and the speed-up applied to sea workers; the wage and ship conditions; exploitation on the docks. They will contain an expose of the “Holy Flop House” or the prostitute Seamen’s Institute. They will show up conditions of the United States Shipping Board and Soviet Drive in Germany. Page 1 Tomorrow. How Unemployment and Ra- tionalization Hits South Illinois Miners. its slave-market employment agencies. News of March 6 Battles in Eu- In the series will be several on the Marine Workers’ League, its rope. work in organizing the seamen to fight against rotten conditions, and Daily Worker. the forthcoming national convention of the Marine Workers’ League Hoover's Magic Sixty Days. ey OBES: 4! $0 be held in New York, April 26-27 |Special Articles to Begin On Monday’ CITY JOBLESS MEET TONIGHT Conference at 7.30; Many Meetings First Tonight, at 7:30 p. m. in Manhat- tan Lyceum, hundreds of delegates of unions, unemployed councils, and organizations will city conference on unemployment, This meeting was called by the Trade Union Unity League and the Councils of the Un- employed. Today will see the unemployed and the workers organized in fight- ing unions reaching a new high peak of activity in preparation for the meeting tonight. Meetings of employed and unemployed will be held throughout the city. There will be a big mass meeting for jobless workers at 5:30, in Manhattan Ly- ceum itself, which will elect dele gates to the conference that follows at the same address, At 11 a, m. the cap makers sec- tion of the T. U. U. L. will have an open forum to which all in the especially unemployed, are . at 1179 Broadway. | At1 p.m, in the Labor Temple, |there will be a meeting of all un- ‘employed office workers. The New York district office of the T. U, U. L., 13 West 17th St., and the Unemployed Councils no- tify all unions and workers’ organ- ‘izations that if they possibly car jelect regular delegates before 7:3¢ | tonight, they should do so, but that if this is impossible, it is the duty of the secreta) of these organ- j izations to appear at the conference ‘and represent them, Among the activities of the con- ference will be the choosing of dele- ‘gates to the National Preliminary Conference on Unemployment | which will meet in the same hall at noon, Saturday. | | other worker meet in the f ae ieee te i Representatives Daily Worker A Conference of Section and Unit Daily Worker representa- tives will be held tonight at the | Workers’ Center, at 7 p.m. | |sharp. Plans will be made for the | mass-circulation drive. Every a Unit must be represented.