The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1930, Page 1

The National Preliminary employment, which starts tomorrow, will lay Conference on Un- the basis for broad powerful organization of the jobless and employed workers for a smashing fight for unemployment re- lief and against wage cuts. aily . Entered as second-class plished daily t Sunday by The Company, In Vol. VI., No. 330 inion Square, New York City, N. ¥.“@S2™21 Comprodaily Publishing © “Freedom for Feudal Reaction ‘Led by the Vatican, Financed gy gTRiKE [IN| | | WKENTUCKY | by Imperialism”---Defeat the Holy War Program “Religious Freedom in the Soviet Union!” Under this slogan is being carried on the preliminary preparation for war on the first workers’ and peasants’ republic. The campaign is led by the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church—the grandiose title under which the Vatican, world center of religious-feudal reaction, conducts its united front with world imperialism. , character of inal differences The essentially reactionary and anti-working cl theology, which has sunk all denominational and doc under the leadership of the pope for war on the Soviet Union—the only country where the church has been completely separated from government and where actual liberty of religious thought prevails alone of all the countries in the wo’ shown by the collection of clericals which has rallied te the w Let us be specifi The Jewish rabbis support the Vatican. It is too well known to require detailed supporting arguments that the pogroms in Poland in which thousands of Jews have been tortured and killed, and are still 1,000 MINERS | | ‘UMW Tried and Failed | Keep Them at Work; Ask More’Wages (N.M.U. at Arnettsville| | Militant Union Scores Murder for Profit MADISONVILLE, Ky., March 27. | —A thousand miners are on strike | in western Kentucky, demanding a raise in wages. These are part of the miners who took a strike vote last fall and declared for a struggle. | '0 How “sacred” the working class family is in the eyes of the bosses nly $6 a Week! Must ‘ony Wek cies 05” GHAL LENGE POPE CONFERENCE TOMORROW FINAL CITY EDITION ker SUBSCRIPTION R In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. ° Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. . Price 3 Cents “DIVULGE WORKS BUILDS UNEMPLOYMENT _ OFSGIENTISTS COUNCILS; HITS. TRIAL \Blast His Hypocricy a | ,on “Freedom of Conscience” | | ee | Expose War Hysteria Relief, Insurance, at Expense of Profits and enon Wiitines: of Bloated Salaries of Government Officials _ Pra gall s_ CITY: CONFERENCE JAIL DELEGATE OF ‘BUILDS. CENTER JOBLESS MEETING ‘Wars on Police Terror; Will Lead United Mass Movement of Jobless Built Around Former Work Places - According to capitalist press dis- | patches from Moscow yesterday | twenty-five of the leading astron- Fomers of the Soviet Union have issued an gpeit letter challenging Pope Pius to reveal the writings of Galileo, Corpernicus, Keppler, Bruno Many_on Way; Session : ita Avid’ animals. wer ra cneatll The United Mine Workers official-| was illustrated in the case of Mrs. Lelia Murphy acho was forced t tortured, killed, and hunted like wild animals, were and are organized | T t of | li . Lelia J u reed to 1 P Ee 2 ' with the assistance of the Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops and dom, particular! y the officials of} advertise for a home for her two children because she could never make | and other scientists nie uae Lia Plans Organization to Last 2 Days priests, The peasantry in Poland today are ruled by Roman Catholic District 23, have spent months try-| more than $6 a week. Capitalism has no tcwr's for the working class | concealed and suppressed for cen- | is priests just as they were under the czar. Pogroms'in Poland have | ing to prevent the strike by every | families that it is constantly breaking up in this way. | turies in the secret archives of he Hundreds of delegates, represent-| ‘The National Preliminary Confer: continued under the “republic” and continue under the Pilsudski fas- art of sell-out and treachery. The | vatican. ing unemployed councils, militant | Re i ee Mane cist dictatorship strike today is the answer of the | The Pope, who is so busy local unions (including nearly a j°%¢? on Unemployment, which star P ‘ men. ent whippivg up war hy | dozen locals of the A. F. of L.) and at noon tomorrow will last two days, ania, pope e. Jews are tortured and slaughtered : shat [ 1 t M W : : : igure Be die ee Fe eee eee tcd Ee Catholic once ni vite: aa. | he National’ Miners: Union is|4 /LDEPCQLESLS. Ove fOr QV — © | against the fatherland of _ the| other workers’ organizations in Man-|it was announced at the national »y sadistic bands organized and led by C@tholie p ‘ world’s workers under the guise of! hattan Lyceum last night, adopted office of the Trade Union Unity herents of Roman Catholicism. The sale of the Irish people—the workers and peasantry who are the overwhelming majority of the Irish population—has been one of the chief sources of revenue for the Vatican since the eleventh century ‘sending organizers into the territory. | The Trade Union Unity League has detailed organizers in Chattanooga, \Tenn., to go to Jenkins, Ky., where | 2,200 have been on strike against a! LONDON, M: Alliances ‘at London Meet h 27.—With the attempts of the impe: ists at the of con- League yesterday. The Unity League and the Unemployed Councils issued the call for the conference, and the national board of the T.U.U.L. meets a struggle for “freedom a strong resolution for the organiza- science” is thus completely exposed. | tion of the unemployed and their The letter ‘of the Soviet scientists | continued struggle, elected 30 dele- points out that the church of Rome} gates to the National Conference on ri /II sold the country to the English rulers in return for |. S . Aran ‘ ; ¢ s throtled science thruout his-| 7; aie a ere to-|today a 30 . to work out when Aone yee =o. Paviden é 2 wage cut since March 17. Five-Power conference to hoodwink the masses into the belief that they | (2%, ‘rotle TG acteeHtta: UTE ee ror ieeets ere io, today (au pte Dae . one silver penny per head for each convert. i 2 iti iS ak | Gamani Gaia eaie aa . Y| tory, particularly astronomy. morrow, and formed an executive |the details of a draft program of : itish |, 2he last addition to the strike is) meant “disarmament” completely smashed by the rapid race for arma-! points out that many scientific | mor” . Tienb oPotaaibas |e submit to the @naresenee When the Irish masses revolted and took up arms against British that of the miners of the Duvin| ments revealed, the maneuverin; = dest Meine HAVE PL Gad a HRT AER EEE ore one oeeateee Organiza: (ection Ye .aUbEut e ¢ - imperiajism in 1916 under the leadership of Jim Connolly, the s Coal Co. at Providence, Webster | for alliances for the next impei worsens. There is the & Bete tee ineiceelewau Wey aneaagita tion work in New York. |» Miller Chairman. formers s igeons furnished by the official organization of |¢ ‘ alice ren . ar are goi idly. | Prench antagonis vi ri : : conference was greeted in the f ‘ formers and stool pigeons furnished by the icial org: 0 County, who walked out yesterday | ist war are going ahead more rapidly. | Prench antagonism, with American predecessors of the present pope. The conference was greeted in the The meeting tomorrow will be —— the Roman Catholic Church were the most efficient weapons of the British ruling class. Vatican officialdom was jubilant, when Jim Connolly, the great- est leader of the Irish masses, one of the outstanding organizers and strategists of the working class, champion of the united front of colonial peoples and the working class in the imperialist countries, originator in the Western world of the theory of armed insurrection as the culminating point of the struggle for national liberation in con- junction with the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat for the over- throw of imperialism, Marxian interpreter of the revolutionary role of the trade unions, clear-sighted enemy of the Vatican and its. agents as tools of imperialist reaction, with both legs broken by machine-gun fire, was dragged on bed of pain and shot like a dog by British imperialism for his leadership of the Waster uprising. The Irish Free State, the instrument of British imperialism and !a man laid off, * when the bosses refu@ed to take back | the “security” or * 8 Militants May Have Died. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 27.— The general office here of the Na- tional Miners Union stated today | rn re Front a that several of its members were Union the cae (Continued on Page Three) | PREPARE FORA snes imperialist bandits next Friday. jis the rivalry betw: | American imperialism, which sharp- jens every day as the world This is the real significance of | imperiali “consultative | the pact” proposal which will be dis-|French alliance agains cussed at a special meeting of the | Perialism. While the main purpose of the}American - Japanese }conference is to secretly prepare an | With st the Soviet alliances with the Japanese imper- of antagonism|ialism against its chief competitor sts themselves | in the struggle for en British and, United States imperi crisis | , due to the failure of maneuver seeking a ritish im- Then there is the French-Italian antagonisms, and the “pa British imperialism vorld markets, ism. Stimson declared that he (Continued on Page Three) has the capitalist class of Ireland for the robbery and suppression of the Irish working class and peasantry, is primarily the creation of the pope. It should not be forgotten that the present pope is the former car- dinal Ratti—likewise the agent of French imperialism, assigned to work in Poland in 1920 when the Polish drive on the Soviet Union was repelled and the seizure of power in Poland by the working class, with the aid of the Red Army, was prevented only by the rushing of the French military supplies and French military forces to the Polish front. r of this bloody con- ing Driven to desperation by the continued and rapid rise of the work- ing and living conditions of the masses in the Soviet Union, aghast at the fact that millions of workers and farmers in other countries are drawing the class lessons of the Russian revolution while capitalism forces ever worse conditions upon the mi world imperialism ha enlisted its last reserve—the clerics whose superstitious savageries have been written in the blood of humble hundreds of thousands for 20 centuries. Cardinal Ratti, now pope, was the organi: spiracy against the fatherland of the world’s worl Listen to the Jesuit Walsh, speaking together with Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor and head of that other Wall Street instrument, the National Civic Federation—jesuit and fascist sharing the platform at the Metropolitan Opera House, Tuesday, March 25: “I may now reveal what for years was a secret shared only by the pope himself (the former Cardinal Ratti—Editor.) and a few others, namely, that . the head of the Catholic Church summoned into his presence the General of the Society of Jesuits and one of the priests of that Society, a French scholar and an expert in the Russian language and liturgy, Father Michael dHerbigny. “The priest was immediately consecrated a bishop. .. . Archbishop Pacelli, then Papal Nuncio ‘to Berlin and now Car- dinal Secretary of State of the Vatican, performed the conse- cration. e “Then the new bishop went into Russia disguised as a French merchant—a true Jesuit plot if ever there was one » and in Russia, in daily and hourly peril of his life, he carried out the orders of the pope; he secretly consecrated twelve Catholic Bishops—the twelve apostles, may I venture to say, of the re- birth of the church in Red Russia.” Here is the clear admission—incapable of any other interpretation when taken in connection with the known role of the former Cardinal Ratti as the organizer of the Polish drive on the Soviet Union in 1920 as the most important part of his task as the direct representative of French imperialism and indirect representative of all the imperialist powers—that the Roman Catholic Church has maintained a counter- revolutionary spy brigade in the Sovict Union and organized resis- tance to the economic, political, social and cultural program of the working class government. Here ig the proof from the lips of a priest speaking directly under orders from the Vatican, that the Roman Catholic Clergy who have been executed and imprisoned in the Soviet Union, have been pun- ished for counter-revolutionary plots and not for the mere dissemina- tion of religious propaganda. The impudence of such enemies of the working class is astounding when they prate about “religious freedom.” On the Index Expurga- torious of the Vatican—the list of books which the faithful are pro- hibited from reading, under severe penalties—are all of the scientific classies of the 18th and 19th centuries—Huxley, Darwin Spinoza, Lyall, Hegel, Morgan, Haeckel, Marx, Engels, Ricardo, Thompson, Mills, Hobbes, Buckle, Voltaire, Diderot, Paine, ete. The Vatican laces a premium on ignorance. It procured the ar- rest, prosecution and execution of Ferrer—the great Spanish libertar- ian. It insists on maintaining in all countries its cesspools of ignor- ance and reaction known as parochial schools, It supports the fascist dictatorships in Spain, Italy, Poland and Jugo-Slavia. It desires to revive the inquisitions and it works unceasingly for the union of Church and state—the re-establishment of the temporal (political) power that ‘: held during the Middle Ages. | rations in order to insure a succe | | | basic industries shall take place on STRIKE MAY 1ST PORTER SPEAKS STRIKE IN JAIL “That a political mass strike ins| AT ? BIG MEETS AGAINST FOOD volving scores of factories in =| | _— e May 1” is the gist of a statement | ed by ‘tne New York District |Starts |Bureau of the Communist Party in ete as outlining its plans for the tremend-| LOUr With Harvey ous May Day preparations. In order properly to organize a} | BOSTON, eee Penal monster May Day demonstration the | Soh." porter spoke on the “U. S, conference of all militant labor or- ganizations on April 4, at 7 p. m., to be held at Manhattan Lyceum, | tour arranged by the International will work out the detailed plans not | [)10.. Defence. only for the demonstration itself on | oN denen | A large number of workers at- May Day but also for all the prepa-| tended the meeting in Boston, which also commemorated the 59th anni- jful May Day. The plans as issued | versary of the Paris Commune. |by the district bureau includes the| John Harvey, national secretary (Continued on Page Two) of the Young Communist League, who is accompanying John Porter, also spoke on conditions of the young workers and lessons of the Porter case. Other meetings to be held are as follows: |Army and the Workers,” marked the beginning of the coast-to-coast FUNCTIONARIES MEET. | | All members of section com- mittees and all unit organizers will meet Saturday, at 2:30 p. m., Coast-to-Coast Men in Prison Fight totten Conditions tear-gas bombs and clubs official gunmen battered and beat hundreds of prisoners in order to smash the strike of 750 im- prisoned men in the Missouri Penitentiary. G@vyer 70 were sent to the hospital with injuries in- flicted by the sadist prison guards, * 7, : JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March An echo of the second Auburn prison revolt, and another in the long series of prison uprisings was heard when over 500 imprisoned men in five factories inside the Missouri penitentiary walls went on antagonism, | seeking | | The Sqiet astronomers chal- | lenge the Vatican to permit an international commissioy to study the secret archives, pointing out that such an investigation may prove highly valuable. | The signers of the open letter ap- pealed to the astronomers thruout (Cantinued on Page Three) PROTEST ARREST | name of the Communist Party by Sadie Van Veen, who pointed out | that the great demonstrations of |March 6 caused the capitalists to flare out in wrath and fear, but |convinced them that they could no longer simply ignore the suffering | jobless, now grown militant. | “Surely the Communist Party is responsible for unemployment, for | before they called the workers out on March 6, we never saw any,” they |said in shocked tones. But workers were hungry, and children went to school without breakfast for months called to or by Clarence Miller, temporary national secretary of the unemployment organizations of the T.U.U.L, The ‘first report on the general unemployment situation will be made by John Schmiess, assistant national secretary of the T.U.U.L. | Then will follow district reports and a report on the general campaign for the organization of a wide-flung network of Councils of Unemployed in all cities. | Deegates are arriving aready from joutlying d Delegates Roy before the demonstrations, and with- | Powell, a textile worker, and C. W. out a careless word even from the | Carey, a Negro metal worker, both capitalist masters of the country, |clected-by the Council of the Unem- “OF COMMITTEE Bosses Admit Growing Unemployment Workers organizations, ticularly the councils of the un- ‘employed and the mass meetings and demonstrations called. by them, jcontinue to flood the New York capitalist government with demands for the release of William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Amter, Harry Ray- mond and Joseph Lesten, the elected delegates of the 110,000 unemploy- ment demonstrators in that city. Trial without jury is set for these five April 11. One of the latest is from Canton, Ohio, a city of heavy metal industry which writes: darity to our leaders, the fight has begun.” . | Another is from Oklahoma C where a joint mass meeting Sunday resolutions “Greetings of soli-| The only preparation the bosses made was to start the religious cru- sade -against the Soviet Union, |knowing that the example of a | workers’ country, where unemploy- the peasant is being trained for in- (Continued on Page Two) LIBERATOR IN ~ DRIVE FOR 1,000 |Must Have Funds to Continue Fight Especially now with growing mass unemployment, frenzied war hysteria against the working class, the LIB- TOR must remain the mouth- piece of the oppressed Negro mas- {ployed in Chattanooga, Tenn., ar- |rived yesterday. On his way up Carey’s car was stopped in Easton, |Pa., by a policeman from whom, he |had inquired the way—the delegate at cnas: ment does not exist except while|was taken to the city hall, along {with A. Colley, Amy Schechter, Tom and Gilbert Lewis, T.U.U.L. ers, with whom he was rid- ing, and the whole group held in jjail: They were finally released jafter severe cross-examination, Other delegates are on their way. Ten are coming from Detroit, 10 more from Minneapolis. | Base Councils on Factories. The T.U.U.L. board will recom- mend to the conference to elect a National Unemployment Committee and a full-time national organizer. The T.U.U.L. recommends that the conference decide on organizing the councils around the places where the members were formerly em- ployed, and in the halls of the em- ent offices. can best be done, the T. U. | in the Workers’ Center. Very es strike today, after 750 had mu-| adopted protesting the!ses. It must not be allowed to gc || important. Be Present on time.|| | March 28 in New Haven, Conn; | tinied yesterday against rotten|church crusade against the ®oviet|out of existance | | Grgacisniian Dopartaent March 30 at Workers Center, 93 prison food. | Union, the plans for imperialist war,| The cowardly, cringing Nearo 2. Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, The prisons are being filled up|and the arrests of the delegations middle class leaders, crawling on Soe 1 Continued on Page Three) | with broken workers, as well as un-|of the unemployed in New York. |their bellies, servilely licking. the | Union from world economy—it is a demand for mass starvation to force adoption of feudal religion and imperialist rule. With this under.way, the next step will be the immediate military mobilization of the forces of the puppet governments of Poland, Ru- mania, Jugo-Slavia, ete. for war on the Soviet Union. The churches thus expose themselves to millions of workers and farmers as political agencies, as instruments of the robber class. + The role of religion, protestant and catholic}*can no longer be masked by humanitarian phrases, * Organized religion stands forth under the leadership of the Vaticati as the mercenary and merciless enemy of the masses in all countries, Science is in uncompromising conflict with religion. Science is on the side of the working class and its political party—the world party of the proletariat, the Communist International. | The working class, holding power in the Soviet Union, leads the | masses by science instead of blinding them by superstition. The working class in the United States and throughout the world is defending their fatherland and their political party. The class struggle itself is clearing away superstition and show- ing clearly the capitalist class character of popes, prelates and priests. STARVED, TAKES MILK Young Unemployed Worker Jailed LOS ANGELES, Cal. (By Mail). but the prosecutors are going s)vv —I had to eat,” Roy Wade, 18, told {in jailing fat millionaires who) the authorities yesterday when ar-| robbed workers out of their savings rested for the asserted theft of two|in the $50,000,000 C. C. Julian oil quarts of milk from a doorstep. scandal. “I knew that some baby might go ° i * hungry for a few hours,” he ex-/ Steals Food, Faces Long Jail Term. | | “LABOR” plained, “but I have been hungry for weeks. I knew the mother could Capitalist rationalization with its premium on purely mechanical Dominick Pilotti, 19-year-old Bronx unemployed worker, was ar- carrying through of machine processes, its attempt to create a world of robots out of the working class, has aroused new dreams of world power in the breasts of the theologians. United under the leadership of the Vatican, the clergy of all countries contend once more for poli- tical power—for the right to administer “justice’—the high, the mid- dle and the low. Their immediate demand now together with the fescist Woll is for get more milk, but I can’t get food lin this ‘oasis of abundance.” | A little milk was all-the food the boy had had for eight weeks. The ‘youth appears thin and undernour- jished, the well-fed man-hunters ad- imitted. This unemployed worker |cause he was hungry and had not | eaten for some time, Because he was convicted previ- jously on various charges and ‘re- lceived suspended septences, Pilotti now faces an indefinite prison term “an economic boycott the isolation of 150,000,000 people of the Soviet ‘was quickly booked for petiy theft, |under the Baumes law. | | |rested robbing a grocery store be-' ‘ employed who commit crimes in| order to keep from starving, under | the vicious indefinite sentence and | Baumes laws all over the country. | The striking _ prisoners ! rushed to their cells by armed | | guards, The National Guard viel rushed to the prison with machine | in the same fashion as | Recognizing that an “economic emer- ers strike on the outside, |Zency exists,” the city commiss The strike started in the chair has decided to issue emergency notes | factory where 150 men refused toto provide additional funds to aid go to work after breakfast, demand- | the unemployed “when and if nee gun unit when wo: (Continued on Page Three) cuTs. LONDON (By Mail).—Wage cuts | $4,950 Cadillac sedan. |of 2,000,000 pounds ($10,000,000) per year for wool workers have been proposed by Lord MacMillan as | a means of “stabilizing the wool in- | dustry. The workers have rejected the cuts and are preparing for a struggle. The “labor” support the bos Today in the am The Indian Revo Ghand Maneuver, by usinen. Page 4 Hoover's Magic Sixty Days, by Harry Gannes. Page 4. Unemployed March of British Workers. Page 2. South China Seethes With Re- volt. Page . \orrow. Analysis of the Communist | Party Reciv ing Drive. Resolu- tion of Cer':al Committee. Bill | Book, Haywood’s Bertha Br: Reviewed by | Mond Ye | Inter x Series of articles on, New York Water Front, party will | were from Hoover and Morgan on down. ARTY AIDS WAGE /fellow-member’s Lincoln car looke? Meanwhile the unemployment is|feet of their white masters, are growing worse, in spite of all lies| wreaking vials of poison over the by the A.F.L. bureaucracy, and the|Negro masses. DePriest parades the government and business officials country, blaming unemployment on the exploited foreign born workers. Pickens openly attacks the militant |leadership Sf the Negro worker: the Amerjean Negro Labor Congre: Kelly Miller, the most prolific de generate of them all, floods the ser- vile press with his Uncle Tom blab- berings. Maretls Garvey, attempt- ing to divert the Negro masses from revolutionary channels, creates i! sions. of an “African Heaven”, while workers starve in an American hell | All these misteaders have joined |a united front against the workers’ government. Against these cringing, crawling, |cowardly fakers, the class conscious OOF | Negro workers must direct their at- Oy) tack. But this is impossible without (Continued on Page Two) ‘4 oe NEWARK, N. J., March 27. m ed.” At the same meeting however the commissioners decided that a shabby, so they voted him a new ae ei Sixty-four per cent of the appeals | for aid to the N. Y. Association for Improving tle Condition of the P in February were due to unempl ment, the society states. ———E=E=EE SEES NO HOPE OF A JOB (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I am writ- ing to expose the lies manufactured by the American Federation of La- bor and the government officials. I am out of work since last Sep- tember. My condition is desperate. will give the proof, Months ago I lost every hopt of. getting back to work, so I tried the sugar factory, B.M.T., agencies, sub- ways, ete., but it was the same all over. cent of the men out of work. I} . points out, by electing com- (Continued on Page Three) | International | | Wireless oe he Thur- wered the Reich's Minister of the Interior Sev- ering today, refusing to consider the suggestion that an inquiry be con- ducted by Severing’s nominee, Men- zel. «The Thuringian government denied Severing’s vight to withhold money belonging to Thuringia and gave instructions to refuse Menzel jall information. The letter of the | Thuringian government represents an affront against Severing. | | 7 * * European Peasant Congress Opens, | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, March 27.—The Eure pean peasant congress opened here with greetings from the Irish peas- antry, regd by Donell. The Seym | Deputy Uoitovich spoke, describing |the impoverished conditions of the peasantry in the European coun- | * . * (wi |. BUDAPES' by Inprecorr.) larch 27. — The | Hungarian workers, Meyer, Perluisi ;and Humpal, were sentenced for | months each for distributing rosettes Every day I am threatened with be-| After the March 6 demonstration | 2"4 revolutionary leaflets at the funert] of Alexander Loevy. ing thrown out of the house. The Gas and Electric companies threat- en to shut off the gas and electricity. My friends no longer want to lend me any money, because they know there is no hope of getting any job at all. Tam a marble worker, but in this |the bosses’ press encouraged me, “New York American” of March 17: | “Hoover feels sure trade is on up- grade.” * i After such bluff by every capital- ist paper, I asked my friend for $2 for car fares, and then I started to | ‘ ‘i | once more, like the following in the| Police made numerous arrests re- cently, including Maria Blumgrund, alleged editor of the illegal “Young Worker.” The mass trial of a hundred work- ers, which was postponed February, is expected to take place at the be- trade there are more than 55 per ginning of April, (Continued on Page Three)