The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1930, Page 1

te BOE } The War Preparations Asainst the Soviet Union Aye Growing Rapidly, In Londen ihe Im ist Bandits Are Preparing an Alliance Against the Workers’ Republic. The Catholic Bruening Has Been chosen to Head the German Government. He Threatens a Break With the Ba Defend the Soviet Union! daily | Vol. VL, No. 331 — i ‘| April and Capitalist Class Justice With the exception of the famous onslaught of the American capitalist government against the wor in connection with the World War, never has such an array of serious class-war prosecutions~ever come before the American working class as the array of trials slated in every part of the United States, in the month of April. Mass trials of dozens and hundreds of workers in groups, trials of the leaders of workers’ demonstrations (the committee of the unem- ployed in New York), tfials of the best of the workers in the trade unions and all types of working class organizations, impend in such numbers in all parts of the cotintry that these prosecutions alone fur- nish a sort of a “war-map” of class struggle. Of course, this onslaught "is a major feature of the capitalist offensive against the workers in connection with the economic crisis, unemployment and the plans of the American capitalist government for the coming imperialist war. The criminal courts, jails and police clubs ‘are an important part of the machinery of the capitalist state, tsed in the effort to suppress the tremendously swelling tide of work- ing lass counter-offensive which took on a mass form on March 6 against unemployment, the speed-up and the capitalist system. The instrument of the criminal court plays a big role at this stage of the struggle. The capitalist class and its state officials still believe that-it may be possible by means of jails to beat down and stifle the upsurging radicalization, the developing revolutionary spirit of the American workers under the leadership of the Communist Party. The eriminal ‘court ‘is, in its limited way, an unfailing instrument for the | ruling class in striking blows at the workers. The farce of “trial” in | a court of law in the United States today is utilized as a mere cover | to conceal decisions of the chambers of commerce, manufacturers associations and banks, which have merged into one apparatus with the bureaucratic machine of state. Every labor case without excep- tion necessarily results in a conviction for the workers and a savage sentence, the only possible modification being in cases where the fear of the ruling class may be that a t8o callous exhibition of capitalist class vengeance is rousing too much of a mass resistance on the part of the working class. The American eapitalist class has not forgotten the furious storm of working class rage at the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The big array of class prosecutions which come up within the next few days is stark evidence, not alone of the savage use of the state maghine by the capitalist class, but also the militant class actions of the workers. 2 At Raleigh, N. C., on April 23 will be held the appeal against the ¢ conviction of the stven workers who, in connection with the Gastonia 1 textile strike, were railroaded to prison for terms amounting to 117 years of imprisonment—the decjsion on the appeal being made, of course, in the office of the textile manufacturers and not in any one of the state courts. The mass trial of 200 Chicago work arrested | in connection with the March 6 demonstration is slated for April 21. The trial of the New York Unemployed delegation, which includes William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, Israel Amter, New York district organizer of the Communist Party, Harry Raymond and Joseph Lesten, comes up April 11, in Special Sessions Court. The trial of two Ohio workers, Betty Gannett and Zorka Yoki, facing ten years on criminal syndicalism charges, will be called the first week in April. The Potash, r and second week in April. Unquestionably the capitalist justice to be dealt out to all of these worker-defendants will be all the more severe because of the morbid hope of the bosses to put a damper of fear upon the workers on the eve of May Day. April, 1980, is a month of tremendous importance to the Amer- ican working class. The masses must rally at once to the valiant organization defending the prosecuted workers, the International Labor Defense, in every part of the country. Not only the North, but the South is weighted with cases, besides the Gastonia appeal, Carr and Powers in Atlanta, Ga., go on trial in April charged with “distributing insurrectionary literature,” “unlaw- ful assembly” and with “throwing tear gas bombs” into the audience which they were addressing. ‘ In Charlotte, N. C., the appeal comes up for George Saul, sou! ern organizer of the International Labor Defense, sentenced to s months on the chain gang—virtually a death sentence. In Milwaukee the trial of the workers arrested on March 6 was postponed until April because of the mass pressure of the working class there, which mobilized for a protest demonstration before the court on Wednesday whet the trial was to have come up. The court also received, numerous.telegrams from the various branches of the International Labor Defense and affiliated organizations in the district. In that city 68 workers were arrested, some have already been sen- tenced to six months and others face similar sentences. Eight children were also arrested and beaten up March 6, along with their elders. | This prosecution of workers is conducted by the “socialist” party ad- ministration of Milwaukee. The list of trials spreads over to the Pacifie Coast where 19 work- | ers face deportation, the majority to fascist countries, and where four more go-on trial April 21, charged with battery, resisting officers, be- cause they. resisted the attempts of police to break up their Paris Commune meeting. These include Frank Spector, district organizer, of the International Labor Defense ‘i California. The number is tremendous and only immediate mass protest, mass support of the International Labor Defense will save these work from long terms or deportation. Every class-conscious worker is urged to rush funds at once to the national office of the International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., Room 430, New York City. At the same time, news has been received. from the Japanese International Labor Defense, that a mass trial of 250 of the more than 800. workers in Japan now under criminal prosecution for belonging to the Communist Party, will also come up. The American workers in supporting the International Labor Deferise will protest on behalf of these workers, as well as those in Mexico now on hunger strike, it NATIONAL UNE daily Publishing ork Ci y TU VICIOUS USSR ENEMY HEADS GERMAN GOV'T j ! if Catholic Bruening to & Form New Cabinet For Big Bosses Prepare Dictatorship | | | ‘Acute Danger of Break, With Soviet Union | (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | BERLIN, March 28,.—The Mueller government resigned yesterday night. Four socialist ministers agreed to all the demands of the capitalist nominees, inrluding furth- er reduction in unemployment bene- fits to save the government, but the socialist Reichstag fraction turned down the proposal, fearing the anger of the vast unemployed masses. tie RDAY, M Don’t Miss Waterfront Articles Monday £ March ~~} FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION utside ATES: In New York by mall, $8.00 per year. New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents MPLOYMENT CONFERENCE ME On Monday, the * first of a series of * special @rticles on the marine industry will*appear. These feature articles ave the result of a spe- cial investigation by Harry Gannes, in co- operation , with the Marine Worke League, of conditions of the sailors and Igngshoremen; un- employment on the waterfront, speed-up on the ships; the U. S. Shipping Board and war ® prepara- sions in the struggle for world markets. Don’t miss these ar- ticles. They will be Illustrated with un- 1sual photographs ind drawings. Read tbout the sailors cast yn the beach; life at the “Holy Flop House;” Joe the job giver, and many >sher interesting topics Today Hindenburg entrusted the ies formation of a new cabinet to the | i catholic politician, Bruening. The latter’s only possibility is to form a Weapons of Struggle Against Reformists minority cabinet, and will therefore form a so-called personages cabinet without respect to parties; in other | | words, a cabinet representing heavy | industry. The capitalist demands will be rushed through with ‘the help of dictatorship, under, Para- graph 48, if necessary. Under Para- graph 48, it is possible to close down the parliamentary body, but this is unlikely at the present time, as the The vast importance of the “Lib- socialists are expected to adopt an attitude of friendly neutrality to- wards the cabinet. ‘Today's “Germania,” organ of the catholi¢ party, writes: “The people categorically demand an energetic erator” as an agitator and organizer of the Negro masses is graphically shown in the present rapid growth gress, and in the desperation with which the Negro petty bourgeoisie of the American Negro Labor Con-j; Winogradsky and Shifrin cases in New York will be called the first | policy along the whole line in the |are meeting this new life of the Con-| abinet and in parliament, if pos- | gress. sible, but without parliament if the! In their efforts to combat. the latter’s impétetiee endangers the re- | growing radicalization of the Negro |generation policy.” {masses and the rising influence of | The new cabinet means an inten: | the Congress, the Negro petty bour- |geoisie are resorting to the most | desperate tricks. Of tose the most an acute danger of a breach. Rca at is glaring and desperate IS the tempt by Dr. Du Bois in the April “Crisis” (Newark Workers’ to 5 establish ‘a “Gimilarity” between Hear Porter Sunday tte militant, class-struggle program lof the A.N.L.C. and the reformist, j NEWARK, N. J., March 2g, | petitionist program of the National ‘Workers of Newark will hear John | Association for the Adyancement of Porter, the soldier? who was impris-|Colored People. This typically bour- oned for his activity on behalf of }geois trick of confusing the masses the New Bedford mill strikers. Por- in order to divert into ineffective ter will be the principal speaker ag) Channels they every-day struggles a mass-defense m- ing Sunday, | @gainst exploitation and imperialis ‘March 30, 3 p. m., at 93 Mercer St.| oppression must be ruthlessly com- | Other Labor Defense meetings are | batted by the A.N.L.C. and its offi- scheduled in Newark. One will be |cial organ, the ‘Liberator.” |held April 4, at 8 p. m., at 93 Mer- | cer St. On April 3 a defense mect- ing will be held in the Negro sec- tion, at 185 Broome St. The meet- ings are under International Labor Defense auspices. peal for help. Workers Defend C.P. i io:thcoming: the “Liberator” will Speakers in Newark |be forced to suspend publication. a5 |This would be nothing less than a NEWARK, N.-J., March 28.— (catastrophe to the entire working Workers of the Westinghouse Elec- | class. trie Co, forced the local police t0| Every worker should send in hi keep hands off Communist speakers | hit, whether it be a dime or a dollar who addressed the workers at an} or five dollars. But act now, at open-air meeting before the plant | once! |yesterday. Nearly 300 workers from | i the plant and other plants nearby | THE LIBERATOR eee 5 eagerly listened to the speakers. The | 799 Broadway, Room 338, N. Y, ©. ;Communist Party will continue the \shop-gate meetings despite the po- lice. fied anti-Soviet foreign policy and geoisie, the “Liberator” must con- tinue to appear weekly. it to appear weekly thé black and white, must respond mediately and generously to its ap- Lam sending dollars en- closed to help The LIBERATOR. In order to effectively combat this , new tactic of the Negro petty-bour- | To enable | workers, | Unless such response | TOILERS PREPARE FOR MAY DAY Conference April 4 to Lay Plans for Meet With less than a week before the Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. New York City, many militant organizations are preparing their delegations with suggestions and other proposals for the carrying through of the May Day demonstrations. In a statement issued yesterday by the district bureau of the Com- munist Party, all shop groups are urged to issue special editions of the factory newspapers for May Day. The aim in the May Day preparations must be to achieve a political mass strike and td® mobil- ize a minimum of seventy-five large “factories in New York to go out on strike on May Day in addi- |tion to a large number of small factories which are ekpected to par- | ticipate. In order to carry through this purpose every militant labor | organization will have to exert the greatest energy. The May Day con- ference on April 4 will be the rally- ing point for the carrying through of these plans. Chance to See Two Great Soviet Films Here Tomorrow “Have just read in the ‘Daily’ jabout the new film from Soviet Russia, the one about the Five-Year Plan. This is just what we have been looking for. We all like the Soviet films; they are far superior to the slop dealt out to us by the American magnates.” This letter, signed “A Friend,” is one worker’s reaction to the an- | nouncement that for the first time in this countfy a film on the great Five-Year Plan of Socialist Con- | struction will be shown. The show- ing will take place tomorrow, start- jing at 2 p. m., until midnight, at PORTER IN BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE, Md., March 28.— , | Star Casino, 107th St. and Park under the auspices of tl International Relief. In | addition, “A Fragment of an Em- Name . Address ..scccsecctone esse he | onstrated PREPARE FOR WAR AGAINST SOVIETS AT NAVY MEETING Talk Military Pact of Imperialist Bandits ‘Hoover Leads Move Gen. Asks More Arms |. to Attack USSR LONDON, March 28.—An_ alli ance of the imperialist being forged at the London directed , against the Soviet Union. This was jmade doubly clear yesterday when MacDonald for British imperialism, and Briand for French imperialism | announced that they were framing }a European “peace pact” under Ar- |ticle XVI of the League of Nations, | powers i3 race- for-arms meet mainly which provides for a united front jof the signatories in the event of | war. | Stimson, on behalf of American jimperialism, has declared that the |American imperialist bandits will lagree to this maneuver under the \form of a “consultative pact.” While the main object of this new military maneuver is a war on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, it also expressed the sharpening an- May Day Conference will, take place tagonisms between the two chief |the unemployed through their coun- on April 4 at 7 p. m. at Manhattan |imperialist nations, Great Britain |S: jand the United States. It is the | (Continued on Page Five) JOBLESS NEGRO | WORKER EVICTED | Unemployed Council to Put Him Back a NEWARK, N. J.—A. Grant, a Ne- gro worker with five children, was evicted from his home in Livingston | St. today and his furniture scattered | in the yard, because he was not able | to pay the rent. }of work since Christmas and has the burden of both earning a living | land keeping his household, as his |€?S in public works whatsoever. No | | wife is dead. The Unemployed Council of the | Trade Union Unity League, in co- | operation with the Communist Party ‘and the Young Communist League, will hold a protest demonstration in front of the building to demand the immediate reinstatement of the fam- ily into their home. Hl UNEMPLOYMENT TALK. The position of the Unemployed Councils and the Trade Union Unity League, following the tremendous successes of March 6, will constitute | the subject of the lecture to he held jby John Schmies, assistant secretary jof the T.U.U.L., Sunday, March 3 {at the Workers’ School Forum, at 8 p.m. WARREN WORKERS DEMON- STRATE. WARREN, Ohio (By Mail).—War- |ren workers, steel mill hands, dem- last week in protest {against the March 6 arrests. Philip MEETS TODAY TO LEAD FIGHT FOR “WORK OR WAGES” FOR 7,000,000 Rallies Masses to Free Elected Representatives of 110,000 March 6 Demonstrators and Others T eads Up to National Mass Convention Later; TUUL Board Makes Preliminary Arrangement Delegates from every district in the country, representing unemployment councils formed among the 7,000,000 joble and the industrial unions and leagues of the Trade Union Unity League, etc., the representatives of the militant mass: of workers in U. S. will meet today at noon in Manhattan Lyceum, ~ %66 East Fourth St. to work ‘out further organization and Demands for Jobless]! a co-ordinated fight agai | starvation. | Proposed Today to uae 4 . pa | This is the first national unem anference by TUUL]}| ployment conference ever held in |America. The American workinz | 4. Work or Wages, Unemploy-| “lass is making history today. jment insurance ‘for the jobless | Bree EAL On OSS ; The conference will have for ampunting to full wages, to be fi- nanced by a tax on all profits and |inheritances (which were greater in |1929 than any time in history by billions of dollars)\ by reduction in ain tasks the ra ing of masses against the revenge trials of the capitalist class, which is intent on railroading to jail hun- bee aay ; a dreds of wo and jobless who |the salaries of all high officials, and | toy leading parts in the March & by the removal of the tax exemp-| F | tion now enjoyed by the churches | 1emonstrations. It will lead a na- on their tremendous properties; and tion-Wide strogle for the immediate shall be administered by Mises CAGES TT cote Ce represen- | y1i 15). ea pes uBanr } sere f : ~| Minor, Amter, Lesten and Raymond, fae, si ecien cizecity Uyi the Work Vir tected delegutes of 110 OhaNat ers, both workers in the shops and - These workers another of its | York demonstrate 'go on trial April 11. Most of the delegates to the con- | * ay ‘ ference came bearing the protest Jatce) Je A CHBERtiNE, £Ee. government |. solutions of the bodies that sent | must make an emergency appropria- is wey at | tion for emergency relief equal Sync: Eee, abl the T.ULU o \the insurance of {@Il wages, and |{tm Washington,*D. C., wires the they elected four delegates, and | 2. Until the unemployment insur- , 8A sum shall be immediatel: | appropriated as an initial amount for building workers’ dwellings, | which shall be rented by the city to | workers, preference being given to | the unemployed, without discrimina- |tion against or segregation of Ne- groes, at the rate of ten per cent of [their income. All evictions of un- jemployed workers for non payment of rent shall be prohibited. Shorter Hours.. 4. In order to reduce unemploy- |ment there shall be established a Grant has been out |SeVen-hour day and five-day week | jwithout reduction of wages for all jemployees of the city and all work- |overtime shall be allowed. A gen- eral law providing for the seven- jhour day and five-day week shall be proposed to the State legislature, 5. All federal, state and city of- ls and police officers respon- |sible for and participating in the brutal and bleody attack upon de- monstrations March 6 shall be dis- issed and punished. The blacklisting of workers for political opinion or union ac- Yivities shall be immediately pro- hibited and all attempts at such Painters Mass Meet Today Hits Zausner ficial: .| Move Against Men “Our ‘great’ Secretary Zausner is \leaving no stone unturned to smug- |gle through his famous ‘plan,’ the main purpose of which is the three- jYear term, extra buiness agent and ncuinistered gasin Falah adopted a resolution demanding the |release of the New York committee |This protest campaign is not. con |fined to the T.U.U.L. unions. A letter from local 107 of the Paper |Plate and Bag Makers’ Unior, |Brooklyn, states that 80 per cent of \that local voted to attend the Mare. |6 demonstration and that all worl lers struck in 12 shops. The mem- bers of this local then held a meet- ing on March 25 and denounced the (Continued on Page Five) | seocisinenpt Youth Conference to Form Center; Demands “No Discrimination” | The 1 Youth Conference to be held in conjunction with the | Natignal Preliminary Conference on | Uner¥ployment today will not only make plans for the continues and in- of young obless and employed, but t a Youth Committee to worl: along with the national executive committee elected by the main cen- ference. It will issue a national youth leaflet calling upon all young workers to participate in all the state conventions, and to mobilize |} for a national youth conference at the naticnal convention on unem- ployment to be held in Chicago. | The youth confere: will have proposed to it by the Youth Depart- ;ment of the T.U.U.L, demands for: Unemployment benefits (“work or wages”) for all young workers with no discrimination because of age, color or sex; the six-hour work day with special safety provisions for |more taxation against the will of | young workers; no diseriminaticw the membership,” says a leaflet is- | against young workers; free recrea~ sued by the Inter-Local Conference, | tional opportunities for young work- in a call for a meeting of all paint-/ers; free food, clothing, fare and |John Porter, soldier, jailed for his | Jactivity for the New Bedford mill jstrikers, will speak here Friday, April 4, at 1112 Madison St. John; Banquet Opens Worker Education Sessions ‘ pire,” one of the most remarkable sand stirring of all the Soviet films, will be shown. | Morris was arrested for distributing |leaflets and-sentenced to 40 days in| jail. ers and paperhangers. The meeting will take place today at 2 p. m., at ithe Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St. |school supplies for the children of |the unemployed workers: and. other lemands, if 1| against the Wall Street government in control there. Harvey, secretary of the Young ‘ ‘| CC —e>——>>———XKXKXKXmnKn—=—_—_e_l_lewecese———| KGSRAT aig | Build a mass movement of resistance to capitalist justice! ‘Communist League, will also speak. | W Ae i ieee the Hoover Wants Haiti | M RTIN T oO CH AI DENVER DEMONSTRATEDR FOR a sired 2 good time, It will be held] YOkKe Tightened) A N GANG DENVER, Col., March 28.—Five ° A at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth a | 2 |hundred Denver workers took part le International C O S G R A V EK GO V ; T O | T |St., on Friday night, April 19. The) WASHINGTON, March 28—On| : ; last Saturday in an open-air meeting | Wireless | banquet will open the Workers’ Edu-| the basis of the fake report of the Bosses Fear Strikers in the South balsa lonrvaapteciong On ee! News , Raera 5 ara ’ cation Conference, which will meet | banker-led Haiti Commission secret, | opposition to the anti-Soviet propa- ! ‘ Saturday, April 19, at the Workers’ | Hoover today issued a set of recom- VINSTON q {ganda of the churches, | Faker De Valera to Form Cabinet School, 26 Union Square. mendations to strengthen imperial- WINSTON SALEM, N. C., Mar.ypended sentence if he would pay |. Lee (Wireless by Tnprecorr) | BERLIN, March 28.—Beuster appealed to the peasants to follow ErOVE government ths igned | today the example of their Russian broth- | {ler a defeat in the Dail Fireann, ars and seize the holdings of the, ‘he Irish parliament. The Cosgrove dig landowners at the European | 82vernz: nt is a dictatorship of the Peasant Congress today. He spoke bourgeoisie, ruling i: country in after Voitovich, a representative of | direct alliance with British imperial- the German agricultural workers, | '8™. 3 It was decided to have discussion| Th¢ Fianna Fail, headed by Ea- on the first. and second point of the on De Valera, now in Chicago, has agenda together. In the afternoon accepted responsibility for the for- session the Italian peasant leader mation of a new cabinet. De Valera Migliolis spoke on fascism and the still continues to make gestures of war danger and declared that the opposition to British imperialism, only solution for the peasant prob-|and the Fianna Fail’ has become a lem was the one being demonstrated | party of the Irish bourgeoisie basing in the Soyiet Union. The reports itself upon the acceptance of the were followed by a thorough diseus |Free State, ignning the needs of the sion in the Friday imoraing session | masses, and Ui real problems 0% DUBLIN, March 28.—The Cos independence from Britain, the land question, ete. Today in the Baily 32: Worker A Soldier and Working Class Fighter. Page 6. Austrian Auto Workers Political Strike. Page 5. What the workers think. Two | full pages of Workers Corres- pondence. Page 2 and 3. MONDAY. The Fianna Fail’s American leaning | has its basis im De Valera’s desire | } to maintain a semblance of opposi-|— tion to Britain and thus preserve | his followers among the petty-bour- | | geoisie, the farmers and. workers. |They indirectly support U. S. im- | perialism on the grounds that “Eng- jland’s enemy is Ireland's friend.” | | Hoover, De Valera has proved him- | Benoa 5 a1... New feature. Series on water- |self a good tool of British imperial- sont starts, “Philanthropic . ‘ # . | Pawnshop,” by Solon De Leon. The cconomie crisis in Ireland to-| Member gf Lovestone “National | gether with unemployment has been Council” repudiates the agents of growing severe during the past few | imperialism. Fascist schemes of ionic. | Ohio “Socialists.” »| ist rule in Haiti, These provide for permanent Wall Street officials in the Haiti government. Strengthening*of the Haiti Guarde National as a counter-revolutionary force to replace the marines—pos- sibly. No withdrawal of marines until 1936, and not then if it does not suit American imperialism, or if the reactionary government has not been built up strong enough to smash the revolutionary action of the masses. Hoover said he would withdraw | Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, high commissioney, sometime in October ‘hen Borno’s successor is picked by ‘the American imperialists. Undoubt- edly Russell will ‘be replaced by as \vapacious an imperialist as he is. 28,.—"They want a Soviet godless country here.” This was the key- note of the charge made to the | jury here by assistant solicitor Web- ster in a speech reeking with preju- dice in his share of the glaring frame-up against Dewey Martin, district orgenizer of the National Textile Workers Union. Martin's anpeal was denied, and he is again convicted to sixty days en the chain gang. To make the sentence worse, Dewey Martin is heing tried for two alleged bum checks, cach separately, and will un- doubtedly be convicted for a term on the chain gang foreach charge. Joseph Schenck, who conceals his vicious class bias behind smooth le- gal phrases in the manner of Barn- ————» Today in History of the Workers ——__— a March 29, 1826—Wilhelm Lieb- knecht, German pioneer Socialist and friend of Marx, born in Gies- sen. 1912—British Parliament forced by unions to adopt mini- mum wage law for miners, 1917— Workers of Russia appealed to proletariat of all countries to end world war. 1919—Raoul Villain, assassin of Jean Jaures on eve of world war, acquitted in Paris, 1922—-300,000 British shipyard workers struck against wage cut, the checks, court costs, and “would not get in trougle for the next two years.” Since strikes will soon break cut all-over the. Carolinas, and the rest of the South, this is an obvious effort on the part of the Carolina bosses to stop Martin’s activities in the class struggle. Martin flatly refused the offer. In his testimony, when questiqned about god. he stated that he believes | in science. When pressed for a catagdrical answer, Martin flatly | answered that he did not believe in| god. All mention of working class | activity was rigidly cut off by ob- | jections from the state, which were | puscainic with monotonous regular- ity. Martin’s case will be appealed to hill of Gastonia fume, offered a sus- 1925—Czechoslovak mine, metal the State Supreme Court. and chemical workers struck,