The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1930, Page 1

@ontinuation on a much larger scale. Mobilize for May Day and Prepare the Mass Political Strike! Fight the War Danger and the Attacks on the U, S. S. R.! Broaden the Struggle for “Work or Wages!” +» No. 332 Published daily except Company, Ine, 2 ZA = as second-class matter at the Post 0: ffice at New York, N. Y., under the act daily Publishing ork City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MON =o AY, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CONFERENCE ORGANIZES JOBLESS ON NATIONAL SCALE Results of March Sixth and MASSPOLITICAL 40,000 Sailors Beached: | . Plans for May Day The Daily Worker has just received a very valuable document— an appraisal of the results of the great international unemployment demonstrations of March 6 by the Executive Bureau of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. The opinion of the Red International of Labor Unions is the opinion of the world-wide revolutionary trade union leadership which must necessarily play the biggest role, together with the councils of the unemployed workers, in the present supremely important international struggle against unemployment and the capi- talist system which uses ‘the frightful weapon of unemployment against our class. Under the title, “Preliminary Results of Interna- tional Day*For Struggling Against Unemployment,” the estimate of the Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions reads in full as follows: 1, International Day for Struggling Against Unemploy- ment can be considered a serious stride forward for uniting the movements of the employed and the unemployed, for consolidat- ing the forces of the revolutionary labor movement and for in- ternationalising the struggle against the capitalist system a d social-fascism. The simultaneous coming forward of hundreds of thousands and millions of workers with the same slogans (the seven-hour working day, state unemployment insurance, defense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, ete.), lend to this event real international significance. — 2. The March Sixth movement took on much larger dimen- sions than the August First campaign, and in some countries (the United States of America), this day called forth unusual animation, as a matter of fact, much more than was expected by the organizers themselves. In spite of the fact that the bour- geoisie and the social-fascists mobilized all their available forces in the different most important countrics serious movements of the unemployed and employed workers were evidenced. These movements are of a deep political character, for on this day the contrasting character between labor and capital could be clearly seen. The wide swing of the movement on International Unemployment Day, despite the small number of strikes, bears witness to the fact that more and more significant numbers of the working masses follow the revolutionary slogans, and that the internationalization of the movement finds ever greater re- sponse amongst the working masses. 3. Despite the successes of International Unemployment Day, particularly in Germany and the United States of America, it is essential to stress a whole number of shortcomings ~»d mis- takes which were permitted, and which bear evidence to the fact that not quite all’ Red International of Labor Unions supporters understood the real significance of International Unemployment Day. The following are some of these negative sides: (a) In some countries (Latin-America, Bulgaria, etc.), other dates were set for Unemployment Day, not paying any attention to March 6. (b) In other countries (Italy, Belgium, Holland, ete.), preparations for this day came to merely a few articles, and several meetings; for this reason the results were insignificant. (c) In other countries still (England), the manifestations did not take on those wide dimensions which they should have, taking into consideration the vast number of unemployed. 4. The Red International of Labor Unions Executive Bur- eau, noting the shortcomings and weaknesses, which were’ ob- served on that day, once again wishes to emphasize that the in- ternational labor movement made a serious stride forward in the way of consolidating the forces of the revolutionary Trade Union movement and in the struggle against the united front of the employers and the social-fascists. The course and results of International Unemployment Day should be thoroughly studied in each of the respective countries, and it is essential already today to take due steps that when preparing for May First both the local and international positive experience should be used and the same mistakes and weakness: ould not be re- peated, for May First must be a day for International Mass Poli- tical Strikes Against Imperialism, against imperialist war, Against social-fascism and fascism, against capitalist rational- “ization and unemployment, for the 7-hour working day and in defense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It will be seen from this that a tremendous part is now assigned by history to the workers of the United States in the international movement. Successes on March 6 were especially notable in Germany and the United States. Certainly the Communist Party of the United States in its leadership of the action of March 6 has passed from a stage of relative isolation into a higher stage of vital connections with and leadership of masses of American workers. But at the same time the correction’ of our weaknesses becomes far more important today than ever before. Underestimation of the relative importance of the economic crisis in the United States within the world-system of capitalism can be a source of serious mistakes. Estimates of past events are made by the revolutionary labor movement, not for the purpose of idle speculation or self-congratula- tion, but for the purpose of giving better guidance to further and more effective action. Demonstrations of the working class on May Day in all coun- tries of the world will be a continuation of the movement s@ power- fully expressed in the demonstrations of March 6—and must be a The capitalist class and govern- Ment, together with all of its agents, are mobilizing as never before to confuse, to overawe and to suppress by police and fascist violence the May Day mobilization of the working class. For instance, fas- cist organizations led by reactionary ex-officers, have announced their intention of making May Day—the international revolutionary day of the working class—into a day of fascist-militarist demonstra- tion against the workers, and have even called for a closing down of factories on May 1, with the plan of mobilizing the workers at their fascist demonstrations. The socialist party follows the lead of the } fascist reactionarics.by calling for social-fascist demonstrations in halls removed from the public squares and streets where the workers will demonstrate; the socialist party having the obvious purpose to aid the police plan of disrupting and suppressing the workers’ May Day. But the very volume of reactionary activity against the workers’ international May Day would work an injury to the workers’ demon- strations only if the leadership of the May Day demonstrations al- lowed itself to be intimidated or discouraged by these threats and counter-moves. The leadership will not be confused or intimidated. Therefore the reactionary threats of counter-demonstrations will only arouse an enormously increased volume of the workers’ demonstrations. The Communist Party, as always, will be the leader of this move- ment, and this is the guarantee against weak and faltering leader- ship. The already proven willingness of the masze3 of workers to struggle completes the guarantee. ” Tomorrow the Daily Worker will publish the plans adopted by the Communist Party of the United States for the May Day demon- strations. These plans should be studied by every wozker, The inter- national mass political strike must be made effective on this May"Day, id the American working class will show itself no longer a “back- “ ” part in the wor'd slignment of heroic struggle « the pitalist wage slave system “STRIKE, 18 CHIEF “MAY DAY SLOGAN Many Conferences Are! is and ain pudding and flop | Called’ for Wide | wherever I can;” said a young By HARRY GANNE! “Pve been living on air crack é seaman abdut twenty-five years of Preparations age, at the “Holy Flop House,” | the marine workers term the Sea- | man’s Institute. as |Want Work or Wages Rally Workers for Fight on Bosses | “I have been out of work for nine weeks, he went on, “tramping from one shipping agency to an- | other. They’re packed in like flies. There ain’t no jobs. I hit the Gulf | Refining Company shipping office ten times. This is a fink hall.” A “fink hall” is an employment ganizations for mass demonstrations | agency of the Ship Owners Employ- on May Ist. Conferences of labor, ment Agency through which the organizations, under the auspices of | Poses try to batter down wages, and during 2 | fight against unions, the Communist Party, are being ar-| strikes tirecseabe, “I went there in ranged in many cities. In New York! desperation,” he said. a conference will be held April 4, at) Sneak Snatch of Sleep 7:00 P. M., at Manhattan Lyceum; | At the Holy Flop H rd Detroit, Sunday, April 18, 2:00 P. M.| gay ‘Whalens eomvacks, the corr. (8782 Woodward Avenue; Baltimore,) dors were filled with unemployed Md., April 18, 8 P. M., at 514 North) seamen, Ninety per cent of them Eautaw Street. | are under thirty. They are a gloomy Myanarocmalion seMae Ger t | bunch. Most have been out of work ransformation of May Day into a/ ¢or four months. They try to sneak day of a mass political strikes, is| a few snatches of sleep in the hard the central slogan issued by the Cen-| chairs, with vigilant dicks poking tral Committee cf the Communist| them up on every round. Many of Party. them haven’t had a “regular flop” if |for weeks. They sleep here in the | “The general task of the Party,|day time, or on the subways at says the directives of the Central| night, All of the sailors are in a Committee in preparing for May) fighting mood and make no bones Day, ‘is to transform May Day of! about telling their stories. this year into a mags political united front action of the American work- ‘ers, into a mass political demonstra- tion for immediate economic de- mands of the unemployed and em-| | ployed workers, for political slogans (Continued on Page Three) Preparations are being made by all working class revolutionary or-| “I have been out of work six weeks, said another. “But I’m Jucky, I've gotten some scraps | from friends. Most of these birds have been on the beach for | months.” Being cast on the beach is the, equivalent of “walking the streets” | for the land wage slaves. | Must Flop on Streets. “Well,” he said, “I’ve visited near- MINE EXPLOSION B ij R i F § SIXTEEN ‘ly all employment agencies, Nothing doing. When my few pennies give jout I'll be flopping on the streets.” . 4 ‘ | What are the conditions? With the National Miner Union tremendous drive for world markets W by the imperialists in the present ML. Confer ences world crisis, an understanding of PINEVILLE, Ky., the marine industry, closely tied up Marck | wi : sae Late today 16 miners were still | Dortant, WAS BRORRCAR pay ge: itt trapped a mile and a half under the} hill in which the Pioneer Coal Co.| Must Smash illusions, sent them to work in a gas filled; We must smash illusions about mine. No hope is held out that they| the romance of the sea artfully will escape alive. The explosion’ spread by the capitalist press. In which entombed them took place at these days of rationalization, spepd- the Kettle Island mine of the com-| yp, sharpened world competition, pany, eight miles from here, over! and the constant elimination of skill impassable roads, late yesterday. among seamen, the bosses ships are The blast tore out all brattices, end-| floating factories. The same capi- ed circulation of air, and weakened the walls so that they have to be braced as the rescue crews go for ward, (Continued on Page Three) Today in the Daily 52: Worker * In preparation for the District Convention of the NMU to be held in Zeigler April 5th and 6th, at which * # hundreds of delegates representing _ Fascist Schemes of Ohio “So- the NMU locals, as well as rank and “ialists.” Page 4, Ae file representatives of locals of the Philanthropic Pawn Shop. Page 4, Prayda on Agrarian Collectivi- | {| zation Policy. Page 3. | . TOMORROW ‘district of the NMU was held in | sub-district conference of the Illinois | UMWA will be present, the third | Zeigler on March 28 | At this conference were rank and \file_ miners from every mine in) Franklin County. The chairman was | \George Patterson, a Christopher) | ‘miner. The TUUL was represented by Nat Ross. | > Special edition for anniver- | sary of the Great Gastonia Strike. | May Day Directives of the | Communist Party. Daily Worker Circulation Cam- | | paign Program. © FROM THE BOSS PRES i Ne] 1 | |vised the Negroes to improve their j Many Letters Hit Police Brutality | Through the tightly censored capi-| better democracy created by pro- | ‘talist press once in a while there! gressive evolutionary steps. Now I \breaks a few of the thousands of am going to join the Communist letters they receive protesting | Party as soon as I return to New! against the police brutality against) York and help them in their out-| the jobless movement, and exposing spoken and revolutionary methods, the class vengeance of the courts. | for progress. | Herere are excerpts from a letter! “I was one of the disinterested but written by Donald Langdon to the curious onlookers at the unemploy- |New York Evening Post March 25: ment demonstration’ on the New “You approve Whalen’s childish Haven green last Thursday, and jremark that ‘they had no right to while the crowd was listening good- be there’ (on Union Square, March naturedly to a youthful Communist | 6th)... Why were the moving| talking on unemployment I over- | Pictures showing fleeing spectators heard a couple of uniformed police-| being beaten up by the police sup- men discussing whether it was time pressed?” to “sail into the crowd,” and they Will Join the Communists did, converting a peaceful assem- Writing to the Evening World, a blage into a riot, | worker not only protests police bru-| “Joining the Communists seeris to! | tality but will act against it by join-' me the only means’ by which I can_ \ing the Communist Party. Here is register my protest against the law- his letter: lessness and hypocrisy of our pres- | “Until last Thursday I was a mild cnt authorities. |manneved piniMiberal, believing ina, New Haven, March 9, 1939.” ! TRY TO M Slaves of the Sea; Many on the Breadlines Now Houston, Texas, aftér a hard day’s Negro longshoremen w work making profits for the ship bosses. (Below) Life-boat drill to fool the passengers. When the big liners are in port, the seamen are forced to slave in an orgy of lifeboat drill, which the ship own- ers force the seamen to perforn. for show purposes to kid the pas- sengers into believing the boats NEGRO JOBLESS Toiler States Demands, | Is Thrown Out Cecil Hope and Marie Houston, Negro workers and duly elected rep-| resentatives of the "Negro Labor Congress, walked into St. Luke’: Church, 137 7th Avenue, N. Y., yes terday afternoon to attend an al- leged unemployment conference, held ‘under the auspices of the Brother- hood of Pullman Porters. They found ‘a small gathering of about seventy | people, mostly old women. The chair- | man expressed surprise at the small ; | size of the audience and ascribed the |failure of the meeting to draw a |large crowd to the “disinterested at- | titude of the Negroes to the que’ of unemployment.” The first speaker, Mr, Hubert, |President of the Urban League, a scab-henching organization which furnishes scabs to the bosses, ad- Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspundent. WAR RIVA Navy Mcei Shows art of cooking as a means of reliev- ing unemployment. He also ex- pressed his faith in the Hoover Com mission, Philip Randolph, Presid. RULLETIN Brotherhood of C ‘ete collapse of the London made speech. Immediately after Randolph, Cecil Hope, deelgate from the American a ver conference is predict- 1 a exble dispatch from Lon- jon to the New York World by its staff correspondent, John I Negro Labor Congress, demanded ‘'erston. He cables: “Friday the floor. The Chairman immediate. 'enary session of the London diately ruled him out of order, and aval Conference, unless canceled said “This is a church gathering. We Will witness, it now sccms prob- able, collapse of the ef want no Communists here.” api world’s greatest There were a few real workers in the audience who demanded that} LONDON, March 30.--Sharp an Hope be allowed to speak, But in|, “0 AVON: Manel 30. hat the confusion a preacher mounted ‘*20n!SMS are yeing e pel tga the platform and demanded savagely |Conversations between British im- “Throw him out.” perialism, represerited by MacDon- Fists began to fly, and Hope was ald, and French impcy nN, repe forcibly thrown out of the hall, but resented by Briand, over the ques- the meeting was also broken up. At in reality few Lovestonites were seen among |the basis for new military alliances the few roudies which roughly | for the next war. The sharpest dif- handled both Hope and Hoyston in ferences are those between the two the church, | eading bangt powers, American and PREPARES MASS NATIONAL No Food and No Flops CONVENTION IN CHICAGO JULY 4 FOR BiG STRUGGLE “Work or Wages”, Prepare for May Day Main | Line in Every Delegate’s Speech Final Report on Credentials Shows 215 from 49 Cities; Adopt Program; Elect Executive BULLETIN. . A bureau of 13 was elected for the national executive commit- tee chosen by the unemployment conference, with a national secre- tary, Pat Devine, of Pittsburgh. * * * amendments to the draft program submitted by the T.U.U.L, They'll Fight! The walls were placarded with slogans which read: “Don’t Starve —Fight!” “Green Promised Hoover the Workers Won’t Fight—Green Does Not Speak For the Workers,” “Walker’s Salary Is Now $40,000 Yearly While Unemployed Workers Have No Bread,” “Form Unem- ployed Councils—Join the Trade Union Unity League,” “Down With Green - Hoover- Thomas, the Holy Trinity of Capitalism,” ete. Almost every speaker pointed out that un- der capitalism, by organized force the workers could wrest some have formed an organization on a national scale. Delegates elected by tens of thousands of workers in militant unions, left wing locals of the A. F. L., and by the councils of the un- = —? Manhattan Lyceum Saturday | and yesterday. In a meeting |tense with determination, | united, vigorous, they ham- DAY CONFERENCE tion, a program of action in- | pa jcluding all of the demands for which 1,250,000 demonstrated and | elected a national executive com- | Reply to Call mittee of 35 to mobilize a huge ritradaeersnee eoiadlby the\ Com | nnee convention on unemployment e co - munist Party, District New Yorks | he National Preliminary Confer- A ¥ : Unemployment was called May Day demonstration has already | nce on mI been answered by large numbers of |‘ order at 1:30 p. m, Saturday by nions, fré anizations and unions, fraternal organizatio [Ute hich hee swine enam Sas ployed councils, summoned the hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., prom- | ia By bles Wacekbioeacunynenel Gas i t conferences in| Precedented snow storm. However, or on mnee dronb porter | throughout Saturday and yesterday | ‘The May Day demonstration will) m,. sinal credentials committee re- Henares ; int on March | Port showed 215 delegates from 49 ee Contato aa) - cities and 19 industries and 18 states. aes were women and 32 were young | worke: Negro, women and young workers held special conferences AT PLAZA TONITE day with special demands and | | | | —— | | 4 Imprisoned for Not | Shooting Workers The millions of starving unemployed workers in U. 5S. employed in 17 states and half a hundred cities assembled in | mered out a national organiza- Many Organizations! fought the police on March 6, and |in Chicago, July 4-5. for preparing and arranging for the | Pat Devine, representing the T. U. shop committees. | gates from the Middle West, com- ises to be the milestone in the his- | more and more delegates arrived. be a continuation of the struggle | Of these 47 were Negro workers, 12 PORTER SPEAKS Saturday night, and reported Sun- | John Porter, a young worker, left the U. S. army when he found out | that it was a machine to be used by the bosses to break ik Instead of facing the strikers with guns, he went on the picket line in the New Bedford strike and faced the bosses | shoulder to shoulder with the rest lof the strikers. The government had {not made any special effort to ar- rest Porter until it found him tak- kes. im- ing part in the class struggle. Then | provements, for the jobless and the it railroaded him to prison in a/ employed, but that what is really |hurry, where he was abused, and needed is revolution. mistreated. | | | “This is the first conference of | Other speakers are John Harvey, its kind,” said Pat Devine, opening inational secretary of the Young) the sessions, and this thought was Communist League; Alberta Tate, caught up by John Schmies, mak- bee yas Oral J. rons | ing an hour and a half report for \Engdahl, national secretary of the|the Trade Union Unity L \International Labor Defense; Joseph | Mata at : “Why is it the first?” he asked, \F. Fofrich, a crippled war veteran) and told of the misery of jobless jand I.L.D. organizer. | ork ADR iRdin Chi [and speeded workers who still have | e meeting is under the auspices| jobs, of the growing radicalizati jot the LL.D. for the release of BRAY diipabamersa 4 of the masses, of the appearance |Harry Eisman, and especially for Be iN & ;on the scene of the Communist |young workers, soldiers and sailors.’ party and the Trade Union Unity “a League, giving a center for organ- izational power, and more organiza- tion, He anaiysed the A. F. L. program of “no wage increases during the crisis” as part of the Hoover eme, the employers’ scheme, to stabilize industry at the expense of the workers. He showed the social- ist: party leaders to be the agents of the capitalists, putting a face et compassion for the unemployed over their actual intent, which is clubs for the workers when they ‘resist starvation. The churches and RIES GROW Rapid War Moves ) British imperialism. , Discussion on the “security” or “consultative pact” is also a smoke sereen to hide the failure of the capi- talist robbers at London to come to any sort of an agreement on their war naval building programs. At the same time, it ig b direct threat |the hobo brotherhood and such in- against the Soviet Union. | stitutions kid the : 'é * j along Ww th a fev WASHINGTON, March 30,—A ‘he, TUUL Party calls for struggle. very ambigu statement has been; ’ Dy SARIIEHO UE: Stave Convention July 4 issued by Hoover, declaring there is} _* [no difference between him and the Schmies analy: the draft pro- ;London delegation. Hoover’s state. S*ant submitted by the TUUL with ment completely does away with his 1's list of demane The rogral ‘original bunk about “disarmament” | is for organization of councils ¢ and the “high purposes of the London | the unemployed in all industris meet.” Every day it becomes clear | citie~ even the smallest, for thee er that the, war danger is sharp- | councils to work in closest harmony ening, that the imperialist pgwers| With the militant unions of the are rushing their war building pro- | TUUL, for joint committees of ac- grams, and are maneuvering for al- {ition between the unions and_ the liances for the next world war. L (Continued on Page Thre