The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1930, Page 1

Hi | 30,000 Unemployed Auto Werkers Battle Police Over 300 Jobs While Hoover and Green Shout That Conditions Are Better! Form Unem- ployment Councils, Demonstrate in Masses May Day and Compel Relief For These Starving Workers! sn eeneneetneeesteroeee ily except Sund 28+ Union Sauari JOBLESS WORKERS BREAK INTO FORD PLANT 30,000 | Fascist Soothing Syrup not done. On the contrary, Green is quite in agreement with Ryan of | the New York Central Trades and Labor Council who openly said that } , the unemployed workers should’ be clubbed to prevent them from de- manding work or wages, quite in accord with Matthew Woll, Green’s spiritual adviser in the A. F. of L., who expres: fervent “sympathy” with the police in their arduous labor of black king the worl Green’s mention of “revolution,” therefore, was merely to make an im- pressive sound and has nothing to do with what Green proposes. The U. S. Senate Committee which refused to hear the committee representing the unemployed organizations of the Trade Union Unity League and thus exposed itself as a mumbo-jumbo affair meant to delude the more than 7,000,000 jobless with the idea that something is being done, has heard William Green, fascist leader of the A. F. of L., on the subject of unemployment. It is true that Green said that something must be done or the government would “have a revolution on its hands.” But that does not | mean that Green is in favor of a revolution, even if something were i And what does Green propose, outside of “information” which i always a Way fakers stall off doing anything while they wait “infor- mation”? He proposes “stabilization,” and says it has “been accom- plished in some instances” where there was “cooperation between workers and management.” Since “stabilization” can be neither fried, boiled nor roasted, the “instances where it has been accomplished’ must be looked to if workers would find out just what it means in terms of things to eat, more wages, shorter hours, ete. And the horrible example of the B. & O. Plan first applied in the railroad shops should serve. And everywhere the so-called “worker-management cooperation” has re- sulted in company unionism with all that it means, loss of all real union conditions, wage cuts and an intense speed-up that not only wears out the life of the workers, but throws great percentages of them on the street without a job. ly for u That, as a blind man can see, is no rem Nor does it nor can it benefit anyone but the bosses. precisely why the president of the A. F. of L. is for it. Green, by the way, saying that there is one unemployed out of ¢ four work ers, makes the ridiculous estimate that there are on 700,000 job- less, thus reducing the figure of American wage workers to 13,700,000 —which is nonsense. Clearly, the workers, employed, part-time and wholly unemployed, | have nothing to hope for in any problem outlined by the fascist Green, whose policy is to break strikes, cooperate with the police and oppose the workers. The workers must rely on their own mass power, or- ganized and directed by the Trade Union Unity League and the Com- munist Party. It was not until American workers under this leader- ship on March 6 gave a warning to the capitalists and their govern- ment that they would fight rather than starve that even the slightest peep was heard out of the bosses, their government spokesmen and their fascist “labor lieutenants. And on May First, the workers in the shops, mines and mills will down tools in protest at the misery, starvation and persecution eapi- talism piles upon them while it goes through such farces as the Sen- ate “investigation.” The workers will strike for the demand of so insurance, first of all against unemployment, against the hell of speed-up and the wage cuts that rob their tables, They will strike on M; the war being prepared by their bosses against the and Peasants’ Government that is building a soc! The American workers are tired of lies abo y” embel- lished with blackjacks and tear gas. On May First they will come onto the streets in a mass political strike! The Daily Worker which is championing this struggle must’ receive the full support of all toilers during the present circulation and donation drive. When A Union Is -Not A Union. The fascist organization which calls itself the “United Textile Workers” has what it terms a “watchword” in its rather wordy and windy “campaign” in the South. This watchword is “No strikes.” Francis J. Gorman, a notorious member of the Muste group and a member of the A. F. of L. Committee of, Five in general charge of southern work, thus in a report at New York explains the U. T. W. program at Danville, Va.: “In Danville our union is facing its first test as a no-strike union, The workers down there appreciate our position and are doing their best to keep away from a strike in spite of the dis- charges.” The function of the U. T. W. is to keep the workers from striking, not only in the face of discharges, but also of the 10 per cent wage ] cut. But what the hell is a union for if it is not to fight against discharges and against wage cuts! The U. T. W. policy, which is the policy of the Muste group of A. F, of L. “come-ons,” is a bi ’ policy. The boss fires a group of workers, usually the best unionists, and the U. T. W. says amen. The boss cuts wages, and the U. T. W. sings out, “Glory hallelujah!” With good reason Gorman boasts that the southern mill employers are quite “favorable” to the U. T. W. What, then, does the U. T. W. want for the workers. Nothing, absolutely nothing! But what does it want from the workers? Work- ers who are boiling with anger at the continued stretch-out, the un- ceasing wage cuts, the 10 and 12 hour day at starvation wages, on part time or completely laid off, and victimized by discharge if they “talk union.” From these workers McMahon demands that they not only stand for all this from the bosses, but that they: “Show their loyalty to the organization in dues payment if ) they are to expect relief in emergency times.” Fi Of course, to the sleck fascist traitor, McMahon, this is not an “emergency time.” The workers owe the “union” dues payments, and the union owes the workers nothing! To the fascist A. F. | present is a time of emergency not for the workers, but for the bosses. , Therefore when Hoover called in Green of the A. I’. of L. last Novem- r ber and told the sad tale of how the bosses of this country were facing an “emergency,” Green for the A. F. of L. pledged that organization’s aid to the bosses by promising not to strike. The U. T. W. no-strike policy is a carrying out of this strike-breaking fascist policy agreed upon between Green and Hoover. The U. T. W. is not a labor union. It is a fascist strike-breaking agency that aids only the bosses. And the southern mill workers “ap- preciate its position” all right, because in the main they are telling the U. T. W. agents to go to the devil and are turning eagerly to the National Textile Workers’ Union, the revolutionary textile union that is a real union and is willing to lead the workers in strikes against the unbearable conditions they suffer. For only by strike action ean their conditions be improved. Down with the fascist strike breakers of the U. all textile workers, to a real unica, the National Industrial Union’ W.! Forward, Workers’ “4 | class matter at the Post Office at New York. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. Entered as secon Pablishing A New York City, N. ¥.@@2™a o 4 PRIL 2, 1930 Worker Y., under the act © f March 3, 1879. CALL ON WORKERS TO ~ DOWN TOOLS ON MAY DAY: FIGHT WAGE-CUTS. ©2292 ‘Struggle Against War Danger and for Defense of the Soviet Union | Yesterday beg | build a mass ¢ Daily Worker. |Carry On Traditions of 1886; Prepare the Mass Political Strike May Day, born in the struggles of the American workers ‘for the eight hour day in 1886, has today become the interna- | | tional day of struggle against imperialism and for the rule of | the working class. May Day, 1930, must be the day when the workers | throughout the world will lay?—-~———— | |down their tools and vem BRITIS lA R® strate in solidarity against the), capitalist system, against im-| | perialist war preparations, for i | the defense of the Soviet Union, for | BY work or wages, and against wage- | satu | | cuts. eee 3 , | ‘Takes Place in World Crisis. |F'ive Workers Killed by| Caleutta Police In the present period of sharp capitalist er with — 7,000,000 i | workers in the United States job-| Calcutta dispatches tell of more} less, the May Day demonstrations | Police massacres of Hindu workmen | of the international working class| When police fired upon carters re-| will again bring out the rotten|Sisting the police rule, so the ex- foundation of capitalist society and|¢use goes, against taking buffalos inevitable collapse of the present out during the hottest hours of mi | |day. April Ist, “and yet boast of h sold at factory Silver, Daily ginning and o Goal Is The goal of in two months, June Ist, 10,00 mills; $15,000 from workers’ attain a within s See complete q on page 4. Revolutionary social order. Prepare Mass Political Strike. May Day is a weapon of poli- tical class action in the hands of the workers against the capitalist |lice fire at the Calcutta end of the | ties, Howrey bridge. This evidently an- | gered the workers, and indications are that their demonstrations of pro- | campaign. ponetel Bea One AR ss) 6 0 . distri vere fired on by | 2 training and preparing the workers Fisom 2d. istrict were: fire y, comparatively g: police who killed four more workers } “ last recruiting d at this storm center. | . for the final overthrow of capital- bern.) May 2Dey tecresenta them | ioe cy ident yolicy: af the imperial | ternational action on the part of!. “labor” ‘ hi _| beat us by a mile. Therefore, in| Pledging to recruit 3,000 new mem- | the world working class in. the |'S¢ “labor” government of ruthless) this drive we did not dare to chal-|bers into the~ National “Miners” struggle against militarism and | §¥PPression may result, in the tense | jenge the banner district of the re-| Union before the second national war. ation prevailing, in a widespread | crisiting drive. However, we do|convention of the union here on| Make Wide Preparations. |strike resistance that will overwhelm | challenge the Cleveland District, to |June 1, 98 delegates from 35 mines lsidontereutaearssbenp aia elit ee |secure more subs, and sell more|employing more than 12,000 miners ipeeriche canntey: for auuniiad Fone Po eaer Daily Workers at factories and at gathered at Walton Hall, this city, Sf tall working “class Greanisations; 55 workers’ homes, Our bundle be-| March 30, at the district conference under the leaderalip. Of the Gent, fore. the campaign was 150 daily.| of the Western Pennsylvania |We are inpreasing it every week. trict of the N, M. U. The confer- munist Party, for a mass demon- stration on May Day. In New York, a conference will be held April 4; Detroit, Sunday, April 13, 2 p. m., 3782 Woodward Ave.; Baltimore, Md., April 18, 8 p.m., at 514 N. Eautaw. Street; Philadelphia, April 20, 1 p. m., at 39 N. 10th St., Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, April 6, 10 a. m., at 2046 ious distri : jot the Dai /Recall Three Admirals tte drive gains |to Speed War Machine ‘ P That the London Naval Confer- East 4th St. ence is now standing on its last leg, while the imperialist powers are jockeying for military alliances, was indicated by Secretary Adams action JAIL PICKETS }in recalling Rear Admirals William | | A. Moffett, J. R. P. Pringle and \Harry E. Yarnell, members of the naval advisory staff of the Ameri- can delegation. With a clear-cut program of a| race for armaments the admirals 7, | 5 are to be put to work actuelly build- | nora, di | at Millers Market Jing up the war machine rather than fas) "joayne Me cael i spending valuable time over techni-| Unity League, y |, The Food Clerks Workers Indus-/cal maneuvers in London that have! saturday night |trial Union continues picketing the |already collapsed. The Wall Street | iad Sate Miller market, 161st St. and Union | government feels quite confident! the time Ave, Bronx. It was at this market |that the delegation left in London| piieq that the police-killed Steve Katovis./can now take care of its interests |<? Monday four arrested here for| without the aid of the admirals. picketing (no other charge) were| a i ic (Raia Sani vobleatl echt | See en Yesterday Judge Goitiied, in the Barber Union Clique |161st St. court, sentenced four other! Tries to Expel Seven; |pickets arrested here previously to| % iad Members Meet Tonite five days in the workhouse, without | jany trial, refusing to wait for the| = jlawyer, who was on another case.! The officers of Local 752 of the {They were R. Schwartz, Egel, Rago- | Journeymen Barbers’ International jwitz, and Phil, Weisman. | Union (A.F.L.) led by John Tara- Two others arrested at another! mella are trying to expel seven of picketing had their cases set by|the most active members. They Gottlieb in Jefferson Market Court,|are charged with joining the Trade ($1,000 Bail for Picket he home of J. or the; organizer for th he MIAMI, Fia., \cidentally brough in their poss Rothstein billion gling ring. The concealed by the Philadelphia, “this is only the Workers sold daily at the factories is a good start.” tion campaign is: To secure with- Worker mail subse additional copies a day in bundle x months from April Ist. Revolutionary Competition. ‘One Hindu was killed by the po-| tween the various districts and ci-| : is one of the main features of | Philadelphia is the first to respond. | Here is what they say: |fingers by challenging Detroit, who Comrades of Cleveland, get busy!” , with the circulation | leys BOMB HOME OF - TUUL ORGANIZER ‘Endanger Life of Metal) Worker and Family BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 1— and wrecked. Giglio | {and his family were not at home at Giglio is a white worker, former working-class acti HIDE ROTHSTEIN EVIDENCE. two alleged drug peddlers here ac-; Party. sion which show some of the higher up connections in the an the campaign to ireulation for the In Philadelphia the drive began a few days ahead of while we cannot as) p-—~ = of Dai writes agent undreds gat Worker M. in be- Daily ne hundred 60,000 More. the mass circula- from April Ist, to 0 additional Daily ers; 20,000 one Build the Daily Worker. SUBSCRIPTION RATE « | in Six Months Philadelphia Toilers Challenge Cleveland in Revolutionary Competition ; The Daily Worker | Fights for Them Sa , This is the wife and five chil- orders, to be distributed mainly qyey of William Sikora,tof Pater- in the shops, factories, mines and | gon, sentenced to three years in in contributions | p;igon for miiltancy. There are D organizations and | thousands of such families of sympathizers to finance the de- | class war prisoners, penniless, left velopment of mass circulation; to. | io starve by the bosses. Fight for circulation of 60,000 | the release of the class war pi quota for districts competition Again, in- this,! allenges Cleveland. , While making a/ ‘ood showing in the rive, has burned its momentum. April 26-27. convention of the Jat least 1,000 ra |before June 1 we: 30° m fu ng locals and Sain a groups to the 42 active locals in J. Giglio, local sec- San dep 1 Pane Thyra tal Workers Indus.| ¢Comtinued on Page Three) the Trade Union a ® PITTSBURGH, _ 12 District Conventions. .. 98 FROM MINES AT CONFERENCE Delegates of 12,000 to Meet in Pittsburgh 1.— April | ence followed two successful sub-| Cent of its member BUILD NAVY HERE. Very soon there will be a whole! district conferences held recently in| Which applied to the Amer |flock of challengers from the var-|the Allegheny and Monongahela val-| ing class, would give over — , and precedes the district con- Worker growing as| vention to be held in Pittsburgh on Senator Wagner, Tammany tool, and Of the 98 delegates 11 A c were youth miners, who took an ac- | “Prosperity a Fact or Myth,” show tive part in the conference. | _ The district convention to be held | soon is one of the 12 in all mining fields in preparation for the national file repre |sentative delegates will be mobilized. Coupled with the determination to bring 3,000 miners into the union pledges to add 9 was dynamited late tity - Pe Today in the y would have been| ¢ Pravda he moulders union, | <3 s expelled for| Page 3. Page 4. April 1.—Arrest of | Page. 4. t to light documents ment Conference. T.U.U.L. Trick. dollar drug smug-| facts are, of course, police, Exposes dreds in Poland Who Back Pope. | slaughter charge because he defend- Exposed Steel The Menace of Russ AWorker { Black Hun- Glimpses of a Socialist Village. Lovestone and March 6. Page 4. Build the Central School of the TOMORROW. Program of National Unemploy- Boss an Steel. April 9, | Union Unity League | Blech, manager of the Hebrew| The barbers’ section of the T. U.! Butchers Union, wito supplies scabs} U. L. calls upon all members of |to bosses struck by the Food Cilerks,| Local 752 to come to the meeting rushed up to Miller in court and}tonight at Clinton Hall to take jcongratulated him on sending the; steps to defend these seven work- pickets to jai ers. SPEED-UP ON THE SHIPS “Tron Mike” Takes Seaman’s Place By HARRY GANNES. “They work us on the belt sys- tem on the ships now, and its a perfect hell.” This is how a sea- man of 11 years’ experience de- seribed the tremendous rational- ization that is going on on all ships. They've cut the crews and run the ships on schedule, all of them frem the biggest passenger ship down to. the — shabbiest freighter for insiance,’ he went on, “take jhe Moore & McCormick ships. They | are supposed to carry a fireman, oiler and water tender on the watch. | They take the Water tender and} make,him do the firing, and they | take the fireman, out of the fire- room and put him on odd work, so the fireroom is run without a fire- iman at all times. They also do |away with wipers that they are sup- | posed to carry.” What do the figures show? In Airplane every 3,000 tons of shipping than in} is made to (Continued on Page Three) — | from overwor! Sinks With Entire Crew Air view of the SS. Kajsa, after a collision in the North r ; Seo. The vessel went down in five minutes with the entire crew. 1926 there were 10 less jobs for, results from the speed-up of the bosses and the fact that the black gang slong hours without sleep and are groggy tnd lacl? of sleep. This on the jobs In New York by mail, $5.00 per year. tside New York, by mail $6.00 per y FINAL CITY EDITION Cents Price 3 ‘Mass Circulation Drive, POLICE USE GAS BOMBS T0 for Daily Worker Begins; REPEL WORKERS WHO STONE | Had ational Secretary Ele aited 12 Hours, Only 300 Hired; Call Out for 10,000 Delega tes to July 4 Meet ected at Conference An- nounces Beginning of Big Campaign DETROIT, Mich., April 1.—Thirty thousand unemployed workers in front of the Ford C ‘o. employment office yesterday, answering a rumor that men were to be hired, started booing when the company hired only 300. The police tried to disperse them, and the hungry worke “WM, GREEN FAKES JOBLESS FIGURES Favors Hoover Plan of Fighting Jobless BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1. —Green, speaking before the Sen- ate Committee today in favor of Hoover’s fake building program and against insurance for the job- less admitted: “The workers simply are turned adrift . . . and the government will be forced to take care of them or we will have a revolution on our hands.” * x *& WASHINGTON, April 1.—Acting as Hoover's bootlicking agent, Will- iam Green, misleader of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, today lied before the Senate commerce- c mittee on the number of uner | Ployed in the United States. Green said there were only 3,700,- 000 out of work in the United States in Februa The official figur previously issued by the American dis- Federation of Labor showed that there was an aver out of work, 7,000,000. Figures issued a year ago by published by Stewart Chase in | that at the point of highest produc- |tion in 1929 there were 3,000,000 unemployed. In his testimony Green unwitting- ly exposed his lying figures aid “approximately one worker in every four was out of work.” There | are 35,000,000 workers in the Uniteu |States. “One worker in every four out of work” would mean 8,700,000 without jobs. FREE 3 THUGS TO ~ PRISON SHIFRIN The conspiracy to railroad Wil- liam Shifrin to prison on a man- ‘ed his life against a right wing | Sangster more than a year ago, took another step forward yester- day. | Magistrate Gottlieb, acting in tionary union lawyer, Samuel Mark- owitz, freed the three thugs who | Were arrested for attacking Shifrin jon charges of assault, so that they could be used as nice clean wit- (Continued on Page Two) | Bureau of 1 ¥| Foster, James Ford. jcomplete cooperation withgthe reac- | and others and who had been held} fought back, stoned and chased the police, crashed through the factory fences, and broke the windows of the employ- ment office. Large forces of police reserves were brought out, and with clubs and tear gas bombs drove the workers away. When the rumor of Ford’s hiring workers spread Sunday, unemployed men began to gather at six o’clock | Sunday night at the employment office. | It is said here that the rumor was unfounded, but that when the Ford officials saw the huge throng, they made a gesture of hiring a few, intending to fire them again in a day or so. oe oe National Sec’y. Unemployed Statement. | The National Committee of |selected by the First National Un- employment Conference, in New York, Saturday and Sunday, at its meeting held immediately after the conference, selected the following : New York, Bob Wil- kinson, Joe Lester, J. Little, Me- | Carthy, Anna Lehr, Vafradis; Pitts- |burgh, Pat Devine; Philadelphia, F. E. Welsh; Boston, J. Mullin; Na- tional Textile Workers Union, So- phie Melvin; Metal Workers Indus- trial League, V. Belsham; Trade Union Unity League, William Z. Pat Devine, of Pittsburgh, was elected unanimously as national secretary, and yesterda issued the following statement and call to action: “Unemployed councils in every in dustry and city! Mass demonstra- tions on May Forward to the July * 1! and 5 National Unemploy- Convention in “nicago! Ten |th nd delegates or bust! These are + dynamic slogans firmly em- bed in the minds of the 215 dele- f the unemployed at the con- 1 of the historic National Con- ce of the Unemployed in New k City. Representing ever: ection of the countr rence was a smashing answer to the pr peri sunk, upon which millions of workers were starving to death. Stern-faced, tight-lipped men and women, young and old dele gates reported about the conditions in. their respective territories. The presence of a la: delegation of egro men and women was an out- standing feat * the conference. The slogan of full social, economic and political equality for the Negro resounded throughout the confers ence. Hoover psychological lowly slowly “Like a clarion call resounding (Coitinved on Page Three) SELL OUT MILK STRIKE. | WASHINGTON, D. |The AF are wagon drivers of the Chestnut | Farms Dairy. The men have been jout for several days. The International Labor Defense has received the following letter from Leonard H. Doherty, the» Ma rine Workers League organizer who picketed for the Needle Tradey Workers Industrial Union strikers here, beat five of Schlesingec’s gunmen, when they picked on hit and is now in jail, with the coni- pany union trying to frame him for a murder in Canada, where he never was: “T very sincerely thank the I.L.D. for their efforts in my behalf for scious literature and also for the many visits I have enjoyed with caged up. So sorry I cannot be with * * legal and financial aid, class-con-| comrades and look forward to while | you all to give a hand in the struggle | at this time of activity, when so TRY TO FRAME DOHERTY Company Union Tries Murder jmany of our comrades are suffer ing persecution at the hands of our enemit Always for Workers. “And let me dear comra even while I languish here in ja‘) (with the t miserable damning char red up against me T ar always and will be with militant labo feoaD very) much jsin Daily W ilat of our class | over, and it is a joy to know reparing for greater and victories in the future. “So comrades, prepare, join, build |and support your LL.D. Fraternally, Com. Leonard D. Doherty”