The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1930, Page 1

‘ — i ' | L | MAY DAY CONFERENCE MEETS TOMO Secretary Mellon Opposes Paying Unemployed War Veterans a Part of Their Insurance; Secretary of War Hurley Recently Said That the Government Won't Listen to “Com- plaints of Loafers Who Don't Try to Find Work”; the Capitalists Ask These Ex-Soldiers to Break-Up May-Day Demonstrations! Published daily except Sunday by ‘Thi Company. Inc. Vol. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, RROW LEGATES! Entered bh 3. 1879. Worker FINAL CITY EDITION e Comprodaily Publishing a SUBSCR IPTION RAT! Outside New In New York by mail, $8.00 per ork, by mail $6.00 pet year. year. s Price 3 Cents L, No. 335 N.Y. Answer “Prosperity” Bunk -- Navv Meet in \MELLON BLOCKS | Make Daily Worker A Mass Paper On Tuesday 5,395,170 shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange on a rising stock price market, the biggest day since last December 20 when a slightly larger number changed hands on a panic-driven downward market. Perhaps some will see in this the “first robbin” of “returning prosperity.” Nothing is further from the truth. It is only the feverish burst of new speculation induced by easy eredit. It portends another Stock Exchange crash of considerable dimensions, with new reverbera- tions through the structure of American indust: Why? Because profit return from capitalist industry does not justify rising stock prices. For the week ending March 22, there was a decrease of car-loadings of 5,645 cars under the week before, a r duction of 86,858 cars below the same week in 1929, and 74,652 cars below the same week in 1928. A half million fewer autos were pro- duced in the first three months of 1930 than in the same months of 1929. A billion dollars has been taken off of farm income by price declines. These are just a few things. The National City Bank, “ex- plaining” matters, says: “It is now evident that the failure of business to make a more rapid recovery since the first of the year is due to the fact that the situation is not simply a domestic one, but that we are involved in a world-wide reaction.” This, of course, is a carefully worded statement designed to com- fort the American bourgeoisie with a spreading out of the “blame” to the “whole world.” But it omitted to mention the fact that in the Soviet Union there is no such reaction” but a full-blooded healthy progress, with the second year of the Five-Year Plan being success- fully put through. As to the speculation, the New York World on March 22 gave a cautious warning that the same “easy money” that lifted the “Hoover boom” last year before the crash is again the policy of the Federal Reserve and that “brokers’ loans have increased by half a billion dur- ing the last sixty days.” The prophesy of Hoover of “prosperity in 60 days” is likely to turn out to be a new Stock Exchange panic about that time—at least it is inescapable—and certainly in place of any “prosperity” the Amer- ican working class can look for more unemployment, more wage cuts, fiercer speed-ups and more savage attacks on all fronts. Tm this coming period the workers need, more than ever, the clear understanding and firm line of the Communist Party. The revolu- tionary workers have the big but perfectly realizable task of build- ing the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League, of mobilizing the workers for the political mass strike on May First. For these great opportunities every worker, whether he be a mem- ber of the Communist Party or one of the tens of thousands of good fighting workers whom the Party welcomes as active sympathizers ready to fight side by side with Communists against all enemies of the workers, has at hand the most valuable instrument of widening the struggle and wringing concessions from the unwilling bosses by | struggle. This instrument is the Daily Worker! In the great demonstrations of March 6, workers showed them- selves so eager to understand the Communist Party that they fairly tore every leaflet from the hands of distributors and swept the shelves of Party literature of every kind. This deep hunger of the radicalized The Daily Worker must be al masses for guidance must be satisfied. put into the hands of every worker that i Communist Party means to him and his cl: lions of such workers. No more doubts! fellow worker! The campaign to attain 30,000 subscriptions is really a modest aim. But to attain it each worker sponsible. for entering with a spirit of enthusiasm into the machinery of the Circulation Drive. The drive is not something apart from the fight for unemployment insurance, nor any of the immediate burning needs of the workers, but an integral part of every fight for every demand. On the basis of cious to know what the There are literally mil- the workers’ elemental problems they are ready to listen to the voice | Push the ! of the Communist Party. DAILY WORKER. The Daily Worker is that voice. Prepare Mass Political Strike May First! The Communist Party calls on the workers for a mass political strike on May 1, a strike for more than immediate improvements on the job, though those too must be won, This strike will be a mass outpouring of the workers who recog- nize that the capitalist system itself, that form of society which pro- | duces a small group of plutocrats at one pole living in extreme wealth and at the other pole masses of toilers living in extreme poverty, breeds speed-up, long hours, low wages, and unemployment. Besides a demonstration of dislike for the capitalist system, on the basis of which organization can be built up for the overthrow of | that system, it will be a direct, demand on and combat with the forces used by the bosses, for the use of the streets and public squares, for that right of free assemblage which has yet to be won by the workers before they can get it. It will be a strike for the right of a worker thrown out of a job by those who own the industry to demand of the owners’ state that he be not forced to starve to death, a demand for that. so-called “right” to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which has still to be won by the workers of America. The objects of the strike must be made known to the workers by extensive distribution of leaflets and the Daily Worker, by factory gate meetings and organization of shop committees and councils of the unemployed, by organization and training of workers to meet the attempts at violent suppression of their demonstrations. Even the preparation of the strike will be a political lesson, and if this training and preparation is well done, the strike will be a success, will win political victories—as well as some economic victories, GREEN'S LYING HIT BY REACTIONARY Facts Smash His Talk of “Recovery” | Following the Hoover policy of | lying about the growing crisis of Americ imperialism, William | aaa Program of the National Unem- an article in today’s World, tries teil F vane Menace of Russian Steel. ‘age 4, ede cacsthaei ase, dayed by Naticzal Unemployment Confer- can capitalism is “recovering.” This; °"°® Looks West. Page 4. is Green’s method of trying to stave | TOMORROW. off the growing fight for “Work or Wages.” In ‘contrast to Green's smoke screen, in the very next column of the ‘issue of the World in which) Green’s article appeais, au 0; reactionary, Magnus W. Alexander, president of the National Industrial Conference Board, says: “No one would venture to pre- | dict any definite time when busi- ness may resume its normal stride.” Today in the Daily 32: Worker | $ > Preparing the Marine Workers’ Convention. The Lies of Mayor Mackey of Philacelphia. The Fall of Gc Dia Osi. No more holding back from approach to your | should feel personally re- | | War Moves on | Soviet Union That the so-called security pact is a direct war move against the. So- viet Union, fellowing the war threat of Stimson under the Kellogg pact in the Manchurian railway situation, is expressed in a cable dispatch yes- |terday to the New York Times, by | Edwin L. James, London correspond- ent. James says: “With the disappearance from | the American delegation of the last opposition to this plan (war pact—editor), which has been per- sistently favored by Mr. Stimson, one hears it remarked in Ameri- can quarters that, after all, a con- sultative pact might be of value | to America as one of the authors | of the Kellogg pact, because it would always supply official sanc- | tion for America expressing her { opinion in any crisis in which she | has an interest. It is also said | that it would remove any further | | | | justification for the powers to make any such future reply to Washington as was made by M. Litvinoff from Moscow last | fall. .-” | © 48. Ge | LONDON, April 2.—Secret con-| ferences have been going on every | |day regarding the so-called security | | pact, which is mainly a united front | of the imperialist powers against the Soviet Uni ELECTING TODAY IN AMALGAMATED | Vote | Are for TUUL Plans | i Today is the election of the exec-| | i jutive board and delegates to the | ninth convention of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers. Hilman’s }agents in Local 5 have refused to | put on the ballot any Trade Union Unity League members. Unem-!} ployed tailors are ruled off the bal- lot because “not in good standing.” ! However, there remain on the bal-| | Jot rank and file members who are | supporting the program of the T./ U. U. L., and all tailors are urged | |to vote for the following as mem- | bers of the executive: M. Schneid- lerman, I. Casper, M. Kwitt, M.| | Zaltzman, M. Keil and Kesslers. For } |delegates to the convention, all JOBLESS CASH FOR WAR VETS Communists Mobilize’ for Mass Political | May Day Strike | Fight Mass Wage-Cuts For Defense of USSR for “Work or Wages” While the bosses in New York are attempting to mobilize the world war veterans against the mass May Day demonstration, secretary Mel- lon, who made millions out of the war, announced yesterday that. he would block attempts to pay world war veterans 25 per cent of the face value of their adjusted compens tion certificates in cash, as a so- called partial remedy for unemploy- ment. At the same time, the bosses want these unemployed war veterans to attack their fellow workers wo are fighting for unemployment in- surance, under the leadership of the | Communist Party. Many working class servicemen are rallying behind | the Communist Party in their de- mand for the workers’ right to the street and Union Square York. Call Mass Political Strike. in New) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, | | Pe er | 1930 Workers’ Militancy in the “Work or Wages” Fight Is Basis for Mass Circulation Toledo Workers Support Demonstration for Daily Worker pe ® BULLETIN. | TOLEDO, Ohio, April 2.—Im- mediately after Stanley Cooke was fined $10 by Judge Cole for sell- | x ing The Daily Worker to a crowd of workers in front of a store, the Unemployed Council, with large banners on their backs, staged a demonstration calling on the work- ers to support The Daily Worker, and denouncing the boss courts. The workers marched in front of Kresges slave stores, Hundreds of Daily Workers were sold to the crowd of workers who massed around the demonstrators. Nu- merous donations were received. ~ Must Build Daily Worker “Especially the plan for big cities, | < of establishing carrier rates for They Daily Worker, with subscriptions at 18 cents a week, not only will bring in large numbers of readers but can give each and every member a task | of great political importance,” said I. Amter, District Organizer of the | New York Communist Party, and member of the unemployed commit- | tee elected by 110,000 workers on} March 6, discussing the driye for| 30,000 new readers for The Daily x by June 1, i i Wetken by One 000 new readers for the Daily I, Amter, organizer, New York District, Communist Party, and @ member of the committee of five elected by 110,000 New York work- ers at the mass unemployed dem- onstration in Union Suare March 6, facing jail for fighting for the demands of the jobless, calls on all workers to reach the goal of 30,- The Communist Party is calling | for a mass political strike on May} Day to demand “Work or Wages,”| and against the wage-cuts and spe:d | up being instituted by the bosses to| for Those Who isevere crisis on the backs of the| industries.” At the same time by workers against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. 50 Per cent Wage Cut. In every industry wage-cuts are being slapped against the workers. A worker correspondent in the Sim- mons Bed Co.; ‘for example, writes that in one department piece rates have been cut 40 to 50 per cent. “The men’° who: refused to accept the wage cut,” he’ writes, “were fired. New girls were hired instead at 25 cents per hour.” It is to fight against these whole- sale wage-cuts, and for “Work or Wages,” for the growing army of | uemployed. workers, that the mass/ political strike is being called for| May Day. May Day is a weapon of political | 30,000 by June 1. | Worker. The subscription drive began onj = April 1 and: will last until June 1.| | By six months after April 1 the goal | International is “60,000 new readers for The| Wireless ithrow the burden of the present Daily Worker, especially in the basic | News June 1 the various districts have | ~> been assigned quotas to finance the! GERMAN “SOCIALISTS” AID campaign, totalling $15,000. i REACTION. “The establishment of The Daily (Wireless by Inprecorr.) Worker, as the organ of the masses) BERLIN, April 2. — Today’s of workers of this country,” con- tinued Amter, “is a major task of the entire Party membership and every worker. “The drive for The Daily Worker promises the best results. The “adi- calization of the masses as evidenced in the March 6 demonstrations gives a sound basis for the drive. It is| 18 "Pos true that unemployment and wage | Cialists. slashing make it difficult for the Following pro- gévernment workers to take annual subscrip-/| speeches by the Center and People’s tions. That is why the plan of 18! parties, the Communist representa- cents a week must now be stressed. ||. < tive Pieck condemned the “ Tove Tiateict xi b- | The New York: District will mob-| os coliey of the previous, (“ao-| Reichstag debate was notable for the speech of the “socialist” Breit- scheid, attacking the formation of the new government, at the same time offering the socialist coopera- | tion, declaring “in the long run it lis impossible to rule without so- anti- | ilize thoroughly for The Daily! |should vote for S. Passikoff, M.| hneiderman, M. Kwitt, Bail. class action in the hands of the and N.| working class against capitalism. | |This May Day definite preparations jare being made, through a broad united front to mobilize, under the leadership of the Conimunist Party, | | masses of workers, first, on the im- mediate economic demands of, the | workers, such as, work or wages, so |cial insurance, linked up with the struggle for the general slogans of | Their Platform. These candidates have declared ‘for a program of struggle, for the | 40-hour and 5-day week, increase in | wages, class struggle against class collaboration, rank and file control, unemployment insurance to be con- trolled by the workers, work or Worker campaign.” Revolutionary Competition. The Philadelphia district has al- busy to Employment Lowest | |wages for the unemployed, rein-| |statement of expelled members, | | unity with the Needle Trades Work- | ers’ Industrial Union. | Hilman said yesterday that noth- jing could be done to improve con- | ditions because the bosses were suf- | fering too, and that “1920 will come | back only when we have another | war.” Ten Miners Held in Cheswick Cases Come Into Court April 9th PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 2.—The Cheswick cases, dragging on more than two years, since the day Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, have been called again on April 9. Ten’ miners face prison terms on charges of “assault and battery” and “illegal assemblage.” The brutal Pennsylvania State Police and Coal and Iron Cops, who were cheated of their prey in the case of Salvatore Accorsi, Cheswick miner, several months ago, by the International Labor. Defense, which mobilized mass protest over the country, are now out for revenge on these 10 miners. “Slaving in the blistering sun in the South, never less than ten hours a day, carrying the heaviest loads, into the rottenest holes, us- ing the most dangerous machinery, the Negro longshoremen, getting 35 cents an hour or less, are the most bitterly exploited of the toil- SLAVERY ON THE DOCKS 'Tobless Longshoremen Flock to Piers Since 1914 Brooklyn Navy Yar the Communist Party: Against im-| perialist war and for the defense of | the Soviet Union. | The outstanding slogan is: Make! May Day a political mass strike! Concrete preparations are being (Continued on Page Three) A. F. L. Steel Local Is) Liquidated to Please) New Non-Union Bosses) SEATTLE, Wash., April .2.—In} an effort to curry favor with the} management of the local steel plant, which has recently been purchased by the anti-union Bethlehem Steel Corp., the local union of the Amal- gamated Assn. of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers has sent its charter in to the national office at Pitts- burgh. The local, which was small and included only skilled workers, did not even take the trouble to find out if the new control would object to a continuation of the union. The workers themselves are be- ginning to think about the Trade Union Unity League call to organ- ize a Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. Yard is the lowest since the crisi of 1914, it was officially announced today at the yard. Fully one-third of the working force had either been laid off or fired since last July, said Captain Paul Dungan. This by no means indicated that Navy war building is the least in- terfered with. Dozens of contracts have been given out to private ship building will come up just as soon as Stimson and his gang of im- perialist bandits return from Lon- don. Lucky to Save Life that you stowed in the ship bottom, I have seen put ashore in Darien by Chinese coolies. The agricultur: machinery you lead up in Brookira we see it handled again in Aus- tralia.” * | Yes, and the explosives and muni- tions for the bosses wars are un- ers of the sea,” said George Mink, secretary of the Marine Workers League, in describing the condi- tions of the dock hands, The longshoremen? A sailor writ- ing in the Marine Workers Voice puts it this way: “The steel rails loaded by the longshoremen as wel! as other dangerous cargo, | Speed-up, the watchword on the} ship, also applies to the longshore- men. It is not so much that the ma- (Continued on Page Three) Seaman of ship wrecked at sea ing hauled up sid@ of another ip. recks; those who are saved lose their clothing and everything they have, inelitding their jobs, yards for a whole slew of 10,000-ton | cruisers, and plans for further war} Many die every year in | cialist”) government, declaring that | the present government is continu- | | ing the policy of exploitation of the | | masses. ready challenged the Cleveland Dis-| influence in the government endan-| trict in every phase of this work,| gered and has: already gotten | prove its challenge. He stated that the catholic | Soviet-German relations. | Pieck exposed the dishonesty of the socialist non-confidence vote, and concluded by, declaring that the! |Communist Party would strive to! overthrow the government, replac-| in the | ing the bourgeois dictatorship with] d the proletarian dictatorship. a * * Employment at the Brooklyn Navy| BERLIN TAILORS SPREAD STRIKE. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, April 2.—The tailors’ strike is extending. There are now 2,500 workers on strike. ee * CHECKMATING THE RENEGADES, (Wireless by Inprecorr.) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April —The renegades from Commu- nism. having stolen the German language organ, “Vorwaerts,” pub- lished in the town of .Reichenberg, the Communist Party of Czecho- Slovakia, is issuing a ‘Red Vor- waerts’) in that town. ‘BLD’G, MAINTENA MEETS. A-mass meeting of the Building Maintenance Workers’ Union will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Ukrainian Workers Club, (041 Third Ave. CAN’T CRUS E UNION “They cannot crush the Pioneer movement,” was the message the Pioneers of Hurley, Wis., sent to Harry Eisman, sentenced to five years in the reformatory at Haw- thorne, N. Y., for taking part in the March 6 demonstration. The letter follows: “Comrade Harry Eisman: We have seen in the papers that you have been arrested on account of having taken part in the Unemploy- ed demonstrations and maybe you will be sent to Roumania. We as a Pioneer group of North Hurley congratulate you on your wonderful work that you have been doing to bring a new and better government 600 MINERS 70 WOMEN, CHILDREN, FIGHT POLICE HOUR AT DEMONSTRATION Eldorado, Ill., Jobless Refuse to Starve in of Delegates of Preliminary National Conference | adopted by the conference. Worker. strikes May 1, vention on unemplo; UNIONS, JOBLESS RALLY FOR MAY 1 Many Organizations in Conference Tomorrow To prepare for the mass political | strike on May Day, a conference of {labor organizations will take place | at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th | St., tomorrow at 7 p. m., under the | leadership of the Communist Party. Credentials have been received | from 35 delegates of the Central | Council of the Unemployed. Two | delegates are also being elected by leach local council. The Needle | Trades Workers’ Industrial Union elected ten delegates. Each shop jis electing delegates separately. The Joint Council'of’ the Inde- |pendent Shoe Workers’ Uttion \named five. A number of shops |have sent in credentials. The Hotel and Cafeteria Work- ers’ Union elected two. Each shop | is now electing its own quota. Cre- |dentials have also been received from the United Council of Work- ing Class Women, from various la- jbor and fraternal organizations, Negro organizations, ete. Organizations which have not yet sent in their credentials to the May Day Conference Committee, 26 Union Square, New York City, should do so immediately. Organ- izations which’ did not’ elect dele- gates in time to mail’ the creden tials should send, delegates with credentials to the conference itself. GOSGRAVE AGAIN BULL The National Executive Committee of 35 elected by the First The board, and its bureau and national Devine, are actively at work preparing for great demonstrations and They call for 10,000 delegates to the national con- ent July 4-5 Quiet; Ross, Allard, Others Are Jailed iProtest Movement Grows Against Railroading the Unemployed ETIN. on Unemployment here Saturday and Sunday made public yesterday the full program of action as It is on Page 3 of this issue of the Daily secretary, Pat in Chicago. ELDORADO, Ill, April 2—Six hundred miners, including 70 min- ers’ wives and children, fought for nearly an hour against 40 police and deputies who attacked the un- jemployment meeting here yester- day. The demonstration of the wives and children against. starva- tion and in protest against the po- lice attacks on March 6 brought out | the whole town. | The police attacked with great brutality, slugging and beating men, | women and children. The defense lof the unarmed miners was very | vigorous, however, and the Young | Pioneers, led by Ellen Gwaltney, | Pioneer director, continued singing revolutionary songs throughout the battle. Gwaltney herself was badly beaten up by the police. Nat Ross, Communist Party secretary for southern Illinois was clubbed, and arrested, held incommunicado with- | out bond, and charged with incite- jment to riot. Jim Turney, a | miner in the demonstration was ar- | rested, charged with assault, and released on bonds. Ben Gray, Young Communist League organ- | izer was beaten up. | Bosses Fear Organization, | The authorities and the United Mine Workers of America are mak- (Continued on Page Three) HOLMES, PELTZ FACE 20 YEARS ‘Found Guilty for Job- less Activity | PHILADELPHIA, April 2. and Holmes were found guil Pelw: Workers’ Children Greet Eisman y by a farmer’s jury today on the charg, SERVES EMPIR of sedition and face a 20-year jai! term. The “crime” of these tw pte workers is their activity among th: ‘ sh ae unemployed workers, distributing Irish Capitalists Could |jcaftets and speaking in front of th. Not Agree on Another Ford and Viscos plants, in Chester where thousands of unemploye: DUBLIN, Ireland, April 2.—Will- | Workers gather. iam T. Cosgrove, who has been run-| They are both members of. th ning the Irish “Free” State for the Communist Party and Trade Union benefit of British imperialism and Unity League. The Internationa! native capitalism since 1922 was re-| Labor Defense through its attorne: elected president tonight by the immediately demanded a new tria! Dail. He had been out of office for, The judge set the hearing for a five days, having lost.a. vote of con-| week from Friday and would not let fidence over the old-age pension act. | Peltz and Holmes out on bail, They Cosgrove had opposed extension of are in jail pending argument for a the act. Enough of his opponents | new trial. The case wilkhesapne-')" were sufficiently afraid of being eo unpopular to vote him down. How-| ever, the imperialist and capitalist combination could not pick out an- other man for the job, and after De Valera and O’Connell were voted down, the Dail voted, 80 to 65 to put Cosgrove back in. |Many Meetings Want [Freedom of Centralia ‘Boys; Roberts Is Held Mass meetings all over the state | of Washington, demanding imme- | diate freedom for the Centralia prisoners have been ealled by the Communist fraction in the Painters [ternational Labor Defense, ““Moth- ti f th A er” Ella Reeve Bloor, I, L. D. or- see 1a West Ith Seen 7 2 | ganizer, announces. H PIONEERS PAINTERS FRACTION MEETS. There will be a meeting of the tralia boys, has been found sane by a jury and although no sentence {or prison term was ever legally | passed on him, was shut up agair |in Walla Walla prison without an |iota of legal procedure,” she de clares, Seattle, Wash., I. L. D. distric to stand on your side that you would! conference held recently was at not be sent to Roumania. We know tended by 3 delegates from Aber. that the American capitalist class deen, a delegate from Juneau will try to crush the Pioneer move-| Alaska, 1 from Portland, 1 fron jment. We are going to rise and Everett, 2 from Mt. Vernon, 2 fro | protest on May Day against the way | Sedro Woolley, 1 from Anacortes, ¢ the capitalists are terrorizing the from Youth Committees, 15 from workers in all capitalist countries, Seattle and the Wesley Everest Our Pioneer group congratulates the branch; 7 from the Caucasian International Labor*Defense. Lonz: branch; 1 from the South Slav live the Pioneer Movement! Long branch, 3 from the Finnish Work+ live the Young Communist Interna tional. (Signed by the committee). “Oliver Hillila, Oiva Jarvi and Veikko Jarvi. side, in the United States. We are going munist. Movement.’ ing Women’s Club, and two” from Tacoma. Criss, of the Farmers’ Local, of Slagit County, reported that mem- bers of his branch ride from farm “P, S.—Remember we are on your|to farm on the membership drive, They cannot crush the Com-|enlistine manw farmers of that dia- trict.