The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1930, Page 1

7PM. Only 26 More Days to May Day. Prepare the Mass Political Strike Against Wage-Cuts, Against the War Danger; For “Work or Wages”; For the 7-Hour Day, Week; For the Defense of the Soviet Union! FINAL CITY EDITION 5-Day Daily uss matter at the Post Office at New York, » Entered as secon Price 3 Cents \. ¥. under the act ef Mare SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail, $8.00 per yeur Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1930 COMMUNIST LED Boss Rivadries'TONIGHT'S MEET Buffalo Starts Factory BIG CONVENTION REVOLTS SPREAD | TO PLAN MAY DAY Drive for Daily; “Every OF UNEMPLOYED Tells Bosses He’s Ready for May Day THREATEN OPEN DICTATORSHIP OF Lead Navy Meet GERMAN BOSSES Non- Confidence Vote Is Defeated by 252 to 187 communists Hit Gov't) Expose Boss Role of) Social Fascists (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | BERLIN, April 3.—Today’s Reich- | stag session rejected a motion of non-confidence in the government | by 252 against 187. The majority | represented the government par-} ties plus the Nationalists who} changed their position overnight. | voting unanimously for the new! bourgeois cabinet. The Communist Deputy Raedel at- tacked the government as anti-! proletarian and exposed the pseudo- opposition of the socialists as the result of their fear of the workers. Premier Bruening declared that the dictatorship paragraph (legalizing the dissolution of parliament—Ed.) was reserved until parliament should fail in its mission. The Nationalist leader Hugenburg | explained his about-turn as a re- sult of the government’s promise to adopt thorough measures to as- sist agriculture. He threatened de- fection, however, should the govern- ment offend the Nationalists. ‘ee Karl Schwotzer, editor of the) Communist Hamburger Volkszei- | tung, was sentenced to three years hard labor on a charge of treason in publishing articles on war prep- arations in Northern Germany. TUUL ORGANIZER DEFIES BOMBERS Giglio Refuses-to Quit; League Exposes AFL Further details of the attempt to | low up the home of J. J. Giglio, kecretary of the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League Saturday night have been received from Birmingham. | Giglio’s house, from which he and | his family were fortunately absent | at the time, was destroyed by dyna- | mite. } This attack followed an attempt | of an armed gang to kidnap him| Friday night, Giglio says. League Has Statement. The Metal Workers ~Industrial | League through its national secre- | tary, Andrew Overgaard, “The attempt to kidnap our South- ern organizer, Giglio and the wreck- | ing of his house is a continuation of | the terror in the Southern territory. | This new drive against the organ- | ization of the steel workers into) revolutionary industrial unions has been encouraged by the strike-| breaking A. F. of L, This fascist gang of strike byeak- | crs is led by Paul Smith, former | rganizer in the twin cities, Minne- polis and St. Paul, where he cked a once powerful labor move- | ment. i Editorial Gives Game Away. | “The editorial in the ‘Labor Advo- | cate’ of Birmingham, official organ of the A. F. of L., entitled ‘Drive Them Out,’ is proof enough that this latest attack was not only encour- aged but actually organized by the AF, of L “The Metal Workers’ League will become one of the strongest sections of the new revolutionary union to be formed in Youngstown, 0., June 14- 15.” . Meeting to Protest ° - ge j Conviction of Peltz, | Holmes Is Broken Up CHESTER, Pa., April 3.—A mass meeting called by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League to protest the conviction of R. Peltz and T. Holmes on charges of sedition for speaking before the Ford gates here, was brutally broken up by the police. . | New Help to Soviet Farm Collectives According to capitalist press re- fports the Soviet Government will extend 500,000,000 rubles’ credit to | the farm collectives and greatly re- | duce taxes in order to heln the col- lective movement .in the Soviet | Union, saa k Whalen has dis- are Chief Cossac covered: there tions going on for an international May Day demonstration under the leadership of the Communist In- ternational. What bothers Whale: and the bosses is that the mass prepara- 1,250,- 000 workers in the United State: on March 6 showed they will militantly for “Work: or and against imperialist threatened uttacks on the Union—and against capitalis war BRITISH WILL ESTINE Oppression of Toilers a Duty Says MaeDonald Prime Minister MacDonald noti- fied the Arab toiling m day in a statement to Commons that he did not intend to remove the hold of British imperial- ism from Palestine. Asserting that the government would continue the previous policy of administering the Palestine man- date in accord with the terms of this mandate, the “labor” prime minister said: “This is an international ob) gation from which there is no que tion of receding.” The “international obligation” of robbing and opr ing the Arab and Jewish toilers wilt be faithfully kept by this lackey of British capitalis KEEP Pal e es yester- he House of Friends of Soviet Union Intensify Drive in N.Y. Area In view of the intens against | ends fied attacks the viet Union, the of the Spviet Union is in- ten g its nation-wide campaign against the enemies of the Soviet Union. A district office of the F.S.U. has been opened at 799 Broadway, Room 421, for New York and New Jersey. This district will conduct a mem- bership campaign to gain the affilia- tion of workers’ organizations and also individual members. e The first membership meeting of the New York District, Thursday evening, April 10, and on Saturday evening, April 19, at the Central Plaza Hall, 111 Second Ave, the New York District F.S.U. will hold the installation of the City and Ex. ecutive Committees. Tickets are 50 cents in advance and 75 cents at the door, The admission is chafged in order to raise funds for the organ- ization campaign. A concert and dancing are included in the program. F THRUOUT CHINA Troops Fraternize With| Podr Peasants in Many Places | | Landlords Are Alarmed |The ‘Left’? Kuomintang) Urges Suppression An Associated Press despatch from Amoy yesterday reports | | that “Red leaders directing Com- munist activities throughout those areas (Fukian and Kiangsi pro- vinces) were throwing Southwest China into a condition of disorder not equaled since 1927.” If the reader will recall that 1927 was the year when the last revolution- | ary wave was at its height, the seriousness of the present situa- tion can be visualized. The guerilla warfares of the peas- ant troops and peasant uprisings | are developing very rapidly in South China. Soldiers are becom-| ing more and more radicalized and | instances of fraternization with the | revolting peasants are frequently | reported in the newspapers arrived | from China. Cable despatch to the Times yes- terday also reports: “Troops sent to these districts (around Nanchang, Kiangsi) have not achieved much, as it is said the farmers in many parts are under bandit (Comminist—Ed.) domination and are hampering the military operations, the officials being helpless.” | In the meantime, the militarists, landlords and _ bourgeoisie are | alarmed at the peasant uprisings, [In his declaration of war against ' | Chiang Kai-shek, Yen Hsi-shan. governor of Shansi, and leader of the Anti-Nanking Bloc, openly charged Chiang as unfit for head- (Continued on Page Three) | ! JOBLESS FIGHT BUDAPEST POLIGE Demand Bread, Wages: Before Parliament | | | Te as | BUDAPEST, April 2. — Despite | | the bloody Horthy dictatorship, mas | ‘ses of workers gathered before Par- | jliament today in a huge demonstra | |tion against unemployment and for | | work or unemployment insurance. Frequent clashes occurred between | |the police armed with sabres, and) |the workers. The demonstra’ | shouted their demands for work or adequate jobless insurance and de-| fied the attempts of the police to break their ranks. At every turn, the workers resisted the armed| police. | Even after fifty-eight workers! had been arrested and handcuffed, | ths unemployed workers assembled | | disperse. The police were unable , workers’ districts to keep the de monstration from spreading, FOOD FRACTION MEET. All Party members of the Hoi Restaurant an@ Cafeterias are call to a special General Fraction Meet ing, to be held on Monday, April 7 at 8 p. m, at 26-28 Union Square. TO FIGHT SHIP BOSSES ‘Marine Workers Conven By HARRY GANNES. “On every ship where our mem- bers and sympathizers have spread | the word,” said George Mink, na- | tional secretary of the Marine Work- ers’ League, “along the piers and docks, you will hear the main topic of conversation among seamen, longshoremen and harbor boatmen is the coming National Convention of the Marine Workers’ League, to be held in New York City, April 26- 27, when a new fighting marine union will be launched.” In the International Union, headed by the company’s agents, Furuseth and Olander, who work with the bosses to institute fiendish systems of exploitation on the ships; in the International Long- shoremen’s Association, headed by J. P. Ryan, who’ t the police to ciub the uneniployed to sa the trouble of shooting them laier, the Seamen’s | | tion Apr.26-27| | workers are | | convention, “We expect 40 delegates from | Frisco,” said H. Hynes, editor of the Marine Workers Voice. “There will be over 250 delegates from every port in the United States. Vaneouver will send delegates. A big delegation of Negro longshore- nen from Houston, New Orleans and other rotten docks and ports in the South is assured, There will be New England fishermen who show signs of fight for or: ganization.” The Marine’ Workers’ League ha- | headquarters in 10 of the larges! port cities in the United Stat of these headquarters delepa ;meet the ships, whenever poss! distribute the literature of the M [tine Workers’ League and aiicny i (Continued on Page Liuce) | to New Smash LONDON, April 3.—Again the sharp rivalries of the imperialist powers at the Five-Power Navy Conference have smashed the plans for a plenary conference on Fri- day. This plan has been dropped. and the war maneuverings behind closed doors go on. Premier Tardieu announced for the French imperialists that he would not consider any material revision of France’s armament figures, pact or no pact. “This development,” cables a capitalist correspondent to his New York paper, “while most interesting, threatens to com- plicate matters to no smail degree.” In reality, the conference has completely broken down. The Friday session was set for some form of “agreement? directed mainly against the Soviet Union. Then the conference was to close without having taken one step such as boasted about by Mac- Donald, Stimson, Briand, Grandi or Wakatsuki at the opening of the race-for-arms meet. All talk about “disarmament” has been dropped. The only agreement that the imperialists are trying to achieve now, beside their mutual hostility to the Soviet Union, is to fool their respective masses on the collapse of the conference. DRESS STRIKE IS ‘Day meet. | POLITICAL STRIKE Worke ‘Smash Bosses Threats One Chicago Comrade Gets 13 Subs in a Week 500 in St in House to House Canvass BULL. A staunch supporter of the Di Against May Day | Demonstration | Worker by contributing $25. Admit Vets Are Jobless Delegates To Be Present With Whalen declaring to the big bosses of “he State Chamber of Commerce tnat he is making “elab- orate preparations for the event,” Factory and house distribution of The Daily Worker in the drive for) | 30,000 new readers by June 1 is be- ing greeted with entht Many 2 sic tie response the Veterans of Foreign Wars tell- all over the ing its members that “May Ist ea promises to be a Red Letter day in ee Goon V. F. W. history!” the conference tonight at Manhattan Lyceum of delegations from many working class organizations to make prep- arations for May Day becomes of the utmost importance. John J. Bennet, Jr., local com- mander of the American Legion, stated several days ago that his or- ganization will not participate in the Union Square “patriotic” M: It is indicated that th was forced upon the fascist swash- | bucklers in the Legion by the grow- ing mass discontent among those workers who still happen to be in| the Legion, many of whom are un-| employed. “Some of our comrades are at present without employment,” ad- Buffalo in- orms us that at a :.ceting of functionar- ies of the Commu nist Party, one day before the program for eal the drive was y published decided that: Plan of Buffalo Workers. Every Party unit is to cover one shop with The Daily Worker. Every unemployed comrade is to sell at least seven Daily Workers each da: At least | Workers will be distributed each week; and that every unit is to cover one meeting of the A. F. of L. local or a working-class frater- nal organization each week. a Organize her bit to help raise a fund to build mass circulation for the Daily 250 Daily | y to Help”--Gebert CHICAGO, JULY 4 ee) Town in ‘Work or Wage’ Fite Defy Cops, Mayor ag aily Worker, Vera Beck, has done Ford Plant Is Guarded Council Org Active preparations are under way throughout the country for the election of 10,000 delegates to the national convention on unemploy- ment, to be held in Chicago, July 1-5, “In every city in which worl ers demonstrated on March 6, and in many in which such demons tions were not 1 said Pat De- vine, secretary of the National Ex- ecutive Committee of 35, elected the First Preliminary National Con- ference on Unemployment, held in New York, Saturday and Sunday, “wwe expect delegations to be elected for the national unemp’ nent meet in Chicago.” LABOR FAKERS Muelle ry Shows Up | Lore’s Lies “Free Voice,” official organ of the “Amalgamated Food Workers,” con- trolled by such fakers as Burkhardt jand Gund, Lore, the social-fascist, editor of the“Volkeszeitung,” in the April edition column, Bakers Local No. 6, Jersey City, prints the fol- lowing: “The member, J. K. Mueller, who declared in the Executive Board that he recognizes the Trade Union Unity jLeague, and not the Amalgamated | Food Workers, declared at the meet- ing that he retracts his statement land is willing to stand by the A. “The convention (in Chicago) will be made up masses of unem- ployed workers affiliated or sym- pathizing with the unemployed |councils,” says the program adopted at the preliminary conference. | ee te | Asked by Burkhardt if I recog-| CAMPBELL, Ohio, April 3.—More Inize the A.F.W., niy reply was as (than 500 workers, many of them Ne- follows: ‘I recognize the A.F.W. un-|8toes, attended a mass meeting of der the leadership of the T.U.U.L.| unemployed workers which was There was no retraction! despite the attempts of the and Tube Steel Corporation, } Don't: Overlook: Finances. “After being a member of the Nor are the districts overlooking | A-F.W. for eight years, a aarese | their quotas in the drive for $15,000 | to the convention and General Ex- | to finance the drive for a mass cir- ecutive Board, elected by the gems culation of The Daily Worker. bers of the A.F.W., I am very well) 13-5 unemployment and mise “House-to-house campaigning in| acquainted with their rotten policies | loctier iworking-class districts in the ¢ * with which these misleaders keep | Wha ' Gees thal Hrsk heehee ys B. K. Gebert, organizer of the | themselves in office. | ployed meeting ever held in this city Chicago District of the Communist) “But the workers are awakening. |. der the auspices of the Communist Party, “is proving to be successful. |They do not wish to be misled any pot. Twenty-five workers joined Ir Chicago, Comrade Bittenfeld, of longer. They want an industrial |. party calls on these unemployed work- ers to do the bosses’ dirty work in Mobilization Meet Sét attacking their fellow workers in {the Union Square May Day demon- for Monday stration being planned under the leadership of the Communist Party. | PHILADELPHIA, April 3.—A;} qn contrast the Communist call has just being issued by the! Party calls upon all workers, in- Needle Trades Industrial Union of | Philadelphia, rallying all the dress- cluding war veterans, to make i May Day a day of mass political makers of the city to prepare for a strike within a few days against | Julius and the police force, who have been working for weeks to pr this meeting, held under the auspices |of the Communist Party. There |mits Gun Hill Post No. 271 of the a| Veterans of Foreign Wars, and yet | it ooking forward to this | ‘ strike, against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet the most intolerable conditions in the shops here. The mass strike mobilization meet. ing will be held Monday, April 7, 8 p. m. at the Boslover Hall, 701 Pine Street. Outstanding national leaders of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union as well as local organizers will address the meeting. Wages in the mass slave pens which employ from two to five hun- dred girls in one building, rarely reach over the $15.00 a week limit. The average wage is $10.00 for a 5¢ to 60 hour week. This strike struggle will be fought qune the central slogans of the rade Union Unity League. The outstanding demands of the striker: will be: 40 hour 5 day weel two days rest, a minimum weekly | | k ana they are now conducting. !13 new subscribers for The Daily Workers in two weeks. {comrade has done ev: de. Mass Distribution at Vactories. “The Daily Worker drive for usss | circulation,” said Gebert, ‘must cal STRIKES ARE ON |put on the agenda of every work- ing-class organization. The sale of | — |The Daily Worker before the fac- | ij ee +1 4, | tories must establish mass sales «nd Three Workers Jailed;| distribution as a regular t } Bonds $1,000 Continuous picketing, resulting in YOU sorcae nen ae aay ot, the} the arrest of three workers who are | TeVolutionary working-class organ- held in $1,000 bail on framed up|" (Continued on Page Two) worker can the | i t {hands of 60,000 more workers ard | Cafeteria workers in five strikes The strikes are on at these places: | the Monroe Cafteria, at 85th St. be- What tris | Nuclets 304, secured by this method | union under the leadership of the | | Trade Union Unity League. KIDNAP BURLAK, DORAN IN SO, C, Doran Reported Safe; No Word from Burlak WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., April Anna Burlak and Doran, organ- 3.— izer: ers Union were kidnapped today by boss thugs at Senaca, S. C. Doran is reported safe, but no word has been received as to the whereabouts of Anna Bu for the National Textile Work- | At the meeting a message was ‘received from the Mayor and his chief of police not to make any at- tacks on the city administration, or they would break up the meeting land arrest the speakers. ‘The lorders were defied by the speake The workers cheered the speakers when they put forward the demands |of “Work or Wages,” the seven-hour day, five-day week, no evictions and organization of a powerful unem- ployed council, organization of the unorganized in the Trade Union Unity League. The speakers were Jack Carson, Joseph Greene, Dave Dixon and Mary Carleton. The meeting demanded the release of the five delegates electd by 110,- 000 New York wo and nite preparations were made for a May Day demonstration. wage ($25.00 in the cotton dress e Ry e# shops), equal division of work, union | H¥een Seventh and Eighth Ave., the GETS J ANITOR JOB Sore “We'll Fight,” Says New Britain eet ope alo eee: |between 26th and 27th Sts., the Far- Barbers Refuse to Worker. To Hold Class War Prisoners Conference St. and the Regal Cafeteria on 125th ragut Cafeteria, on Seventh nee aan near 29th St. the G. & G, on 234/Kow-Tows to Civil Service Commission Support ‘New Leader’ At the last meeting of the New | “We, the workers of New Britain, are not going to starve,” writes a worker to The Daily Worker. “Yes- * * St. York Barbers Local of the A. F. terday (March 31), in the City Hall, in N. Y. April 20th, The arrested workers, Ssivtal Seago lof L. the executive board brought in 400 of us demanded ‘Work os Every ‘working-class organization | Wiezer, Nichitila and Tony Yenas,, BOSTON, April 3.—The ten-year yecommendation to contribute te Wages.’ The Mayor called the po- “One of the chief questions to be ent strikes. Sam Nesin, New York |“Paragraph 600,” the most vicious rict Organizer of I.L.D. stated, | injunctions ever issued by the capi- | discussed,’ D |around the police stations demand- in New York has received invita- Were paraded before Whalen’s thugs, ban against the nineteen leaders of |ing their release, and would nor tions to attend the conference April finger printed, photographed, |the Boston police strike which Clam- | of janitor by the Massachusetts Cicil Service Commission. The nineteen who were placed un- They are held under the “New Leader,” but got the sur- prise of their life, when the recom- | ganization of the unemployed work- lers. Whereupon the recommenda- ‘will be the fight against lynching | talist courts. This allows the police der the ban after the strike were|tion of the executive board was nd race discrimination.” BROADWAY BLASTS HURT 6. Six persons were injured when vas accumulating under Broadwa: vetween 29th and 31st streets ex- ploded yesterday Out of the Dirty Holes | jexecutives of the Police Union in jthe strike for higher wages. Cool- jidge rode into the presidency on the campaign as strike breaker of the Boston police strike. to arrest and to be tried by a magis- trate court for contemy/ and to rail- voad them to jail by three judges in , eclal sessions. | At the last Executive Shop Coun- il it was decided to strike May 1) —_-___—-: in solidarity with the International TR a T Working Class Against Capitalists, ! em if war Attacks on the Soviet Union, (Continued on Page Two) I Today in the Baily Ui Worker stevedoring bosses in conspiracy voted down. | Everv new Daily Worker reader you get is a potential Party mem- ber. O LYNCH SEAMAN Negro scama. * town, or he showed that it was against the or-| lice and threw us out, but we are going outside to the factories and 20, in Irving Plaza Hall, to organize Weighed and put through machine!» Cal Coolidge is credited with mendation was not, as previously,/among the workers and demand completely to disperse the ranks of for the freedom of class-war pris- 88 regular criminals.” \breaking, was “lifted” today against | accepted, but rank and file members | Work or Wages.’ Do not starve, |the jobless workers, and they threw cners, including Harry Eisman, the| In special sessions many food| eu Philip J. Corbett, , denounced this social fascist sheet | fight! % a cordon of armed thugs around th unemployment delegation, the Gas- workers are being tried for picketing \O"° a thie: ee saad Fc a PS “as not representing the WOrkINg | Wages Gs a Resevveu Bonk tonia strikers, lin the last strikes and in these pres- |He was given the magnificent job class but being a bosses’ paper and | ae a Mass unemployment continued throughout February and March, ad- mitted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its latest statement vwhen “usually there is a seasonal (Continued on Page Three) More Mutinies of Indo-China Troops HANOI, April More revolu- tionary mutinies among native jtroops of Indo-China are reported from the interior. Greatly alarmed by the rising revolutionary move- ment and the increasing Communist 3 A story of a direct attempt of | Welsh, but McDonough ordered the influence among the native troops, the French imperialists have ex- with the police of Charleston to “would be strung up.” MeDonough ‘ended their gunboat patrol of the | | | _ British Tmperialism’s Puppets in lyneh him and thus stop his organiz-| had first ordered him arrested, but |Se@board and rivers to suppress | Ireland. Page 3. ing work is told the Daily Worker changel his mind. revolutio bryan | The Lying Mayor of Philade}- by F. E. A. Welsh, Negro seaman,| Welsh, instead of leaving town, — cod | phia. Page 3. and organizer for the Marine Work- came back with othe: workers to the ‘4 . | | Lenin and the Mass Politi’ rs League, alsc a delegate to the same dock the next day at the time} 7 im History of H Strike. Itace 4. rst Preliminary National Con- set for his leaving town, and the | ference on Unemployment which ended Sunday in New York. A stevedore boss named How a Goilective Farm Is Or: ganized inthe U.S.S.R. Page 4. Pronk stevedore bosses did not have nerve j enough to attack him. | Then the Police the Workers —Defeat of south April 4, 1 I (fan alt ce persioning i Welsh, an ex-cop, jumped off a! On March 11, the chief detective) German peasant rebels at Leip- ehigh Valiey Silk Industry. Pag» Nelson line boat on which Welsh of Charleston came down and being heim. 1871 -Revolt of Commu- ide had been organizing, Feb. 27, and | refused the right to search the nards at Marseilles, France, sup- ; Craw P) tumors fr Houston, TOMORROW. attacked him, Getting the worst Workers Center, notified Welsh that pressed. 1918—Robert J. Prae- cas, climbing out gi the hold Workers’ Correspondence Fea ,0f the five minutes’ fist fight.the | he had been watched. ‘The detective ger, miner, Iynched by “loyalty ter Urenthing the crt of the . vee. boss called in one McDonough, the | came back a few days later with a committee” at Collinsville, ML vam shot into thie sip. There Tuithanieeneis Note. ‘head contracting stevedore. lynch gang in several cars, while a, 1923—L. Martov, Russian Men- S14 “great. anew; nt among outh ‘az sled og Bh ids Threat to Lynch meeting was being organized. After shevik leader, died. 1923—40,000 (ei now due to the big drop in | Defend the >.cerut’ Prisoner: | The Negro and white longshore- swaggering a little, and getting no, coal miners in Wales struck grain shipments and the world | The Pope aye the ArttigSoviet | men prevented McDonough and’ results, the chief detective said to? against worsening of working cons Gran Crisis, ee, =| Drive, é = ~s' Welch from “double banking” on tinued on Page Three) ditions. §