The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1930, Page 1

Hunger! Organize the Mass Political Strike For May Day to Fight Wage-Cuts and Against Imperialist War; Defend the Soviet Union! Daily 22 J-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187! FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI., No. 337 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Incw Union Square, 2 New York City, N. ¥. _NEW YORK SATURDAY APRIL 5 5 1930, SUBSCRIPTION RA‘ Outside N. New York by mail, $8.00 per year. Ww York, by mail $6.00 per year. _Price 3 3 Cents “WORKERS VOTE TO DEMONSTRATE IN UNION SQ. MAY Ist | WALL ST. BOSSES UNITE WITH GREEN IN FIGHT ON 7,000,000 UNEMPLOYED The Journal of Commerce; calls on the big bosses to take notice of Green’s warning that | the unemployed masses under the leadership of the National Executive Committee of 35, elected | by the First Preliminary National Conference on Unemployment, are! determined in their fight for full- wage unemployment insurance. Meanwhile, preparations for the mass convention in Chicago, July} all over the country, are going ahead. The goal is 10,000 delegates from the basic industrial cities in every section of the United States. big bosses, and the American Fed- eration of Labor are lining up for |. the Wagner bill, which has been passed on favorably by the Senate | commerce committee. Wagner, a close pal of Walker and Whalen, whose policy for the unemployed is “blackjacks and breadlines,” writes | this’ policy into the Wagner bill) which is received so favorably by! An ex- | the Wall Street senators. (Continued on Page Five) FARM WORKERS } JARE ORGANIZING Hold Meets in Calif. Cities WALNUT GROVE, Calif., April 4. | —Over 50 agricultural workers: at- | thou ands of members secre: " | ‘0 the | tended a meeting of the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial League, held | March 26. Many workers signed | membership applications. J.€. Mil- | ler spoke in English and C. Campo- sine, one of the Filipino dialects. Wage cuts have been handed out to the agricultural workers here. paragus cutters in 1929 received $1.15 per 100 pounds, now $1 and less; thinning and hoeing sugar beets, 1929: $7 per acre, now $6 per acre. The hourly wages have been sut from 40 cents to 5 cents and less. The workers are talking strike. * * * : STOCKTON, Calif., April 4.—A | \Foint Trade Union Unity League and gricultural Workers Industrial ion was held with over 300 attend- | ing. Over 2,000 leaflets had been distributed. Many Filipino, Mexican | ard American workers attended. Unemployment is very severe. The workers say “something must be done, wwe are starving.” The T. U. U. L. unemployed council is on the job. PREPARING A BOSS WAR. SACRAMENTO, Cal—All details | of the United States Army Air Corps tock part in mock war maneu- vers over northern California. Today in History of the Workers _ April 5, trek Bisitee Danton and Camille Desmoulins, early leaders in French Revolution, ex- ecuted at Paris, 1919—Soviet gov- ernment temporarily established in Bavaria, Ger. 1920—7 I.W.W. members sentenced to 25 to 46 years in prison for defending their headquarters from .attack .by American Legion at Centralia, Wash. 1924—Cotton mill workers at Cawnpore, India, struck for wages and bonus; three killed, 10 injured by police. 1924—-Commu- nist Party and Co-operatives sup- pressed in Bulgaria. 1927—Con- viction of Sacco and Vanzetti up- held by Massachusetts supreme court. As- | The united front of the big bo: tion of Labor, xnd the social-fascists in the “socialist” party | against the 7,000,000 unemployed and their demand for “work | among the i imp’ or wages,” is made especially clear by the main editorial in | outstanding is that between British | American imperialists, today issued land American imperialism. The capi-| an order to arrest and punish Yen | (le press is strangely silent on the | Hsi- shan, the henchman of the Jap- | of naval arms anese and British a of British and United States capi-| China, and the leader of the Anti- { | | 1 |to jail. Jobless Committee Pushes Plans for 10,000 Delegates to July 4 Meet | Unemployed Worker Steals Milk for Starving | | Children; Jailed 's, the American Federa- | the Journal of Commerce, leading W: jal Stre Street organ, yesterday. TRIAL OF 5 NEARS; 5 PROTESTS GROW Release Demanded of | Committee of 110,000 As the day of t trial of the five wages” prote: ork or numerous for closer stration draws lagainst the railroading by the bosses | ‘London Meet 'IRHT SHARPENS To Push Distribution of 567 ELECTED DELEGATES BETWEENCHIANG “Dazly” in Steel, Auto, EFRON SHOPS AND WORKERS ANDYENINCHINA eabber, Mine Industries CROUPS PLAN MASS STRIKE Sinks; “Pact” Hits the Rocks LONDON, April 4.—That the ri- valries between the bandit imperial- | ist powers at London long ago wreck- | Typerial Antagonism Cleveland District “Mobilizes “for Determined ed the Five-Power given another striking proof today by the announceemnt of the Italian conference was delegation in brusque terms that no} security pact” if Italian imperialism | |aments equal to the 750,000 tonnage | 'demanded by the French. | question of “parity” \talism. Why is this? Didn’t Mac- agreement can be reached under the Yen’s 3 This rift is but one of the many | Widens Between U.S., Japan, Britain Heavy Taxes SHANGHAI, April 4.—The State erialist robbers. Most | Council at Nanking, the tool of the imperialists in Nanking campaign. This order is! |Donald and Hoover tell the world the formal opening of hostilities by jafter their Rapidan jeverything was lovely? fiesta that | | Nanking against its militarist rival The stark | and is the culmination of a confli |fact is that the sharpening antagon- | between lisms between these bandit powers! groups which has been going on the different militarist | have made it impossible for them to | since the conclusion of the last mili- jtalk any form of agreement on arms. | | tarist war last December. The only point on the agenda, and | the one they find most difficult, is | to dissolve the already smashed con- | was in reality accomplished. |this they will not be able to do. Just a few weeks ago, one of the | The frequent occurrence of mili- tarist wars in China which are pre- liminary skirmishes of the coming 4th, of unemployed workers from | delegates elected by the 110,000 New |ference in such a manner as to make | imperialist war, represents the in- York workers at the March 6 demon-|th> masses believe that something | tensification of antagonisms be- Even | tween the British, Japanese and| | American imperialists, . Pires Yen Hsi-shan, the leader of the) courts of these heroic fighters for) Wall Street delegates said that they | anti-Nanking campaign, formally the demands of the 7,000,000 unem- | would “sit in London till they settle.” | assured the imperialist masters in ire | Hy Dee ere net |. (ployed fldod into. the of i pat Daily Worker and the International | WASHINGTON, April 4.—The 73). Derens judicial machinery pril 11 to railroad Foster, Minor, Amter, Lesten and )Raymond to jail for the crime of fighting for the right to present the demands of the unemployed workers to the capitalist govern- {ment, Whalen several days ago told his bosses in the New York State Chamber of Commerce that the unemployed leaders must be sent tack on the 7,000,000 unemployed. “We protest against the arrest of stration,” reads a resolution p: by 100 members of the non-p Workers’ School No. 8, Bronx. “We also protest against the Court of Special Sessions for the judgement | against the parents and children} who took part in the demonstration | of March 6.” A resolution passed by 21 work- ing-class organizations, representing “We pledge our support (Continued on Page Five) |Military Parade Today | Will Be Used to Whip Up New War Hysteria Tomorrow marks the 13th anni- versary of the entry of the United States into the last imperialist world war, Today this event will be jutilized by the capitalist govern- |ment to whip up a war hysteria for | the next scramble for world markets and annexations. The pay-triotic wage cutters and military men sill stage a jingoistic parade up Fifth Ave. to be reviewed by Gen. Hanson E. Ely, commandant of the second corps of the army and the labor- |hating Mayor Walker. The parade |will be escorted by the same mounted police who rode down men, women and children in the March 6 “Work or Wages” demonstration. BURLAK SAFE AFTER KIDNAP. The National Textile Workers Union received a telegram late yes- terday that Anna Burlak, union or- ganizer in Greenville, South Caro- lina, was safe. After being kid- napped in Seneca, S.C., where she went down to organize the workers who received a wage cut. But de- tails are unknown as yet. | He openly showed that the | attack on the five leaders is an at- | tative sailing arrangements have °s of | Now they hum a different tune. Ten- | China of his loyalty yesterday morning by delivering a personal [been made for April 22, with even | communication through a special peper results further from accom- plishment than a week before the | opening of the race-for-arms meet. Only one point of agreement has been achieved, and on that point the im- |perialist bandits had little. differ- jences before the London meet—im- perialist war against the growing |suecess of the Soviet Union in build- jing Socialism under the Five-Year | Plan. FIGHTS ATTACKS [Landlords Fe Fear Open| Air Meetings Angered at the growing | League, ja ha attracted workers, Last Saturday a new and more | vicious attack was launched against | | the growing tenants’ movement when the landlord-capitalist robbers sent drunken hoodlums and thugs to break up the meeting. The meeting was held on the corner of Second Ave. and 76th St. and had proceeded for about an hour and a half when the attack began about 10 o’clock. A drunken thug rushed the platform while Albert Glassford, a .Negro fellow-tenant’ was speaking. The speaker mounted the platform again and continued while the workers and tenants held the thug and hustled him out of the crowd. The hoodlum returned a few min- crowds of | large manded a permit and tried to stop the meeting. They left. Again the hoodlums returned, | this time in full force, "about 200 | strong. They rushed the platform, | throwing the speaker to the ground. were outnumbered. The Yorkville Tenants’ League | will hold its next open-air meeting Saturday, April 5, at 8 o’clock, at Every class-conscious tenant and worker should attend, determined to struggle for the right of the streets. GRAFT ON Longshoreman THE DOCKS Hits Misleaders By HARRY GANNES. “Over at the Cunard Line the longshoremen have to pay graft .in order to get a job,” said one of the men who has worked on the job, and himself paid the heavy graft required. He is not working there now. “In order to get work unloading baggage from the ‘pas- three months, $100 every. ¢ Tlie “Tf ia workers complain to the business agents of the International |Longshoremen’s Association, they ‘get beat up. These guys aren’t business agents; sluggers.”” Another longshoreman who worked at Pier 14 told about the speed-up and increasing dangers of the work. | League, “They overload the trucks,” he said. “Make the wor like mules. i (Continued on Page Five) The tenants resisted bravely, but} the corner of 81st St. and First Ave. | they’re company | 1 } | mass | the support of the Yorkville Tenants’ | Nanking is imposing upon the j&pu- landlords and storekeepers | lace. have attempted to break up open-| that every peasant in this region meetings of the league which} | possesses eBay. foremen continually holler at | | taxi representative to the different for- eign legations in Peking. Yen guarantees to protect foreigners in his territory and begs the imperial- ists not to help his rival. An anti-Nanking Chinese news- | paper published in Tientsin yester- | day exposes many corruptions and oppressive measures practiced by the Nanking government. It re- eals that land taxes for ten years |ahead have been forcibly collected TENANTS LEAGUE. the leaders of the March 6 demon- | in many .places by the Nanking ‘overnment. * * * An Associated .Press Shanghai despatch yesterday quotes a state- ment from an American missionary, Bishop Huntington, which confirms | the exposure made by the Chinese press. He said: “The bandit scourge which is gripping the Yangtze Val- | |ley and Southern China is traceable to the unprecedented heavy taxes Nationalist Government at The missionary also testifies WHALEN “FIRES” 60 TAXI DRIVERS: They Reliaad to Don! Police Caps Chief Cossack Whalen has sus- pended 60 taxicab drivers for refusal to wear his fascist uniforms. The drivers were called Deputy Commissioner Felix Mul- \doon of the Police Department in| hea letavs with alieaiica who a | charge of the Hack Bureau, were ¥ iy bd eae ‘0 ee- | placed under inspection and ordered to wear the uniform cap and coat specified by Whalen. They refused and their license from them Whalen thus continues his attacks on the drivers who refuse to be made a part of his clubbing and blackjacking machine. This is part of Whalen’s general attack on work- ing-class crganizations. Marine League Headquarters The sign reads: “Join! Line up ! for a fighting Marine Workers | League!” The national headquar- the Marine Workers 140 Broad St., corner Broad and South Sts., New York City. It is here where the Na- tional Convention of the M.W.L. will be held, April 26-27, ters of Arrest Ordered | jis not permitted to build war arm | Admit Peasants Fight before | was taken away Drive for Mass Circulation | “Daily Worker Must Become Mighty Instru- ment in Basie Industries” BULLETIN. In New York, this Sunday will be Red Sunday for the Daily Worker, in the drive for a mass circulation. Every Party member must participate in this campaign to build the official organ of the Communist Party, Roll calls will be taken. Here are :the head- quarters for Red Sunday: Section 1, 27 E. 4th St.; Section 3, 1179 Broadway; Section 7, 136 15th St., Brooklyn; Section 8, 105 Thatford Ave., Brooklyn. ° j Full mobilization of the Party in the Cleveland District to attain | its quota of 900 new subscribers, 1,200 in new bundle orders, and $800 to finance the can n is promis ed by J. Adams, ce organizer. “As in other d ts,” says Comrade Adams, “we find heré that | se Daily Worker has very little contact with the goes in the big | ~~ -jindustries. In the mining territory, | “Daily” Sold in South 1) ;in Youngstown and Warren stee mills, in the Akron rubber ie | try, in the Toledo auto industry, and in the many big shops in Cleveland, the Daily Workers must gain thou- | | sands of new readers. “This steady application of fac- tory gate distribution and sales, getting new readers by workers at their homes, build the party, will secure con- tacts for us in the shops for the building of shop nuclei, and will help to establish the leadership of the Party among the workers in shop, mine and mill.” With every district doing its share | it will not be difficult to attain the | goal of the drive which is: to se- ‘ | cure within two months, from April 1st to June Ist, 10,000 additional | Daily Worker. mail subscribers, 20,000 additional copies a day in} | bundle orders, $15,000 in contribu- | tions from workers’ organizations jand sympathizers to finance the | |mass circulation, and ultimately | within six months from April 1st to push the circulation up to 60,000 new readers. Cleveland Promises Intensive Drive. “We greet the campaign ini- tiated by the Central Committee,” says the Cleveland District Or- ganizer, “to build the Daily Worker into a powerful mass or- gan of the working class. “The Daily Worker must be- come a mighty instrument of the daily struggles of the workers in the basic industries. As in the membership drive, in this cam- paign for the Daily Worker, the Cleveland District pledges itself to work with real revolutionary determination and enthusiasm.” FIRE ON INDIA RR, STRIKERS Thirty Injured i in Mass | Demonstration | Elbert Totherow, fiery Southern | mill hand who fought in many ' battles for his class against South- | ern mill owners and was kidnapped and beaten by mill thugs, knows the tremendous importance of the “Daily Worker.” Picture shows Totherow helping the “Daily Worker” circulation. PRAVDA SAYS U.S. STRUGGLES GROW Follow Campaign With | Revolutionary Interest: Associated Press dispatches from Moscow quote Pravda as saying that | March 6 showed the growing radi- calization of the American mass | “The creation of a strong m Communist Party in the United | States,’ Pravda is quoted as saying, “will be the result of economic bat- [tles and the conversion of the revo- lutionary trade unions, whose mem- |bers now number from 40,000 to 50,000 into mass-trade unions, num- !bering hundreds of thousands. | | “The Party has already taken | steps for converting May I into a ne BOMBAY, India, April 4 today fired into a crowd of |day of strikes and demonstrations India railway men, injuring 30. involving mobilization of the masses. Over ‘2,000 strikers organized a | All sections of the Communist Inter- ™8ss demonstration and were march- | | national will follow with deep revo-|iM on the Victoria Terminal of the |lutionary interest the results of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. |caipaign started by the American Railway offi shut the ; brother pa nly.” against them. The police were sent | ec for and the strikers resisted the SECTION AND UNIT INDUS- brutal attacks of the imperialist po- TRIAL ORGANIZERS M¥ |lice. Without any warning the po- A very important meeting of ‘the Section and Unit industrial organ- izers will consider a very important ‘trade union problem Saturday, April 5, 1930, at 2 p. m. sharp, at the! manding better working conditions | Work Center, 26-28 Union Sq. | rie ‘ 3 land have been in numerous clashes | All Section and Unit Industrial | with the Bri controlled police. | Organizers must be on time. | emeeintn) Industrial Dept., District 2, Commvnist Party, U.S.A. {lice fired into the mass of strike The strike on the Great Indian |Peninsular Railway has been goin on for some time, the workers de- Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspendent. | | Will Proceed to Union Square at 11:00 a. m. in Organized Fashion Shop Committees to Mobilize Workers for Strike; Form Defense Corps Amidst tremendous enthusiasm of the delegates from 567 working class organizations, shops and unemployed councils, and the workers who packed Manhattan Lyceum last night, at a conference to prepare for May Day it was unanimou decided that despite all the fascist preparations of the boss _ MINERS STRIKE York will demonstrate in Union Square on May Ist at 11:00 o'clock a. m. Of the 7 duly gates from work ete., 98 were direc accredited d National Miners Union representing large masses of wor ers 22 were from nemploye¢ 1 Organizer Active | Councils in all parts of the ci ey The delegates decided that MADISONVILLE, Ky., April 4— Three hundred miners of the Provi-| izations will proceed to Union dence Coal Mining Co. and the Mea-| Square on May ist in an organized dor, Young & Holt Co. in Webster | fashion. Shop committees will be County, went an strike Thursday | organized for the calling of strikes when the bosses refused to pay the | for May Day. These shop commit- |1917 scale. This brings the number tees will be the basis for strugg! of miners striking against wage in the shops and among the uner cuts and bad working conditions in| ployed workers. Strikes will be | the western Kentucky coal fields to} called, not only by the Trade Union |2,000. The National Miners Union | Unity League unions, but among the has an organizer in the field. workers in the A. F. of L. The dele- TO SHOE WORKERS ers m the ‘shops and org defense ganizations Loud cheering and singing lasting for many minutes greeted this recommendation of the committee on plans for May Day. | “The answer of the italist — class to the demonstration fo: 28 Members Get 30-Day| Werk o: Wases lon’ Marsh, 8th, which was participated in by over 50,000 workers in this country, guns, clubs, tear-gas bombs. will not prevent the American workers from going on with their fight,” said I; Amter, speaking for the Communist Party of New York. “This May Day. preparing the mass will see the hugest May onstration ever witnessed | United State “The Ame n workers wil demonstrate for their partial diate demands, and for the fir overthrow of the rotten, ca | system. Terms Pointing out that 28 of its mem- bers have been railroaded to prison for thirty days, under the infamous section 600, for their strike acti ities, the Independent Shoe Workers | | Union issues an appeal to all shoe workers to organize to fight the bosses attacks. The appeal signed by F. G. Biedenkapp, says: “On April 1, 28 of our staunchest fighters and defenders of the In- dependent Shoe Workers Union were railroaded to prison for 30 days un- {der section 600 which is a vicious | capitalist law purposely enacted to REE deprive the workers of every right | tin sick and tired ¢ and opportunity to protect their jobs | j¢."and breadlines and their lives, a sentence which is) 799,999. unemployed A |the climax to the issuing of injune- tight tor their needs Pera oP! tions by capitalist judges in capi- our years ago, in 1886, talist courts in the support of the eepapate get |bosses program of union smashing,| ctiuggle for the eight-hour day. |wage reductions, speed up systems | That has not yet been accomplished. land the general worsening of work- lteday the ashe ale warleck ace ing class conditions. LUA at rt vi Hoes today in jail have been on the picket ay five-day we beta ite line for more than 6 months mili- TeMalist A 9 tantly fighting and defying every Union and for the tine capitalist order and police clubs. oy tye on, |Many of their families are in great “'q),< need and looking to us for help and! prope ys bread. Dey tis er, again overthrow s the duty of every shoe work- d or unorganized to im- come to the support of a financial way. Independent, Shoe Workers vith the T.U,U.L. is continuing its fight against the pen shops, wage reductions and speed up and calls upon every shoe worker, man or woman, regardless f race, color or creed to join its | ranks and help in the militant strug- | gle for the union shops.” z xuz org: kers in The Union affi ousands of w York will take part in this demonstration.” , of the Needle Ty Workers Industrial on, was ele ed chairman of the conference rade Milton, a Negro work a elected vice-chairman, and Comrade Hope, Negro representative of the tose Wortis TAA ty Mets American, Negro Labor Congress, A SLUGGERS’ COLLEGE. | Was elected secretary, WASHINGTON, D. C.—A bill in- | arp class battles, with the | troduced in the house proposes the workers coming out into jestablishment of a “police college.” for the strike will cha ms ith the Young Workers. aan ris Field of! Sports. Page 3. Worker Exposes i Worke Correspondence Fea-, tures 3 and 4, Pravda Lams Poincare’s War Move. Page 5. (Ey @ liblae Worker) A burlesque show. Twenty maids, rouged, lipsticked, cigarettes poised | The-Si cance of the Meerut in their mouths, with one husky man Trial. Page 6. [among them. This is Heywood The Pe Colleague of Musso- Broun’s office, the petty-bourgeois lini, vrage jeolumnist of the New York Tele- DAY. gram. You're hungry and weary Significan& of Revolutionary | when you walk up to this fashionable Songs. . 120 West 58th St. The lackeys of Class Agaémst Class in the , | the building smile. South. “Our Auswér to Holy Crusade.” | down. \ And when you are finally | BROUN FOR WAGE-CUTS It amuses them/ away a $35 a week worker and re-/ to watch the unemployed ride up and! place him with a $20 a week one. id Rose Wort Give a Job” Bunk Pp. up and waiting for the job, this big man has no time for you. He is istrict ‘ore izer busy with his little fiancee. And | Young © Com g¢ The about unemployment, about jobs for you—he doesn't know. Daily Worker, spoke on the role of Mr. Broun claims that Foster pa- |The Daily W in th s strug: rades and he offers jobs. He is} gle and in organizing fo e mass cheating himself, or maybe he is cheated. He does not provide jobs. He may help some employers to send demonstrations on May Day. (Continued on Page Five) FRUITS OF PLOITATION, Macy’s reports more than $7,000,- 000 profit this year. (Continued on Page Five) ‘ y