The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1930, Page 1

,] For The Bankers and Whalen Are Arranging a Ban- quet May 6 at Which Their War Plans Against the Workers Will Be Celebrated. The Workers Not Only Must Answer by Strike on May First, But Rally to the National Convention in Chicago on July Fourth. Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Fight, on Fascism. Gino Mazzolo, an Italian worker opposed to fascism, is dead. was, incidentally a disabled veteran of the imperialist world war. U. S. Immigration Inspector Vincente Piaggio, tried to an Borghi, who was at the moment speaking a; st th ernment at a meeting in Cooper Union on Sund: —into the hands of Mussolini’s bloody “Supreme Tribunal.” Concerning this murder by a city detective of an anti-fascist worker, there has naturally been great indignation on the part of all workers, and considerable comment is found in the capitalist pre But a great part of this comment fascists, serves only to becloud the i role of fas ue. own fascisation. The “Italian Chamber of Labor,” as an example of this falsifica- tion of the issue, addresses Congressman LaGuardia, a capitalist poli- tician who has been clever enough to hide his own link with fascism that should be evident enough from his very position as an unprotest- ing collaborator with the government which wants to deport Borghi to Italy and death. Moreover, the “Italian Chamber of Labor” says that instead of the immigration inspector intervening in the middle of the meeting, “The warrant for Borghi could have been served either before or after the meeting.” This is just what the capitalist paper, the N. Y. World, says. It is what the cheap replica of Mussolini, Police Commissioner Whalen, says. In other words, send an anti-fascist to death, but do it quietly Still more, the “Italian Chamber of Labor” y an “investigation.” But of what? Of the “f: of the immigra- tion inspector! As if the bloodhound had no ma: in the capital government of Washington that is closely collaborating with Muss lini’s regime of murder and that fully approves of Piaggio’s “energetic action” as well as the murder of Mazzolo and all similar actions to support Mussolini's fascist rule. That Piaggio may have been paid something by the Italian consul is an incidental matter. He is a blood- hound by trade. This kind of a “protest” is an aid to fascism. But we must re- member that the “Italian Chamber of Labe sort of foreign- language auxilliary to the American Federation of Labor and is quite satisfied with the fascist leadership of the A. F. of which, more than any other one agency, is responsible for the existence of the im- migration “quota” law, which a press correspondent in Washington says “ended the right of political asylum in Amer The “protest” of the “Italian Chamber of Labor” might well have been written by a fascist of the shrewder type, correcting the stupidi- ties of another fascist. Its point of view has certainly nothing to do with that of really anti-fascist work but falls within the category of social-fascism, which deludes the workers with words while it helps fascism in fact. It is a “protest” that is motivated by the sentiment— “The workers are angry and demand action, so we'll have to say some- thing.” Other comment and proposals of the liberals of the Civil Liberties Union are, though perhaps more naively motivated, mere nonsense. Such as a petition for amending the immigration law to admit “bona fide political refugees,” and the comment that an international scandal “would” result “if” the capitalist government of the United States co- operated with Mussolini’s fascist. regime! 7 As though the government has not before co-operated and will not continue to co-operate with fascist murderers of the revolutionary workers not only in Italy but in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and right here in the United States! As though the government “overlooked” political refugees when it passed the immigration act! As though it does not welcome “bona fide” Russian white guard refugees while it hounds to death any bona fide revolutionary worker! From the offices of the same Department of Labor in Washington that issues warrants against foreign-born workers, a “labor concillia- tor,” Mr. Wood, officially orders bosses to blacklist revolutionary work- ers and advocates violence against Communists, thus showing, along with many other developments, the fascisation of the United States government itself. With all this noise of “protest” at the murdey of the wogker, yet five workers are held in jail for “assault” on the im- migration inspector, who is free as the wind! No illusions about the governmental watchdogs of capitalism! No hiding a support to fascism behind fake “opposition!” Build the Anti- Fascist Alliance on the basis of proletarian revolutionary struggle! “Tf the Reds Get Control” “If the Reds can get control of the labor movement the rest will be easy for them.” said Joe Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and Vicinity last Sunday in a sermon to the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Ryan is already known to the workers of New York, and he should be known throughout the country as the fascist police tool and strikebreaker who has recently taken several public opportunities to egg on the police to violent suppression of the 700,000 unemployed workers—many of them members of the A. F. of L. unions—in New York City. Ryan is right. If the genuine workers’ organizations succeed in establishing themselves upon a firm class struggle basis under real working class (Communist) leadership—“the rest will be easy” in at least a relative sense. Mr. Ryan and his bosses, of course, know that what the Commu- nist Party is fighting for is simply and solely the victory of the work- ing class and the consequent freedom of the working class after the abolition of capitalist rule, and Ryan is perfectly correct in saying that this victory is assured as soon as the workers’ own forces of leadership, the most self-sacrificing, intelligent and conscious members of our class organized in the mass Communist Party, are placed by the workers in leadership of the decisive masses organized in the revolution- ary trade unions. And Ryan is right again when he says: “that they are making progress among the unemployed is evident. . . .” In fact Mr. Ryan's anxiety is based upon precisely the fact that during the past few weeks, especially on March 6, the masses of workers of New York and nearly every other city have seen under a glaring light the truth of the fact that the American Federation of Labor and the socialist party bureaucracy are playing a fascist role against the working class, whilst the Communist Party, together with the Trade Union Unity League and the revolutionary trade unions affiliated to the League, constitute the only force that is fighting on behalf of the workers employed and unemployed. Joe Ryan and his like are now trembling with fear of the destruc- tion of their “racket” of fascist strikebreaking for the bosses which bears the label of “A. F. of L.” : Cn ee Still bigger mass demonstrations of employed and unemployed workers will take place on May 1. Ryan and his bosses are sick with the remorseful knowledge that the May Day demonstrations will bring still more hundreds of thousands of workers consciously to break with their enemies and to unite under the leadership of their own class party, the Communist Party. William Green, head of the fascist bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., has already publicly admitted that for the American working class no less than for the working class of any other country in the world— nts, even “demand: is 1 Comprodaily New York © He He was shot by a city detective, Lillienthal, when the latter, accompanying st Armando Mussolini gov- varrant was from the Washington government for Borghi’s deportation—and death coming even from supposed anti- The issue is the international sm and more particularly the alliance of the capitalist gov- ernment of the United States with Italian and other fascisms—and its _\Mass Protests Friday) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1930 “SOLUTIONS” OF Marks Growth of a_ TOFIGHT MURDER UNEMPLOYMENT Mass Communist Party Hope to Use Starving | As Seabs; T.U.U-L. | Calls to Organize — Three Days of Confe Rush Plans for July 4) Convention of 10,000 | After complete failure of the: Hoover “building program” to al- leviate the unemployment situation, | the capitalist agencies working to lull the hungry men on the streets into starving peacefully, are now resorting to “golden rule” stories. | | The latest is a syndicated story about the Ivory Soap factory at Cincinnati, which boasts that it has solved the whole problem by sim- ply dividing the amount of soap needed during the year into a given | amount to manufacture every month, and thus “assuring the work- of steady employment.” But s fake step cannot stop the growth of unemployment and will hit the workers on the job by creating excuses for wage Even Proctor has to say, any applicants come to our em- of the Communist Party of U. the various districts all over the c of October, 1929, the outburst of e unemployment, the growing radi of a hundred-fold concentration u tions—above all the revolutionary as well as against “leftist” secta: solve all these problems. First of these was the preparation was laid down: the mass political ployment office every day, but , there are few vacancies.” Three hundred jobless men, | starved to the point where they | (Continued. on Page Two) Held from March 31 to April 4 in New York City; 132 Attend Sessions rences Before Plenum Discussed Many Problems From March 31 to April 4, the Plenum of the Central Committee A. met in New York City with the participation of 35 members, 10 candidates, and 87 functionaries from ountry. The Plenum registered the developments since the previous Plenum cconomic crisis which marked a turn- ing point in American imperialist development, the growth of mass icalization of the workers and the growing revolutionary upsurge shown in the demonstration on March 6 which marked the opening of a new period in the growth of the Com- munist Party into a mass party of the American workers. The Plenum of the Central Committee faced squarely the new tasks imposed upon the Party by the new situation, especially the task pon the building of mass organiza- trade unions. It completed the uni- fication of the Party, already registered by the October Plenum, the final liquidation of the organized opportunist cliques and groups, and the thorough mobilization of the Party for the struggle against oppor- tunism in practice, the principal form of the Right danger at present, rianism. It concentrated the atten- tion of the Party upon the concrete measures necessary to meet and Before the opening of the plenum, three days of conferences were spent in the solution of certain political and organizational problems. for May Day. In this the main line strike, the development of the tradi- tional character of the revolutionary workers’ day, especially center- ing upon the demands of the working class on unemployment and the development of this May Day as an extension, on a bigger and higher scale, of the mass movement of March 6. on Page Three) (Continued | ) F00 LERKS AT ||Mass Protest Meet} Against Railroading | MANY SHOPS WIN of Jobless Committee | Tonight, Wed., April 9, at 8| ee ae 7 p. m., the workers of this city | Judges Still Trying to} | wit protest against the attempt | . . = and intentions of the capitalists Jail All Pickets | of the city to railroad the Unem- eo | | ployed Delegation to jail. The | Four members of the Food Clerks || meeting will be held at Central Industrial Union (Eocal-¥2) held for || Opera House, 7th St. and Third \picketing at Millers Market, were|| Ave. under the auspices of the up yesterday in 161st St. court be-| | Communist Party. | fore Judge Durass. Attorney Buit- The bankers of Wall Street, | enkant was in a different court, ard || through the administration of | the defendants asked for adjourn-| | Walker-Whalen, are determined | ment. to put behind the bars Foster, The judge gave concent, but raised | | Amter, Minor, Leston and Ray- | | bail which was previously $1,000! | mond for the March 6th demon- | each, to $2,000, This is the justice | | stration and for making an effort | for the pickets. The union still con-| | to present the demands of the un- tinues the organization drive and| | employed to the city administra- |the following shops were won during | | tion. | the week: The answer to this must be the In Brooklyn: Myerson’s fruit} | continued agitation and organ- market, 511 Brighton Beach Ave. | | ization of the workers in the shops (This is his main store). B. Levin-| | for militant action. Foster, Minor json, fruit market, 281 Brighton| | and Amter will speak. Beach Ave. Kapelman’s fruit mar- ‘ket (five different stores), at 4516 |Fort Hamilton Parkway, 4512 18th Ave., 14 Avenue O, and 98th St. and Barrett. | In Bronx: H. Cohn, 747 East} OBLE 180th St.; Greenstein and Chumsky, | 758 E 180th St.; Reich and} Mohel, 268 Cypress Ave.; and the} * M. and M. fruit market, 967 E.|/Refuse to Pay Fine; 174th St. Union conditions were established | Suspend Sentences | in all these stores. | NEWARK, N. J., April 8.—Dom- There will be a trial of two pick-|, NEWARK, N. ‘ jets in Jefferson Market court today. | Mick Flaini, section organizer of the Communist Party, was given a sus- | They are cases which Jud, i Hi Rvetdirenastaleoa ity Gobelteb | ended sentence of $50 or 6 months jhad before him in 161st St. Court, pao on Ay AG reacts Count | rndge: Howe tere yesterday? and | but did not have time to finish there} pended wentancesvotaes lor 1iiee jand hauled with hi v1 Ri vomenner Scuepnces, ig ie aE ee months, were handed out to three |ferson Market to make sure they aid setae ki icin tenons Negro workers and three white tae ee pees eres workers tried with him. All had j been arrested at an unemployment 2 + |noon-day meeting before the West- 0. K. SLAVE PLAN. |inghouse factory gates recently. BRUSSELS, April 8—The Young| All refused to pay the fine, and Plan was ratified yesterday by the! were released with the jail sentences Belgian senate by a vote of 109) to 1. | BELGIUM BOSSES flicted whenever the judge wishes. task of organizing the unorganized millions, employed and unem- ployed—to build unemployed councils, to build the new revolutionary unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. Yes, when the Reds “get control of the labor movement” the vic- tory of the working class over the capitalist system and all of its strike-breaking fascist vermin will be assured. It will not be “easy.” The class struggle is never easy, but always the bitterest, most difficult process; but the working class, when or- ganized under its own control and led by its own revolutionary class party, will hold the future in its hands. WRITES ON RELIGION Urges Building ‘Daily Worker’ M. J. Patrick, of Lakewood, Ohio, | writes us a letter, from which we | print the following: | (Editorial Note: It is the capital- “For years I have been buying | ist class, which for its own interest | your newspaper and like it. But) attempta to divide the working class there is one thing I wish to call|on religious issues. They are en- | the largest newspaper in America. * 8 * hanging over their heads, to be in-| the revolutionary movement to overthrow wage-slavery is on the way to take over the leadership. For every conscious worker the admissions of these fascist enemies of the working class can only be encouragement to push ahead more energetically than ever before—to win the majority of the working class of the United States to the support of their own working class cause. Let the snarls of the Ryans and the Greens, the Thomases, Hillauits and Mustes, spur every conscious worker on to the great your attention to—if you are out for workers, why do you mix in religion? Every man and woman | has the right to believe in god or ‘not.... Every working man and wo- 'man should read the Daily Worker, if they want the truth of the news. We need tg make the Daily Worker deavoring to stir up war hatred against the Soviet Union on religi- ous grounds. We do not want reli- gion to keep the workers out of the | Tanks of the revolutionary working class, at the same time we point out to the workers that throughout all i! (Continued on Page Three) ‘YOUTH MAY DAY "CONFERENCE FRL ‘Young Workers Ready for May First To mobilize the young workers ifor the mass May Day demonstra- | tion, a special Youth Conference has been called for Friday, April 11, at 8 p. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, | 66 E. 4th St. | A statement issued by the Young | Communist League, New York Dis- | trict, declares: “The young workers are among working class. They are given the hardest and dirtiest jobs for the | PLOTIN SOUTH Georgia Court Trying to Railroad Powers, Carr to Death Week of Mass Protest ‘Other Organizers Get Savage Sentences The International Labor Defense yesterday issued the following state- ment asking workers to come im- mediately to the defense of Com- munist organizers in Georgia, now being railroaded to the death pen- alty in an attempt of the southern mill owners to exterminate all those | who interfere with profits: “The latest attempt of capitalist | class justice at Atlanta, Ga., to rail- road M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, District Organizers of the Commu- , ‘nist Party and the Young Commu: nist League, respectively, to the electric chair or to 20 years’ prison sentences, is the answer of the em- ployers’ government of the South to the increased activity of the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary trade unions, in the work of organ- izing the Negro and white workers, which is the real cause for the ar- | rest on March 9th. On April 4th the county grand jury indicted them for insurrection jagainst the state of Georgia. The |prosecuting attorney stated that { they would be rearrested on this new charge and held without bail. | “This legalized boss terrorism not only prevails in Atlanta, Ga., but it is taking place throughout the | (Continued on Page Three) GREAT PARADE | ~-OF FUR WORKERS: /Denounce Unemploy- /ment All Over Market | Carrying placards and pausing to make speeches, denouncing the star- vation and low-wage plans the |i the most exploited section of the | bosses and the company union have | ‘for them, 3,000 employed and un- lemployed fur workers marched all FINAL CITY EDITION Build ‘Daily’ | coma | BULLETIN, A meeting of the Daily Worker committee for the May Day con- ference will be held Thursday eve- ning, April 10th, at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, 8 o'clock A program for the New York District, in the mass circulation drive will be taken up and plans worked out to reach the quota as- signed. | TEBIRSun Ett pessimism of some members who have been in the Communist Party much longer, a worker who has been in the ranks only a few v shows how to go over the goal of 30,000 new read- ers by June 1st in the drive for a mass circulation for the Daily Worker. Here’s how it’s done: “Tam anxious, as a Daily Worker Agent, to give my report and relate my impressions of the first Red Sunday Campaign for our press or- gan. . “He distributed the 300 Dailies 20 comrades, The last 6—8 who came later had no papers to go out with. I and another comrade were lucky to get hold of 12 Dailies. “I’m a Party member only a few weeks. This was my first work. So I was a little nervous. My part- ner was an old Party member, but it was the first time, he said, he jwas doing this kind of work. He was very pessimistic. He pre- (Continued on Page Three) ‘STRIKE OF 40,000 LOOMS IN BRITAIN McDonald Aids Bosses in Wage-Cutting LONDON, Aprii 8.—Delegates representing 40,000 British woolen workers met today on the question of calling a strike against the wage leuts proposed by the Bradford Mill | Owners, and backed by the Mac- Donald “labor” government. Originally the mill owners tried |to fasten a ten per cent wage cut | against the workers. The workers | voted against any wage cuts. The MacDonald government ap- pointed a commission to “study the question.” This commission recom- he had to the firs wages as low as $10-$11 a week. jover the fur market yesterday aft-| jonded a five per cent wage cut, We are forced to work 10-11 and even more hours daily because we are young workers. We are being bosses so that we should |more profits for them. We become sick because of this speed-up. We make enough to support ourselves. | “We call on all young workers to EEE preparations,” KENTUCKY MINE _ STRIKE GROWING Lewis Loses Round in His Court Fight HENDERSON, Ky., April 8— | Over 2,000 coal miners striking here | are listening to the National Miners _ Union members“who urged them to stand fast and spread the strike. which the United Mine Workers sends its officials into the territory to try. and wheedle the men back. The strike is for the 1917 scale, and against unemployment. * 2 8 SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 8.—- ‘John L. Lewis of the Indianapolis United Mine Workers, after the sizable treasury of the Illinois di trict when he tried to revoke its participate and take part in the May | ernoon at the call of the Indus- j trial Union. | The parade started from the || tremendously speeded up by our| Needle Trades Workers Industrial 49 create | Union headquarters at 131 W. 28th | |St, and after circling at will | through the streets lined with fur | SE N T E N CE N. J, are starving because we do not shops, came back when it was ready | ; |to the same point. The entire march lasted over an hour. |CHIANG KAI SHEK MURDERERS SHANGHAI.—One_ student w | killed and another injured when po- lice fired upon a students’ demon- stration here. International Wireless News © eo | BISHOP DENIES HIS DEATH IN | U.S. S. R. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, April 8.—Bishop Pav- lin of Perm, publishes a denial of the report which the press in capi- |talist countries has spread, that he j has been tortured and burned alive. | He declares that, on the contrary, throughout the three years he has occupied the office of Bishop, he has been absolutely unhindered. * ee REPRESSIONS IN ESTHONIA. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | REVAL, Esthonia, April 8.—The Minister of Interior of Esthonia has {prohibited the Workers Party, and which the workers have so far re- | fused to accept, The wage cut threat against the ,000 wool workers is one of a long series which have been sup- ported by the MacDonald outfit. In every attack on the workers | in the coal, textile and other indus- tries, and against the growing army of unemployed, the MacDonald gov- ernment has taken the lead part in unity with the bosses. COPS CLUB 5,000 IN MATZOTH LINE Starving Had Waited 5 Hours for Free Feed A riot call was turned in and 19 police rallied to club away 5,000 un- employed workers who had been waiting five hours before a syna- gogue at 79 Willet St. for free mat- zoth, | Religious members of the firm of | Still and Moss donated some money | to see that whenever else they might |starve, their co-religionists should |get a ritual meal in Passover time. When it was announced that free matzoth would be given out to those who could not buy them, thousands | of starving appeared. The cruelty of the authorities who kept them waiting for hours in the | cold and wind finally provoked them charter last fall, has lost his appeal! mass arrests and searches are being | to try to storm the cellar where the against the injunction which tied his hands. Lewis’ attorneys admitted in the appeal hearings that the Spring- \field funds were an important ob- | jective in the fight on District 12. ? Today in History of the Workers Ea ee April 9, 1648—Insurrection in London, England, against abolition of holidays by parliament. 1919— German National Soviet Congress opened in Berlin with demand for powers equal to those of Reichstag, and sent greetings to Soviet Govern- ments of Russia and Hungary. 1923 —United States Supreme Court de- clared women’s minimum wage law in District of Columbia unconstitu- | tional. 1925—Twenty thousand building trades workers in Ham- burg, Germany, locked ouj. made in Reval. jerackers are given out. Unemployment,*% no organization, and rotten conditions are reported | as the usual thing on the steamship | lines and docks of the South Atlantic |coast by F. E. A. Welsh, Marine Workers League organizer, seaman and delegate to the First Conference on Unemployment recently held in New York, : Welsh reports arriving in Sa- vanah to escape a lynching party ar- ranged for him by stevedore bosses and the chief of detectives in Char- leston, and shipping on the S, 8S, BOSS TERROR ON SHIPS! Negro Organizer Reports Exploitation Somerset of the Merchant and Min- ers Line. He found on the first trip to Jacksonville that the ship carried twelve fires, that she had four fire- men to a watch, of which two acted as coal passers, and each of the others tended six fires, a horrible, man-killing labor. No fires were | cleaned (cleaning fires makes life |easier on the firemen) on the, runs between Savanah and Jacksonville, (Continued on Page Three) ‘; a Genuine, Not a Fake MULTIPLY FAKE Central Comm. Plenum LD CALLS ALL New Member PLAN WORKERS DEFENSE FOR MAY DAY STRIKE \Expose Fascist Threat | Against DailyWorker, Worker ‘Organize in the Shops {Call on Workers to Answer Boss Plans Center The bos: are using the f For- eign Wa and an 1 gion as the bloodhounds of the capitalist class in pre ion for the “mass demonstration of the workers decided on for Union Square, 11 a. m., May 1st. info Com “Authentic ation has been furnished the anist. Party,” |says a statement issued by the | trict Committee of the N District of the Communi \“as to the role that th Jerans of Foreign Wars and 4 can Legion will play in the demon- strations against the workers on May Day, the Workers Interna- | tional Day of Struggle. “The Veterans of Foreign Wars, acting as the smokescreen of the po- lice of New York, will openly dem- onstrate in a fascist counter-demon- stration against the workers of New York, employed and unemployed, on May Day, at Union Square. “The fascist American Legion will attempt a raid on the building of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, etc., at 26 Union Square, with the intention of smashing the Daily Worker plant and demolish- ing the District Office of the Par- (Continued on Page Two) ANTLFASCISTS PROTEST SUNDAY Workers Demonstrate Against Murder by Cop All anti-fascist working class forces are rallying to the Interna- tional Labor Defense in a campaign of protest against the murder it Cooper Union last Sunday by a Tammany policeman of Gino Maz- zola, and the nearly fatal shooting of Vellusi. These two workers were attending an anti-fascist meeting, when the crowd defended from ar rest by immigration authorities one of the speakers, A. Borghi. Detec- tive Lilienthal came to the as: - ance of the immigration inspector, Piaggio, and opened fire on the crowd. A. Markoff, secretary of the anti- fascist Federation of America, and Gino di Bartolo will speak for the federation, at the mass meeting Sun- day, April 13, in Manhattan Lyceum. The Communist Party, District 2, has issued a statement pointing tc this murder, the registration foreign born through the census, and the proposals to finger print foreign born workers as evidence of a new campaign of terror against them. The Anti-Fascist Federation yes- terday stated: “Only through mass protest and mass defense organiza- tions can the workers be saved from th2 increased brutality of the capi- talist law.” “We demand and maintain the right of asylum for the refugees) from fascist persecution in other countries,” states the I.L.D. The campaign of the work through the I.L.D. and the Ai Fascist Alliance is in marked con- (Continued on Page Three) Anti-Facsist Play at Communist Affair A mass prologue to “100,000,” an anti-fascist play to be presented by the Workers Laboratory Theatre at the Communist Party’s Red Prison- ers Night at Rockland Palace, April 12, promises to be a unique feature of this affair. Mussolini will receive reports of the social-fascists of the world: Rev. Thomas, Hoan, the For- ward, ete., in this prologue. Today in the Daily 32: Worker The Liberals and March 6th, by Wm. Z. Foster—Page 4. Our German Brother Party—Page of Ruthenberg versus Lovestone— Page 4. Organization of Workers Defense Corps, by C. Clark. TOMORROW, Speed-up, by Solon De Leon. A visit to the Moscow Institute of Fiscal Calas. by, Sol Eybe