The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1930, Page 1

f 1 ! Answer the Railroading to Jail of the Jobless Workers’ Representatives, Fight For Work or Wages, Against Wage Cuts and Speed-Up, For the Defense of the Soviet Union by Mass Political Strike and Huge Dem- onstrations May Ist! Published Company. ti Vol. NIL, No. 341 The Ruling Clas: Will Bai quet Whalen for Clubbing Jobless Workers on March 6--May First May First. In the minds of the most conscious members now this is the dominant thought: May Fir: of the ruling class A little more than a month ago the capitalist class, the owners of the United States, received a tremendous surprise and shock, when they saw for the first time large masses following the leadership of the Communist Party. For the first time they began to realize that which we already knew, that the Communist Party is the “natural” leader of the American workers. On March 6 the angry and puzzled American bourgeoisie wanted the masses of unemployed workers and their com- rades from the shops to be clubbed off the streets and into submission. Police Commissioner Grover A, Whalen, astonished, pale and trembling, undertook to do this and ordered the police cos to ride down and club the 110,000 workers assémbled at Union Square in New York. The police clubbed the workers—but not into submission. Similar events occurred in many American cities, 1,250,000 y altogether participated in the movement on the call of the Commu- nist Party on March 6. Today everybody—not only the workers but also the bi ers and trust magnates—everybody knows that the wor United States will come out on the streets and public squares on May First, unterrorized and stronger, more confident and more politically conscious than ever. A Therefore the minds of all of the leaders of capitalist fixed upon: May First. society are ao oe » The ruling class wants to deprive the workers of the right to the streets and public places on May First. They still believe that it can .be done with the police club and by jailing the committees elected by the unemployed workers. Therefore, as May Day approaches, the big- gest bankers and trust heads are more and more making Grover A. Whalen, their clubbing chief of cossacks, into a “hero.” This is the explanation of Tuesday’s announcement that all of the best known heads of New York’s financial aristocracy are joining together to give Whalen a banquet—on May 6, just two months after the Union Square struggle of March 6 and just five days after May First, when these bankers and trust magnates expect Whalen again to attempt to suppress the workers’ demonstration. a. The workers have said that New York, and the whole of Ame: “democracy” is governed by a dictatorship of the capitalist cla: that Whalen and all other capitalist officials are the mere servants who wield the clubs and blackjacks, and even shoot down the workers rican on the streets, as in the case of Steve Katovis and Gino Mazzola, for | their masters, the capitalists. And who is giving this banquet to express thanks to the chief cos- sack Whalen for clubbing the workers? J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, John D. Rockefeller, Vincent Astor, George F. Baker, Willis Booth of the Merchants’ Association, William H. Woodin of the American Car and Foundry Company (who is said to have initiated the affair), Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Harbord of the Radio Corporation, altogether some 500 of the leading capitalist parasites who live from the robbery of the working class. These are indeed the most representative figures of the capitalist dictatorship of the United States. . Clubbings for the jobless who refuse to starve! Prison for the Unemployed Committee! Wage-cuts for the employed! Merciless exploi- tation and savage repression for the workers, while the capitalists flaunt banquets and salary boosts to their police dogs before the eyes of the workers! We take New York as an example, but the same points apply with only slight variations in every city and industrial center. The capitalist dictatorship in New York has arranged to turn Union Square—the traditional meeting place for the working class on May Day and other occasions—into the hands of several fascigt,oygan- izations on May Day. These fascist organizations constitute only a ‘small band. They are clearly only a cover for the police. Through these fascist bands the police of J. P. Morgan and Co. will attempt to turn May Day into a fascist anti-working class demonstration. Of course, the choice of May First is, as these scoundrels openly admit in the capitalist press, for the purpose of making an anti-May Day demonstration on May Day—a demonstration against the working class. Thev say so themselves. Only last Saturday the official spokesman _of the “World War Veterans” announced that this fascist organization will call its pro-capitalist demonstration the “American Patriotic May Day Rally,” that the occasion will be used to start a “permanent or- ganization composed of Americans who oppose Communistic (i. e., working class) activities,” and that the fascists will place on the streets on May Day a “provost guard” in uniform who will “police” the streets “as a precaution against any outbreak by the Communists’ (i.e. the workers engaged in the working class May Day demon- stration). The fascist spokesman also declared openly that the hour of the fascist demonstration had been changed to an earlier time in order purposely to reach Union Square before eleven o'clock, the hour of the workers’ demonstration. principal speaker Representative Hamilton Fish, himself a classic representative of New York’s bloated financial aristocracy and the author of the bill for the “investigation of Communist activi in tle United States’ (aimed at suppression of working class organizations, with wholesale deportations of foreign-born workers). The fascist or- ganization, in connection with their May Day plans, endorsed the Fish bill. And the fascist spokesman openly admitted that the whole ar- rangement was reached “after conferences were held with Commis- sioner Whalen!” ‘The banquet of Morgan, Rockefeller et al on May 6 is intended to celebrate what the capitalists think will be a victory over the working | class on May First. Of course, the workers will not give up their May Day. More tens of thousands will turn out for the workers’ May Day at Union Square than turned out for the unemployment demonstration on March 6 May Day will be the continuation of the March 6 demonstration and will be another and still more powerful demonstration for the demands for the unemployed. ____The attempt to rob the workers of their historic May Day is an insult and an outrage that the workers will answer with a bigger, more militant, more successful May Day demonstration than they would have had otherwise. They will answer with a strike in the shops, mines, mills, railroads and wherever there are workers who resent the robbery, starvation, misery, persecution and imperialist war from which the workers suffer as a class at the hands of the capitalist class and their government. Strike on May First! Onto the streets in protest! Let the capitalists .and their watchdogs know that the working class will not be either silent or inactive before the attacks and insults of the bosses and their government! Sweep aside all scheming supporters of the bosses who try to cover that support with “proposals” for anything less than a political mass strike! Give warning to capitalism and all its henchmen that the work ers mean to make an en‘ of this system of wage slavery ! Strike on May First! > 4 id | The fascists have selecte1 as their | aily = Entered as sec -class mutter at the Post Office at New York, under the Worker act ef March 3, 1 FINAL CITY EDITION New NEW YORK, THU SDAY, APRIL 10, 1930 r everywhere exc reign countri Price 3 Cents A “May Day in : the “OMIT SMASHING OF ‘FIVE POWER” NAVY ARMS MEET Sign Three-Power' Naval Treaty Today ‘Talk War on Soviets | ‘American Imperialists| Outmaneuver English A so-called agreement was reached today on a three-power na- val pact between the United States, Great Britain and Japan. The “technical details” will be worked out at a meeting today. The agreement, which costs the | powers only their signatures, since lit does not at bottom alter their, material naval construction’ pro- grams, marks the official. collapz« ‘of the five-power naval conference According to figures of the Amer ican naval experts, the United State will spend $1,028,009,000 in the next six years to attain parity with Eng land, This figure covers the cost | of replacements and new construc- | tion which will result in placing the American imperialist navy in a su- perior position to the British navy While British estimates are not yet (Continued on ePaas Three) OEMAND JOBLESS under the Five-Year Plan. The Trade Union Hoitse reads: “First on the side are of bright red ca the working class international day this year will rally at May Day der “Work or Wages,” against wage-c week; against imperialist war and Prepare for May 1 and or Wages.” building councils, helpi Se ele national convention in huge mass demonstrations to accompany strike May 1, are taking place thru- ; out the country. 4 's The unemployed council of Ro- | —— chester held a demonstration Thurs- ‘Mass May Day Strike sav last, week and another Monday at the “contraction bridge | Is Workers Answer links Genessee River with Lake | ae Ave. The meetings were swelled Thousands of workers gathered at ' hy hundreds out of work and apply- Central Opera house last night to ing to the employment office there protest against the bosses attempts fur jobs they did not get, At Mon. to railroad the delegation of five day's meeting armed’ thugs came elected hy 110,000 New York work- Gut to threaten the workers with ‘ers at the mass unemployed demon ¢iubs and tear gas bombs. ration in Union Square, March 6 No uniformed police were present is. the hall. “March 6 showed the American workers are losing their illusions | about democracy. They are moré and more following the leadership of the Communist Party,” said I. Am-|{ | ter, District Organizer of the New} York District of the Communist | | Party, and one 0f the delegation of five being rail aded to jail. “The intende railroading of the committee whic was elected to pre sent the deman| of the unemployed is an attempt to intimidate the workers. The workers will not be intimidated. *Yhey will give their answer to the bosses on May 1. “Tammany Congressman Siroviteh said ‘Commur is knocking at the door of American industry.’ Yes, © with 7,000,000 unemployed starving, with mass wage-cuts handed the) workers, we see the growing mili- taney of the American workers in; their struggle against the bosses and their lickspittle labor lieutenants such as Ryan, Woll and Green, and | the social-fascists in the socialist | party, such as Norman Thomas and! Hilquit.” Tremendous and cheering greeted both Amter and) Robert Minor, another member of} the delegation, whom the Whalen- (Cane iee on! Pays Three) jlong refuses to give them, Ih ECTURE ON N “COMMUNISM i *_ * * AND RELIGION.” 45. YOUNG W J i How the ruling class has always | Pret) ROUNG NORRERS CON Car ane ss i 3 BERLIN STREETS. ised religion will be dealt with by | fe Comrade Norman Tallentire in his | COiierelesss Bul eipracre) lecture at the Workers’ School! BERLIN, April 9.—Fifteen thous Fortm, sand young workers demonstrated 3, at 8 p. here yesterday against the reac- | tionary policy of the Bruening : cabinet, Jack Johnstone will speak at a ie <a | meeting of the-Metal Workers’ In-| Everv new Daily Worker reader dustrial League Friday at 8 P. m.| you get is a potential Party mem- at 13 W. 17th St. j ber. be held at Washington Square to demand the release of the New (Continued'on Page Two) ‘Paterson Mobilizes _ for Strike on May ! PATERSON, N. J.—A city-wid conference for the preparation oi the mass political strike and dem onstration on May 1 is taking place here tonight at 8 p. m. at 205 Pat <erson St. Calls have been issued to the workers in the mills and te 54 organizations to send delegate to form the May Day United Front to mobilize all working class forces in Paterson for May First. International] Wireless News SWISS BUILDERS FOLLOW . LEFT LINE. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | BASLE, Switzerland, April 9— enthusiastic! Fifteen hundred building workers are striking here under leadership of the revolutionary unignists. The | reformist union to which they be- 28 Union Sq., Sunday, April m. i JOHNSTONE TO SPEAK. “A MASS CIRCULATION” Support “Daily Worker” 30,00 000 Drive “Thousands of See ine the | ers, the ideological ae and sub- | | brass, ammunition, textile and | sequently the ability of the work- | other industries in Connecticut and|ers in the struggles increase | western Massachusetts recognize | rapidly, : | ayd support the leadership of the) “Hundreds. of unemployed work- Communist Party in their strug-| ers read the Daily by passing it | gles,” writes Peter Chant, district from hand to hand, The same is organizer of the Connecticut Dis- ‘true of hundreds of workers in the | trict. “Experience has shown that factories, approached by the oom- where these workers had an oppor- rades with the Daily. tunity to read the, Daily Worker. , “Workers in the brass mills of} where the comrades di buted and | Waterbury, for instance, ask each! ‘sod ine Daily Worker to the work-| (Coutinued on Page Three) 4 which | Friday a mass demonstration will . Workers’ Fatherland May Day in the land where ,the workers are building up socialisn banner covering the front of the of May,” and the two other banners ing slogans in French, German English and Russian, greeting the militant workers of the world on lay of struggle. American workers nonstrations to fight for the slogans: uts, for the seven-hour day, five-day « for the defense of the Sovict Union. Jobless Demonstrate. And Organize in Many Cities for N ational Convention —|.-ounted Cop Charges Jobless Longshoremen Meetings and demonstrations of the ainemplived: demanding “Work ing to raise by 50,000 the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League by the time of the great un- Chicago, July 4-5, and preparing for the general mass _ political “EGRO LYNCHED BECAUSE SMILED Didn’t Facets During Passenger’s Complaint | | KANSAS GITY, Mo., April 9.— Two other pullman porters, on the ame train from which John H. Wil- kins was taken and lynched, and who had been eye-witnesses to this dastardly crime, were not permitted , to progeed to Kansas City with their train, but were taken off at Mem- phis and sent back to Birmingham cording to the results of an investi- on carried on by the representa of the International Labor De- nse here. A Negro porter in Kansas City ho declined to give his name but as on the same run as Wilkins, ated that it was the white train that stopped their train ai st Grove and lynched V Other information obtained by the I.L.D. indicates that the pretext for the lynching was that Wilkins could not find a berth for g white woman on the train. Wilkins is reported to have tried to appease the woman and is said to have smiled at her, for which “terrible” crime he was lynched. | Shanghai. lof the demon {of workers tried to force their way ? PLOT TO JAIL THE JOBLESS COMMITTEE BEFORE MAY DAY RED TROOPS OF FOSTER, MINOR, MINOR, AMTER, CHINA VICTORS IN BIG FIGHTS, peg Hit Mevesnary Army, Sent Against Them in Kwantung Conferences Prepare M Many Cities; Philadelphia Protest Friday LESTEN IN BOSS’ COURT TOMORKOW [ass Political Strike in Red Army in Nanchang pa scists Plan Attack on Union Square May 1st Martial Law Declared, Ex-Soldiers are Cold; at Kiukiang CANTON, China, April 9.—The Red Troops gained .a decisive vie tory yesterday over the government forces at the Kwangtung-Kianesi border, which is not far from the | strategical city of Kanchow. Kan chow has been beseiged by Red Troops and revolting peasants for a considerable time, SHANGHAI, Saal 9. anti-Kuomintang demon: took place yesterday and today at The police arrested 35 rators. A large gr sion by I. Amter, Robert Minor, FIGHT FASCIS U), $, MURDERERS Call Workers to Mass Meet Sunday ter, | into a theatre to hold a meeting. | (There is no freedom of assembly | for workers in China under the | Kuomintang regime. ). Police fired point blank into the crowd of workers and killed one on the spot. An Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai yesterday reportei| that the important city of Kiukiang | is under martial law and that all Aptis shipments of goods to and’ from the a at t! b is city have been suspended, ‘The re-| ea aban ange | authorities of this so-called ‘land of port also admitted that Nanchang, | jiborty’ ally themselves with the con- : é [ia he bens ot the Cn Hee ETE EAE " representatives of the verious in the hands of the Communists. governments,” AOSSES FIGHT ON Sects “Whalen, the braggard head of the band of cossacks guarding the terests of the bosses of New Y has the de of another worker to his credi ys a statement of th District Bureau of the Commu Party, to the nlurder of Gino Mazzola, an ‘or They call on all ‘workers to unite | against the attacks of the capital- |-ists and their hidden and open ser vants.” Ale STEEL Mj PCER At a meeting called by the Anti- Fascist Federation for Sunday, | sighs 13, in aMnhattan Lyceum, 66 . 4th St., the following will speak to Get Hell Gat i Bartle J. Lane Eagaanl A. Markoff, Bred Beal, and a rep- resentative of the Communist Party. (Continued on Page. Two) Biedenkapp Tl, Tells ShoeWorkers to Fight On; 50 Coming to Trial Workers Either Way YOUNGSTOWN, April 9.—The| Morgan interests backing the billion dollar merger of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation are winning their fight against the pea- nut capitalists who are opposing the trustification because the big! freq Biedenkapp. general man- jfclowsigevanost of the sve: ager of the Independent Shoe A struggle has been going on for Wovens Union, has been confined All sections‘ of’ the International | Labor Defense in the South are busy unearthing the facts involved and ar preparing mass meetings of Ne- gro and white workers to cena this lynching. J. H. Wilkins resided in Kansas)Of Freiheit: Festival City, Mo. Two children survive him. His widow works as a housekeeper. |Independent Shoe Workers Call Meet to Elect Officers To elect officers, the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union lias called a mass meeting for Thursday night, April 10, at 7:30 p. m., in the main floor of the union building, 16 West 21st St. ing are urged to bring their union | books and come to this meeting. any | | Today i in n History of the Workers a ae ae April 10, 1848—Great demon- | stration of Chartist movement for political rights held in London. 1918—Soviet Russia declared itself an asylum for all political and re- ligious refugees. 1919—Twenty |four hour general strike in Rom: | as protest against government bar on demonstrations in favor of Sov- Jiet Russia. 1919—Strike of rail Yoad and dock workers at Danzig. | Poland. 1928—Japanese Council of | Labor "Unions, Workers’ and Pea- sants rly and Japanese Federa- tion of Labor dissolved by ‘eat | ment | the first day of Passover, | brate the ninth anniversary of the| All members in good st4nd- | | of the eet & several weeks for control stock of the Youngstown § ta to his bed for some ten day fering from muscular rheumatism Tube Company, with Cyrus S. and irennie Pace coe te bee Eaton, Cleveland banker, as chief \)4. ad poe ep Bye opponent of the merger. Eaton rk a ‘a e ie i strikes and organizaticn campaign feels his gang can make more mon- : : pf the union. . ey if the Morgan interests don’t|° ae A wallowsupithe Yootiestorn Go|, @t oe ee ee el 3 E Be him suffering extremely and lik pany. In either event, more exploitation and lower wages, with increased un- | employment faces the workers in these mills, In Youngstown, even before the proposed merger, speed- up machinery was being installed, wages cut, and many workers thrown out of work. to be down for a week or so y “It’s all right,” said Biedenkapp, “tell the workers that I will get back and go on with the fight.” There haye been many sent to jail during the strike. Thirty. were sentenced to 30 days on fare nd on April 1 for picket- ing Schwartz and Benjamin. Soni 50 more come up for trial April 28, Funds are needed to help those in | jail and their families, who are suf- fering from starvation. Send dona- tions to the office of the union, 16 |W. 21st St. Labor Jury to Meet Tonight at 5 P. M. od There will be a meeting of the Labor Jury elected by the employed and unemployed workers of New York to sit in the trial of the com- mittee of the 110,000 March 6 dem- ongtrators here. The labor jurors are to, gather at the offfte of the Red Ballet, directed by Edith Segal. Trade Union Unity League, 13 W. The meeting is Sunday, at 2 p.|17th St. Thursday, at 5 p. m., and ‘m., in New York Coliseum. imust be on time. | Moscow: SLAMS WH. ALEN Soviet Press Gives Americ ica a Once Over Mass Anti - Religious Demonstration Feature A mass demonstration against re- | ligious opium will be tonducted on to cele- founding of the Freiheit, Jewish} language Communist paper. “The Holy Bacchanale,” an anti-religious play, will be performed by “Artef.” It will be a tremendous mass spec- tacle. Foster and Olgin will speak. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will sing. The program will include the affai as sed Young Moscow reports from capitalist mixing in European ess agencies state that the Soviet |shown by the U. ross has given a scathing analysis | Plan the Kellogy Pact, ete. It adds { the imperialist aims of the; that America is now after getting nited States, and incidentally | a monopoly on oil sales in Ger- es a few brickbats at Police! ;many as part of the battle with tommissioner Whalen of New | British oil. Y ork. “Oil smells of politics and_poli- The “Pravda” states that Amer-/ ties smeli of oil, and they both ica, not content with exporting smell of war. The peasants and goods: and capital, is exporting “pol- | workgrs of our country must ever icy” along with “experts, Hoth fi-| be watchful against these preda- nancial and political, and actively | (Continued on Page Three) New York District, referring; | Wall St. Fetes Whalen Tomorrow, in the unique New sianis “court of special ses- ” in’ defiance of all constitutional proy ‘a jury of their peers,” a secret court of three judges, with- out a jury, will begin to railroad to prisen cells William Z. Fos- jons for a trial Harold Raymond, and Joseph *Lesten, the committee elected by 1/10,000 demonstrators Ki giainst unemployment in Union Square, March 6. | | This Tammany court has already jut clearly that it is jamming | the case in order to hurl into prison, on sentences which may reach the leaders of the unempl nd militant workers before t at May 1 demonstra- Square. The court ady a continuance May. tion in e middle of a mass politice monstratic unan for by 595 delegates fr committee and from unions, councils of the wor fraternal and ms, etc. The dele- gates enthusiastically pledged their organizations demonstrate in | Union Square for “Work or Wages, no wage cuts or speed-up, defense ‘of the Soviet Union, and no imper- ialist war.” Fascists Threaten. All fascist forces have tried mobilize against the workers May 1, while the bosse proceed to railroad the leaders to jail. Ever since the unemployed began to organize, the jingoi and labor hating World War Veterans have announced plans to take over Union Square with uniformed men, armed with rifles and bayonets, and aided by the police department. They have openly discussed the possibility of raiding the Work on the east side of Union Square. smashing the offices of District 2 of the Communist Party, and the offices of the Daily Worker. The fascists have so far failed to arouse any enthusiasm among work- who were in the world war that last Sunday their publicity agent, Charles S, Pemburn, denied his men (Continued on Page Threey 1 will see ly vot re ‘om unorganized shop | shops, unemployed, sport organiz: to to on courts workers’ rs Center, Connecticut Workers Given Severest Jail Terms for March 6th WATERBURY, Conn., Vicious capitalist meted out toda April 9,— vengeance was Judge Beards- ley . John Borgnes, and their participa- tion in the March 6th demonstra- tion her le Ross and Harry Hersh were sentenced to serve a four months’ term, while Borgnes was given a three months jail sentence. This is the most severe sentence ever given in the state of Connecti- cut for the offense charged against these worke An appeal will be taken to a high- er court by the International Laber Defense. ° Freiheit Jubilee at eas Coliseum, Sunday Ninth Annive ‘y of the ing Freiheit will be celebrated Sunday, April 13, at 2 p. m., at the Coliseum. The celebration is at the same time a demonstration for the defense of the Soviet Union. The ® — = : ——__. | _ Today in the Baily [2: Worker | The British Empire Party.—-Page 4. Visit to Moscow Sports Institute. Page 4. Socialist Agriculture.--Page Speed - Up Shortens Worl Lives.-Page 4. World Congress of Friends of Soviet Union.—Page 3. TOMORROW. Hoover Prosperity in Tri-Cities. Irygoyen’s “Sore Throat.” j,. The Collapse of the Naval Con- erence, Ge 4