The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1930, Page 1

¢ ‘ Enterea as second-class matter a Published daily except Sund: Company, Inc. § Union Squar: by The Comprodaily Publishi New York City, N. Y.% “Breadlines and Blackjacks.” {9 DAYS TO MAY | The Unemployed Delegation elected by the great Union Square demonstration on March 6th is sent to jail. That is the official seal placed by the government upon the brutality of Whalen’s police in Union Square. That is the answer of the capitalist class to the work- evs’ demands for Work or Wages, for unemployment insurance. To the breadlines and blackjacks, which is the unemployment program of , has been added jail for the leaders of protest demon- the capitalists strations of the unemployed. The farce which was staged in the Court of Special Sessions, and miscalled a trial, in which the “judg openly displayed their role as prosecutors, was merely the public recording of a verdict already de- termined behind the curtains. Evidence was not wanted, and was cynically ruled “out of order.” Whalen’s mass clubbings, his under- cover strong-arm men, his mounted police riding over men, women and children, the moving pictures registering his orgy of violence—all this evidence was of no interest to the court. All such embarassments were rigorously excluded. 4 Workers will not be surprised at the verdict. It was the class ver- dict of the capitalists, against the workers. It was the answer of the capitalist class, confirming the gas bombs, clubs, blackjacks, machine guns, provocateurs, and horses’ hoofs which made answer on March 6th to the demand for Work or Wages. Violence and brutal suppression is the only language capitalism can speak today, faced with seven mil- lion workers who, with their families, are starving because capitalism operates only for profits and dividends. Let the verdict be another lesson to the working class that it must fight or starve. The infamous Whalen was muzzled by his masters in this trial. Approving enthusiastically of his violence, they are embarrassed by his too open boasting about it. “These things,” they say, “are to be done, not to be talked about.” So Whalen was not permitted to tell the court, as he told the New York Times reporter on March 7th, about how he “had split his sides laughing” to see his own undercover men cracking | the heads of men and women and even getting mixed up with his uni- formed police, and all the other juicy anecdotes with which he has been entertaining Chambers of Commerce, Catholic Church suppers, and other choice gatherings of the “upper classes.” But while these illum- inating inside glimpses into the workings of capitalist “law and order” were shut out of the courtroom, the workers will not forget them. Against the workers’ slogan of Work or Wages, the capitalists have put forward the slogan of “Breadlines and Blackjacks.” But the millions of unemployed, who watch every day their fam- ilies slip deeper into misery and starvation, cannot find any solution to their problems in the breadlines and police brutality. They cannot accept this answer of the bourgeoisie. And jails fast lose their terrors to hungry and desperate men and women, starving in the midst of the richest country in the world. Now the working class, employed and unemployed, ;must carry their fight to a higher stage. The great masses who demonstrated on March 6th, must begin in all earnestness to organize their forces. Only through organization can the fight for Work or Wages be advanced effectively. While Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond, and Lesten sit in jail for the “crime” of leading and organizing the unemployed, all those mil- lions who were roused and stirred to action by the great March 6th demonstrations turn now to stronger preparations, better organiza- tions, more energetic struggles. The fight for Work or Wages has just begun! Now we must build the fighting trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League! Now we must establish more powerful Councils of the Unemployed, in close connection with the TUUL! Now we must build a mighty mass convention against unemployment on July 4th in Chicago! Now we must strengthen and consolidate the fighting lead- ership of the working class in the Communist Party! Above all, now we must unite ever greater masses the preparations for the mass political strike on May D: outpouring of all workers on this traditional day of s American working class. For work or wages, for unemployment insurance! For the 7-hour day and five-day week! . * For the release of all the class-war prisoners! For the struggle against the imminent imperialist war! Demonstrate on May First! Marching as to War-- Policeman Whalen is determined that capitalism in the United States shall not be overthrown on May 1, 1930. Before the menacing hordes of Bolshevism he throws all his forces for the protection of “law and order,” determined each and every man of them (“New York’s finest!) lay down their | in defense of capitalism! And if that is not enough, he is mobilizing the fascist War Veterans’ a ciations, to whom he has handed over the “right” to Union Square, the traditional place of demonstration of New York workers on May Day. Whalen’s statement in the New York Sun of April 10 (discreetly suppressed in other papers) is a wonderful exhibit of the inside work- ings of the diseased mind whick. capitalism puts in charge of its or- ganized violence. With sadistic lust he anticipafes the hour “when the police cavalry begins to charge and the police clubs begin a rata- plan upon Communist skulls.” He will be “relentlessly rough and ruthless,” boasts this “stern and tight-lipped” jhero. He “will have 19,000 policemen on duty throughout May Day,” of whom 10,000 will be “available for duty in and around Union Square.” “Every man of the 10,000 will be on the job with just one idea in mind—to obey orders.” “The police dispositions will be such that within a very few minutes an adequate. full-armed force can be concentrated at al- most any point in the city where trouble might be expected— horsemen, infantry, machine-gun men, chemical squads with their tear gas, and all the rest of the personnel and equipment of the finest force on earth. And if this description is not enough to convince the reader that Whalen is positively determined to prevent the Revolution on May Day, simply will not allow capitalism to be overthrown, the next para- graph should remove all doubts: “Almost 10,000 men wiil be held in reserve at various points. Special emergency squads with motor emergency trucks and battalions of fast. police cars—squads equipped with riot guns, machine guns, tear gas and other weapons—will be. held in readiness at central points in Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Bronx. The Bomb Squad, with special information, will have special duties. Even the Automobile, Pickpocket and Nar- cotic men will be on the job. Special details will have an eye on the homes of prominent men and public officials.” Is all this simple’ provocation, or is Whalen’s mind broken under the strain of his “heavy duties?” Is the floorwalker from Wana- maker’s department store really convinced that, 44 years after May Day was inaugurated in the United States as a day of workingclass demonstration and struggle, he, Whalen, with his 19,000 men and all his war paraphernalia, will abolish this “pernicious” tradition over- night with a police order? It seems clear that what we have to deal with is a combination of both ‘factors. The provocations of Whalen are plain and inescapable. In these he remains the true representative of capitalism. At the same time he is evidently suffering from serious mental ills, including a combination of panic and egomania, with the helpless ferocity re- sulting from such a condition. But even in his pathological state, Whalen remains a good representative of the capitalist class in the United States today; we are not dealing with the eccentricities of an of workers in for a great ggle of the FIRST; PREPARE \Organize in the Shops, Jobless for Biggest Demonstration Hit Fascist Terror Push Fight for “Work or Wages” With only 18 days left before May) First, final preparations are being | made throughout the United States) fer the largest m--s demonstration jof the workers on May Day than} ever before in the history of the United States. ‘The leading slogan is “organize the mass political strike,” for the fight for “Work or against wage-cuts and for the seven-hour day, five-day week, | against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Realizing the tremendous prepa- POLITICAL STRIKE Wages,” | LABOR JURY SAYS Muth of Anglo- $4000 MILL HANDS). "2s i Minor, Editor of tic Daily trict Organizer, New York Conm pose the committee elected by capitalist city government of Ne roaded to j the Post Office at New York, N. Y. Wall Street Tamma From left to right: William Z. under (he NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930 Jobless Struggle y Wor nunist Party, 110,000 workers w York. For th or, Central Oi orker Court Jailed Them Foster, General Seerctary of the Trade Union Unity League; Rob- | of the Communist Party; Israel » together with Raymond and Lesten com- t the demands for “work or wages” . ly crime” against the bosses they were rail- | that unless some scheme can be worked out to force their re- FINAL CITY EDITION net of March 3. ISTE SUBSCRIPTION KA and Hronx, New 3 i Price 3 Cents AIL JOBLESS’ COMMITTEE FOR WORK OR WAGE FIGHT FLAGRANTLY RAILROADED BY BOSSES’ GOVERNMENT — AS ANSWER TO HUNGRY ‘Foster, Minor, ‘Amter, Raymond, Lesten Now, Serve Extra Week in Jail; Waiting Sentence for Leading the ‘Forbidden to Record Complete Demands for lthe Relief of Unemployed in Court; Organize! 1 The bosses’ court ruled yesterday that the elected delega- tion of the 110,000 unemployed and militant workers in Union Square March 6 were guilty of “unlawful assembly.” William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Amter, Harold Raymond, and Jo- seph Lesten were railroaded through in one of the most rigorously biased capitalist trials so far witnessed, and are in jail again, “remanded for a week for sentence.” Which means Amter, Dis- to the lease on bail, they will have an’or vokers who came down to the extra week to serve before criminal court building from enter- U.S. “Friend- their sentence begins. jing the court room. (ed ij Ficia]| The representatives of the job- s s ial : AE) No tite HEM eel aeateaa irate z ‘Nh defied ‘Commissioner Whalen’s ar- exploiters of New York and theit /pitrary order not to go to the city city government to the demands of } pa), rations being made for May Day this year, the capitalists, through \their police and fascist organiza- |tions, are trying to terrorize the | workers. In New York, Whalen announces he will have his entire |police force of 19,000 mobilized against the workers for May Day.) _ Pere. This will not intimidatg the work- | ing to jail of ers. Whalen’s braggart’ boasts will unemployed a not stop the millions of unemployed | onstrating in Union Square March from fighting for the right of the 6, the Labor Jury elected at a mass All Workers’ Forces Sharply denou dict yesterday as follows: “The trial of the fi on or- elected by 110,000 wor in,the capitalist net of unemploy- ment. Particular str ganization of shop ¢ industries for the mass political; 6 was held in Special Sessions of strike; for organization of defense | Criminal Court Building corps and to get all the workers | Judges Murphy, McInery out in a demonstration of solidarity mon. against unemployment and capital-| entry to the ism. Commissi lhis te: TERS STRIKE. | judges e delegate: rs at is laid room until SURGICAL KN COURT IS GUILTY Urges Mobilization of, | the railroad- is being discharged from London to i other workers dem- streets, and for “Work or Wages,” | meetin> of 11,000 w s in Bronx ead of starving like rats caught | Co! March 19, issued its ver- the nmittees in all | unemployed. demonstration on March before and Solo- The Labor Jury was denied after | cooperation hi oner Whalen had finished | London, imony, The attitude of the was decidedly hostile toward | Union. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 11. the defendants and they made no| —Knitter ‘gical Elastic Knitting Co., German- | the defendants as represen es of town, have walked out following an|the working 3 Every poin attempted wage cut of 25 per cent. (Continued on Page Four) individual. The entire capitalist class of the United States is suffer- ing from precisely the same ills—egomania, the “will to power” over the whole earth, plus a deep panic in face of its difficulties, its shrink- ing markets, its progressively paralyzed’ machinery of production, its “riotous and revolting” workingelass, its ‘menacing rivals across the waters. The entire capitalist class today exhibits that same ferocity and_bloodthirstiness which Whalen shows, in a concentrated form, as a sort of laboratory specimen. . ‘ The Napoleon of ,Wanamaker’s store is marching as to war, hold- ing aloft the cross of Jesus and the Dollar Mark. And in bh what caricatured form is the symbol of Capitalism, also march te wai perialis Great Britain at the head, and against Soviet Union, which it hates so deeply because it sees therein “orerunner and sign of its own doom. If uniformed men, with horses, machine-guns, bombs, oar moured ears, and so on, were all that were needed to determine the course of history, then, indeed, the outlook would be black. In that case, however, the Kaiser Wilhelm would not be eating out his heart at Doorn; in that the Czar of all the Russias would still be on his throne. But if history has any lesson to teach, this is one of the first: That when the rulers must begin to parade their soldiers, to rattle their sabres, 4nd to throw their military against the ma of their own land; when the economic system upon which society is based | can no longer feed the people; when force “without stint or limit” be- comes the chief weapon of “law and order”—that is a time when revo- lution is approaching with determined and relentless steps. It is 2 time when “heroic” poppinjays of the type of Whalen provide thé modern versions of King Canute. The tide of revolution rises. point in the United States. Let Whalen build his dams of machine-guns and clubs; let hita forbid the waves to rise! The tide rises! some forth im the the als, with May Day will be another measuring OWEST SEAMEN’S PAY 6,000 Hamburg Seamen jobless International Seamen’s Club re- ports 6,000 unemployed German sea- engineers and two officers’ unions— are independent. Over 90 per cent men in Hamburg, where wages are |of German’s 20,000 officers are or- lowest of all seafaring countries. | ganized. Many of them hold mem- Over 150 seamen are coming daily | bership in reactionary bodies li to the club for warmth, recreation | the Nationalist Party and the Stahl- and news of jobs. helm, ils military organization. | The Seamen’s Union counts only| Of the six countries with exten | 10,000 members out of 40,000 sea-|sive sea trade — Australia, the men. Within the union the club/United States, Great Britain, Scan- group, which is affiliated with the |dinavia, Holland and Germany— Red International of Labor Unions | Australia pays seamen the highest is fighting inactivity and reaction. wages and Germany the lowest, the According to Secretary Walter the other countries ranking given. International Seamen’s Club will Germany able seamen make $31.80 continue to work inside the union a month plus board and food value against the policy of arbitration and | at $10.84, a magnificent total of |no fight. | $42.64, Every German worke The Seamen's Union and one of | the two engineers’ unions belong to |the Amsterdam International. ‘The other, four marine unions—captains, (Continued on Page Five) in the plant of the Sur-| efforts to disguise their hatred of } | United States will result in the lat- | with being railroaded to pri: on ‘ 4 land or sea, is taxed 10 per cent. Butchers Union and the American Seamen need no large numbers to | Federation of Labor i figure the wage after paying tax | boss class through its state machin- ship” Smashed |A Million Are Jobless With the naval conference vir-| © Hie tually at an end, a veritable smoke) Heonomic Crisis Is On sereen of optimistic (Satisfaction) SAN FRA} CO, April 11.— » delegates of the |cover up the real results of the con-| Cable dispatches from Japan to the the fact that the imper- lly ference jialist navies will act: larged by additional shi Behind the “gratification” pressed by the British and American imperialists at the re: s of the conference is the real f rivalries between them h tyally been intensified and y ened as a result of the parley. The/|are notorious for their brutal treat- pacifist fog about a new era of|ment of the workers. The former Anglo-American cooperation has head of these mills, Sangi Muto, who been completely exposed. If any used to be the leader of the busi- been achieved at/ness group in the Diet, is the cham- cooperation against pion advocate of “industrial peace” enemy, the Soviet in Japan. be en-| ports that 30,000 workers of the Kanagafuchi the , Jargest and one of the most impor- tant industri spinning mills, ies in Japan, struck to- Kanagafuchi mill it is their common Coming at the critical moment of Special emphasis is laid upon the|an impending serious economic fact that the three-power pact be-| crisis, which has been gathering tween England, Japan and the|headway for several weeks, the news of the walkout brought com- mon stock in the Kanagafuchi en- terprise from 125 yen a share to 90 according to the proposed new/yen over night. This immediately treaty, Japan will not only not)caused a paralysis in trading in the serap anything but will increase her | Tokio Stock Exchange, the financial tonnage from 784,877 tons at pres-| center of Japan, which was or- ent to 817,050 tons by 1936; while | dered closed today. A cr in the England and America, as a United Kanagafuchi mills is a sure sign of Press dispatch from London yester-|a serious economic crisis ¢n Japan. day admitted, “will have to build| in certain branches of their navies to equal their new quotas,” ter scra Englar pping three battleships and four. In reality, however, The dispatches also report that there are at present 1,000,000 un- employed workers in Japan, with 400,000 walking the streets in the city of Tokio alone. Meanwhile Chairman Tydings of Naval Affairs Commit- sed bitter dissatisfaction with the failure of the navy to equal racing records set by England dur- ing the last five y and let it be known that Congr ready to appropriate su ient money for fighting planes if the Navy makes the Senate tee expr Today in the Baily 22: 300k Letters Revie Sport known its desi he same 4 Rear Chinnor the nt’ From National Guardsmen—Page 3. of eight 10,000-ton light cruisers Life Story of a Woman Textile voted by Congress in 1924, was \orker and Young Worker—Page ». regeched at Island, California, Fut! Page of Workers’ Corre- as arsday—apparently as a. eee token ‘of Wall, Strect’s peaceful | "Pomdence—Page, 2 sentiments towards their fellow! London Conference of Anglo-Saxons in Lombard St. , Workers—Page 6. | ale ST Problems of Shoe Workers TRY ROAR Page 6. £8 POs PVE War Budget in Poland. Tu the Caucasian Socialist Soviet Republic, SELF-DEFENSE ed by the bosses >of for unemployment insurance an for the seven-hour day and five- day week. This is the answer whi has the full b ng of the fed eral capitalist government. This is the latest attempt of the courts to reinforce Whalen’s blustering threat that he will charge the work- ers demonstrating May Day with police cavalry and “beat a ratapan of clubs on their skulls.” Already the jobless and militant workers are picking up the chal- lenge thrown down to them. All employment councils are to ence, plans go with increased determination to hold a huge May Day demonstra- tion and political mass strike and to bring 10,000 delegates to the Chicago National Convention on | Unemployment July 4 and 5. Labor Jury In. Three Tammany judges, Max Sol- }omon, Daniel F. Murphy and James | McInerney, sat for only three and | three-quarters hours, without a jury being permitted, except’ for the la- bor jury which argued and forced its way into the court room abot noon, and in a case conducted arbitrarily as a police third degree arrived at a verdict of guilty, a ver- dict the pre-arrangement of which stuck out of every maneuver of | prosecution and court. The defense was conducted by At- torneys Joseph Bro y and Robert Elder. Proceedings were opened lropping the charge of “public nuisance,” utterly ridiculous and in- terfering with the prosecution’s line evading facts and presenting There is still d the fake charge of “as- sault,” which was also to come up esterday in the 57th St. Court, but was postponed. . Amter, Minor, Foster Speak. The high light in the trial was of course the clear-cuttand defiance testimony of Foster, Minor and Am- ter. Ev effort was made by the prosecution and court to keep thi jas formal and colorless as possible, practically no case. to be tr | the class issues sharply to the front |The trial was held in secret, only newspaper men (you can depend on the capitalist press to be di and witnesses being allowed in, w }dozens of uniformed police and |plain-clothes dick leaning against jevery pillar, to keep the hundreds in Lying | William Shifrin was put on “trial” in Bergen County Court, faced ison for life because he defended himself against a gang of thugs of the scab Tebrew Butchers’ Union,” who at- cked him in 1928, The class character of the trial came glaringly to light right at the beginning when District Attorney Ryan asked the jury whether any | one of them was a member of the Communist Party. It broke through all the legal arguments throughout the trial. It was clear in the state- ment of the chief prosecution wit- ness, Siskowitz, who was thé leader f the gang that attacked Shifrin, that there “are no other labor unions in this country but the Hebrew To insure the success of the drive for a mass circulation of the Daily Worker and 30,000 new readers by June 1, “a full mobilization of the entire membership is | writes Roy Stephens, District Or- ganizer of the Boston District of the Communist Party. Comrade Stephens says that the Boston District will achieve its quota for 600 new subscribers, 1,000 nance the mass circulation drive. “The campaign to build the Daily Worker must not be consid- ered as separate and apart from the task of recruiting members and building a’ mass Communist Party. Along .with the increase in membership and influence of our Party, there must be a sim- ultancous increase in the circu- 7) Tt is. the (Continued on Page Four) Drive for 30,000 New Readers | lation of the Daily Worker. “In the Boston District only* 25 |}per cent of our members are sub- scribers to the Daily Worker. It is required,” | impossible for Party members to) workers | have a clear conception of the pres- ent situation and tasks and prob- lems of the Party unless they reai ithe Party press. This especially | true of new members. | “The Daily Worker must be made ilization of the workers for mass |demonstrations on May First. | “In connection with th | necessary © that workers’ it is from large factories, and that every district carry out the proposals of the Central Committee and order several special editions for distribu- tion before May First,” th teen 1) | corre- | spondence be developed, especially; “Did you urge the crowd to vio- late Commissioner Whalen’s order?” ked Unger of Foster. Most positively I told them -to disregard Commissioner Whalen’s order depriving them of their, rights!” said Foster firmly. Tells of Mass Protest } Immediately after the mid-day re- cess, Israel Amter, New York dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party, took the stand and stated that the March 6 demonstration was a mass protest against unemploy- ment and to propose measures for the relief of unemployment. The jdemands of “Work or Wages” had been adopted by the 110,000 workers ~/in Union Square. “Whalen asked us if we had a permit to parade. Foster said, ‘No, but if one is needed we are asking for the right to march to the city hall now.’ Amter told how the demonstration was organized by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity | League with the support of many working class organizations. | “Our committee was recommended to the 110,000 workers in Union . Square by the Trade Union Unity League and the workers voted unan- imously to elect us as their delega- tion to present the demands of the unemployed.” With trigger-like precision, Mag- istrate Solomon yapped “objection sustained” when Unger objected to Amter giving the outline of his speech on March 6th, which dealt with growing mass unemployment, and 7,000,000 - vs facing starva- tion and demanding “Work or Wages.” Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, corroborated Amter’s story of the demand for a permit and added: “Whalen refused a permit to the (workers. He said something about {the streets being required for busi- jness. I spoke up and said that for- \c potentiates and officials and ex- |yloiters of foreign governments, |such as the officials of the Fascist jgovernment of Italy, or Queen Marie of Rumania were greeted with Negro | tu rule out everything that brought open arms by Whalen and permit- ted to parade down the streets to ;the city hall or anywhere they jwanted to go. But the workers were not allowed the use of the streets. “Whalen declared that there was absolute freedom for the workers to the use of the streets. I broke in and said that that was untrue. When | Steve Katovis, the strike picket, had been murdered by the police several months before, and the workers had gone to city hall to protest against it, many of them were beaten un- conscious by the police. I was one of them. | “Whalen offered to take us down in a police car. I told him we did not need his friendship. We had over 100000 better friends than Mr. Whalen out in the square. These had expressed the deter- |mination to march to the city hall to present the demands of the up- employed. “Foster made the report for the committee to those ~* > had elected it reporting the conversation the in bundle orders and $700 to fi-}an effective weapon in the mob- committee had with Whalen. He asked them if they would accept the dictate of Whalen as final refusing (Continued on Page Five) RED PRISONERS NIGHT Tonight is Red Prisoners Night at Rockland Palace, 155th St. and | 8th Ave., under the auspices of th Communist Party. See sto: ‘page 4,