The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1930, Page 5

DA ATL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930 Page Bive [MPERIALIST SHEET IN JAIL JOBL ESS COMM. FOR WORK OR | WAGE FIGHT WORLD CONGRESSOF FSU CHINA ADMITS ONSWitEP MUNIST OF COM ‘South China Morning Post” tes They Have Consolidated Position Sommunist Troops Disarm Local Forces FORCES: (Continued Note Page One) | ght to march to the city nt their demand. y us ‘no! tarted to} Immedi- them the all to pr nswered “Then march the down ately the police attacked them vic-, Broadway. in iously— oy 4s Here again the clock-work of the} Manntung; Occupy Buildings ist court machinery came! ion to draw a screen across} the record of the vicious police bru- SHANGHAI, rr Pres: rvice).—The ‘hina Morning Post admits that th ctionary troops, under Com-| leadership, have consolidated } positions in the province of |t ng, Kiangsi and writes: “The insurrectionary | t of Kian; eds have e recently occupied the Sin- | t eng and Kianghau districts. list ef Wuchang, ts French Military Prisoners PARIS (By Inprecorr Press Se’ “rench coast between Sor Rush War Preparatiens in Greece ATHENS, Greece (By Inprecorr; grant a loan of 600,000 pounds ster- Press Service).—Great military |ling to the Chemical and Artif cial delegation elected by the 110,000 naneuvers are to take place in|Fertilers works in Piraeus. The workers at Union Square,” began Macedonia under the leadership of loan will be guaranteed by the g0v- William Z. Foster, general secre- Seneral Othonaeos and in the pres ment. The aim of this loa tary of the Trade Union Unity) ‘nce of the war minister, Sofulis.|clear. Greece is extending its League, when he tdok the stand. The National Bank China (By Inpre-{Fengchung and Fukien are lost for South | the government.” troops of the have Fukien,,Two thousand novement is particularly strong in|into the where the | Hankow. The | cupied Shultang, | established a Soviet regime. i military prison-| m jrs in the prison of Oleron,.on the| through the prison v Nantes and | authorities eaux, barricaded themselves in} and held m t wing of the prison and defied the| Only two pris has agreed toi chemicals indust |tality as an answer to the unem-! | ployed workers. In spite of court’s action Minor was able to} bring out a few instances « tie violence on the part of WI and at his orde I mare!.ed with the ! troops have made a drive; Minor. “I was struck hy a police-| Tungshen di: ct, rear, man on horseback. I saw another In Manntung Communist | poticemanxbeating a girl with } roops disarmed the local forces, oc- ts.? (The inevitable object all public buildings andjv slammed in by U followed the inevitable r: by the court of sustaining Unge: objection to shield police brutali to the last report the Communist Tchetiane oceupied the south wangtung. A Soviet a jon has probably been set up here. well-armed revolu According ionary ) evolt “J went on to city hall” e« ; Minor. “I walked along with work- | |against bad food and brutal ers who were carrying a man whose hele Aventits head had been split open by ined— ice club. (“Objection trike it from the rec “When we arrived at the ine guns in readiress. oners made a break- varders for four days as a protest|away, but were quickly recaptured, surrounded pr'son ny city hall we demanded to see the mayor to present the demands of the unemployed, and |the entire committee was arrested. Communists Called Meet Foster Tells Whalen. “T was chosen spokesman of the “I told Whalen we were a com- REJEGT APPEAL IN GALIF, CASE LED; Détends 15 On Clear Class Issue Seas I LOS ANGELES, Cal. —The appeal of the ca: lyon, ences of 125 days 3 ot Spector against 2 tine in San Bernardino, was denied 50 fine. and Yetta Stromberg and others nere in the “Red Flag” case, The four workers were sentenced | for attempts to hold open-air meet-! ngs arranged by the Internationel! Labor Defense to demand release | of Stromberg and others. | The eases of the 15 workers ar- | rested in the March 6 demonstra- tion are nearing an end. The In-} ternational Defense is conduc the cases on a clear issue of the! workers’ right to self-defense, and | the class character of the court is! exposed. | Lowest Seamen’s Pey; While 6000 Are Jobless (Continued from Page One) and insurance—unemployment, sick- | ness, accident and old age. Ordinary seamen receive $15. 18) per month, puls food an da bed fig- | ured at $10.84; $34.45 is paid to fir men, $29.87 to stewards and $38.07 to cooks. A chief officer makes less than $100, and a chief engineer $134.93. On ships above 2,000 tons the working time is 8 hours in 3 watches. Below 2,000 tons 21 hours is a working da; Since the stabilization of the mark in 1923, the Hamburg America and the North German Lloyd have id stockholders 7 and 8 per cent dividends the Hamburg South Am- | erica has made 10 per cent and the | Hansa 12 per cent. (Morgan & Co. | hold $30,000,000 of investinents in | these companies—Ed.) The whole | world has gasped at the rapid come- back of the German merchant fleet | after the war. In 1920, by the terms of the Versailles treaty, Germany’s tonnage was 496,000. . In 1914 it was 5,200,000 and on January 1, 1930, it was 4,185,000 tons. By paying the most minimum wages and using evergrowing unemployment as a threat against revolt, the German shipping companies have managed ta regain 80 per cent of the prewar | standing. Seamen get poor food. From 12, to 14 men sleep in a room. After} 60 or 80 hours of overtime during a trip, if they insist on full overtime pay instead of the 20 hours’ com- promise frequently proposed by the captain, they are generally paid and discharged. Although married men are allowed | veduction in taxes, wages are 50 | low that very few apply; the large | majority are young single men. The opposition group in the Sea- men’s union calls for a 7-hour day, % watches on deck and four below, scailors’ councils similar to workers’ councils in the factories, compulsory manning scale to prevent shipping too small crews, abolition of crowded fo’es’les by having two men in a cabin, provisioning to fit the differ- ent climates, and 14 days vacation with pay. “TALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to |Hear Appeal of Burke. Playing ball on Sunday hurts especially Kiosz and Ray against sen-) gered Sacco and Vanzetti. will endeav days or $59) viction when Walter Burke, nati mal secretary oday by Superior Court Judge Al-| Union, appeals a $50 fine riled ison, the same judge who sentenced | aoainst him here. The appeal will iN! be heard Monday, April 14. harge of a children’s camp near |will be represented Jy International |Labor Defense. r become a regular subscriber, | mittee selected by the large deme onstration just outside in front of his nose. That this was a part Conviction, Monday) of huge demonstrations of hun- ahs dreds of thousands of workers on DEDHAM, 1 April the same day throughout the These demonstra- world-wide United States. tions are part of a sensitive pride of old fami protest against. mass unemploy- Massachusetts, but when worke ment in all capitalist countries. organizers of workers’) The unemployed workers had adopted certain demands such as rts clubs—play the game the vio- i, . arts clube-—play & the establishment of unemploy- Aprit 11, tion of the Blue Sunday laws be-! ment insurance; the seven-ho.t . vi Wat,|comes@ class crime. Thus argue) gay, and the five-day week. We of Wal-'the rulers of the state which riur-) proposed to Whalen that he ‘They should clear the streets of the po- ¢ to uphold a court con- lice so the workers could march to city hall to present the unem- ployed demands in the name of this big gathering of workers to the mayor of New York. of the Labor Sports Burke permitted. ‘had a permit, FOR BETTER VALUES IN MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S SUIT-S go to l/* PARK GIOTHING STORE 93 Avenue A, Cor. Sixth St. DEMAND: Complete Freedom for '—Powers and Carr, facing death sentences, Atlanta, Ga—April 21 —the Gastonia Seven—April 22. i—Fred Beal—Pontiac, Mich., case—April 14 q 4 Rush Funds At Once! Thousands of Dollars—CASH—Immediately Needed! International Labor Defense Room 430 80 EAST ELEVENTH STREET '—Victims of sedition laws in Pennsylvania, Ohio, ete.—April '—Hundreds of other workers being tried in April. NEW YORK CITY Big Entertainment BALL Give yourselves and your friends‘a memorable evening! WwW TONIGHT ROCKLAND PALACE 155th Street and Eighth Avenue “Whalen said this would not be, He inquired whether we | I stated that we} i—the New York Unemployment Delegation on trial April 11—14, | Brazenly Railroaded to Jail; Insclont Official vel to Starving had no formal permit. matter we proposed to make a y ; Were now asking for a permit, i | was nece! Foster told ‘about Whalen’s tech- nical objections, and his vigorous attempts to keep the 110,000 work- ers from putting forward their de- mands to the mayor at city hall. Millions Demand. “T told him,” went on “that millions of workers th out the country were hungry and It was aylet’s go,” after the workers voted | j We trary ruling as an answer. He told it | of how the committee ma~ched with the crowd, was shoved about and separated, and then met at city hall to present the demands of the un- employed, and were there arrested. Unger again tried to bring out ‘¢ that Foster was arrested twenty one years ago in Spokane, W ngton, in a fight for free speech. Dodge All Facts It was immediately evident wher Foster, yrough- ted it. lof you see the police ride their horses ection sustained.” Whalen denied of common knowledge that) to refuse to take Whalen’s arbi-!at first that he threatened “blood- ” if the crowd marched, but when confronted with his testimony n the magistrate’s court admit- When Suzanne La Follette, editor the New Freeman answered juiekly, “Yes,” to a question, “Did | nio the crowd?” a judge howled mstantly, “Objection sustained! » out the answer! And the tness is ordered to answer no} \Calls Upon Rank and File Wo |Friends of the Soviet Union views BRANDS ‘LABOR GOV'T AS DEADLY SOVIET ENEMY Labor Party Gave Chvert Aid te ‘Holy’ Crusade Against the Soviet Union s to Rally R. armed forces of the made tools in the hands SS to the Defense of the US the “This World Co ss of the pe ni unemployed. They were thrown out the prosecution started its case that More questions without being in-|With disgust the attitude of the of war mongering bishops and on the streets without any income/Whalen had been instructed by *tructed to by the court.” present labor government to | whatever, and that the capitalist! somebody with at least some brains! Witness after witness of the de- | Union of Socialist Soviet Republi police thugs and rnment was doing nothing to|to keep his mouth shut as much as fense, workers, jobl passersby, |declares a resolution adopted t has perse- ve unemployment, and that they possible and not put his foot in it who were slugged and clubbed and |that body. ho endeavored to nad a right to present their de-!the w he has been doing. The ,tidden down by police horses, were} “At the 1929 general election th ious lies that were mands. We stated he would be prosecution was « y afraid to, placed on the stand, some identified |Labor Party promised, if it was (And still are) being inculeated into responsible for what occurred if he Jet any facts into the case, or any | themselves in newspaper pictures | given the confidence of the elect e minds of workers who, from the did not permit the workers to march | police discussion of which showed the police in the act|to do its utmost to promote c r desperation of poverty and to the city hall to present their un- | ycetont WW made by the of clubbing them down, but at the! relations between the Soviet Union yment, have been forced employed demands. | eep the ease a purely tech- |178t question, “Did the police strike | and Great Britain. Now that it hi med e left. I mounted_the spea 1 one. The prosecution, jn full |You?” an objection stopped every-|accumed the reins of government bor y has re- jets’ platform. TI told the workers | confidence of a conviction, evidence |*hing else. |how has it redeemed its pledge? light sod: Tas |of our conversation with Whalen. I| >) no evidence, restricted the All of Whalen’s remarks i “By means of the gro: open and avowed est sul told them that his refusal to per halen and his support-| first hearing im the mae fuce: afl prevanivation scl dela viet Union, and the subi snemaie maeen teclig, Hall $as police stool pigeons and j°oUrt, about “hell breaking loose,” | the official resumption of relations | * easton By: ase manifestly a ainst- the un er reporters, to a num-|about. “ “disorder,” ete, were barred with the first Workers’ Reput Y se wor the bo ‘o-called technical facts. Praec-|!t0m evidence. The resolution ‘time after time, and was finally abou of the city of New York on un {ployment was breadlines and night , and that the workers had a ht to bring their grievances be fore the city in the way that they ontemplated. BS “Then I put the question to the crowd: whether or not they we prepared to accept Whalen’s ar' trary ruling against the workers, WwW hereupon the crowd gave a great| shout of ‘no!’ March To City Hall. “I gave a sign with my hand for the crowd to march to the city hall. Then the police began to blackja and club the worke Up sprang Unger, like a jack-i the-box, with his monotonous ject.” Just as monotonously and! of the government and shouted as as machine like, the magistrate pr load or louder than the other Reds, siding mumbled “sustained.” but the fun started when one of ter was not allowed to tell what the undercover men started to razz | every worker in Union Square saw the cops and he got a terrific | ically all evidence leading up to-the | t of the committee,* and all evi- dence of the police attack on the} crowd, except what slipped through | by persistence of defense witnesses | ruled out. All the former pre-| e that “the committee fled from was abandoned. Aid Whalen | ms the scene” Always When Attorney Robert H. Elder of the defense counsel asked Whalen, | idn’t you say to the New York | mes reporter: “‘T thought I would crack my sides laughing at some of the un- | dercover men who figured in the demonstration and who carried n- ob-| placards advocating the overthrow --vicious brutali of the police punch in the eye,’ the judges didn’t against the workers. even wait for the usual objection | Foster told how he said, “Then'from the prosecution to say, “Ob- | = | THE PARTY ORGANIZER An_ indispensable hand book which must be used by every functionary of the Party and every member who must be trained for leading work in the Party. Its contents:should be discusséd at Unit mectings, at meetings of various fractions and in reading circles. PUBLISHED MONTHLY, and will continue to do so pro- viding *the Party membership makes its appearance possible ! ular purchase of bundle orders and secur- ing of subscriptions. 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At the close of the hearing the defense made several motions, to llay the basis for appeal, and prove | ‘that the constitutions of the United | |States and New York state, as well | as the statute on which the charge | of unlawful assembly was based by | the prosecution, were violated by al verdict of guilty in this case. The| constitutional points violated are | that “guaranteeing the right of free | speech, freedom of assembly, and petition for redress of grievances, and the right of trial by jury.” “Denied,” said the judges, and snickered behind their hands at the idea that a constitution made for the benefit of the rich, and to fool | the workers, could possibly be used | ———— important matters. Ce Ge) Every city, large and small, must understand that Mass Distribution and Sale of the Daily Worker will mobilize workers for the May Day demonstration. We must reach the workers in shop, mine and mill, with the Par- ILE DE FRANCE May 15 AQUITANIA May BREMEN — June 11 LAFAYETTE June 26 ROTTERDAM June 28 MAURETANIA June 28 EUROPA 2 off today? Early this morning the “Bremen” sailed with a group of 60 sent by the World Tourists. Another group which sails Wednesday on the Aquitania will also reach Moscow for the May First Celebrations. oy Fon? TOURESTS 175 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CrIry Tel. Algonquin 6656 8 July 5 | Program of Entertainment in- cluding mock Workers Laboratory Theatre. . ee EXCELLENT MUSIC Tickets: 65 cents in advance. 75 cents at door. Obtainable at ST PARTY OF AMERICA, DISTRICT TWO 26 Union Square, New York City COMMUN trial by the! DANCING, ty’s May Day slogans and tasks. Make use of the Daily Worker to increase the mass response even above March 6. Philadelphia has placed an or- der for 25,000 copies. Seattle wants 25,000 copies. Detroit has ordered 100,000 copies, New York is planning a dis- tribution of 140,000 copies. Rush in Your Order Any Regular Daily 4-Page Issue $6.00 a thousand Any Regular Saturday 6- Page Issue $8.00 a thousand Cy Need May Day Greetings! to the DAILY WORKER! to the Revolutionary Working Class Movement! May Day greetings to the Daily Worker and through the Daily Worker to the revolu- tionary movement of the working class are on the order of the day. We call upon all workers in mass organizations, all to request their organiza- tions to send Greetings to the Daily Worker for the May First edition of our paper. Send in a $5, a $10, a $25 greeting, show your solidarity with the Daily Worker, and at the same time help to dis- tribute tens of thousands of copies among the workers in the big industries. Daily Worker 26-28 Union Sq., New York forced into recognition only by pre explained there was no objection to private se’ B 1 support for the Soviet Union. e of | sure of the working cla “In view of these facts we place n record our most e cons “By making hypocritical “repre- demnation of Work- | sentations” to the Soviet Govern- | eys’ and of tho ment it has given its covert support | p ” who have s to the palpably lying s of | shamelessly ken their oft re- atrocities in the Soviet Union peated plec to befriend the “The government caused rmy | Soviet Union, and call upon the real | command to forbid official services. | friends of Russia, the rank But this, it is now clear, was a mere | and of the working cla: to maneuver since it was sequently |stand as one with their bro vorkers of the Soviet Union in the at task of build y this policy it up Sociali eS MAY DAY » BUTTONS « WITH OUR SLOGANS WORK OR WAGES DEFEND THE ¢£ eovaet UNION ed from the 16 PARTY duals ations COMMUNIST PAR Y¥ U.S. PRAL OFFICE Street 4% East 125th New York City GREAT EVENT! A Remarkable Program ! JUBILEE CELEBRATION oF THR MORNING FREIHEIT Tomorrow, 2 p. m. AT THE BRONX COLISEUM 177TH STREET SUBWAY STATION, BRONX RIVER EAST EXCELLENT PROGRAM THE FOLLOWING IS THE UNIQUE PROGRAM OF THE OUTSTANDING CELEBRATION 1. Freibeit Gesangs Verein 300 singers will participate in t gram for this occasion und Red Workers Ballet A ballet of dancers in a new program under the direction of Edith Siegel. ecially pr leadership of J. Schaefer. he Freiheit Gesangs Verein and Red Workers Ballet In a new experiment of revolutionary mass singing. Sport All sections of the Labor Sports Union will participate with the assistance of revolutionary music. mass dancing and Anti-Religious Mass Performance Performed by the “ARTEF” ensemble, with all the sec- tions of the Freiheit Gesangs Verein under the direction of Benny Schneider, director of ‘“Ristokvaten.” Children’s Chorus 150 charming and resounding the Non-Partisan Workers direction of Jacob Schaefer, es from the chorus of Children Schools, under the will conclude the program. Comrades Foster and Olgin Will Speak A program worthy to be remembered. No wort:er should miss this great event! Tickets in advance 75 cents and $1.00.. will be $1.00 and $1.25.. A ticket in advance will assure you of a better. place.. ‘fickets to be obtained in the office of the Morning Freiheit, ..........30 Union Square, New York City. On April 13 the tickets