The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1930, Page 1

Jan YOu KEEP MOvEN, Vol. VI, No. 344 the orker act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents STRIKE MAY Ist AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT, WAGE-CUTS! Prepare to “Down Tools On May Day” by Exposing and Defeating the Social Fascists The jailing of the leaders of the New York Unemployed demon- stration and the recent murder of Carlo Mazzolo, anti-fascist worker, by police and fascist agents, brought forth utterances and actions from various agents of capitalism, which are of great value in further- ing their exposure before the working class. Organization for the May Day strike and demonstration every day becomes more clearly a struggle against fascism and social fascism— the front line of capitalism’s defende Other enemies of the working class, such as the renegade Gitlow, come to the aid of the Wall Street government and its police. Mass unemployment, unrelieved by any form of social insurance, | forces 7,000,000 workers and their families to the verge of starvation, | the speed-up of those workers still employed creates chronic part- | time employment, strikes and demonstrations, the mass demand for | “Work or Wages” all met by police attacks and the arrest and rail- | roading of the chosen leaders of the struggle—as in the case of Amter, | Foster, Minor, Lesten and Raymond. | | The war plans of American imperialism are rapidly maturing and the attempts to conceal them are more and more perfunctory. Naval building at a feverish pace and militarization of industry and the working class are the order of the day. The collapse of the London Naval Conference amid the clash of imperialist conflicts and the frenzied efforts to form the necessary pre-war alliances puts the necessity for the struggle against imper- - ialist war and the defense of the Soviet Union as a major point on the order of business of the whole working class. The political character of the struggle expressed by “class against class.” | Mass unemployment, more intensive speed-up, the tightening up of the whole suppressive apparatus of imperialist government evident on every hand, mass a’ ts of workers for organizing and leading strikes and demonstrations. for organizing the class struggle unions of the Trade Union Unity League (1300 arrests since January 1), five, ten and fifteen year sentences for spreading the program of the Com- munist Party, the open announcement of the organization of secret police (similar to the black,hundreds of czarist Russia), kidnappings, floggings and jailings for advocating full social. economic and political equality for Negroes. the public murder of militant workers by police and fascist bands (Ella May, Steve Katovis, Carlo Mazzolo)—all these measures are part of the capitalist drive against the working class which in turn is the most important part of the preparation for imper- ialist war. The new inflation in the stock market and the strenuous attempts being made to force a revival in certain sections of basic industry | foretell a new crash which will bring industry to a new low level and mass unemployment to a new high mark. Drastic wage cuts will be made in a wholesale manner. The pres- | ent drive against the working class and its most conscious section, the | Communist Party, is both preparation for imperialist war and for new onslaughts on the standards of living of our class. In the face of these facts the renegade Gitlow joins with the fas- cists of the A. F. of L. and their camouflage experts of the Muste wing and the socialist party in accusing our party of “provoking the po- lice” by organizing workers to resist the drive of their class enemies. He unites with these same enemies of the workers to prevent the Na- tional Miners’ Union securing a loan from the Garland Fund for their organizing campaign, while Lovestone unites with the Fishwick-Howat- Farrington gang of Peabody Coal company agents, through Hapgood, to betray the anthracite miners. The social-fascists gathered around the Italian chamber of labor confuse and betray the struggle of the workers against fascism. They do not tell the workers that the murder of Gino Mazzola is part of the drive against the whole working class but separate it from the whole capitalist offensive which daily increases its toll from the ranks of our class. | The struggle against fascism is an international struggle—but it | begins at home. American imperialists have loaned Mussolini more than $500,000,000 outright, to say nothing of millions more in war supplies loaned or donated. American imperialist government pro- tects the murderers of anti-fascist workers, it deports workers to end their lives in the Mussolini murder cells, it wages war on the whole working class and its support of fascism is part of this war. To fight fascism effectively we must fight U. S. imperialism. The organization of our class for the May Day struggles must have the exposure of and the fight against social fa m as its cen tral point. No victorious struggle can be carried through without the defeat of these agents of the bosses—these builders of the fortifica tions for the open fascists, these condoners of fascist methods who try by every means to break the united front of the working class. The Communist Party calls on all workers to unite to carry throug] the May Day struggle for Work or Wages, for the 7-hour day, 5-day week, for social insurance, for the defense of the Soviet Union, agains‘ imperialist war, for the unconditional release of all class war prisoners Our Party calls upon all workers to drive from their ranks the traitors who reject the class struggle, who sabotage the organizatioy bf the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League, who try to confuse the clear line of. struggle against fascism, who continue thei) attempts to divide the ranks of our class in the face of the brutal offensive of the capitalists and their government. May Day is a day of political struggle. This May Day will carry the struggle against mass unemployment and rationalization in which 1,250,000 workers responded to the call of the Communist Party, to a still higher level. It is with this fact always in mind that all preparations for May Day should be carried through. Thrust out of our ranks all agents of eur class enemies. Snild the united front of the working class, Smash the capitalist drive with the mass force of employed and unemployed, Negro and | white, foreign born and native born, women, youth and children. Unite all sections of the working class behind the program of the Commu- nist Party of the United States. Down Tools on May Day! E | | is Peabody Shoe Workers |Wages Cut 35 Percent 'T.U.U.L. Leads Fight PEABODY, Mass., April 13.— he Shoe and Leather Workers Or- | jsazization Committee of the Trade | Union Unity League has issued leaflets calling on the 50 workers | whose wages were recently cut 35 | per cent : the beaming at} of the Hunt and Rankin Leather | Go. to fight. The T. U. U. L. also| Today in History of the Workers — April 14, 1910—Railway workers — in Italy struck. 1916—Kienthal, |¢ Switzerland, conference of revolu-} tionary Socialists, opposed to world war, opened. 1920—General strike vf cigar workers at Tampa, Fla. 1921—Washington state supreme tourt affirmed conviction of Cen- tralia I. W. W. members for defend- ing their hall against -American Legion attack. 1921—“Black Fri- day” in England—leaders of rail- road and transport workers can- celled orders for general strike in support of miners. 19: ‘Twenty: | five Bulgarian Communists sen- tenced to hard labor, Georgieff sen- tenced to death at Warna, factory to support those whose pay has been slashed, for the whole | force is working a ten-hour day for | y $25 to $80 a week. hall for all leather workers, ae GAS KILLS WHOLE MINE CREW, FORCED TO WORK IN DANGER BY HUNGER | Crisis Worse; Census Figures Show Unem- ployed Numbers 8,000,000; Bosses Admit Lies "] Councils of Unemployed, Unity League, Grow-! i \e ‘sented. ing; Prepare Conference in Chicago, July 4 TACOMA, Wash., April 13.—Seventeen bodies of miners had been removed from the Carbonado Mine of the Pacific Coal Co. late today. * TACOMA, Wash., April 1 ing force below ground at the time, were killed late yesterday, by gas explosion in the Carbonado mine, 20 miles from here. Gas fumes are so strong that it is impossible for the rescue | crews to go down for the bodies. the force of the explosion caved in part of it. It has been known as a “gas- {sy mine” for a long time, but |the men were not organized | sufficiently to compel the use of safety measures. They were deli- berately sent into danger for the profit of the company. The entire mining industry, like| all others, is taking advantage of the short time to bitterly exploit its | working force. With millions unem- ployed, the companies are absolutely |March 6 unemployment demonstra- ruthless in their treatment of the|tion were found guilty yesterday. men at work. Rationalization, abol tion of safety measures, reckle | men by hundreds in every mine that | |puts in new machinery, without a/q half. thought as to what will become of | Sklar defended themselves. |these men, are everyday conditions. | exposed capitalist justice. |ney Leo Gallagher, for the Interna- Miners at Jobless Meet. It is in answer to conditions like ‘this, that a large delegation of min-|@ new trial. ers is expected to the July 4-5 na- s|ranging up to six months in jail speeding, wage cutting, discharge of |and fines of $500 each. |Mass Demonstration Is| . Twenty men, the entire work- The mine is a deep one, and PROTEST JAILING 15 IN CALIFORNIA Called for Saturday LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 13. —Fifteen workers who led - the} They face a sentence on Monday The jury deliberated one hour and ; They | Attor- | tional Labor Defense, will ask for) Frank Spector, Inter- | national Labor Defense organizer, tional convention on unemployment | is serving a ten days’ sentence. called to meet in Chicago. At least (Continued on Eco aes Three) NEW FOOD UNION BEING FORMED Next Sunday grocery, candy, bread and biscuit | factories, wholesale vegetable and fruit markets, and meat packing houses are called on this week by the Food Workers Section, Trade Union Unity League, to send dele- gates to the shop convention being held Sunday, April 20, at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Never before has such general work been carried on as now, to attract the hundreds of thousands of food fac tory workers to the need for organ- zation, Leadership of the convention will e taken by food workers fighting he boss-cooperation policies of. the \merican Federation of Labor and \malgamated Food Workers. The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- via Workers and the Food Clerks’ Unions, as well as minority T. U. U. L, groups in Bakers’ Local 500 and Waiters’ Local 1 will be repre- The purpose of the con- vention is to combine all these mili- | tant forces, together with shop, , committees from the big factories, into a new industrial union power- ful enough to combat the big food! | trusts and all the fascist forces of | | police, courts and labor crooks. SOVIET-U.S. TRADE INCREASES | Soviet purchases and sales in the | United States during the first half | | States of America. of the current fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1929, reached the record ‘igure of $98,000,000, as compared | betterment of conditions of the shoe A mass demonstration is being | arranged for Saturday, April 19, at |2 p.m. at Red Plaza to protest de- portations and to demand the re- lease of 250 workers on trial in} Japan, the unemployed delegation | | railroaded to jail, the Gastonia de- | | fendants and all class-war prison- | ers. Workers’ Ch Chicago Demonstrate; ildren in Police Raid Offices More Protest Tiarieatiane, Telegram Score Jailing of N. Y. Jobless Gounitee eal Tried Today; Powers for Lives April 21; \ and Carr on Trial) fore Defense Needed Protesting the sentencing of Harry Eisman, Young Pioneer of New York, to more than five years because he participated in the March 6 demons! tion, hundred of worke children, 1 e d by the Young Pioneers o f America, dem- onstrated be- for the board of education Saturday. Police at- tacked and drove about a ) hundred of the On Trial in Pontiac, | Pioneers into Mich., Today. | the station house, across the street. At latest information, 12 girls and four boys were still being held. When the Pioneers were taken to the detective bureau they continued their protest, formed in a ring and sang the Internationale loudly. Raid Party Office. Latest news from Chicago is that another revival of the attempt to terrorize the workers there has be- gun. A period of raids, arrests and Frank Waldren and Karl | slugging of workers, both before) and after arrest, preceded the be: March 6 demonstration. Now, fore the May 1 general pol strike and mass demonstratior employed and unemployed workers, the raids begin again. Squads from the detective bureau ded the offices of the Commu- nist Party and of the Young Pio- neers after the demonstration at the board of education and arrested eight men and four women workers, be- sides seizing quantities of leaflets and pamphlets. The charges on which these wor ers and the children arrested earlier are being held were not known here yesterday. Protest N. Y. Jailing. More resolutions and demonstra- tions in the latter part of last week |were points in the general wave of protest and defiance shown by all} unemployed and militant workers at the railroading to jail in New York of their elected representatives, Fos- jter, Minor, Amter, Raymond and |Lesten. The committee is in Tombs prison, held for sentencing April 21. They were incommunicado yester- day. The throngs assembled in Phila- delphia to greet John Porter, adopted | resolutions demanding the freeing of the New York committee of the un- (Continued on Page Three) RUMANIA MASSES. FIGHT POLICE War Vets in in Demand) for Pension Raise Associated Press dispatches from Vienna and Bucharest report seri- | lous clashes against the Rumanian Jailed “Shoe W Workers ‘Mass Convention Here, \Urge All to Build Up | National Shoe Union A visit to the shoe workers who are now on Welfare Island found! those still in jail very cheerful. The message that these prisoners send to the shoe workers states that not only are they themselves ready when released to ge back on the battle field but also urges all the! workers to line up behind the union to carry on the struggles for the | workers and the working class as a whole. These workers are now serving a jail sentence as a result of the wholesale attack made against the Independent Shoe Workers Union at the instigation of the labor hater C. G. Woods of the United States Department of Labor in collabora |tion with the bosses and the entire capitalist state so as to enable! them to again force the workers tu | work long hours at low wages an? {under the most intolerable condi- jtions from which the shoe workers, have successfully liberated them- | selves through organizing. The shoe workers prisoners urge ; the workers to mobilize for the fu- ture struggles, for the establishment of the forty-hour five-day week, for the abolition of the piece work sys. jtem and for the organization of 2 | National Industrial Shoe and Leath er Workers Union of the aa 61 per cent, according to an an- with $61,000,000 in the six months |nouncement of the Amtorg Trading ending March 31, 1929, a gain of | Corporation. CRISIS CUTS MILK SALE Jobless, ‘Wase- Cut Workers Can’t Buy CHICAGO, Ill, {men don’t like President Hoover's prosperity. They are selling less milk and they believe it is because | buy more. News says: The Dairymen’s League April 18.—Milk-|stiuation, In hundreds of cases i! tas been found that families have reduced the quantity of milk used because one or more members were urges the other 200 workers in the | the people haven’t the prosperity to! cut of work.” Dairy Produce, paper, say tl another tea time there is y “Much of the drop in consump- no doubt about a falling off in con- A meet- tion of bottled milk is attributed to sumption | of bottled milk, and there’s people because of the unemployment | | the cause . | authorities fordade the demons' | militant demonstration. fascist government by ex-service men and their dependents, demand- oe higher pensions for war widows bled veterans, pte are reported dead as a re-| |sult of a clash between government force. and the masses. Twenty were severely injured. The royal palace ;of the pandering Queen Marie is under heavy guard, with machine- gun posts flung all around it. strict censorship has been clamped | down to keep accurate news of the extent of the uprising from seeping out. Twenty-cight arrests have been made. Despite the fact that the fas tion, a large number paraded thru the principal streets of the city an strongly resisted the efforts of th police and soldie o break up the The dem- onstrants replied to the armed po. lice and soldiers with a shower of stones. Tail Student Strike Leaders for Showing Up School Corruptior HARROGATE, Tenn., April 13.-- Arrest of two leaders of the stu dents strike at the Lincoln Memo- rial University is the answer of the school authorities to the strike of the students called to expose cor- ruption of the university heads. | On 1 the Opening of | the Party Discussion For The Seventh National Con- vention of the Communist Party of U. A. Tn a few days the Daily Worker will print the Theses of the Economie and Political Situation | and Tasks of the Party, adopted | by the recent Plenum of the Cen- | tral Committee, which will be the | | basis of the Party discussion in| ' preparation for the Seventh Na- tional Convention. Tomorrow will begin the publication of the report on the Theses, delivered | | at the Plenum by Comrade Brow- der on behalf of the Politica: Buro. With the publ of the Theses the discussion wiil he | ing was held today at the union! the stringent circumstances of many /a reason,” giving nemb Ley meny as | Maiti ui ah sel |i aa Payee ARMS RACE SPUR IS MEET RESULT Want Unlimited Navy; May Not Sign “Treaty” } BULL . WASHINGTON, April 13.— Even the “big navy lobbyists” of the Shearer and Bethlehem Steel Corporation type will be satisfied with the tremendous increase in armaments as a result of the Lon- don meet, was the gist of a state- ment made today by President Hoover. Hoover also said that American imperialism comes out of the race-for-arms meet with greater gun power, both on bat- tleships and cruisers, than its bit- ter rival, British imperialism. * * * While Hoover the “agreement” as “a great step hails three- ower in world peace and an assurance of American parity in naval strength,” the British imperialists their intention of incorp “safeguarding” clause in the pros- pective treaty which will allow them to increase their building pro- | gram in case any nation not a party to the treaty exceeds what they con- sider as the safety point. In view of the fact that both France and Italy, the other two nembers of the five-power confer- ence, have categorically refused to announce ating a agree to any naval limitations, the! three-power treaty even if signed will remain nothing but a scrap of paper, However, the British position, j which reveals the unbridgeable an- ‘tagonism between the British and American imperialists as well as between the British and French im- perialists, is a positive indication | that the treaty may not even be (Continued on Page Three) PREPARATIONS MADE IN FRISCO, YOUNGSTOWN, | SOUTH FOR MASS STRIKE ‘Negro, Filipino, Cliinese, “Festa Workers Rally for May Demonstration Youngstown Bosses Frantic at United Action of Workers Preparations to turn M: international working class | tical strikes against capitalism, wage cuts, against the menace and for the defense of the Sovie’ PREPARE FOR MAY 1,000 Delegates from | Shops, Organizations Over a thousand representatives of working class organizations, shop | committees, and unemployed coun- cils are expected at the united front May Day conference, to be held Thursday, April 24, 8 p. m., at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., to lay down final preparations for the jhuge demonstration and political mass strike on May First. | Despite the howling threats of Cossack Whalen and his fascist hirelings, the workers of New York ‘are preparing the largest May Day | demonstration in the history of New York. Under the issue of the poli-| tical mass strike, and with active preparations in the shops, the work- fers are being organized to fight against unemployment, for “Work or Wages,” ee of the Communist Part Pointing out that “the workers of le York City have demonstrated on May st the traditional inter- national day of solidarity,” the workers should fight for the right of the streets in general and Union Sq. in part the Williamsburgh Parents cil passed a resolution calling on all workers to take part in the May | Pay demonstration. HARPER, KELLY ON TRIAL TODAY Beaten in Cell Tried | to Protest Lynching y Sol Harper, Negro organizer for the I. L. D., and the American gro Labor Congress and Rose Kelly, a militant white worker, are on trial today charged with “inciting to riot” because of their attempt with other workers, to present an amend- ment in the meeting called by the right wing clique in control of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por- ters, in regard to the lynching of Wilkins, The amendment resolution put up by gang called for picketing of the Pullman Co. offices, nation-wide protest meetings, and strike on May | First. Choked With Lynch Chain. to the feeble | The amendment was offered by Herbert Newton of the A.N.L.C but before the first clauses wer fini ae the chairman demanded his arrest, and he was thrown out by the police. Harper arose to speak; the police; seized him and strangled him with the chain used to lynch a Negro | | woman in the South, which chain | (Continued on Page Two) NEGRO PAPER GREETS | Baily Communists Fight for Race Equality BALTIMORE, Md., April 13. Afro-American, Negro periodical, ‘editorializes under the heading, “The Reds Are Right:” “There are those who ridicule and hate the Commun: But no Ne- gro, however conservative, can af- ford, without deliberation, to take part in an; anti-Comniunist pro- ;gram, for this reason if no other, namely, not since the Abolitionists jof 75 years ago has any organized movement, itt ahriatlat or secular, ac- cepted the Negro as a comrade and out segregation. | activities, from the bread line dem- | onstrations to the executive commit- | tees, which is more than can he said jfor the Y. M. C. A., the G. O. (lily- white) P., and the so-called chris- | tien church organizations.” solidarity, into a day of mas ee Ge ees HOUr. DAY IN NEW YORK and for the other slo-| and that | Randolph’s | brother without apology and with- “The Communist Party has Negro! | representatives in every phase of its! {, the traditional day of poli- against unemployment, against of a new world imperialist war t Union as well as for the seven- day and the five-day week, are being intensified from coast to co i *- oe F Frisco Prepares. In San front preliminary conference was held night, at which fort; attended from twent Francisco, a united May Day last Friday one delegates ve workers fg The delegates in cluded Negroes, Filipinos, Chinese Japanese, representatives of the un- employed councils and trade unions A larger conference has _ been called for the 25th of this month and five thousand calls have been issued for representatives from the workers in the factories. In addition the workers will demonstrate in Civic Square at 1 o’clock, following which a mass meeting will be held in the evening at the Civie Audi torium. Sixty thousand leaflets have been issued for this purpose by the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, the Young Commun- ‘ist League and the Unemployed Councils. Ten thousand copies of a special edition of the Daily Worker will be distributed. ee eee, Struggle for Steel Town. In Youngstown, Ohio, where 20,- 000 workers are unemployed thousands of others are working only part time, the City Counci frightened by the mighty demon (Continued on Page Three) MAZZOLA MEET BACKS MAY DAY Denounces Murder of | Worker by Police hundreds of workers a tremendous “Yes” when Nessin, district secretary the International Labor Defense, asked for adoption of the resolu- tion of protest against the grow- ing police terrorism and the United States, in the held yesterday in Manhattan~Ly- ceum by the I. L. D, and the Anti- Fascist Alliance, in protest against the murder of the anti-fa worker, Gino Mazzola, by a police thug. Speakers called for a mass polite ical strike May 1 and for demon- stvations. Many man of | Speakers at the meeting were Secretary Markoff, of the Anti- Fascist Federation of America; George Maurer, assistant secretary jof the I. L. D.; Alexander, Negro organizer of the I. L. D.; Di Bar- cola, of the Anti-F; Alliance (speaking in Italian), and Beatrice Siskind, New York secretary of the | 1, Dy Join I. L. Dy Many workers present joined the I. L. D. and Anti ists. Tele- grams of greetings were adopted to | (Continued on Page Two) Eee | Today in the Worker ee the Carib- | Jobless Struggles in | bean—Page 4. |_ The Millionaire “Daily Herald”— Page 4. Birthday of Caucasian Soviet Re- publie—Page 4. Situation in China—Page 3, TOMORROW Report of Comrade Browder to Central Committee Plenum. The Demonstration in Eldorado. Letter of an Ex-Catholie and Daily Worker Booster. How the Corporations Made Hay —By Solon De Leon. pata pity