The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1930, Page 1

| | N a “The Police are Good Natinred * aily 22 Worker FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Company 24 Union Square, Vol. VI, No. 345 pprodaily Publishing York City, N. ¥. a1 BSCRIPTION RA‘ w ¥ 86 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan ity and foreign countries, there $8 year. . “Price 3 Cents ” ANSWER THE BOSSES TERROR BY HUGE MAY DAY STRIKE! Committee of Unemployed in Jail il Calls for 50, 000 Recruits to Join in Unity League “Most Important Victory of 146 DELEGATES PLAN MASS(10,000 British Wool Years”’---Crain The prosecuting attorney who assisted the trio of judges in rail- roading the Unemployed Delegation to jail, Mr. Crain, declares that this conviction was “the most important victory of years.” Victory of whom, against whom? There is not the slightest doubt that Mr. Crain had in mind a victory of the capitalist class over the working clas That the workers should dare to elect a delegation to present demands for the unemployed, this was a direct threat against the capitalist sys- tem. Unless checked, it would threaten the profits of the Wall Street bankers. To terrorize the workers, to prevent them from raising their demands, their Delegation must be sent to prison. Mr. Crain succeeded in this job which was assigned to him. He sent the Delegation to prison. He thinks the workers are thus defeated. He thinks this is “the most important victory in years” for the capitalist class. But Mr. Crain is sadly mistaken. His victory is of the kind made famous many many centuries ago by the Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. The boss-class of the United States, when faced with the demonstration of over a million workers on March 6, fell into panic and struck back at a few hundred of the leaders, sending them to prison, as they now railroad Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten. Then they claim these railroadings as “victories.” of Heraclea, they may well exclaim, “A few more such victories and we are lost.” ‘And now in preparation for May Day, Policeman Whalen is pre- paring for another “victory” of capitalism. His 19,000 policemen, horses, machine guns, gas hombs, bomb squad, norcotic squad, ete., ete.. are all drawn up in battle array to keep the workers out of Union Square. He feels very strong and heroic, Mr. Whalen, facing the crowds of unarmed workers with all this machinery of death in his hands. is going to register another “victory” over the wor! ing class! Out of such “victories” of capitalis however, consciousness of the working class, its welding together as a class, its knowledge of who are its enemies, its realization of how it must organ- ize and with what weapons it must fight. For us, every step in this But as with Pyrrhus at the battle | He is emerging the | ‘ i = POLITICAL STRIKE AT MAY DAY CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO |Workers Answer to Police Raids and Teror! | and mines. BORNO BALKS ON | WALL ST. ORDERS ‘Haitian Union Cringes! With a little over two weeks left to May Day, preparations | | for the mass political strike on May First are being pushed | rapidly throughout the country, especially in the shops, mills The hugest demonstration on May Day ever | known in the United States is assured by the united front con- Seer ae —— ferences already held in |Chi-} direction is really a great victory. Reversing and paraphrasing the formula of Pyrrhus we can say, “A few more such ‘defeats’ as that of March 6, and we will be victorious.” May Day, despite all the Whalens and Crains, will mark another step forward of the rising working class. Whalen’s “victories” will be but milestones on the way to downfall of the entire system that he represents. Police--- Agents of ( Cioiuen| Policeman Whalen, ex-floorwalker from Wanamaker’s Store, flies from his former preoccupations with silks, ribbons, and underpaid salesgirls, to the extremes of bloodthirsty threats of “police clubs beat- ing a rataplan upon Communist skulls.” The spectre of May Day keeps him awake at nights. He mobilizes his army in preparation for bloody war. His army is not alone the 19,000 men of “the finest force in the world.” When Whalen boasts about having “undercover” men in the Communist movement, doubtless he means to indicate the hearty co operation he receives from the renegades who still call themselves Communists. They are also acting as police agents of capitalism, ever if their “cover” has been torn from them by their expulsion from the Communist Party and their exposure in all their renegade nakedness. When Whalen declares that all workers who demonstrate on May Day “will land in jail or in the hospital,” Mr. Gitlow takes the cue, steps forward and says, “It has been a mistake to come into conflict with the police and this conflict must be avoided at all costs.” When Whalen says that the May Day demonstrations have been “ordered by Moscow,” Gitlow promptly seconds him with a denuncia- tion of “orders from Moscow.” When Whalen declares that “the police will be relentlessly rough,” Gitlow responds that “We must force the Party leadership to retreat.” Ludwig Lore hastens to join Whalen and Gitlow, in the Volkszei- tung of April 13, declaring that he “agrees with Deriamin Gitlow,” de- nounces the Unemployed Delegation as “doing the job of the reac- tionaries.” The*Cannonites have already long ago taken their place in the | front line trenches against the March 6th and May Ist demonstrations. The line-up is complete. Whalen has mobilized all his forces. But the workers will make May Day a huge demonstration for unemployment insurance, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, and against imperialist war, in spite of all the capitalists and their lackeys. Forward to the great May Day demonstration! the entertainment account. This Whalen Gets Praise ' would settle the Communists once for Threats Against | and for all time. A. D. DRAKE Workers On May Day | “Ridgewood, N. J., April 12. While Whalen issues his blood-| WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14. surdling — manifestos against the |_Mrs, Lowell F. Hobart, president May Day demonstrations, his fas-| general of the “Daughters of the it aides in the War Veterans as-| American Revolution” (bourgeois iations have a free run in the | landlord war, not social revolution) pitalist press to openly call for in her address to the national con- violence against the workers. The vention of the order today urged ‘ollowing is a typical example of|a big navy and a war on “the Reds.” she fascist spirit that is being care- SHE-JINGO WANTS WAR. Before Hoover | | BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, April 14.— Laying the ground for sending more marines to Haiti, the U. 8. | State Department has “warned” Borno, its puppet, that Wall Street insists on his replacement | by the banker Eugene Roy, a tool of the National City Bank of New York. ee er PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, April 14.—Undoubtedly acting under Hoo- yer and Wall St. instructions, Pres-| ident Borno of Haiti has ordered the | postponement of the appointment of successor by the Council of State. | Sometime ago the banker -led Forbes commission to Haiti recom- mended that the friend of the Na-! tional City Bank of New York, Eugene Roy, replace Borno. Borno, who has the full confidence of Hoo- ver, balked. * A statement issued today by the New York branch of the Haitian ‘Patriotic Union points, out that | (Continued on Page Two) * * NEEDLE DELEGATE | MEETING TONIGHT : \May 1 Demonstration| Will be Planned A shop delegates’ meeting of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union is called for tonight, 7:30 p. m., in Manhattan Lyceum. All | Workers in open-shop and company- junionized shops are urged to hold j;meetings and elect delegates to |meet with the N. T. W. I. U. shop delegates and plan a fight against |the bosses and ‘the company union. The meeting will take up recom- mendations for activity in all branches of the trade, the unem- {ployment question and plans to |build the councils of the unemployed, 'the membership ¢ampaign, plans for | political strike and mass demon- strations on May 1, the nomination | of delegates to the Fifth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, and the election of five delegates to the executive council i political strike and demonstration, a ee | |JAIL PEASANT DELEGATES IN| ‘ully cultivated, and which will be vesponsible for such disorders as nay develop besides those officially sponsored by Whalen himself: “To the Editor of the Sun— Sir: Congratulations to your newspaper for devoting a consid- erable amount of space recently to Police Commissioner Whalen's arrangements for, entertaining the Communists of Russia. on May | Day. | “As a former member of the | Twelfth Infantry and an Ameri- | can by birth this seems to me to | be fair enough warning to these disturbers, but I should like to | suggest for the Commissioner's | eensideration, while he still has | | time before the big show, that it would be fair to reward the cops who will have to do extra duty. Why not pay them a bonus of $5 for every head they crack and fine them $10 for every head they miss? The city could well afford to pay the sum and charge it to | the withdrawal of a law-suit from ‘the money involved A NEW FORM OF DONATION. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Fagan and Gershonitz donated $10 to the Daily Worker. This donation is based on of the Industrial Union. Convention June 6. Saturday an all-day session of the New York sub-committee of the G. E. B. heard full reports from all cities. The sub-committee voted for a national convention to be held in New York City June 6, 7 and 8. ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE Rebel Competition in “Daily” Drive BULLETIN. | PHILADELPHIA, April 14.— | | the capitalist courts and donating | to the Daily Worker and Freiheit. i circulation for the Daily Worker, are urged to be present. Preparations are now being made bate Pade he for the Daily Worker's Builders’ Conference, to be held on Tues- day, April 15, at 8 p. m., at 1124 Spring Garden St. Workers’ cor- respondents, | as well as represen- tatives of all workers’ organiza- tions interested in building a mass In the drive for 30,000 new read- ers for the Daily Worker by June |1, the Cleveland District of the 'Communist Party has accepted the ‘challenge of the Philadelphia Dis- ‘trict that they will| pass their re- | (Continued on Puge Three) Against Communist Party Workers Against Boss Thugs Form Defense Corps to Protect Negro-White ey \ cago, New York, Youngstown, in many southern cities, and) other industrial centers. Masses of workers will come out in the streets under the leadership of the Communist Party for the slogans of “Work or Wages,” un- employment insurance, for the 7- hour day, 5-day week, against im- perialist war danger, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. * * * Big Preparations in Chicago. CHICAGO, April 14.—Despit=) renewed police terror, a United Front May Day conference was held, with 146 delegates present repre | |senting 87 working class organiza- tions, a number of shop groups from | heavy industries, industrial leagues, | needle trades unions, left-wing | groups in A. F. of L. unions, seven unemployed councils, Trade Union | Unity League, and fraternal and co- | operative bodies. There were twenty Negro dele- gates at the conferences. Negro | speakers especially welcomed the | adoption of a resolution calling on the workers to partake in a mass | and to set up shop May Day action (Continued on Page Three) International Wireless News (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | BERLIN, April ‘14.—The Reich- stag today adopted oppressive ag-| arian customs measures, with 250 votes for and 204 against. Bourgeois and Socialist parties rejected all| Communist amendments. Various | tax proposals received majorities of | from six to ten votes. The Bruening cabinet is secure. The cost of living must increase as a result of the customs tax laws. * + «8 | POLAND. WARSAW, Poland, April 14.—| Delegates to the European Peasant} Congress were sentenced to two) weeks’ imprisonment each, plus fines of three hundred Zloty, or further four weeks in jail. 8 ® SHANGHAI, April 14.—Kuangsi forces defeated Red troops and oc- cupied Longchow near the Indo- Chinese frontier, with the active sup- port of the French authorities who dispatched planes and native troops. | The rebels shot down three French | j planes. Communist prisoners who were} captured were mowed down by ma- chine gun fire. The press attempts to justify the French intervention by declaring | that Russians led the rebels, five of | the latter who were captured were immediately executed. Capitalist agencies seek to pre-| sent the French action as “a coin-) cidence,” and a reprisal for expulsion of French missionaries. Neither the Chinese press nor or ernment protested against French military action on Chinese soil. MAY DAY ARRESTS CONSTANTINOPLE, April 14. —Eight workers were arrested in Smyrna today for distributing lite: ature in connection with organiza- tion for May Day demonstrations. WISCONSIN A.F.L. MEETS JULY 15, LA CROSSE, Wis—The annual convention of the Wisconsin State} Federation of Labor will open in La Crosse July 15, Workers Strike Under | Left Wing Leadership LONDON, April 14.—Over 100,000 wool workers went on strike today under the leadership of the Minority Movement in the National Union of Textile Workers against wage reductions proposed by the bosses and supported by the “labor” government. * . The textile bosses of Great Britain for a long time have been maneuvering to institute drastic wage cuts against all wool workers. Recently the workers voted 7 to 2 to reject the revised wage reduc- tions offered by the bosses. Over 72 per cent of the 200,000 wool workers refused to accept the wage cuts. The Minority Movement called a wool workers’ conference on March 23 at Bradford and organized Councils of Action throughout the country. * The executive board of the National Textile Workers Union, U. S. A,, is calling a special meeting to take up the question of organizing support in this country for the striking British wool workers. LONGSHOREMEN FOR NEW UNION Thugs, Threats Fail to) Meme HOOVER WANTS WAR ON USSR. Speech Also I Hits U. S. SCORES LYING STORY OF INTERVIEW IN BOSS PRESS; URGES STRUGGLE \No Coxey’s Army March; No Food Strike, But ‘Program of Organization and Mass Convention | za 5,000 Mostly Mexican, Negro Jobless Demand Work or Wages in San Antonio Parade vy Yesterday the elected representatives of the 110, 000 dem- | onstrating on March 6 in Union Square against unemployment | sent out from Tombs Prison a stirring call to workers and the | jobless to make the May Day demonstration the greatest ever | held, and forecasting the mass character of the national con- pees rea BONVICTED INLOS ANGELES where at least 10,000 delegates | \are expected. | Powers and Cc arr Tried for Life, Monday “Tell the workers for us that the) 1 /drive for 50,000 new members of |the Trade Union Unity League and |the revolutionary unions affiliated |to it is the way toward the next! Her, active organizer of the unem- | Stop Organizing PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 14. —The vicious slugging of Karl Mil-| ployed on the} Philade Iphia| | waterfront by | “Polly” Baker, a henchman of the notorious —rack-| |eteer Ryan of he International | Long shoremeu | Association is but | 3 another _indica- | e tion of how the: Karl Miller jabor fakers car- ry out the policy of their bosses. Despite all intimidation the work-| |ers on the waterfront, badly hit by | the speed up methods now employed that have thrown thousands of them | says |tire working class, Hoover in his | shared among evei jerees advance of our class,” 7,000,000 Jobless { their statement. It was issued by} WASHINGTON, A\ April 14—With | 'Robert Minor for the committee, | over 7,000,000 American workers | nsisting of Minor, William Z. facing starvation, and millions more | °° . : suffering from ‘drastic wage-cuts, | Foster, Israel Amter, Harold Ray-| and wage-cuts threatening the en- |mond, and Joseph Lesten. These five are in prison waiting sentence reactionary | Monday, after three judges in a} speech before the |Daughters of the American Revolu- | juryless trial Friday declared them | tion taday had the gall to state: “There are showered upon us as a people the blessings of general well-being to a degree which no other nation possesses and that | national well-bein; more fairly y class of our people than of any other nation.” Speaking on the naval conference, he endeavored to cover up the sharp rivalries of the imperialist powers, and especially those between the United States and Great Britain. | guilty of “unlawful assembly.” Capitalist Press Lies. Minor brands as false much of what was published by New York; capitalist papers Sunday, purport- ing to be an interview with the} committee. Reporters of the Daily | Worker were denied access to the jailed workers’ leaders Sunday, but | yesterday Minor stated as follows: “The City News Service, after | pretending to take a statement ver- on the beach, are joining the unem-}| However, he admitted that Ameri-| ployed councils and will together|/can imperialism comes out of the with their fellow-workers be fully | London race-for-arms meet “strong- represented at thé mass unemployed | er in defense as a result of the con-| convention at Chicago on July 4. | ference.” Despite the threats of “Polly”| Hoover called for some form of Baker against any longshoremen j “mobilization of public opinion” (in who attended a mass meeting of the reality mobilization of the imperial- | Marine Workers League at the head- ist powers with their force of arms | | quarters, 117 Walnut St., in prepara-|in such “difficulties in the instance | tion for the national convention and us to increase our cruiser ton- (Continued on Page Three) GLAIM PEACE BUT RACE FOR WAR Spread Smoke Sereen | to Hide War Moves Having accomplished its imperial- | ist aims in the sphere of naval tech- | inology, the American delegation to | | the London Naval Conference has| * now turned its attention to the task of conducting an ideological cam-| paign among the American masses | to cover up the actual preparations | for war under the guise of pacifist, achievements. While Secretary Stimson’s radio | address Sunday was not exactly the opening gun in this campaign, it is the first broadside to play up| the pacifist accomplishments of the conference, which he hypocritically says is connected with “the great world movement for peace.” The real accomplishments of the conference was indicated by Stim- son himself when he said: “Our Navy was ill-balanced... In order to create a smaller but better-balanced fleet than we now have «and to achieve parity with Great Britain it is necessary for | nage.” The American imperialists have carried away a program that wil] place their navy on a more modern; ba and will not only formally give them parity with England but will actually place them in a super- ior naval position for the impending war. CLASHES IN BERLIN. BERLIN, April 14.—A clash oc- | curred yesterday evening between workers supporting the Meoetelt ary National Socialists in the Magdeburg district. Several were fired, ‘of the Chinese-Ri dispute.” This is a direct mobilization against {the Soviet Union, in harmony with other imperialist power PAINT! ERS MEET 1 MEET The painters’ section of the Trade Union Unity League calls for un- organized painters to a mass meet- ing Thursday at 8 p. m. to build a strong painters’ section of the Building Trades Industrial League. San Sa Ae ate Today in the | Daily 32: Worker Bel cl HE aha oat Report to Central Committee, Communist Party, by Browder— Page 4. Preparing May Day in Southern Illinois Coal Fields—Page 4. Geneva Economic Conference—- Page 3. An Ey-Catholic Issues the Slogan | “Remember March 6!”"—Page 3. Iron Heel of New Jersey Trusts Page 4. TOMORROW. The Case of the Working Class Leaders of India. A Letter From a Starving Negro Woman Worker. The Economic Crisis and the |Third Period. “What Must Be Done’ Article| iby I, Amter--Written in Tombs | Star Casino. | Prison. : NEGRO WORKERS FIGHT THURSDAY. | batim, has caused to be published | in several newspapers a supposed linterview which has hardly any re- |semblance to our statement. The |stories as appearing in several papers show a deliberate suppres- sion of our words and an invention of malicious lies as to our actions in the prison, together with mis- |quotations and distortions. This especially applies to what these papers attribute to us in regard to a sort of a “Coxey’s march” of un- employed workers to Washington. The alleged hunger strike is a com- In |plete and unqualified invention. (Continued on Page Three) PROTEST MEETING ON APRIL 20TH Against Satire of the Jobless Committee On April 20, Sunday, the dav preceding the sentencing by Wail! Street Tammany Judges of the Job- less Committee elected March 6, and the trial of Carr and Powers in Atlanta, Ga., for speaking before a meeting attended by Negro and, to organize, and two days before the Gastonia appeal comes to court, a mass meeting will be called to pro- test against all these cases of cap- italist vengeance and attempts by the bosses’ government to prevent) the organization and struggles o7 | the working class. The meeting will be held 2:00 P. M. at the wil! address the meeting. 250 Storm Factory for Rights MEMPHIS, April id Over 250 ; "pitched ‘battle that followed, when |leged violation of Negro workers yesterday stormed) the plant of the Murray Wood Prod- ucts Co, in a militant protes' |the company gangsters tried to] | break up the demonstration. A riot ‘call was sent in for police reinforce- | against three vicious white-chauv-| ments to help the company gunmen inist foremen who had discriminated | against the workers, |Party and members of the reaction- | and brutally treated Negro workers. | now heavily guardel by private; The plant is Armed company thugs finally dis-| stool-pigeons who are armed with workers were wounded in shots | persed the workers. Twenty Negro| machine guns, tear gas bombs, and the| riot guns white workers and advising them | New| Prominent speakers | | LOS ANGELES, Cal. April 14.— Saturday 17 workers, including | Frank Waldron, former Trade Union | Unity League district secretary here, and Carl Sklar, Communist’ Party section organizer, were “found guilty” of a-variety-of charges, “as- | Sault,” inciting to riot,” “blocking traffic,” “remaining at the place of riot,” ete, Sentence will be given Maa They were those brought to trial of 46 arrested when 10,000 Los An- geles unemployed and militant work- ers fought in the March 6 demon- stration. The rest of the 40 had | been dismissed or given small sen- | | tences. Clear Cut Case. It was a clear case from the be- ‘ginning. Prosecuting Attorney Hor- nady told the jury “I don’t care what | the witne: say. These defenders are rioters, Bolsheviks, Communists, |they want to overthrow your gov- ernment and help the damnable gov- {ernment of Russia; we must stop j their activities.” i Labor Jury Verdict. The labor jury, headed by P. Chambers, brought in a verdict of not guilty for the workers, and guilty for the capitalist courts, and the police, railroading these workers to jail. Mayor Porter and Chief of Police Steckl were placed on the stand to prove the conspiracy to attack the workers, but the judge saved them | from all such questions. Steck] admitted that he said, “I would employ machine guns if need- ed.” Powers, Carr Face Death. M. H. Powers, organizer for the Communist Party, and J. C. Carr, (Continued on Page Three) PREPARING BOSS WAR LONDON, April 14.—War man- Jeuvers in the form of aeroplane attack and defense are now going on over London. The British air maneuvers go on at the same time that the American army and navy jis carrying on similar movements in San Francisco. | | TARDIEU YV cis PENSION | cu | PARIS, April 14.—A conflict has | developed over the pension bill, dur- ing the discussion of the budget, which is threatening the Tardieu ,| government. Tardieu wants the pensions cut. | : ee Sc Sa Today in History of the Workers _ YP SBNS April 15, 1861-Joseph Dietzgen, revolutionary German working-class | philosopher, died in Chicago. 1917— | 300,000 Berlin workers struck against reduced war-time bread ration. 1918—Editors of “Masses” New York for al- espionage act. 1919—Eight thousand New England telephone girls struck for higher pay and union recognition. 1920— Twenty-four leaders of “outlaw” jrailroad strike arrested in Chicago, warrants issued for 200 more. 1921 —German Red Aid formed to care fpr revolutionary workers and their milies in need » put on trial