The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1930, Page 2

RAID AGRICULTURAL - LEAGUE IN EL CENTRO ARREST 85 WORKERS Organizer Horiueki anki eee ention Delegates Who Were Arranging Meeting Jailed Charge Insurrection; Fanciful Details; League Was Preparing Imperial Valley Strike Calif., April the offices of the Workers’ Industrial Agricultural League, of the Trade Union Unity Le gue here tc Or- arresting ganizer T. Horiuchi and 85 men bers of the league. The object the raid o stop the rapid organ- the league here and the the canteloupe packers was foreshadowed by th e of 15,000 Mexican and Fili- s in Februar, @ was a sponta: against intolerable housing condi- tions and long hours. It was be- ican liberal organ- n large numbers in t » preparing for strike Convention Delegates. Many of those arrested were dele- gates to the first convention of the 15.— more wages and 1 , and the workers have been Agricultural Workers’ Indystrial League, which was scheduled ‘to be held in this town next Satuniay. The February strike was accom- ied by widespread police terror, d accompanied by a general in- ement to race war by the em- ers, during the course of which American Legionnaires with ma- ne guns and rifles attacked Fili- pino agricultural workers all over the state, and precipitated fights in which one Filipino worker was, killed in the Salinas Valley, fe h of here, and Filipino club: d rooming houses were bombed. s after the first e, when slice and U. S. army officers oked up a story about’ a plot to ea U, ory near Monterey, d stage armed rebellion, so now ilar stories are circulated about the league in the Imperial Valley. The arrested workers are being charged with insurrection. Befriends British Masters in Palestine Martin W. Littleton, other corporations yesterday issue Government for its failure to set er areas for Jewish people in Palestine. an attack on the Communi: who war makers and the util soldiers during the last imperialis setting up a Jewish homeland in Pal than a million Arabs to 150,000 Je Littleton unwittingly exposes Palestine when he pointed out that capitalist lawyer for the oil interests and d a vicious attack on the British up a complete system on jim crow Littleton at the same time mad have exposed the trick of the British tion of thousands of Jewish workers as t war by making false promises of stine which is populated by more we. the veal purpose of the Brit in “there is no doubt that the British have done a wonderful piece of work from the standpoint of order and sanitation. voted by lenby (the British spy gen- litary foresight.” Wall Street Wants New Haiti Office Boy WASHINGTON. D, C.—Pr Borno, Wall puters flunkey hi been again ass! support of United States to oppress the Haitian » Hoover’s fake and jim crow commission having served its purpose in aking a visit tc Haiti and recommending certain gestures to the revolting Haitians, ineluding promise of the appoint- ment of Eug Roy, native banker, | is now in the discard, Borno again assumes full role ef | ident | oppressor for the National City Bank and other capitalist interests in Haiti. Workers in Port au Prince are not to be allowed to stand the streets. Borno has been ordered to issue a proclamation urging the election of a tempgrary President of Haiti, | The Colncil which selects the |president was appointed by Borno jand if Roy is selected, the only change will be another office boy arvangement for American capital- ists. Socialist Fascists WEIRMAR, Germany, April 15.—Dr. Fricke, national socialist (fas- |Labor and Fraternal Drive on Negroes | Brotherhood to drop the charges cist) minister of education, made a vicious attack upon Negro actors here today. He threatened to revoke the licenses of any employer who might ailow Negro actors and dancers to appear in their theatres or places of entertainmeni nation which he as a part of the ru war of 1914 to 1919, He openly attacked the Negro workers, with the excuse that he must preserve the national character of the German | 1: ling class helped to guide during the Try to Break Soviet-French Relations As War) Step Attempts to break diplomatic relations between the Soviet U: and France are being made by re- actionary circles the Pravda stated last Monday, according to an As- sociated Press dispatch. France, the Pravda is reported as saying, is the “headquarters of a new se- ion | vies of international intrigues and | for war against the Soviet Union _ The property of the Soviet Oil udicate and the Soviet sion in Paris was recently at- | tacked by a French court in fa- vor of the Spanish bank Arnhus, | trade | L, itll Government Arms British Imperialism! on} 4; |New ¥ ork Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement LONDON April 15.—A trade agreement with the Soviet was announced in Par! Union liament yes: terday by Hugh Dalton, under retary of foreign affairs. Mild eri- | ticism greeted the trade agreement |, from the conservatives. However, | the “labor” minist softened the | criticism by providing that the} | agreement could easily be by a six-months’ notice. Pravda Exposes French War Plans Pravda is quoted in an Associated Press dispatch from Moscow | _ as saying that reactionary circles to break diplomatic relations betw in France were doing their utmost een the Soviet Union and France, “France is the headquarters of a new series of international in- trigues and plans for war against Pravda’s comments follow the property ‘belonging to the Soviet trade mission in Paris. the Soviet Union,” Prayda says. action of a French court in stealing Union oil syndicate and the Soviet Talk Further Enslavement of Egypt LONDON, April 15.—Discussions were held today between imperialist supporters in the British ‘labor” government and Nahas Pasha on the | question of a treaty binding the Egyptian masses: more closely to, the British masters, ; The betrayal has been going for a month, with great seereey cov ering the discussions. Some diff‘ ‘culties are reported from the meet ings as to the division of the spoil |wrung from the Egyptian masse: Tardieu Hits War Vets PARIS, April 15.—Tardieu wot m a victory in the Chamber of Depu- ties today against the great mass of war veterans and their dependents by a refusal of the deputies by 319 to 260 to raise the pensions of the disabled soldiers. In order to appease the vietims of the imperialist war, a compro- mise motion is to be mupeesiee pro viding for a five per cent increase, Bosses Would A Abolish Union Square Following closely P: sioner Whalen’s careful insist« at the trial of the committee of the unemployed Friday that Union Sq. is only the space along the side- walk of 17th St., and the rest of the square is “Union Park” on which no workers’ meetings are al- ‘e Commis- lowed, Whalen’s backers and bosses, , the realestaters who run the “Broad- ,| way Association,” put forth plans to abolish the whole thing. Coupled with a scheme to widen Broadway is their proposition,made at their meeting yesterday, to turn Union Square and Madison Square into a “eivic center’—lawns and buildings and no meeting places, Drug Clerks to Meet A meeting of the drug clerks will take place Thursday, April 17, at « Can Houxe Delegates, ne immediately 140 1 St., White! of how om you can take are of and how nights }8:30 p. m,, at 125 W. 45th St., Room | Thursday, April 17th °* f On Saturday, April 26, the Hi, ‘ond stinual affair of the drug clerks [will be held, broken | #umbe Dé ATL ¥ “labor” chancelor o, yesterday Snowden, budget speech war. viet Union. that British with the help of the slimy labor ministers—for the next imperia Out of a budget of $4,000,000,000 proposed by the labor gov- ernment, about $2,000,000,000 or more than one-half is to arm capi- talism against the workers ond colonial peoples—and against the So- Photo shows British tr WORKER, NEW YORK, WE DNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930) ish In * WL BUILD NAYY. "SECOND TO! be About 1 Reductions; | Inerease Unlimited | The British and American im- perialists have agreed to incor- porate the “safeguarding” clause ‘into the proposed naval treaty, A dispatch from Raymond Gre ‘ Swing to the New York Eveniz j the exchequer, admitted in his Post states: imperialism was preparing— “The New York Evening Post learns that the escape clause will be one which permits any signa- tory of the three oceanic powers which feels itself endangered’ to increase its navy without consul- ‘oops in Palestine. HARPER, KELLEY |NTWIU PICKETS TRIAL TOMORROW IN FINE FIGHT Rank and File Protests) Brotherhood’s Charge | BL ETIN. LOCUST GROV E, —The coroner's jury here, the lynching traditions white exploiters, fix any blame for the murder of Wilkins. April 15, loyal to of the | has refused to | Sol. Harper, organizer fop eet American Negro Labor Congress | and Rose Kelley, come to trial to- morrow before Judge Ford in 151st court on charges of disorderly con- duct because Harper rose last Fri- day in a public meeting called by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to speak on a resolution con- demning the Wilkins lynching and | proposing real action in protest in- | stead of the hog wash of “sym- pathy” over a “mysterious” crime which the Randolph clique official: were pouring out. Kelley was jailed for defending Harper. The charges were brought General Secretary Treasurer Lancaster for the brotherhood. The Neg urgeois press is di- vided. T gro World carries the D. story of the lynching; the ; News carries the sto and the resolutions adopted at sev eral mass meetings held by the A.N. C. and the LL.D. The Age fol lows the capitalist line about a “mys- terious murder,” though the I.L.D. by Roy | | | hite train crew that lynched Wil- kins. The Associated Negro Press story follows the line of the LL.D |The Amsterdam News advises the Organizations | Wemen's Council Concert and Ball, atu x pril 19, M: n Lys reum, Smith 3and, at door. » m., at Workers + # o-Vanaetti TLD. 1472 Boston Road. Workers Laboratory g this wee Theatre, | p.m tere Mans Meeting. 4 Sist St Main Aye. | Wedne: No. Ruth No, Fi ey Ave. Martha Stone, aiGise oleneer Girector, will, speak. * Brighton Reach May 1. Mi: Friday. 8.30 p. Ave m. Beach Prominent * * my . 17th st a ee Freiheit: Mandolin Orchestra. Saturday, Town Hall, 113 W. 43rd t. YN SHOE HOOL, 1084 tenchew all trades Monday, | Wednesday and Friday Evenings. ‘UO TCHERS’ UNION focal 174, A.M.0.&B.W. of A Office and Headquart ‘aher Temple, ia B84 st. Room 12 tegular meetings every first and “d third Sunday, 10 ‘< M. employment Bureay ope ope overs day AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Meets Ist Saturday in the monch at BROT | Advertise your Union Meetings: i here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER | Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City Hotel & Restaurant Workers Branch of the Amalgamated Hood Workers. 1 W, 21st St. N, Phone Ch a 2274 Business meetings pee the fire Monday of the month a‘ Hducational Monday of ¢ ‘6 eetieme every afternoon at o'el ook | police jaccept an assistant head cutter who .| Junior Section L.S.U. ‘has proved amply that it was the tation.” The utter hypocrisy ar dishonesty of the figures to “prove arms limitation” and savings” ing peddled by government spok men were exposed by an edit statement of yester 's Journal of Commerce, which writes for Wall Street and not mass consumption. Admitting that a “new ra is being developed s extremely adaptable and 2 of using the statistics nd outright ace of Union Gives Example) of Solidarity to All | Fighty workers, 60 of them gir picketing the S. Cohen underwear | icing that needs to be demot shop a ih carseat wore At strated,” the editorial contim tacked yesterday by a carload of | ay... oe AURSRL who reinforced Frenchy's me tt ok wa . ference. First the administra clubbed Night and left, and one pa: presented the public with estimate: t dt ho had ase Sa (Continued on Page Three) ow get in your work.” The gang- ters did try, but the pickets put up such a good battle that casualties were about even. Six girl pickets and five men were | arrested, but the cases had to be dropped when the came to 57th St. Bakers Local 3 Clique Sabotaging May First (Continued from Page One) hooted down. Nevertheless, this canvassing has been gone thru, and <ovvcnday eight were arrested on both bosses and officials are bring- Monday eight were arrested 00 | ing every form of terrorism to bear the pigket line here. ene ar oelers) This attack was caused by an at-| Bakers from both Local 3 and tempt of the boss to make cutters! ¢.5, Local 500, A. F. of La are called to a special ‘ ; mass gz had helped break a strike some time 4 | Thursday afternoon at 96 Clinton ago, Last January, the girls were| st by the Bakers’ Section, Trade unorganized, and the seven cutters! Union Unity League, to complete belonged to the Needle Trades In- dustrial Union. The boss was plan- ning to cut the girls wages by keep- ing them on half day work and then proposing full day work if they took a cut, preparations for the food workers’ shop delegate convention S' Manhattan Lyceum, to which ers’ Local 3 is sending a spec delegation as well as shop repre- sentati Waiters’ Local 1, where no mem- bership meetings have been allowed |for months, yesterday received in- structions from its hoss-ruled “In- |ternational” that members twd For the second time the Junior | months in arrears in dues will be Section of the Labor Sports Union | expelled unless given special “dis- will have a convention. The open- | pensation” from the executive board, ing of the convention will be held | which is an appointed group, made in Manhattan Lyceum on Friday | up mostly of gangsters. These new night, April 18. There will he an} orders express the officials’ fear of interesting Program, including a | the T,U,U.L., which is issuing week- living newspaper, violin solos and|}y bulletins urging the workers to} many other interesting features. | oust the company union misleaders | During the convention there will be | and to join the industrial union, a roller skate race in an open field. | | to Convene Friday) y.c. L. pANcE saturpay. |Banner Branch of A dance will be held Saturday,) Womens Council, Ap. mw April 19, at the’ Harlem Casino, 116th St, ‘and Lenox Ave,, under the | auspices of the Young Communist The wind up. of the member { pung drive of the ‘United Council of League, This affair is part of the Working Class Women will take mobilization of the workmg youth | place at the annual ball, Saturday for May Ist, Special entertainment | evening, April 19, at Manhattan is being prepared. Part of the pro- yceum, 66 E, Fourth St., with the presentation of a Red Banner to the council which drew in the most new members during the drive. Tickets for the ball can be ob- tained at the council office, 80 E. }11th St., Room 535. Fifty cents in | advance ‘and 75 cents at the door, ceeds of this affair will be used to- wards helping the Young Worker become a weekly by May Ist. Communist Activities Workers School Ba To open Work NEGRO WORKER KILLS al Conference Fri April ey m. Ma’ arectlih, wow. ths | HIMSELF. Joh Reed Club; ad m eke cc Edgar Lewis, 28 year old i ning eege worker of Brooklyn, fl and worried 19, New Harlem about his miserable condition, killed and Lenox Avenue. himself today at 216 Putnam Ave, e headquarters | by jumping from the fourth floor \ to the streets. fickets at. all and 36 Union Sais es “section Tonight at $ p. m., 4041 Third Ave., 175th st Meet Your |Friends and Fellow Workers at the F.S.U. Tel, SACramento 2592 The Szabo Conservatory of Music 1275 NGTON AVENUE at 86th Street Subway Station NEW YORK CITY Instruction given to Beginners and Advancers CONCERT and DANCE Sat., Apr. 19 in MUSIC COMPOSITION VOCAL, VIOLIN, PIANO, ‘CELLO ‘Theory and all other instrumen’ 25% REDUCTION TO CITY ats P.M. . axp enioy wonsens || | CENTRAL PLAZA HALL 111 Second Ave., Near Sixth St, i | TICKETS 50e¢ IN ADVANCE Te AT THE DOOR °f Have Your Eyes Examined | CONCERT Special Russian Features— Balalaika, Russian Folk Songs played by George Righthand on the peculiar musical instru- | ment—the saw. Violin Solois Paul Glass, pupil of Auer. | DANCING Auspices: Friends of Soviet Union New York District 709 BROADWAY, ROOM 421 Defend the Soviet: Union! and Glasses Fitted by WORKERS MUTUAL - OPTICAL CO. under personal supervision «! DR. M. HARRISON Optometrist 215 SECOND AVENUE Corner 13th Street NEW YORK CITY Opposite New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Telephone Stuyvesant 3836 We Meet at the— COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA dustry! One Uuioas Join pre “laht the Common Enemy Office upen from 9 a, m, to 6 hs nm 26-28 UNION SQUARE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty GASE FAKE STORY RUSSIAN | EAST SIDE THE TRES h ‘s ann oe as ~— se: “For All Kinds of Insurance” FAKE ‘VETS CET | nace | CARL BRODSKY t h T News ‘velephone: Murray Hill 5550 panes 7 Kast 42nd Street, New York ‘ZOERGIEB cL ARMS AGAINST WORKERS. 7" Deny Claims of Real Civirelasd’ But Tppasee UNION SQUARE THEATRES ag BERLIN, il 15.-—Today’s Boss War Victims “Welt am Abend” reveals Zoergie- AcmeTheatre WASHINGTON, April 15.—While bel’s secret plans, which are along 56 Hast 14th Street thousand working cl veterans, the lines of those of the fascist po- NOW PLAYING sick disabled and unemployed, lice chief of Paris, Chiappe, to hold | “My ISTERSINGER yi, many of them totally helpless, are the workers’ districts in check in starving and freezing all over the, ‘ne event of insurrection, and t0)) 1, | ¢ scaisn Bilm Olasslo from the country, swivel chair “heroes ” establish a ring of police stations || “Qyera by RICHARD WAGNER. vever wareswithin’a thousand miles round the inner tcwn, to.¢ ate | DDED ATTRACTION f the trenches, are drawing $6,000 Wide, dating ‘st “WILL HE COME BACK?’ salaries from the Vet. the use.of armored ca: THREE GREAT FIGHTS and $8,000 in et s Bur besides | “compensa of $300 per month for denying Dempsey vs. Tunney, Dempsey vm, Sharkey. Sharkey vs. Stribling. CHARLIE CHAPLIN in The jan minister of the in- | Pri terior approved the plan January 6. te ion” ‘ s of the men who did the actual yy, Sh : “A DAY'S PLEASURE”, ishting, according to facts brought “ATES MURDER OF Cut. | xearweex DIE HOSE out in Congress yesterday. ae SE WORKERS. With Warner Kraus, Jenny Jugo. It is these unemployed and starv RSH VOREERS Also Berlin After Dark, sel atta! Ana MOSCOW, April ing working class veterans whom the comments on the French Chinese the bosses now call on to smash the the lat- fa t Jemonstrations called un ie re hine pocorn ha W. I. R. CLOTHING STORE + ie 4 ae a’s sove: Paty atte nting the +f f iri Wages,” and against imperialist ll sover isnt ‘: carwiakeions Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing League of Nations an” breaking the High Class Work Done Goods Called for and Delivered All profits go towards strikers Kellogg P: a few of the big bugs,’ Pravda declares that the Nan the workers, and the government will demand impe t and their families, hey draw to rebuff the planes and soldiers for ing || 8RO Tn cue won es: working class disabled veterans \yhen the situation becomes critical. Winthrop C. Adams, $8,000; montn ar ars ly retirement pay, Joseph V. MAYAKOVSKI'S SUICIDE. | : Byrne, salary $4,800; monthly re OW, April 15.—The famous || Cooperators! Patronize sment pay $1 Thomas Foster, péet, Mayakov committed sui- y $5,290; monthly retiremen! cide here, aged forty. His most fa- $125. There are dozens of mous work was “A Hundred and CHEMIST Million.” The theatrical director, staged many of Mayakovski’s well-known Meyerhold, plays. others who get big plums. THUGS IN SHIFRIN 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. ¥. Vaudeville Theatres | —) WORKERS’ CENTER BARBER SHOP Moved to 30 Union Square fREIHEIT BLDG.—Main Floor PALACE. Gus Edwards and his Hollywood proteges; Irene Bordoni; Ben Blue, | assisted by Floria Vestoff; Douglas Leavit and Ruth Lockwood; the De | Marcos, Antonio and Renee, othe: including Fritz and Hubert. (Continued from Page One) Phone HIGH 6382 International Barber Shop vice was used to prejudice the jury. Testimony of the thug Silver, say- ing “I am killed,” the exhibition of (sist STREE r. Ce SALA, Prop. the: latter’s bloody vest, was ad-| Peter A. White | 2016 Second Aveitie, "New York ‘ Pe ea -» and Gitbert and {Dot LOAF @: 10th. ste) mitted by the judge as “testimony, Well 1 Ladies Bobs Our Specialty altho dy denied that he had Wells: B : Private Beauty Parlor died a result of the fight, andy — i —_— Shifrin’s self-defense. The cases of Michael Klueger,' Dr, ABRAHAM MARKOFF Dave Newberg and L. Loskowitz, SURGEON DPOSIAe who were arrested at the same time with Shi ‘in and were charged with assault, came up in Magistrate F Rose’s court at 16ist St. They} were postponed to April 30. | DAILY EXCEPT FRIVAY Please telephone for appotatment HIPPODROME. Telephone: Lehigh 602 The New York District of the In-| “Herb” Williams; Jones and Wil- pacer eee temational Labor Defense which is’ son; Roy Rog ‘La Belle Pola; cases is in urgent need of funds to nelli Girls. 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Latest Soviet Production “The Simple Tailor” | (“MOTEL SHPINDLER”) A tremendoux tragedy of a Jewish soldier carried away by patriotic ise to help the war and his later realization of the oppression |) © cxarint xovernment of the Jews. —ON THE SAME PROGRAM— SOVKINO JOURNAL NO. 22 | All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Cleremont Parkway, Bronx Hat where the best dairy foods are served. Where one customer recommends another, TRIANGLE DAIRY RESTAURANT NTERVALE AVENUE BRONX HEALTH FOOD | Vegetarian || RESTAURANT | | THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE SOVI Come—Bring Your Friends to the Workers Schoo! Banquet Opening the Working Class Education Conference See all the Municipal Celebrities in the RED REVUE A Political Satire by the JOHN REED CLUB Friday, April 18, at 7 p. m. MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 East Fourth St. Good Food, Cor, Je 1600 MADISON AVE. Phone: UNI versity 5865 Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY; ITALIAN DISHES é Pines, Fg stmosphare meet | | 302. 124h st. “New Yor Good Program. ADMISSION $1.00 GET YOUR TICKETS AV WORKERS SCHOOL, 24 UNION SQUARE