The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1930, Page 1

aily 2 Enterea ay second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act ef March 3. 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VL, No. il Company Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodally Pu lishing New York City, SUBSCRIPTION RAT : 86 a year everywhere excepting M City and foreign countries, there $8 anhattan a year. Price 3 Cents JOBLESS MOVEMENT PREPARES MAY l DEMONSTRATION Masses of India Fight Imperialist “Labor” Government Forces and Native Betrayers “Law and Order” in Chicago REJECT GANDHI For the third time in two months, the Chicago police raided the headquarters of the Communist Party, arrested leaders and organ- izers without warrant, and rushed them away to unknown cells after brutally beating them. This is a saniple of the capitalist preparations for May Day. This is the type of “law and order” of the same brand with that of Policeman Whalen in New York, and of the police in 18 cities on March 6th. “Law and order” at the end of a night-stick, or with blackjacks. It is notorious the world over, that Chicago is an underworld para- dise, that the underworld rules the city government. The police di- rector there is himself an old hardened criminal with a long prison record. Murder at retail or wholesale is so common in Chicago that it no longer gets into the headlines, is not news any more. But that does not mean there are no police, not at all. On the contrary, the police are on the job with both feet—partners in the profits of the underworld, and partners in its crime. Not that Chicago is an exception; it is only the highest developed form of this fascist incorporation of the criminal elements into the very machinery of “justice,” which is going on in every large city. It is highly developed in New York, and when Whalen returns to his silks and ribbons at Wanamakers, we may have in his place a New York version of Stege. The vicious police attack in Chicago followed a secret meeting of 300 leading “business men,” who decided that “the Communist Party is not to be considered as enjoying any civil rights.” Their decision was immediately translated into action by the police. Will the Chicago clubbers be able to abolish May Day by these attacks? No more than Whalen can abolish May Day in New York by his war mobilization; no more than all the tyrants of history have been able to build a foundation for their rule by guns and clubs, May Day expresses the vital needs of the working masses, the demand for unemployment insurance, for the seven-hour day and fiv day week, their struggle against the menace of war. All police sup- pressions merely help to expose the police and government to the workers as agents of capitalist oppression and exploitation, and hasten the day when the workers will throw off entirely their illusions, will organize their strength, will overthrow the capitalist rule, and will “take charge of society as a class. Let the Steges and Whalens rage! Let them further expose capi- talist “law and order” to the eontempt of the workers! May Day will show that the revolutionary upsurge of the Ameri- can working class is becoming more profound! Chicago will also be heard from on May Day! Two Strikes--Amoskeag,N.H. Indianapolis, Ind. Two strikes, directly involving only a thousand workers each as yet, serve to focus our attention on the developing struggles in indus- try, and to indicate that the response to the slogan of “Down Tools on May Day” will be a powerful one. One strike is in the Amoskeag mill, New Hampshire—a thousand textile workers have struck in a mill employing eight thousand—said to be the largest textile mill in the world outside of China. The necessity for applying in this struggle the tactic of the elec- tion of a Rank and File Strike Committee for conducting and spreading the strike is obvious. The National Textile Workers’ Union is leading the struggle. The few workers who were deluded by the Muste social fascists have repudiated them. In Indianapolis a thousand metal workers have struck and have announced their desire to join the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. Here too, a Rank and File strike committee should be elected and every effort made to develop local leadership. Both of these struggles have developed among unorganized work- ers—in localities where there is little if any tradition of struggle. In both localities the unorganized workers have heard of the program of the class struggle unions of the Trade Union Unity League, have be- come acquainted at least with the program of partial demands of our Party—and to the Communists and the revolutionary unions they turn for leadership. These strikes are merely forerunners of far wider mass struggles. They are signals showing which way the wind of the class struggle is blowing. These struggles make great demapds upon our Party. They show the urgent necessity of developing new corps of Communist leaders as rapidly as the seriousness of the task permits. Build the Trade Unions! Workers cannot fight against unemployment, for better conditions, against the attacks of the bosses, unless they have organizations uniting tens and hundreds of thousands for a joint struggle. Workers must have strong, fighting trade unions. They must join and build the unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. This task must be kept in the forefront in all activities that are going on. Especially in the preparations for the celebration of May Day, the building of the trade unions must be constantly brought for- ward. The trade unions must be drawn into the most active partici- pation on May Day, and the mass mobilization must be made a part of the Recruiting Drive for the unions. In every task facing the workers today, it becomes clearer that the workers’ daily newspaper is an absolutely necessary weapon. The Daily Worker is the principal instrument for the mobilization for May Day. It is the most important messenger to carry to the masses the message of the trade unions. It is the most efficient carrier of the Trade Union Recruiting Drive. The Daily Worker must become the tool, used every day, by every active worker, to weld the movement together, to fill it with fighting spirit, to direct it to great unified mass actions. If the Daily Worker is to perform these tasks, it must be sup- ported. Especially must every class-conscious worker do his part in the big campaign to give the Daily Worker 30,000 new readers in the next two months. Have you done your part in this task? Is your union taking part in the campaign? Has your Party unit an active committee on the job. Make the answer to every one of these questions “Yes.” PROGRAM; CALL GENERAL STRIKE M’Donald Police Fire Into Masses of “Workers Put Up Uprising Spreads to Many Cities BULLETIN. BOMBAY, India, April 16.— Speaking to a group of women today from Ahmadabad and Bom- bay, who came to visit him, 25 epeated his betrayal of the Indian masses by urging them wore than ever to follow non- violent means, which would be complete submission to British imperialism. * * * According to a cable from Lon- don to a New York capitalist newspaper “quiet measures are being taken here to move troops in the event of serious blood- shed.” This indicates that the “la- hor” government is preparing to drown the Indian uprisings in a sea of blood. * * jing class {for monster demonstrations ‘and strikes against capitalism len May First, capitalist news- papers report sharp clashes of Hindu workers and peasants, ‘as well as some petty-bour- |geois students against British imperialism in Calcutta, the great seaport of Karachi, | } | Poona, and other‘ places in | India. Defying Gandhi’s instructions | that they carry on their demand for independence non-violently, all last night Hindu workers fought the | ‘armed police of the British “Labor” government. The Nationalist lead- | ers called the demonstration as a non-violent protest against the ar-| rest of Nehru, president of the All- India Natibnalist Congress, but the | masses did not permit themselves to be bound by the narrow limits of the Gandhiists in the Nationalist movement, Clashes in Bombay. Clashes occurred throughout the city of Bombay. At first the po- lice were unable to cope with the onslaught of’ the workers. Rein- forcements were called and several | volleys were fired into the crowd of demonstrators. A general strike has been called in Caleutta. All business is closed |down. Armored tanks are patroll- |ing the streets, and sporadic fight- | ing is going on in different sections (Continued on Page Three) 'D.A.R. Calls for More} |War Arms and for An Attack on Communists WASHINGTON, April 16—An attack against the Communists and their organization of the American working class for struggle against capitalism, and the demand that all jarmaments be increased immedi-| ‘ately for war, were the. two fea- |tures that signalized the meeting of | ‘the Daughters of the American | |“Revolution” yesterday. Hoover’s rapid war preparations mongers, and they passed a resolu- i | As the national convention date jof the Marine Workers League draws near, the National Office re- | ports all its locals—East, Pacific and | Gulf, coasts—that more than 200 | delegates have already been elected tand are making preparations to be jin New York, at 140 Broad St. (the |national headquarters of the Marine ‘Workers League), where this con- vention will be held April 26. These delegates will represent (ships and docks and locals of the Barricades s the revolutionary work- | of the’ world prepares | |were too slow for these rabid war) MWL CONVENES APR. 26 200 Delegates Already tor New Union Organize for Sad lin Mine Fields J OIN THI "Ariana Women's Auxiliary and Young Pioncers at the Zeigler convention of the National Miners Union. This convention, besides plans for organization and strike in the coal fields this Fall, enthusiastically supported the motion for mass political strike and demonstration May 1. 150,000 British Wool Strikers; 1,000 Weavers Out in U. S. Communists Lead Struggle in Yorkshire; | National Textile Union Here | (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | LONDON, England, April 16—There are probably a hundred thou- | sand Yorkshire wool workers striking under the leadership of the Revo- lutionary Committee of Action. A total of 150,000 are on strike in this industry. The Bradford committee of action, under Communist leader- ieee -——~‘t ship, controls the district. Mass picketing is going on and . the remaining workers are being International Bale oe Wireless The Communist Party is working |hard to give the mass support an News | | organizational expression. The strike ———-@ is being conducted against the re- | REICHSTAG VOTES TO BUILD formist leaders. CRUISER. A detachment of hunger march- aytrelersdigatanrecare) le has arrived at Bradford, and a ; _. |mass demonstration was held for | BERLIN, April 16.—The Reich- them. stag decided to vote the first in- stallment for the construction of The rising militancy a setae | Cruiser B, of the Ersatz Preussen| mination to struggle shown by the series. The installment amounts to (Continued on Page Two) 2,900,000 niarks. The Reichstag ap-| —_————— proved of the measure. Reichswehr | Minister Groener revealed that the Moeller government secretly agreed PROVE SHIFRIN to-,build the second cruiser with| surplus funds from the Reichswehr | DEFENDED SELF | budget. Wine Up | on Militant Torn to Pieces Poy Bee MANCHESTER, N. H., Viet TO LEAVE SOCIAL- DEMOCRATS. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) VIENNA, April 16.—The Social-| |ist Workers Opposition decided to} VOTE leave the Social-Democratic Party) Today saw two more “Hebrew and join the Communist Party.| Butcher Union” gangsters, Slatniko- | “Revolutionary Social Democrat,” | yitz and Paisner, on the stand in organ of the opposition, declares | the workers have lost the illusion} jof improving the Socialist Party from the inside. Mass meetings! jare being held to explain the situa- | tion, the trial of William Shifrin for murder, because he defended him- \self against them. Under defense attorney Medallion’s cross-examina- |tion they made liars of each other jand themselves. Slatnikovitz as- serts that he saw Shifrin take the WORK. prepared knife out of his sleeve but (Wireless By I | became all excited and embarrassec ineldee Bus ip ecore)) | when confronted with his previous PARIS, April 16—Renee Mau-| testimony in the magistrate’s court | guet was sentenced to four months! where he had testified that Shifrin | imprisonment for distributing anti-| took the knife from his hip. | militarist leaflets to soldiers. Jo-| Two other witnesses for the pros- |Seph Chauvet was arrested near the seution, Mrs. Brass, a storekeeper [Reims Aerodrome for possessing | 4 Beck Strect. where the fight took | anti-militarist leaflets. ‘place. and of established that the car was not jtion for a tremendous increase in) ctopped on the corner of Beck St armament, sensing war to be closer | and Prospect Ave., where the Oxman than Hoover will admit. Varic US shop is that the pel now abelara ‘igious: attacks against the Commu- they went “picketing,” but that the Anant onetken (the tec gang drove all the way up to St. John’s Ave, where they pounced upon Shifrin. It was also brought out in their testimony that all six thugs at once crowded upon Shifrin. Thus the witnesses for the prosecn- tion themselves show already clear- ly that Shifrin acted in pure self- | defense. Tomorrow the defense wit. {nesses will give final proof of this. The defense of the case by the * * * | JAILED FOR ANTI-MILITARIST Marine Workers League as well as | the unorganized, |New York District of the Interna- Many Negro Delegates. | tional Labor Defense requires large San Francisco reports a delega-| funds and it is urgently requested tion of 34, San Pedro 18, Seattle 1,|to rush all amounts to their office Houston 22, out of which eight are|at 799 Broadway . Negro workers; Philadelphia 40, | Beltimore 30, Boston 18, New Or- leans 10, New York 30 or more. | FACTORY. While Houston was the only one) NORTHFORD, Conn., April 16,— | that reported the exact number of | Two workers were killed in a fire-| | Negro workers ineluded in the dele- | works factory here today as the re- (Continued on Page Three) isult of an explosion, TWO WORKERS KILLED IN | April 16. er Owens definitely | _ POWERS, CARR FACE ELECTRIC CHAIR IN SOUTH Jobles Delegation Dr: dog to Court Again Today | | | | | | | | | | | Demand Their Release) Fight B oss’ Terror Against W Ae oleh Openly declaring that M. H. Pow- jers and J. C. Carr, members of the Communist Party, have “the elec- tric chair looming in the back- ground,” the Atlanta Georgian, cap- litalist sheet in Atlanta, announces the fact that they are being rushed to trial for their attempts to or- ganize Negro and white workers in a united struggle against vicious |ploitation by the Southern bosses. — CHICAGO 3 Strike and Ma |\Committees of Action The National Bureau of The principal issues to be FLOUN PER QVER 3POWER ‘TREATY’ ‘The trial is set for Monday, April 21, Power and Carr were acrettedl| over leaflets and organizing meetings. | They were charged with violation of laws of civil war times and for “ineiting an insurrection” and cir- culating insurrectionary papers.” Expose Bosses’ Motives. |national Labor Defense, which is de- \fending Powers and Carr declares: | “The International Labor De- fense has noted the crude maneu- vers of the court in Atlanta in the shifting of their charges from that of ‘disorderly conduct’ to ‘un- lawful assembly’ to ‘throwing of tear gas bombs’ and thence to those finally lodged against them. “The International Labor De- fense in seeking to liberate Pow- ers and Carr will completely ex- pose the motives behind the ac- tions of the police of Atlanta in preventing the meeting, and of the capitalist forces who would | railroad these two working class leaders to the electric chair.” e 4 os Unemployed Delegation Faces Other Charge. Not content with having roaded Foster, Minor, Amter, mond and Lesten to jail for leading the “Work or Wages” struggle on March 6, the Tammany boss courts are arranging further persecutions | against them at the 57th St. Court, Jon the charge of “felonious as- |sault” against one of Whalen’s cos- sacks, Talbot. The delegation of the unemployed are being held in Tombs prison, (Wontinued on Page Three) Admit Right of Armed Revolution, Against Capitalism American imperialism “was shaken to its foundations yester. day” when Henry H. Curran, presi- dent of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, told the senate lobby investigating commit- tee that the people of the United States have as much right to make the Eighteenth Amendment!—as they did way back in 1776. “wets,” he said, had a perfect right Ito use armed force to back up their | vi There is no doubt that the hon- forable Mr. Curran will not be ar- rested and tried for criminal syn- jdicalism and sedition. Thi served only for the wi to fight against the entire system slavery. portant victory was scored by the International Labor Defense in Western Pennsylvania when the dis- trict attorney for the Pittsburgh | |district entered a motion to nolle| prosse .(discharge) the well-known} 'Che 1 cases, which had been! dragging through the courts since | 1922, On August 1927, when 3,000! {miners and their families were hold- ing a protest meeting against the rail- | Ray- | But Not! an armed revolution today—against | The | jfighters who call upon the workers | for Big Arms Race April “treaty” 16.—Even the LONDO three-power loopholes for the widest armament | A statement issued by the Inter-| race, is meeting with difficulty of |the council and of the bureau, yes- formulation. First the Japanese delegation accepted the wording of | |the draft “treaty,” then they dis- carded it, and the latest report is that a treaty so unsatisfactory to each of the big navy nations has | been drawn up that the imperialist {bandits will be able to sign it by | Thursday. The chief feature of the treaty is the so-called “moving platform,” which permits any of the signers ;to increase its naval force to any extent if it in the least desires to do so, The main d »wer treaty is that the imperia peice ved find it hard to hide |the complete failure of the London | Pive-Power conference and the tre- |mendous increase in armaments, in no way limited by any treaty, that has resulted. PROTEST TUES, ALD. MEET SUN, A yalanche of Court Cases Come Today iculty in the three list i} Prominent speakers will address the mass protest meeting in Centra Opera House, 63rd St. and Third Ave., Tuesday, April 22, to which delegations of all working class or- | ganizations are being sent and in | which the workers of New York will participate in masses to demand the release of the elected committee of the 110,000 March 6 demonstrators |The meeting is held under the aus- pices of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, and Councils of the Unemployed, and the International Labor Defense which is defending the delegation of the unemployed, Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten. Conference Answers Eisman C: Sunday morning, April 20, at Ir jing Plaza, is the International La- bor Defense conference, gathering | delegates from shops, fraternal or- ganizations, women’s councils, and trade unions to give the workers’ lof capitalist exploitation and wage- | answer to the increased persecutions | | (Continued on Page Two) DROP CHESWICK CASES Arrested i in 1927 for Sacco E Protest PITTSBURGH, April 16. —An im- | murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, the |¢ meeting was attacked by a band) of state troopers and company po- | }lice, who mercilessly beat and slugged all those whom they could reach | One state trooper was shot and killed as the result of the struggle | jand for whose murder Salvatore Ac- | |corsi later stood trial and was ac- quitted. So brazen was the action of the | (Continued on Page Three) March Under Banners Executive Council of the Unemployed Movement, Friday, at 3 p. m., at 2 West 15th St. with its roomy | NATIONAL BUREAU MEETS, PROCLAMATION ISSUED; TARTS FIGHT “Work or Wages” Important Slogan in Politica! ss Mobilization in Shops; Workers to of Organizations elected from the National will meet 13 discussed are plans for definite nation- wide org: janiza tion campaign, the mass demonstrations on May 1, the July 4-5, na- tional unemployment conven- tion to be held in Chicago, and the financing of the convention and organization campaign. The national council of the un- |employed movement was elected | (35 members) from the floor by the a month ago for distributing Leaves Widest Room | 215 delegates to the First Prelim- inary jemployment, March and 30, and is the direct- |ing body for the campaign to or- ganize the unemployed. National Conference on Un- held in New York Pat Devine, national secretary of |terday issued a call to all unem- ployed and employed workers to rally to the May 1 mass political | strike and demonstrations. It states, in part: | “May 1, the international working class day of struggle, must have the largest political demonstration and strike this country has yet seen. It must be a living example jof the unity of purpose of the un- employed and employed worker: this country. It must be a high point in the fight for Work Wages, against the Speed Up. the Seven-Hour, ive-Day V and ainst unemployment and mploying class. March 6, Inte: ional Unem ployment Day, was the highest stage of struggle and the most s nificant demonstration so far of ua- yed and employed workers for these demands. ti “Mey Day more clearly shows the international aspects of the prob- |lems of the workers. The 8,000,- 000 unemployed American workers are just a part of the teeming 20,- 000,000 of unemployed throughout the world.” Crisis Brings War. The call to strike and demonstrate points out that the crisis in the cap- ita world brings nearer a war for markets between imperialist countries, and brings nearer an at- tack on the Soviet Union by capi- talist countries. | The conspiracy between the A. F. of L. officials, especially Woll and Green, helped by the socialist party leaders, like Mayor Hoan of Mil- waukee, and the employers to use police against the jobless, is ex- posed. The manifesto continues: Work or Wages. | “Unemployed and employed work- On May Day you must fight jfor social insurance. By your mili- |tant participation in the demonstra- tions you must completely kill the illusion that you will be satisfied with soup kitchen charity. Not charity but work or wages must be the ery that rings throughout the entire country. You must fight for the (Continued on Page Three) Silesia Jobless in Clashes With Police BERLIN, April 16.—Several thou !sand unemployed workers clashed with the police at Ratibor, Silesia today. One cop was injured. Today | in the Rising Revolt in bo tile Page 4; Corporations Make Hay —DeLeon—Page 4; The End of a Conference—Plott—Page 4; Com- ments of Our Readers—Page 4; Hoover and the World Court— Page 3. TOMORROW. | Seventh Party Convention—- Foster; Significance of March 6 Lozovsky; Capitalism Promotes | Judge Parker—Engdahl.