The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1930, Page 1

+ Vol. VL, No. 348 Union Sauare, The End of the Magic Sixty Days The militant struggle of the unemployed, developed and led by Communist Party, brought forcefully to the forefront in the great March 6th demonstration the miserable conditions of the millions of unemployed. For the first time the Department of Labor was forced to admit that in this land of “unlimited prosperity,” igh wages,” there are at least thret million unemployed. However, to counteract this movement, to preserve the prestige of the administration, Hoover issued a statement on March 7th in which he promised to solve the present economic crisis in sixty days. In these sixty days he also promised to solve the unemployment situation. Now the sixty days have come to a close and w hat are the results? From the report of the Bureau of Labor s 's of the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor we learn that in manufacturing industries eraday ment in March declined 1 per cent from the previous month, and the decrease in payrolls amounts to 1.2 per cent. The level of employment in manu- facturing industries alone during the last month of 0 is 8.9 per cent lower than durirg the same month a year ago and the payrolls | total were 12.6 per cent lower than a year ago. A decrease in em- ployment during the month of March also is being noted in the mining industry is equal to 22.7 per cent in anthracite mining, 3.7 per cent in bituminous and 1.5 per cent in metal mining. What do these figures show? They show a deepening of the crisis, increasing unemployment and worsening of the conditions of the working class. Even the New York Times was forced to State editorially that these figures “cannot be considered favorable.” President Hoover’s statement was only propaganda to mislead the workers, to conceal the crisis and its effects. No one took Hoover seriously, not even the bourgeoisie. The editor of the Forbes finan- cial magazine wrote: “President Hoover’s emergency measures have not amounted to much in concrete results so far as can be judged.” s the Communist Party told the s contradictions, that crisis and Capi- Yet at the beginning of the cri workers that capitalism cannot solve unemployment are inherent in the very nature of capitalism. talism cannot be organized. Crises cannot be eliminated. To further expose the lies of the Hoover administration, it will be worth while to recall the statements that came pouring in from Washington of renewed prosperity in the first months of 1930: How- ever, the first quarter of 1930 has passed. The first three months of the year which always showed a large seasonal increase in produc- tion and employment were disappointing. Even the bourgeoisie has to recognize this fact. The April 19th issue of the Magazine of Wall Street states: “It would be impossible to describe the business of the first three months of 1930 as anything but unfavorable.” The bourgeoisie can lie. Lies, however, cannot solve an economic crisis, nor eliminate the factors that undermine capitalist prosperity. Neither can lies feed the 7 million unemployed and their starving families. The workers refuse to take the lies of the bosses. They will fight. March 6th was only the beginning of the great movement of the Amer- ican workers against the system of society that can no longer pro- vide them with a living. May First will be another important step in the direction of broadening that struggle and giving it a revolutionary politicai character. May First will bring the struggle of the unemployed on a higher political plane. May 1st will show the solidarity of the employed with the unemployed workers. On May 1st the workers must lay down tools. The political mass strike is our most effective weapon. We in- herited it from the heroic struggles of the American workers of 1886. We must use it May Ist, 1930. Keep the Warships Away from Cuba! Immediately after the general strike of March 20th in Cuba, in which 200,000 workers participated, demanding unemployment insur- ance and the shorter work-day, and protesting against the terrorist Machado regime, the United States Government began to move war vessels to Havana. There is no doubt that, foreseeing Machado’s. dif- ficulties in the strike movement developing in connection with May Day, the U. S. Government is preparing to use its guns and bayonets to “maintain order” there, that is, to shoot down the workers who are protesting against the bloody rule of Wall Street’s puppet. This is an issue vitally affecting every worker in the United States. A blow against the Cuban workers is a blow against the every-day interests of the working class of the U..S. Raise the alarm against the preparing imperialist intervention in Guba! Workers, declare your solidarity with the struggling Cuban workers! Long live the struggle for liberation of the toiling masses of Cuba! Down with bloody Machado, puppet of Wall Street! Take the warships and marines away from Cuba! Success to the general strike of the Cuban workers! Circulate the Daily Worker in Tens of Thousands on May Day | The most-important action of the working class at this moment is the mass mobilization for May Day. With the police everywhere in- augurating the most abhorrent and brutal suppression, in preparation for even worse deeds on May Day than they committed on March 6th, only the mass mobilization of the workers in ever larger thousands can keep for us the right to the streets. Only mass organization and action can preserve the revolutionary traditions of May Day which originated | in the United States 44 years ago. For this mass mobilization, it is necessary to organize mass dis- | tribution of the Daily Worker. This is one of the central tasks, also, in the grecat circulation drive of the Daily Worker. It is one of the necessary aspects to put across successfully the recruitment of 50,000 new members in the revolutionary trade unions, Every city must organize its mass distribution of the Daily Worker on and before May Day. Workers of every city! Are you prepared for this task? Have your committees been set up? Is your work organized and distributed among all the workers? Have you sent in your orders to the districts and to the Daily Worker office? Make sure that all these questions are answered, aod answered ) right! tt Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily vub New York City, 10 000 STORM KARACH! JAIL; RENEW FIGHTING Gandhi Backs British;, | Wants Masses to | | Stop Struggle “Labor” Sends Troops ‘British Imperialism Is Alarmed Cable reports from Karachi, In- dia, state that renewed fighting is going on there today. Ten thou- sand people stormed the Karachi jail when several of the Nationalist leaders were sentenced to from six | months to two years in prison. oo) eR NAVSARI, Bombay, India, April 17.—Admitting that the masses had | |left him flat in their violent attacks jon the British masters, Mahatma Gandhi, one of the best friends Bri ish imperialism has in India, called upon the workers and peasants to| ‘submit to the armed British forces. “Be the violences ever so little,” de- clared Gandhi, “I have no doubt that | it will harm our struggle.” ee MacDonald is quietly rushing troops from England to various joints in India in an attempt to) smesh the seething revolutionary ac- tion of the workers and peasants. | From capitalist press reports it is | evident that the British masters are | extremely alarmed over the growing | revolutionary spirit of the Indian| masses, despite Gandhi's implorings that they desist. Gandhi is pur- | posely not arrested, as his presence | outside of prison is a boon to the) | British bosses. So critical is the ituation, that the British author-| ities do not dare to use the Hindu | soldiers, but rely on the imperialist ; mercenary forces and the police, | | { EDUCATIONAL = MEET OPENS ‘Banquet ‘at. Ge Ps Ve Tonite | Tonight at 7 p. m. at Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 E, Fourth St. the} | Working Class Education Confer- ence will be opened with a banquet. All delegates to the conference, to- gether with a large representation from the student body, the entire | board of directors of the school, rep- | |resentatives from the Trade Union} | Unity League and all members of | the working class who have a real | | under; standing of the importance of | vorking-class education, will be | |present. Max Bedacht, Director of | the Workers’ School, will speak and | | greetings will be read from the Un- ;employed Delegation awaiting trial {and sentence in the Tombs. There will be a Red Kevue, di-| rected and presented by the John Reed Club, and a one-act play, staged by the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre. Jacques Singer, the Aus- trian violinist, will play, accompa- nied by M. Agonov, the Russian | pianist. The Arrangements Committee an- nounces, that there will be a good dinner served promptly at 7 o’clock, and strongly advises everyone to eat no dinner before coming to the banquet. Admission is only $1. Buy your tickets at the Workers’ School and insure a place at the banquet. W/RITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become These Workers Will Se haiestc May a Worker Correspondent. \ Part of the crowd that particip in San Francisco, March 6th. Und strike, even a larger demonstration NEW ‘YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1930 New and Bronx, fight ated jn the “Work or Wage” ler the slogan of a mass political is being organized for May fi CHINESE BOSSES GET SNUBBED No More Chinese on Shanghai City Council) SHANGHAI, April 17.—A tion to increase Chinese member- ship on the Municipal Council at the Foreign Concessions at Shang- hai was rejected today by the tax- payers’ annual meeting which was diseetly controlled by the British ’ and American imperialists. mo- BATTLE MORGAN $2,000,000 | Profits But | Wage Cuts for Men MANCHES' —Led by the Workers Union, N. H., April 17. Natfonal Textile the 1,000 woolen of J. P. Morgan & Co., financial zai textile concern in the United States. gan representative in New England, | evictions of the jobless, etc. was'urday at the local Trade Union The Municipal Council at the} Present management of Amos-! |Shanghai concessions was formerly|keag was put in by Kidder, Pea- exclusively composed of foreign|body & Co. members, The Chinese bourgeoisi secured a representation of three|is a director of the Amoskeag. members as against nine foreign im- | perialists on the Council only in 1925 when, owing to the rising revo- lutionary wave and the fact that the Chinese bourgeoisie at that time} still could rally the masses to its support, the imperialists saw the necessity to make a concession as a means of bribing the Chinese bourgeoisie. With this and other | bribes the national bourgeoisie of | China definitely betrayed the revo- | lution. Now, although there is a new ris- ing wave of the revolution, the im- perialists clearly understand that the Chinese bourgeoisie has lost all mass support because of their be- | trayal of the revolution. Obvious- ly, concessions to the Chinese bour- geoisie in this case are not neces- sary. Herein lies the explanation of the rejection of the motion of the Chinese bourgeoisie by the im-} perialist controlled Municipal Coun- | cil. BAKERS ELECT FOOD DELEGATES |Conv: ention to to Organize New Union Sunday Twenty-five delegates to the city convention to build a food workers’ industrial union in New York were | elected yesterday at the mass meet-| ing of bakers called by the Trade | Union Unity League, 96 Clinton St., yesterday, There were 300 present at the meeting. The convention will be held Sun- | day at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East | 4th St, 10 a. m. After it organizes | the new union in this city, other con ventions will be held elsewhere, and | a national convention later in Chi- | cago, home of the great meat pack-! ing industry. | Into Food Factories. | It is one of the main grievances | of the 2,000,000 food workers in| U. S. that the present organizations | in the field, mostly A. F. L. and! Amalgamated Food Workers, have | been in the grip of a clique which | had no interest in the masses of workers, badly exploited in the great food factories, the packing | houses and chain bakeries, ete. This |8 P- ™. at the Finnish Progressive | (Continued on Page Two) MINERS PREPARE FIGHT ZEIGLER, Ill. (By Mail).—The | |Illinois district conyention here of | \the National Miners Union had 68 ‘delegates from 24 local unions of \the N. M. U. and 11 fraternal dele- | gates from branches of the N. M. U.| | Ladies’ Auxilliary, the Workers In- | \ternational Relief, Council of the | | Unemployed, Trade Union Unity | {League and International Labor De- | | fense. In a spirited two-day meeting it ‘elected new district officers, voted | alo par roipals completely in the May | Hlinois D District Convention | Success 1 demonstrations, elected candidates to the Fifth World Congress of the | Red International of Labor Unions, | chose a member to represent the | Illinois miners in the Friends of | Soviet Union dolegation to the U. S. 8, R., denounced the attacks on | the March 6 demonstrations and the j jailing of the committee of the job- | less in New York and laid out or- | ganization plans for the Illinois dis | trict. The report of National President (Continued on Paye Three) |mas Eve, 1927, the company gave | In the last year and a half inten- sive exploitation has gone on in| Amoskeag mills. In some depart-| ments the work per man has been| doubled for less pay. On Christ- its workers a little present in the shape of a 10 ten per cent wage cut. Its company union accepted the cut. On March 19, of this year. the company proposed a 10 per cert | cut, and the workers voted four to one against it, in spite of all the company could do. Last year this company made | $2,000,000 clear profit. | WILKINSLYNCHING Mass Gathering Wed. | Anvril 23 Negro and white workers will | voice their protest against the | lynching of John H. Wilkins, Negro rae ao John H. Wilkins, Negro Pull- man porter, who was dragged of f a train at Locust Grove, Georgia, and brutally lynched for the ter- rible crime of “smiling at a white woman.” pullman porter, at a mass meeting next Wednesday night, April 23, at) 15 West 126th St., Hall, New. York | | City. y Grove, Georgia, on Saturday, April 5th, by a mob of bosses’ agents for! ‘the terrible crime of “smiling at a! | white woman” who was raising a | storm while Wilkins was doing his best trying to get a berth for her. The International Labor Defense | | and the American Negro Labor Con-! gress under whose auspices the! meeting will be held, point out that the lynching of Wilkins is part and | | parcel of the whole campaign of | | terror of the bosses against the working el in the United States, ' against which all workers must rally to struggle. The meeting will not only pro- test the lynching of Wilkins, but} | also recent cases of lynchings in the South, and the general terror of the (Continued on Page Two) “ASSAULT” CASE GOMES APRIL a |\Chicago and cee York Protest Meetings Sunday, Tuesday Defend Powers, \Many Organizations, WOOL STRIKERS “Send Res BULLETIN. PONTIAC, Mich. April 17.— The criminal syndicalism case against Fred Beal, Gastonia de- fendant arrested here for speak- ing at an unemployment meeting, has -been postponed for ahout three weeks. * * * of the olutions Hearing assault elected by the 110,000 demonstrat- and fighting in the largest|ing in Union Square March 6 to | imperialist war, and against the lay before the city government de- mands for work or wages, unem- | ployment relief and insurance, the Robert Winsor, Mor-|seven-hour day, five-day week, no in New York, meets at 1 p. m. § postponed yesterday to April 30. The case came up in the Fourth District Magistrate’s Court on 57th St., but the regular judge was ab- sent and Magistrate Louis B. Brod- sky, serving instead, postponed it. The defense attorney in court was | Joseph Brodsky. Sentence Monday. This is the second charge against these workers growing out of the |March 6 Unemployment Demon- stration. On the first count of “un- lawful assembly” they were con- victed on April 11 and are at pres- (Continued on Page Three) ‘MEET TO PROTEST PROTEST JAILING JOBLESS LEADERS Mass Gutecrae Apr.22 | Central Opera House A protest dGnonetestion against the conviction of the delegation of five elected by the unemployed on March 6 at Union Squ will take place Tuesday evening, Apri Central Opera House, 67th Third Ave. | Among the speakers will be Pat Devine, national secretary Councils of the Unemployed; Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers’ Union; Beatrice Siskind, representative of the local International Labor De- fense; Henry T. Hope, Negro rep- resentative of the local Unempl: |ment Councils, and Herbert Benja |min, acting New York district or- \ganizer of the Communist Party. The meeting, coming one (Continued on Page Two) and day | MAY DAY PAGEANT. chor singing sports, fraternal All labor members, are urged to appear for rehearsal for the May Day pageant. | Rehearsal will be held at the local office of the T. U. U. L., 13 W. 17th St. 8 p. m., Monday, April 21. Carr) charge | weavers on strike in Coolidge Mill| against William Z. Foster, Robert | ers, and no speed-up in the fac- here of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. are | Minor, Israel Amter, Joseph Lesten | tori fighting directly against the house | and Harold Raymond, the committee | stri FINAL CITY EDITION where excepting Manhattan countries, there $8 m year. “Pies 3 Cents ‘STRIKE FOR WORK OR WAGES, 7 HOUR DAY. MAY Ist! ms JOBLESS LEADERS NY, JOBLESS EXECUTIVE PREPARES FOR STRUGGLE; PHILADELPHIA MASS MEET “We Demonstrate, Permit or No Permit”, Say | Chicago Workers; Call for Funds Still Fewer Jobs; U. S Admits; 600 Apply for 35 Positions in West Frankfort | Most intense preparations are being conducted by the Communist Party in every city, and by the Trade Union Unity | League, Councils of the ‘Unemployed, and other workers’ or- ganizations for mass political strike and demonstrations, for | work or wages, seven hour day and five day week, unemploy- ment relief from city treas-* uries, and unemployment in- bese phage SEX POSE FAKE OF “sammnitred by te worers 2. BOWER TREATY {administered by the workers no evictions of unemployed work- s, ete. The demonstrations and} on May Day are also for the/ Provides for Big Arm Jefense of the Soviet Union, against seen oa | ament Race BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, April 1 order to foster pacifist illusions to cover the armaments race which results from the London confer- ence, Hoover ‘announces he will send the “treaty” to the Senate for ratification on May Ist, when the Communist Party has called for a mass political strike and demon- stration against the imperialist capitalist system itself. The committee »of 35, the execu- 1 tive of the unemployed movement U League headquarters, 13 W 17th St., to work out plans for con- tinued and more energetic organiza tion of councils of the unemployed among the half million jobless in this city. The committee will also take up a program of the campaign to force the release of Foster, Min- or, Amter, Lesten and Raymond, the elected representatives of the 110,- | 000 demonstrators against unem- ployment on Union Square, March Sixth. It will develop arrangements for |” the unemployed to take part in the | still greater demonstration of the | jobless and political strikers on May 1. Preparations continue rapidly for | a mass political strike in New York oa ey 1, and for a huge demon- In the face of threats by ey Balise department and by every variety of fascist and jingo organ- ization, the Communist Party and the revolutionary unions, as well as (Continued on Page Three) the fact that the or “moving platform” that there wil! be no limitation of {armaments whatever, but that al tish White Paper say: war danger and for the defense of the Soviet Union. ie avers LONDON, April 17.—Two fea- tures today marked the secret dis- cussions over the three-power naval veaty” which will spur the arms ce of all the imperialist powers st, the MacDonald “labor” gov- ment issued what is known as a Vhite Paper in which it stresses “escape clau: clause means th imperialist powers will builc w tever sized navy they think nec es.. *y for war purposes. The Bri- “It must be noted, however, that the figure of 150,000 tons of destroyers for the British com- monwealth of nations must be of the} societies, organiza- | tions, Workers’ Laboratory Theatre Do not fail to come at’ blame on, and Zinolovino was sel- SMASH FRAMEU? ON ZINOLOVING conditional on the agreed destroy- er and submarine strength of the European powers represented at the London conference. This will at | he subject to further negotiations with the powers concerned.” 2, Mussolini. Employees | Get Stories Tangled Second, Robinson of the Amer. ican delegation, issued a statement by which he tries to surround the “escape clause” with a tissue of ly- ing pacifist phrases, in order tc hide the real antagonisms behind the whole “treaty,” and the rapidly growing war an 50 STRIKING IN FALCO SHOE SHOP Rest Coming Out; Fight Discrimination The frame-up against E. Zinolo- vino, Italian anti-fa pletely smashed in general s yesterday, although two fa: rect employees of the blackshirt government were on hand as | nesses to see that he got to jail. The court was willing to see Zinolovino sentenced, but the fascist | Paterno, an employee of the Italian consulate here, and the fascist Dor- dona, a former captain in the army,| {could not agree on their perjuries, and as there was no other ev idence | | to show even that the anti-fas was at the meeting where the a: sault took place, Zinolovino was ac- quitted. He was charged with fel- | onious assault because a fascist was | | injured in a fascist factional fight among themselves. All then looked |for one of their enemies to lay the The Independent Shoe Workers, leading the strike which started Wednesday of half the 100 workesa in the Falco Shoe Co., at 313 Van Sinderen Ave., Brooklyn, expects soon to bring out the other depart- ments, and force the boss to terms, ected. Before sailing for the !Union Wednesday the American | | Workers’ Delegation to the Sov: | Union issued a statement addressed |to * ‘all American workers and farm- | ers,” in which they stat: “The American Workers’ Delega- | importance in view of the “act of | the slanderous campaigns that are going on against the Soviet’ Unicn by every religious agency and by! all cateyories of social reformism and the bourgeoisie, “The increasi ig war danger and imperialist conspiracy is due to the | fact that the socialist upbuilding of | and on our return to hy the Soviet Union has achieved re- markable success, Plan is the most GO.TO SOVIET UNION ilkins was lynched at Locust! Mice | Workers Delegation Leaves Sov: iets achievement, t The Five Year|of the Soviet Union in the United | News. unparaileled | States.” The fitters and heelers are out, and some of the lasters. The strike started because the boss arbitrarily discharged three workers, diserim- ing against active union mem- The spirit is fine, and the strikers and. ered are determined. source available prov “This delegation will go over and ‘ get information pertaining +o this | | autheniie Aen in - | constructive program; in 9 | words, we are to go there to to look, to listen and to jearn tion to the Soviet Union is of special to come back and report to Ameri-| Capitalism Promotes Judge Pare ker—Engdah!_Page 4. Deter- ding’s Anti-Soviet Crusade—Page @ The Seventh Party Convention— | Foster—Page 4. March 6—Lozoy- sky—Page 4. TOMORROW: jean workers and farmers the prog- ress being made as viewed fro: the standpoint of this American work- ing-class delegation. “Before leaving, we gain greet #ll American workers and working farmers, and we pic ourselves | to represent you in the Soviet Union Page of Worker Corr ondenee. ctive Marxian-Leninist Educa Onn ane orkers in the cause of iends of Features—Book Reviews—Sport idarity of Nort i sous ' Southern Workers—Dunne,