The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1930, Page 1

‘4 mie vapovnen?™ VATION Svar Es Answer Him (ner ist! Baily = \ kntered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, . ¥. under the Published daily except Sunday by The Company. Inc., 26-25 Union Square. Vol. VI, No. 349 Comprodaily # New York City, N. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 19,193 om The Fascist American Feder- ation of Labor William Green, president of the A. F. of L., has publicly given the blessings of his organization to the anti-workingclass, anti-May | Day demonstration organized by the fascist Veterans of Foreign Wars for Union Square on May ist, as a provocative challenge against the | traditional May Day which for 44 years has been celebrated by the workers at that spot. Yesterday was announced from the Army and Navy Club the plans for this fascist provocation. In the first place it puts demonstratively the “Russian” division, a gathering of white-guard cut-throats of the Czar. - ‘ William Green gave his blessings to this murderous gang, who have been mobilized by Policeman Whalen on behalf of Wall Street. Is there still anyone who protests against the name “fascist” being | applied to the leadership and policies of the A. F. of L.? Is there any red-blooded worker who is not filled with indignation at the sight of this choice collection of exploiters, scoundrels, pro- fessional murderers, fakers, and fascists, occupying Union Square on May Day? Earning the Praise of His Bosses Policeman Whalen knows who is the boss. And he knows how to gain the approva) of those who pay the bills and thereby call the tune. Public testimonial to this fact is given by the announcement of a dem- onstrative “dinner” to be given in honor of Whalen on May 6th, spon- sored by a committee of 600 most prominent capitalists and politicians. Among those who will demonstrate ‘approval of Whalen’s head- clubbing on March 6th, and who give advance approval to his pros- pective clubbings on May Ist, are all the well-known names: Vincent Astor, and a couple of Vanderbilts; Atterbury, Willard and Harriman; Adolph Ochs and William Randolph Hearst; Grace and the Guggen- heims; Otto H.. Kahn and Darwin P. Kingsley; Julius H. Barnes and Owen D. Young; the Gimbels and Kresses;Warburg and Sloan; David Belasco and Will Hays, and so on to a total of 600 of the same kind. We must express our thanks to the organizers of this dinner for giving the Daily Worker such an excellent dramatization of the class meaning of March 6th, of the class forces behind Whalen and the po- lice clubbirigs. .Whalen is merely the strong-arm man of Wall Street. He takes his orders directly from these people, and receives his re- wards from them. All these 600 financiers, capitalists, entrepreneurs, and their pros- titutes, were frightened by the spectacle of March 6th, when hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated on the streets. They shiver int fear, and nightmares disturb their sleep, as May Day approaches, the day upon which, for 44 years, the working class has put forward its most fundamental demands. Unfortunately for the 600 and their brethren all over the country, all their violent suppression, all their police war-mobilization, will not suffice to destroy May Day. On the contrary, the extremes to which they go in their panic, serves to deepen and broaden the movement of the workers, make it more conscious, and steel the workers for more determined and better-organized battles. May Day is only the rehearsal for more serious battles to come. Let us take the measure of capitalist repressive forces, exemplified by the forces of Whalen, in order to learn how in the future to defeat the EX-COPS MURDER GIVE HARPER 3 MONTHS IN JAIL 2 NEGRO WORKERS Framed Them Up to} Get $5,000 Reward Fight on Lynching ‘Negro Railroaded for Worker on that date). FORT WORTH, April 18.—A deliberate murder of two Negro workers, Will Tate and George Terrell, by P. Boyt and John Alsup, former policemen, was revealed yes- terday. The murder of the Negro workers was perpetrated by the ex- policemen and several other white police agents in order to collect a reward for dead bank bandits. The facts revealed by the district attorney’s office show that Boyt and Alsup, the former official gun- men, induced the Negro workers to go through the motions of a bank hold-up. Boyt, Alsup and their friends then deliberately killed Tate and Terrell in order to collect the $5,000 offered by the State Bank- ers’ Association for the killing of any bank robber. P. Boyt confessed the frame-up and murder and. is being held for trial. Young Communists Spring Dance Tonight at New Harlem Casino The Young Communist League is nolding a big affair tonight at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. It will have many youth features. The funds will be ed to mobilize the young workers for participation on May 1. The snappy John C. Smith Band will supply the music. Today in History of the Workers April 19, 1775—Battle of Lex- ington, Mass., beginning of Amer- ican bourgeois revolution. 1791— Louis XVI and family arrested by revolutionists in attempted flight from France. 1917—P. C. Oxman, principal witness against Mooney, arrested on perjury charge. 1918 .—J. Edward Morgan kidnapped from El Centro, Calif., to prevent speech in behalf of Mooney. 1920 —Miners of Butte, Mont., struck for wage increase and better working conditions. 1925—115,000 workers in Denmark locked out. Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” Solomon Harper and Rose Kelly charges brought by the reactionary Randolph clique in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters for daring to suggest in \ mass meeting called by the “union” a campaign against the Wilkins murderers. Three Months. Harper and Kelly were convicted by Judge Weil in the 12th District Magistrate’s Court. Harper, a Ne- Negro Labor Congress organizer, got three months in the workhouse. | Kelly, a white worker, arrested for | interfering with a policeman who was trying to break Harper's arm, was given five days. “We, the members of the council | of the unemployed in Harlem,” says a resolution adopted yesterday by that body, “see and understand that this railroading of Harper and Kelly to jail is a premeditated, deliberate and cold-blooded attempt of the boss class to rob the workers of militant leadership. This has added to the determination of the unem- ployed workers to demonstrate May 1 against the capitalist class and their whole damnable system of op- pression.” HOUSE MARINE DELEGATES The Marine Workers League | urgently requests all comrades who | can accommodate one or more dele- | gates to its convention, immediately to get in touch with their office at |140 Broad St. or telephone White- | | hall (aks (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, April 18.—Pravda de-;| |clares that the importance of the | Anglo-Soviet agreement consists in Ie provision of a legal basis for i trade relations, Recent events in | France proved the absolute neces- { | sity of such a basis. The agreement jrepresents the success of the un- wavering peace policy of the Soviet Union which created favorable con- ditions for the development of An- were railroaded to jail yesterday on | gro railroad worker and American | ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE Pravda Comments on Agreement FOOD WORKERS | CONVENE SUNDAY FOR NEW UNION | Hindrodsof Delarstes to Elect Shop Council Mass Drive Planned |For Orientation on the Factories Beginning tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., the shop conven- tion of food workers, called by the Food Workers’ Section, Trade Union Unity League, will establish a Food Workers’ Industrial Union, based on a shop delegate council expected | to be representative of hundreds of |crafts and branches of the industry. |The chief task of the convention ‘will be the drawing up of a pro- |gram for mass organizational work, based on the needs of the most ex- ploited workers in the industry, |workers in the trustified factories, canneries and chain stores. This convention is the climax of a long, bitter and militant struggle put up separately by food workers of different crafts—hotel, restau- rant and cafeteria workers, food clerks and bakers. As previously independent branches of the indus- try, these workers have courage- ‘ously and victoriously battled the combined forces of big and small ‘capitalists, the most sweeping in- |junctions and mass arrests experi- ‘enced in New York and a brutal so- cial fascism developed by food unions affiliated with the United Hebrew Trades, as well as by the traditionally militant Amalgamated Food Workers, now rivalling the A. F. of L. in the terroristic tactics of its bureaucrats. STRIKE GOES ON iN INDIANAPOLIS Metal Finishers Led by TUUL, Metal Leagué INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 18. —The Hayes Body Corporation strikers are standing firm for their demands. Two hundred walked out April 8 (not 1,000 as erroneously reported in a telegram to the Daily They have elected a strike committee, which the bosses so far refuse to see, and are making efforts to spread the strug- gle. At a noonday meeting at the fac- tory gate recently, 500 workers | gathered, and when the company po- lice tried to arrest the speakers, the workers refused to permit it. Three Shot in Gun Battle in Royalton Capitalist press reports from Royalton, Ill., tell of a gun fight between the officials of the Lewis and Fishwick cliques. Browning | Davis, brother of a U. M. W. sub- \district official, was shot, also |James Hicks of Royalton, and three | other men. Howat, head of the Peabody Coal Co. faction of the United Mine | Workers, and his vice president, Adolph Germer, of the socialist party, were in town, trying to hold a meeting in front of a drug store, and Lewis sent in 100 thugs to break it up. Friends of the Soviet Union Concert Tonite Tonight the drive of the Friends of the Soviet Union for thousands of ‘new members to fight for the recog- nition and defense of the Soviet | Union will open. Central Plaza Hall| will see scores of workers and | friends of the U.S.S.R. parti ipate ;in the revolutionary mass singing, led by the F.S.U. band and other features. glo-Soviet trade. The Soviet Union is prepared to do everything to ex- tend and consolidate its trade re- lations. The path .of Anglo-Soviet rela- tions, however, is paved with broken treaties. To attach exaggerated importance to the present agree- ment, therefore, is inadvisable, as the imperialist powers have con- tinually shown readiness to treat ‘agreements as scraps of paper when so inclined, Wise-Cracker and Head-Cracker Jazzy Mayor Walker, the head of the capitalist city government. His answer to the New York un- employed workers was breadlines | and blackjacks. His slogan for May Day is Fascisti and 19,000 policemen. Walker was an actor, that’s why he acts so perfectly on the bosses’ orders. | OPEN WORKERS EDUCATION MEET Conference to Meet Today Today at 2 p. m., in the large auditorium of the Workers School, 26 Union Sq., the first conference for working class education wiil open its sessions. Credentials have been received from a large number of organiza- tions. These include the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Independent Shoe Workers Union, the Education Department of |" the International Labor Defense, the International Workers Order. the Workers Cooperative Colony. the Jewish Workers University, a number of delegates from Commn- nist sections, foreign language edu- cational ¢lubs, ‘the Young Commu- nist League, etc. The agenda for the conference as announced last night by the pro- visional committee for the confer- ence"is“as follows? 1. Election of officers; 2. The re- port on—a. The situation in work- ing class education in New York. | b, The nature of working class edu- cation, c. Our next step; 3. Discus- | sion on the report; 4. Report on Credentials Committee; 5. Adoption of resolution; 6. Elections. There is a $2 fee connected with each delegate in order to cover the expenses of the conference. In a last minute announcement is- sued by the joint chairman of the provisional committee, George Sis- kind, for the Trade Union Unity League and Sam Darcy for the Workers School, it was declared that the aims of the conference will be “to found a permanent organization | closely to connect the educationai and propaganda activities of all militant working class organizations, which will help to provide for mu- tual help in order to extend our ac- tivities and guide the nature of these activities along correct revolutionary paths.” Newark Mass Meeting | Sunday Elects Labor Jury in Sedition Case NEWARK, N. J., April 18.— “Free the ten Newark defendants! Fight for the right of the workers to organize!” are the slogans of a mass protest meeting against the attempt to railroad to prison under the sedition law workers arrested in February while meeting to ar- range details for the unemployment demonstrations. The meeting will elect a labor jury to sit through the trial, which starts Tuesday. The meeting is Sunday, at 2 p. m., at Krueger’s Auditorium, 25 Belmont Ave. ———————— 2? International Wireless News at (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, April 18.—Police con- | fiscated the Communist May Day | newspaper. Precautions on the part | of the workers prevented large sup- plies from falling into the hands of the police. The Reichs Government an- nounced yesterday that Severing’s Thuringian ban was raised, the monies due Thuringia being paid without question, ee « Thuringia is using federal money to train a fascist army for the pur- pose of establishing an open fas- cist dictatorship in Germany. The money was held up until an “in- vestigation” could be made, 1 orker and Bronx, New Ye NEP aeetitie eel ee EDi 88 Manhattan FINAL CITY TION ty Price 3 Cengs ear, IMPERIAL VALLEY GENERAL STRIKE iN CUBA ON MAY 1; CONVENTION SUN, Preparations Go On 4 Spite of Arrest of 83 Leaders Turn to T.U.U.L. EL CENTRO, Cal., April Sunday the convention of the Agri- cultural Workers Industrial League will meet here, in spite of the at- tempt of the bosses’ sheriff to put every leader and organizer in jail. The convention is to make plans for loupe pickers and packers in May The Agricultural Workers Indus- trial League yesterday issued a | statement calling all workers to close | their ranks and fight on against the long hours. A strike of 8,000 workers here | | and the workers, and Filipino, are turning to the Trade Union Unity League, and its Agricultural Workers Industrial League. The employers fear the movement, as is proved by the fact that after the first strike they established a (Continued on Page: Five) FASCIST FISH IS RED-BAITER “Investigated” Morgan-Rockefeller supporters tionary Matthew Woll of the Amer- } ilton Fish Jr. presented a resolution jealling for an “investigation of | {Communist activities in the United States.” He proposes the establish- ment of a distant island where all rebel workers should be exiled. He does not say, however, whether his proposed island would be big eno: to hold the 1,250,000 workers who demonstrated on March 6. Fish declared that he is sure his resolution will pass together with an appropriation of from $50,000 to | $100,000 to carry on the red-baiting activities. 3 ee Boss Court Revokes Citizenship. | PHILADELPHIA, Apri 18.. After he had received his citizenship papers, because he wrote a lette to his brother, a soldier in Hun; berrating him for murdering work- ers, the Federal Cireuit Court of | Appeals yesterday sustained the ac tion of the lower court in taking away John Tapolesanyi’s citizenship papers. The action of the Federal Cour shows its unity with the fa regime in Hungary and is di against all workers who militantly fight against bad conditions. Ce wate Walker Names Pay-Triot Day. As part of the preparations | against the wide mobilization of the workers for a mass political strike on May Day, under the leadership of the, Communist Party, Jazzy Mayor Walker yesterday issued a proclamation proclaiming April 19 as Patriots Day. Anti-Soviet Bishop’s Son Kills Aged Man; James Matthews Maxon, said to be the son of Bishop James M. Maxon, one of the leading sky- pilots of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Tennessee, who is a rabid supporter of the imperialist war campaign against the Soviet Union, yesterday demonstrated the mean- ing of Christian peacefulness and charity by brutally murdering Da- vid Paynter, a 70-year-old printer. Paynter, aroused by a woman’s scream, had entered the room of Mrs. Rose Hickey and saw young Maxon trying to pull her out of bed.. The bishop’s son, Maxon, thereupon picked up a chair and} beat the aged printer to death. SEAMAN HURT IN CRASH. CAPE MAY, N. J., April 18.—A seaman was injured when the freighter Luckenback, of the M. J. Luckenback Lines, collided with the freighter Satartia, of the U. S. Shipping Board Lines, _ Total Bail $1,500, 000, |Bosses Wild : As Toilers te STRIKE IN MAY; PHILADELPHI’ PROTEST PATRIOTS IN PLOT WITh AUSSIAN MURDER GANG (Chiefs of Czarist Jew Killing Black Black “Hundreds and “Okhrana” Witt! A. F. of L. and U.S. Miners Belaire, and Moundsville 2000 MEETING a great strike of the 15,000 cante- | ‘Denounce Jailing | slave conditions in this outdoor hot- huge crowd of well over 2,000 w house, poor housing, low wages and ers gathered in a heavy rain today several months ago was betrayed by hoy Defense, to protest the conv! a Mexican “liberal” organization, | tion of Foster, Minor, Amter, Le: largely Mexican |ten and Raymond, the five members Wants - Communists: pore | al 1 employed, ; Unemployed, for Tuesday, April IN HEAVY RAIN and Prepare for May 1 PHILADELPHIA, April 18. lat noon in front of the City Hall, on the call of the International L of the New York unemployed dele- gation, and to demand the release of Holmes and Peltz, who were re- cently convicted «under the vicious yn sedition law in Chester and who are now in jail. Banners calling on the workers to “Down Tools and Strike on May 1,” as well as others demanding the re- lease of all class-war prisoners, against imperialist war and for the | defense of the Soviet Union, were carried by many of the workers. Unanimous Resolution. A resolution was unanimously and | enthusiastically passed pledging the y with the impris- oned workers. The resolution de- |mands the immediate release of the | delegation representing the 110,000 WASHINGTON, April 18.—Back- |New. York workers.at the March 6 ed by the Fascist War Veterans, the | demons of {Gastonia seven and all other Cossack Whalen, and the rabid reac- | war prisoners. the class- tiie release ration, The workers present pledged ican “Federation of Labor and the themselves to carry on a huge cam: | Civie Federation, Congressman Han. | paign to fight the Flynn sedition | law and to fight for its immediate repeal. Telegrams darity were sent to Foster, Amter, Lesten and Raymond, (Continued on Page Five) of greeting and soli- and GALL DEFENSE CONFERENCE SUK, \Mass Meeting Tuesday to Mobilize All all workers shop _coun- de- Representatives of organizations, unions, fense bodies, , and the Communist Party. will meet Sunday morning in Irving Plaza Hall to work out plans for stren- uous opposition to the terror in New York. It will fight for the release of the N. Y. committee of the un- for Harry Eisman, 15 year old Young Pioneer, sentenced to six years for attending the March 6 demonstrations, and arrange de- fense for all future cas A mass protest meeting and mob- ilization of workers for these pur-| poses is called by the Communist Party, the I. L. D., the Trade Union Unity League and Councils of the 29 |in Central Opera House. | PHONE CO. I ALBANY, N. New York Telephone Co. today no- tified the publie service commission, BIGGEST STEAL. Y., April 18.—The Attacks a Woman 22¢"ts of the entire capitalist class jin this state, that it proposed to raise phone rates enough to make $8,000,000 more a year. The rates proposed are the highest submitted | so far. PIONEERS R Minor, | Admit 3 Power Treaty Means Big Arms Race LONDON, Ae 18.—The process of writing loopholes in the three- power “treaty,” through which an unlimited navy could be launched, is now going on here. It ex- pected that the final draft of the treaty will be ready for signing Tuesday. From statements is- sued by nearly al! the imperialist delegations the main task now is to broaden the “escape clause” that the treaty becomes more and more a cover for the failure of the five-power conference. A statement issued yesterday by Senator Robinson, one of the Amer- ican delegates, goes even farther so than the British white paper in in-| “safeguarding | that any of | terpreting the clause.” Robinson the imperialist powers can build any sized navy it thinks necessary to | meet the various war situations that | ari He said: f a real emergency should I should want the United States to be free to act without | the consent of others, and of (Continued on Page Five) MORE WORKERS PROTEST JAILING | 187 Tried in in Chicago Monday; Cuban Terror The International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., reports olution demanding the release of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten from the International Association of Machinists, 24, Hamilton, Ontario. It by A. C. Avering, secretary of the di Tany other organizations and mass meetings of workers are send- ing in similar demands and pro- tests. One om the I. L, D. branch in W m, N. D., which ates that at the meeting where the resolution was adopted, 11 new members joined, and that this smalf town, there are 450 unem- ployed. Another resolution is from Jad- Phila ransko More Lodge 144, phia. | The five above elected delegation ed,” an unem- mer of the ployed who were railroaded through a juryless trial before three judges on April 11, come up for sentencing | Monday, in special sessions, at the | Criminal Court Building. * 137 in Court Mond CHICAGO, Ill, April day 137 workers held for trial out of about 400 arrested in police raids on halls where unemployment meet- * (Continued on Page Five) WAR REMINDER. While the imperialists ave fever- ishly preparing for a new imperial- ist war, a very vivid reminder of | the last war, a floating mine field | has just been discovered off the Danish coast, near the mouth of the Schleswig rd. Ten other mines were lifted from the water in that | Vicinity by German mine sweepers. EADY MAY 1 Call t for Mass School S Strike Pioneers of New York tively preparing for May 1. are ac- Work dren for a mass political school | strike. Distributions of literature in| all public and high schools have; taken place during the weck. Fri- day afternoon, in front of Walton High School, the Bronx, a worker's | | child was arrested while distributing | | pamphlets calling the pupils to) cussed. So} planned, will include work among stay out of school on May 1. ata. £48 eleven schools have issued Pio- |neer school bulletins. these In many of schools the Pioncers have {has begun among the workers’ chil- been terrorized by the school au-! ers’ thorities, Plans are now being made to dis- | tribute 100,000 leaflets. Pioneers | are being mobilized at a member- ship meeting on Monday, April At this meeting a plan of work for the entire holiday week will be dis-; This week, as so far! (Continucd on Page Five) S. Fascists receipt of , ; a]- and Steel Workers Conference Calls All Out in Wheeling». FIGHT FOR “WORK SOR WAGES” IN U,Ss Strike in NewYork an® Mass Demonstration HAVANA, Cuba, .April 18—A mass political strike for 24 hours May in the whole of Havana, and in other cities of Cuba has been voted at a meeting yesterday of yepresentatives of 36 labor orgame izations. In spite of every sort of terror practiced by the Machado govern- ment, demonstrations of the strikers and the vast numbers of unem- ployed in Cuba will be held in the afternoon, with mass meetings a night in all labor centers. * * 7 Political Strike in N. Y. bs Mass political strike in all New York industries is guaranteed by the revolutionary unions of the T. U. U. L., and by thousands of un- organized workers wherever they | have expression through minority | groups, fraternal clubs, ete. The | Unemployment Movement execu- , tives met yesterday and today, plan- ning the fullest participation of the workers without jobs, led by the Councils of the Unemployed. The threats of Whalen and the police department, the fascist and jingo organizations led by the World War Veterans, do not awe these workers, and they demand the right of the working class to use Union Square, for the biggest mass dem- onstration ever held in this city. The demands are immediate relief of the unemployed by appropria- tions from the city treasury, and by < on profits, unemployment * insw e paid for by the city and administered by the organizations of the jobless, seven-hour day and five-day week, no speed-up, and nfore pay, no war on the Soviet Union, no imperialist war, etc. Whalen’s Masters Feed Him. The 600 most prominent business- men in New York, including the Rockefellers and M Atter- ury of the Penn: und the owners of the most labor- hating corporations plan a banquet at the r for Grover Whalen, their police head, to extend official congratulations from the real rulers of the city and the country for po- lice brutality and arrests. March 6, Unite With Black Hundreds. Meanwhile some curious details of the connection between the pay- trioteers who propose a march in uniform from Madison Square to Union Square May 1 for the pur- pose of attacking the jobless- and striking workers there and the Rus- sian monarchists, black hundred and Jew killing cliques of Czarist Russia, and White Guard terrorist organizations, have come to light. The Russian counter-revolution- ary paper in New York, Novoye Russkaye Slovo, carries on appeal | (Continued on Page Five) CLEANERS MEET MONDAY. A mass meeting of cleaners and dyers in Central Opera House Mon- day will take organizational steps against the wage cut campaign ef the bosses, which followed the sf ing of the agreement April 1 the corrupt officials of the A. F. L, union. — | “Today in the Baily 2 &: Worker | Wall Street War in Abyssinia— | Gannes—Page 6. Food Workers March Forward—-Wiseman—Page 6. Solidarity of Northern and Southern Workers—Dunne—Page 6. Work- |ers’ Correspondence—Page 2. Work- Education, Sports, Book Re- views—Page 3. | MONDAY: A Man On the Breadline Calls For May 1 Fight. Youth Problems 1, —Shohan. The Thesis of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, U. S. A. passed at the recent Plenum, will appear in Monday’s i issue of the Daily Worker. , |) \ x iN -