The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1930, Page 1

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION = Company, Inc, 26-25 Union are, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publi New York City, N. NEW :YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930 36 a year everywhere excepting M. ty and foreign countries, there $8 SUBSCRIPTION R and Bronx, Nev: Vol. VI., No. 350 May Day! The May Day United Front Conference of New York City has announced its demonstration for Union Square. The principal meeting there will be preceded by a parade from Rutgers Square, the first mobilization point, where the workers will assemble at noon. Applica- tion for the parade permit from Rutgers Square to Union Square was filed with the Mayor and Police Commissioner Saturday by the Con- ference, together with the announcement of the demonstration in Union Square. Since 1890, Union Square has been the traditional scene of May Day Demonstrations. For years the revolutionary trade unionists and Communists have maintained this tradition, born in the early years of the organized workingclass movement. Last year the May Day United Front Conference held a demonstration and parade with banners, cen- tering in Union Square. This year a conspiracy was organized to break this tradition, with the use of the fascist War Veterans’ ‘Association. The “heroes” of the renegades, headed by Gitlow, joined with the fascists and the police, calling upon “the workers to force the Com- munists to retreat” without any fight to retain Union Square. At the same time they cover their brazen treachery with empty bombastic calls to “make the capitalists tremble”! Let the workers cover these renegades with the contempt they deserve, by rallying the marching masses. If they “tremble” at sight of the renegades, it is with laugh- ter to see “Communists” doing their dirty work for them. The right of the workers to Union Square on’ May Day has been established in years of struggle. The May Day United Front Conference has declared, in the name of the tens of thousands of revolutionary workers whom it represents, that that right will be maintained. Forward to Union Square on May Day! Preparing a New Crash Even the capitalists now recognize that a new stock market crash is in preparation. Such a new crash would, of course, mark a still deeper downward plunge af industry and employment. That it will break soon becomes clearer every day. i On March 7th President Hoover declared, in answer to the great demonstration of unemployed, that the low point of business had been passed, and that “the worst effects of the crash upon employment will have been passed during the next 60 days.” There are only 14 more | of those magic 60 days left. The figures published by “The Annalist” of April 18th shows clearly what Hoover’s word is worth—precisely nothing. Here are a few of the facts set forth by the most authori- tative capitalist sources: _. The economic situation in March was worse than at any time since the beginning of the crisis, lower even than December. The busi- ness index for March is 89.4, compared with last year in May 108.8, September 105.8, October 103.6, November 94.2, December 89.6, All items going into the combined index show a decline for March. Pay- rolls index for March falls to 92.7, compared to February 94.1. The Annalist says: “Total wages of factory workers in March, allowing for seasonal variations, were the lowest since November, 1924.” The Annalist sharply points out “the indubitable fact of reaction among business men against the cheerful business propaganda initiated at Washington,” and, referring to Hoover’s declaration, says, “the iron- ical fashion in which business events have repudiated the successive ballyhoo official statements from Washington, has produced a convic- tion not only that the Government does.not know the facts, but that the facts are probably rather worse than has been generally supposed even outside Washington.” The New York Telegram, in an editorial, speaks irritatedly about the “Washington ballyhoo about improving business conditions,” and reminds the Government that “Honesty is the best policy in handling business depression; the nation paid a heavy price for the luxury of whistling to keep up its courage instead of facing facts.” The abnormal rise in stock exchange values, which goes on with the deepening of the crisis in industry, clearly presages the coming of the second stock exchange crash. In The Annalist an article by Parker Willis, entitled “Present Banking Policy Starting New Inflation,” a cuses the Government of consciously carrying on a policy of credit infla- tion, and concludes that “Hoover and his administration are riding for a fall. In an economic banking sense such a fall would involve the business structure of the country.” Editorially, the same paper declares that the Federal Reserve policy “bids fair to revive the speculative mania of last year, with an inevitable crash.” i All capitalist authorities continue, thus, to furnish the Communist Party with new and fresh evidence of the correctness of its “Thesis on’ the Economic and Political Situation,” published in this issue of the Daily Worker. The Co-operative Exchange Meets Of more than ordinary importance is the meeting today of the delegates of the Central Cooperative Exchange in Superior, Wisconsin. This meeting marks a stage in the struggle going on for months in the Finnish movement between a workingclass policy, on the one hand, ' and a petty-bourgeois opportunism headed by George Halonne, on the other hand. The attempt of Halonen and his clique to separate the Finnish movement from the general revolutionary movement in the United States, to switch it off the rails. of class struggle onto the line of collaboration with capitalist politicians and renegades, which was so decisively defeated in the Tyomies publishing association, now makes its stand in the cooperative organizations. In February the Communist International addressed a letter to the Finnish workers of America, which dealt in detail with all the problems of this struggle. The Communist Party of the U.S.A. fully agrees with guage press and which was written with the participation of the Forward to Union Square on 300,000 ADDED and endorsés this letter, which has been published in the Finnish lan- i {Demand Their Release May Day ‘TO UNEMPLOYED ARMY IN MARCH | | 8,000,000 Now Spur Prepavations For July 4th Meet | Minor Exposes Crain | | Demand Release of Jobless Delegation The unemployed army was tre- ri : Minor, Editor of the mendously increased during March,| _ Robert | J laccording to the figures of the| Daily Worker, now in Tombs H United States. Department of Labor,| prison together with the other members of the Unemployed Dele- gation, exposes District Attorney Crain and his butcher tact against the unemployed wor which admitted an increase in the} jobless of 1 per cent—this means an | addition of 300,000 jobless in one | month, bringing the figures well up| to 8,000,000 unemployed. This fact, together with the fran- | In a long and representative ses- | sion yesterday, the Food Workers tic efforts of the bosses to strength- en their attack on the unemployed | workers by jailing the unemployed | delegation, should give a tremen-| GROWS IN INDIA dous impetus to the preparations | for the July 4th national conference | on unemployment to be held in Chi- | . cago. Over 100,000 delegates from ‘MacDonald Institutes all parts of the country, represent- | ‘. 7 ing unemployed councils, unions, | Fascist Reign | jete., are expected. | aa a : The whole gamut of lies issued by| CALCUTTA, April 20.—Secthing, Hoover, Klein, Davis, Lamont and |2!™ed revolt is spreading to many | | others are again smashed by the lat- | Parts of India, despite Gandhi's fran- |est reports on the rapidly growing | ebtonte a0 meen, ne wate (Gonitaledon Pale Rive) in the bounds desired by B pee aha perialism and the slimy MacDon- a ald “labor” government. YEW Yesterday a large group of armed | | rebels swooped down on Chittagong, } | a river port of Bengal, and captured | a large store of arms from the ar- | | (Continued on Page Two) | ‘Members in Local 3 Ap GR 0 U PS | N Revolt Against Fakers| | ILD CONFERENCE | Industrial Union of New York was | built by something over 200 del-} abs | | egates representing bakery workers| Building Mass Defense, | both of the A. F, Li and of the Am- jalgamated Food workers, hotel, res- Body; For May il jtaurant and cafeteria workers, eolag ! ‘mostly of the Amalgamated, food | Delegates from 46 organization: ‘clerks, and other groups. labor and fraternal, gathered at Ir- The sessions were seething with | Ving Plaza yesterday at 10 a, m. ‘n news of a sharp, head on collision | Conference to lay the basis for a between the members of Bakers Lo- | ™@85_ International Labor Defense \in this district to meet the inereas- ical 3 of Brooklyn (Amalgamated | » (Continued on Page Too). |ing attacks of the bosses, the gov- ernment and all the fascist agencie. 5 ‘against the workers. COMMUNISTS IN | The delegates unanimously adopte: |the resolution of the United Fron: FLECTION CALL May Day Conference, which “de May mands the right of the workers to demonstrate under the auspices o Will Hold Convention | in Schenectady jthe United Front May Day Con ference and the Communist Party An appeal to all shops, trade , the. junions, unemployment councils and | their slogans. jon May 1 at 11 a. m. at Union quare, } The I. L. D. branches will join the demonstration in a body with | working class organizations to send | Mass Organization. delegates to a State Convention of The conference laid stress on the militant workers’ organizations in (Continued on Page Two) Schenectady, May 24 and 25, to! ea bew eet ratify its candidates’ program was Nahas Pasha Sells | issued today by the New York State . | Campaign Committee of the Com-' Qut Egyptian Masses LONDON, April 20.—A complete ; munist Party. ‘congressional elections at a time; agreement is reported to have been when the economic situation of the; reached between Premier Nahas throughout the country is worse movement, and the representatives than ever before,” the call states. of the British imperial » “labor” (Continued on Page Two) ‘gon, and others. i “We are approaching state and workers in New York State and! Pasha, betrayer of the independence A campaign of terror and persecu- | foreign secretary, Arthur Hender- Farmers Being Driven Off Land — | i Reports of the Associated Press | centralization of the market in4arm | ion the census show the impoverish- ‘the Communist Party. ‘ clause,” which has been variousl; | PLAN MAY Ist MARCH FROM RUTGERS TO U FACE DEATH THREAT TODAY Call on Workers to Fight Action of Southern Bosses Labor-Hating Judge NION SQUA “POWERS, CARR ORGANIZE GREATEST DEMONSTRATION nhaitan a year. Price 3 Cents RE MAY 1 IN ANSWER TO SENTENCING OF 'Mass Demonstrations in Detroit, Poughkeepsie, COMMITIEE OF JOBLESS IN N.Y. TODAY Chicago, Give Point to Demands for Work or Wages, More United Front Conferences Will Show up Lynching Send Whalen Demand for Use of Unicn Square; Needle Trades Union, of Negro Workers ATLANTA, Ga., April 20.—The Southern bosses’ attempts to rail- road Powers and Carr to the elec- trie chdir opens in court tomorrow (Monday). Chief counsel for the defense will be Hancock, with Moore and Socoloff as associates. They will attack the law under “| which Powers and Carr are being) ‘ARMED REVOLT | threatened with death, for their Central Opera House | ss itant class activities, as a law Meeting To Be Held passed by the Northern military dictatorship under the carpet-bag- gers, directed against the Southern landowners and now being used by the Southern bosses against mili- tant working-class organizers as a fascist weapon. The indictment against Powers and Carr is based solely on extracts from two pamphlets which were confiscated four days before March 9 at a raid on the headquarters of the Trade Union Unity League and The defense lawyers will point out that the in- | dictment is legally invalid because ne overt act has been charged. The’ | will also attack the wholesale lynch- ings which have been carried on m Georgia against Negro work Only a world-wide protest of the | workers will prevent the bosses from carrying through this legal murder of Powers and Carr. The case will be tried before the labor-hating Judge Humphries, with (Continued on Page Five) SPOWER PACT IS ‘SLIPPERY TREATY Can Increase Arms to Any Size BULL LONDON, April 20—Imperialist rivalries threaten to wreck even the fake three-power treaty. Mac- Donald, who was hiding away in his Scotland retreat, has received a hurry-up call to come to London to straighten out the rift over the “escape clause” which has devel- oped to an extreme point. The Japanese imperialists are also raising questions over the “escape clause,” which show the antago- nisms, in spite of the fact that MacDonald and Stimson declared everything was O. K. oe ow LONDON, April 20.—It is re- ported that the three-power pact has reached its final stage and will he signed by the United States, Bri tain and Japan Tuesday,though the ‘actual wording is being kept.strictly secret. The whole character of the treaty } is expressed in the “safeguardin: termed “slippery clause,” “escape clause,” “moving platform” and “escalator.” Despite the big in crease in armaments provided for in the three-power pact, the “sli;- pery clause” leaves room for doub- ling this increase at the whim of any of the powers and without a word of notice. PAINTER UNION FAILS PAINTERS TOMORROW NIGHT Committee of | Jobless Today While workers and unemployed | hoid meetings, and demonstrate, all over the country against the im- | prisonment of the committee of the | unemployed, elected by 110,000 de- | monstrators in Union Square March | 6, the special sessions court in the Criminal Court Building proceeds today to sentence them to whatever the ruling class of this financial capital of America think it is poli- tically advisable to give them. They can receive. s* with or without addi- Tomorrow at 8 p. m. at Central Opera House, the working class of | New York will give a smashing an- | swer to the attempt of the ruling | class to keep the unemployed dele- | | Letters and telegrams are com- |ing into the office of the District | | International Labor Defense de-| gation in prison. | ences up to | nouncing the attempt of the city of- | three ye | \ficials and fascist groups to prevent | “Ua! fim! | : i | This does not end their danger, | the workers from demonstrating on| | May Day, and pledging full support | for on Ap to the I. L. D. in their fight for the | tet magis 30 in the fourth di 's court there will bi Unemployed Delegation, and for the,# hearing on their case, under the demands of the right of workers to | charge of “feloniously assaulting a | policeman on Mareh 6.” On this |use the streets this May Day. | : The International Labor Defense, | Charge they can be held for a trial defending the unemployed delega-| in general sessions with a chance | tion, the Communist Party and the | f°" Sentence up to ten years. Trade Union Unity. League will rally) Today, workers will gather wt |at a huge mass meeting tomorrow. 10 a. m. to see the sentencing after |The meeting will mobilize the sup-|@ Tailroaded trial on the “unlafwul port of the masses of workers in| assembly” charge of the members of | demonstrations and struggles against | the committee. William Z. Foster, | the increased attack on the working (Continued on Page Three) WORKERS STRIKE attempt to deny Union Square to the Sign of Deepening Eco. | Workers on May Day, and the daily | arrest and sentencing of workers be- Crisis in Japan cause they in on the right to or- ganize and picket. It will mobilize | for May Day strike and demon- stration. ‘Big Six Members Vote ‘Overwhelmingly Not to Accept Arbitration ports from Tokio, Japan to the Cable state that, in answer an- A meeting of 1,500 members of nouncement of the City Government ! Typographical Union No. 6 ( of Tokio to cut wages of the Munic- Six day afternoon follewed | jpal Transport Workers, the exec- the advice in leaflets distributed by the left wing before the meeting, and voted down ,overwhelmingly a proposed new contract to go into ef- fect after June 30, which contained | an arbitration clause. utives of the Transport Workers’ Union have called a general strike yesterday, involving 13,000 workers. All the motormen and conductors on the tramways and chauffeurs and Seale negotiations have been conductorettes of the mvnicipal pending for 12 months. The prin~ juses would be. included in the cipal demand by the union was the siruggle. five day week. -This--the. bosses flatly refuse. The publishers coun- er proposal was for arbitration ‘ports which ‘have been won by ! |unien in the course of several dec- Since _the _Municipal Transport service of Tokio is operated by the government, this “strike would bring the workers in direct conflict with the imperialist government. As the jades. The Web pressmen accented | workers were “preparing for. the such anvarbitvation in 1925 and lost strike, the Government authorities |most of the gains of a lifetime of were organizing gangsters and struggle. scabs, trying to break the strike in The meeting voted with on!y 3 characteristic capitalist manner. votes dissenting, to demand strike! Japan has more than 1,000,000 anetion, jobless workers and this number is growing. This strike, closely fol- lowing the great strike struggle of 30,000 workers in the Kanagafuch' mills, is another clear expressio1 the deepening of the economic © jand the growing radicalization of ‘the working class in Japan. "TALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. ‘Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to ' become a regular subscriber FARM WORKERS MEET i H f ') Today in the Trade Union Unity Council, Foo? Worker Convention for Strike MASS PROTEST Sentence N.Y. PARADE MAY DAY Unions Call Strike For All Members d to his office Police Com- Saturday, delive: by special nger, inissioner Grover Whalen got the demands of the United Pio! May representing the of workers of essed thrdugh their elected reresentatives from shops and from the councils of the unem- ployed, for the use of Union Square on May 1. Day Conference tens of New York thousan mn Speakers for Masses The letter states: “On behalf of tens of thous- ands of New York workers or- ganized in the Communist Party; trade unions, councils of unemployed and workers’ frat- ernal, sport, co-operative and cultural organizations, and af- tiliated to the May Day United Front Conference we formally declare our intention to as- semble in Rutgers and Union Squares in a demonstration of working class solidarity, for which years has been cele- through- 1. has for 44 traditional the New 44 Union Square years , been the gathering place of York workers on May ist. On May 1, 1886, the New York workers first demonstrated in Union Square for the 8-hour Since that time, almost year, the workers have demonstrated there for their demands and against capital- ism. This year, the city’s cist bands, headed by th erans of Foreign Wars, planning to wrest Union Square from the workers by siaging an anti-May First, and auti- working class demonstration in the Square. “The working class will not give up its right to demonstrate for its demands and for interna- tional solidarity in the struggle against capitalism in Union Square on May Ist. The right of the workers to Union Square has been established; we intend ,to maintain that right. “In accordance, therefore, with usual requirements we formally apply for permission to march from Rutgers Square, where we will assemble at 12 noon, to Union Square, where our speakers will address the workers there assembled.” (Signed) Herbert Benjamin for the United Front May Day Con ference, Conference Again Thursday. The United Front Conference mei April 4, in Manhattan Lyceum. A great delegation from 567 shops working-class organizations and councils of the unemployed, and au: (Continued on Page Five) d Cal. Convention Despite Terror “LOS ANGELES, April 20.—In, The workers held in jail in the products is taken care of by capital- i ' ist organizations who are growing in| At the last meeting of the Paint-| oe a fast way that the milk dis- ers Local 121, Long Island City, one ribution for the whole New Eng-| of the members of the National| ..: . e . q ‘ f a ‘ spite of the reign of terror direct- Imperial Valley are being charged eee New York, Pennsylvania and | Executive Board had the gall to say ddiagainat (tie ai t agricultural | With criminal syndicalism. The ae. lew Jersey states within a very that painters shouldn’t strike when ea Se eee ree ee i H #) - . | lice are trying to break organiza- short time will be in the hands of | the agreement expires because con-| Workers in the El Centro region, | 4; : otily.two or three big companies, | tional plans for the general strike ditions are so bad. That is the only | which culminated in the arrest of| of the cantalou; 5 ; ipe workers to be “Workers, look to this back fall answer the A, F. of L, fakers have | 87 agricultural workers and Trade | called May ist. Over 9,000 Amer- of the farmer in the United States j for workers. i Union Unity League organizers, the | ican, Mexican, Negro, Filipino and }and let your mind at the same time | The officials have to admit that| convention of the Agricultural | Japanese workers who work in the C.P.U.S.A. The Party recommends this letter to the entire movement, | Daily 2: Worker | Thesis of Central Committee Com- munist Party —Page 3 Revolution in India —Page 6 } By Doonping Solidarity of Southern and North- ern Workers—Dunne -—Page 6 Call for May Day, By a Worker on because it is not merely a “Finnish affair” but a fundamental examina- ment veoh and ee beth tion of some of the most fundamental problems of the entire working | ing added to the army of the unem- ‘class. Especially to the Finnish workers, however, and above all to | ployed. Figures from eight states the workers in the cooperative movement this letter gives the clear line | surrounding the 1920 center of pop- of proletarian class struggle, the only sound. basis upon which the | ylation on the Illinois and Indiana movement can be built. line show that 92, or nearly 60 per ‘Unfortunately the English translation of this letter has been de- | cent of the 161 small towns counted, layed in the mails, and-has only now reached the United States. It | Suffered a reduction in Hevalation . ; will be published in full beginning with m . papa DE A aca é : Y g a Roe 7 Kol et I ala jof the eight states, villages showing | travel to the fields of U.S.S.R. where there are 75 per cent of the mem-| Workers’ Industrial League of the | hot desert sun will be involved. They ,,{!¢ Breadline = Pare} ; The entire movement in the United States, and of the world, will | decreases running from 62 to 80 per | the workers are doubling production bers of this local out of work. There | T.U.U.L. opened today in El Centro. | work for $1.50 to $2 a day, under BR SUEIOR Rn Ek: “ADM WaRtaee watch the meeting of the Central Cooperative Exchange, in which the | cent of the total tallied. and where every profit is going to .are probably about 80 to 90 percent | The convention is planning a strike | the most miserable conditions, ja ane Pages in the cantaloupe season in May The Intl. Labor Defense will bail Pee against the 12-hour workday and for | out the workers now in jail and ad- |For a Working-class Policy in the higher wages. Over 15,000 workers | ditional organizers will be sent te, Cooperatives—beattes of E. C. are employed ip this work, Imperial Valley. | Cok fores of opporunism ‘are making a desperate mobilization of all their | A farmer, commenting on this, the farmer and worker himself. not working. forces of opportunism are making a desperate ‘mobilization of all their | writes to the Daily Worker: “U. S.| Where he has not to feed a class of | They are supposed to get $12 for Second International, in the direction of class collaboration, in the JA. is killing her farming population | profiteers who take everything theya 8-hour day, with double time for | direction of surrender to the capitalist cluss. in a fast way. Rationalization and | can lay hands on.” {Continued on Page Two)