The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1930, Page 1

he REA 2a TAaRIAtiss esszarada . esa33 i | } 4 \ “ neem L OPERA VI., No. 351 aot cane antare: Published daily Compredaily Bul New York City. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1 SUBSCRIPTION RK and Bi New 930 Workers Maintain Traditional Right to Demonstrate on May Day in Fight for the Liberation of March 6 Leaders! “This trial and conviction is an attempt to prevent the organiza- tion of the unemployed. It is a blow against the working class. It is revenge for the great international demonstration of March 6th, and at the same time, directed against the May Day demonstration next week. The verdict was agreed upon by the judges before the case was heard. We were denied every legal right to present our case, were held without bail, were denied a jury trial. The case from beginning to end is an assault by the capitalist class against the working class. The workers will understand why we are being sent to prison.” This judgment, delivered against the courts of capitalism yester- day by Foster, Minor and Amter, was thrown directly into the faces of the mi ble Tammany trio, “Judges” Salomon, McInerney, and Murphy. It 1 judgment that will be upheld by the workers—and by histo. The Tammany judges and their capitalist system were up for judgment, and for all the’ pidity they realized this fact. “Red faced and angry,” as the capitalist reporters describe them, they aban- doned the traditional judicial poise, threw the court room into turmoil with shouts and hammering of the judicial gavels, forcibly silenced the representatives of the working class, and sentenced them to three years in the penitentiary Prison for the workers! That is the answer of capitalism to the March 6th demand of the unemployed for “Work or Wages.” Police- man Whalen’s clubs are now blessed by the courts. They have already been blessed by the priests of the church who announce a future can- nonization of “Saint” Whalen, They will be publicly blessed by the Chamber of Commerce in a “testimonial” dinner to Whalen on May 6th. Meanwhile unemployment grows apace. Misery and_ starvation enters into more hundreds of thousands of homes. Capitalism cannot feed the people. “You may send us to prison, but you cannot prevent the workers from organizing,” declared the spokesmen of the working class before the bar of capitalism. “The workers will understand. They will or- ganize. They will fight.” Our spokesmen before the Tammany Court spoke not for them- selves but for millions of workers. They spoke for the international movement of March 6th. They spoke for the hundreds of workers all over the country who have been sent to jail and prison for the March 6th demonstrations—in Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and a dozen other cities. They spoke for the more than seven million unemployed ‘workers, who realize more every day that these are the only voices speakifig for” them, fhe voices of the Communists. They spoke for the twenty mil- lion still in the mines, mills, and factories, who are suffering from wage cuts and a cruel, inhuman speed-up. Our comrades go to prison. Let the workers outside send them messages every day, in the shape of reports of organization and struggle, growing ever broader and deeper! Let the protests of the working class all over the world ring out, not only in resolutions and declarations which must be adopted in all organizations, but above all by building ever stronger and more mili- tantly, the organizations of the masses. Build the revolutionary trade unions! Unity League! Fight for the release of the imprisoned fighters! Build the Trade Union Fight for the seven-hour day and five-day week! Fight for Work or Wages, for Unemployment Insurance! Fight against the impending Imperialist War! Down Tools on May Day in a mighty working class demonstration! Forward to a Revolutionary Workers’ Government! Gastonia Today is scheduled the decision of the Supreme Court of North Garolina on the Gastonia case, in which seven trade union organizers are sentenced up to twenty years in prison. Let us have no illusions. The Supreme Court of North Carolina is -ribbed stronghold of capitalism. It represents the mill-owners of its state, who are filled with rage against the union organizers who led the fight against their wage-cuts and stretch-out systems. The Supreme Court has the function to support the wage-cuts and stretch- out. - Therefore it will condemn the union organizers, The Supreme Court of North Carolina is also a fortress of the semi-feudal exploitation and oppression of the Negroes. It is per- meated through and through with the doctrine of “white supremacy” and the enslavement of the Negroes. It has the function to preserve this enslavement, and represents those who are infuriated against the union organizers who preached and practiced complete social, political, and economic equality to the Negro workers of North Carolina. Therefore, again, the Supreme Court will condemn our seven comrades. The Supreme Court of North Carolina represents the most super- stitious, obscurantist, religious ruling class in America, the “funda- mentalists” who condemn by law the teachings of Darwin, who make it a crime to teach science in their schools. The defendants in the Gastonia case boldly proclaimed their disbelief in gods and devils, and their advocacy of science. Therefore, once more, the Supreme Court will.condemn them. For all those reasons, which will move the Supreme Court of North Carolina to send our seven comrades to prison for 20 years, the work- ing class must raise a mighty protest, must demand and win their liberation. If we will fight the wage-cuts and speed-up, then we must fight for the release of the Gastonia boys, If we will fight for full equality for the Negroes, then we must overthrow this iniquitous tence. — If we will overcome organized bigotry and establish the le of science, then we must raise. a mighty storm of protest against North Carolina courts that will blow open the doors of the southern risons. If we will resist capitalist oppression, then the Gastonia case must become a central point in a great wave of working class indigna- tion against the beastly terror of capitalism. i Turn the eyes of millions of workers toward North Carolina! CELEBRATE SELL- | Bronx, to which they are compell- |ing waiters to purchase tickets at OUT $5 cach. Ifa waiter refuses, the —— business agent of the union comes eae Local 1 Officials Force around, gives him another chance |to buy, and if he doesn’t, has him lembers to Pay $5 For Tickets. if ired. The Restaurant Owners’ Associa- on and the officials of Waiters’ nion Local 1 are arranging a ban- tet tonight at Winter Gaidens, celebrate a sel! out agy by the-ofticials | tie workers einent made ‘| Textile Workers Get 20 Per Cent BOSTON WNTED Down Tools andMass PROTEST “YOU WILL NOT STO: FRONT MEETING: Demonstrate, May 1st TONIGHT AT )RGANIZING’ SAYS ¥ MILLS TO STRIKE | Workers Called Out to Demonstrate in Denver, Colo. Form Mine Committees 'Many Demonstrations in Southern Illinois BULLETIN. Yesterday the police department announced to a committee from the May Day United Front Con- ference that its former prohibi- tion of May Day demonstration had been withdrawn. All the ar- rangements announced in the let- ter sent to Walker and Whalen by the committee, last Saturday, were accepted by the police de- partment, including the parade from Rutgers Square to Union Square, with meetings at both places. The police issued a per- mit for the parade, which will follow the route from Rutgers | Square on East Broadway to Pitt | St., then to Houston St., to Ave. “C,” to 17th St., and thence to Union Square. Mobilization in Nutgers Square has been set for 12 o'clock, noon; the parade will start about 1:30 p. m., and the .»linion..Square meeting will con- tinue until 5 o’clock. May Day will be concluded by a great mass meeting in the Coney Island Sta- dium at & p. m. ~ * The demand of the United Front May Day Conference for the use of | Union Square for the May Day: demonstration of the tens of thou- | sands of employed and unemployed | workers has been granted. Yester- | day Police Commissioner Whalen, | after his manifold threats and po- | lice preparations, notified the press | that a permit was granted for the | juse of Union Square to the May | Day Conference. | The present plan is to mobilize | in Rutgers Square, then, | | | | | after | speeches, to march in procession to | Union Square. Also the Trade Union Unity League and the Councils of the Un- employed have issued similar calls, and the revolutionary unions and other bodies participating in the conference are issuing strike calls for May 1. They urge all workers |in their industries, employed and | unemployed, to proceed to the mass ‘demonstration for work or wages, | unemployment relief immediately from the city funds, unemployment jinsurance paid for by tax on profits jand inheritances and administered (Continued on Page Three) CUT WAGES IN JAPAN Slash. | TOKIO, Japan, April 21.—The Kanegafuchi Cotton Spinning Co., employing thousands of workers, proposes to slash wages for all workers 20 per cent. Many other mills will follow in this general | Wage-cutting campaign, in an at- tempt to transfer the burden of the § FOR LEADERS OF JOBLESS AS BLO Call of the Central Committee, Communi Party, _GENTRAL OPERA U.S. A. FINAL CITY EDI Union Square TO) THEM May First is the day of struggle of the workers and oppressed people of all countries against the bosses and their government. On May First, the American workers will strike with the workers of the world in the fight against their common enemy—the capitalist class. It was the American workers in 1886 who first gave to the workers of the world the weapon of the political mass strike as a means of forcefully bringing forth their class demands on May Ist. We will uphold the heroic revolutionary traditions of our class and down tools | on May Ist, 1930. Nothing is more dreaded by the bosses and their government than the political mass strike, The workers, however, have no weapon more effective than this. fight back the attacks and terror of the bosses and their government. The workers will challenge the capitalist murder machine and ‘ound the warning of its approaching downfall. Down Tools on May First. The Political Mass Strike is Our Weapo Use It Against the Bosses! Capitalism today is in a serious crisis. ture is decaying. the workers. Twenty million men and women in the capitalist coun- They will use this weapon on May Ist to The entire capitalist strue- Capitalism is no longer able to provide a living to Demand Release of the Leaders of Jobless; Good Speakers Meet to Prepare May 1 Second United Front ; Conference Thursday Throngs of workers at the Cen- yal Opera House meeting tonight will demand the release of their elected yepresentatives, the com- mitte Square March 6. A mass meeting there at 8 p. m. is called by the Communist Party, the International ent by the 110,000 in Union | MINOR TELLS OF SAY DAY | “Same Justice as Sacco and Vanzetti Got”, | Raymond Tells Judge; Amter Gagged | Court House Flooded With Police While Workers Gather to Protest “You may send us to jail but you will not stop the unem~ ployed workers from organizing and fighting,” said William Z. Foster, standing in court yesterday before the judges who were about to sentence him for being the chairman of the committee of the unemployed and marching to lay their demands before oa ————* the city government March 6. only for the protest on March | crisis onto the backs of the workers. On September 1, 51,000 persons | of seventy years and over will be eligible to apply for a state pension which on the average will not be more than $242 a year. This “bless- | tries are unemployed. On March 6 millions of employed and unem- Labor Defense, the Trade Union 6, but for the coming greater ployed workers demonstrated the world over against the capitalist Unity League and the Councils of CORE JAN ING protest demonstration May system—the cause of unemployment, the source of their misery and the Unemployed, to protest the AELBAWED | Ties) said Robert Minn of ihe starvation. ‘ three year sentence imposed on the } | iia spigot Pasa Me i i same commi hen he got a The crisis of capitalism is general, it affects every capitalist committee yes terday Ue special ses- chance to spe country and the colonies. “Ihe crisis of American capitalism and its ‘ions, and to mobilize for mass Tamand Release; Many as consequences, completely smashed the lies and propaganda of the Political strike and demonstration 7d igkd TD. lutions Three Years. bosses and its agents about unlimited and widespread prosperity. It May Day such as has never been Workers’ Resolutions Three Tammany 5 was prosperity for the bosses. Two hundred and forty more millionaires %¢e here before. i . 5 Foster, Minor, Israel Amter, were made in 1929, but, while 7,000,000 workers were jobless, the wages Speakers. “On with the fight for the un-/o 4014 Raymond to ji of the workers were cut, the speed-up and the stretch-out system Speakers at the meeting will be conditional and immediate relea*? each in the county penit aii Or increased, the hours of work length-* _ : C. Hathaway, for the Communist o¢ the unemployed delegation! For-| Blackwell's Island, and gave Joseph ened and the working conditions be- | Sickness, old age, accident and un- Party, Pat Devine, national secre- ‘dto May Day! Fight for sociai Lesten thirty days in the work came worse. employment to be financed by tay- tary of the Unemployed Movement; Ward to May Vay: fig thouse. A court house full of po- Simultaneously with the crisis ir: industry there is a crisis in agri- culture. The farmer is His income is continuously declining, his taxes are mounting and the burden of his mortgages become ever greater. Tlousands of farmers were forced off the land by Wall Street, to swell-the 7 million army of unemployed. The struggle against this capi- talist misery is the task of the en- tire working class. Without a fighi- ing class unity the workers cannot win. Those who still have jobs to- day may find themselves on the street tomorrow. The deepening of the crisis, the daily increase in the speed-up and the lengthening of hours decrease the number of work- ers needed by the bosses. More hun- dreds of workers are therefore thrown out of the factories. With the increase in. the number of un- employed the bosses sharpen their attack against the workers in the factories. The speed-up, the stretch- out, and wage cuts, are still further intensified. Hours are still further lengthened. Anyone who dares to complain ds fired. The united | struggle of the employed and un- employed workers therefore, agains! both rationalization and unemploy- ment must be developed. The effort of the bosses to play one group of workers against the other—employ- ed against unemployed, Negro against white, foreign-born against native-born, etc.—must be defeated. Unitedly the American workers must meet the attack of the bosses! Set up May First committees in the fac- tories! Unite with the unemployed! Organize parades and mobilize the workers and to present your de- ' mands to the bosses! Strike! onstrate on May First! The workers must fight for Work or Wages, for government relief for the unemployed and their starving families. We must fight for sociai insurance for all workers covering Dem- FAKE ; OLD AGE PENSION Means Starve Until 70 Then Beg before they have reached even 50 years of age will be understood for all that it is worth by the working class, Capitalist industry today does not being | | brought to the condition of a pauper. ing” has been bestowed upon the hire men over forty, forty-five and ing the bosses and to be administer: ed by the workers. Although Ame:- Jack Johnstone, national organizer of the Trade Union Unity League, ‘and J. Louis Engdahl, national sec- retary of the International Labor Defense, the organization which is fighting in the courts for the re- lease of Foster, Mi mond and Les (Continued on Page Three) ONIA GASE GAST min will be chairman. TODAY I CQURT All workers should be at Central : a Opera House, 63rd St. and Third Ave,, 8 p. m. tonight. rs The second United Fr ‘Strikers Revulsed Raid Meant to Murder Them Day Conference meets Thur 9 p, m. in Manhattan Lyceum. of the Councils of the Unemployed but failed to entirely keep the de- as soon as the sentencing of Fos fendants, all elected representatives Minor, Amter, Raymond and Le of the 110,000 workers and uneza- was announced yesterday. ploy who in Union Squ farch 6, from expesin The statement further says sedi ative at oer ee “The National Buro of the Un- from pointing out to all whom their y\employed Councils vigorously prc- | voices could rea hat this trial 4° tests against the sentencing of t and senten 1t a part of the : y ; . This |New York unemployed delegation, capitalist the is the final preparations conference | representing 110,000 workers to ‘starving w the more for the shake political years in the penitentiary and calls and more yed work- Ghali oe upon the entire working class to ers. carry on a militant struggle for Sea met eae their immediate and unconditional was tense: the AB release. z at their class , and inter- |_ “Mass demonstrations of unem- yupted their one ae s |ployed and employed must be our pailiffs to ieeeee | answer to this latest example of the when the ‘ ‘ strike and Arguments in the appeal against the New |the decision of the lower courts in the conviction of seven strik |organizers of the National Textil Workers’ Union, in the interna- | |tionally famous “Gastonia case,” will be heard today by the North Carolina Supreme Court at Raleigh. Thomas W. Hardwick, United States senator front Georgia, will make the argument for the de- |fendants, Fred Beal, Clarence Mil- |ler, K. Y. Hendr Louie Me- ; | Laughlin, George Carter, William lice who beat him so brutally at the McGinnis and Joseph Harrison. He City Hall unemployment demon- ‘will be assisted by J. Frank Flow- stration just before March 6 that ers of Charlotte, North Carolina, he was for some time confined to who has been the attorney for the @ hospital. Following their usual International Labor Defense since practice when they have committed \the beginning of the case, resulting $0 atrocious crime, the police ar- |from the attack on the textile strik- rested their victim. lers’ tent colony by the police and McNeil was Seattle secretary of | the “committee of 100” of the Man- the Marine Workers League until |ville-Jenckes Corporation on the coming to New York as a delegate ‘night of June 7, last year. While to the general executive board meet- jleading this attack the chief of po-jing of the Trade Union Unity ‘lice, Aderholt, was killed. | League. He took part, as a mili- Hit © vase tant worker, in the demonstration, wat seoeen sar eument: | and was set on by several of Whal- | Some of the points that will be en’s Cossacks when he protested the | ‘aised by the attorneys for the de- lugging of another worker. fendants will include the failure of Soe | the court to have the defendants plead to the charges against them, ‘the raising of the question of the defendants’ belief in god, attack on day for a week. Then ask him to the hysterical, holy-roller closing become a regular subseriber. argument by Solicitor Carpenter, 4 | the Gastonia prosecutcr, and the ‘argument that the degree of force of MeNEIL TRIAL ON THURSDAY Young Seaman Beaten and Arrested. former The trial of Randolph McNeil, a young marine worker, will be held in general sessions court tomorrow at 10 a.m McNeil was arrested by the po- “TALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every | (Continued on Page Three) | FILIPINO MISLEADER | ee ge are — Today in th | d : | 1 say: Mia..|, Masses Will Figh Daily 32: Worker | a. ale Reply to the Comrades on the Col- lective Farms—J. Stalin—Page 4. For a Working Class Policy in tie Co-operatives—Letter of E. C. C. 1. as leaders of the independ- ence movement of the Philippines. the representatives of the rich F pino landowners Gil, Osias and Bri- insurance! Fight for work o: wages! On to a mass unemployed convention in Chicago on July 4 and 5!” says a statement issued throu Pat Devine for the National Bu n | determination of the bosses to crush | the rising fighting spirit of the 8. 1 000,000 unemployed workers in th country. “The ‘Broadway Butterfly’ Maye Walker and his ‘fashion plate’ ,cist Police Commissioner Whalen must be deluged with resolutions from all working class or i demanding the release of the dele- gation. The May Day strikes and demon- strations all over the country must be a high spot in the fight to bring our comrades back into the ranks. “The National Unemployed Con. vention in Chicago on July 4 and / ‘must be made an even greater dem- onstration of our determination to carry the struggle for social insur- ance and the release of all those im- prisoned for fighting for it to a higher stage.” I. L, D. Continues Fight. J. Louis Engdahl, national s tary of the International Labor I fense, which defends the delegat of the unemployed stated yesterday | immediately after leaving the cour n t (Continued on Page Three) Q Ne) t for Indebendence 1 ippines based the a | workers and peasants musi be car- struggle or ried on against American | alism. |. The chairman imperi- of the meeting, | The conditions workers who haye been thrown on the industrial scrap heap in New York ‘state, by an old age pension | bill approved by Governor Roosevelt ; last week. Actuals“relief” will not | be forthcoming until January, 1931. | This hypocritical gesture of char- | The purpose of the hanquet is to! ity by the bosses’ state alter it has struggle of the workers will force sucked the life-blood out of the behind the backs of workers and cast them penniless and adequate sovial insurance for work- , Veltow Dog Grows Uglier—by So |broken on to the “eld” age junk pile | —Page 4. Fascist Hoover’s Concep- tion of Leadership—I. Amter (Writ- ten in Tombs Prison)—Page 4. Pol- ish Fascists and War Danger Against U. S. S. R.—-Page 3. PI delphia Young Workers and May 1 —Page 3. TOMORROW: I. W. W. iioved by the highest fifiy, For twenty to thirty years the worker is to starve in the streets, and when hé reaches 70 he is to take chances of getting less than seventy-five cents a day from a graft-ridden pension-fu Only the militant, mass, political the bosses and theie state to supply cate Johle cs. {lon De Leon, a ah. ses) pen , to attain independence of the Pld-(masters. Phe ci a i wf ~ ones, who are members of the fake however, pointed out that the Fili- independence commission, were ban- | pinos in this country should try to queted at the International House, | reach the masses of American work- 500° Riverside Drive, yesterday by | ers, and not the capitalist politicians the Filipino Youth Independence and their school authorities. Osias Movement of America. went out of his way to try to con- The speeches of Gil, Osias and | tradict this. He voiced the views of Brior were to the effect that the | his class, which is opposed to inde- ipinos should be good Christians | pendence because they profit from and nationalists in the abstract, but | the exploitation of the Filipino they did not point out that in order | people Fae a i licemen drove back the great crowd of workers gathered to protest, but could not stop them cheering their representatives being mare The judges and their bailiff Ohio, April 21 Caught like rats. in a trap, 305 im- prisoned men wer» burned to death in the rotten Ohi. Penitentiary yes- terday as fire swopt the fiithy, vile, decrepit prison which had been crowded to the rafters as a result of the growing oppressive laws of capitalism. Instead of g to save imprisoned wi rom the raging fires which quick swept throug! the lousy buildings, Warden Thomas called a company of soldiers from the regular army to keep the men from aping. All the capitalist ls in the coun- try are tremendow especially due to t creasin unem ly overcrowded, he ra unbearable, creasing prison bre the ine The burn- as ing to death of 3 nin the Ohio Penitentia is due to the delib- erate negligence of the state au- thorities and to vicious action of the warden, P. E. Thomas, who called for gunmen and troopers in- stead of attempting to e the lives of the entrapped priso JOBLESS FLOCK TO HELL SHIPS, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 21, Heli ships that house the cannery la in Alaska are being fitted o r their annual trips and crews recruited. Men who have not had @ square meal all winter are beg- jointly with the American | ging for the jobs on the hell ships, Ny which are usually avoided,