The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1930, Page 1

ve Vol. VI., No. 352 % osm Vublishea daily ex Company, Inc. 2 quar May Day and Union Square Every worker will be filled with joy at the news that the right to Union Square on May Day has been maintained. Because New York exercises such influence upon the general national trend of affairs, this question of Union Square had become an issue of national importance. The withdrawal of the police order that the Communi are “for- bidden to hold mass meetings in the street or to indulge in any parades or demonstrations” is a real victory, resulting from the firm policy of the revolutionary working class organizations and their mass mob- ilization for May Day. The tradition of May Day has been worthily upheld and advanced. The importance of victory in the fight for Union Square, must not become the basis of any “fetishism” connected with particular loca- tions. If in the struggle for Union Square the workers should be driven out by the military force of the police, this would be the kind of “defeat” that prepares the ground for future victories; for the po- lice it would be a Pyrhic victory—always provided the workers had not run away from the struggle, provided a real and earnest effort had been made to maintain former conquests. Workers must not be afraid to face the possibilities of such “defeats,” for we a till not in the immediate period in this country when armed battles for possession of the streets are on the order of the day. Instead of “defeat,” however, victory without qualification has been the result of this particular battle. The political mass pressure of the workers, headed by an unfaltering leadership, following a clear and undeviating line based upon the battle of March 6th, has brought its fruits. The workers may well feel a glow of satisfaction at the results up to date of the struggle. And with what contempt must all workers look upon the “heroes” of the renegades, who, through the mouth of Gitlow, made their su- preme bid for leadership in a call for “retreat,” in their whines about “avoiding a battle at all costs,” precisely at the crucial moment of the struggle, when their intervention was a direct and open help to Policeman Whalen and the fascists. Let eternal disgrace rest upon the head of each and every one of these traitors! The battle of May Day, however, is not over. It is only well begun Now it is the task to take full advantage of our preliminary vic- tory for a wider mass mobilization than has yet been seen. The slight- est tendency to relax in our work, the “rest on our laurels,” must be uprooted and thrown out. What we have won so far is merely the opportunity to work more energetically, to broaden our mass work, to deepen our organizations, to scatter farther our political slogans, to mobilize greater masses. New York has its lesson for every city -vin the United States! Every one to work! Prepare the mass political strike in the shops! Forward to Union Square on May Day! A “Russian” Army in New York How many workers know that there is a “Ru York? “ No, this “Russian Army” is not a part of that “Bolshevik inva- sion” of which Matthew Woll has nightmares. This one has the bless- ings of Woll, Green, Norman Thomas, Otto Kahn, Whalen, Vanderbilt, Astor, Morgan, et al. It is a “White Russian Army,” remnants of the Czar’s instrument of oppression and plunder. It is an army against the Soviets. And it is organized and paid by the state of New York, This body is part of the Ninth Regiment of the National Guard. The New York Times gives us many interesting details about it. With only two non-Russians in it, this battery of artill under Lieutenant Peter Rodyenko, “is enlisting many fine young Russian exiles.” These “fine young Russians” (who “had all served in the World War, many as officers”) include such “celebrities” as the “sons of Generals Lehovich and Dinnissoff, of Colonels Pantukoff and Duncan, widely known in Old Russia.” “There are a few Cossacks!” “Many of them wear the Cross of St. George, which was the highest military honor the Czar could bestow.” This is only one little sample of how U. use of the offscourings of Czarism as strikebreakers in this country, at the same time prepares these “picked men” for the coming assault against the Soviet Union. Fish Wants. An “Investigation” No concern for the suffering of the over 7,000,000 unemployed workers, but an investigation of the activities of the Communist Party which leads the struggle of the unemployed for “work or wages”—this is the proposal now before congress. By adopting the resolution to in- vestigate “communist activities,” as proposed by Congressman Hamil- ton Fish Jr. of New York, the government in Washington, following out the policies of the big capitalists, hopes to drown out the demands of the unemployed for unemployment insurance and the fight of the employed workers against the speed-up and wage cuts with an “astounding” red scare. But why a “red scare” at this time? Why not a year ago—or six months ago? Simply because today the bosses—the Wall Street bank- ers and industrialists—are determined to make the workers bear the burden of the economic crisis. The workers must accept wage cuts, longer hours, a more brutal speed-up, and the suffering that goes with mass unemployment—so say the bosses. The A. F. of L. and the jan Army” in New Socialist Party agree with the bosses. jay by The Comprodaily New York City, N. = Baily Entere DEAD IN BOSS Men Not Given Dog’s Chance for Lives Some Class Prisoners j Unemployment Fills Capitalist Prisons BULLETIN. DOWN TOOLS MAY 1! EMPLOYED AND JOBLESS UNITE FOR 7-H RD AY, 5-DAY WEEK, WORK OR WAGES ~ rire o wy second-c “NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, PEN MOUNTS 10 to Jobless Millions, Says MORE THAN 202e Communist Party JOBLESS LEADERS \Filthy Prison Crowded, Statement Calls on Workers Everywhere to - Protest Im Redouble The Central ¢ ee of the Comr arty rday issued imprisonment ae VEL aban Cleoess (oF WORLO PONTE ass matter at the ost Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef March 3, 1879. Efforts to Build Mass Movement of Working Class of Comrades Fos- | COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 22.— id and r and Testimeny brought out in a pre- s of Comrade Lesten. liminary investigation of the t denounces this im- burning of oyer 350 men in the verdict Ohio Pen showed that the gu ds treated the fire alarm as a joke ae FINAL CITY » EDITION 23, 1930 APRIL RIPTION RA and Bronx, New York City and foreign 80 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan puntries, there 8S a year. : Price 3 Cents prisonment | party that speaks for and leads | into struggle the suffering toil- | ers. “The verdict jtime a blow de at the May Day demonstration, at which our comrades were to de- liver the message of the Communist Part at the same vered in advance pitalism knows only one road out of its Argument Tuesday on| Writ to Force Bail To Be Set Already Put in Prison’ Amter, Though Gagged Sends Out Message Working-class organizations i sections of the country are a: ing resolutions protesting ag: the conviction of the unemploy leaders and demanding their libera- tion, The latest are: Local 131, Journeymen Tailors’ Union, Pitts- burgh; Finnish Federation Club, Jailing of Leaders Is Blow PROTEST GROWS UNITED FRONT MEETING ‘AGAINST JAILING TOMORROW TO PLAN MAY 1 STRIKE, DEMONSTRATION Boston Workers Parade for Canter Mobilizes for May Day; Bulgarian Communists Defiant Plan Mobilization from Providence Factories; Jobless Councils Active in Preparations BULLETIN. Delegates of unions, Communist, defense, relief, educational, sports, fraternal and all other workers’ organizations meet tonight at 8 p. m. in Manhattan Lyceum in the final session of the United Front May Day Conference. They will hear the report on the mob- ilization so far by the executive elected at the first session, April 4. They will discuss the rallying of the masses who protest now against starvation and exploitation for a blow at capitalism in the congres- sional and state elections this fall. They will make plans for the and played around with the ke) while the men burned to death. against th ion, a pai of the whole policy of |s that is by inten- ion of the work- | Some of the prisoners were locked ss to put the bur-| imperialism, making | in their cells after the fire started, conomic ¢ upon | J onment of our comrades | Wo insmen’s Sick, Benevolent and and were burned to death. A the shoulders of the working class./is a part of this campaign against | Racaannet eden a. . Hee me | group of prisoners took a key {he statement calls upon the work-| the working class and for v laa: ae Wena oo re a ae away from one guard and released rs everywhere to protest against |its efforts to put the ent ae aeaiaay: a Be fe 40 or 50 men, saving their lives hese srisonments, by meetings! of the economic olent and Educational Federation, : as i at tw i aay & } ‘ 5 |Rochester, N. Y.; Lodge 600, C. F. Warden Thomas testified that two and resolutions, and above all by re-| shoulders of the workers capital-| ty" ‘A’movica, Mascillion, Ohio: guards forced a reluctant captain doubled efforts in building up the, ism knows that it must first of allo" ¢ Saiciaraarrd fe acaneeee : i SvenSon Workers’ Club, Astoria, to give them the keys which would allow the convicts to get away from the fire. iiss Maing COLUMBUS, Ohio, April a result of the sadistic lust of the prison authorit over 350 men lie dead, charred to cinders. They were kept locked in their cages, while the prison warden rushed for troops, in stead of permitting the men a dog’s chance for their life when fire broke out in the Ohio State Penitentiary yesterday. There were 4,300 men crammed into a jail built to hold 1,800. Three class war prisoners are at present. in this helJ-hole, Teddy Jac- kosk Jacobs and Dominick Venturato, miners who were jailed in connection with a strike. Some of them are posssibly among the dead. This is the same penitentiary that Tom Johnson and Charles Guynn, members of the Communist Party, (Continued on Page Three) MORE MILLS IN | BRITISH STRIKE ‘Communists Picket as, “Labor” Police Club The capitalist press of America boycotts news of the) s 50,000 wool textile work- ‘ers in England, of which 100,000 in | Yorkshi lone are led by the Na- tional Minority Movement, the mili- tant left wing section of the Bri- |tish labor movement, in opposition to the treacherous trade union of- ficials, and the labor party govern- y ment. The Daily Worker was the only paper in New York, outside of one insignificant trade journal for es only, that carried the story the outbreak of this epochal strike, so significant of the radical- ization of workers. The following is from the Daily Worker of Eng- land, date of April 11. | MacDonald Jails Workers. i of ations of the workers, trade unions, the Daily Worker and Communist nass orga he revolution circulation of thi by strengthening the Party. The statement follows: “The capitalist courts have rail- voaded Comrades Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond to prison for three years, and Comrade Lesten for thirty days. This is the logical sequel to the clubbings and blood letting by the police on Unicoi Square on March 6, It is a par of the answer of the capitalist clas. to the demand for “Work or Wages’ of the seven million unemployed its preparations for war. strike against the leadership of the | 6, the working class-struggle, em- bodied in the Communist Party and its leadership. | “Worker: Defeat this attack | of the bosses! Show the capital- ists that their imprisonments are in vain! Make this verdict the occasion for redoubling your pro- tests against capitalist terror. Let all organizations of workers hold meetings and adopt resolu- tions of protest. Let all workers increase their activities in build- ing up the mass organizations, in making successful the Recruit- ment Drive for 50,000 new mem- the United. States. It hers of the revolutionary trade is a class verdict of the capitalists ynions, in immediately doubling against the worke the circulation of the Daily At the same time the verdict is a sign of the p of fear of the capitalists in face of the ris- ing mas$ movement of the work- ers, who suffer from the enormo: burdens of the economic cr Capitalism can no longer feed the people. It stands in fear before the hun m s. It hopes to insure its continued life by ter- rorizing the workers; it hopes to preyent the organization of the masses; it hopes to separate the masses from their leadership in the Communist Party, the only (SEDITION TRIAL DATE 1S MAY 13 Case of Ten in Newark Postponed Yesterday ~The 1 under the sedition law of New Jersey against ten workers arrest- ed in February while planning an unemployment demonstration, has been postponed to May 13. The case was to have comé up to- day in Judge Van Ripper’s Court. ; Conviction would mean sentences up!’ to 15 years. Those held for trial : Dominick Flaiani, section or-| ganizer of the Communist Party;| Worker, by building up the Com- munist Party. “Let all our work, our protests, our campaigns, be combined on May Day into a mighty outpouring of | the forces of the working class! | “Forward to May Day in a mighty ‘demonstration against capitalism ‘and all its bitter fruits! “Forward toward a revolutionary Workers’ Government! if “CENTRAL COMMITTEE, | “COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES.” | BANKER IS HAITI HEAD Wall St. Elects City Bank Tool. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, April| 22.—A banker, Eugene Roy, a pup- pet of the National City Bank of New York has been forced upon the Haitian masses as president. PENSIONED COPS |Club, Boston, Mass. ing out gross violations of the U. S.| self and the other four members of | Bessemer, Pa.; Bessemer Kiva Ath- letic Club, Bessemer, P: Polish Branch of I. L. D., Hegewisch, Ill.; Valo Athletic Club, Buffalo, iS Fred Beal Branch, I. L. D., Bicknell, Ind., and Boston Workers’ The w sentenced to three years—William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter and Harold Raymond—were taken immediately after court to the county peniten- | tiary on Welfare Island, and Joseph | Lesten was placed in the workhouse | for his 30-day sentence. Attorneys Brodsky and Elder, of the International Labor Defense, yesterday filed notice of appeal | with the Appellate Division, point-| and state constitutions, denial of | trial by jury, denial of proper de-| fense, prejudice, wrong interpreta- tion of the statute on which con- viction was based, ete. Yesterday also a demand for certificate of rea- sonable doubt was filed with the} Supreme Court. Hearing on this| is set for Tuesday next week, and, | if granted, bail will be set the same | day. If it is not granted, the work- ers will stay in jail until the hear- ing on appeal. Israel Amter, who was not al-/ lowed in the sentencing of him-| (Continued on Page Three) END NAVAL MEET; RUSH ARMS RACE Sling Pacifist Slop to Fool Masses LONDON, Apri —The Five- Power London Conference, which opened three months ago with a fanflare of pacifist propaganda antagonism, ¢losed today by the s amount of work remaining, organization in factories. leaf- let distribution, factory gate and street meetings, and enlisting of organi LEPZIGCOPS = PROVOKE FIGHT Young Toilers Answer Brutal Attacks (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, April 22.—The Fifth Communist Youth day at Leipzig was a magnificent succes Thirty thousand young workers travelled from all parts of the country to the| celebrations. Saturday, nine mass| meetings were held. The first demonstration took place Sunday, when the masses of work- eys welcomed Thaelmann, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany, shoulders to the Communist head- quarters. In the afternoon, thirty thousand young workers demonstrated at Augustusplatz, listened to Thael- mann, Neumann, Mueller and others. carrying him on their! Together with the adult workers,, there were over 100,000 in the square and side streets. The police assumed a provocative | attitude and attempted to prevent the procession from, entering the square. Captain Galle ordered the police to fire into the ranks of the young workers, whereby four were seriously wounded. Dyba, a young Berlin worker was killed. | The furious workers overwhelmed the police and killed Galle and police sergeant, whilst injuring others. The procession marched to the German Supreme Court where further dem- onstrations were held. Other minor collisions occurred without bloodshed thanks to the splendid disciplined attitude pf the demonstrators In the evening the social-fascist police chief, Fleissner, established a | state emergency, prohobiting open! air meetings, ete. | Monday morning small groups of to hide the tremendous imperialist young workers stopped a policeman from pursuing a young worker into BALK ON MAY DAY xz of a three-power treaty, a cellar, shooting him, inflicting a lung wound, | Vote Down Partaking in May 1 Slugging The wotkers, however, are fighting back. They refuse to accept | this worsening of their conditiors. They turn to the Communist Party for leadership in the counter attacks which they are now launching against the bosses. In all the strike struggles and workers’ demon- strations of the past few months the Communist Party has been the , leader. The bosses have seen their servants of the A. F. of L. and S. P. fail time and time again to stem the tide of revolt growing among , the workers. They have seen the influence of the grow as it militantly fought the werkers’ battles. offensive now against the Party they hope to scatter the workers’ forees—to drive the workers back into the company controlled A. F. of L, and to put over their attack against the workers’ living and working conditions successfully. The working masses will not be fooled. A red scare will no longer Yighten them. The coal miners, the textile wo the million and a quarter workers who demonstrated on March Sth, have all seen both their friends and their enemies, Great masses today see the united front of the big bankers, the factory and mine owners, the government, the A. F. of L., the Socialist Party. They have also experienced the fighting leadership of the Communsit Party. The masses will rally under the leadership of the Party on May First. They will defend the Fang eee the attacks of the government, the fascists and the social sts. Circulate the Daily Worker There is only one workers’ daily newspaper in the English language in the United States. That is the Daily Worker. There are 30 million workers for whose interests the Daily Worker fights. But most of these workers still read only the newspapers of the capitalist class. These workers can be awakened to their class interests by being brought to read the Daily Worker. Our daily paper is the most effective weapon to arouse, to to educate, and to organize the workers for the Sommunist Party | By launching an. | class struggle. 1t is the most effective | In mill after mill the woolen workers are coming out on strike. The union officials have failed to break the resistance of the opera- tives, The Labor Government’s police NA have already made a brutal assault; MONTRE on the strikers; arrests have been| pounds of d Levine, Joseph Lepsivicus, Morris Langer, Edward Childs, D. W. Gra- ham (a Negro worker), Albert He- der and one other. XPLOSION. Fifteen hundred amite exploded in a made; and Comrade E, Woolley has! works near here, shattering build- | (Continued on Page Three) ings and killing the watchman. instrument to build the revolutionary trad fighter for unemployment insurance. It the workers in struggle against the capitalists. In order to fulfill its tasks, the Daily Worker must be given a mess circulation, The only people who can give this are the workers in the shops and factories who read our paper now. What are you doing in the campaign to circulate the Daily Worker? unions. It is the mightiest the hest class weapon of “ORGANIZE FOR MAY 1” Worker Ready for Big Battle (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—I see from | Spiring spectacles w I have the y Worker that another | ever witnessed. (The papers said gigantic world-wide demonstra- 100,000, but including sympatietic tion of the working class forces is onlookers and all those jamming to be staged on May 1, No one the entire downtown section for is more anxious than I, to see the block, thera must have been af largest and most successful that | {wice that number), the world has ever see. The difference between org: T was the Detroit March 6 — zation dd lack of organizai demonstration from beginning te the difference between end and will say that the milling failure. Let's prepare symp e throng of 200,006 | and organive for the greate y people was one of the most ia- | in History -- WORK fs: Dave Rousen, John Pado, Samuel D. | By a tremendous majority the 2,000 pensioned policemen recently \tefused to accept Cossack Whalen’s proposition that they partake in breaking up the May Day demon- stration in Union Square, Whalen | last week called the 2,000 pensioned policemen to a meeting and lectured ‘them upon the necessity of assisting in --ppressing the Reds. The presi- dent of the policemen’s benevolent | association said that he would have |to put the matter to a vote. A vote was taken and out of the 2,000 pres- j without notice, at the slightest whim | amid an avalanche of attempted ex- planations by the imperialist dele- It opened the most embittered arms race in the history of imper- ialism. The three-power treaty is! the failure of the imperialists to reach any agreement on “limita-| tion.” Under it, any of the power’ | car increase the size of its navy to any extent. 1 Only one thing comes out of the conference in clear light. The im-; perialists are rapidly increasing their arms for war against each other and against the Soviet Union. | WAGE CUTS FOR BUILDING TRADES WORKERS LONG BEACH, Cal. — Building] contractors have cut plasterers’) Thirty workers are under arrest. gates in an effort to fool the masses The Communist Party has issued a leafletfixing the blame with the police. The police are trying to pre- vent distribution of the leaflets, and ja complete sham in order to cover have arrested 12 young workers. Monday Zoergiebels police blocked th> roads from Leipzig to Berlin searching and returning many of the young workers, The Leipziger “Neueste Nach- richten” reports that the Berlin bosses are discussing proceedings for the prohibition of Communist Demonstrations on May Day. FIGHT WHITE CHAUVINISTS. Dr. Errold D. Collymore, and Dr. A. M. Williams, Negroes, declared they would not give up their homes at 461 South Lexington Ave., and 22 De Kalb Ave., respectively, de- ent only two voted to help Whalen! wages from $12 to $9 and hod car-|spite attempts of white chauvinists against the workers on May Day.) The matter was hushed up in the | capitalist press and the Daily | | Worker was just able to obtain the |news recently from a friend of one of the pensioned e Worker ed | Wave of Partisan Wars and Re. | volts in China—Page 3. Reply to , Comrades on Collective Farms (con- |tinued)—J. Stalin—Page 4. Fas- ‘cist Hoover’s Conception of Leader- ship (continued)—I. Amter—Page 1, Yellow Dog Grows Uglier—Solon DeLeon—Page 4, | | TOMORROW: | Some Lessons From May 1 Prep- | avations, rie! 's from $9 to $6. (to get them out of the neighborhood National Bureau MORE i JOBLESS COUNCILS Sends Organizers The national executive bureau of | cities, activity is very good, said the the Councils of the Unemployed, | bureau, through Pat Devine, secre- | elected from an executive commit- | tee of 85 chosen by the first pre- liminary national conference on un- employment, held in New York March 29 and 30, yesterday an- nounced that new councils were be- ing organized rapidly and that prep- | arations were in ful! swing for a! huge national convention on unem- ployment, to take place in Chicago July 4 and 5, At present, in some of the larger tary. He signaled out Philadelphia, ith 8 functioning councils; Seattle ith 2 splendid councils; Baltimore. with 2; Minneapolis, Duluth and St Paul, each with a, good active coun cil, and of the 12 in New York, par- ticularly the Harlem and the ma- rine workers’ council on the water- front, as very active. trial cities will be announced in a day or so. . ar tions, during the seven days before May 1. Press reports show the Commu- nist Party of Bulgaria actively pre- paring strike and demonstration in the face of the government’s abso- lute prohibition; 40 were arrested today for distributing leaflets to factory workers. The Communist Party in France is reported arranging a great one day strike and demonstration, with the police turning Paris into an armed camp. Anti-fascist organiza- tions and the immigrant workers are taking a prominent part this year. cer BOSTON, M April 22.—The largest and most impressive parade ever held here, lasting two hours, | which welcomed Harry Canter, re- leased from Deer Island _peniten- tiary today, was turned into a mass mobilization for the May 1 political strike and demonstration. Over 200 workers were at the dock to meet Canter. He has just finished a sentence for carrying a sign in a workers’ demonstration. The sign denounced Governor Fuller as the murderer of Sacco and Van- zetti. A parade started from the docks, with dozens of banners and Party |slogans displayed, calling for May demonstration, The workers sang songs, workers in factories feaned out and cheered, and throngs joined the march, so that the procession grew until it reached the Interna- tional Labor Defense office, where Canter spoke from the window. The police were forced to grant a per- | mit for the parade. Ca ae CINCINNATI, Ohio, April The Communist Party here invites 55 workers’ organizations to a 22. (Continued on Page Three) ‘ANTHLYNCHING MEETING TONITE To Protest Murder of Wilkins, Jailing Sam Nessin, district organizer of the International Labor Defense; Richard B. Moore, president of the Harlem Tenants League; Charles Alexander, national organizer of the I. L. D., and Herbert Newton, na- tional organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, will be speakers at the mass meeting to ‘denounce lynching tonight at Fin- i A tour of or- | |ganizers through the chief indus-| | | nish Cooperative Hall, 25 West 126th St. The meeting is at 8 p. m. and is under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress. It is part of the nation-wide pro- test movement started by the lynch- ing of J. H. Wilkins, a Pullman porter, in Georgia. It will also denounce the railroad- ing to jail for 3 months of Sol Har- per, organizer of the American Ne- gro Labor Congress, who was con- victed on a charge made by the Randolph clique in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Harper and a white woman worker were arrested for trying to bring an amendment to a resolution in a public meeting called by the Ran- dolph crowd. IMPORTANT NOTICE. To active comrades who are free to leave the city and desire io aid the Party in developivg or- ganization in a number of impor- tant districts where we now have insufficient forces (Seattle, Con- necticut, Buffalo, ete.): Report immediately to the dis- trict office for an interview. District Secretaziat.