The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1930, Page 3

Chiang Kai Shek’s bandits executing revolutionary workers. In the background are two imperialist missionaries on a sightseeing tour. Tid: is a show put on for them by the Chinese bloodhounds. ERRO The work of the French imperialists and their Chinese lackeys in Indo-China. The streets are filled with murdered workers and peasants, | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930 R, MAY DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED I tivities. In this way does Chiang the good wishes of the imperialis NC } The heads of a father and s All the bloody terror of the Chin revolutionary ac- | Kai supporters gain t pow i iiNA BY MOR Page Three SOVIETS! ‘on murdered by Chiang Kai Shek. nese landlords and their imperialist I.W.W. BOOED BY THE EADINPEN | CHINESE MASSES SPUR JOBLESS IN SEATTLE AS AGENTS OF POLICE k ! ry to Sabotage Demonstrations and Meetings ‘of the Unemployed Workers, Who Ignore Them Communist Party Grows and Seattle Workers Will Be Heard From on May Day. Says Worker’ released on bail pending appeal, and (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash. (By headway among the workers of the Mail).—The Communist Party is making North-West. The big demonstration led by the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council on March 6, was looked upon by the mayor and the chief of police and the rest of the’ forces of reaction as the biggest event since the general strike. Of course, after the demonstrations were over, the boss papers printed long tirades against the Reds, saying that the thousands of workers who took part in it, were only a handful of Commun case any of the politicians of Seattle happen to get hold of t . but in copy of the Daily Worker, I wish to state that it was a genuine mass movement that was organized, set in motion and led by the Communist Party, Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Council. The IWW played a rotten role. Before the demonstration began, they started to spread defeatism in the ranks of the workers, telling them that to demonstrate would not get them anywhere and that they must join the IWW. What irony, telling this to unemployed workers. Of course, the workers ignored the IWW, so the night of the 6th a meeting was held on the Skid Road to collect a defense fund for those arrested. The IWW held another meeting around the corner. One of their speakers yelled to our crowd to leave us and come over to them, saying that if we stayed at the ILD meeting, the police might start cracking our heads and at the TWW meeting they would not be bothered by the police. At that meeting the ILD collected $105 for defense work, while the WW did not get a cent and when I traitors and police spies. interefere with our me the misleaders of the IWW tried to gs, the workers booed them down with cries But in spite of the forces of reaction, we are forging ahead and you will hear from the Seattle workers again on May First. —A PRINTSHOP WORKER. Hoover “Prosperity” in Okla. City (By a Worker Correspondent) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—Here are two of the Hoover “prosper- ity” victims. I clipped it out of the Daily Oklahoman, boss paper. The world’s biggest oil field he is here, and the world’s biggest oil well, yet the workers are starving: {injunction Judge McDevitt Obliges the Bosses | (By a Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Judgelowed by this injunction to parade. | {cDevitt, notorious labor hater,|'They are noi even permitted to/ inal syndicalist laws, the j igainst the strikers of the Artcraft Correspondent) ‘anted in his court the injunction }send circulars to the few workers | the unemployed lesders in } |yet at work in the mill. They are Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc. Everything the mill owner: wanted, was granted at the so-| called hearing before this “judge.” No workers are permitted to gather anywhere “near” the mill, “Near” means the strike “area” placed by the bosses and the police. The in- junction prevents them from “op- erating automobiles” near the mill. The workers on strike are not al- not allowed even to send postcards. They are also not allowed to carry signs. All day. long nowadays in the strike “area” fifty police on foot, six mounted cops and six bandit chasing cars “patrol” the district. The workers are not intimidated, however, The N. T. W. U. should organize these workers. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. May Day to Make Hi (By «@ Worker ZEIGLER, Il.—Zeigler Local No.} 1 is having trouble with the new charter which was granted to the! Lewis faction.- Billy Hogan, a Fish- | wicker, has been running this local | for years with an iron hand; he was | istory for Ill. Miners Correspondent) is—but not for long. They will be forced to fight for bread and will soon be in our ranks—in the Na- tional Miners Union, The Septem- ber strike is going to mean the end of the mine union fakers. The El- dorado demonstration proved the time is ripe to organize the unor- ganized miners. May Day is going to be one of beaten up and his gun taken from (im by a former friend, I under-} tand. | 1e coal company owned by Bell | | and Zoller closed the mine because | MORE THAN 230 ‘Unemployment Fills | Capitalist Prisons | (Continued from Page One) | were consigned to for their working class activities under the vicious criminal syndicalism law. They were jyet faced being sent to this death | trap again. | The actual number of dead is be- ing kept a secret by the prison and state authorities, who do not want | the full extent of their heinous crime known to the masses. There are 211 men in the prison hospital, most of whom face death. At least 30 will be totally blind for the res of their lives, Warden Preston, in order to keep | his job, is now dishing up one of| the rottenest lies ever concocted by these blood-lusty prison watch dogs: he is trying to throw the blame onto| ccurate summary of the recent ahly significant developments of the workers’ and peasants’ move? ments in China, taken from an ar- ticle by Comrade Magyar entitled “The Crisis and the Revolutionary Movement in China” (Inprecorr, v. 10, no. 18). After many workers’ demonstrations Com- rade Magyar declar “The wa peasant revolts has risen even igher than that of the worker: some of the men in the prison, Not|*tikes and demonstrations. In five one attempt of jail-breaking- thru-| Provinces of Southern China, in Fu- out the entire holocaust is reported Sie» Kwantung, Kiangsi, Hupeh and Hunan, a number of distr are already in the hands of the in- surgent revolutionary peasants. The movement has already spread to South Kwang: The peasants’ re- volts and partisan wars ext a territory inhabited by 6 million people. Of course the Sox by any of the capitalist sheets whose sympathy is always with the psison authorities against the work: Overcrowding of all jails, with graft by the prison authorities, is one of the main causes of the rotten conditions. Tk partly admitted |by the Warden of Sing Sing, Lewis le Tatas Power is not yet established over |"wrp begin with, the great fault|the whole of this territory. But | Pad = = ¥ a e} eadv ” 3 can be traced back to the legisla-/ the movement already en $ tures of the various states. ™Asses numbering millions and the peasant troops, who are led by the Communists, and includes a num- ber of towns. Numerous districts Throughout the United States the prisons are hopelessly overcrowded.” The jails are being jammed with workingclass prisoners as a result of | 87° | widespread wu whole- | Soviets. sale lay-offs of men over 40 y of age, who are forced into crime] in order to keep themselves from| ing. They get neither unem-| nent or old age insurance after ATHENS, Greece (1. Vie, Papastratis and Antigon ita’ masters. | At the same time the capitalis in every state e laws aga the work- it ed by the inten- workers w tionary Tobacco Workers’? Union. sified persecutions under the crim- and it was decided to answer the provocat ‘ling of| of all tobacco worke w York eneral sty jand the thousands of arrests on) « ber of tobacco wor formist Tobacco Workers ers were howled down by th |March 6th in the unemployment demonstrations. | Tom Johnson, who spent several | | months in the Ohio State Peniten- tiary on conviction under the Ohio | State Criminal Syndicalist Law, for where they joined up in a body. |membership in the Communist; Party, several months ago wrote an| article which was printed in the| |Daily Worker on conditions in the| il, He described how the men| sn 2 | were crowded in the vile, old, filthy) COPENHAGEN, Denmark (IPS). cells. He told about the bloodthirsty |—Three thousand working women | warden and his threats against the im the metallurgical industry in wrorkeng prisoners, | Denmark have been on strike for Johnson’s picture of the Ohio! about 14 days. Most of the striking | death cells is the truth about all{ Women workers are organized in the of the capitalist penitentiaries into| Working Women’s Union. The | which workers are “being crowded. Strikers demand that the minimum The embittered men rushed to jail) Wage be increased from 53 to 63 for the least infraction of capitalist | pfenning an hour and one week’s law have made many attempts at | paid holiday. They also demand mass escape during the past ten that a minimum wage be fixed for months, Thirty have been killed and) girl workers from 14 to 16 years fifty wounded in various prison old. These categories are not in- breaks beginning last Jufy in Dan- cluded in the present wage agrec- nemora, and extending to Auburn, the men refused to recognize Fish- | wick, Howatt and the rest of the those days that will go down in the minds of the coal miners. The min- ers are up to the breadline in most | |N. ¥., the Federal hell-house at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; the state ment and they have been widely used by the empolyers as wage cutters, Muste group. The men are still fol- lowing the wrong leadership—Lew- More Mills in British Strike; Ficht Police At Saltire’s, Mrs. Isobel Brown (Continued from Page One) and pickets from the Airdale group places. —Illinois Coal Miner. were so infuriated they attempted to march into the mill. Communist Pickets. pen at Canon City, with its bloody) The crbitrator appointed by the | Ludlow murderer of striking mins| “socialist” | ers as its present warden; down to The following is a very clear and{nese Red Workers’ and P enumerating | e of partisan wars and | {papers are published. power of the Soviets is organized: are under the rule of the Chinese;in a word, an ag On this territory a Chi- ‘takes place.” is then called to deal with the erful demonstrations had been carried o1 ke came into operation and about 4,500 work: ere are now out, representing almost 100 per cent of the total nun in Salonika. solution of the reformist union in Salonika and has created a ma, nificent spirit amongst the strikers. government rejected all ernment, FIGHT ON NATIVE AND _ FOREIGN EXPLOITE Crisis and Strikes Grow in All Parts of the Country Wave of Peasant Revolt Sweeps Throughout Many Provinces ants’ Army, numbering thousands of fighters, has already been founded. The force of this army, how does not lie in its numerical strength, but in the fact that it rep- resents the kernel, the nerve of the | peasant troops which support it. ‘ae-armed support of the broad jmass of peasants lends great force |to the Chinese Red Army. “What is happening on the ter tories of the Soviet Republics in China? When the Red Army of the insurgent peasants have tured a certain district, the elec of Soviets immediately takes The Soviet power expropriates the land of the landowners and h it over to the peasants’ counc The peasants’ councils distribute land. The question of the big land- owners of th: gentry, is cap- deci jin the villages by the method of “plebeian” revolution, ‘Thei eight- hour day is introduced; women arc granted equal rights with the men; all enslaving agreements are an- nulled. The property of the usure confiscated. Revolutionary news- The armed rian revolution Extend Tobacco Strike in Greece Recently the tobacco companies, in Salonika, locked out their work ers in order to prevent an extension of the strike proceeding i Commercial, Speaer and Kufler works. 1 the A mass meeting of tobacco ituation by the revolu- ing was held after pow- in front of the factor mn of the employers with in Salonika. The me At a meeting called by the re- ’ Union to consider the situation the icad- cir own members, who left the hall in a body and marched to the headquarters of the revolutionary union This representa the practical di 3,000 Copenhagen Women Strike the demands of the strikers and of- fered a wage increase of 2 pfennin; an hour. The union leaders did their best to prevent the strike, but were finally compelled to agree to it by the pressure of the members As the Danish trade union and reformist leaders have done their utmost to prevent wage struggles and to extend the existing agree- vents even without the consent or against the will of the trade union organized workers “in the interests of the national economic system,” this strike of 3,000 women workers in the metallurgical industry takes on the form of a breach in the united front of the eployers, the reform- | ist leaders and the “socialis!” ger | PROTEST GROWS News of the ly Worker Amter, Though Gagged Sends Out Message Ssd (Continued from Page One) the un 0 say Jamestown, N. Y., has entered the campaign for mass circulation with determination. An initial or- der of 200 copies a day tory gate and general been received. ‘or fac- joyed delegation Monday more than half, a sentence, has given out from his jail cell the substance of what he had intended has sales * * Seattle, Wash., to state. He particularly calls upon hin from 400 to over 600 jobless and employed workers to 9 gay. organize a antic ma: demon- 4 * * ‘ ration on y Day. Paterson. N. reased its “The following is what I would | paiy bundle from 18 a day to 100 have declared in court,” said Am- a day. as nowing I did the rest * s_imposed: : ; | ate Paes “First, a few minor points: (1) ine West The charge against us was a tech- it revolved about the per- When the crooked mayor of * * Section organizer in rankfort mining region our drive to build the D L er in the Illinois coal fields. ame to New York, when | naily is an indispensable weapon in who was caught in @ the class struggle, our central agi- n orgy while soldiers were|tator and organizer. Two of the leeding and dying at the front dur-| ninors who subscribed have been ing the world war (Marie was Red out of work for two months, This in charge of the) shows that even unemployed work- iditor); when these peo- will subscribe if approached. e to New York they had! One of our miner comrades in Har- f the st But 110,900! »ishurgh has in the past two months are denied that right. secured 12 subscribers for the Daily The court refused to allow among the miners. Forward to a ses to be pro- mass circulation.” Section Organ- y Wor ers ects. “(2) evidence and witn Ww Juced, th showing that the c izer Ross sent in four new subs, was sett in advance. three mini one farmer. All objections n de by the ‘ * * torney were igs Central Street Nucleus, Milwau- kee, had its first Red Sunday on 2 ever objections for him and prompi- 4° yy The Daily Worker sence, ing him, ; sentative writes: “The Right danger “4, Chief Magistrate Salomon showed itself in our first mobiliza- eclared the ¢ ity with tion for Red Sunday. Only 5 out out g the other two ; : the of 45 members appeared for the work to secure new readers for the __...|Daily Worker by ing homes of We five! workers, But we secured 20 new defendants axe duals be-'yeaders nevertheless.” If 5 Part fore this court. We represent not | members can secure 20 new readers only the 110,000 who elected us at then 45 could have secured nine Union Square, but as all proletarian | times 20, or U : 20, or a total of 180 new read- fighters we represent the 8,000,000 org, pre-ar- ement of the verdi few more unemployed and the working S, * * * figh against unemploymer The Right danger in the form of hours, low wages and speed i eo to this form of mass aec- “The government of the namely, building mass circu- spite of alleged promises and lation for the Daily Wo plans, has done nothing for the un- nounced in New Vork City as well. 1, nor does it intend to do| Sections ing. The railroad and fac- | ¢: y owners had no intention of ful-! from i the “pledges” they made in| Red Washington in November. Unem- its ntaining 400 to 69) Par. have only mooilized 50 scmrades for their aes ead of declining, is in-| Rockford, Il, has doubled its the answer of the, bundle orde class is to attack the cous ail their fighters, and thus) Nine new subscribers from our try to prevent their protest and k St. Louis Daily Worker representa- them from organizing or struggling. | tive and none as yet from the Calu- “You will send us to jail, but we | met steel section in Chicago, is an bid you member that 1,250,009 | indication that Calumet will lose to workers followed the call of the St, Louis on the basis of the chal C ommunist Party and the Trade lenge to revolutionary competition Union Unity League on March 6. / issued by the St. Louis comrades to On May 1, larger masses of workers those in Calumet, will strike and demonstrate together ‘a with the unemployed against unem-| The workers at Camp Nitgedaiget ployment, for unemployment insur. held a shop meeting. Result: Ele- ance, for the 7-hour day and 5-day ven yearly subscribers, $66 in cash. week, against imperialist war prep- The arations, and for the defense of the oviet Union. “The workers will finally learn what the real struggle is about, and will realize that the problems facing the workers can only be solved by * * mpaign' nereased its“ |writes: “This is the beginning of | The | shop meeting voted unanimous- | PARADE FOR MAY DAY FIGHT Canter Greeting Helps May 1 Mobilization (Continued from Page One) united front May Day conference, Friday, at the Workers Center, 230 8th St., to make final prep- mms for political strike and demonstration. ram proposed here is for aign of open air meetings in ig class sections before May y gate meetings, and dis- |tribution of 5,000 copies of a local leaflet dealing with the grievances of workers here, and calling for May 1 strike and demonstrations. * * * Factory Mobilization. PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 22.— Here, where unemployment rages particularly, the Councils of the Un- employed are taking a prominent part in the May Day preparations. There is a committee of action elect- ed at the call of the Communist Party. There will be a parade thru the factory sections, delegations from all factories will join, and call on the rest of the workers to come out. All will converge on the dem- onstration point, where one speak- jers’ stand is designated for the | speakers of the jobless. * re | Young Worker Calls For Strike. | LAW VCE, Mass., April 22.— Frank Bongii, a young worker, has | written to the Daily Worker a cali |for all textile workers to strike May |1 and demonstrate. He tells of in- |creased speed-up of young workers. On April 14 they were forced to |take unfinished work home and fin- jish it. They are not allowed fresh air in the working rooms. A 12- year-old boy has been given 5 years in the reform school for distributing leaflets. In the Wood mill skilled workers, he points out, get only $22 a week, and unskilled get $14, Spinners working the present short time get $9 a week, A “suggestion box” system speeds the workers and di- vides their forces. Bongii calls on all to unite, join the National Textile Workers, and to fight against these ruinous con- ditions. ‘<a * * * Prolet Buehne, East 84th St., New York, has pledged to assemble in Labor Temple, May 1, and march in a body to the demonstration, with placards. It will distribute 500 leat- lets and 400 buttons, ly that every camp worker shall subscribe. , * * 8 Additional orders are coming in for the May Day edition. Scranton, Pa., 2,000; Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 2,000; Hanover, Pa., 300; Jessup, Pa., 850; Waterbury, Conn., 200; Houston, Tex., 300. a complete overthrow of the capi talist system, and the establishment of a revolutionary workers govern- ' ment in the United States. You will | jail us, but the struggle will go on.’ | | | to the State prison of Howard, R. L.,| “LABOR” BARS SOVIET SPORTS | Alabama State prisons, and dozens TEAM | of others, LONDON.—The “Labor” govern-| | ment has refused to grant visas to a | Soviet football team scheduled by A statement issued by the Com-| the British Workers’ Sports Fed- | him enthusiastically. FARM VACATIONS FOR CHILDREN ROOMS FOR ADULTS WANTED: Several children for the summer. Good: care, Individual Special Offer! 2 Good Papers, 1Good Book $4.50 Misleaders of Labor Helped the bosses to railroad Foster and the Unemployed Delegation to long prison terms. Read what Foster told received a sentence of hard labor, | of the Communist Party have se- ‘ I mittee of Acticn calls cut al. wool | eration. against which every worker must cyred 4 complete stoppage. attention. Excellent food. Per week, $12 and $15. Rooms for Adults | workers and repudiates the union’s for the summer season. Write for information. Allison Farm, R. D. 2, the working class about the American labor fakers in his famous book protest. Lister’s, the biggest mill in the. West Riding, struck work this morning in response to the appeal of the Committee of Action. Every worker in the mill came put, and a large crowd listened to speeches by Ernie Woolley and ‘comrade Jordan of the Committee of Action. The volice tried to disperse the meeting, and the attempt failing, use? their batons upon the strikers, The workers marche to the Park, and here Comrades Woolley and Jordan and two strikers were bru- tally beaten up and arrested, Women Strikers Fight Police. struggle many women were clubbed. They replied vigorously, and sev- eval of the police suffered minor casualties. Several big mills in Shipley have also stopped in response to the ap- peal of the Committee of Action. A chain of pickets fs flunzt across the entrance to Mason’s, where hun- dreds demonstrated today against jhe handful of scabs. The strikers The workers, mainly women, at-| tempted to rescue them, and in the) At Lowerholme only twelve black- legs are working. A union official here stated that their policy was to accept a five yer cent reduction, | munisi Party, attacked in a vigor- ous speech, the workers cheering Today in History of the Workers April 23, 1825—Tailoresses of New York began first American strike of women alone. 1829—First gen- oral meeting of mechanics in New York City held to defend ten-hour day against employers’ attacks 1918—General strike in Irelane | against conscription for war. 1921 Communist University of the East- jern Peoples opened in Moscow. 1923 —Sixteen Communists elected to) | Bulgarian parliament in spite of | government terror. | Tell the Advertiser—“T Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” | This Walter Tapsell, of the Com-| wage cutting proposals. JAPANESE WAGE CUT. | | The committee also appeals for! KOBE, Japan—A wage cut of 25 |aid to be sent urgently to the per cent, affecting 38,000 cotton | strikers through the Workers In-| workers here was put into effect ternational Relief. “recently. > MAY DAY «= BUTTONS « WITH OUR SLOGANS WORK OR WAGES DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION Are Ready ond Shonld Re Ordered from the DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE PARTY Prices: 10¢ per button to individuals Te ver button to units and organizations COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. CENTRAL OFFICE 4% Enst 125th Street New York City Ba Bethel, Cor THE PARTY ORGANIZER An_ indispensable hand book which must be used by every j functionary of the Party an be trained for leading work in the Party. 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