The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 1

1 r n s 4 e & e Out of the Shops on May Day, De rae oe) } DOT. ew | the Sov tet Union! FINAL CITY EDITION ie VI., No. 353 Published daily except Sunday by The Company. Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing _ New York City, N. ¥.<SE>> The Crisi s Deepens The outstanding sign of the spreading of the economic crisis to all sections of economy, and to all the world, has been the constant de- cline of prices, amounting generally to about 12 per cent. That this decline has not been even greater, it has been quite widely understood, was due to the monopolist control of many key erful combines. Now monopoly prices, after holding out for six deepening crisis, have given way under the growing pressure, poly prices have begun to drop. learned that it is impossible to in a new world situation. months under the Mono- Even the most powerful trusts have definitely maintain the old scale in The first outstanding example of the crash of monopoly prices was seen in the drop in copper fr which occurred last week. “Unfortunately,” says the Co‘ ‘om 18 cents to 14 cents per pound, mmercial and Financial, Chronicle, this “is typical of a state of things which is not confined to the cop- per market but is duplicated, there is reason to believe, in other lines of industry.” “Statistics at present coming to hand,” continues t journal, “made it palpably evident that the reaction in trade has been much more severe than current reports have led the public to believe.” A few other quotations from what has been repeated for mon! only by the Communist Party), i. .nhow openly acknowledged by the r capitalist economists will show that ths by the Communist Party (and e., that the crisis is deepening, is sponsible capitalist authorities: “We can scarcely hope for the bottom to be reached much before February, 1931.” (Annalist, Apr. 18.) Business has “not yet started on the upward climb, and the best indications are that it is not going to do so for some time yet to come.” .(H. Parker Willis, in the Annalist.) “The recovery from the 1929 recession has not yet begun.” son Wirt Axe, ibid.) , Hoover’s “plan” for overcoming the crisis had, as its main pillar of support, the expansion of foreign trade, This “pillar” has collapsed. In March foreign trade fell more than 20 per cent behind last year. For the first quarter, 1930, trade runs more than half a billion dollars behind last year, or at a rate of two billions decline for the year. In its world-wide growth, the crisis shows the same deepening. Tokio has experienced a sharp exchange crash. In England, unem- ployment has increased over 50 per cent more than when the “Labor” government took office last year, In France, the crisis is beginning with a slowing down of production and a drop in foreign trade with “French, participation in the planetary depression most clearly seen” (Annalist). off, bankruptcies sadly increased,” etc. tailment of production.” And so on. The whole capitalist world is in crisis. The crisis deepens. Unemployment is growing. The capitalist class throughout the world is struggling frantically to place all the burdens upon the shoulders of the working class. , The working class must organize and fight. Let May Day be a day of mobilization and struggle, to defeat the capitalist attack, for unemployment insurance, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, against the imperialist war, for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a revolutionary workers’ gov- ernment, which alone can build a world of order and plenty for the (Emer- Italy registers a “visible cur- German industries “slumped emphatically, production fell. | toiling masses! Hail the Pacific Coast Workers The rising tide of working class activities on the Pacific Coast, which registered so dramatically in the great demonstrations on March 6th, continues to grow and deepen. In the Imperial Valley this tide is sweeping the agricyltural work- ers, the most exploited and oppressed section of the working cl; ass, These workers are organizing their forces under the leadership of the Agricultural Workers’ Union of the Trade Union Unity League, and of the Communist Party. In the face of the most outrageous persecu- tion (typified in the demand for $40,000 bail for each of the arrested union organizers), in the face of wholesale arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts and even without any pretext at all, in the face of mob vio- lence organized by the capitalists—the workers continue their organ- ization in preparation for struggle. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Spokane, and dozens of smaller cities, the workers are stirring, are organizing, are moving forward. Those who recall the heroic days of the past, in which the workers of the Pacific Coast were in the very forefront of the national move- ment, were the most militant and fearless fighters against capitalism, will know how to estimate the volume and power of this present rising tide in the West. These workers fornia, will soon be scoring high in Washington, Oregon and Cali- in the “revolutionary competition” with the workers of the Middle West, the East, and the South, in building the revolutionary trade uni er, in building the Communist Party. Hail the revolutionary workers of the Pacific Coast! ions, in circulating the Daily Work- of all over the country send their May Day greetings! PROTEST POLICE TERROR IN CHICAGO MASS MEET CHICAGO, April 23.—At a mass *neeting held on Monday, April 21st, at the Ukrainian Hall in Chichgo, 500 workers from the shops of Chi- cago united in a protest against and the denunciation of the brutal at- tacks of the Chicago police upon the Communist Party, and organizations sympathetic to it. Sam Don of this District was given a vociferous welcome when he spoke. He is one of the victims of police beatings which have been a feature of the terror opened against the revolutionary workers of Chicago. Two telegrams were sent from the meeting; one, a telegram of solidar- ity and a pledge of increased strug- gle against the fascist attack of the government agents, sent to Com- rades Foster, Minor, Amter, Lesten YCL CALLS YOUNG TOILERS ‘TO DOWN TOOLS MAY 1ST A statement denouncing the sav- age sentence of the capitalist court on the delegation of the unemployed, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, and calling on all young workers to join hands with the adult work- ers in a mass political strike on May 1, was issued today by the dis- trict committee of the Young Com- munist League of New York. “The young workers must rally on May 1, must struggle for shorter hours, againgt speed-up, against bosses’ wars, for the defense of the Soviet Union and for the release of the delegates of the unemployed and of Harry Eisman?’ the state- ment declares, gram demanding that Mayor Tromp- son and his gangster hirelings stop destructive remnage against the and Raymond, and the other a tele- ‘ . working class of Chicago. The workers | (GUARDS LOCKED “MEN IN TO BURN ee the prices of which were artificially “pegged” by the pow- | % IN RAGING F | R E NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 86 a year everywhere excepting Ma: and Bronx, New York City and foreign countries, there $4 a year. attan Price 3 Cents U.S, Commerce Reports Show Sharper Crisis and Growing Unemployment PREPARE TONIGHT FOR ‘WORK OR WAGES’ FIGHT MAY 1st COURT DELAYS (UNITED FRONT MEETING ‘RULING ON NEW: AT MANHATTAN LYCEUM: DELEGATES FROM SHOPS | | _ GASTONIA la Fire Chief Said A11 Give Uniform Picture of Deepening Chaos in Defense Demands New! Guards Think It Joke, | ‘Governor Knew of Vile! Conditions Before COLUMBUS, O,, April 23,—Every man of the 350 or more burned to cinders in the lousy Ohio Peniten- tiary could have been saved if the guards hadn’t been “too anxious to keep them penned up.” testified to-| day Fire Chief Al Nice, of Colum- bus, at the hurry-up investigation called to white-wash the blood- | thirsty prison authorities. | Evidence brought out today |shovred that the Ohio Governor had | been warned of the vile and danger- |ous conditions existing in the hor t ‘Could Have Been Sav il : sac ae |From Argentine to China, from Mexico to India; All Capitalist Lands Crisis Worsens WASHINGTON, April 23.—The cotton resulted in decline in purchas- department of commerce reports on!ing power of the population. business conditions throughout the} Greece— Conditions unsatisfac- world give a uniform picture of a! tory, result of low prices and conse- deepening world crisis. Without ex-)quent reduced purchasing power of caption, every country reported on |the market. Exports declined one- shows declining production, trade | third. and employment. A few examples| India—Very depressed. are: Japan—Indusirial depression. Argentina—Tonnage and value of Mexico-—Depression; little | im- exports declined by 27.6 per cent provement is expected in the near and 29.0 per cent. future. Australia—Conditions unsettle Panama—Business is dull. xtension of working hours for rail-| Persia—Business conditions more road workers to 48 per week de- | and more difficult. Drastic curtail- | layed. ment of purchases from aboard. | Brazil—Exports light and imports! Turkey—Economic situation con- ribly overerowded hell-hole. But | low. | tinues _unfavorable. Purchasing vhat do a few hundred burned} Canada—Wholesale prices lowest | power of the people remains low. soners matter to capitalist poli- | Since 1916. Conditions very uneven.| South Africa—Trade outlook for ticians who are glad to have the jails depleted so they can fill them with unemployed wictims? The guards joked and kidded with one another while the men were lashed by tongues of flame, saffo- cating in blinding smoke, and dy- ing in cages like trapped rats. a A news item in the New York Evening World tells of how the blood-lusty daughter of the prison } warden watched the “show” calmly | until her jewels were in danger of | burning. “The daughter of the | Warden,” writes the World, “calm- lly directed the guards and soldiers in the prison fire. She did not show ‘any alarm until her valuables were threatened.” Three hundred men burned into a mass of seared flesh and the Warden's daughter is a heroine protecting her jewelry! WORKERS PLEDGE FIGHT LYNCHING Interracial Meeting Scores Murder Gang | Meeting in Finnish Co-operative Hall last night, in Harlem, New York workers, Negro and white, de- nounced the lynching of the Pullman porter, Wilkins, and adopted resolu- tions pledging to fight on against the murder of workers. It was pointed out by speakers that an increased number of lynch- ings takes place now during the , and that this is a form of ter- ror visited on the most exploited section of the working class, to keep them from organizing and fighting | | for better conditions. | | It is worth noticing that only | workers and farmers are lynched, | and the speakers assailed the role | of the reactionary organizations, whether Negro or white, which seek to block the hands of those who} would fight lynching. Demand Harper Release | The sentencing of Sol Harper to} ‘three months for speaking for mili- | tant struggle against the lynchers | brought condemnation from _ the | meeting, not only for the capitalist jcourt that sentenced him but also | | for the RandoJph clique in the Broth- | _erhood of Sleeping Car Porters who brought the charge against hin DETROIT, Mich.—‘Hurrah, boys, | we'll give you anything to go over- \seas and protect us and our flag” (bosses in 1917). Workers in 1930: | ‘Try and get us todo it.” I served two years under the | United States colors and today, like most of the rest of our crippled, poo: sidier?, 2m wondering what | kind of a country this is that we | | China—No improvement. Build- jing activity 50 per cent below last lyear, due to unsatisfactory condi- | cent more than a year ago. Coal |tion of business in general. Crisis | export restricted. Domestic market includes Manchuria, from which ex- | quiet. Pig iron production declined. ports to the United States declined | Shipping weak. Automobiles Poor, ;more than one-third. | Returns of foreign trade disappoint- Egypt—Depressed; low prices for| ing. FOOD EXECUTIVE (CHICAGO TOILERS TAKES ACTION TELL OF BEATINGS Majority Not for Label Judge Helps Bosses by | Local 8 Meets Friday | Hiding Sluggings Important decisions regarding} CHICAGO, Aptil 23—After two the functioning and structure of the | and a half days of picking a jury, |new Food Workers Industrial Union | the trial of the 45 workers arrested of New York were made Tuesday |at the unemployment meeting on night at the first meeting of its|February 26th started this after- executive committee at the present | noon. headquarters, 16 W. 21st St. Date| Three members of the “Red and for the first shop council meeting | Bomb Squad” testified that the was set for the second week in May, | meeting of 600 workers was orderly when election of officials and de-| until the meeting was adjourned, partment heads will take place,| and the doors were locked by the Sam Weissman was elected as act-| police, and questioning of all present ing secretary-treasur>r. | by Gunman Stege and others caused A prolonged discussion took place | Protests and pushing towards the over the question as to whether or | deors. : : not bread made by membe-~ of the| The judge aided the prosecution new union working under union| and the bosses by ruling out the conditions should be supplied with] beatings in the Detective Bureau. a label. Majority sentiment was|The prosecution saw that the jury against the use of the label on the| was skeptical and persuaded the grounds that it creates an illusion| judge to drop the charges against in ‘he minds of workers that by | 32 defendants, leaving 12 leaders for buying “union label” bread, they |railroading. Workers on the jury 1930 depressed by low prices. | England—Unemployment 50 per | Trial for Textile | Strike Leaders ‘Saul Appeal Heard too; Sentenced for Speech Workers Organizations Send Representatives to Plan Great Political Strike on May Day Anthracite Miners Boss Jury, Prejudice Chicago Masses Force Police to Permit Parade; Will Demonstrate Today the Final Preparations United Front May Day Con- ference will meet at 8 p. m. a t Manhattan Lyceum. This is RALEIGH, N. C., April 23—The| where the actual working out of the program for mobilizing jNorth Carolina supreme court yes-) tens of thousands of workers and the unemployed for the great political strike and demonstration May 1 will be done. terday heard the appeal presented | |by lawyers of the International La-| bor Defense for a new trial of the} seven Gastonia strike leaders *who | fall, also the appeal of George Saul, | | Southern International Labor De- \fense district organizer. | After arguments by the legal rep- | |resentatives of the strike leaders | {and the assistant attorney general, |Frank Nash, and A, G. Magnum, a | mill owners’ attorney, the supreme | court took the appeal “under advise- | |ment.” The arrest and conviction | |grew out of the death of Chief of | | Police Aderholt, who was fatally {wounded when he led an attack on| the strikers’ tent colony. | Mass Protest. | After the arrest or the workers | the I. L. D., the Communist, Party {and the Trade Union Unity League | |mobilized the workers of America jin demonstrations, working-class | lconferences, mass meetings and jrallies. Due to the mass protest | the original first degree murder ‘charges were changed to second de- gree, which prevented the electro- cution first planned. | The seven workers were “found guilty” by a bosses’ jury in a trial | |the class nature of which was appa- | \rent from the first and which simply reeked with prejudice. 20-Year Sentences. Those convicted and now on ap-| peal are Fred Beal, Clarence Miller, | George Carter and Joseph Harri- son, with 20-year sentences; Wil- iam McGinnis and Louis McLaugh- lin, with 15 years, and K, Y. Hen- drick, with a seven-year sentence. | Saul was convicted later of mak- | ing a speech to textile workers, the | |technical charge being that he had! }@ gun. | Attorneys Hardwick and J. Frank |Flowers appeared a$™defense coun- |sel. ANOTHER NEGRO Delegates from shops, from union locals, from the Commu- jwere convicted in Charlotte last| nist Party, Young he Conc League, Councils of the Unem- —— AINESE TOILERS ployed, from the Trade Union Unity League, from every workers’ | fraternal, defense, relief, education- | al, sports or other organization » will be there. Report Progress, The first item on the order ot} | Bloody Machado business will be a report on the| — work of forming committees of ac-| The International Labor Defense tion in the shops, distribution of | is in receipt of a letter from Hong- leaflets, factory gate meetings, and jong, China, in which it is reported detailed organization for the calling’ that the four Chinese revolutionary FOIL EXECUTION Were Sent to Death by |The report is from the executive) Workers who were deported from committee elected to supervise this | H::vana, Cuba, by the Machado fas- (Continued on'Page Two) | eist government to China to be ex- ‘ecuted there by Chiang Kai-Shek es- \caped execution through the timely .| interference of the Chinese revolu- YOL HOLDS MEET . BEFORE ARMORY The four workers, Kee Chang, H H. Su, H. S. Ting, and C. C. Lee, were deported some time ago. They Workers, Guardsmen, oe through New orleans and Saar ~ {San Francisco ports. The Interna- Resist Officers tional Labor Defense was making a | strenuous effort to save these work- Seventy-five young workers took/ers-and to divert their deportation part in a May Day mobilization | from China to the Soviet Union, and meeting of the Young Communist! had received permission from the League last Tuesday night in front | Soviet Union for their entrance. of the 18th Coast Defense Armory in Brooklyn. . About 15 minutes after the open- ing of the meeting at’9:45 p, «n., the National Guardsmen ‘came. out. of the armory. A group of four or five stood by, listening closely to the speaker and reading the leaf- lets given to them. Attempts to break up the meeting by officers and plain clothes thugs were re- sisted by the, workers and many of the Guardsmen. bs In spite of this attempt to dis- rupt the meeting, the Young Com- munist League intends to eontinue its meetings in front of this arm- ory as well as others. A few mem- bers of the National Guard said | This attempt failed. Subsequent ef- forts for their release were made hy |the Japanese section of the M.O.P.R. but without any success. When the ship with the four de- ‘portees, heavily guarded, arrived at | Shanghai, the Chinese militant sea- men skillfully released them. They immediately proceeded to Hongkong, where they are again active in’ the revolutionary movement. M’DONALD SPEWS ‘are helping bakers in their struggle | against exploitation. | Emphasis was laid on the neces- |sity for militant strikes to better | seem to understand the nature of the case, but the jury goes heme} every night. The trial goes on again tomorrow morning. Gang of 200 Ties Man| explain why they should protect and| not disrupt the meetings of the) workers, They promised to mob-| Is Attempt to Fool the |conditions, instead of oa building EX-SOLDIER WRITES “Fight With Workers ‘on May Day”’ (By a Worker Correspondent) up a business for the boss by A. iy ae paren bey Beene) or International lepending on public sympathy. m1 This question, together with other Wireless points such as a standard of wages News for officials, minimum wage scales, and rate of dues payment was re- ferred to a sub-committee for further elaboration, Separate sessions of council mem- bers belonging to the different de- partments will be held this week to take up pressing problems. Besides this, a rank-and-file mass meeting of Local 3, A. F, W, bakers is called for Friday afternoon at 96 Clinton St. to protest against the fasgist tactics of Burkhardt, Gundt and iedlein, the reactionary cliques ll holding office in the A. F. W. (Wireless by Inprecorr) * BERLIN, April 23.—Mass searches |of the police cost the life of Ser- | geant Barthel, who was killed by |an auto when the police blocked the {road near Torgau. Many young | workers who were arrested for pos- | sessing jack-knives, etc., were after- wards released. * oaths (Wireless by Inprecorr) PRAGUE, April 23.—Easter Mon- |day the police prohibited a Com- | munist children’s demonstration in Radotin, The children’s procession was met by the police who immedi- ately fired, shooting three boys and two girls. Two are not expected to recover. A number of youths and adults, including Comrade Nemetch, editor of the Communist organ “Rudepravo.” s 8 (Wireless by Inprecorr) TOKIO, April 23.—Eleven thou- sand tramwaymen and women are for td save a few millionaires. striking for increases in wages. Oy- 1930—“Hurrah, boys, now we'll | ama, leader of the left wing workers join the Communist army and serve | and peasants fraction in the Ronoto, under our flag—the Red Flag.”| the Japanese Parliament, was ar- And we'll fight hard for the work- | rested and charged with incitement. ers. All ex-soldiers, who are work-| The arrest was made to prevent ers, should come out on May Day Oyama from presenting the strikers’ alongside of the members of their! demands in Parliament. Scab fas- true class—the working class. | cists are trying to run a skeleton ~-EX-SOLDIER. | service. took a chance of losing our lives and Shoots Him ilize their fellows to protect the Masses on Arms Race | ROSEDALE, Miss., April 23.— A gang of 200 white landlords and jbusiness men took Dave Harris, a | Negro farm hand worker out into \the country last’ night, tied him to a tree, and riddled him with bullets. Previous to the murder of Harris, |the gangs had huntedé him down in |the Mississippi Rivey, swamps. He was accused of s! ing a white |farmer and fled knowing that no evidence of innocence would be ac- cepted. BIé BANK CLOSES MONROE, N. C.—One of the larg- Jest banks in this section, the Bank 'of Union, closed its doors yester- speakers at the next meeting. ANOTHER BLOOD ATH IN INDIA “Labor” Troops Kill’ Workers. i CALCUTTA, April 23.—“Labor” government troops, acting for Brit- ish imperialism in India, are re- ported to have massacred 12 revolu- tionists and to have wounded many others in fightin# near Chittagong. No soldiers were reported to be in- heroes attacked unarmed workers and peasants in retaliation for a | day. Capitalist newspapers noon until Tuesday afternoon the fact that their employes had voted by overwhelming majority not to accept the proposal of the bosses for arbitration and had taken the first steps toward strike. Capitalist morning papers first mentioned it Wednesday. “Big Six” Typograph- raid on Chittagong arsenal recently. SCOOP STRIKE VOTE Boss Press Hid Printers Move in New/action at a crowded meeting plenty York concealed from Sunday after-|¢@tly enough for extras on Sunday, | plenty early enough for the capi- talist regular morning editions on| Monday to tell about it. But the only paper that said a word was | the Daily Worker which had the whole story in its Monday edition The capitalist press waited to codk up a policy and meanwhile for them, the news of the strike vote just! ical Union, Local No. 6, of New| ‘wasn’t fit to print,” which is an-| iron structural workers were injured York, which includes all the opera-|other reason for supporting the| when a girder they were working op «tors in newspaper plants, took this | Daily Worker circulation drive, jured, indicating that the “labor”) LONDON, April 238.— With the three-power treaty, bristling with | naval armaments, signed and its “es- | cape clause” stretched wide enough to suit the wishes of the most rabid imperialist war ngers, MacDon-~ ald comes out in a speech yesterday admitting that the “war danger is | greater than ever before.” Yet at | the same time this lackey of British | imperialism, murderer of Indian, Arab and Chinese workers weaves | his pac propaganda web to hide | the fiasco of the London Five-Power conference. A close reading of the treaty shows the tremendous spurt given to refurbishing the navies of all the imperialist powers to prepare them for war. The only thing that was “limited” was the ability of the im- perialist bandits to fool the masses as to the true meaning of the Lon- | dort meet. WASHINGTO. » April —After | consulting with his Wall Street l cronies here, Hoover declared that | he would send the three-pawer naval | treaty to the Senate for ratification | immediately upon the arrival of Hen- jry L. Stimson and other members ‘of the American delegation. Hoover | said he believed the treaty would | be ratified immediately. IRON WORKERS INJURED WEST BABYLON, L. I.— Five crashed to the ground ° “ .