The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1930, Page 1

: % 1 / \ ° Sirike, Demonstrate May Day for Immediate Demands and Overthrow of Capitalism he Daily Entere rO as secu SS ——_ Stn <7 Tones oe i ae on lowe SO Worker ud-class matter at the Vost Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥.% 21 Vol. VI, No. 354 . Utilize the | bast Week to Organize the Mass Political Strike Only, one week remains until May Day. This must be a week of intensified, concentrated work, Until now much good agitational and propaganda work has been done by our Party and by the United Front May Day Conferences. Our slogans for work or wages; unemployment ‘surance; the 7-hour day and 5-day week; against the speed-up; against wage cuts; against imperialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union; for the release ‘of class war prisoners; for the overthrow of capitalism; and for a workers’ and farme! government have aroused sympathetic response among wide masses of workers in all principle cities. The offensive of the bosses—their efforts to force the workers to bear the burdens of the economic crisjs, on one hand, and the energetic preparatory work of the revolutionary workers’ organiza- tions led by the Communist Party, on the other, insures the participa- tion of hundreds of thousands of workers in the May Day demon- strations. In the week remaining concentration must he made on the fac- tories, Not on factories jn general, but on selected factories, taking into consideration the basic war industries and the influence and pre- vious work of the Party and the revolutionary unions. Agitational activities should be intensified; leaflets, shop bulletins and Daily Workers should be distributed by the thousands; daily factory !meet- ings and demonstrations should be held at tHese selected factories. Every effort must be made to set up May Day Strike Committees in the shops, factories and mines. At every distribution, at every fac- tory meeting, special efforts must be made to establish contacts with the workers. Shop meetings should be called away from the shops to set up strike committees and to organize the workers for the strike on May Day. The Mass Political Strike—the actual organization of such a strike, must receive the principal attention of all leading committees of the Party.and the revolutionary unjons. The coordinated concentration of all forces on the shops, on the setting up of May First strike commit- task. This work must be supplemented on May First at shops where the chances of calling a strike are favorable by sending committees to ajd the strike committees in the shops in calling the workers out onto the stfeets. And finally the organized participation of the workers from the shops and from workers’ organizations in the demonstrations must be secured. Definite concentration points must be igned to each or- ganization and workers’ group. Each must participate jn the demon- stration with their own banners in an organized disciplined manner. Organized workers’ defense corps must be prepared to protect the demonstrations against the attacks of the police, the fascists and the social fascists. . These are the chief remaining tasks. Make the last weék one of intensified organizational activities. Concentrate all forces on the factories for the organization of the mass political strike. Make May Day the beginning of wide mass struggles. against the bosses’ of- fensive and for the workers’ demands, The Mountain Has Labored The mountain of the London Naval Conference, after laboring for three months, has brought forth a tiny mouse. ; True enough, the treaty which Mr. Stimson is bringing back with him, makes quite a respectable showing in number of words, sections, sub-sections, snack 1 annexes, ete., and fills an entire newspaper page. But jts political contents are not commensurate with its length. As @ matter of fact, there is only one paragraph that tis worth reading. This is Article XXI. It is worth reading because it cancels all the other Articles. that its interests are materially affected by naval construction or any other power, it js free to build all the new tonnage it damn pleases. The only obligation laid down by Article XXI (which replaces every- thing else in the treaty whenever any one power feels that way about it) is that the new: construction shall not be seeret, but that the gov- ernments shall notify one another of such building. Inasmuch as “secret” navy building is rather an impossibility in these days, that little obligation can be:taken at its face value. What remains therf of the London Naval Conference? Enormously speeded-up preparations for war! The treaty is not the chief product of the conference, but its most negligible. Behind the treaty is the already begun regroupment of powers, the calculated weighing of comparative fighting abilities, the stripping for action, and the mobilization of imperialism against the Soviet Union. We can begin by forgetting the London Treaty, as it will quickly be-forgétten by all save the collector of diplomatic curiosjties. Before it is put finally into the curiosity shop, it will, of course, perform on the vaudeville stage of U. S. politics, in all probabilities in the fall elections. But it is all a Punch and Judy show. The real polities, that is contained in the billion dollar building program, which will soon be doubled or tripled. McNeill Testifies ‘Rooms Needed for Dick Beat Him Marine Delegates George McNeill, ‘charged with sec i fra Delegates to the Marine Workers ond-degree assault, testified yester-/ League Convention which starts day in General Sessions, Part 8 o: tees, on the calling of the strike on May First, is the chief remaining | Article XXI provides that anytime any party to the treaty feels | ‘ y, April 27, are pouring in the Criminal Court, that detective | Saturday pry p Kasaza attacked and beat him in the from ports all over the country. INDIA REVOLT SPREADS ALL OVER LAND ‘Troops Attack Natives! With Machine Guns in Peshawar ‘M’Donald Deals Death ‘Next, Step of Masses Is Armed Revolt Fierce clashes with British troops at Peshawar, on the far northwest |frontier of India, indicate that the Indian revolution is on the march. |Two British soldiers and at least twenty natives were killed in this city, which is an important outpost jnear the entrance to Kyber Pass, when British Gurka troops fired machine guns and rifles at demon- 'strators who had poured gasoline on one of two armored patrol cars and set it into a mass of flames. The two occupants of the burning car were prevented from escaping. | In another section of the city, a} police sergeant on a motorcycle was jattacked and killed by infuriated masses, who were demonstrating in protest against the arrest of two \Indian congress leaders. At pres- ent the city is being patrolled by British troops. j On the other extremity of India, in Calcutta, Bengal, a vast crowd stormed the gates of the prison, holding Mayor J. M. Sen Gupta, who was jailed six months ago for tak- ing part in the civil disobedience movement, when they heard that he had died or been killed in prison. They were dispersed by police. Meanwhile, Gandhi, who is spread- jing “his poisonous propaganda of \non-resistance in. the villages, has been dwarfed into insignificant ob- | i MacDonald, acting for | British imperialism, is determined to crush the Indian revolution in |blood. As the revolution gains in, momentum, under the leadership of athe Indian proletariat and peasant masses, Gandhi will attempt to forge to the forefront again in an | effort to divert it into channels harmless for British imperialism. 36 Shoe Strikers Come From Island Jail Today Today 36 shoeworkers will be re- leased from Blackwell's Island, where they have served 25 days of |, a sentence given them for mass pick- | . ting in front of Schwartz & Be! {Jamin shoe shop. The judges tencing them were Saloman, Herbe ‘ayd Caldwell. Fifty shoe workers are still to go} on trial, Monday, Tuesday, and Wed- nesday. Junior Labor Sports ' Meet Opens Tonight Tonight at 8 P.M., will open the first Junior Section Convention of the Labor Sports Union, at the Man thattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street. | Walter Burke, National Secretary of the L. S, U. will speak. There | will be many special features at the convention. Over 200 delegates are | expected. | SUPPORT DAILY, FREIHEIT, | PREPARE MAY DAY « The, Brawnsville Nonpartisan School No, 3 Club decided at its last | meeting to donate $5 to the Morning |Freiheit, $1 to the Daily Worker, to unemployed demonstfation in front | Rooms for their accomodations are | subscribe to the Daily ‘Worker for of City Hall on February 27 and urgently needed and all comrades two mnths, purchase May Day leaf- that he then defended himself. He who can house one or more dele- |lets for di was beaten up by the three detec- | tives in the car after his arrest and | at the police station. | Green, an onlooking ship’s captain | and Rotter, another eye-witness had | 140 Broad Street, telephone White- | for The Daily Worker. Become a seen the assault on McNeill who act- | au entirely to protect and defend himself. | Karl Berger, a representative of | the Daily Worker,.was ordered eject- ed from the court room by the vici- ous judge but representatives of the boss dope sheets were allowed to remain. Another Fascist Asks “Red Investigation” WASHINGTON, April 24.—Fol- lowing in the footsteps of Hamilton Fish of the Tammany Gang in New York, Congressman Underhill of Massachusetts calls for an investiga- tion of the “Communist organiza- tions,” in a resolution submitted to- day. Underhill wants to take the | mind ‘of the workers in Boston away | from the wholesale graft exposures | in’ the police department, and hence | he seconds Fascist Fish's move, — | . ' CHA gates are earnestly requested to im- jmediately get in touch with George | Fink at the Marine Workers League, hall 7478, From the South comes a chal- lenge in the revolutionary competi- tion in che drive for 30,000 new readers for the Daily Worker by June 1, The Charlotte, N. C., unit has accepted the challenge of the Winston-Salem unit. “At the last unit meeting, held April 17, the Charlotte unit, dis- ribution for $3 and ac- \tively participate in the May Day | preparations. Write About Your Conditions Worker Correspondent. - RLOTTE IN DRIVE Me Daily Worker Competition Growing new members Party, new members in the Trade Union Unity League and new sub- |” scribers to the Daily Worker as- | signed to it by the district. The Charlotte unit went also on record | as challenging in revolutionary com- | petition the unit of Greenville, S. C. “In doing this, every comrade un- |dorstands that we will be able to do ~NEW YORK, FRID Hangman MacDonald! MacDonald, prime min 8 cat Britain, in the nan. of British labor, but actually i the interest of British imperial ism, is now dealing death to the Indian masses who are trying to free themselves from their British imperialist exploit CHICAGO DISKS LIE LIKE HELL ‘Boss Gangsters Deny Beating W. CHICAGO, orkers — Lieutenant Barker, head’ of the “bomb squad,” took the stand this afternoon and brazenly denied t 145 arrested in t meeting on March 26th. He also denied seeing any of them beaten, or ordering any beatings or hearing of any beatings, although physi nemployment Y, APRIL 25, 1930 and Bronx, New York City and forelgn countries, there $4 year. ° Price 3 Cents : $6 — year everywhere excepting Maitbattan PROSEC UTOR TO HUGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC UNITED FRONT ASK DEATHFOR =CQNFERENCE MAKES FINAL PLANS FOR POWERS, CARR ‘Judge Shows Prejudice | in Bail Hearing; | Refuses Bail Bosses Afraid of May 1 Mill Owner Would Kill| Them for Organizing ATLANTA, Ga., April 24—Sim- iltaneously with the denial of béil, for M. M. Powers, distfict organi- | zer of the Commmunist Party, and | Joe Carr, Young Communist League | organizer, whose postponed trial is gcheduled to begin on May 6, As- | sistant Solicitor General John Hud- | son, prosecuting attorgey, stated that the death, penalty would be asked for. °° In response to a question from |udge Pomeroy as to whether the death penaity would be demanded | Hudson said: “Most cegainly, your honor, we will ask for the death penalty in these capital cases. I would call your honor’s attention to the fact that these men have announced plans, if they are released, for a May Day demonstration.” Carr and Powers were arrested after they had addressed meetin of Negro and white workers and dis- tributed Communist Party and ng any of the You:.g¢ Communist League literature | um last night. and were held on charges which on conviction can result in the ‘egctric chair. Assail Indictment | They are to be brought toetrial ns came to the jail to take under Georgia laws passed just af-|the first United Front Conference Williams, Negio worker, to the hos- ter the civil war,, which .preferibe | voted, three weeks ago, to mobilize STRIKE AND |Berlin Masses Meet at @pen Violation Smashe | Fight Fas DEMONSTRATION MAY FIRST |Workers of U.S.S.R. Celebrate ‘Opening of Turko-Sibérian Railway; Factories, March to Place of 1929 Barricade s Ban on Meetings in'Waterbury; Akron Men ism; Buffalo Has Preparatory Meetings This Week MAY DAY MARCH” Lynchedin One “WILL LIKE THIS “Tio Negroes LENIN STATUE |Daily Worker Will Be Distributed: | About a thousand delegates from workers’ organizations were | at the United Front Conference | last night, over half of them di- | | rectly from shop committees. | | + + 6 | ;. “Whalen says he hopes we will |l.ave a lot of ple&sure from our walk | up Pitt St®”, said Herbert Benjamin, | | reporting for its executive commit- | tee to the huge and enthusiastic del- |egate meeting of working class or- |ganizations, the United Front May Day Conference, in Manhattan Lyce- “We can assure him that we will take considerable pleasure in it”,| continued Benjamin, and we will re- | member what a storm of threats \and official ukases were issued when this demonstration. ~ AT JUNCTION Germgn Toilers March Through Neukokelln (Wirell baron precorr.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., April 24.— On April 20 the Turko-Siberian Rail- Day in South WALHALLA, S. C., April 24.2 4 masked gang took gAllen Green, 5v year old Ntgro worker confined in the Oconee County Jail, from his cell last night, carried him two miles in | an gutomobile, tied him to a tree! and riddled him with bullees. “In | the seizure of Green, the sheriff was | way was completed. A statue of struc. on the head. Ggeen had been | Lenin has been erected at the Junc- arrested Sunday as the handiest tion of the horth and south lines, at Nego worker to accuse 6f what a/ Aima-Bulak. The official opening white girl here says was an attack | of the Railway will be on May Day. on here. There was no evidence | 5 against kim, but he was ordered held | in jail without bail—for convenience | Previous reports tell of delega- of the lynchers. | tions of workers coming from far This murder follows one the day | and near for the May Day celebra- * * |before, when 200 men took Dave | tion, of the official opening of the Harris, a Negro worker and father ;Vasfy imortant Turko-Siberian a family, onto the Mississippi | toad, with a celebration at the junc- fevee at Gunnison and shot him to| tion pojnt, Aina-Bulak, and then pieces. In this case the sheriff was ;@ trip over the new road to a fur- |present as an interested yjtness, say- | ther celebration at Alma Ata. * Gather at Berlin Factories. * * ing afterward ghat, the crowd “block- | ed his way”. ii pital. Even today, almost a month deat gfor “inciting insurrection” | after the beatings, many of the|and for “circulating insurreétionary | workers show outward marks of |papers.” If the jury brings in ae the brutal terror of the strong recommendation for mercy, the sen- armed defenders of capitalism. tence will be “from five to 20 years”. | The class nature of the trial is| Powers and Carr were out on bail | apparent from the start. All the until Monday, on a lesser charge. Wen we march to Union Square, we are not only answering the fas cists and repegades, but we are showing the slogans of the workers, and of the unemployed, in the places where unemployed workers look for 'BIG WAGE CUT (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Germany, April 24.— Workers here will assemble May 1 outside the factories where they work on other days. They will have their families and the unemployed defendants are asked about the Com- munist Pz They told about 59 When their case came up, it was postponed to May 6, to give the the work they don’t get. In the rot- ten tenement district, we are show- sick, battered and bruised workers prosecution time to try and take | ing our slogan for no eviction of un- | being jammed into a five by eight foot cell without a toilet, with mere- ‘ly an open trench and no running water, the air stinking and foul One sick worker lay under a bench on the floor and cops threw buckets of water on him, Kjar and Satir told the jury how the bosses an- the demand for “Work or with clubs and jailings, cit- h profits and vast unemploy- ment. The prosecution tried to make an issue of the atheism of the defendants But the judge , Stopped them, when they started to explain the role of the church under capitalism. Neither the prosecutor or judge know as much about Com- munism the average Young Piones Tt is clear from the attitude and statements of the defendants that no amount of brutality can keep militant workers down. Chief of Stege, mentioned often cital of the breaking up of the meeting the or ly manner of the Chicago detectiv The only time Chicago detectives are orderly and gentle is when they deal with their gangster friends such as Ca- Kjar told of Stege’s threat the American Legion pone. in jail to get will close tomorrow (Continued on Page Two) PREPARE FIGHT OVER’ 3-POWER LONDON PACT WASHINGTON, April 24.—Con- gressman Fred A. Britten yesterday c red that the House Committee | on al Affairs would gpen an in- ivestigation of the London Naval | Conference, and the three-power | treaty which resulted therefrom. Britten represents the imperialists who want even greater armaments than provided for by the London} treaty. He stated that he would | rally much support as he could to upset the Treaty in its present form. Hoover is maneuvering with Sena- | tor Borah and others for its imme-/ diate approval by the Senate, but a} long-drawn out fight, which will} further expose the imperialist an- tagonisms and show upgthe rapid war preparations, seems? the prob- | able outcome, z ‘< ARREST THREE FOR LEAFLETS | Three workers ‘were arrested at Lenox Ave. and 125th St. station, > told of Barker's of the I. R. T. Wednesday evening | for distributing leaflets calling on all to down tools May 1 and dem- |8 p. m. at 1400 Boston Road. ‘that time. workers.” Work or Wages The conference enthusiastically | approved of plans for mass political strike and mass demonstration May 1, for work or wages, immediate re \lief and. insurance for the unem- ployed, seven-hour day and five-day | employed |week, no, speed-up, defense of the | Soviet Union, struggle against im-| perialist war, etc. | The conference with tremendous emphasis adopted a resolution to} protest the riotous breaking ap by the police of the March 6 lemonstra- | (Continued on Page Three) | Painters Mass Meeting Tonite, 1400 Boston Rd. The Painters’ Section of the Trade | Union Unity League calls a mass | meeting of all painters tonight at The painters’ section issues a challenge to the buiding trades sec- tions of the T. U. U. L. that it will get the most new members before the end of June in the drive of the T. U.'U. L. for 50,000 recruits by EMERGENCY TASK All comrades of Section 2 report today at % to 8 A.Ma, 12 noon and with them, and at 9 a. m., all these gatherings will march to district mobilization points, and then to the Try to Shift Burden of central mass demonstration at the aes . Crisis to Workers Lustgarden at 10:30. After this, ° they will march in four great The Anaconda Copper Mining Co. | columns through the workers’ quar- made public its decision today to ters, Neukoélln and Wedding, cut drasticaJy the wages of its em-, The social-democrats are demon- ployees and miners. Wages of em- | strating in the Lustgarden in the ployees in Butte, Anaconda andj afternoon. Rote Fahne appeals to Great Falls will be reduced 25 cents the workers to boycott the meet- a day, effective May 1. Miners’ ing of the slaughterers of the work- wages will be cut proportionately, ers last May Day, and to rally bringing the basis of mine wages to|unitedly to the Communist demon- $5.25 a day. stration. The bosses’ excuse for the wage! cut is the recent slas® in metal P)ARROW EXPOSES «“TIMES’”, LIES prices and the prospect that little} Wrote In Support of Communists” or no increase of the present price | level can be expected. Here is an-| other clear example of how the boss | « class meet the crisis by shifting the burden of the crisis on the shoul- ders of the working class. Protesting against the distortion of a letter he had written to» the ‘ fs |New York Times, which was used Business Men, Fascists) together with a ‘statement by the | renegades Lovestoneites in support Advocate Ban May Day |¢f' Cossack Whalen, Clarence Dar- Business men, Legionnaires and at {TOW 10 & letter to the International least one official of the Veterans Labor Defenge eat na coe of Foreign Wars are pushing on the statement was distorted. * eG city government. to rqoke the per- it in support of the Communists, i mit to parade May ‘Day by means i, condemnation of the offitials who ” Ca a te ie ae wih sosbiar leon’ welttet fo tho The fascist official makes . the ‘ mars most open threat, as follows: “I am |New: York Times, Darrow’ states: °1 afraid there will be a massagre.” y of the Negro onstrate for work or wages. in the Communist | trict 16, of the Communist Party,” | this only if every comrade intensi- says V. Sidell, the organizer, “went | fies his activities and by concen- cn record as accepting the challenge | trating on the mills and factories, of revolutionary competition of the by building shop units and issuing Winston-Salem unit that it will go shop papers, with the aim of devel- over the top sooner in its quota of! oping new cadres of leadership.” workers, Will like other work thug’s threa ms and Amos, who, ts of killing next time they spol organize white and gro workers, Magistrate August Dryer held have defied the | them on $500 bail each for hearing | Tuesday. They are: Almond Ra- ind have continued to | miraz Theodore Dunoff and Sonia) | Pavant. |Southern Bosses Want to Burn Them to Death in the Electric Chair. Fromleft to right: M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, to be tried May 6 for zing Negro and white workers to fight capitalism. The Southern loiters resurrected a 65-year-old law in order to threaten them with death or 20 years’ imprisonment. Only mass organization | of the workers will save them from the death sentence, | 5 P.M. sharp for special work. \feel that Russia is the only nation | The American Legion is not offi- | The Section Control Commission \ecially taking® part in the fascist will handle the causes of all com- |march from Madison® Square to | rades who fail to respond. Union Square, and that affair is under the command of the notorious |““World War Veterans.” Some of the letters urge calligg off both the fascist and the workers’ demonstra- e DAILY UNIT REPS. A meeting of all unit Daily Worker agents will be held Satur- day at 3 p. m. at 26 Union Square.tions. WALKER LOSES AFL JOB Lewis-Fishwick Fight Is Hotter CHICAGO, IIL, April 24—John Walker, secretary of the Peabody Coal Co. section of the United Mine Workers of America, the so-called, “reorganized” U. M. W. which split from the Lewis controlled interna- tional union recently, has resigned from the presidency of the Illinois Federation of Labor. Lewis had been demanding that President Green of the A. F. of L. find some way | to fire Walker, and Johnny” seems to have decided to beat the gun. Must Fight Yet gates of the “reorganized” unio#to the Boston convention of the A. F. of I, next Octobe There the credentials committee ang then the convention itself will have to de- |cide whether the “union owned by Illinois coal operators or the one run by non-Illinois mine owners is the real one.” The gfouthwest Interstate Coal Operators Association has ordered its members. in Kansas to withhold the checked off dues of union miners. The checked off dues will presum- ably be paid to John L, -Leyis and : : his provisional Kansas district Walker's resignation only post- officers to finance the Lewis war on boned the clash with Lewis how-|the reorganizgd ynion. Howat was ever as Walker is one of the dele- demanding the dues for his crowd. “Weeping | in the world that holds th: high:pur- pose of helping those who need it most... I presume that I would be one of the last people in America to join in any crusade against them, even though I thought they could not succeed.” ip NEEDLE FRACTION TONIGHT There will be a very important meeting of the Communist fraction ién the Needle Trades tonight at 8 p.m. ingthe Workers Center. . All should be there. Today in History of the Workers April 25, 1920—Street car strike in Tokio, Japan, for. eight- hour day and more wages. 1921— Forty-six members of I. W. W. imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., for alleged violation. of espionage act. 1921— General strike in Italy against fascist out- Fages. 1922—Sentence of Anita C.: Whitney of San Francisco for affiliation with Communist Labor Party and I. W. W. upheld. 1923 — Marine Transport Workers’ | Union, I. W. W. struck for wage ; increase, 1928 — Baron Peter Wrangel, fast white guard invader of Soviet Russia, died in Brussels. t