The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1930, Page 1

Published a: Company. tn ‘Vol. VI., No. 355 Suuare. New York Cit: gntorea as second-class ‘matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the _ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930, Whalen Is a Liar Ih the New York Telegram yesterday a statement is published, credited to “Commissioner Whalen’s secret police,” that the May Day demonstration is being financed by “a draft for uae from Moscow.” Whalen is a liar. eosnces and everything, by the workers of the United States, With Lhe enthusiastic support of the workers of the U. S., “Moscow” is using inn its money for the building of socialist industry. If the capitalist Government of the U. S. would permit Soviet Union industrialization loans to be sold here, the workers of the U. S. would be sending money '\ to “Moscow.” At the same time, Whalen uttered,another lie. | May Day Conference is planning “another parade,” other than the one ' publicly announced from Rutgers Square-to Union Square. This lie can have no other purpose than that.Whalen is preparing to interfere with and try to break up the May Day femonstration. Workers, be on your guard! Mobilize ever greater masses for May Day! Only the masses can overcome the capitalist police provo- cation! . Concentrate on the Shops and Factories! Organize the Mass Political Strike! (Directives of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.) 1. After an examination of the reports from the most important. districts on the preparations, the Political Bureau considers these prep- arations unsatisfactory. Everywhere a definite slackening in Party work is to be noted. The success on March 6th has led even leading comrades to rely primarily on spontaneous mass response. All of the weaknesses of March 6th are again clearly evident, and in some cases in an even more exaggerated form. The united front conferences were not sufficiently broad, and the orkers’ organizations drawn into these conferences were not utilfzed ‘Bufficiently in the preparatory campaign. The activities at the shops and factories are entirely inadequate; he shop nuclei continue passive; factory May Day strike committees are not set up. Unless strenuous work is done during the few days remaining there is danger that the mass political strike which is our central aim on May Day will be entirely unorganized and limited to those workers who individually remain away from the shops. The Party fractions have failed to bring forward sufficien‘!y + T.U.U.L. in the preparatory work, and the TUUL recruiting dr. been almost completely neglected. ‘ _. The work among the uneraglaaae dollowing March 6th has been almost completely forgotten yy the Party and the TUUL in the districts. The Daily Worker circulation drive has not been sufficiently connected up with the May Day preparations. The workers’ defense corps, despite the very sharp. struggles of the past few months, are still “being organized.” Insufficient prepara- tions are being made to actually organize. the May Day demonstrations. 2. These very serious shortcomings in the preparatory work re- quire immediate attention and drastic measures by all leading com- mittees in the districts. The Political Bureau, therefore, mstructs all District Organizers to immediately undertake and carry through the following measures: (a) Special meetings of all District Bureaus, with leading sec- tion and union functionaries and secretaries of shop nuclei, must be held at once to work out concrete steps for the strengthening of the preparatory work and the organizing of the demonstration. (b) This shall include the selection of a limited number of large factories in basic industries where the’ influence of.the Party and the revolutionary trade unions is greatest and the concentration of all of the energy and forces of the Party on these shops in, an effort to actually organize and lead these workers in the mass political strike on May First. Shop bulletins or special shop leaflets, linking up, the struggle against the specific bad conditions in these shops with the general May Day demands, must be distributed. which all the available forces of the Party, Y. C. L., TUUL, and unem- ployed councils are concentrated, must be held-at these selected fac- tories daily until May First. All connections of the Party, trade unions, auxiliaries and sympathetic organizations must be utilized for the setting up of May Day strike committees in these factories. Where veports indicate sympathetic response to the May Day mass politica] strike among workers in any of these shops, large mass picketing dem: onstrations, with speakers, leaflets : ope banners, must be organized at the shop on the morning of May; eka to aid the committee in the shop in acually pulling the strike. concentrating chiefly on the shops the mobilization of the million‘anid) a quarter workers who dem- onstrated on March 6th must not be’ ited. (c) The Daily Worker circulation campaign, the TUUL Tecruiting drive and the election campaign of the Party must be sharply brought forth m the period remaining before.May First, and especially in the demonstration itself, Banners dealing’ with these campaigns must be conspicuously displayed. Special committees must be set up to dis- tribute and secure subscriptions for the Daily Worker at the demon- strations. (d) Great attention must be given ‘immediately to the organiza- | tion and defense of the demonstration. This must include the or- ganized participation of workers’ organizations (TUUL, trade unions, factory groups, youth, sport, fraternal, and unemployed organiza- tions, auxiliaries, etc.), each being stimulated by the Party fractions to organize their own defense corps; the centralized control of these defense corps, as well as of the entire demonstration, by a steering committee chosen by the May Day united front conference committee, @ith couriers chosen in advance to convey the directives of this com- Mittee to the various sections of the demonstration, each of which must be definitely organized; the designation of definite concéntra ion points for each organization or factory from which the workers proceed in an organized manner to the main demonstration; the organ- ization of special committees for the recruiting of new Party members and for the sale of the Daily Worker, Labor Unity, May Day Buttons, ete, the securing of bands where possible and thorough advance prep- “tions for the shouting of slogans, singing, etc. (e) All illusions that the granting of a police permit insures the peaceful holding of the demonstration must be energetically, combatted. Thorough preparations for the defense of the demonstrations from attacks by the police and especially by gangsters and fascist orgapiza- tions must be made. The organization and preparation of mass work- ers’ defense corps must be given serious attentior’. 8, The Political Bureau, while sharply pointing out and insisting upon the immediate correction of these weaknesses, nevertheless recog- nizes that there are certain achievements to be recorded in the prepara- tory work in all districts. United front conferences with all organiza- tions already sympathetic to our movement were successfully carried through; hundreds of thousands of leaflets have been distributed; a large number of shop bulletins have been put out; many factory gate meetings have been held; large numbers of the special May Day edi- tions of the Daily Worker are being distributed. All of these are achievements. But the many weaknesses in-the campaign, especially the organizational weaknesses, more than outweigh the achievements. The Political’ Bureau insists upon the immediate rallying of the entire Party to overcome these weaknesses and to mobilize the masses for the mass political strike, for the struggle against unemployment and rationalization, against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union, against American capitalism, for powerful street dem- onstrations on May First. th % k | eTeae aE FS act ef Merch 3, 1879, SCRIPTION RATE: and ‘irons. New York City cn cd FINAL CITY EDITION ountries, the ! toveign rv everywhere excepting Manhuttan SS 2 Price oe Cents . RKER CONVENTION TODAY FOR NEW UNION DELEGATES FROM A New Light on Global 8RITISH ‘LABOR’ 985 DELEGATES ELECTED EVERY PORT T0 Tonnage; Mrs. Morrow’s GOV'T BACKED ND 150 Lge Sg ae ee ROO ee hd PLAN CAMPAIGN Flutter Before the Queen WARON SOVIETS Jeoasteal he UO, Red International | Radiogram Hails New He said that the | Organ of Struggle ‘Many Negro Delegates ‘Rank and File of Old. Unions Represented The national marine workexs’ convention opens today at 2 p. m. at 140 Broad St., for a two-day ses- | sion during which some 200 dele- gates from all the important ports | will work out a program for or- | ganizing and will formally launch a new marine workers’ industrial union. The following radiogram has been received by the Marine Workers League, for transmission | to the convention: “The Transport Workers Inter- national Committee of Propaganda and Action of the Red Interna-.. | tional of Labor Unions in the name of 2,500,00 transport work- ers, sends fraternal greetings to the convention of the Marine Workers League. + “By forming rank and file ship and port committees, by leading the daily struggles of the seamen and longshoremen on the basis of economic and political demands for improvement of conditions and for emancipation from capitalist ex- ploitation, thus rooting among the masses, the industrial union of seamen and longshore- men will become a real mass union. “Convention decisions to this | effect will strengthen the class organization of marine transport workers in the United States of America. “Long live the new fighting sea- men’s and longshoremen’s union!” Greetings, and an address to this | |convention have been sent out of | jail by William Z. Foster, general | secretary of the Trade Union Unity | | cause he could not cope with the de- | | This is a proletarian convention, | |try in which oppression bears down | report that ithe Marine Workers League, which | Shop meetings, at | | School on Sunday night, April 2 1 | | | League, American section of the | |R. LL. U. of delegates representing an indus- | heavily, unemployment is rife, ra- | tionalization is rapid, and no useful | |organization exists outside of the International Seamen’s Clubs, and! is calling the’ convention. Ride Freights Many of the delegations arrive by | riding the freights. They are fresh from the job, and many overcame (Continued on Page Five) COOPERATIVE DANCE. The Unity Cooperative, 1800 Tih | Ave., is holding a concert and dance for the benefit of the Workers jat 8.30 p.m. e aan ‘CTR Today in the | Pioneers March Forward to May | .1—M: Stone—Page 4. Struggle Over Russian Coal—P. Frankfield— ' | Page 4. Imperialist League of Na-| | tions—Page 5. A New Light on | Global Tonnage—Page 1. MONDAY The Ghent System. Struggle Against Unemployment! | Pat Devine. | | Build The Daily Worker—Send {n Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. itself | Weighty Events Almost Flops in Front of Mary; Oozes Gush| About. Miss MacDonald Startling news was printed in the | New York Times yesterday! Brit- |ain has conquered America! Mr. Denny certainly had it all wrong | when he wrote his recent book. Ap- pearances to the contrary notwith- standing, ‘this is how the matter stands. The newest evidence changes the whole aspect of world polities! The news was delivered in a | speech by Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, wife of the famous capitalist-diplo- mat, Wall Street banker, Ambas- | sador to Mexico, delegate to the London Conference and future Sen- | Here is a} ator from New Jersey. voice from the uppermost strata of | Here is the creme- | | the ruling class. | de-la-creme of the American bour-| geoisie. The newspapers hang upon her words, to get some light el pane historic happenings in London. CHINA PEASANTS | CAPTURE CITIES iKiangsi Ruler Admits Communist Success | CANTON, April 25—Under leadership of the Chinese Commu- nist Party, the development of the revolution in Kiangsi, a province | (with a population three times that of New York State, has reached} such a state that the Kuomintang} governor of the province has tele- graphed his resignation to the “Cen-| tral” government at Nanking. He) admitted that he chose to resign be-! | veloping Communist revolts engulf- | | ing the whole province. #2) hal Se Associated ae despatches today 2,000 peasants were massacred by. government troops during a battle near Shinte in the | northwestern part of Hupeh Pro-| vince. The revolting peasants did| not succeed in entering Shinte but) | they captured neighboring towns. In the Huchow region, in northern Chekiang province, revolutionists are reported to be very active. 8,000 l revolting peasants .have succeeded in capturing Szean, a town twenty-)| four miles from Huchow. Associated Press Despatches yes-| | terday refer to reports given by | two American priests recently from -,| southern Kiangsi which state that | “red forces were overrunning the | entire southern part of Kiangsi” and that the city of Sinfeng was cap- tured by the Communist troops and/ peasants on April 12 anda Soviet | government was established in the | area. | The New York Times yesterday |veports that in March it was esti-| {mated that more than 30,000,000 | | Chinese were living under regional Soviet governments in South China. The Soviet area, admits the New York Times, include “Kiangsi, north- ern Kwangtung, western Fukien, |much of Hunan, and even north of, \the Yangtze River in Hupeh and | Honan provinces.” Since the popu- lation of Kiangsi alone is more than 30,000,000 the number of the Times estimate of the Chinese living under | Soviet tule is a gross underestima- tion. ‘METAL WORKERS RACE League | Districts in Competition CHICAGO, Ill, April Chicago district of the Metal Work; ers Industrial League accepts the challenge of the Youngstown and New York districts for a revolution- ary competition to see; (1,) which district gets the riost members by the time of the National Convention June 14; (2,) to get a minimum of 1,000 members by the time of the ‘National Convention; and (3,) to see which district gets 1,000 bona fide members first. The Chicago district is making every effort to send to Youngstown a delegation representing, every large steel mill, foundry and metal manufacturing plant—in: addition to 4 24,—Theleft wing groups within the A. F. of L. unions—in the district. In order to help make this possible the dis- trict secretary has recently been put on a full-time basis. Permanent’ Organization will leave behind them in eacl of | carry on the work while they are away and who will be prepared to redouble their efforts when the dele- gates report back from the Conven- tion. In preparation for the National Convention Chicago district is hold- ing a mass District Conference May 18, the | They are determined the delegates | And what does the lady report? Alas! And also Alack! America is undone! For Madame Morrow gives us a | picture of complete and abject sur- |xender of all our bold dreams of | world domjnation to that British | vival of whom we have been slibly | speaking of as “degenerate.” The keynote of her speech, as translated into a headline by the New York Times, was: “Mrs. Morrow Says Fear of Trip- ping Seized Her When She Was Received by Queen Mary” Ye gods and little fishes. When the wife of the Plenipotentiary of American Imperialism grows faint, trembles, and is filled with the fear ot tripping and falling, when she ap- (Continued on Page Five) SHOE WORKERS RENEW CAMPAIGN ‘Call All to 0 Strike and \Demonstrate May Day At a meeting of the General Or- ganization and Campaign Commi: tee of the Independent Shoe Work: ers’ Union, held at the union heaid- quarters, 16 W. 21st St. Thursday, jextensive and concrete plans for militant organization am ganized shoe workers | upon, The following committees wei Jelected to put thé union decisio: into action: Finance, Membersh | Open Shops, Unemployed and Pub. \licity. Each committee elected its chai man and will hold meetings weekly and as more often as necessa Louis Rudomin was elected gener {chairman of the general comm: tees and Max Henkin the general | | secretary. A committee was also elected to| greet the 36 political pri oners th: were to come out of i s Later development authorities are forcing the militant shoe workers to e the full thirt; days and are denying them the usu! time off. One of the political pri |oners stated that the more time they Iserve the harder they will f when they come out again. Th will be released next Wednesday the morning. All shoe workers |Should be on hand to extend “them a rousing reception. All Out May Day. Biedenkapp, th¢ general of the Independent Shoe Union, who was ill for the last four weeks, will be back on the! job next week. Every member of the Indepen- dent Shoe Workers’ Union is ex- lvected to participate in the May Dey demonstration. Those whe a fortunate enough to be working wil) lay down tools and join the ranks of the unemployed in militant dem- onstration under the banner of tl Trade Union Unity League. - semble at Rutgers Square at noon. March to Union Square. lA special mecting of all activ members will be held on Tu 1 May 6, at the union headquarte: at which occasion a general diseu sion on welfare will take place, Re-| member the date, May 6, All workers should send contribu- jtions fo the office of the union, to i help the families of those who are lsecving time in their behalf. were acted Fred Today in History of | the Workers April 26, 1920—Shipping at all the shops a strong group who will| Ports of Porto Rico tied up by strike of longshoremen and dock clerks. 1926—Soviet Russia and Germany signed mutual neutrality treaty. 1928—Hundred and fifty thousand cotton mill workers at Bombay, India, struck. 1929—-Bombay cot- ton mill workers’ strike, begun eat lier in month, became general; 200,000 out. .|contents of the ambassador’s state jong unor- | ,| imperialism, Gandhi, in Bourgeois Dame Throws Historical Light on, They Deliberately Hid Report Young Workers Will Le Lead Great Procession in Ambassador’s On “Persecutions” | Manchester Guardian Prints Secret Report LONDON, April —That the slimy MacDonald “labor” govert ment took a leading part in insti- gating war on the Soviet Union der the guise of religious “pe tions” was revealed by the publica- tion yesterday in the Manchester Guardian of the report on religion in the U. S. S. R. by Sir Esmond Ovey, ish ambassador to the| Soviet Union. Arthur Henderson, | “labor” foreign secretary, delibe: ately hid the report in order to spur the war preparations of the imper- | ialists against the Workers’ Repuh- lic and to spread the lies of the pope and bishops who were spreading} hatred against the Soviets. Ovey’s, report to the government | is a complete denial of any persecu- tions. | When asked in the house of com- ;mons some time ago, at the height lof the campaign of lies against the | Soviet Union, to reveal Ovey’s re-! port, Henderson replied that it was | |too shocking to make public. | The bootlicking labor minister | knew the report denied all the fair; tales about persecutions, but, in or- | der to hide the facts and advance the war preparations of the im- pevialist bandits, he suppressed the ment. “There are no religious persecu- tions in Soviet Russia, in the strict} sense of the term ‘persecution,’ ”| says the ambassador’s statement. |“The people are free to ‘worship | (Continued on Page Five) “SHOOT REBELS,” SHRIEKS GANDHI : |Joins With Imperialist Government BUL IN. Capitalist press reports are that the British imperialist gov- ernment regards the situation as so serious that they have evacu- ated 20,000 of their women and children from the Northwest fron- tier, A crowd of 2,000 fought the police at Neela, and injured 16. The police fired with buckshot into the crowd, and killed at least one, injuring others. BOMBAY, ‘India, April 25.--While hundreds of thousands of Indian werkers and peasants in every part of India battle against the armed , forces of British imperialism, Gan- |dhi calls on the imperialist troops to shoot the revolutionists. “Law- less, physical violence must be stopped, even if that must be done through the government’s forced use ‘of guns,” writes the tool of Bri in his pape “Young India,” published yesterday. This is an open provocation to the (Continued on Page Five) WORKER CLUBS PLAN MAY 1 ‘Which Each Union and Organization Has Place His Report Hits Lies strikers and Unemployed to March 8 _ Details Ado Adoy pted A STEEL WORKERS DEFY GAG LAW May 1 W ill $ See Strike in Georgia Mill YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April Preparations for May Day m demonstration and political s' here include a sharp fight against a proposed city ordinance which | would be the basis for a police attack on the meeting. Monday a great crowd of steel workers and_ jebless gathered at Central Square, | then marched to the city council chamber, where as many as could | pack themselves in did so, and the others waited outside. The bill making meetings iNegal! § unless by permit given only at the} discretion of the police, was up for final reading. Such an attack on it was launched by the workers’ | speakers inside the chamber that it was referred to the legislative com- | mittee instead of being immediately | passed. Lloyd Dight, of, the Young fom- | munist League; Joseph Gottlieb, of | the International Labor Defense; David Marshall, of the Trade Union Unity League, and Joseph Gaul of the Communist Party, told the wor- ried councilors that if they passed | that law the workers would despise and disregard it. Communists Defy Ban The representativ of the Com- munist Party declared that the or- dinance was an attack on the plan- ued May Dey demonstration, and that the Communist Party wil! lead the demonstration May 1, an‘ de- mands that the police clear off the streets for the wor! 5 A second United Front Confer- ence of all workers’ organizations is béing held tonight to make final preparations for mass political s the march and demonstratior Picket lines will be established in. front of all shops and factories o the morning of May 1. Demon - tions will be organized in front of {the mills to bring the workers out Thousands of leaflets are being dis- tributed and street corner meeting held. On May 1 there will be celebration of the openi new Workers Center. * * * To Strike Georgia Mill 2OME, Ga., April 25.—At a mem- hip meeting of the Nation ile Workers Union in Rome, , last week, it was wi mosuly (Continued on Page Five) WLLR. SCOUTS. The W.LR. Children Scouts hay ssued a call to all children of New York City to participate in their ,conference, which called for Ma; 10th, at 10 FE. 17th St, The national executive bureau of ;the Councils of the Unemployed are |driving forward with a national cam- | paign of organizing, building coun-| cils in all industrial centers. The | bureau reports that eight councils | are functioning in work or wages before the masses. Reports from Philadelphia are that a general unemployed council meeting for the whole city is being 8 p.m, to prepare for May 1 dem- Trade Union Unity League in its campaign for 50,000 new members, and to organize for a big delegation to the July 4-5 national convention in Chicago. Protest Meetings The unemployed councils have called the following protest meetings agai the conviction and sentenc- ¢ Chicago and} bringing the program o? struggle for | held Monday at 39 North Tenth St., | onstration, plan assistance to the! ‘ ORGANIZING JOBLESS » Many Councils; Speakers on Tour ling to Pa s of the representatives of the uner Newark, N. J., 4 Pat Devine, na the Councils of the Unempl Stamford, Conn., ard B. Moore, pre vente of the Har lem Tenants League. M Paterson, N. J., James |Ford, Negro organi | Union Unity League. } Brooklyn, N. Y., April Siskind, secretary Néw York di Jof the T. U. U. L. Philadelphia, Pa., Garrick 507 South 8th St., Pat Devine. New Haven, Conn., April 29, Rieh- |ard B. Moore. Charles McCarthy, secretary of the New York waterfront council of the unemployed reports a campaign | of open air meetings at the various | docks. A well functioning defense | corps has been organized. Hall, y. Other Steamer | Worker Correspondent. _ Abreast; midst Enthusiasm For the de of Work or Wag 1 nt relief and in- surance, § ur day and five day week, no evictions of unem- ployed, defense of the Soviet Union, no imperialist war, the youth, the vanguard of the working class in every truggle and organiza- tion , will properly take the the place of honor at the head of ay Day procession from Rut- 's Square to Union Squar Detailed plans for the sembly and order of march were worked out and adopted with the greatest enthusias 5 delegates, gath- ered 1 night in Manhattan Lyceum in the second, and final preparations, United Front May Day Conference. Four hundred of the delegates had been elected by shop and union lo- cals from 280 shops. The rest were see about 0 workers’ fraternal, cultural, educational, s s of the unemployed and cooperative organizations. Cheer For Strike. The meeting listened to and ap- plauded the various speakers, and adopted with cheers the proposals for preparation of the greatest May strike and demonstration that r been seen in New York. it was announced that money was needed for preparations, over a hundred different groups were found to have realized this, and sent donations by their dele- gates. It took over half an hour to read over the list of names of work- ers’ ‘groups which had collected from the meager wages of New York toilers, donations, not large but gladly given, with the promise of personal participation in the dem- onstration. Over 60 other organiza- tions had not sent donations, but their delegates pledged in their name amounts that will be sent in soon. A Day With a History. The meeting was under the chair- hip of Sam Darey, who spoke of the glorious history and_tradi- tions of May 1. J Louis Engdahl introduced the subject of participa- tion in the coming state and con- ional elections, and roused t approval for a proposal that the delegates present call on their ganizations to mobi in force for the coming Communist Party te conventior be held in chenectady. : A representative of the Young ione poke for the release of an, and on the part of in the class of the BE agi pledged @ young workers succeeding and e was characterized it of enthusiastic s for work and struggle, and determination to make the May Day strike a tremendous mass af- Yair, and the demonstration a mem- orable one. Eight Abreast. conference worked out the The ‘following instructions: The various groups of organiza- tions will form in the places as (Continued on Page Four) 16 SAILORS LOST FROM FREIGHTER Captains Let Ship Burn Without Rescue Effort. Sixteen seamen of the Long Island Sound freighter Thames, which was swept by five on Thursday night on its way from New York to Bridge- port, Conn., are missing. Ten other members of the crew were saved, The water was searched for miles lay morning, but no trace of ing sailors was found. Captain George Wilson, owner of “the boat which picked up the chief engineer of the burning freighter, charged that three steamers at the scene of the fire “refused to turn their searchlights on the water te help locate men who were swim- ming and shouting for help.’* Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become 8 r