The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1930, Page 1

H j 1 Ee - WORKERS! _ Off the Lousy Breadlines! FORWARD TO THE MASS POLITICAL STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATION ! ALL OUT MAY DAY! s matter at the Most Office at New York. N.Y. Vol. VL, i 356 Inc, Company, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishiog Union Square, New York City, N. Y.' 22 May Day! y Day you are gathering your class forces. muscles, testing your strength! Workers! On You are stretching You are entering the preliminary battles now going on, in order to prepare for the mightier battles yet to come. Today we fight for unemployment insurance, for work or wages! In the not far distant tomorrow we will fight for state power, in order that the working class shall itself control its economic life. Today we fight for a shorter work-day and higher wages. On some ne their nationa: r tomorrow we shall fight for control of the factories, zation hy the Workers’ Government. Today we fight for the streets. ing cl ass power in every phase r our immediate demands, against zation for the capits ulist class. xture overthrow of the On his } of the orpre May Day we fight against imperialist war; for the freedom d colonial peoples: for the defense of the Soviet Union: ational solidarity of the working class for the int On this May Day we greet with enthusiasm the tremendous achievements of our brother-workers in the Soviet Union, who are building a mighty sofialist economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat. . On this May Day we send our message of solidarity to the rising toilers of India and China, who with unprecedente1 heroism are blast- ing out the imperialist rule from their lands, and laying the founda- tions of the Soviet Power We send our greetings of solidarity in struggle to the workers and peasants of the Philippines, and of Latin-America, who suffer especially from “our own” imperialism, which we are pledged to destroy. To the workers of Germany we sené greeti and our hand of solidarity in their struggle against the fascist and social-f t ban- dits who forge the fetters of the Young Plan upon the millions of German toilers. Hail the struggle for a Soviet Germany! £5, To the workers of the whole world, the yevolutionary wor! class of the United States sends its flaming greetings on this May Day. ss Forward to the struggle against ur of the capitalist Glass, against the de workers! ‘ mployment, against the policy ation and starvation of the Smash the “socialist” traitors and aids of fascism. Smash the treacherous leadership of the American Federation of Labor! Forward to the overthrow of capitalism! Government! Capitalism Burns Its Prisoners ale burning alive of 32 Forward to the Workers’ Whole: 0 prisoners in the Ohio State Peni- tentiary has occasioned a deluge of hypocritical disapproval from the capitalist pres: It is inconvenient to have such things happen. Such even too much the whole system of society to re-examination much as capitalist sys- however, should be Columbus were the not one comment has and effect between the This connection, The victims of hundreds ef thousands. But hinted at the relation of cause tem and tim Ohio holocaust. ply cle«* to every worker. victims of critalism. by so she that precisely the United States, apitalism, is at the em of any so-called civilized nation. country of the same time the land of the That is aceident developed prison § It is no most highly most logical. Only in the United States is there such permanent features of the “machinery of justice” the systematic over-crowding, with every prison containing from fifty to a hundred and fifty per cent more inmates than the prison was constructed to hold; such intolerable con- ditions of housing, feeding, and treatment generally, that prison re- volts of the unarmed convicts in the face of all the state’s murder- machinery, have become a regularly recurring event throughout the and, The desperation which dri convicts to these revolts is a measure of the hoxvible conditions out of which they arise. sm knows only one incentive—profits. |The only way. to ts out of a prison, is by graft. The whole machinery of “justice” is honeycombed with this g: , but nowhere more than in the prisons. It is impossible for capitalism to eliminate this, for this would require that it no longer be capitalism. This putrid cesspool ean only be cleaned by the proletarian revolution. In the Russia of the Czar, there were also horrible prisons. Since the Workers’ Republic was established, the proletarian dictatorship, Ml retained, with the difference that now they are mainly pied by exploiters and counter-revolutionary remnants of the old ocracy and their lackeys. But the character of the prison regime, even for these enemies of humanity, has been completely transformed. Even in the midst of its most terrible poverty and privation, in its early years, the Soviet Government completely transformed its prisons from the old instruments of torture and vengeance, into factories for producing useful citizens and at the worst to the minimunr of social restraint necessary for social control. We are interested in the evidence of the degenerate individuals responsible for the immediate situation in Columbus—the cravenly Warden, who ran from the prison and thought only of calling the mili- tary to “prevent an escape,” the degenerate guards who refused to open the cells, the “Warden’s daughter” who became excited only when her jewels were endangered (0, what a collectio of “jewels” of capi- talism they are!)—not because any fixing of “individual responsibility” has any significance. On the contrary, the search for the “responsible ones” is merely the frantic efforts of the capitalist lass as a whole to find a goat upon which to load its sins and drive forth into the wilderness. Capitalism burned the Columbus is only another example that poisons and destroys society; that sovic capitalism is destroyed, destroy capitalism ’ 320 victims in Columbus! capitalism corrupts and y cain only be healthy when And only the revolutionary working class can 'Proletarian Convention MARINE WORKER UNION ADOPTS ACTION PROGRAM POWERS; BOSSES, FEAR MAY FIRST, Death Threat Trial Is Hammers Out Details Put Over to May 6; I } | Bail Denied ‘Follow Gastonia Case of Fighting Union | Foster, Hon. | Chairman ‘On Class Str Struggle Base International Outlook Dread United Workers “Here we come, the New Red ATLANTA, , April 27.--M. H Union of Marine Workers”, read a Powers and J. Carr, the two Co: logan on the hall of the Marine munist organizers who were to be Vorkers League, 140 Broad St. Ap- tried on April for proximately over 140 delegates, who incite insurrection” and “circulating on thei way th- ugh bad w-ether, insurrectionary papers,” which is an y ar “3, and the siarva- offense carrying the death. sentence tion barrier to the Marine Workers in the state of Georgia, are now Convention met yesterday and inearcerated in Fulton Tower Jail. Saturday. And they formed there At the special plea of Solicitor- the Marine Workers Industrial General Hudson, who is prosecuting Union. for the State, the trial was put off until the 6th of May so that Power: and Carr will not be able to take a The delegates came from ship and dock meetings mass meetings of tongshoremen and seamen in vari- ~orts, from locals of the League, tion. from meetings of the Interna- And Now They Are Refused Bail! tional Longshoremen’s Association 4 Capitalist interests in Atlanta are fearful of class-conscious workers | who for forty-four years have ob- j served. their international holiday, iMay Day. These “sanie interests look with dread upon an organ’ | working-cl of the South. They branches which had revolted against their misleaders. They were all workers, many in their working clothes. Over half, by actual count, had been members of the I. W. W. in the dayss when “Throughout the year the s, first in one place and the under the act UNION; UNITED FRONT ih ‘Prepare Defense Against Fasc Southern Exploiters Detroit Workers part in the May Day Deemonstra- | to demonstrate with the jobless for work or wages! “attempt to employment insurance, paid for by the governments, FINAL CITY EDIi iON os Me : Price 3 Cent: WORK OR WAGES, DEFENSE OF sOVIET ‘BIG CITIES Attempt to Children” iw goat evans foreig: Attacks; Day of Hypocritical Church Denounce Boss ermons “For “OF Make it Smash City Deadiine; fl to Strike; Big linois Mines Conference in Paterson and Erie; Factory Gate Meetings the shops and factories May Virsi Fight for unemj through taxes on profits and and administered by the unions and the Councils of the Unempio) Fight against the speed-up. >fend the Soviet Union, men-; laced by the capitalist govern- RGU ments of the world because it is the workers’ state, where unemployment has been abol Strike M. Day! Picket call all workers out vloyment relief and un- inheri- tances, seven- en-hour day and five-day week! I AROR DEFENSE, SPORTS, IN CALL Special May 1 Appeal | order. to Chemical Workers | _,7i8 is the program of hundreds) ~~ How to Get There | of thousands of workers throughout | ished and wages continually | where the workers and farmers ! united, are building a new worl ix Places at Square; 7 i the world. For this program, ex-| With all workers’ forees mobil The May Day Manifesto of the| tensive mobilization of workers in|ized today and tomorrow for dis International Labor Defense points | america is going on at factory and| tribution of leaflets, with a mz out that when May Day was first | street meetings, by special dis(iibu-|distribution of Daily Workers on celebrated in 1886, the working class | tions of leaflets and copies of the| Wednesday, with dozens of factory was militantly struggling against meetings goin, Daily Worker, printed in huge edi- gate that crganization represented the i. vrher, continiotely uresent « (have carefully studied the methods |the employers’ persecution. tions, by formation of united front on, the ) y preparatio pS ae cal eg pal Y aeeiabal i hei, employed by the ruling class of the| Nearly half a century has past, | conferences in most large ci ward in } York America. They had dropped out of variety of partiat demands to thei, employed by the g ip aed Pena ene feds ; ? i Dy ; Hs hi hesk. i ofthveneanis employers and fight for these de- |State of New York, who have just it continues, and we find the world’s | formation of committees of The workers here are determined this and the A. F. o » organiza- tach ics | : ~~ recently meted out long prison workers mobilized against the im- jn the factories, by organi f!to mak political strike and s, ¢ mands. In assisting the workers y s : : 4 OPS tions, confident that the old unions g F 5 . , Pose | emis r danger, for t efense t e 4 i i is fight, Ce ‘ .; terms to the leaders of w York’s | peria: war danger, for the defense | the coun of the unemploy and | ma nstration the gre had nothing to offer to improve the , 1” this fight, Communists muy s ; ee lof ; for “Work or 1 nae. expl hee 310,000 unemployed demons ors. of the Soviet Union, for “Work or the revolutionary industrial unions | ever he ve impressive even than , conditions of marine workers today. | always explain the connection it " sa } "4 ” for e > over for * Ta | . |..has with the prolctarian struggls They are following the methods Wages” for the unemployed, for so-| and leagues of the Trade l i Adopt Program “for emancipation in all countries, .¥Sed in the State of North Carolina cial insuranee, for the release of all Unity League. i Find Your Places. te Sara ee day of ae convenhien} The first of May must be the day \#&ainst the Gastonia workers. war pi ones Hae aee aR To protect from police and fascist All workers’ tions have adopted unanimously @ program! 4, which the workers solemnly de- ee : oe | brutality workers who will parade Diag Rutgers }of action, which really formed the| clare that they realize this connec- The demand for the release of all’ and demonstrate under these and 1 Front May | union, though late yesterday details | “yign, and resolutely join in the s war prisoners is a basic de-| similar slogans by hundreds of ‘anc The Daily Wor! of the constitution were still being struggle.” : jaan on May Day. It is of special | thousands on May Day, workers’ de- rena a map showing thes tes The unten is based on the importance this year due to the) fense committees are being organ-|1 n points in a coming class struggle, and the constitution carte militant workers now in pris- | jzed, een s will specifically state that it is for| GLLDING STABLES | on, especially the leaders of the un-| The nee gives - directions all workers in the industry without employed demonstrations in all), Urging all workers to strike and... | itgers Square as fo:- Tagasdi to "race (creed on Golan 9 Mer York Sect Locals sh li, Sta parts ei the Ronntty. demonstrate oer demads, many ; : 3 (This program will be printed in orwards To Be Progressive e me a ere saders | r8anizations have issued formal th own car, of! Paps eee eg pean plo [Imperialists Let Him the manifesto reminds its leaders | gr¥enizations pave, issued, Zormal : rn ea Worke * a at ad Nine locals of the socialist party | EF Help TI that since last May Day, many! are the Communist Party, national See pasestal Throughout the convention, dele-|in New York have criticised their! ‘TCC to Help Th a ave heen kill Be by bosses’ | and district org: fs ‘ A . * _—_ agents in n ela war, id at gations were still coming in; two}city and national organization for’ powpay, Apr After iss May, the ie is ‘ RUS Retile delegates arrived from Buffalo on| taking all the class struggle out of 7 statoment in which he invit kers, trac : in New . Metalignalc§ Bene mn layed the secon. day. Over 200 delegates! the program andystatutes of the’ +1. “ahor” government to use i*s'Qrleans, Steve Katovis, and Gino Wstlcre:, Lalathentdalincts ( were elected to the convention. pa ___jimperialist troops against the rev-|Mazolla in New Yor! : nternational Rel i Seat Beal, Foster The new turn seems to be a kind | oiutionary workers and peasant?,| At the present time, th (Continued on Paye Five) 1 L to ¢ In the first session, Fred Beal,|ot Americanized Maxton movement, | faker Gandhi is trying to win <u'-| gan’ he, Present ime, th ‘ pier anaes aay Gastonia defendant facing 20 years the di ction realising port from the wide section of In-! ne thet 46 Ale: elantrio! in prison greeted the convention, that it is necessary to keep up some dian masses who are losing fa rei Powers and All Out to Dis and was enthusiastically cheered, kind of radical camouflage to. fool jy pis “non-violence” campaign i Leaflets, D ily V assured of suppo-t, and cupport for the workers, who now that under | oo oneration with British imperi seatiecs, Pai (Continued on Page Five) aelduiovanne ores DNOMeR the Satta ce cice) he ilar hay ote omer wn UeeOn.. 9 DUG: SUAVE oe eee : Ke P. has assumed a too open role of 0. ae Sie ek The District Bureau of sh fi A , ralli ‘ its| Gandhi wants to be arreste up is an ist Party ‘an ; xecutive i FASCISM AMONG YOUTH | fesction are not falling into its) | Go,"to prove his opposition to the, Intern: sl eatinttnae af tha Teaiead Boat Sag ROME, Italy, April 27—Trained| the new or seails the Com- | British. But the imperialist ma:- ¢: he cap-l nay) Ganterenes’ states ee g neh in sports and military manoeuvres, miata eh a eRe = rete 5 1d. fF BEtHe ters have found his activity so help- + A eernee rs) FA AC 90,000 young dopes of 18 and over Uuaintly ex ay Petar i yellow ft! to them in their fight on the workers right to| “There are now ready will be formally initiated into Ge fon ae ee csawtouie iy | masses that they have scruvlessly|picket an] ike be defended. copies of a new May Dz leaflet eee : ; . Veerty, rate) ; which must be distributed today Ty, i is Fascist Party tomorrow morning. reactionary labor leaders and adopt Leste po ants sh oes | (Continued on Page Five) and Ulassdiny. .- Wedneed ay «allseste Try tov! Fool Workers HUNGER STRIKE ot ramet egy tech UM git ca lara Cailia ser | Se 5 left free for a general saie and dis-- About Boss Courts Si to the Forwards, the organ of the | D Relea £ tributi f 100,000 copies of 2 tae SOFIA, Bulgaria, April, 27.—In/ party that got the injunction under “unt is to stage a showy raid on gone telease of N, tribution 0 ER aL Naa i protest against the extradrdinary which they killed Katovis, on the the government's al depot Raine Y. Jobless Delecation PBs ented ina heats ACL Lae mt ot th bey strict white terrorist regime in the | picket line, the spokesman of every , pay Sd My Lb ay ii se a _ Organizat 8 affiliated to the vail nS ent Da of Varna, Bulgaria,| gunman and gangster who stabs or ate we can head iota a Bl | April 27.—To | United F Pore M \ Day ‘ onference iS He fe Sbted on the Sel our hundred convicts went on hun- S pi in every ne rades | 14 : dol Aa Seas “mi fi : the rele ;)are urged to aid in these tasks., Wom Die vote fs | clubs pickets in every needle trades Hon the masses, who are fast desert: demand and fight for the release or e ‘ ry Gunn ee rejected, a ger strike since Tuesday. fight! | ing his betraying outfit. 7 LAHORE, April 27.--The totai The Daily Worker Is Your | .i:'stioh sis" ment imperialist troops at Pesha- | wur iotalled 65, with 150 wounded. ANTHRACITE? ORKFRSTO DEMAND USE oF STREETS SCRANTON, ay “April | 27 thracite piners, textile work in the silk mills and all employed and unemployed workers will demor- strate in spite of the fact that po- lice of Seranton, Wilkes-Barre and Minersville have refused permits for May Day meetings. The entire Scranton police force is to be mobilized for May Day. Meetings are arranged at Court House Sqnare, Seranton; Public Square, Wilkes-Barre; Fourth St. Minersville, The Commun | workers to de st Struggle, ¥ . Fighting Weapon When engaged in a fight, it is always the part of wisdom to use your strongest weapons, But how many workers really understand that their strongest weapon is a militant class consciousness, with full understanding of all facts in the struggle, and a fighting working class solidarity? How many workers know that the most effective instrument for creating and developing this fighting solidarity of the workers is the Daily Worker? . This is a truth that must be made a guide to action. It is impossible to build our workers’ organizations without our daily newspaper. « It is only with the Daily Worker that we can mobilize our full strength. ¢ That means, we must build the circulation of the Daily Worker. Are you doing your part to get new subscribers? Are you help- ing to build up a house-to-house circulation by carrier? Are you participating in the sale and distribution of bundles of our paper? And also, are you contributing your small share of money to help cover up the deficit of the Daily Worker until its circulation has grown big enough to pay all its bills? If you cannot answer “yes” to afl these questions, then you are not yet doing your full duty to your class. | All together to boost the Daily Worker circulatt... \thing to the bosses, and nothing to son the International Dry of of the last imperialist wear would| measure which is the merest sop to | ‘ yeccive the same treatment under it the ex-servicemen, Practical detailed tasks energetical ly performed by every Y are mo. maximum suce May Day strike and demonst the Unemployed Delegation, a meet- ing was held here Sund April 13, of the local branch of the Interna- ional Labor Defense. A collection was taken up to be sent to the na- mendation has been drawn up limiting the ons against t® y Federal courts. has very little class con. om mittee of injur zation tional office of the LL.D. A collee-} All orders for banners 1 he in the Senate, tion was 4 n for the defense | turned in not later than Tu 3 , senators such as of the Che p.m. Workers Center, Room 60). E rris, Shipstead and their , make use of thei hadow-box- ing attack on injunctions in order to LEAVE VETS STARVE222°" "== action. » united front between igs friend, William Green, of L., and the tent of the A. ent senators in the Vets Unite with Workers May Ist! 1 anti-injunction bill. WASHINGTON, April 27.—Hoov- | as they receive today from the Vet- rif ithe measube waa er, who is very quick to give any- | evans’ Bureau, Hobe hoablilty: ofa During the debate on the pill it to obt junctions in their state does not do away with the Sainea ae ou jWwas brought out that Hoover and cou i ro unemployed or war veterans, | Mellon gave in tax returns to the t vurt’s granting injune- threatens to veto the sop war vet: | big corporations not $160,000,000 as tio e workers. At best, tempt to spread the illu- rs can receive nt from the capitalist t is era bill passed by the House yes-| originally announced by the capit terday, known as the Johnson-|ist press, but $190,000,000. Dur Rankin bill, The bill provides for | the past three y "1 some increase for a chosen Yew of|has handed out to v: the disabled war veterans, but is | porations over $5,000. Nd so full of ved-tape that the victims} returns. Now sion ent vious big GOU in tax il veto a WRITE about 3 for the Daily Worker. Become Worker Correspondent. 4 Hoover