The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1930, Page 3

DEMONSTRA TE MAY 1 AGAINST THE ROTTEN CAPITALIST SYSTEM Worker Writes of How Bosses Aid the Slimy. Salvatio: n Army (By a Worker Welfare Societies Are Trying to Bolster Up) Decaying Capitalism Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—The other day I read in a newspaper that the Salvation Army had been grant ed permission to enter 1,200 places of big business and collect from the workers for the cause of unem- nloyment, ete. Truly this is how these people tives of the capitalists’ Jesus try to bolster up their cib who claim to be direct representa: tion which is fast crumbling, take from the poor, underfed, struggling workers to help the rich roll in luxury. I will show his fellow workers how this rotten system works. interesting to note the various so-called welfare societies who are en- | roring the field to try and save capitalist socicty. ‘ re-educate the middle-aged worker It wan't be done. such az he churches and politics a AFL Ne Good; Chester (By a Worker CHESTER, Pa.—Something about | conditions for the workers in Ches- ter, Pa. The Baldwin Locomotive Works are only hiring first class| patternmakers. The General Steel | is building a new plant here with members of the A. F. of L. working | at 60 cents an hour on carpenter work and 10 hours a day. The} union rate is supposed to be $1.25 an }.abor Defense, Sports ‘Jnion, Call for May 1. (Continued from Page One) this struggle must be linked up “ith the jobless workers. Another important question is the huilding of the International Labor Defense into a mass organization. Twenty thousand new members, in- cluding 5,000 Negro workers and 50,000 circulation for the Labor De- fender, the official monthly organ | of the I. L. D, are the aims. | Come In Uniform » “The duty of all worker sports- | men is to come to the May Day} demonstration in uniform and to fall into the line of march with club ban- ners and workers’ sports signs and ‘slogans, to defend tne march and demonstration against the attacks ef the fascists and other black re- actionary elements mobilized by the bosses against the workers,” says a proclamation by the Labor Sports Union of America. Members and all sympathizers are urged to strike May 1, and come in- to line of demonstration, tc join the ve defense corps. Chemical Workers The International Committee of Propaganda and Action of the Chem- ical Workers has issued a May Day proclamation, just received in Amer- | ica. It is particularly addressed to the papermakers and sugar workers f -" countries, and says: “In chemical plants everywhere, in the factories producing ev~'osives and poison gases, the most refined methods of rationalisation and super-exploitation have become a common feature. Steadily, bit by bit, vour already miserable wages are being cut down while you have to work nine and ten hours a day. “Emplcy.: and unemployed! On this May First demonstrate you will further develop the struggles .* the mas against cani'-~ ‘ rational- isation, * ~e maintenance for the unemployed, for the 7-hour day and the 6-hour day in all harm*~’ occu- pr “ons, for higher wages, for suit- able prot of labor borides special labor protection for women and young workers, for the full me* ~ce of the victims of acci- ders in wor!*-p and factory which have become such a revular occurrence “~~ ‘he chemical industry qespecially. “Desperate efforts will be made Jby the social-fascist, T. U. bureau- cracy to paralyse and weaken any First of May manifestations. The International Committee of Propa- ganda and Action calls on you to prepare in organised fashion to give the set-back to these social fascists, to down tools in all plants on that day, and to march out in joint dem- onstratic’ with the other workers under the fighting slogan of the “-ss_ Political strike. Rally round the First of May Committees; or- ganise your Workers Defense sec- tions.” The proclamation calls on all pa- per and sugar workers to join the unions of the Red International, and to fight ceaselessly to defend the yoviet Union and against imperialist war. ‘FACE YEAR IN JAIL FOR UNEMPLOYMENT PROTEST STAMFORD, Conn., April 27.~- The cases of Abraham Mackovitz, Louis Goodman, Herbert Newton, Isadors Wofsy and Charles McMa- hon are in court tomorrow morning. These workers are charged with breach of peace and disorderly con- duct. They were arrested on March 6 for mobilizing and speaking to 5,000 workers gathered in Atlantic Square. These five workers face a sen- tence of one year imprisonment and hope every class conscious worker Ht is also One group will to be a better slave to capitalism. Capitalism is rotten at the core and its parasites re also rotten at the core. AMERICAN WORKER. Worker Wants TUUL Correspondent) hour, There are gangs at the Vis- cose Silk Mills at Marcus Hook just below Chester. The outside contractor paying $1.25 and the Vis- cose Co. paying $1 per hour. The A. F. of L. has permitted this sort of condition to go on here for the pasts three years. The TUUL must organize the workers here.—G. MARINE WORKER DAILY WORKER RIL 2 ? ivy Fred Pacific Coast Workers! Forward to Mass May Day Strike! MASSESMOBILIZE Jailed Leader Calls tor Be By I. AM (Written In Prison) man that “I never heard of it” and | Detroit Workers Smash is Barrier to Streets later “I know all about 1t”. Brought Out for making the Daily Workers a/after talking to her husband ten TG NAVY ARMS | FOR MAY FIRST) Mass Circulation Drive, RAGE IS NOW OW 2: :0-=. Anglo-U.S. Rivalries Is ‘head sports, cultural, The Daily Worker is fast be- other bodies. jcoming a paper meeting the needs Fascist preparations, such as the of the working class. More and (Continued from Page One) March of the Jingoes in New York,|more shop workers are writing for the National Textile Workers Union the U. S. government and A. F. L,|it—and more would, if we could in whose name he spoke, and made | proclamation to turn May 1 into|make the workers understand what an honorary delegate. A letter from | “National Child Welfare” day, a shop correspondents are, and that William Z. Foster, sent from jail day of sermons and addresses by the Daily Workers is looking for, where he is serving three years as city politicians (who support eve eager to publish news from the of the joblesss delegation, | scheme of increased child slavery shops. This will make the Daily greeted the conven‘! a as secretary ever put forward) will all fail to Workers a living, vital thing in the of the Trade Union Educational | distract the attention of the work- lives of the workers—and they will League and urged its affiliation. | ers, who drive on in their fight for work it. ‘ The letter was read by Jack John- Work or Wages. Now is the time, as never before, stone, organization secretary of the Smash Detroit Deadline. for taking the Daily Worker to all . U. U. L., and Fost2r was seated) DETROIT, Mich., April 27.—The |shop gates, to sell, distributed and by unanimous vote as honorary Workers of Detroit will demonstrate | get subs, There is great discontent chairman of the convention. Later |on the streets on.May Day. Thejin.the shops and the Daily Worker resolutions demanding release of all | city authorities have been compelled |is the only paper (outside of the class war prisoners and mentioning |to grant a permit. Despite the! other Party parers) which express- the New York committee MeNeil, Vicious city ordinance which pro- es this discontent. Doherty, and others, were adopted | hibits all meetings within one mile) Now is the time for the whole unanimously. Doherty, Raymond|of the City Hall the Communist|membership to participate in the | and Lesten were seated as honorary |Party and the striking and jobless Red Sundays—but also making these delegates. aa demonstrate by tens of Sundays CERES A A ae cae ‘ - | thousands at Cass Park, opposite the | was put in jail a few days ago told SN Rg | Masonic Temple and within the one- me about getting subs for the Daily __ The convention organized by elect-| rite timit. Worker a week ago. He went from ing H. Harvey of the San Francisco! qhis victory was gained by th2/door to door, here and there getting conan quien Waldo. (Negro |etoie battles of the 100,000 March |a rebuff, being told by one old wo- | educational and International Outlook Never was there a better situation | he broke down her opposition ‘| it is like” and then they would talk about subs for the other | Workers are willing to risk 18¢. a week and if this method is pushed everywhere, the Daily Worker will | reach its mark of 60,000 and at last |be on the highroad to becoming a| | mass paper. Only one thing can prevent it— indifference, neglect or improper or- ganization of Party forees—or fail- ure to utilize the unemployed. This | indifference must be swept aw Making the Daily Worker a m organ is a first-class job for the whole Party—not something to rele- gate to a few members. It is a political job, connected up with ell Party and working class activities. The Daily Worker has vegetated for only one reas-»—Party neglect, Party indifference. Today the Central Committee re- gar’- the Daily Worker drive as a major politica] task of the Party— to make it the organ of the masses of workers. The membership cf the Party must ~ain this recognition and then, properly organized, pro- ceed to make it reach this goal. | of Bal‘ ice chair 6 demonstrators, in the face of po- worker of Bal’ more) vice chairman. |1:.. terror, and is guaranteed by|of miners, other workers and the A large technical details commit- | such militancy as has been show. jobless at the state capitol building tee was elected and this committee's by the 30,000 jobless demonstrating here on May 1 at 3 p. m. The cali report nominating Editor Haynes of |hefore the Ford plant. | to strike and demonstrate, issued by the Marine Workers Voice as sec-| The Communist Party states: the Communist Party and Young retary of the convention was adopt-| “This victory will not fool the| Communist League, urges miners ed. iworkers. The terror of the bosses,|also to join the National Miners’ During intermissions, conferences | which is expressed every day in the Union and to continue the fight for of the Youth, Negro workers, and | arrest and brutal beatings of work-| the 6-hour day and 5-day week, the special Longshoremen’s conferences, | ers, will not disappear. On the con-|$35 a week minimum wage, work were held and reports made to the|trary, they are increasing, as does |or wages, against the check-off, for convention, the militancy and fighting spirit of|the defense of the Soviet Union, James ord, Negro organizer of |the workers and the growth of the against imperialist war and for the the T, U. U. L. addressed the con-| Workers’ organizations, particularly f and insurance of the unem- vention on the organization of N groes, on a class basis, as workers, with every right and privilege, so- cial, and economic, in complete equality with white workers. He also brought up the question of electing delegates to the Interna- tional Negro Labor Congress in Lon- don, ie! |the Trade Union Unity League an/| ployed. May Day committees of ac- the Communist Party. We will in- | tion are |tensify the building workers’ de- | mines. fense corps to protect the workers) There will be demonstrations at |from the attacks of the police and | City Hall, Eldorado, at 10 a. m.: the bosses’ fascists bands.” jband stand, West Frankfort, at 4 In the evening at 7:30 p. m. there |p. m.; Hall, Belleville, 3. p.! will be held an indoor mass meeting, jm. Workers are distributing 25,000 at the large Danceland Auditorium, | leaflets in the mines. | Woodward at Forest. The admis | ” | being organized in the During early sessions, reports |_. 5 z 7 sion to the evening meeting is 25) — Second Paterson Conference. were made by Jolnstone, for the|csnts, unemployed fret. Tn adai-| PATERSON, N. J., April 27.— he second United Front May Day Conference met here Thursday, with 50 delegates from 18 workers’ or-| ganizations. The delegates paid | most attention to plans for the mass | political strike. An action commit- tee of 11 was elected and other com- | mittees, National office of the T. U. U. L., by George Mink, for the national committee of the M. W. L., by John Morrs™. delegate from Houston on the war danger and defense of the Soviet Union, and by Harvey on or- ganization needs and tactics. The reports and discussion will be dealt with in tomorrow’s daily. tion to good speakers there will be | ‘Tj revolutionary music. All workers’ organizations should come in mass with their banners, both to Cass Park and to the Dance- land Auditorium in the evening. ie ta 8 Illinois Miners Strike. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 27.— There will be a great demonstration ~ banners and slogans. Under the leadership of the con- ference factory gate meetings are being held and street meetings. The | conference demanded the release of | Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten, the committee of the New York March 6 demonstration, and voted to build a defense corps to| defend future demonstrations. * * Shop Meetings Prepare May 1. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 27 —Over 100 workers gathered at noon on Thursday at the Milwaukee railroad shops in Minneapolis, em- ploying 600 workers, and cheered the delegation from the Unemployed Council and the Trade Union Unity League, which came with banners to the gate and held a meeting calling upon the workers to down tools and demonstrate on May Day. This was the most enthusiastic shop gate meeting yet held at the Milwaukee shop, where the T. U. U., L. is carrying on a campaign to| establish a shop committee. With! only one-half hour for lunch, the! workers listened until the very last moment, reluctant to leave when the whistle blew. The speakers were N | | Cities for May Day. ald tri ten, to hide, Congressman Brit- rman of the House Naval Committee, yesterday an- n that he would propose the immediate building of ten addition- al 7,000-ton bruisers with six-inch guns. Besides, Britten will try to broad- en the “escape” or “escalator” clause by presenting a bill providing for the building of more than eighteen 10,000-ton cruisers. | This is a perfect example of how | the “escape” clause makes the rest of the treaty not worth the paper | it is written on. i} | 1 ers’ Section. Daily Workers and the pamphlet, “Out of a Job,” were sold. The meeting is one of a series to mobilize the workers in the Twin Others are in the Soo railroad shop, the Moline Power Implement Co., the flour} mills in Minneapolis and the Ameri- | can Hoist and Derrick, the Dale shop in St. Paul. | The Minnesota District of the Communist Party has arranged four street demonstrations on May Day,, jcome to the mass demonstration with | as follows: Minneapolis, Bridge Square, at 4} p. m. | St. Paul, Rice Park, at 3 p.m. | Duluth, Court House Square, at} 3:30 p. m. Hibbing, on the iron range, Ben- | net Park, at 3 p. m. Other indoor May Day mass meet- ings are being held in various sec- tions of the district. * United Front In Erie. ERIE, Pa., April 27.—Calling on all workers to participate in the May Dey demonstrations, a confer-| ence of working-class organizations | met here April 23 at 315-Plum St. | to arrange plans for the May Day mass political strike. A fight will be carried on for the right to hold a demonstration in| Perry Square. There was a large | wo g-class audience and repre- | sentatives of working-class organ- izations present. “We demand the unconditional re- | lease of Foster, Minor, Amter, Ray- | mond and Lesten,” read a resolu tion which was passed unanimously. “Despite the reactionary forces, the Communist Party has made all | * * SS n There is a distribution of | Hurwitz of the T. U. U. L. and M. arrangements for May Day and the {50,000 leaflets, printed in several ‘Carson, a field organizer for the Na | workers will demonstrate for the | languages. Organizations are to tional Miners’ Union, Metal Work: | demands of the Communist Party.” ‘every day! Make it a more powerful working class weapon! #500 ine, THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN For 30,000 new readers in two months and 60,000 readers within six months ison. We call upon all workers and workers’ organizations to cooperate. Ask the workers who work with you and the workers who live near you, to subscribe. Sell the Daily Worker in shops, mines and mills, en the streets, at meetings. Request your organization to make a contribution of money to the Daily Work- er. Take a collection at your next meeting We must distribute our paper in new fields to get thous- ! ands of additional readers. Join the campaign! Help your utmost! The Daily Worker fights for you Come ee} 4 DAILY WORKER, 26 Union Square, Ne « Poa os cr a ea ‘ w York, \ His "TIGHTEN FAS IN FINLAND: ARREST MILITANT WORKERS Fascist Group Holds Congress and Threatz More Severe Measures a FORS, } -The devastatic ing establishment of newspapers in Vasa by a. already reported, was mination of a series of insolent fas cist provocations ts of lence. During the di: meeting of the working youth organization land n e the fas the cul at in Northern Finland the fascists at tempted to prevent violence, attacking the visitor ing the clothing and damaging automobiles et Enco: ged by the fact tha authorities did nothing to p ish them, they organized f: \“civie meetings” in various parts |the country, at which provocative jrecolutions were adopted and de- mands put forward, for instance, for the suppression of the revolutiona: working-class movement and the introduction of the death senten in the struggle against Comm: nism. The centre of this fascist movement was Lapau, where for the most part rich landowners and well- to-do peasants are in the majority ci jactionary party and the representa- tive of large-scale capital) demands Jin parliament that the members of the parliamentary fraction of the Workers and Peasants’ Party should be arrested and expelled from par- (Continued from Page One) — |mass paper—a paper of and for the | minutes got a sub. Or another case| wasyINGTON, April 27--Ex- {a teer oe Communist eee National Textile Workers’ Union, |™ BiG Sat ete enw 700 |e eeeupsOr Youn SpAAIEN Work: yeasing\the abienp antpRonisinal Be gyi watuard! cieeyssancee Gould t Je rades Workers’ Industrial Daily Worker and with the increased |ers, several unemployed among} tyeon American and British imper- 3 RARER: Races Needle Trades Workers’ Ind 2 tween American and British imper suppressed and their printing worl = |Union, Food Wor Ind uetria || DEee ees DeBoer, Py Me aaa ee ne SnOEL onverseHOn, | ialiem at the!London racefor-arms | onrisccted. With the active ede Class Struggle Basis Is| Union, and dozens of workers’ /bosses recognize the need of it, ja sub from one of them to “see what | jnect, which Stimson and MacDon- | ort of the soviaktarciste ihe one ernment has altered the combina- tion act and thus abandoned the workers’ organizations to the arbi- trary will of the authorities. The new law has already resulted ! Bloody Terror The French Criminal Commission in Indo-China has just passed 39 death sentences, 33 hard labor sen- tences for life and 9 sentences of 20 years hard labor each. The bloody terror in the Hinterland is still pro- ceeding. A series of villages have been bombed from the air as an ex- |Last Remnants of Bourg Being Wiped Out movement, wages CIST GRIP eois “Democracy” Are in the suppression of over 200 cul tural organizations of the working- class youth and the confiscation of their prope: Numerous workers have been arrested. At present pro- ceedings are taking place against 0 workers and 30 workers are in for ir The editors of working-class newspapers are beime wvoseeuted and two newspapers have suppressed for two months. In} nrison aren the fascist organiz ynd the delegate of the “civic meet- ” held a national congress which ions demanded sures age ne expulsion of the Communists from parliament inside 24 hours,” the dissolution of parlia- ment, the suppression of Communist electoral lists and the calling of a new parliament to work out more effective Inws against the Commu- vement. The new fascist or- Finnish Burg,” was also founded at this congress. This new organization carried out the de- structive raid on the workers’ press in sm is making rapid progress in Finland and the last remnants of bourgeois democracy are being wiped out. One of the main reasons for the present situation is the stead- ily growing economic eri Unem- ployment is increasing and the pro- cess of radicalization is going on rapidly amongst the workers and poor peasants. The bourgeoisie is inereasing its repressive measures and taking resort to fascism, whereby the social-fascists are ren- dering ance. The strengthen- ing of m means the strength- ening of the danger of war against the Soviet Union, in Indo-China ample and a punishment and many natives, men, women and children have been killed. Jabouille, the French Governor of Annam declares that 400 Communists were arrested prior to the revolt and 2,200 after- wards in Annam alone. The condi- tions under which the prisoners are being held are frightful. MAY DAY « BUTTONS WITH OUR SLOGANS WORK OR WAGES DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION Are Rendy and Should Re Ordered from the DISTRICT Prices: 10¢ per OFFICE OF THE PARTY utton to individuals Ze ver button to unite and organizations COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. CENTRAL OFFICE New York City 4% East 125th Street FARM VACATIONS FOR CHILDREN ROOMS FOR ADULTS WANTED: Several children for the summer. attention. Excellent food. Per week, $12 and $15. Rooms for Adults for the summer season. Write for information. Allison Farm, R. D. 2, Bethel, Connecticut. 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