The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 1

| and taking as much as possible of CAPITALISM KILLS WORKERS IN FACTORIES si DEATH IS CHEAPER TH. Se Tg 9d AN SAFETY; FIGHT IT? » equipment, which it would have cost a little money to Defeetw ie caused this fire in the Bayway Standard Oil Refinery and | 11 workers died for profits. Capitalist statisticians have these things on accidents than to prevent them, the bosses take a chance; the on accidents than to protect them, the bosses take a chance; the workers die. hain Salisbury, They used this cow to lynch Luura Woods, 65-year-old Negro woman, near this spring. Hardly a day goes by without some Negro or foreign-born worker being murdered by the bosses or their dupes or hired agents. This is all to keep the workers divided. The czar used to kill the Jews for the sum pu | pose. factorie their newness to the work to pay place tti women to line up Women are in the o di vho the women workers out | for all workers! with on strike the Enteres as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Worke now; the bosses take advantage of Whe» women workers and child slaves raise their voices againat 4 them the lowest wages, to use them the murderous conditions in factories the police blackja hem jusé 4 AEC IE UEP Na 4s like they blackjack men. This is capitalism! All out May Day ta % International Day of Struggle, today! act cf March 3, 1879. Published daily exeept Bendey by The Bibel ot be Ae jon OT it Bt = vol. VL, No. 359 Comprodaily Publishing New York N.Y NEW YORK, THURSL , MAY 1, 1930 ON TO RUTGERS SQUA May Day 1930 Millions are marching today, May Day of 1930. Workers of the | whole world are testing their forces, preparing for decisive battles. Today we are mobilizing for the struggle against capitalist exploita- tion, against the consequences of the capitalist crisis, and against the whole capitalist system which sucks the blood of the toiling masses. Millions are marching, and the thunder of their steps resound throughout the world. It is the rumble of approaching revolution, which will throw down from their high seats those mighty ones who cut wages, condemn millions to starvation, imprison our leaders, burn hundreds of proletarians to death, and who are preparing a new world war to destroy millions of workers’ lives. Millions are marching, full of the spirit of international working tlass solidarity, with the consciousness of our common class interests burning higher, with determination for the struggle growing ever firmer. We are forging the steel battalions of labor which will smash the rotten capitalist system, which will remake society from top to bottom in the spirit of proletarian revolution, in the spirit of socialism. Millions are marching, and everywhere, in New York and Berlin, in Chicago and Moscow, in Detroit and Bombay, in San Francisco and Shanghai, everywhere the tune being sung by the marchers -is the same—the Internationale. And everywhere, the path of march is that which was blazed by the world leaders of the proletariat—Marx and Lenin. The doom of capitalist imperialism sounds. forth in the tread of the feet of millions of demonstrators. Workers! Today you are conscious of your class and its potential strength. Today you feel something of the tremendous power of a united working class, From this May Day you must go forward to a higher stage: The stage of mass organization of this power. Organization of the masses, into shop committees, into the trade unions, and into the Communist Party—only through organization can e bring our class power into effectiveness. Against wage cuts, against unemployment—only the organization of millions of workers can fight and overcome. Against the violent suppression by the capitalist class, both of- ficially by the government and unofficially by their fascist and social- ist agents—only mass organization can build our. working class Against the coming imperialist war, only the masses through their organized struggle can realize the slogan given us by Lenin—“Turn the imperialist war into civil war!” Workers! This May Day is merely the starting point of your movement for organization and struggle against capitalism! Forward to new and bigger battles! Demand unemployment insurance, demand work or wages! Fight against wage cuts, for higher wages! Fight for the seven-hour day and five day week! Solidarity with the toiling masses in the colonial countries! Throw the imperialist exploiters out of the colonies! Against the imperialist war—civil. war against the exploiters! Defend the Soviet Union, fatherland of the toiling masses of the world! Demand the release of all our class-war prisoners! His sudden “conver- party funds was exposed, eminently fitted him for membership in the | renegades’ club.. The Party is} cleansing -itself-of the last remnants of the poison Lovestone left behind him. | Forward to the revolutionary Workers’ Government! Ht Pan xposs nexecane CF TISH CLOSE BOSTON, April 30.—Roy Stevens, | K H YB E R PASS formerly organizer of the Boston District of the Communist Party, was removed from his position to-| Khyber Pass, which is the chief day by the District Committee and | gateway between Afghanistan and his expulsion from the Party was India, was closed to all visitors yes- recommended to the Control Com-|terday. This is viewed in India as mission, indicating fear on the part of the This action followed an investiga- | British imperialists that the Indian tion of complaints from many party |revolution will spread to the militant units against the lack of prepara-| tribes of the Afghan borderland, ac- tions for May Day by the District | cording to a dispatch to the London Qffice, and complaints that pay- | Daily Mail. afgents for dues stamps amounting to! No doubt “Labor” prime minister me hundreds of dollars had been MacDonald fears the influence of eived by Stevens but not receipt-|the Soviet Union on the Indian ed for nor stamps being delivered.) masses, and hopes by closing the When confronted with an investiga-| Pass to keep the Indian masses from tion of his office, Stevens called ajall contact with the workers and secret meeting of some members of | peasants of the Soviet Union. the Party, at which he proclaimed| Dispatches from Delhi report that himself a follower of Lovestone and Devi Das Gandh!, son of Mahatma called upon’ his audience to follow | Gandhi, was given a year’s rigorous him eerie s je He ze: imprisonment yesterday on charges ceive si x fs iti the comrades immediately called the i See tune, seaiticce propaganda, District Committee, took the Party| its property. records from Stevens, recoyering some which Stevens had turned over to Lovestone’s agent, Bert Miller. Since March 6th Stevens had evi- dently made up his mind to desert the movement, and made his prepa- vations by disorganizing the Party x |May First a holidey. Irigoyen mere- sion” to Lovestoneism, announced | at the moment when his theft of Sion to pass. DEMONSTRATIONS MAY 1 From Shanghai to Cape Town, From New York, to Yokahoma Workers Prepare Answer, Reign of Fascist Terror By Huge Demonstrations , ternational working class revolu- | | tionary movement have such tre- |mendous world-wide preparations | IN ATLANTA, CA, !been made for demonstrations on} | May Day. From Shanghai to Cape | ;Town; from Reval to Calcutta, | India; from New York to Yokaho- Keep Powers- Carr in |ma—encircling the entire world, in Jail; But Work Goes on |the capitalist lands, as well as in the | ‘oppressed colonics—the workers and| ATLANTA, Ga., April 30.—While Peasants will unite their forces in| M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, Com- a suit, show of strength against | jmunist organizers, are ae in ie | growing an crisis of capitalism | 56 the Communist Party are falng | which floods the world with unem- | continued. with misery, with hunger| powers and Carr were arrested on ployed, and devastation. They will demon-} March 6 for addressing Negro and Never in the history of the ‘in- strate against the rapidly growing | white workers and distributing Com- | war danger, and for the defense of | ™unist literature. They were in- det Soviet Union: dicted on charges of inciting “an | insurrection and distributing insur- News trickling through the cap-|rectionary literature.” Under the j italist press and wires shows clearly |laws of the state of Georgia, con- that in spite of the wave of terror, | viction carries with it a death sen- \the thousands of arrests, the capital- | tence. lists are not able to squelch the mass | political strikes and demonstrations ‘called under the leadership of the | Communist International. The May Day demonstration here is being arranged by Tom Johnson, | Communist Party district organizer | and Paul Pullman, representative of In China, May Day will be cele-| the International Labor Defense. |brated by the victorious Soviets in| \the interior. In Shanghai, despite | |909 arrests, desvite the attempt to| SEND 1,000 GUARDS) crush the transit strike, and despite TO COW PRISONERS the unity of the Kuomintang. with Men Protest Bad Conditions ; the imperialist powers, the workers will come out on the streets against imperialism ‘and its hired hangmen in the Nationalist government. Bloody Machado is forced to per- |mit a May Day demonstration in Cuba. There will be a 24-hour gen- eral strike throughout Cuba. In Argentina, for the first time in the history of that country, the} president, Irigoyen, has proclaimed COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30.-- One thousand national guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, have been rushed to the Ohio State Penitentiary to cow the men who are militantly complaining against the rotten conditions forced on them after 322 of their fellow prisoners were burned to death. Yesterday the prison guards fired into a large group of prisoners, but | the prison authorities did not report | the number killed. ly recognizes that a seneral strike will grip Argentina. There is a rapid radicalization of the workers there, due to the sharpening cr In the far flung empire of Wall Street, there will he tremendous May Day demonstrations. In Manila, the Proletarian Labor Congress is planning the largest mass political strike that ever took place. It will eall upon all Filipino workers and peasants to join hands with the world proletariat for the overthrow of imperialist rule. ~“ » «* Social-Fascist Provocation in Berlin. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, April 30.—Zoergiebel, social-fascist police chief, announces that police cordons will cut off the Lustgarten, the center of the mass meeting of the workers on May Day from the center of town tomorrow, opening. only will allow a pro - This unprecedented action means (Continued on Page Three) Write About Your Conditions for, The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. “What do you say, The hearing on Ge charge of as- saulting a policeman, against the |New York committee of the March 6 demonstration, came up in Judge ;Goodman’s 57th St. court yesterday jand was postponed until May 14. Yesterday was the day before May | Day. The members of the committee, Jelected by 110,000 strikers and un- employed to present the demands |of work or wages to the city gov- ernment and arrested for that, were not in court. They were in prison on Welfare Island, serving sentences given them after being railroaded emoneh Special Sessions on the harge of “unlawful assembly” on March 6. William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter and H. y | Rayniond are serving three ye and Joseph Lesten 30 days. Two workers charged with assault on a policeman, arrested at the |March 6 demonstration, were in court and their cases were also post- poned until May 14. These work- ers are Raymond Luizi and Leon Louis. They are out on bail, pro- vided by the International Labor Defense, whose attorney, Joseph Brodsky, appeared for all. Demand Release | One of the demands of the work- ers in the May Day demonstration today is the liberation of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten, is well as all other class war pris- oners, also the defense of the hun- dreds woh are awaiting trial and are JOBLESS PREPARE DEMONSTRATION Hold ike. held for depor Councils Busy in Riyery, € | Meetings for Philadelphia S | The National Office of the Coun- cils of the Unemployed announced yesterday that the organizations of the jobless will be in the very cen- ter of the May Day demonstrations. In Chicago, the Councils of the Unemployed, and the masses of jobless marching in demonstration, will elect and send to the city coun- demands cil a committee with the for work or wages relief and insurance, and five-day week, ete. i-hour day The same situation exists in many cities. New York Councils of the Unemployed were yester prepar- ing a banner and placards for the ‘demonstration today. son, we go down to Rutgers Square?” ssault Charge in Sourt wart Voueidiy: Postponed | Until May 14; Workers Demand Release wr everywhere coun SUBSCRIF Bronx, ION RAT New York City FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Centd WORKERS OF THE WORLD 'Jobless Leaders Hearing UNITED FRONT, UNIONS, IN MIGHTY STRIKES AND O% Usts! After May Ist COMMUNISTS, CALL ALL TO MEET TODAY AY NOON ! READY 10 STRIKE Speakers at Rutgers Square Before Parade IN MANY CITIES Indian Speaker With Buffalo Workers Today cal strike, gigantic protest against cap- italism itelf, masters and slaves, A general politio ul menstration of strikers and th day. the workers go on strike, for work or wages shop meetings, prepared this thousands of New York work ers who took part in vega ing 150,000 copies of the strike leaflet and 60,000 copies of the Daily Worker yesterday will be at Rutgers Square before noon today. So will thousands’ of other workers. They are answering th call of the United Front Conference, against a society of bosses and em- ployees, capitalists and proletarians. They fight hunger, they fight speed- up and long hours, they fight against the system of blackjacks and breadlines for the workers, and palaces and luxury for the owners of industry. In the viet Union today there . : ais +, | of the Communist Par of the is a general holiday; millions will Trade Union Unity League, and of march, victoriously, gloriously cele-) 4 qozen militant industrial unions brating the seven-hour day, the nq leagues affiliated with it. “All abolition of unemployment, the ‘the workers’ organizations _repre- amazing success of the first year sented at the United Front Confer- of the Five Year Plan, by which once have called to those in their they are building on an enormovs scale their own industries, telebrat ing the workers’ and farmers’ rule in a sixth of the land surface of the ranks, or in the field they occupy, to come out on strike this morning, and to be at Rutgers Square before noon. peaua: farly this morning a_ specially Workers of America and all othe| urgent’ appeal was de to capitalist nations strike and dem-j needle trades workers to strike, to onstrate for the defense of that| mobilize at the headquarters of the Soviet fatherland of all labor and/ Industrial Union, 131 West 28 S$ for work or wages, for the seven-| in the morning for picketing in the hour day and five-day week, for garment section, and t immediate. relief of the unemployei before noon for and for unemployment insurance, paid for by the government through To All Needle ax on profits and inheritances, and| The call to all ne eee dministered by the workers’ organ-| ganized and unorganized, employ izations. Workers today demand: | and unemployed, came through Ben No eviction of the unemployed, no Gold, secretary and Louis Hyman, gers demons Work 1 speed-up or long hours in the fac- president, of wthe Necdlc , no imperialist war. Workers Industrial Union. Both All-Are Ready. Hyman and Gold a 1 known x We re to New York workers as in| | The last preparations in all Amer! some of the most heroic strikes ican industrial cities are being! oyey known, rushed. Millions of leaflets and| «when you strike and demonstrat: hundreds of thousands of copies of the Daily Worker are being dis- tributed by workers of the unions unorganized workers and une: ployed workers. today, when you call your shop m cut, you are fighting for your vers lives,” says the statement. “For ~ capitalism will kill you unless you jill it,” continues “Capitalisin: »,;we know what it me It wy Philadelphia and many other cities sweatshops, it means long hours and are arranged. Even the smaller low pay, it means inhuman exploi- factory towns are demonstrating. t wel nemployment and In New York the capitalist press . war and more is throwing cat-fits over the spread | wars, and particularly war on that of May Day leaflets throughout the | advanced sect of the work. factories and into the homes of the ers, the working class that rules | workers. There have been over a that o' and builds the industri |hundred arrests in the last three in the viet Union. Put an end to Parades in New York, Chic days for this, but the work goes on. this system. Strike and astraie ge today—your fighting against the | whole right wing system, the whole Indian Tribe Takes Part. combination of bosses, snd govern- BUFFALO, N. Y., April 30.—The ment, and the union s of the A. F. of L. who used to 30. who send gorillas to knif |May Day demonstration her jbe at McKinley Monument at 1:3 Over 100,000 pieces of literature, bearing the call to strike and dem- onstrate, are being distributed to- and yesterday. Of this, 15,000 e copies of the Daily ‘orker. There are thousands of copies of I you out, you whea you want union conditions, who try to enslave you with cx anion schemes, everything olds you down. Strike and demonstrate, your comrades in every industry, in the whole wide world will be with you shop bulletins from six shops. | today.” Spe at the demonstration will Banners and Bands. | be ills, Harvey, Sroka and a) All preparations are made by ;spealer in full tribal costume from these many organizations to be at Rutgers Square with banners and ‘outinned on Page ares many of them‘with bands. Line of March. Each has its place assigned, and (Continued on Page Two) | Build The Daily W er —Send i Your Share of the 15,000 New | ui) 1s. a thousand delegates from-150 worker: Through Worker District to Union Sq. City Administration Persecutes School Kids; Ben Gold, Hyman Urge All Demonstrate strike, and a tremendous mass de- unemployed will take place to- The United Front May Day Conference, which with nearly ” organizations, and 280 ke and demonstration and the CALL SOLDIERS ' FRATERNIZE Communist st Leaflets at Fort Slocum distributed quantitie d by the Com i and the Young Communist League to U. S. soldiers at Fort Slocum military post. The leaflets presented the griev- anc of e soldiers—the bad the hard drill and menial required of them, the arro- nce of the officer cas These contrasted with the full social uality of commanders and soldiers the Workers’ their equal tate n, and food a Capitalism, h forces many of ed to enlist in the U, S. The reasons for t eae at- wh the tarv leafle emonstrate (Continued on Page AND THUGS TACK PICKETS ateh ‘Two'Cleaners Without Supparé urge the soldiers to: in y fort on May Three.) { and L. Sends Seabs. The boss, Israel, of the Westches- ter Clean and Dy in Mount Vernon, pointed out Leon Blum to three of his hired thugs yesterday morning, then took part in the fol- lowing fight himself. With Blum was another picket who had come down with him to look at the shop before the general picketir rted. The two were ight on thir way back to the strike headquarters of the cleaners’ section of the Trade Union Unity League. The two workers defended them- selves well, but both were injured. Blum had to have three stitches in his scalp. In the police station the police refused to arrest the boss, hers were held on bail. id Weintraub, official of I, union and the sup- plicy of the scabs and thugs, bailed out the three gangsters. A previous warning had ‘reached the A. the pickets that there would he “bloodshed on the picket line” this morning. All cleaners and dyers are urged to stop paying dues to this vicions fascist and scab outfit and join the T. U. U. L. instead. Support the ‘strikes ", ‘ mt “a