The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 1

N. ¥., under the | Peeward to New sripetes to New Victories! Millions marched qp May Day! The greatest outpouring of the workingclass throughout the world ever seen in the history of May Day! All under the leadership of the Communist International! All in den onstration against capitalism and its works! All against the fascists and social-fascists of the reactionary trade unions and the Socialis Party, agents of the capitalist class! All against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union! May Day was a mighty welding together of the forces of the wo: ingel; It was a preparation for the bitter battles now before us. This was no mere day of celebration and holid Every worker of the millions who marched, knew that his marching was a pledge to fight against the imperialist war now in preparation, to transform it into a civil war against the exploiting classes. Every worker knew the march was a part of the fight for unemployment insurance, for work or wages. Every worker knew it was a pledge to build up ever stronger, ever more powerful, mass organizations—the revolutionary trade unions above all. Every worker knew that May Day was a declaration of fighting solidarity of the toiling masses with the Communist Party and the Communist International. In New York workers turned out to Union Square in masses num- bering at least 150,000. Whalen’s police, by shutting off into si streets all except the 25,000 organized marchers who spent the entir day in organized demonstration, served to emphasize the magnificent le |All Industry Halted| |Arrests in Mexico! |Argentina, Mexico and act ef March 3, 187%, FINAL CITY EDITION _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 2 1930 LATIN AMERICA =200, 000 March in Berlin; | PARALYZED BY Worlds’ Workers in Mass| MAY DAY STRIKE’ May Day Demonstrations Sydney Workers March Despite Labor Fakers; Clash With Police While Workers Take Over the Streets \ {Million in Parade in Moscow; Shanghai Is an | Armed Camp May Day (Wireless BERLIN, May 1.—The Communist May 1 demonstration at | Twenty-two of France leaflet distri 5 workers By Inprecorr.) }Communist Party central |arrested thirty foreign-born Cuba, Chief Points SUBSCR and Bronx, ION RAT 18 expelled. Communists ad- organization and discipline of the demonstration. May Day was a mobilization for more effectively carrying through our tasks in the months to come. May Day was a mobilization for Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated organizations. T.U.U.L.! to the 60,000 new members in the T May Day was a mobilization for the great Unemployment Con- vention in Chicago on July 4th and 5th. Forward to a great delegation to the Unemployment Convention! May Day was a mobilization for the Communist Pa tions to come in a few months. Forward to a great workingel in the elections! May Day was an outpouring of the workers from the shops, to- gether with the unemployed, for work or wages, against the speed-up, against wage cuts. Forward to the organization of the workers in th shops, into shop committees, into the trade unions, into the unempl ment councils! May Day was organized and led by the Communist Party, section of the Communist International. It was organized against the united resistance of the capitalist class, press, police, the A. I’. of L. and Socialist Party, and the renegades from Communism. Down with the renegades, the leaders of the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party, agents of the capitalists! Build the Communist Party! Now to the hard, difficult, necessary work of organization in the shops. Now to digging the roots of our organizations deeper and deeper among the masses. Now to the building up of the circulation of our fighting newspaper, The Daily Worker. Stubbornly, persistently, without hesitation or wavering, we go forward along the path marked out for our class by Marx and Lenin. We go forward toward the overthrow of capitalism, towards the dic. tatorship of the workingclass, toward the revolutionary Workers’ Government! This path is the way of daily, never-ceasing work of organization of the workers. To your t: worl THOUSANDS IN OTN, Y, MAY DAY COLUMBUS MARCH PICKETS JAILED the ard the Recruitment Drive for For’ (By Special Wire) Forty-seven COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1.—Two | arrested yester t workers were y in New York and to three thousand workers took part forty workers’ children. For in the biggest working-class demon- |three of the arrests were for Biche stration ever heid in this city today. /eting the schools, where servile ‘tremendous enthusiasm greeted all |teachers led children out and forced speakers. There were over 100 cops |them to cheer for Whalen. Young and dicks at the meeting. Practi- | Pioneers led the school picketims cally all literature was sold. Saul S. Jagoda and D. Watson were the speakers. at the Eagle Pencil Co. and the In- MASS MAY DAY MARCH CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 1.—Cap- | italist press dispatches declare that over 1,000 massed in Public Square heer today under the leadership of the Communist Party and paraded Twenty were arrested picketing | eleven for and nine \shops in the morning, |putting up strike poster: for distributing leaflet The picket lines at the Edison Co. were assaulted by police, also Bail. The arr were in front of the Gotham Hosiery Co., on the water- |front, and at the Saleom Shoe Co. through the downtown section.| Fourteen adult. workers and seven (These figures are undoubtedly ajworkers’ children, arrested yester- gross underestimation by the capi-|day for school picketing, are held on talist liars.) The workers carried $2,500 bail each in the Bronx. many banners demanding “Work or| geyen workers of the scores ar-| Wages,” against imperialist war, rested earlier this week for distrib- | for the defense of the peace Union. |uting leaflets are held in Brooklyn jfor a total of $14,000 bail. They Wiilkesbarre Meet all Young Communists. Judge . batini, the capitalist agent who Broken by Police once before threatened irom the bench to take a Young Communist before him into a back room and jbeat him up, placed this bail, Terrific (By Special Wire) WILKESBARRE, Penn., May 1.— Two hundred workers were present | at the May Day demonstration | | here, which lasted for 20 minutes. | before the meeting concluded. The | International Labor Defense is work- STAMFORD CONN 4 i ing to obtain their release, STAMFORD, Conn., May 1.—Ac- lcording to capitalist press reports, |police attacked the May Day dem- | jonstration here, with strong resist- ance by the workers. Thirteen workers were arrested and two cops were injured. The number of work- Four Jailed at w Haven Meet NEW JIAEN, Conn., May 1—Four Communists were arrested for speak- ing 10 4 crowd of workers here gath- ered at a May J)ay inecting, say cap- italist press reports. The meeting/ers hurt is not reported. Police +took place on M St. Those ar-|Lieutenant Martin Ryan and De- rested are: John Vincent, Esther Ja-|tective Sergeant Lester Hay re- cobsen, Leonard Patterson and ‘ceived hand injuries when attempt- George Curry. ing to arrest workers in the march. Jall wor lat Diego Rivera, expelled renegade from were paral they are worth. |great demo! jof revolutiona {press the May Day POM ast § Capitalist press reports from |the Lustgarten was attended by two | Were omm ad- | lLatin Aimerica, unreliable because {hundred thousand who filled the|dressed demonstrations from six lof the official censors and imperial- {Square and overflowed into the side|Points. Builders, taximen, metal) list liars, show that workers over |streets. This was followed by a|Workers struck. Boulozne, Billan- that great region demonstrated and |mighty procession in Wedding and | Count (Bk Petore COueIOns. | arash Gk Moo Das. Neukoelln. The Wedding procession | Cuba was paralyzed by a general |marched past Thaelman, leader of (Wireless By Inprecorr.) | |strike and Havana reports at an|the German Communist Party, for] SHANGHAT, May 1.—The au- learly hour told of 12,000 workers |two hours down Koeslinerstrasse. | thorities turned the town into an marching and “several orderly |The socialist demonstration at the|amed camp. lon kes oc rer also meetings.” Reports are incomplete. |Lustgarten was half the size of the|@ demon jon of wor and students a: Nanking Road. were made. a bore a Most Communist meeting and urgeois character. were deserted. No ne’ In Mexico City and Vera Cruz stopped while the worke: marched. Fourteen Communists | 8 near | are reported arrested, when “Com-| papers were to be had and no colli- Wa | munists and unemployed marchers” | Sions took place. ci MOSCOW, workers took jonstration. The d: magnificent Red Army fore Voroshilov. Aft less columns of workers through the square, c cards, banners and slogan: to the building up of There was tremendous enthus attacked a student parade, angered * (Wireless By Inprecorr.) SYDNEY, May 1.—Despite the opposition of the authorities and the sabotage of the reformists, the May Day demonstration was a great suc- cess, thousands of workers attend- ing despite a downpour. In one out- \lying district the police broke up * * dem- Communism, accompanying the students, The U. S. consulate as heavily guarded. Incomplete reports from Buenos es state that all Argentine cities ed ied Cali May Day strikes. A of Socia the column, but the main demon-|the streets were alive with loud. |stration was unmolested. ops.at.the..street-.corners.-. A j + * 8 }special session of the Moscow Sov- (Wireless By Inprecorr.) liet was held. Stalin, Kalinin, Ry- | THRUOUT WORLD PARIS, May 1—Police confis-|kov and representatives of foreign cated the special number of the | workers and the diplomatic corps | |L'Humanite, central organ of the|were present. ‘000 PARADE 7,000 otal IN Capitalist Pre Press Report | of May Day the only other | world about the As we go to pre news from overthe | ippt Hi1) { May Day demonstrations is that fur- H |nished by the capitalist news ser- Fe vices, The following summaries of Ai ii these reports, which of course con- (By Special Wire) | PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 1— tently belittle the dimensions oF for th- | CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 1—Over) Twenty-five hundved + 5,000 work took part in the dem-| ered at the centr broken | onstration called by what | he movement are given |onstration here which was st | © bine) Se |up by the police, Six workers were Party. A permit wa’ : BERLIN.—The United Press re-| arrested, Mitchell, Stark, Kempt,|the demonstration and parade.Dhere| ports the greatest demonstration| Jenny, Atkins, Kirchbaum. Soifer, | was no police interference h the Berlin, with 450,000 Daily Worker agent, was arrested|/main demonstration. Tifteen Bun ever seen in cers led by the Communist Party |Jast night for distributing Dailies be-| dred wor iting in the*march to the| fore factory gates. All are out on/of the two West arten at 9a. m. “The largest} | bail charged with unlawful assembly | workers at the lower plant nan history,” says the United] and disorderly conduct. demonstrated in tinghouse } The ayed Two days/ont fifteen minutes after one o'clock. Press. A Communist airplane, the|pefore the demonstration the police| Other demonstration in Mon- Stormbird, flew over the demonstra-j major refused a permit officially. | ¢ sen, Avella, Ambridge; New Ken- tion but was forced to land when the The demonstration was held in defi-|sington. Estimate that 00 work- motor stalled. The pilot was slightly| ance of the order of the police. ers responded to the Party slogans] | injured. cee throughout the en ar-| \rests took place f fz leaf. distribution totals} |lets, Literature | 75,000 OS ae HUNDREDS MARCH IN BALTIMORE MADRID. — Complete cuspension fF N00 MEET IN of industry, commercial enterprise) 13 and public transit in Madrid, Barce- (By Special Wire) lona, Valencia and Seville report} complete suspension of work ent strations. Large num BOSTON, Mass., May 1—The May Day demonstration here was a vic- tory, in spite of the police threats. Fifteen thousand workers met on ber of arre a er SHANGHAI.—May Day demon- stration on Nanking Road, in the internatiional settlement, was sup- pressed by the British police, and (By Special Wire.) seven Communists arrested and) Boston Common, Five thousand] BALTIMORE y 1,—Hun- turned over to Chiang Kai-Shek for| paraded through’ the streets, De-|dreds of worke Heer Sakis a ee aren € tailed report later. |the streets of Baltimore with banners SOFIA, Bulgaria—Mass arr on May Day. Three thousand work- ers gathered at City Hall Plaza, and| | for two hours listened to Communist | speak The police mobilized over 1,000 cops for the demonstration. (POLICE KEPT WORKERS OUT OF UNION SQUARE Recognizi Cossack W y trade union leaders, Workers Clash With and Communists marked the efforts | . . . of the fascist government to sup- Police in Elizabeth ELIZABETH, N. J., May 1—A big demonstration took place here, with police arresting five Commu- nists, in an attempt to break it up, say capitalist news dispatches. The pretext for breaking up the dem- onstration is that the speakers “de- | nounced the capitalist government.” WARS. AW— The Pilsudski gov- ernment granted permits to the two socialist parties to demonstrate, but prohibited any parades led by the Communists. Hundreds of workers arrested. Ceeie ean TOKIO.—May Day marked by mass demonstrations all over Japan. Associated Press reports a parade of 30,000 in Osaka and 15,000 in Tokio More than 300 arrests in Tokio alone. Later veports of the United Press state that altogether 100,000 demonstrated in Japan. ng the obvious tactics of alen of supporting the ist demonstration, and using the tion, arresting 17 leader: is “enjoying” a “labor” 6 ee BUENOS AIRES (Argentine) Australia government. (of workers out of Union Square, _ when the parade under the leadership All work is stopped in Buenos Aires. | of the Communi Party entered the Reports from all over South Amer. | Square, the Civil Liberties Union is-| ica indicate the most widespread | sted a statement protesting against Mey Day demonstrations in history. | these tactics. “The policy of the police toward BRUSSELS (Belgium), Sev- the two demonstrations, ays the! eral Communists were arrested at statement. issued by the Civil Lib- | Licge when police interfered with » erties Union, “ part of the May Day demonstration terday, was marked by wholly un-; jhere. According to the United | warranted discrimination against the Press about 800 Communists, the|Communists. While permitted majority of them Poles and Italians !hold theit meetings and parade with jtried to march on the prison an jout interference, nobody was_ per. |free the Belgian Communist La-|mitted in Union Square to atte haut, who was arrested during a|the meeting. Recent strike. * 6 © BRISBANE (Australia).—-United Press reports say that the unem- ployed workers seized the City Ad- house and slept there the night before May Day. The Red Flag was raised in Liberty Square. Martial law has been declared, and the bourgeoisie is mobilized for spe- cial police duty. SYDNEY (Australia), — Poli No such restrictions) ywere made against the veterans.” broke up the May Day demonstra- ’ | force | and allo ‘ers in Germany, Belgium and Eng- Early editions of the the crowd in Union Square at 4 p. m., ity has seen.” We are claiming only about half that, but we do say that Whalen’s machine guns workers who tried to get into Union Square. * —"the largest the New York City a Union Square; Streets B New York American quote which were the actual paraders, erywhere BL LLETIN Police Com * * pting Manhattan . there §S a year. Price 3 Cent: 150,000 STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATE IN NEW YORK; WHALEN, FASCIST POLICE CHIEF ESTIMATES 70,000 IN PARADE Union Square Resolution Demands Release of March 6 Committee; Sends Greetings to Revolutionary Workers Everywhere ,000 Police, Gas Bombs, Machine Guns, Bar All But Marchers From lack With Workers; Fascists Fizzle missioner was at Whalen as saying that “something like 70,000” barred 150,000 A hundred and fifty thousand New York workers turned out yesterday, striking and demonstrating on May De , the international day of struggle for proletarians. They massed on the sidewalks and side streets around Union Square, and tried in vain to get in to hear the speakers of the Communist Party, of the Trade Union Unity League, of its militant indus- guage organizations. A solid wall of blue coated police, on foot, | mounted police lurking in ambush at s _trial unions, and of the many workers defense, cultural, with masge d , and wath rategic points, many riot wagons, filled with 12-or 15 police, loaded with ma- chine guns and gas bombs, within eas y reach, blocked all wor’ ers away from Union Square, and lines of police along the march prevented them from? joining the parade. The police absolutely prevented by the attempt of tens of thousands to get in. They allowed only the 25,000 who marched from Rutgers Square to enter Union Square, a march of a mile and three- quarters. The arrangements committee serv- ed gyformal demand on Police Com- mer Whalen to open the lines the enormous throngs to efiter 1 Square, but he refused,| and he had machine guns. Yester morning began with picket lines before all the larges -factories, on the waterfront. Speakers, Jommunist Part; trucks, decor slogans and relief, ed ucational, 10,000 BRAVE THE RAIN AT STADIUM FASCIST PARADE “May First Crowd Hears | of IS BIG FAILURE 2,000 Marches Mostly Forced, and Czarists With scarcely 00 nks, the Veterans of Foreign Wars much boasted May Day anti- working class meeting was a huge flop. Out of these, 900 were Rus- sian White Guards; between 800 and in their 900 paid city employees who were practically forced into the arch | whether they wanted to go or not, and six or seven hired bands—all ‘banners, arrive sus of th | factories. Wor' 1 out leaf lets calling a general political strike and urged all to march down to| , Rutgers Square and demonstrate. Police attacked of the et lines, tric, Eagle Pencil Co., Nabisco uit Co., and on the waterfront. s were arrested at other fac- The police refused to pert the Communist Party truck at Pier (Continued on on Page Three) ‘SOCIALIST MEET WAS A BIG FLOP Insult May - 1] by Pledge Loyalty to Bosses The Socialist Pa arrangemer with the pial and police to| lure workers away from the fight Fey demonstration to a “celebr: lin the Bronx Coliseum, where their thugs would do the “policing,” was a miserable flop. The hall, all draped with the flag of American imperialism, filled very slowly. meeting, which was scheduled to start at 1 p. m., opened shortly [before 3 o'clock, Very soon the chairman had to appeal to the audi ence not to leave. When it was most man, |erowded the hall was about two- thirds filled. The two main speakers, the mil- lionaire-lawyer Morris Hillquit and| Tony Sender of the German Social democratic party, did not show up. Schlesinger, owner of the ‘not able to speak.” Workers joined with minor so- | articularly at Western} | The | LL.G.W.| company union, was “featured” but | jonly sat there, “ fa | police to keep hundreds of thousands! Miller of the Amalgamated Cloth-| state the following: ing I-fascist lieutenants in proclaim-| , ing as the aim of the Socialist Party | to follow the example of their broth- |land—to assist the capitalist. cl: in subduing the workers, carrying through capitalist and murdering the colonial people the P.P. the . of Poland, that party of perfection. The program was fille jous entirely bourgeois pieces, with “stars” of the with ni Metro. “politan Opera in Union Square yes-| There was also a representative of | Second International that has} to brought social-fascism to its fullest) Dublin, after enormous preparations and expense, with full day’s pay for at- tending. The entire march minutes to pass a given spot. depleted were the ranks at the ap- pointed time, 10 o'clock, for the march from Madison Square, that the parade was delayed until nearly eleven, with no additions to it. took fifteen So Children from the Hebrew Or- phan Asylum were forced into the fasci parad without knowing what it was all about. The most out ing portion of the “American” War Vets were Russian Czarist officers who were in the ri of Wrangel and Deni- {kin fighting against the Russian workers, and who were finally de- feated by the victorious Red Army. Most of the marchers were fat- bellied, sleek bourgeois, and Tam many officials. Workers were con- picuous by their absence. Woll Speaks, The mare Square, making a pitiable showir The ranks began to dribble awa and when the ing began there were but a few hundred left around the platform. Matthew. Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, viciou: remy of all workers, struck the keynote of the fascist meeting when he called for, deportation of all foreign born workers who fought for “Work or Wages,” or fought against unemployment and wage- cuts, under the leadership of the |Communist Party. He called for je all native-born American workers who were militant in their (Continued on Page Two) ng MAY DAY N Meagre capitalist | SCHENECTADY — Two wor rrested for persisting in distriLuting May Day leaflets, DETROIT—Five arrest MONTREAL, Quebec: leaders of the Communist demon- rationalization | stration, were arrested for illegal as sembly, IRISH JOBLE: Unemployed workers paraded in Ireland on May First and | adopted a telegram to the London hunger marchers stating that they PARADE, ij would help them establish a Soviet Republic in Great Britain, accord- ing to capitalist press dispatches. Four mes, j Call to Struggle Despite repeated heavy downpours of rain, an enthusiastic crowd of {10,000 workers assembled in Coney Island dium yesterday night after marching miles to the May Day demonstration in Union Square nding for hours in the square. The Workers International Reliet s Band was a feature of the Various workers’ volutionary songs. , chairman, stat- mendous demonstra ed comrades.” Thi will hear n our jai! The main speaker was’Max Be- ral v0ke in t ame of the mittee of the Com A. He said: international labor day, is the day of the revolutionary proletariat, not like the emasculated ‘official’ American Labor Day. It is the day when the militant workers show their power and determination to fight against the rotten capital- ist system. We held our demon- stration in New York because of the determination of the workers, and dicts of the Whalens and the bo: behind him. + Woll and Freedom! “Woll, t Fascist vice-president of the A. I’. of L., speaks for the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the lique of their meeting. ‘There is plenty Freedom, yes, for apitalist ele there is only exploiters wha backed What did he say? of freedom here.’ one class — the For the workers ery, misery, unem- brutality, murders s not thé-end of our We have mahy tasks be. The imperialists are rapid- ly preparing for war. They are planning an attack against the So- vie. Union. We must organize the workers to fight for the defense of the Soviet Union We must organize our revolutionary trade. unions, un- der the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League to fight against rationalization. Unified Under C, P. “All these struggles must be uni- fied under the leadership of the Communist Party in general attack against the capitalist system. On- gust i we will demonstrate for the defense of the Soviet Union ind against imper st war. Immediate p rtions must be made for wit mobilization. On. July 4 will be held in Chicago a tremendous gathering to fight for ‘Work or Wages.’ We minst mobilize the widest forces for this “In this country we have a capi- talist dictatorship. What we want a proletarian dictatorship. May the international fighting day of the revolutionary proletariat, is th: gauge of the growing determina. tion of the workers to establish the Socialist state.” ROSE PASTOR STOKES’ MOTHER DIES, The mother of Rose Pastor Stokes, Anna Pastor, died yester- day. The funeral arrangements will be announced today,