The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1930, Page 1

« under the Published daily ¢ Company. tne. pe VI, No 361 Union Square, t Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N.Y, WHALEN FORGERIES ARE The “Whalen Documents”; JOBLESS MAY DAY Two Scenes Forgeries Answering the great May Day dem doseeations of the rising work- ing class all over the world, the capitalist class is already intensifying its offensive both at home, in legal and fascist attacks upon the work- ers, and abroad in inciting war against the Soviet Union. “Whalen’s documents,” published in the cpitalist press yesterday, in their charac- ter as stupid and criminal forgeries, are worthy instruments in this conspiracy. Bearing upon their face the evidences o7. forgery, quite probably the work of some among those same White Guard Russians who par- aded on May Day in Union Square, these “documents” were immediate- ly accepted at their face value by Whalen and by the capitalist press. Of course, not Whalen nor his masters are really interested as to whether the documents are genuine or not. They are only interested in a peg on which to hang their publicity campaign against the Soviet Union and its agencies. For this purpose they consciously become the eager customers of forgers. It is clear that the Whalens and their ilk are not worried about the mythical “Bolshevik gold” which they proclaim “creates” such mass movements as March 6th and May Day. They know that is all bunk But they are really worried about the tremendous advances and vic- tories of Soviet industry, which has startled the world by doubling its pre-war production at a time when the capitalist world is deep in crisis, entangled in its own contradictions. It is this spectacle of the un- heard-of speed of progress in the Soviet Union, contrasted with the deepening decline of capitalism with its millions of starving unem- ployed, that makes the Whalens fearful, that makes them eager to buy forgeries against the Soviet Union, with which they hope to distract attention and to further inflame the spirit of war. The Soviet Union is, indeed, the inspiration of the working class of the world, and by its example of gloriously successful revolution it stimulates the workers of every country to go and do likewise. All the Whalens in the world cannot remove this great dominating political fact. They cannot stop the successful march of socialism in the Soviet Union. They cannot remedy the crisis of capitalism. How can they remove this glaring contrast, which is so destruc- tive to capitalism? Always the capitalists come back to their. primitive answer of WAR. “Whalen’s Documents” are a part of the international capitalist conspiracy to prepare war against the Soviet Union. Workers must understand the full significance of these events. Workers must answer these stupid and criminal forgeries, which con- stitute a blow by the capitalist class against the working class, by rallying all forces to the fighting slogans: Down with the capitalist forgers, who are preparing a new war! Defend the Soviet Union, fatherland of the workers of the whole world! 00 FIGHT THE. POWERS, CARR TO OAKLAND POLICE TRIAL ON MAY 8TH Parade Br sroke n, Re- | forms 3 Times (Special Telegram.) OAKLAND, Calif., May 2.—Five | thousand workers, marching with banners in the May Day procession, were attacked by a hundred armed police at Franklin and Tenth Sts. and the parade was broken up. Face Death at Hands of Southern Bosses ATLANTA, Ga., May 2.—M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, Communist organizers who go on trial here May 6, conviction which may result in death sentences, are being held in- communicado. No one except Soli- | citor-General Hancock are allowed to | see them. The two workers we: arrested after they had addre | meetings of Negro and white wor! | ers and distributed Communist leaf- | lets. According to the laws of the state of Georgia, if found guilty MARCHERS SHOUT “ON TO CHICAGO’ |National Secretary in Call to Build Councils Prepare Convention Illinois Hunger. March (10,000 Delegates Will | Meet on July 4 “Organize Unemployed Councils {—on to July 4 National Convention of the Unemployed,” is the slogan of the tHousands of jobless workers who did so much to prepare for and participate in the huge May !Day demonstrations throughout the country. Among the main demands of the demonstrations, were those of the unemployed: immediate re- lief; and unemployment insurance | paid for by the city and state governments out of funds in the} treasuries and from special taxes | ;on profits and inheritances; seven ‘hour day and five day |speedup on the job, ete is | Pat Divine, national secretary of the Councils of the Unemployed, | stated yesterday: | “It was no accident that a high spot in)the May Day demonstra- |tions was the serious determination | of-the masses to fight for social in- surance and for Work or Wages. “Especially significant was the | |recognition by the employed and unemployed workers of the fact ‘that the crises of unemployment jcannot be solved by an appeal to! ‘the charity of “liberal philanthrop- ists” but only by a decisive struggle against capitalism. Now For Conventions! May Day, however, was only the | beginning of the struggle. . [pene on the way. The toiling | masses of the country whose at- |tention was so sharply focussed on | unemployment as the basic contra- ‘diction of capitalism must now gird |their loins for the building up of the Mass National Unemployed Con- vention in Chicago on July 4 and| 5. “Thousands of delegates from the | imines, mills and factories must be | elected. , Revolutionary unions and leagues ‘affiliated to the T.U.U.L.| locals, fraternal organizations, etc. (Cone) oF naked on Page Five) 23,000 PARADE week, no} -a mile- | THRU ) CHICAGO markets are so -oversupplied that} ; hanged for leading the May Day, The unarmed workers defended themselves heroically and the battle lasted an hour. The parade re- formed at Thirteenth St. and Broad- | way, and, when broken again, re-| formed at Chabot Park, where it} was also broken up. } Tear Gas the Speakers. | they can be sent to the electric chair. | The pare ae eee ae tear | Hudson announced several days ago gas up al ie speakers, who con- he will ask for the death sentence. | tinued their agitation for the de- The iitaraatibhal Labor Defense | Face of Terror mands of the workers, although jis conducting the defense and has) CHICAGO, Ill, May 2.—Twenty- choking from the fumes. They! urged the woskers throughout the five thousand marched here May 1st spoke until the crowds were dis- pours to rally to their support. from Union Park, in spite of every ane betsy fad: oben SiS Eee RCT. ‘sort of police terror, raiding of the ized later in the evening at rE Don't Need Workers, Commune Fae ates a | St. and Broadway, which marched | Night Work “Wrong” rested for leaflet distribution. The | to the Party hall, where an indoor | police were forced to grant a per- meeting continued the Laaeaiehd “Night work of women end chil- | mit for the parade. tion. Many workers joined the Com-| Gren in the southern cotton mills i The committee of the unemployed, munist Party. | wrong, opposed to every humanitar-| proceeding to City Hall to present In the attack on the first parade | ian principle,” etc. said Eben FE. 'demands for work or wages was 20 workers were brutally clubbed Whitman, cotton mili magnate, refused. admission. and seven were taken to the emer-|speaking at the Boston meeting of| The parade ended with a huge gency hospital seriously injured. | Cotton Manufacturers. Sounds like| meeting at Ashland Auditorium, jhe meant it. But, alas, he admitted) where a great ovation was given AMTORG HEAD BR ANDS, | that he didn’t find it out until “our | Lucy Parson, widow of one of those “ ” no section of the industry is pros- | LETTERS” FORGERIES verins.” The Amtorg Trading Corporation | yesterday sent the following release | to the press: “Peter A. Bogdanov, chairman of | the Board of Directors of the Am- | torg Trading Corporation stated to- day: ‘Photostatic copies of letters purporting to have been written un- der the letter-head of the Amtorg Trading Corporation by officers of this corporation and of letters yal- leged to have been.received by such officers from Moscow were seen by me for the first time in this aed noon’s newspapers. I have no hesi- tation in declaring, without quali- fication, that they are absolute for- geries, “‘An investigation has already been initiated by this corporation to endeavor to ascertain the perpetra: tors of such forgeries in order that they may be prosecuted to the full-! est extent of the law. “‘T assert emphatically that the activities of this corporation are purely commercial.’” | strike in 1886 that made May First | | the international day of struggle. MAY DAY IN. PRISON Jobless "Delegation Greet "Workers Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, one of the leaders of the March’ 6 unemployment demonstra- tion now serving a three-year prison sentence on Welfare Island, has chronic appendicitis, according to the penitentiary physician. Minor became ill several days. after his ar- rival at the island, as the inferior food and unsanitary conditions re- sulted in a recurrence of an intes- tinal disorder. At first medicine for Minor was barred, but after those in the hospital realized that he was in a serious condition they allowed his wife to bring it to him. Books and pamphlets, sent to the workers by the International Pub- lishers and the Workers’ Library The four spokesmen of the New York unemployed are kept in their cells about 22 hours a day. About two hours daily they are allowed out and then immediately returned to the dingy, narrow, stone cells, built 90 years ago. Although the prison capacity is 1,200, about 1,700 are now confined there. The prison- ers sleep on shelves barely 18 inches wide. The four imprisoned workers— William Z. Foster, Minor, Israel Amter and Harry Raymond—have sent May Day greetings to the workers of America, including all other class-war prisoners, the In- ternational Labor Defense, 80 E, Publishers, have been barred by{11th St., New York City, announced the prison authorities. yesterday. . a NEW iy ORK, ym the Wh Wit SATURDAY, ‘MAY 3, 19 March «bs OF Tre 30 New York Mi: ky QMBRCy y ARP-sEIVNG Time Vi) ae Yl | 20,000 IN MAY 1 MEET, MILWAUKEE Workers Demand | “Work or Wages” (By Special Wire:) MILWAUKEE, May | thousand white and Negro workers demonstrated here | Court House Square. A delegation visited the mayor and county offi- | cials demanding work or wages, un- , employment insurance, ete. | -Over 5,000 workers marched from | Haymarket Square through the | downtown and factory districts for two and a half miles, ending up at: | Court House Square. Several hun- | dred police, heavily armed, accom- panied the parade in order.to in- |timidate the workers. Chief of po- ‘lice Laubenheimer issued an offi cial warning, threatening the pa- jraders with stern measures at the slightest violation of regulations. 2.—Twenty yesterday in ‘Huge Demonstration in front of factory gates. One worker |them by etseaashens ACTIViri Ti | Photos by I. L. D. TLD DEFENDS 130 ARRESTED IN NLY, To Tell School. Heads May 1 Is Our D: The District Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense denounce the vicious campaign of the caj Jay jtalist judges and the bosses’ courts against the workers who were pre- paring to mobilize for May Daj the arrest of 130 workers du the week before May Day. In the Bronx, Judge Dura p bail of $2,500 each on Sonia Gi Beatrice and Irma Abraham, Arthur and Edna Stein, Sonia Rosen, Ep- stein, Amron, Bebritz, Itzkowitz and Rosenthal, and 14 Young Pione The 14 Pioneers were released. adults are still in jail, because it is impossible for the I.L.D. in the time of mass arrests to place bail of such fabulous sums in many courts in the city. Through the efforts of the LL.D. the bail was reduced andi they will be out today. ing ‘up in Elizabeth, , and | 1 ced | “| the arran; > | meeting. The police terrorism during the) Seven members of the Young preparations for May Day was se-,;Communist League: Smorodin, Ka- vere. Over forty workers were ar- minsky, Legeer, Stone lowins, rested and fined or jailed for dis-|Skarry and Ben Leroy are still held y tributing leaflets or speaking in|in jail with $14,000 bail mlacea on the notorious Ju |was shot in the leg by police in|batini. \front of the Harvester gates when| Their case comes up on Monday. [the workers resisted the arrest of |The I.L.D. will bail them. Saturday the Communist speaker. ming when the bail is reduced to The socialist party issued a 2 ment ostensibly againstst the police but in reality against the miliancy jof the masses and the Commun (Party. Thirty-two March 6 figh' will go to trial Monday. The in- fluence of the Communist Party has increased tremendously. TAXE MAY 1 10 ETROIT SHOPS (5,000 Invade \de Restricted|N. Cass Park Area | (By Special Wire) DETROIT, Mich., May 2.—Five thousand workers demonstrated heye | in Cass Park, the first demonstra- tion here since the war, and in the! restricted area from which the city government has a rule to bar all workers’ meetings. A thousand workers took part in the factory gate meetings on the morning of May 1, and at noon, | In the evening 2,000 attended the meeting in Danceland Auditorium. The bosses took special measures to prevent the workers from com- ing out on the street. In many eases they provided lunch, and ra- dios at noon. But mainly they re- lied on intimidation, and by physi- cal force prevented the workers from coming out. | Resist Police, Save Speakers. | Dozens were “prrested at the fac- tory gates. Th; morning meeting | at the Briggs factory in Highland | Public Schoo! 00 each. ack Toback, a young Communist is held on $500 bail for picketing Claim Workers Holiday viet Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense advises the (Continued on Page Four) CHINESE SOVIETS RULE 4 STATES | here, fighting back the police at-| wile others have been deported. FINAL CITY EDITION et of Meceh & 1878. SCRIPTION KATE: New York City AGAINST U.S.S.R. ‘ORE THAN 300 EXPOSE CRUDE FORGERIES AILED ONMAY AS PART OF ANTI-SOVIET OAYINTREUS. PLOT OF IMPERIALISTS 87 Pinched in New York! —_—__—_—__—_ Nothing Less Than Illiterate Second Issue of City for May Day Preparations | Exploded Sisson Documents Many W orkers Hurt! Challenge Whalen to Produce Forgers, and Show Militant Spirit in| Sources of His Fakeries Resisting Cops Branding a series of letters purported to have been ex- atria aes fine es habe ote | changed between the Communist International and the Amtorg tice nf the International Labor De.| Trading Corporation in New York, now being broadcasted fense, 80 E. 1th St, New York throughout the capitalist press by chief Cossack Whalen of City, yesterday morning indicate| New York, as “stupid and criminal forgeries,” and “a second that more than 300 workers have “but more illiterate edition of been arrested at May Day meetings parades and in leaflet distribution prior to the holding of the denen | trations throughout the country. The largest number of arrests were made in New York City, where 150,000 workers tried to jam into Union Square and 25,000 paraded, | Eighty-seven were taken into cus tody early May 1, of which 40 are | members of the Young Pioneers. About 40 others were arrested sev- al days before May Day. e, in most cases, charged with orderly conduct and were ar- rested when distributing leaflets ir. front of factories urging the work- They | NEGROES, WHITES 'N CHATTANOOGA | 2.000 Both Re Races Meet | Defy Bosses’ Terror | | (By Special Wire) | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 2. —Defying the legal and extra-legal | lterror of the bosses here, 2,000 Ne-} the Sisson documents,” the Central Committee of the Com- }munist Party, U.S.A., has is- sued the following statement: “Afternoon papers of May 2nd carried reproductions of alleged let- ters by the Executive Committee of | the Communist International to its alleged American agencies. These letters have been supplied by Com- missioner Whalen and are purport- ed to be ‘intercepted by his under- cover agents!’ “Commissioner Whalen | accom- panies his ‘disclosures’ with a state- ers to join the May Day demonstra-| gro and white workers gathered in| ment that after the United States tion. come up for action later in the weel:. In Stamford, Conn., police at- tacked the May Day demonstration, arresting 13 and later beating many. Four members of the Communist Party were a ted in New Haven; Conn., while in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., | demonstrated against unbearable i They listened to Negro land white speakers. They raised |high, in true working-class fashion {the slogans: “Defend the Soviet) Union,” “Down with iniperialist conditions. police charged into the crowd at the | war,” “Work or wages for the starv- | open-air meeting after it had lasted | for 20 minutes and arrested the two} speake A huge demonstration was broken N. J., on the pre- text that the speakers were de nouncing the government. ve ar- r were made. Three workers Trenton, N. were jailed are scheduled to go{ on trial toda: Twenty-five members of the! Young Pioneers in Philadelphia, ; when marching from their head-| quarters to City Hail, were arrested (Continued on Page Five) 10,000 FIGHT LOS ANGELES POLICE Workers Show Militant) Spirit (By Special Wire) LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 2 Over ten thousand American, Mex- ican, Chinese, Filipino nd Negro workers demonstrated on May Day | | tac played, Numerous placards were dis- and thousands of throw- | aways were distributed. The Young Pioneers and the youth tool, ecial part in the marching and singing. About forty of them were taken to juvenile detention house. Two po- lice were given a thrashing, and many arrests and beatings ocenired. In the evening, two indoor mass meetings were held with a thou- jsand present. Thirty jeimed the J., in connection with | ents for the May Day| ing millions.” The meeting lasted two hours on the lot half occupied by the city hall. The workers answered with tre- mendous applause the declarations that they must turn the imperialist jwar into a civil war and must de- fend the Soviet Union. Grab Daily Worker. Negro and white workers to- gether pledged themselves to carry | ‘on the fight begun March 6 for | work or wages. Copies of the Daily | Worker were in great demand. | The speakers were Gilbert Lewis jand John Cook, Negro organizers, {and Paul Pullman and Ray Helms. Cook is a local Negro worker. A mass meeting is called by the ¥Trade Union Unity League for Sun- |day afternoon. | oe Sunday to Assist Victims of Imperialism | center. The majority of the easeniwell ticity hall square on May Day and|Labor Department and the labor unions had produced strong cireum+ stantial evidence about the role of Moscow in American labor battles, the whole matter was turned into the hands of the Bureau of Crim- inal Information. The documents reprodweed in the press represent the result of the work of this Bureau. “The Central Committee Communist Party of the U. S., after a first brief examination of the copies of the documents in the news- papers declares most of these let- ters to be stupid and criminal for- geries. It challenges Commissioner Whalen and all those who cooper- =f the ated in the ‘unearthing of these documents,’ to produce publicly the sources of these scurrilous for- geries. They are nothing less nor more than a second but more il- literate edition of the Sisson docu- ments, The establishment of the sources of these documents will un- cover another anti-Soviet forgery If Commissioner Whalen and his ‘co-workers’ refuse to do | this, they will be branded as ace complices and protectors of the | forgers. “The forgers knew that they could speculate upon the credulity of their customers irrespective of. the miserable quality of their pro- | duct. They have a precedent in the The Santiago Brooks Branch of | Sisson documents. After British, \the I. L. D. has an entertainment|French and other government. ‘and dance at Claremont Casino, 62 agents and newspapers had re- E. 106th St., Sunday, May 4, at 7| jected these “documents,” America \P. m., for the. benefit of the victims bought them and presented them to of white terror in Mexico and Cuba the American public as the appall- and to help the workers there in-| ing discoveries of their Secret Serv- | crease their organization. Hun-|ice apparatus. The forgers could |dreds are held in the rotten jails, | speculate upon the credulity of their !customers because they know that |there is an economic demand for ‘evidence’ against the Soviet Union. District Attorney Fickert, of San | Francisco, knew that Oxman was a | perjurer; but he needed a witness | against Mooney, thus the perjurer workers are assured an interesting | Qxman was transformed into an time. There will be a play depict-| honorable surprise witness for the ing the life and struggle of the) state, Capitalism now needs evi- Latin-American workers, and many | dence against the Soviet Union, thus songs and dances from imperialism’s | the most miserable forgery is wel- colonies. come and the most miserable forger Besides showing their solidarity with the Mexican and Cuban work- | ers, who are putting up a heroic) fight against American imperial-| ists and their native lackeys, the} |Communist Party, three joined the ew Lungchow Revolt; |Young Communist League and three Capture 2 Cities A special cable to the New ¥ Times yesterday reported that least four provinces are included in the Red regime” and that “Commu- | nist bandits have acquired such ; power in China that they now con- stitute a definite menace to the Nanking government.” Both the local authorities in the have resigned, bility to rule the situation.” In Lungchow, Kwangsi province, | tions after indoor meetings. the workers, and peasants’ upris- ing, which was suppressed by the direct intervention of French air |the Pioneers. | 300,000 STRIKE IN PARIS More Reports On Int'l May Day (Wireless By Inprecorr.) PARIS, May 2.—Three hundred |provinces of Fukian and Kiangsi| thousand workers ‘struck here yes- “owing to their ina-/|terday. Violent collisions followed attempts to stage street demonstra- Seven hundred and eighty workers were arrested. . ehhh etal forces and soldiers a short time ago,/'Thousands Demonstrate In Other has flared up again and is fighting | with the utmost enthusiasm against all reaction, including the mission- According to a telegram received at Shanghai from Nanking, the cap- ital of Anhuei province, two cities, d by the police, Taihu and Hwoshan, in Anhuei province, were captured by revglu- tionary troops on April 27. e Parts of France. STRASSBURG, May 2.—Eight thousand workers took part in the May Day demonstration here; 4,000 at Stetienne; 3,000 at Lille and 2,000 at Toulon. Mote oN. Collisions In Vienna. VIENNA, May 2.—The Commu- nist demonstration at Freiheitsplat showed the increasing influence of the Party. Collisions occurred with | the police. Many workers were ar-| rested. A prohibited demonstration was held in Vienna Neustadt. Cae Se In Switzerland. BASLE, Switzerland, May 2.— Strong Communist demonstrations took place in Basle and Zurich. The police confiscated May Day placards at Geneva. * . May Day In Stockholm. STOCKHOLM, May 2.—Separate Communist demonstrations took place here. There were 3,000 at Stockholm, 3,000 in Goeteborg and 2,000 at Molmo. (Continued on Page Five) Get tickets at the Workers’ Book-|turns into an honorable police shop and I. L, D. Admission 25 | agent. cents. | “1. The Communist Party of the U. S. knows of no ‘Confidential Agents of the Comintern’ in any | Soviet institution. It has never heard of nor from such an agency, “2. It brands as an unmitigated lie the claim that subsidies in any |form or from any source such as (Conthetod on} Fage on Page Five) STOCKS CRASH AGAIN AS THE CRISIS SHARPENS Following on the glowing state- | ment by Hoover on May Day. that. conditions were rapidly improving and the “worst was over,” the stock market suffered the severest crash of 1930. Industrial shares dropped seven points on the average. The leading stocks of the large corpora~ tions were hard hit. The present crash comes on in spite of the drop in money rates yesterday, indicat- ing that the big bankers realized the crash was impending. This will fuxther sharpen the already, worer®. 2 cribia, ‘eal oo