The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1930, Page 1

| lished daily except Sun Company, Inc, 26-25 Vol. Union Square day by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. Y. 193 VI., No. 362. | Defend the John Browns of Today On December 2, 1859, John Brown, famous fighter against chattel slavery, who sought to free the Negro slaves by insurrection, was hung at Charlestown, West Virginia, for an attack on the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. Jn 1861 the State of Georgia, then in armed rebellion against the federai government, under the banner of secession and slavery, passed a law making punishable by death any “inciting to insurrection.” Tomorrow, that law, which was enacted by the Southern slave- owners to prevent their slaves from breaking their chains, will be in- voked before the capitalist court at Atlanta, Georgia, in a demand that two Communist organizers, H. M. Powers and Joe Carr, be sent to death in the electric chair for “inciting to insurrection.” The State of Georgia, through Solicitor General Hudson, demands the death penalty against Powers and Carr, because these proletarian abolitionists of wage slavery spoke at a meeting of both Negro and white workers and distributed leaflets in the name of the Communist Party. This, to the Southern capitali i nciting to insurrection.” Meanwhile seven workers face 20 years each in prison for organizing the textile workers of Gastonia against wage slavery, and the Georgia capitalists invoke the law of 1861 in the hope of preventing their wage slaves from breaking their chains.. Seventy-one years have passed since John Brown was hung for fighting chattel slavery, which was wiped out as an incident in the capitalist development of wage slavery. Today the Communist Party is fighting against wage slavery, and Powers and Carr, along with the Gastonia prisoners, are the historic symbols of the forces of freedom fully as significant as was John Brown. Powers and Carr are the proletarian John Browns of today, and the American working class—indeed the whole world proletariat— appreciating the vast political meaning of thejr trial, must arise as one man to defend freedom against slavery, to demand and to enforce the demand, that Powers and Carr be not sent to their death by the slave-driving capitalist class. Remember Gastonia! Rush to defend Powers and Carr! A Prophet Without Honor “Iam convinced we have now passed the worst,” said Hoover to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce on May 1, referring to the economic crisis. And the’ papers which reported his speech on May 2, also re- ported that while Hoover was talking “stocks declined violently” from 2 to 18 points. “We have attained a stage of recovery,” said Hoover on the front page of the N. Y. Times of May 2, and on the back page it was set forth: “240 stock issues down $1,237,671,061—and—‘Failures last month most numerous recorded for any April.” “We have succeeded in maintaining confidence,” said Hoover on Thursday, and a wave of selling threw 6,000,000 shares on the market before Friday night and in the two hour session of Saturday morning 4,862,000 shares were dumped in a panicky liquidation, the greatest dumping in history for the short time the Stock Exchange was open. There is “continuously decreasing unemployment,” said Hoover, with the additional hokum about “we” having had “no substantial re- duction in wages.” Unfortunately this was met by a statement of Gov- ernor Roosevelt of New York saying that “Unemployment has in- creased rather than decreased sinee the middle of January,” adding that, “Unemployment will increase in May rather than decline.” This, while hundreds of thousands of those remaining at work recognize as a lie the Hoover statement that there have. been no wage reductions. The fact is that the crisis is only now beginning to show its more severe character; that Hoover is talking what he knows to be hot air; that by so doing he aims at quieting down the mass discontent resent- ful at the fact that the government ladles out $3,000,000,000 in three years to the capitalists in tax reductions, and tariff protection, while it refuses the over 7,000,000 unemployed the least penny in relief and social insurance and administers a policy of blackjacks and jails to the unemployed. The working class will understand Hoover’s prophetic hokum for what it is, and will follow the lead of the Communist Party in build- ing the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League, in genuine organization of the unemployed movement around its de- mands for the great Chicago Convention of July, in persistent cam- paig to gain new subscribers and.support for the Daily Worker, the official organ of the Communist Party, leader of the working class on all fields of struggle against capitalist exploitation. Workers! Answer Hoover’s lies, answer the increased attack on your conditions with energetic action—class against class! Prepare the mass forces which will one day overthrow capitalism and all its mis- ery, hunger and war! “DEFEND SOVIET UNION WORKERS WON'T AGREE DAY” ANSWERS FORGERY ROCKEFELLER IS SQUARE SILVER SPRINGS, Md., May 4.— | Mother Jones, 100 years old May | Day, is in the grip of her enemies ‘at last. Surrounded in her feeble old age by none but the class col- laborationist liberals and A. F. L. leaders, she has been led, according The friends of the Soviet Union, 76 Fifth Ave., yesterday joined in branding the documents made pub- jie by Commissioner Whalen, im- plicating the Amtorg Trading Cor- poration with alleged activities of the Communist International, as) forgeries, and denounced their pub- | lication as part of the international | campaign to injure and foment war) against the Soviet Union. ° The statement of the Friends of | the Soviet Union declares: “The recent ‘holy crusade’ was a) miserable flop. The Whalen ‘docu- ments’ are a new device intended send the following telegram to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: “Your good wishes and hopes for continued long life on my one hun- dredth birthday was a happy sur- prise and among those messages most appreciated by me. Knowing all the responsibilities on yout POWERS, CARR 60 TO TRIAL MAY 8; FACE DEATH “Crime” Is Organizing Workers and Giving Out Leaflets Held Without Bail ‘Only Might of Toilers Will Save Them | ATLANTA, Ga, May 4.—Keen | \interest is being displayed by the |Negro and, white workers of the South, especially those in and around | Atlanta, Ga., in the trial of M. H. | |Powers and Joo Carr, Communi organizers, which starts here Tues- a Na SEND GREETINGS TO | POWERS AND CARR 25,000 Chicago Workers on the March Rees “Way HERS. ‘DEEEAT, JMENTEam BOSSES’ nce Wy, P May 1, 1930, in Chicago, as the workers paraded down Maypole FINAL CITY EDITION ‘ Price 3 Cents SUBSORE ; = : 86 a year everywhere excepting M k City and for countries, there $8 a year. BLESS ARE FACTOR IN J DAYTON PLUMBER STRIKE: _ INSURANCE DEMAND MADE TION R New ¥ and Bronx, Plumbers Walk Out May 1, Demand Five-Day Week and Prov sion for the Unemployed ‘Truck Drivers Also Out; Many Demonstrate; Organize for Chicago July 4 Convention DAYTON, Ohio, May 4.—Every effort is to be made to COUNENT A ‘ | organize the 20,000 unemployed in this city around the demand [WSURANCE of work or wages and the five-day week and seven-hour day. The matter is not one merely of general preparation for the national unemployment convention in Chicago, July 4. There jis an acute situation. The’ {plumbers and truck drivers WHALEN FALTERS ON FORGERIES | have struck, against the wishes jof their A. F. L. leaders, and are fighting for the five-day | week and for unemployment insur- Ashland 4 Ave. from Powers and Carr goes on Tues- day, and they are threatened with death in the electric chair for their militant workingclass activities. Send telegrams to Powers and Carr, Fulton County Court House. RIVALRY MOUNTS day. If convicted the two workers |Hasten Navy Building; Others Must Follow will be sent to the electric chair. While at first many workers did pe |not undersand the seriousness of | \the charges against the Communist | organizers, with the day of trial almost at hand, they now realize that unless the workers of the coun- |try rally to the defense, they will be convicted and sentenced to death. Official admission of a nava! arms race between France and It was made in Paris yesterday. This, in turn, will intensify the arm competition betwen the two leadin: imperialist powers, Great Britain and the United States. Powers and Carr were arrested jat a mass meeting in Atlanta ar- | ranged by the Communist Party {and Young. Communist League, which was attended by Negro and |white workers. They are charged |with “inciting to insurrection,” |which carries with it the death pen- \alty, according to a state law passed |in 1861 and made more deadly in |1866. This law has never been used 3p until the present time. They are (Continued on Page Three) 000 MARCH IN _ SAN FRANEISCO (By Special Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 3.— |Three thousand workers, strike: land unemployed, attended the May \Day demonstration here at the Civic |Center at 1 p. m. Speakers assail- ed Maycr Rolph’s lying pron made te the March 6 unemjloym: |demonstiation that he vould |someti for them. After the meeting, the demon- stration marched in parade dewn \Market St., and other streziz, pass- jing many factories. A‘ the evening meeting in Civie Auditorium, 600 attended, and 19 new members of the Communist Party were secured. s | The evening mass me.ting of the “May Day Federation,” a nixed hody of socialists and labor jakers with some renegades fro the Com- |munist Party, was a failure. This ent, do to reports in the capitalist press, to | “federation” had refused to acecpt ernment and the Legislative Assem | the Cemmunist Party program of \str.sgle, and the workers would | have nething to do with it. | May Day is established now in |San Iyancisco as the revolutionary | day of the workers. i Arrest Los Angeles to delude the masses, but what the | Shoulders, it was a human act to) | The fascist government has made plans for laying down 29 new bat |tleships this year fqr war purposes The first step for the actual build- jing of these ships was made imme diately after the close of the Lon- don conference. At the same time plans were made public at Toulon last Thursday for huge French naval maneuvers off the coast of Algeria in connection with the French president’s official visit to that country. These maneu- vers, which are viewed as an open |demonstration against their Italian vals, is scheduled for May 13 and will be the largest staged in the Mediterranean in ye: A dispatch to yesterday’s New York Herald Tribune states: ” “Another incident str may be termed Franco-Italian nava! rivalry, as given impetus by the a | London conference, is the Italian an-| nouncement made yesterday of a prompt naval building program | which will increase Rome’s smaller ‘vessels. It is certain, however amicable the French Mediterranean naval display may be in intent, it jwill attract much comment on the Italian peninsula.” | INDIA RULED BY ONE ENGLISHMAN Even Fake Government Suspended. Indian dispatches state that Brit. ish imperialsim’s appointed ruler of India, Viceroy Irwin, has prorogved (suspended) both the Executive ;Council of the British-Indian gov. |bly, which has served as a futile |sham of native rule. This means that the growing revolutionary sit- juation is so serious that England is forced to abolish even the miserable pretense of “democratic” govern- ment and that the British “Labor” regime is imposing a direct and open dictatorship on India without any ssing what, TALIAN-FRENCH (Get Into Line ARMED PRISON With the Drive For the ‘Daily’ An organization without a publi- cation is like a man who has lost his voice. The Communist Party has advanced in tremendous strides recently on all fields precisely be- cause it has used the Daily Worker to rally great masses of workers to program of revolutionary class ruggle. Continuously, the Communist Par- ity has been called upon to rush to the defense of workers under gt- tack and to drain every resource of the Daily Worker to send_ out, | without regard to the fact that they |could not be paid for, hundreds of | thousands, even millions, of Daily | Workers ‘to aid the striking miners, to defend the Gastonia prisoners, to help Powers and Carr, to rally great masses on March § and to mobilize the workers for May Day. | No worker, recognizing the great ice the Daily Worker has al- rendered to the working class, will remain indifferent now that the paper which has been the clarion voice of Communism in so many alls each and eve: y to its. support, to ke it a personal duty to sub- e to the Daily, to get subscrip- tions from his fellow warkers, to take a contribution list and go jamong his shop-mates and_ solicit donations to the fighting Daily, to build up a group of subscribers that will take the daily in bundles for factory distribution. Everywhere the workers are real- ly anxious to learn more of the Communist Party, Everywhere the | worker who approaches his class brothers finds a response to the call |of the Da Madrid Students Raise Red Flag; Fight Police University students at Madrid, Spain, declared a strike for twenty- four hours Saturday, against police brutality during a student demon- stration on Thursday when the stu- dents welcomed the return of a prominent republican who was ex- pelled by the dictatorship. The Red y Work Flag was raised on the Medical School Building during the strike by one group of students, Severe clashes between the police and stu- dents occurred and about twenty of AN workers and workingclass|| tein way to Ashland Boulevard Auditorium. The workers answered the call of the Communist Party |ance. Many strikers attended the eeteee f to continue the struggle of March 6 against unemployment, wage cuts, speed-up, for the seven-hour | May Day meeting called here by the’. y ; irae: ae ae a day, lay week, for social insurance and against the entire capitalist system Communist Party. Woll and Others Aid Ne » ponies ee -~— " —_ | There is a general feeling, that nee USSR Powers and Joe Carr, now in lonly by united front of the strikers Enemies of USS Fulton County Jail. The case of ont Laie satel eke 3 and the thousands of jobless, can § progress be made, | rful of complete exposure of Struck May 1. |his collaboration with Russ’ The rank and file members of the| puardist for Chief plumbers’ union, affiliated with the) W110, men American Federation of Labor,| ¥Mlen. in a letter written called a strike on May First for the| day to Peter A. Bogdanov, cha 5-day week and for relief for all| of the board of directors of the Am- unemployed plumbers. The most|torg Trading Corporation, refused | militant of the members know that) to permit an examination of the their leaders are anxious for them| original forgeries. to go back to work and would sell} Whalen’s letter was in reply. to them out in a minute, and the rank! demand by Bogdanov that he sub- and file is determined to fight for| ; : : their demands. These plumbers are| Mit his scurrilous and obvious for- n white- Cossack Satur- ars, mati GUARDS ON MAY 1 | Minor Is Ti in Jail Hospital Double shifts patrolled Welfare Island on May 1,! of armed guards the International Labor Defense, 80 Sema York City, 0™ the largest shops in Dayton|geries to a public examination. = i . °?!/ and will put up a strong fight in| Bogdan letter points out that dearacay ie leaders | spite of their leaders. |the publication of the letters is de- lof the M mployment dem-| The truck drivers also declared al... Pv) A010" shee as onstration—wWilliam Z Foster, Rob-| Strike beginning on May First and| Signed to injure the trade between cat: Minor 1 Ay ,intend to stick to their battle|the Soviet Union and the United Paani end ticacon Le against their bosses. | States. confined on this islard, and appar-| 10 Cents an Hour. A statement isazed by the Cen- This is in the fair city of Dayton where the chief of police stated that nen of the | everyone is satisfied and the work- unemployed, resulting in the guard | ers’ conditions are the best in the being established. Probably the | Country and that no one was going prison authorities feared the May | 0 come in to tell them any differ- Day Parade might turn in that di- (Continued on Page Three.) rection. aE aN MORE WAR LOR that | feared solidarity ently the authorities the message of May D. would reach the spokes nd to re- s on bail led to the y be oseph R. Int while their case is app Appellate Division Monday. Last week sky and Rober g B y tional Labor De neys > peared before the Sunren Court ie and reqiesied that they be granted) Ppanares War Acainst mee Prepares War Against bail pending the “taken und | Yen and Feng lit was hinted that the de } | be handed down shortly after May| Shanghai reports recently show 1, If the Supreme Court refuses | { Ch Kai-Shek is n jto allow the prisoners out on bail they will have to stay on Welfare Island until the Appellate Division on the appeal. Attorney E ky visit soners on the Island yeste: told them about the plans made to appeal the case. ready to use “silver bullets,” which are partly squeezed from the Chi- rt- nese workers and peasants and pa ly supplied by his American i alist masters. to By bribing, he being vin” over as many no war lords for American impe m Minor is still in the prison hospi- as he can before actual ting |tal and is quite ill with chronic |starts. ;appendicitis. Foster, Amter and| In the meantime, Chiang Kai-S”el Rayriond are in their cells most is making feverish preparations for jof the day. |the inevitable war with Yen Hsi- | When ‘the imprisoned workers |Shan and Feng Yu-Hsiang, the lheard of the successful May Day ‘parade and demonstrations held in New York City and other sections | jof the country, they expressed their satisfaction on the militant work ingelass spirit displayed, which t view as a fitting answer to the jailing for leading 110,000 workers on March 6. They point out that even more workers turned out on) sumably the Japanese Ambassador | May 1, at least 150,000 being massed | jn China) strongly supported the jin and around Union Square. Re- idea of forming a new government |ports on the huge demonstrations agents of Japanese and British im- perialism in China. A Hongkong Chinese newspaper reports that the imperialist diplo- matic corp in Peking called a spe- cial meeting April 1, discussing the question of the formation of a new government by Yen and Feng in Peking. A certain diplomat (pre- we the student leaders were arrested. |held in other sections of the coun- {in Peking. But on account of the opposition from the American Am- tral. Committee of the Communist Party of the United States of Amer- ica clearly showed the crude forger- jies of all the documents issued by | Whalen, which he undoubtedly ob- |tained from czarist forgers who have | been attempting to peddle the faker. ies in other countries, Whalen’s latest letter says noth ing about the genuineness of the documents which he handed to the apitalist dope shects, showing that 1ll may have been pene trated with the fact that they are the balde geries ever to be pub- lished by ezarist enemies of the Sov. iet Union to up war moves against the Workers’ Republic, Ae ee WASHINGTON, May 4.—Repre- Fish and Hamilton both said they would push their resolu- sentatives 1 MEETINGS If ANTHRACITE (By Special Wire) SCRANTON, Pa., May 2.—Meet- ings at Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in the anthracite coal region were attacked by he police and speakers rested. a APA e rs Over 800 miners at Scranton met. to demonstrate on May Day, in Seranton Square. When Phil Frank- feld was arrested, they followed him as he v ken away and demanded his re e and right to address them. was later released cn bond. John Pershing and Dan Slinger Pope, the Archbishop of Canter- | bury, Bishop Manning and Rabbi | Stephen S. Wise could not do, Grover | Whalen will not be able to do, “The Friends of the Soviet Union, which is organized for recognition and defence of. the Soviet Union. | calls upon all workers and sympa- | thizers to reply to Whalen’s for- | geries by redoubling their efforts | in behalf of the Soviet Union and of the Five-Year Plan. We have set|@ven in the Ludlow massacre, and | aside May 81 as Defend the Soviet | Union Day and we call upon all} friends of the U. S. S. R. to cele-| brate the progress of the Five-Year Plan at ovr outing at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, on that day.” The Friends of the Soviet Union also announces that it is arrang- ing the fwst Five-Year Plan ¢: think kindly of me at this time and your message was the expression of a Christian heart.” Does It “Square Things?” She is also reported as saying, “He's a damn good sport,” and “this telegram (from Rockefeller) rather squares things.” Workers who remember slaughter by bullets and by burning to death of men, women and chil- the strikebreaking by armed force of the Rockefellers throughout their career, will not follow the aged for- ;mer militant in her statement (if she is correctly quoted) that a few good es “squares things” for all the workers’ blood that has been shed. bition ever held in this country,;Pershing Speaks May to open some time this month, KILL 4 IN QUARRY. Day, Gets 30 Days the | Defense Organizer |diszuses. That this step is not due to Gan- LOS ANGELES, Calif—Frank |dhi’s pacifist foolery but to the revo- | Spector, International Labor De- !utionary masses, is shown by the |fense district organizer, arrested |fact that his “salt’? movement is | several days ago, has been taken to,dying out in Bombay and _ has the Imperial Valley where he is marked support only in the Gujerat lodged in jail. The charge is under | district; while at the same time Brit- the sedition law. No bail has been ish troops are patrolling the streets set as yet. He was arrested as a of Calcutta and Madras afer violent result of the I. L. D. activity in) mass actions there, and also at La- behalf of the 11 Imperial Valley hore and Amritsar. In addition, | workers who are held in $5,000 bail |orders are issued against “seditious | each, meetings” not only in the “salty” CUT WAGES IN STEEL A.F. of L. Union Helps Bosses’ Slash YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, lay the bosses in this wage cut, and has | south, but also all along the north- ern frontier. The European Association at Bom- bay has urged a “firmer attitude” on the British governor, and de- manded that proeessions be prohi- bited. Today in History of the Workers May 5, 1818—Karl Marx, found- er of scientific socialism and leader of First International, born at Treves, Germany. 1821—Or- der issued by authorities of Wy- comb, England, for whipping of all unemployed. 1871—Rosa Lux- | emburg, German Communist lead- er and one of founders of Spar- tacus group, born in Samost, Rus- |try were received very enthusias- jt bassador and another representative | tically. | |from a European country, they de- } &!" |eided to postpone the discussion and | the jWait for further developments, | Squa ASO | today. of the National Miners Union were ' ted in Wilkes Barre when poke to 300 gathered in the They are held for hearing ZIONIST FAKERS FUNDS To aid the imperialist-supported | Zionist movement in Palestine, a |campaign has been started in New | York for the collection of $2,500,000, |Funds raised in this drive will be |the American Academy of N ! |handled by the Joint Distribution Science has discontinued its work in | Committee and its Palestine Jewish'/the Soviet Union for this year, it , Agency, whigi works hand in glove|was announced today. Unfavorable | with British | mperialism. climatic conditions caused the step. } CLOSE ASIATIC EXPEDITION MOSCOW, May 4.—The Modern- | Graves North Asiatie Expedition for Indoor meetings were held in Han- over and Luerne, LEAVE S'CK WAR VETS \DIE WIPHOUT ANY CARE That sick and disabled war vet- erans are left to die because of lack of medical treatment was the forced nade Saturday night by Jenhamer, national com- of the American Legion, at a dinner given at the Hotel Astor. “As conditions are now,” relue- |tantly admitted the fascist officer, “the veteran is lucky to get neces- 200 MEN RUN INDUSTRY Banker, Politician, Boast ot Czarism Concentration of power over the |60 large companies in this country, {living conditions of 120 millions of | each controlled by two or three men, WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 4.—|All puddlers and finishing mill eraws | fully agreed to it, sian Poland. 1920—Workers of (people in the hands of less than| do about 80 per cent through their Say care within two or three years UPTON, Ky., May 4.—At least) George Pershing, who was arrested four wi 's were killed and nearly | at the May Day meeting for speak- « score injured in an explosion in a ing without'a permit, has been sen- rock quarry near here yesterday. | tenced to five days in jail or to pay |fected by this latest reduction. ‘The | start a great dvive for nat The quarry is owned by the Consoli-|a fine of $100. Phil Frankfeld, who dated Stone Co. Carelessness on v also arrested, was given a thir- behalf of the bosves caused the iv days jail term, or a fine of $500. aath of the workers A rankfeld is still in jail, j were cut 25 cents per ton on First jof May.’ About 3,500 men are af- tstion of !ron, the orgar yed the ‘Amalgamated Ass ‘Steel and Tin worke! jtion that first. bet eat steel strike of 1919, is a pariner with Youngstown will be the scene ot the Metal Workers Leagu' Convention, ‘aturday, July 14, to nal or- vel and othe rmetal ial seale. The epgue beings to Unity L 2, wis ‘ganization of st workers Metal Wo ‘the Trade U General Electrie Co. at Schenee- tady, N. Y., struck. 1920—Sacco and Vanzetti arrested on framed up murder charge. 1923—Na- tional ..Conference . of . Needle Trades Workers met under aus- pices.of Trade Union Educational League in New York }200 men was admitted by Senator | various subsidiaries, of the indus- Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, in a) trial business of this country. There ‘speech before the National Demo-/are hundreds of thousands of small cratic Club booming Gov. Roosevelt | corporations and individual * usiness \for president on the power issue. |men in this country, but taken alto- | | Senator Wheeler quoted a banker as| gether they do only about 20 per saying: cent of the country’s industrial i “In my estimation about 50 or| business.” of the time that urgent need is made apparent. Meanwhile, the disabled veteran has been waiting as best he could, if he still lives,” Yet the American Legion is one of the leading organizations work- ing with the government ~gainst (ithe ex-servicemen,