The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1930, Page 3

K DAILY WOR he Leadership of Under t MILITARISTS LOAD 68 KINDS OF EXTRA TAXES UPON CHINESE TOILERS “Door Tax” for Occupying Room, Another Tax for Moving, Still Another for a Clean Toilet ‘axed for Light Clothing, Also for Changing It; Even Taxed for Having Visitors Call toilet no matter how poor he is, the hardship this tax involves can easily be imagined. Each student and worker has to pay a registration fee of 25 cents to the government at a certain defi- nite interval of time. It was in protest against the payment of this tax that textile workers of the Foo Yuan Mill attacked the offices of | § the mill owners, In the villages there are defense | tax, a winter dress tax, summer | dress tax, kitchen tax, cattle tax and taxes for entertaining guests, ete. A Hongkong Chinese paper re- cently printed a letter from its Han- kow correspondent which will give the reader an idea of the extraor- dinarily heavy burden which the Chinese militarists, with the support of the imperialists, have imposed upon the Chinese workers and pea- sants, The letter states that, according to careful investigation, 68 kinds of miscellaneous extra taxes are levied in the province of Hupei in addi- tion to the land and other regular the Communist Party. ary Party and trade unions. . NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1930 the Communist Party! May First in Cleveland! On May 1, the workers of Cleveland continued the struggle of March 6 under the leadership of Only the Communist Party and the revolutionary Trade Union Unity League are | robilizing the workers to struggle against unemploy ment, speed-up, wage-cuts, as well as against the en- tire capitaligt plunder system of wage-slavery. Join the Trade Union Page Threé ‘WISCONSIN STEEL CO. FORCING WORKERS JOIN NAT’L GUARD |Worker There Points Out How Guard Is Used te Shoot Down Strikers in Class Struggle Join Metal Workers Industrial Union Instead, He Urges Men in South Chicago Plant SOUTH CHICAGO, Ill—The Wiscounsin Steel Mill making prosperity for the bosses. They instal new machinery as all others are doing. At the present time the Wiscounsin Steel Co. at 106th an@ Torrence Avenue, put up a new blast furnace. This new blast furnacg | is the.latest model. At least fifteen men lost their jobs in twentye four hours or five men to a shift. When the company started this new blast furnace the bosses calle the workers to show them how the new furnace will work better and faster and how much that furnace costs. They say that the new blast furnace cost $3,700,000—and now no bonus for three years until the new furnace is paid up. This means that the workers who work for this millionaire must pay for the furnace and more profits for the | boss is Another thing happened in the Wiscounsin steel mill, and that is the bosses started to demand of the workers that they must join the National Guard, so that when some workers that are more conscious Workers! Continue the struggle! Build your revolution- Unity League! Join the Commur Party. | taxes. If a worker rents a room he has to pay a door-tax. In case he has move from one house to another has to register and pay a regis- | [@ation tax. Death requires a death registration fee, and each time when a family cleans its toilet a special fee has to be paid. Since there is no modern sewage system in most places in Hupei toil- ets are cleaned every day, and since no one can refrain from using the The above picture is by no means | limited to Hupei alone. In many} provinces in China it is almost no| exaggeration to say that one cannot make a single move without having to pay taxes. But the regime of taxation upon the poor is fast dis- appearing and is replaced by Sov- iets. Under the Soviets the rich wil hlave to pay, but the toiling masses will have no worry about taxes. offi is of the A. F. of L. who have repeatedly sold out and be-| trayed the southern workers (Mari- on, Elizabethton, Greenville, etc.) | are openly helping the bosses to keep them down. In many case they are aiding in putting through new stretchout systems, and are trying to keep the workers from| joining the T.U.U.L. and organizing for struggle. A. Communists Still Advance in China SHANGHAI, China (IPS).—Despite the jubilant reports of the Kuomintang press according to which the red troops have suffered a decisive defeat, the China Post reports that the Nansiung district is still in Communist hands. Troops and planes were sent against the rebels with the result that the troops were defeated and sections de- serted to the rebels. The Kiang Nang Wangpao reports that an en- gagement has taken place in the east of Kiangsi and that the govern- mental troops were surrounded and disarmed, whereby the Communists captured large supplies of arms and ammunition. The operations of the Nanking troops were hindered by the fact that the population gave | them none or false information whilst keeping the rebel troops in- | formed of all movements of the government troops. Tientsin newspapers report that Communist leaflets have been dis- | tributed there calling for street demonstrations on the First of May. a | fn UNITY LEAG A number of people appeared in the editorial offices of the Takung FOR STRUCE Pao and demanded that it should print an appeal for the May Day jemonstration. When the editor declined the visitors wrecked the place Fight 40 P. C. Wage Cuts; Conference Soon f L. organizes only illed, high paid white It cares nothing about the big majority of the workers, the| Negroes, the unskilled, the helpers, women, the young workers, and can- not and will not organize the work- ers of the South to struggle. | “The T.U.U.L. calls upon the workers of the South to defend the class war prisoners now under long sentences at Gastonia. Demand | their release! “Struggle against the railroading of to the chain gang, | per and the electric chair! | |Demand the release of Powers and| Carr, now being held at Atlanta, Ga., ge that means the death and retired without revealing their identity. The South China Morning Post reports that the Communist gov- ernment in West Fukien has introduced the teaching of Communism into the schools. A centralized red army has been organized consisting | of three regiments. The staff of the red army was situated in Lung- lyenchow. ay 27, 1930, and calls upon all anized workers in the textile and steel mills, tobacco and furni- ure foundries, coal mines, railroads, farms and plantations of the South, seamen and longshore- men in southern ports to organize and send delegates to this confer-} ence, to f against the 10 to 90 per cent wage cuts, against terror d murder and Jim Crowism.” Collectives on the Increase MOSCOW (I. P. S.)—In connec-| the Soviet Union according to which tion with the decision of the Central\ the trickle out of the co-operatives cutive Committee of the Soviet |has ceased. In those places where nion granting the members of the |the errors have been corrected, the | collective agricultural undertakings | collective undertakings have recov certain privileges, and in connec-|ered rapidly, consolidated their | tion with the article of Com. Stalinjranks, and commenced work with| “Since this time, continuous ter-! iS —s , condemning all exaggerations and Ee in ea rey ‘x ces peas: ie been carried ice against Prepare New Fascist distortions of the party policy in|The fruitful black soil area in the | T. . organ Negro and : . ° S | the country, an eolightinent Yam-|Ukraine reports that masses of|white., Gilhert Lewis, a Negro or- Dictatorship in Spain. paign is being conducted amongst |peasants who formerly refused to/gunizer of the T.U.U.L., was ar-) a | the peasants, and the former errors |have anything to do with the col-; rested and placed on the chai corrected. The result is that the| lective agricultural undertakings, | at Chatanooga, Ten., for organ (Continued from Page One) of th> workers i been sentence? to long pr ranging up to 20 years. An N.T.W. member, Ella M as deliberately wurdered in broad daylight, ar one punished for it. A statement recentl: ued by the pretender to the Spanish throne Don Jaime of Bourbon, gives fur- |ther evidence of the quite obvious act that the fate of the regime in in i i ing in the balance, and p: all shades are pushing forward to npt to seize political power. | in part: ally and so- asks for a new ordei Such parliamentarism as it is ing to restore would be ruinous for Spain. It impos for the Cortes would not work, but would rely talk.” This is another expression of the efforts to replace the ctatorship by another lictatorship, and not ois democracy.” gang “p, and cially, ngs is cal abandonment of the collectives,}are now joining up. In the new | mectings of Negro and white work- During the last few days reports | hedges which formerly separated the |law has been dug up ai eo demands the d (By a Worker Correspondent) Lae Napestand: white (worker Publie Service Co. today. They are/of unemployed. The Street Car) bosses call ‘inciting to insurree | pany officials say, is the fact that|And it can’t, because its program|}workers of the South are showing| vides the same service with fewer |hosses. What the men need is a}Trade Union Unity League, they | which not only wears out the men | for the officials. which was to be observed here and |cMlective undertakings the work for | ers. 4 there, has now ceased. the destruction of the ditches and| “In Georgia an old post hve come from various paris of|small farms is now in full swing. of our organi: -rs, H. and Joe Carr. Th More Speed-up in St. Louis | these two Commur teause they have spoken at m : : ) | ST. LOUIS, MO.—About 150 men [quicker and inereases accidents, but gictributed leaflets calling the \ | were dropped from service by the jalso adds to the already large army |ers to organize. the capi | both motormen and conductors. A|Men’s Union has not done anything Show Militancy. a reason for the dismissal, the com-|serious to prevent such dismissals.} “But in spite of this terror, the ‘they are no longer needed under |is not one of fight. but surrender-} great militancy, they are going fo | the specdier schedules, which pro- jing the interests of the men to the} ward, building their unions and the \fighting revolationary nnion and not} struggle against the speed-up and Here is a plain case of speed-up |one that only provides high salaries C. ] N DAILY WORKER 60,000 DRIVE SMALLER CITIES VERSUS LARGER CITIES, Many smaller cities are flying the Daily Worker campaign banner | high in breezes of activity and determination to secure new readers and contributions. In many of the larger cities the campaign banner | is at half mast. Judging by correspondence received by the Daily Worker, the smaller cities are showing more interest, are in the vanguard of the campaign, while many cities where district headquarters are located, instead of setting the pace, drag behind. Some district headquarters cities still have their first letter to write to the Daily Worker indicating their cooperation. The Cliffside, N. J., comrades, comrades in Salt Lake City, Utah; Erie, Pa.; Palmer, Mass.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Williston, N. D.; have ordered bundles, have entered the campaign for new readers. From Lawrence, Mass., we have two letters, one from the distric! organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, in which he states: “We will push the sub drive beginning May 4th, will establish sales x textile mill gates, etc. Am lining up forces.” And the section organ- jzer for the Y. C. L. writes: “There is no work here in Lawrence. So have decided to sell Daily Workers. While I am out of a job I can fe build the Daily here.” ¢ " The district agitprop director in Buffalo informs us that the forces tm his district are limited but that the Daily Worker campaign will not be neglected. He will confer with the leading district comrades and the campaign will proceed with full speed from now on. District agitprop departments must begin to understand that build- ing the Daily Worker is one of the important tasks of their department. Yet very few district agitprop directors are helping to give leadership to our campaign. 9-Year Slave Contract for Pittsburgh Carmen PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 4.— ‘The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em- \ployes has managed another sell- \ They have arranged a two- year contract for the nearly 2,000 ks ERE jis the background of Gastonia, Marion and the Southern street car men here with a raise of strikes. The book is the most timely, and it gives an accurate and five cents an hour for one-man car vivid picture of mill villages and cotton mill workers in Dixie. It is the operators. The agreement also per. }est book on the South for workingelass readers. Everybody should own mits the company to run one-man | it, and give or sell it to his shop mates. Myra Page has done a great | cars at night. | fob in ‘SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AND LABOR’”--ROBERT W. The employes originally demanded | DUNN, former organizer Amalgamated Textile Workers of America. 15 cents an hour increase for eae ORDER FROM He yea operators Pr 5 cents Hal a jour for motormen and conductors, i ey " WORKERS 115 39 EAST 125TH STREEY | SHERS NEW YORK CITY making the rates 90 cents and 73| cents an hour, respectively. out. *®& low wages and build defense corps| */to defend themselves against the FREE POWER | bosses and their hired thugs. The will strike or protest against the bosses, the National Guard will be called against the workers and for the protection of the bosses. Workers, join the Metal Workers Industrial Union. STEEL WORKER. ,lotte, N. C., on September 28, 1929. | This time the prosecution was sure} to get the kind of a jury it wanted! which brought in a verdict of| “guilty.” The defense of the worl ers was in the hands of the Inter- {national Labor Defense which to- \gether with the Communist Party, National Textile Workers Union and The Bosses to Demand other left wing organizations mob- Death for Organizers ilized the workers in their behalf, . Louis Demonstration and Parade in (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Today, May 1st, Honor” accepted the delegat for the first time in the history of }had only hypocritical sy the Labor Movement in t ,|the unemployed workers, who AND CARR? v |This took the form of huge demon-|500 workers participated in tarving and being evicted (Continued from Page One) | Strations, mass meetings and picket |Day parade and demonstra their homes by greedy landlc ture struggle of the native born | lines which brought into play hun-| Workers gathered at the The Mayor could not do any proletariat that is rapidly being de. |¢?¢ds of thousands of workers in the|phy Playground, and after a for them. And why should he z 5 South, North, East and West. ispeech, the delegation from the Un-|He is getting $10,000 a year to es below the Mason and Deon They jammed the case through|employed Council was sent to the Ss ,| before a prejudiced businessman and | Mayor. auie ae gee Pere ete tt lendowne jury, however, with heavy| The parade started at 11 A. M. ine th . held for trial |¢™Phasis on the religious and poli-|and passed through a factory dis ing three women, were held for trial /+:-31 opinions of the defendants and|trict and working class neighbor- on first degree murder charges. gof a verdict of guilty. |hood. The workers lined up the On July, 1929, the trial opened |” Feed Beal was sentenced to 17 to| Windows of the shops and factories and was postponed until August 28. | 49 years, along with Joseph Harri-|and cheered the slogans carried by |Council will go ahead and org After the prosecution had present-| <1 Gernee Garter and. Clarence | the demonstrators. |the unemployed worker: ed its case and it became evident} yile,. William McGinnis and Louis! The most iraportant feature of the | councils and will that a with some workers on aoLaughlin got 12 to 15 years, K.|demonstration that white and |bosses’ government to it would probably acquit, one of they tendricks was given 5 to 7 years, | Negro workers together |and unemployment ins: , and cnly the other day the City Council voted to buy him a $6,900 Iniperi tinder Cadillac, because is using now is two years old. TI yor is serving the well, But the Unemplo serve the bo: th th ous marched ee Sit aae ene, insane, Shah Mast Hall |and that the workers are beginning| The main weakness of demon- and a mistrial was declared. orkers Must Rally. |to understand the necessity of united |stration was that we w unable A Maneuver. — The I. L. D. states: “While the| struggle against capitalism. iopulllacy worlec on serie (Ou The charges against six of the pleading before the Supreme Court! The demonstration wound up at |work in the shor dequate 13 were dropped, likewise the first by the lawyers secured by the In-|Columbus Square, where the Sacco |and if we are to mobilize the work- degree murder charge against the|ternational Labor Defense was|and Vanzetti demonstration was jers next time we trust build the seven others. This was done for two reasons: First, if they did not ask for the electric chair and de- manded long prison terms for the seven workers, they could, due to technical arrangements, secure a jury that could be depended upon to bring in the kind of a verdict they wanted. Secondly, as the time went on, the mighty protests of the workers thru- out the United Staes, as well as in| all pars of Europe were so em- necessary and correct and part of | held. There a report was made by jthe fight for the freedom of the} the delegation to the Ma Gastonia workers, it is only a small jand secondary method to be used | in securing their release. Just as |the mighty protest of the world’s| ” workers compelled the court to (By a Worker C | change the charge from first de-| PHILADELPHIA.—I would like|only v gree murder, so must they again be |to let your readers know of the \mobilized to obtain their complete {tricky ways of our private employ- iibevation. |ment bureaus, ‘There is one in par- Trade Union Unity League and “His |shop committees in the factories, Tricky Ways of Philadelphia Jobless Sharks respondent) :; in other words, if you one week you get S$ wage3 gues to ezaployment bureau before it to you. I think you should let readers know of thee p' so not to patronize tae’ + be the lesers ne organi these verivu rk pay, as chat we no the gets your tices | they | not put one of the job and = bor orga izations, “Let all working-class organiza-| ticular ‘n this city who ad phatic in their demand that the : : lof Powers and Carr, to prevent the |f0F these pusitiens are one week's ed to go to the limit. them in the electric chair, as they,"® s"arantee for |tions demand that the seven work-|for mechanics in all bran Jers be freed! Come to the support | Work in the steel mills. The costs Gastonia workers must not be mur- | dered in the electric chair, they fear-|Southern mill owners from burning | full wages aal a commission, with | more than one Tt was under these conditions that lerigimally intended to burn the Gas- | seven workers went on trial in Char- tonia defendants.” | Citadel of the Class Struggie in the New South DEATH FOR THE LEADERS OF THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE! LYNCHING AND LONG TERMS OF PRISON FOR THE WORKING CLASS FIGHTERS! By WM. F. DUNNE A Brillian Marxian Analysis of the New South a Veteran of the American Labor Movement | Powers and Carr face a death sentence in Atlanta, ! | Georgia! 15 Cents | The seven Gastonia prisoners face a living death in North Carolina! ORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS - ‘ 35 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY George Saul and Dewey Martin sentenced to the chain gang! Negro workers lynched! White workers lynched Hundreds of workers of the North arrested and May Issue of the imprisoned for their working class activity! COMMUNIST JUST OFF THE PRESS ‘ CONTENTS NOTES OF THE MONTH MAY FIRST, 1930 Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond now serving three years imprisonment for championing the struggle of the unemployed for “Work or Wages,” and facing another six year sentence on a charge of “inciting to riot.” Workers, What Is Your Answer? There Can Be ONLY ONE! FREEDOM FOR THE WORKING CLASS FIGHTERS! Only Mass Pressure Can Open the Prison Gates and Free Your Leaders! A. HATHAWAY MAY FIRST—THE TRADITIONAL DAY OF PROLETAR:AN POLITICAL ACTION ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, FROM MARCH SIXTH TO MAY FIRST MOISSAYE J. OLGIN MAY FIRST AND THE AMBERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT BILL DUNNE MAY DAY AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY LOUIS KOVESS MAY DAY—1886 AND SINCE SAM DARCY PREPARING FOR THE SEVENTH PARTY CONVENTION EARL BROWDER PROBLEMS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO ON THE EVE OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF | THE PROFINTERN | TOWARD SOCIAL-FASCISM—THE “REJUVENA- TION” OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY (conclusion) A. B. MAGIL The International Labor Defense needs thousands of dollars to give these workers the necessary legal defense and arouse working class inter- est in their release. Send in your contribu- tion today! oice Your Protest by Helping Their Defense JOIN THEI. L. D. Contribute to the Defense Fund! International Labor Defense 80 Fast 11th St., Room 480 New York City BOOK REVIEWS 25 cents per copy $2.00 per yearly sub. 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