The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1930, Page 1

\ BR aily - Company. Inc. 26-26 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Unton Square, New York City, N. ¥. 1 Vol. VI., No. 364 lI | No Bail for the Unemployed QRGANIZATION IN Powers, Carr FAREASTRISES — ‘ Delegation 'HE Supreme Court has decided that Foster, Minor, Amter, and Raymond shall not be admitted to bail pending their appeal against the sentence of three years in prison. Any gunman or murderer gets bail. But not the leaders of the unemployed. Every grafter and crook goes free, but not the March 6th leaders. That precious crook, Mr. Cooley, who has been at the head of the Board that decides how long prisoners shall serve, and who used his position to graft through manipulation of payrolls, is not even | under arrest—but Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond must not even be allowed bail. Magistrate Flood, who was one of those who refused bail to our comrades before conviction, himself helped to get his own brother who was charged with murder, out on bail—but unemployed demonstrators cannot have bail. Savage, brutal, and vengeful, and cynically manipulating their own laws, the puppets of capitalism in the seats of power by these acts reveal the depths of their fear and panic in face of an awakening work- ing class. They reveal the helplessness of capitalism in face of its crisis, which only knows how to smash down the workers but cannot solve its problems. They reveal the brutal features of a capitalist class government, executing a class judgment against the workers, This decision will fill the hearts of hundreds of thousands of work- ers with a new hatred of capitalism and all its works. It will steel the will, the determination of the workers, those unemployed and those in the shops, to organize better and fight harder. It will rouse new thou- sands to the realization that the working class can only obtain justice from a Workers’ Government. Judges of the Supreme Court! You have but one thought, that is to protect capitalism from all who attack it! You little know that by your decisions you are helping to dig capitalism’s grave! Welcome, Sailors! 10 thé thousands of sailors who are visiting New York City and Philadelphia for a brief shore-leave, the Daily Worker extends its hearty working class greetings. Practically all of you come from working class or farmers’ families. Many of you have served your turn in the factories and mines of the United States. You know some- thing of low wages, speed-up, and the exploitation of U. S. capitalism. Well, the damn system hasn’t improved any while you have been down South practicing how to shoot up the Latin-Americans if they should quit paying interest to Wall Street. In fact, its a heck of a lot worse, and going down. The Daily Worker is exposing the terrible conditions in the work- shops, mills, factories, and mines, and helping the workers to organize and fight for better conditions. We know that you sailors have your own troubles, and your own grievances, and that~ conditions on the ships are nothing to brag about.. All workers who read the Daily Worker would be intensely interested in learning about these things from you, and you could improve things by exposing some of the rot- tenness in the navy through our columns. Drop a line to the several hundred thousand workers who read the Daily Worker and its as- sociated papers. We'll be glad to print it. At the same time, we want to call youryattention to a “little matter”; that is, that the governments of all the eapitalist countries, including “our own,” are as busy as the proverbial eat preparing for a new war. The London Naval Conference exposed for all the world to see, that a world war is preparing with lightning-like speed. All the submarines, torpedoes, big guns, poison gas and aeroplanes are getting ready to go into action. Well, there isn’t going to be much chance for “glory” in this war, boys, but its sure that a few millions more than last time will feed the fishes and the worms. That ought to cheer you up a lot, huh? “Hat, drink, and be merry, for to- morrow—.” Of course, if you can’t stand it to think about all these disagreeable facts, there will be plenty of people in New York to, help you forget them. New York boasts of being the wettest city in the world. Drown your troubles in bootleg, even if it is rotten stuff, will be the advice handed to you from many sides. No one can deny that there are oceans of it here, in spite of Amendment No. 18, Volstead, and all the army of “enforcement officers.” Then you will wake up with a splitting head (if you wake up), a dark brown taste in your mouth, and can curse New York to your heart’s content, until the next time. That's one way to make the shore-leave pass quickly. Another way is to get hooked up with the boys’ and girls in the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party, and go around the city a bit with them. This way, while you won't find an awful lot to drink, you'll get acquainted with a fine bunch of fighters who can show you a good time, and at the same time can talk with you about everything you are interested in. And remember, while you listen to all the bunk that’s handed to you about the Communists, and about the Latin-Americans, and the Filipinos, and the Chinese, and all the other people that your bosses want you to be ready to shoot down whenever any trouble is made about regular payment of rents and profits—just remember, that it has always been the sailors who were in the forefront of all the big revolutions, and who smashed the big bosses when they got entirely too much that way. In this country now, with 8,000,000 workers out of a job, with wage cuts and speed-up, with police clubbings and send- ing of workers’ leaders to prison for from 3 to 20 years each, a job along the same lines is getting ready for you. Better get posted. Anyway, while you’re on shore, read the Daily Worker and keep yourself posted. And make arrangements for the paper to ibe for- warded to you when you sail away again. We'll be glad to fix it up for you. Welcome, sailors! Hail the Weekly ‘Young Worker HE Daily Worker gives its heartiest greetings to its junior con- temporary which has just been born, the Weekly Young Worker. A sign of the renewed growth and strength of the Young Commu- nist League, the new paper appeared on May Day with a special edi- tion for the occasion, of which the Y. C. L. may well be proud. It is a real live sheet, reflecting a living, growing, fighting organization of youth, In the United States the youth movement has long lagged be- hind. There has not been a weekly youth paper before in this country. And yet there are more young workers in industry here than in prob- ably any other land. Millions of youth under 25 years of age, both boys and girls, work in the industries of the United States. They suf- fer the sharpest exploitation, speed-up, and low wages. They need and demand organization and leadership. ‘ Now the Young Communist League is demonstrating that it knows its tasks and how to begin to solve them. And the first step in this direction is the firm establishment of a weekly paper. The new weekly has jumped at once into the practical work for which it was designed. It is undertaking to recruit 10,000 new youth members into the revolutionary unions during the Trade Union Unity League Recruitment Drive, At the same time it continues the work of building up the Y. C. L., which has just finished gathering in more than a thousand new members. Difficult tasks lie ahead of the Weekly Young Worker and the Y. C. L, Only the most stubborn determination, the most unwavering and energetic work, will accomplish these tasks, Only a spirit of de- termined enthusiasm, harnessed to the correct political line of the Y. C. L., can do the job. The first issue of the new youth paper gives the assurance that all these necessary qualities have been brought togethér, We expect fa wave of enthusiasm to sweep the ranks of the young workers in ing the Weekly Young Worker. a - Case Put Off FULL SWING MEN ci SEE AFL FAILURE 20: Per Cent Wage Cut In Briggs Plant; | Young Communist Atlanta Death Cell (Special Telegram.) | y ATLANTA, Ga, May 6.—The | Ford Worsens | trial on charges of “insurrection” = eer for which the state asks the death Defy Threats on May 1 near NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, + AGAINST REGIME ' OF IMPERIALISM All India in Ferment As Masses Battle | Armed Forces Chinese Soviets Grow South African Negroes Fight British Rule BULLETIN, | Reports Hanoi, China, on Tuesday stated “Rebels led by Communists” had itvaded the the Indo- that Trom concessions in FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SUBSCRIPTION RA and Bronx, New York City and for 1 Sea year everywhere excepting Manhattan countries, there $8 a On With the Hight of March a win i JOBLESS DEMAND COMMITTEE OF 4 National: Organization Tour Makes Committee Freedom A Main Point Demand Precedence | for Four Not Bailed | While the attorneys of the Inter- e drive ahead the national Labor Def with their appeal against con- viction of the New York delegation and of the 110,000 unemployed penalty of two Communist organ- | |izers here was postponed today at | : OoH| ques rosecutio! National Industrial May'21- “te nad aitendy been post: i i |poned from the first date, April 21 Auto Union Coming [Pont y's. » jmonster mass meeting of auto! the death cell in Fulton Tower Jail workers will be held Friday, May 9, | here, separated from M. H. Powers, at 7:30 p. m. at Danceland Audi-|Communist Party organizer, assis- Roraing Wrodward: Forest, | tant Solicitor General John Hudson which is one of the largest halls | in the city, The Auto Workers’| Union is preparing for its national | convention, to be held on May 17, and will utilize this huge gathering | for a final drive to get thousands of workers to participate in the elec- tion of delegates from their shops | and also for nominations of dele-| gates to the fifth congress of the | Red International of Labor Unions, to be held this summer in Moscow. | Increase Intimidation. | The rapid increasing of militancy | among the auto work€rs is forcing (Continued on Page Three) | SAILORS URGED TO GET WISED UP | Tools for Boss War Plus-Bum Conditions | The U. S. imperialist fleet is in! Last night the war ships were an- | | chored in the Hudson River and to- day part of the 30,000 sailors will| get shore leave. The naval fleet | has just returned from imperialist war maneuvers in and around the | Caribbean Sea, The idea in the | maneuvers was to practice holding | on to the present Latin-American | markets of Wall Street and to grab” new markets, | That every effort will be made | to keep the sailors, who suffer poor,| wages, long hours, political dis- crimination similar to their broth- | ers, the workers of the factories, | from getting wise to their true! position is indicated by the many jingoistic affairs being arranged for them. The capitalist city govern- ment announces that it will pull off a ball for 2,500 men and the Na- tional Navy Club has arranged a dance.. + The New York district committee | of the Communist Party and Young Communist League called upon the | sailors to understand their present position. “You are suffering poor conditions, political and social dis- crimination in the service of the U. S. billionaires’ government. You are being trained for another im- perialist war, a war for the grab- bing of territory and markets by our joint exploiters—the capitalist |elass. The fiasco of the London ‘disarmament’ conference, the war moves against the workers’ land, the Soviet Union, as indicated by the recent Whalen forgeries, shows this new war in preparation. Wake up and fight for your rights side by | side with your brothers of the work- ing class! Fraternize with the workers. Visit the working class organizations in New York and talk things over.” fought for and secured postpone- ment of the trial of these two mili- tant workers for three weeks. vicinity of Vinh. In a battle with police and soldiers twenty were Incommunicado. | killed, twenty-five wounded and Powers and Carr have been held! there were ninety arrests. incommunicado and it only became} FNS ISS known today that the Communist) From India, Africa and Chins . ro ct sem1-co!- Th Vetiis’ Magdabl) eneral secre. | Wale in Spain the forces of bour- tary of the International Labor De- [eae RCOUPL ER eHD, eed ee feiae! GhG Ariel hers just before sible because of their bourgeois lead- fie tie tin taaunnunced (Cane ENaC | cote ete Serene Level: : i |tion against the monarchy, are pet aite ote you re Sen, t0 lbreaking down its, traditional hold effect Carr’s removal from the | sn4 making way for the only leader- death house. He has taken the <i) that can end fascism and mon- matter up with the I. L. D. attor. aa ae ney, Oliver C. Hancock, who is “tism—the proletariat, pressing for quick action. The Indian proletariat, taking ad- “This is merely another method Vantage of the anger of the mas adopted by the prosecution to bol-|@t Gandhi’s arrest, are showing that ster up its charges of attempting | they are against British imperialist to incite insurrection and circula-|Tule, but, or rather therefore—not tion of insurrectionary literature, |With Gandhi and do not share his under a civil war period statute,” | Pacifist foolery. said Engdahl. | In every great city all industry esti GAI Terrien is practically paralyzed by strikers ye _. _ [which must reach a total of hun- When the case came to trial in| dreds of thousands of workers, and April, the prosecution demanded tacking scabs and fighting police and : troops. At the capital, Delhi, police fired MEET T0 PROTEST into crowds, killing two and wound- ing thirty. At Calcutta police fire » wounded fifteen, while in the North HILLMAN FAKERY business is suspended and all over —_ | printed, but hourly posters are is- 4 sued. T.U.U.L. Calls Clothing Gandhi is being given “luxurious’ Workers to Struggle quarters at the Poona jail, having a . whole wing to himself, the British Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, D. Bo-/| proving him with a special cook, ruchowitz, Sam Liptzin, Jacob Rabi-|three doctors to look after hi leaders, will be speakers at a mass|—such favors as the Indian trade protest meeting against unbearable |unionists of Meerut have been de- conditions and Hillman sell-out in] (Continued on Page Three.) the men’s clothing trades. - The meeting is called by* the! Amalgamated Section of the ‘teats POWERS - CARR PROTEST On the same day the Hillman agents | 4 demonstration for the freedom leave for their “whoopee” conven- |of M, H. Powers and Joe Carr, Com- tion in Toronto. jmanist organizers facing electrocu- |tion in Atlanta, Ga., will be held | Saturday at 1 p. m. at South Ferry WALKER LAUDS WHALEN; ana Whitehall Street. It will also be in protest against the sentencing sped a state of virtual martial law noff and S, Hertr, well-known health, goats to furnish him bis Saturday a1 nm at Stuyvesant AT WATERFRONT, SAT. LEAVES HIM ROOM TO GO)|t- death and life imprisonment of rier ence Pree fac from being pacifist they are at- exists, No’ newspapers are being needle trades organizers and strike | milk and $10 a week for incidentials Casino, Ninth St. and Second Ave. }280 leaders of the Japanese Comntu- ; ' Inist and labor movement, for the Mayor Walker, safe in Bermuda, |froedom of the seven Gastonia and evidently reassured that Grover | strikers and all other political pris- It is being arranged by the Whalen would resign his office of |oners. police commissioner, yesterday had {International Labor Defense, 799 read a letter to the Whalen dinner | Broadway, and the Japanese Work- ers Alliance. . . committee lavishing praise on the chief cossack. The letter, it was observed, carefully abstained from ! hinting at any salary raise, whieh | is Whalens alibi for quitting before | he gets kicked out. International Wireless News The New York World in its | editorial columns today admits | Whalen’s documents are forger- I * That the Communists are worry-| in, Grover Whelen, chief Tammany | cossack, and now chief Tammany political bungler, was revealed by his awkward at.empt to counter-act the tremendous effect of the May First demonstration and the grow- ing influence of the Communist Par- ty by peddling forgeries. Irritated and riled by the fact that all of his repressive measures have not stop- ped the growing strength and in- | fluence of the Ccmmunist movement, Whalen sprung a whole sheaf of anti-Soviet forgeries on a stunned SOVIET GRAIN SOWI ] E S CENT ABOVE PL/ (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, May 6.—The figures of the Agricultural Commissariat show that the spring sowings of grain have exceeded by 50 per cent the area planned, the total sown being 33,000,000 hectares (82,500,000 acres), including in this total only 13,000,000 hectares in individual farms. ies. It says: “Are there some typical Russian forgeries floati about?) Mr. Whalen swallo - them, hook, bait and sinker.” * * * “SOCIALIST” POLICE MURDER YOUNG WORKER, (Wireless By Inprecorr.) Whalen’s political hopes were flung by this invitation, Meanwhile, the House Committee itself is split over Whalen’s charges. BERLIN, May 6.—-The young Several members of the committee | worker, Gustav Zahnke, died yester- are afraid to burn their fingers and |day from wounds received on Easter Jeapordize a $150,000,000 trade with |Monday at Leipzig, following Com- the Soviet Union. They therefore |munist Youth Day. Zahnke was jadmit that Whalen’s documents are | beaten up by a wogon load of police, outright forgeries, having been in- |chased into a cellar where a police- formed that these documents were|man shot Zahnke in the back. The offered for sale to several New York |bullet entered, his thigh, drove newspapers by an ex-czarist officer. |through the length of his body and According to a capitalist press lodged in the base of the skull. De- dispatch from Moscow, Professor |spite this frightful wound, the po- Herony, an American economist at|lice continued beating up Zahnke, (Upper picture) Chief Thundervoice, the representative of the Iroquois tribe is speaking to more than 3,000 workers in Buffalo on May 1. Chief Thundervoice called upon all workers to unite in the struggle against the exploiters and for the establishment of a workers’ government. (Lower picture) the ex-servicemen’s section of the mighty May 1 | demonstration in New York. The worker in the sailor’s uniform was beaten up by police. With three “honorable discharges” from the American imperialist navy, this worker has learned that his place is in the class struggle against the bosses und the entire capitalist system. ‘700 Ohio Miners Kick Out Howat Misleaders Mass Meeting Called: by Fakers Goes Over to | National Miners Union; Hit Co. Checkoff |. LANSING, Ohio, 4 (By REE ) Mail).—The National Miners’ Union| | { EDLE MEETING |took over the miners’ mass meeting 4 Ua ae Bd held here ‘today whieh had been lealled by the Howat-Farrington-| 5% 2 Germer faction of the United Mine urd i | Workers. | | Between six and seven hundred! ae ~ iminers and their wives and daugh- Onens Greatest Drive; 6,000 New Members |ters refused to Germer, Allen Ameringer and nk Bender, “Six thousand new members by Ohio organizer, unless they s allowed to elect a rank and file|Jume 8. Forward to the as meee chairman of the ‘meeting. Howat|!™& at Cooper Union on Thursday, right after work!” shout leaflets | did not show up. When the demand for the election jof a chairman was rejected a num- |ber*of miners spoke from the ranks of the crowd. In a few minutes the Isocial fascists, seeing the hopeless- ness of the situation, packed up and left. Not a single miner followed thein. distributed f-- and wide in the gz ment section by the Needle Tr: Workers’ Industrial Union, an- nouncing tle formal beginning of their great membership drive. The-union is holding a series of shop delegate meetings by streets, to build the organizational machin- | Frank Sepich of the N. M. U. ety by streets, shops, blocks and was then elected chairman. Some |uildings. All delegates in shops fifteen or twenty Lewis gangsters 0 86th and 40th Sts. will meet were dispersed and the meeting con- teday in the union headqui 131 tinued under the auspices of the West 28th St. a N. M. U. Bob Sivert, organizer of | Today, also, the executive of the the Ohio district, and rles Guynn, |Shop delegates’ council will 2 emble national secreta: oke: at 8 p. m. in the union headquar- | The entire proceedipg was carried | ters. But the big mass meeting for all needle workers of every branch of the industry, organized and unor- ganized, employed and unemployed, to be held tomorrow, right after (Continued on Page Two) lout in an orderly manner, but with la firmness that left no doubt as to |the determination of the miners to defeat both the Springfield and In- dianapolis gangs of company agents. Previous to the arrival of G@ |mer, Ameringer and Haywood a| ee —— jleaflet exposing them and giving, WHILE 1 S$ COMMITTEE |the action program of the N. M. U.|* | GO |was distributed. | Two yeu of The mecting showed that neither |@tafting 1 of dollars on the Springfield nor the Indiana ewer cont former Queens compa gents b any rank Borough , presi lly, and nt engineer, Seel file f ing in this section of the | ™ 5 » § Ohio coal fields. te must serve one year each. On May 25 the National Miners’ The court of appeals in Albany has Union will hold & ma aniza- rendered this decision. (Continued on Page Three) The men will not be taken to prison at once, of course. Their is a respectable crime. PAINTERS’ BOARD TONIGHT. There will be a meeting of the executive board of the Painters Sec tion of the Trade Union Uni League tonight at 8 p. m.'at 13 W 17th St. All members must be pres ent. ?AY OF 15,000 BISBEE, Ar May 6.—Fifteen thousand copper, miners of Arizona have been handed a wage cut total- |ling $4,000 a day. . BRIBED PARKER VOTES NERS. Boss Governmen WASHINGTON, D.C. May 6--} As the voting of “Yellow Dog” |tion with this c Parker for a soft berth in the U.! S. Supreme Court was drawing near |in order to uphold the illusion of a yesterday charges of wholesale /democracy and to hide the increasing briberies and corruption in connee- {steps towards fascism. ‘ tion with the vote were piously dish- ed up by some senators. That senators were being offered ruption is neces- ry for the capitalist government The vicious anti-labor character of the capitalist government in gen- ; pat Nad ‘ jera’ and the U. S. Supreme Court judgeships in feturn for voting for |; : sail f jin particular was indicated by Sen- Parker was charged by Senator Am- |-4.0°% Resi iain arged by Senator Am-/ator Stephens (pro-Parker) yester. t Dirt Again . Je in connee- a striking workers demon: here March es are making elected represen- in their or- Union Squa unemployed the release of the tatives a main point ganization campaign. | The New York Committee, Wil- liam Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Har- old Raymond and Joseph Lesten, were convicted in a juryless trial before three judges on April 11. Appeal was taken immediately and on good grounds, for the trial was teeming with violations of the United States and staté constitu- tions and of all the rules of evi- dence. | Lesten has served 30 days in the workhouse and the other four are already serving on Blackwell's Island their sentences of three years. Every move to have them bailed out has been denied. Pushing Appeal. The International Labor Defense attorney, Brodsky, states that the appeal is being pressed in the Ap- |pellate Court and has been sent in with the argument that it should be pushed rapidly through because the jobless leaders have been tyran- nically deprived of bail. One of the committeemen, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, is dangerously ill, confined to the prison hospital. He was for a con- siderable time deprived of proper medicine, While this legal struggle is go- ‘ (Continued on Page Two) | URGE SHOE WORKERS TO BE AT UNITY COUNCIL | By F. G. BIEDENKAPP. The world-wide industrial crisis resulting from so-called “over-pro- duction” (which, if correctly termed, ‘is “under consumption”) is a na- tural disease of capitalism, for ; which there is only one cure, namely, |the abolishing of capitalism, and only a surgical operation will do it. The only hand steady and strong enough to perform that job is the hand of the militant revolutionary working class. While it is true hat the American workers have not yet had as much training along that line as did the European workers, nevertheless March 6 and May 1, | 1930, have demonstrated that we, |the American workers, are rapidly |learning our lesson. The training schools of the mili- |tant organized workers are the Revy- jolutionary Industrial Union of the |various industries, under the lead- ership of the Trade Union Unity League and the Red International of Labor Unions. Under such guid- ance the workers will learn how to put an end to low wages, speed- up, contract and piece-work, yellow- dog contracts and exploitation in general. They will learn the mean- ing of “class struggle,” working- class solidarity and dictatorship of the revolutionary proletariat in place of capitalist murder. Council Meets Thursday. Under revolutionary leadership |the workers will learn how to ,do away with unemployment, starva- tion and persecution. AIl the forces of oppression, as manifested in the recent lockout of 3,500 shoe work- ers by the organized bosses, at the request of the United States de- partment of labor, are used against the workers. On May 8 the T. U. jU- Le New York district, will hold a very important organization meet- ing of its New York council to lay |the basis for a greater revolution- ary industrial movement and more ive and constructive work among the masses of workers, both white and Negroes, men and women, youth and ad , in this important center. Shoe workers should elect dele- gates from every shop in New York |and Brooklyn and send them to the |T. U. U. L. Council May 8 at As- toria Hall, 62 E. Fourth St. at 7:45 p. m. sharp. and astounded bourgeoisie. ~- Kiev, stated that the Whalen docu-| The House Immigration Commit-| ments were as false as the 1924 tee invited him to attend its execu- | British Zinoviev letter, having been itive session Friday to help supply | prepared by people interested in dis- “evidence” against the Cbmmunists.|rupting economic relations with the| 2Na ona. of course, knows hew high| Soviet Union, breaking his ribs and kicking at his heart until it was dislocated from the left side to the right. And now, after his death, Police Presi- dent Fleissner, a “socjalist,” pro- hibits any funeral procession. hurst of Arizona. This directly in- | (an : directly day when he declared that not only | = of no atrikes, torether with+Green |e Supreme Coitrt had decided’the| ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- of thy ALL of L., wage clits; rand gg of the “yellow dog” contract| mond, in prison for fighting breadlines. in the Hitchman case, for unemployment insurance, ‘ . ¥