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i el ee CR Pace Two MEXICAN TOILERS GAVE! _ BIG BATTLE ew ~ we TO WALLST. TOOL RUBIO ON MAY Ist Communists and Red Unionists Defied Ban and Waged Blocdy Fight in Streets Wipro, Fired on by Police Repeatedly, They Did Not| Flinch and Fought Way to Plaza . M Obrera y, with onal press short was arr » fought back COMMITTEE OF 4 Demand Precedence for Four Not Bailed (Continued from ng on the r ng ac Page One) s of the unemployed Them.” “Immed nd unconditional re- lease of the New York Unemployed | Delegation” ral point in the tour of Pat national secre- tary the Unemployed Council movement. “Release Definitely tied up with, and an| integral part of this struggle to bring Foster, Minor, Amter and Ri ond back into the ranks, are the preparations for the huge mass unemployed convention in Chicago But the. march continued. Fur- ther on, at the Avenue Madero, the police again attacked, opening fire on the workers and, says the press, “Jose Morales, Guillermo Flores and others fell to the ground, vic- of the wounds they received.” Still again the workers reforme their ranks and marched on towa the national palace to spoil the plans of Rubio. And again in the gardens of the Plaza of the Con stitution (Oh, sacred constitutions they were attacked and “fough nand to hand with the police an troops,” say the Mexican papers. Here there were 83 arrested—and these were held incommunicado! Still again in the afternoon at 3 m., says the press: “A group of kers of the C. S, U. M. went to the headquarters of that organiza- tion that was closed by the police about two months back, and took out p. some typewriters and other things, | being attacked by a policeman who fired on them, mortally wounding the Communist, Alfonso Molina, who was carried away by his comrades.” The Mexican workers, led by the brave Communist Party, by their May Day action, show that they will not remain passive under the at- tack of imperialism and its tool, the fascist government of Rubio, CEDLE MEETING 5:30 TOMORROW Opens Greatest Drive; 6,000 New Members (Continued from Page One) work, in Cooper Union, is the great opening of the drive. The union states: “Tens of thousands of needle trades workers are unorganized and ruthlessly exploited, working under an inhuman speed-up system, piece work, and long hours. Women workers, young workers and Negro workers are being drawn into the industry and are doubly exploited by the bosses. “Unemployment is becoming more widespread from day to day, The working conditions are becoming |more and more unbeerable. The Part of the Marine Workers April 26-27, with representatives f. cousts. They launched the Marine constitution providing broad rank and file control, and a program of s struggle. DAILY W Delegates from Ships Form New Union so erie IRKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930 SEDITION CASES Pee Ave. Four of 10 Pace Second | iz Indictment in Newark RS. CMCIAL NEWARK, N. J., May 6.—Unem ployed leaders of this city are fac- ing long jail terms as a result of | their acti | of the jobless workers for the strug- ties in the organization | gle for work or wages. The prosecuting attorney, acting at the command of the Oil Trust and the Publie Service Co. in this \eity, has worked up another charge against four of the 19 unemplc leaders arrested before the M: 6 demonstration, beside the previous charge. | ‘ F eee | Amtorg, branding Whalen's ve Among those who are to appear| ,, ‘ fa thas s | el told him tha before the court Thursday for the ed Convention, meeting in New York rom every important port on three Workers Industrial Union, with a 95,000 IN CHICAGO MEETING MAY 1 25,000 Parade Streets, CHICAGO, Ill. | spite fascist terror of the police |against the Communist Party and revolutionary organizations the May Day demonstration in Chicago was a suecessful one. 25,000 workers marched for an hour through the streets and vicinity of the famous Haymarket Square, Tens of thous- ands of workers greeted the dem- onstration in the streets as it passed through the working class neigh- borhoods and along factories, At least 500 slogans and banners were carried in the crowd. As the demonstration marched the workers sang the International, Hold the Front, Solidarity, Red 'Flag and other songs. 35,000 Hear Speakers. At the starting point of the dem-| onstration twelve speakers addressed more than 35,000 workers. At this time a delegation was elected to | present to the city council demands of the unemployed. The delegation was headed by District Secretary (of the Trade Union Unity League Nels Kjar and District Secretary of the Unemployed Council Steve) Nelson. A number of Negro workers participated in the demonstration as Well as over 300 children headed | by the Pioneers, workers from the stockyards, Western Electric, Gas plant, Deering, Harvester, North- western Car Shops, steel mills, etc. Many workers quit work at noon} and came to the demonstration in a| body. A large number of working Many Strike at Moon | Ill. (By Mail).—De-| second indictment are Domenick| “™/<#s he gave the source and per Flaiani, New Jersey organizer of| the Communist Party, Joseph Lep- sevicius, D. W. Graha Negro worker, and Morr The 10 Newark jobless leaders were arrested on Feb. 11 at an un- |employed workers’ demonstration. | They are to appear for trial before the capitalist court on «Tues May 13. Workers and workers’ organiza-| |tion are called upon to immediately ;tush funds for the defense of the |10 Negro and white unemployed |leaders to the International Labor | Defense, sub-district office, 93 Mer- cer St, Newark, N. J., and to or- ganize protest meetings, send pro- tests to Mayor Congleton in New- lark, and to Judge Van Ripper, Hall jof Records, Newark. documents, he would himself considered guilty of at least | shield PRITISH JOBLESS STAGE STRUGGLE | Storm Doors of House of Commons ing forgers. Pioneers for London reports show the cynical brutality with which the “Labor” government treats the unemployed jwho have been arriving from all perts of England on “hunger march- es” to dramatize their demand for real—and not fake—relief for un- employed. | Yesterday, after their request to see Premier MacDonald had remain- ed for days unanswered, they tried to visit his mansion at 10 Downing Street. Stopped by police, they went gan “Cut School on May Day’ Thursday, they were attacked by roup of rowdies from the Jewis| gogue and one of them knocke unconscious. After having carrie their comrade home, they returne school Suddenly ten PLUMBERS AND HELPERS The Plumbers and Helpers’ _|tion house. When the pioneer: |room and, locking themselves in, de-| ers’ Industrial League, affiliated | they took Nathan Singer to the bac! manded to see the Minister. They | with the T. U. U. L., has a general |2Nd there a dick and a cop beat him |were finally thrown out bodily by momborship meeting Thursday at 8 MORE CHARGES IN “eulish Luck” Sovkino Film | Playhouse Today mitted investigation of his forged be Site ~~~ | sional actors. Cops Beat Up and Kick Calling , School Strike May Day DAILY WORKER AGENTS MEET. | When six Young Pioneers covere Junior High School 40 with the slo- . soir out echt on Mar Day” eg lin the Workers Center, 26 Union| and continued their work in the | overnight, in cold cells, without any | cops covers, and opened the windows to | jentered with drawn revolvers and/ keep them still colder. threatened to shoot them, They beat | them up and took them to the sta-| and were fined re-| Singer, Bernhard Kaplan and Juli to the Ministry of Labor, entered ation of the Building Trades Work-| {Used to squeal on other comrades, | Bli “For All Kinds of Insurance” (CARL BRODSKY 'Delephone: Murray HUN 555¢ 7 Kast 42nd Street, New York “Jewish Luck” was adapted from | the famous sto of Sholom | Aleichem, well known writer and | playwright, and is known as the| < “Jewish Mark Twain.” It pictures | the life of the Jews in the small! | town. WORKERS’ CENTER BARBER SHOP Moved to 30 Unfon Square SREIBEIT BLUG——Main Floor The lovers of the Soviet cinema productions and those that can ap- preciate an artistic film, should not fail to see “Jewish Luck” at the 2nd Ave, Playhouse. | SINGING JAILBIRDS AGAIN. A play about workers in jail, for the benefit of workers in jail! This is the program being prepared by the International Labor Defense | and the John Reed Club for May | 14th at Central Opera House. lipeseccemmameas The play is the first act of Upton | Sinclair’s “Singing Jailbirds” which will be presented in a new manner | on May 14th, under the direction of | Em Jo Basshe. The cast will in-| ,clude the artists and writers of the |John Reed Club as well as a num- ber of workers and some profes- Tickets for this dra- matie and musical entertainment are 50 cents. WORKERS, ATTENTION! REAL BARGAINS at 236 d St. Bet. 3d & 2d Aves. Ladies, Gents and Children’s Furnishings Extra discount to _D. W. read Sy6uaa JleyeGunya DR. A. BROWN Dentist 301 fast 14th St., Cor. Second Ave. Tel. Algonquin 7248 Dr. M. Wolfson Surgeon Dentist 141 SECOND AVENUE, Cor. 9tb 8t. Phone, Orchard 2333, in ense of trouble with your teeth come to see your friend, who has long experience, and can assure you of careful trentment. | A meeting of all Section and Unit| q|Dealy Worker representatives will| ‘be held on Friday, May 9, at 7 p. m. ‘a | Square. h A @|kicked him in the stomach, threw | him on the floor and cut his lip. d| They kept them in the station Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST 249 EAST 115th STREET Second Ave. New York DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY Please telephone for appointment Telephone: Lehigh 6022 Cor. Three were | ent to the children’s court next day 2 each, Nathan ein came before the magi k|trate’s court and are now out on n, $100 bail each. Tel. ORChard 378% DR, L, KESSLER the henchmen of the “labor” gov- p.m. at 13 W. 17th St. All } ernment—their demands ignored. | ers and helpers, organized and un- Later, coming into the House of | organized, are urged to come. | Commons, the parliamentary “holy |of holies,” and demanding attention |to the starving millions they repre- | mb- } Forward to Mass Conference |[-AMUSEMENTS-+ SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor, Eldridge St. NEW YORK Against Unemployment, Chicago July 4th. sented, further palavar of evasion |with the “Labor” politicians in the {lobby angered them and they rushed the doors of the inner “sanctum” of (the House, whereupon the “labor” |cops used their clubs and beat then® up, arresting eight, government! By PHILIP BARRY MARTIN BECK 4% 8:50, Mat | HOTEL UNIVERSE h Stre ofS A hu: nd Saturday at 2 A nice “labor” A MONTH IN YHE COUNTR By IVAN TURG v Help Build THE Tell ‘the Advertiser—“I_ Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker’ 23% REDUCTION TO CITY |} AND UNION WORKERS Vheatre Guild eee E B re) U N D R. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST A UNION SQUARE com 803—Phone: Al Not connected with any ue other office ————=! Arthur Hopkins presents a new comedy by Donald Ogden Stewart with HOPE WILLIAMS PLYMOUTH 2h. 43th St. W. of Brway 8:50. Mats, ‘Thurs. and Sat, 2:40 | Mat where the best dairy foods ‘Thea, 45th, W. of | are served, Where one customer MUSIC BOX ihe. its at Mats. Thursday and Saturday at 2 “TOPAZE” Comedy Hit from the French PRANK MORGAN, Phoebe Foster Clarence Derwent recommends another. TRIANGLE DAIRY RESTAURANT 1379 INTERVALE AVENUB Jennings St. with BRONX 4 and 5. | bosses of the needle industry, just |class organizations as well as the Volunteer for the Daily | | i | || GUILD w. | Mts, All Comrades Meet at Workers all over the country are Jike the bosses of other industries, working at high pressure tp make | are carrying on an organized cam- this tour one of the most success-| pgign to intensify the speed-up sys- ful and militant yet seen. Devine tem, lengthen the hours of labor, units of the Communist Party cane) in an organized manner to the dem- | onstration. The defense squad or-, ganized the demonstration and was Worker Great Singing and Dancing Cast ving Stage SHUBERT | “THE APPLE CART” By Bernard Shaw Have Your Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted by 4th St. W. of B's o. Mats, Wed. and “THREE LITTLE GIRLS” BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health will speak in the following cities: and to reduce the earnings of the ready to stimulate defense in case Philadelphia, Thursday and Friday, | workers. of an attack from the fascist gangs-_ May 15 and 16; Buffalo, Saturday) « _!ters or police. and Sunday, May 17 and 18; Cleve-| ganized ie. tee vial an) At Teast 600 police patrolled the | land, Tuesday and Wednesday, May | employed, are used by the bosses to | streets with guns and tear gas 20 and 21; Toledo, Thursday, May! further reduce the conditions of the|bombs ready to use against the | 22; Detr Friday, Saturday and | yo,kers, workers. | Sunday, May 23, 24 and 25; Chi-| «The company unions in the nee-| The demonstration ended with a cago, Tuesday and Wednesday, May| aie trades, Schlesinger in the cloak |huge mass meeting in the Ashland | 27 and 28; Minneapolis, Friday and) and dress trade, Hillman in the| Auditorium. The main speaker was | Saturday, May 30 and 31; Duluth,| men’s clothing trade, Stetsky and| Bill Gebert, district organizer of the Sunday, June 1; Milwaukee, Gary, | Kaufman in the fur trade, Zaritsky | Communist Party. He discussed the | St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago, in the cap and millinery, etc., are | issues confronting the working class to be arranged from June 2 to 7, in-| used by the bosses as agencies to|today, the deep-going economic, clusive; Pittsburgh, Sunday and | put through their exploitations and | crisis,\mass unemployment, strongly | Monday, June 8 and 9; Washington, | oppression against the workers. Sa ornare ates or y, June 10; Baltimore, Wed-| « 4 _| Wages and danger of war between | June 11; Philadelphia, PRP Nees wala ta CNAs |the United States and England and Thursday, June 12. l'Union is the organisation leading | #8ainst the Soviet Union and that | Conferences are being arranged’ the workers in the struggle against | the answer to capitalist ofienaie| in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chi-|the bosses and their agents, lead-| #eainst the working class a et cago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and jing the struggle for the organiza- | Unemployment can enly: Pek i al Philadelphia to prepare for marches tion of the unorganized, for union | ing of a mass eg Pee | on the state capitals and also to conditions and union control. | T.U.U.L. and unemploye' names cA make final preparations for the! “Our union is built on the shop | The workers must defend themselves convention. | delegate system and is controlled |fom fascist attacks. ‘i Many Join Party. by the workers through their shop : | | representatives, Large numbers of workers joined Unemployed Councils Now, WORKERS MUTUAL ° OPTICAL CO. under personal supervision ot DR. M. HARRISON Optometrist 215, SECOND AVENUE Corner 13th Street NEW YORK CITY Opposite New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Stuyvesant 3836 which will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sur May 16, 17 and 18 In this Tag Day we must mobilize not only the Party and Y. C. L. \units but also unions and fraternal organizations, women organizations, , cooperatives, league organizations, lete. May First and March Sixth showed us that masses of workers jare ready to follow our call and ‘Telepho ‘Tel, SACramento 2592 The Szabo Conservatory = | participate in our act They of Music |will help the Daily Worker in the 1275 LEXINGTON AVENUB |present circulation and finan Street Subway Station EW YORK CITY Instruction given to Beginners and Advancers in MUSIC COMPOSITION VOCAL, VIOLIN, PIANO, ‘CELLO Theory and all other instruments glide jcampaign. Many organizations have | shown their willingness and desire to participate in the Daily Worker Tag Day. Section Committees and Daily Worker representatives must mob- ilize all sympathizers and their or- | | | | TAG DAY |: A EWes. 8:30, Mats. Thur, Sat. 2:3 b0c. $1, $1.50 IVIC REPERTORY ito se 6th Ave. C = Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Brons —— O ATR L O *RATIONAL Vegetarian RESTAURANT a / “THE CUCKOOS” with BERT WHEELER sed ROBERT WOOLSEY 2ND WEEK—BIG LAFF RIOT n Eisenstein Film! 1928 Pea 1929 TEN DAYS THAT | SHOOK THE WORLD” “OLD ~ NEW" Dynamic Picturization of the New Life in Soviet Russia THE LATEST FILM DIRECTED BY ESGENSTEIN An Artistic Event! Milwaukee reports that despite | the arrest of many of the leading | workers the Council of the Unem-| ployed is growing rapidly. Factory | gate meetings are being held every | cay and the unity of the employed and unemployed is being definitely | concretized in increased membership in the councils and also in the Trade Union Unity League. One hundred and fifty members attend the coun- cil meetings regularly, with 1,000 applicants coming at times, At its last meeting the council set a quota| of 500 delegates for the Chicago convention. Thirty unemployed farmers in Williston, N. D., have formed an unemployed council, with O, J, Ar- ness as secretary. They expect to send a good farmers’ delegation to Chicago. F Councils Los Angeles, fornia, District convention preparations are under way and a_ powerful movement is in the making. These workers from the Far West are confident of surprising the Eastern workers by their delegation to the convention, Newark reports an unemployed council of 300 members. Already they have had two splendid dem- onstrations for the release of the New York unemployed delegation and also of the ten Newark work- ers who are facing long terms of imprisonment for their activity among the unemployed. With the present “new” stock ex- ehange crash the shallowness of all the fake prosperity talk has been shown and the field for unemployed zouncils has grown as a consequence. formed in and Cali- have been Oakland “Our union calls on you to take up the struggle for union condi- tions! “Organize shop committees! Join the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union! “At Cooper Union, on Thursda: | we will analyze and discuss the past j activities of the Needle Trades | | Workers’ Industrial Union, analyze | \the mistakes that have been made |in the course of our work, so as to |rectify those mistakes and clarify the plans for our struggle to or- |ganize the unorganized, the strug- |gle for union conditions and union | control, for the 8-hour, 5-day week, | guaranteed minimum wage scales, | unemployment insurance, the right |to the job, and all other union con- ditions, Convention Coming. “Thursday at Cooper Union, we | will discuss the coming convention (of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union, which will take | place on June 6, 7, and 8, alongside with the membership campaign, the campaign for the election of dele- | gates to our convention from or- ganized and unorganized shops, and | the election of delegates to the con- gress of the Red International of Labor Unions in Moscow. “Needle trades workers! Help to fulfill our quota of 6,000 new mem- bers by June 30! Build your union! | Let us organize in the struggle for union conditions, in the struggle against the bosses and their agents, in the struggle against speed-up, re- duction, reorganization, long hours, and unemployment! Remember, nee- | dle trades workers, that in your own hands lies the power to free your- selves from the present miserable conditions)” oo nll DR the Party at the mass meeting and | many sent in applications to the Party headquarters. Lucy Parsons, widow of one of the leaders of the eight-hour day | strike in 1886, hung by verdict of the capitalist class, was received with tremendous enthusiasm. She declared that the only inheritance of the revolutionary movement of 1886 is the Communist Party and that she was glad to be associated with it. Communist Activities Agitprop. Joint Meeting District Comittee and Section Agitpr rectors, Thurgday, 8 p.m. at © Unit 3, Section S, Open Air Meet. Friday, at Dean and Harward, \Labor and Fraternal Organizations Dally Worker Conferenc South Brooklyn, Borough Bath Beach, Wednesday, May {43rd St. All workers’ organi: jshould send delegates, | Workers School Drive, All comrades and organizations who still have collection lists return them with the money collected to the Workers School office. * * Plumbers and Helpers 'T.U.U.L. Thursday, & p. my, 19 W. 17th St. ection 3 Proletarinn Ball. Fri@ay, 8.30 p. m., at Harlem Ca- sino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave, John «, Smith Negro Jazz Band, ‘Admis- sion 50 cents advance, 75 cents e | | \ Borough Park LL.D. night, §.30 p. m., 1873 Brooklyn, . * Workers Club, | Friday, 8.30 p.m, 227 hton } Ave. W, Baum “Program of the Communist International” | door. * * . “43rd St., ganizations to make this Tag Day| @ success. W. I. R. 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