The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1930, Page 1

Bum ALL NEEDLE WORKERS CALLED TO COO PER ee Senta ea) 300 TO BUILD TH Kpteres us sce any, Ine, Vol. VI., No. 365 plished daily except Sunday by ‘Lhe Comprodaily Publishing SS Union It was quite fitting that 2500 leading capitalists should pay eight dollars each for a dinner to Policeman Whalen. more in the line of logic and nature. 2,500 Capitalis Ss Fete Whalen |NDIAN WORKERS Assaulted at Stamford May Day Demonstrati Nothing could be For Whalen is a symbol of capitalist policy, who has just dramatized his role by sending to prison for three years the delegation of the N. Y. Unemployed Dem- onstration, Comrades Foster, Minor, Amter, and Raymond. The Astors, Vanderbilts, Youngs, Guggenheims, Morgans et al., all felt a warm’ glow of gratitude in their hearts towards Whalen, whenever they thought of our four comrades in the filthy city peni- tentiary. Nothing is too good for this bold fellow, who crushes skulls and imprisons the leaders of the masses, who are so “insolent” as to demand Work or Wages from capitalism. So think the “foremost citizens” of New York, who draw tribute out of the misery and starv- ation of the millions of American workers. @etnk your champagne and gorge yourselves with your $8 dinners, you rulers of America! Congratulate yourselves on your lousy prisons and your bloodthirsty police! But outside your banquet nbers the army of the working clas: forming its ranks, gathering its forces. The millions of unemployed and their families are growing hungrier and more desperate. Not all of them will commit suicide, as some do everv day; on the contrary, they will more and more take up the fight agains you and your whole class rule. Your banquets and your bandit police are in themselves signs of your coming doom. Eight millions of unemployed walk the streets, sleep in the parks and missions, and starve; the policeman who ordered their heads clubbed on March 6th participates in a $20,000 dinner in his “honor.” Foster, Minor, Amter, and Raymond are locked up in a damp and dingy cell of 4x6 feet; the representatives of the class which sent them there banquet in the Hotel Astor. ¥t is a perfect symbol of the capitalist s; down stone by stone, by the hands of the wor tem that must be torn The Party and the Coming Elections Our Party today is well on the road of becoming a mass Party. The Communists are already an important factor in the political life of the country, with which the bourgeoisie has to reckon. The Party proved its ability to mobilize hundreds of thousands of proletarians on March 6th and May Ist. The political influence of the Party is growing. The workers respond favorably to the call and program of our Party. We are now faced with the tasks of consolidating our posi- tion, of utilizing our political influence organizationally. The coming congressional and state elections offer us splendid op- portunities to get the support of the masses of workers for our Party program. The great disproportion that still exists between our poli- tical influence and organizational strength must be overcome and the coming elections utilized for this purpose. As in all other phases of work, the Party must make the turn and change its approach also in the field of revolutionary parliamen- tarism. The value of revolutionary parliamentarism was clearly estab- lished by the appearance of the delegation of the New York March 6th demonstration before the New York Board of Estimates. If we are to be successful in the elections, we must begin the campaign imme- diately, and not wait till two or three weeks before the elections. We must conduct our activities in such a manner that the workers will not look upon our participations in the elections as “another” Party, but as the Communist Party which leads their every day strug- gles in the factories, which organizes demonstrations, which fights for the organization of the unorganized, and against the police terror, bosses’ wage cuts, speed-up and unemployment. The coming state and congressional election campaign will be the most important campaign of the Party. It does not conflict with the other campaigns of the Party. On the contrary, it must serve as the coordinator of all the other campaigns of the Party. The elections must not be considered as an aim in itself, but as part and parcel of our daily activities in the shops, unions and other labor organizations. To conduct the election campaign without getting new members into the Party, without increasing the circulation of the Daily Worker and other Party press, without building our revolutionary trade unions and our other mass organizations, would mean not to carry out the election campaign in the Bolshevik sense. The immediate task facing the Party in connection with the com- ing elections is the coming state ratification conventions. These con- ventions must be turned into instruments of political agitation and propaganda, for the Party program and mark the official launching of the election.campaign. The ratification conventions must be made up of delegates from shops, workers’ organizations and Party units. This year the election campaign will be of special political im- portance. Through the election campaign the Party will further speak to the masses and continue to mobilize the workers for the pro- gram of our Party against capitalism. The economic crisis, the burst- ing of, the prosperity illusion, the bosses’ terror and offensive against the workers greatly shattered the illusions of capitalist “democracy.” The Party must utilize this situation to establish itself more firmly as the leader of the workers in all their struggles. When properly mobilized, the election campaign will consolidate the influence of our Party and draw thousands of new proletarians into our ranks, BAKERS RESIST IMPORTANT MEETING OF M ACHINE. TERR aR U.U. L. COUNCIL TONITE | dustrial league, left-wing group in Delegates from the shops and fac- : |tories in every industrial union, in- Form Defense Body; New Union Meetings With conditions growing steadily worse both in the unorganized shops, and the “organized” Amer- ican Federation of Labor and Amal- gamated Food Workers where bakers slave 12, 14 and 16 hours under so-called union control, bakers throughout New York City | are responding eagerly to the or- ganizational drive launched by the new Food Workers’ Industrial Union. : The old bosses’ unions are un- successfully using gangsterism and expulsion of militants to stem the tide of revolt among the rank and file, disgusted with the yellowness and corruption of both A. F. of L. fakers, and the Lore-Burkhardt Musteite machine. Friedland, gangster-in-ehief of A. F. W. Local 8, is organizing a strong-arm squad to terrorize the rank and file into submitting to the machine, The rank and file (Continued on Page Two) shops, | the conservative unions and shop icommittees have been elected dur- ling the past week, with instructions on the important tasks of building the Trade Union Unity Council and making it a real directing center (of the militant labor movement of New York. The organizational meeting of the council is tonight at Astoria Hall, ‘62 E. Fourth St., at 7:45 p. m. ‘Why Kids Leave School \as Told by a Bourgeois The “school editor” of the New | York World, speaking Tuesday eve- |ning, admitted that “thousands quit jschool shortly after the beginning jof high school.” but instead of ad- | mitting that the children quit be- jcause they are called on to go to | work to help the family live, the igentleman opined that it was all | because the courses didn’t please the kids’ taste. So he wants the courses changed-—but not capitalist robbery of the kids’ parents, That’s all right for him. _ STRIKE, BUT NOT TO HELP GANDHI ‘Protest at MacDonald “Labor” Government Shooting Workers 20 Dead, 100 Wounded In Solidarity BULLETIN. London dispatches for the first time took cognizance of the fact that the Communist Party of Great Britain is support- ing the revolutionary movement of India against Briti: Not only do the dispatches ex- | press astonishment at the fact— which refutes the Indian bourgeois “nationalists,” who say that “all” imperialism. British parties are imperialis' | but John Bull is give napople: | by an open attack on the British | king, all this taken from the Lon- | | don Daily Worker. * a Bombay dispatches show an India virtually under martial law, with riots in a dozen cities and industry and trade paralyzed by strikes, while the British “Labor” orders—fully as brutally imper Baldwin’s Tory cabinet ev to shoot down the striking ers and demonstrating masses yesterday took toll of 20 dead and 100 injured. | The capitalist press correspond- \ents, never being willing to tell the |truth even when they know it—Nob- secure the meaning of the great strikes, such as that mentioned at Bombay where it is said “3,000 fol- lowers of Gandhi rushtd the Parel |mill area in an effort to intimidate jthe strike-breakers.” The Girni Kamgar (Red Flag) Union is on strike—but not for Gandhi. The workers are striking in protest at the murderous shooting down by British and native troops of the In- dian masses. The workers are not concerned about Gandhi who is com- fortably reclining in the arms of his friends. At Howrah, across the river from Caleutta, 27 police fired on workers who blacked the railway—and “then were forced to flee for their lives.” At Dalhi, the capital, the untimely arrival (the capitalist dispatches cali (Continued on Page Three) government's FLEET IN; SHOWS. WAR MANEUVERS 64 War Vessels and 154 Bombing Planes | Sixty-five war vessels and 154) bombing planes staged one of the biggest war maneuvers ever seen in this part of the country, giving, as the capitalist papers put it “every one a chance to visualize what might be expected in case of war.” That’s just it! These ships are not pleasure barges with merry blue- jackets on them who go on exotic trips into the South Sea and come) to New York to have a good time, | as the workers are asked to believe. | This fleet is being built, trained, continuously “improved” in its speed and death-dealing capacity, to keep tight Wall Street’s grip on its col- onies, and for war on the Soviet It is kept in readiness for the inevitable armed clash between British and American imperialism, for more and bigger markets and sources of raw material. Union. 50,000 DEMAND THE “RED FRONT.” (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, May 7.-—Yesterday a mass meeting protesting against the continued prohibition of the Ted Front Fighters’ League on Buelow Square was attended by 50,000 workers. The police and the army carried out Zoergiebel’s latest tac- tics of cutting off the side streets and preventing all workers not in square, thus excluding thousands that were pacxing the side streets. A number of clashes occurred, ow- | | | | | | Panama Toilers Strike Wednesday | DEMAND RED FRON French-Polish Move Against Soviet the procession from entering the | class matter at the Vost N EW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930 Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef Mareb 3, 1879 s Fitch, | Seated, left to right: Henry Scott, Anthony Lalama, Joseph Nevin, Charles McMahn, Morr Morris Rankin. Standing, left to right: Isaac Lifkin, I. Wofsy, A. Nachowitz, Phil Kaufman, Louis Tomilio. All are heid for trial under a total bail of $10,000. These workers were made to run the gauntlet between two lines of 50 police each at the jail. They were then taken to cells, and led out one at a time to be beaten with brass kunckles, iron manacles, and lead pipes. Morris Fitch, Negro worker, was beaten three times in succession, being flung headlong into a cell between times. Then the police tried to blind him by poking th ingers in his eyes. When this did not bring either a whine or whimper from him, they took off his shoes and beat him on the ankles with iron weapons. He refused to flinch. The uniformed thugs doing most of the torturing are: Carl Paight, Lester Hay and others known. Jack Brennen and Captain George McCarthy personally supervised it. BOARD JGGLES Penna. Miners Prepare JOBLESS LEADERS District Convention “May Day Was a Wow” 17 Illinois Strikers on Trial With Peabody Coal Raymond’s Comment Monday, the four members of the] committee of th unemployed tenced to terms » » to three years in * the county penicentiary were told that they would be taken before the parole board Tuesday, where their cases would be reviewed, and the parole board would fix a definite number of years for them to serve, | within the three year limit provided by law. ; | The parole board’s recommenda- tion would then be-handed over to the special sessions judges for ap- proval and changes. Board Denies It. However, the parol board yester- day was approached by the Interna- tional Labor Defense on the matter, and the I.L.D. was notified that the representatives of the jobless (the board calls-them “anarchists”) were | not brought before it Tuesday, and will not be brought up for several weeks yet. | The members serving time are on Blackwell’s Island, a hideous, dirty (Continued on Page Three) BAN POLITICAL MEETS | Just as the country is preparing r the general election of repre sentatives to the Cortes, the legisla- tive body created after the fall of the Rivera dictatorship, and just as the naive liberals and petty-bour- geois intellectua re dreaming of a democratic Spain, the Spanish gov- ernment frankly exposed its fas- cist character by putting a ban on political assembly and speech. | In the meantime, the unrest in the country is growing. Students of the Universities of Santiago, Salamanaca, Valencia,| Zaragoza and Granada in Spain have declared a 48-hour strike yesterday in sympathy with the Madrid s! dents. The University of Madrid, which was closed a few days ago be- | cause of students’ demonstrations | against the government is still closed. The government has also de-| cided to let the doors of the above five universities remain closed until the examination. S VOLUNTEERS TO SELL “LIBERATOR” EXERA. Volunteers and unemployed work- ers are wanted to sell “Liberator” lextras on commission. Apply today at the Liberator office, 799 Broad- | way, Room 338, | ing to police provocations on the way, when marchers were searched. One over-zealous policeman was |thrashed, |FRENCH-POLISH WAR MOVES ON U.S. S. R. (Wireless By Inprecorr.) WARSAW, May 7.—The French general, Asan, an intimate colleague of General Weygand, chief of the | French general staff, is here as the | guest of the Polish government. | | Asan was military adviser to the | Polish general staff during the Russo-Polish war of 1920, |and musical entertainment at Cen- ling this Thursday, May 8th, at 7:30) ecution | POSSE MURDERS INSANE NEGRO Riddle With Shots As He Surrenders BURLINGT Kansas, May 7. —Clarence Hayes, a Negro worker, jdriven insane by the terror and Joppression visited upon all of his | here, was confined until re- jeently in the Kansas City Hospital. |Care was so bad that he escaped, |and, wandering at ls was at- |tacked by Under Sher N. Rich- man of Coffey County and George Griffith, city marshall. Avella five locals report election of | 4 ; | ahr} fan rng In the fight that followed, the delegates. Canonsburg is mobilized] wero killed Richman and wounded to send a strong delegation from all NQGzERROT Ele wleas witli a-posee dal the mines in the section, The Ale) OU ae od hin’ acros legheny Valley is pushing forward a | fields and finally surrounded him. last-minute drive to get delegates |i. took refuge behind a grazing (Continued on Page Three) |eow, then, apparently realizing, at MASS MEET MAY 4 |least temporarily, his condition, he) Co. Lawyer Leading Pro TAYLORVILLE, IIl., May The trial of 17 miners arrested dur- ing the strike here last December continues today, with Hogan, the Peabody Coal Co. lawyer, acting as chief prosecutor. * veo * * Building the Union. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 7.—The western Penr vania district of the National Miners’ Union is just con- cluding its distribution of 0; leaflets issued by the district in connection with the May 1 demon- strations and the District Conven- tion May 10 and 11, Hundreds of replies have been re- ceived by the district office on these leaflets with applications for mem- bership in the N. M. U. The in- terest in the Second District Con- vention is very keen and delegates are being elected in all sections. In £ SS jstepped out, unarmed, and offered} jto surrender to the posse. Murdered. | Instead of taking him back to “he jasylum they promptly riddled him with bullets and killed him. A mass protest against the frame- up of Powers and Carr in Atlanta, Georgia, and against the final re- | fusal of bail for the New York Unemployed Delegation is being ar- ranged by the International Labor Defense. In order to raise funds for the defense of the imprisoned } workers the International Labor De- fense, in co-operation with the John Reed Club, is staging a dramatic Members of the posse admitted they knew that the man was sane, but said they killed him in order to have a good effect on other Negroes. It is part of the white terror of business men and landlords in the South and border states that when- ‘ever a white man comes off worst {in a fight with a Negro worker a Negro has to be killed for The question of guilt or innocence, even tral Opera House on May 14. Tick- ets are 50 cents; for sale at the Workers’ Bookshop and I. L. D. of-|the question of what Negro fice, Room 422, 799 Broadway. jkilled, counts for little. Fifty men are needed for the mass) ‘The Killing of Hayes is but the scene in “Singing Jailbirds.” Re-\jatest of an unusual number of hearsal tonight at 8 p. m. at 13) hings which have ken place z {1 W. 17th St. |this year, due to the fecling of the \ruling class here that the unemploy- Workers to Plan Camp ment and starvation makes Negro for’ Children at Meet |“: szelious and. that only extreme terror can prevent their The Workers International Relief | is demonstrating and organizing, to is calling a shop delegates’ meet. |Temedy their conditions. p. m. at the W.LR. Center, 10 East) STOOL PIGEONS RELEASED. 17th St. to lay plans for building) AUBURN, May 8.—Four prison- | a summer camp for workers’ chil- ers were released here yesterday by dren, and plans for building up Governor Roosevelt because they strike relief in this city. All work- turned stool pigeon during the strug- orker New York City and forei EIR 86 a year everywhere excepting M. “Communist Candidates,’ Sa vs Powers Worker, Facing Chair, Plans State Election (Special Telegram.) ATLANTA, Ga. May 7. ist candidates must be placed in “Com- every Southern state in this year’s election,” declared M. H. Powers, imprisoned Communist Party om ganizer, here today. Powers and Joseph Carr, Young Communist League organizer, were | seen in Fulton Tower prison here today by J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary, and Paul Pullman, South- ern representative of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Carr, the 21-year-old coal miner, is still confined in a death cell on “murderers’ row,” where three con- |victed slayers are being held await- ing death by burning in the electric chair, Isolated From World. Since his arrival here for the trial, which was to have started Tuesday, but which has been post- poned to May 27, Engdahl has sought to break through the severe prison discipline which has isolated the prisoners from the outside world, with the exception of occasional vis- (Continued on Page Two) PROTEST DEATH SENTENCE ON 280 Demonstrate Saturday Also for Powers, Carr “Free the 280 Communist leaders | of Japan sentenced to death and life imprisonment!” will be one of the slogans of the huge demonstrations to be held Saturday at 1 p. m. at South Ferry and Whitehall St. un-| der the joint auspices of the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Japanese Workers’ Alliance. The meeting will also demand the liberation of M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, Communist organizers who go on trial for their lives on May 27 in Atlanta, Ga. The I. L. D. defending Powers and Carr. | Speakers. The speakers at Saturday’s meet- ing will include George Maurer, as- sistant secretary, I. L. D.; Sam Communist Party; Charles nder, Negro organizer, I. L. ko, Japanese Workers’ Al- Sam Nesin, New York or- liance; |ganizer, I. L. D. Beatrice Siskind, New York sec- retary, I. L. D., will preside at the -Servicemen Meet Friday to Organize Worker Veterans Applicants for Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s Organization meet Friday, May 9, at 8 p. m. In order to accommodate the many applicants for registration into the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Organiza- tion, a special meeting will take place Friday, May 9, at 26 Union Square, at 8:30 p. m., sharp. Only those ex-servicemen who filled out an application for membership for registration and any friends they may wish to bring into the organ- ization are requested to attend. The policies and aims of this organiza- tion will be explained there. Any e rvicemen, regardless of nation- ality or the army he served in, is | urged to join. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting ers are urged to attend this con-| gle in the prison here last year. ference, for unemployment insurance. the Workers May 8, 1775—Second Continen- tal Congress met at Philadelphia ter,” proposals of English Chart- jand shutting down the next has ist movement for political re- | been instituted by about 80 per cent forms, published. 1920—Complete of the cotton mills in South Caro- defeat of Denikin’s counter-revo- jing, | Today in History of SOUTHERN MILLS CLOSE Even E Hunger Wages Vanish | Speaking before 1,000 workers of |the Pacolet Mills, Victor M. Mont- gomery, president and treasurer of the Pacolet Manufacturing Co. in |Spartansburg, S. C., lectured them there $8 a year. | ization | Union, right after work, at 5 meeting. | OWN UNION FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Gen ts janbattan ISSUE RULING ON GASTONIA _ RETRIAL TODAY ‘Denial Will Not End Struggle, Workers Fight Goes On /Rally for Powe Carr LL.D. Sounds Alarm to Save from the Chair RALEIGH, N. C., Ma decision of the North C: ina Su- preme Court on the appeal for a |new trial for the seven Gastonia |defendants may be made tonight or tomorrow morning, it was learned | today. If the decision is decided upor \today or tomorrow it will be cer- tified to the Supreme Court in Eis Uae is County which will con- | 7.—The vene in Charlotte on June 9, wher the decision would be made know? officially. | While there is no information o hand that would indicate if a n trial will be granted, the possibility |for a refusal appears to be very | great. The Supreme Court, natur |ally, is as much a part of the te tile bosses’ machinery as the triz | courts. | Four of the seven defendan Fred E. Beal, Clarence Miller, J« seph Harrison and George Carter ave been sentenced to twenty jyear terms in prison, while the | others, William McGinnis, Louis Me- Loughlin, and K. Y. Hendryx, have been given shorter terms ranging from five to fifteen years. | The International Labor Defens has been in charge of the Gastonia | case since the time when the work- | ers were arrested on April 7 of last | year after Chief of Police Aderholt (Continued on Page Three) NEEDLE MEETING hi y TONIGHT AT 5:30 jAll Invited; Discuss Greatest Campaign The opening of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union drive for 6,000 more members before June & |begins tonight with a great mobil- mass meeting at Cooper 0 p.m. Every needle worker is invited This is the beginning of a campaign that will build such an organization as will be able to wrest from the bosses full union conditions, check unemployment, smash the leeches of the company unions in the field, and | place in the hands of the New York needle trades worker, a weapon such as his history of militant struggle deserves. The meeting tomorrow has beer preceded by a series of organization. lal meetings cé shop delegates, t: |plan the committees that will build ja solid base in every’ shop, building block and street in the industry. | Thorough Discussion. | There will be a thorough discus sion of the past mistakes and im- | provements, so that lessons for the |future can be drawn. There will be also a thorough discussion of the program of organization, the tactics policies and general strategy of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. There has been a wide distribu tion throughout the garment section, and in the shops throughout the needle trades of leaflets calling this meeting, pointing out the need of the | workers, harrassed by speed-up and low wages, by racketeering company junions, and by unemployment, for |the broad, rank and file controlle: PNc WelsU. The leaflets were printed in Eng lish, Jewish and Italian. They hav« been well received and workers are anxious for a real drive to build or ganization. T.U.U.L. Painters | Change Meeting Night to Thurs. | — | The painters organized in the T U. U. L, have obtained larger meet \ing rooms and have changed their | meeting night to Thursday, 8 p. m. This schedule of operating on not getting into debt and wad-| at 1400 Boston Road, All member: lutionary forces by Russian Red ajternate weeks will also be applied ing into the installment buying are urged to attend this meeting as 60,000 V Army, taken prisoners. in other mill sections of the South, 1923—G Sanders, editor of : Mes Memphis, ‘Tenn. “Press,” fined ,P&tticularly at Pacolet, Whitney, |and Gainsville, Ga. $300 for contempt of court for | These curtailment measures, which editorial against injunction in rail- | road shopmen’s strike, 1924— | are due to enormous overproduction Strikers in Oslo, Norway, raided | in the manufacture of cotton and to s, will ships for food. 1925—Thirteen |the general economic ¢ thousand workers locked out in still further cut into the starvation | wages of the southern mill workers. | Czechoslovakia, r \plan, as there would be a great re- | duction of operations in the mills. This parasite who lives by exploit- ling his wretched slaves does not ask what the workers are going to ,do when their already rock-bottom | wages are cut still further. Instead, |he warns them that the future of (Continued on Page Three.) |we are to elect three delegates to | the election convention of the Com- }munist Party to be held May 25 | and 26 at Schenectady, N. Y. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fightins for unemployment insurance 4