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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930 Page Three ANY SLAVE SIGNS IN'ISSUE RULING | SEATTLE HELP SHOW UP qy pasToNIA -HOOVER’S “PROSPERITY” RETRIAL TODAY Tiled, Sounds Alarm to} - “Husky Man Wanted—$5 a Week” or $15 a Month Typical Cases Save from the Chair (Continued from Page Ones “@nly Way to Do Away With Such Conditions . . ” Is Join Communist Party and TUUL’ A rR en derous mob against the strikers and (By @ Worker Correspondent) | their families in Gastonia. SEATTLE, Wash.—Spring is | room and board, but no wages.” Tae ate vee uae ext fee No work has opened up, “Wanted: House boy, to work th eee pe fear Rat ue On the contrary, all the lum- | in private home. Must keep clean | org throughout. the country must fee Lae eae Ni and well dressed; wages $5 a continue their camp ii d line Lack of markets is the reason | jonth.” is “ir paign demanding given. The employing class, re- Tae Laat Dhasiuaki om taien ts their liberation. alizing that there are tens of thou- dolail sound (fae #6eks 15 si ; * * French “Civilization In Indo-China!” STRIKE, BUT NOT TO HELP GANDHI, Panama Toilers Strike! In Solidarity (Continued from Page One) it a “timely” arrival) of a truckload of police was all that prevented the Deputy Police Superintendent from paying for some of the police mur- with his life. No more than six persons were allowed to gather on the streets. Here fifty were shot down by police and troops. Indo-Chinese revolutionists struggling to throw off the y their French oppressors are murdered by the French imper robe = oe | In the summer capital of Simla, | LL.D, Sounds Alarm. The International Labor Defense, | |80 East 11th Street, New York City, |has issued the following statement |on the attempt being made to send |M. H. Powers and Joe Carr to the electric chair in Atlanta, Ga.: “Because M. H. Powers and sands out of work, when they hire h” men pay them very little wages, | month. Here are some of the ads in the papers and on the employment of- ice boards: “Wanted, 6 Swedes or Austri- atns; mill laborers; 8 cents per Workers, there is only one way to do away with such rotten con- ditions as these are, and that is to organize on the political and industrial field. Join the Commu- Joe A Your. Stimson Lumber Co., on | nist Party and the Trade Union |,” 3 Ae canals afd Wasiloke. Ack’ for | Unity League, the only organiza- | Car, Communist organizers ad- ae tion that fights for the working | essed mectings of Negro and white workers in Atlanta, Ga., and class. Se aee urged them to unite in a common struggle against the employers, they are facing death in the electric chair. Fear Workers’ Union. “Afraid that if the Negro and white workers should join in soli- darity against the common enemy, {they would better their economic |conditions, mill owners and other | capitalist interests have jailed Pow- ers and Carr. In a desperate ef- fort to give the maximum sentence} to the two workers, they have dug from the musty old law books, a statute passed in 1861 which calls for death in convicted of ‘inciting | to insurrection.’ According to the viewpoint of the Georgia rulers, it is ‘inciting to insurrection’ to break | down the Jim-Crowism of the South |and unite the Negro and white} | workers in a fight for better condi- | tions, | “The capitalist class of Georgia lis desperate. The prosecuting at-! jtorney has announced that he will) |demand the death sentence. He will demand his pound of flesh from | the militant working class. “As the capitalists sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the death house, so they now prepare to send Powers and f fy” ‘Wanted: Husky man to help a =penter. Will be willing to give —A PRINTER. Chester Bad for Stranded (By @ Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—Unemployment is bad in Chester. town to get sttanded in. The big companies are laying off. The Texas Oil and the Chemical Co. are not hiring anybody. The Congoleum Floor Covering Co. at Marcus Hook are laying off every day. This is the answer you receive when yo apply for a job at these companies for work: “Nothing doing.” The Eddystone Print Works has nearly shut down. Unemployed workers of Chester should join the unemployment council of the Trade Union Unity League ait Cleveland Employment Agency Sharks Gyp the Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Working conditions are almost unbearable in Cleveland. Very littie of work. What there is in view the private employment agencies get them jobs and charge you a fev of $7 or $8 for,a $12 a week job, then you pay your said fee and you go and hire out as for instance a dish washer, and when they get you It is a bad you quit, so you can’t get your fee back. The employer and agen- | ey are in cahoots. Now, ex-soldiers, we have fought to protect the bosses, now let’s fight to protect our own interests and join the Communist Party— that’s the workers’ party—and de- fend the Soviet Union. All dem- onstrate May 1, unemployed and bers. But the revolution of the oppressed colonies is on the march. And no force will be able to stop it. be TEXTILE MILLS 14 ere the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, is bossing the job for Ramsay Mac | Donald, all business was suspended and a crowd tried to rush the official alace. The bias of the supposed italist press is shown isfaction with which it is said tt rah, “a large force of Eastern od Rifles brought to their senses.” le, German firms export- to India have been in- structed by their agents to stop send- ia. This will hit ‘MINERS PREPARE To Operate Alternate Coal Co. Lawyer Asists ing textiles Weeks, Wages Vanish State Against 17 ing goods (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page Oney | S¢tman factories a hard blow. the industry is very uncertain and elected from every mine. The |_ Mest interesting accounts from exhorts them to be thrifty and pru- Charleroi Brown -Elleworth sec- | Panama, where a large colony of dent—on nothing. tions are reporting intensive activi- | Hindus live, tell that not only were Preliminary reports of the 1980 ties in connection with the elections, | mdian run bus lines and stores census show a picture of severe, The convention will have a strong ‘losed by strikes, but that a thou- crisis in the New England textile delegation from the famous coke |S@%d Panamanian workers at Pana- industry also. The population has region sections, The last two con- |™2 and Colon also went on a sym- ‘on had | Pathy strike of 24 hours. some been cut in many large centers due| ferences held in this sec to the removal of mills. This is} representatives from 18 mine i mae especially true of Fall River and of them the largest in the territory. HANGMAN’S WIFE New Bedford, Massachusetts. | At least 50 delegates are expected Reports from Manchester, Eng-|from the coke region and 200 from. GETS $1,600 PHOTOS land, indicate that the cloth market |the Pittsburgh district. is in a very depressed state. The) Strong While Indian market has been greatly af- | deleg poor, is mounting, and the burden | : of 1 ga g for the over- whelming majority of the popula taxes, especially on the; egro youth and women are expected from all tic fected by the recent boycott, and the sections. the China market is very dull. | The convention will last two days | eee or . jand will take up the problems of the Parole Board Trifles . M. U. in all the de The With Jobless Leaders questions of mine committees, check- (Continued from Page One) r, Chiang Kai-shek and $1,600 for photo- of their recent ‘s » according to a report of the spe correspondent of a San Francisco Chinese paper. The same report that Chiang ne us Kai-shek owns three cars in Shan- Demand the release of Fos- “hai and five in Nanking, one of which is a Lincoln make all steel car that cost him $110,400, It is also spent weighmen, dead work scale and an jopen fight against wage cuts, un- and dangerous jail, They are Wil-|be before the convention. It starts liam Z. Foster, Robert Minor, {May 10 in the Labor Lyceum, 35 Lesten, the fifth member of the com: | mittee elected at Union Square to jemployment and seditious laws will Amter and Harold Raymond. Joseph | Miller St. Pittsburgh, F lay the demands of the unemployed | ter, Minor, Aniter and Ray- authors of the Soviet Union to their INDIAN WORKERS CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF COMMUNISTS OF iTALY DEFEATS OPPOR. UNISTS Plenary Session Condemns Minority Fight Upon Policy of Commnrist International Party Prepares Political General Strike and Makes Radical Change in Practical Work ! PARIS (By I.P.S.).—Recently the , limits of normal discuss Central Committee of the Commu-| The C, C. energet jected nist Party of Italy met in a plenary | the position of the minority and session in Mussolini Italy, illegally,|confirmed the policy laid dow of course. The most important |the C. C. in its September s point was the discussion of the im-|for the struggle against oppo mediate ta: of the Party in ac-|ism, The C. C. decided (a) to con- cordance with the rapidly develop-|duct propaganda for the pre ing crisis in Italy and the interna-| tion of a_ polit tional situation. (b) to make a ri dical ¢ The Political Bureau of the Party | practical work of the Party and in came to the conclusion that achange | the organizational work. At the was necessary in the organizational |same time it appeals for a struggle Ajagainst all forms of m the and practical work of the Par oppo minority of the comrades and any conciliation toward it. Political Bureau and the Central) The C. C. en sally condemned Committee opposed the 1 ,|the comrades who had defended op- which enjoyed the support 2|portunist positions, and decided (a) Presidium of the Executive Commit-|to, expel these comrades tee of the Communist Int ational. | Political Bureau; (b) to exp \This minority declared itself in fa-|rades Pasquini and Santini 1 }vor of a political and organizational |Central Committee; (c) to et the Political Bureau to take organizational measures against all comrades who oppose in any way |of the majority of the Central Com-|the policy of the Communist Inter- mittee. Both the documents injnational and of the Communist which the deviating position of the | Pa or attempt to oppose the minority were laid down were re-| carrying out of this policy; and jected and condemned by the ma-!(d) after an inquiry into the atti- jority of the C. C. as opportunist. |tude of Comrade Amadeo Bordiga The comrades in the Political Bu- | toward the Communist International reau carried on a struggle for the|and the Italian Communist Party, opinions of the minority in an im-|to expel Bordiga fromh the Commu- permissible fashion and beyond the|nist Party of Italy. {platform put forward by Comrade ere |Pasquini, and for an organizational | proposal which was opposed to that Soviet Authors Appeal Against Pope’s Dope MOSCOW (IPS).—The press pub-| by burning at the stake; Roger Ba- the |con, the first English scientist who was held in prison for 14 years and forbidden to write, and countless others. From Boce: io to Anatole appeal in particular to the authors ance the catholic church had done of Western Europe not to be de-| its best to suppress the master- ceived by the hypocritical phrase-| pieces of progressive and liberal ology employed by the vatican to | literature and to rob the world of cloak its real objects. The papal/the greatest fruits of the human crusade against the Soviet Union! mind in the interests of dull, super- was nothing but a recrudescence of | stitious and brutal obscurantism. the old Papal hatred of science and| The appeat concludes with the modernity. The appeal then sketches | words: “We raise our voices in pro- briefly the history of papal relations | test against the crime instigated shes an appeal issued by colleagues all over the world. They ere, you do a hundred and one | employed togecier. Hell with Carr. If the working class of the ibs. Then they fire you and call | private employment agenci 3. entire country, of the entire world, ip the employment office that | —UNEMPLOYED does not raise its voice in a mighty | before the city government, was sen- well known that he has recently When the Judge Changed His Mind (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The trade union leaders of the ILA. here have appealed to the mayor's office to smash up the activities of the Marine Workers League on the Philadelphia waterfront where the longshoremen are solid for the new union. M. Waldo, colored or- ganizer was arrested for distributing leaflets and charged with disor- derly conduct. The trial was held next morning. But the judge quickly dismissed the case when he discovered that about twenty-five longshoremen were in court as very interested spectators. Twenty-nine coastwise long- shoremen made application to join the new union this morning, and elected four delegates from their docks to go to the National Conven- tion. All expressed their absolute disgust with the sell-out I.L.A. | protest, it will have two corpses on| ‘its hands. | | Save Their Lives. | “The case must be given serious | ‘attention. The state of Georgia has! been quiet in its preparation for the conviction of the two militants. It wants to have a quick verdict and rush the men to death or to a| 20 year sentence of living death. “Between now and May 27, date! of the trial, the story of Powers and Carr must be made to live from the| Atlantic to the Pacific! “Sound the alarm! Rally to the} defense of Powers and Carr! Save! them from death! Demand their | liberation! Powers and Carr must} mond, in prison for fighting _ for unemployment insurance. tenced to 30 days, and was forced to serve even the portion ordinarily taken off for good time. made a gift of a $6,000 Chinese -cart to his mother-in-law. to science and scholarship, the con- by the vatican. Ours are the weap- stant struggle against enlighten-|ons of reason, science and facts. ment and progress and the bitter|But when the time comes we will Minor is still in the prison hos- pital. up on their reading, using books | from the International Publishers and the Workers Library Publishers. | Cheered By May Day. “We received today (May 5) for| the first time, several copies of the | Daily Worker,” says Harry Ray-| mond. “May Day was a wow—of | more significance than March 6th. | Now, on to the National Unemploy- | ed Convention!” | The committee sends greetings a] all the workers everywhere. Hi onion are ees in8| Another Billion for Boss Navy persecution of pioneer men of | adopt other and still more material science and letters. The appeal then weapons in defense of the father- | mentions the names of Etienne Do- | land of toilers. Let the dying world let and Lucilio Vanini who were |in the person of Pius XI curse us burned at the stake by the church, |to its heart's content. We know Dante Alighieri, the Italian Shakes- | whose days are numbered and who 1” peare, who was sentenced to death ' will gain the final victory! Czech Workers Reject Social-Fascist PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (IPS).| tives of the central council of Red —The secretary of the red metal Trade Unions in Prague were pre- workers in Brunn, the liquidator | sent. The election of the chairman Gala, has commenced negotiations | showed that Gala and his friends |with the social fascist metal work-| were in the minority. Gala’s speech Speedup Jamestown Municipal Pavers (By a Worker Correspondent) JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—The speed-up in Jamestown has now been applied to the municipal paving gang. The foreman remarked to the men if you don’t finish-this job tonight you will not get paid for over- ime. Rumors are afloat that the laborers are to be imported here imilar to what has been done in other towns. This city has thousands out of work. The workers must organize in the Trade Union Unity League. Ryan machine, headed here in Philadelphia by chief ringleader Polly Raker who is now finding it hard to peddle his promises which are |not die! Powers and Carr must be| fred on licking the shipowners’ shoes. But these men unanimously | freed!” | cept a program of working class struggle. oe —A LONGSHOREMAN. —_| Starving, Shoots Self | ; sas.,.,{ and Her 7 Children | Who'll Get the Bum’s Rush?—The Capitalists! | — (B Worker C COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 7.—} 'y a Worker Correspondent) Driven to despair by her growing WASHINGTON, D. C.—The of-|him down from there and give him | Poverty, Mrs. Ethel Geller, whose ficials of the Veterans of Foreign|the bum’s rush. Come on, join it, | husband is serving a seven to ten| Wars, in their fears of Communism, | it only costs $5 a year.” a eae rey a the (Ole) Penitentiary | have added a new feature to their | I figured Icould use the $5 to bet- | 2nd who has struggled hard to sup- ritual. “At every meéting,” a mem-|ter advantage by adding another | Port herself and eleven children by ber of that organization told me,{dollar to it and subscribing to the Selling papers, killed seven of her “a man detailed by the adjutant Daily Worker for a year. I like Younger children after tucking them to act as a Bolshevist gets up and|the Soviet fashion of giving the 2Way in bed, and then tried to kill starts to make a speech. As soon|bum’s rush to the wage cutting, herself. An hour before, the des- 1s he opens his trap (this fascist |sPeed-up artists, the capitalists, | Perate, mother took the children to tod a o S “jp |2 Photographer for a group pic- old me) we grab him and yank WASHINGTON WORKER ture, gave her 21 year old son a quarter to stay away for several | hours, and sent her seventeen year old daughter off to work at a hos- | pital. A little boy of 12 also sur- vived. The mother is dying in a | hospital here. Mrs, Geller’s husband had written | a few days ago that he had escaped | injury in the Ohio prison hell where | nearly 400, prisoners were burned alive. —JAMEST! OWN WORKER. Fight for Work or Wages! REPORT SEVERE EARTHQUAKE POLICE HEAD OUSTED. RANGOON, Burma, May 7—A BOSTON, Mass., May 7.—Police severe earthquake shook up Lower Commissioner Herbert A, Wilson % was ousted yesterday by order of Burma last night. An unconfirmed | Coyemnor Allen. 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BETTER STILL— SUBSCRIBE! $1.00 A YEAR ‘unemployed workers support in the ers union with a view to leading was received with shouts of indig- the 4,000 red metal workers into! nation and his proposal to unite the latter, on account of the fact with the social fascist union was that the red trade unions decided, unanimously rejected. Gala was then after a discussion lasting three unanimously removed from his posi- months, to abolish the system of|tion. Next week full meetings of the red metal workers will take place to deal with Gala’s attitude of officials took place in Brunn,| and with the preparation of the called byGala and 75 delegates were | coming struggle in the metallurgi- present. Gala and the representa-!cal industry in Brurin. unions. On April 13 a conference Communist Troops Advance in China SHANGHAT, China (I-P.S.) {ously demanding military from Can- The insurrectionary troops, under|ton and Swatow. The rich land- Communist leadership, have occu-| owners, business men and mission- |pied the towns of Kanchow, Nan- |aries are in a panic and are leaving kang and Hsinfong. Tchute is|the districts threatened. The cap- marching toward the north of Ki-|ital of Kiangsi, Nanchang, will prob- angsi with his army of 7,000 men. | ably fall into the hands of the Com- The local authorities are continu- | munists. May Issue of the COMMUNIT JUST OFF THE PRESS CONTENTS NOTES OF THE MONTH MAY FIRST, 1930 ©. A. HATHAWAY MAY FIRST—THE TRADITIONAL DAY OF PROLETARIAN POLITICAL ACTION ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG FROM MARCH SIXTH TO MAY FIRST M SAYE J. 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