The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1930, Page 1

{ \ ) STRATE AT WATERFRONT TODAY AT 1 P.M. TO SA That is, if you don’t count 8,000-000. Entere aily VE LIV ES OF WORKERS’ LEAD ice O ay second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Worker act ef March 8, 1879. Company, Inc. Vol. VI., No. 367, Published daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily 26-28 Union Square. New York City, Opportunists Squirm Before Self- Criticism PRACTICAL lesson in self-criticism is being given in the dis- cussion now opened in the revolutionary Needle Trades Workers Union, dealing with the opportunist practices (past and present) which were taken over from old traditions in the industry, and which served to prevent the healthy growth of the new union. The workers are learning that they must burn out the roots of this opportunism, if they wish to build a strong fighting union. But the opportunists squirm before self-criticism. Gitlow, Zimmerman, Gross and Shapiro, look upon self-criticism in the typical opportunist manner—they fear it and hate it. Has not the Lovestonian leadership in the past sanctioned and covered these class-collaborationist practices? Were not the chief actors time and again white-washed politically and organizationally? There- fore why uncover the past, ask the opportunists. Gitlow, Zimmerman, Gross, and those who conciliate with them directly or covertly, do not understand that the Comintern address it- self was the most severe condemnation of their past, a condemnation that was only the climax of a series of letters of the Comintern and the Red International of Labor Unions since 1926. The correctness of these criticisms the opportunists would recognize in words but never in practice. Now that they are out of the Party, and feel free to ex- press their real opinions, their opportunism in practice has become an open and avowed line. Self-criticism is a method of holding the leadership to responsi- bility before the masses. It is a method which compels bureaucratic opportunist elements in the leadership, to live up to the revolutionary | program in practice or be eliminated. This, together with proper rank- and-file organization methods, makes all the difference between a Muste-ite class-collaborationist union, covered with left phrases, on the one hand, and a class-struggle union, a real workers’ union controlled by the rank and file, on the other hand. Such a real workers’ union could never be established in the Needle Trades as long as the Love- stonian past, which still weighs heavy upon the present, is not burnt out, root and branch. Let the enemies of the working class, the prostitutes of the “For- ward” and the A. F. of L., the Gitlows, Zimmermans, Cannons, etc., gloat about our self-criticism just like their counter-revolutionary brethren in Europe do about the Bolshevik self-criticism in the Soviet Union. The fact that our Party and the Trade Union Unity League can and will correct any departure from clear-cut class struggle policy; the fact that we mean to resolutely do away with the bureaucratic double-bookkeeping of “left” phrases and opportunist, deeds; the fact that we take the rank and file into confidence and call upon them to help us to maintain a class-struggle line in our new unions—all these things will increase the confidence of the masses of workers, rouse their enthusiasm, clear out the opportunist rottenness, and lead to a new forward movement of the workers in the needle trades, to a new offensive, to build up a real powerful union in the needle trades. The enthusiasm with which this healthy turn has been received by the membership, was manifested in the Cooper Union meeting on May 8th, and proves that the rank and file feels the correctness of the policy of the T.U.U.L. and heartily approves of it. We are prov- ing in deeds before the masses that our union is something quite dif- ferent in principle from the Schlesingers. When Zimmerman says that the N.T.W.LU. is not any better than the IL.G.W. of the social- fascists, he is already announcing his next step, that is his return to the Sigman-Schlesinger outfit. That is where he belongs. Good rid- dance. All the faster will the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union march forward to new life and new victories. We call upon all workers to participate through renewed activity and frank discussion at meet- ings and in the press, to accomplish our common tasks, Anniversary of the Indian Mutiny EVENTY-THREE years ago occurred the first great inner crisis S of British colonial administration of India, in the uprising which went down in history as the Indian Mutiny, or the Sepoy Mutiny. It was an uprising of the native troops of the British Army against their own officers and against British rule. It was the first large-scale break in that part of the chain of imperialism, by which imperialism uses the native people to enforce their own slavery. The Mutiny was the reaction of the Indian people to the first ef- | fects of the introduction of machinery into India, which shook the en- tire social structure of India to its foundations, and began the process which impoverished India to the point of perpetual famine. Of course there had been many mutinies in India before, but never | on so broad and deep a scale. The British had their own simple little | formula for stamping them out. The Encyclopedia Britannica speaks in a matter-of-fact way about how “as early as 1764 it was hecessary to stamp out a mutiny by blowing thirty sepoys (native soldiers in the British army) away from guns.” In 1824, when the 47th Bengal infantry refused to march into Burma to fight against another race of Indians for the glory of the British crown and the profit of British | capitalists, the Imperial commanders calmly turned artillery upon | them, blew them to bits, and struck them off the Army lists. In 1867 | broke out the famous mutiny, which involved 73 regiments, and shook British rule as it had not been shaken until this year, 1930. The mutiny broke out in Meerut, near Delhi, the same town where for almost two years now 30 Indian trade union organizers have been lying in the prisons of MacDonald’s “Labor” Government of India. India’s masses were not acting on the stage of history in 1857. H Therefore the rising of the native soldiers was crushed before the superior military equipment and resources of the British Empire. Today India is the scene of a mass upheaval of the workers and peasants, which is already beginning to throw off the leadership of the treacherous bourgeoisie. Under these circumstances we can ex- pect that the signs of a new mutiny, already seen at Peshawur, will materialize in a broad movement of the native soldiers over to the side of the Indian revolution. We recall the anniversary of the Indian Mutiny, as a part of the historical background of the Indian Revolution. Today the movement is a movement of millions; when it gets fully under way, it can smother the British forces by sheer weight of numbers. The modern “mutiny” of the enslaved masses of India against British oppression will have more far-reaching and permanent consequences than that of 1857, For it will crack the arch of the British Empire. TUUL PROPOSES TAXI DEMANDS With 1,200 taxi drivers striking against the Motor Transportation Co. (“M.T.C.,” which runs “Black Beauty Cabs” and others) the Trade Union Unity League is mak- ing every effort to prevent the sell- ing out of the strike by the rack- eteers, led by O’Brien, and by the yellow socialist gang, which has already got Norman Thomas and August Claessens before the strik- ers on a vote catching mission. Wolf, of the Amalgamated Clothing bosses’ stool pigeons, is making himself a leader of the strike. Suss- man, a yellow socialist who has be- trayed the taxi men more than once, has horned in. The present strike committee has not made a single practical economic demand for the workers, and is al- ready advising compromise with the bosses. The men have once voted against this “compromise” sell out. Leaflets distributed by the T. U. U. L. call for: eight hour day and three shifts; abolition of the com- mission system, minimum weekly scale of wages, against the compul- sory uniforming and police control, against discrimination and the blacklist, and for social accident, disability and unemployment ipsur- ance, FOSTER, AMTER ON HARTS ISLE; STRICT REGIE ‘Minor Very Ill in Jail Hospital; Raymond on Riker Island Drive for Their Release Many Workers’ Groups in Great Campaign | William Z. Foster and Israel Am- |ter, two of the four leaders of the |New York unemployed delegation serving three-year prison sentences for leading the jobless demonstra- tion on March 6, were yesterday transferred from Blackwell's Hart’s Island. Harry Raymond was | taken to Riker Island, while Robert) Minor is still in the prison hospi- | tal on Welfare Island. | Foster and Amter are now living junder a much stricter discipline, not having as many privileges as in the | former prison. Instead of being in cells they are in a large dormitory with many other prisoners. Minor’s condition is about the jsame. It is feared, however, that | he may be taken back to his cell, | where he would have a turn for the worse. The poor prison food in- iflames his appendix, causing him great suffering. The International Labor Defense jis appealing the sentences given t! jfour jobless spokesmen. A decisicn (Continued on Page Five) ‘SHOLAPUR STILL "HELD BY REBELS British Cavalry Fails to Recapture City BULLETIN. BOMBAY, India, May 9.—The | MacDonald “labor” government has ordered forty airplanes, with high-explosive bombs into the Pashawar district with orders to kill men, women and children, in an effort to drown the uprising in a sea of blood. Jen efor | | Bombay reports tell how alarmed | are the British that the Indians are] still in control of the Indian city of Sholapur, captured from the Brit- ish Indian police by the angry m: es Wednesday. The New York Times correspondent casually mentions that jit was “striking factory workers” who, turning the masses away from the Gandhite foolishness of cutting |down palm trees, “led the mobs into the European districts, where the government officials live.” on That is, the workers took the lead ership away from those who would make the independence struggle a “moral” fight against alcohol (made rom palm trees) and turned the truggle into a direct fight against {the government and a struggle to drive out the British from the city. And in the case of Sholapur tl LED a1 aaa | | Imperialist Slaughter in the Philippines Sy The Philippine constabulary, which is part of the American im- perialist military forces, attacked a group of Moros Thursday on the Island of Mindano at the Southern end of the Philippine Islands. The number of Moros killed was not determined, but the excuse for the at- tock was that the band contained tax dodgers, “la ete. The Moros, who are Mohammedans, are fighting for their independencs and against Wall Street oppression. : The upper picture shows Filipinos working in the ficlds. Lower pic- ture shows types of Moros who were killed by the merceneries of Wall Street. Daily Worker Plea for $25,000 Emergency Call Workers’ Paper Must Be Helped Quickly-or Consequences Will Be Very Serious We delayed four months in making this call for financial help. We wrote to comrades everywhere to assist us in in- creasing our income from advertising, and we did have a splen- did increase in advertising from New York. Comrades in other large cities did not respond sufficiently. es Then we wrote to our com-| A TI TO PROTEST. rades in all cities to organize an affair for the Daily Worker violators,” | in the month of April. Again MEETING TODAY the response was not suffi- cient. ; | — cae ie Pas geort Save Powers, Carr, n April Ist we launched our ; SRST AAT Dn drive for 60,000 readers within si) 1 2 M. Waterfront months. We were of | that if 10,000 comrades would jump into this campaign with Communist determination, enough money would come in from new readers secured to tide us over a few additional months. _ We now find that it takes a little longer than we thought to organize for a gigantic mass cir- culation campaign. Our comrades are only now beginning to march into industries and workers’ neigh- borhoods to get new readers. me opinion | Che larg rking class dem- onstration held in New York May Day will take place t 1 o'clock at South Ferry anc hall St. to demand the li of M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, Communist organizers, who go on trial for their lives on I They were arrested for organizing |Negro and white workers and dis- tributing working-class leaflets. The demonstration will also de- mand the liberation of the 280 lead- Was cau tical _jers of the Japanese Communist nen also, the political impor’ Party who have been sentenced to tance of securing new readers The ‘death and life imprisonment. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1930 masses were successful, fwo train-| among the lowest paid workers in loads of British evacuating Sholapur | the big industries and the necessity anc arriving at Poona, properly) of instituting a payment plan so as horrified as all imperialists are, that|to place the subscription price Indians had control of one of their | within the reach of these workers own cities. will result in thousands of new Sholapur, the second largest tex- readers among workers we tils center of India and a distinct! proletarian city, was still held Fri- day by the Indians, in spite of the y Sie reported attacks by British troops,; p_UMBERS AND HELPERS (Continued on Page Five) FRACTION, A very important fraction meeting of all Party and League members in the plumbing industry, plumbers, helpers and supply men, will be (Continued on Page Five) MILITARISM AND MOVIES. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Mo are now to be employed in the in- ing to a General Staff statement. sharp, at the Workers Center. mostly | - desire to read the Daily Worker, but || struction of military tactics, accord- held this afternoon at 2.30 p.'m.| entire Central Committee of the Communist Party has been sen- tenced to die. Speake: The speakers will Communist Party; Geo: stant national sec I. L, D.; A. Tatio, Japanese Work ers’ Alliance; George Alexander, Negro organizer, I. L. D.; Sam |Nesin, New York district organizer, LL. is district secretary, I. L. D., will be chairman. Sam Darcy, e Maurer FASCISTS O.K. SLAVE PLAN. ‘the Young plan. MOROS BATTLE AGAINST AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Constabulary Officers Among 50 Reborted Killed in Fighting s Philippine dispatches Friday tell; governors are all rather vaguely of “50 reported kill. pointed by the Governor-General at ed in fight with Moros,” some dis-| Manilla. U. S. imperialism tries to patches concealing the fact revealed | explain this )y saying that the Mo- in others that at least a considerable ros are opposed to being ruled by number of those killed were con- Filipinos—but they certainly. object stabulary troops, officered by Amer- and have always objected more icans. One dispatch says the losses strenuously to being ruled by Amer- of the Moros are unknown, so it ap- | icans. pears that the Moros had the best of | the fight. The American eommander, Cap tain Grinstead, though reported shut Time and again they have joined | with the Filipinos, from whom they differ only in the matter of religion t -—the Filipinos being Christians and in the leg is said to be mortally the Moros are Mohammedans--in wounded; a Filipino constabulary demanding independence from the Workers, has edged into the strug- gle, and in company with a strike committee heavily loaded down with The T. U. U. L. further warns the taxi drivers against the rack- eteers and their sell-out system, lieutenant was killed, it is admitted.| United States. But the Americon The battle took place on Mind-| imperialists anao Island, where the provincial; they are obliged to protect” the always shouting. that| Americans ap-| Moros from the Christian Filipinos,}as “religious fanatics” to cover insist on enslaving both Filipinos and Moros to U. S. rule and rob- ‘they themselves are Christians. The present battle, the cause of which is not given, although the cus- | tomary charge is made that the Mo- |ros are thieves and tax-dodgers,” probably arises from the same sort of robbery as has repeatedly provoked peasant | rebellions among the Filipin northern islands, scores and hun dreds of Phi ants lying now in prison for resisting bein, robbed of their land and crops. The [imperialists usually term such rebels sin the D. Beatrice Siskind, New York | bery—incidentally “forgetting” that) ialists for rubber and fiby “bandits, murderers, cattle’ SUBSCRIPTION and Bronx, N v York City FINAL CITY EDITION ar) 4 i ERS! ee GHIEF COP TO LECTURE MEN OF - THE U. , FLEET: Commissioned Officers | Will Have Better Fare Elsewhere Must Fight, But Whom, | 'No Class Lines in Red) Workers Warships Grover Whalen, New York police commissioner whose men have piled | up a record of clubbing workers | who ask better wages, or who re- fuse to starve without making a fuss about it, will lecture the sail- ors of the United States battle and | scout fleets Monday night at the |Hotel Astor. He will tell them how glorious it is to die in a blaze of fire from shells fired by workers forced into service in other fleets, jhow fine it is to be submarined or blown up with mines and left float- |ing for hours in an icy sea, if only they do it to make more profits for American bosses in China, or | in Latin America, or somewhere | else. ay Whalen the Cop. If this floor-walker from Wana- | makers, now chief of police, thinks that he can make a sailor love a| cop by trying to tell him how he | ought to like his government beans, | ‘and beans, and beans, and like his | suguey mugey rag, he ought to be put behind a bible himself for a} couple of hours, instead of waving a club on the golf links at Palm} Beach, or a police club over the |! heads of the sailors friends ashore. The affair Monday night is for the ordinary © sailor. It is not thought good enough for the officer class, who will have their blow-out | las “guests of the Naval Academy Graduates’ Association” at the army ‘and navy club, with a much better |bill of fare and no common sailors | around to see them get drunk, Class Lines In Navy. In the United States navy, stric di line and strict class lines | (Continued on Page Four) International Wireless News | SOVIET SENTENCES TRAITORS. | (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, May 9.—The techni employes of the Lena goldiields| jconcession were sentenced by the supreme court today, charged with sabotage and other offenses. Bash- kirtzev’s death sentence was re- duced to ten years’ imprisonment; engineer Kolyasnikov and the law- yer, Muromtzev, who had ten years Jeach, were reduced to six. years; |Riabov to one year. The evidence |showed that Bashkirtzev was the tool of the British. * * * GERMAN “SOCIALIST” JINGO- ISM EXPOSED. (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, May 9—Yesterda committee debate on the naval bud- get heard a sensational revelation of “socialist” treachery. The Reichs- | wehr minister declared that it did |not matter whether the Reichstag | granted the first installment for the | rmored cruiser ” this year, be-| jernment had already worked out a complete naval building program, including replacements of ships Of | the line for 1931, PORTO RICO POPULATION. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico,—Karly census returns show a total popula- jtion of 1,543,043 on the island, an ROME.—Fascist Italy has ratified increase of 18 per cent over that of | 1920. their ruthless suppression. | The demand of American imper- es has led |to a wholesale swindle of peasants, whose forefathers fer generations plowed the land on which the live—or did live. But A corporations, or in some cases th |Catholie Archbishop of Max wishing to start big rubber and fil crupt Filipino po! ns who are old out to imperialism, and have the peasants ejected by the con bulary. It is most likely that this robbery was resisted by the Moros |was scheduled to appear today | clothing wor \ers, cutters, operators, tailors, press- | pants | workers, ‘ause the Mueller (“socialist”) gov- é plantations, “buy” the land from the | Whalen Backs Out On His “Testimony” But Congress Goes on With Red Raid Plans BULLETIN. | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9. | —Whalen told the congressional committee today that he started his drive against shoe and other strikers in New York at the re- quest of Commissioner Wood of the United States department of | | | labor. He boasted of aid given by the police in deporting foreign- born workers. | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.— Grover Whalen, New York capital- ’ gorgeous poli came, saw and lost his nerve. 2 commissioner, He fore the House committee on immi- gration to back up with his per. sonal testimony the outrageous for geries which he released on an tonished and somewhat mirthful world a week ago. 5) But when Grover got to the com- mittee, even though it was in secret session, the dity and ridiculous inefficiency with which the fov- geries had been committed had been so thoroughly exposed that he did not dare, even there, before the of- ficial enemies of the Soviet Union, to go ahead and show them, | There is much doubt a8 to whether | even the photostatic copies given out by Whalen show all the amazing] amount of evidence that the docu-| ments they are supposed to copy are fakes. | Now he won't even show the copies to Congress. | He offers the time-worn excuse that anything said about the papers now would “interfere with police in vestigation.” He wants the whole U. S. power of oppression thrown against strikes of exploited workers. Most. particular. ly he mentioned, as “Communist s’’ that ought to be suppressed few York needle trades, cafe- tion machinery set up that will quickly fling back to firing squad and hangmen in Jugoslavia, Fascist (Continued on Page Five) MEN'S CLOTHING | MEETING TODAY IEndorsed by NTWIU; For Shop Committees A call from the Needle Trades rkers Industrial Union, over the Louis Hyman, presi- dent, and Ben Gold, secretary-treas- urer, endor: the mass meeting of rs called by the Amal- gamated Section of the Trade Union We signatures of | | Unity League, to take place today at Stuyvesant Casino, at 1 p. m. N. T. W. I. U. statement is ed to all men’s clothing work- ers, pants mak maker 's, vest makers, knee children’s clothing ilor suit operators, sheep- skin workers and shirtmakers. points out that this meeting is held on the day when the agents of the besses leave New York for a joy ride to a convention of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers, a con- vertion in the interests of the boss- The N.T.W.LU. calls all clothing workers to come to the mass meet- ing today and demonstrate and or- ganize there against the bosses and agents, the Hillman-Rissman- Beckerman clique, and to demon- |strate for solidarity with all needle n their struggle for better working conditions. Bosses Organize. clothing manufacturers are zed into powerful associations, chain store companies, etc. and backed by Wall Street, are i |to force the brunt of the cris the workers thru an ire:ea up, work reorgani: a “As a result of ih | ployment in the meus ©. lis steadily grow! junder which those w are forced to worl, ay The cloti mrunfaches es well as the A. {2 are ofganizing for th: purpose-oF iat ying the exploita a of the workers and to increas \the profits of the bosses. “Men's clothing workers! w that you have nothing {+ ew pect from the bosses’ Hillman con vention. This convention is a gath- upon ed speed- with reductions of wages an | (Continued on Page Five, (Continued on Page Four) °* * doned all co WALL ST, SHEET 4 ADMITS BIG WAGE CUT DRIVE IS ON Openly States Bosses , Will Slash Pay =. of All Workers #42 Crisis Intensifies Basic Industries Show Declines Now the campaign starts in c¢ e bosses fig- ure that t 000 unemployed workers have ne hungry long enough for th make the next big step to throw the rden of the economic crisis on the shoulders of the workers. | The Journal of Co day < | Certain it is that by and large manufacturers cannot continue to nmerce yester- clares editorially: produce at present prices and pay rates of wages that have been cur- rent, particularly as respects or- ganized labor. If no way can be found to holster the prices of most. commodities then either labor will have to accept lower rates of pay or else remain in substantial part without employment.” Crisis Worsens. oes on. The weekly index of wholesale Meanwhile the crisis Annalist (Continued on Page Five) CASTONIA RULING PUTOOFF GNE WEEK Also Postpone Decision on Geo. Saul Case CHARLOTTE, issued C., May 9.—De- by the rth Carolina State Supreme Court did not include the ruling on the ionally isions yesterday inter famous Gastonia case. This means that another week must the handed down, as all decisions are announced only on one day each week. Decision is also expected on the case of George Saul, Southern International Labor Defense organ- izer, sentenced to months on the chain gang. Whatever decision is rendered it must be certified to the pass before decisions can be lower court before further action an ve taken, including the demand for the surrender of the* prisoners. LYNCHERS BURN NEGRO IN VAULT Governor Orders None To Be Shot SHERMAN, xas, May 9.— George Hugh a Negro worker, was burned alive locked in the vault of the county court house here when a lynch gi attacked at noon. Sheriff Arthur Vaughn was sav- ing the Negro, against whom there was little evidence, for legal lynch- ing, after extorting from him a “confession” of having attacked a white woman. When the mob attacked the sher- iff had with him a force of Texas Rangers (mounted constabulary) but no one in the gang of killers was hurt. For a while water streams were squirted on the crowd, but after it cut the hose, only harmless shots in the air were fired by the forces of “law and order.” Captain Frank Hamer of the Rangers stated that his orders from Gove I Moody were: “Hold them if you can, but don’t shoot anybody.” Vis court house was destroyed in the fire. OS8COW COMMENT ON EGYPT, (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, May 9.—Commenting cn the breakdown of the Anglo- tgyptian parley, the Izvestia, Sov- et Government organ, writes that .d the Egyptian demands been ed it would have meant prog- toward freedom, but British iam was opposed, where- or” government aban- siliatory attitude and co the conservative standpoint. ‘oth the Egyptian and Indian ex- amples expose the real natuye of the “labor” government. ess npon the “le sy Tae