The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1930, Page 1

fa di On to the July 4th Jobless Convention Vol. VI., No. 368 . | Do You Want the Daily —_ f fe Worker? 25,000 TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER GOING AND GROWING HE big fleet of battle ships that lie at anchor in the Hud- son river haye just returned from war maneuvers in the Caribbean. These maneuvers speak plainer than words. The battle ships of the United States navy speaking for the im- perialists of this country gave notice to the robber class of other countries that in South America this country will do the robbing (The Daily Worker is needed to expose this.) To the peeples of the South American countries, the Caribbean manouvers were notice that American imperialism will punctuate its robbery of these peeples with all the force and violence necessary. (The Daily Worker is needed to ex- pose this.) HELP RAISE And now this fleet of death and destruction has steamed up the Hudson River. And a dozen capitalist papers shriek at the top of their lungs: “War maneuvers prove that New York City can be destroyed!” Airplanes and blimps swept over the city to “show what might be done toward turning the greatest city in the nation into a heap ef smoking wreck- aze i? the planes were on a mission of destruction instead of instruction and demonstration.” Instruction and demonstration preparation for de- struction! Prepare for war! Capitalist papers in all cities, all imperialist agencies, its government, are on the job “convincing” the nation that the nation must be defended: which means that Amevican imperialists’ profits must be safeguarded and enhanced all over the world. (The Daily Worker is needed to tell the workers what to do about this.) Whalen, the dandy police commissioner of New York City, visited his Washington friends with the forged letters he acquired from friends who want to re-establish Czarism in the Soviet Union. Part of the big news of this event was that out of 24 arrests of foreign born “reds” in Chicago, 22 were found to be native American workers. Disappoint- ing certainly, to those who want to sweep all foreign work- ers into the seas. (The Daily Worker fights to protect the foreign born workers, fights to win American workers for our movement.) From the executive commitice of the capitalist class of this country, White House, Washington D. C., comes the information that it has been decided to investigate all Com- munist organizations. Again—preparing for war. This gentry knows we are fighting against imperialist wars, fight- ing for the Soviet Union, helping out our fatherland in its Five Year Plan, so as to make it invincible against these plunderers, Is the Daily Worker needed? Must the working class be informed of all the schemes and tricks of the robber class to perpetuate its enslavement of the workers of this country and colonial countries? Thousands of capitalist papers reaching millions of workers with their® poison, Oniy one English daily paper that guards, defends, fights for the working class, We ought to have a dozen Daily Workers in the dozen largest cities right now. Needing a dozen: iet’s not lose the one we have, 4 Every day you delay in helping to secure contributions four our $25,000 fund increases the danger. New readers among all workers are needed by the tens of theusands. Do not neglect this task. But immediate contributions are needed today, if the workers are to have a paper to read. Rush to your friends and friendly organizations. Keep the Daily Worker going— and growing. Labor Deb’t, Woll, Priest an Whalen korgery Fiasco Easle’s White Guard Connections Accused of First Trying-to Peddle Fakes to Press | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11.— A choice collection of A. F. Li utholie Church and bosses’ prqpa- ists was assembled at the hear- ing Frida, which Police Commis- : ‘sioner Grover Whalen was suppost |to authenticate his loudly announced “documents.” The fagt that the 17; Unions Take Part : the Soviet Union and f Co. meant nothing New York a mass center of Labor | t Unity is the aim of the conference | to be held at the district Trad: Union Unity League headquarters at 13 W. 17th St. Saturday, May 17, William Kuperman, district Labor Unity agent announced today. The conference, .beginning at 2 o'clock, will include wxepresentatiy: from very union, league, shop cor mittee, fraternal organization and workers’ organization interested in building the weekly organ of the T.U. U. L Quotas for various New York will also be di and set. ect to greatly quota in the New York Kuperman said, “and will surely get vation had a copy of Whalen's pho- tostats filed with them for days, hut jrelied, so they said, on Whale. to prove that his “crime ecimmission” stole them from the files of Amtorg. Whalen, as the whole world knows now, lost his nerve at the last imin- ute and refused the testinony. Easley, Walsh and Woll istant Secretary of Labor Hus- as in the cormittee roo with Whalen, as were the .ssistant police commissioner of New York and ihe chief of the bomb squad. Hovering in the outer room wy Ralph Easley, secretary of the 3 nd eed a the Labor Unity delegate to the! tional Fed ‘on, and the fifth R.LL.U. cong: in Moscow. | priest ther” Edmund Walsh, both ones among the most active anti-Com- WAR ALLIANCES jmunist agitators in the United A. political agecement Walsh is the author of a . S. R. pamphlet his Spain and G Britain for Adle at meetings where guarantee of the status quo in the Mediterranean is reported to be me turing. This is one more step in ley denied at first that he was the British war maneuvers since the | interested in the Whalen documents. London Naval Conferenee, (Continued on Page Three) Union Square daily Publishing York ¢ MILITARISTS IN| CHINA BATTLES. REVOLT GROWS € mmunists Rule in South and South Central Areas Ms nenver With Japan ‘Use Wall Street Bomb- ing Planes New With the powerful - tide of the} volution surging in the South in China, and militarists hurling their armed forces from the North, the Nanking government, headed by the it and ek, bloody aut war lord, Chiang Ki supported by American impe ism, is facing a very critical situation. A cable despatch to the N | York Times describes Communi “authority” in'the South and South- Central provinces as “undisputed”| and adds that the “Red bandits” are | taking advantage of the militarist) wars and are “extending their ac- tivities.’ Even in the province of Kiangsu, the seat of Chiang Kai-shek’s au- thority and where Nanking and Shanghai are situated, militant Ja- , bor struggles and peasant uprisings | are on the order of the day. War Lords Battle. * Meanwhile, the anti-Nanking miili- tary campaign launched by the coalition group of the northern mili- tarists, the Kuomintang “right- | (Continued on Page Three) JAIL GIRLS FOR TALK 10 SAILORS Arrest for Telling Not! to Kill Workers Five members of Grover Whalen’s | “Crime Prevention Bureau” rushed jmadly up to Eva Rezzie, age 21, of the Young Cémmunist League, and \a younger girl worker, who were at Coney Island explaining to a few sailors of the United States Navy | |the position of the Communist Party |and urging them to think which side ithey would fight on in the class war. A series of questions were fired }at the girls, and the younger one arrested, “to protect her,” said three } detectives and a police’ woman. A} jcrowd started to gather, and Eva! |turned to the sailors and said, “You j young workers in the navy are the \first ones called upon to sacrifice tyour lives to the bosses in a wai | but when you go out with girls you | | are considered too low, and the girls j are arrested. “It's to Conyict Her” veupon the arresting officers jall yelled, “She’s a Red,” and car- jried the younger girl off to the po- lice station. She is apparently held jfor the Children’s Court. Comrade Rezzi insisted on coming along to see what happened to her and was jherself given “$5 or one day” for “disorderly conduct.” She refused | to pay the fine and served the time. The arresting 6fficers were at- companied by a social worker, one of Whalen’s latest publicity stunts being to camouflage the frame-up system as something good for the; social worker, “That's the only way we can convict them.” WORKER RESCUES MATE. ALBANY. — Otto Johnson, an} Jow lineman who was shocked into insensibility at the risk of his own diten ss New Law Prohib WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11.—} House Resolution 11429, drafted by | the Indian Bureau in the, Interior | Department and endorsed by Sec- retary Wilbur, sets up a rigid cen- sorship over the religious and poli- tical expression of the Indians, and over their self-defense against ex- ploiters, The House Indian Affairs Com- | mittee has reported this bill with-| out a public hearing. As originally introduced, it provided jail sen- tences dnd heavy fines for persons soliciting money from the Indians} for any purpose whatever, unless | the consent of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs had first been se- cured. | ON. VEE oy “NEW YORK, MONDAY , MAY Where the Fight Is on in China ENGCHOW , = N 1 The map indicates part of North and Central China and #) iunghai Railway which is the scene of the present militarist war in China. The fight is centered around Suchow and Chengchow, thi two most important strategical points along the Lunghai Railway, which is the east-west line running through the two cities. The major portion of South China, a large part of which is under the rule of the Soviets, is not shown in this map. But the city of Kiuki- ang where revolutionary forces are strong can be seen it the lower left-hand: corner of this map. Unity League Endorses Communist Convention y York Council Instructs Groups and Unions) to Aid, Send Delegates to May 25 Meet The Council of the Trade Union| mittee to take up the following | Unity League, New York District! matters: Center of revolutionary trade! 1, To form a Trade Union Cam-! unions in New York, endorses the paign Committee of 25 who are to call of Cgmmunist Party to State be chosen by the various unions and) Convention. Industrial groups. The Executive Council at its 2 To pacha Hohe hast s meeting on Thursday, May 8, took Pig committees in the various in- this action officially and called on ‘stries. all revolutionary workers to support, 3. That before May 20 the elec- the election campaign of the Com- tion campaign shall be discussed in munist Party, the Party of the class the various shops and delegates struggle. It directs the various elected to the State Nominating unions and minority groups under Vonvention. . its jurisdiction to take up the ques-| 4. “That mass meetings be called tion of the election campaign and by the unions and industrial groups elect delegates to the Communist| before May 21 at which time the Party State Convention. It also| election campaign shall be discussed directs the T.U.U.L, executive com- (Continued on Page Three) CHARGE JUDGE VAUSE ~ {SOCIALIST MAYOR TELLS GOT $250,000 BRIBE JOBLESS OF CHEAP DYING Surely not the last, but the latest! MILWAUKEE, Wis. (By Mail).— full-sized graft scandal among New | Mayor Hoan, of the socialist party, York officials is the official charge | disgraced the Workers International by the Federal District Attorney | Day of Struggle here on May 1 with that the Sinking Fund Commission, | speech to 150 Amalgamated cloth- with Mayor Walker as chairman, |ing werkers gathered to hear him. granted three pier leases to the| He condemned the workers’ strug- United American Lines which were|gle for real organizatior® lauded 12, 1930 ti Scab Herders Arm Tells How He Disarmed Cop Five Convicted for March 6, Milwaukee SHAKES BRITISH RULE IN INDIA But Sikhs Scorn the Pacifism of Gandhi, Being Fighters’ MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 11.— Five workers were convicted ot lawful assembly and riot” out of 12 placed on trial in the socialist party i administration courts he Their real crime was that they were active in the March 6 demonstra- tion of thousands of striking and unemployed workers demanding “un- Boss Press Lies; Truth Only in Our “Daily” | work or wages. 36 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan foreign countries, there $8 n year. Indian dispatches, more and more! The five convicted are Leo Fisher, distorted by counter-revolutionary section organizer of the Communist capitalist correspondents as the re-| Party; Fred Bassett, secretary of volutionary movement grows, never- | the Council of the Unemployed; So- | theless reveal this growth in the Mia Mason, organizer of the Young news that Saturday the Sikh Lea-| Communist League; John Per! gue, meeting at Amritsar, decided to 9nd Max Kagan. Twenty-five oth upport the revolutionary movement, | Simils ged, will go to trial While the dispatches idiotically try 800m. Arrests on March 6 number- to make out that this is “support ,°¢ 68. for Gandhi,” the fact that it is not,! International Labor is- obvious from the circumstance torneys, Albert Goldman and known by everyone that the Sikhs | ‘iulbanian handled the case. are fighters and by no means can| The defendants testified in their be imagined to be pacifists. |own cases. Leo Fisher was on the Their action means a new proof (Continued on Page Three) of the inahjlity of British imperial- —— ism to rule India by provoking = F t RO WORKER | called “communal” fights between Jailed Incommunicado, different religions; it means also that all Sikhs, who have been for While Lynchers Plan COVINGTON, Ky., May 11—A England the backbone of the native armed forces of repression, are press dispatches is visible in their (Continued on Page Three.) young Negro worker, Anderson Mc- Perkin, is rotting in jail here, wait- ‘Police and Hall Owner'a ‘house in Crescent Springs, Ky., . |a town in which Negroes are not Both With Bosses turning against Britain and will MANHATTAN CAB ing to be hanged for a crime he did allowed to live, or even appear. Mc- The Brooklyn taxi strikers ap-) which he was beating his way North G. revolt. > The rottenness of the capitalist McPerkin was arrested when he ‘asked for food at.the back door of give their fighting qualities to ‘the “not commit, and being occasionally IKE third degreed in an effort to make him confess, | Perkin got off a freight train on | Royal Palace Hall at 135th St. and| South, where he had been visiting morning, prepared to open the hall, / ger he was running by entering the to which they were going to, bring | tqwn. the man from the Motor Transpor$| When the woman in phaphonke |Company garage located on 134th | say him at the door, she chased him |St. It was found that the hall keep- jer had been intimidated by the po- lice, who had prohiBited the hall to | {be opened before 8 a. m. It was jevident that this had been done at |the instigation of the company of- \ficials, who are trying to do every- {thing possible to prevent the spread of the strike. The drivers adjourned to various restaurants in the neighborhood, in (Continued on Page Three) NEW YORK UNITY arranged for by a bribe of $250,000 to Judge W. Bernard Vause of, the Kings County Court. class collaboration and the co-opera- | °rder to talk over the situation, but time movement as a substitute for |Were not permitted to remain long, las the police entered these places, COUNCIL BUILT |Prepare for Red Labor jelectric light lineman, rescued u fel- activity in the revoit in the state of PRISON FOR INDIA* struggle to improve their conditions. “The advantage of co-operation On this Sinking Fund Commission are Joseph V. McKee, Acting Mayor,; was shown to me on a recent visit | and Charles W. Berry, Comptroller. | in Hamburg, Germany,” Mayor The charge against the Tammany | Hoan said. “There the working- Sinking Fund Commission arose in-! man can have a splendid funeral directly out of investigation into the| at a cost of $22. ° Columbia Finance Company, ‘fake banking enterprise which lost its i } investors $400,000, and as a result CONFERENCE T0 : of which loss they had to charge Judge Vause with using the United States mails to defraud. Vause’s method of collecting the $250,090 was to have it made in several payments by the company to Joseph S. Boyle, a lawyer em- framed? During the proceedings ployed by him. This money was|SHOps, Unions, Sending’ Rezzi heard the policewoman go on then iurned over to a fake same |record with a particularly brazen | which Vause admits was ure ais lie, then turn and explain to the | brother. BRAVILIAN GENERAL JAILED A Brazi general, Honorio de Lemos, wx sentenced Saturday to seven and a half years in prison for | of shops, and labor fraternal organ- izations are expected to attend the New York District Protest Confer- ence of the International Labor De- fense which will be held Sunday, Rio Grande do Sul in 1925 during Wav 1S erie aan ping eaee September, when Jarge forces soldiers mutinied. ot “We must organize against the campaign of terror and —| persecution against the working class,” reads the call for the con- S ference. “We must*fight the bru- ‘J | tal attack on the rights of workers [to organize and struggle against . a | wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment, tts Organizatu |imperialist war, lynching, race dis- crimination and the persecution of as . _,| foreign born workers.” As amended, jail sentence. {nd} For Powers and Carr, fines are extended also to any one) The conference will mobilize and who “advises, sanctions or in any! organize the New York workers to way aids in the raising of money”) cave M. H. Powers and «doe Carr from Indians. And except for send- from the electric chair in Atlanta, ing delegations to Washington, the Ga, fight for the liberation of the Indians themselves are made sub- Gastonia defendnats and the unem- ject to these punishments if the; ployed delegation. It will also de- try to raise funds among them: mand the release of those held un- selves for their common interests. der thé sedition laws throughout the If a white man or an Indian solic! country atfd others who are facing money from, or enrolls Indians in deportation for their wérking class a claim against the government or militancy. against private persons, contrary to, Organizations electing delegates the wishes of the commissioner, he should notify the New York district | may be imprisoned from 1 to 5 office of the I. L. D., Room 422, | years for each such act; if he en- rolls 20 Indians in a petition he) may be imprisoned for a total of 100 years, 799 Broadway, N. Y. C. , { Fight for the seven-hour day, } five-day week. | jand 137th Sts., on Broadway, and + Brooklyn. Delegates May 18 Bronx, and 204th St. and Ninth Ave.,| members. * } Delegates representing hundreds | and fight) jlocated in the neighborhood of 136th Unions World Meet The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York, comprising delegates of all industrial shop committees and T. U. U. L. groups in A, F. gf L. unions held its first regular meeting Thursday night and definitely organized it- self as a permanent, regularly func- tioning body, uniting the industrial | workers of New York and vicinity ordered the men out and back to Some who did not move ugh were roughly handled. Spreading S For from being discouraged, the men are more determined than ever to broaden the struggle and tie up the rest of the company’s garages completely, as .they have already tied up the four Brooklyn garages fast and the East Thirteenth Street,| and leadin i 7 i their struggles. Manhattan, garage. There are three] ‘The most important business the garages " cuarating, located at council has before it, is its partici- 2 -|pation in the drive of the Trade in the | Union Unity League for 60,000 new The national board of Manhattan. The men in these ga-|the T. U. U. L. has assigned it a rages have already shown their will- | quota cf 10,000. But on the basis Jingness to come along as soon as|of definite quotas assigned to all they are approached by a committee | unions, leagues and T.U.U.L. groups of thy «triers, and there js no doubt | the council raised it to 13,600 and that before many more hours have | challenged the Chicago and Detroit passed these men will also have | districts of the T.U.U.L, together to ee a brothers who are al-| reach the same figure on the mem- ready out. bership as well as on 7,000 new Within the last few days Michael | readers of Labor Unity which New (Continued oh Page Two) York set itself as a goal, 134th St. near Broadway, 138th § near Southern Boulevard, SPEEDING THE BOSS WAR Rush Army-Navy Maneuvers The old game of “black” and |“blue” which Wall street's forces of |intensified war preparations of \war have been playing so “inno-| American imperialism which show cently” and yet with such persis-|that the American imperialist rob- |tent frequency during and after the | bers are expecting the war to break London naval “disarmament” con- jout at any time. ‘ference will be repeated from May| The garrisons of the various forts 26-28 in the Narragansett Bay-New jalong the coast are expected to get London area by thirty naval vessels, | acquainted with the “appearance of about forty-five naval planes and/|the various types of naval vessels army forces of the First Corps|an¢ their usual movements.” Area, The country is literally being in- The immediate military aim of |fused with war frorh land, séa and jthese maneuvers is to test the de-|air, as the war machine is being fenses of the eastern approach to whipped into battle shape. One Long Island Sound and to train the | hundred and thirty-four planes of army and naval forces for the ap-| the battle fleet have now returned proaching conflict between the cap-|to their carriers at Hampton Roads italists of America and England for | after touring Eastern cities last world markets, Sweek., These maneuvers are part oi the unions, | | Three blo Defense at- | |peared in large numbers at the | yfter failing to find work in the | h N | Workers Industrial Union at a mass Broadway at 3:30 a. m. yesterday | his sister. He did not know the dan- | } | {manner of weapons | industry FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SSIKH DEFECTION | Jobless Leader TEXAS LYNCHERS BURN 3 BLOCKS OF NEGRO HOMES Roast Man to Death, Drag Body by Auto and Hang It Troops Quite Harmless pt Away from Only Poimt Where Uestnl SHERM May 11.— of houses of Negroes, many of them w in the ‘Jim Crow” section here were ~ burned down by an organized gang of white ynehers who had roasted to déath George Hughes, a Negro worker, ragged his body through the streets by a chain behind an automobile, and hanged it to a tree in the center of the Negro section of town, where it was again burned Deving the lynching Negroes were a ted many with all homes looted were ransacked and articles away. Nice Safe Murdering The town was full of police, depu- ties, national guardsmen, Texas ranzers, etc., who’ made ont per- functory and formal gesture of de- fending the Negro from the mur- derous gang. They had been in- structed by Governor Moody to “pre- vent it if you can, but don’t shoot | anybody.” Hughes was accused, on no evi- (Continued on Page Three) NEEDLE WORKERS BUILDING UNION Cut Initiation, Dues, Announce Quotas The drive for 6,000 new members. launched by the Needle Trades meeting in Cooper Union, is devel- oping full speed. Special committees have been or- ganized to direct the drive in every street, every block, and every build- down the street, a crowd assembled,/ing- The mass of the membership | word was passed around that he had|in every street will be drawn ac- tively into the membership cam- paign and will be assigned definite responsibilities. A definite quota of new members has been assigned for every street, and special street meet- ings have been arranged for the coming week at the office of the union, 131 West 28th St., right after | work. All needle trades workers of union shops, open shops and company- union shops, of all branches of the working on 35th St. and 36th St., are called to a street meet- ing tomorrow, right after work, at the office of the Industrial Union, 131 West 28th St. Wednes all working on 37th | St., 88th St. 89th St. and 40th St. meet right after work at the same place. On Thursday at 7:30 p. m. there will be a general meeting of the Shop Delegate Council, at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. (Continued on Page Two) PROTEST MEETING AT WATERFRONT Crowd of All Races to Denounce Terror. The waterfront of New York on Saturday stressed with the demand for the release of M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, Communist organizers, who go on trial for their lives in Atlanta, Ga., on May 27, where they were arrested after addressing meet- ings of Negro and white workers and distributing Communist leaflets. The demonstration held at South Ferry and Whitehall St. was ar- ranged by the International Labor Defense and the Japanese Workers Alliance. Cooperating organizations included the American Negro La- bor Congress, All-American Anti- Imperialist League and the Trade Union Unity League. In addition to demanding the liberation of Powers and Carr, those at the meeting adopted resolutions protesting against the death and life imprison- ment sentences recently given to the leaders of the Communist Par- ty of Japan. It likewise went on record demanding the release of all class war prisoners, including Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Raymond, also Harry Eisman and against the numerous deportations of Chinese (Continued on Page Two)