The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1930, Page 3

h ; ; : @P DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1930 FP z Pape Three 6 ” | T | British Strike-Breakers in India Q N | A I LENTOWN MII LS | N) i 4 4 a | i + ripe L Nv | a oe, ir Af r,) TORTURES REBELLING j ag es SHAKES BRITISH LAYING OFF MORE <4 GHARLD DALE IOt \DYUD ' W / AND MORE WORKERS PALESTINE WORKERS, : : I R JRKERS REVOLT GROWS RULE IN INDIA ere fo, t ivi inst British aici pi cent Cut in Majestic Mill; Adelaide, With 4 Many Arrested for Activity Against Britis c Majesti ; Ade : x Imperialism Use Wall Street Bomb- \Boss Press Lies; Truth AVE i 77 thi Nea eo) é : acueen ys a ing Planes Only in Our “Daily Vane (ny a TS ORE oe TN _ Young Woman Communist Dies in Prison as a } iene eldon to Ops n With Wage (Gib “Join the a Result of Bad Treatment eS GERIONAG BER ERE LONE) es, ied from Page One) : National Textile Workers Union is wingers” and “left-wingers,” a | treatment of the developing events, a 1 aad jall kinds of anti-Nanking “wild- They coné the fact that the te: (By a Worker Correspondent) JERUSALEM (LP.S.).—A state|for her release, as continued im-| cat” generals, has reached the stage| of Sholapur . B Vorke wT of emergency was declared in Jeru- jpaspnrment Sr aainie Searite dan-| of severe major battles in the last of the Indians, ALLENTOWN, Pa.—The Ma-.{ which has been shut down ‘or the bs er, ritis rities re- y da | da sligh ; : . - vee r une salem in connection with the Ma-| °°" eis aie uae til and pe AeAC Ln GOT TaR UE bettlee® ape British police troops—and some native police—trying to brea ape ning a eee jestic Mill has just announced a | eat ee weeks aunanpeed ‘ i ” i i is e BEE eS sina of cunteral anion ha hed a Bait ai tes phe r in an obscure ee : if poe letketatas esume work on May homedan celebration, “Nebi Mussa,” |she died on April 15, aged 18 years.|tought along the Lunghai Railw dl Ge eRe ateod NG RSE NE Dee Ae is reported” me et cous cut ett ectlve! On MBE “he itemise roakers eEihiasmulinaee which has a definitely anti-imper-|'The British authorities were not China's only east-west railway. The) ?/olders Cro A teres a chaer a are tuey Smit to. eledt ) tevstion te ell ta Wend” THis Gn’ the™ thirds wage cut |l) pacasiiche MERWE cecedti: BUI GRE CaH Macnee ots Yond SNORE ee ree Dacia enone Rte CR, L700) tr eee a SAG GeCpR THIN GrcliGd toHons Teale ie Gee tt \were, ‘there would be @ vistorious| since ‘Thaniay Day; ‘andotthae thaimill ill ceoven with a. % ee A A eel 3 and a com-| es a Rc ote ee 4 vill send 226,0 roops Englan 0 shoo ms who want to Pesan the aes a con : he eopen ; ported eee eer ney Se ee alah dcneeal ee es cae ET salah ate tim CounarE Meanie Siiroe var GTtSheTa6t of Aakers pera in tie Ea nes brings the average of the total | 10 per cent wage cut. This is in Sey 4 anaes ccied above |procession. Even the nearest rela-| strategetical points as Suchow, the| cans mostly from the General Motors assembly plant at Bombay Also it is likewise “incidentally cuts up to 30 per cent. The Ade- | Jine with all oti hat have pa wcThe police condueted a.|tives were driven away from theljunetion of the Longhel and’ the| ioriminates American’ imperialiom in this strike breaking ad that Hot Ghlei were heer ee Peeee an allentowny il Shute os Ne estes a number of mass raids against Com- {hearse with rifle butts. The sister | Peking-Pukow railway, and Cheng: = a = as ae E ce Hae Soe began td lay off all ands and will] oid. the nel Textile Wacker munists and many workers were ar-|of the dead girl was seriously in-| chow, the junction of the Lunghai city had been evacua Wales shut down completely for few Union. rested without warrant. A number |jured with a blow on the skull axl) and the Peking Hankow railway. V1 é S ain as hinge ales ftom ae ade rena The el & Sheldon Mill, | —Alletown Mill Slave. of Arabian wor from Nablus|had to be taken to hospital wate Each Claim “Victory.” . ‘ uh jel Ae ae yee. vere arrested for distributing Com- | other girl was also seriously injured A ach aide: gaporti thei Ty f nal coe 3 munist leaflets. Arrests were also /and was taken to hospital. Fifteen! |W lca iy oem ates a O Ninvacite WIVOUS \acat wetter | yung and Old ' made amongst the left-wing nation- arrests were made, | their foreign and native supporters [ot firing on the masces at Cater. | ae » alist elements ‘amdi usgein he Jewish worker, s | sides maintaining a close : ecidiall A Re group) and Ibrahim Seltar, the td-|was arrested for’ distributing Grae | PU Be ee amine 2 cere 4 cae : oe ere aties etendiics : Nop ma be ; ; - itor of the Merat esch Schark, and}munist leaflets amongst the Ara~|vonot yet he determined. Program of National Miners Union Outlines Sete Uta st soe two other young nationalists were |bian workers in Gaza. Whilst in|“ powcver, checking up the cn-| Reasons for National Struggle September if B y s of the Gen rk like the dickens for 10 |plied tha ' sentenced to imprisonment in sum- ne ee of ve Bolle he was tor- | flleting reports, it seems that the eral Motors assembly plant. or £0 cents an hour 1 ort roce: ured an maltreated. le YP N: *, rees are losing. 5 + ses i ai) es At Poona it adn od that the rest of thi 1 5 Rr aetee k A goby “Gomrade H. Milstein, at young |spy, ‘Tannenbaura, who is also the | Vause fo in a desperate eitaation, |, The five-year agreement expires Miners are told that they must pro- Hee rears fae ere eer Chee ee fan ees Jewess, member of the Young Com-jleader of the “Zionist Defense | anking is making che utmost neo |AUeust 81. Our main task now is ies re ee Ta ttatens to | 9? Laataiy had thcown tie city |ntead to be ome y and 1 ; 1 r . ” eee sEeaai ls a e ohe st us reper . sie Seotem-|as before, at th ae a. In 15] nto ¢ OY f= on the peo t give a dam 1 sult of the callous neglect of the|the maltreatment of Miaskovitz. ...| American imperialists. These air- ae Recon Seal elds (cel heeitee iein ee evetieed Gk Bl Britian. theSeHGeRE GF th we ee due frat has ; ; British prison authorities here. She} Three proletarian political pris- | planes, which played a decisive part : vin a SEN Cu BaCee fee aad gat evs y a b was arrested a few months ago and |oners are lying naked in their cells] i, the last militarist war a little | te metal mining industry, by the peaced ly the sires om Foy Ca raed eat pa cs ae ae aa ! t : . ; . hile ata a s s a Me) cethine Pecanicd Te com-|the. dencvear riod. : fens nte sha at ° ion |they sell the ‘or big y charged with having conducted |in the prison of Akko. The priton| over four months ago, are now reck-|SetiMz UP of rank and file com. the ten-year period. With less “enter” Peshavar at the invitation they sell Communist propaganda. She fell! authorities have deprived them of lessly sent by Chiang Kai mittees of action in every mine and workers the coal operators get more wees : FOReUTEE SRIELEL | LORS ees Ge Ek uy seriously ill in prison and an appeal | their clothmg and these workers!) ihard cities in his ene through the exposnre of the Lewis | coal also shows the weakening of British was tell and help vi de to the British authorities refuse to wear prison clothes. rit Fotty-seven civil Se machine of the United Mine Wor Hours Increased. cee £ oe E occhiatse Sear coabda Killed’ in Chongchow and mang lets of America, by means of mak-| New machinery in the min control. | These tribesmen are hos-|boss of a fa yee. eee G : vounded as the result of these bom.|i2& known their numberless acts of loading machines, under-cutting de- |tile to the British and their chief- at came to coll YOUNG WORKER. ht Tea and constant struggle |thousands of miners out of work, not appear to have stopped his re-| Starvation for Spokane Worke . 4 Nance, With Japan. t{against these betrayals, Organize |'There are now thousands of miner- <Tuiting as a result of the British Starvation for Spokane Worke | diplomatic maneuvers with Japan (and the building of the only mili-| time work has increased tremen te over the Mohmand count eee = . AP ya A ies usa Ala napiy|tant union of the mine workers—|dously. Some collieries close dow: he action of the Sik SPOKANE, Wash.—Just ¢ Tl (Continued from Page One) | can ne eras Gaeta Ree ae Nanking bloc the National Miners’ Union, affili-|for two or three n The ma- ilure of the pee try to give you an idea of th ce s elected to the State| out the dictates of Wall Street in} back ne: ant oy ‘ ated to the Trade Union Unity | jority of the mine w s got worl nst the others ditions of the victims of capi NOHIRLEE Contentlols their campaign of oppressing the|against Chiang Kai-shek, of course,)7 Oooo only from one to three days a, as in the past. Moslem holiday here, hi d trade union| Workers (speed-up, no relief for the) does not hesitate to have a finger AGE oe eee of Bakrid was hoped by the British| Hundreds have lived - Bs adres ti Gen se aNe junemployed, race discrimination, | in each pie. Pee ayes: santo The hours per day spent by the | to provoke clashes between Moslems could gather from ¢ nal Mhantinge of cnorgeniaed and |¢t.)- ‘They are also carrying out) Associated Press reports from| The entire mining industry, both| ,,7%¢ "ours ver day spent by the| fo provalle clare’ Between eos dumps and are still living ¢h | aa NC ah Soitees HIT RS salted a reign.of terror against the work-| Tokio say that “an imvortant agree-|coal and metal, jereased despite the fact that thou-|uUSe as an exense to r build their |The streets e crowded w ling class (police brutality, injunc-;ment had been concluded between| United States and in every other | 7 i mie atc ona te ‘ als im that they are in Indian|unemployed, some e Worker at which the question of the elec | sions, terrorizing ‘the foreign born,| the Nanking Government and the|country. The anthracite coal op snd (ee mere a une ye fal: ee a ae ee oe one Bloyet nee eoret hind: tion campaign shall be taken up and) 5/0" |Japanese War Office whereby at/erators, like the mine owners ROLE GE SIGH AH EL AE [to ete contending eroune?” The wobblies have their office WORKER delegates elected to the State Nom-| °°". istists Appeal to Bosses. | least thirty Japanese army officers |throughout the country and throug Seeds pee iy taba Min ey oi tana Naas eee Wee inating Convention. The socialist party has stopped would be employed as instructors |out the world, are trying to make [100 OF the fue edule idee I Jefe ao | - All Possible Aid. [even pretending to be a working and organizers in the Nanking |the mine workers bear the whole jo sy2¥ less tan the fil eiehthaus TF, D. I efes SIX _|Labor Department, der Tells The T.U.U.L. recognizes the role| class party. It has become an open army. J toy, | Durden of this crisis. The U. M. W.|41., expiration of the agreement the Arrested in Buffalo 5 of the Communist Party in the| third capitalist party. The best; The same dispatch says that “the|of A., controlled by Lewis in the SSiae coal operators intend to use this decision as a basis for lengthening the working hours and abolishing the eight-hour day. Abolish Contractor instructors will proceed to China| anthracite, is an agency of the coal during June and July.” In the| operators and has no other func- meantime, aymed with this agree-|tion than to help the coal operators ment, Chiang Kai-shek will man-|make bigger profits at the expense symptom of this is the refusal of} the socialist party to center its ap-| peal to the workers and instead is| attempting to get the support of| struggle of the working class and| will give all possible aid to bring forward the election program of the| Communist Party and in getting | Woll and Priest Are | ee Aiding Whalen| arrested | JisarmedCop BUFFALO, arrests have cently. M. | when sper . Y., May been made Melvin was g at an open-air meet- (Continued from Page One) the widest possible support for the the petty-bourgeois and ocean | ey for pacer SURERrY from the) of the mine workers. The contract system, e: ing. C. Larson and William Her- ‘ When it was suggeste d to Easley candidates of the Communist Party.|capitalist interests. (ddcseea nar sae Farrington-Howat-Gormer- with the aid of the Lewis machine, bert, a Negro worker, were taken) {hat a ce plea ee The Trade Union Unity League) The Trade Union Unity Tesene SF moa neve Peabody. a curse, It divides the mine into custody in front of the Donner | !tiend of Ue net calls upon all revolutionary work-| will! carry on # struggle to defeat trigues, moves. and cou @s in the|.. 1 the Ilinois coal fields, the U.|workers into contractors and labor-| Steel Co., where they were giving Leauge ee ee ee aa ea celle Ce ian, oon | ARNEL odd awe Ge Tae os we [ME W. ot Ar, contedlled by tie Paa'liys,. Tp exeates, corruption and diaclout leaflets, cel emma on He said, “The fact th Cannan ae ESE Jee (cama ae aa ee sa eect he (Gee: role in the final lineup of 20dy Coal Co, and headed by &)sension. It means greater rob! Ta ehneon and ee eee oa responded to the e Com- win the suppo. ri t ies ay oli f Coal Co. stool} mine worl 1 BORD ccs atau ein x 2 SUggestiol ite sen cOnahs | munist Party in’ aukee is livin,: unions and workers’ organizations! program and candidates of the Com-| the forces in wars in the colonial| ‘liaue My Pei er us eee o ne ogee Magee vers. The | Were, arrested for Rus gre had tried to sel ny to the there is \ h : var in Pigeons with a self-confessed, §25,-|profits for the mine owners. The| Day leaflets, while Carl Larson was an 3 {op ahels eeerady munist Party—the only party of|countries. The militarist war in a oe oes See . : y Sy A aS them. The Russian had heen rcport- nemplo: a deep or their program. 4 sUlateastateerel 2 China, in the last analysis, is but a 200 per year stool pigeon, Farring- contractor system is used to bribe] arrested for pasting stickers calling dee bets deccHe Hae oe unemy cep The government parties: republi-' class struggle. reflection of the major contradic-|t°% 8 their leader, numbering |a small section of the mine workers|tinon workers to sein the celebra, (ues Loins eis eee a how- Negro Worker Held tions between the American, Jap- eat ta Hawele Garmer, Fish-|for use against the great majority] tion, The International Labor De- : aaetda te : in | anese and British imperialist pow-|“ick, Walker, Hapgood, etc, carry ‘ fense is taking up their e Woll is viee-pre:iden : B R N 3 BLOCKS sor Death, Legal or Not ers, and the different re Flonaey on fee eames Deaayos af (the sulp interes One - of the Alt ecident kinaslt tobe: " social forces in China whose {ate is | Baal daes : cataaee Sat E St as etror ry} s Have of the strik onal Civic a a { (Continued from Page One) | closely linked up with these powers,|@nthracite fields, The only differ- cite fields, Detroit Wor kers Have of . took away shi ra- BES ence is that the ois gang of the uge Mergers. v a tolc |raped a white woman, and prepara. setae that the Ilin ig of thi Huge M ine Carnival Sat.', B told the tions made for a lynching. Fight for Work or Wages! U. M. W. of A., because of the ex-]| In 1928, seven ant te com- S libs. caganesteas Ubouey Sih y for work ical SA = . posure of Farrington as a Peabody jpanies owned and controlled be- DETROIT, May 1 " c- | Well ati ad A i s is what we get” Many Negro arkets of rane in the |Cosl agent, tries to fool the miners) tween 70 and 80 per cent of alll 2 Tremnational Relief and the Incl yg eee ©) (pointing to the club). He stated Kept Away from Only] The working class population in| first that she was assaulted in the|py mating a pretense of copecitiog |hectneot be Sent aE alll national Relief and the 1n-/hands are alread Cee eb) ces ‘ Wh = U a ] this county is about 90 per cent presence of her 14-year-old daugh- | ¢4 Lewis and using a few “radical”|mergers have taken place, Thesc es ea 1 lie Meron porn down nit the Point Where Useful | Negro, so the sheriff decided it was ter. However, the daughter” has [tyne mergers are closely connected with |Mave atranged a big spring carnival leampnicn { police sim. some Ge Page One) | better to observe the forms of law,| never been Breese so her story) The so-called unions, headed by|the big railroad companies and with RAR ME: Gee ee ke oc sel ape ae ‘ - of his own medic (Continued from Page One) | |Kentucky prescribing the Ce eer of Which anand cutter iat: |these agents of the coal operators, |the big Wall Street banking house: es ne Aaa cia elas vetien Rogan be the tonocals ct|, The chief of police and his lieu- dence and wat out a trial, of assault- penalty for rape. | He rescued Mc- pares which sounds sufficiently like | a. nothing but company unions—|—the Morgan and Rockefeller in- Ne at He Sea ae eenee nov ne I OUI OLN) ania ta ihe Ham indlnd: ing.a white woman. Perkin, and sheriff and lynchers}a frame-up. instruments used by the operators|terests. These huge combinations 2to™ 2 ‘ ; ie Vis Cae Be eresnaue ified for ‘The gang of lynchers attabied the now co-gverate in ‘staging scare “He's Only a Nigger” to add to their bank rolls at the] of capital have but one object—| The program of this spring carni-| “Its! another case like the Hears court house, where the authorities ! stories about machine eu at the When the LL.D. investigators ap- |expense of the mine wo: greater profits at the e: e of val and outing includes ‘CG snappy | ee : iy oe _ sss Be had sealed Hughes in a vault of | county jail to prevent the lynching |. .ared at the jail, they were not al-| The only union that organizes and|the mine workers and their ince ore! a, a midnight — Shh walled for Whalen, to. 4 teat concrete and stecl. Not being able|of MePerkin, — lowed to see MePerkin, and the|leads the mine workers in all sec-| ilies, with an “Amkino” moving picture who wai 1 to make | to open the vault, they burned down} The Negro middle class as usual sheriff jovially kidded them: “ |tions of the industry is the Na- PTR made in the Soviet Union, athletic 3 : ie ear eer fe, : the court house to kill him. plays safe, and does nothing to aid | what is it to you? He is only a Nig- |tional Miners’ Union—based on pit) Demand the release of Fos events in charge of the Labor Sport Ve oug giv ethe A this worker. Troops Removed From Scene ger. String is too good for him,”|and mine committees—and con-| ter Minor Amter and Ray Union, an open-air concert yy th : sae poe ee 4 t . They then dynamited the vault]. The International Labor Defense jete, It was announced by the au-|trolled by the rank and file. t ange s ie for fightin: Finnish Band, a mass chorus of 500 a taken wp By, this aulailne Chairn an Jol nson, “We shall see open and took the body out for fur-|immediately investigated and found es that the grand jury would] — The U. M. W. A. Sell Out. mond, in prison fOr NHghunt | voices, plenty of goad things to cat, Dickstein, a member of the commit-|what can be done about deporting ther indignities. A section of the gang got the idea that he might! have been held in the jail. They attacked the jail, where troops were stat? cd, having been removed from the court house, evidently for the convenience of the lynchers. At- tacked in the jail, the militia fired | in the air, and officers assured the lynchers the man they wanted was at the court house, A rumor that two lynchers were struck by soldiers’ bullets was not confirmed. \the best families in the neighbor- that the lynchers have a witness, on | whom they rely to kill this worker. | The witness is a woman who stated but were immediately released on the ground that they belcnged to hood. Moody has issued a flamboyant denunciation of the murder and arson, but nothing is being done about it except the further gesture of declaring martial law. Some kin dof whitewash trial may meet in a few days and indict him, after which he would be hanged. However, the LL.D. engaged an attorney, and called mass meetings to explain the situation to the work- ers here, The grand jury failed to meet and indict him, but quietly, three weeks later it was announced that the state had appointed a lawyer for the Negro, and that the trial was indefinitely postponed. An‘ in the meantime he is in jail, incommunicado, and at the mercy of Fifteen lynchers were arrested, be conducted after a while, lynchers in and out of uniform, The five-year agreement signed by Lewis in 1926 was really a sell- out of the miners. It was a victory for the coal operators. During the life of this agreement the coal op- erators have made huge profi The miners have been handed wage+ cuts, have been speeded up, unem- ployment has increased, accidents have increased, hours have been lengthened, conditions have become worse generally and the U. M. W. of A. itself, led by Lewis, has passed completely into the control of the} coal operators. Unbéarable Conditions. Working and living conditions in| the anthracite field are worse than| at any time since the world war. The mine workers get less in wages. Every miaer knows that a whole series of wage cuts have been put across by the coal companies through various methods. Payment for dead work has practically been | abolished. Payment per car loaded | has been reduced in most instances by about 50 per cent, Tonnage | rates have been decreased. Yard- | age prices have been cut, and, in| many mines, the yardage basis has been abolished entirely. Considera- tion time is practically non-exist-/ ent. Miners have to pay for their | militarists, headed by Chiang Kai-Shek and supported by American imperialism, and the Northe ern anti-Nanking Clique, under Yen Hsi-Shan and Feng Yu-Hsiang and backed by Japanese and British imperialism, which is now raging within a period of little over two years. in China, is the third militarist war fought between the war lords own tools and pay for air for the jack-hammers, Dockage for “dirty coal” increases constantly. | Wage Cuts and Speed Up. *— In one year alone—1928—the an- thracite mine workers’ wages were, reduced by $16,298,000, as against | 1927, The decrease in 1929 was still | greater, 1 The speed-up system daily saps | the life and energy of the mine | workers. Coal production increases constantly at the expense of the life, limbs and health of the miners. for unemployment insurance. ‘and sleeping accomnyodations for »!!, May Issue of the COMMUNIST JUST OFF THE PRESS .CONTENTS NOTES OF THE MONTH MAY FIRST, 1930 Cc. A. HATHAWAY MAY FIRST—THE TRADITIONAL DAY OF PROLETARZAN POLITICAL ACTION ALEXANDER TRACH'TENBERG FROM MARCH SIXTH TO MAY FIRST MOISSAYE J. OLGIN MAY FIRST AND THE AMBERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT BILL DUNNE MAY DAY AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY LOUIS KOVESS MAY DAY—1886 AND SINCE SAM DARCY PREPARING FOR THE SEVENTH PARTY CONVENTION EARL BROWDER PROBLEMS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO ON THE EVE OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE PROFINTERN TOWARD SOCIAL-FASCISM—THE “RP) UY! TION” OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY A. B. 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