The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1930, Page 1

| Baily Knteree as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef March 8, 187% Bee ty’. VoluVI, No. 369 NE by The Comprodaily Publishing w York City. ION RA x, New Yor YORK, TUESDAY, MA ‘WHALEN’ Gra ok “OF ACE 15-YE AR |A Printer and Whales Ane Lo! “Moscow” Moves to “Altogether Too Matter” “PIHE latest stock market debacle should not be lightly dismissed. It is altogether too grave a matter to be treated as if it were of no consequence.” the East Side! Coneomeuts cexvetHo. SENTENGES IN SEDITION TRIAL paserapas scex crpan coe-cumstrecn, 4 Hennnnow Rempareped. Crores Merman apes Asrno a3 lapaxa Hapownae fe_ss2 cc. Moca, 16. jJexatipn— 19.25, These are not the words of a Communist leaflet. It is true that before the latest crash, we predicted its coming and pointed out the } reasons why it must come. At that time all the “authoritative” publi- 'N, J. Jobless Leaders 6 | cations were filled with cautious evasions or optimistic bunk, while “ f : eek Coereerne c wL toa epea tea aes Hoover was spilling his daily bull of rosperity.”” Some | GO On Trial Today; ieee ng ¥ weeks after the event, however, even capitalist “authorities” begin to be wise, as the above quotation from “The Commercial and Financial Chronicle” of May 10 shows. Perhaps a few more pearls of the wisdom that comes with exper- fence will entertain if not edify our readers: “This second stock market crash, whateyer one may think of the attending consequences, will certainly not promote a re- Indictment Lies Cops Beast Red Raid Say They Will Smash Unemployed Councils CayxeOxHaa sanucka. Yeaxaomu@ tosapam Cays, . B cpasa c kaaparagyp dacow B Coeg.Mrarax nggs zew pacnonAaseny ower p VIA yCanexan oBaTScA Aven. ReHHEX KOTINC? Wad thooKaa. vival of confidence in underlying conditions, and such a revival eae toe is an absolutely indispensible prerequisite to a revival in trade —— KATBOA Jan and business. SWARK, N. J., May 12. — Fif- Rta “To have the bottom again drop so completely out of the tec ar prison terms face nine PeucHae Sait = market can only serve to unsettle confidence anc Ms ant workers who go on trial Sxnare ay Yes, it is altogether too grave a matter for capitalism, for it Uae ewan fon neering: Ue proves what the Communists alone have been saying publicly for many (107 0°5,, Bq) SUSE G Ott Me ne months, that the crisis is deepening and that capitalism is in a deathly | “8° Soe ERS ene o- dieinest, ry. 11 a meeting of unem- Sal shee A gers ployed workers indoors and are — For the working class, the lesson is the necessity for more or- |"heveed with sedition. Abraham J. ae ganization, stronger organization, with a clear revolutionary policy of | [.<erman of the International Labor struggle, as the only way to meet and overcome the efforts of the se will defend the workers, ne capitalist class to load upon its shoulders all’the intolerable burdens out on $500 hail’bach oe of ee dca wage cuts, a ed-up and rationalization, with mi; | THN? eyGne NOE aw mevite (oh ime goer arent Sty Anpieueeve ion: 40r Tianhe UO: : ; f portant sedition trials that will be m) qanl ‘ Organize and fightt Build the revolutionary unions! Circulate held within the next few weeks. On |___ urn shor ee and support the Daily Worker, the only newspaper that gives the |May 26 twelve workers go trial canes " lea noe i Nee Snare Pe tram vcsne 7m Lea. 3 fasapet830 cna working class reliable information and leads them in the fight! |in the Imperial Valley, California, lwhere they were arrested for or- |ganizing the melon workers. Th |following day, in Atlanta, Ga., H. Powers and Joe Carr, C nu- nist otganizers, also go on trial and jif convicted will be sentenced to die in the elec chair. They were ‘jailed for favoring a joint struggle gro and white worke: other workers e don sedition ges in Ohio and Pennsylvania, while others are held for trial in Michigan and Illinois. Rally Support. The International Labor ' Defense has announced that it will fight to the finish to prevent the conviction of the workers and calls upon the entire working class to rally to their Pocnpenezenne eususypyemen ee Cravax CACB. Franco-Italian Naval Race RESS reports from Paris point out that when naval building pro- will have 279,000 tons of “post-Was 270,000 tons. The response of French impe' pressed in the Paris “Journal” in the word tinues France will be obliged to take measur of naval superiority judged indispensable.” “Such inequilibrium as this cannot exist forever.” comments a correspondent of the bourgeois press. True enough. And the inequil- ibrium is not confined to the relations of France and Italy, Already | before the London Treaty is signed, the ground has been laid for the abandonment of the tonnage figures there agreed upon between Bri- tain, Japan, and the U.S. A. The race of France and Italy is merely the runner-up for the bigger race, the main event of the imperialist rivalry, the race between Britain and the U. S. ntain the margin ce is on. H eee support. P From Geneva comes the droning voices of the League of Nations Ase w Stee Ali AVAIL. Be! tuled committee for “arbitration and security,” which continues its mumblings 2.6 Dominick Flaiani, section or- teal ; : < _ and ineantations designed to continue to fool the most backward ele- | "20.6, Gommunist Party; Dave Air-tight proof. that Whalen’s mysterious “documents,” which ments, the illiterates and socialists, who still look to the League a5 & Rouse, Young Communist League; he said came from Moscow, were printed in New York City. An ex- “preventive of war.” Meanwhile even the popular capitalist Press John Pado, Unemployed Council; » y speaks with the utmost cynicism about Geneva and its “peace” (sanyel D, Levine, manager Morn- ° planation of these in detail is printed in the story in this paper. To mission. ing it; Joseph Lepsevicius, , NS ee) Gr ‘Attempting to drown out the rumblings of the rapidly approach- | Tniernational Labor Defense; Morris | expose still further this anti-Soviet plot, the Friends of the Soviet velp- ble nter- “holy bit to all the curs of imperialism are Union are holding a mass mecting Thursday, May 15, at 7 p. m. at ing to stir up a sentiment favor eedle Trades Workers’ In- Union; Edward Childs, League; D. W. -, Unemployed Heder, agita-| director, Commn- | ing war between the imperiali: ing against the Soviet Union, tr for an armed attack against the imperialist war breaks out. Following the instructions of father” in Rome, Policeman Whalen in New York adied the chorus, with forged documents wh o now ¢ losed to have Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. ‘Workers’ Fatherland before the bi been printed to order in this cit In z they are ul peteee ete 19 Party. | on ae . a ee ee | A Quotas Assigned of Delegates, Funds War is in the air. Every day the capitalist pres half filled ‘at a r Fe \ jc demons made. The po! (Continued on P dle Trades Fraction Tonight Page New York Quickly Answers Daily Worker $25,000 Emergency Cali Distreit 2 of the Communist Party, New ¥ City and surrounding territory, has answered cur earnest call for im- mediate financial assistance. A tremendous mass collection will take place in New York, Breoklyn, New Jersey, Long Island, Yonkers and other sections. It was correct for New York to fi $25,000 to keep our central organ seing Daily Worker is published here and is of immense ser the revolutionary movement and all workers’ mass organiza- tions in this immediate field. The tag days and heuse to ko collections which will ‘New York to Send 315, Chicago 1,000, West Coast 400, Detroit 300, and ' Other Centers Less; Unions Send Delegates Also | \ | The national bureau of the national organization of the Councils of the Unemployed at | All Communist Party members| its meeting yesterday set quotas of delegates to be sent from the various districts of the un- jin the needle industry will meet) employed councils, and also quotas for the unions, and other workers’ organizations ccoperating | pea naeeate SP AEEiaitl in the fight the jobless are waging. The delegates are to assemble in the great national con- i | Party “members in the drive of, /Vention of the unemployed, Chicago, July 4-5, to organize a great struggle on a country-wide | ithe N.T.W.LU. for 6,000 new! scale to win work or wages,® _| members and (0 discuss the right! unemployment relief and in-|8:000,000 jobless in order to length-) | danger in trade union work. Max} | guy. ai » by +4,,/en hours, cut wages, drive the Bedacht will le the reporter. All beeeae paid for by the city workers mercilessly, and make more} and state governments, and ad-! of them jobless, will be fought by ministered by the workers. the unemployed and workers alike. They are fighting also for the Much Activity. | Ploye ‘ : | 'seven-hour day and five-day week! Reports coming into the national; With the campaign to build the | |for workers on the job, and against office of the Councils of the Unem-| councils, and to make the national | |speed-up. The attempts of the em-! ployed indicate that more and more | corvention the) greatest such gather- « iployers to take advantage of the'concrete organization and prepara- (Continued on Page Three) tion for the national convention. From all over the country unem- ployed council secretaries tell of enthusiastic response to the pro- |gram of the Councils of the Unem- ployed. rse | Party members in the needle in- ‘dustry are obligated to attend,| land are excused from attend-| ing their unit meeting tonight. st answer our call for The 1S: 8 k Cit year everywhere exceptin foreign countries, there $8 y PRINTED IN TO OBLIGE Permit Compari |\Documents “Speak for BULL BERLIN, May 12 (By Wirel Peter Pavlonovski and Vladimir to Czar Ni¢holas, against the sent months in jail on charges of fo “prove” that Senator Bor: nied by the Appellate Di * ments” produced by Police Com brought forward by “Graphic,” a New York tabloid} sheet interested only in the sensation it furnished. This further proof was so convinc- ing that the likewise sensation-) loving Congressman La Guardia} (republican) took it up and used it} to belabor, vocally, the quivering istration of New York. By this evidence, Whalen, the whale of an “administrator,” touted as the Great Wise Guy, is proven to be a liar and a deliberate accom- plice of the forgers of the “docu- ments” which he, liar and four- flusher publicity seeker that he is. melodramatically produced with the statement that they were “inter- cepted by his undercover agents.” Moreover, even after he shown proof that the “documents” were forgeries, he refused to allow ilent with criminal intent of continuing the pretension that the forged “documents” are genuine. typewritten—exposed in their in-| ternal content by the Daily Work lon May 9th as a clumsy forge | these letterheads alleged to be those of the Communist International, | were printed in a small printshoo| | and bookstore run by one Max Wag- ner, at 204 East 10th St, New York City. Incidentally, the statement of Wagner, No. 5, shown in the cut, not only proves the forgery, but Mavhattan form of the Tammany police admin-} was | all n, and until this hour re-| The letterheads on which the “lev-| ters” and a certain “mandate” were | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents a year, -SOVIET FORGERIES BLOWN UP LETTERS “FROM MOSCOW” NEW YORK MR. WHALEN |Knowing They Were Fakes, Whalen Did Not son When Told ’ Themselves” and Say Whalen Conspicuously Lied ETIN. less).—The appeal of the forgers, Orloff, once a councillor of state ence of the German courts of four rging fake Soviet documents to was bribed by the Soviet, has been de- ion Court of Berlin. these forged documents for sale to a newspaper correspondent. * They had offered * The assertion of the Daily Worker on May 3, which printed the statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States declaring the ridiculous “docu- missioner Whalen to be “stupid and criminal forgeries’’ has been proyen by other evidence the? - x 5s ‘Convention in Chicago Forms A Food Union CHICAGO, Ill, May 12.—The |Food and *Packinghouse Workers’ Industrial League of the Trade | Union Unity League at the Chi- cago Shop Delegate Convention that will be held on Sunday, May 18, at 10 a. m. at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., will form a new revolutionary industrial union of all food and packinghouse work- ers in Chicago and vicinity. All hotel and restaurant workers, packinghouse and _ stockyards workers, all food, truck drivers | workers in factories, such as candy, | bakeries, macaroni, canning, butcher |shops, all groe: ete., store clerks, |men, women and youth, Negro, Ori- entals and white workers are eli- gible for membership if they agree with a program of class struggle and class solidarity. Seare A. F, of L. “The American Federation of La- bor has clearly proven that it does not and will not organize the masses of workers in the food industry; of the 2,000,000 workers in the indus- try only 4 per cent are organized, and these into craft locals, where they fight each other instead of shows that the white guard who go’ Wagner to print them, even cheated | Wagner out of payment for the 5,- 000 letterheads ordered, being sat \isfied with the proofs he took away |with him which were later photo: |graphed by Whalen. The reason Whalen refuses to let the originals be seen, is because, be: ing only proof sheets made in a way which makes them easily recognized as proof sheets, the originals would expose this fact, while a photostatic copy conceals it. This again shows Whalen’s deliberate dishonesty, since he refuses to allow examination of the originals on the excuse that “a \eviminal investigation being con- ducted ‘by the Police Departmen: into the criminal ac ies of cer- tain Communist groups in this city has not been completed,” and it was nece to “safeguard the evi- dene Four-flusher Whalen topped this (Continued on Page Three) take place in the New York district this Friday, Saturday and Sunday will bring in a large sum of money and help the Daily Worker considerably. Here we want to call the atten- tion of all comrades and workers and workers’ organizations in the New Y ¢k district to insufficient mobilization and consequent failure of recent mass collections held. Only if the comrades in this district mobilize their full strength, only if every Party member, all friendly workers go out and collect will a sum of money be realized that will substantially aid us. There have been mass collections in this district that have been tremendous successes. A tag day and’ house to house collection for striking miners’ re- lief held two years ago brought in $13,500. If every Party member will collect $5 we can duplicate this success. If we can mobilize thousands of additional workers from other mass organizations, then we can regis- ter the largest mass collection, and for the worthiest cause, ever held here, And how about Philadelphia, Pittsburgh: Boston, Cleve- land, Detroit, Chicago and other cities east and west’ There seems to be a prevailing attitude in many of these cities that mass collections are impossible. We insist that a mass col- lection is possible in every city. Mobilize the Party, mobilize *ee sympathetic workers’ organizations, furnish all with oe (Continued ex Paae Three Readers of The Daily Worker! Today’s edition is several | hours late! It will miss some of the mail trains and get to distant points too.late to sell on the proper day! Saturday, and Sunday. We hope you are taking this question of the danger of suspending publication of The Daily Worker seriously. gency meeting of all leading forces We must have immediate money or we will not be able to publish The Daily Worker at all by the end of this week. . As we write this, the printers who set the type and run the press have stopped work because we have no money to pay their wages . Do this for your Central Organ As we write this we have in hand notice from the paper house that paper will not be shipped us today because we have not paid for the last shipment. the answer! Why This Daily Worker Is. Late! Comrades in New York City know our serious situation and have organized an immense mass collection for Friday, Every single district must get into action. Call an emer- at once. Activize the Party units and members. Every member must rush to the workers and organizations he knows for funds. right now. Shall we go under or shall The Daily Worker live and grow? We want an answer to this question. Into action. for funds is —THE DAILY WORKER. working for the interest of the rest jof the wor! ” states the call for | convention. The union set up in Chicago May 18 will be part of the international |revolutionary trade union movement and its program of struggle of the |working class against the capitalist class will organize all workers in the industry into one union, based (Continued on Page Three) Trotskyite Tres It Out on 3 Dogs, But First on Labor EDITOR OF “MILITANT” PROMOTION. GETS Many months ago the grapevine telegraph carried the news that the editor of the “Militant,” organ of the Constantinople “International,” had secured :. position on the staff of the N. Y. Telegram, one of the Scripps-Howard chain of capitalist newspapers. It seemed, however. that he was doomed to write anony- mously as a “mere reporter.” We |ar: glad to report that he has re- | ceived a promotion and is now a “Telegram staff writer’ and signs his stories. The one which caught the eye of the “inquisitive reporter” of the Daily Worker carried the fol- lowing instructive and entertaining head: “Dogs’ Cut Ears Convict Owner.” “Three Tiny Puppies Produced in Court Must Be Returned to Jersey.” “By James Cannon, New York Tele- gram Staff Writer.” Congratulations to the leader of American Trotskyism upon his pro- motion to a new high position. 10,000 HOMELESS IN PERSIA. According to reports from Per- ia the dead in last week’s earth- jquake number over 2,100, with |moz» than 10,000 homeless. The {dead include many Armenians,