The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1930, Page 1

o— Every Party Member, Sympathizer and Reader of the Daily Worker Must Do His Share in the, Drive to Save and Build the Daily Worker Vo. VI, No. 371 Publishea Company Launching the New York Election Campaign T Schenectady, New York, on May 25th, there will gather the | State Convention of the Communist Party to ratify the candidates | and platform for the coming election campaign. This campaign will be one of the most significant and important points in the development of the class struggle. It will test the capacity of the Communist Party to organize on the parliamentary field, some of the mass following and enthusiasm which were displayed in the struggles of March 6 and May 1. It will be the first election campaign after the onset of the eco- nomic crisis and the enormous increase in unemployment, wage cuts, and speed-up. Leading slogans of the Convention, which distinguish the platform of the Communist Party from all other parties, are: Work or wages, | unemployment insurance; the seven-hour day and five-day week; for complete social, political and economic equality for Negroes; against | imperialist war, and for defense of the Soviet Union; for a revolution- ary Workers’ Government. Workers everywhere will recognize in these slogans the expression of their own most pressing needs. They will find no other political party which stands for these things. Only the Communist Party repre- sents and fights for the interests of the working class, not only on eléction day, but every day of the year. This election campaign, occurring at the present time, calls for a ten-fold effort to make it a real working class mobilization, a real demonstration of the growth of the revolutionary temper of the work- ers, a real measure of the strength of the mass support for the imme- diate demands of the Communists, as*well as a measure of the revo- lutionary understanding of the vanguard of the werking class. This is no mere “election campaign” in the old traditional sense; it is a revolutionary struggle for the immediate needs of the workers. Rally the workers behind the Schenectady Convention! Forward to the Communist election campaign! Speed the Recruitment Drive! (Reprinted from Labor Unity.) All organizations affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League are organizations for the,masses. They are, however, not yet sufficiently mass organizations. The main masses of the workers are still unor- ganized. A most tremendous job of organization lies ahead of us. The first steps in fulfilling this task are contained in the Recruit- ment Drive of the Trade Union Unity League and all its affiliated or- ganizations. The slogan is, “Organize the masses; recruit the workers from the shops; bring in the unemployed worker: Before the millions can be organized, we must fist have organized the thousands. Our immediate goal is a modest one, 50,000 new mem- bers, which will about double the number of active, functioning, dues- paying members in the new unions. But its modesty does not make it less important. This 50,000 represents the path to the millions, Every muscle and nerve must be strained to make good in this drive. Not only the bringing in of numbers of workers, however, but also the creation of the organizational forms for them to work in, is part of our task. Local unions must be built. City counci brought together, and must become the live, directing, ener ters of the work in each locality. New industrial unions have to be built. Our drive is not only a recruiting drive, but also a building drive, an organizational drive. is It is also necessary, in order for this work to be permanently suc- cessful, to multiply our agitational and educational work. We must teach the workers as we organize them, about the class struggle, about | the tasks of the trade unions, about the tactics and strategy of the | class struggle, about the methods of work and organization of the | revolutionary trade unions. Ours is a complicated and difficult task, that requires the most stubborn and energetic work. Weaklings and cowards‘are no good for this. It requires the very best brains and muscles and character that the working class has. We call upon all workers to join in this great drive, to take up each one his own particular part of the task, to combine all individual efforts into one great concerted forward movement. WHALEN FORGERY, ™329,W™EHOU. IN ELECTIONS bewplayment Wor: | NTWIU Endorses May 25 Convention ‘concerning unemployment in eight years. Since the government fig-} “The workers of New York State | ures include only those who are} will not be fooled by the forged |registered as unemployed, the actual documents manufactured by Tam- figures must be much larger. many Hall” says a statement issued} According to these figures there by the New York State Campaign ‘has been an increase of 233,000 in Committee of the Communist Party./the number of registered jobless It was this Whalen that engineer- | Workers since the beginning of this ed the sending to the penitentiary | year. the leaders of the unemployed in New York, Comrades Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond. The workers of New York showed that the jail- ing of these comrades on March 6 did not have the desired effect; that is of smashing the Communist Par- ty but instead the workers came | forth in larger numbers than ever before on International May Day. Elections Will Prove. This pre-election campaign, scheme has been exposed. The coming elec- tions will prove that the workers of New York and in the rest of the country stand behind the pro- gram and candidates, of the Commu- | nist Party. On May 25, the Com- munist Party will hold its State Nominating Convention in Schenee- tady—the domain of Owen D. Young of the firm of Morgan and Company and Wall Street pal of Grover Whalen, Needle Union Endorses, | At a meeting held May 7, the Ex- ecutive Council of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union endorsed | the call of the Communist Party with great enthusiasm. It instructed | all the needle trades shops to call special meetings to take up the dis- cussion of the coming election cam- paign and to send delegates to the State Nominating Convention, May 25, in Schenectady for the purpose of endorsing the candidates and platform of the Communist Party. in 10 Years. The British ministry of labor yes- |terday announced that 1,712,000 per- | |sons in Britain are out of work. | |This is the largest official figure [YONKERS CAS TOMORROW. YONKERS, N. Y., May 14.—The ease of Buckley and Barrett, ar- rested May Day for speaking at the demonstration, have been postponed to May 16, There is no official charge yet. PARTICIPATE IN DISCUSSION, OUR The Central Committee calls upon all members of our Party and invites . all revolutionary workers to participate in our pre- convention discussions. The col- umns of the Communist press are open for discussion of the prob- lems of the American workers and the tactics: and policies of our Party. We especially call upon our comrades working in factories and those active in the trade union movement and in the everyday work of our Party to participate in the pre-convention discussion. The comrades are asked to write short and to the point (articles must not exceed 700 words), because of limitation {| of space, Write simply and use only one side of each sheet of paper. Correspondence in 1o0r- eign languages should he sent directly to the paper of the given foreign: language; only corre- spondence for publication in the Daily Worker should be sent to the Agitprop Department, Cen- tral Committee, Communist Party of the United States of America, Demand the release of Fos-| ‘ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- | 43K. 125th St. |mittee of the International Labor |Defense, and Benko, an active or- DUNN EXPOSES | the Friends of the Soviet Union and} will be attended by representatives ily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ubder the act ef MINE STRIKERS ARE CONVICTED Prosecution Argues Only U. M. W. A. Can Legally Organize Charged With Rioting Big Protest Meeting,| and Case Appealed TAYLORSVILLE, Ill., May 14.— Eight leaders of the coal mine: strike conducted here last year by the National Miners’ Union were to- day convicted by a jury influenced by the Peabody Coal Co. and its allies in the United Mine Workers’ Union, headed by Frank Farring- ton, Harry Fishwick and Alex. Howat. They «include Freeman Thompson, president of the Na- tional Miners’ Union; Charles Mam- men, member of the national com- ganizer. Three other strikers on| trial were acquitted. After the verdict was given the International Labor Defense repre- | sentatives here announced that a huge mass. meeting of protest is being arranged. They also stated that the verdict will be appealed. (Continued on Page Three) WHALEN FORGERY Inside Dope at Meet Tonight, Lyceum The inside story of the shameless anti-Soviet forgeries perpetrated by | Commissioner Whalen as part of a| new campaign against the Soviet Union will be revealed by Robert W. Dunn, noted labor economist, at | a conference tonight at 7 p. m. at} Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth} St. The conference has been called by! of working class organizations of| New York and New Jersey. It will} form plans for the big demonstra-| tion at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, on| Defend the Soviet Union Day, Sat-| urday, May 31. | Other speakers at the conference will be Dr. Joshua Kunitz and Louis Hyman, who recently returned from | the Soviet Union. FOOD FRACTION TONIGHT. | There will be a meeting of the} general Communist fraction in the} Food Workers’ Industrial Union to- | night at 8 p. m. at the Workers! Center, 26-28 Union Square. This meeting is of great importance and every Party member of the food in-| dustry must be present. | Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- | mond, in prison for fighting, for unemployment insurance. | growing. comrade, the Daily Worker will not li mond, in prison fer fighting f A Sena bee for unemployment insurance. {COMM UNI] PARTY U.S. A J — |terday announced that on Monday | for our Party and the working class. few days you will not have a Daily Worker, You have given our paper & ‘ snes Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray: March 6 unemployment demonstra three years for carrying out inst laying the demand for “Work or ¥ ernment. Assault charges against committee, Joseph Lesten, will be h “NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930. 3 mond, four leaders elected by the tion of 110,000 who are serving ructions of the great crowd and Vages” before the Tammany gov- them and another member of the eard June 3. Jobless Leaders Cases Postponed Until June 3 |Already Serving 3 Years on Another Charge Raymond Urges Workers Continue Fight ting Mal there $5 : SG a year everywhere exc City and forei; untries, THOMPSON AND 7) Ss!" Cusnt tying Bot Keeps Them in Jil STATE DEMANDED WHALEN PROMISED N. Y. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Ce nts a year. DEATH FOR 18, .BOSSES HE WOULD KEEP IMPERIAL VALLEY) FOSTER INSIDE PRISON ‘Held for Preparing Canteloupe Strike ‘Bail $15,000 Great Struggle Legion Gunmen Flock- ing to Aid Employers | | LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 14. |—The hearing on reduction of the $15,000 bail each+on 16 ozganizers of the Agricultural Workers’ Indus- trial League of the Trade Union Unity League, which started Mon- day at San Diego, brought state- |ments from the prosecuting attor- ney that all arrested were guilty of | treason and were dangerous to the |public, that they were inciting to jtiot by word of mouth and wanted The 57th St. Magistrate’s court;ter and Amter are on Harts Island.|to burn the cantaloupes in the al yesterday postponed the felonious|Raymond is confined umder very |Perial Valley and the railroads, ssault charges against William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Am- ter, Harry Raymond and Joseph Lesten to June 3. It postponed the assault cases against Raymond, Luiza and Leon Lewis, two more} workers charged with assault for | taking part in the March 6 dem-| onstration to May 21. The first five mentioned have already been convicted of “unlaw- ful assembly” without trial by jury because they were elected by | 110,000 unemployment demonstra- tors March 6 to present the de- mands of work or wages to the city government. The chief tes- timony against them at that time was by Whalen, since caught launch- ing anti-U. R. forgeries. Joseph Brodsky, attorney for the| LL.D., represented all seven work- ers in court yesterday. Serving 3 Years. All the committee but Lesten, who got 30 days and is out, were sentenced to 3 years at hard labor, on the “unlawful assembly charge.” Minor is gravely ill in the prison hospital on Blackwell’s Island. Fos- WHALEN, MCADOO PLAN TO “REGULATE” PICKETS Police Commissioner Whalen yes- his cossacks would begin to make | arrests of pedestrians who violate | Gorgeous Grover’s new ukase that workers are not to walk in the streets except as he says and when | he says. To begin with, and as a} test of police powers, they are or-! dered to cross the streets only at} crossings and when the lights show green, The first man arrested will | appear before Chief Magistrate Mc-| Adoo, the same who refused bail to the leaders of the jobless ar-| rested March 6. McAdoo volunteers | for this service. If the courts rule the police de- | partment has power by simple order | to regulate pedestrian traffic, use | of this new power against pickets will be easily understood, | Get Donations! Get Subs! Support the Daily Worker Drive! strict discipline on Riker’s Island. | Rose Baron, formerly N. Y. dis- trict secreary of the International Labor Defense visited Raymond re- cently. After being kept waiting for a long time to see Raymond, a different man was brought into the room which is used for speaking to the prisoners. It took more than eight minutes before he was taken away and Raymond brought into the room. This allowed only seven min- utes for the interview. Cut Off From News. “When I was transferred here,” Raymond stated, “the working cl; magazines and newspapers I wa reading were taken away from me. In this prison no magazines or news- papers are allowed, not even ca talist newspapers. Being in this prison is worse than being at the North Pole for we have no news whatsoever of what is going on in the world. We are completely iso- lated. “The prison officials allowed me to keep the books sent me by the Workers Library Publishers and the (Continued on Page Three) Fight Boss Terror in Schools! Mass Meet Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night the of New York will answer the terror that swept through the schools of New York after May Day. They will uphold the right of workers* children to participate in all strug- gles of the workers, organize the children into the Young Pioneers of America and form Parents’ Councils to ‘resist the bosses’ attacks in the schools. The mass protest of the Young Pioneers tomorrow night at 7.30 p. m. will take place at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Speakers will be Sam Darcy of the Commu- nist Party, Showan of the Young Communist League, Martha Stone, district organizer of the Young Pioneers, and three of the suspended Young Pioneers. Fight for Work or Wages! workers’ | children and working class parents | When the arrests were first made Prosecuting Attorney Heald, a member of the American Legion, stated that they would all be tried for treason and that the death pen- alty would be inflicted. | The Imperial Valley canteloupe growers are in terrific fright over | the coming strike of thousands of their melon pickers and _ packers. The American Legion is mobilizing gunmen to force the workers to submit to the slavery of long hours and low pay in the horrible heat that the valley has in the summer time, | WAITERS GALLED. TO BRONX MEET AFL Local 1 Gang Has | Employment Graft BULLETIN. | The bakers of Local 164, A. F. | W., in the Bronx, are called to a | special meeting by the Food , Workers’ Industrial Union at 2994 Third Ave. The program will be discussed and plans made for | struggle, 8 «© Corrupt practices of the fascist clique running Local 1, Waiters, |A. F, of L., whereby a private em- ployment agency is maintained out-| side of the union offices, will be re- |vealed Thursday night at a special meeting for restaurant and cafe- |teria workers, called by the Food |Workers’ Industrial Union at their Br headquarters,- 3994 Third! Ave. | The mewly-appointed Iabor chief | Jof Local 1, commonly known as “John the Dishwasher,” is leader of jthe gangsters now running thi junion under the dictatorship of the | |“International,” which has refused |to allow membership meetings for |the past year. | Ancther Blackhand Gang. | How closely the Amalgamated |Food Workers’ bureaucracy follows jin the footsteps of the fascist A. F. (Continued on Page Two) Shall the Daily Worker live and grow—or what? The problem we face is your problem. For months, yes years: many of our comrades have considered the Daily Worker as an institution separate from the Party, a separate “business” which was supposed to make its own way. There are thousands of our comrades who for months, yes years, have not secured a single new subscriber for the Daily Worker, have not once attempted to secure a donation from workers’ organizations they be- long to or from sympathetic workers, to keep the Daily Worker going and This must stop! The Daily Worker is not a separate “business.” It is the voice of our Party. And if you do not support it: and if you do not build it, and if you do not create a broad circle of workers who will fight for it, then It is your paper, the paper o: ive, You must now accept the responsibility of saving the Daily Worker Come to our aid instantly, or in a INTO THE WORKING CLASS MASSES hard to make bosses, are pi the Daily Worker. up for this negligence. erfecting a resolution in W: a Moscow is sending us. f every single from you. What is your answer to this proposed investigation? the fakers and the exploiters are trying to kill the Daily Worker. must rally to its support. today! Save the Daily Worker and strengthen it! Into the field for —TH COLLECT YO | Prepares New Forgeries to Bolster Up Those Discredited; “Law Means Nothing to Him” Nears Inside Story of Banquet Shows Whalen Holds Himself Responsible Directly to Bosses “Law means nothing to hi at the Whalen banquet on May this was meant as a compliment. y,’? Whalen’s banquet was it. “llega m,” said Acting Mayor McKee 6, referring to Whalen. And For if ever there was an Of course this phas¢ has all been neatly deleted by the capitalist pr Yet due to CERMAN MASSES SUPPORT INDIA But “Socialists”? Are Utterly Silent (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, May 14.—Yesterday evening a great mass meeting for the support of the Indian Revolu- tion opened here, Stoecker exposing ithe Second “socialist” International in general and the “labor” imp jalists in particular. Saklatvala, as the second speaker, greeted with roars of applause and the sing- ing of the Internationale. A reso- lution was adopted pledging the support of the German workers to the Indian Revolution. But another mass meeting was held here last evening, organized by the “socialists,” in connection with | the executive ion of the Second International here. Crispien opened the meeting and Longuet followed | as the main speaker, but omitted | even to mention the French imper- ialist terror in Indo-China. Abramo- vitch “represented” the Russian so- cialists and delivered an ant tirade, sppealing to the was civilized world to stand by the kulaks. Van- dervelde, Bauer, Compton and oth- ers spoke, but ail without even men- tioning the Indian events. PAINTERS MEET TONIGHT. The alteration painters’ section of the Trade Union Unity League meets at 8 p. m. tonight at 1400 Boston Road. At the last meeting, five dele- gates were elected to go to the state convention of the Communist Party. Though the Party asked for only three, the enthusiasm of the painters was so high they are demanding two more. HARLEM DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT. The Proletarian Ball Three tomorrow night at the asino, 116th St. and Ave., wili have John C. snappy Negro Jazz Band provide the hot dance musie. You'll meet all your comra:les and friends there. Get your tickets now, only 50 cents. Section Har- Lenox Smith’s Jem ¢ Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! We Are Not A Separate Business Capitalists, Forgers, A. F. L. Misleaders, Ask Congress to Stop Us --- It’s Ub to You! very little support for a long period. Now you must work ten times as Hoover's forces, the A. F. of L. fakers, the Czarist forgery rack- eteers, those scoundrels who formerly lived on the blood of the Russian workers and peasants and want to do so again—these plunderers and slave drivers who want to keep the workers under the iron heel of the hington, D. C. to investigate They want to find out how many millions of deilars If we had millions from Moscow we would not be asking dollars The Soviet Union needs every cent it has fer its Five Year Plan. We must support our own movement, our own paper. The forgers, You funds! Rush funds to us E DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK DISTRICT TAG DAYS THIS FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY! UR MAXIMUM! the kindness of some who were present: the Daily Worker is the first newspaper to give, delayed to be sure, but faith- ful to truth, the main points of Whalen’s speech, the speech of the po York, reme dered him by the a and open-shop busi n, a ban- quet which terminated with large numbers of them stewed to the eye- brows in the be But booze was a minor matter as to capitalist as disregarded by Whalen Wha as from his wonderful 00: ” of pho- tostatic copies of “Comintern docu- ments” kin furnished. him by Matthew Woll (A. of L. fascist) nd Ralph Easley of the open shop National Civic Federation and the Czarist White Guard forgers. We ask the reader, the workers, to visualize the scer Two thou- sand five hundred of New York’ choicest exploiters, and Police ¢ missioner Whalen telling them what he had done and would do for t Whalen said in substance (unf tunately our informant could write shorthand): The capitalists themselves, even down to the pusheart men, as developments are becoming such that an upris- ing is liable to result at any time. The Daily Worker calls attention to the political meaning of this; an officer supposed to enforce capital- ist law by the normal violence of police power, asks the capitalists to organize an extra-legal armed force of capitalists violence against the wor! ms of whom are unemployed starving. Here ‘or- not must organize and (Continued on Page Three.) CHINA SHARPENS A$ Win a Wall Street Plane ’ for Chiang killed and or wounded when Kuomintar opened fire on a crowd workers who, driven by hu and desperation, were trying to obtain food from food ships at Huck , Chekiang Province. As the result of the deep- ening economic crisis and the great slump in the price of silver, prices in China, espe rain prices, ate soaring to unthinkable heights and it is becoming increasingly difficult for workers and peasants to main- tain even the lowest possible living standards. Under such cireum- stances, the unusual rapid: in the development of the revolution can easily be understood. * announcement of cored “a deci- the north- i and Honan, the ce of counter-claims of victories from the North and the absence of any categorical report concerning the decisive victory of te that the fight is th The fact that Nanking owes what- lever victory it has gainéd mostly to | American airplanes is frankly re- vealed by Victor Keen, the special correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. In a cable despatch from Shanghai dated May 13, he y, the months ago of a erican bombers, ortant part in a he covdir ror have as reportec rec to ¢ the provine nbing in airial bo cal e of their ‘ons ol pro a gc stand > of becoming _ vict nking’s bombing planes, are noth | ing but so much dirt in the eyes a the Nanking authorities,