The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1930, Page 3

» Hy | I | i \ NATLY WORKE R, N Ty: EW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930 ptt Page Three ™ NEGRO WORKERS OF NORFOLK WISE TO A.F.L.; 7000 JOBLESS 3o0b Green, Chief A.F.L. Misleader in Virginia Port Sings “Prosperity” Song Negro Workers Working Hard to Build up the Trade Union Unity League = (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va.—There are over 7000 unemployed workers and no place to stay here. The Longshoremen’s Union is under the A. FL. fakers, but the workers are demanding better conditions. Bob Green, the big A. F. of L. faker has told the Negro workers that everything will be all right. The Chamber of Commerce has issued a statement to discharge Negro workers and hire white workers. The Negro workers of Norfolk are seeing the A. F. of L. is a fake business and are working hard for the Trade Union Unity League. —NEGRO WORKER. Lolly-Pops Reward for Granite City Steel Slavery i BOASTS OF INGFOSTERIN (Continued From Page One.) there is no Hooverian babble of “prosperity,” but a warning to the exploiters and an urge to them to} arm against the workers, In need of a Mussolini, as stupid | @nd egoistic and brutal as the origi- | nal, Whalen modestly proposed him- self, A Woolworth Store Musso- lini, forsooth, but none the less a fascist. As a recommehdation he |said that he had kept a great many |workers away from Rutgers Square jand from Union Square on May 1. The tens of thousands who were driven back in the side streets to Union Square on May Day will sup- port Whalen’s statement—but not Whalen. As to what he would do, Whalen said he could clean out the rad- ieal element in New York in 24 hours. The particular 24 hours | to be selected remains indefinite. | And now for one of the most sig- (By a Worker Correspondent) GRANITE CITY, Il.—The Commonwealth Steel Co. of Granite City, IIL, is one of those plants where the big officials spout the “Golden Rule” baloney while the foremen speed up the workers. Of late some of the workers have begun to question the sincerity of the “Golden Rule” since they see the bosses making millions while the workers | starve. Each Xmas the president of the plant, Howard, a balloon-bellied old chap, who affectionately terms the workers “my boys” gives the workers a cheap box of candy. This lollypop candy is the reward the workers get for slaving the whole of the year. But the balloon-bellied president is even more generous. He gives the workers, and for noth- ing too, the ideal of “fellowship”, “service” and the “Golden Rule”. However, the workers aren't so dumb, and one of them rose dusing a meeting while the heap big chief was gushing out his “Golden Rule” claptrap and cried “Yeh, the bosses get the gold and the workets get the rule!” For all their bellowing of the Golden Rule and fellowship, race discrimination is strongly in evidence at the plant. The ¢olored work- ers are given separate quarters in the luncheon room and insulted in | various other ways. Bitterness is on every Commonwealth workers’ face since the plant was sold recently for $35,009,000. The plant began about twenty- eight years ago with a ca lof about $200,000, but after the workers had slaved and made a $35,000,000 plant of the Commonwealth they were forgotten. The stockholders got all the profits and the workers got what they always get under capitalisti—nothing. Workers, join the Trade Union Unity League! —STEEL SLAVE. 3, : tenis + Ex-Serviceman on Capitalist “Justice” (By a Worker Correspondent) Just hear from me what I have learned by experi- ence and by reading the Daily Worker which is the only paper that tells the truth to the workers speaking the English language. When- ever I want to see the real situation throughout the world I can see much clearer now than in the year 1917. 1 wish to tell io my friends, to ex-servicemen who fought in the world war for démocra: Many of them already have leatned their lesson by heart that the same preparations and propaganda is going on as if was in the world war. To fight this battle, Wall Street will call on us again and this time I know who are my efemies! Those war mongers and exploiters of the whole working class will not ¢heat me this time. Where are all the promises giyen to the ex-service men? T'm starving just the same as other millions of workers are starv+ ing. Témorrow I could be shot as a bandit for “stealing” something to éat. And the Chicago Tribune is paying $100 to every policeman who kills a bandit. What these capitalist papers call a bandit, and a fat copper will be rewarded with a medal and promotion to the rank of sergeant and a new “hero” is added to the Chicago workers-clubbing forces. Ha! Ha! But I'm a hero too. I have my metal button on my lapel, se I'm starving in the land of the free and the home of the... slaves! Look, Look! What a big chance all the ex-service men have, they can joi the American Legion, free membershio for’ one year. A good pay- triotic benefactor or rather malefacter has donated a big some for the CHICAGO, IL expense. Brothers, if you | the present system, keep on starving. —AN EX-SERVICEMAN, bat never a strike-breaker. r oy and 7 Mi . {had a contract with the ceal com Thompson and 7 Min are ers Convicted in Ulingis the Peabody Coal Co. furnished | the prosecution » lawyer and the (Continued F ge One.) |U. M. W. A. provided liars to tes- The workers were tried for “riot- tify against the defendants. ing” and on QJ other charges as a/| Coal diggers who have worked in result of the N. M. U. strike here | the pits for the last twenty years last December, at which time the |testified for the defense, in spite United Mine Workers’ cialdom of the fact that it undoubtedly will mean losing their jobs and facing {the terrox of the Peabody thugs and the gangsters of the Fishwick ma- chine, acted a8 agents of the Peabody Coal Co. Demands Right to Strike. Before the case went to the jury Thoripson, on the witness stand, d fended the right the National Minét's’ Union to call the strike. His aggressive testimony placed the state on the defensive. When presenting the case to the jury thé state’s attorney pleaded for the exclusive right of the United Mine Workers’ Union to, “organize” the workers as opposed to the mili- tant National Miners’ Union, The court toom was crowded with rank and file miners when the state’s Sttorney openly stated his alliance with the coal operators and the United Mine Workers’ officialdom. Dufing the trial the prosecutor and the lawyers for the Peabody Co, stated that the National Min- | ers’ Union had no right to call aj strike, as the United Mine Workers enter of Ad No. 16A Correct Dangerous Bladder 4m Catarrh Burning passages, painful elimina- tion, night rising may be the warn- ae of a serious sickness which may affect your entire health, Take steps | re Geren ce peu Midy ale your iggist. For half a centu it has | been prescribed by dostors thiough: | out the world for rapid relief. Santal Midy GRAND OPENING UNITY CAMP Decoration Day, May 31 Musical Program — Dancing — Boat Racing Camp Fire Other Attractions Registration open. Call at 1800 Seventh Ave. Tel. Monument 0111 or Down Town: 30 Union Square, Barber Shop, Tel. Stuyvesant 8774 DIRECTIONS: By Bus from 1800 Seventh Ave. By train from 125th St. or Grand Central Station, direct to Wingdale. —! —! — —— \nificant remarks: | Whalen said he would keep Foster in jail, as otherwise he | (Foster) would be liable to cause a revolution. We recommend to the workers \that they think over this boast of | Whalen while Foster and Minor and |Amter and Raymond are lying in prison as a result of the outrage- ous railroading prosecution, Com- munists know that revolutions are | caused by economic factors, but we | jassute Whalen and his kind ¢hat| Foster, silenced by prison bars, is iadding to the revolutionary discon- tent of the workers. He is serving the revolution which will sweep away all the Whalens. With all the record Whalen had jto brag about, and all he promised |for the future, it was most natural that Whalen should openly recog- | nize that, as 1 servant of the capi- jtalist government, he is responsible |to the capitalists, and to them alone. Therefore, he said: If the business men did not think that he was handling the situation in the best possible manner, then his resignation was | in their hands immediately. And the 2,500 well-wet capitalists |shouted: “You're all right!” | Yés, Whalen is all right for your jbosses, workers! Bue he was em- jbatrassingly found out as a con- |Spirator with czarist forgers and professional patriots, such as Alex Yozwa, the hireling of the white guard paper “Novoye’ Russkoye Slovo,” the fascist scoundrel posing aS a “labor leader” known as Mat- thew Woll, and Ralph Easley, pre- viously mentioned. Whalen was leaught with the goods in palming off forgéries. Whalen don’t like it. And when ithe exposure of his complicity in | the forgeries was made on Monday jand the story broke of his refusal ;to allow comparisons to be made, Whalen was sofe, but silent—yet jnot inactive, Oh, no! Whalen doesn’t have the New York City treasury back of |hiti—which he spends without au- thority, a3 admitted or boasted by Acting Mayor McKee at the ban- quet—fof nothing. Whalen had to get something” new on the Com- jmunists and get it pronto, So on Ttiesday, though Whalen | Would fot Say a word about the |forgeries, he had two dicks from the “bomb squad” trying to get a new jframe-up on somebody. These two | iptecious scoundrels came to the | Workets’ Center with a sheet of | Paper on which was typed some non- |Sénisé purporting to be written by Whalen, threatening to blow up his |building, him and so on, if he didn’t stop investigating the Communists. These two dicks indicated that the | jletter came from 26 Union Square. | {Probably the writer obligingly had Siven it as his return address, Any- | how, the dicks of Whalen wanted to take samples of the writing of | ‘every typewriter at the Workers’ | Center—“of course, just to com- |pare them” with the type of the | mysterious “threatening letter.” | | They had no warrant, as usual. Not being born yesterday, the, j¢omrades told them to visit a/ KEEP. JUG |tion for the department of labor, is | OSLAV TERROR OF _ |j0BLESS LEADERS FASCIST GOVERNMENT WINE. 2p SHOWN AT BIG ty aRD (Continued From Pa. ye One. . . International Publ rs W Croat Nationalists Before Courts Show Up warming that they would be taken | away if I showed them to an fe Incredible Outrages of White Terror | other prisoners. They evic afra of the contents of the bo: “I was also warned not to spe about Communist principles to any of th er prisoners. The work- ers here, and most of the prisoners are V who have been arrested and sent to jail as a result of the| n tem, are gteatly inter- at I have to say. Many Defense Lawyer Arrested; Prisoners Given Tortures Until They Signed Confessions o ZAGREB, Jugoslavia (LP. The trial of the leader of the Croat | Peasant Party, Dr. Matchek, and of | 23 Croat nationalists commenced to- | stand it no longer and made the re- quired “confession.” He was permitted to read the protocol whic he signed. day. The indictment charges the ac-| The day afterward he was of them ask me questions about vari-| cused with having conducted ajin his cell by the police president US phases of the Communist move-| series of terrorist acts. The leader|cf Zagreb, Dr. Bedekovitch, who or-| Ment and the fight the Communist | of the terrorists is said to be the |dered that good food, wine and ciga- Party is makir inst unemploy- | clerk, Bernarditch. Dr. Matchek is|rettes should be given to him and, ment. | accused of having provided the t rorists with funds and further with having conducted illegal propaganda for the separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia. }cemanded at the same time that he |(Bernarditch) should make compro- |mising statements against Dr. Mat- \chek, adding, “If you do not, then you will not be the first and also Make Way For Grafter. removed from Bla Friday because on M Connolley was received as a ad The chief lawyer for the defense, )not the last,” meaning, as Bern oner.” They did not want us to adi) Dr. Driyevitch, was arrested before | ditch knew quite well, that he would how d nt the mmany poli- the trial by the police and interned be murdered by the police, as so’ tician sated from ‘he workers! in the interior of Serbia, with a view |many others had been murdered be- | who are ed for fighting against jail to disorganizing the defense. One |fore him. brought here from hundred and seventy lawyers from] When he had arrived for trial in) When we we ue Ne all parts of the country then volun-|Belgrade and had recovered a little WV elfar Island, = of us were ca teered to act for the defense. Seven |from the physical wreck caused by i" & cell of the Steamship Clayton, 16 feet } It was stifling but t |the torture and constant ill-treat- ment, Bernarditch withdrew all the “confessions” and other statements | details of the frightful tortures and|which he hade made under torture maltreatment to which all the pris-|in Zagreb. The defense demanded oners were subjected in order to that the police president of Zagret: force them to sign “confessions” and|Dr, Bedekovitch, should be in particular to compel them to/poenaed to give evidence, but th make compromising statements | motion was rejected. To the great against Dr. Matchek. |discomfort of the Yugoslavian au- Bernarditch described how he was |thorities, a nwaber of representa- hung up by the hands and feet and |tives of the foreign press are pres- tortured by the police until he could ent at the trial. lawyers are now conducting the de- fense. The first day of the trial revealed | 5 fe on officials ignored our prot varden and his subotdinates are marine corps graduates who are using typical marine corps tactic against the men here. On With Struggle. | “The greatest disadvantage of be-| ing in prison is that it prevents me from continuing the fight for the | working class, mobilizing the work- {ers for a militant struggle against | | unemployment. I greatly appreciate lat that the International Labor \Defense did for me. Let it keep Communist Youth Day in Leipzig lup its good work and especialy | rganize the workers to save BMRLIN (LP) Tha, polles Cap- jhe yourg workers ptotebiadianAinal|Euy eos caer fam eveutly tne tain Galle who gave the order for|this provocative attitude of the pol-| terested in that case and am sorry the police to fire into the packed)ice Captain Galle ordered his men 7 am not out to help work for their masses of young workers in Leipzig|to draw their revolvers which they yelease, Tell the comrades to work on Sunday afternoon, was himself | did and a few seconds later a volley|foy their release also for the free- seized by the furious masses and/was fired into the masses. The at-' gom of all other jailed workers.” killed together with a police ser-|tack of the masses against the pol- 3 géant. A number of other police-| ice was the answer to the murderous men were injured and one of them} volley and represented itimate is not expected to recover. | self-defense. The police in the neigh- Further details are now available. | borhood were roughly handled, dis- It appears that a private motor car armed and deprived of their belt: drove into the procession of young clubs, bayonets, revolvers and shak. workers in a side street of the Aug- | os. ustus Platz. The young workers} In the evening the social demo- held up the car. The police then in- | cratic police president of Leipzig, Worker received a bullet in the lung terfered and instead of ordering | Fleissner declared a state of emer-| ang js now in hospital in a serious the car to go back and take another| gency and prohibited all open-air) condition, street, the police insisted on a path| meetings and demonstrations. How- Zoergiebel’s Berlin police were being made for the car through the | ever, the youth day w: already | joth to leave all the honors of the ranks of the demonstrators. When|over and on Monday the young day to their Leipzig colleagues, they | therefore held up the returning mo- tor lorries on the roads leading to {Berlin from Leipzig. Thousands of young workers were searched “for arms.” Naturally, nothing was found. About 30 young workers were arrested because they had not sufficient documents with them to satisfy the curiosity of the police. | They were all released during the night when their identity had been established. The only result of the police action was to create hopeless traffic confusion on all the icads. In one case CO motur lorries were neld up and blocked the read com- pletely so that a com + mass of of private ¢ nd theit cursing occupants had +o wait until the early hours of the morning be- going | fore the hundreds of police who had al-| been mobilized for the occasion, per- | mitted the young workers to pro- | ceed. Similar scenes occurred at all the railway station Fight for the seven-hour day, | workers from other parts of Ger- many left Leipzig by train and motor lorry. In the morning the] Leipzig police attacked little groups » of workers with the baton. In one “|ease a policeman pursued a young worker into a cellar and shot him down in cold blood. The young But, also, the “letter,” when handed not see them. He had translations to Herbert Benjamin, acting d of the documents. lee crgpnizey eanaely was cov] “You can check up on the time, ere wr a film of powder use - ee ~ to bring out fiagerptiats, or to eet because, as nearly as I recollect, he such prints, Ag is known, finger- |Showed me the documents about the prints can be taken in this way and |S2™me time that Matthew Woll, vice-; then transferred to any object de- |President of the American Federa- sired, so it scema that if the dicks |tion of Labor, issued his statements “could not find the typewriter” that |? the country warning it of Red wrote this particular letter, they |#¢tivities. could make another letter with bet-} But, Whalen—is still silent! T ter luck bearing Benjamin’s finger- | spite of that fact the link that binds | prints. The forgery business seems |him to the czarist white guard to be becoming a habit with Whalen. |paper, the “Novoye Russkoye Slovo,” In Washington reports to the tab. |? Woll and Easley, is complete. Noid sensation sheet, “Graphic,” But the “investigation of Commu-| Hugh Kerwin, director of concilia- | Nist activities” by the jernment, the end d quoted as saying that Ralph Easley f%Sers and _ scoundrels, of the Civic Federation was showing | 2head, since the government, Whalen’s “documents” around Wash, (though it wavers about ruini ington six weeks before Whalen said trade by allowing the forgeries he Wad Sieieed” then, about Amtorg to receive credence, is also desirous of taking the rng | | is Linked to White Guard Through |away from the British in mobilizing Easley. |for war against the Soviet Union. THIS MUST BE READ BY EVERY PARTY MEMBER! The Daily Worke lists to every P ent cor ation subscription and rty district. The Daily Worker and the Party reque: sed into the hands of all Pa In otk ed th s was dor een don 4 ances where these campaign lists have members, the P. y members are ca s or are keeping them in their the working class. is the are writing rade, rea printed @ for mass cire They were printed 1] nd collect funds immedia 1. at ere must be an imm te check-up ir Has ev member in the members using their lists, every lonations ? ed the w ould have e loyal s npaign, wh tal do not rush into nich receiver y Worker 10, We are asking you, who read this, to take these te s to your unit meeting, read this, and then demand ember secured to da EVERY PARTY MEMBER MUST RE A MINIMUM OF $5.00 IN JBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS TO VERIFY HIS GOOD ANDING IN OUR PARTY. WISCONSIN W.LR. RELIEF CONFERE | The Workers Milwaukee, GRECHT TO TOUR| FOR DISCUSSIOD ommunist Units in Minnesota and Upper Michigan Consider Thesis. ional Relief . calling a r Sunday, May 314 Ist Ave. to 18, at Weber: c as prepare providing relief MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 14.) to the s, miners and —Rebecea Grecht, organization see- | othe the establish- retary of District 9 of the Commn-/ ment of a W hildren’s camp Wise, nist Party will make a two weeks’) at Lake Beni tour through Minnesota and Nort ern Michigan, speaking at Parts Forward to Conference unit meetings on the thesis of the! Against Unemployment, Chicago central committee which will be pre-! July 4th. sented to the Seventh Convention of the Communist Party. Grecht’s tour will cover the most important industrial centers in the northern section of District 9, par- ticularly the mining towns. Hancock gaunee, The dates are as follows: Duluth, May 15; Ely, Minn ction conventions in the dis- May 16; Ironwood, Mich., May 18; trict will be held on Sunday, June 1. 1 ote, Everybody Should Help Make Fm., Sat. and Sun. Daily S82 Worker TAG DAYS Tremendously Successful Every Party member, every Daily Worker reader, every sympathetic worker and worker’s organization should loyally cooperate in the tremendous mass collec- tions organized for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 16, 17 and 18. New York City, Brooklyn, Long Island, New Jersey, | Yonkers, all points in the vicinity of New York, should mobilize all forces. five-day week. FOR RENT Bungalows at Camp Wocolona on Walton Lake, MONROE, N. Y. Prices range from $100 to $300 for the entire season. Apply: Camp Wocolona Office, 10 E, 17th St. Phone: Gramercy 2862. “About six weeks ago,” said Ker- win, “Easley dropped in here, as he usually does when in Washington, to discuss labor activities. Easley had an envelope with him. During | the conversation he said that ‘this | Communist business is gétting very | serious,’ and took out six photo- | static copies of the documents Com- | missioner Whalen of New York later made public afd gave to the | committee on immigration as al- | leged evidence of Communist activi- ties in this country. He did not | warmer climate than Union Square. . ‘ Worker: at by INTERNATIONAL to be IRVING Fifteenth Street Release of Harry Eisman, working class children 4 4 ty My fe 4» fy fy fy hy tr. Delegates from Shops, Trade Unions, Workers Organizations and MASS PROTEST CONFERENCE @ NEW YORK DISTRICT Sunday, May 18, 10 a. m. ORGANIZE TO FIGHT AGAINST The conviction of the Gastonia strike leaders Lynching of Negro workers and all race discrimination Persectition of foreign born workers Against capitalist terror and persecution in all countries FOR Freedom of Powers and Carr Unconditional release of the Unemployed Delegatton _ Release of all class war prisoners, have any originals. 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