The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1930, Page 1

| | { Every Party Member, Sympathizer and Reader of the Daily Worker Must Do His Share in the Drive to Save and Build the Daily Worker Dail Enteres as Published daily except Sunday by The C Vol. VI., No. 372 Company, Ine,, 26-25 Union Square, New York City. War and the Socialists IHE Second International has just held an executive committee meeting in Berlin. This is the “international” organization of the socialist parties of the world, to which belong the German social- democratic party, MacDonald’s “Labor” party of Great Britain, and the American socialist party of Hillquit & Co. It was meeting at a critical moment of world history, when tens of millions of colonial peoples are in open revolt, when the German proletariat has just been further enslaved by the Young Plan, when the rising wave of workers’ struggles are being crushed with violence and imprisonment, when fascism raises its ugly head in all capitalist countries, when British imperialism is shooting hundreds and imprisoning thousands of revolt- ing Indians, when on every hand preparations for an imperialist war are openly pushed forward, when the imperialists prepare an interven- tion against the rising socialism of the Soviet Union. What did the Second International do at this moment? Just what should be expected of the social-fascists who boast of being the “first line of defense of capitalism” against the “Bolshevik hordes? The principal document issued was a manifesto calling upon the masses of the Soviet Union to rise against the Communist Party, and yvestore the bourgeois rule. Thus did the Second International give its full and complete endorsement to the offensive of world capitalism against the Soviet Union. Not a word was said about MacDonald’s bloody repressions in India. Thus did the international “socialist” parties endorse the massacres of imperialism in India, perpetrated directly by its own leading members. The Berlin meeting endorsed the whole development of fascist rep- ression against the working class; its only fear is that it will lose its own job of suppressing the workers, and promises the capitalist class that the socialists will do it better with their “radical” masks than open fascists can do, These same agents of capitalism, masking themselves behind the label “socialist,” in 1914, abandoned their high-sounding declarations against war and betrayed the workers. Today they openly work to prepare the war. “Our own” Socialist Party in the U. S. A., fully supports the policy of the Berlin meeting. It only differs in this, that whereas MacDonald serves British imperialism, Hillquit and O’Neal serve Br 's rival, the United States. O’Neal sent a cable to MacDonald telling him that the “American workers are puzzled” by the Labor Party’s Indian policy and asking for an explanation. The Labor Party may well an- swer that the British workers are puzzled by the Hillquit-O’Neal- Thomas open alliance with the bourgeoisie and support of American imperialism. In each case, these “socialist” parties are mildly “puzzled” by socialist support of rival imperialisms, but never puzzled for one moment about their own support to “their own” imperialism. O’Neal’s cable, far from being a sign of “internationalism” was another step in playing the American imperialist game, It is a part of preparations for war between Britain and the U.S. A. Workers must learn to know these fakers of all countries, who parade under the banner of “socialism,” for what they really are. They are agents of the capitalist class. They are the oppressors and mur- derers of the colonial peoples. They are the social-fascist suppressors of the working class in their own countri: They are the most dan- gerous enemies of socialism and of the rking class. They are in- deed the “first line of defense for capitalism.” Forgers in High Positions In Germany the courts have freed the proved forgers of documents against the Soviet Union, the gang of the ite Guardists headed by Orloff. That worthy offered to prove that his activities had been sanc- tioned by high officials in the German and British governments. In Great Britain the ruling circles did not hesitate to use the forged “Zinoviev letter,” which is still a factor in the political life of that country, not yet repudiated officially either by Baldwin or MacDonald. Forgery is one of the accepted weapons of the capitalist class. It has remained for the United States to produce the clearest ex- ample of this use of forgery by men in high positipns in the capitalist government. The Whalen documents are proved to have been the crudest sort of forgeries, made in New York, ahd the proof of forgery was offered to Whalen long before he published the documents. But Whalen was not interested in learning the false nature of the docu- mnis; that can only be because he knew they were forged from the beginning. The nature of the combination of men, who were on the inside of the production of the forgeries, is a very interesting one. It comprises Matthew Woll, catholic and vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and president of the notorious Civic Federation; Ralph Easley, secretary of the Civic Federation and professional corruptionist of the labor movement, and lackey of millionaires; the Czarist ne paper, Novoye Russkoye Slovo, militant advocate of war by the United States against the Soviet Union; and Whalen, catholic and chief po- | liceman of New York’s millionaires, commander of 19,000 armed men, strikebreaker extraordinary for Wall Street. All of them, incidentally, are connected with Tammany Hall, including the white guard Rus- sians who sell themselves for whatever dirty work is going on at any moment, This gang of forgers and their accomplices are engaged in a con- spiracy to mobilize capitalist war sentiment against the Soviet Union, and to prepare another attack against the workers in the United States. Even the Secretary of State, Stimson, was forced to acknowledge the criminal nature of these activities, when he said the Whalen docu- ments were part of “A widespread plot to mislead Congress and Federal officials of the subject of supposed secret activities of the Soviet Govern- ment in the United States,” which “has been definitely connected with certain individuals in high place and authority in the United States.” Will there be any punishment of these forgers in high places? No, of course not. Punishment is something reserved for the working class and its representatives. Foster, Minor, Amter, and Raymond go to prison for three years because they stood in Union Square demand- ing Work or Wages for the unemployed, because they took these de- mands to the City Hall. For the capitalist class that was a crime. But to make forgeries designed to “mislead Congress and Federal officials,” to enter into plots to use these forgeries to endanger the peace of the world—this is no crime for the capitalist class, because it is directed against the working class. In order to punish the forgers in high places, to have a revolutionary Workers’ Government. SOVIET PAYS TRIBUTE NEW YORK WORKERS T0 PROFESSOR NANSEN SUPPORT INDIA FIGHT (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, May 15.—The Moscow press devotes many memorial ar- ticles to the Friend of the Soviet Union, the explorer and scientist, Dr. Nensen, Lunarcharasky recalls that Nansen stood by the Soviet Union when the majority of the world was hostile as a result of capitalist slanders. The press recalls thankfully Nan- sen’s great work for the masses dt will be necessary The New York working class is joining the movement in support of the revolutionary masses in India. The first. meeting to open the cam- paign will be held this Wednesday evening, May 21, at 7:30 p. m. at Laurel Gardens, 75 B. 116th St. The story of the Indian revolu- tion will be told by a number of comrades, some of whom have only recently returned from’ India, Re- sides Hindu and Latin-American during the famine of 1920-21. The | speakers, Comrades Jack Johnstone, Moscow Soviet, of which Nansen|James W. Ford and T. H. Li will was an honorary member, sent a/speak. George Siskind will act as telegram of condolence to his rela-|chairman. tives and the municipality of Oslo.| The meeting will start on time The scientific institutions of and working-class organizations | Uni | acti T.U,U.L. FIGHTS SARGENT SHOP Part, of Organization Campaign, Struggle for Work or Wages Brokers See Worsening Roosevelt Commission Talks and Talks NEW HAVE) Conn., May 15.— The Trade Union Unity League is| in the fight against unemployment and a wage cut at the Sargent Lock Shop here. The league is driving ahead in all industri winning 50,000 new members nationally be- fore June 30, leading the struggle against speed-up and against the starving of the jobless. It is build- ing through its unemployment coun- cils a great movement for work or wages, leading to a huge conven- tion in Chicago, the National Con- |vention on Unemployment, to meet Texas, lynching of a Negro worker, duly 4-5, The workers in Sargents have, | Within the last week or so received | against the rising tide of lynchings. cuts in wages ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. To date this wage cut has affected only the piece rate (Continued on Page Three) TAXI STRIKERS RANKS GROWING Expose Faker Who Has Wrecked 3 Unions Preparations were being made yesterday by 2,000 more employees of the Motor Cab Transportation Co. to go on strike. This company has been introducing efficiency ex- perts, and the so-called “Chicago system,” with a certain wage cut in sight. The workers struck in Brooklyn garages last week when some of the men were fired. A group of racketeers and bos agents seized control of the strike committee and drew up demands that did not in- clude anything about wages. The A. F. of L. and the Tammany “Tri Borough Benefit Association” strug- gled for leadership. The company agents proposéd a company union. | The present leadership of the (Continued on Page Two) “Specialists” Admit Sabotage of Soviets Capitalist press reports that sev- eral “specialists” in the Soviet have recently confessed their ivities of sabotage and connec- tions with counter-revolutionary or- ganizations. Vladimir Gerson, one of these confessed criminals against the Workers’ State, in confessing his crime, says that “I was influ- enced by my bourgeois upbringing, but I realize that Communism is | now here to stay.” | “These confessions are impor- | tant,” says the Izvestia, “because | they are a direct recognition of} Soviet success,” K, FRIDAY, MAY |\Carr’s Father Writes Detense He Stands By Son and Working Class ending you these few lines According to the law if convicted reciation of your loyalty to|they must be sentenced to die in the s war pris states a/ electric chair unless the jury sug- letter received yesterday at the na-| gests clemency. tional office of the International La-| “I received your check for the bor Defense, from Stephen Carr, | monthly allowance,” it continues, “on Wheeling, West Virginia, father of| account of my son Joe. I might in Joe Carr, who with M. H. Powers form you that we have gone through goes on trial for his life in Atlanta,!a very trying period the last 12 |Ga., on May 27. They were arrest-| months of which I have no regrets because I know the sacrifice made for the greatest ideal of life, the emancipation of the workers from capitalist chattel slavery. I (Continued on Page Three) MANY MEETINGS PIONEERS FIGHT SCORE LYNCHING, SCHOOL TERROR Unity League Calls for Manhattan Lyceum Action, Monday Mass Meet Tonight | The Trade Union Unity League,! Workers’ children and working- | militant labor union center, now eh- class parents will fill Manhattan : ‘une drivelter 6 i : sence beta Jai OO Pasrtuceed Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St, tonight a denunciation of the Sherman, 2d give their answer in an unmis- takable manner to the bosses’ at- tempts to prevent, the workers’ chil- dren from participating in the strug- gles of the working class. Over fifty children who partici- ed in March for advocating a fight against unemployment by Negro and | white workers, and indicted for “in- citing to insurrection,” under a law | passed in 1861 and not used since. | t | land calls on the working class to follow it in a general campaign There have been more lynchings in the United States since the un- employment crisis than during the two years before. tion under the leadership of the Protest Meetings. Young Pioneers were suspended and The Trade Union Unity League demoted in New York schools, Three statement says, in part: of them will speak tonight. Other “We call upon the workers to pro- speakers are Martha Stone, district test on a nation-wide scale through organizer of the Young Pioneers; series of mass meetings that are | Showan of the Young Communist being arranged by the T. U. U. L.|League and Sam Darcy of the Com- jagainst the brutal lynching that) munist Party. |took place in Sherman, Texas. These| A delegation of parents will be series of mass meetings are being |formed to demand immediate and called for Monday, May 19, and will | unconditional reinstatement of all (Continued on Page Three) uspended and demoted children. HOOVERS ALL FOR IMMEDIATE WAR 'President’s Brothe 2 the recent president of the univer- sity. And now Theodore Hoover adds his contribution. | As dean of the Engineering School, Hoover wrote a treatise for \the “guidance” of the engineering parade: It is from this treatise that the opening quotation was Yr taken. A few other gems state: |“Culture is increased by inventions | | | Echoes Wall Street {ot new weapons.” “Pacifists err in| assuming that peace is desirable. “The human race develops by war |“Emerson says everything we have We Americans | and succeeds in war in proportion} must be paid for. to its use of metal; races perish in| (!!) are living in unpaid luxury and peace.” If you think President | must pay in full by blood and hard Hoover said this, you're wrong, work. though not entirely. This treatise, Hoover claims, is As a matter of fact, it is from a condensation of a 25-page lecture, no one less than President Hoover's | every word of which “is true.” “I brother, Theodore J. Hoover, dean | believe in all efforts directed toward of the School of Engineering of | perpetual peace,” he stated. “At Stanford University. And thereby |the same time I have fear that the hangs the tale. Keats will all prove ineffectual.” If you’re not an aristocratic snob, Now the interesting feature about you may never have heard of Stan-|this is the fact that Theodore ford. Founded by Leland Stanford, |Hoover recently returned from a one-time governor of California and | visit with his brother at the White multi-millionaire exploiter of Ha- House, and is therefore in a good waiian sugar plantation workers, in| position “to know.” The Wall Street memory of a parasitic son who con- | masters expect war and are making tracted an “obscure” (venereal) | top-speed preparations for the im- disease while in Ita this aristo- | perialist slaughter. cratic snob cannery simply shrieks} Every worker will recognize of war and Hoover. \this theory of Hoover's an attempt On its campus there is a statue |to justify the war plans and prep- of President Herbert Hoover, who arations of the American imperial- graduated ror ie vor Wen aai[ iste: to give the coming imperialist here is a special Hoover War Li- Ae brary. finan raeeeen secretary of er the Taetaey of a theory, and the Interior Wilbur, brother of the | the inevitabilty of an eternal law former secretary of the navy, was/of nature. 16, 193 pated in the May Day demonstra- | in| SUBSCRIPTION RAT and Bronx, New Yo MINERS MEET AT HAZELTON TO PREPARE STRIKE Hard Coal Convention June Ist, Called by Their Own Union 0 Great Struggle Sept. 1 | 4 HA Treacheries BULLETIN. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 15.— Two miners were killed and a score injured in an explosion late Many | today in the P. & W. mine at Ayella, The company employs mo: Negroes. The National Miners’ Union pit committee | there is issuing a leaflet expos- ing the non-existence of safety conditions and calling the men to SCRANTON, Pa., May 15.—The | National Miners Union tri-distri | (anthracite) conference meets | Hazelton, Pa. | at 10 a.m. June 1, to organize and j Prepare the rank and file miner: for struggle on Sept. 1, when th anthracite contract expires, Delegates will be there from all local unions of the N.M.U., from col- | liery united front committees of ac- | tion, and from left wing groups in the United Mine Workers. The call for the conference states in part: “The 5-year agreement signed by Lewis in 1926 was a black sellout of the miners after their six months’ heroic strike. It was a victory for | the coal operators. During the life j of the agreement, the coal companies |made tremendous profits. The miners have received wage cuts, speedup, increase in working hours, | increase in the number of accidents j in the mines, and ever increasing un- employment. Repeat Betrayal. “The Tri-District Convention of the U.M.W.A. held in Hazelton has repeated the sellout and betrayal of in | ! the anthracite miners. It endorsed Fired for Refusing’ to) the existing 5-year sellout. It ap- proved Umpire Gorman of the con- ciliation board—and the whole idea | of class collaboration as expressed in the conciliation board. Lev ruled with an iron hand—and stifled ;the rank and file from really de- manding increases in wages, better working conditions, shorter hours. Lewis, Boylan, Hartneady, McAn- drews, Kennedy and the rest of that crew of fakirs, jammed through a resolution for the checkoff in the an- |thracite. This checkoff is only a rope for the necks of the miners.” 6-Hour Day. | The National Miners Union calls for a general soft and hard coai/n strike in September, and propos for the anthracite miners the follow- | (Continued on Page Three) | | PROLETARIAN BALL IN HARLEM TONIGHT. | Tonight everybody will go to the |Proletarian Ball of Section Three at the Harem Casino, 116th St. and |Lenox Ave, to dance to the snappy |tunes of John C. Smith's Negro | Jazz Band and ha’ |with all comrades and friends. Ad- Imission is 50 cents. Scores Lewis’ , 134 North Pine St., ve a good time | cit India Boils With Revolt tor Freedom Rangoon Dockers i Strike Clashes | BULLETIN. Indian dispatches state that signs of Communist activity are increasing in Northern India and the authorities were preparing a campaign against “Reds.” A “Red” procession more than a mile long was held in Bombay, and foreign countries, there $5 a year. n FINAL CITY EDITION Cents Price 3 SILENCE IS THE ANSWER OF WHALEN \Forgers Run Around Loose, Because Anti-Soviet Probe Only “Reds”! with Red flags and cries of “Long +7 ] Q ic leetie Tecan * Criminals Hidden by * * * 4 a | U. S. Silence Indian reports show that with| a “streets red with blood Shola-| While the prc P' ‘investi- pur, where martial law is on, 6,000 ga! the Daily Work the Com- dockworkers are striking at Ran-|munist Pz the Amtorg Trading goon, in Burma, evidently agains* Corporation, et s rrily goes the massacres being carried out by ard at Wa , the gang of the British “labor” imperialists. P-i- a o started all lice have clashed several times with ‘this are r the exposures the strikers it is said. | At Sholapur, with 1,000 B soldiers controlling the streets nager, was searched by troops and all inhabitants disarmed The League supports the powerfu chief, the Haji of Turangzai, who in spite of all the British airplanes, is camped j borders awa cently recaptured by the British. The mills of Sholapur, closed for | planning to “re-open” on Saturday Whether anyone will work is another | question. The defection of the clan of Tochi | ax Wagner's prin (Continued on Page Two) BAKER CHARGES ~ AL EXTORTION | | Pay $200 in Graft Armand Gros, a baker and mem- ber of Local 500, A. F. of L. Bak- Unioz, made the following statement, in writing, and signed: “On Sunday, May 11, I was taken off the job where I was working for the last three months. The name of the shop where I was work ing is Fishman and Sons Bak at 1405 Boscoble Ave., near 16 (St. “I was taken off the job because I refused to pay two hundred | ($200) dollars in graft to the busi agent of Section 2 (of Local , Shustak, a few weeks ago. I and about ten others, who have been |faced with the question of graft to |the officials for our jobs, of which some of us have been forced to pay, and others have refused to pay, in tend to make official affidavits of the facts of these cases. ers? union and has no right for ex- istence.” Forward to Mass Conference Against Unemployment, Chicago | July 4th. Only Quick Action Will Help Us Attention, all of you. must get tens of thousands Daily Worker will need fina circle of readers. Taking yesterday’s i you do not yet understand. by ACTION! Former President Ta a plate of beans, answered workers and peasants to fold their arms (to make shooting them easier for British imperialism). are we? Worker means fighting for Wednesday’s income the Daily Worker. NEW YORK Moscow and Leningrad are holding }coming in bodies will be permitted memorial meetings, ada [one representative to speak Bolshevik action, decisiveness, instant mobilization of every single comrade and Daily Worker supporter into a moving army to defend and safeguard the Daily Worker when the danger signal is raised. We are revolutionary fighters and fighting to We are so deeply in debt because we have had so little support for so many months that we must have $5:000 within ten days in addition to the $500 a day it takes to print our paper. And Two things you do understand. (1) We of new readers for the Daily Worker. (2) The ncial support until we sufficiently broaden our only $105.00. Wednesday’s income, after our call for help had reached most of you, was How did we manage to give you a Daily Worker on Thursday? The Laisve, Ukrainian Daily News, Ui Elore, our Lithuanian, Ukrainian and income as a criterion, then there is one thing You do not quite understand what is meant venienced. There i ft, when asked how the unemployed could get : “God knows!” Gandhi advises the Indian But we are not followers of Taft or Gandhi, ye the Daily sa the revolution, was $105.00. It costs $500 a day to publish Today We Beg Every comrade TAG DAYS ARE ON! and conscientiously! is some awakening. “Tomorrow We Continu on the job! Be loyal to your paper! Every dollar counts! Hungarian Communist papers loaned us out of their very meager funds, enough to publish the Daily Worker for one more day. these loans back in three days or these three Party papers will be incon- We must pay In a few cities comrades realize that knowing what to do and not doing it is still zero. Only quick action will dig the Daily Worker out of the danger it faces. A comrade in New York City gave $25. Comrade Bertha Olshen: 16 years old, sent $5, pledging at the same time to enter and fight in our revolu- tionary movement. Boston rushed in $50. However, read this from Detroit, where our comrades are always a little ahead instead of behind: “Sending minimum $200 today and you can expect $500 by end of week. Will organize tag Jays within ten days.” This is action! Only similar action in every city will secure for us the $25,000 Emergency Fund needed to keep going and growing. ie! And Sunday Also! Collect everywhere Save the Daily! , still | fight against the recent wage cut. |the town cid not seem safe to the regular police, who, trembling, re- fuse to return to the city and to their old jobs. | At Lahore, reports’ state that the | headquarters of the Afghan Youth League, the border village of Hasht- British beyond the Indian ing his opportunity to come to the aid of Peshawar re- nearly two weeks, are said to be) Ri the | h| | “This so-called union is a graft made of deal in forgeries they knew were forgeries. | The chief sc rel in this re- spect is the pc commissioner of |New York City, Grover Whalen, jwho says not a word, for the good reason that he has not a ‘word to say that would strengthen his case about these “documents which speak for themselves,” documents which were offered for sale to the New {York World some weeks before !! Whalen’s men as he claims. Neither does Whalen open his mouth to explain why, when the jmanaging editor of the N. Y. |Graphic, a capitalist sensation sheet by no means friendly to Commu- s, went to Whalen’s house with quest that comparison be made between the letterhead of Whalen’s | “documents” and the product of hop on E. 10th St.—Whalen refused to see him or to allow any comparison. With the congressman, aptly |named Fish, who introduced the resolution in congress to investi- }gate the Amtorg and the Commu- |nists; Fish, who spoke at Union Square in the anti-Communist dem- jonsiration, along with Matthew | Woll of the A. F. of L., seeting this “investigation” off on the basis of Whalen’s “documents’—why is it jthat such a profound silence falls Jover all these characters when the |documents are proven forgeries? “intercepted them”— The sole conclusion possible to arrive at is that the capitalists are rmined to go ahead with this “investigation,” regardless of the fact that it built upon forgeries, forgeries traced to the menial white guard scoundrel, Alex Yozwa, of the (Continued on Page Three) ‘APPEAL FOR WAR AGAINST SOVIET Socialist International | Hints in ‘Appeal” (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, M The of the executi n of the ond “socialist ional act oc here > Ses: Intern: has issued an “appeal” to the work- expressing anxiety an ers of Russia, concerning the fate of the Rus / Revolution, appealing for the | establishment” of the allianee of workers and peasants, for the estab- lishment of “demo freedom, release of political ete. This extraordinary concoction of barefaced impudence, sickening hypocrisy and collosal gall, repre- sents an appeal to the Russian workers to overthrow the Soviet Government in the interests of cap- italist “democracy.” The German workers’ papers re- gard the document as directed only supposedly to the Russian workers, ners, but in lity to the imperialist powers as a hint that the time to intervene is approaching. LABOR DEFENSE MEETING SUNDAY \Many Arrests of Those Speaking to Sailors Thetarrests tlie week ot many members of the Young Communist League Communist Party when distribut leaflets to the sailors jnow in New York will be taken up Jat the New York City protest con- ference of the International Labor Defen Sunday, at 10 a, m. at Irv Plaza Hall, Irving Pl. and 15th St. Tomorrow night, the eve of the conference, the I. L. D. will hole an entertainment for the benefit of \the Labor Defender at the Work jers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square.