The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1930, Page 4

Page Four Svar WHALEN’S FORGERIES, MAY | ~ Cable: “1 New DAY, AND OUR PARTY HARRY YARIS. Commu DL EY: e Co : > of Mus- nilar system carried out port of outlaw Communists. No Mere Accident. mere accident that can capitalist anti-Red activity and h tions our P; is an outgrowth of the increased activity of Par American workers, ainst_ unemployment, nployment insurance, and Even though our It at the is Ay drive the among the struggle y week, the organizationa th has not kept our Part recent activity establish- ed it the political leader of large masses of workers. Hundreds of thousands are today realizing for the first time that there is an fight an ion in this countr for the erests of the working cla: pite all the r of the ruling The success of the ons all over influence of t ent activity and “Red P! The mobilization of the working class and a of the ng class becomes one of the major tasks for- time. The Whalen edly part of the prep: the breaking off of business 2 iet Union, and secondly war preparations In pointing this out of the Party at th geries are unde tions for fir relations with t part of the imper against the Soviet Union. our Party s wholly correct. However, there is one other side, actually these are ver connected to the forgeries, especially taken in connection with the Bills autho Communist activity now be- invest fore Ns This is what is bro in the above quoted stateme of Re ivity of Whalen and the New York police. The capitalist class f our Party and wants to drive it under Unless this is Brought out to the Party a re working class we will be unprepared to on a struggle against this action of the tive Fish, and the en c capitalist class. The answer of the Party must be the mob- f workers in a cam h investigation, against ilization of broad mz Fis paign against the the Whalen fo ries, against the criminal syndicalist law which is now being applied on a wide scale ughout the country. and against the capitalist terror which has caused thousands of arrests in the first four months of this ye All working cl organizations, espe 3 the unions, must be rallied to struggle against these plans of the capitalist class. We must utilize the present favorable situation in the country to build the revolutionary unions, the legal defense organization, and other auxiliary organizations. Thousands of workers through- out the country, who are not yet willing to join the Communist Party would flock to these other organizations if only these workers were reached, not through the showing of moving pictures but through working class activ’ In time of illegality some of these organiza- tions would be the sole legal expressions of the revolutionary working class. Especially ust we consolidatee and strengthen the Party organizationally. The 6,000 new members re- cruited in the recent drive must be kept not on the list but drawn into the regular yday activity of the Party. Many of these workers have already been dropped from the lists due to the fact that they were not drawn into the acitvity of the Party, were no fol- lowed up properly or because they do not at- arly. edied n back into the Party see, at least this ir true ! n Connecticu , that some of the older (I do not an aged) Party comrades show signs of not eing » to keep up with the necessities of he present siiuation. This is ecially true some of the foreign language comrades hose main activity has always been in frat- 1 s of all sorts. These com- o% prepared and not willing to keep h the zetivity of the Party and more and al org: more are drawing themselves into the safe and omfortable folds of these fraternal organi: ons, where they are not ced to face rp clashe ete. en by hattle with the police, arrests, vietim- The y of these comrades must the r more Americanized ele- have been drawn into the Party during recent months. Many of these workers, the Party thro recent prepared to carry on the ne of the ¢ comrades. of this problem of the probable arty into illegality need not ere a panic in our Party as was the case before and after March 6 in certain districts. However, this question must be faced squarely and a campaign by our Party against h panic tendencies. Ww, nts who The drivin our met wi One other point I wish to raise in some of the tactics utilized in the May Day demonstra- tions in some of the smaller cities in Con- necticut. These cities, like Waterbury, New Britain, Stamford, highly industrialized towns which are owned and ruled completely and openly by the bosses of the large metal and hardware factories located in them. The work- ers in these towns are almost completely un- no traditions of struggle and the company’s hand is so heavy that the workers completely bulldozed. In such towns it is fficult thing to be a Communist, espec- e one and our Party has to fune- i-illegal state. In these cities on t as on March 6 we could not secure emonstrations of any sort and e the police immediately arrest any and all who attempt to speak or raise a sign it was nec ary for us to work out some ways and means to carry on our demonstrations at organi are least long enough to make the workers ac- | quainted with out slogans and demands. On | March 6 thé demonstrations in these cities, te very large turnout of workers lasted 1 minutes before our small handful rades were .all arrested and the demon- dispersed. only sever of co In New Britain on May 1st, three to four nd workers gathered and when our spe attempted to address them they were imme arrested. However, one comrade had ationed in a hotel room facing the demon: tion and as soon as the arrests start- ed he began to address the crowd from the ledge of the window of the hotel room. It was fully 15 minutes before the police, taken com- pletely by surprise, succeeded to batter down the locked and well barricaded (by all the fur- niture from the hotel room) door of the hotel In the meantime the comrade continued his speech and the workers at least heard our demands and slogans. Such methods must be and can be developed in other cities where the comrades are few and the difficulties in carry- ing out the demonstrations are many. Stamford. room. In In Stamford we had a somewhat similar sit- On March 6 our comrades were ar- rested so quickly that the 5,000 workers gath- ered did not even know anything about it un- til they read the afternoon papers. The fol- lowing plan was therefore worked out. Our comrades were divided into four groups each stationed in a different part of the square where the demonstration took place. At a given time one of the groups was to raise its signs and start addressing the crowd of workers. Then at given intervals following this the other groups were to follow the same procedure. This would have the effect of firstly dividing the police into four different squads and would enable us to carry on the demonstrations for a sufficient length of time to at least let the workers gathered know that the Communists had attempted to address them. This also divided owr comrades in such a manner over the entire square as to reach all the workers gathered and to draw in large sections of the workers into active participation in the dem- onstration. Of course, such a plan may be con- sidered faulty in that it divides our comrades and lessens the possibility of resistance to the police breaking up the demonstration. How- ever, in such cities, where our Party is small, ja t is almost inevitable in the staging of such open demonstrations and we must try our utmost to lengthen their duration and increase the participation of the workers in | the demonstrations. | ‘These two tecties have their connection with the above in that such plans of carrying thru these demonstrations must ‘be worked out in an ever growing number of cities in the country, especially in the smaller highly industrialized cities and such tac hould be popularized in our Party, each district learning from the | other, for the question of organizing and carry- | ing through such demonstrations becomes an in- ‘creasingly important one. _ First Chinese Soviet Congress and Tasks of American Workers By 1.8. LL HE First Chinese Soviet Congress convened by the Communist Party of China and the Chinese red trade unions will take place on the 30th of May, the fifth anniversary of the massacre of revolutionary workers and stu- dents by imperialists in Shanghai, 1925. The Soviet Congress convenes amidst the rapid upsurge of the development of the revo- lution (the tremendous advancement of the Communist army, the establishment of many t districts, etc.) and the extremely sharp struggle between the imperialist pow- ers and Chinese militarist cliques (the open warfare between the Nanking and Anti- Nanking blocs), is of utmost historical and international significance. will The Congress | centralize and consolidate the existing Soviet districts, give a uniform leadership for the whole of the Soviet territories, and establish the leading role of the proletariat in the revo- lution. This central leadership will enact laws regarding the land, laws for the protection of labor, the organization of the Red Army and the constitution of the Soviets, and proclaim the fight to end the present intperialist-mili- tarist war by civil war of workers and peas- ants against foreign imperialism and native bourgeoisie, and for the establishment of All- China Soviet Power of the workers, peasants and soldiers, It is very interesting to note that during the time of announces t of this congress (about Febru ) the § t power only con- | sisted of about 20 diswwiecs, Now, in the in- Sunday, at 26-28 Onto WORK." emecnaery se ve By SAMUEL HERMAN, HIRTY THOUSAND sailors of the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleet are in New York City. They arrived on May 7th from a long cruise of over three months in which the most intensive war maneuvers since the World War took place. The yellow papers that sprout forth daily a poisonous stream of capitalist opium devote much space to the arrival of the fleet. “Our dear fleet” is the phrase smeared all over the trashy scandal sheets. Not a word, however, creeps in these same papers about the actual conditions of the men in the navy. To the men in the navy of U. S. imperial- ism, their conditions are uppermost in their minds. They see the sharp chasm, the strong class division between themselves and their officers. They see this class division on the ships, where the officers enjoy unlimited pow- er, can throw sailors in the brig or make them do extra duty for the slightest offense or for terval period of two months, the capitalist Soviet rule comprises about the size of four provinces (principally in Fukien, Kiangsi, Kwangtang, Hunan, Hupeh and Kwangsi) with a population of 30,000,000. We can safely state that by the time of the Congress the Soviet Power will gain more tremendous ter- ritory and strength than now. The forthcoming First Chinese Soviet Con- gress is one of the mighty victories of the World Revolution and marks a decisively im- portant step towards its further development. The rapid revolutionary upsurge in China, the developing mass revolts in India, the success- ful realization of the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union and the growing revolutionary wave in the capitalist countries, form a pow- erful world front of revolutionary struggle against world capitalism and for the establish- ment of the Soviet Power in the whole world. But the further victorious development of stubborn and combined resistance of foreign imperialism and native reaction. American imperialism has played an important role in the defeat of the first revolutionary wave in China. It helped the establishment of the bloody Chiang Kai-shek regime. It is one of the deadly enemies of the Chinese Revolu- tion. Therefore, here lies the important task of the working class in the United States. While waging a revolutionary struggle against rationalization, wage-cuts, speed-up, and po- lice terror, the American working class must more than ever give energetic support to the Chinese revolution. The revolutionary work- ers in this country must expose U. S. imper- ialism in China and rally the broad masses to fight for the withdrawal of U. S. military forees from China and against any manifesta- tion of intervention on the part of U. S, im- perialism against the Chinese Revolution. First of all, the American workers must have their voice of revolutionary greetings and solidarity heard to the workers and peas- ants in China, The Chinese Vanguard Weekly, which is the only revolutionary organ that rallies the Chinese workers in the American Continent for the support of the Chinese So- viet Power and for the participation of the class struggle in this continent, is preparing a special issue for this occasion. This issue will also be widely distributed in China. It offers its space for the American workers to greet the First Soviet Congress in China. The mighty voice of support from American wor ers will surely give great impetus to fighting masses in China for the establishment of an All-China Soviet Republic. Every class- conscious worker must see to it that his or her voice of revolutionary greetings to the Chinese Soviet Congress be heard col- lectively or individually through the Chinese Vanguard Weekly, press reported that the territory under the | the Soviet Power in China, which is fighting | the imperialist-militarist war, will meet the | By FRED ELLIS see The U. S. Fleet Visits New York no offense at all. The enlisted personnel see how the high ranking officers are provided with special quarters on the ships, have the best of food, enjoy special privileges of lib- erty. Men See Divi The men see this division when they are allowed to go ashore. The enlisted personnel see this class division after they reach shore. They are allowed to shift for themselves. Being but strangers in a large, bustling city, a city of tall buildings, of subway crowds, a city all a jumble with thousands of taxi-cabs, street cars, and throngs of people everywhere, the men usually wander up and down streets aimlessly, and become ready victims to un- scrupulous persons of one sort or another from the auctioneers of jewelry stores to the sharpers of the speakeasies. On the other hand, the men see their officers living at the most expensive hotels, mingling socially with the “Four Hundred” of the exploiting class, having tea with the daughters of America’s most successful plunderers of the working class. It is because the sailors realize to an extent | that they are from the ranks of the working class, while the officers are from the ranks of the capitalist exploiters, that leaflets issued in thousands by the Communist Party and Young Communist League to the sailors met a very sympathetic response. The leaflets exposed the miserable condi- tions of the enlisted men and called upon them to fight for higher wages, the right to resign from the service at any time, the right to elect their own officers, the right to vote and hold office, and a limitation of their hours of duty to not more than eight hours. Show War Danger, The leaflets exposed the preparations going on for a war against the Soviet Union, and | called upon the working class sailors to de- | fend the toilers’ fatherland against an attack | of the class enemies of the working class. The leaflets further called for class solidarity be- tweep the working class sailors and the colon- | ial masses of Latin America, Haiti, Philip- | pines, China and elsewhere in the struggle | against the tyrannical oppression of Wall St. | Numerous arrests of workers have taken ) place for distribution of these leaflets. Com- missioner Whalen, who heads the odd collec- tion of hired thugs in uniform, the police force of New York, has resorted to the “strategy” of holding young workers arrested for giving out the leaflets on charges of “prostitution” sion. 1 be intimidated by these arrests; these arrests SUBSCRIPTION RATES: M1 everywher: n ttan and Bronx, New One year $6; six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of York City, and foreign, which are: One year $8; six months $4.50 ioe By I. ILIJEVIC, (Jugoslay Bureau.) This is the continuation of an article pub- lished yesterday. In the first part of the article, the writer discusses the role, of the language fractions in the unemployment struggles, the Party’s policy in the auxiliary organizations, the growing fascism in the language mass organizations, and the co- ordination of fraction work with Party task «48 Oe T various times we have voiced our opinion on the right danger in the language papers and this danger is by no means less at the present. We find that even now many of our fractions are delinquent in carrying on our Party campaign in the language papers. Too much of liberal journalism is finding place in our language press, not only so far as the advertising end is concerned, but also in the make up, treatment and “tone” of various ar- ticles. Many of our language papers are side- tracking the direct Communist slogans and carry on propaganda in a go-between way. An often expressed excuse is: “It won’t help ; the Party any if we come out boldly as a Com- | munist Party organ.” | Many times an excuse is given by the com- rades in the language fractions for failure ta publish $mportant Party resolutions and docu- ments with the excuse that “it will not be understood or read by the members anyhow.” We must overcome this dangerous weakness by giving greater attention to our fraction press, by close check up as to the conduct of the articles. There is also a belief among some of the comrades to the effect that the present lan- guage daily papers should be cut to weeklies, in order to build up the Daily Worker. This tendency must be fought most vigorously; be- cause even if we would succeed thereby in strengthening the Daily Worker it would not compensate for the loss of the other thousands upon thousands of readers, who would drift back to the bourgeois and social-democratic papers of which there are ‘plenty in this coun- try. There is no reason why the Daily Worker cannot be strengthened and developed, firstly as a central organ of the Party and secondly, on the basis of the sharpening class struggle and developing mass radicalization among the American working class. This can and must be developed hand in hand with the language press. Any substitution of the language press to develop one Party paper at the expense of the other language papers is nothing less than submission to the difficulties which we now face and which we can overcome by intensify- ing our campaign for the Daily Worker among the present readers of the language papers and at the same time among the American workers The Language Fractions in the Light of the Party Tasks while continuing to develop the language papers among the foreign-born workers. Number of Weaknesses, There are a number of weaknesses in our language literature at the present time. The fact that most of the language fraction have no followed systematically the Party literature is seen in the lack of Leninist literature for the foreign born workers. The tendency has been to publish various heterogeneous material disconnected both in content and importance for the movement. Not only this. But we see that in the present recruiting drive, as well as in the past Party campaign, the lan- guage fractions lag behind in publishing the specific literature on those campaigns. While the recruiting drive has been succes: must at the same time look at the possi greater success and this could have beeri ob- tained if otr fractions followed the Party lit- erature and issued simultaneously such pam- phlets as “Why Every Worker Should Join the Communist Party,” etc. But evidently this has not been the case. Such fractions as the Jugoslay and Checko-Slovak are now publish- ing these pamphlets when the recruiting drive as such is closed, while some of the others have completely failed to respond to this re- quirement. In order to co-ordinate the future campaigns and those now in progress the Agit-Prop and the language department of the Party should endeavor to give timely directions and instruc- tions for publication of pamphlets, leaflets, etc. to the language fractions either before the beginning of the campaign or at the outset of same, also, a closer check up and follow up of these instructions and directions should be con- ducted in order to determine to what extent they have been carried out. Another important addition that should be made to various frac- tions and the policy for the fractions to be introduced in various auxiliary organizations, especially where there are young elements, is to handle Party literature in English. Many of our fraction book stores failed to carry English literature and where they do it. is usually a few to supply demands rather than to develop the sale of our literature in English. This should be corrected by seeing that all fractions carry Party literature in English and advertise the same in their language press. Many fraternal organizations in which our language fractions have influence or control have libraries of their own and most of these libraries do not contain our literature. Our language fractions should immediately in- troduce our literature in these organizations. And wherever possible English literature as well. Let us continue with the Bolshevik self- | criticism and bring out our weaknesses and mistaakes and shortcomings in order that we may correct them. lice Commissioner, who split workers’ heads in the March 6th Unemployment Demonstration, who by his own admissions revealed himself a stool pigeon of the Chamber of Commerce, giving the employers names of militant work- ers to discharge from the factories; this sleek, well fed, Tammany politician who was recently | banqueted by over 2,000 bankers and manufac- | turers in tribute to his head-splitting activities | against the working class; this cheap publicity | seeker whose motto is: “Never allow a day to go by, without getting my name on the front | pages of the newspapers,” is particularly an- gered because his anti-Soviet documents have | been proved conclusively as forgeries of the | rottenest sort. | His attempt to put himself forward as a | Napoleon in the anti-Soviet crusade, has re- sulted in his being shown up as a modern | Don Quixote. | | | His resentment against the young workers arrested for giving out leaflets to the fleet knows no bounds, and he is making haste to railroad them to long jail terms as he has su ceeded in doing with the Committee of Five of the New York unemployed. And it can be safely said, that among those demanding the release of these young workers will be num- bers of workers in uniform, jlors of the fleet. Our class brothers in uniform will not will merely further disillusion them in capi- talist democracy. All the harder will they struggle for improved conditions in the navy | and join hands with their brothers in the fac- | tories in the common struggle against the | capitalist order of sqciety. | | The Battle at Leipzig BERLIN, (IPS).—The fifth Young Commu- nist Day in Germany which was held in Leip- zig, developed into a tremendous demonstration of young worker and “criminal anarchy.” This Tammany Po- On Sunday morning a mass demonstration | of 30,000 young workers from all parts of the country took place on the Augustus Platz. Together with the worker spectators there were about 100,000 persons in the square and the surrounding streets. The masses were ad- dressed by Comrades Thaelmann and Neumann for the Communist Party and Kurt Mueller for the Young Communist League. From the beginning the police acted in a hostile manner and seemed determined to pro- voke disorder. The masses in the Augustus Platz were pressed back unnecessarily and brutally, and in a side street a minor collision occurred. A police captain immediately drew his pistol and shot down a young worker at point blank range. The victim was a young worker from Berlin named Dyba who has since expired as a result of a frightful stomach wound, A wave of fury swept through the masses at the murder of the young worker and violent. collisions occurred with the police. The mur- derer and a police sergeant were overwhelmed by the masses and flung to the ground. A number of workers were injured. Following the meeting on the Augustus Platz a procession of tens of thousands of young workers and others marched to the build- ings of the German Reichsgericht which has sent so many revolutiénary workers to jail. Here a large force of police attacked the masses and a poiice officer threatened to fire immediately unless the workers retired. The protest of a Communist Reichstag’s deputy was ignored roughly. \ Early next morning the mass quarters of a section of the Berlin workers were raided by the police. A conference of young Commu- nist leaders was also raided and dispersed, whereby four young workers were injured. On the departure of the members of the Young Spartacus League from the main Leipzig sta- tion, the children were mishandled and treated roughly by the police. Preparations This is the final installment of an article by the Negro organizer | of the Trade Union Unity Leagne | on preparations for the Fifth Con- | gress of the RLL.U. | tered into Labor Unii district of Ne ea y JAMES W. FORD. saleaaiee _ By JAMES W. FORD. [inp The National Textile Workers’|U, L, distr Union has issued a special bulletin on the preparations of’ the Fifth Congress of the R. LL. U. It has issued a challenge to the National Miners’ Union on a number of poiuts |of revolutionary competition. Tt has set up revolutionary competi- tion amongst its districts and its local unions. | The Food Workers’ National Com- | mittee has also set up special forms ‘of instructions to all of their local | groups for preparation forahe Fifth | Congress of the R. LL. U. Like- wise, has the National Lumber Workers’ Union outlined” plans of work for its local unions and groups. tailed plan. effect, The Mar | Union and Industrial through a RT LU, tionary competition for building the . The Southern district | has submitted a partial plan which they are undertaking to put into | Also the Boston district and | the Salt Lake district, rine Workers’ Industrial campaign to nominate delegates and to popularize the R. I. L, U. Also wide plans were made for the nomination of Negro delegates to attend the Fifth Congress of the + and in all sections of the country directions were given to popularize the R, I. L. U. amongst the Negro workers. Negro delegates from basie industries are to Fifth Congress, At the special ass At agreements of revolu- ty. The San Francisco the T. U. U. L. has out- or the Fifth Congress of U. The Cieveland T. U. ict also elaborated a de- | being convened by the tee ‘of Negro Workers, Anti-Imperialist League fort, Germany. imances, No small par the Railroad Workers’ | insignificant pol League have carried part of their plan of a |plan for 1 the expenses the Fifth Congr have cents each ‘ } istance was rendered by ithe T. U. U. L. groups for the pop- lined plans for the nomination of | ularization of the London Confer- ence of Negro Workers, which is International Trade Union Commit- (the Second World Congress of the and certainly no ical part of the preparations for the Fifth Congress of the R. I. L. U., has been the ising finances to defray of the delegates to of the It, I. L. U. Twenty thousand assessmen been printed, to sell at 25 5,000 special R. LL. U. buttons are being made, to sell for 10 cents each; special funds are for the Fifth Congress ot the R. LL.U | The New York and Chicago di triets of the T, U, U. L. have en- least eight the most go to the same time to be raised at mass meetings fo: this purpose. A special subscrip tion list, in addition, has been sen‘ cut by the Provisional Internationa Trade Union Committee of Negre Workers for the purpose of raising funds to defray the expenses of the Negro delegates to the London Con: ference. Special conferences have heer held by the National Committee oi the T. U. U. L. with the variout ‘district organizers of the T. U. U L. on the preparations for the Fiftk Congress of the R. 1. L. U. Special conferences have alse been held with the heads of the Netional Unions and leagues affili- ated to, the T. U. U. L. These are the preliminary plan: that have been made by the Trade Union Unity League in preparatior for the Fifth Congress of the Rec International of Labor Unions These plans are to be followed 3 more intense preparations duriny the intervening period, Provisional elected at at Frank- MAPS |