The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1930, Page 1

een TAG DAYS - TODAY - TOMORROW - COLLECT EVERYWHERE! EMRE ee ———— ee ee oe ae —— ind 3 Every Party Member, Sympathizer and Reader of the Daily Worker Must Do His Share in the Drive to 4 FINAL CITY og T er EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Vost Office at New York. NY. under the act of March 3, 1 Save and Build the Daily Worker —————— Sa are 7 a F 5 : are SS ae s TION RATRS: 86 avywhire exeepties Hanna yt 7 i Vol. VI., No. 373 Guabaagi: Wits) 96-94 Usted Vomearss Now vary O17. 3 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930 sind Bronx, New York City and foreign countries, there $8 a year. Price 3 Cents ~ - es ss -— —- coos -— = = ss =. SSS — == ! American Federation of Labor CONVENTION FOR Parliament, Ss! =" HUGE RED PARADE'6 Communist EASLEY AND CS fessherumas a committee of the American Federation of Labor Up Naval Race} Near Hankow ! waited upon President Hoover to urge more kes te the ae ‘MEETING T 0 D A Y | N D lA REBELLION TT ‘are iati 1 nt. ‘ull and ear! } | : ! Tacds ag s measure. of) alevatne -uneAnie 4 | "The naval race between the rival (Wireless by Inprecorr) AS W HALEN — | PEKING, May 16.—Six detach ilding of new ships and modernization of old ones, up to the limits Th t x r building iP British and American imperialisms | ments of Communist troops ar of the London Treaty, is demanded by the fascists of theA. F. of L., | Northwest: Hiro m Cl@l hceatenine Henkow) having taken f " ne ‘ fi ss 5 . | continues now in two parliaments. in the name of “labor”! The committee had nothing to say about un. | cont : 1 employment insurance, for on this issue they are completely in agree- Shop and Union Local | the naval pact, itself a fiasco be- \ 5 : ° : ° \ 4 of ‘the city. Masses ives ar a aerary & Weeks Preparations for war, is the slogan of the A. F. of L. to. meet un- in Detroit inanelastin clectestiia Depermitincels| | Hammer-Sickle i Aodding Hunks Forgerie Weeks employment. The logic is caer, the Sa the eae of zene | gun-toting governments to add to | eee: l Koo. Wonk Ik capital, of Wall Street, of the militarists of the army and navy. Bu 3 thairesewentont aliontee ill Bub ESE | : : : : | Ago, { € the logic is still incomplete, for if the war preparations are good, the |Workers Fight Terror | oven these frail pretenses are looked ‘Revolution Spreads, — keyptian Workers Jailed. P eae war itself would be better. That the A. F. of L. did not call for war — | upon with suspicion by the more out- | ees (Wireless by Inprecorr) W as Det re In Tt? at once, however, is only because they have not yet received orders i one lancer Sarliterists Gini both conntries. 5 eat ce aes cua es sualise cleans When dhelcantialists ascastor |OC@amizing, J) Orb Le s/s) spukes mubsayis yy bobs connie | war, the American Federation of Labor officials will be in the front | Prepare for Election |g imerly ; Mere ranks howling for the blood of the “enemy.” < liteniie Fae en nea nett ive & e U.S. 8, te: ‘ore the There is nothing new in this latest incident, of course; it is but | DETROIT, Mich. May 16.—To-| ¢oreign relations committee of the| the continuation of the old established policy, which has especially | morrow auto workers from all over) y, §, Senate Thursday, and de-| Mrs. Naidu Seized and} iGRLE Ca MeyeG Aa meeing : | » Aalt “Bai | 19 workers was raided here and par-/“Daotpiots’ Ready Freed for Salt “Raid” | ticipants arrested, including prom-| + atriots’ Ready to inent trade unionists, among them Aid Briti [Trade BOMBAY, India, May 16.—A | Mahomet Abdul tudent sanenel revolutionary procession more than} of the Eastern Uni f Mos- Hyer. ¢ ands Ss, an held good since the World War in which Gompers was chief recruit- | the country meet in this automobile | pounced the agreement to substitute a mile long paraded with red ban- | cow who was formerly sentenced to! ¢he Whalen . OF they, ing sergeant for American imperialism, The A. F. of L. had close ‘| manufacturing city, the center of|¢ inch guns on the new cruisers in-| ners in the fort area of the city a long term for Communist prop-j are likely to he | sae ory relations not only with the high circles of Wall Street, but also with | the industry, in a national conven-| ctoaq of 8:inch. Jones was contra-| Thursday night. The parade was aganda‘ Ith ta ceriess SAGE the military machine itself, openly giving its blessings to the army | tion held to form a national union, | gicted by Admiral Pratt, testifying organized by the Youth League of | pele | : ilk aboud and navy, as well as the fascist American Legion. part of eh een BE Metal Workers| pefore the Committee on Naval Af- Bombay. Cries of ae lire ine Clashes With Fascists. Comununiiae To fight against imperialist war, and especially against the war Spiel aa will immediately | {iS who evidently realizes that the Ha pu percucd ei sae (Wireless by Imprecorr) daily Worker ant ite being prepared against the Soviet Union, the workers must first of | engage in a widespread and inten-|TUSe® 18 not of the importance it) Friday's grapevine telegraph | At the same time renewed ye. |. BEREIN) May 16—Pascists -at- pe all understand that the A. F. of L. is one of the chief- cogs in the war | siveorganization campaign, challeng.| (Cmtiued on Page Five) | stated that Glorious Grover, who ports indicate that the tribesmen’ tacked a workers’ meeting yesterda dsc machine. The fight against war must therefore include the exposure | ing the auto trusts, the great com- | calls a bath “a bawth” and who of the northwest frontier are on|at Heidenau near Dresden, with S) EO of and the fight against the leadership of the American Federation ! panies located here, and forming a All Fi . collided with some stubborn ambi- |the verge of revolt. The clan of | clubs, knives and brass knucks. The acct of Labor, which takes its orders directly from the war-makers. | wide network of shop committees orces in tions against his own to be gov- \Tochi Wazirs, which in the past has | Workers defended themselves des- ape and locals in preparation for strug-| ernor, is “resigning” after a hot | — (Continued on Page Five) | perately. A young worker received % i 7, os _ f Ps 3 gle on a huge scale against the, P. t hour with Cabaret Jirimy Walker, Be eS a dangerous knife-thrust below the | sispelises euted up, chesradeTcuttile WO PAV QAUIOW || chose heart was heavy to see hon | yomand the velease of) Fos-| heart and lies in a Hospital in a senienater aid aneraplownene | 5 go, but who was damned glad that ha "| serious condition. Several workers | 8tound | W hose Senate Is It? ‘Andee Ovdreand: ational tec | for Cal. Strike. ihe ferneus forgeries had hajpenea | tet, Minor, Amter and Ray-) 211 rcscists were injured. A similar abate | he back- figure of of the National retary of the Metal Workers Indus- along to give Whalen the final mond, in prison for fighting | ooiision occurred at Huerth near es ae : ORE and more the American workers learn of the true meaning of | trial League is to be at the conven-| 2; KO. | for unemployment insurance. | Calogne, where fascists held a pub- even: more profou' American democracy. The democratic illusions with which capi- | tion, representing the Trade Union| BRAWLEY, Cal., May 16.—Head- | lic meeting guaranteeing open dis- ibd Pax Goatees talism tried to imbue the working class, beginning with the school days, | Unity League. “| quarters are being opened by the) cussion, but attempted to eject wor k-| Basle as 4 rapidly wither away and the ugly rule of trustified capitalism becomes Beniesconeaching: | International Labor. Defense in this) 1. 9 ° ( ers. The police, of course, arrested! | 159 Norco more thoroughly known to the masses. The brutality of the police, * . | town in the Imperial Valley, where | tt al ANZ V O the workers. el the strikebreaking activity of the courts and the state as a whole A protest meeting against the| under the leadership of the Trade ee Mea bee e many recent lynchings of Negro! Union Unity League and, its at the mere m ae ss ient to aay eee ae state is an instrument in the hands of iworkers in the South, against the Agricultural Worke®s {nduatrial . Miners Strike Against War! ‘It w ie aes ene SEP MOERUOE: | jailing of Foster, Minor, Amter, and | Teague, some 13,000 canteloupe O ess OUYS ation (Wien by Teprecorr) weeks What kind of men fill the offices of the state, the Senate, etc.? |Raymond and demanding release of| workers are preparing to strike very WARSAW, May 16.—The Inter- | “exposure,” Not the workers, nor the poor farmers. There is not a man in the | other class war prisoners, especially | soon, ana Evie weomecsee national Miners’ Congress meeting | > Senate who is worth less than a million, and no one but a millionaire Powers and Carr facing death in at Cracow, has decided to organize | 4" can effectively run for Senate or for any other high federal or state | (Continued on Page Five) Intensify Local Struggles Against Worsening) an international twenty-four hour| office. Ruth McCormick has shown this very clearly. Only to ,be ee i 4 . ite B 5 robest strike of miners against im- nominated in the primaries Ruth McCormick publicly admitted that tion of $15,000 bail each on 13 mem- Conditions; Build-T.U.U.L., Convention Veta aa ge nner Peetash an laxerked _¥ she spent $250,000 and, of course, many thousands more of which we ! 7 parte see coer wih “exposure are not being told. ; criminal syndicalism r preparing | {Merch 6, Breton —and for good rea ican, narily e mouth of Communism, pock } | The court meeting in San Diego | | which heard the appeal for reduc- being an : : sed ES , this strike and for organizing the; PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 16— men who have no other place to |tale : bout The policy of American capitalism today, as it is being correctly \ ‘agricultural workers here, did not} The national organizer of the me [sleep ‘at, slight: CONFERENCE ON RAR as : stated in the convention, theses of the Communist Party, is: “direct | | | wake any action. The arrested men|cils of the Unemployed, on tour The tour of Norman Tallentire, Woll es nomination into key positions of representatives of finance capital a 2ve still held on the high bail, which |through the principal industrial the national organizer, carries him | - Jeff. (Hoover, Mellon, Young, Morrow, Grundy). | _ itself is a reduction from the $40,006 |cities of the United States, reports: to Buffalo tomorrow and Sunday, AY Easley is The growing economic crisis finds its reflection in the growing = aae ' eae piace on them vies first|conditions worse for the jobless, | and on to Cleveland Tuesday and chen enon antagonisms within the old capitalist parties. This situation makes i ay’ ¢ ¢ seized. e growers in Imperial’) many of whom when first thrown | Wednesday; Toledo, Thursday, and <erwin, an « it insufficient for capitalism io send caly its agents into the Senate ‘Tag Days Today and Valley have openly stated they ex-| out of work had a few dollars saved Detroit, Friday, Svturday and Sun-| ee suis nt of La and other branches of the government; now it sees the necessity to Tomorrow! | pect to stitie the strike by keeping] to live on, but who now, as the weeks | day. \Labor Defender Movies | these forgeries send the chiefs of finance capitalism itself, like Morrow of the House | | its leaders in jail. and months roll around without any Build 1. U. U. L. ¥ f “ Whalen publist af Mesgan like Geandy of thal Beanggleshla wantfacturera, ats, It_| The aueeers ol ihe New York diac} Fight Vicious Law. of the Hoover prosperity coming! Part of his task on this tour is} © Cartoons, Tonight costs millions to get nominated for the Senate and only millionaires | trict tag days depends altogether The Communist Party in its com-|due, are absolutely up against it. sify organization of the can go there. upon the number of comrades and | ing election campaign will make re-/ Bread lines are longer, and the parks lead them in local strug-| Hundreds of delegates, represc ‘The Communist Party is entering the election campaign, to expose irae that will go out and col- pea) of the vicious criminal syndical-| and alleys in all cities are full o: (Continued on Page Five) ing trade unions, | shops, worke ; ect diligently and loyally. Every; ism Jaw a major issue, as also the clubs, Negro organizatio: nd labor this fascisation of the American capitalist state, to expose the hypo- fs ii «, ” ans < ‘comrade and sympathizer should | right to organize and strike. s = 1 es . : fraternal organizations, will attend aay aaataat ca fe ere eee oe el | eater’ the tied odaghann Veepyan| ay pha Daily Worker Dance |Bakers, Fight Clique tie xew York City protest confer ~ Z ‘collecting until late Sunday night.; LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 16— Tonight at Center at Jersey City Meet «ne of the International The Communist Party has no illusion that within the frame-work A mass collection is mass action. Ignacio Gonzalez, one of the 87 zs fense tomorrow at 10 a. m. at Ir- of the capitalist state the workers can improve their conditions. It |A mass collection constitutes a po-| members of the Agricultural Work-| When we have combed the city) JERSEY CIT J., May 16 Ving Plaza Hall, Irving Pl. and 15th wants, however, to utilize the Senate as a platform for popularizing its litical task. If thousands of com- ers’ Industrial Union arrested on|, 1 filled ere » day, sl all T ‘ é e ee ae Renee [iat program, of bringing our Party program to the masses.\ rades go to factory gates, into the April 14 in the Imperial Valley |°"* Use OLE BUCE UNG eA Wel SS | POmDEEN Ys tHe ae makers | Tonight all supporters of the I The Communist Party has no millions to carry on its election homes of workers, go everywhere charged with “preparing armed rev-|Wi!l_ meet tonight at the Daily Union, Local No. 6, are calling @ yp, will gather at the Worke: campaign. Our financial resources are very slim. The Soviet Union , Where workers are to be found, then olution” and later released, has been! Worker Entertainment and Dance, special meeting at 98 Bowers St. Center, Union Square, where does not finance us, for it is building socialism and it needs every this will be a great accomplishment. railroaded to San Quentin prison arranged at 26 L » Square by Burkhardt, Gundt and their boot-| Labor Defender night will be cele- cent it can get. We depend only on the financial and political support .We will secure contacts with addi- with a sentence of two to five years. | Section Two. Bring a good day licking secretary-treasurer of Locai| brated. The program will include of the masses. tional thousands of workers, many He was charged with having a gun aorondcend WuReGEL (he Dai ‘ | & Amalgamated Food Workers, are | motion pictures of Soviet Armenia The Communist Party is now organizing its election campaign, °f Whom will for the first time hear in his possession and was placed on |) oe : eae ee the ovict {Ying ‘0 mobilize members, as they the Pennsylvania-Ohio miners’ strike The coming state ratification conventions will lay the basis of the mob. °! the Daily Worker. trial before he could notify the In- | "#V¢ Dee ena have already their whole pack of and May Day in Moscow. Prizes ilization of the workers in the factories and in the mass organizations Mass collections’ constitute train- (Continued ‘on Papa Rive) my ees nen ond do neue | cfficials to destroy the union. | will be awarded to those who se- : ’, i be 85 All bakers of the A. F. W. should cured the most subscriptions dur- attend this meeting, expose the ing the recent drive for the Labor Burkhardt machine and help estab-| Defender. Other feature numbers md lish union conditions. Build the! of the extensive program will in Conference ‘trade Union Unity League! clude cartoons by the we WEDS \labor cartoonists, William Gropper for the support of the Communist candidates and election platform, i"é in mobilizing’ our forces and A 3 The preparations for these ratifications proceed too slowly, The ‘aining in doing mass work. And) Begin today at the earliest hour Party membership, the revolutionary working class organizations were this mass collection means saving possible. Continue to collect until not yet mobilized for these conventions. This must be remedied at ‘he’ Daily Worker. Every single late Sunday night. Phone Stuy- once. Every working class organization must be set into motion for comrade must go out and collect a vesant 1696 or call at the Daily . 5 . this election campaign and the ratification conventions. maximum of dollars. Not a com-| Worker office if you have not yet| Against Unemployment, | Admission 50 cents. . All proceeds to the Daily, Forward to known Forward to the Bolshevik election campaign! Continue our work Td Must fail in this duty. SCELCN SOIE TSI TELL daly: 1 Pigh€ fore Work ‘or jWagest [enti Jacoby Bhrel. | In most of the European forgeries of March 6 and May 1! against the Soviet Union there has | ste ‘ been found at the bottom of the | ait i ae a e plotting, the British o rialist, to mobilize every p e@ agency Re 10 nh ct) he Boss ° in Europe nst the t Union. P g | Deterding resents the Bolshevik j SSOCIATED PRESS reports from London, describe a speech of oa 2 anit neans Sees | revolution taking a the Baku | ger G. Dawes, American Ambassador, to the American Cham- By pe t when, with the aid of er of Commerce in that city. Dawes is notorious not only for th r “ r]ay?? the “socialists” of } len col ag Ae ea inne ogc A lh - Helb Defeat the Enemy, Help Raise $25,000 Needed, Help Save the “Daily \GesteC on Ganegias Dutch ternational capital, but also for his fascist bluntness occasionally in Ns Ten , de iain is | Shell company romised this blurting out the truths which are usually hidden under silence. * . "4 a i F : . j loot y This time Dawes “did his stuff” in something of the old style. Three new battleships just completed. Forty airplanes in man- What must we do? We must immediately strengthen the Daily | _,in the Berlin trial of the forges Heithis he Stasis et Commerce that “they were engaged in trade euvers in the Hawaiian Islands. The conference of the imperialist powers Worker, root it deeply among the workers in all industries, use it as our reer eb D>. Daterdine pa ads and inpeaeasisabta stp omneg Jn econaREy! oat as saharp, at London to reduce each nation’s war ships resulted in a big victory for foremost fighter against the bosses and their governmental business named by the G ho were Dawes wit again be told, as Neshas ‘been. theforey notte tathies the i Our bosses and their government are going to build _ agents. Ae Mo eenay: zed ay much in public about these things. Doesn’t he k that « one billion dollars worth of itio ips. ily ae : 5 i sus reeeneiel f : | marks get cirenlated among the Bhs oe Pieper aah ee: h of nal warships. ‘ The Daily Worker is in danger of suspending. If we suspended ats stor ry @ rrece an eleetaa is coming, in which the Grand Old Party will be going Two suave representatives of the grand Mr. Whalen, accomplice of Publication for a few days you would at once realize how necessary the | Se raneaty pt Menem: seen to Apa dln ceraen otara a the: rng class the Czarist forgery racketeers, visited the Daily Worker the other day. Daily Worker is to our movement, to you. If we suspended you would strange—Sir Henry Deterd the o report to his bosses in the Chambers of Commerce, bit 164s = They had a letter supposedly written from our building which threatened | Work night and day to secure funds to again start publication, aes : is ous ave 38 sath a be ee ee eats ake pee to blow up police headquarters. They wanted a sample of the writing To suspend just when we are needed most would be a defeat for act_he made a_ speech tue 1k may cause more workers to think about the contrast of such of all our typewriter machines in order to find out which of these ma- ys and a victory for all the plunder-bund. To keep going and growing Sea sta tease cari ae eetite ee of the heads of the Soviet Union chines wrote this letter. This was an attempt to frame-up and kill the means victory for us and the eventual defeat of all the Czarist forgery innocent hi no doubt, but it Cibtaraaante give vials sears to tte reltng lisa; ths U, & Gore’ | DMN Wane racketeers, the dandy little Whalen, the big Fish, the blood-sucking ex- | (“"’ tbihackaa bse! Gorefanin inact bis elt a ea of commerce, the Soviet The big Mr. Fish of New York, who represents Wall Street at Ploiters and their fascist lackeys in the White House, the state capitals, TERE nee Ee The difference is one between working cae Palgramtieg ciate Washington, intends to make membership in the Communist Party a _ the city halls. Hse ie avarbaateeer abeten eee | si prison offense, establish a prison island in the Pacific Ocean and send all We must be victorious. We here will do everything possible to Moscow and other ¢ the group Communist Buildin ikdes willl bs Wald today aud Ge of us there to rot, avoid suspension for even a single day. You, there out in the field, in k an chee Trade Fraction Tonite at 13 W. 17th St. Those failing am All this is closely connected. The governments everywhere, city, small city and large, in mining camp and steel mill, must help us beat NR oraesenenne ie ’ ponte Canute te natn iH state and national, are beginning to oil their machinery of destruction and the enemy by helping the Daily Worker out of its present danger. tration for this tour will be eper wi special mating of all Commu-| called by the leading oiieideesin murder, are beginning to clear decks for the coming war. And clearing A Communist knows no defeat! We must not suspend! You must set AM oh 2 ae itth Ay 'y members in the building! the building trades, decks means that they intend to silence the Daily Worker and our Party. rush funge to save your paper, yr York (Algonquin 6656), iy