The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1930, Page 1

UNEPLOYMENT CONVENTION July a Vol. VI., No. 374 Lovestone Unites With Tammany N Saturday’s Jewish Tammany organ, “The De peared under a 4-column headline stating: “Louis back the attack of the Communist Party upon the leade: left wing labor movement in America.” If one were suddenly to fall down from the Planet Mars and see this headline, he certainly might think that the present-day American left wing labor movement is being built, led, and protected by the Matthew Wolls, the Schlesingers, the Hillmans, and Tammany Hall, and that it is the Communist Party which is attacking it. Every day you will find in this Jewish Tammany organ all kinds of hideous provocations against the left wing labor movement and— in connection with this—also argument after argument that it is the Communist Party which is building, leading, and controlling the left wing movement. Suddenly, however, the Tammany “Day” has discov- ered that “the leadership of the left wing labor movement,” which means the Communist Party, is really its own bitter enemy. And they, the people of the Tammany organ, have, so to speak, undertaken to protect the left wing labor movement. The news which has been printed in the “Day” under the above mentioned headline is a so-called report of a meeting which the shop delegates council of the Needle Trades Industrial Union held Thurs- day evening in Manhattan Lyceum, The report, the “Day” states, is a “special report of Joel Slonem.” shed dally exceps Sun) item ap- hurls hip of the We know very well that Slonem was not present at the meeting. All those who were present at the meeting know what Hyman and others said there and what generally happened, quite opposite to the reports of the “Day.” They know, that they did not hear and did not see Slonem. But when it is necessary#to write a “special report” in the Day, you must not forget that that means doing something which does | not require hearing and seeing. All you have to know is what is de- sirable for Tammany and how to serve its bankers and manufacturers. It knows that for this pur- but also gll pos- And the Day knows how to do this. pose it is necessary to use not only all possible lies, sible force: < For this reason the Day chose Slonem even some time back. Be- cause Slonem has a clever hand and a close acquaintance with the underworld and with all the worst, corrupt Tammany politicians, This person was given the mission of concluding a “match” for Tammany with the Lovestoneites. For the Tammany Day, which plays its role with the “impartiality” of a prostitute. It was formerly worthwhile to use even such a “hero” as “Peace” Shelly and now it finds it worth- while to use the Lovestoneites, And the match was concluded. In the name of the Lovestoneites, Joel Slonem immediately afterwards wrote a series of articles against the Communist Party, and the Tammany Day became the official organ of the Lovestoneites. Joel knows as much about the doings of the Communist Party as a goat. But Joel dished out all sorts of fairy tales even about the Com- munist International. In order to strengthen the Lovestone-Tammany attack, they even dug out Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg from their graves and “expelled them from the Comintern” on the pages of the Day. And now?. Now they come out again last week in the Tam- many Day with a new series of articles which contain all sorts of provocations against the Communist activities in the Needle Trades Industrial Union, and they have also printed this special report men- tioned above. Poor Tammany Day can’t stand to have the Communist Party ac- cuse the few Lovestoneites who were leaders in the Needle Trades of collaborating with the Tammany people even before they were thrown out of the Party. The Tammany Day can’t bear that the Communist press stated that its present colleagues at the time of their leader- ship in the needle trades even tried to win the favor of the chief of the Industrial Squad. The poor Tammany Day simply can’t bear it that the Communist Party has a rule that no errors and no criminal actions, no matter by whom, shall be hidden from the working masses but, on the contrary, shall be explained to them. But we do not ask for mercy from Tammany and we do not want to polemize with the Tammany people and their new comrades. But we do want merely to raise a few questions: Why has the present attack in the Tammany Day been started | just after the Needle Trades Industrial Union began its present cam- paign for new members? What do the Tammany Day and the Love- stoneites hope to achieve by this now? We don’t put this question to the Tammany people, because we don’t expect an answer from them and from the Lovestoneites. But an answer should come from the needle workers! It is of the workers that we ask the question in order that they | shall understand that the present united attack of the Tammany Day | and a few Lovestoneites is no accident. It is an act which has a defi- nite aim. It is an act which aims to disrupt the present campaign for new members, just as Schlesinger’s last fake strike in the dress trades aimed to disrupt the campaign of the industrial union for a dress- makers’ struggle for rea) union conditions. It is an act which shows that there is now no difference between Tammany Wall, the Schles- ingers, the Hillmans, and the Lovestoneites. They are working in unison and they all aim in the same direction. Needle workers! Be on guard! Give the proper reply to all your enemies! Hillman and Woll HE ninth annual convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers reveals that organization before the world as the blood- brothers of the fascist International Ladies’ Garment Workers, and the American Federation of Labor. Hillman is exactly the same as Sigman and Matthew Woll, in every important point of policy. “The union policy is to assist manufacturers,” was the summing up of the Hillman policy given in Toronto. When the bosses want more profits “they do not call in efficiency experts, they call in the union.” Such are the boasts of Hillman. Workers in the men’s clothing industry, who are suffering from an especially intensified speed-up, wage cuts, piece-work, and a mul- titude of evils, are realizing more and more that their worsening of conditions arises directly out of the policy of the union. Only through a militant, fighting program, and an organization of the entire needle industry into one industrial union, as represented in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, can substantial improvement be achieved for the men’s clothing workers. The organization of all left wing ele- ments in the A. C. W. and throughout the industry, in the most inti- mate solidarity with the revolutionary trade union movement, the Trade Union Unity League and the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, is the only path to real struggle against the exploiters. 'Turn in Credentials for Nominating Meet All credentials and fare for delegates ($10 per delegate) to the State Nominating Convention in Schenectady, May 25, must be turned in at once to the Campaign Committee, Communist Party, 26 Union Square, Room 202. Travel- ing reservations must be made. —— Today in History of the Workers May 19, 1849—“Rheinische Zei- tung,” edited by Marx, sup- pressed. 1920—Ten killed, many wounded, in attack by Baldwin- Felts thugs on coal mine strikers’ homes at Matewan, W. Va. 1925 —French Communist Party led attack against government's war on Morecean tribesmen. 1927— New York plumbers won wage increase to $14 a day after six- week lock-out. 1928—Hundred and ninety-eight miners killed by toal gas explosion at Mather, Pa, YOUTH FRACTION TUESDAY. A very important meeting of all Teag' members employed in the textile industry will be held Tues- ‘day at 8:30 p.m. ab 26 Union Sq. TEXTILE day by Lhe Comprodaily "GONVENTION i AMALGAMATED 18 scsi». ALL FOR BOSSES =~ Like a Combination of y 18.—Fifty- | repres act several its Over ent situation in the speed-up and wage tionali om, In the whole | ihousaid work auto | p |women, Negro and young worker: ; gathered here today to lay the base | rs from basic ants in several cities, including NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY. I B5 Delegates ram ae ge ee Meet in Detroit, Create Auto Union League and national secretary metai workers’ industrial league. | rd reported on the pres- industry the work- 9; 1930 MARINE OR CONVEN TION Needle Tr: nue SUBSCRIPTION RATES New York City Uae 6 Members P Vote to Spread ; Coming Sinike * there $5 and Bronx, and foreign countries, HN uit , f a of industry, on the cutting and ra- unprecedented for nd constructive action, nip of New York Typo a meet enlightened the memb Sen 5 for an auto ers’ industrial ers are showing a determination to : graphical Union, No, 6, voted for Fascist Council and union, to ES aioe of eee fight and grganize a real militant] Delegates Mai the extension ‘of possible strike ac- | "| Workers’ industrial union to becre-|ynion under the leadership of the tion to Chicago and Boston, and \Chamber of Commerce ated as soon as possible. ith ey es Schenectady took other important action’ indi- | — The first session opened yester-| The second session, today, was ing the arousing of the rank and Bosses Greet Fakers| av afternoon, with a report by at the time of writing, continuing |G. E, City Has G le. : \General Secretary Philip Raymond |the discussion of the report on con- | ase [ea lution was adopted point : -4,_|and another by Andrew Overgaard, | ditions in the shops of the indus-|.,, ae ie pril 20. meet- Plot to Spread Philly representing the ‘Trade Union Unity ‘try. Workers Will Meet in ke action to win Betrayal Elsewhere Defiance of Edict ay week, showing that the = were refusing even TORONTO, Canada, May 18.— WHALEN 0-U-T NEW DRIVE T0 The y the demand, and that the |The convention of the Amalgamated Union he five week could be won |Clothing Workers’ Union has been | State also that the negot meeting here in an orgy of class F BLE Schenectad ms in Chicago and Boston. hac collaboration, The keynote of the andidates ‘ reached a similar impasse. ‘convention was sounded by Rosen- |blum, who said: mu ied. Demand Action. to all . it therefore resolved,” say | gilt is one of the outstanding. se Successor’s Clubs To Detroit Forced Labor ede tras ne to onde lution, “that this union de- ‘complishments of the Amalgamated £u8 gates to the convention was en-| mands immediate action from the |that when improvements are nevied| Be Just. As Hard Fought by Councils dorsed ab a meeting of the coun: tive couneil upon its reques in factory production systems the} ee held on Thursda: ay 16, for strike sanction, and that a co taplevess cou ree reall ia efficiency | _A8 foretold in Saturday’s Daily] The National Bureau of the workers enthw ia ike san Sepa cera tea ee experts. They call in the union. | r, Police Commissioner Wha- | Trade Union y League and the representative « (Criiniied on Page Duo) about to rid the city of, one nee, to wit, himself. This was certified by v aisha unio» principles has ever been mace, lowing his inte with not even by William Green or Mat-| Cabaret Jimmy, who after a hot thew Woll. It gives a good descrip- | half-hour of laying down Tammany tion of the A. C, W. today. It is|law to the Wanamaker window |They trust in our knowledge, our experience and our good faith.” | No clearer statement of company called away from personal af; are summoned to be on hand to listen | to Bs ene farewell many politi he comm go to Richard C. Patterson, Jr., |has already got both front feet injemployed Counc’. | the trough by being head of the)and T.U.U.L. Department of Correction. WAR HEAD FIGHTS FILIPINO MASSES | Voides Hoover in “No Independence Letter” WASHINGTON, May 18.-—Noted | as expressing the “views of the ad- ministraticn,” a letter of Secretary of War Hurley to Chairman Bing- ;ham of the senate committee on ter- lritories concerning the fake “Philip- |pine independence” resolutions be- fore the committee, gives not only \the opinion of the war department, i but puts a final double-cross on} the pretended solicitude for Philip- (pine independence which was part DEVELOPE FIGHT of the “opposition” ammunition dur- ing the fight over the tariff. Gandhi's a Fake Cam- Hurley—which is to s: —flatly states that the F paign Vanishing ‘are not fitted “yet” for self-govern- |ment. He abject to any “period of |years” being set after which inde- pendence must be granted. That is, independence shall not York City. The statement demanding it, and a reserve corps officer, his will-|tour. Tallentire’s |jngness to use the police to combat the working class and espeeially the | unemployed council, | Communists can be understood in | advance to amount to an anxiety to! | please the capitalist class—which is | the real boss of the city government. (Continued on Reports leaking Tat through the | heavy censorship in India, even in capitalist press dispatches, show a heavy swing to the left in the anti- imperialist movement there. Gandhi dien (The Canadian about to do what he did once be- good ground to believe that econo- | mic reasons alone are sufficient to) negative” any suggestion of imme- diate and complete independence. Furthermore, Hurley, speaking for Hoover, undoubtedly, states that at no time and no place, has the United States ever made any “com- mitment as regards lutimate inde- pendence.” |the British police and soldiery. The special correspondent of the New York Times puts it bluntly: “The influence of the little man the |sitting in the Yerovda jail undoubt- | Canada jedly lingers on. | fought the police jaround Place Viger. into the his campaign of civil disobedience, (Continued on Page Three} Fight for Work We are not gaining eae shat Our financial situation does not improve fast enough. Each day we face difficulties «in getting Phe Daily Worker to press, in sending it to you. This means that the comrades are not yet in action. We issued our heavy indebtedness, it cost us $3,600 to print the Daily Worker for this last week. Our income for this last week was only $1,700. Out of this $1,700, a total of about $700 came in donations in answer to our emergency call. One week ago we raised the danger signal. You have answered with $700, about $100 a day. This can not go on. The Daily Worker will not go on if this continues. When we said that the Daily Worker is in danger, we meant it. If you want to have a Daily Worker, you must: mean it, you must act, Today we want to address ourselves to the workers in mines, mills and shops, who read the Daily Worker. Only about one-third of our readers are mail subscribers. Two-thirds of our readers buy the Daily Worker at factory gates, on the streets, at news-stands. You workers, who Luy the Daily Worker every day, you must algo come to our aid. Bureau of the Nationa! Unemployed | mittee. Council have appvinted George S kind as acting secretary of the N tional Unemploye4 Council. in place poard of directors to send dc of Comrade Devine, who has been|to the nominating convention. the country irs and will be absent | the secretary at 2 W. 15th St., New says: sionership is expected to| represents the National Bureau of who | the T.U.U.L. and the National Un-| local Since | secretaries are requested to give! ] Patterson is a World War veteran|him the fullest cooperation in his utilized to activise and broaden, the! revolutionary unions in every city. “In view of the growth of unem- ployment in every industrial center, FRENCH ISSUE OF CANADIAN TOILER Heralds Rising Revolt of Montreal Workers The Daily Worker greets the aire jissue, May 15, of L’Ouvrier Cana- a-month Communist Party even be talked about for many : published in French, at 62 Rachel) struggle under leadership demands of the Trade Union Unity years; and, after that, well, Amer-| Sits in| his palatial sanitarium Est, Montreal, Quebec province, I. L. D. for the first time at this Teaoue barbers’ section, which is is ican imperialism can still claim that | “Prison,” and rumors that he is! a. janer js rather pleasing in| conference, [apericers turned out in force and} criminal syndicalism and ‘entrance on a strong, wide ba: French-speaking . But the real in- jaway from the deadening influence | direct the struggle. ‘terest of the day has turned from | of the Catholic church unions. Move Action, tiie Loyalty, ass: Funds Necessary mn Keep “Daily” sets who will send in campaign T.WUL, BARBERS FOR REAL STRIKE The Bronx Work a-'dorsed the call and instru by | Defy Gag Edict. * * a speed-up machine for the bosses.|dymmy for getting ambitions for | for several months. Norman Tal-| cowpnNECTADY, N.Y. 1 United With Bosses governorship not in Tammany’s pro- | Ientire is appointed national organ- ‘The commissioner ot public safety _| gram, rubbed a little salt in the |izer. caniaeent refused to grant aly “8 ‘ The convention of bosses’ agents | wounds about getting caught in com-| In a statement issued yesterday! oi it to the Comm «. Tartemella and Co. Call hailed as its greatest achievement | nicity with forgers of the fake,by the bureaus,’ all unemployed |}o14 open-air me elas = since! the last convention’ the: en) Gomintern letters.” council secretaries and T.U.U.L. dis- | R04 open-air mec he 0) Fake Stoppage Today jtranc2 of the A. C. W. into the) ‘The resignation of this buffon is trict and local secretaries are in| ci8 CGontticed. BA Bade Three) | | (Continued on Page Three) anticipated to be handed in on Tues-|structed to send all reports and Haat : The tactic of the fake strike, for | Span caste a | day, to take effect on W ednesday. communications, and to take all the pu se of organizing the bosses when all the chief officers of police |directions and instructions from and establishing a more comple company union in the industry is being adopted by the officialdom of the Journeymen Barbers Interna- tional Union, whose New York joint rd, instigated by John Tarta mel international representativ: calls such a strike to start this morn- NEW GROUPS 70 FIGHT LYNSHING 51 Delegates the Defense Conference “Tallentire | All unemployed | and district | | Members See Trick. The history of the stoppage is as fartamella and the >oard, tour must be and build the} Militant struggle lynch-' headed by Abraham Greenwald, pro-| ing, carried on by a broad united’ posed at a meeting held May 15 in| front of workers’ organizations @jinton Hall to call such a strike. under the leadership of the Inter- The members, although ready for Page Two) |national Labor Defense, and ceas real struggle, saw the false natu }less struggle against the bosses’ of the move, and voted against it. | and their government’s campaign artamella and the board then call. | against the foreign born workers, oq the “strike” anyway. The bosses were the high points of the I. L. D./ are eo-operating and will do as th d conference yeste at needle bosses did, lock out th Irving Plaza Hall. workers. They want a solid bosses’ Delegates numbering 151, from organization and to build their Mas- many workers’ fraternal organiza-|ter Basbers Association will give| |tions, shop committees, union loc ete, met, and heard reports from Beatrice Siskind, local secretary, Alexander, national Negro director of the I. L. I Louis EngJahl, national secretary, and other Among the delegates were sentatives of the America Labor Congress, and ten Negro frd paper, | ternal organizations which join the of the Tartemella the post of their chief agent in the company unionized Lo- cal 75 The only demand made by the Tartemella clique, outside of a for- mal “organize the unorganized” ges- ture, is for the nine o’clock closing rule. Worker), twi For a Real Strike. The barbers wish to fight for the suing a leaflet calling on all barbers the Filipinos are still “not fit” for : Moikaraiice “With a eartoent Hohe Elect Committee: Be GAtroWae ee RHEE EA }go on fot centuries, the game of de-|aetivities becuse wnlence has erent Unemployment and Low Wares,’ ” the lynching wave, unpre ted in| 52-hour week, dive-day week, $40 ception and hypocrisy. Only the |i? (06 eee who are already, | For the Defense of Soviet Russia,” ) horror and violence since the indus-/ minimum weekly wage, against ¢lass Filipino mass revolt may interfere [tte the masses, who are already. | 41 tn6 front page. ‘The leading ar-|trial crisis has set in, the Powers collaboration, against expulsions of with this imperialist ambition. even in demenstrations called by the |ticle tells of the first of May in and C ous arrests | militants and for reinstatement of | Anyhow, says Hurley: “There is she to submit tamely to ‘attack from | Montreal, where French-Canadian | of demonstrators, the revival of those already expelled, and for rank criminal | and file leadership. The T.U.U.L. calls on all barbers who attend the meeting called for the Rand School this morning by the renegade anarchist Tartamella to expose the clique which now runs and to seize leadership strike and conduct it to win the demands put forward by the in the streets;anarchy law persecution, ete. It heralds the} The conference, after full discus- is of | sion from the floor, elected a com- in| mittee of 25 m ten shops and from ¢ ganizations, to selected erent workers class struggle, Telegrams and resolutions of greeting and pledges of support or Wages! (Continued on Page Two) The Last Week and the Next 10 Days Going The Daily Worker fights your battles. support it financially. You must where in this issue. This is your paper. You must the coniribution list printed else- use read ngle Party n We sent campaign fists to all o Campaign lists shoule by now be in the hands of every si mber. Who will be the first comrade to send in his campaign list, filled with ten new subscribers filled with donations from workers, filled with a donation from an organ- ization? Who will be the first one hundred workers, one thousand work- lists completely filled? Each day last week the Daily Worker printed an average of forty proletarian news stories and articles, 240 for the week. Into China, India. into the Soviet Union, into European countries. inte the shops, mines and mills in this country—everywhere where toiling masses are fighting and organizing, the Daily Worker took you, informed you, increased your worth to our movement, : If you want the Daily Worker to keep going and growing, if you really want the Daily Worker, then you must help us raise the $25,000 Emergency Fund, Into action, comrar + Sia year everywhere excepting Manbat | | | | FINAL CITY EDITION PAT 5 AVI ET French Imperialism in ney Plan to Gain Lead in War Campaign ‘A or Crises’ Mussolini Upse the “Unity” Apple-Cart aimed from We ashingt once pu France t tion wa St Cy his plan place tic foremost, pr ‘$s messag tem of constant solidarity” between the European capitalist governments | for settlement ms of com mon interest,” a ral union” of n the face of the dange threatens European peac from political, economic ocial of general of the n in the viewpoints be lack of coordin | economy of t a very ce me ning the to all who a tons, that the was pointing ou economy of the iet Union suc cessfylly ted to the ¢ ropean capitalism, greatest factor in mentioned “lack of co: ! ordination in zeneral economy of the Contine Briand clear] e social ist economy and the po rule of the workers e Soviet Union jas “the ch threatens” dan, capita de ou: effic goes on to ribe it ot juridicial i Preludes to Niecara Return 1a tate that Thus N raguan dispate Sandino, truggle in Nicar American armed ce’ he went a year of altogeth ained silence and inactivity, in Nicaragua again, hav robably crossed the Honduran fr Y { On last Wednesday the Associ- Jated Press carried the Sandino had arvived in dor on his way back tc hay terview in dor y Latir etary rian, be: with Marti’ dino Communists, in form harge of Marti, appears as a pro Hogue to the equanimity with whiel his entrance into Nicaragua is ob served by the U. S. Marines,