The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1930, Page 1

— The New York Unemployed Delegation, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, Is Still in Jail. Uneniployment Continues to Increase. , Workers! Fight for the Release of the Unemployed Delegation! It Is Part of Your Fight Against Enforced Starvation! 1 26 Vol. VI, No. 375 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Union Square, New Daily Se o7 iis ie ta —@&= Worker — Unteree as second-class matter af the Vost Office’at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef March 3, 1879, ork City, N. ¥ Vandervelde HE “New Leader,” organ of the Socialist Party of Thomas, O’Neal and Hillquit, in its issue of May 17th, displays an article by Emil Vandervelde, one of the most prominent leaders of the Second Interna- tional and a pal of the King of Belgium. The article is entitled “The Balance-Sheet of Socialism,” and yields, upon a little examination of its pretentious phrases, a picture of the face of social-fascism that is all the more illuminating as coming from Vandervelde himself. Expressing “grave apprehensions” for the future of capitalism, Vandervelde defines ‘the role of the Socialist parties as follows: “In almost all the countries of Europe since the war the Labor and Socialist parties—above all when they are in power— must carry on a policy of conservation and the bourgeois parties a policy of reform.” Here speaks the supreme wisdom of the Second International: Its function—“especially when in power”—is the conservation of the capi- talist. system, even leaving to bourgeois parties the role of reformism. Here speaks the fascist behind the “socialist” mask! Vandervelde openly proclaims anew the theory of coalition with the bourgeoisie. With cynical openness he declares: “The leader of the German Populists said two months ago that it is no longer possible to govern against and even without social-democracy. He was certainly right, and it seems that events must soon prove this. But let us not hide the fact that the converse is no less true.” In brief, while boasting that the capitalist class must call upon the Socialist Parties of the Second International, to bolster up its shaking rule, Vandervelde warns these Socialists never to forget that they can rule only with the support of the capitalists, that is, as agents of capitalism. Vandervelde is openly preparing the Socialist parties for their role in the coming imperialist war. He openly says that the “last war is not behind but before us”; in each country he predicates future Socialist administrations upon a union with capitalist parties; in short, the future of the Second International is that of furnishing imperialism with its “popular” face in conducting the coming war, and “conserv- ing” capitalism from the attacks of the working class. At the moment when Vandervelde’s colleague, MacDonald, at the head of the British government, is massacring Indians by the thou- sands, and throwing into jail all mass leaders whom it does not kill, in frantic efforts to strangle the revolution in India, Vandervelde cyni- cally and contemptuously refers to the “colored peoples” as “imma- TWO NEGROES IN TENN, TEXAS Hunting A Third Who | Wounded Railway | Cop in Defense Burn Body in Orgy Worker Defended Self Until Riddled | OAKDALE, Tenn. May |Herbert Robertson, a Negro w |was shot dead in the railroad y: Jhere last week by J. B. Moore, a |special officer. Moore and a large! \lynch gang were hunting for an-| lother Negro whose name is known Jto the police only as “Mobile.” The | latter had been assaulted by a rail- road policeman here, W Brown, and in the fight had wrested away Brown’s gun and seriously wounded | him. Moore and his fellows, following the tradition of the Southern ruling class in such circumstances, were out to kill enough Negroes to pre- serve the white terror, and Robert- }xon happened to be the most con-| |venient. Nothing is done to the} | murderous policeman, who makes the formal plea that his victim |“acted suspiciously” and he “shot Jin self-defense.” Lynchers continue \to scour the woods for “Mobile” and {at last accounts they though they had him surrounded on Whetstone more malice YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 2 0, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RAT NEW | Social-Fascism Speaks Thru LYNCHERS KILL | Newark Judge Immediately Shows Sedition Case Is To Be Railroaded NEWARK, N. J., May 19.—The;demanded that Prosecutor Simon first step toward railroading nine | Fisch furnish them with the answer workers to prison for long terms |to 12 questions not adequately cov- took place today, when Judge Van ered in the indictment. Judge Van Riper in the Quarters Session Court | Riper ruled ‘against the motion of ruled against postponement of the|the defense on 11 questions and trial and the demand of the Inter-|after much debate instructed the national Labor Defense attorneys, |prosecutor to answer the other Leon Josephson and Abraham Is- | question. serman, for further specific details Negro Workers Attend. on which the indictments of sedition] When the case was called this are based. morning in the Hall of Records The actual trial will start tontor=| buildings on High St. the small court row. Today the (Continued on Page Three) New Auto Union Adopts Constitution; Elects Sends Delegate to Red International; Demands Release of N. Y. Delegation; Ready to Grow DETROIT, Mich., May 19.—The Sunday morning session of the na- tional convention to organize a na- tional auto workers union, part of the coming Metal Workers Indus- trial Union carried on the discus- sion on the reports rendered Satur- day by officers of the Trade Union Unity League, the metal league and of the auto workers. Negro workers, women and young workers participated, and told of | the speed-up system, and the wage cuts taking place in the auto i | dustry. They told of the militancy | of the workers and their determina- tion to fight these cuts and speed | up systems. All repudiated the re- defense lawyers! Morgan’s Man , Morrow ENTIRE INDO- CHINA SEETHING WITH REBELLION 1,500 Coolies Carrying Red Flag Surround Im- perialist Official | French Bosses Alarmed | |Revolt Spreads and 'Grows Despite Terror A Paris dispatch to the Chicago Tribune reports that on May “1,500 coolies carrying red flags of the province of Sedac while he was making an inspection tour of |the village of Tan Douna.” Troops jwere rushed from Seigon and many arrests were made. This important event gives furthe: evidence of the great headway which the revolu- tionary movement against French imperialism has made in Indo- China. According to L’Humanite, the of- ficial organ of the Communist |Party of France, revolt is envelop- Jing the whole of Indo-China, espe- as Anram and Tongking. The \textile workers in Cochin-China are |Railway workers and coolies on {many plantations are striking. The red flag of revolt is being waved jand the “Internationale” sung in |many places throughout Indo- ‘China. 17] |surrounded the administrative chief | |reported to be particularly militant. | Bm year everywhere excepting Ma and Bronx, New York City and foreign countries, there $5 a year t | “Butcher” Machado | The errand boy of Yankee im- perialism in Cuba, whose soldiers shot down two workers on May Day without the capitalist press saying much about it. But now | they shot into a crowd of the bourgeois opposition “National- ,” there’s a stir. It seems that imperialism is getting ready to change errand boys and the “Na- | tionalists” are being made ready | | | 8 to take Machado’s place as fas- cist murderers of the workers. PEASANT REVOLT IN SOUTH. ITALY ‘Armed Fascists Kill 3} | Berlin Workers | (Wireless By Inprecorr.) | PARIS, May 19.—L’Humanite re- | | present to demonstrate that FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Ce nhattan nts 4 DEAD IN CLASH WITH CUBAN ARMY \Crisis Leading to A Mass Revolt of the Starving Workers Fake Nationalists! Oppose Machado But Aid Imperialism BUL TIN. Late hour repor from Cuba stated that six were killed, three of them soldiers, in the clash at Artemisa. “Butcher” Machado | says he deplores the event, espe- cially because today is “Indepen- dence Day,” with Yankee officials the “independence” is a sham. reports from clash between Capitalist pr Cuba tell of a blo the troops of st dictator Machado, and a crowd of the bour- geois opposition party known as the “Nationalists” at Artemisa, near Havana, four being killed and 20 wounded, among the dead being an army lieutenant and a captain. One account states that at a “Na- cionalista” meeting addressed by Colonel Carlos Mi eta (who once was a bosom friend of Machado), the troops under Lieutenant Alber® Silva “warned Mendieta not to men- ture” and incapable of self-government. “The struggle of the ‘color counters and will encounter for ’ their political immaturity, all t themselves rather than from the’ He says: | Mountain. but, with | (Continued on Page Three) ed peoples’ for liberation en- a long time to come, because of he obstacles which come from ir masters.” This perfect apology for imperialism, this theoretical justifica- tion of mass-murder of the colonial peoples, is put forth in the name of “socialism”! It is printed with full approval by the official organ of the American Socialist Party. It sets down the line which has been and will be followed by the leaders of the Second International in the United States as throughout the world. “Socialist” in name but fascigt in action—that is the true charac- ter of the socialist parties of the Second International. That is why the Communist International characterizes these vermin, these belly- crawling servants of imperialism, as social-fascists. It is a correct description. United States of Europe HE French government thought it necessary to send a special com- munication to Washington to reassure the United States that Briand’s proposal for a “United States of Europe” was not directed against American imperialism. Up to date we have not heard of any similar ‘communication being sent to the Soviet Union. These two facts sufficiently characterize this latest step in the diplomacy of im- perialism. To the extent that Briand’s scheme has actuality, it ig in the field of building up the anti-Soviet front, and to a lesser degree in the struggle of European capitalist powers to escape the growing threat of U. S. imperialism. Already the effect of the world economic crisis has enormously sharpened the antagonisms of the imperialist world. The Briand scheme is only another move in the play for position in the onrushing world war, The London Conference, everywhere recognized now as a prelude to war rather than a move towards peace, was another of the same sort. And just as in London the most serious business actually trans- acted behind the scenes was the launching of a world campaign of calumny against the Soviet Union, so behind the facade of the “United States of Europe” the really serious business is the settlement among jealous powers of prices and terms of payment for the assault against NOTICE TO ALL ~ NY.DELEGATES Arrange Schenectady Trip by Thursday | All organizations which have elected delegates to the State Nom- | inating Convention of the Commu- | nist Party that will be held in| Schenectady on Sunday, May 25, are | notified that in order to make proper and timely arrangements credentials should be brought in or mailed to ‘the Campaign Committee, 26 Union [Square, by Thursday, May 22, at |noon, accompanied by $10 for the |fare and expenses of cach delegate | sent. Without this timely arrangement lit may be difficult to secure space on the steamer which will take the New York City delegation to Schen- ectady. All delegates are notified to see that the above requirements | jare carried out and to be at the pier of the Hudson River Night |Line, North River and Canal at {5 p. m. sharp on Saturday. The {boat leaves Saturday evening and sleeping accommodations in- jcluded in the fare for that night |well as for Sunday night on the r turn trip, the boat arriving in New are s | Bahnson of ‘ the Workers’ Government. The whole capitalist world is trembling from the blows no’ tering its temporary “stabilization. to the revolt of millions of colonial the workers in all countries, hastens the maturing of the revolutionary Capitalism intensifies its bioody repression, mobilizes its “so- crisis. cialist” servants, and rushes from pone the inevitable crash. of history. of the workers. forces, the bourgeois utopia of a “ formed into a mere tricky maneuver among the imperialists, and at the same time another threat against the Soviet Union. HYMAN BLASTS LIE IN “DAY” JewishTammany Paper Faked Whole Thing L. Hymen, president of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, yesterday declared that the reports were false, and invented for the special purpose of attacking the Union. Hymen announces that he is writing in detail on all the issues before the union. His statement in full follows: “In the so-called. report which the Tammany Day published Satur- day, May 17, I was ‘featured’ quite big. The report was given a big headline on the first page, with sub- heads and even a ‘picture’ of me. The Day gave me the same ‘publi- city’ which it gives whole-heartedly to its Tammany politicians. “What have I done to make me so great and important to the ‘Day’? “I delivered a:speech at a meet- War and Revolution are the dominant notes in the present chorus War is the path of the capitalist class, In the pitiless struggle between these conflicting class in the Jewish Tammany newspaper, the Day, pretending to quote him,. {York City arly Monday morning. shat- added | ties of Forward to Mass Conference ” The world economic eri peoples, and the rising ac’ July 4th. i one expedient to another to post- revolution that “United States of Europe” is trans- ying of the shop delegate council of our union, He's running for Senator in New Jersey, but what he’s aiming at is the Presidency in 1932. Noted as the imperialist lion tamer of Latin capitalist politicians, he is responsible for the shooting and tortures of workers and peasants of Mexico, .Mexicanizing New Jersey, his followers in Jersey | have nine Communist workers jail- ed and facing 15 years each for “sedition,” including D. W. Gra- ham, a Negro worker who is Com- munist candidate against Morrow for the U. S. Senate. Morrow is trying to sidetrack all issues into “wet or dry”—but the Communists insist that “Work Wages” is more important. or SAYS N. C. GODLY PURE STATE. } CONCORD, N. C.—Commander | e local Knights Tem- plar in an attack on the Commu- nists before the assembled knights (read businessmen and shopkeepers) said: “I want North Carolina to hold its place as a puyely Ameri- | can, godly state,” meaning starva- | wer! |actionary leadership of the Amer- (Continued on Page Three) The alarm of the French imper- | ports an anti-fascist peasant revolt jalists at the revolt of one of its|at Martinafranca, in Southern Italy. | Armed with scythes and pitchforks, flected in the fascist newspaper, La|the peasants stormed public build- Liberte. In a trembling tone, ings, burned down the local fascist most important colonies is best re- INITIATE NEW NTWIU MEMBERS Shop Meeting's Elect to Union Convention A fine meeting of workers on streets above 25th took place yes- terday in the headquarters of the Needle Trades. Workers Industrial Union, at. which organization was perfected for active competition in building the union. Tonight, right after work, in the union headquar- ters, 181 West 28th, St., workers in shops on 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20 and streéts farther down town will meet for the same purpose. Initiate “First Group. { The first group of workers taken in during the present drive were} initiated into the union yesterday,¢ after an address by union organizers | who told them of the glorious history | of the militant needle workers in| New York, and urged them t6 not be mere card members but to carry | on the struggle. Shop meetings started last night to elect delegates to the N.T.W.1.U national convention, June 6-7 and 8 in New York. Liberte says that «“the situation is | offices, tax offices, ete, and over- too grave for Premier Andre Tar-|Whelmed the police. Marines and dieu not to give its his entire at-| military suppressed the revolt, kill- tention.” ing seventy and wounding hundreds. White terror is one of the wea-| The fascist authoritfes admit the re- }pons that the French imperialists | volt,- but seek to minimize its im- (Continued on Page Three) foe ais * . | Armed Fascists Kill Berlin Workers. | WITH POLICE he fascists organized a series of | (Indians Under Martial ‘Law Publicly Flogged attacks. Two workers were shot dead in the northwest of Berlin and lone was stabbed to death in |Schoeneberg. A number of workers were injured. The police arrived too | late everywhere. Even a section of | the bourgeois press admits the mur- | | derous attacks of the fascists against unarmed workers, The Reichstag deprived the Com- imunist deputies Schneller and BULLETIN. | Capitalist sources report two more bombs thrown at British po- tion the name of Julio Mella,” a Cuban Communist who was killed in Mexico in 1929 by Machado age: | Mendieta is a bourgeois and no | friend of Communism, being inter- ested only in getting into Machado’s place, but another report states that “a speaker mentioned the name of Mella,” whereupon Lieutenant Silva tried to arrest the speaker and a fight began. Since the “National- ists” are intriguing for aid from Washington to get American help in replacing Machado’s rule by their own, it is obvious that if “National- ist speakers are toying demagogical- ly with the names of Communist martyrs they do so because of the (Continued on Page Three) POLICE RALLY TC WEISBORD'S AID lice, one at Multan, which injured a police superintendent and eight constables, and one at Wadala, casualties censored. A large party of Sikhs, marching on Lahore, was attacked by police at Jhalum, with results not.permitted to pass censorship. At Kala, near Simla, police fired a volley into a crowd seeking to prevent the arrest of their leaders. . . * MADRAS, India, May 19.—De- |Blenke of parliamentary immunity Jat the demand of the socialists. c 8. & Kill 18 Communists in Mukden. (Wireless by Inprecorr) TOKIO, May munists, including Yukungtchao of Decan University. Eighteen were executed. * Palestine Political Prisoners Hunger Strike. 19.—Mukden au-| thorities arrested a number of Com- | Torneo. \spite the strictest censorship, gov- DROP IN GERMAN STEEL {ernment sources admit that an at-| JERUSALEM, May 19.—Thirty- OUTPUT. | tempt to break up a prohibited mass | nine political prisoners are on a BERLIN.—April production of | meeting here of anti-imperialists re- hunger strike in the central prison, steel ingots in Germany amounted/sulted in resistance from the,demanding political treatment. A Against Unemployment, Chicago | tion wages and pellegra for the mill |to 1,033,000 tons, against 1,201,000! masses, with shots fired and handj|telegram has been dispatched to | in March, i (Continued on Page Two) ' MacDonald. We Must Have Action in Every City Detroit and New York Point the Way---What They Have Done You Can Do to Help the ‘Daily’ “I have delivered dozens of | speeches since my return from the | Soviet Union. But though I am | such an important personality to the Day and my speeches have such great significance, nevertheless, the | Day did not consider it necessary | to repeat a single word of what I said about the Soviet Union. It is ‘clear, therefore, that the ‘impar- tial’ Day is not playing an ‘impar- | tial’ role in this matter. The ‘spe- cial report’ of the ‘special corres- pondent’ Slonem is distinguished by | the fact that Slonem was not pres- ent at the meeting and got his in- |formation—the devil knows where. The whole report has one special purpose—to attack our industrial union, For this end, they distorted what I said, and attributed things to me which I had never stated. I | shall write in detail about this whole | matter in a special article which I | shall send later.” ’ (Signed) L. HYMEN, in the United States. |COPPER PRODUCTION SLUMPS, WASHINGTON, — Monthly cop- per production for the world, which jin 1929 averaged 178,034 tons, dropped to an average of 146,441 tons in March and April, 1930, Will any comrade dare to y that only in New York and Detroit workers’ organizations and masses of workers will respond to the Daily Worker call for financial assistance in this emergency? Are only New York and Detroit workers conscious of a developing world revolutionary situation? To hold this would mean to be crazy with exceptionalism. What New York and Detroit comrades have done can be done in every city where the Party members will take leadership, go to the work- ers, ask their help and support. Then we came face to face with a crisis in the Daily Worker. The Detroit comrades telegraphed us immediately that they would send $500 in the course of three days, and $400 has already been received. The De- troit comrades immediately programmed their campaign for funds for our paper, immediately decided to mobilize for mass collections, tag days. New York rushed into a mobilization for a mass collection, re- cruited Party members, workers’ organizations, workers from the shops, and altho we do not at this time know how much was collected, we do know that the tag days were successful, that the workers approached for * contributions responded enthusiastically. Collectors report that in many instances workers who contributed demanded to subscribe for the Daily Worker at the same time. A New York Party unit called a gathering at the home of a mem- ber in the Bronx. Shop workers were invited. Twelve non-Party workers from the shop came. Thirty-five dollars was collected for the Daily Work- er. When other workers in the shop heard about the affair the next day, more dollars ‘were collected from those who did not attend, The Detroit comrades have to their credit the distribution and sale of 100,000 copies of the Daily Worker for May Day mobilization. One-fourth of all May Day Daily Workers printed were distributed in Detroit, another fourth in New York, and the other half in the rest of the United States. Not a very good showing for the rest of the comrades The comrades on the staff of our Russian paper, Novy Mir, just contributed $20 and they seldom know where their next meal is coming from. A collection of $110 taken at Camp Nitgedaiget by the Party unit just arrived. Comrades from our revolutionai, :)-ades union went into a shop controlled by the reactionary needle trades company union and collected $14. A worker, I. Paska, just called and gave a day’s wages, $5. All of this means that the workers will give to keep the Daily Worker going if the Party members will organize their forces and rush into the field for contributions, Workers and workers’ organizations earnestly desire to keep the Daily Worker alive and in fighting trim. We can raise the $25,000 Emergency Fund. Every city, in proportion, can do as well as New York and Detroit. Into action! You know what is needed, what needs Concrete achieversents count! THE DAILY WORKER. to be done, |Memorial of Haywood Success May 19, |—The Hay 1 meetings here were a big success, textile work- ers, some of them men and women | who had followed the leadership of “Big Bill” Haywood in the famous Lawrence strike, rallied to carry on the work of organizing the textile mills, and to protest the death ploc on Powers and Carr in Atlanta. The hall was full and workers |waited from 2 p. m. until 6 p.m |for the speakers, who were being arrested by police who co-operated | with Weisbord, Keller and Ruben- | stein in the attempt to hold a counter meeting in another hall. | The Lovestoneites usurped the name of the National Textile work- ers Union to draw workers into their meeting, but when it started, there were present only 20 anar- chists, twelve detectives and three patrolmen, outside of a few workers who came there to protest against the misrepresentations of the Na- poleonic Weisbord. The police arrested these workers as soon as they raised their voices to demand the floor, and Weisbord j; went on to demand a new convention | of the N.T.W., one that would not repudiate him like the big second convention held in Paterson did. Weisbord was just saying he be- | lieved in throwing out of the union leaders who would not fight, when some one sitting in the small audi- jence said clearly, “We did.” | Then William Murdoch, acting or- | ganization secretary of the N.T.W. came in and demanded to know what | was going on. He was arrested at once, and each worker who rose to | ask the floor was also arrested, They !are: Eulalie G. Mendez, local secre- tary of the N.T.W.; J. Rappaport, of the N.T.W.; as and Papas. are held for hearing Wed- 1 Weisbor: Rubenstein have be ummoned by n to testify against them. During the meeting, a worker, Pelser, whose name had been ap- pended tt the Weisbord meeting call jxose and denounced him, and dis- vowed the signature and the whole : Tovestone program. The N.T.W. has issued a state- ment scoring Weisbord’s tactics, and the arrests. The union called a meeting Wednesday,