The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1930, Page 2

rN ® ae IX! 2nd INTERNA NOT ALL OF ON PAN-EUROPEAN IDEA MacDonald “Labor” Cieemacet Turns a Cold Eye on French Imperialist Ambitions the Reactionary Of S23 “Vorwaer Claims German ‘ As “Hereditary Property” Plan jonal and de- n government opportunity” about a soli- the G the Ge reception £1 to form proferred France bring al to the German dvocated ky and Hilferding the mperialism, especially is directed to the ends of Ini But im- the in- look and m, iness riand makes his measure, even government, piously that they brief hout con su pe . feanwhile, was rev Mussolini at Florence. ewing the greatest ry concentration ce the ¢ after war speech rectly and openly chal- ance. “comrade through out idea pro Ci 1a France and Italy Excl nge War Crie er even more ankly. It agreeable to aid a number h we would ard from our th from The battle of words fire a uttering y di an irected Fr wered the fas y some ment head rath ghbor.” an ugly tone. Populd called Mus- ha eady started. These war solini a “little man » can stand on his toes and look bigger and rai ris voice and so ut he They usually precede still ridiculou t of arm Silver Reaches New Lows in China rts from Shanghai state that Chinese silver units ave di ge tional ess. Quotations on Shanghai and Hongkong moved to new | Shanghai lost about 1% cents in about a week. Hongkong taels have declined 1 cent. This means a further raise in the cost of living in China and makes the lives of the teeming millions of toiling masses more wretched and unbearable. A fur- ther intensification of cl country, especially in the bat feni s that are raging throughout the w sill necessarily follow. President Reviews Fleet for Coming War The war display by a part of the American imperialist navy anchored in the very shadow of Wall Street during the last twelve days will be continued off the Virginia coast. President Hoover, who is now relaxing from hig arduous labors, at his Virginia fishing retreat, will review the battle fleet teday. The war preparations of the American imperialists have been speeded-up tremendously since the Naval Con- ference in London, Congo Strike Crushed. | ilps ypean nations” in| ural that any such of West European capi- * actual conditions of the porters, ele- ATTONAL POWERS MEETING ONE MIND IN BIRMINGHAM, Toilers Gather May 22 to Fight Death Plot Ala. | | BIRMINGHAM, May 19. The Communist Part calling a mass protest meeting st the | proposed legal lynching of Powexs and Carr, who go to t lives in Atlanta, May Birmingham meeting, to which all workers are invited, will be| Thursday night, at 1524% Second Ave. | M. H. Powers, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Joe \Carr, district organizer of the Young Communist League, were ar- rested for organizing Negro and white workers together to fight against unemployment, starvation and exploitation. They are c tion” ur Georgia, convicted, the elec HEARST'S CHILD SLAVERY SCORED Striking Workers Hit, His Speedup Scheme | ged with ‘ ‘ingurree- civil war law der a not used since passed. they may be peseee to ie chair. to help the sta Janitors and elevator men and other employes, following the lead | of the Building Maintenance Work- | ers’ Union of the Trade Union Unity | League, continue their strike against the Hea Publications. | Stri are determined to carry on picketing and to force the Hearst | Publications to recognize the union demands, : | The capitalist press has refused to place any news in regard to the strike and they are attempting to kill the strike by not publishing the vator operators and all the building maintenance workers in the build-| ing. The workers are not surprised ‘at this attitude; they know the pol- icy of the capitalist press on any demands of the workers. Capitalist Hypoeri The Hearst Publications, in th papers, the American and the Mir- ror, are trying to represent to the workers that they fight for shorter hours and better wages, while at the | same time they are exploiting their own employes to the limit. They | are even hiring children under age. | There is one instance where a; worker, 13 years of age, in the 220 South St. building, receives only $6 | per week, while they parade in their | press that they are against the ex- ploitation of children. | They placed on the porters and elevator operators the worst speed- | | up that there in existence, a 10- hour shift and lower wages. They ng and firing, and all who were hired had to employment agency the Hearst Publica- kept on hi those men 10 to the in RUSS (IPS).—Accord police action a job a report from Matadi in the Bel aders 0 re a Congo the Negro crew of the p taken on Innd, remaining The work are demanding r steamer “Leopoldville” went on a er: > threate: and intimi-|statement of all those who strike to secure better wages and dated and new hands taken on from thrown out of work, the 8-hour day, | working conditions. The authoritie and the strike crushed. a $3 inerease in wages and no dis- | : charge without the knowledge of| ome sas < the shop committee. Asks Victims to Support Imperialist Policy (“pye trade Union Unity League LYON France, Calling |plans of ‘rench master class. ; called on the soldiers of the last (the Workers who are in this strug ined) on world war veterans to support | He called on the lee of ne eee gle to Krevin-| iter it was in possession of the the imperialist policy of the ies pre ae ia ee Lumpkin. | |demonstrators for several days, ae minus and Ss, which had 3. Magil, Jan} bosses, Pr uina ek aa On age es r r ’ Yorma’ Mil-| flogging of Indian textile workers yesterday before the Natior or rep meee gold for the bo Hold Newark Women’s ro. Prank Mc: | and others is being conducted. Oe ie RAO uaa, ER 2) Ca age 1 . Pe geeans “Joseph North.| Hundreds of arrests are taking cf Com the war | France’s colonies. Council Anniversary OConnor, M. J. Olin, Joxent| place. The troops raid surrounding | Morris Nemo iecoli, age aH otamkin, John Cowper | villages and arrest those they think | c < 4 May 19.—The came Walter oan | Sno z NEWARK, N. J., Mas h a Preval. Wa uprising. socla “F ascist Unity Women’s Council of Newark will poftsenes, Anton, Hefregler. {took part in the recent uprising VIENNA (LP.S.)—The of who fought for the freedom of Sa ee risiiere waitae Sen. AIS ooreet tae 720 eee isepan’ of the Atatvian Go inthia from the Yugoslavian forces |\/*) @ Danan, an) coter, 93 Mex. Si, | BOMBAY, India, May 19—The | Party, the “Rote Fahne,” ef oe ation in 1919. The 1 cesiael Is hn n| Gandhi pevouste ars Ls on in. Reet ini Ca ki ideas of th new organization are Heim- | x i 5 es William § h “prisoner bast : iGeiuen oy wehr officers and commanders of| The Women’s Council decided that n. Otto Sogiow. “A; | ame with the police over the wee s¢ been founded A the social democratic Republican |50 per cent of the proceeds will be | Zolttaratt. | Walter | Snow, maphatl| end, Hundreds gathered to sit | view to assembling all se League. given to help build the circulation sand or mazeard, Bunies wiet,|sPinning yarn just outside the wire | of the Daily Worker to 60, Dee and |r i is, Carlo 'Tresca,, Fim aulty, Lows | fence surrounding ie official sone} \ “6 , ” in this way be able to reach the gxel. Keen piles in the northeastern end o And They Call it Improv ement! women workers who are slaving at |, win. | | Bombay island. When a policeman : Gf ak a ae ; : errible conditions. Adolf Wolff. | w; here, several would That American capitalism is a} Wall Streét’s rule in Cuba, Haiti |*eTible conditios Charles "ah Wasa are oun i, Alar | Would look elsewhe' blessing for all those whom it op- and San Domingo. presses, exploits, murders in cold _ American imperialist interven- blood, deprives of their land and |tion in the Caribbean countries, he drives into slavery at the point of the bayonet is the brazen conten- tion of Francis White, assistant secretary of state, who told the In- stitute of Polity at Richmond, In- diana, Saturdey that the American “people” need not be ashamed of conditia joke app whose condition was recently “im- proved” with the help of machine guns in the hands of Wall Street’s marines, Morrow Again Prais ATLANTIC CITY, May 18.—The ! Rubio regime in Mexico, which vies with the Chinese Chiang Kai-shek Nanking government in its servility to American imperialism. received another very bad reward from Mor- row. Morrow, who was the go-between Rubio Regime In a speech Bankers’ said that more or | to the New Jersey AssOciation last night he after fifteen years is) 8S chaos there is ev evidence “that Mexico is striv' 4 singerely and successfully for reec- ognition among the world powres.” Of course, what Morrow means is who brought the Calles-Rubio group that Mes by the betrayal of the to the services of Wall Street, Rubio renegades, has been brought speaks about the Rubio government “sincerely and successfully” under with the “tenderness” of a foster the iron claws of Wall Street im- father. 1 Lali ne “Go West Young Mein and ie e There, Too!} The wires recorded another victim {fornia. Williams, who was out of of capitalist “prosperity” when |a job, hiked West, but found no Frank Williams, a forty-three-year- |work there either. He was found old unemployed worker from Har- | w vious in a railroad yard at lington, N. J., died of starva Cal., hAving eaten practi- Friday at San Bernagdino, Cali- ically nothing for over a week, maintained, always improved their This grim imperialist mogiccters colts Hine Communist Activities | dreds of murdered Haitian peasants | | will mobilize its forees and will help } Members of the John Reed Club will be secured to entertain the | workers. | 1 | 00 Se p,m. Section 6, 8.30 Bronx, * * m., 206! | Bryant Av | Agitprop, istrict agitprop ction axitprop di- May 22, 8.30 p. m., Joint committe rector Un meeting y Labor and Fraternal Organizations | Gastonia LL.D. Wednesday, May 21, 1179 Broadway, 6.30 p,m. Council. No. “s. _ Lectiire on Mlection Wednesday, May 21, 8.30 p. m.,| “Mermaid, Ave. Brooklyn 01 Counelt No. 4 Lecture on Mayakowsky Tuesday, May 20, p. m._ 68 Whipple St., Brooklyn. Comradg ‘Kurta will speak, Wonides Consent Conterence, Thursday, May 22, m., 26/ Union Square, room 404, Savery Yoon! | council to send 2 delegates and Daily | Worker agen’ Forward ta Mass Conference Against Unemnlovment. Chicago July 4th DAIL ye _WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, _MAY 20, Today in History of the Workers May 20, 1775—Second Ameri- can Continental Congress agreed on Articles of Confederation prep- aratory to revolution against England. 1887—Alexis Ulianov, brother of Lenin, executed for at- tempt on life of Tsar Alexander III, 1921—New York state troop- ers charged crowds in Albany car strike. 1923—Four hundred thou- sand coal and iron workers in the Ruhr region, Germany, struck against French occupation. 1927— First Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference opened at Hankow, China, founded Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. 1928—Reich- stag elections in Germany, Com- munist Party got 3,263,000 votes and 54 seats. ARTISTS PROTEST WORKERS’ ARREST ° Over 100 Sien Letter of | John Reed Club A protest against the 1,600 ar- rests for political reasons of work- ers and their leaders within the last few months has been circulated and signed by over 100 leading writers, artists and scientists. The John Reed Club, which drew up and} started circulation of the protest | document, released it for publica-| tion yesterday, together with the names of signers, These include} Franz Boas, the anthropologist; Carl Van Doren, John Dos Passos, | Hugo Gellert, Mike Gold, Louis Lozowick, H. L. Mencken, Jim Tully, Louis Untermeyer asd many others. “Release N. Y. Committee!” The statement scores the impris- | qnment of Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond in the March 6 Union Square demonstration and the at- tempt to electrocute Powers and Carr in Atlanta. It says: “An Ohio court has actually sen- tenced two young girls to ten years | in prison for distributing pamphlets. | In California more than 900 unem- ployed were arrested for the crime jof being out of work. In Chicago |137 are being tried for sedition for | |holding an indoor meeting to dis- cuss unemployment. Milwaukee has jailed fifty-eight for participatien in the March 6 unemployment dem- | onstrations, and in the South work- ers are being sent to the chain-gang | ‘for organizing unions.” It pledges assistance to the In- ternational Labor Defense to fight for the release of these political | prisoners. Names of the Signers. A list of the signers follows: Sherwood Anderson. | Helen Black, Prof. Samuei Adohmyan, David’ Burliuk, Rev. Ralph Cheyney, i Cinquegrana, Sarah N Malcolm Cowley n, Fl Deutsch, Carl V: i Robert, as, “id, Waldo Frank, . Al Frueh, Michael Gold, Floyd Hartley Grattan, Horace Rose n- Tullis Jack kt Kingdon Zorach. | Expel Renegade from Boro Pk. Worker Club’ BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 19.—| The Boro Park Workers Club ¢x- pelled Paul Broder, former secretary of the club, as a renegade and be- trayer of the left wing. movement. Broder organized a club called the Boro Park Workers Youth Club un- ‘der the direct leadership of the rene- gade Lovestoneites. Tel. SACramento 2592 The Szabo Conservatory of Music 1275 LEXINGTON AVENUB at 86th Street Subway Station NEW YORK CITY Instruction given to Beginners and Advancers in MUSIC COMPOSITION VOCAL, VI! PIA if Theory and We Meet at the— CHINA GENERALS | Peogtess © of Revolt | Continues Unimpeded | Nanking is reported to be gain- jing in battles around Suchow, but its northern militarist rivals are {said to have just received large |shipments of arms, ammunition and }equipments from their imperialist masters. | Referring to the advancing Red | Armies, a cable dispatch to the New |York Times yesterday says |“the bandit menace in the r of |the Nanking forces continues una-| league, | bated since a large force appeared | near Hankow, casting an ominous | aspect over the entire Yangtze V ley situation. . The bandits’ prog- ress from the south is altogether | unimpeded.” This unimpeded progress of the | revolutionary forces will undoubt- Jedly add much impetus and enth' siasm to the All-China Soviet Area |Delegate Congress which is sched- juled to meet on May 30. MEET TO PLAN BARBERS’ FIGHT English and Italian. Take Over Strike. The purpose of the meeting is to |mobilize the barbers to take the jstrike into their own hands and jhour day and five-day week, $40 minimum wage, abolition of the hire and fire system, to compel the bosses to pay for an unemployment insurance system administered by |workers’ committees, and to fight against the company unionized A. of L., against corruption and e: pulsion of militant rank and filer and for organization of the unor- jganized into a militant industrial lunion controlled by the rank and file. Madras Battle; British Flog Textile Workers (Continued fram Page Uney grenades thrown. One account says a bomb killed a police sergeant’s '/ horse, another is that several bombs were thrown, and police as well as workers killed. Madras is across the country and far to the south of Bombay, in the "| vicinity of which much of the pre- | ious fighting has taken place, © It is significant that this meeting was called by a Moslem, and that oi jof the points on the agenda was protest against British treatment of | Egypt. * * Flogging Workers. BOMBAY, May 19.—In Sholapur, |where heavy concentration of Bri- tish troops has regained the town |dart in and grab a handful or a cap full of salt. The greatest good humor prevailed. But the police arrested 650 duri ing | Saturday and Sunday, and then this | |morning drove all away from the) vicinity, and arrested 120 more. to fill the jails. * * * Rotten Tactics. and anti-criminal syndicalism law drive, agitational measure, particularly in small towns, where the struggle was just beginning. serious, and the whole power of the state was thrown against the work- ers, it acted merely as an automatic tional field and into the prisons all} active members. When the prisons | were full, the authorities built bull pens, COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty that | make it a real fight for the ten- | The Gandhi followers regard this! jas a great victory, their plan being | The tactic of “filling the jails” is ‘known in America, being advocated | | by the ILW.W. during its free speech It worked, to some extent, as an/ When the fight got, trap to draw out of the organiza-| 1930 JNITY COUNCIL ELE CTS ‘LABOR UNITY DELEGATES bikie“ ON Lt PLAN ple 000 INCREASE } cer: of 25 unions, 's and executive committee at the felass organizations- working- leagues, shop committees and fraternal or- next meeting the Trade Union! . ; i sige ganizations helped to lay the basis Unity Council Thursday, 7.45 p. m. foy making Labor Unity a mass or- at 13 W. 17th St. All delegates! gan in the New York District at a must attend without fail. All unions, conference last ‘Saturday at the industrial leagues, shop committees |New York headquarters of the and groups that have not as yet ee Union Unity League, Labor : a 4 3 nity is the League’s official or- elected their full quota of delegates 7.) | Anould do ics The slogan of 10,000 readers of The membership drive and the La- Labor Unity in the New York Dis- bor Unity campaign are closely con-| trict by November 1, and a New nected with the building of the| York edition of Labor Unity, was Trade Union Unity Council, the rev-| raised. olutionary trade union center, in| Joseph North, business and circu- New York. Every union, industrial lation manager of Labor Unity, will shop committee and grouy/go on the second part of his tour, must he? pbuild 2 it. beginning in Buffalo May 20 and winding up in Trenton June 15, T after covering Pittsburg’ May Pontiac and Grand Rapids, Ss thousand wo in t ity, te ‘or |there will be prominent speakers in| == EISENSTEIN’S | “PROTE 7 JAIN Fr Follows Communists | oe a \“Her Way of Love” at 2nd Avenue Playhouse —HIS FIRST —AND HIS LAT A Saga of the Soil of Soviet Russia. | | CAMEO ees W 30; Chicago and Frankfor! { Washington, June 5-7; |Del., and Chester, Pa., June Philadelphia, June 10-12, Wilkes-Barre, June 13-14. enchCanadian Labor UDBURY, Ont., May 19.—Two rs demonstrated here he streets against police brutal-| and against the sentencing of 8 one and two months in jail XN ey Day activity. e number to be shown all this week. dramatic story of and has one of the greatest art of French- Fight for Work *AMUSEMENTS- or Wages! Stalingrad. —TWO GREAT TRIUMPHS! MASTERPIECE POTEMKIN One of the Great Pictures of All Time OLD and NEW THIRD BIG W — ae POPULAR PRICES \jo~ A Theatre Guild Production = HOTEL UNIVERSE By PHILIP BARRY MARTIN BECK 45t® Street W. of 8 Av. Eves. 8:50. Mats. iS WRON MARRIAG RUNAWAY BRIDE) LOYD HUGHES and MARY ASTOR WITH “EE | or Thursday and Saturday at 2:50 HREE LITTLE May 31, June 1-3; Wheel- ing, W. Va., June 4; Baltimore and Wilmington 8 and “Her Way of Love” is continuing It isa the Revolution, \Called by TUUL, Wed., caaalien workers were in this dem-| of the Soviet studio—Anna Ces- onstration and are responding more! sarskaya. Its scenic beauty cannot at 13 West 17th St. |and more to the Communist’ Party be equaled. : | program. ns The Trade Union Unity League! In spite of the fascist persecu- Fight for the seven-hour day, Barbers’ Section of Greater New | tion, backed by the owners of nickel) five-day week. York, 13 W. 17th St., has issued @| mines and lumber interests, the | a statement on the fake stoppage} workers are joining the revolution- CONTRACTED ENGINEERS called by Tartamella, which started ary industrial unions. ARRIVE. yesterday. The Communist Party French} LENINGRAD.—A contingent of The T. U. U. L. calls all barbers language paper, L’Ouvrier Canadien, |50 American engineers from the De- to a mass meeting at 6:30 p. m. on|is welcomed by the workers here. | troit Ford plant arrived here on Wednesday at 13 W. 17th St., where | -_——- |their way to the tractor plant at | | Great i IVIC REPERTORY }4th st SHUBERT Eves. 8:30, Mats, Thur. Sat. 2:30 50 $i. 1.50 A Le GALLIENNE, Director MUSIC ROX Me with 2nd Ave. OMBO and JULIDT? ats. Thursday and rdy rat te ee SRAeEe SONG” | “TOPAZE” Comedy Hit from the French A * ) FRANK MORGAN, Phoebe Foster | Get Donations! Get Subs! Clarence Derwent | SAST SIDE THEATRES Now Playing! Piayhouse CORNER EIGHTH STREET “Ber Way of Love” One of the yery best SOVISINO productions—with EMMA CESARSKAYA 132 SECOND + vi as star actress, ‘Phe tr: y of a Russian woman during the period { war and revolution, —ON THE SAME PROGRAM— ~~ SOVKING JOURNAL — PRESENT DAY EVENTS IN SOVIET RUSSIA DEMONSTRATE! In Support of the Hindu Revolution Against Imperialism and Imperialist War! Wednesday Eve., May 21 at 7:30 LAUREL GARDENS 75 East 116th St., at 116th St. and Madison Avenue Prominent speakers will tell of the struggles for the Hindu Rev- olution nad against the attempts of the British imperialists and of Ghandi to throttle it. Auspices: COMMUNIST PARTY, DIST. Support the Daily Worker Drive! o-——_——_—————__._ ‘For All Kinds of Insurance” ((ARL BRODSKY ‘Pelephone: Murray Hill 5550 7 ast 42nd Street, New York Dr. ABRAHAM MARKKOFF SURGEON DENTIST’ AST 115th STREET nd Ave, New York .Y EXCEPT FRIDAY Please telephone for ap: Welephone: Lehigh intment 022 Tel. ORChard 37: DR. L. 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