The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1930, Page 1

} SUPPORT THE RE ;BEL WORKERS OF INDIA! aily Published daily pt Sund: Company, Ini Union Square, New York City. N. YEE oy lis! jay by The Comprodaily 1 nz -SupRert the Indian Revolution! (Appeal of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the U. S. TO ALL WORKERS! ASS-MURDER is being committed in India against the worker: and peasants by British Imperialism. The MacDonald Govern- ment, of the “Labor” Party and the Second International, has re- ») vealed itself to the whole world as the lackey of imperialism and bloody (’ executioner of the toiling Indian masses. MacDonald's ike-breaking activity at home finds its logical counter-part in the massacres in Pales- tine, the continued subjection of Egypt, and the bloody terror against the revolution in India. The social-fascists of the “Labor” party are carrying out the terms of their partnership with the capitalise class— paid for in the blood and sweat of the workers and peasants. It is the Indian working class which is in the forefront of the revolution, of the struggle against British imperialism and its native tools. For more than a year the leaders of the Indian trade unions have been locked up in prison, without even a legal judgement against them, while the MacDonald government and native lackeys try to destroy the rising labor movement. The protracted and heroic strikes, headed by the Girni Kamgar (Red Flag) union, of textile and railroad workers, have raised the whole revolutionary movement up to a new high stage. The disaffection of Indian troops reflects the deep revo- lutionary movement among the peasants. The million masses are beginning to struggle. Their center of organization and leadership lies in the trade unions, and before all in the Communist groups which are now crystallizing an All-India Communist Party. At this moment in the development of the revolution, its most dangerous enemy is the advocate of “non-resistarice,” who sabotages the struggle from within in order to prepare the open surrender to imperialism. This enemy is the Indian bourgeoisie, typified by Gandhi, which is in deadly fear of the real revolution, which denounces the heroic fighters of Chittagong and Peshawar, which turns revolutionary victories won by the masses into a farce of “regulating traffic” by the bourgeoisie, and which assures the imperialist masters that it has no desire to see the British Army withdrawn from India. This treacher- | ous Indian bourgeoisie has never ceased its negotiations with British imperialism for the terms of its complete surrender under a “Dominion Status” which means a double exploitation of the masses, an exploita- tion by the Indian bourgeoisie in junior partnership with the Empire. | Workers of America must understand the world-importance of the Indian revolution, and the necessity of supporting it with all their pow- er. It is no accident that the social-fascists of this country, also, give their support to Gandhi and his like. It is no accident that the right- wing renegades of the Lovestone group find a common platform with Norman Thomas in the slogan of “Freedom for Gandhi.” It is no accident that this united front extends even into the U. S. Congress and the Tammany machine in New York, and that all the forces of demagogic and social-fascist reaction in this country, fasten upon the name of Gandhi as their common banner. American imperialism is also maneuvering with the Indian revo- lution, in its struggle against Britain for world domination. Amer- ican imperialism sees in the Indian bourgeoisie a convenient instru- ment, whereby it can help to strangle the revolutionary movement of the masses and, at the same time, gain an ally within India against its rival, Britain. On its part, the Indian bourgeoisie is playing up to American imperialism, imitating the role which has already been played in China by Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese bourgeoisie, of trying to play off one imperialist master against another, and alwi at the expense of the toiling masses. The slogan of the Indian workers and peasants must be: Down with British imperialism, and all imperialisms including that of the United States. Let there be no illusions of “friendship” on the part of U. S. imperialism towards the Indian revo- tution, American imperialism is the assassin of revolutionary workers and peasants all over the world. There is only one state in the wor progress of the Indian revolution and cieves at all its setbacks. That is the Workers’ Government of the © viet Union, which itself destroyed the imperialism of the Czar, liber ced all the oppressed peoples in the former Czar’s empire, and placed the sers and peasants in com- plete’control of their own lives. The Russian Revolution, which not only destroyed Russian imperialism, but also withstood the united attacks of world imperialism for 13 years, and is now startling the world with its enormous successes in the building of socialism, has shown the way to the masses of India. Toilers of India, drive out the British oppressors! Throw off the treacherous “leadership” of the Gandhis! Build your own trade unions and other mass organizations! Unite y: under the leadership of the Communist Party of aot Deliver a mighty blow against all the exploiters by a general strike! Unite the peasants under the lead- ership of the working class, to“drive out the landowners and usurers! Pay no taxes! Establish the power of the Soviets of workers and peasants! Workers of the United States, support with all your forces the Indian revolution! Denounce the maneuvers of American imperialism, which is driving headlong towards war, against its British rivals and before all against the Soviet Union! Denounce the murderers of the | Indian masses, the MacDonald Government! Expose the Second In- ternational as the agency of imperialism! pose the shameful role of the American partners of MacDonald. the “socialists” Thomas, ) O'Neal, Hillquit and their partv! Smash the tricky renegades from Communism, the Lovestoneites and Trotskyites, who join the capitalist chorus against the world party of revolution! Drive the imperialist bandits out of India! Support the Indian revolution, under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party! Fight against imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S. A. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, “Sending Tomorrow $1,000” Chicago ‘E told you yesterday that what New York and Detroit were doing to save the Daily Worker could be done in every city, large and small. Workers and workers’ organizations are ready to give, willing to-contribute to aid our fighting organ, the Daily Worker, are anxious | to build it into. a mass organ. The telegram from Chicago—“$1,000 tomorrow’—is a commend- able example of revolutionary action. Revolutionary upsurge of toiling masses in many countries; workers in the imperialist countries break- ing thru the walls of their industrial prisons, responding to the call of all our forces, the. strengthening of our battle front, every Party mem- ber marching with determined step in the fulfillment of every Party task, the enrollment of new forces, constantly increasing our power. And Los Angeles knows what the Daily Worker means to the ex- ploited Mexican, Negro, Filipino, Japanese and Hindu workers who pick and crate the harvest of the rich Imperial Valley, the big select kind for the bosses’ tables, the little runts, if any, for us. The bosses are trying to stem the rapid growth of the Agricultural Workers’ In- dustrial League and already there sit behind prison bars many of our dauntless leaders. Los Angeles sends $200 to help us march forward, and writes “more soon.” March Forward, is the slogan. There must be no retreat. There must be no weakening in any link of the chain of our organization, our reniea The Daily Worker is one of the most necessary links in this chain. The emergency amount needed is $25,900, A total of $1,2 » been contri¥uted to keep the Daily Worker going and gvowing. We still must raise $23,730.64, Still a long way to go, eomeadest Bui k's | get going! —THE DAILY WORKER, | which really rejoices in the fore 9.36 has | Lesten to | st lis indicted on two charges of pad ENORMOUS GRAFT UNCOVERED IN India’s First Marxist Paper "NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY a, Workers of the World Unité~ WORKERS’ WEEKLY Organ of the Militant Working Class. ~ TAMMANY GROUP. = Wedasda A Price” 1 Anna. Gang Sending ies Frepare ‘or the Leaders to Jail Got Big Loot Judge Vause Indicted Mayor D Defends ‘Bernie. General Strike. Fight against the Betrayal of Indian Independence by the Nationalist Bourgeoisie Remove and Discard the Reformist and Cowardly Trade Union Workers of the World Unite WORKERS’ WEEKLY Organ of the Militant Working Class. and Billy’ No. 9. Ge, ~ Wednsday March, 26, 1930 Ae More and more revelations ae ; ——= — = ee ee ee aan Gandhism Poison for the Masses. city officials, who sent Foster, Am-} TEAC lbot Toaecdoeniticn tla ter, Minor, and Raymond to prison for three years, and sent Joseph for a month because five were elected by 110,000 ing workers and jobless in Union Square March 6th to lay their demands before the Tammany gov- ernment, are now dodging around |trying to cover up a huge mass of seandal. Yesterday Judge .W. Bernard Vause of the Brooklyn county court was indicted by the New York Grand Jury on two counts of grand larceny, connected with his Coiuin bia Finance Corvmation. $250,000 For a Pier. Publicity and intrigue within th- ranks of big business has force? into prominence the fact that Vausc hile helding office as judge to’ 0,000 from the United Amer iean Lines to get them a lease for Piers 84 and 86. Furthermore Vause got complimentary tickets for a trip to Europe, and went, tal his wife, and accompanied by, V liam T. Collins, then county cler| once president of the board of ald men, and new a justice of the su-} preme court. Collins and his wife) also had complimentary tickets. Charges of misvse of funds have caused an order to show cause why the Glinton Capital Corporation should not be prevented from doing | | business. This is another of Vause’ companies, organized to purchase} NEW DRIVE ON i LYNCH TERROR the Hepat ‘bureau head who Communists Calling recommended the sentencing of Mass Meetings Foster, Amter, Minor, Raymond and, The New York District of the Lesten, is set for June 11. Cooley Communist Party (District 2) has decided to hold a series of mass pro- test meetings throughout the dis- trict. One meeting will be held Fri- day evening at 7 p. m. at 137th St. and Seventh Ave., to protest the | brutal lynching of Negro workers (Continued on Page Three) and to organize and broaden the struggle against the tem of BAKERS PROTEST =: Every working-class or- !ganization should participate in this | GUNMEN TACTICS “3: united front conference of delegates from all working-class organiza- prey as, Aid Fas- tions to plan further campaign cist Burkhardt BULLETIN. Brooklyn hakers are called to protest against the terroristic tac- tics of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ bureaucracy and to sup- | port the Food Workers’ Industrial Union in its fight for union con- ditions in all bake shops at a special meeting at 3 p. m., Sat- urday. May 23, at 76 Throop Ave., Brooklyn, called by the Brooklyn Section, F. W. I. U., which has |}, opened headquarters at 16 Gra- ham Ave. help British Imperialism to. mai all above in the Indian Revolution. have just arrived in this general stri the bourgeo the fight against The “Workers? Weekly” maturity already reached by the revolution. Fireman R ding his payroll. Mrs. Lottie Cutler of Passaic has admitted to a grand jury paying $5,250 to a certain lawyer, Doyle. {Delegates will be elected also by |Negro and white workers in shops ‘and factories. The conference will ;make plans for a National Day ‘against lynchings. Prepare London Conference. The Communist Party calls all workers to join in the fight which will be organized at the coming London Conference to combat on an international Negro workers. In its announcement of the anti- nching campaign, the Commu- ts point to the great recent in- ase in this brutal form of white |terror as an indication of the fear Ten leading rank-and-filers of Lo-/and hatred of the employers over cal 3, Bakers, were driven from the! Negro and white workers organ-| * * * membership meeting Saturday aft-|jzing themselves together to fight} jand are fined (“logged) $4 a day 6.30 p. m., ernoon in Brooklyn Labor Lyceum |for work or wages and to struggle (Continued on Page Two) | against capitalism, WHETHER it be a creed of a policy, to teach the masses | On June 13 there will be held a! jagainst the lynch murder system. | ti le the oppression of | n its dowtination in India. It has been proved in the previous issues of the Workers Weekly, that Gendhi ie NOT A OREED but a policy Gandhi was perfect! “non-violence” with willing to sacrifice young manhood The first Marxist-Leninist paper published in India, is shown in the headings of two issues. publication in Bombay on January 26 and is acting as the ideological leader and organizational center for the forces of the working class A review of the first 13 issues which country cbove-reproduced headings show the line of the “Workers Weekly,” u campaign against the poison of Gandhism, preparations for the The “Workers Weekly” begay will be published soon. The the betrayal of independence by ie, discard the reformist trade union leaders who help British imperialism, win the strikes now raging throughout India. is a measure of the high degree of political young revolutionary proletariat of India, and gives great promise for the future development of the Rotten Boilers Kill on U.S. Line 31 Accidents on George Washington Voyage;) Leviathan Seamen Meet; Many Join Union Two United States Line ships are in port again, bringing stories of | horrible conditions and of organiza- | tion starting among the exploited seamen, One fireman on the George Wash- ington was burned to death through back-draft of a defective boiler. Two boilers blew out during the voyage, fortunately downwards, | Where there was cement, instead of | |to the side, which would have been much more dangerous. There were 31 accidents on the voyage, 20 of them being burnings of men work- ing below. Some of the victims are still in hospital, seriously injured. \ The company makes a gesture of firing the chief engineer, Paddy Brennen, who has for years been a notorious slave-driver on the Wi ern Ocean. Seamen may remember that six years ago Paddy was also “fired” to allap resentment of his victims, and he came back and did| the same things again, as he will} once more. | Firing the engineer also serves! to cover up the graft in the inspec- on service which kept the company from being forced to repair before | ithe trip. The boilers were in so| bad shape that they shipped ten welders in Hoboken to work on them during the voyage. Six extra firemen are sent aboard before the boat leaves and they work without pay, doing all sorts of menial tasks for the engineers. |They are not signed up and are |locked up when the ship arrives in |Hamburg. When a fireman | killed or crippled one of them is put in his place. | Log Double. Wages of firemen are a little ovet |$2 a day, but when sickened by the | work or the food he is fined $2.25 ‘a day. Coal-passers get $2 a day | when unable to work, On one sd (Continued on Page Three) SUBSCRE and Bronx, 1930 ION RATES: New York City and foreign countries, there 8 UP HOOVER TASK KIDDING JOBLESS , Months Added N ow ——— tement of the Comm to Original 60 Days Sta Before _ Relief | poe ‘Thrown Out T of the I ou: L. 0 Org anizing’ Areas and Co-ordin | for Convention a statement of | y of China upon The following the Communist P. | Secretary Lamont yester pub- the c g “Soviet Area Delegate lished a statement that normal con- Congre of China to be held on |ditions in industry will be restored | May 30. This congress will have) within tw> months. This is two far-reaching significance, not only jmonths added on to President |for China, but for the whole world. | Hoover's “magic 60 d Hoover The statement given herewith is is silent tiday. |translated from the the Party of C the | Every time any high government Communist | fficial has issued a similar optim-| “Red Flag,” of February ie atabementiat hae been merely, the translation being made by Com- a question of hours until some new Tade R. Doonping.—Editor. and startling development gave him the lie. At the present time, with- | out knowing just what breakdown s coming next, here abundant vidence that things geting | worse. Rising Revolutionary Wave Through- out China. 1. Since the defeat of the Great Chinese Revolution, in 1927, al- |though the proletariat suffered in- It is in this situation that the Comparable loss, the peasant agra- Trade Union Unity League and the rian revolution in South China in Councils of the Unemployed co-|8eneral was never suppressed, On operate to organize both jobless and ;the contrary, precisely because the employed workers, with all prepa-|Communist Party of China was lations going on for a great na-|fteed from the opportunist leader- tional unemployment convention 2m|Ship since August, 1927, it has been Julp 4 and 5 in Chicago. able to lead resolutely the peasants | Page in the difficult fight against ae Giannis, Gig tise [gentry and the landlords, ‘Thus the Over’ 190 ten lave been dropded (Aum Harvest Unrsinge in 1927 from the Cleveland Railway Co,|t Hunan, Hupei and Kiangsi were — | developed and extended into guerilla payroll since January 1. The com-|arfare throughout the south. Sov- poe ee et OOD. tae tat. nee iets were first established in Hailu- anabtite: exmetaas |feng, Lilin and Hanoi and many | Company Agosds aceon ctate | ther places. Despite the continuous whether the 190 dismissed men have |SupPressive activities of the aa | (Poteet the ocieoy tute tains | neon neve runer ven eed ilies were able to eat during the POM engin. ws ms Oh Chine he : (Continued on Page Three) on SUPPORT INDIA MASSES TONICHT Mella, Johnstone, Will Speak J. Lapidus and M. Dick, distribut- ing leaflets yesterday announcing the great protest meeting tonight “to mobilize workers in defense of the masses of India and support their struggle against the imperial- ist oppressors, were arrested at Bed- ford and North Fifth St., Willi is are 20.— * * NEW BRITAIN, Conn., May 20.—! “Prosperous America” finds its 1 reflection in this important hard- ware center of Connecticut. One| thousand families, out of a popula- | tion of 80,000 Poles, S!ovaks, a menians, Czechs, I d other nationalities, come to the asl hall for relief every week. A three | or four-day week at 30 and 35 cent. | an hour cannot fill their le~ders Needless to say, New Britain is an open-shop en. Of the 1.5.°0C workers, only 1,200 to ganized, and those ply the siie (Continued on Page Two) BARBERS WALK * ns d burg. They were quizzed as to their citizenship papers, and their case 4 | Deported Man Speaks. Jack Johnstone, national organ: izer for the Trade Union Unity League, and a delegate to the last Indian Trade Union Congress from the League Against Imperialism and For Colonial Independence will Fight Thugs; T.U.U.L. Calls Meeting Tonight The barbers are repudiating the Fobra ay be a speake ey of Tartamella, the A.| Other speakers will be H. T. Li, fagiadvs Jana’ een ited representing the Chinese Workers hich culled the! fake © stongace Alliance, George Siskind, secretary iain MRNA? jof the National Unemployed Coun- Ee en ey ls and Antonio Mella, a brother of Although the bosses were ready! Julio Mella, who was murdered in to help it along, in order to force | Mexico City by the agents of all barbers into the clutches of Tar-| chado, Wall St. president of Cuba. tamella, and to build the bosses’ a: The meeting is not only for the, sociation, the stoppage is a flop, and | freedom of India but for a social the proof that this is not due to a) revolution in India, for better con- lack of desire on the part of the ditions on the job, for the inde- barbers to fight for demands of | pendence of U. colonies, and their own will be shown when they | speakers will expose the bloody ac- gather at the call of the Barbers| tions of the MacDonald “labor par- Section of the T.U.U.L., tonight, at | ty” government. at 13 West 17th St. | The meeting and The T.U.U.L. bargers’ section pro- | are 7:30 tonight, at (Continued on Page Two) 5 East 116th St. demonstration Laurel Gar- dens, 7 Get Behind the Daily Worker Drive! : Rouse the Party to Action: To All District Committees and Organizers! To All District Agit-Prop Directors! Yo All District Daily Worker Representatives! Dear Comrades: (1) The increased mass activities of our Party during the past few months has almost doubled the circulation of the Daily the increased mass activity has also increased the need for a mass circu- Jation for our Party organ—and above all, the many special editions (in Directives of the Central Committee, C. . U.S. A. copies circulated during the recent strike struggles has greatly multiplied the need for immediate financial support. Unless the Party is imme- diately and fully mobilized behind the drive for subscriptions, bundle orders and financial assistance, the existence of the Daily Worker will be endangered—with all that that means to the Party. Now as never before the Daily is needed. very greatly increased. The deepening of the economic crisis, the danger of imperialist both at home struggles, the Worker. But imany cases not yet paid for by the districts) and the thousands of free Its circulation must’ be war, the sharpened offensive against the toiling masses and in the colonies, the rising tide of revolutionary mass immediate, campaigns before the Party (unemployment, T.U.U.L. membership drive and election campaign), and the need to drive (Continued on Page Three) 86 u year everywhere excepting Manhattan Congress to Centralize All Li COME TO LAUREL GARDENS, AT 7:30 P. M. TONIGHT! FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents a yenr. _ LAMONT TAKES RISING REVOLUTIONARY WAVE IN CHINA LEADS POWER unist Party of China on the Soviet Congress to Meet on May 30 Soviet ate the R ed Armies DRAG co0| ae Jersey Dicks Lie Like | Professionals NEWARK, N Fr Fisher, 2 he trial of Do: of the nine work sedition, had ext licemen who had t ier in the day, Prosecut n Fisch moved that his testimony be im- peached on the grounds that he does |not believe in god. Judge Van Riper took it under advisement and jwill give his decision when court convenes tomorrow ‘morning. | The two policemen, Nathan Har- ris and Edward Bivovar, testified that they had attended a mass meet- ing at 98 Mercer St., at which Flai- ani, section organizer, Communist Party, spoke. worker had should kill Newark They stated that the jobless of said that the the chief of police as the workers of G tonia killed the chief of police there, to attack the police- men and take away their guns. Un- der erogs-examination by Attorney Leon Josephson of the International Labor Defense the two police offi- cers contradicted themselves many also | times. Harris asserted that during his speech Flaiani had also said that |the workers of Newark should “take ‘control as Lenin did in Russ “Are all ‘the speeches on that paper?” Josephson asked Harris. wn at the me | “Then how does it happen that some of it is written in pencil and the rest in ink? | The answer was that the pencil }point bri The first witnes y the defense Rose. He started off by Flaiani was not the spea at the meeting, as the wo witnesses for the state had as- serted. Rose told t court that the defendant was «preceded by a Negro and a girl speaker. He briefly outlined speech which Flaiani actually made. “He advocated,” said Rose, “the abolishment of private employment agencies, the end of the vagrancy laws. the speed-up and bonus sys- tem, also tine seven-hour, five-day week and the payment of $20 weekly to unemployed workers with $5 ad- ts ditional for each depende “Plaiani never said that the po- lice should be attacked,” he added. isher was the ni defense wit- ne: When Prosecutor Fisch saw \that his frame-up was beginning to collapse, he suddenly asked Fisher if he believed in god. | Fisher said “No.” The prosecutot |jumped from his chair and thun- dered out: “I demand that this wit- ness be dismissed from the stand and his tes timony stricken from the reec Two Negro members of the Labor Jury were not allowed in the court room during the morning session. The jury on the case consists of Richard W. Chatellier, a manuf turer, foreman; Harry Coyne, prin- ter; Hugh Dagroat, engineer; Rich- ard P. Dyckman, manufacturing chemist; Thomas Commer, foreman in a concrete factory; William C. Davis, chief clerk in the Newark Western E) rie Co.; Frederick W. Clarkman, factory foreman, Louis \C. Carpenter, traffic representa \tive; Henry W. Ackerman, clerk Edmund M. Down, paint manufi |turer; Arthur Bennett, machinist, and Arthur W. Dunlop, telephone company. When Josephson was examining lowed to ask the ven- were opposed to union he was not iremen if the organization by the workers, | J. Mercer Burrell, a Negro law- assisting Josephson and {Abraham Isserman in defending workers who |Flaiani and the other It go on trial. ‘The other work ers are: Dave Rousen, dohn Pado, muel D. Levine, Joseph Lepsevi ous, Morris Langer, Edward lChilds, D. W. Graham, Negro jworker, and Albert Heder. If con- lguaes they can be sentenced (to lo years in prison.