The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1930, Page 1

* tance of American capitalism. Published daily Company, Inc. Vol. VII., No. 126 Union Square, New York City, 3 unday by The Comprodaily Publishing ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930 ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, ral » New Yor aoe They Shall Not Succeed | N order to divert the attention of the working masses away from their miserable conditions, from unemployment and _ starvation, the bosses are raising the “Red Bogey.” The congressional investiga- tion into the activities of the Communist Party that was voted by the U. S. Congress is an open attempt to cover up the present economic crisis, unemployment and the campaign of wage qits and strikebreak- ing. It is an attempt to sidetrack the unemployment struggle of the workers, the demand for work or wages and social insurance. It is an attempt to make it appear that struggles of the workers against unemployment, for Work or Wagés, against the bosses’ wage cuts and terror arises not as a result of the existing conditions but as a con- spiracy organized by the Communists and Moscow. The economic crisis in the United States is growing. The attack of the bosses upon the woskers is becoming ever more vicious. Wage ‘cats are taking place in every industry, speed-up is increasing and the standard of living of the American workers is being rapidly lowered. The conditions of the American farmers are becoming unbearable. Thousands are forced off their land while the bloody hands of finance capital and the government are plundering their. land and property. All the siren songs and fake promises of Hoover and his agents can- not conceal these facts. The American workers, however, are learning very rapidly that the only way to fight off these attacks is by militant class struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party. The Communist Party is continuously gaining more prestige and influence among the Amer- ican workers. Great masses of toilers are set into motion against the campaign of wage cuts and bosses’ attacks. Through their very bitter experiences the workers see clearly that capitalism cannot improve their conditions, that American capitalism reached such a stage where it can no longer provide work for the workers and millions of men and women are forced to starve because they produced too much of everything. Employed and unemployed workers will see the trick and will answer with a more determined struggle for unemployment insurance. The bosses and the government also see that the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions are the only ones capable of providing Jeadership ta the exploited and starving millions of American workers. They are therefore determined to crush the revo- lutionary organizations of the American working class, particularly the Communist Party. However, the Communist Party has too much poli- tical influence among the masses and mass support to have them crush the Party at once. They are therefore now preparing the ground to deliver the blow not only to the Communist Party but to the entire American working class, whose stalwart leader is the Party. They have seen that all their strikebreaking and jailing of militant Com- munist workers did not help. They have also seen that the strikebreak- ing and counter-revolutionary activities of the renegades of the Com- munist Party did not set back the Party, but because the Party unitedly repulsed them, it was strengthened. They are now trying to crush the Party by attempting to separate it from the masses. The present congressional investigation is only part of the general scheme of American capitalism to destroy the revolutionary movement and crush the resistance of the masses. It is an attempt of the bosses to railroad workers to jail for their revolutionary activities, to de- clare strikes illegal, to prevent the solidarity of the Negro and white workers, to consider the distribution of leaflets as treason and joint meetings of Negro and white workers as insurrection. The attempted electrocution of the eight Negro and white workers in Georgia on a Civil War law; the railroading of a Negro worker, Stephen Graham, to from 10-15 years’ jail for the sole crime of calling upon white and Negro workers to unite in the struggle against their common enemy; the sentencing of five workers in Ohio on the criminal syndicalist law to ten years of jail; the criminal syndicalist charges against five work- ers in San Francisco for their activities in connection with the un- employment struggle; and against 15 Mexican and American workers in Imperial Valley, California, for strike activity; the railroading of the Communist Party organizer in New Jersey on the criminal syn- dicalist charge; the Gastonia sentences, and many others; are all savage attacks against the workers, and forerunners of the present congressional investigation. The present attack is also an integral part of the bosses’ war preparations, particularly against the Soviet Union. The extent to which the bosses will succeed in their attack will depend upon the American workers. Only the mass resistance of the workers, white and Negro, can defeat this wave of terror and reaction. All the blackest*forces of reaction and betrayals rushed to the ass: The legal existence of the revolutionary organizations of the workers, the right to strike and to fight for un- | employment insurance, can be secured and maintained only if the work- | ers will rush to the support of the struggle of the Communist Party. The answer of the workers to the bosses today must be a stronger, better organized counter-attack, which must express itself in concrete | action. The biggest blow that the working class can deliver to capi- talism today is to build the revolutionary trade union, organize the millions of unorganized and most exploited Negro and white workers into powerful industrial trade unions, and make the present drive of the Trade Union Unity League for 50,000 new members a succes Along with this mass campaign, we must mobilize the workers to build up a mass cireulation of the Communist press. More than at any other period, the Communist press will be the most effective weapon in mobilizing and organizing the workers, to expose the lies of the bosses, to expose the treachery of the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party and the renegades of Communism. Above all, however, the workers must build the Communist Party, the main leader of the struggle, the shield of the oppressed, the weapon of attack, Every worker must answer the present attack of the bosses by joining the Communist Party and make the Communist Party a mass: Party of revolutionary action, The stronger the Communist Party, the more assured will be the victory of the workers. In the present moment, the support to the Communist Party must also express itself in mobilizing for the election campaign. The bosses through their action are now attempting to rule the Communist Party off the ballot. The workers must answer this with an intensive cam-, ign and support in their factories and mass organizations for the munist election platform and candidates. The coming state rati- fication conventions must be made into large united front mass gather- ings of workers’ representatives from shops and mass organizations. The Communist Party calls upon the workers in the factories and mass organizations to elect delegates to these conventions, to make these ratification conventions their expression of solidarity and sup- port to the Gommunist Party and the struggle it leads. Defeat the attacks of the bosses! Build the Communist Party! Build the revolutionary trade unions! Fight against lynchings and bosses’ terror! ERIE WORKERS FIGHT TERROR Demand the Release of Serio, Mittelmeier DRIE, Pa. May 25—At a mass necting of the International Labor SLAVERY IN MISSISSIPPI. Defense on May 18 a resolution was} TUPELO, Miss. — Cotton mill idopted against Erie Fascism and | hands here receive an average wage U. S. ruling class terrorism in gen- j of $12.50, on top of which the bosses sral, demanding the immediate re- | “check off” 50 cents a month for ease of Guido Sacrio and Leo Mit- | doctor fees, 60 cents for gioup in- ‘elmeier, protesting against the at-|S-1ance, 25 cents for a clubhouse | empt to deport them and the other ard yet another sum for house rent. | srovocative arrests and acts of the| Wial veni: % Erie police department and the U. S. | officials. | Another Yhass protest meeting jwill be held Monday, May 26, at 7 |p. m. at Columbus Park. Although | Mayor J. C. Williams and the cor- |rupt local politicians in the city council refused to grant a permit, | the meeting will be carried through. | Ten thousand leaflets have already been distributed, calling the workers to participate. * ins? ROCKEFELLER CUTS MINE PAY ON 2500 MEN Open Violation of Big Employers’ Promise Not to Reduce Admits Crisi Crisis Takes Advantage and Makes Workers Pay Rockefeller’s Consolidation Coal Co. yesterday announced that it would cut the wages of its remain- ing 2,500 workers in the West Vir- ginia coal field by 14 per cent. The Worse | Rockefeller family takes the lead in a further slash of wages, as it did in the closing down of. mines and throwing out of work large 'Mass Pressure Compels Reversing of Workers’ Candidates Ohio Criminal Syndicalist Conviction ° 2 ae ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, May 25.—Yesterday the Seventh District} Appellate Court reversed the con-| viction of Lil Andrews, Charles Guynn and Tom Johnson, They were convicted Nov. 20, 1929, of criminal syndicalism because of mobilizing the Workers of Martins Ferry for the August 1' “Defend the Soviet} Union and Anti-Imperialist War” bday. The prosecutor is now appeal- jing to the Ohio Supreme Court. Guynn is national secretary-treas- urer of the National Miners’ Union. | Johnson is also a miner. The con- victed wor! served time until the | District 6 of the Communist Par | appeal reached a certain stage, and then were bailed out. The appeal is of unconstitution- of the criminal syndicalism The Appellate Court did not ality law. rule on constitutionality. Workers Won Reversal. CLEVELAND, Ohio, * May has issued the following statemen “The wide response of the worke to the call of the Communist Party in this state to struggle against the infamous criminal syndicalism law. * (Continued on Page Three) TO CELEBRATE CHINA REVOLT Mass Meeting June 6) Central Opera PLAN YOKE FOR numbers of workers in 1928. At] . ; THRE GREE tee Babee Bik wat} ' A masé sfeeting, both to celebrate put forward that this shutting down| the world historically _ significant would “stabilize the industry and| event, the first Chinese Soviet Con- maintain wages for those left at| gress, and to support the revolu- work.” Now the wage cut comes in flat violation of the promises made by all big industry to the world at large by both the A, ¥. (Continued on Page Three) USE CENSUS RETURNS TO FIGHT DEMANDS NEW YORK, May 25—Further census returns used by Tammany to play down the seriousness of unem- ployment, is that of the 16th Assem- bly District, Yorkville, which shows that 4.7 per cent of the total pop- ulation are out of work. The trades reported to be hardest hit are build- ing and needle, with iaborers and me-*~*ans following. With reports of drastic layoffs in all narts of the country swelling the army of the unemployed to the enor- mous total of 8,000,000, the efforts of the bosses to use their offi:'al governmental machinery to mini- mize the number of jobless was shown in the case of the Cleveland census returns, Daily Worker Needs Volunteer Reporters and Research Help The Daily Worker needs mass support editorially also. The Daily is one of the most impor- tant single institutions of the Party. Every worker in New York should be ready to help to gather and publish the working class news. We can use an un- limited number of volunteer re- porters, catalogers, research workers, and office help in the editorial offices of the Daily. Whoever can volunteer a few hours work regularly once a week or oftener should get in touch with the Copy Desk of the Daily Worl No previous experience sary. We guarantee to give such volunteers a valuable exper- ience in Communist journalism. Call at the Daily Worker office after 3 p. m. “More in Their Soup Besides Statistics” New York District Answers a Capitalist Congressman on Question ot Soup for Unemployed Masses “The best way to fight Communistic propaganda is to put some- in soup besides‘statistics.” This is what a congressman from Okla- homa said the other day when the House of Representatives voted to in- vestigate the Daily Worker and Communist propaganda in the United thing States. |,tionary movement in China and \ India, will be held Friday, June 6, | at the Central Opera House. | When the American workers fight against unemployment, for work or wages, for the 7-hour day, 5-day week, they are sttuggling against the same forces that stand behind the hangman Chiang Kai- shek. The proletariat of the oppressing countries and the colonial masses | | are fighting the same enemy. On to the Central Opera House mass meeting on June 6. UNITED FRONT T0 FIGHT LYNCHING |'Mass Meeting Friday, May 30 A united front conference to be based upon the actions. of Ne- | gro and white workers in the shops, | will be initiated by the Communist |Party, Young Communist League, {and the American Negro Labor Congress, Friday, June 13, Harlem Casino, 100 West 116th St., corner; | Lenox Ave. | A mass meeting and demonstra- ‘tion té protest against the lynch terror will be held Friday, May 30, at 8 p. m., 137th St. and 7th Ave. An open air meeting the same eve- ning will be held at Dean St., cor- ;ner Howard St., in Brownsville. | Negro and white workers are urged to elect delegates to the United Front Conference June 13. | Delegates from Negro and white workers’ organizations will be pre- sented. | SENTENCE SHOE WORKERS. | Six members of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union were sen- tenced Friday to six months in jail for their activity in the recent strike. The case against them was FILIPINO MASSES | Use Cuba As Model to Enslave Philippines WASHINGTON, May — Plans to saddle the Philippines with a vas- sal rule such assobtains in Cuba, were adopted by the Senate Insular | Committee Saturday by a vote of 8| to 4. Thé measure, which is given! the hypocritical title of “a resolu- | tion for Filipino independence,” is | phe most outright piece of imperial- | ist trickery yet devised against the | Filipino masses, | It provides for the ‘callingeof a constigution convention in the Phil- | William Z Foster, above, nomi- fies! ‘ nated by the Communist Party HOSEL EMD OG Ae Gone nition for re YC oe a New riod. The convention stands inStruct-| y-,.). pPichard B. Moore, belo by ed by American imperialism to pass Communist Party. nominee for the following basic laws: Foreign | affairs to be under the direct super- vision and control of the United | States; the public debt may not ex- ceed an amount prescribed by Con- gress, and no loans to be contracted | without the ‘approval of Congress; a naval base and military control OPERATION ON United States. . e AE eaeaal tne| Knifed by Lovestoneite If passed at all and signed by President, this measure will be a * Now in Bellevue dled without further chains for the Filipino people. - Undoubtedly this { move will meet the approval of the Filipino misleaders, all of whom are striving to emulate bloody Machado in Cuba, bat it spells further slavery for the Filipino masses. state attorney gencral. James MvGrath, member of the national committee of the Marine Workers Union, and active organ- izer on two coasts, was operated on late Friday night at Bellevue Hos- | pital for a stab wound in the abdo- ‘ Ea) men, inflicted several hours before fo ute About, Your Conditions | py a self-proclaimed Lovestoneite ‘or The Daily Worker. Become a McGrath is reported by members Worker Correspondent. | ofthe union'who saw him the next | day, to be doing well, with good May Issue “Party hopes for recovery, though the 4 . wound is of the sort which is al- Organizer” Ready greys dance: Hospi Risks Life. Workers who rushed to the aid of McGrath when he was knifed The May issue of the Party Or-| ganizer is off the press and those districts which as yet did not send in their order must do so at once. took him to the nearest hospital, Those districts that did not settle | Beth Israel, on 17th Street. The management there absolutely re- for the previous bills must enclose check with their order. Members of the units must de- mand the presence of this monthly fused to do anything more for him than to give him an injection to ease his pain, although in deep ab- at the unit meetings, Since the dis- | Gominal wounds, an operation to tricts ,have increased their orders, | Prevent death from pierced intes- : |tines is always indicated, and the there are limitéd copies on hand. Rush your order at once to the Beth Israel kept sooner the better. Workers Library Publishers, 39 East | the wounded man waiting while they 125th St., New York City. argued the police into taki a over to Bellevue, the city hospital, ;and not even the to pay treatment them to give it. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- for would cause based on frame-up charges brought |by the bosses, police and scabs, Sentence was suspended. Washington! D. C., is full of headaches these days. the old capitalistist machine going, grinding out profits for the Wall Street fat-bellied gentlemen in face of the capitalistic crisis, the ntillions of unemployed; oiling up their cannons and guns for a war for additional world markets, so that the workers may be assured a little “soup” now and then—this is a tough j The New York “Keep the Daily Worker going, keep it growing, win the masses of workers and the Washington, D, C., investigators and their bosses will job. i trict has answered this war drive against the Soviet Union, against ‘our Party, against the Daily Worker, against the working class, the capitalist investigators and the capitalist soup peddlers. Julius Fleiss, Daily worker representative, is speaking. Listen carefully: very soon be only memories of a dark past. “We must fight back at once. Daily Worker financially while at the same time we secure tens of thou- sands of new readers. The Party must be in a position to speak to hun- dreds of thousands of workers. each day through its central organ. This And how? By stren; mond, in prison for fighting for unemployntent insurance. Fight for Work or Wage: orker {ON RATES: Si a year everywhere excepting Manhattan = a Ps FINAL CITY EDITION _ count City and fore there $8 a year, 390 WORKER DELEGATES PLAN COMMUNIST CLASS WAR ELECTION CAiiPAIGN Nominate Foster, Serving 3 Years As Leader of Jobless, for State Governor “Results Measured by Shop Committees, New Party Members, Growth of Red Unions” SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 25.—With 390 worker dele- gates present, many directly from the shops, representing all the basic industries of New York, the Communist Party state convention yesterday adopted its platform of struggle for the elections this fall, made plans to build the Party and the revo- lutionary unions, support the struggle of exploited and unem- ployed workers through the campaign, and nominated its state ticket. William Z. Foster, general secretary ef the Trade Union the 110,000 workers in the New York March 6 unemploy- ment demonstration on their elected committee to lay. their Unity League and now serving three years for representing wud ATL grievances and demands before the New York city govern-| ment, was nominated for gov- ernor. For Lieutenant Governor, the con- vention chose J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the Interna- A = tional Lagor De- ATLANTA, ( fence. For Attor- ing the object ney General, it pene Us , cones Oe : tor e on ail of the six ee ee se | “insu M. H. Powers, Negro worker, seph Carr, Mary Dalton, Anna B: and Negro or- ak, Gilmer Brady and Henry St ganizer for the was postponed to June 7. On Communist Party. date the c ill decide whether Franklin P. Brill the <1x workers will be released on was nominated bail or continue to sit in their prison <2 te cells. ‘Oliver C. Hancock appeared troller. Brill is Louis Engdah! as attorney for the In ional La- a Buffalo’ work- bor Defense at th ng. er, in the revolutionary movement : for over 25 years, and®several | The worke ted on Wednes- times before a candidate on the day have all been in the labor Ci uitnia® sleet movement. Brady was an active (Other nominations and further ember of the Post Office Clerks’ Union in Boston before becoming na- tional organizer of the American Ne gro Labor’ Congress. Dalton was connected with the Office Workers’ work of the conyention will be re- ported in tomorrow’s issue of the Daily Worker. The convention had jnot completed its work at last re- ports from Schenectady.—Editor). | in New York, w fe Burlak he National | _ Greatest Interest. + ar CEO ie The hall was packed with dele- | jand before South: gates and spectators. Besides the | 390 delegates ;resent, reports were received from « number elected to the convention who could not arrive on time, due to break down of cheap cars borrowed to save railroad fare, A meeting of the editors of all la bor newspapers will be held in New York on Monday, at which ti publicity campaign for the tion of th@ ete. up. One of the questions on | There were 312 delegates present | der of business will be the issuing from District 2 (New York) and 78 | °f special ed of the respective from District 4 (Buffalo) of the Newspapers in c nnection with the Communist Party. Thirty nine of /¢@™paign and the June 7th anni- the delegates were from trade) Yersary © the defense of the Gas- tonia tent colon unions, 70 from shop meetings and “The of these working shop committees, many from the} re councils of the unemployed, 21 from | Class fighters,” reads a ement ithe International Labor Defense issued by the Atlanta branch of the branches, 3. from branches of the, [. L. D. which reached New York Workers International Relief, 2 “does not mean the the Tenants’ League, one’ fro ment in At Labor Sports Union, one from Atlanta will Workers Ex-Servic® Men's Leagues, ings and 19 from Trade Union Unity Lea ling up eo movement Com- nd the Trade Union groups, 102 were from benefit so- | cieties, co-oper: s, fraternal and | workers’ clubs: 23 were youth dele- (Continued on Page Three) under the the {munist P Unity Leag of nds to defend the six Atlanta ners and other militant workers g¢ long terms of are neede Nation: Labor D. | 11th S Room 430, 80 East New York City. “The Daily Worker in danger. mass mobilization for mass collections. How to keep to help our paper. accomplished, then capitalist investigators will beat a retreat and the workers will have their inning and do a big job of cleaning up. New York district acted. Party members, sympathetic , Workers from all kinds of workers’ organizations, went to shops and fac- tories, into the streets and subways, went wherever workers were to be found and for three days collected loyally and determinedly for’ funds “Preliminary organizational details were given especial attention. FEARS GROWING Wagner Demands Fake Bills be Passed Immediate | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25— s adio yesterday, New York ex- unless his fake | “unemployment bills” were 1 the militancy of the eight million would conti fear ssed, joble We knew that the larger the number who went out the more the Daily Wagner passed the buck Worker would be helped. Sixty stations were established. Additional pensae of the bills to President organizations we had not reached called daily to cooperate. meine “ohitek features “All who participated were surprised at the quick response from Wee! oe rnin «workers approached. Many workers contribuled and demanded to become denieada ft ci ‘Work pane regular readers besides. It rained Friday and Sunday; patriots, fascists aed ae ee: the million , and police attempted to interfere. Nothing stopped us. The Daily Worker * ade ie se ment needed funds to build mass circulation. Only this mattered. And when sf public employment offices, and @ to build our paper. gthening the “Comrades: Your city is next. trim, make it powerful, so (hai U e \Washin the exploited workers.” the final returns were in lasi week-end, a total of $3,500 had been secured Keep the Daily Worker in fighting soup peddlers will go down and out before the revolutionary advance of works const “KURD NATIONALISTS. ety : ISTANBUL, Tur The trial of on, D.C, investigators and the Turkish chieftain, Selaeddine, on charges of attempting to create an | independent Turkish state will be 'held in Angora.