The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1930, Page 1

aily Entered as scroud-class matter at the Vost Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3. 1879. Published daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily Publishing Vol. VII., No. 127 Into the Shops! Into the Struggle! HE action of the New York State Ratification Convention of the Communist Party at Schenectady on Sunday in approving unani- mously and with tulmultous ovation the name of William Z. Foster as candidate for governor, is. symbolic as a challenge to capitalism which has imprisoned not only Comrade Foster but hundreds of fighters who led the workers in the fight for Work or Wages on March 6 and afterwards. The election campaign will not be a Communist campaign unless it focuses the attention of millions of workers, employed and unem- ployed, upon the fighting issues born out of the daily struggles of the workers, one of the foremost issues being the demand for release of the victims of March 6 and the persistent, daily, determined or- ganization of the unemployed movement of which March 6 was but the beginning. The election campajgn, during which the million masses will be attuned to political issues, must be the class conscious workers’ op- portunity not only to explain what the Communist Party stands for, but to organize the workers in the shops, mines and mills to fight for what the Party stands for. The greatest weapon with which the workers can assail the bosses in demanding the release of the Unemployed Committee, will be a basically organized movement around the demands for which Foster and all the other fighters of March 6 went to prison. The convention which is to take place in Chicago on July 4 must be a monumental protest at the capitalist persecution of the leaders of the unemployed. The Chicago convention must be built solidly upon the basis of the revolutionary trade union movement of the Trade Union Unity League and its demands for Work or Wages, against speed-up and wage cuts, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, for genuine so- cial insurance at the cost of the capitalists. Only by pushing this work will we be carrying forward the banner of struggle left in our hands by Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and the scores and hundreds of heroic fighters whom capitalist vengeance has cast into prison. This work is a basic part of the Communist program in the elec- tions. Every class conscious worker knows that it will require the same fighting force to pry open the prison doors as it will to force capitalism to fork over its dollars for unemployment insurance; that such ends are not to be gained by’ waiting till the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month of November and dropping a piece of paper in a ballot box on that day. The fight for “Work or Wages” and the leaders of the unemployed now in prison must go forward every single day in every shop where a class conscious worker toils with other workers. On this there ean be no doubt. On this there can be no excuses offered by those who cherish the name of Communist. Organize your shop for struggle! Struggle for the daily inter- ests of the workers there; struggle for Work or Wages for those mil- lions who stand at the factory gates; struggle for release of all poli- tical prisoners; struggle to elect if possible the Communist candidates so they may cry out from the vantage point of capitalist parliament: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains, and a world to gain!” The Bosses’ Medicine Men “Make Pow-Wow” T= approach of the congressional and other elections has spurred Hoover and the Wall Street administration to “decisive leader- ship” in Congress. With the economic crisis growing rather than les- sening, with unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up, etc., weighing ter- rifically on the shoulders of the entire working class, with the agrarian crisis spreading ruin, disillusionment, and active discontent among the poor and even middle farmers—Hoover and the republican party are desperately in need of “positive” results with which to appeal for re-election. This is the reason for the decision of the republican chiefs to rush the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill and get a swift ratifica- tion of the London Naval Treaty. This also is the reason for Hoover's sudden emergence as a “decisive” leader, contrary to his previous habits, and his threat to call a special session-of the Senate, if they insist on adjourning before ratifying the treaty. With these two “achievements” to his credit, Hoover and the republican party can then go before “the country” and “demonstrate” their accomplishments to all classes, To the workers and farmers, they will point to the ‘increasing employment” which the tariff “will” (of course not) provide, as well as to the “peace” which the “reduc- tion of armaments” treaty will (and never intended to) guarantee. To the finance capitalists, they will point to the same tariff and naval ‘treaty, only this time as weapons strengthening them in their struggle for world markets and guaranteeing an unequalled war machine for the approaching slaughter. As a matter of fact, the administration is not only rushing the passage of the London Naval “Treaty,” but it has already begun to push legislation for the billion dollar naval construction program guar- anteed by the treaty. Both the tariff and the treaty are in reality instruments of war which will hasten the transformation of the acute economic conflict into an imperialist conflict by force of arms. Economically, the position of the American finance capitalists is a mess of tangled contradictions. If they pass the tariff bill, it will give them a billion dollars out of the pockets of the American magses. It will help them in their offensive struggle for the desperately needed ‘ world markets. At the same time, however, it will call forth a rising wave of tariff reprisals by foreign capitalist countries, thereby imme- diately restricting their world market and further deepening the eco- nomic crisis at home and abroad. In addition to reducing the real wages of the American workers by increasing the cost of living, a further wholesale wave of unemploy- ment due to curtailment of production in export industries will add Rew sections of workers to the already tremendous army of hungry, fobless workers. . These are the “achievements” which Hoover and Wall Street have to offer the exploited masses. These are the “solutions” to the catastrophes which they bring down on the heads of the toilers. The democratic party can offer no better “solutions” even if it questions these of Hoover; and as for the so-called “socialist” party, it has proven with blackjacks in Milwaukee that it will club the workers in defense: of capitalism like the other capitalist parties, Not a new set of capitalist jailers, but the sharpest struggle against the entire capitalist system of robbery, war and plunder is the only thing to free the workers from the “blessings” of capitalism, from unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up, imperialist. war, ete, In the coming elections, register your determination to fight against this system by voting for the candidates and program of your own Party, the Communist Party. And not only by voting but by organizing your shopmates for struggle in defense of your class. days for every child who stay LAY DEMANDS ON) 03 {0 cy old win cayed oe SCHOOL OFFICIAL | would te siven 20 day sentence would be given 30 day sentences if it happened again. Parents and Children in Mass Meet-| School children have decided on a ing Plan Demonstration. | school strike if the demands that eatin. | the principal of Public School 89 A mass meeting in the Bronx Co-, call off his war against working operative houses last night of par-| class children and their parents are ents and workers’ children took ac-| not granted. tion against the reign of terror The meeting last night was called against those who took part in they the International Labor Defense, March 6 and May 1 demonstrations. New York district, the Working Thirty working class parents have Women’s Councils, and the Young been served with summonses to ap-' Piencers. It elected a committee of pear Wednesday in Upper Bronx » to lay demands before the prin- Court as second offenders. They cipal. of School 89 tomorrow at 9 were told when sentenced to two, a. m., 7, 1930 SUBSURL NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 2 REVOLT FLARES UP IN INDIA; F eae for July 1. Hight Scabs inRangoon| A very sisceserull conferencenot| and Delhi: Stone the metal miners, with delegates ¢ ’ Police, Bombay ‘Copper Miners Rea | DULUTH, Minn., May 26.—Under the leadership of the . National Miners Union, the copper miners |from all parts of the Northern | Minnesota and Michigan fields was | held here yesterday. It was called K i 1 1 Police Official oy the district office of the N.M.U. | The conference elected nominees | to the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, ‘Troops Fire on Crowd; Ten Per Cent Cut; Led by N.M.U. | of terrific strikes *conducted with dy to Contest gation at the Pittsburgh national convention of the N.M.U., which| comes June 28. The district here contains iron mines, even more important than the copper deposits, and the scene much militancy, during the period | of the LW.W. Since the collapse of the Wobbly organization, the copper and iron miners have both been without or- ganization, and a regime of brutal | exploitation and suppression has | been instituted, with plenty of labor spies, and plenty of wage cuts andj Indian Police Mutiny and the district will have a big dele- BULLETIN The latest reports allowed through by the British censor give the dead in the fighting in Rangoon as 26 and the number of injuries as 600. |Calvacades of mounted police ride Foster trom Prison, accidents in the mines. throught the streets. * * * Capitalist press reports coming through the imperialist censorship {in India show a blazing forth of sentiment, with whole sections of the proletariat involved now and |completely disregarding the Gandhi | theory of non-r tance. In addition, the native police in British service at Bombay refused to attack the raiders on the salt) ans, » : | { At Rangoon, Burma, striking dock | {workers picketed in force when im- | PS Calls for Class War ‘Accepting Nomination, Urges Election Fight Be for Work or Wages and for Workers’ Rule New York County Penitentiary, | Harts Island, New York, May 23, | 1930. can in spite of my present position, to be worthy of the confidence re- posed in me by the Party in nomi- To the New York State Ratifica- tion Convention: Dear Comrades:—I have been in- formed that my name will be pre- | sented to you as a prospective can- didate for governor in the coming ported strike breakers arrived, | nA f | convention, hence I am sending vou |nating me to head its New York | Ste’e ticket in the fall elections. The worsening economic situation in the U. S.jis rapidly radicalizing | vast millions*of workers in spite of the growing terror of the bosses. The capitalist class can’t succeed in | fought both the scabs and the police, and in a day of fightine managed to hold their lines. Eight were killed and 800 injured at Rangoon. Two regiments of troops are in the city, | one native Bengalese and the other Seotch highlanders. The Scotch regiment fired on the strikers. Another outbreak took place on the northwest frontier, near Pesh-| war. All details have been sup- pressed, except that at the village of Gujargharhi a British assistant | superintendent of police, D. B, Mur- phy, was killed, | Fifty scabs and strikers were in- jured in mass picketing at a cloth mill strike in Delhi. There. <were repeated raids Sun- day and yesterday on the salt works on and near Bombay island, during which 200 were injured and over 200 arrested. The great bulk of the raid- ers were textile workers, the Gandhi nationalists having shrunk back in (Continued on Page Two) HAIL 1ST CHINESE SOVIET CONGRESS Mass Meeting Friday Central Opera House “The Red Armies are near to Han- kow and the red propagandists dis- tribute pamphlets, but the authori- ties dare not arrest them.” This report given by the capital- ist press characterises the treme: dous power of the chinese revolu- tionary movement. The Soviet | power is rising in the countryside and nearing the great industrial Cities, under the leadership of the | Communist Party of China. ~ GETTING WORSE this letter to be read to the conven- tion in the event that I am nom- | inated. Let me say at the outset, that if crushing the militant fighting spirit of the American workers. The jail- ing of militant workers can’t halt the determination of the masses to MASS PROTEST — ON ATLANTA DEATH CASES Powers and Carr Case! Postponed to June 17 Still Deny Bail Minneapolis Meetings South Will Be Roused Over Legal Lynching judiciary has postponed it from to- morrow, the already postponed date of trial, and announces that the two Communist organizers will now facc on June 17 the trial which is likely | to send them to the electric chair. | | Application for bail again | made in this case Saturday, and the decision was postponed until June 7. They are ‘charged under a Civil |War law with “insurrection” and | “circulating insurrectionary papers. | The actual basis of this charge is} |that Powers, Communist Party dis- trict organizer, and Carr, Young| Communist League district organ-| was izer, were uniting Negro and white} | workers for a strong fight against the wage cuts and that is rife in this part of the South, as it is elsewhere. Arrested At Meeting. They were arrested March 9, and | charged with throwing the tear gas nemployment | his 3 ched th ng ae |a lively affair, with the delegates breaking into song with the Inter- nationale” frequently, and wildly cheering the many good speakers. The best of the speakers were nominated, I shall do whatever I (Continued on Page Three) CRISIS IN CHINA BAKERY WORKERS WIN 8-HOUR DAY Siiver Price Drops to;New Union Gains First Lowest in 100 Years | 40-Hour Week Shop The worst break of the year in| Bakery workers for Dennison | the London and the local silver mar- | Bros. at 5307 Church Ave. in Brook- lets occurred Monday. Shanghai lyn are this week enjoying the five- | tael dropped 138 points lower and Wea Hella) Woe La) oe Bh dad 4 of a three hour strike under the |the Hongkong unit dropped 50 leadership of the new Food Work- points. Silver in London dropped | ers’ Industrial Union. 3% d. to the lowest in over 100 years; These workers previously worked of recorded daily history and in the | 13 and 14 hours a day despite the local market the price of silver also | fact that all were members of Lo- reached the lowest in history. | cal 3 Bakers, Amalgamated Food It is reported that’ the drop in| Workers, which had a contract with London is the result of heavy sell-| the boss! All joined the new union ing in China which is in turn the| and voted for a strike. They put result of the breaking down of ex-) up their picket line, led by J. Klein, ports and the increase of imports,| organizer of the Brooklyn section of particularly of grain. This unusual the F. W. I. U., with headquarters situation again testifies to the ter-| at 16 Graham Ave. rible economic crisis in China and) The strike on the fruit market at the new drop is sure to deepen the | 5501 New Utrecht Ave. was also crisis and hasten the revolt of the/ settled yesterday with union condi- masses. | tions, after two days’ picketing. | Cooperman’s Market, a block away, is still on strike. f ~ 8 © SHANGHAT, May 26.—After com- pleting a tour of the Yangtze Val- ley provinces, a representative of | the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Nanking government, who i supposed to be also a high militar officer, exhibited a classical exam- ple of the cheapest and most stupid belly-crawling stunts in an inter- view today. Speaking humbly to reporters of | with foreign governments.” Documents, allegedly seized in re- cent raids on Communist headquar- ters were cited as proof of ‘his statement. The stupidity of coun- ter-revolutionary forgers in China evidently rivals that of the authors of the Whalen documents, Wat ier The anti-Nanking bloc has re- On June 6, Friday evening, there will be a mass meeting in the Cen-! tionary forces, he said that “Com- tral Opera House, 67th Street and; munist elements were seeking to 8rd Avenue, to celebrate the first| gain their purpose principally by Chinese Soviet Congress and to mob-;| abducting foreigers in the interior imperialist papers about the revolu- | cently repudiated the peace moves of Chiang Kai-shek and have begun a general offensive drive toward | Hankow. Yen Hsi-shan claimed that the northern forces advanced at the corner of Dean and Howard | rally workers to the shield of the) ilize mass support for both the Chin- ese and Indian revolution, | “Try and Stob Us!” One of the bosses’ representatives at Washington, D. C., who has the illusion that Communist propaganda, the Communist Party and the Daily Worker will disappea fist with a silk glove, had ticians in the White House “What we are doing here is to start a movement which will give this Communistic propaganda publicity which the Communists could not buy for a million dollars. will be quoted from the press of the nation. It will be sought eagerly by the discontented and dissatisfied and the radicals everywhere. opinion we could render a greater service in meeting this situation if, in- stead of trying to shut off 'and thereby embroiling the Nank- ing administration in difficultjes! way today. |bomb which one of the police force actually threw at their meeting. They were let out on relatively low | bail, and when appearing for trial were arrested again, and indicted | April 1, on the capital charge, since | |which time they have been held| | Without bail, and Carr has been kept | |in the death cell. There have been | K.K.K. demonstrations to whip up a lynching spirit, and terrorize the | | masses of Southern workers who are |demanding the freedom of their | leaders. | In addition to Powers and Carr four more workers, Anna Burlak, | International Labor Defense organ- i fary Dalton, National Tex! Workers Union organizer; Henry (Continued on Page Three) | FIGHT LYNCHING ‘Start Drive Against Boss Terror The Communist Party is launch- | | ing a determined drive against the} \ ‘been carried on by the } bosses and landowners against the capitalist "PION RAPES: S64 year & and Bronx, New York City FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents where eacepting Manhattan countries, there $5 a year. COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN IN ELECTION TO FIGHT FOR RELEASE OF PRISONERS Schenectady Convention Closes With Delegates Pledging to Push Program in the Shops nd for Delegates from Jobs Take Floor to Support Communist Platform of Class Struggle TO SENTENCE FLAIANL JUNE 17 SCHENECTADY, May 26,.—Not ate Ratification Con only did the § ATLANTA, Ga., May 26.—With- | vention of the Communist Party out calling the Powers and Carr! honor the imprisoned Unemployed case into open court, the Atlanta Committee by honorary seats on the convention presidium, and greet with ten minutes tumultous ovation the name of William Z. Foster as can- didate for Governor, but after nu- merous speeches upon various poli- tical prisoners from different dele- gates, it adopted a resolution pledg- ing that the election campaign will also be a campaign to release every | one of the workers held in the dun- | geons of the bosses, North, South, East and West. Trial of Eight Others Up June 2 of Dor ist Party orgar sedition here last poned to June 17 when h today Judge W: Riper in the Court of Quar appea’ Vv red before sions. The convention, which closed last night, was a most enthusiastic gath- Te een Leceentencad: to aaweae lering, astonishing the Schenectady | under the two indictments on which chief of police, who with many of! he was convicted. The trial of the his men “watched the Reds.” It was] cient other workers arrested at th workers straight from the job, led off by a railway worker of Syra- cuse. James Elliott, from the Un- employed Council of Harlem, a Ne. grec worker made a strong point o | the fact that all parties but the Com- munist “Jim Crow” parties. Strenuous applaud greeted Com- rade Li, a Chinese worker, especial- ly when he told how the Chinese Revolution, after years of defeat, Party are | was now signalizing its triumph by | the First Soviet Congress in China |The “Daily” a Campaign Organizer.) white workers Alfred Wagenknecht, business manager of the Daily Worker, earn- estly protested that not he, but every worker, Communist member or sup- porter, “managed” the Daily Work- er, whose circulation must be built by these very same workers in their shops or no business manager in the Center will have any business to manage. The Daily Worker must be put into the hands of the work- ers by the rank and file workers who |now support it and the Party for| leadership of the Communist Par which it speaks. So must the Plat- form, which he praised as the voice of the Party, written in words which every single worker will un- derstand. A seaman from the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union called atten- tion to the fact that the new Red vicious system of lynching that has! union has a Ship Committee on the} and said/ great liner “Leviathan” that the seamen would keep up the work till the Red flag flies from same unemployment meet i ayd also indicted f tion will start June 2. It lieved that the sentence w poned until after the other trials take place, so if the workers are |eonvicted they can all be sent to | prison at one time. Flaiani was the principal speaker | at a protest demonstration attended | by 500 workers held Saturday after- |noon in M y Park under the |joint auspices of the International | Labor Defense, Communist Party, | Young Communist League and the |Trade Union Unity League. “Although I have been convicted |for urging a struggle by Negro and against unemploy | ment,” Flaiani told the asse Negro and white jobless who made up a large part of his audience, “the {fight will continue, The Comm:n Party and the Trade Union Uni | League will unite the worker: will demand ‘work or wages’ until the powers that be wil be commelled to listen to our demands. The ar- rest of the eight other workers an myself will not stop the agitation |which will go on until under the who the workers will have establi | their own workers and farmers Jernment. Join us in our fight w |will do away with unemployme jand starvation.” nt { While the police attempted to pre- vent the taking up of a collection $35 was collected to help the Inter- national Labor Defense appeal the e and defend the other workers g trial. | cd | faci Negro toilers. All sections of the/ the ‘stern of every ship. Frank| Other speaker the meeting Communist Party of District 2 ave! Martin, of the Spanish Workers| Were Elias Marks, Communist preparing for the United Front Con-| Center of New York called attention| Party; Veronica Kocacs, Young ference which the Party is calling|to the 250,000 terribly exploited|Communist League; Julius Rubin, for June 13th at the Harlem Casino, | Latin Americans in New York City| Trade Union Unity League; Morris 100 W, 116th St., corner Lenox Ave.| alone, and proposed that special at-| Langer, Needle Trade Workers In- | Open air meetings are being held tention be given them in the coming| dustrial Union, one of those sche- in every section and the comrades intend to make this the biggest con-| ference ever held in the district. Section 8, Brooklyn, is arranging | an open air anti-lynching meeting| o'clock. | ’ Our Reply Gentleman oa Who Thinks We Mig r into thin air if capitalism will cover its iron the following to say when the capitalist poli- voted the other day to investigate us: Everybody will know the Daily Worker. It In my the supply of this propaganda, we tried todo _ belt system! something to lessen the demand for it.” Every Communist and class conscious worker has a quick reply to this, We say that the lackeys of the boss class who think they can sup- press us by what, in the language of these gentlemen, they call an inves- | tigation, and those lackeys heads into the dunghill of their own bloody capitalist system, we will cease to exist, are both barking up a sour apple tree of the bosses who think that by sticking their A worse job even We are raising campaign. Beatrice Siskind of the Interna- | duled to go on trial June 2 and Lot- tie Blumenthal, chairman of the Labor Jury which brought in a ver- liet acoviting Flaiani, tional Labor Defense told how rising struggles were bringing mor: persecution, urging the delegates to Two workers were arrested giving out leaflets announcing the demon- $25, | thirty miles along the Lunghai Rail-| Sts, on Friday, May 30, at 8 workers, the LL.D., to defeat capi-| (Continued on Page Three) ‘Propaganda Worth a Million Dollars” ht Get Something tor Nothing The capitalist system is the abortion of the bosses you represent, gentlemen of Washington, D. C. The stench of it is mighty disagreeable to the working class. The masses of workers are undertaking a revolu- tionary house cleaning. And this just can’t be stopped! You stick your heads into your own dunghill and you pull out a worm for the unemployed workers, gentlemen of Washington, D.C. You think this will lessen our propaganda! Some one once said to a starving “mob”—if they have no bread let them eat cake. And the Czar of all the Russians had the fond idea that his subjects would live on grass. Both of them are up above now, playing silver harps on heaven's golden streets for a period of eternity. than sweating on Ford's Getting back to earth. We workers are here, trying to live here now, demanding to live here damn well. Nothing is going to stop our revolutionary march forward towards being masters of our own lives. We need the Communist Party, our political leader, and the Daily Worker, our fighting daily paper. Daily Worker going and growing. Try to stop us! 000 (no less) to keep the stration. They were Eugend Jones }a Negro worker and Bernard Ria- jzanski, The I.L.D. secured their j release on bail. They are to go on | trial tomorrow, The Newark International Labor Defense announced today that fur- ther protest demonstrations are be- ing nged full details of which will be announced later. It was also made known that Joseph R. Brodsky of New York City will be associated with the defense attorr when the trial of the eight work starts on June 2, Special China Soviet! [Edition Will Be Out. on May 39th, Friday) | We have decided to publish a| H | special issue of the Daily Work- 30th, Friday, to cele- mvening of the First | brate the ‘ore we will postpone until) the printing of the Map et Districts in China h is specially e for the | Daily Worker and the special ar-| ticles on China we have already in our hands. The Friday issue} | will also contain an article on! China by Carl Marx, entitled “Revolution in China and Eu- rope,” written ia 1853 for the! | New York Tribune. Don't miss} th ue. i aaa ene” @