The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1930, Page 1

aily Entereo ax second-class matter at the Post Office at Published daily exce Company, In aN ot “The Blood Beohanee” ULIUS MARSHALL, twenty-six, a bookkeeper, of 279 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn, was found dead lying on the floor with a gas tube in his mouth. He had pla nned for a year and a half to marry a girl, but—unable to find a job, could not. Nothing so remarkable about that, but there are other factors about this case which make it stand out in bold relief as an example of the mass misery of the nearly 8, seek jobs in this country of Hoover Marshall could not find work. 000,000 jobless workers, and hooey. But he was healthy many months who vainly ago, and went to an. institution that is called “The Blood Donors’ Ex- change.” The word “donor” the buying and selling of human blood. like him are not “donors,” they do it. an “exchange.” have no stocks. is their life-blood. The bos found buyers—for a hile. They sell it because they need money. Like stocks on the Stock Exchange. They have only their laboring power—a part of which es didn’t want Marshall’s is deceptive, euphemistically covering up Marshall, and many workers “donate” their blood, they sell They sell their blood to The workers not labor power. But his .blood To live, to pay his rent, he sold so much blood that he became weak. He tried to sell more. ning the “exchange” “business w bad” and, transfusions, was no good. anyhow, But Mrs. Holtz—the whefe blood is e “blood broker” run- said that frequent changed for dollars, blood, from Marshall’s He tried to borrow a couple of dollars—an advance on blood he hoped to sell. The woman “blood trading on a margin at the self, which of course was foolish; or any other of the millions of jobl He left a letter cursing the problem, “Blood Exchange.” Cheaper than stocks on Wall Street’s exchange. “blood broker.” So long as the hideous system of capitalism lasts, the blood, refused—would permit no Blood is too cheap. Marshall killed him- which solved no problem for him ess, broker” Which also settles no the life force of the workers, is a thing for capitalists, for brokers, to gamble with. blood, they buy it. Usually it is So long as the bosses make money selling workers’ bought in wages by day, week or month. Marshall merely sold it by the quart, drawn directly from his vei The whole damned capitalist s ystem is a vast “Blood Exchange,” Millions of jobless workers are finding that capitalism no longer wants their blood. They’re too old or too slow. The bosses prefer fresher, faster-throbbing and cheaper blood of women or youth in their mills and shops. The “Blood Exchange” well symbolizes the horror and hell of capi- talism. Only revolution will wipe tens on the blood of the workers. out the ghastly vampire that fat- MAY DAY PARADE MOVIES AT5-YEAR PLAN FESTIVAL Movies of the aatarastiatle May Day parade and demonstration in New York City will be one of the features of the mass celebration of the Five Year Plan, to be held at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, this Satur- day, May 31, Defend the Soviet Union Day. The Ulmer Park celebratjon, which is being arranged by the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Workers International Relief. will be a mighty tribute to the tonishing progress of the Five-Year Plan and a_ mobilization workers of New York and vicinity to defend the first Workers’ Repub- | lic from the new attacks now being launched against it. Tickets are 50 cents and are on sale at the F, S. U. National Of- fice, 175 Fifth Ave., Room 511; Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square; Freiheit, 30 Union Square, and at other stations. BOSS, WIFE LED TEXAS LYNCHING Hughes Is Framed-Up Asking for Back Pay As the days go by. in spite of the efforts of the prostitute capitalis’ press to obscure the truth, more | facts are being brought out about | the circumstances leading up tg the | recent cannibalistic Jynching halo- cast in Sherman, Texas. It has been found, after an inves- | tigation at the scene of the crime, that the real reason Hughes was, lynched was that he attempted to! secure three weeks back wages from | his boss, avyhose wife accused him of | tape. That the “criminal assault” | fn this case was the attempt of this: boss and his wife to kill Hughes! when he asked for the money due him for his work. defended himself against this attack | and as a result both the boss and his wife sojourned in the hospital for a time. This lynching bee was | staged by the bosses and their agents to “put the Negroes in their place” and to discourage them from fight- ing for etter conditions, All workers should attend the mass demonstrations against lynch- ing which is being held under the auspices of the Communist Party on Friday evening, May 30, at 7.30 p.| m. at the corner of 137th St. and Seventh Ave. Speakers should re- port to 308 Lenox Ave. at 7 o'clock on Friday and Brooklyn workers || should attend the meeting at the |’ corner of Howard and Dean St. on! the same night. pating in the Brooklyn meeting should report at 7 o'clock at 105 Thatford Ave. (Near Pitkin Ave.). The Communist Party of District 2 has called’ a United Front Anti- Lynnching Conference at the New Harlem Casino on Friday evening. June 13, at 7 o'clock has ‘received a communication fullest support to this campaign and pledges to send delegates from all unions and left wing fighters. affil. | iated with it to this conferenc of the; Hughes bravely | Speakers partici- | from the Trad2| Union Unity League announcing its | FASCISTS SHOOT GERMAN TOILERS Attack Unarn med Truck | Returning from Mee (Wireless By lipreeorr.) RLIN, Ma; District Party BE Baden Communist in Pirmass fascists ambushed the truck bear- ing t delegates home, shooting and killirg one, seriously injuring five ond wounding fourteen. eatherworker Jopn, retur with two others from a Comr meeting were attacked by’ fascists. Jopp + , and the others were serion iniured with clubs, knives and knuckeldusters. chief of pelice of Pirmasens prohib- ited a demonstration in order to smother the protests of the workers. | Yesterday evening. masses of em- , bittered workers collected before the local Communist Party quarters, vrotesting against fi murders. Police attempted to clear the square with batons, and failing this, pro- duced their revolvers. They fired a volley and seriously wounded two ing | workers, Collisions between the workers and fascists took place yesterday in Duesseldorf. Numerous persons | were injured. The police interfered, | arresting the workers. Collisions between workers and ‘ascists occurred yesterday evening n Potsdamerstrasse, Berlin. Two fascists were wounded. The Berlin district Communist Party conference was held Saturday |and Sunday. Ulbricht delivered a speech on the political situation, out- lining the tasks of the party. The | chief danger are the Right Wing de- The struggle against Left ; Wing sectarianism must be car- iried on ete, Thaelmann spoke, re- viewing recent Communist success- jes: violation of Zoergiehel’s demon- stration prohibition, municipal vie- | tories, workers council victories, ete. | The Conference unanimously a supporting the Central | Committee, It decided to remove \the ultra-Lefts Peuke comrades from their posts for a year. A new dis- j trict committee was unanimously | elected, Today the Reirhstag adopted an “Ermaechtigungsgesetz” (Empower- ing law), permitting the cabinet to reduce capital taxation without con- sulting the Reichstag. The ultimate lan of this is to curtail the rights of the Reichstag in controlling the com- position of the budget. | resolution eee es. | STOCKHOLM, May 26.—Sunday, ist Party organized a vedish demonstration liek Malmo Harbor where six British cruisers were anchored. Three hun- dred workers arrived from Copen- hagen. A gang of fascists attempt- ed to interfere, hut were beaten up, Police rescued the fascists, and be- | labored the workers with their jsabres, injuring several. Many were j arrested, * « * PARIS, May 27.—A magnificent Communist demonstration place Sunday before the Wall of | the Communards in the Pere La Chaise Cemetary. Police atiacked he demonstrations, wounding and vesting many, . The socialist | took j | | ternational, | json of the superior court. day by ‘The Comprodaily fon Square, |Veniremen Ranchers} |a new agricultural New York City TRIAL STARTS ON: ELEVEN IMPERIAL VALLEY WORKERS Letter of the Bone. Benn of the Central THAN FOR DECADE Criminal < Gendioniaan Case Attempt to | Block Strike Defense Is Right to Organize EL CENTRO, Cal., May 27. criminal syndicalism trial of eleven of the 85 workers arrested April 15 in Imperial Valley to try and halt \the rapid organization of the 15,000 | | vegetable workers there in the Ag- ricultural Workers Industrial Lea- gue. The men were seized as they gathered for a convention at which | workers union, adhering to the Trade Union Unity | | They were at first held on 40,000 | bail each, which was finally reduced | to $15, | 000. Leaders on Trial Among the others on trial are} Frank Spector, organizer of the In-| Labor Defense and Waldron, T.U.U.L. organizer for Southern California, The trial is before Jutige Thomp- | New York. N.Y. ander the act of March 3. 1879, SUBSCRIPTION RAI and Bronx, PRE. CONVENTION DISCUSSION Committee to All Party Members ‘Dear Comrades:— This letter is designed to raise clearly the outstanding problems Fisher Plant Cut Half | before our Party, in order to concentrate the pre-convention discus- |sion in the districts, sections and units, and in the press, especially on these issues and to aid the Party in the carrying through of the present, |Party campaigns. INCREASE IN POLITICAL INFLUENCE Our Party, since the Comintern Address and the defeat of the organized Right wing, has made considerable progress. Factionalism has been completely overcome; | consolidated on the basis of the correct political line of the Comintern This inner consolidation has been accompanied by a great increase in the Party’s mass work and in its mass influence. the Party has been The part played by the Party in the successful Cleveland .TUUL convention, the demonstrations on August 1 against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, the response of thousands during the visit of the Soviet ‘flyers, the many demonstrations of the unemployed, | League, would have been launched. | especially those of March 6 when over a million workers came into the streets at the call of our Party and the T.U.U.L., the leading role of the Party and the revolutionary trade unions.in to $5,000 each, and then raised again | the strike struggles of the past year (mining, needle, textile, shoe, food, auto, etc.), the re- cruiting of over 6,000 new members during the Party’s membership drive, the response of over has been a decided slump in three hundred thousand workers on May Day, all show the growing readiness of the workers | to rally to our slogans and fight against the triple alliance of the government, the bosses and the social-fascists. OPPORTUNITIES TREMENDOUS But the opportunities ‘of the present situation are even greater than these successes The In- | would by themselves indicate. The economic crisis is not abating; on the contrary, it is deep- | ternational Labor Defense attorneys | ening. The he efforts of the of the e bo: ses to place the burden of this crisis on the backs of the workers ;R. Henderson -and Leo Gallagher | represent the defendants. The de- fense is the right of workers to or- |ganize and strike, the right of selt | | defense, and the right to belong to the political party of their choice, j the Communist Party. The trial is intimately connected Es the strike situation, the Im- rial Valley workers must fight ‘oon over the low wages, and hor-| rible living conditions provided them, | land the growers openly declare that i : |they are smas —-Following the | ganization through the prosecution. Conference of the|The state militia is to be sent to | hing the workers’ or- Imperial Valley as soon as the strike starts, and gangs of American Le- gion thugs are already recruited by | the bosses. six weeks. The first day was taken up with examination of veniremen, most of whom are farmers, ranchers, or their wives. . If convicted, the workers will be sentenced to “one to fourteen years.” Spector has opened an I.L.D. of- fice in El Centro, a branch is being organized, and all workers must be mobilized behind the defense. SOVIET CONGRESS The role of the Wall Street ‘and the MacDonald governments in June 6, Central | the First | be the mass meeting, Opera House, at which Chinese Soviet Congress will celebrated. Leaders of the ican revolutionary movement, among them leading Chinese Communists will speak on the movements in China and India. In China as a result of the an- tagonism of the imperialist powers, | the northern war is still in full) swing. But it is only a question | of | turn all their tanks, cannons, bombs, machine guns against the revolting workers and peasants. The June 6th mass meeting will not only greet the Chinese Soviets, but at the same time mobilize mass support for the Chinese Revolution, The mad an today. Poland is an armed camp. which presents itself sharply to do, are you acting? It is stated that the trial will last | FIRST CHINESE. China and India will be exposed at | Amer- | revolutionary , time, when the imperialist powers | tion at Bristol, ; and their Chinese mercenaries will | gunmen, three killed, scores injured. | “a leading comrade in the Communist International, Soviet campaign which is developing ,indicates that the boss class: in every country is feverishly figuring its loss in face “of the immense success of the Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, . Capitalist France is requesting all the capitalist countries in Europe to a United States of Europe, which means a united front against the Soviet The Balkan countries are swept by war preparations, the tion prevailing being very similar to that at the beginning of the last world war. * How to help defend the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union, is a question The Soviet Union knows that upon the order of business of the capitalist countries is an attack against the country in which the workers have taken all power. But do you as yet understand, and if you FLAIANI TOURS STATE OF JERSEY Graham Also; Building, Support for Defense inick Flaiani, Communist Party or- ganizer, Friday and facing a 17-year sen- tence together with D. W. Grham, Negro, one of eight other workers who will go on trial on similiar charges here on June 2, will tour | the state of New Jersey under the | auspices of the International Labor | Defense, it was announced today. Flaiani and Graham, who is the Communist Party candidate for, United States Senator from New Jersey, will mobolize the workers of the state for the liberation of the nine who were arrested for address- ing an unemployment meeting of Negro and white workers in Feb- ruary. The schedule of meetings are as colloma! June 3, Elizabeth; June 4, th Amboy; June 5, Brunswick; Re 6, Union City; June 7, Pater. son; June 8, Passaic; June 9, Plain. |field; June 10, Jersey City; June Trenton; June 14, Freeholt and Stel ton; June 15, Brooklyn Heights and | Newark. ————— Today in History of the Workers May 28, 1845—Fi. st convention of | New England Workingmen’s ‘Aguo- | {ciation met in Boston. 1871—Last stand of Paris Commune, massacr of Communards at Pere la Chaise |Cemetery by General Gallifet. 1920! |—Rubber workers’ strike demonstra- | R. L, attacked by 1922—Railroad @ Labor Board cut $48,000,000 a year off wages of | 400,000 maintenance of way work- Jers. 1924—Twelve thousand rail-| way men at Havana struck for eight- | lhour day and other demands, all) roads stopped, NEWARK, N. J. May 27.~-Dom-| ing mass struggles. The A. F. of L. is openly acting as convicted of sedition ‘last | | to conceat 4t from the masses by pseudo-radical “are daily increased. Over seven million are unemployed. Ra- | tionalization and wage cuts in the shops are going forward even more rapidly. The preparations for imperialist war are proceeding at a feverish tempo, and at the expense of the work- ers. The small reserves (savings, clothes, credit, etc.) of the workers are exhausted. Even the masses now realize that there is nothing left except still sharper, broader, and more militant struggles. . Only our Party and the revolutionary trade unions affil- iated to the T. U. U. L. will and can lead these rapidly matur- a fas- | cist, strikebreaking agency of the bosses. The socialist party and the Musteites follow the same line, though they endeavor phrases. The renegades from Communism (the Lovestoneites and Trotsky- ites), while*still trying to pose-as “Communists,” every day move more and more openly into the camp of the social fas- cists. In the important strikes and demonstrations of the past year, the united front of all these fascist and social fascist “labor” organizations with the bosses and their government, has been open and complete. The masses are becoming more and more conscious of their role as strikebreakers and scabs for the bosses, and are turning to our Party and the revolutionary unions for leader- ship in the fight against the present unbearable conditions, re- sulting from unemployment and rationalization. This is clear by the response of the masses to our slogans and our leader- ship in al the important strikes and demonstrations indicated above. A TENDENCY TO LAG BEHIND. But while ea¢h one of these strikes and demonstrations were themselves further factors deepening the discontent and revolutionary consciousness of the masses, we have failed to follow up these actions of the workers with sufficiently per- | sistent efforts to organize the masses and to develop for them a program of further struggle. This largely accounts also for smaller demohstrations on May 1st as compared with March 6th. This slowness in following up and consolidating our gains is especially no- ticeable in the districts, but is apparent also in the work of the Central | Committee (unemployment, India, struggle against right danger, etc.). We are plainly lagging far behind the possibilities of the present situation. We are lagging far behind the need of the masses for con- tinued, organized struggle against the present efforts of the bosses to place the full burden of the economie crisis on the backs of the workers. Following March 6th the organization of the unemployed and the development of further mass struggles around the issue of unemployment was almost entirely neglected. The unemployed councils which had: been set up were permitted to die in many cases for want of a program and leadership. After the very successful Cleveland convention of the T. U. U. L. | the work of dtawing masses of workers into the .T. U. U. L. and the revolutionary tnions was not pushed with sufficient energy. Very few shop committees of the *T. U. UeL. have been set up. Even in cases where we exercised leadership in strike struggles, after the strike was (Continued on Page Three) the Aid “Daily” to Defend the Soviet Un Strengthen All Links ot Sieencb ond! Proletariat to Defeat Plotters Against Workers’ Fatherland Moscow, every one of us. Our comrage in Moscow says: “The question of the imperialist preparations for war against the Soviet Union now becomes particularly cute. knows however, that in the international proletariat it has a mighty ally. fo the furious aitacks of the imperialists against the Soviet Union there arise all over the wotld new columns of revolutionary workers, out to defend their rights and the ‘ The ° speaks to you victory. ? colonies.” ion. comrades in the Soviet Union want to strengthen th strengthened, we can prove a mighty ally if the danger of an attack by the plotters and exploiters, mission to perform. So that we may fully meet the the Soviet Union, you must strengthen the Daily Wo o readers with the campaign lists sent yeu. his quota of $5 in contributions and suhseripti forces for mass collections. The Daily Worker is not yet out of danger. Soviet. Union In reply Th quicker action. © Worker New York City 1 Soviet Union, as a symbol of their own emancipation. inspires confidence in the working class of our country and strengthens its faith in The proletasiat «* the Soviet Union considers it its first duty do strengthen its links with the whole imvernational proletariat and the oppressed masses of the Comrades: We are depended upon by the Soviet Union as‘a mighty ally. growing, thundering into the minds of immense ma‘ses of workers in this country, the * In helping to defend the Soviet Union, the Daily Worker has a very important foremost fighter in our ranks is not yet in full swing. We again call for more and FINAL CITY EDIiT1ON S: 84 epling Maviattap there $8 year year every a forei "Price 3 Cents MORE JOBLES ASSAULT ON IN BALTIMORE BARRACKS IN INDIAN CITY It Hid Facts While |64 Killed, Hundreds Hoover Romanced | Wounded in Battles | in Three Cities Census Bureau Admits Cabinet Boasts Murder New Scheme to Throw ye Out Butchers | Unemployment is at a higher 7 jin Baltimore than at any time the world war, according to s tics as of April 1, it was stated 3 terday. On that date, according to F, T. Dorton, supervisor of c Party Applauds Imperialism BULL IN British censored news dispatch- es late yesterday admitted that the death list reached 82, and the injured 86 nd that these figures angoon the Labor atis- In for Baltimore, approximately are incomplete. Ra were jobless. police and soldiery grip on the Since that time Henry F. Brown. city is called “precarious. In ing president of the Baltimore Fed-, Lucknow, a previously unmention- ed battle is now admitted, with an uncomplete list of four dead and 30 in 4, and bands holding whole sections of the city. They put 14 police in the hospitals. * * * eration of Labor, admits the unem- ployment curve has been rising. While this servant of the be would not estimate the additional persons not employed, he that in the last three or four weeks there of workers tated y -The ement 1s rapid- ly getting out of the hands of the Gandhi non-resistant group and the | Mohammedan religious leaders have failed here in their effort vo keep Moham lan workers fighting the Hindus instead of the British, A 'ereat crowd of Moslem workers be- sieged the British police and ixoops (Continued on Pa on Page Two) DEMAND RELEASE OF POWERS, CARR Communist Convention BOMBAY anti-imperiz worse than at any time in the last decade. “This is true even in the building trades” he said, “which are idered somewhat as a barometer of true business conditions.” If it had not been for one large industrial constru¢tion project here there would be approximately eighty per cent unemployment ip the build- | ing trades. There was an instance | where a plumber traveled miles looking for work, without find- ing it. In spite of all this the fakers of the A. F. of L. are coming out with various < nents creating illusions that in another month or so every thing will be 0. K, Meanwhile they j have nothing to offer to the workers cor lwhile they are getting their fat H + checks. | Passes Resolution WASHINGTON, D. C., Mi SCHENECTADY, N.Y., May 27, Census Director WaM. Steuart terday issued authorization to the district supervisors to publish unem- ployment da In his letter m nditional re- the for gro and The immediate and unco: six workers fac electric advecating public, it is admitted that an order | Vite we against unemploy- had already been issued at the time! sont and release of all other class of tne taking of the census that no| 4. prisoners, is demanded in a information on this subject was to! ..-olution adopted by the 320 work- be given out. This was charged!» delegates who attended the state Over BAG over Gestion, ae son 8S nominating convention of the Com- events indicated that it was tri the Daily Worker, and the c was met by complete silence f the Census departme munist Party here Sunday. Attacks Tn past ‘Within the Now, and for one of unem- the resolution in ployed only, the Census bureau States boss vernment Hae (Continued on Page Three) tremendous 1 and made more severe <s upon the worki 1,600 work- hi ee BARE BB /the government, the A. I’. of L., the ic Socialist P. te group and ; the varie social fascist The first membershir agents are fi le in the meeting of the Food Worker murder of Ste the lynch dustrial Union will take place to-, ing of dozens of Negro workers and night at 8 p.m. at Manhattan Ly-’ the anSNseere Hon Of scores: OB, celere to Jong terms in prise ceum, 64 h St. ° At this meet ing plans will be laid for the broad- ening of the struggle to organize the unorganized and for , intensified struggle against the bureaucracy“of the A.F.L. and A.F.W. The A.F.L. has applied to courts for an injunction cov 500 shops, one of the most \ Delegation! New Wall t government has imprisoned Zor three years with more charges pending, Foster, Amter, Raymond, Minor, four of the best fighters of the working class elected at a dem- onstration in Union Square of 110,- lease New York N York City the the ering ciou that has been issued against the 000 unemployed workers who de- workers in their struggles for bet- manded work or wages. ter conditions. The A.F.W. bureau-) “In the South the fight for the eracy have circulated the employers |complete unity of the workers and with a letter crying that the Com-|poor farmers under the slogan @f munists are attempting to disrupt | “full social and political equality for the “peaceful” baking industry and’ the Negro masses” has been met the fear the Food Workers Indus- with arre and charges which : bring the death penalty. Hundreds | (Continued on Page Two) of workers have also been jailed and either deported held for deporta- tion for committing the crime of be- ing foreign born workers who pro- tested against the imposed on us by rotten working conditions misery on and unemployment. “We demand workers the release laws and unem- on arrested the f gi orn The rising revolutionary wave A vigore for the de- liberation of kers facing the ¢ Ga, is i L by the nterna- One of the , J ; Our formerly ac- eir links with us. Links can be H¥ein thet ovement, the Daily Worker keeps on going and Pe Riga a stole well acquainte d with this militant fighter. Dur nt week the ILD onstra- @ the p here will he expectations of our comrades in prker; co funds and get new nher must at once secure very city must ut once mobilize the all other class war . It will take the form of e campaign to keep it going as a factory gate m ngs, tag days and canvassing for funds to fight for the ° freedom of thé imprisoned workers.