The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1930, Page 1

: s |, lay the basis, he pointed out, for a | i Read of the Great Struggles of the Millions of Chinese Workers and Peas- ants to Establish Soviet China, in the Special Chinese Revolution Edition Friday, May 30. Special Articles, Correspondence and Maps. Vol. VII., No. 129 Published daily except Company, tn Labor Party Imperialist Policy «“fAPTAIN WEDGEWOOD BENN, secretary of state for India, de- clared Monday in debate in the House of Commons, that “the vast majority of the people of India are peacefully pursuing their daily lives in the glad enjoyment of all the blessings of a settled and ordered government,” —London dispatch to the New York Times, May 26. The following headlines over various news items from India are to be found in the same issue of the Times in which the above dis- patch appeared: “15 Dead, 250 Hért in Rangoon Strike Riot. in Dock Workers’ Clash.” “9 Dead, Scores Hurt in 4 India Clashes. “Six Killed at Dacca.” Ld “Fifty Hurt in Cloth Mill Strike.” The MacDonald government yesterday announced policy for India. Says the London correspondent of the Times: “The cabinet spokesman took the position that it was the duty of the government to preserve order and that the government would perform its duty. . . . As a matter of fact the speech of the secretary of state for India . .. . differed but little and that little in theory, from any statement which might have been made by a conservative statesman.” The Times correspondent, who either does not know much about the Second international of which the Labor Party is a section, or if he does, desires to aid the “left” in concealing imperialist colonial policy, further states that “in so far as Mr. Benn’s Second Internation- alist theories clashed with the interests of the British Empire, it must be said the British Empire won.” There is no doubt of this. Protesting the robber interests of the British Empire against the interests of the workers and peasants of India and those of the British working class is the real job of the British section of the Second International. In this respect its only difference with the other parties of the Second International—includ- ing the socialist party of the U. S.—consists in the fact that the rest of them defend their respective robber governments. The “left wing” of the British labor party was on the job. It per- formed its special task of creating a semblance of opposition to the bloody policy of the official party leadership. Colonel Wedgewood voiced the labor party opposition viewpoint. “He advised the government not to treat all India alike, but to be good to those parts of India which were peaceable and harsh to those who made trouble.” . Winston Churchill himself could not have formulated British im- perialist. policy better. The debate in the House of Commons Tuesday has exposed the imperialist and fascist character of the MacDonald government by the words of its own spokesmen. The debate confirmed in indisputable fashion the policy back of the mass murders and jailings which this Martial Law Likely toilers fighting for national liberation. Just as important is the fact that the part played by the so-called opposition confirms in the most concrete form the characterization of the two main policies of the social democracy made in the program of the Communist International adopted by the Sixth World Congress: “In its systematic conduct of this counter-revolutionary policy, social democracy operates on two flanks: the right wing .. . . is es- sential for negotiating and maintaining direct contact with the bour- geoisie; the left wing is essential for the subtle deception of the workers.” The methods of the social fascists of the ILP wing of the official labor party are hardly subtle enough in this case to millions of jobless British workers who see promises of work and wages made by Mac- Donald paid in the form of mass murder of Indian workers and peasants and growing unemployment in the British Isles. Down With Lynching! ROM the “Afro-American” of Baltimore we extract the news, writ- ten somewhat cowardly in the form of questions, that George Hughes, Negro worker who was burned to death by white lynchers at Sher- man, ‘Texas, was done to death because he demanded three weeks’ wages due h that in a scuffle with his bors, John Atnip, the latter’s wife mixed in and got “her hands scratched,” and used this paltry excuse to have the Negro worker murdered under the charge, as ancient as in- famous, of “rape.” The class conscious white workers’ are just as opposed as their egro comrades to this infernal excuse of the Southern (and Northern!) talists for their barbarous lynching of Negro workers. They are fed up on stories from Texas and other states as well, of posters nailed to telephone posts warning Negro workers that death will be the pun- ishment for demanding a higher wage than the bosses want to pay for picking cotton, ete. They are indignant at all this bloody and savage oppression of the black wage workers and together, white and black, they are going to fight back! It is worthy of note that the Negro bourgeois press mentioned above, giving the facts, too long delayed, of the reason Hughes was Iynched, says that “now that the national guardsmen have restored or- der out of the terror,” questions “might be asked.” This is nothing less than inculcating in the minds of the Negro workers that the na- tional guard, or some other capitalist government authority, is the de- fender of the black workers. This is a falsehood and an illusion, It is typical of the Negro capitalists w! being capitalists, do not attack lynching as an integral part of capi lism. As something to be remedied by appealling to capitalism—against capitalism. Lynching will be stopped when the white workers, clearly under- standing that the lynching of their black fellow workers is a crime against their class by the boss class, step forward to lead the Negro. toilers in a fight, a joint fight, a fight that must be sufficiently force- ful to be effective in putting an end to capitalist murders of Negro workers and to establish social, economic and political equality, 15 SHOPS REPRESENTED ;TO INDICT WALSH FOR AT TEXTILE MEETING) BRIBE FROM REALTOR . It was announced yesterday that Fifteen shops were represented at | William E. Walsh, chairman of the the National Textile Workers’ Union | board of standards and appeals in mass meeting last night at Irving New York City’s Tammany admin Plaza Hall. Other workers came | istration would be indicted for tak- from non-union shops, to join as jing bribes. Walsh got a $4,000 a members. year apartment for $1,500 from The meeting outlined organization | Samuel H. Golding, real estate cor- plans, and announced another meet-| poration while the corporation had ing to be held June 5, in Brooklyn,| applications before the board of at 68 Whipple St. standards. Doyle, the go-between, it John Schmies, national assistant |i8 charged, for Walsh, is shown to treasurer of the Trade Union Unity | have received over $75,000 from the League, stressed the need of organ-|8&me company during this time. ization for the textile workers, and| strong co-ordinating the fight for better conditions, the| class conscious workers. 7-hour day, 5-day week, and the Secretary Nessin of the N. Y. part the textile workers must play| Councils of the Unemployed spoke. in the T. U. U, L. drive for 59,000 | particularly on the conneccion of new members. This would really) speed-up in the shops with unem- ploy =~" center for Inday by | lon Square, aily Koterea 4 aecond-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YO e Con New York City, N. ¥.<a2a1 AGAINST EMPIRE on local Communist Party head- quarters and in street demonstra- tions April 12, and charged by the ae state with conspiracy to overthrow 19 War i the government by force and vic- |2 More Shot by TroOpS| tence, appeared before Judge Sbar in Rangoon Strike; Deaths Concealed penta, representing the Interna- | lor n $] |ants were discharged. The evidence Religious Chiefs Fail (rs so flimsy that the judge who 5 -"|\is allied with the worst fascist and Gandhi Fades from the| gangland elements in Cook County Picture Again baro in Felony Court Monday. On motion of Attorney David J. | was forced to free the workers with- lout objection from Assistant State RK, THURSDAY, MAY ash Case of 21 Chicago Workers Arrested to Hinder May ‘1 Parade tional Labor Defense, all the defend- | SUBSCRK 29, 1930 CHINA RED ARMY MAJOR CITIES | Detective Sergeant Geonge Barker, | |head of the police bomb squad, who Hankow - Shanghai Wire Cut by Reds jled the raids, failed to appear in jcourt but sent two of his thugs who | Near Kiukiang \North Beats Nanking posed as the “arresting officers.” When asked by the court if the jworkers had advocated the over- ‘Kidnapping Lies Aim i to Get Intervention throw of the government one of the | strikers | which gives the lie to previous r {the British Parliament by Wedge- j India under the Labor Party govern- ment. | Capitalist press reports state that ; military police killed two more dock | in Rangoon, yesterday, | pelicy of playing Mohammedans : against Hindus; and :contradicts |Oall for Hight on APL again the statement that “The| . le . sEhammedane have mot joined the| and ARW Fakers uprising,” made the day before in] oy J ouers packed the Man- hattan Lyceum Wednesday evening at the call of the Food Workers Industrial Union. The main pur- pose of the meeting was to instigate a membership drive and elect dele- gates to the Delegate Council to be held next Tuesday. ports that everything had quieted down. The two killed were Mos- lems, which marks another recent failure for the traditional British wood Benn, secretary of state for Attempts of Mohammedan | and Hindu religious leaders to make it a religious instead of a social siruggle were unsuccessful. Tuesday’s figures, admitted at the time to be incomplete, of 82 dead and 863 injured in the fighting Mon- Secretary Weissman gave a re- ‘day and Tuesday, are repeated again |found to be killed. It is certainly/ A. F. W. | yesterday, although no more were |port of the struggles of the union| against the A. F. of L. and the | “dicks” replied: “Some of them marched up and SHANGHAI, May —The Red Army and revolting ants have | down in front of the offices of the | Board of Education yelling for the release of Harry Eisman. Others | advanced to the city limits of Kiu- kiang, a very important strategical city on the Yantze River between were found in the Meadquarters of the Communist Party talking about Hankow and Shanghai, and another detachment of the revolutionary (Continued on Page Three) forces have got to within a few SOVIET ENVOY TO SWEDEN IS DEAD Fascists Attack, Stab . _ hai and Hankow has been cut by 3 German Workers tthe: vevoludoninteil whe, severance of wire communication between the two largest cities on the Yangtze River is of great importance. These significant gains of the revolution on the eve of the First Chinese Soviet Congress which is scheduled to meet on May 30 will undoubtedly contribute much to the success of the Congress and the further development of the revolu- tion. Desperately cornered and con- scious of own impotence and (Wireless By Inprecorr.) | | BERLIN, May 28—The Soviet |Ambassador to Sweden, Victor Kopp, died yesterday’ at Nursing- |home near Berlin. Kopp was an old Bolshevik. Prior to 1905 he was ar-| rested and banished. He was for- merly ambassador to Germany |where the way was paved for the Rapallo Treaty. Fascist Minister Frick prohibited \a Piscator Theatre performance in ION RATWS and Bronx, New York City FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cent : $0 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan ind foreign countries, there $5 a year. = = UNEMPLOYMENT STRUGGLE IS CENTRAL TASK FOR UNITY LEAGUE The “Blessings” of British BURMA MOSLEMS'S™ CONNECTED DIRECTLY 10 STRUGGLE: AGAINST WAGE CUTS AND THE SPEED UP T.U.U.L. Calls All Affiliated Bodies to More Active Organization; Local Leagues Lead Chicago July 4 Unemployment Convention | Must Be Built While Gaining 50,000 New Members | peas, | The National Bureau of the Trade Union Unity League | yesterday issued a Statement on the immediate tasks of all its sections, departments, groups, industrial unions, industrial leagues, local and state organizations, in the organization of the National Unemployment Convention, to be held in Chicago, July 4 and 5. The statement?———— ——— | for intensifying activity, and | the necessity of making a com-} ss |mon struggle of all organized) ON u AA POWERS | workers and the unemployed. | Boulssa a AY te | and the struggle of the unemployed! ve e : is not to be separated from, but is|Carolina Judge Grabs to be in the center of the general |} fa i . truggle of the unions ae vinet| Money of Ga. Prisoner emphasizes especially the need FORFEIT BAIL TH DA The unemployment organization speed-up and bad conditions, and is] WoxsroN SALEM | | fs . May to be a part of the campaign for) 4. Spavaue: At IF Pawees eae 50,000 new members before the| 7.) patty organizer who with | end of next month, for the TUUL. | fn Ae | The T. U. U. L, Bureau statement} prison fa ntence fr | is in full as follows: mee | dressing Negro PLAN SAT, MAY 31 party of the Second International is carrying out against millions of | He stressed the neces- |sity of organizing the unorganized |and building the union along indus- trial lines. Comrade Obermeyer jon the progress of the organizers in the Bronx and Brooklyn sections, (Continued on Page Two) CELEBRATE 5-YR. While the meeting was going on a report came in that the A..F. L. clique of 50 under the leadership of Burkhart attacked Local 16 | beating up the Executive Board men. This aroused the fighting spirit of the workers to a higher pitch. Proceeds Will Help the |Jena, although the piece was play- impending collapse, the Chinese re-| “The present economic crisis is | white workers could not appear i (Continued on Page Three) ed for months in Berlin without any objection. Yesterday was the funeral of Heimburger Selenoyski who wasj |murdered by fascists. It was attend-| jed by thousands of workers. Police | |stabbing three workers. Yesterday evening, |tacked three workers in Berlin-| i |Steglitz, stabbing George Schroeder Unusual Films at the |and mauling others, F S U Festival Fund to Buy, Tractors An appeal to all workers’ organ- tions to attend en masse the big Five-Year Plan Festival at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, this Saturday and to bring banners with them has been issued by the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Workers In-/ The left wing in the United Hat- ternational Relief which are arrang- ters of America, a typical A. F. of ing the celebration. L, company union have introduced Prominent speakers and delegates a yesolution for week work and are who have returned from the Soviet ‘carrying on a campaign to organ- | Union will participate. Moving pic- ize the workers for a struggle for tures will also be taken and sent to it over the heads of the bureau- the Soviet Union to enable the Rus-/crats, The resolution by Harry Kah sian workers and peasants to see on cals also for unemployment insu the screen the American workers! ance, 5 who are ready to defend the first Workers’ Republic from all attacks. The last meeting unanimously decided to send a copy to every ishop and that final discussion should ‘take place at the next local meet- Admission to the park is 50 cents. ing, for which special notice should All money realized from the affair be sent to all shops. will go towards the fund to buy 40 tractors and trucks to help the Rus- | sian workers and peasants build So- cialism. The moving pictures will be taken between 3 and 4 o'clock. But it was reported yesterday that no notices were sent and that \the officials are trying to split the ranks of the hatters by calling group meetings instead of one gen- eral meeting. The workers will have to guard against this meth- od of dividing the workers in order Camp Wocolona, situated on heau- t? defeat them. : tiful Walton Lake, Monroe, N. Y.,| Just as in the other sections of will be open for the entire month the needle industry, the speed-up is of June at the very low rate of growing from day to day for the $19 per week. | hatters. Every bungalow equipped ‘with | introduced which is throwing hun- electricity, running water, and indi-, dreds out of employment. The vidual lockers. The activities are | workers in this trade are forced to many, swimming, boating, tennis, work piece work under a terrible dancing, dramaties, and music. speed-up. Prices are being reduced Open Wocolona for Decoration Weekend This happened in Oakland, California. The same thing is happening in many high schools throughout the land. High school boys, 15 to 18 years old, are engaging in “sham” hat- tles. The bloated billionaires and their national committee at Washington, D. C., headed by Hoover, will need young soldiers to defend its plunder and to continue its plundering. The capitalist papers of Oakland said that the blue army routed and defeated the “red” forces. Do you understand | what this means? It means that these boys are being drilled, not only to fight workers of other countries to safeguard the profits of the bosses, They are also being drilled to fight the Reds, to fight the Soviet Union, They are being drilled to as- sist the bosses in “investigating” the Communist Party and the Daily Worker. Now we take you to a working class neighborhood on 67th Street, New York City. Comrade Tim Keane is repert- ing. He gave a collection box to a 13-year old boy in his neigh- borheod. This boy called a meeting of the children on his | street. Phe boy spoke to the meeting, told the children that Hatters Group Left Wing Bares Fakery of A. F.of L. The War, the Reds, The great celebration of the mag- nificent progress of the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union, to be held at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, this Saturday, May 31, will also be a mighty demonstration for the first All-China Soviet Congress whic! with the coming of every new sea- | opens the day before. Thousands of | son, New York workers and friends The call issued by the hatters| the Soviet Union are expected to section of the Trade Union Unity | be present Saturday to hail the vic- | League states: “The piece work! tories of the workers’ and peasants’ |}system made it possible for the/rule not only in the Soviet Union, bosses to cut our wages and to|tut in China as well. speed us up. We are the losers; The program for the day includes | when we are blocking hard or hairy | the showing of three unusual films, _ bodies and in addition to that we,@ new Soviet collectivization film, jars losing when there is no stream Movies of the May Day parade in or when the machine breaks down.” New York City and of the Com- The officials of this union are | Munist Party nominating convention working hand in hand with the in Schenectady. bosses against the interest of the workers. The hatters are beginning to realize that there is only one union existing in the needle industry to- day which is really organizing the workers for struggles, that is the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, which is at the present time conducting a membership drive to! recruit 10,000 new members and has reduced the initiation fee to $2.35 | for employed workers and $1.35 for | unemployed. | Organize shop committees of ac- | tion! Organize for struggle! Join bration, which is part of Defend the Soviet Union Day activ’ throughout the country, are on sale at 50 cents at the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Av., room 511; Freiheit, 380 Union Square, Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Sq., {and at other stations, 10 MORE INDO-CHINA WORKERS FACE DEATE PARIS, Ma: y 28.—French outhor- New machinery is being the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- ities in Indo-China passed ten new, | trial Union! Send delegates to the death sentences, twent | second national rank and file*con-!prisonments, and thirty eight life- vention of the Needle Trades Work-|tong banishments. The death sen- i Industrial Union June 6-7-8, tences are reported to have been New Star Casino. executed. and &6c the Daily Worker was their paper, that it will wake them up, that it will defend them when they get to be workers in the shops, that it is against the bosses’ wars. There was dis- cussion. Then they took the cotlection box and collected from 80 children on the street and in the tenement houses. They collected 86 cents. What these children did on their street, you can do in your shop, in your working class neighborhood. You can do it on a mass scale because you have hundreds and thousands of workers in your city who will help you. And in doing this you will keep the Daily Worker going and growing. You will give our paper a fresh start, lift it out of its present financial crisis, so that it can continue and increase its fight against all the leeches who are itching to suppress the reds so that they will be unopposed in their attempt to add millions of dead workers to the more than eight million killed in the last world war. Into the shops, into workers’ neishhorhods, into sym- pathetic workers’ organizations. Help is }.vop and strengthen the Daily Worker jen areas st A of | Tickets for the Ulmer Park cele- | x life im- | developing deeper and is affecting}a local court to answer a min more sections of industry and more} charge, his $300 bail bond was for- millions of American workers. Over | feited. 7,000,000 workers are walking on! ‘the streets and looking for work.| proached the International ee he bosses are increasing their of-| Defense attorney, Whitman, secured fensive against the living standards| 4 statement from the Atlanta prison of the American working class. To-| authorities officially certifying that day, more than ever before, is the| Powers is in jail and could not ap- truggle against unemployment al near to answer the other charge. burning issue before the revolution-| ty spite of this the bail was declared ary trade union movement and the/ forfeited and the property placed whole working class. jfor Powers was seized. The LL.D. The bosses are shifting more and |raised the amount in cash to cover more the burden of the economic) the bail and costs, and the property crisis onto the shoulders of the/was returned to the bondsman, working class. Increased rational- 4 _ ization means for the workers in the | punta, j\ceced industries more speed-up, more} In addition to Powers, the o' wage-cuts, and general worsening; workers facing death sentences in of working conditions. It also|Atlanta are: Joseph Carr, Commun- means an increased army of unem-|ist Party organizer; Anna Burlak, ployed workers as well as an in-| International Labor Defense organ- creased army of only part time em-|izer; Mary Dalton, organizer, N ployment, affecting millions of}tional Textile Workers Union; Gil- | workers. The fascist and socfal;mer Brad National Organizer, fascist leaders of the American Fed-} American Negro Labor Congress eration of Labor in collaboration|and Henry Storey a member with the government and the bosses|Atlanta branch of the are increasing their strike breal policy against the militant upsurge|the six workers facing the electric of the American working clas |chair as well as other “The executive board of the T) e| prisoners now in l are Union Unity League, at its last| mediately. Send meeting, decided that we must call|Room 435! upon our affiliated industrial unions | York City and national industrial leagues to redouble their activities and place into the center of our task the struggle against unemployment bas. ing this struggle upon the program of unity of action between the em- ployed and unemployed workers in|’... Pbaceesteriles the industry. The struggle against |™ilitants are in high spirits. unemployment, based upon the pro-| Starts Class in Jail | gram of unity for the immediate) Although Brady is ill from the | demands, such as work or wages,| prison food, he is reported to have unemployment insurance, et the | started a class in “The ABC of Com- tactical key to connect our revolu-| munism” among the Negro workers tionary unions with the mass of un-/in the prison. organized workers in the basic in-| Twice a day, the two girl prison- dustries. jers, Anna Burlak and Mary Dalton, | “The national affiliated unions! pass that part of the prison where and national affiliated industrial |the men are confined but do not get | leagues, as well as our revolution-/any opportunity to talk to them. ary oppositions within the reform-|Brady saw Powers and Carr in the | When the date of the hearing ap- t once 1th St , New Incommunicado Latest information on the Atlanta ituation is that no visitors are al- lowed to see the prisoners except O. C. Hancock, the attorney. How- ever, reports are that the jailed This means unemployed councils are to be built up on a dues paying membership basis, and to be affil- iated to our revolutionary unions and revolutionary industrial leagues. | The work of the mass unemployed councils in the industries must be directed and guided by our affil- iated national unions and affiliated national leagues and by our revolu- tionary oppositions within the re- | formist unions on the united front basis. “The task and everyday work of the unemployed councils must he directed against the conditions in the industries, such as the struggle against the increase of rationaliza- tion, against the speed-up and wage- cuts, and on the basis of this, com- mittees of action made up of em- ployed and unemployed workers must be organized. The major task of our affiliated unions and leagues is to draw into our organization as many unemployed workers as pos- sible and make them good standing members of our red unions. | “We must at all times keep in (Continued on Page Three). ployed councils around the unions. | Carr shout- ed out a message of solidarity but was not able to say more due to the prison guards. Those wishing to write jers should address them {ton County Tower, Atlan ‘CONFERENCE PLANS TO SUPPORT KIDS CAMPS ist unions, must build up immediate: | prison hall on Friday. ly the necessary organization and machinery in order to build up in their field of activity mass unem- the work- re of Ful- a, Ga. The first erence of working lelass: organizations for the support of the W.LR. camp was held Thursday, Plaza Forty o resented at th at Irving ere rep- nization: conference Comrade Gibarti of the National Office of the W.LR. ke cf the W.LR. activities in t European countries and s ed the need of building a Workers International Relief, in the U. S. A. Comrade S. Rappoport spoke on the need of @ workers children’s camp and stress- ed the great advantages of a per- manent camp. Comrade Barker, the W.LR. camp director pointed out the necessity to counter-act the bosses | education in the camp and the need | of a permanent children’s Relief or- I ganization in N.