The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1930, Page 1

| | aily = Kntered as sevund-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥,, onder the act of March 3. 1879, pa thes VIL., No. 131 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company. Inc,, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y.' _NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 3 31, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RA and Bronx, New Yor NEEDLE ‘Beenie International Chines to Rescue of MacDonald LL over the world the social-fascists of the Second International are hastening to the rescue of Ramsay MacDonald, to help him sup- s the Indian Revolution. “Our own” Reverend Norman Thomas, who was sending cabled de- mands to London a few days ago for “explanations” of the “puzzling” Labor Party murders of the Indian masses, has suddenly abandoned his “demands” without receiving any answer to his cables. In the “New Leader,” dated May 31, he declares that he is beginning to seg a glimmer of light; he now understands that the mass murders were only the necessa’ “prelude” to make possible a “peaceful” settlement with Gandhi—on the b: of Dominion Status for India. In the words of the pious Reverend: “The only hope I see in the Indian situation is that while the Labor Government talks like any imperialist government in Parliament, it may be quietly and unofficially negotiating with Gandhi.” Exactly, Mr. Thow tiating with Gandhi w of revolutionary workers. pr your friend MacDonald is “quietly” nego- le the streets of India run red with the blood And that means, also, that your “saint” Gandhi is also “quietly” negotiating with the murderer MacDonald, pre- paring to repeat his historic treacheries of the past. In this you see “hope”! You and your whole party assume your equal share of the guilt of the attempts to drown the Indian revolution in blood, and crush it in alliance with the Indian bourgeoisie. The “New Leader” publishes with approval the prediction of Mac- Donald’ 's personal agent in India, George Slocombe, that Gandhi is negotiating a compromise on Dominion Status. It prints in bold type the imperialist threat that the public demonstrations “are more and more destined to end in tragedy,” that is, that the MacDonald Govern- ment will commit more and more mass murders. Norman Thomas is, perhaps, no longer “puzzled” because he has received the proceedings of the Second International Executive in Ber- lin. That body of long-experienced traitors was not “puzzled”; it went on record unanimously to express its approval of and confidence in MacDonald and all he is doing in India, and declared its conviction that a satisfactory settlement would be made “through negotiations between the Labor Government and representatives of all parts of the population of India,” which would “lead the quickest way to the crea- tion of a fully responsible and autonomous government.” This is the official program of British Imperialism, held in common by Baldwin, Lloyd George and MacDonald, and now unanimously approved by the entire Second International! Let the workers of India and of the world know the fall depths of treason of the Socialist parties of the world, united in the Second International! Let these agents of imperialism, from MacDonald to Gandhi, and including Norman Thomas and his ilk in the United States, be seen in the open with their hands smeared with the blood of Indian revolutionists!. Let these “gentlemanly pacifists,” as they like to be known, be seen in their true colors as the executioners and supporters of the execution of the thousands of Indians who are laying down their lives for independence! The road to independence lies through the crushing defeat not only 4 of Imperialism, but fitst of all of Imperialism’s agency within the working class, the “Socialist” parties of the Second International. The “Noble Institutions” of Bribery and Ransom 'T has long been a popular superstition that in the arts of bribery and ransom, the Chinese militarists were the champions of the world. Surely there is substance behind this idea, also, as anyone familiar the corruption of the government in Nanking must testify. High officers of the army of Chiang Kai-shek are known to be engaged in the lucrative business of kidnapping for ransom the less important but still rich members of the Chinese bourgeoisie, thus continuing one of the “glorious” traditions implanted in China by Western imperialist penetration and its corruption of the state apparatus under the Manchu , Empire. Corruption, particularly as exemplified in bribery and kid- napping for ransom, has flourished in China ever since the imperialists became dominant there. But the modern citiés of capitalist United States are rapidly com- ing to sharp rivalry with the Chinese militarists. Especially is this true of New York City. Of course we do things on a larger scale, that of mass production. Where in Ching a kidnapper will not bother with 2nyone’ who is not rich, in America we substitute numbers for size and thus reach greater results. And we do it all with the blessings of and order” thrown about it like a warm cloak. We refer, of course, to the institution of the, indeterminate sen- tence and the Parole Commission. Under this system, all ‘“‘érimfnals” sentenced in the courts get enormously long terms in prison, which are then reviewed by the Parole Commission (in secret sessions), which, for whatever reasons seem good and sufficient to it, or for no reason at all, either cuts down the years to months or days, or affirms the full sentence. Around this system has grown up the most foul swamp of corruption and bribery that could be imagined. It has become-a system comparable im every respect to that of kidnapping for ransom.” A regular scale of prices has been established, and is well known to the inmates of New York prisons, for securing reductions in sentence; This is the system into which the capitalist courts have thrown the bodies ef our comrades Foster, Minor, Amter, and Raymond. They are sentenced to aaa ars for Speaking on the streets on March 6, demanding work or s for the unemployed. This savage sentence is then d@fended on the grounds that “it is not final,” it will “be reviewed"by- the Parole Commi: The Parole Commission meets in secret, its motives for action are known only to itself and its con- fidants, it receives secretly all the arguments of those whq want to freep prisoners in jail, it argues the question in secret, and for the public nothing is known except the result. Where for the mass ot prisoners the result of this system is bribery, and the purchasing of freedom through the hangers-on of the rotten Tammany Machine, for political prisoners like Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond it becomes a kind of political blackmail. In all respects it runs the Chinese mili- tarists a close second for infamy. Workers must demand the release of the Delegation of the Unem- ployed from this damnable and rotten machine of “Justice! And in raising this demand, we must add that the whole vicious system, must be destroyed! It is an offensive, brutal, vicious and rotten product of the capitalist _system and reflects the innermost soul of capitalism in its qualities. PUSH TARIFF AND nge rates is really transferred from Congress, where it now resides, | to the president. And this is what Hoover has been fighting for. Wall Street wants the president CHINA AND INDIA _ SPEED NEXT WAR The Senate-House tariff confer- ence is again ready to return the Smoot-Hawley bill to the Senat: »It has changed the flexible ta provision which displeased Hoover and Vice President Curtis, and has substituted instead a provision em- powering the Tariff Commission to “specify rates” which, however, can only become effective on the pres- ident’s approval. Thus the right to to have the right to change the tariff rates. This means placing a highly important economic power in the hands of its direct agent and removing it from the control or in- fluence of Congress. where the oppo- sition of the representatives of the small manufacturers, farmers and petty-bourgeoisie often interfere with the plans of the big trusts and banks. Hoover’s flexible provision, therefore, is of more permanent and basic importance to it than the bil- lion dollar rates of the present bill. FASCIST FISH | AND CHEMICAL TRUST AT WORK Shiga tis i} War Profiteers Laying Propaganda Base to | Attack the USSR Fascists to Testify| Anti-Red Probers Call Fascist Witnesses WASHINGTON, , D. C., May 30. }The fascist Fish, chairman of the |anti - Communist “Investigation” | ‘Committee yesterday that hearings would begin in June | on “Soviet propaganda in this coun- try” and that government officials sand A. F. of 1. fascists would be the firs! witnesses. | Although there are four lawyers on the committee, Fish said that still another Jawyer would be given la nice fat fee tor “directing” the inquiry. Although Fish plans io announced Left to right: Anna Burlak, Workers Union organiz American Negro Labor Congress. s in Atlanta. ganize Negro worke held on charges of i viction. Georgia Mill Bosses Intend to Electrocute These Young Workers | jense secretary in Georgia; Mary Dalton, 19-year-old National Teatile - at Atlanta; Gilmer Brady, organizer of the These three workers were arrested May 21 at a meeting to or- rrection, which carry the death penalty on con- On similar charges for the same offense to Southern capital- ists, M. H. Powers and Joe Carr go on trial June 17. RED ARMY OF NEW VICTORY lSurrounds ‘Changchow, Amoy in South 'U. S. Nanking Lackeys Losing Everywhere Amoy, China, dispatches state that Red Troops and revolting peas- ; ants have made very significant ad- | } vances today, the date of the open- ing of the All-China Soviet Con- 20-year-old International Labor De- | 8Tess- A strategically important city in the Southeastern part of Fukien province Changchow, which is only 30 miles west of Amoy, one of the main ports in South China, is sur- rounded by red forces. Telegraph lines are cut and trenches are-dug across the highways; the city is en- With H. Story, a Negro, they are ieall Mattie Woll, who ought to tell la lot about the famous Whalen for- geries, Whalen himself is not among those named at “the first witnesses,” and, what is more onishing, oat |most modest dealer in forgeries, Mr. Ralph M. Easley of the National | Civic Federation is so far left, out \of the honored “first witnesses. | about Communist propaganda in this country,” said Fish. “We have noth- | ing to keep from the Communi | (21), because they know more about| — gtigmatizing the British what they are doing and can do un- | Government as “an institution of | der our laws than the American imperialism no less reactionary than |people do. We expect to m&ke a | the Tory Government which pre- | thorough invest:sation to ascertain | eeded it,” and declaring that Gandhi | what influences the Third Interna-| is playing into the hands of British | tional at Moscow is exercising in our (Continued on Page Five) surrection, the Anti-Imperialist Lea- (14 JOIN COMMUNISTS AT MASS MEETING Central Opera House Fourteen workers in the audience of a united front mass meeting! 4 e M last night signed Wed.; at 8:30 P.M. |join the Communist Party. | 1, Bae mead Daily Workers were sold. The | Wednesday evening on June 4th |onairman was Daugherty of the jat the Central Opera House, 67th A N.L,C, Legree, a Negro worker i Street and rd Avenue will be cele ‘byated the first | Chinese-Soviet-! ; Congress, and a mass meeting w | be held in support of the Chines: ‘and Indian revolutions. Communist Part the Wakefield, a white worker 1 also in the name of the Party Negro Organizer Tord of the ‘Trade | poke for 8 Union Unity League spoke on «th rising rebellion of other oppr races, the Hindu and Chinese m es, setting an example for the | Leaders of the American fevolu- | tionary movement of the Chinese, fighters wil ak of ate groes of America. Otto Hall, Negro revolutions and their relation to the | O'eanizer of the 1.L.D. was speaking struggle of the workers of the im-|#* the Daily Worker went to press. perialist countrie Meeting in Brooklyn. Another meeting was held under The speakers will diseuss the rele jhe same auspices in the heat of e social-fascists, right Gandhi-MacDonald ‘played by | wing renegade, | combinations. the Negro working class section of Brooklyn, with Strausberg, a Negro er representi the Communi: sition, together with Carter, tion organizer of the Party Brooklyn. A Young Communi League worker spok: Still another meeting against lynching was held at !10th St. and Fifth Ave. GREETINGS The Chinese “Vanguard,” in the | special Soviet Congress edition, of- | fered free space for the greeting of |the Unemployed delegation who are jailed by the boss class. Anti-Imperial League Hails Revolt in India: “We are going to secure the facts | Sagres Gandhi as Agee of Empire, Labor Party as Reactionary as Any Tory Government | Labor ;gue of the United States yesterday Imperialism by opposing armed in- } ‘HOOVER OFFERS “SPIRIT” ANTI-LYNCHING MEET AS WHITE GUARDS MARCH against lynching held in the open| President Hoover at the battlefield | air at 137th St. and Seventh Ave.|of Gettysburg that, “The things of | applications +o| the spirit alone persist. |making the f tirely isolated. If the city would be taken, it would mean that the {rea forces would be directly linked up with the militant labor struggles in the city of Amoy, and, at the same time, the Soviet Areas would let to the sea. An enthusiastic supporter of the bloody Nanking regime is reported assassinated in Amoy. ane Alarmed by the rising tide of the revolution in China and the sweep- ing victories of the Chinese Armies, the imperi are driving for in- tensified activities in China, particu- larly activities connected with the suppression of the revolution. issued a statement calling for sup- port of militant struggle for im- mediate independence in India. The resolution in full follows: “The Anti-Imperialist League of the United States which carries a (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) HAIL 5 YEAR PLAN TODAY Yesterday “memorial day” was celebrated by a declaration from It that Mass is in tha’ |field that the nation makes its last- Ulmer Park ling progress. od Meanwhile in New York, in the At Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, Sat- official Memorial day parade, along urday thousands of New York worl with the army and navy contingents ers will gather to celebrate the vic- marched the Italian fascist organ- tories of the Five-Year Plan in the izations set up by Mussolini here, Soviet Union and to hail the open- st salute to the |ing of the first Chinese Soviet Con- s on the reviewing | gress. high dignatay stand. And *in the same line of! Besides the taking of movies, the march, trooped the Czarist white | unusual program includes: a new guard organizations, dressed in the | Soviet collectivization film, movies | uniforms they wore when they kill- of the New York May Day parade ed work n Russia and of the Communist nominating Pious sentiments from the head | convention at Schenectady, baseball, of the capitalist state to soothe the, soccer and other sports. under the workers who in unemployed millions | direction of the Labor Sports demand work or wages—and the| Union, the Red Dancers a jazz or- murderous fascist bands and Black} chestra that will play continuous Hundreds of Europe strengthening dance music, a concertina orchestra, the armed forces with which Hoo-| the W.LR. Band, speeches by Louis ver and his capitalist masters men-|Hyman, president of the Needle ace the workers of America if they | Trades * Workers Industrial Union, | don’t take wage cuts and starvation|T. H. Li and others, | quietly! To reach Ulmer Park, take the See B. M. T. West End train and get Support the Daily Worker Drive! | off at 25th Street. The park opens | ' Get Donations! Get Subs! ‘ati p.m We Appeal to All Our Readers Readers of the Daily Worker: Today we make a direct appeal to you! We want to draw you closer to our fighting organ! We want you to feel that you are an integral part of this big propaganda and organization institution, the Daily Worker. Remember, the Daily Worker is the collective educator and organizer of the entire working class. The Daily Worker relies upon each one of you. Every reader of our paper is counted upon as a loyal and conscious supporter. The very fact that you read the Daily Worker every day proves it is of great use to you in your working class life. The Daily Worker binds you to the struggles of workers all over the world, clarifies your own day to day struggles, strengthens the bonds of solidarity that must exist between all workers. A working class paper like the Daily Worker, which is so necessary to you aml our movement, deserves your indi- vidual support. If the Daily Worker helps you to become a batter fighter against the bosses and their government, then it will help other workers to become better fighters also. We must quickly, very quickly, increase our number of read- ers by tens of thousands because we are today living in rev- olutionary times, Capitalism is in a crisis. It has driven the workers at a killing pace, exploited them so much that it is now suffering acute indigestion. Millions of workers, seventeen million in all the countries, are walking the streets, looking for work and a chance to live. You read in the Daily Worker yesterday how the work- ers and peasants in China and India are rising in masses against their oppressors. We must hurry, work fast and determinedly, to add to our ranks in this country. We must not lag behind the work- ers in all the shops and mills and mines in the United States. These workers are also ready to fight hard against their bosses and their lickspittles. We must bind these workers to our movement by making them supporters of the Daily have obtained.a very valuable out-! Cable despatch to the New York | Celebration at; Ie City and fo FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents RADES RANK AND FILE CONVENTION BEGINS JUNE 6 ON BROAD SHOP BASIS; | DELEGATES | CHINA GAINS UNEMPLOYED SEND THEIR LIKE OTHERS Big City Near Port of |Consider Organization Campaign; Fight In- ‘human Speed-Up, Unemployment, Piece Work |Boss Press Alarmed pia Capitalists Take Over Industry; A. WE: and Socialist Party Are Their Henchmen | A great convention, at which hundreds of needle trades delegates straight from the shops, from shop committees in the unorganized shops, as well as from the unionized shops and those under the company union tyranny, will meet F riday in New York. The Needle Trades Workers } Industrial Union, the only mili- tant organization of the needle | trade workers, calls upon all workers of the needle industry, cloak and dressmakers, fur work- ers, cap and millinery workers, white goods workers, men’s clothing work- ers, neckwear workers, clothing workers, — shirt overall and other needle tr: | workers, to elect shop workers delegates to the rank and file mass convention, which will be held at New Star Casino, New York City, June 6, 7 and 8. Broad Shop Basis. Tt will be a mass convention, not like jconventions of the A. pany unions or the Clothing Workers. rank and file the machined F. of L. com- Every shop is entitled to one delegate, and larger | shops send one for the first ten and another for each ad- ditional 25 or major fraction there- of. Unemployed workers send rep- |resentatives on exactly the same basis as those actual working. The call for the convention issued by the Industrial Union tells of the mergers and growth of big capital- ism in the needle industry, | It says also: “The introduction of new machin- }ery, piece work, standards of pro- duction and other speed - up schemes, long working hours and |reduced wages — these and other | methods of capitalist rationalization are causing mass unemployment. What to Oppose. is the inhuman speed-up, | piece work, long working hours, wage cuts, discharges, unemploy- ment, child labor, inside and outsid contracting and — sub-contracting. There is the evil of company-union- ism, persecution by the bosses, nolice and courts against striker: is the general attack of the capital- | ists and their government against |the Needle Trades Workers Indus- There |trial Union, revolutionary labor movement. There is the opem betrayal of the officials of the American Federation of L: bor and the socialist party, who work hand in hand with the employers and their government against the workers. There are the war prep- arations against the fatherland of | the working class, the Soviet Union, | a which the “socialists” and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats, are part of the | capitalist military war machine. Determine Policies. “At the convention, the delegates will make a thoro analysis of the | situation in the needle trades and | df the conditions of the workers. | They will review the activities of | the Union, will make a frank ana- lysis of our shortcomings, and will} children | makers, | | pleted yesterd. Amalgamated | There | which is part of the | | three years. ‘07-YEAR TERMS THREAT IN Jury Complete A Days Struggle 30.2 ente are facing each of the 11 workers now on trial here for their activity in | organizing the 15,000 melon workers of the Imperial Valley into the Agri- \cultural Workers Indi ion. | The workers are ican and Oriental and nine 45 of its the effort to vorable There are thr prevent still, move i class bias 2 One ver refused to serve on th he did not thi the « ds tha be strong enough to convict them. He told i on th Page Four) ‘SPIES WATCHIN FOSTER, f Harts Island Prison Crowded, Food Bad I. Quattrone, a worker framed up and sentenced to a year on Hart Island and just released tells the Daily Worker of see William Z. ter and I. Amter at work on the prison farm. Both were sentenced to three years in a trial whe they were denied a jury. 1 nse, “anlawful assembly” con in being elected with Robe Minor, Harry Rayniond, and Joseph Lesten as representatives of 110,000 strik- ing and unemployed vs dem- onstrating in Union Square, March 6, and determined to m to the city hall and lay deniands for work or wages before the Tammany gov- ernment. ill in Blackwells Island prison hospital; Raymond is on Rikers Island. Both are serving Lesten was given 30 and has been released. oster and Amter, Quattrone are doing pick and shovel work in the vegetable gardens. Both are given special attention by the ward- en’s stool pigeons. Quattrone saw Foster discussing politics with a group of the other prisoners, and Minor is critic day: KF determine the policies and tacties|later saw stool pigeons rushing to for the future inevitable struggles | of the workers. “The convention will also held July 15 in the Soviet Union. “Reports will also be given of th results of the drive for the ten thou- | elect | persecution, being | two shop workers as delegates to|shirt once, through some the Congress of the Red Interna-j with laundr; tional Labor Unions which will be | tried and the office to tell of it. Amter has been subjected to petty deprived of: his juggling rules, and the guards iled to make him discard hat during the hot \a large steaw ' spell. Quattrone describes the prison on sand (10,000) new members of the| Harts Island as badly o crowded, | Needle Trades Workers Industrial| in some sections 60 or 70 prisoners Union.” being held with hardly room. to breathe. Talking is prohibited in the mess iMPERIALISTS FORBID PICKETING IN INDIA monotonous: BOMBAY, India, May 30.—Lord Ir- | win, viceroy of India issued a ukase | today against picketing, a recogni- | tion of the fact that the nationalist | Worker and bringing them as close to our center of action as you are. Today we appeal to all workers, you work with workers: Speak to them today, this Tell them our paper needs their help, that it depends upon them to help us out of our danger, out of the critical financial situation we are in. whole week, all the time. donations, get them as reade sent you. movement is more and more seen as a workers and peasants’ rising, at least as far as the British imper- ialists have any thing to fear from it. Non-payment of taxes is report- ed spreading. In the Dharsana salt works, 26 salt raiders were injured and severa! dozen arrested. our readers! You live near Forward to Mass Conference Against’ Unemployment, Chicago (July 4th. Get their rs with the campaign list we ‘of February. ! § ly i {hall and after nine p. m. everywhere. The food is not go and very mush and milk for breakf: tew for nn some |times with tainted mea ans and tea at night with no sugar for the tea. | M ANY SICK AMONG UNEMPLOYED Figures of the New York hospite show that the hospital patients in the New York hospitals iner greatly in the last yea This is due to the mass unemployment and {starvation of the worke ode ing to Dr. ning, medica! directo of many New York hosp The number of } 26 New York he ) Febry