The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1930, Page 1

| | P The Fight to Organize the Southern Workers That Began in Gastonia, Where on June 7, 1929, the Work- ers Defended Themselves From Attack, Must Be Broadened by Demanding the Freedom of Powers and Carr Kntere@ a» second-class matter at the Post Uffice at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March &. 1878, Published daily ex Company, tnc., 4 Vol. VII., No. 132 ‘pt Sunday by The Comprodally Vablishing K Union § ’ wane, New York City, ¥. NEW YORK, MONDA Y, JUNE 2, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RAT : 86 0 year everywhere excepting Manhattan and Bronx, New York City and foreign countries, there $3 a year, FINAL CITY . EDITION Price 3 Cents A.F.L. CHIEFS VOTE DEATH INDI — Hot Champions of “Freedom” E under the order of Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the “social- ist” Second International, the British Royal Air Force is raining high explosives on the women and children of Northern Indian villages; while in Rangoon British troops have shot down at least 200 strikers; while every Indian city is filled with dead and dying as the “labor” government of England pours machine gun fire into masses demanding | independence, the incredible hypocrites of the Second International have the effrontery to address a letter to the workers of the Soviet Union in behalf of “freedom”: The text of the letter as adopted by the executive committee of the “socialist” International at Berlin on May 11-13, is now being used as anti-Soviet propaganda in the United States. It says that MacDonald and his ilk are filled with “worry over news from Russia.” But not a worry do they have for India! With the blood of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and thousands of German workers murdered by the Noskes and Zoergiebels on their hands, the German “socialists” join with MacDonald in a plea to the Russian workers “to save the revolution.” But not in Germany, and not in India; only in the Soviet Union! How to save the revolution? Still more effrontery! It is sug- gested that “economic freedom,” perhaps the kind MacDonald insists on the Indian peasants having, be “restored” to the Russian peasants. Undoubtedly MacDonald is willing and anxious to send the airplanes of the British Royal Air Force from India northward across the moun- tains to “restore” the same “fredom” to the Russian peasants that they are forcing the Indian peasants to accept now. The “socialist” international is putrid beyond all description. Its American section, through the mouth of Norman Thomas writing on India, is at loss how to cover up the imperialist massacre by Thomas’ British colleague MacDonald, and in the current issue of his social fascist sheet says: “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.” Thomas, the imperialist scoundrel himself, tries to hide the fact that MacDonald is not only “talking like an imperialist in parliament” but murdering Indians like any imperialist in India. Moreover, even if MacDonald had been “quietly and unofficially” negotiating with Gandhi, it would be only to bribe him to come out more openly in his betrayal of the cause of Indian independence. However, even this boon of consolation is denied the Reverend Mr. Thomas, who wishes us to believe that his fellow social fascist Mac- Donald is “secretly doing good” and that daily bloodbaths given the Indian masses are only a “disguise” for “private piety.” A London dis- patch Saturday stating that the British India Office has issued an ‘emphatic denial” of the rumor that MacDonald was secretly dickering with Gandhi. But Thomas, too, as a part of the “socialist” Second International leadership, has the consummate audacity to join with MacDonald and Zoergiebel in hypocritical solicitude about “saving the revolution,” about “freedom and democracy”—in the Soviet Union! Of course the truth is that the whole kit and caboodle of the Second International are only encouraging world imperialism to attack the Soviet Union, for all they pretend to “oppose” such attack. Thomas’ sééming indecision on India is only because U. S. imperialism is un- decided whether to help the Indian revolution in order to steal Britain’s big market there, or whether to aid British imperialism against the revolution for fear the revolution will be a Soviet revolution. If Thomas were sure that India would go Soviet and cast off its bour- geoisie, Gandhi and all, he would not now be expressing Philistine pain at MacDonald’s imperialism. To give Thomas a line, Henry. Cabot Lodge in the Herald-Tribune has written that while America is profiting by India’s revolt against Britain, American exports to India having grown 392 per cent since 1914, while British exports to India have grown only 19 per cent in the same time, yet, cautions Lodge, “all business in India is dependent on law and order,” and “before we rush in headlong, it would certainly do no harm to realize that we have powerful reasons for being sympa- thetic to the British,” even though “the most obvious way in which to measure our interest in India is to look at the trade figures.” The “socialist” Thomas and his Second International are thus urged to be careful about too much demagogy on freedom in India. But all the wolf pack, from Deterding to Thomas, from Easely to MacDonald, have a free rein to howl hypocritically for freedom in the only country «hat has it for the workers, the Soviet Union. The Senate Lobby “Investigation” jee was a sensational exposure of lobbying by Congress in 1913. The result? Lobbying has doubled and redoubled every year since. Dozens of Congressmen and government officials, including such men as “Uncle Joe” Cannon and Herbert Hoover, have been forced to admit this fact. The gigantic power trust lobby has also been “inves- tigated,” with the same result. The uncovering of the way in which the steel trust's lobby broke up the “disarmament” conference of 1927 did not keep Charlie Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel’ Corporation from getting his cruiser-building contracts. It is ridiculous to think that a government controlled by capitalists and corporations ever has, ever can or ever desires to stop lobbying. A yellow cur does not give orders to its master. Does the present Senate lobby investigation committee, with all its length and confusing “hearings,” intend to bring out the whole, story of the activities of the lobbyists? Of course not. Many of the most powerful lobbies are not even discussed. . For example, members of the Senate committee have admitted that the rayon lobby responsible for many overnight “changes of mind” when the tariff on rafon was drafted will not be investigated. (This lobby is doubly important because of the war character of the rayon industry—because rayon factories can easily be changed into explosives factories.. The reasons for no investigation? There are two very good ones. First the DuPonts with DuPont-Rayon—one of the big sections of the rayon trust—plays a powerful hand in the control of the government and of the capitalist political parties. Thousands of their dollars flow into the hands of the Democrats and Republicans. John J. Raskob, vice- president of the DuPont Company as well as chairman of the finance committee of General Motors, is chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The second reason is like the first. Lieutenant-Governor Lehman of. New York, a member of the powerful Lehman Brothers, bankers, is finance director of the Democratic National Committee. Lehman Brothers financed the big Associated. Rayon Corporation. The Asso- ciated Rayon Corporation is the financing body of the international ayon trust. (The Lehman bankers also are very closely connected with fertain leaders of the “socialist” party.) . : The avoidance of publicity and exposure by the rayon lobby is only one example. Many other lobbies are escaping. Even the “liberal” member of the “investigating” committee, Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana, has been doing all he can to help the power trust, through the Montana Power Company, to grab the Flathead power sites. The lobbying that is exposed, lurid as it might:seem to.one who is not yet aware of the complete domination of the government by the | corporations, is only exposed for the cheapest of political reasons. The Democrats call down Huston, and the Republicans retaliate by razzing | Raskob. Both are careful not to go too far. Just a little game to fool the masses. _ The workers must not be misled. The purpose of. a lobby investi- gation by the Senate is not to stop lobbying. It is not even to-“expose” lobbying. The purpose of this superficial “investigation” is to fool the a as IN CHANGCHOW JOIN RED ARMY ‘Government Officials | in Changchow Resigned ‘Fall of Hankow Near. ‘British Gunboats to Suppress Revolts AMOY, June 1.—As Changchow, an important city 30 miles wes of | the port of Amoy, has been besieged and isolated by Red troops and pea- | |sants for two days and may fall at| any moment into the hands of the | the growing revolu- isness of the soldiers jin the government troops has! |reached its maturity, while the! | Kuomintang government officials in | [the city are trembling and panicky, {knowing that their end is near. A recent report definitely stated | that a large section of Kuomintang | government troops garrisoning the (Continued on Page Three) HOLD N. J. STATE. MEETING JUNE 7 To Bring Real Issues! | to Workers | NEWARK, N. J., June ling vigorously into the election cam- |paign in New Jersey to present the workers the burning issues con-| fronting the working class, the Communist Party of New Jersey has issued a call for a State Rati- fication Convention, to be held| | Saturday, June 7, 1930, at 1 P. M.| Workers’ Center, 93 Mercer Street, | | revolutionists | tionary conscio 1.—Swing- | More! Rebel As | Gandhi Plots With British. BULLETIN. BOMBAY, India, June 1.—Late today it was reported that seven | were killed and nine wounded in the fighting at Peshawar. The | British officials admit the situa- tion in the northwest is the most serious they have faced so far. Fifteen thousand raiders smashed the two-mile long police cordon at the Wadla salt works here and seized salt; 25 were in- jured by charging police and 47 arrested. eee ee Capitalist press service stories from India admit now that the} death list at Rangoon, where| strikers fought the scabs, police and} British soldiers, is now 200 and growing, furthermore, that a con- siderable number of police were among those killed and injured. The'whole Peshwar 4istriet is re- ported seething with indignation aaginst the killing of two children and wounding of a woman by a lance corporal of the “King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.” The British government’s excuse that) the shot was accidental does not modify the Northwest frontier | tribesmen, who want to know what | the British troops are doing there anyway. Try Disarm Troops. After the murder of the children, crowds surged through the streets of Peshwar, and fought police and soldiers. They attacked a police station, and tried to disarm a “de- tachment of an Essex regiment,” which “found it necessary to open (Continued on Page Two) THOUSANDS AT PICNIC © CELEBRATE 5-YEAR PLAN Thousands of workers turned out to celebrate the growth of Social- ism in the Soviet Union at an_all- day picnic at Ulmer Park, Brook- lyn, Saturday. \the lynching of George Hughes, Ne- Help Fig | state campaign manager, has called this city. The various features of the occa- The campaign to secure the Sif | sion were enjoyed by the assembled natures for nominees is well under | 5 i qviyss with s reported honsestoshonge| WOekers, With good tarnpots to Wie canvassing in Paterson, Nutley and| Ress the Red Dancers under the Dover. But more signatures remain| direction of Edith Segal and sev" to be secured, and Elias Marks, ;¢tal track and field events by the Labor Sports Union. upon A cablegram from the German more signatures and apply at the| section of the Friends of the Soviet following places: Newark: 93 Mer-| Union was received and read. In cer Street, Paterson: 8 Grover|turn a cablegram was sent to the Street, Passaic: 25 Dayton Avenue,| Fifth Congress of the R. I. L. U. Trenton: 20 Second Street, andj pledging the American workers’ Perth Amboy: 308 Elm Street. | support in the realization of the) EOE Dam |Five Year Plan. Support the Daily Worker Drive! | Max Bedacht, Ludwig Landy and | Get Donations! Get Subs! T. H. Li were the speakers. workers into thinking that the Senate really wants to “clean up” the | activities of the lobbyists. At the same time, each capitalist party | hopes to bring out a few things about the graft of the other party to discredit it in the election campaign and thus to catch some of its | votes. They try to do this, however, without injuring the capitalist | class, the class which owns all capitalist parties, including the so-called | “socialist” parties. The workers should know that the capitalists will never either expose or “correct” the rottenness of capitalism, because it is all rot- | ten; rottennes is inherent in capitalism because it is founded upon exploitation—robbery. Capitalism cannot be “cured” by electing ‘good men.” It can only be destroyed. The only “clean government” possible is one that destroys capitalist relationships between man and man, that destroys capitalism and sup- presses all capitalist resistance trying to restore exploitation. That is | why the Communist Party urges all workers not to rely upon capitalist | government, but to build their own organized power in the shops, mills and mines, to fight for their immediate interests now and prepare the | forces of working class revolution to seize power for the workers and farmers, to establish a Soviet Government. i all workers to help secure {of the class war prisoners and sent MILITIA AIDS OKLA. MOB TO LYNCH NEGRO Capitalist Officials With Fake “Defense” Aid Lynchers Absurd “Resistance” Oppressed Must Defend Selves from Mobs OKLAHOMA CITY, June 1---The} lynching of Henry Argo, a Negro, at| the town of Chickasha near here, follows the same form as that of ero worker murdered by white capi- talists at Sherman, Texas, recent- ly. It is the old fairy tale about the capitalist authorities “defend- ing” the Negro a2gdinst the mob, which “oversomes’ the authorities and murders the Negro without any- bedy being hurt but the victim. Argo, as usual, was accused of “rape,” as was Hughes, although| Hughes was later shown to have| committed only the “crime” of de- manding three weeks’ wages due him from his employer. Argo, de-| nying the charge, was put into the Chikasha jail. A mob gathered, and the ancient formalities of a pretended “defense” were gone through. The mayor “argued” with the mob. The cityat- torney and county attorney “plead-| ed” with the mob. If it had been a} jerowd of unemployed workers led by Communists demanding bread, there would have been clubs, bullets and gas bombs unsparingly used. But the mob didn’t demand bread, | jonly the life. of a Negro. So they/| were allowed to go ahead by the| ‘capitalist government authorities, The National Guard was called, but not to protect the Negro, a ‘militia officer who undoubtedly| | wotld have turned machine guns/ | without hesitation into a crowd of | strikers, “failed to quiet the mob” by adding his “argument” to the |other capitalist officials. When he | ordered his men to fire, it was only | with blank cartridges! So the militiamen were on the de- fensive and “took shelter under a rain of bricks.” The farce was con- tinued by the mob besieging the | militiamen, virtually imprisoned with the Negro in the jail. Then the militia made an agreement with the mob to allow the mob to get at the Negro while the militiamen, guns and all, walked out of the jail! Not the slightest effort was/ made to afford the Negro any) chance. Then when the mob entered and shot Argo through the head, he was taken out, wounded, to a hospital, but the hospital refused him. Then} he was carried back to the jail, which was supposed to be “guard- ed.” Nevertheless, the husband of the supposed “raped” woman, one G. W. Skinner, was allowed to enter the jail and stab the Negro through the chest, thus adding to his wounds from which he died here later after being brought from Chickasha. Skinner and two or three others| were arrested, but let go free with- out even any bail. AGAINST WHITE TERROR. The Wisconsin state conference of the Lithuanian Women’s Organiza- tion adopted a resolution in support CHAIR EVERY COMMUNIST CTMENT IN ATLANTA —& PROSECUTOR DECLARES WILL SEND T0 WHO COMES TO STATE, INCLUDES ALL MILITANTS CAPITALIST PRESS RECOGNIZES THAT MARY DALTON’S ASKING EMBARRASSING QUESTION AT GREEN'S MEETING IS REASON FOR PLAN TO KILL HER COMMUNIST PARTY WILL MAKE FIGHT ON TERROR CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH; MAY NOMINATE DEFENDANT CHIEF POINT IN ELECTION STOREY FOR GOVERNOR ATLANTA, Ga., June 1.—Indictments charging Mary Dalton, Anna Burlack, Henry Storey and Gilmer Brady with “attempting to incite insurrection,” and “distributing insurrectionary literature” were returned here Friday by the Fulton County grand jury, made up of hich officials of the American Federation of Labor and slave driving business men of Atlanta. The charges against the four just indicted are the same as those facing M. H. Pow- ers and Joseph Carr, and, under a Georgia law unused since the Civil War period, convic- tion carries the death penalty. The charges declare the prisoners “assembled a crowd, made speeches and by per- uasion and by books, papers, pamphlets, cir- culars and literature for the purpose of calling, assembling, | bringing together certain per- | sons, in order to incite, to organize PRESS REPORTS HECKLING CHARG and establish combined resistance to Trial Attempt to Stop] Gecrsia.” Jobless Organizing Death For Selling Daily Worker. The proscribed literature, on ATLANTA, Ga., June 1.—Every-| which this charge is based, are: body can see here the hand of the| Daily Worker, Liberator (organ of American Federation of Labor bu-|the American Negro Labor Con- reaucracy, working alongside the|gress), “Out of a Job,” by Earl hand of the cotton mill owners and| Browder’; “Why Every Worker their state government, to burn to| Should Join the Communist Party,” death not only Powers and Carr, but | “On the Road to Bolshevization,” the other four labor organizers. The | “Trade Unions and Socialist Con- United Press news service, in a/ struction in the U. S. S. R.,” “Com- special article from its Atlanta |munist Manifesto” (written by Marx correspondent, refers to the indict-| and Engels), “Women in the Soviet ment Saturday as being “on charges | Union,” “Rrogram of the Commu- circulating?~ of insurrection growing out of the Communist demonstrations here and the alleged heckling of Presi dent Green of the American Federa- tion of Labor during an address here” and states, “the new defen- dants are named Mary Dalton, At- lanta, charged specifically with heckling President Green; Ann Bur- lack, Atlanta; Henry Storey, Atlanta Negro, and Gilmer Brady, Negro, New York.” Though the charge of heckling Green does not, as a matter of fact, appear as one of the counts in the formal indictment as signed by the Fulton County grand jury, it is un- deniable that the United Press ac- curately reports one basis of the charge and reflectts the argument for rendering the indictment. Bosses Hate Union. Although the industrial and finan- cial interests of Atlanta and Georgia have not voiced themselves openly regarding the prosecution, it is clear that these elements are led by such forces as the Fulton Bag and Cot- ton Mills, where the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union, with Mary Dalton as organizer, has been ac- tive in organizing the workers. “Fulton Bag” is one of the few textile mills in this section that is still working full time. There are two shifts, 10 hours and 40 min- $6 to the I. L. D, utes for the day shift and 12 hours (Continued on Page Three) We repeat a little today, for emphasis. We repeat as well in order to cement our forces, to multiply support for the Daily Worker and our Party ten-fold; yes, a hundred-fold. It is necessary, comrades. House Resolution 220 gives Speaker Longworth the power to name a committee to “investigate Communist propaganda in the United States, particularly in our educa- tional institutions; the activities and membership of the Com- munist Party ... the ramifications of the Communist Inter- national in the United States, .. . the Daily Worker—all enti- | ties, groups and individuals‘alleged to teach, advise or advo- cate the overthrow by force or violence the government of the United States, or attempt to undermine our republican form of government...” , Representative Fish of New York, who represents all. the big fish at Washington, D. C., screamed himself into hys- terics when the House passed this bill some days ago. He said we intended to destroy the capitalist system, make war on capitalism, were creating turmoil in southern textile riots and crime, aig 4 nel ht Attack of Enemy! To oppose capitalism, to speak for the seven million un- employed, to fight for the starving southern textile workers, to call upon Negro workers t io struggle side by side with white workers against brutal, killing exploitation, against lynching—this is a crime. For this the Daily Worker and the Communist Party is going to be “investigated.” When capitalism says “in' vestigate” it means “attack.” When the Fishes, Wolls, Easleys at the command of the big bosses launch an attack against the Daily Worker, then we must mobilize our forces to def. it going, to build for its suppor that ours will be the victory. ‘end the Daily Worker, to keep ‘t an army of workers so large And that is why we again say: Support the Daily Worker now, and much more than you The Daily Worker needs you. strengthened to meet the ‘investigating” enemy. have ever supported it before. The Daily Worker must be Workers, comrades, workers’ organizations everywhere—work hard, towns, were stirring up the Negroes, were fomenting strikes. | work fast for contributions to the Daily Worker $25,000 | Emergency Fur* nist International” (with constitu- tion and statutes), “Labor and Southern Cotton Mills,” by Myra | Page; Lenin’s “State and Revolu- tion,” his “Revolutionary Lessons” and “Proletarian Revolution”; “Pro- gram of the Trade Union Unity | League” and “Communist Party, U. S.'A., District 17,” this last be- | ing a leaflet for distribution on May |Day. None of this literature was found on the defendants; it was all seized in other raids elsewhere. Communists Answer. Tom Johnson, district organizer of the Communist Party, immedi- ately on receipt of news of the in- dictment, issued a statement scor- ing it as part of a planned attempt |to smash the entire militant labor movement in the. South. “It shows clearly,” says the Com- munist statement, “that the ruling jclass of the South is determined to outlaw every organization which really fights for the interests of the Southern workers and poor farmers. “According to the indictments of Dalton, Burlack, Bradey and Storey, it is now punishable by death to sell the Daily Worker or a copy of the T. U. U. L. Program. “The Communist Party will meet this latest attack by rallying the (Continued on Page Three) TO PROTEST N, J, JOBLESS TRIAL Flaiani and Graham to Speak at Meetings | NEWARK, N. J., June 1.—Post- |ponement of the ‘vial of the eight workers charged with sedition for participating in an unemployment meeting Feb. 11, will be demanded by the defense today. The appeal from the sentencing of Dominick Flaiani to up to seventeen years imprisonment as the leader of the unemployment meeting, is _ still | pending. | A second mass meeti to protest against the sentencing of Flaiani and the threatened se itencing of the eight now on trial will be held Saturday, June 14, in Military Park. A mass protest meeting is also arranged for Perth Amboy, Wednes- |day, June 4, at & P. M., at the | Workers’ Home, 308 Elm _ Street, |where Flaiani and Dozier Graham, | Negro worker and Communist Party candidate for Senator from New Jersey, will speak. AFL. OFFICIAL BRAND JURY SECY State Federation Head Aids Prosecutor ATLANTA, Ga., June 1.—Open collaboration of the American Fede- ration of Labor’s official regime in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia with the capitalist state government and the mill owners in the plan to send six workers to the Jelectric chair is brought to light by these facts: First: A. Steve Nance, president | of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, |the local A. F. of L. central body, was assistant secretary of the grand jury that returned the indictments |charging “an attempt to incite to insurrection” and “distributing in- |surtectionary literature” against | Mary Dalton, Henry Storey, Gilmer Brady and Ann Burlak. Business men were prominent among the members of this grand jury with Nance in framing the judicial lynch- ing indictment. Second: This is the same A. Steve Nance who presided at the A. F. of L. meeting here addressed by Pr dent William Green, at which Mar Dalton, as organizer of the National (Continued on Page Two) HAIL THE CHINESE SOVIET CONGRESS Mass Meeting June 4. at Central Opera The opening of the first Chinese Soviet Congress and the march of the Chinese Red armies to the city walls of Changchow signalizes the consolidation of the achievements of the Chinese revolution and its for- ward march, The Congress’ opening date was set for May 30. Probably the con- gress will still be at work by June 4, when at the Central Opera House (67th St. and 3d Ave.) the workers in New York, themselves struggling against the enemies of the Chinese workers—one of them being the Wall Street government—will cele- brate the First Chinese Soviet Con- gress and mobilize support for the Chinees and Indian revolutions. Police “Break Up Anti-Lynch Meet Police, one with a drawn gun, broke up an open-air meeting held to protest the lynch terror in Mount Vernon under the auspices of the Young Communist League. | One aftet another the speakers were dragged from the stand and taken to the police station, while the crowd of workers, including many Negro workers, booed the police. On the following day a leaflet was given out explaining the role of the police and calling upon all the workers to participate in a body next Friday, June 6, at 9 p. m. to stage a real anti-lynching protest meeting at the same spot, Seventh Ave. and 3d S* ’ ¥