The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1930, Page 1

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 Vol. VIL., No. 133 | PRISONED ‘JOBLESS’ REPRESENTATIVES IN 2 COURTS F Death Penalty for “Dangerous Thoughts” Geers state government is attempting to send six workers to the electric chair for the “erime” of distributing the Daily Work- er and Communist pamphlets which circulate in hundreds of thou- sands of copies all over the United States. Georgia officials de- clare such circulation is a crime punishable by death. Powers, Carr, Gilmer Brady, Story, Anna Burlack, and Mary Dalton, are in prison (held without bail) as the “criminals.” The charges are brought under an old law, first enacted in 1859 as a part of the slave-owners’ fight against the abc In 1866, after the Civil War, it was slightly amended to a post-war conditions. Since that time the law was never invoked until a few weeks ago, when it was resurrected to apply to those secking to organize white and Negro workers together to fight for higher wages, shorter hours, better conditions, for unemployment insurance, for social and political equality for Negroes, etc. No specific acts are charged against the arrested workers, and the prosecutor an- nounces that no overt acts are necessary to bring all revolutionary worl under this law. The law is directed against “dangerous thoughts.” Japan is the only modern capitalist nation which has openly adopted and enforced the death penalty for “dangerous thoughts.” Many people have thought that the example of Japan only proved that country’s “backwardness,” and pointed out its archaic govern- mental forms as the basis for it. These innocent-minded people should feel somewhat disturbed to find the state of Georgia, in the U.S. A., going even farther than Japan. As a matter of fact, in the South we have today very much the same social and economic conditions as in Japan—strong survivals of feudalism, wedded to a highly rationalized modern industry which depends upon extreme exploitation of labor. Like conditions produce like effects. Georgia and Japan produce almost identical “laws” for the suppression of “dangerous thoughts.” Let workers everywhere fully undersiand the of this Georgia case. It is not only the workers of Georgia who are enslaved by such a law, but the workers of the entire country. The semi-feudal reactionaries of Georgia are determined to pre- vent the organization of the workers, white and Negro, They are determined to stamp out trade unions, except the guaranteed “harm- Jess” fakeries of the A. F. of L. They wish by all means to pre- vent the movement for unemployment insurance, for work or wages, since the mills of Georgia are throwing thousands upon thousands of workers upon the streets. All these issues confronting the work issues confronting the workers everywh Georgia are only the exaggerated expre paign of the bosses against the working s of every state. And the leaders of the fight in Georgia are only a section of that mili- tant group of fighters and organizers who everywhere are. rousing and organizing the workers to struggle for better conditions, Workers! Rally to the defense of the Atlanta organiz De- feat the executioners of the capitalist class in Georgia! Gather in masses on June 7th in every city and town, to express your deter- mination to organize and to fight against the intolerable conditions of capitalism! Declare your solidarity with the southern workers who are fighting their way out of semi-slavery conditions! Unite and fight for the liberation of the Atlanta prisoners! MEET TO HAIL JAIL FIVE MORE SOVIET CHINA, GUBAN WORKERS Tomorrow at at Coutral| Absolute onary I Opera House, 7:30 p.m.| Called “Republic” | Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 7:30] p. m., there will be a mass meeting in Central Opera House (67th St. and 8rd Ave.), under the auspices of the Communist Party, U. S. A.,| District 2, to celebrate the first] Chinese Soviet Congress. At the} same time it will be a mobilization | menace rs of Georgia, are the same e. The suppressions in jon of a nation-wide cam- S| officially washed its hands of the accusation made before it against | staff of the army, by the bourgeois | “Nationalists” of “Nationalist”. meeting at Artem. during which six persons were The Supreme Court of Cuba has | breaking up the | sa | meeting, for struggle, under the| leadership of the Communst Party, against imperialism. Max Bedacht, member of the Sec- retariat, Communist Party, U. S. A.;} J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the International Labor Defense; Doonping, of the Chinese Workers’ Alliance;, Richard B. Moore, Negro organizer, candidate for attorney general, state of New York, of the Communist Party; Herbert Benja- min, district organizer, District 2, Communist Party, and Abdul Wa- hid, East Indian worker, will be the speakers. TO RALLY UNIONS TO FIGHT TERROR Unity League Greets United Front Move A statement issued by the Negro Department of the Trade Union Unity League greets the United Conference to fight the lynch terror called by the Communist Party. The statement says, in part: » The National Committee of the Trade Union Unity League notes that the Communist Party of Dis- wict 2, New York, is calling a United Front Conference to protest and to ‘ay down concrete organiza- | tional plans to struggle against the lynching terror that is being di- rected against the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions of the country, because they are jeading the workers in a struggle against unemployment, wage-cuts, ete, We endorse the calling of this conference by the Communist Party ind are proceeding to participate in this conference by having all of the organizations affiliated to the T. U. U. L. in this district call shop and factory meetings. We are also calling upon the rank and file workers in the local A. F. of L. unions to send delegates killed. The “Nationalists” based their accusation on the grounds that the} Arested Communists | army commander was interfering | with the rights written in the con- stitution but which Machado’s fas- cist regime always ignores, The Supreme Court says that, due to the fact that Machado has written the court a letter saying that he, as “president,” ordered the | itution, “no jurisdic- over the acts of the “pres- army to violate the cons the supreme court has tion” ident.” * * . Cuban dispatches state that the fascist dictator Machado, lackey of American imperialism, has had five more workers arrested and held in- communicado and without bail on a charge of “conspiring against law and order.” Reports state that one of those arrested is named John Rego. The capitalist press, making a great mystery out of the arrests, relates wild stories of “Moscow agents,” nese, of “seditious proclamations’ and all manner of _ hair-raising “plots” against the rule of Ameri- can imperialism that is starving to death the working class of Cuba Needle Fraction Meets for Convention Tasks A Party fraction meeting for preparation of the Needle Trades Convention will be held in the Man- hattan Lyceum on Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 sharp. Block and street organizing com- mittees have been organized by the union and the decision of the Party is that every Party member must be an active member in the union. All Party units must notify every member who is a clothing worker, no matter what section of the in- dustry they may work in, that they must attend this important Party fraction meeting. Fraternally, J. PETERS, Or, Sec. Dis. 2, C.P.US.A, clans matter at the Pom t Office at New York. N. ¥,, under the act of March 3, Is Worker FINAL CITY EDITION phe Comprodail New York “14000 ON STRIKE “INGERMANY LED BY COMMUNISTS Mansfeld Co. Mines, Foundries and Other Plants Close Clash With Fascists! Set Up Barricades; Workers Arrested (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, June 2.—Yesterday a strike commenced under revolution- ary leadership. Fourteen thousand workers of the Mansfeld Company enterprises, including mines, foun- dries, ete., are involved. Picketing has already begun, while police have been concentrated. The re- formists have been trying’ unsuc- cessfully to gain leadership of the strike. The Central German National Fascist parade took place Saturday ,and Sunday in Plauen. Collisions with workers occurred whereby barricades were erected to hold up the fascists. Several were injured and twenty workers were arrested. The Second Silesian Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets) Day occurred yes- terday in Breslau. Collisions with workers occurred, many- being in- ed, while thirty were arrested. ts. Yesterday evening, collisions oc- 1d between workers and fas- cists in Leipzig. Several were sent to hospitals. Today the trial of seven fascists who killed the Communist Neu- mann and wounded others on De- cember 30 in Berlin commenced | here. The accused declared that (the Communists accidentally shot | Neumann, whereupon the judge re- | marked: “You must think we are simple.” The trial is proceeding. ‘TEXAS NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS IN PROTEST. HOUSTON, Texas, June | More than 200 Negro dock work- | ers and laborers were among the workers who crowded the I. L. A. | Club Hall, 411 Smith St., to protest |the growing white capitalist terror | against Negro and white workers in the South. | M. J. Olgin was the chief speaker. W. E. Watkins, port organizer of ae General Alberto Herrera, chief of | the Marine Workers’ Union; W. A. |} Berry, Negro worker; G. V. Haw- kins and Rose Fleer of the T. U. U. L. also spoke of the necessity of organizing the Negro and white workers. NEW YORK, SUBSCRIPTION RA and irons, TUESDAY, JUNE, a 1930 New York City an 1 SG a year everywhere exceptin foreign countries, t re $8 (as Away With Imperialist Butchers and Their Pacifist Agents! —BY FRED ELLIS a year, today in two courts. 57th St., they will be brought At 2 p. m. at the Appellat Division, 24th St. and Madison Ave., the appeal against the conviction on a charge of “un- lawful assembly” will be ar- gued, with Joseph Brodsky, attor- ney for the International Labor} Defense, representing the workers, and some member of the district attorney’s staff demanding Police Commi ing instructions, “Keep Foster jail forever,” be carried out. Fake Assault Evidence. The assault charge has already been postponed four times; the prosecution is keeping the police- man they claim was assaulted prac- tically a prisoner in a hospital to give color to the case, If the judge (there is no jury in these courts) finds the defendants guilty, they will be held either to the grand jury for indictment, or bound over to general sessions court, where they do have jury trials, even in New York. Those who face the judge today are William Z. Foster, general sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity League, leader in the great steel in | strike of 1919, internationally known (Continued on Page Three) RUSH TROOPS T0 INDIA FRONTIER Militant Unions Rally to Save Six in Atlanta Gandhi Writes Against Police'Had Lawyer Indicted for Mal-Practice Mass Resistance Capitalist press reports indicate that guerilla warfare is going on | over a considerable section of the hilly country along the Northwest boundary of ‘India. More British troops were being rushed to this dis trict yesterday, a column of moto | trucks reinforcing Fort Shabkada- Draw up Charge to Kill Workers’ Leaders Fighting to save from electrocu-,in New York now, told how the tion, the sentence they will receive | death charge came to be made if convicted on charges of “inciting | against them. They were arrested to insurrection,” six organizers now|March 9, just as they were about | in jail in Atlanta, Georgia, the |to open an indoor meeting called to |Trade Union Unity League and the |organize Negro and white unem- National Textile Workers’ Union; Ployed workers. After being re- | r yesterday a regiment of British cavalry sur. ed statements calling |leased once, a minor charge was one supposed to be a Chi-| | | Doyle, chairman of a Communist | |were dragged from the platform cupying the nearby village of Prane Win Workers in Jail) Frieda Serby, being Communism. However, the British air force has not been able to dislodge the en trenched tribesmen of the Haji o speaker, and Paul Party campaign meeting at Tenth St. and Second Ave., Thursday night | with rifles and machine guns, anc the British troops and arrested because although the (Continued on Page Three) meeting was permitted, the social- jist labor party tried to steal the] nists, and in the police station and} space, and there was an argument] while waiting trial, both Serby and| with the police over the position of] Doyle found the crowd of worker: the Communist speakers’ stand, arrested’ on trivial and The crowd was with the Commu-| charges very much interested rounding Charsadda, and troops oc- Eight arrests were made, the charge test, to collect defense funds and have kept #|June 8 are technical | munist organizers, go to trial June on all workers, organized and unor-| framed against them and they were ganized, Negro and white, to pro-|teleased on bail for trial. In the meantime, police, casting | to rouse the whole world to this|about for some substantial charge | murder plot of the Southern mil!/to detain the Communists on, ap- - | owners and their A. F. of L. hench- |pealed to a lawyer who’ was under a | men. Organization and big delega- | lindictment for mal- -practice. That Turangzai, who fire on these planes | tions to the Southern Conference of | shining light of the legal profession | 1 1the T. U. U. L. in Chattanooga on | Suggested the 1861 insurrection law, immediate practical | originally aimed at poor whites in sympathy with the Northern cause. Discharged on the minor charge, Powers and Carr were held for in- surrection and inciting to insurrec- tion, Then, on May 21, the police raided «Continued on Page Three) | weapons, | Crooked Lawyer Incites Charge. Two of the Atlanta defendants, | s|M. H. Powers and Joe Carr, Com- 17. Their attorney, O. C. Hancock, A Cable from Henderson, a minister in the social-fascist Labor gov- ernment of England, which is ministering bullets to the revolutionary Indian workers and peasants, agreed with the Tories, the party of the big bosses, that the Daily Worker of London, central organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain, needed “serious consideration.” “Labor leader” Henderson, in cooperation with the big bosses in England, is going to “investigate” our brother paper in London, “Labor leader” Woll, in cooperation with the big bosses of the United States, is going to “investigate” our paper here. All the big bosses and all their hand-maidens who seek to sell out the working class in order to pocket thirty dirty pieces of silver, are deathly afraid of the growing proletarian revolution in China, India and elsewhere, are intent on silencing our papers, the voice of the masses of workers who are more and more ready for struggle against the exploiters and the social-fascists, chambermaids in the bosses’ liveried stables, The Daily Worker of our British comrades is also fight- ing ayeinst being suppressed, the same as your Daily Work- er is doing. Our comrades in Great Britain are also mobiliz- ing for its support, contributing to a Fighting Fund to keep their Daily Worker going and growing. With a Communist Party not as large as ours, with an average wage for Bri- d London ‘Daily’ tish workers less than a third of that received by American workers, our brother paper in London has raised nearly $15,000 to keep, defend and strengthen their Daily Worker. We here have still to reach the $10,000 mark. What is the matter, comrades? Do you really want our Daily Work- er to continue as the fighting organ of our class in this coun- try? Can we really rely upon you as a defender of the Daily Worker against attack by the national committee of the bosses at Washington, D. C.? The London Daily Worker has sent you a cable message. Read it: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS TO OUR BROTHER PAPER WHICH SO SPLENDIDLY MOBILIZED THE UN- EMPLOYED ON MARCH SIXTH. AMERICAN WORK- ERS—SUPPORT YOUR PAPER’S FIGHTING FUND IN THIS CRITICAL PERIOD AND ROOT IT FIRMLY IN YOUR LARGE FACTORIES. DAILY WORKER, LONDON. ‘You must answer this cable. The way to answer it is to create an efficient apparatus in every city to collect funds. It will be answered if every reader and Party member will secure a maximum of contributions upon the campaign lists we sant you. Into the field! Collect for our Fighting Fund! Quick’* } | AUTO FACTORIES AGAIN CUT FORCE Ford Fires es Thousands| July 4; Speed-Up DETROIT, Mich. June 2.—With | the monotonous regularity of a} punch-press the Guardian Trust Co. issues ever-present unemployment. The latest, covering the first three months of this year, shows an em- reports showing Foster Is Communist Nominee for Jobless Demands Are Center of Campaign of “assaulting a policeman” at the Union | Square demonstra that | sioner Whalen’s part- | Union | ARGUMENT ON APPEAL OF FOSTER, MINOR, AMIER RAYMOND; ASSAULT CASE | Now Serving 3 Vous a ayer ing Demands of 110,000 March 6 Demonstrators. to City Hall Governor$ The cases of the elected delegates of the 119,000 March 6 demonstrators against rmemployment will be up for hearing In the Fourth District Magistrate Court, for hearing on the fake charge BOSS SPOKESMAN GALLS FOR NEW WAGE-CUT DRIVE Big Cuts Already Made More to Come | That further wage-cuts minent and unav« laration of H. of the Journal of the leading bourgé the Federal Reser tem. Writing to and ital, Willis in that they stopped selves and i “im- are that kidding ted a drive it is t me upot the | which “have been labor in most indus' cutting the “high costs tion in accord with th level, “As prices are cut,” “aetual nec compels the cu ting of wages; and therefore during the past week or ten di important wage-cuts have been an- nounced in an equal number of im- portant industries.” If profits are to continue, Willis argues, the wor ling class must “take some part | the burden upon ude: \There never was any sound bas sity its sh for the view that ver wages paid to employes m tinued prosperity because larged their buying power. . |the necessity of cutting inevitable contradiction makes its appearance, sound element in the extravagantly |high wage philosophy becomes evi- dent.” » With in and the un- ter ms ployment decline of 20 per cent, as compared with the same period of 1929, while auto production has de- lereased 32 per cent. The value of building permits shows a loss of 42 per cent. The 1930 period shows a gain of 144 per cent in the number of business failures, with the lia- bilities showing a 260 per cent in- crease. The unemployment result- be seen. A considerable portion of the Ford Rouge plant will shut down on July 4 for two or three weeks. Extensive repair operations now go- ing on will require such a shut- down, it is said. Tens of thousands of Ford workers will again be thrown out. Speed-Up. Reports showing an increase in the demand for steel for auto pro- duction are no index as to the em- ployment situation. Most of the and Chevrolet. The tormer is let- ting out parts contracts to other firms and laying off “high wage” workers here. The latter is working three days a week and getting out as much production as it wants. Tong Thugs Attack as Speakers Greet Soviet Thugs from the Hip Sing Tong gangs controlling Chinatown, broke up a meeting held by the Young Communist League last night to greet the Chinese Soviets. Many Chinese and white com- rades, including the speaker, Mo, others, all taken to the Night Court. The meeting was held at Mott and Pell Sts. and started at 8:30. The tong merd and their police, allies were able to keep Chinese} 54th St. workers away and the speakers and committee had a hot fight. pare ri ing from these conditions can easily | steel buying is being done by Ford| and the Ong Leong Tong, the two, were badly beaten, and the police | arrested James Eisen, Al Stone and) retical justification of sale proce followed direc Hoover’s eme fall. This i swhat Worker the Daily has been pointing out regularly since |the crash last autumn. The bo: | will not only attempt to make the wage-cuts permanent, but they will progressivley increase their wage- cutting offensive. The class inter- ests of the workers and bosses are (Continued on Page Two) HARTFORD COPS BREAK GATE MEET Bosses Afraid of Work- rs Organizing | HARTFORD, Conn., June 2.— “Rights or no rights I've got the force with me,” was the statement |of Mayor Batterson of Hartford, when the committee representing the Communist Party asked him for a permit to hold shop gate meetings last Monday, May 19th. This marks the f made by the } it with open terror m toiling ma igns of res wage cuts, spe as these harassed many thousands of show sentiment for and struggle. Meetings | Thursday a Underwood fed by the polic sentment of cist turn being government as replaces democratic pretentions hods the as workers hungr; held Col Wedne and s and ma: of the sh- re- who er we the crowded around the speakers show- ing hostility to the action of the wor police,