The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1930, Page 1

Into the Streets to Starve. Organize for the National Jobless Workers, in Chicago, July 4, to Demand Work or Wages! Every Day More and More Workers Are Thrown Refuse to Starve! Convention of Vol. VII, No. chest Published daily except Sun pany, Inc. 20-28 Union Hie So Daily = Enteree as second-class matter at the Post (a ee Maan ee Office at New York. N. ¥., under the act ef March 3, 1878, FINAL CITY EDITION by ‘Phe Comprodaily & are Sew York City, SUBSCRIPTION RATE and Bronx, New York : $6 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan City and foretan tries, there #5 a year i] = ice 3 Cent: ts METAL WORKERS CONFERENCE JUNE 14 TO FIGHT STARVATION Gold Medal fie Cireeri-Wlectticl “PEGI ST E R E 0 Chair for Union Organizers ILLIAM GREEN, president of L, of the A. F. has been pre- sented with the Gold Medal of the Roosevelt Foundation, for his services to capitalism in promoting the speed-up, preventing the work- ers from striking, and pledging the trade unions not to demand wage- increases. Those organizers who put forth demands for the workers, for wage increases and for unemployment insurance, are threatened with the electric chair, as in Atlanta, Georgia, where six comré for whom the government demands the death senten William Green obtains a Gold les are in prison Medal from the capitalists, because he stands for the continued subjection of the Negroes, their segrega- tion into Jim Crow districts, cars, and unions, and their regular lynch- ing whenever 'they lift their voices in demands against the bosses. Organizers for the Trade Union Unity League are to be sent to the electric chair because they organize white and Negro workers to- gether on a basis of full and complete equality. The capitalists have made-no mistake in’ honoring William Green. He is their faithful servant. He fights fiercely for the profits of the bosses, and against the demands of the workers. For the same reason that the capitalists give him a Gold Medal, the workers must organize to give him the boot. Green’s organization has a paper in Birmingham, carries out Green’s (and the capitalists’) program. Alabama, which It is called the “Labor Advocate,” but it is really the Capitalists’ Advocate. This paper prints large-type appeals for lynchings against the organizers of the Trade Union Unity League. It howls that the revolutionary trade unions “have spread out to an almost unbelievable extent,” and de- mands violence to stop this growth. ly preach social equality for the Black Race, It grows indignant against the demand “should be squelched NOW.” It howls against those who “open- ” and demands that they for Work or wages, and against the “arrogant demands made upon our citizenship and our charitable agencies for money or other relief.” It prints its incitations to violence with great heavy. black borders around them, It is hysterically working up the mob-spirit of all the gangs of | William Green, and preparing in Alabama an illegal lynching attempt, in rivalry with the legal lynching being prepared in Georgia. Workers throughout the land must rouse themselves, must organ- ize, and register an emphatic protest aga: lence being exercised against the working cl The struggle against unemploy: up, is a struggle of the workers of the entire country. for equality of the Negroes is also that of the entire wor! st the legal and illegal vio- Ss organizers in the South. ment, against wage cuts and speed- The struggle ing class. Our comrades in the South are fighting the battle of the entire work- ing class, under conditions of the most horrible sava ngery on the part NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS CALLED Industrial Union Tells | How to Break From Jage Cut, Speed-up Big Convention Friday) All Activity Hastened As Delegations Form A special appeal to registered] workers in the needle trades, those | forced into the I. L. G. W. and other company unions by the fake strikes and other maneuvers, was issued yesterday by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. These workers are reminded that they do} \not have to suffer the speed-up, long hours, piece-work, unemployment and sweat-shop conditions which Smash the Southern Bosses Attempt to Railroad the Six Workers in Atlanta to the Electric Chair By FRED ELLIS were their share of the Schlesinger- Hillman-Kauffman-Stetsky-Zaritsky lattack on them, and the contracts | |these various fakers have with the lboskes, | They are urged to send delegates from shop meetings to the industrial union’s second national convention, which will be held in New York on June 6, 7 and & Their place is in [the ranks of the militant needle] \trades workers. The N. T. W. I. U. is eat a special initiation fee of $2.35 for employed and $1.35 for lunemployed workers during its drive | for 6,000 new members in New| July 4 and 5, came up in two There is every Jobless Organize As Leaders’ ' Cases Expose Fake Freedom The cases of fiye leaders of the unemployed workers who are now rallying on a national | Congress of the Red International | scale to the councils of the unemployed and preparing an enormous convention in Chicago, | of Labor Unions! courts yesterday, without any decisions being rendered. indication that the Tammany judges are going to try and hold them in der which the Metal Worke: prison forever unless the workers by mass pressure, by organization and demonstrations, con- | dustrial League summons repr “vince the agentssof capitalism ® | Abolish piece work, |labor struggles! CONDITIONS 1S HORRIBLE: WAGE CUTS, SPEED-UP, LONG HOURS; LAY-OFFS Great Prosperity for Steel Bosses; Wages Cut to 20 Cents; 100,000 Jobless Auto Workers Delegates Right From ee Will Plan Great Oreanization Drive; National Struggle YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, mine gu AM workers are called upon to send delegates from Jocal unions and shop meet- ings or shop committees to the First National Metal Workers’ Conference, to take place here June 14-1 “Smash the speed-up system! Strike ac tonnage pay and wage for all steel’ Fight for the seven- | metal systen bonus minimum workers! hour day and five-day week! Equal pay for equal work! 5 Work or wages for the unem- QRee a WO ployed! Organize the unorganized! QEtEo ha E ou & UE | Smash the company unions and the | Spy systems in the mills and fac- Hy j ree 1c tories! Unite all metal work HHERSE g aU LEAl regardless of color or race or na tionality! Demand the immedi: release of all workers arrested i Support the Fifth ar-Old Militant Is ure of Vv ‘chose ” | All Branches of Industry. | The Daily Worker has received These are the rallying cries un- ew Td AS tatives of auto and aircraft work- | ers, metal and machinery workers, of the bosses. They must be supported by the workers of the entire country. All the Gold Medals for Green, and electric chairs and lynchings for the fighters for the workers, cannot stop the growth of the revo- lutionary trade unions. The Trade Union Unity League is in the Sovth to stay, just as it is in the entire country to stay. Its success is as- sured by the fact that the workers know the scabby outfit of William Green as their deadly enemy, and that only the T.U.U.L. organizes them and fights for their interests. Let the workers everywhere express their contempt for Judas Green! In a mighty wave of protest, let them demand the release of our prisoners, of Foster, Minor, Amter, and Raymond, in prison in New York for demanding Work or wages, of Powers, Carr, Burlak, Dalton, Brady (Newton), and Storey in Georgia, and all the hundreds of prisoners of the struggle against the boss And organize, or- ganize, organize—into the fighting unions of the T. U. U. L.! @ MACDONALD BARS BERMAN, OF sEcTioN 5 IN “DAILY” CHALLENGE, | TRIPS T0 INDIA Comrade Brenan of Section 5, | New York District, stepped into the Daily Worker office the other day} He Cabinet Officer Says Forces To Be Favored BULLETIN. Latest capitalist press reports from India admit that 80 were injured when demonstrators and mutineers in the Worli jail at- tacked troops trying to repair a barbed wire fence weakened by a previous rush. Sunday, at Pra- with a chip on his shoulders. is ready to do some keep the Daily Worker. is what he did and said: “Here is $50. Keep up your spi The Daily will not go down but will ¢o up in circulation and support. To} ‘Secure a little quick action on the part of a few comrades I know, I [hereby challenge Comrades Stamler, |Metlitz, Goldberg, Sternberg, Hal- And here Convention Committee Tonight. convention arrangements committee ltonight, right after work. The opening of the convention will take place at a mass meeting at |the New Star Casino on Friday at 8 o'clock. At this mass meeting the workers of New York will se- lect the nominees to the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions World Congress. Nominations have been made by the workers in the shops |and the full list of nominees will be submitted and voted upon, Satur- There will be a meeting of the| who rule New York that it is eee to let them go. s NEW JERSEY ‘everything was smooth, un- jhurried and gentlemanly, but jthe clearest presentation of the | fact that sending and holding | State Ratification Meet the jobless leaders in prison on Saturday for three years each, and rail- roading them on a fanciful charge N. J. June 3.—From | that they assaulted a policeman to more years, brought nothing more from the judges than silence, or NEWARK, reports received by the New Jersey | The atmosphere of the courts | COMMUNISTS s hostile; deference was leven to legalistic conventions, ‘N.Y, WORKERS MEET T0 FIGHT INTERVENTION | Masses Gather Tonight to Greet Soviet China Tonight at 7:30 p, m. thousands of workers will gather in the Cen- tral. Opera House (67th St. and ighting to help| (Continued on Page Two) state Campaign Committee of the Communist Party, the state Ratific- ation Convention, which will take place next Saturday afternoon, will Ibe a tremendous success. There will} ITrade Union Unity League groups |trade unions and workers’ fraternal organizations. At this convention, besides the |reports and nominations of candi | dates for various offices, plans wil) oe al be worked out for an intense cam | PEIPING, June 3.—Workers ana| paign to carry the Party’s program |peasants of Simakow and Hanchuan | actually into the shops [in Hupeh province rise in revolt to-|" The state Campaign jday against the oppression of the/is very actively working to collect counter-revolutionary regime of the| sienatures for the candidates. landlords, the gentry, the native) ‘The workers, both Party and non- bourgeoisie, foreign imperialists, the | Party sympathizers, are making \Uprising i in n Simakow and Hanchuan Committee | formalistic and contentious phrases. | j Postpone Third Ave.) to celebrate the first| Soviet Congress in China as a grea‘ forward step in the world struggle | against imperialist and capitalist | | oppression. One of the telegraphic agencies of | the American bourgeoisie reports: “This aspect of the situation is looked upon here as far graver than Assault Case. | The case of the policeman sup- | posed to have been assaulted against William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter, Harold Raymond and Joseph Lesten was called some time after Judge Flood arrived, an hour and a half late, in 57th Street court yesterday morning. It was post-/the northern war, as the most valu- | poned for the fifth time, without/ able section of. China is involved, argument. The date now set is with foreign trade and Nanking’s June 17. |control threatened by a semi-Com- At 2 p.m., in the Appellate Divi- sior, before five judges sitting back of a high bench in a big court room at 25th Street and Madison Avenue, arguments were made by Robert to the detriment of all interest This is a call for imperialist inter vention. Tonight’s mass meeting will voice munistic regime which would work missionaries and the Kuomintang. [house to house canvass, not only Elder for the International Labor | the determination of the American tapdighi, the Indians stoned the police when they were fired on and one killed. A similar fight took place at the village of Cho- linganallur, with two police wounded and one villager killed. oe te (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Germany, June 3.—Yes- | TRIAL ON JUNE § terday the Anti-Imperialist League received notification from the India office in London refusing permi sion to a delegation to enter India. ical The India office is the British |perin and Rich of Section 5 of the |New York District to also give the | Daily Worker $50 to help it on its | way towards helping us make the | revolution.” ‘NEWARK SEDITION Perth ‘Amboy Protest Hanchuan is strategically a very | collecting signatures but also aiding River, which flows into the Yangtze River at Hankow. not far from Hankow. The taking of these two towns by the revolutionary workers and pea- gained a very significant victory and has ‘taken a long step forward toward the capture of Hankow. Further down the Yangtze River Communist forees are reported to be marching on Kiukiang, a very important city on the Yangtze River. The American imperialists important town, situated on the Han | sants means that the revolution has | the Daily Worker Drive, getting |subs for it and the Young Worker. Simakow is also| Working class voters are requested | to come to the various headquarters of the Communist Party and sign) |the petitions. lackey, Chiang Kai-shek, to suppress the revolution, With the mission- aries convenientiy providing an ex- ordered to proceed to Kiukiang. Di- rect imperialist intervention for the suppression of the Chinese revolu- | tion is evidently the policy of Wall cuse, an American gunboat has been | government department which has | Tonight, With Flaiani direct rule over India. The League | Against Imperialism and for Colo- nial Independence, of which the All- America Anti-Imperialist League is the American section, decided at a| meeting of its executive recently to | send a strong committee to inves- tigate conditions in India. It is this committee which the labor party government has barred from India, “ * * Benn Threatens Force. LONDON. England, June 3.— Wedgewood Benn, secretary of state for India, a British labor party man, today told the delegates to the im- perial press conference that his “emergency measures” (shooting, bombing and jailing of anti-imper- jalists) to “secure settlement of the present difficulty, after which the government expects to secure fa- vorable public opinion for maintain; ing Britain's force in India.” * * Mutiny In Indian Jail. BOMBAY. India, June 3.—Hun- dreds of ‘ndians, arrested in the demonstrations against British im- perialism, tried today to force their | 1 ay out ot the wire Dull-pen in NEWARK, N. J., June. 34-The sedition trial of eight Newark work- ers, arrested for holding an unem- ployment meeting, was postponed today until June 9. A ninth, Dom- | inie Flaiani, was convicted by a business men’s jury May 22. quest for postponement. Flaiani will be sentenced June 16, jand may get as much as 15 years. The Flaiani case is being appealed. | Pomorrow night a big protest meet- ing will be held at 308 Elm St., Perth Amboy, N. J. Flaiani will be the speaker. which they are confined at Worli. A big demonstration outside of the prison aided the struggle within, and much fighting took place. Twelve are known to have been in- jured. British troops are being rushed to the bull-pen and further struggles are expected. At Karach). up the coast from | Bombay, the natives completely boy- cotted the parade of troops in honor of King George’s birthday, The prosecution brought the re- | are not waiting for their Chinese! Street and: Washington. Writing from jail, Foster, Amter, Minor and Raymond, the unemployed delegation, representing 110,000 New York jobless workers, send you this appeal to support the Daily Worker drive: “Never in the history of the Party was there such need and such an opportunity for increasing the circulation of the Daily Worker. The American working class is looking for leadership and organization. Millions out of work, millions working part time, millions working long hours at killing speed and suffering wage cuts—this is the ‘prosperity’ of the Ameri- can workers. There has been no real increase of work in spite of the ‘strenuous’ efforts of American capitalists inspired by Hoover to create work. The building trades which now should be at their very height still show tremendous unemployment. Railroad loadings are still low. The crisis is on with all its devastating effects} “The only ‘solution’ the capitalists and capitalist govern- ment have, are atta ks on the unemployed, on unions and their strike picket lines, break-up of workers’ meetings and conven- A Letter from Jail to You! workers to fight against American imperialism, to support the Chinese guments were also submitted by both | revolution and to defend its achieve- sides, and the judges will give their | ments. The speakers at this meet- decision some time in the future.|ing are as follows: The judges were: O’Malley, Mer-| Max Bedacht, member of the sec- jvil, Machavoy, Martin and Sherman. |Tetariat, Communist Party, U. S, A.; . J. Louis Engdahl, general secretar; Misshieal sree: Sbseth; of the International Labor Defense; The prosecutor made one point | Doonping, of the Chinese Workets’ ‘only, but he made it completely. Alliance, Richard B, Moore, Negro He proved by citing cases ranging organizer, candidate for attorney from the time of Charles II of general, state of New York, of the | England down to last year that cap-|Communist Party; .Herbert Benja- italist governments never did allow | min, district organizer, District 2, |fre2 speech or assembly, never could, | Communist Party, and Abdul tt (Continued on Page Three) hid, East Indian worker. Defense and Benvenga, assistant prosecuting attorney. Written ar- tions, vicious attacks on the Negro workers, arrests of Com- | munists, revolutionary and militant workers, prosecutions and persecutions of foreign born workers—and finally a threat to deport all Communists. Against this, the Daily Worker is car- rying on a militant campaign, arousing and organizing: the workers. These capitalist activities are in preparation for a. new imperialist war, which is being hidden behind a cloud of Kellogg Peace Pacts, London ‘Naval Reduttion’ Parleys. It is being done in preparation for war against the Soviet Union to prevent the realization of the Five Year Plan, which now prom- ises to be achieved in three years, and to overthrow the Soviet government, % “The American workers are willing to fight. They are, learning through experience the fascist character of the A. F.| of L. policy and leadership. They are learning what the social-| fascist Muste group and socialists are—witness developments, at the Belleville Convention called by the Howat-Hopgood out- | fit. The Daily Worker is exposing these fascist tools of the capitalists, io (Continued on Page Three) \electrical appliance workers, foun-, ee workers, shipyard workers, ra- i dio manufacturing + navy a es workers, munition factory | £ | workers and jewelry workers to at-| |tend this conference. | The aims of the organization made sufficiently clear by the ¢ slogans. On this basis the Metal | Workers’ League has been rapidly extending itself through the industry and auto and machine shops especially since its organization at the Cleveland Convention of the Trade Union Unity League nearly a year ago. Dozens of shop com- mittees have been established. Many locals of the A. F. of L. union: |especially the machinists’ union, have working groups of workers in them in open revolt against the of- ficial leadership, the sell-out and | speed-up systems of their A. F. 0: L. higher officials. | The statement of the Metal TOM League, calling this conference, | gives a review of the conditions ur der which metal workers toil, which demand remedy through or- ganization of the metal workers First to into one industrial union. The of the Red Inter | league points out: Unions, a “Wage cuts and cuts in piece work and known world rates are the order of the day; in leadership in | spite of Hoover’s fake “prosperity.” of the 188( While the big corporations are re- He wri porting 25 to 50 per cent dividends are steel as follc tc parasitic stockholders enjoying| “Dear have |themselves in Paris and London,’ watched \ rest {more and more workers are being the prog: 1ec- thrown on the scrap-heap of indus- tion with j npaign RCo Nee on Page Three) on be in the JAIL FOURTEEN BAKER PICKETS Restaurant, icone Meetin® Thursday kad lengthy from many ¢ Scottish contin; most useful. concerned to write out now is to y with the im- Arrest of fourteen militant worl ers of the Food Workers Industria! Union took place Tuesday on five the ir appe “I send picket lines, three at the Mirchbo- '"8s to witz Bakery on Avenue U in Brook- &nd esp oster, lyn; six at Schlom and Deutsch’ Minor, Amter and Ray To my Bakery, Bay Parkway and 86th St.; ld colleague, W. Z r, whom and five at three struck bakeries on have known for many years as Allerton Ave., the (Continuc Three) and Glamers. All five strik called to win the 40-hour week and union conditions. with May st figure ce last year. Thi tk recorded in th Waiters Sign Fake Contract. Signing of a so-called agreement Tvesday by a hand-picked committe of Waiters Local 1 and the Res rant Owners Association marks a new step backward for this job-trust of 2,000 waiters, long controlled for the bosses’ benefit by a clique of la bor crooks and gangsters, The out- come of months of ret negotia jtions is that wages will be 26 per (cent lower in the pay envelopes tha: on the contract and that in some eases kitchen workers will be foreed 0 pay union dues while still toiling | under 12 and 14 hour. non-union | SLaDKR: deacon y taaneied bo Pred Vesiniesed !Convention Discussion. | In protest against the speed- A | * ‘ n both oyen and so hops, the Food W Waiters cafe- from both will contain @ “ ”