The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 1

Fight the Speed-up; Smash the Company ° Union Slave Contract; By Building the Needle Trades Industrial Union; Send Delegates to Its National Conven- tion, Starting Friday, in New =| B aily 3 Knteres ax second-class matter at the . Inc, 26-28 Union Square. blishing Ney Salad New York oly, ' IMPERIAL VALLEY SHERIFF Si For Sale or Rent--The U.S. NEEDLE TRADES Government APITALIST “democracy” is becoming so rotten that its stink permeates the whole country like that of the stockyards pervades Chicago. But, like Limburger cheese, the worse it smells the move it costs. The salary per year of a Congressman or Senator is $10,000. Re- member that! But, hey, ho! Look what some people spend to get elected! Or, better said: Look what these crooks admit they spend, for it is a cinch that they are lying by fifty per cent at least. Hold tight to that $10,000 and let’s go! Women and children first! Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick in the Illinois primaries a few weeks ago, admits she spent $253,572.30; and reports are that somebody else who wanted Ruth elected added $750,000. The chap who ran against her, Senator Deneen, says he spent a measly $24,495.22. Who got elected? Why, Ruth did, of course! In another Illinois election a gentleman named Smith, not Al, but another capitalist crook, Frank L, Smith, admitted spending $458,782, of which it was admitted that Samuel Insull, big electric power and “public” utility boss, paid $203,000. Such friendship is touching, indeed! Senator Newberry of Michigan in 1922, spent, so he said, $195,000 to get elected, and there was so much fuss about it that the other senators, in a burst of “moral indignation” wholly pretended in order to deodorize themselves, passed a resolution of censure for the “large expenditure.” But he was a piker alongside William S. Vare of Penn- sylvania, who in 1926, admitted spending $800,000. But at that he had competition, as a cool $3,000,000 was spent in the election as a whole that year. We hope you are not forgetting that $10,000 a year salary. This year in Pennsylvania’s primaries old Captain Kid Grundy ran for U. S. Senator and against James J. Davis, secretary of !abor in Hoover’s cabinet and show-window exhibit of the A. F. of L. as a “union man.” Grundy says he spent $338,000; and Davis admits raising the jack-pot to $366,144. Davis got elected and the A. F. of L. fascists are crowing all over the map, rattling the dollars in their jeans contributed by the open shop Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Pennsylvania union-baiters, anticipating some fat appointments com- ing their way. “Truth is mighty and will prevail, but it costs like hell,” quoth Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, as in 1928 he touched E. C. Jameson of New York for $65,300 to battle the “wet” menace of Al Smith in Old Virginia. As a commission for the Lord’s Annointed he seems to have used about two-thirds of this dough playing the Stock Exchange to the greater Glory of God, and wishing to hide some of his saintly thieving wired to New York to order the check payments to be falsified. The Bishop is, of course, among those divines who are “incensed” at the Soviet Union for its “persecutions” of the godly. The U. S. Government is for sale to the highest bidder! But don’t think it cheap. Woozy-witted liberals and anarchists who belittle Con- rene as unimportant should observe how the biggest. of big capitalists spend money like water to “get *heir ablest representatives there. The fierce rivalry between the big : arks of finance capital makes it worth their while. They are not doing it for charity. And that $10,000 a year salary is only beer money. As shown in the Davis election and every other one, too, the fas- cist A. F. of L. boys reap a harvest getting their “friends” elected, a good part of the sums spent going to “influence labor leaders,” aptly now called “labor racketeers,” fascist scoundrels closely allied with the racketeers of the underworld and that enormous machine of Lied known as the “prohibition enforcement officers.” Workers can expect nothing of a government that is put on the auction block—as a capitalist government anywhere is bound to be— and hawked off to the highest bidder. The whole machine is rotten. But millions do not know it and those who do know it don’t know what to do about it. That’s one reason why the Communists enter elections and try to get elected as an emissary in the ranks of the enemy. For in Congress a Communist will get public attention. He will tear the mask off the hypocritical robbers and exploiters of the workers, ex- posing their every move against the workers, and he will call on the workers to organize their own government from the shops, to mobilize their mass power and overthrow the class which robs them and starves them under the stinking mask of “democracy” and “civilization.” Election Campaign and the | Daily Worker Wr the beginning of the election campaign, the role of the Daily Worker in the movement must be again brought forward and emphasized. There will be hundreds of workers campaigning among the masses in various ways, in street meetings, in collecting signatures, in distributing campaign literature in the shops and homes, in per- sonal conversations, in shop meetings, etc. In all of these, we must always remember that the Daily Worker must be brought forward, and introduced to every worker with whom we may contact. The Daily Worker remains in the hands of those workers to whom it is given; it is the perpetual agitator, educator, and organizer of the revolutionary movement. It must be constantly in the hands, and on the lips, of our campaign workers. It is the principal instrument in our campaign. Let every election worker make the Daily Worker his first instrument in the campaign. BOSSES’ JUDGE, | Bakery, Bay Parkway and 86th St. | Brooklyn, brings out that Magis- ey Bushel is now acting attorney | Bakers’ Local 500, A. F. of L. This fascist “union” has secured a | temporary injunction restraining the |Food Workers’ Industrial Union |from picketing any shops controlled “UNION” LAWYER | by the Bakery Specialty Owners’ A. F. L. Baker Clique | Association. Since Bushel also acts Hire Hyman Rushel Jas the association lawyer, no link is |missing from the alliance between BULLETIN jthe labor fakers, capitalist courts Restaurant and cafeteria work- 2" bosses. ers are called to a special meet- Mass Protest Tonight. ing at 8.30 P. M., Thursday, June So far, twenty arrests have been -6, at the Bronx section headquar- | made for violation of the injunc- ters of the Food Workers’ Indus- tion. Workers will give answer to nee Union, 2994 Third Avenue. this capitalist “justice” by a mass protest will be made against | demonstration Thursday, at 8 P. M., {the sell-out agreement made with |on Allerton Avenue, where bakery | ‘the bosses by Waiters’ Local 1, A. workers from three shops are on F. of L. ie ee strike for the 8-hour day, and in Hyman Bushel, a magistrate on| Protest against their fellow-work- the bench, made notorious last year | °"* discharge. by the vicious sentence he meted out to cafeteria strikers and by the fact that he later became a lawyer for the Restaurant Owners’ Asso- ciation, comes into the lime-light again in a somewhat more “ad- vanced” position. district of the Party that every The arrest of two baker pickets|ncedle trades Party member must today at the Schlom and Deutsch] attend. x eT Tae NEEDLE FRACTION TONIGHT Tonight at 7.30 there will be a very important needle trades frac- tion in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E Fourth St. It is a decision of the Address a letter to every workers organization in your cit jthe next meeting, | | jall of Saturday and Sunday, going into all the details of organization S oh vj Aya CONVENTION 1S. OPENTOMORROW 45 Delegates Coming from Boston; 14 from Chicago Jobless Elect Today) Huge Session Certain; All Trades In It At the New Star Casino, tomor row night, the second national | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union convention will open with a great mass meeting and good speak- ers, a convention that will continue drives that will make the industrial union the impregnable bulwark of the masses of needle workers, many of whom are now trapped under the contracts of the company union, and others of whom are entirely unor- ganized. i number |membérship drive. | iday night” reception for them at} |the New Star Casino. llined the report to: the convention. \there will be a mass meeting of all {unemployed needle trades workers, '|hattan or Bronx that will help |to elect their dy from the! of delegates that the con- {vention will be huge and will rep- jresent all trades in the industry. |The delegates were elected by shop | meetings, shop committees and shop delegate councils. It is evident alr ‘A dispatch received yesterday = rush the union headquarters, 131 W. 28th 'St., states that 45 delegates are coming in special busses, Meas |Boston at 4 a. m. tomorrow. the Boston needle workers’ See held Tuesday, workers pledged to} work four hours extra for the union} campaign fund and to start the| BIRMINGHAM, The Chicago delegation of 14 has| Jalready left for the convention. | Philadelphia and other cities. All New York needle workers are | asked to attend the convention |the solidarity of the Negro and® jencnaite tomorrow night to give a |veal reception to the delegates. white workers of Birmingham On Saturday there will be a pols in the fight to organize the }southern workers On Tuesday the general execu-| tive board met and Ben Gold out-| Fifty-nine workers respond- ed to the appeal made by J. Louis Post Office at New York. N. ¥. Ww YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930 ASHES LABOR The super-scab decorated by the electrocution of Atlanta union organizers. Birmingham Mass Meeting ieee Release of Six Facing Electrocution. Ala., June 4.—At a mass meeting here | more than 200 workers voted to send a resolution demanding | the immediate release of the Atlanta workers held on “insur- |Large numbers are ccming from) rection” counts and facing death sentences if conv’ icted. A telegram was sent to the imprisoned workers pledging EER ISS Engdahl and joined the Internation- | at Weirgate, Texas, Georgia trained | capitalist arguments FOR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MEET ON under the act ef March 3, 1879, SUBSCRI and Brows CONFERENCE IN BLOW AT INDIA Supperts MacDonald’s | Murder Regime After Some Debate | Ramsay Socialist Too; Votes Down Motion to Criticize Him READING, Pa. June 4. American socialist party |eriticize Premier MacDonald’s ruth- less murder of the workers and pea- sants of India; it refuses, in a state conference, to permit a resolution of protest against the bloodshed with which MacDonald, also a socialist, does his imperial master’s bidding. The 1930 conference of the so- cialist party of Pennsylvania, meet- ing in Reading, where the party has control of the city administration (and boasts that it “protects prop- erty” during strikes as well as a republican administration could) had the matttr of India before it. | Some delegate submitted a resolu- tion expressing sympathy with the |struggle of all subject peo | against imperialism and specifically mentioned India. -| | The resolution The refuses to —By FRED ELLIS the bosses for helping to was opposed by| Joseph Cohen of Philadelphia, who | said it was in reality a vote of cen- sure and attack on the British la- bor government and its policies. This interpretation of the resolu- orker | worker: ON BATHS) 86 a year everywhere excepting Manik New York City Face 20 Years Prison Terms PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 4.— Peltz and Holmes, two workers con- victed for organization work in Chester and other cities around here wer n today. Peltz was give 20 year” tert and Holmes, a young worker, wa: | sentenced to an indeterminate term in the reformatory. There will be a great demonstra- tion Saturday at noon to which all are called, to protest this terrific sentence on workers whose only crime is organizing their fel- low workers to struggle on a class basis against wage cuts, long hours, unemployment, star and for telling them of the need for re- placing capitalism by a workers’ society. The meeting will be at City Hall Plaza, and will also cele- brate the Indian and Chinese strug- gles, Charles Stevenson, ing the needle trades strike was re- leased on parole today after serving 55 days. As soon as he was out, detectives accompanied him to the ticket office and compelled him to leave Philadelphia. They told him not to return for 22 months, the time during which his parole is in force. WLR. PROTEST AT ion, arrested dur- ‘LSU MEET, JUNE 7 Save Gastonia, Atlanta |tion was accepted by the conven- tion and the resolution changed 80} as not to oppose the murder of In- dian workers. A motion to refer to the national executive committee | was approved only after a second division by a strict vote of delegates of 24 to 29, | The treatment of the Indian reso- | lution led Mary Winsor, candidate | for lieutenant governor, who termed | June 4,—|Chairman Cohen’s defense of the ls-| camp |bor government as “some of the best I have ever| “They know |heard,” to withdraw a resolution to » “With re-|@pprove total disarmament for the| al Labor Defense. GALVESTON, ieee the Gillican-Chipley Co. In bosses are preferred. how to handle niggers. Today, at 1 p. m., at Bryant Hall, Imperial Valley Bosses delegats to the con- vention. Mn’s clothing workers will meet at the game time at the Worke Center to elect their delegates. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- |mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. Lodgings for | Delegates Needed Accommodations for Delegates | to the National Convention of the | Communist Party, betweeen June | | 18th to 28th needed. Comrades | L. D. Front row A. W. 1. L.; Oscar Orosco, Mea Tetsuji Har Convention Arrangements Committee, 43 East 125th St. New York City ' n; Carl Sklai, We Must Have $1,000 Daily | A decision has been reached by the Central Committee of our Party. As Communists, we carry out our decisions. All district organizers, district bureaus, section committees, Party units and members are calied upon to join hands with us in order to complete the $25,000 Emergency Fund, our fighting fund, by July 1. We must reach an income of $1,000 a day in contributions during the balance of this month, All comrades in the districts, from leading committees down to the unit members, are to effect the most complete activization for our Daily Worker campaign. More work to , reach our goal of an income of $1,000 a day for the balance of June must be accomplished than during any period of this campaign. We must become exactly three times as active as we have been up to this date. Concretely, you are to give immediate attention to the following methods of raising the $16,000 still needed. 1, All workers organizations must be visited at one Notify the organization that a committee will call to address Select committees composed of capable ntinued on Page Five capitalist and imperialist United as MR SSS teh Den States and submit one asking for study. Ask 42 Years for Them or sympathizers living in Man-| of the National Textile Workers’ | the Party by accommodating a Defendants in the Imperial Valley criminal syndicalism case Union| in Gastonia, is increasing or more delegates should write, now going on at EI Centro, Calif. Back row (left to right): F. daily, as shown in reports received giving detailed address and di- Funes, Mexican; Eduardo Herrero, Colombian; Lawrence, nery by the national committee of the rections to the Emilio Alonz inton; Frank Spector, district organizer, 1. International Labor Defense. Rozas, Filipino, secretary Imperial Nrickson, national secretary, section organ cretary Imperial Valley T. ‘ released during the trial to make the ease stronger against the others. | Thus the American socialist party | follows in the lead of the Second In- ternational, which approved of Mac- | Donald’s handling of the Indian re-| volt and suggested that more use (Continued on Page Five) | JUNE 7 MEETS HIT DEATH PLOT. Demand Jobless Lead-' ers Be Released The volume of protest metings to be held on June 7, the anniversary of the police raid on the tent colony alley A. W. 1. L.; Braulio Communist Party; U.L. Funes v Protests include condemnation of the continued imprisonment of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Raymond, whose cases are being delayed by (Continued on Page Five) comrades to visit all organizations. Committees must place | clearly before the members present the need for and role of | the Daily Worker in this period. If the organization can not contribute out of its treasury, then a collection from the mem- hers present must be asked. The organization must be asked to elect a Daily Worker agent who will cooperate with you in securing constant support and new readers in his organ- ization. Call a meeting at once of all language fraction secre- taries. Inform them of our decision to raise the balance of the $25,000 Emergency Fund by July 1. Fraction secretaries shall call meetings of members of the fraction and request them to raise the question of contributing to the Daily Worker at the next meeting of the workers organizations to which they belong. 2. District bureaus at the next meeting are to plan an immediate check-up upon the activity of the Party members in this campaign. You must at once ascertain whether every section and unit has received the Daily Worker campaign lists, whether every unit has distributed those lists to every member i {Continued on Page Pte) - | ha: | Sunday |Field M tT. Defend: The Workers International Relief ued an appeal to all its mem- bers and to all other class conscious workers to join, this Saturday and , June 7-8, in the mass pro- test against the savage Gastonia | jail sentences and the new conspir- acy to murder six young textile leaders in Georgia. The protest will take place at the Eastern § | meeting Track and Field Meet of the Sports Union to be held at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, on these dates. The appeal declares: “On the anniversary of the at- tack on the WIR Tent Colony in the States mass protest at t Championship eet of the Eastern D) of the Labor Sports Union of Amer- ica. On the anniversary of the at- tack on the W.IR. Tent Colony an- swer the new attacks of the mill bosses by building the WIR and the LSU in the South, by helping + 0 es- tablish a camp for the st: g chil- dren of the southern textile work- ers, by building all our class organ- ations against the brutal on- slaughts of the bosses on the living standards of the workers. All out to the meet!” LEGION ATTACKS Y.CL. MEETING IN ASTORIA Young Communist League mem- bers held an open air meeting on the election campaign last night at Steinway and Jamaica, Astoria, L. Some 200 w Four speaker ere gathered. addressed them, Marston, Chairman, Weathering, speaking on the Trade Union Unity | League, Craig, who spoke on the| Communist program, and Sabos, who spoke on the election campaign and the Young Communist League. As Craig was speaking the Amer. ican Legionnaires sent down an or- ganized gang to break up the meet- ers ing. When they heard Craig tell of the attacks of the fascist American Legion on the workers, they pulled the speaker off the platform. A! legionnaire yelled, “Let’s give them | the wo and the gang went after | Marston and Craig, with the plat- form, and broke it to bits. Tonight, there will be a meeting under the auspices of the Commu- nist Party on the election campaign ‘at the same corner. CLASS IN SPANISH FOR WORKERS The Workers School announces | the formation of a class in Spanish | for active Party comrades. The | revolutionafy movement of Latin| America needs our support, and it FINAL EDITION there $8 a year. JUNE 20TH: CITY. Price 3 Cents an DEFENSE MEETING WW, S,SOCIALIST Peltz, Holmes GROWERS TRY TRIAL EX Hired L road ie Tale of Bombs, W BRAWLEY, Cal., June 4.— Sixty heavily armed deputies under direct command of Sher- iff Gillette meeting called by ihe smas tional Labor Def 2 last night. The meeting a « ain to the workers, gro 5 du and Mexican, who make up the population of 15,000 veg and packers in the Im iperial \ al- of 10 of their fellow work now going on at El Centro The defenc charge with criminal synd becaus y were meeting to or conver tion of the Agricultural Workers Industrial League, to create a new industrial union that would lead a strike in Imperial Ve s f Gillette, th ve henchman, night he h all appre made ie & 1 his gunr ches to the place and to herd the workers awa n it all evening. The I.L.D. branch or? ganized here since the cr dicalism trial started Spector, one of the defen secretary, meeting yet standing etermined to is Brawley and El Centro re armed. camps, with y heavily guarded m workers are ‘ 1 W the valley has sto] due to too cool weather. the ripening Dur heights EL CENTRO, ¢ authorities h Are ual le: t hostile atme room. They trying t impression eee (Continued on Page Signature a 5 Red Sunday, J Many unions, worker organizations who acce Commu gates to tion May 25 to rally with the rank and file of the Communist Party to put the candidates they helped sel mm the | ballot. Upstate, several groups are tour- ing and taking to the petitions for the In New York wil! be a period of week, there prepara- ions for the collecting of signa- tures to put the Communist ticket on the ballot. Red Sunday. The actual collecting starts Sun- day, a. Red! Sunde The head- | quarters for those ec ing signa- tures will be the Communist Party } section headquarters. Collectors will carry, besides the formal petition, copies of the Daily Worker = for ale or distribution, subscription blanks to the Daily | Worker, and other working class | literature. | Food General Fraction Meets Thursday Night All food workers who are mem- bers of the Communist Party are is imperative that more of our com jealled to a special general fraction rades become able to read, and speak the Spanish write language. Registrations are now being taken} in the office of the School for this course. Active comrades are urged dito register at once, at 6 26 June district meeting Thur e’clock in the Union Square. office, Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent, f