The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1930, Page 1

= Answer Wall Street’s Congress “Red Investiga- tion” Intended to Hide the Starvation of the Masses of Jobless, the Wholesale Wage- Cuts and Speed-up by Building the Revo- FINAL CITY/7 act ef March 3, 187% lutionary Unions and the Communist Party for Revolutionary Struggle Against the Hunger System. aily = Kntered us Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the second-class mutter at the Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc, 26-25 Union Square, New York City, N. saccade excepting Manhattan $8 n yenr SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6 0 Vol. VII, No. 137, were ae or ‘NEW YORK, ‘SATURDAY, JUNE. 7, 1930 , SPIRIT OF DETERMINED Lynching Will Not Stop Us SOUTH WORKERS HE cause of the growing wave of terror and increased lynchings of Negro workers in the South is to be found in the present sharpening economic crisis of American capitalism. The American ruling class attempts to stop the krowing radical- ization and determination of the American workers to resist their campaign of wage-cuts by means of fascist terror. The bosses of the South are panic-stricken over the determination of the Negro and white workers to organize into industrial trade unions, and think that they will be able to prevent this by lynchings and railroading of mili- tant Negro and white workers in the South to the electric chair. There- fore the sharper the crisis becomes the more will the bosses terror increase against the workers. Nothing, however, will stop the Communist Party from more firm- ly establishing itself among the working class of the South and lead- ing them in the struggle. No matter what terror the bosses will use, the revolutionary trade unions and the American Negro Labor Con- gress will continue to arouse and organize the Negro and white work- ers of the South. The bosses terror cannot and will not stop the development of the revolutionary movement in this country; and neither will they be able to force into submission the Communist Party and the American working class. The lynching campaign in the South, the sending of workers to the electric chair, are acts committed by the entire capitalist class of this country against the whole working class. The bosses’ terror has the support of every agency of capitalism. It is interesting to recall how thoroughly American capitalism was mobilized to protest against the so-called religious persecution in the Soviet Union. In the United States, however, no one but the revolutionary workers raised their voices to protest against the lynching of Negroes and railroading of workers to the electric chair for the mere distribution of a leaflet and attempt to organize. The priest, rabbi, and the capitalist press insisted that the Russian workers permit the counter-revolutionary religious organizations to cooperate with the kulaks against the work- ers’ state. In the United States the capitalists and all their tools have nothing to say about the barbarism, cruelty and capitalist slaughter of workers who dare to fight for better conditions and demand equality for the Negro workers. This is because the church, and the press are part of American capitalism and are therefore partners to the lynching campaign and the railroading of workers to the electric chair. ‘The Communist Party will not give up its struggle for social and political equality of the Negroes in the United States. The revolu- tionary trade unions will not cease to organize the white and Negro workers of the South into industrial trade unions. We will not stop exposing the treacherous role of the fascist A. F. of L. and the social- ist party in the South. As a demonstration of its determination to struggle, the Commu- nist Party nominated Negro workers on its ticket for the coming con- gressional, senatorial and state elections in the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Georgia and others. In the present election campaign the struggle for social and political equality of the Negro masses is the chief task of the Communist Party and the revolutionary move- ment. The election campaign must therefore be utilized as a means of mobilizing the Negro workers for struggle against Jim-Crowism and, lynchings of Negro workers. The election campaign must be intensified and brought into every section where Negro workers live and toil. The election campaign must coordinate all other campaigns of the Party. The Party must make use of revolutionary parliament- arism as a means of mobilization of the masses for the struggle against capitalism. What’s the Difference? None At All. S everyone knows, James Maurer, one of the outstanding leaders of the social-fascist “socialist” party, is, along with the entire socialist party, behind the so-called “Labor Party” of Pennsylvania. Maurer is also an oustanding leader of the fascist Pennsylvania Fed- eration of Labor. From Altoona, Pa., comes the happy tidings by way of the Feder- ated Press, that: “The Federation convention, meeting as the Labor Party, indorsed the two republicans” (Davis and Pinchot) for U. S. senator and state governor, respectively. The only objection mentioned was that of the brewery workers who thought Pinchot is a “dry.” Otherwise, everything is lovely. The socialists thus show that, for all their fuss about “independent” posi- tions, they are organically interwoven into the machinery of other capitalist parties. The naming of Thomas on a “commission” on “housing” (inci- dentally a piece of graft that will mean higher, not lower, rents); the setting up of connections with Davis, one of Hoover’s cabinet members and one of the government officials inciting the anti-Communist drive of the fascist Fish, are only two developments in one day’s news, showing that the so-called “socialist” party is a party not the least bit less capitalistie than the party of Hoover, the republicans, or the party of Smith, the democrats. It demonstrates again that the “socialists” only serve as a mask for capitalist attacks on the workers, as social fascists, making ready to take up the leadership of that attack when the capitalist so desire. Down with the “socialist” tools of the bosses! Support the Com- munist Party, the only party defending the interests of the working class! Signatures and the Daily Worker IOMORROW the first mobilization of New York district Party members and workers takes place for the collection of signatures to place the Communist Party of New York State on the election ballot. As you visit the homes of workers and talk to them upon the streets, as you gather their signatures, the task of getting new readers for the Daily Worker, the establishment of carrier routes, must be given ,|and Anna Burlak in prison pending attention. Make every worker who signs a reader of the Daily Worker. MORE JOIN ANTI LYNCH CAMPAIGN Reports are coming daily from mary organizations, social and fra- ternal workers’ clubs, pledging whole-hearted support to the Anti- Lynching Campaign being conducted by the Communist Party, New York District. Many workers from shops and factories, Negro and white, have expressed their determination to fight against this increasing cap- italist terror which is being directed against the working class. Many open-air mass meetings are being held in all sections of the city. Sec- tion 7, Communist Party, District 2, ‘~ holding an outdoor mass protest | meeting at 18th St. and Bath Ave., Brooklyn, today, June 7, at 8 p. m, and an indoor meeting at 8 p. m. Sunday at 120 Bay 19th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. All workers in this section should attend these meet- ings. Over 1,000 Negro and white workers of different organizations are preparing to send delegates to the United Front Anti-Lynching Conference, which will be held at the New Star Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., on Friday, June 13th, at 7p. m There will be a special meeting of the Negro committee of District 2 this Saturday, June 7, at 4 p. m., at which all section Negro work Party and League directors, as well as members of the committee, must attend. The coming conference will be the main point on the ‘agenda. All other meetings at this hour should be called off, The Ch DEMANDS FLOOD ATLANTA COURT ‘Bail Hearing Assigned to Notorious Labor Hating Judge But Easy on Grafters Brady Tells of Being. Held Incommunicado , | ATLANTA, Gan June 6.—De- | termined efforts to hold six wo . ers, H. M. Powers, Joe Carr, Mary | Dalton, Henry Storey, Gilmer Brady trial, now set for June 19, are seen in assigning the hearing for bail application tomorrow before the notorious Judge Humphries. Humphries has been selected as! ‘1. instrument for refusing bail to) the workers at the very moment! when ile equaily notorious city hal) |grafters under indictment are turn- ;ed loose. Even the convicted city jclerk facing additional indictments being granted a month’s vacation Su Ce on Page arene’ ‘MACDONALD BARS WORLD CONGRESS OF NEGRO LABO? go Convention ‘tim JINGO SAILORS | RIOT IN ATTAGK Speaks for Assaulted Woman Puts Two Out of Fight; They Call all Re eserves Volstead ‘Navy Whole Section of New | Haven Smashed Up | the submarine base here responded | | with the expected action to the poi- | sonous, jingoistic, imperialistic and | race prejudiced propaganda they | have been soaked in by their offi- They raided the Negro section cers. |race war, smashing houses and abusing Negro workers for hours. When a couple of sailors made an attack on a Negro woman in the Negro section of the town today she fought back and knocked one them out, also injured the other. Call 200 to Assist. The injured assailant taen sum- moned shipmates and other sailors, and within an hour some 200 sailors were raiding and terrorizing.in the ection where Negro proletarians live. defended themselves, that 350 coast guardsmen, part of the Volstead navy, left their ships and barracks and rushed to the assis: groes Ford Scores F es Henchmen of Imperialism LONDON, England, June 6.—The MacDonald. “labor “party” govern- ment of the British empire has for- bidden the International Trade | Union Conference of Negro Work- ers, which is scheduled to meet July {1 in London and for which Negro | | workers’ organizations all over the | world have for months been con- ; dueting a special organization cam- | paign. | The edict against this conference, NTW RALLIES FOR which might interefere with and ex- | pose the labor party henchmen who | work for it, was issued through the = (Continued on Page Five) JUNE T PROTEST TODAY, !t0th ST, Demand “Freedom of Class War Prisoners! Today at 1 p. m, at 110th St. is and Fifth Ave., the workers of New York will meet on the anniversary of the National Textile Workers’ Union tent colony in Gastonia on| Sports Union is holding it June 7, 1929, and the resultant ar-| nual Eastern States Ch: rest of 23 workers, 7 of whom still| Track and Field Meet. |face long prison terms because of | : |the strikers’ heroic self defense. | The members of the Youth Section They will demonstrate against the} 0f our union find in the Labor imprisonment of 6 workers who are | | Sports Union an instrument wher |now in danger of the electric chair| they may keep themselves a jin Atlanta, Georgia, because they sically fit as is possible under the | persisted in organizing Negro and | speed: up conditions in the factories. bee workers against the bosses} All out to Ulmer Park—in sup- (Continued on Page Four) port of the textile workers! | | \ ‘Then Proceed to LSU Meet and Protest The Textile Workers Union, on the occasion of the first National anniversary of the attack upon our union in the South and the tempted murder of our union mem- bers and organizers, Is upon all | workers to attend the mass demor stration of the New York District, to be held today at 12 o'clock, noon, at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. | After the meeting we workers to proceed imm to Ulmer Park, where th € at- Labor rst an- Arthur Henderson, who does the same ity. work for ' the capitalists of England as Matthew Woll does for the big bosses here, in reply to a Tory question said that he intonded to give our brother organ, the Daily Worker of England, “serious consideration.” This threat to suppress the Daily Worker of England immediately brought London capitalist paper’ reporters to the office of our London Daily Worker. They claimed they had received a tip from Scotland Yard that something might be happening to the organ of the Communist Party. of Great Britain. The next day a capitalist reporter called on the editor of our London Daily Worker to find out whether he had been arrested yet, And what kind of an answer did our comrades in Eng- land give to the big bosses and their sleek Arthur Hender- son, the murderer of workers and peasants in India? Read: “The government can take any action it likes, but the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party guarantees to the workers a daily paper under whatever conditions we have to work. Further, whenever suppression of the Daily Worker takes place, we shall reply to this the neat day by out our daily paper just the same.” Yorkshire Wool Strikers I Fight Wage Cut, Ask Help LONDON, June 6.—Yorkshire woolen textile strikers, under revolutionary leadership, overwhelmingly voted to con-: tinue the struggle against the “Labor” Government’s Mac- Millan award of a ten per cent wage cut and also against the, attempt of the trade union officials to break the strike. re sionship, {ance especially at this tance of the navy men. Two sailors, giving the names of A. Newson and Athol B. Wil- liams, were arrested, placed on light bail ($50) and forfeited their bail *. | started in New Haven by the coast {guard and navy. PROVOCATEUR IS: EXPOSED IN CAL. Had Planted Spy Amongst Workers EL CENTRO, Cal. An important admission w yesterday. in the trial of the work- Jers’ and organizers charged with The police are being extremely |criminal syndicalism for building The union officials are now! declaring that there are no strike funds and are urging the workers to accept the Mac-; Bosses Millan awards. They are sabo- taging the struggle and are trying to force the strikers back to work. The Workers International Relief has established nine centers to aid the strikers. June » brutal against the mass pickets,|the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial causing riots, and resulting alveady | League in Imperial Valley. in many workers wounded, fifty | The vegetable . growers’ spy arrests, and ten savage sentences Charles Collum, on the witn with fines of one hundred pounds , stand, stated under cross examina- ($500). Relief The Workers’ International | tion that he himself suggested the leader was beaten up and|use of pop bottles during the prep- entenced to six months imprison-|arations for workers’ self-defense. ment. Financial aid is needed ur- The spy, during cross examina- gently. tion, writhed under the merciless | eg questionjge of the International Labor Defense Attorney, Hender- | An appeal to rush immediate help to the striking woolen worke:s of Yorkshire and to call upon all work- ers, and especially the textile work- ers to show their class soli with their fellow workers in g- land was cabled to the Daily Work- er yesterday. The appeal was signed by Leckie of the Workers International Relief and by Lovell _ the International Class War oners Aid both of London, fhe} litant resistance of the Yorkshire | strikers is of the greatest signific- time, and son, using the “I don’t remember” subterfuge on many occasions. He also admitted suggesti the defendant Miller that he could produce tear gas. The defense attorneys filed com- plaints with the court against the action of a deputy sheriff who | threatened the prisoners in retalia- (Continued on Page me funds should be rushed at once to | ers International Relief, Avenue, New York City. 175 5th The ‘Red Probes’ and the ‘Daily’ This is also our answer to the jack-in-the-box Woll and the measley Easley and their bosses. This is, however, not only a question of an answer. This means fight. This means gathering powerful forces around our Daily Worker who will defend it, support it, get thousands of new readers for it, keep it going and growing. Are you on our side? And you answer— Then we ask—are you fighting on our side? Now what is your answer? By fighting on our side we mean receiving right here in the Daily Worker office $1,000 a day for the balance of this month as the result of your efforts in the field. We must complete the $25,000 Emergency Fund by July 1st. We want to be able to meet all eventualities when the gentlemen from Washington arrive for their “investiga- tion.” “Yes, I am.” Do you get the point? Then collect, get new readers on the Daily Worker campaign lists sent you. Workers’ organ- izations, send in your contributions. Comrades in ev ery city, hold mass collections, organize income affairs. All together for the defeat of the “investigators.” ON NEGROES Action | NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 6.— Between 500 and 600 coast guards- men and U. S. naval sailors from } of the town and conducted a regular | The fight got so hot, as the Ne-; Theré have been other race riots | s made ; ig to | the Wool Strikers’ Fund, clo. Work- | OFFENSIVE AT NEEDLE CONVENTION GREAT MASS MEETING IN STAR CASING CHEERS ALL OPPORTUNITY 10 ADVANCE Hyman and Johnstone Voice Ww orkers’ Demand | for Realism; Flaiani Campaign, Youth Prominent, Optimistic, Hag Powerful Union; Western Union Ce An estimated 500 icieeates straight from th opened the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | national convention in Star Casino, 105 E. 107th St. | The meeting, attended by masses of N trade workers, as well as by the approximately 300 N me ——-—-- York delegates to the conven- 14,000 RIFT. FMEN tion, was made a mobilization for the campaign to anize the unorganized, the central IN BITTER WAR SAINST EMPIRE task also of the convention. EES e shops, nion second last night. vy York needle Ww Board Adopts Report itive held Board of a long se at which i nin irving report, to the Lol | tion, and draft progr ots Tray to be delivered tom Indecisive Battle Near Goa at 10 a. m | Peshawar, India jand ae et | copa | Fight Just Starting. BULLETIN. The main speakers were Louis : : : Hyman, for the union, rting as | PESHAWAR, India, June 6.— jts national president, and Jack | It is admitted here that the Brit- Johnstone, national organizer of is ish forces have lost two officers alae Union Unity League. 3 sad; Mat oe re 4 yman pointed out that this con- copiarenls Male Et Mackey antic | ention’ is cuut;, aa] tel Aten Captain J.C. Frere. It is stated unions and Amalg: conven- that Frere’s wife was captured | tions are, to make a boast of « with him. The British story says, | victories that do not exist, | pathetically, “No motive is known | though the industrial union does have some creditable acl this is a serious conver for the kidnapping.” | * * * the actual organization of the 4 masses of the unorganized, and the 2 r ormat . * Later information, following the) policies and struggles that will win lheavily censored repéits day before victories. The industrial union does yesterday of the entry of Afridi) not claim great victor It had Jand other tribesmen into the anti-|to face not only the bosses who have the support of the govern- | imperialist movement in the North- shows that | yesterday and the day before, be- [tween 7,000 and 14,000 armed | moved against Peshawar, and pene- | trated a hundred ' yards of the city’s outer defenses. , A pitched battle in the hilly jtry within a few miles of the city was fought, a British* de- ment, but wrong tendencies among its own workers. Woll, McGrady and Green were with the bos: and all their gunmen and gang- sters, but the industrial union was not crushed, and now ready to go on to real gains. Never before have the workers so well realized the treacheries of the company unionized A.F.L. and “in- dependent” unions | Amalga- mated. The air is cl ae is open to real ady R. I. L. U, Correct. Johnstone told of the momentous sens of the fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, for independent leadership | west districts of India, men is to within few oun- the red, ane the column | (Continued on Page Five) Ti seat all in struggles, leadership, that is, by for building these unions, for the orientation towards the unorgan- ized, low paid, mass ‘Rally Workers to Build He showed how the facts of the | Ps growing the mployment, |e 4 i , F the workers down to worse living The Seventh National Convention standards, proved the correctness of the Communist Party of the of the R.LL.U. line, and gave the lie to the analysis of the right wing (Continued on Page Four) SIGNATURE DRIVE IS IN FULL SWING Turn Out ' This Sunday to Get § Signatures The drive for the collection of ignatures now in full swing. Groups of workers are already tour- ing ious sections of the state for the collection of signatures. The | United States of America opens up jat a time when the capitalist con- |gress in Washington has set up a \special committee to “investigate” | the this | country. com- Communist activities in This investigation |mittee, headed by the fascist con- | |gressman, Fish, is an attempt to) jbreak down the influence of the ;Communist Party upon the working \class of this country, which is grow- Jing by leaps and bounds daily. | , | The successful demonstrations on March 6 and May 1, at which hun- dreds of thousands of workers re- sponded to the call of the Commu- nist Party in the United States, demonstrated this growth of the in- fluence of the Communist Party in is is insuff: the United States of America. It is for this reason that the meet- | jing at Madison Square Garden shouJd be turned into a huge dem- | | onstration against the attempt of ‘the capitalists of this country to jeurtail the activities of the Com- | munist movement. The mass mee¢- jing at Madison Square Garden on June 20 will demonstrate the readi- ness of the workers in this country to struggle against unemployment | ‘and for the release of the unem- ployed delegation of March 6, who | are now serving terms of from six months to three years in the capi- talist dungeons. Agitprop Directors Report Today at 5 Unit and Section Agitprop Di- rectors have been instructed to re- port to the district office, Saturday | number, however, nt and volunteers are a important ta ked to take up this The drive in New | York starting this Sunday, with a mass mobilization of Party, | League and sympathetic workers. All those workers who have not already signed up for the signature collection should do so at once in the following headquarter Section }, E. Fourth St.; See- tions 2 and 3, 1179 Broadway; See tion 4, 308 Lenox Ave.; Section 5, |579 Prospect Av “Bronx; Section 6, 68 W Vhipple St., Brooklyn; See- |tion 7, 186 15th St., Brooklyn: See> |tion 8, 105 Thatford St.; Section 9, 2 Jackson Ave., Long Island The collection of signatures must be linked up with the Daily Worker subscription drive and the various other campaigns being conducted by the Party and the revolutionary trade unions at the present time, On June 29 the annual Red Elee- afternoon at 5 o'clock to get a very | tion Campaign Picnic will be held‘in MPitemnr* important oulling. Bite