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|| || organizations to rally with the I. L. D. to the defense of the workers | tion. ] ] i On to the Metal Workers’ Industrial League National Conference, June 14, at Youngstown, Ohio. Meet the Wage-Cuts, Speed-Up, and Long Hours of Work of the Metal Bosses by Organization of Steel and Iron Work- ers, Radio Workers, and Others For Revolutionary ‘Trade Union Struggle Against These Conditions! | [vet VIL, No. 138 Inc, 26 npUNy. Published daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily WSuiishin Union Square, ae 4s matter at the Lost Office at New York. N. ¥. ‘ és ander the act of March 8. 1879, - 6 = — = New York NE. “NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE, 9, Worker pee CITY EDITION BUBSCRIPTION IRA’ and Bronx, New 1930 cSt _York Price 3 Cont ts 86 a year and fore’ erywhere excepting Manhattan ountries, the: year. es ‘NEEDLE CONVENTION STRESSES GROWTH AND STRUGGLES They Are Our Loyal Allies! fL CENTRO SPIES. NLY a few days ago, the fascist government of Cuba, which is | . thotoughly an American colony, not being even as “independent” , as New York State from the Washington government, arrested five. Communist workers on charges of “sedition.” We are wholly unaware of what “evidence” they have, but from what we know of the Cuban government under the bloody tyrant, Machado, being seditious in Cuba is the “most honorable action pos- sible for a Cuban worker. The assassinations, “disappearances” of trade union leaders, the tortures, deportations and even the throwing of workers to the sharks in Havana Bay, are proven. If there is anything possible to do with such a government but overthrow it, we are at a loss to say what it might be. If these Cuban Communists, in fighting for the interests of the Cuban workers have been “seditious” in the eyes of the mur- ae Machado, and his Washington and Wall Street bosses, we com- pliment them. These five, however, are only a part of those thrown into jails ine the Cuban workers showed their anger at being starved and op- pressed by Yankee imperialism by their strike of 200,000 on March 20. Every American worker, knowing that the fight of the Cuban working class is his fight, will back the demand for the release of all these workers with all his—or her—strength. : The International Labor Defense is calling on all organizations, especially Cuban workers’ groups in the U. S. A., the Anti-Imperialist League, the Anti-Fascist Alliance, the Trade Union Unity League and all who know the meaning of class solidarity, to join in a cam- paign to fight for the release of every one of the victims of fascist |Tefusing to answer. , terror in Cuba. There can be no better way to show the Hoover administration of chibs, machine guns and poison gas for workers in the U. S. A., the government of Hoover whose ambassador in Cuba, Mr. Guggenheim, | stated to a women “we had to pro: is the boss of Machado, that the American working class stands four- square behind the Cuban workers, Communists, sedition and all! : As in all countries, only the Communists fight in the front line of the working class against the bosses; for that reason we urge all arrested in Cuba. On “Hopeful Aspects” “socialist” leaders of the 5,000,000 workers in the German trade unions are dickering with the bosses, or rather are agree- ing’ with the bosses to put over a wage cut on' the whole working class. “The Berlin correspondent of the N. Y. Times puts it thus: “One of the hopeful as) of the deliberations is the spirit of moderation , being exhibited by the labor leaders.” Too lovely! Too lovely for words! We recall back in December when Hoover called his “Council” to fight against business depres- sion; we recall how it was promised by Green and other leaders of the A. F. of L. that there would be “no strikes,” particularly no strikes for higher wages. And Hoover, out of the goodness of his heart, Tike all bosses (!) promised, or got the bosses to promise, that there would be no wage cuts and no mass lay offs, | Green has done his best to keep the promise, to prevent the work- ors from striking—as is the function of a strikebreaker and agent " of the bosses in the ranks of the working class. But Hoover! A continuous stream of wage cuts have been put over, hundreds of thousands of more workers have been thrown on the streets to starve, and now ithe big bankers’ speeers say that they are really only beginning to cut’ wages and speed up the workers, to fire more tens ‘and hundreds of thousands and make a general attack on the working class as shown by the way the Unemployed Committee is held in jail while the starving millions and their families are asked to get excited about “red plots” by the fascist Fish “investigation.” As we remember, the strikebreaking promise of Green and the A. F. of L. was noted by the capitalist press as one of the “hopeful aspects” Hoover and the bossesesaw ahead. It was, certainly, “hope- ful” for the bosses. The thing applies to the German trade unionists, who, being “‘so- cialists” are even trying to go Green one better. That is, on hypo- crisy. It’s hard, but they’re trying. They have a beautiful trick, It is as follows: If—bear in mind that “if”—if prices are reduced, they ‘will agree (oh, sweet souls!) that ‘millions of German workers must take a wage | , eut. Of, course, like Green’s December boloney about the bosses’ not éutting wages, the German “socialist” trade union leaders are said to be “demanding assurances,” etc., and so han that prices will be feduced. = But that is only hokum just to cover 2 the treachery in agreeing toa wage cut. In the same article giving us this ee it is said that a German economist remarks that if only ten per cent of the $7,500,000,000 tied up in merchandise throughout.Germany, could be converted into cash, it would be a god-sentl, etc., to German industry. Maybe so, but how are the German masses going to buy 10 per cent more if they get 10 per cent less wages by a wage cut? Will the German capitalists cut prices on that $7,500,000,000 worth of merchandise ten per cent? What? And lose $750,000,000? Capi- talists are not built that way. They may dump goods on the world market, yes, but they will not cut prices voluntarily to the German masses on articles of working class necessities. In fact, only. recently they have raised prices greatly. The net resilt is: The German workers will get a wage cut, but they will fight like hell against it and dump the socialist” traitors 1 in doing so. The American workers should do the same with the fascist A. F. of L. and join with their German comrades in battle against the [es Plan of robbery and starvation against the German worker's. ‘Because, it is a fact, that if the German workers are forced to pro- duce more cheaply, it will hurt the panes of American workers. --—_—_—— Lodgings for Delegates Needed Accommodations for Delegates to the National Convention of the Communist Party, betweeen June) 18th to 28th needed. Comrades | or sympathizers living in Man- hattan-or Bronx that will help the Party by accommodating one or more delegates should write, giving detailed address ana di- rections to the Convention Arrangements Committee, 43 East 125th St., New York City ws . “Today in History of | = the Workers {June 9, 1893—Collapse of pen- sion record office of War Depart- ment at Washington, 21 clérks killed, many injured. 1919—Win- nipeg, Canada, police discharged for refusing to sign pledge against.. going on sympathy strike. 1921— Garcis, independent socialist mem- her of Bavarian Diet, shot after lecture on anti-clericalism. 1923— Trial of social revolutionaries for conspiracy against Soviet Russia and pits ‘on lives af leaders bee wan ‘LOSE MEMORY IN TESTIFYING Prosecution Jumps to Aid Provocateur .in Cross-Examination LL.D. Meet Broken Up Angeles Communist Party Has Office ; EL CENTRO, Cal., June 8.— Squirming under the cross exam- |ination of defense attorney Hénder- son in the trial here of the nine agricultural workers charged with) + criminal syndicalism, the three spies testifying for the prosecution: suf- fered sudden lapses of menory and were aided by, the prosecutgrs in When Henderson asked Collum, a provocateur of the growers, wheth- Jer on May 30 at Bristol Bar in Mexicali, Mexico he (Collum) had voke these people a little bit and are \fixing the testimony to get a con- |viction” the prosecutors jumped ¢ their feet and objected to the que The objectio’, was sustained by the judge, enough to give th: spy a chance to answer no. The judge then sustained the prosecu tion’s objection to further testimony on this subject. Oscar Chormicle, the third spy t testify, showed a remarkably poo memory and inability to coordinat jmuch of thé testimony he had of. fered the grand jury. While un able to recall either dates or places, ox give the substance of what h< alleged had been said, his chief - memorized formula in referring to |the defendants was that they spokg of “overthrowing by force.” What |he did not say. , The workers were brought into of the peace” Friday. jcourt this marning handcuffed, and; The accusation was that, (Continued on Paag Three) je were trying to hold a June 7 meeting that would de- POLICE BEAT, ARREST AT mand freedom of the Atlanta | | six, and would advocate or- | BAKERS SHOP MEETING | canization together of Negro and | white workers. The police authorities, sulting the Legion head the Associated Press, decid tho meeting might be- held would “advocate equal rights Negroes and ‘white people.” were released the next with a threat from the All over the count united front demonstrations we held on the annivers: of the self ers’ and farmers’ Police suddenly descended upon | an open-air meeting Saturday eve- ning called before the Schlom and Deutsch bakery to acquairit the workers in the neighborhood with | the strike led by the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, and tried to break it up by arresting the speakers and | workers gathered around, Arresting Morris Pinkevski, or- ganizer of the Bakers’ Section of the states that which for They F. W. I. U.; B. Initrator, J. Eisen, | defense of the strikers in Gastonia E. Eisbart, Perlezweig, Silverman, |against a .murder gang led by | Patterson and, Lopez, the police } Chief of Police* Aderholt, and in placed them in “a car and whey sonte |every case, resolutions were passed distance away from the crowd pro- |demanding the release of the six sent to beat Lopez and Eisbart.| prisoners in Atlanta. The law brutally was -Lopez beaten that | under which, southern’ mill bosses he required four stitches in his jare trying to send these six to the cheek when treated by a doctor. electric chair is known a& the “Code Four of the workers were kept | of 1861,” originally applied ‘to at- in jail overnight, the others being |tempts to “incite released on $500 bail each. In Coney revolt of slaves, Negroes, Island court this morfing all were persons of color.” . The held on $300/bail each and Eisbart | change in the law, which in its) held.on $100 bail for trial on “dis- | amended form is being used for the orderly conduct” June 16. \first time in sixty years, is the, Mobilization for another protest change of the word “slaves” meeting before the scab bakery is | “others, now going on, the workers being de- | well as colored people. termined to fight the bad conditions | and unionize the shop. ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-| mond, in prison for fighting The first codification ever made for unemployment insurance. (Continued on Page Three) They Begin to The infamous Anti-Communist “investigations” are under way. Behind closed doors a choice collection of stool- pigeons gifted in frame-up, Father Walsh, venomous enemy of the Soviet Union; Fascist Fish of New York; Matthew Woll, the bosses’ fascist darling; and high government offi- cials will plot to suppress the rising revolutionary movement of the masses of workers. They will further the war cam- paign against the Soviet Union, But there is need for investigation! Who will dare “in- vestigate” the starvation and misery that has laid its clam- my hands on millions of jobless workers? Who dares mob- ilize the workers for fight against the vast boss campaign of wage-cuts, speed-up and the lowering of the standards of life of the many millions of workers and poor farmers? Who will fearlessly “investigate” the role of the Wall Street government in carrying out the bosses’ program to make the The erganized struggle ‘of the working class for the | overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a work- | government as in the Soviet Union is the only | way out of this tis capitalist desert. Jail 3 Organizing Negroes; Death Law Always Anti-Labor MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 8.—Poliee and the American Les gion coopexated in arresting Tom Johnson, southern. organizer of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, Prof. Horace B. Davis and his wife, Marion Davis, oe non- -bailable charge of “breach pointed out’ that the state legisla- | after con-} morning | |with ,a contingent of plainclothes | o¢ the New York Unemployed Dele- insurrection or! or free| single | ” thus including white at Assistant Solicitor John Hudson situation in the Northwest prov- ‘of Atlanta has made public declara-,jnces, but as before when these tion that he intends to insist on the claims turned out to be but the pre- Demand the release of Fos-| ‘death penalty in a case which is be- lude to open field fighting with ied nation-wide in its reverber-| tribesmen, | BACK COMMUNIST CANDIDATES AT - ‘OHIO CONVENTION 8 ‘Cities ‘Represented;| One Third Are Negro, | Delegates Bésses Want Party ‘Kept from Ballot CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 8.— Eighty-seven delegates, represent- ing many working-class organiza- tions and trade unions from eight | large Obkio cities, unanimously en- |dorsed the Communist Party candi- ‘dates and program at the Commu- | nist State Ratificatiog Convention |here. For the first time at a Com- munist ratification “convention in Ohio at least one-third of the dele- | gates were Negro workers. The stubborn fighting spirit of the workers, their readiness to fol- low the Communist Party in a sharp struggle against, unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up, starvation and evictidh, their growifg militancy and their determination to fight the capitalist system was expressed in the speeches, resolutions and ‘gen- | eral spirit of the delegates. Comrade Alomen, a Negro woman worker from Cleveland, raised the | ‘delegates to their fect, whistling, | yelling and applauding, during a rousing appeal for revolutionary solidarity of Negro and white work-~ ers and for a determined struggle against race discriminatiin and lynching. In his acceptance speech as Com- | munist c&ndidate for Goveraor, I. O. Ford, militant Ohio worker, | Bap. ture had quietly passed a new law | aimed directly at the Comunist | Party, which excludes the n@me and emblem of a political party unless | more than 300,000 names are col- iected in petitions. The Communist | candidates will be forced to run as INDIA PEASANTS DISARM POLICE Promise Sharp Fight HUGE ASSEMBLY HAS FULL DISCUSSION; OF ERRORS, SITUATION, AND PROGRAM Energetic, Enthusiastic; Plans Great Dress Strike in New York gn Near Future Lovestone Clique Proposes Liquidation of Union; Smashed; Gets 23 Votes Out of 415. The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union Convention elected Helen McLean, Negro needle worker, to go as delegate to the In- ternational Negro Labor Conference which the MacDonald govern- ment is trying to prevent. She will also go on to the R. I. L. l Fifth World Congres. Another Negro woman worker, Childs, was elected alternate, after declining in favor of McLean, Both are from Philadelphia. * Delegate Alberman, representing the jobless, pointed out that the Zimmerman-Lovestone program did not mention the unemployed. * * Over 400 delegates assembled in Star Casino in sessions which ran from 11 a. m. Saturday to 3 p. m. yesterday, ad- journing then to Laurel Gardens for a final evening session, worked out a program of action that involves a tremendous lunge forward, organizationally and by Propaganda and strikes, toward a mass needle trade: EL re workers’ industrial union with! the bulk of those in the in- dustry becoming its members. Notice of over 500 credentials is- sued had been received previously by the N. T. W. J. U. national of- fice, but at the last minute a prac- tical regard for economy prevented many from coming. Cities with a delegation of 40 elected held a meet- ing of the delegates and sent on only ten to twenty representatives On the other hand, delegates were | Ben Gold 7TH CONVENTION AN HISTORIC ONE Favorable Situation for Party Growth June 20, the day. when the Seventh National Convention of the Commu- nist Party of the United States of America séction of the Communist | International will be opened at Mad- jison Square Garden, will be a his- in the life of the Ameri- in the develcp: & ng cla: ment of the A ‘an labor move- ment. It will be a tremendous ) demonstration, voicing the ne |demands of not only those thousands | of workers on Square Gar- den, but of millions outside it. At the time of the opening of the convention we wit the gigantic revolutionary movement of “independents,” pe the campaign | | China, Indo-China, the arme nH * ¢ meetings the workers will be told | gle of the Moros and F Fighting At Karachi And In ‘the reaf meaning of this’manetiver| | against United States imp “Vilages of the bosses’ legislature. This new| j and the in eparation for Eee class law was attacked and exposed | eee * war against the Seviet Union. evowd gathered to ects by the Mgnvention. ¥ .B. at the N.T.W.LU. compen) ontion will be opened eonfirws against British imperialism ougside | “Ca}ling for a sharp seaggle | ot the home of the deputy super- apainst fascism in the United States, intendent of police here, and fought |i. convention demanded the release men sent to attack ars ae eee gation, Foster, Minor, Amter and | tish have. previously used plain- Raymond. It also demanded the re- clothes men to provoke “communal lease of th hundreds of class-war a oe Aa a eee poe | prisoners who are today rotting in indus and Maslems. ace ttaeny ; Gar Amiens Te was Tavealed yesteniayy that «(fee cunecone. camera serious fight took place between A nee é-wide campaign is being | villagers in Gheenhagat, a Village | 340 to einige eat a of Midnapore, last Tuesday. Two | candidates of the Communist Party, | police sub-inspeetors and four con- | 2. Communists, before the worke stables were injured by the peas-| .n4 farmers. The slate of the Com- ants, and disarmed. Oné sub-i 2 ‘ rages at hha “Al munist Party in Ohio is I. 0. Ford, spector has died, and: the other iS | candidate for Governor; William sing Patterson, Secretary of State; J. Police Fire On Crowd. | Odell, + Attorney ‘General; Robert | | Sivert, State Treasurer; W. E. Doug- | las, State Auditor;" Edward Wil- liams, U. S. Senator. John Marshall of Youngstown is | a poor farmer. J. Odell of Youngs- town and E. Williams of Cleveland jare Negro workers. R. Sivert is a | miner. Seventeen were injured when po- lice fired into a crowd of 1,500,) making salt illegally at Balislai, o Midnapore district. The British authorities claim | jagain that they are in control of the Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. admit that rebellion is spreading. The Red Shirts, peasant organizations, . are growing in strength, it is admittéd, . % ‘Investigate’ Us 5 ‘ workers shoulder the burden of the crisis, by club and jail, by injunctions and threats of electrocution? ‘ Who dares show up the depths of the anti-labor in- famies of the Wolls and Greens, advance guard of the bosses’ drive on the workers? And who dares daily to mobilize the workers and poor farmers for revolutionary struggle against the hunger system, for, the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a revolutionary Workers’ and Poor Farm- ers’ Government? Who but the Daily Worker, central organ of the Com- munist Party. Workers! Rally to the revolutionary “in- vestigation” of the capitalist hunger system, its terror gov- ernment, and its fascist labor lieutenants by sup| of our | tion on a shop basis, for which the drawn from the shops. tion. political line International and y of the A. the correctness of 3 of the Communis: still arriving up to the end of the | the Communist Ps convention. The big Philadelphia leads the struggle of the delegation marched in Saturday, leftward moving working | with banners, and got a tremendous | masses for aiigdlemanaaraeal welcome, | for their final e on. This role Shop Basis. lof the Communit t Povty as leader The union, remodeled its constitu- | of the millions of unewy!oyed and employed workers iaduces | beginning has already been made | Pressing class to ese f | by action of the G. E. B., and with| methods of oppression, the a very democratic, op- most yet centralized | brutal and avengeful acts of terror control, and a broad leadership | against the leaders of the struggling | masses. On June 20 thousands and thou- sands of workers in Madison Square Garden will demonstrate for the im- mediate and unconditional release of Late yesterday the convention adopted by,a vote of 256 to 17 the | draft program summarized below {essentially unchanged except for | important additions made to it in|the unemployed dclegation, who the course of reports and discus-|have been railroaded into prison sion. (These additions will be de-| through secret hearings, without scribed, together with accurate &n- | jury trial, and are held without bail, alysis of the composition of the dele-|,The opening of the Seventh Na- | tiowal Convention of the Communist |Party will be the real opening for a mass struggle to force the ruling class to release Comrades Foster, | Minor, Amter and Raymond, the leaders of the unemployed. On to Madison Square Garden on Friday, June 20. qt ~ DEPORT FLAIAN | NEWARK, N. J., June 8.—Plans j are being made by the capitalist | court judges and the federal gov- | ernment agents to deport Comrade | Dominick Flaiani, organizer of the Communist Party in New Jersey, 2 |who was found guilty on a “sedi- Chairman of the N.T.W.LU. ¢on-| tion” charge two weeks ago by a Louis Hyman vention. jury composed of manufacturers and foremen. gation and of the new G. E. B., in Flaiani is now out on bail of tomorrow’s Daily Worker.) The | $3,000, awaiting a 17-year sentence final report of the credentials’ com- (Continued on Page Three) mittee showed a delegates actu- 11, ent, of ich 307 fi Daily. Rush funds to the workers’ great “investigator.” Give blow for blow the fascist suppression investigating’ & Wall Street’s Congress, ut center in thes world. ¥| brought in a ustatint poinsink out A great struggle looms in the! that 45,000 dressmakers here are dress shops of New York. The con- (Continued on Page Three) * Oi. Nita RET TED