The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1930, Page 1

Jobless workers! Will you permit the bosses, bloated with the great wealth created by your toil, starve you and your families? Let the cry of the jobless shake this hunger sys- tem! On to the National Convention of Jobless Workers in Chicago July 4th to hurl the demands of the unem- ployed millions a COMMUNIST PARTY 7TH NATIONAL CONVENTION OPENING AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN JUNE 0 aily = Enteree as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef March 3, 1879, Vol. Wal, No. 139 Unto pt Sunday he Comprodaily Publishing are New York City, N. Y¥- ¥ FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATE: and Bro York City and forels Price 3 Cents Si: 8G a year everywhere excepting Manh countri there $5 n_ yen EXPLOITED METAL WORKERS TURN TO 0 YOUNGSTOWN CONF ERENCE “Not to Be Lost Sight Of” INE HE New York National Guard and Naval Militia was turned out on dress parade Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park, stacking up a number of guardsmen to 14,000, it is said, with 1,000 naval militia too boot. Though the Guard sent most interesting publicity to all the papers and invited the “public,” the most the press could make of the civilian witnesses was 15,000, mostly found accidentally in the line of march over ten blocks. The “public” did not appear to be at all tremendously aroused, and the 600 policemen on hand to prevent the troops from being mobbed by admiring onlookers had nothing at all to do. But, as Major General William N. Haskell, who bossed the affair pointed out in advance publicity, there was one angle of the event which should “not be lost sight of,” the General, indeed, speaking out so freely that the big New York capitalist press vastly modified the General's observations. But the workers should know of it. This is what the General said: : “There is . . . one aspect of the review which may be mentioned and that is the opportunity it presents to demonstrate the prompt availability of the National Guard as a powerful and disciplined force . . . in case of domestic disturbances. This function of the National Guard of the State must not be lost sight of. In fact, it is, in time of peace, our prime duty and responsibility.” We are much obliged to the General for speaking frankly, for geanly stating that the armed forces supposed to “guard” the “nation” Rave, as their “prime duty” the hreaking of strikes and the suppres ton of the workers who object to starving to death in a land of “over- production.” ‘ But the N. Y. Times, in reporting the review, carefully tried to say the same thing without using the General’s confession. Which, we suppose; was not “fit to print.” In speaking of the review the “Times” commented that it demonstrated— “The ability to concentrate a large body of men and equip- ment at a given point in a short time.” | Which, compared with Major General Haskell’s blunt expression about “prompt availability . . . in case of domestic disturbances” sounds innocent and harmless. But the Daily Worker has no interest in hiding the brutal truth. The National Guard is to guard the in- terests of the capitalist class against the working class, which striking against wage cuts or demanding Work or Wages for growing millions of jobless, are looked upon as “domestic disturbers” of what capitalists éall “peace,” meaning peaceful enjoyment of profits wrung from the working class. We urge the workers “not to lose sight of” this fact, that the commander of the National Guard admits its “prime duty” is to use the Guard’s rifles against the working class. And: in addition, the workers-should “tiot lose sight of” the fact that the Daily Worker, which tells the truth hidden by the capitalist press, is under attack by the fascist Fish “investigation” committee. Hence it is the duty of all workers to rally to the support of their “Daily Worker.” It is the “prime duty” of the working class to support their Com- munist press. Polishing Up the War Machine LL is being made ready for war. While nothing much is said about it, all the little legal wrinkles are being ironed out on the path down which the workers are to be driven to the slaughter. ‘ One of these little matters is that foreseen in a congressional commission of four U. S. Senators and four Representatives, which is ‘to report on: “Amending the Constitution of the United States to provide that private property may be taken by Congress for public use during war and methods of equalizing the burdens and to remove the profits of war, together with a study of policies to be pursued in event of war.” There is not, of course, any way that the “burdens of war” can be equalized, so long as the toiling masses are asked to fight for a government which defends the interests of the class which exploits the toilers, the capitalist class. So the mention of “equalizing the +burdens” is only so much hot air meant to deceive the masses. That the resolution, as quoted above, is deliberately meant to insure capitalist profits instead of “remove” them, and therefore | again make “equal burdens” impossible, was proven by the fact that the Senate voted against having in the resolution above, after the words “public use” the words “without profit.” The capitalists, though they give over their private property for war uses, by no means mean to give up the profits. Some capitalist senator, for the better purpose of fooling the | working class, got the august Senate to approve of an amendment to the effect that: “Said Committee shall not consider and shall not report upon the conseriftion of labor.” Straight away a swarm of hokum pedlars who hang around the lobbies of Congress have, in the name of “labor,” but better said in | the interest of capitalism, gleefully declared that the resolution is “harmless” because it excludes “conscription of labor.” But one will first of all note that the amendment does not forbid + conscription of labor. It only forbids the committee named from talk- ing about it or studying it. At any time the Senate, therefore, re- serves the right to appoint another committee to not only consider, but to put over conscription of labor in 30 minutes'time if need be. | And such will be done, even though the capitalist government . dress “conscription of labor” up in some nice, innocent-sounding term. We need only remember* that “conscription” during the World War was baptized under the lovely term “Universal Service.” The capitalist class of this country is preparing for war, and in deine so it is taking very much care that capitalist profits shall be ifisured even though the property is “taken for public use.” And they are not making any promises against “conscription of labor.” The resolution as passed, therefore, has the double value to the capitalists, of insuring their profits in advance, while merely pre- tending that “conscription of labor” will not be put into practice. But it will make no difference what they call it, the workers called up for “universal service” in the coming war, will have all the obligations of a “congeript” in working for army pay under army discipline in the factories, mills and mines. The capitalists prepare for war, and first of all to war upon the working class. f I Cannon spoke of the continuous ARL. FAKER ADMIT splitting up of the A.F.L. because of TREACHERIES SPLIT IT {treachery displayed in their own | ranks.” As a result of these splits, such organizations as the socialist Trades Alliance, the Western and American Labor Union and the L. W. W. were evolved, said Cannon. He failed to mention the saturnalia of graft among its officials, the Farringtons’ ete., the fakeries of la- ‘hor banking, the class collaboration. the B, end 0, plans, the sellout of | the street car workers in New Or- leans and Philadelphia, ete., etc, “Resolved, that the workers should favor, the policies and tactics of the A. F. of L.” was debated Sunday at the Rand School with about 25 at- tending. i Joseph TD. Cannon of the A.F.T.. jewelry workers union hed the af- q fitmative while Leonard ‘Bright | % editor of the Musteite “Labor Age’) if hee. che negative. ‘NEGRO WORKER'S’ SEDITION TRIAL ON IN NEWARK |Graham Candidate for! Senator on Ticket of Communist Party He Organized Jobless Bar onse ay Defense Witness for Atheism NEWARK, N. J., June, 9.—Dozier | Will Graham, Negro worker and | Communist candidate for the United ; States Senate, was today brought before the court in Newark, N. J., for trial on a sedition charge in connection with his activities in or- ganizing unemployed workers. Judge Van Riper, the judge who two weeks ago railroaded Dominick | Flaiani’s trial, barred from the w’ ness stand Morri: ness for the defense, on the ground that Langer does not believe in God or in any religion. Langer testi- fied for Flaiani under an affirma- tion two weeks ago, and, in ae of the insistence on the part of fense attorneys that he be allowed, to affirm, the judge refused. When the jury was about to ve| sworn in one of the jurors was ex- cluded by the state because he did | not believe in the bible, though he FIRST WITNESS pected to be concluded tomorrow, Called ag aistonian mm seven more workers will be tried Pascistsrish on the same charges of sedition. WASHINGTON, June 9.—-Chang-| ng Lo Plot Against the Ri Jobless Swarm i Vital Need JESUIT PRIEST Dominick Flaiani, organizer of the Communist Party in New Jer- | sey, who was found guilty by a/ing its mihd about having the prize} | jury of mantfacturers and foremen | “red-baiter” of the so-called “Labor | two weeks ago, is under investiga- | Department” as first witness before | tion by the {mmigration authorities, | the anti-Communist “investigation” | who are attempting to secure depor- {committee of the fascist Fish, the| tation orders against him. Proba- | committee deferred to the Society of =< SEBS gz Demands of the Hungry in Textiles; for Organizing The terrific effects of speed-up, unemployment and low | he returns. wages growing worse and worse in the textile industry, Langer, a wit-| described yesterday in a statement by W. T. Murdock, of the | phis police. ‘national office of the Se Tesule Workers’ were aion.” He} | “The crisis from which in- dustry as a whole.is suffering is felt with particular keen- ness by the textile workers. In the city of New Bedford uke number of unemployed textile | is already placed at over n Warren, R. I. (where the | 1 000 ; | U.T.W. ‘expert in 1928) the Warren Mfg. Company, has closed down com- pletely. In New, Market, New | Hampshire, the mill companies have }moved their mills and machinery | south and have left whole sections without the means of earning a livelihood. In Philadelphia (Ken- sington) there are at least 25,000 unemployed textile workers. In Lawrence, the other woolen centre, | | unemployment runs to as high as sent in their own efficiency | tion Officer Charles A. Vogel kept | Flaiani for over one hour, finger- | printing and photographing him and cross-examining him as to his past. Jesuits’ chief anti-Communist liar,/60 per cent of running capacity. Father E. H. Walsh, who was anxi- | ous to tell all the fairy tales he has) thought up in the last ten years be-/ “So far our union has not real- ment issue....leading members of ized the gravity of the unemploy-| NEGRO WORKERS | ahead for the election@of delegates hold their conference on July 1st. | of the so-called “labor” government, | All the Newark sedition cases are |fore leaving Washington. being defended by the I. L. D., which! This holy ocrite was called in calls upon sympathizers to send jall seriousness as “an authority on funds immediately to 93 Mercer St., | Russian affairs,” according to ac- Newark, to assist the defense, | counts, to “give a background of So-| | viet history and explain the opera- tives of the Soviet Government.” Reports are that Father Walsh told the committee that “just ie |weeks after Lenin ‘assumed pow | (of course, it was the Sotne class! | which assumed power), a fund of 2, | 000, 000 roubles was “set aside by| | special government orders” to ‘ ] the needs” of the Soviet revolution internationally. Father Walsh knew all about it, |apparently, even detailing to the “In spite of the ban placed on | committee that the government or- the holding of the International/der of the Soviet was “signed by} Trade Union Conference of Negro) both Lenin and Trotsky,” and was | Workers in London, England, July {directed to “furthering the revolv- 14, our ¢onference will be held on|tionary movement in all countries re- the date scheduled,” states J. W.|gardless of whether they were then Ford, chairman of the provisional) at war with Russia, in alliance with international trade union committee | | Russia or maintaining a neutral po-; of Negro workers, yesterday. | sition.” ° “Plans and preparations are going| What this meant, Father Walsh was very glad to tell. preted. it” to mean that by doing} this the Soviet government made its “first declaration of war on the “The prohibiting of our confer-| world, the first definite move to- ence is part of the’ whole policy | wards forcing the principles of the} Communist Party on all of human-) eae To Hold Internationa Conference Anyway in various parts of the world. The Negro workers are determined to (Continued on Page Three) ‘meet He “inter-| jin view of the fact that this is! |in the region now being fought over | our union in the city of New Bed- ford for example are today leaving | the city to go elsewhere for work, |not realizing that the crisis is gen- | (Continued on Page Three) CHINESE WARS WORRY STIMSON Red Army Takes New Town in Honan | Dispatches fram China, while concealing the great spread of Soviet power, admit it piece-meal ‘by accounts of Communist risings in this or that area, The latest admission is that the Communists operating in Southern Honan, had | captured Sinyangchow, on the Pekin-Hankow railway. The significance of this is greater \by the rival militarist generals of the conflicting imperialist powers. Feng Yu-hsiang, the bloody mil- itarist aptly called “the Christian (Continued on Page Three) ‘SEDITION CHARGE THREAT IN TENN., BY LEGION, COPS |Legion Openly States Will Smash: Meetings Lynch Speakers ‘Negro fer Governor | Chattanooge Meeting Scores ree Case MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 9.—The | police chief and American Legion heads, working flagrantly and pub- licity togetherto prohibit the organ- izing of Negro workers here, have announced that Tom Johnson, South- ern organizer arrested last week ard | deported from Memphis, will be ar- lrested and charged with sedition if Descriptions of the or- ganizer have been given all Mem-/ | The chief of police, the police ! commissioner and the heads of the | American Legion accompanied John- | son to the train after his release | and detectives rode with him to Chattanooga, where he had a meet- ing. The Communist Party had an- | nounced that the meeting, to pre- vent which Johnson, Prof. Horace | |Davis and his wife, Marian Davis, (Continued on Page Three) GREAT RESPONSE 10 JOBLESS GALL Active “Preparations| for Chicago Meet CHICAGO, IIl., June 9.—Prepara- |tions for the June 15 preliminary conference of unemployed are well Credentials are coming | in from organizations that we never dreamed of getting six months ago. | The conference on June 15 is a step toward making the July 4 and 5 National Unemployed Convention a great success. Organizations that lare sending delegates will have a |tremendous task to perform. The {question of housing: the thousands that are coming into town, feeding them while they are here, etc., is a big task that will have to be solved by the working class of Chicago, Reports are comiifg in from the districts that delegates for the Chi- (Continued on Page Three) jon the way. Lodgings for | Delegates Needed | Accommodations for Delegates, | |to the National Convention 6f the | Communist Party, betweeen June | 18th to 28th needed. Comrades} or sympathizers living ip 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 ® The ‘Daily’ Faces Two Dangers! Your paper, the Daily Worker, now faces two dangers. One month ago we informed you that an Emergency Fund of $25,000 must be raised at once to avoid suspension. If the Jewish workers and organizations can raise $40,000 to help the Freiheit out of financial difficulties, then our entire Party and all the organizations that support it should be able to raise $100,000.for the Daily Worker. We asked for a modest sum, only $25,000. We needed this quickly. We told you so. A number of organizations and comrades responded quickly. But a deep-going campaign to save the Daily Worker is not yet apparent in ever so many cities. The Daily Worker is not out of danger even tho $9,000 have been raised. Today we face a tremendous outlay of money for printing our paper last week. Last aveek we barely niet our printing bills) We hoped for sufficient financial support to again publish six pages each day. We. hoped to secure several special writers to tell you about the effect of the capitalist crisis, speed-up, low wages upon the workers in the industries; to cover Washington, D. C., the political center of ‘the big bosses. We hoped to use part of the funds contributed to develop circulation among workers in the basic sucha ee among the poor farmers, Anipng the southern wage slaves, Negro and white. Contributions have not and are not cofning in quickly enough. . What we hoped to do we have not been able to do. And what you must clearly understand is that while we still face the danger which our financial difficulties create, while the Daily Worker ‘is still not safe, a swarm of detectives hired by Fascist Fish, ec! tion” committee is tod: paper. irman of the big bosses “investiga- mobilizing for attack upon your It is because the Daily Workef is “investigating,” at- tacking the bosses’ terror government, the bosses’ speed- -up, now. wages, the bosses’ coming world war, the bosses’ cons- piracy to war on the Soviet Union, the bosses’ power to throw seven million workers onto the streets to starve, that the Daily Worker is being “investigated,” attacked, by the bosses. This is the class struggle. Where are you in this struggle? Where ,is your or- ganization? The Daily Worker faces two dangers. If you will help save the Daily Worker, strengthen it, gather around it in great numbers, tthen together we can beat back the bos- ses and their tools ‘who want to suppress the Daily Worker. | Marcn at {the Metal Workers Industrial C ( t | Wj DELEGATIONS PREPARED IN MANY STEEL CENTERS FOR JUNE 14 SESSION Promise 25 from Chicago District; Steel Mill, Auto Factory, Ship Yards Workers Rally e; Will A] 50 Many Unorganized Mills sting Build League to Win 7-Hour Day Elec PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 9. me epeaone are in full swing for the steel and metal workers national conference in Youngstown, Ohio, June 14-15 at Workers Center, 334 E. Fed- eral St. Districts and locals of the league throughout the country are electing delegat Workers in many steel mills who as yet have no organiz; a tion are also sending delegat according to Andrew Over-| gaard, national secretary of! WEEDLE WORKERS TENTION ANSTO PROGRAM E.B. League. The Chicago Metal Workers League, according to reports of Dis- | trict Secretary Dallet, will have |least 25 delegates from steel mills in the Lake County section, from| Milwaukee, from the Crane C Western Electric, and other larg plants in Chicago. Philadelphia e: G GG. New Based On Trade and Territory pects to have a large representation| 7, Needle Trad Bu Wanues In- plant. From the Sparrows: Point/ 41pm, Sunday, in basic . Bethlehem Steel Corporation sie | 2B a apongeReadal #itinie dae Hh in Baltimore, a delegation of five and audience and singing - ~: delegates will suend Lig ccetgne abe pies of the International with tremch- ee sist chi a P*|dous''fervor and vewer. esented. A new G.E.B. of 47 was elected, In the Buffalo section, delegates} 13 of the original will come from the Milwaukee Steel, and on this only G.E.B. were included. In selecting Cee aeanee eeatin ig car, the members, consideration was had pected from New York and New| 10", cities, trades, youth, | Negio, Jersey; and in Pennsylvania prep-| | ‘*"!? sh bean aa te trades represented were cloaks, 9 arations are under way for a dele- * septs Gres gation from such steel centers as aebaae Te headgear 2.6 adie? McKeesport, Monessen, Ambridge. wail eas eee Westinghouse workers are expected to send a large delegation. In Wash- ington, Pa., where the fakers of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers have betra: ed the steel workers continuall} delegation will attend the confer- ence. a In Cleveland, a delegation of 12} (Continued on Page Three.) ThCONVENTION 16 RALLY MASSES Historic ] Meet Prepares for Struggles Ze The National Convewtion of Communist Party of the U. S. the A, {which will open at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, June 20, will be the rallying point for thou- sands of workers in New York City, and will symbolize to millions | who in increasing numbers are recognizing the Communist Party as their leader, the struggles which the workers of the world are wag- ing: on every front against the! forces of reaction. With the capitalist congress the United States, ably assisted by the fascist Woll and Green, inves- tigating Communist activities in this country, with the war prep- arations of every country in the world for war against the Soviet Union, with the bosses of the South turning the full force of theix state power and their lynch law against the Negro and white workers who have dared to challenge their su- premacy; with the threat of prison and death against workers eyery- where who organize for atnee le, the Communist Party of the U. A. enters the political arena be calls upon the workers of the coun- try to follow it in its fight for the demands ‘of the working class and for their final emancipation. The demonstration in Madison Square Garden on June 20th will be a protest against the imprison- ment of the unemployed delegation who have been railroaded into their immediate and release. conditional It ‘will sound the first noty he struggle of the masses of wors or the release of these wo «in 48 leaders. It will pro- tes. the luprisonment of the six wr > iy Atlanta and will de- n it the prison doors be. o r them. Madison Square Garden of workers throughout the country, |. there were nine arrests. prison, and will be a demand for) There were also 7 representing young workers; 4 Negro; 3 Italians; 16 women. The credentials committee final report showed 415 delegates sent from the following needle trades centers: New York, 307; Philadel- | phia, 46; Boston, 40; Chicago, 14; | Newark, 4; Hartford, 2; Pacific | Coast, 1; Canada 1 .(fraternal), Cleveland, Baltimore, and other cities were represented, Less than half the delegates came from shops controlled already by the dace! union. From N. ae Weil shops there were 205; company union shops, 46; open shops, 71; councils of the unem- ployed needle workers, 23; shop de! councils, ; company ur ‘To cals (A.C.W.; € and Mil- linery, etc.), 5 The 1B delegate council representa s were: 5 from New York; 5 each from New York, B ton, and Philadelphia, 2 from Chi (Continued on Page Two) NOW MULROONEY THUGS ATTACK Food Pickets Assaulted and Jailed; Shop Delegates Mecting Tonight A large demonstration of food | workers was held Saturday night in ; front of the shop of Schlom and of | Deutsch, Bay Parkway and 86th St., Brooklyn, which has been called on strike by the Food Workers Indus trial Union. The police refused to let the speakers speak, and attacked them brutally. Speaker after speat- er stood up on the platform to assert their right to speak to the workers about their conditions and the strug- gles of the Food Workers Industrial Union. A colored worker, Patterson, was viciously beaten up by a couple of Mulrooney’s thugs. Bear, a baker of very slight build, was cowardly beaten up in the car. Altogether While un- der arrest and 22 hours kept in the cells, the prisoners and pickets were denied drinking water, and Mul- rooney’s thugs jecred, as the work- ers were forged to take water out of the toilets'in order. to wet their lips, This follows on the same lines | of police attack on the open air dem- onstration on Allerton Ave. in the Bronx the F.W.LU. Shop Delegates Tonight. The shop delegates council of the Food Workers Industrial Union, to which many have been elected from the shops, bakeries, cafeterias, food markets, factories, from the unemployed and minov + groups, will mect tonight at 8 7 at 16 W, 21st St. All delegater ed must be present a where the problems and ta: Food Workers Indugengatt utbe discussed.