The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1930, Page 1

UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE TO FIGHT LYNCHING TERROR FRIDAY, JUNE 13, AT HARLEM Shaking World and British Imperialism the Teeming Masses of India Are on the March to Establish the Rule of the Toiling Masses! Read of the World Shaking Events of the Indian Struggles in the Special India Edition, Wednesday, June 18. Entered as necond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Vol. Vu., No. 142 Company, Inc, 26-28 Published daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily Vublishing Union Square, New York City, N. ETT Worker act ef March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION tie JON RATE New York SUBSCRIE and Bronx, Rally to Madison Sq. Garden June 20th! ADISON SQUARE GARDEN on June 20th will be a great mobilization of the workers of New York, in struggle for its most pressing immediate needs and for its future emancipation. “Work or Wages,” unemployment insurance and immediate relief, is the first and outstanding demand of the day, and is the chief slogan for Madison Square Garden on June 20th, All workers who wish to join in the struggle for Work or Wages must come to Madison Square Garden. To make this demonstration more powerful, more effective, all trade unions, clubs, and other workers’ mass organizations, should march in a body to the hall, to demonstrate as fully as possible the | organized character of this movement for Work or Wages. Leaders of the March 6th demonstration for Work or Wages have been thrown into prison for three years, by the capitalists who do not want to have their profits touched by unemployment insurance.. Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, the delegation of the unemployed, who gathered in numbers of 110,000 on March 6th, are imprisoned for our cause. The further fight for Work or Wages must, therefore, also be a fight for the release of the unemployed delegation, and of the hundreds of workers in prison all over the country. The fight for Work or Wages, for the organization of the work- ing class, and for its liberation from capitalist exploitation, is led by the Communist Party. There is no other leadership in this fight. June 20th marks the opening of the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., and the Madison Square Garden rally will be the demonstration of unity between the convention and the masses of workers who carry on the struggle. In China and India, the masses of toilers are engaged in desperate struggle to throw off the rule of imperialism, that same imperialism that exploits the workers in the U.S.A. and England, etc. The work- ers in Madison Square Garden will also demonstrate: their solidarity with the masses of China and India, and for the success of their revo- Jutions. Freedom for the Philippines, and for U. S. colonies and semi- colonies in Latin America, will also be demanded by the Madison Square Garden rally, and messages of solidarity sent to the struggling workers of these countries. Negro workers are being organized together with the white work- ers in this great mobilization of the entire working class, on the basis of complete social, political, and economic equality. For the entire working class, the task is set to abolish the horrible lynchings of Negroes, which are occurring every week, and to guarantee to the Ne- gro people the right of self-determination and equality. Madison Square Garden on June 20th will be a demonstration of this equality and this program, uniting the white and black workers for common struggle. Fight against wage-cuts and speed-up, and building of the revolu- tionary trade unions, are vital questions for the entire working class. Especially in the South, this fight has become most bitter, with the posses using the most vicious violence, and imprisoning trade union organizers. Especially in the South, also, the capitalist fear of unity between white and Negro workers is shown in its wild rage against the unions of the T.U.U.L. and against the Communist Party. Today in Atlanta, six organizers are threatened with the electric chair be- cause they proposed to organize white and Negro workers together. June 20th will be a demonstration of working class determination to fight against wage-cuts, against the speed-up, for the revolutionary trade unions, and for the defense of the Atlanta prisoners. Fight against the war danger, which looms more menacingly over the world every day, will be a slogan of the Madison Square Garden meeting. For the defense of the Soviet Union, stronghold of the working class, and in celebration of its tremendous achievements in the building of socialism, the workers will demonstrate their unanimity and enthusiastic determination. Madison Square Garden on June 20th will, in brief, be a tremen- dous concentration point of working class interests, issues, and struggles. It will be a political mass demonstration of the broadest class nature, and at the same time a mobilization for immediate struggle of the bread-and-butter needs of the workers who suffer untold miseries in the deepening crisis of capitalism. All out to Madison Square Garden on June 20th! Greet the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party, leader of the struggles of the working class! FORM DISTRICTS OF 100 FOOD SHOP NEEDLE UNION Organizers Appointed For Six in New York; Meetings For 2, Today. Decide to Build Fund for Union; Elect June 17; Four Shops Won. NEW YORK.—The shop dele- gates’ council of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, which met Tues- day, had about 100 delegates elected In line with the decisions of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union’s second convention, there have been established six districts DELEGATES MEET, in New York, District 1: From 34tn St. to 37th St., between Broadway and Ninth Ave. Organizer, A. Kolkin. District 2: From 38th St. to 40th St. I. Weisberg. District 8: From 14th St. to 33rd St., between Broadway and Eighth Ave. Jack Schneider. District 4: From 14th St. down- town, I. Hertz. District 5: From 34th St. to 40th St. east of Broadway. Sylvia Bleecker. District 6: From 14th St. to 33rd 8t., east of Broadway. Caroline Drew. Last night there were meetings of délegates and sub committee- men of District 1 and 2, at 131 ‘West 28th St., the union headquar- ters. The executive committee of the Shop Delegates’ Council met Wed- nesday. and voted to support the Madison Square mass meeting, pro- testing the imprisonment of the New York leaders of the unem- ployed, by which the Communist Party opens its national convention on June 20. Arrangements are be- ing made to rally workers from the shops for this meeting. Wednesday, in Cooper Union, there will be a mass meeting of needle workers to hear the report | < of the New York delegation to the second national convention he gh) hs ig 4 from the food markets, bakeries, hotels, restaurants and cafeterias present. A report on the general | | | | | | situation and progress was made | by Secretary Wiseman. A very important decision was made by the S. D. C. to start a drive for a “Build the Union Fund.” The union emblem will be sold to all sup- porters of the Food Workers’ In- dustrial Union in its struggle against the bosses and its fascist | agents. On account of much business it was decided that the meeting be continued on Tuesday, June 17, at 8 p. m. at 16 W. 21st St., when the |speed up faster, | harder on the workers. ‘PLOT TO SLASH | Detewetes from All Parts of L CENTRO BOYS HOWLS AT COMMUNIST WAGES AND MAKE CONDITIONS BAD Company Reopening At Edgewater, Will Hire New Men Only Mass Meeting Coming TUUL Leads Fight for Solidarity, Struggle NEWARK, N. J., June 12.—The Kearney Ford Plant, which employs 3,000 workers, is laying them off at the rate of 500 to 600 per week; 600 have already been fired. This is a regular policy, announced in the press on June 9, and intended to end all the jobs in the Kearney plant by July 3. The company is closing | down that plant, and has sold the building to the Western Electric | Company. The whole scheme is part of a plot of the employers to cut wages | and worsen conditions, make the and everything Fired Workers. Not Re-hired. The,company announces that it is shipping the machinery to its new (Continued on Page Five) 47 DROWN, BURN IN HORRIBLE — SEA CRASH Murderous Speed-up _ Men on Ships BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—Five hundred seamen, assembled last night at a mass meeting in and around the hall of the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union, 140 Broad Street, protested emphatically the utter disregard of human life, amount- ing to the murder shown by profit grabbing Eastern Steam- | ship Co. and the Shell Oil Co. “We place the responsibility of | the disaster upon the steamship companies and the government inspectors, supposed to have in- spected the ship before its de- parture, the willful delay of send- ing the S. O. S. until too late, in order to save salvage fees, the unseaworthy condition of the life boats, where acids had to be used to cut the lines in order for them to drop into the water,” says the resolution. The only way such disasters can be prevented in fu- ture is by organization in the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. Only through organiza: tion can the seamen improve their China Attend Soviet Congress (Wireless by Inprecorr) June 12.—According to authentic reports SHANGHAI, | printed by the Shanghaipao, the Communist daily paper at Shanghai, the All-China Soviet Districts Congress, which met on May 30, was attended by delegates wonsisting of workers, peasants, soldiers, and youths from all parts of China. The Congress made many"¢F imperialists were declared void | important decisions of which! by the Soviet Congress. the following are the most| The Congress issued an appeal | outstanding: |to the Chinese masses, explaining * ‘ . the aims and methods of the Sov- The nationalization of land; jets and calling for their loyalty | the confiscation and distribu-|to the Soviet government. The Con- tion among poor peasants of the gress also issued an appeal to the land of the rich and that of religi- | workers of the world, calling for ous communities; the prohibition of international solidarity and all pos- the sale and leasing of land; the sible support. * abolition . of oppressive tax of = 4! generals and local authorities; the! The Shanghaipao, published at adoption of labor legislation, in- Shanghai, is only one of the many cluding the eight-hour day, minim- Communist Dailies published in um wage, and unemployment sup- China. The Daily Worker also has port; and the confiscation of im- knowledge of at least one more |perialist banks, industrial under- Chinese Communist Daily pub- takings, etc. lished in Hongkong. and se others published in the Soviet D: tricts. All foreign debts were cancelled and all politico-economic privileges | Workers! Fight Unemployment, Say Jailed Tobless Leaders William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker; Israel Amter, New York district organizer of the Communist Party; Harold Raymond and Joseph Lesten, seamen, and all members of the committee elected by the March 6 demon- stration of 110,000 at Union Square to lay their demands before the city government, have spoken again. The first four mentioned are serving three year sentences bechuse they appeared as leaders of the jobless. Lesten served 30 days, and all five are being held for trial on a charge of as- saulting a policeman. They signed and issued for publica- tion the following appeal to the jobless and employed workers: “Over seven million workers are tramping the streets jobless, hungry. These workers and their families face starvation. The steel, coal, textile, building construction, auto, railroad, and shipping industries are in a ¢ Hoover promised relief, but instead of i oving conditions the crisis is becoming deeper. Next w the crisis will be still worse. Do you intend to let your wives and children starve! “Workers! Don’t starve—Fight! Send mass delega- tions to the National Convention to neh the nation-wide fight against unemployment. “The bosses taking advantage of the crisis have slashed wages right and left! They are speeding up to break-neck speed and lowering conditions. Millions of workers have only part-time work. “The bosses’ answer to the workers’ demands has been savage police attacks on the unemployed and strikers, on the unemployed who are trying to form unions, on Negroes, and, especially, the Communists. This they are doing in prepara- tion for a war against the Soviet Union. “The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union has intensified the hatred and fear of the imperialists, because in the Land of the Soviets, production in industry and agriculture is ex- panding, wages are going up, hours are being lowered—while (Continued en Page Five) IKE-BREAKER GREEN WANTS COMMUNISTS OUTLAWED Ford’s vd’s Kearney ey Plant Closing Down, Moving, 3, 000 to Be Be F ured and Not Taken Bac ON STAND SCORE BAD CONDITIONS 1500 Imperial Valley! | Workers Eager to | 1 Build A.W.LL. Expose Stool Pigeons) Trial Nearing End in| { Prejudiced Court | | EL CENTRO, Cal., June 12.— The trial of the nine workers in the Imperial Valley criminal syn-} dicalism case nearing its end. They are being railroaded through | a bitterly hostile court, to sentences | is of 42 years, in order to try and {smash the organization of 15,000 Mexican, Hindu, Japanese, Filipino, | and American and other worke! | who toil on the Imperial Va | vegetable growers ranches. Imperial Valley is a super-heated | former desert made fertile by ir- rigation, and is a regular hell to| \ work in. The workers are anxious to organize and fight for better }wages and.conditions during the gathering of the extremely valu- | able canteloupe crop and all forces (Continued on Page Pee) CONFERENCE AT YOUNGSTOWN IN PLAN FOR FIGHT Desperate Situation for asking questions at hi meetings, did his best to incite By and government persecution of the Commu- | ni or who dra : 86a year everywhere excepti City ana foreign Price 3 Cents k Wes fk FOR FIGHTING 7 UNEMPLOYED | Oy Complimented by ascie Congress Committee for Is ; Aid to Bosses WASHINGTON, D. June —Appeari but ignorant stool-pigeon before the co munist “probers” headed by the fascist Fish, Will president of the American Federation of Labor, who is trying to send revolutionary workers to the electric chair in Georgia $ y from the dues workers, not to men- | “on the side,” ex- 12,000 of A. F. of L. tion a lot more THE BIGGEST SCAB | 3 | for 5,000,000 PITTSBURGH, Pa., June “Steel production is down to about 65 per cent of capa ’ said An drew Overgaard, national secretary of the Metal Workers’ Indusiriai League. “The result is terrific nn eraployment anc speed-up, with | wage-cutting of all sorts. It is of situation that the Met National Conference m in Youngstown, Ohio, ation and fig in 19 industry is tailing, and ‘ great Hoover, is proven a fa when he predicted months two months’ time would end of the cri “In the Westinghouse Electric, which normally employed over 30, 000, there are only about 12,000, now, producing the same amount. Here the day work was first abol- | Dist. 2 Convention Starts Sat. June 14 (Continued on Page Five) as tuate shore in Massachusetts Bay. over their own lives.” Forty-seven persons are known | s x Me to have lost their lives in the col- BOSTON, June 12.—Again speed- |lision that exploded the oil tanker up on the high seas took a heavy|that sank in a lurid conditions and have some control ‘death toll when the M. & M. T.|flames, carrying with it the crew S. D. C. will elect members to the | executive committee and officers to the New Food Workers’ Industrial | Union, adopt the constitution and_ make further decisions for the strengthening of the union, Two more food pickets were ar-' rested on Avenue U, in Brooklyn, | where a strike is being conducted by the F. W. I. U. Many arrests have been made by the police in their attempt to smash the picket and the open-air meetings held by the union. Four more shops were settled after short strikes, a bakery at 697 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, and three food markets. “Build the Union Fund” buttons can n be bought in either of the three 16 West 2ist St., Man- 994 Third Ave., Bronx, nd 16 Graham Ave. Brooklyn, | ‘ Liner Fairfax rammed and sankiof nineteen men. the oil tanker Pinthus off the Sci- Passengers on the Fairfax, many | spread of! The District Convention of the, | Communist Party, District 2, will | start Saturday, June 14, at ;of whom jumped overboard, were | seared by the upward sweep of the | flames, many now lying in the! | ; r fs | y ny i ; |m. in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Gloucester hospital | with painfull |and Irving Place. All delegates are expected to die.) | must be on time. Only those | Scenes of great confusion were | enacted with the captain conspicu- | ous by his absence on the bridge. having membership cards will be | admitted. le who testified day be- the anti-Communist congres- i3: sional committee and was praised | ‘tial w by PaSeiak “Huah ue the Gaasent (oneY » Poland, best strike-breaker. Saige titls ees can on pressed great alarm at what he Haye eae was purpose of Communist organ- | Gernine # to overthrow the capitalist | nt of the United S by to carried ar- attempt of Con the A. F. of L. the strong which he depic bulwark of ¢: workers answered italism, Indeed, the fascist chair- Aparna man of the committee, Congressman | PO 1) Tit sh, introducing Green to the com- jpeg she ; é that the police were afraid to break mittee as the hearing began, said |i, that the A. F. of L. was entitled; ,." to the gratitude of all bosses for or Detenae s of the en- (Continuea on Page Five) uNIC Ray FOR MEET ON 20, “Vote Hammer and |sre Sickle” Mass Cry THREE SEAMEN SCALDED ; if WITH TAR. ' Show your support of the Com- munist Party by voting the Hammer|, NEW YORK, Jun and Sickle the coming elections!” oe ene NS RALLY ‘Three when.a they were You read the Daily Worker. You endorse it. You say to your- self: “This is my paper and I can not be without it.” But comrade, this is not enough. A paper that fights for you must be supported and defended. You must fight for the Daily Worker, and especially now that our paper is being attacked. Many of our readers, many Party members still say: “The Daily Worker is printed for us because we are revolutionists, we are radicals, we are sympathizers, Other workers are not as advanced as we are and therefore will not read or support or defend our paper.” This is exactly one hundred per cent wrong, Workers everywhere today, be- ‘cause of extreme exploitation, oppression, unemployment are looking high and low for a paper that will express their grievances and give them leadership. * They want to join the revolutionary forces and are actually waiting to be connected. It is we who are lagging behind, comrades. We do not go out among the workers to talk.to them about the Daily Worker. We do not tell them that our paper is being attacked by the bosses and their business agents at Washington, D. C. We do not go out to get new readers and contributions. We do not visit workers’ organizations for contributions. Seemingly, we expect the workers to come to us even Volunteer for Daily Worker Emergency Campaign Tag Day ih though they have never seen the Daily Worker and do not know its address, A worker who lives alone in the Maine woods, walked for two days and many miles and collected $12 from Maine lumberjacks to help save the Daily Worker. Two workers in Brooklyn, Olga Livoff and Rachil Kunina, sent in a day’s wages each, total $10. Comrade Yener of New York went among the workers and sold two Lenin pictures which meant $15 for the Daily. Comrade Mrs. M. D. of Steubenville, Ohio, went out among the workers and collected $10. A miner of ‘Tarentum, Pa., persisted in sending something, collected $2 and writes | that it took him a month to get this sum because so many mines are es closed. From workers in Juneau, Alaska, comes $43. From New Orleans $5. We could report until it filled this page, proving that workers are willing to help our paper, are desirous of becoming readers, You work in a shop, mine or mill. You live in a working class neighborhood, you go to meetings where workers assemble, you are in daily contact with workers. It is you we depend on to tell workers about our paper and its difficulties. It is you who must develop mass support for the Daily Worker. ah . \ ris will be one of the chief rally- pote ing cries at the great mass me ped in Madison Square Garden, night, June 20, which will open the Seventh tional Convention of the Communist Party, against the new wave of wage-cuts and speed-up, for ven though n pork on their ships while of every den will include workers building the new revolutionary | indust n issued unions, An integral part of this | by the uneil of the struggle is the demand for the re- | Food Worke | Union to lease of the delegation v.ected by | all food worke 1 this great the 110,000 unemployed wey ers’ ho! demonstration. The call points out | demonstrated on Union syuare on|that “the Communist Party has | March 6. + | been the v nt jeader of the strug This demand will be thundered by | gles of the tens of thousands of ore ;more than 20,000 workers at Mad- ! ganized and unorganized food work |ison Square Garden on June 20 and em ved as well as unem- | will be a concrete expression of their | ployed, fighting relentlessly against determination to fight on under the the united front of b s, police ‘leadership of the Communist Party and labor betra at are trying against the whole system of capi- to per increase the in talist exploitation that is today ! human y to which the food |grinding down their standards of workers are sub) living, throwing their best fighters | | Tickets for the demonstration are into jail and preparing to send them | 35 cents in we and 50 cents at are on sale at the to slaughter in the coming imper- | the door. ialist war. | district ffice office the Party, | The rally at Madjson Square Gar- Wnion Square, N. 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