The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1930, Page 1

Workers of New York and Vicinity! Open the 7th National Convention of the Communist Party with a giant dem- onstration at Madison Square Garden June 20th. | | 8 ow Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of Mar S eee FRYE Clwomersfot 1 MORO foamTE TD 2. 1879. — FINA L CITy EDITION plished daily excel Vol. VII., No. 145 Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily Publishing Unton Square, New York Clty, No ¥.9 SUBSCRIPTION RATE and Bronx, New Yor! City and foreign countries, there $8 56 a yeur everywhere excepting Manhattan Price : 3 Gents n year. Pirates, Preachers and Patriots 4HREE months after Tammany’s official sluggers, under command of the exquisite Mr. Whalen, sent about 200 workers to hospitals with a savage rain of blackjacks, and sent the Unemployed Commit- tee who led the Union Square demonstration of 110,000 workers de- manding Work or Wages to prison, the Board of Estimates strikes a delectable note by raising its own and other high city officials’ salary to a tune of $519,000. It was on March 14, when Foster, Minor and the rest of the Un- employed Committee, finally broke through the army of scowling dicks and got before the Board of Estimates of the City of New York, alias Vitaleland. Tammany’s immaculate mayor, Jimmy Walker, in tones of scorn as befitted a spokesman for capitalism addressing workers, replied to the demand for Work or Wages by telling the jobless of New York to go to hell, the honorable Board of Estimates would do nothing for the jobless but club and jail them. Under the reminder of the Reverend Norman Thomas that this was liable to hurt capitalism in the minds of the workers, though it was just what the Communists needed and Walker had Thomas’ entire sympathy, Walker, who commands the Board of Estimates, went through some fake motions of “doing something for the unemployed” and gave some more Tammany henchmen a fat graft by “pushing sub- ‘way construction” and “establishing employment agencies.” The Rev. Thomas at once wrote Walker expressing his admiration. Walker, meanwhile raising his own salary and making himself a good fellow by giving the raise, taken from public money, to “charity,” now—in a secret and apparently illegal manner—calls the hogs to wallow in the public treasury to the tune of over half a million dollars. And the Reverend Thomas, chief of the “socialist” party is aggrieved. He protests that this is “not nice,” accidentally letting out the ad- mission that “salaries are falling, not rising.” It is rather embarassing for such an apologist for capitalism as Reverend Thomas, to have Tammany cold-bloodedly spoiling the game when Thomas is doing his best to make capitalist government look like what it ain’t; trying to make the workers believe that it is “doing something practical” to keep them from following the wicked Com- munists who want either Work or Wages for the unemployed. But what about the compliments to Tammany for establishing those “unemployment agencies?” And what have these agencies done for the jobless? Where is Thomas’ love of yesterday? Alas, neither Walker nor Thomas ever expected them to do anything aside from furnishing a new graft, similar to Mr. Thomas’ own appointment by Al Smith to a place on a “Housing Commission.” » While the. Unemployed Committee is lying in prison, Walker and Thomas, Tammany and the “socialists” are engaged in a lucrative game of shadow-boxing. Fakers and crooks, pirates and preachers, in one unholy and stinking mess! And-in the middle of all this stench, with Vauses, Cooleys and Doyles crawling over it like flies on a dung-heap, a congressional committee is given $25,000 by the United States government to come to New York. Not to do anything for the unemployed. Oh, no! Neither to investigate the city government. Perish the thought! But to “in- vestigate” the Communists, to see if they are so disrespectful of this capitalist government as to require them being suppressed! We said before, and we repeat, that the government is the watch- dog of the bosses. And we stand by that! Don’t Misjudge the Clam ECAUSE a clam is silent is no reason that it may not speak. But merely because it is rare on speech is no reason to expect words of wisdom when it does open its mouth. You may have guessed that we refer to Calvin Coolidge. This though we fear greatly to do him an injustice, as he is notoriously so stupid as to be incapable of sustained sensible utterances were it not for the great blessing afforded by secretaries. But since his name is signed to the following gems in the N. Y. Herald Tribune, the poor fellow will have to take the consequences: “It is not so much what the American business man has done for himself,” says Coolidge, in a long article heroizing the Business Man, “as what he has done for others. Wherever he has been really successful it is because he . . . has been more beneficial to the wage earners associated with him than to any other class.” ie Mr. Coolidge, being politically dead anyway, perhaps can afford to speak jocosely. But he need not expect any worker, surrounded by the capitalist demons of unemployment, wage cuts, speed-up, jails, lynchings, sedition charges, electric chairs for organizers, etc., to appreciate the joke. Any worker knows that the boss is his enemy. Neither, though Mr. Coolidge speak from the tomb, can we see why he wishes to attempt prophecy, unless it be to give a hand to Hoover, the “great business man” whom he inflicted upon the land as his political heir. Yet he adds that: “Even now in a time of considerable business recession . . . in all probability the country is preparing itself in a multiplicity of ways which we do not entirely perceive or understand, for another wave of economic advance.” Though the clam may become vocal, he remains cautious, as we note in the words “in all probability.” He keeps a hole to crawl through, in case that “wave of economic advance” don’t show up. But he remains a clam, and confesses the confusion and ignorance of all capitalist apologists in not “perceiving or understanding” their own capitalist system. Communists are not so uncertain. They both “perceive and under- stand” that the business recession is only well begun and that, barring war, which is not an “advance” at that, there is no “wave of economic advance” in prospect. Communists know that the crisis, that unemployment and star- vation is growing keener, that the bosses are the enemy of the work- ing class, which must fight or perish. And ee eepaaniets call on the workers to fight! girl office workers are eager for |organization. Those that managed AT MACEADDENS to get leaflets read them avidly. | Shop chairmen of the Office Workers’ Union will meet Wednes- day at 7:30 i m. NEW YORK.—Swooping down to stop the underpaid office workers, mostly girls, of the MacFadden Textile and Needle Publications Co. from taking the leaflets being distributed to them! Workers, Meet Today! by Kenneth Rutgers for the Office All members ‘of the National Tex- Workers Union, police, with the sid lat Workers Union and needle of company stools, arrested the |trades workers are urged to be at young worker. the N.T.W.I.U. headquarters, 131 W. ritebals without warnings, and work- jing under stifling conditions, the Receiving such low wages as $12 | 28th St., today, right after work, for to $20 weekly, with constant dis-|very special work. New Stock Exchange Crash Exposes } ‘CRISIS DEEPENS AS CAPITALISTS’ “Prosperity ity Is Back”) and Unemployment |Wall Street Alarmed Production and Prices Fall; Trade Lags | NEW YORK.—The blackest da: ‘this year in Wall Street. The er |now just beginning to hit harder, just after Hoover, saying that busi- ness would be better if tariff “un- lcertainty” were removed, declared |he would sign the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, the bottom dropped out of |the market again in wild selling that sent all stocks to new low levels for the year. Steel fell to 15814, |whole exchange groaned. while the It just 'touched 150 last October but went; up again. Now it is lingering low, reflecting the fall in production—a good barometer of general industry. | | In Pittsburgh, steel production fell 12.3 per cent from February to |May and still falling. It is 5 per |cent off this week in Chicago. World steel production is also falling. Commodity Prices Drop. Sharp declines occurred in cotton and grain, in fact all commodity | prices are falling, the Fisher Index | showing an average of 87, with 1926 jat 100. over from the last crop still unsold, jis filling the warehouses, and the |new crop is bigger than the last. |Meat prices are “breaking” say re- ports. “May Beef Slaughter Small- jest Since 1921, but Packers’ Coolers jAre Filled,” U. S. exports, upon | which hope was laid by the capital- \ists, fell $380,000,000 below last year in the first: four months of 1930. U. S. business is starting to feel the repercussion of European depression. Admit Deepening Cri With all this, the big capitalists began to unload yesterday in a wild selling that was more terrifying than last year’s panic. So long, says Jone capitalist paper, “as the strect | believed the declines to be the re- {sult of manipulation by professional speculators, it hoped for sharp re- coveries. The street today reached | |the conclusion that the selling was |far more important than bear raids.” Large accounts were liquidated Brokers were really alarmed. They called, not only for more margin from big traders, but demanded they come personally to Wall Street for “councils of war.” Great banks tried to stop the crash by centering all buying on U. S. Steel. But steel went down despite | this. The new and intense stock ox- change panic means a new and in- |tensified attack on the workers by more wage cuts, mass lay-offs, a more mad speeding up. ACCUSE COAST GUARD CREW. SCITUATE, Mass.—The Board of Enquiry which is investigating the crash of the liner Fairfax with the tanker Pinthis is attempting to by accusing the eoast guard crew of the crash. Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent. “REMEDIES” FAIL | With More Wage Cuts) The wheat surplus, carried | whitewash the officers of the boats | of not attempting to find the scene |} Mie, Fascist Fish ‘Red Probers” Swallow Any Putrid Lies Against the Militant Workers, Party District Conventions Unanimously Endorse Centra Committee Thesis and Line In the past few days the District Conventions of the Com- munist Party have been taking place all over the country in | meeting i in adison Square | Ganden:, N.Y. WORKERS ites RALLY FOR INDIA NEW YORK.—As of more and more a and more troops rushed by the Yow Donald government to kill Indian workers and peasants, the workers |of New York are getting ready to District Convention in April, and endorsed the political line and activities of the | Centrai Committee for the period news arrives «| International to the American Party in India, 929 in May, 1 Boston, rict No. 1, Convention Comrade Puro, for the Central Com- | mittee, and Comrade Kaplan, for the | show their solidarity with the In-| nictriet, Details of the convention | |dian rebels. The workers of this |; i : | city know the socialist party pretty | @ve not yet oa an ocialist Party Pretty | New York, District No. 2, Con- well by now. They have seen its | vention, with 155 delegates, en-| trade union officials in the needle, doysed the reports of Comrade | | gon Boe Shee neat Aca ne Hathaway, for the Central Commit- | ieee cpargrd mee? tee, and of Comrade Benjamin, for ing thugs to beat up workers, seen the District, after a two-day spir- ited discussion of all phases of Party work, which was characterized by |the most searching self-criticism While displaying a few remnants of a factional past, of which New York has been the storm center, the New York Convention was notable for its political unification, its struggle against opportunism and the enthusiastic rallying of the membership around the Comintern line. The convention was*addressed by a visiting delegation of French seamen, who brought greetings from the Communist Party of France, and who were greeted with a stormy (Continued on Page Three) its lawyers sect g¢ injunctions un- der which Katovis was shot, watched its many swindles of every sort, Comrades of MacDonald. So they are rot surprised to see American sociali hailing Donald as “comrade” and defending his rule of bloodshed in India. Tomorrow, at 8 p. m., Negro and white workers will attend a mass |meeting at 308 Lenox Ave., Har- lem, to show mass support of the Indian workers and peasants, The meeting is arranged by Section 4 of the New’ York District of the Communist Party. Among the speakers will be Richard B. Moore, Negro Communist Sac in the coming elections, and J. S. Maharof, | 569 Prospect Ave., Bronx, a Hindu. | On June 28 there will be a dem- There will be another, demonstration the same night at/sulate, 44 Whitehall St. | fourteen years” preparation for the Seventh National Convention which will) and especially Folsom, open in New York on Friday, June 20th, with a monster mass | rible reputation has vatantaouale approved of} tence.” the Theses of the Central Com-/ and Herrero were postponed, pend- mittee, submitted to the Party ing application for probation. since the Address of the Communist | We ] heard and endorsed the reports of | Valley. ‘Flaiani s 0) YEAR TERMS ‘Conference of ~ BIVEN EL CENTRO Zeta! Workers TUL ORGANIZERS ‘Greetings to Working Class’ Say Prisoners | in Last Message ‘Probation’ Defies to Stop Organizing BULLETIN. Daily Worker has re- a telegram from y, California, near El signed, “Defend- ants,” and stating: “Bail is denied. We are proceeding to prisons. Greetings to the Working Class.” Newark The ceived Brawley Centro, * 42 Year Sentences. EL CENTRO, Calif., June 16. Imperial Valley vegetable growe eager to crush the impending st in their canteloupe season, through the voice of the superior court judge in the criminal syndi-| calism case against 9 organizers here, and declared the savage and inhuman sentence of 42 years against Hariuchi, Sklar, Miller, Spector and Emery. Each is given “full sentence,” that is, “one to on each of three separate counts, making \tence of 3 to 42 years. |two are sent to Folsom, the rock | pile prison, r second timers. sent to San Quentin. Both prisons, have a hor- In addition, Roxas, another de- fendant, was sentenced on two counts, making a “2 to 28 year sen-| Sentences against Orosco An appeal is being taken. The prisoners’ only offense is that they were organizing the Imperial Val- ley workers into the Agricultural orkers’ Industrial League of the! ; Trade Union Unity League, to fight | | the long hours, low wages and bad housing and other conditions in the Communism was the main issue at the trial. The verdict intended to illegalize the Commu- nist Party and the T. U. U. L. “Probation” In Newark. NEWARK, June 16.—Judge Van Ripper tried the old “cat and mouse” trick on the three Commu- nists convicted here of sedition, be- cause they were organizing the un- employed. But he didn’t frighten them. Dom- inick Flaiani rose in open court when the judge placed him on two years’ probation, and, defying the judicial order that he could speak practical | ly through his attorney, stated: “You will not stop workers speak- ing by putting them on probation. The workers will overthrow this system of society, anyway. Flaiani finished his brief remarks as two bailiffs were throwing him out into the court room and into a seat. The judge then sentenced him to |ten days for contempt of court. Graham Sentence Suspended. Samuel D. similar, | onstration before the British con- | of sedition, was given the two years’ (Continued on Page Three) Wanted: More, Not Less Action! Here is something to think abo Many of you are doing lots of thin! is it? England, central organ of the Com just arrived. England had contributed the full paper going and growing. The Daily Worker of England forces that want to make war on t the working class in capitalist bon drop of blood, that are now prepari Henderson and belong on the same bench, they bot! talist country. Spies are the fascists and social fascists are workers came. are still coming to The first June issues of our brother organ, the Daily Worker of In a big streamer across the top of page one the editors announce that the goal set had heen reached, that the workers in that labor party ilk, have joined hands with the “opposite bench” to suppress the Daily Worker of England. They all “covering” our brother organ in England. of the revolutionary workers, the voice of the working class. ut! king. Here is something to act upon! If you do not act, what good raised $15,000 by June 1, despite the fact that a British worker gets only one-third to one-fourth the wages of an American worker. If you do not happen to know it, today is June 17 and we have munist Party of Great Britain, has giving their paper. $15,000 by June 1, to keep their collected a total of $11,000 for our fighting fund. sibilities we should have by this time collected between $45,000 and $60,000 as compared with the splendid support the British workers are In proportion to pos- You just can not say you are with us in the fight and then do nothing to enlist in the battle to save the Daily Worker. Behind locked also faces an attack by all the he Soviet Union, that want to keep age and exploit them to the last ing for a world war. MacDonald, lines, h work for the same king and capi- doors the sleek, sinister highjackers of the bosses are this moment conspiring against our paper, against you, against ‘the revolutionary movement. Their plots must be met by plans and action by all of us. By all of us, we said. By you who are this moment reading these Put your collection list to use. Go to the next meeting of your or any other workers’ organization and ask for a contribution. New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Rockford, af Calumet, Detroit. St. Paul, There also secretly plotting to choke the voice British They the rescue of their paper. speedy action in your city? These are not the only cities in the United States! Minneapolis, Boston, Chelsea, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh have held or are going to hold mass collections. How about Plans Struggle YOUNGSTOWN, 0., With great e: 16. husiasm and after June thorough discussion by the 127 de gates present, the Second Nationa M Workers Industrial Le ; conference tion and pr pted the main reso gram of struggle of conference. It was basiaclly the resolution submitted by the national |committee and national sec \tees as the fundamental form of | ganizatio. | near | dustrial erved ordinarily for | The other three are | 11919 steel strike. Levin, also convicted |said Overgaard, | j and |the old | Andrew Overgaard, and calls for in- Judge tensive organization work, buildin of the League in the Sse 28, ‘| with shop locals and shop comm leading of struggles pb: the wor correct strike strategy, a national convention in the future to establish a new in- union in this almost en- unorganized industry. tirely The delegates included 24 26 young workers, and two women The meeting opened ‘with singin: of “The Internationale.” A great ovation by delegates egroes, spectators welcomed the message the is ', of the committee of the 110.- conference from William demonstrators in March 6, and imprisoned unemployed New York, spoke] fo» three years for marching to lay their demands before the city gc ernment. Foster urged on the meia workers unity, organizational efforts and ceaseless recruiting of their strength in this period of diss unemployed workers. ers must fight, for the whi , dustry is racked by wage-cuts inten isfaction by the exnloited an Metal wo: peed- a real sen-iup and worsening conditions, all of The first | which lead to steadily more unem ployment. Foster is general secretary of thc Trade Union Unity League to whicit the M.W.LL. is affiliated. He was also the recognized leader of The convention unanimously elected him an honor ary member of the presidium (the | conference committee). Towards Most Exploited. John Schmies, assistant secretary the T.U.U.L. reported on the of present tasks of the revolutionar trade union movement, its form of organization and world wide con- nections, and on the necessity of the M.W.LL. turning towards the most exploited sections of the metal steel industry. The M.W.LL. must win over the rank and file of A.F.L. unions where they exist, and bring them under the leadership of the new revolutionary unions. An immediate task in the struggle against unemployment, and it must be based on organization inside and outside of the shops. Schmies emphasized the import ance of the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of T.abor Unions and the relation to it of the M.W.LL. The Auto Workers Union must} become the auto department of the! new industrial union. In telling of the boss terror, he| mentioned particularly the signifi-| cance of the presence of the South- ern delegation of six, including four Negroes. They are from Birming, ham, the first time in the history of the South that such a delegation hes been sent. They come despite the fact that in 1919 the Birming- ham chamber of commerce boasted | that no strike would take place in that steel center. “Today the situation has changed, “and no doubt in the coming steel strike, Birmingham will be one of the biggest centers.’ Elect to World Congress. The conference stressed the im-| portance of the R.I.L.U. congress. Schmies reported on the R.I.L,U., and the Metal Workers International Committee for Propaganda and Ac: tion. The conference elected delegates to the Fifth World Congress of the R.LL.U. They are: Edith Brisker, Baltimore; Ralph Hurley, Chicago; C. W. Carey, Negro, of Chattgnonga: Lee Meldon, Philadelphi avey was chairman of the National Cor ference of the Unemployed held re- cently in New york. Arthur Murphy, a worker in the Sharon Steel Hoop works at Farrel, | Va. was elected delegate to the International Negro Trade Union Conference, to be held July 1. MORE AIRPLANES FOR ARMY. WASHINGTON, — Contracts for new airplanes for the United States army amounting to about $6,000,000 have just been approved by Secre- tary of War Hurley. This is part of the “peace plans” States government. of the United | COMMUNIST CONVENTION WILL OPEN Ae Les aders Case in Court Today As Protest Is Planned Support Indian Masses 72 Unorganized Is Deepening Org Cri The opening of mal Convention of t Party of the U. S. den on which we w ill join ina lanta unec Yo N tl w < to the attacks of rnment 1 the bo: r 1 na he | on the unions, ubs and ions will ‘ y. They d to prepare banners and placards so that the demonstration ill show a ma rcter od Program. There will be a program pre. pared by the Labor Sports Union, the Freiheit Verein, the Workers Intern Relief Band nd other working cl ultural organizations. Ticket hi ecured in advance for 35 cents. | At the door they will cost 50 cents. Buy them at the District Office of the Communist Part 26 Union Square, New York City. Fight to organize the unemployed 1 the employed, fight to free the s war prisoners, fight against imperialism, American, British, or what not, rallying the workers ainst fascist atta , heralded by the Fish commit red hunt These are the high points of the mass demonstration During the da preceding the demonstration, there are attacks against the workers on each of these fronts, and the worke’ of New York are preparing action. Today in the Fourth Magis- trate’s District ¢ the cases of William Z. F r, Robert Minor, I el Amter, and Harold Raymond come up for the sixth time on charges of assault faked by one of the policemen onstration. These workers are held in prison, serving a three year term, although their appeal has been argued in the appellate division, and in normal circumstane they should be on at the March 6 dem- bail waiting a decision. Their three |year term was given them without trial by jury, on a charge of un- lawful assembly, because they were elected by 110,000 demonstrators in | Union Square to demand work or wages for the jobless from the capitalist class and the city gov- ernment. Thursday, the Atlanta cases come to trial. Yesterday 42 year sentences were flung at the Imperial Valley or- | ganizers. Yesterday three Newark sedition case defendants were sentenced. |'There are innumerable | being made to sentence ganizers to jail. attempts union or- The workers are rallying this week and next week in protest meetings in Harlem, and in demon- |stration before the British con- sulate, to support the masses of Indian workers and peasants in | their great strugg struggle | Mobilize for for Red Election Picnic {| NEW yORK.—All ganizations are being mob make the Red Election C Pienic to be held in Park on June 29, a tren | ces This affair must be ma Jof agitation among the shops. The leading ¢ jof the Com n i their openin: ‘election camps workers’ zed de a 1e worke hes in t