The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 1

Jobless Workers! Dare You Stand By and See the Bosses Dump Tons of Fresh Food Into the Rivers While You and Your Fam Are Slowly Starving? On to. the ional Convention of the Unemployed at Chi- e to Wrest | Starvation System! For ork or Wages.” | ily = Untered ae secon \ ) } class matter at the Bost Uffice at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of Marck 3, 1879, FINA L CITY EDITION Vol. VII., No. 14 a7 Union Square, The Comprouatty Publishing ork Clty, N.Y. ac YORK, THURSDAY, Biel 19, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Si SG u year everywhere excepting Ma’ nhattay _Price 3 Cent ts Chino All Hot and ‘Ratiered HERE is a police “shake up” in Chicago. Like Whalen of New York, Police Commissioner Ru the outer darkness, and with him his Deputy Slugger Stege. the unlamented. 1 is cast into of Workers, There is a great uproar. “Civic righteousnes head and doing other tricks to cover up the basic government, not merely this or that official of it, rotten. There is even suggestions for “a dictatorship,” and Dawes, whose famous “Plan” failed to work except to make him famous, is mentioned as the proper guy to be the Chicago counter-part of Mussolini. ’ is standing on its fact that capitalist It all came to a head over the murder of a reporter for the Chi- cago “Tribune,” whose specialty was making friends, through being chummy with the police, with the underworld, and writing up romantic yarns of the gangsters, which did nobody any harm and vastly thrilled the readers of the “Trib” with the pleasant illusion that the “brave police” were hot on the trail of the gangsters. Meanwhile, the only gangsters who got nabbed were those who refused to “come through,” or who bucked the “pig gangs” whom ¢he police kindly furnish with machine guns for special jobs and tenderly care for in general—for a genercus slice of underworld money. It is said that a gangster murdered the reporter. Stege denies it, saying that gangsters don’t kill in that way, and he ought to know as he is in the gang and served time in the “hig house,” as the peni- tentiary is affectionately known. Both in Chicago and New York the police scandal comes about as a stage in the development toward fascism. Whalen differed from Russell and Stege only in that he approached fascism from the silk- stocking angle, while they are creatures from the under-world. They find their common ground in the use of fascist violence against the workers, the workers who are driven to fight against the miseries being inflicted upon them by capitalist crisis and decay. Russell and Stege found that the struggles of the workers fur- nished them with a chance, by making a series of raids and savage at- tacks on the workers. to cover up the rottenness of the underworld and their own amalgamation with the gangsters. Whalen, alarmed at the fierce protest of the workers against unemployment, straightaway launched a fascist terror drive against the workers a little earlier and with more publicity than his bosses thought necessary. But they were both fascist attacks, betokening the growing erumbling of capitalist authority, the workers’ rising struggles and the “first swallows” of approaching fascism. This is not to say that Whalen, for all hisyOxford accent of calling a bath “a bawth,” was free from underworld filth. The underworld is ever more linked to capitalist government. He was put in office to “find the man” who killed Rothstein. Rather, he was put in to see that he wasn’t found. As he quit office an underworld woman who knew too much about Rothstein’s killer was found in the river, murdered. Whalen’s police “couldn’t find her,” but the gangsters did. Now the grafting Judge Vause is on trial, and a witness protests at being questioned: “Do you want to find my body in the river?” But while Whalen and Russell go, fascist development will pro- ceed; because the causes, the cracks opening in capitalist control of society continue, the workers continue to struggle. Though the Un- employed Committee of New York are held in prison and the Chicago workers prepare for further violence against them by the same under- world-police bloc. The only thing the workers can do is to continue and strengthen their struggle. They must fight wage cuts, unemployment, speed-up. To do so they must join the revolutionary unions of the T.U.U.L. in thousands. They cannot struggle unless led by the Communist Party. And against this fascism will throw other Whalens and Steges. Thus, we see that the workers are compelled not only to organize in masses to fight the bosses, but must organize a Workers Defense “Corps to fight fascist violence. “Certain Recent Developments” ANCELLATION of the Soviet Union’s two million dollar contract with the Glenn L. Martin Company for airplanes, has been an- nounced by the State Department in Washington. The action was taken by Joseph Cotton on behalf of his chief, Stimson, and the Hoover administration. This is the first official and open acknowledgement of the imper- ialist preparation for war against the Soviet Union. “Certain recent developments” is a vague enough phrase, but the items can easily be filled in by every worker. We list a few of them: A bomb planted in the Soviet Embassy in Warsaw. French provocation campaign on the notorious “Koutiepoff affair.” The pope's manifesto and the international church campaign against the Soviet Union, Freeing of the forgers of Soviet money by the German courts. Whalen’s forgeries, manufactured in New York. The Fish investigating committee. Now comes the official statement of the State Department of the United States that it considers the sale by American business men to the Soviet Union of anything that could be used for military purposes is against the interests of the United States government. Not even the wildest Fish or the most insane Father Walsh can persuade even the D. A. R. that there is danger of a Soviet military invasion of the United States. Therefore, the danger of war must arise from an imperialist attack against the Soviet Union, in which () the United States expects to be a participant. Workers must understand the meaning of this latest action of the Washington administration. -Our- answer must be to strengthen more than ever the revolution- ary trade unions and our struggle against the va tiacks on the workers. Our answer must be to mobilize ever lar lions in soli- darity with the Workers’ Government. ‘Expose the war-mongers of imperialism! Rally to the defense of the Soviet Union! Defeat all imperialist governments in the coming imperialist war by the: revolutionary action of the working class! Down with imperialism! A.N.L.C. Executive Meets Today; The enlarged executive of the| American Negro Labor Congress /will convene Friday morning at ‘9 a’clock at Lid Broadway, Foor Mya Ppa AD en oe ay er COMRADES — AND SYMPATHIZERS | All comrades and sympathizers | who play musical instruments and members of the W.I.R. Brass Band, should be at the Madison Square Garden meeting, at 7 » m. Friday night. ¢ \TO ALL |the jobless leaders are in prison. MULROONEY 10 FIX TERMS FOR JOBLESS LEADERS Whalen Head Cossack Is on Parole Board; Indefinite Delay No Appeal Decision iMeanwhile 4 in Jail; Workers Must Act NEW YORK.—Police sioner Mulrooney will |jury and sentencing judge against Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond whenever the parole board finally meets and determines sentences on |the four members of the Unem- ployed Delegation, who are now serving indeterminate sentences in three separate prisons. Commis- be witness, On March 6 Mulrooney was still Whalen’s field marshal, and Whalen used him as a star witness against the defendants. Now, by virtue of jhis new position, he automatically becomes one of the five voting mem- bers of the parole board which is to pass final sentence in these | cases. | Another Outrage. If it is still possible to be sur- prised at the lengths of indecency to which the courts of New York are prepared to go to insure class | justice against class war prisoners, | this is perhaps an occasion for such | surprise. For this blatantly denies the most fundamental of all the pre- tences made by capitalist courts which maintain that a judge is an impartial hearer of all evidence, for and against a prisoner. The whole procedure against the Unemployed Delegation shrieks aloud of class justice against the | leaders of the fight for work or wages. Conviction was pushed through in jless than one day. The men were held incommunicado. Lawyers fur- | nished by the International Labor Defense were at first not permitted to see any of the prisoners. They were held without bail, they were denied a jury trial and the trial which was held was flayed by even | the capitalist newspapers as a far- | cical procedure. Indefinite Delay. At the office of the parole board | the International Labor Defense has been informed that nobody kno’ when consideration of these cases will be taken up. The parole board, according to Secretary Minnick, has | 100 per cent more cases this year | than last; it is now two months be- hind in its work and will not hire additional assistance. Meanwhile | Tuesday the sixth postponement of the hearing on charges of felonious assault was made. This time until July 2. 4 The appeal on this case was ar- gued before the appellate division on June 3. The five judges who heard it immediately took up a new | case and gave no decision from that day to this. Now the rumor is that for some unexplained reason they will not decide until after the parole board fixes the sentence. Letters, telegrams and petitions should be sent to the parole board by everyone, demanding the imme- _ GARDE 42 Years For Organizi NEW YORK.—The national office of the Trade Union Unity League has issued the following statement |to all its affiliated unions and na- | tional leagues and to all district and focal T. U. U. L. secretaries: “Dear Comr: —The nation- wide economic crisis, the central part of the world crisis of capital- ism, is being used with ever greater | viciousness by the capitalists and | their government t+ put the whole | GIANT TRACTOR PLANT FINISHE The Associated Press reports jal completion of the great tractor plant at Stalingrad, with a capacity | for annual production of 50,000. tractors. This monumental achieve- | ment certainly marks an important step forward in the socialist con- | struction in the Soviet Union and the success of the Five-Year Plan. Comrade Stalin, in a message to the Soviet engineers who built the plant, tersely but effectively stated | the significance of the plant. He is | reported as saying: “The 50,000 tractors which we! must give the country every year, represent 50,000 shells which will | blow up the old bourgeoisie world and lay the foundation for a new | socialistic order in the villages.” The plant was constructed with American technical aid. The suc- cess of the plant also testifies to | the fact that, under proper prole- | diate release of Foster, Minor, Am- ter and Raymond. | tarian control and guidance from | the Soviet State, foreign technical Trade Union Unity League Masses All Forces Behind | j;any National Unemployed Meet STOCK CRASH 20,000 ARE | MASS MEETING TOMORROW : EXPECTED CONTINUES WHILE IN VAST DEMONSTRATION CRISIS SHARPENS Hopes of “Recovery”} Vanish Into Dim | Bosses Slash Wages Sharp Class Battles Face Workers | Spes : ‘Communist Election Campaign; FOR PRi Open Seventh Nato in Period of C alze The heavy stock crash of Monday By ELLIS ng Vegetable Workers. burden on the American working class. Unemployment is increasing. Seven or eight million workers have no jobs and cannot find any either in the industries or on the farms. The number of jobless workers grows daily, as those still employed are driven at a faster pace by the relentless speed-up. Factories, shops and mines close down. Farms are abandoned. Workers are turned (Continued on Ge ye WORKER VETS TO AALLY FOR 2TH At the last meeting of the} “Workers’ Ex-Servicemen League” it was unanimously decided to at-| tendythe mass demonstration and opening of the National Convention of the Communist Party in a body,! and to greet the convention through} a speaker. A special section has | been provided in Madison Square | Garden, for the use of the ex- servicemen, The W.E.S.L. will meet Friday, | 7 p.m, at 26 Union Square and will | then proceed to Madison Square |Garden. Regular meetings are held at 26 Union Square every 2nd and| 4th Friday of the month. Demand the release of Fos-! ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. aid can be successfully useg ir the upbuilding of Socialism in the Sov- iet Union. I |by a continuation of the drop and Tuesday showed no let-up Wed- nesday. As a matter of fact, prices fell as low as 5 to 30 points below the final quotations of Tuesday night. Wednesday’s crash brought some 500 stocks to new low price levels for the year. But it is significant that about 200 stocks actually |dropped below the prices reached | during the big crash last autumn. The heavy drop in stock prices is paralelled and heavily influenced in commodity prices. Sugar, wheat and copper recorded further de- clines. The continued stock crash smashes Hoover’s lie about the approaching end of the economic crisis. If the new crash, which is really the cul- mination of a series of heavy de- clines, is due to anything, it basically due to the continued de- jeline in production, to the fact that jall economic signs point to a con- | tinuation and deepening of the crisis. The present crash has wiped out “recovery” that the stock mar- ket may have made since the crash last autumn, and shows that this “recovery” was neither durably real nor in accord with the basic econ- omic conditions. The crash not only shows that the capitalists see no end as yet to the economic crisis, that capitalist economy in the! United States is not as basically | “sound” as they would like to be- lieve, but also that post-war cap- | italist “stabilization” was more of a “lick and a promise” than an en- during reality. The capitalists cannot imagine that their system is fundamentally unsound and they therefore view the present crash as exclusively an indication of a process of deflation of prices, hence as a healthy proce: of recovery rather than as an e pression of unhealthy and basic de- cay. The whole crash to them purely a readjustment of pric “readjustment” which is costly and painful, but one which they consider | essentially as a basis for the re- | establishment of “orderly and stable prosperity.” For the working class the imme- diate perspective is still more un- employment, a still more vicious wage-cutting offensive on the part of the bosses, an ever-mounting threat of imperialist war, and, with these, the necessity of organizing swiftly for the sharpest class bat- | tles against the bosses. Daily Worker Unit Reps Met Tonight A special meeting of all unit | land section Daily Worker repre-| sentatives will be held on to- / night, June 19, at 7 p. m., at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union) Square, Every unit must be) represented. ' a Food Rots While Jobless Starve Millions of workers’ and nationalities, are expected NEW YORK. seen night more ers, orranied and unorganized, ONERS RELEASE Communist Convention Crisis, War Danger, Revolt rs From Shops to Greet Convention and Unions in It han 20,000 work- representing many industries to rally at Madison Square Garden in a mighty demonstration that will mark the opening of the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party. | This convention is the most ‘significant in the history o the Party. It comes at a time when the tide of working class struggle is rising throughout the world, when 8,000,000 unem- ployed workers in the United States are looking to the Communist Par- ty for leadership, when revolt is seething in the mining, textile, metal, marine, agricultural, shoe, needle and many other industries. It comes at a time when in the two most important colonial countri in the world, China and Indi whose combined population is near- ly half the total population of the globe, heroic revolutionary strug- gles are in progress, shaking the very foundations of world imperial- ism. Support India, China Revolt. | “Support the Chinese and Indian Revolutions! will be one of the great rallying cries of tomorrow night’s meeting. This militant dem- onstration will ‘express the un- breakable solidarity of the Ameri- | can workers with the glorious struggles of the Chinese and Indian masses to free themselves from im- perialist oppression and their native | exploiters. The demonstration will also mark another step in the struggle against unemployment which is being led by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. It will be a preliminary mass mobilization for the big National Unemployed Convention in Chicago July 4 and 20,000 voices will thunder the de- mand for the immediate release of the leaders of the New York March 6 demonstration, Foster, Minor, Am- ter and Raymond, of the six At- lanta prisoners now facing the elec- tric chair, of the organizers of the agricultural workers in Ca and of all class war prisone Speakers From Shops. Tomorrow night’s rally will make | a departure from all previous mass meetings in that there will be one) leading speaker representing the} Communist Party, all the other| speakers being rank and file work- ers from shop and factories. These speakers will bring greetings to the | Party convention and will express | the determination of the workers they represent to fight under the leadership of the Party and to sup- | port its program in the coming) ® | elections. | Trade unions, clubs workers’ organizations and other are now rallying their members, as well as/ unorganized workers, to demon- strate in a body at Madison Square Garden, 49th St. and Eighth Ave., with their banners and placards. program of vivid proletarian enter- tainment will te provided by the | {Labor Sports Union,,Freiheit Ges- angs Verein end Workers Interna-| » jtional Relief Band, Tickets are only 35 cents in advance; 50 cents at the door. They are on sale at the district office of the Party, 26 Union Square, N. Y. C. Needle Workers In It. The great mass meeting of needle | | trades workers, meeting at the ca! of their industrial union yesterday |there are two million | hot ai al | request to testify secretly. FASCIST ATTACK ON DAILY WORKER WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18. A magnifying glass was placed over Daily Worker in an open the Fish Anti-Communist tigation” toda the session of Inve nf Communist activity and ence were discussed by Walter Steele, the general manager of the “red- baiting” paper, the “National Re- public,” and Mr. Burton, att for the hysterical ladies of the “Daughters of the American Revo- | lution.” agreed that mpathizers of the Communist Party in the U. S., and from thirteen to fifteen thou- sand members of the Pa who are, these anti-reds say, organizers directing other organizations. Congressman Bachman of West Virginia repeatedly demanded facts the Committee could use, but both witnesses offered only “red-baiting” They are strangers to facts, in fact enemies of facts. A lengthy discussion took place These two worthies on how to stop all Communist pro- paganda and outlaw the Communist Party, the revolutio ‘y trade un- ions, the liberal organizations and any and all who may agree with the Communists on any point. Burton quoted Trots state- ment of some years ago calling for the overthrow of government. Bach- man agreed with the “red-baiters” that there ought to be a federal law “to reach a man who made state- ments like that.” The necessity of the b for a law to “reach” radicals who don’t speak their views but “get them over,” was stressed It was also clearly the viewpoint of the Committee that Communist papers and all papers which support Communists on any point, should be deprived of the use of the mails, and that there should be more de- | portations by making “stronger” deportation laws. Congressman Nelson started a discussion on whether the motives |of Communist leaders were selfish, | the gabble over this boiling down to Burton’s position, which is that Communist leaders’ acts are caused by their revolutionary principles | which are dictated by selfish reasons handed down in some way like here- city—whatever that means. | After unsubstantiated charges | from Burton that the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation is the financial source of Communist propaganda, Bachman stated that there was no evidence of this yet, and he though | that the Amtorg would be the last | organization for Russia to work | through for propaganda. The Committee requested a Mrs Walker, the D.A.R. “red expert” to | appear tomorrow at an open sessio1 | | with her attorney, following her Evident- is afraid to she the “expert” dame tell publicly what nonsense Two million pounds of food was carted away to the New York City dumps last week. Nearly 250,000 pounds of string beans, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, cucumbers and corn are being thrown away to rot every day of the week. < Cauliflower, carrots, lima beans, canteloupes, honeydew melons, watermelons, strawberries, plums, cherries, huckleberries, raspberries, blackberries are beginning to flood the market. If this produce can not be sold at a profit, it will also be carted away to the city dumps. Seven iillion unemployed workers are walking the streets, a million in New York state, hundreds of thousan \ r To them no job means starvation for their fami Hundreds of tons of this produce comes from the South, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, where tens of thousands of work- ers’ families are on the borderline of actual famine. Here is capitalism, pictured in all its shame, brutality and vicious- ne! Let the millions of unemployed workers’ families starve, let additional millions of families go undernourished, capitalist business must have its profits, high prices must prevail. families never even get a smell of cherries or berries and do not even know what a honeydew melon looks like. Tens of thousands of south- ern workers are suffering and dying of Pellagra while this food, just the kind that would cure them, is being shipped to the North from the South, rotting at the rate of a thousand tons a week on the New York City garbage dumps. Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and hundreds of other leaders of the working class lie in jails for demanding work or wages and social insurance fort the unemployed, because they expose these crimes of the boss class and their politicians, You were informed in the Daily Worker yesterday that on July 8th the White House bosses’ committee would move to New York City to begin the actual attack against your paper. It is because the Daily Worker exposes capitalism as a monster that starves, kills and mu- tilates the masses of workers, that we are being attacked. We must be fortified for this attack which begins July 8th. That is why our $25,000 fighting fund must be completed by July Ist. Thai is why we so earnestly call upyn you to help much and help quickly, in Cooper Union voted to call all} needle workcre. employed and un- employed, to attend the Madison; Square meeting in a body, Needle |Trades shops will organize for | group participation in the demon- | stration, and there will be speakers | from these shops. Textile Workers Call. The Textile Workers’ Industrial Union is distributing widely among the workers in New York knitting mills and other textile factories a leaflet pointing out that unemploy- | ment and low pay, hours as high! }as 9 or 10 for those who work for a $12 to $15 a week wage and hun- | ger and starvation for thousands in [the industry, demand that textile th atanaeare —eenstow UNE CHUTE CHULLESE SYSLeEM. spreads secretly. workers shoul take part Friday. | The leaflet reminds them that their |elected delegates to lay demands for | work or wages before New York | City officials are in and |that the National Tey Union Georgia organ Dalton, is held with five other or ganizers in Atlanta jail, to be elec- trocuted if the bosses have th way, just because she was organ- izing workers to fight the system. | “The textile workers will march Jin line with other workers to Madi- son Square Garden.” says the leaf- | let