The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 5

' | | 1 . ee DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY. MDONALDGOVERNMENT SHIPSMOREARMAMENTS TO FIGHT INDIAN MASSES Maintain Armed Force of 350,000 to Shoot Indian Workers Gemmunists Call on Workers to Prevent War| Material Shipments . LONDON (By Mail).—The ships which were being loaded in the Royal Albert Dock, London, with aeroplane parts for India sailed. More war material of all sorts is continually arriving at the docks, and a constant stream of instru- ments for the slaughter of the masses is being directed across the seas by the “labor” government. Efforts were made by a small group of comrades to secure action in this matter. The ships were vis- ited and leaflets distributed to the dockers and seamen, but only under the closest vigilance of a large force of uniformed and plain-clothes po- lice. The “labor” government is most closely guarding its war ac- tivities from the workers, but this must be overcome. This is the task which lies to the | Use German Wage Cuts to Justify That the cut in steel, iron and other producers’ commodity prices recently initiated by the German ci wide wage cut with the help of the “Socialist” trade-union officials | means an international price war was admitted in an editorial of yes- | ers, women and children included, hands of all British workers who de- sire to aid the Indian masses, who are now engaged in a revolutionary struggle for independence, but are practically unarmed against the rifles, artillery¥*armored cars and aeroplanes of the imperialist “labor” government. This government maintains armed forces of over 350,000 in India, to say nothing of over 190,000 police. | It is rapidly mechanizing the forces —bringing armorea cars, tanks, armored trains, etc., into more and more widespread use. A special armored car has been introduced. It is equipped with six whesls for traveling over rough country and wireless transmitting JAIL SECRETARY "FOR LEAFLET ON ~ GARTER MURDER | Gandhi Wasatiations | With Ruler Proven There has just arrived a copy of a leaflet printed by Abul Hamil, secretary of the Workers and Pea- sants Party of Bengal, and signed by the party, in protest at the murder of six carters and wound- ing of about a hundred more on April 1. The carters struck in Cal- cutta against British regulations in-| tended to hamper them and throw business to capitalistic trucking compunies. They were shot down on Harrison Road, which they had barricaded with their overturned carts. Hamil was given a month’s rigorous imprisonment for issuing the leaflet. It says in part: | “British imperialism has again | shown the way it is going to deal | with the toiling masses of India. | The streets of Calcutta have again | } | INDIAN WORKER PEASANT PARTY CALLS FOR GENERAL DAYTON SECTION IS ORGANIZED FOR ACTION| | DAYTON, Ohio—For the first| time in District Six of the Commun- ist Party a section convention was held in the section of Columbus,| Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati. Here a section committee was el- ected and plans for future activity were made to build the Party and the Trade Union Unity League in| ; this section. Most of the delegates/go to jail. The bo: were new members and great en-| thusiasm was shown, and determin- ation to root the Party in the chem-| ical plants and among the colored | workers, as well as organizing shop! nuclei in other industries. | It was definitely decided to make} the section headquarters in Dayton as the center of the section. In Dayton the Communist Party is new and we have only in the last two or three months organized the Party and brought the message of Com- munism to the colored and white workers, The response is shown |}: the: organization of the Party, ar by already establishing a permaneni headquarters, The headquarters in Dayton, for) the Communist Party, is situated at) 108% S. Jefferson St., right in the} oe ann és oe Masses All Its Forces Mass Protest Forces for Chi. Convention leries Palace. Austrian emperor of Mexico, shot by s (Continued From Page One.) out on the street to beg, starve or s at the same time try to maintain and increase the amount of production per worker. “More work with less workers” is the slogan of the bosses and their agents. “Millions of workers have only part-time jobs. The bosses bind them to their machines with ropes of hunger and demand full-time out- put for part-time wages. Millions of workers and their families are on the verge of starvation. The cist and social fascist leadership of the American’ Federation of Labor oin the bosses and their government n the fight on the unemployed and the rest of the working class. Mat- thew Woll, the vice-president of the A. F. of L., called on the police to suppress the March 6 demonstra- tion. President Green of the A. F. been reddened with the blood of In- | dian workers. What Concern! | “Workers and citizens of Calcutta, how many more lessons do you need? British imperialism pretends | that it is “protecting the buffaloes” Cuts Here (buffaloes pull the carts.—Ed.) British imperialism and the British jute mill owners recently increased the working hours of the jute work- and receiving apparatus. All this apparatus of slaughter is being continually replenished. apitalists on the basis of a nation- | heart of the city. The Hall will be|of L. promised Hoover that the used as a workers center, and we/ expect to hold regular classes, read-| ing circles and make the workers} of Dayton feel it is their headquar-| ters. On Saturday June 28, will be the first opening, or “housewarm-) ing.” Everyone is invited, white and! colored workers, to celebrate the opening of the first Communist! headquarters in Dayton. workers would not ask for any wage increases. Elect Convention Delegates. “Our struggle against unemploy- ment is at the same time our task for the building up of our militant revolutionary unions. The struggle against unemploy- ment cannot be separated from the struggle against the war plans of TUL, PREPARES BAIL SET ON SIX aeasin sor | ME 1867—Maximilian, 1 —Berlin revolutionis National C mmittee to | Court, AFL Action | unemployed beat president of cen- | Prepare Convention —— | tral labor council and demanded ATLANTA, Ga., June 18.—The| ‘sharing of work. 1925—Mass ar- | YOUNGSTOWD court has set bail for the six or- ganizers held here with intent to} electrocute them for organizing Ne-| gro and white workers. Since Mon-! day the International Labor Defense | attorneys have been fighting for a} reduction and continues the strug- gle. The bail, fixed after many de- rests and executions of reyolution- ists at Hankow, China. thousand Indian seamen struck. NEGRO YOUT | FIGHT JIM CROV Metal he \ the 1927—Ten lays and every attempt to not allow! Copference In Cleveland And Dance | unior them bail at all, is $10,000 each for} M. H. Powers, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Joe Carr, organizer. ginning of April. Neebo uaa! gress will hold a conference agains The court demands $4,000 each ten ease en eeotne con: at ton, district secretary of the Nes cme Pe iinet he I tional Textile Workers Union, and). broad campaign against race dis- aa Newman, representative of/ -imination and the segregation of ide American Negro Labor Con- For Henry Storey, Atlanta ro worker, the bail fixed is} $1,000. The last four have been| |in Fulton Towers jail since they were arrested for calling an A.N. L.C. meeting of Negro and white workers, May 21. Local friends have raised the bail! money for Burlak. | The trials, which were to begin| tomorrow, seem to have been post-| | young Negro workers For Negro And White Workers CLEVELAND, Oh Young Communist League district | On Saturday, June They have been in jail,! ers 5 t Carr in the death cell, since the be-| Scovill Av., the Youth Comm jthe American Negro Labor C¢ , dune 18 the Work- | ¢ 38th Unity Center, n the city of It will also begin a cz Cleveland. paign against the miserable conditions throughout the Negro section. Many representatives from youth organizations have been in- vited to take part in this conference. | During March of this yea white and colored workers beaten, jailed and fined because they | 2” demanded that colored workers be |, b; using | the outh asis terday’s New York Evening Post, a finance-capitalist paper. This editorial is an expression of a terrible uneasiness among the American imperialists which has been making itself heard since the announcement of the German cuts. “The threat of cheaper goods made in Germany,” the Post says, “is important to American trade.” There is another angle which must be mentioned in this connection, and that is the fact that the American capitalists are already using the German wage cuts as an excuse to further intensify and justify their wage-cutting campaign in this country. Thus while international rivalries between the imperialist powers pile wp and intensify as a result of the scramble to get out of the economic crisis, an interna- tonal offensive against the wage standards of those workers still em- ployed is being waged by the capitalists of the world. The economic crisis is rapidly’ increasing and piling up the forces of a new im- perialist war, and at the same time it is sharpening the class struggle within each capitalist country. Join Communists A delegation of three social dem- ocratic workers and a woman mem- ber of the social democratic party appeared at the conference and read Desert Socialists; BERLIN (LP.S.).—On Saturday and Sunday the district conference of the Communist Party for Lower ‘from 54 hours to 60, and at the | same time decreased their wages. Jute workers are dying from starv- ation, misery and terrible conditions lof life. Boys and girls are dying ‘by the hundreds in the jute indus- jtry. British imperialism exploits | and starves the workers and pea- sants of India. Is it not clear, | therefore, that it is sheer hypocrisy | of “humanitarian” British imperial- | ism when it speaks of protection of buffaloes? “Workers of Calcutta! The. strug- gle for Independence is spreading all over the country. In every part | of the country workers have begun to take energetic part and lead the struggle. The congress leaders like Gandhi, Nehru, etc., are trying to | avoid the mass struggle on a coun- try wide scale and are trying to | prevent active revolution of the In- | dian toiling masses. | Shows Up Gandhi. Saxony took place in Hannover. Amidst storms of applause two so- cial democratic workers with mem- bership books showing 30 and 25 years in the social democratic party of Germany gave up their member- ship books to the presidium of the eOnference and expressed their wish to be accepted as members of the Communist Party. an appeal to all social democratic 3 " workers to leave the social aan hook here in_Caleutta.,» Wiles cratic party and join the Communist | 2% the congress leaders doing to Party, as years of experience had °'Sanize the struggle of workers shown that the workers had noth-| 494 Peasants? Are they willing jing but treachery to expect from |‘? Organize a general strike in the jute industry against British im- |the social democratic party, whilst | aoe ena: the Communist Party led the strug- | P¢tialism? Are they willing to help gle of the working class for eman- | ‘© organize a general strike on In- cipation. dian railways and thus give a “ crushing blow to British imperial- ism? Are they willing to appeal to the bosses, which are directed prin- cipally against the Soviet Union, the only country in the world where the living standards of the working class are getting better, where the building of socialism is made pos- GANG POLITICS, BOSS POLITICS City Council Crooks Investigate Selves class overthrew capitalism and set up a workers’ government. “All local unions, shop commit- tees, revolutionary opposition within the A. F. of L., as well as the un- employed councils, must immedi- CHICAGO, June 18.—The police) ately make the necessary organiza- shake-up over the gangland murder | tional preparations for the election of the supposed “Tribune” reporter, | and the sending of mass delegates to Alfred J. Lingle, is grist to the mill) the July 4 and 5 National Unem- i fs yor | affiliated organizations of the T. U. Thompson’s administration (which) yy p. must immediately increase is true), apparently thinking that) noir work. New York is so far away that people) «411 local organizations must im- forget they ite Mods minsitine ob arate | mediately call special meetings and and gangsterism is run by the Tam- dake up at these meetings the or- many democrats. ganizational arrangement for send- The irony of the situation here, of| ing the delegates to the convention. sible by the fact that the working | given service in Cleveland restau , lants. Some of these workers will WORE Ae AOE | speak at the conference. All work-, It is generally understood here| ers are invited to attend both the that the authorities are worried over| conference and the Interracial the mass protest, and the volume | dance, | of denunciation and flood of solu- tions from workers’ meetings and organizations that have poured in on them since the arrests. It is undoubtedly this mass pressure alone that has caused them even to fix bail at this late date. poned, | IMPORTANT NOTICE The “Shop Paper Editor” now available at the District Agitprop | office. All unit Agitprop directors and shOp paper editors are requested | "Reflecting the rising tide of pro-|{® Call for them immediately. Penne | test sweeping into Atlanta, the At- a im lanta Federation of Trades has! prosecuting attorney and judge are aa adopted a resolution meekly asking trying by fair means or foul to (oe | for freedom of speech and assem- bly, and “fair play” for the six jailed Communists. But they have {created no machinery with which to enforce such a demand, nor can they be looked to for any genuine action in the situation, merely mak- ing the usual gesture of a request |for a “fair trial” from the lynch | burn them in the chair. Louis P. Marquardt, Secretary of | the Georgia State Federation of! Labor, is also a special prosecutor | in the office of the Solicitor Gen- eral who is demanding the death | penalty for the six workers. Mar- | quardt opposed the resolution, and, | not daring to speak against it open- orga the pr drew elected se the Over Invade 1 confe s hele delegates w decided to concen the concl ted a Re n, in line with d. An- mously e League by South. southern 1 ie nich it Geneva Disarmament Meet Again Delayed The preparatory disarmament commission at Geneva was originally scheduled to meet this summer. Later it was compelled to postpone till November. Now, the contradic- tions between the imperialist pow- ers have been sharpened to such an extent that the imperialists dare not stage another conference in the near future. Hence the per- sistent reports that the date will have to be postponed again. Intensified conflicts between | America and Great Britain, between | France and Italy, are rapidly ma- |turing. Hastened by the economic crisis and colonial revolts, world events are now moving fast. The imperialist powers are busily build- ling armaments and preparing for the coming conflict. The postpone- |ment of the Geneva conference is the logical outcome of the increased tempo of imperialist conflicts. London Confab Intensifies Conflicts The intensification of imperialist contradictions since the London Naval Conference about two months ago is admitted by the London Correspondent of the New York Times who, in a despatch dated June 14, says in part: “It is likely that neither Pre- imier MacDonald nor Secretary of State Stimson» would admit the London Conference left Italy and France further apart instead of bringing them into a friendly un- derstanding. Yet there are objec- tive observers who see clearly that the relations between the two sis- ter Latin countries are worse after the conference than they were before.” Fascists Shoot Down PRAGUE (LP.S.).—Severe colli- sions occurred in the industrial town of Rumburk, a few miles from the Saxon frontier, yesterday between workers and the police. A demon- stration organized by the Commu- nist Party took place despite a po- lice prohibition, The police tried to disperse the workers, and hand Concert and sanquet For the Party Fund CHICAGO.—A concert and ban- quet is being arranged by the Dis- trict Committee of the Communist Party for Saturday, June 28, at People’s Auditorium. The admission to the affair is 25 cents. The pro- ceeds will be used for the building of the Party in District 8. LL.D. to Celebrate Winning of Banner CHICAGO.—The Sacco-Vanzetti branch of the I. L. D. is arranging a banquet for Sunday, June 29, at the Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., at 4 p. m. to celebrate the winning of a banner in the Labor Defender subscription drive. Tickets in ad- vance 50 cents, at the door 60 cents. Prague Communists to hand fighting occurred, during the course of which a number of persons were injured. The authori- ties spread the lie that the police were fired upon by the demonstra- tors. No police were injured with bullet wounds, however. There is great excitement and indignation amongst the working population of Rumburk against the police action. Chicago Negro Meeting Success CHICAGO.—The first of a series of open air meetings organized by the Communist Party in Sections 4 and 5 was successfully held on June 12 at Maplewood Ave. near Lake St. Several Party speakers, a large audience of workers mostly Negroes dealing principally with wave of lynching and terrorism in the south- ern states and pointing out that the liberation of the Negro people was a part of a general struggle against American imperialism which can only be successfully con- cluded by the joint efforts of the Negro and white toiling masses un. der the leadership of the Communist Party. Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent. | the peasants of Bengal to stop pay- jing rent to the zamindars and the | British government and take con- |trol of the land in their hands? Nothing of the kind. The congress leaders in Bengal as elsewhere are afraid of a genuine mass revolu- tionary struggle and stand in fact for small bourgeois reforms and nothing else. “Workers of Bengal! You must take the lead of the struggle in your own hands and organize gen- eral strike against British imper- ialism.” “Bread, Land and Power.” Then follows an appeal to the honest nationalists and the students to support the workers, and the leaflet ends with these slogans: “Long live immediate general strike. “Build strike committees in mills, workshops and colleges. “Demonstrate against imperialist terror. “Raise the banner of struggle for freedom, bread, land and power. “Long live the workers and pea- sants republic. “Down with the vacillation of the congress leaders. “Long live the revolution of the Indian toiling masses.” * 2 «© Treachery Progressing. LONDON, June 18. — George Slocombe, “unofficial ambassador of MacDonald” has cabled the Daily Worker confirming the report that a British agent, Sir Prabhasankar Pattani is in conference with Gand- hi over the details of his proposed attempt to call off the indepen- dence movement—as far as he still has any influence with the move- ment. There is every reason to believe that this act by Gandhi, for which he has already one precedent, has been delayed thus far only because it would expose Gandhi hopelessly to the Indian masses. Slocombe ex- plains that with the rainy season on, the government believes the movement is weakened, and that Gandhi, “in response to a generous gesture, including amnesty,” will agree to try to stop the movement. It is reported that 17 cultivators in a village near Delhi have been arrested for refusing to pay taxes. Reports show the land tax strike and boycott of British goods spreading rapidly through India, Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-| mond, in prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance. | capitalism “investigating” itself, is one feature of the police scandal The City Council, the Central Com mittee, so to speak, of the under- world-police machine of crime and corruption, is primping up its robe: of righteousness to “investigate the| Police Department;” while a grand| jury, under the guidance of some of ; the expert legal lights of gangland | (on the quiet of course) are beating tom-toms for an “investigation” “to ers inside and outside the basic in-| given a fair trial. seek the truth” of the alleged con- nection between crime and politics!| must be given to the election of|and the judge will see that this is| It turns out that the “Trib” ye-!large delegations of Negro work- | done.” When everybody knows the All expenses to and from the | convention must be arranged by the | porter who was murdered, was lined | up with the gang of “Scar-Face’| Al Capone, and that the “Trib’s”| loud howls for vengeance is directed | at the “Moran gang” who likely did the job. If the underworld were actually wiped out—a thing thai cannot be done under capitalism— | but if, by some miracle the under-| world would vanish, the whole capi- talist political machine would be) shaken, and the capitalist papers; along with it, since the daily papers | are all a part of one or another capi-| talist political clique or party. Workers cannot expect any such miracle, nor expect the capital- ist papers to be “clean” of capitalist- police-underworld control. What the Support Solidarity Day. j law courts of Georgia. “All local organizations are in- structed to co-operate and give ac- tive support to the Workers’ Inter-} opening sentences in the editorial national Relief, which is conducting | in the Atlanta “Journal of Labor” the Unemployment Solidarity Day|in which the resolution is also} Union meeting reject the resolution. | i for the purpose of raising finances | printed. A.F.L. Grand Juror. | for the delegates at the July 4 and | “We hope that the misguided The President of the Federation, | 5 convention. youths known as Communists who “We must especially concentrate | are soon to face trial at the court upon the semi and unskilled work-| house for inciting to riot will be ly, did everything possible to cause A. Steve Nance, was secretary. of| an organizatio! “We Are Sure.” | its defeat. He appealed to the fear 2 Their attitude is clear from the| of all the old bugaboos of race! ™ingham and ( | prejudice, religion, foreigners, Com-| Send one or two org: | munism, in his efforts to have the|S0uth within the ne dustries. And special attention ers. respective local organizations. The housing and the feeding of the dele- gates will be taken care of by the T. U. U. L. and W. I. R. national office. “This must be taken as final in- structions and no other arrange- ments will be accepted. Therefore, let’s get on the job and increase tenfold our activity for July 4 and 5. “Employed workers! Demand and fight for work or wages—for main- |tenance at full wages for all job- less workers. “Fight for the 7-hour day and 5-day week without reduction in pay. “Join the industrial unions of the workers should do is to build up|T. U. U. L. Strike against all wage- their own papers, such as the Daily Worker. cuts and against the speed-up. “Fight against imperialist war. the grand jury which returned in- dictments against Mary Dalton, And we are] Ann Burlak, Herbert Newto: ; sure that the prosecuting attorney| Henry Storey. Only now rised to remark that he | | against the indictment. | | | | : Write About Your Conditions Defend the Soviet Union—the| for The Daily Worker. Become a |fatherland of the world’s working | Worker Correspondent, | class. | “Support the candidates of the FARM IN THE PINE! 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