The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1930, Page 1

ae New battalions of of jobless as workers are joining the army auto factories, steel mills, coal mines, railroads, etc., either shut down en- | tirely or cut down their operations. On + to the July 4 Conference of Unem- | ployed in Chicago! ished daily except Sund mpany, Ine, Vol. VI Vil., No. 1 149 jay by ‘he Comprodaily New York City, N. Tammany Court Denies Ai Appeal of Jobless Leaders; Unemployed Drive O Lessons in Hypocrisy (APITALIST, politicians expect workers to forget what they said y of State Stimson left New York for the London he made a speech, telling the world at large that tates government generally, would stand for “no no secret intrigue,” “no political alliances.” Let us pass over the fact that, no sooner did he arrive in London, than at his request the Five-Power Conference hid itself in impen- etrable secrecy and conducted its discussions after the fashion of a gang of bank robbers who have failed to pay for protection from the police, At the end, a treaty. No “disarmament,” of course, as only fools expected such an outcome, but a “treaty.” ‘There is nothing in it he Soviet Union. But we look back to the New York World of 28, and see its correspondent at London writing that: “arms Conference, he, and the ‘United secret diplomacy, the Soviet Plays an Invisible Role at Arms | Meet; Silent tives Powers to Peace Alliance: All workers have learned from the last imperialist war what these ialist bandits mean when they talk about an alliance for “peace.” Now the “treaty” is before the°U. S. Senate for ratification. And | list senators, who for their own schemes want to annoy the dominant clique of their own class, have asked for all the documents passed between the U. S. government and the other four imperialist k governments, because they know, as everybody knows who is not a ninny, that these contain the real treaty. But after making Hoover | and Stimson a little bother just to get something for themselves, the “opposition” in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee quit, as every- body knew they would But in the fake ht” Secretary Stimson “forgot” all about his ‘no secret diplomacy” and came out with a letter to the Senate Com- mittee, telling them to go to the devil, that it is “necessary” to have secret diplomacy, that the documents “contained nothing,” but that he would refuse to let them be read even in secret session of the com- mittee. Hoover said the same, only it is to be noted that both Stimson | and Hoover said that letters from other imperialist powers often con- tained things about “another country” which if published would not only “betray the confidence” of the country writing the letter, but would “cause bitterness” by this “other coyntry.” The Communists, the Daily Worker, repeatedly said that the only thing agreed on at London was preparation for war against the Soviet Union. . Now, not only do we say so, but Hoover has furnished the proof. . _In the forbidding of an American airplane company to sell planes and build an airplane factory in the Soviet Union, Hoover has admitted in so many words that the U. S. government is allied with other im- perialist powers in preparation for war against the Soviet Union. What else can such action mean, especially taken with Hoover's words that it is done in view of “certain recent developments.” With good reason the Soviet press, according to cable reports, state that not only is the United States facing the worst economic crisis in its history, but that this crisis increases “the danger of a new war among the imperialist countries, and especially against the Soviet union.” The liars and warmakers aré at work, and the American working class must not be caught asleep or off guard. It must defend the Soviet Union as it organizes in the shops to repel the capitalist attack against wages and living standards, which go hand in hand with war on the Workers’ Republic. It is none too soon to begin now the organization of International Red Day, against imperialist war on August 1. | GERMAN FASCIST DECLARE STRIKE RULE NEARING OF 15,000 MINERS Socialist Involved in Fight Unemployment, | New Workers Betrayal) Defy U.M.W. Chiefs (Wireless By Tnprecnn) SCRANTON, Pa., June ,20.—The| BERLIN, June 20.—The Wetam ‘general grievance committee of the Abend a_ popular miners in the Pennsylvania Coal evening paper of Berlin, reveale lompany collieries declared a strike secret discussions between the com-| today of 15,000 snen. This strike is mander of the Reichswehr (the, completely in defiance of the United German arnty) and the minister of Mine Workers of America national the Reichswehr, at which plans and district instructors that the men were worked out to organize mili-| are to wait and negotiate, and char- tary action in support of the in-| ters of the locals on strike will |\Dema |March 6 unemployed demonstration | eral secretary, | League; dustrial bosses in the coming labor struggles. Military reinforcements have already been tly sent to the Rhine-Ruhr district in prepara- tion for the coming eventualities. * GERMAN CABIN BERLIN, June 20,—-Yesterday evening President Hindenburg ac cepted the resignation of the min- ister of finance, Moldenhauer, and entrusted Chancellor Bruening with the temporary conduct of national finances. The socialists are carrying on ne- gotiations behind the scenes with the object of forming a new coali- tion government, in which they are, to participate. A witness present at the secret conference reports that the socialists are prepared. to make any sacrifices of the workers’ interests provided they can reach an agreement to be included in the new coalition government. Berliner Tageblatt, the organ of; the big industrial bosses, bate pt hia Party Convention Saturday, June 21! | | The Second Session of the | | \ Seventh National Convention of | the Communist Party will be held | feitertad Pasa, (sth St: and trv. || ing Ph, on Saturday morning, | \. June 21 at 10 a. m, sharp. Only + members of the Party with their | membership cards will be ad- mitted. ' probably be lifted. The chairman of the general grievance committee agrees with the program of the National Miners ‘ion, though there is some con- fusion as to how to carry it into effect. National Miners Union leaf- lets calling for miners to strike for the six-hour day and five-day week and other demands were distributed today. They call a mass meeting of miners at Old Forge, Sunday. : The company has been closing down whole collieries, while keeping the others running. Meanwhile the U.M.W. officials order the men to take no action against this starva- tion and wage-cut policy. The bosses are making a new slave contract with the officials to take effect after September 1. The men de- man equalization of the work, to! avoid starving them into lower wages and worse conditions pit by | pit. Demand the release of Fos- *! ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-| mond,-in prison for fighting for unemployment insurancé, that the secret negotiations between (the bosses and the socialist-con-| trolled trade unions is proceeding “satisfactorily” because the social- ists are showing an intelligent ap- ;preciation of the difficulties with which the industries are faced and have consequently made consider- able concessions to the bosses. ——— PREPARE GREAT CONVENTION AS JAIL HOLDS FOUR ‘Work or ‘Wawes’ Fight} for Which They Serve, Will i Go On | d Their Release. Appeal To Be Be Carried | to Higher Court | NEW YORK.—Five Tammany Hall judges of the Appellate Divi-! sion of the Supreme Court yesterday handed own a decision denying a! new trial to the four leaders of the now serving three year prison terms Tor “unlawful assembly.” Under this ruling the four mili- tant leaders, who led the March 5) demonstration which was attended | by 110,000 workers must continue in | prison without a new trial or being | admitted to bail, as fas as this court| is concerned. | They are William Z. Foster, gen-| Trade Union Unity Robert Minor, editor, the} Daily Worker; Israel Amter, Di trict O:ganizer, Communist Party, | and Harry Raymond, an unemplo) seaman and member of the Marin>/ Workers Industrial Union. } The five Tammany judges who brought in the decision are John V. McAvoy, Edgar S. K. Merrell,, McCoy.” Francis Martin, James O’Malley and! jan abominable crime! {Henry L. Sherman. The International Labor Dares announced last night that an at-) tempt will be made to appeal to the state court of Appeals in Albany, which it pointed out does not even | have to consider the case unless it) so desires. “That's Class Justice” “The higher courts again ravedl| the vicious nature of the capitalist class justice that intends to keep the | leaders of the unemployed in prison} for three years,” declared Engdahl. general secretary of the I.L.D. “The higher courts have affirmed the jail- ing of the delegation, holding Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten without bail.” The four now in jail, and Joe Lesten, a fifth member elected w the others at the great demonstra tion of 110,000 in Union Square, rch 6, come up for trial on anoth- CHICAGO, Ill, June 20.—The ,| ture, at Springfield, July 2, two | days before the great National Con- | vention on unempioyment in Chi- cago, will be the occasion of a dem- onstration of out of work and em- ployed miners and others of Spring- field, as the state capitol building. They will demand of the legislature that the great wealthy corporations of the state be taxed to pr ovide un- i , y ce for its hun- charge, assaulting a lic i employment insurance Sy ee Poeem®?) dreds of thousands of starving EN ea ee eager aati workers. They will demand that the Whe fonless “worker qwidicleede etre eon eh aa eee for immediate relief, both relief and | insurance to be administered by the workers and Councils of the Unem- ployed. them, and hundreds of thousands | more all over the country are organ- | izing their forces for the National Unemployment Convention, July 4 and 5 in Chicago. A whole series of city conferences with delegates from Unemployed “ouncils, and from workers’ organizations, is being held Organizers Sent In Chicago; itself, there .are ten | functioning Councils of the Unem- ployed, conducting an active cam- this week and next. paign. Steps have been taken to Everywhere there are thousands organize in the industrial towns of leaflets being distributed, mass|"earby. Organizer Bechtold has been sent to Indianapolis. Joe Dal- lett is sent to Lake County, where the big steel center of Gary with its thousands of exploited speeded or jobless workers. The Gary Confer- ence is June 29. Chicago workers are demanding the use of Union Park, near the his- toric Haymarket scene, for a mass demonstration on unemployment. meetings held, demonstrations in city parks and before the seats of government, all presenting the de- mands of work or wages, unemploy- ment relief and insurance to be paid for by the government and admin- istered by the workers, and for the seven-hour day and five-day week, no speed-up, etc. These are the de- mands which Foster, Minor, Ray- mond, Amter and Lesten were dele- gated by the Union Square 110,000 to present to the Tammany govern- ment, and for which they are serv- ing the three years. of the associations of the place, and at all times against allowing the un- have denied it. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! win the square. | opening of the Illinois state legisla- | The city authorities, filled with fear | jone ass matter at the Post Office at “THE PROOF AT LAST!” After fishing for “evidence” against Communism through | yor! piles of capitalist fairy tales, the Fish has found the “real March The Communists actually Unite the Workers! What Jobless to Demonstrate When Illinois Legislature Opens; All Build July 4 Convention»: sitios: as New York. N. ¥., ander the act of March 3. 1879, SUBSCRIPTION RA and Brovx, OF CARL MACKLEY Seab Killer r Acquitted Masses Are Angry Musteites Supporters | of Vare Gang | PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— Open, brutal murder of strikers as a sup- plement to injunctions was offi- cially approved by the local repub- lican machine and courts, when after a rawly fascist trial Will- iam Pfieffer, Aberle scab and gun- man, who shot and killed Carl Mackley, a strike sympathizer and member of the American Federa- tion of Full. Fashion Hosiery Workers, was acquitted several weeks ago. Mackley, whose activi' a young worker of 23, in the Aberle strike here won n the confidence and regard of the workers and the ha- |tred of the bosses, was singled out by the latter for death. Egged on by the bosses and confident that Ene Jall would be “fixed,” three scabs and } gunmen, including Pfeiffer, shot —By FRED ELLIS |and killed Mackley and seriously | wounded two other young hosiery Zimmerman and Cooper, A fussilade of 20 shots swept the car of the hosiery work- ers when the gunmen following them | approached from the rear in their {cary r The jury composed of busine: |men, acquitted Pfeiffer after delib- erating 1 hour and 15 minutes. So raw was the boss verdict of “not guilty,” despite the mass of incon- troverible evidence and eye-wit- ses (including the two wounded workers themselves), testi- wave of spontaneous protest swept the entire Kensington mill section here, Conference Sunday 1 5 . f « f _ | The Role of the Hosiery Fakers The conference on unemployment, | which has been called by the Unem- | * Throughout the Musteite officia ployed Council of Greater New York, |0f the American Federation of Full will be held Sunday morning, 10 Fas hioned Hosiery Workers have | o'clock, at 18 W. 17th Street. It |tacitly condoned the murder of jot the T.U.U.L. for 50,000 new mem- employed to call attention to the delegates should inform the miseries capitalism inflicts on them, of the Unemployed Council tennant But the jobless and jately, as the time is ‘short. militant workers are determined to funds to local-office to feed the dele- | Mackley and the murder methods of of n the will consis delegates f shops, unemployed councils, indus-| the bosses in their attempt to crush trial unions, leagues and fraternal |the hosiery workers. But so great organizations of workers represent- s the mass anger of the textile ing employed and unemployed work-|#nd other workers. in Philadelphia ers. \t hat the fakers were forced to pay Plans for the building of a mass |Per{unctory lip-service to the mass organization of the unemployed ng, while stabbing in the mass action against the bo: their courts. When at the MacPhe bers will be mapped out and the|neral of Mackley, at which 25,0 final preparations for the sending | 40,000 worke attended, the United workers in unity with the employed | workers as part of the general drive of a large delegation to the Mz Textile Workers’ fakers, McMahon National Unemployment Convention |and others spoke, it was to soften in Chicago, July 4 and 5. the anger of the They |preached of the “evils” of “men” The following unions and unem-| 4° the need to turn “the cheek” ployed sonnel vies cirdiatd elected | vhen hurt and so on. But feeling their delegates to Chicago, marine, : Paes ieee jaiticetevbarahiethe pildiie (ee ee one omens \throngs they eluctantly allowed a trades workers have called a mass } nA arpie aera pledge to be submitted and read.| meeting for the purpose today. The |7.4 workers pledged themselves to Needle Trades are holding three |iake ‘the place of Mackley in the mass meetings in different parts of } fight against the bosses and the the city to elect delegates and meet: militancy that he stood for |ings are being arranged by the shee oe enue tia Oeticinle eh’ the and leather workers, textile, metal,| 4 nerican Federation of Full Fash- building maintenance and office ion Workers have been staunch sup- porters of the Var chine, on republican war and city commit- tees. During the life of the in, handed down by Judge McD workers. Delegates to Chicago are going by trucks, autos and hitch-hikin; in a position to secure trucks or autos for the unemployed office Rush | to restrain the workers from r | violation and breaking of this strike- gates. breaking weapon of the bo: Advice from a Canada Worker “I note the general drive for new subscribers, also the pressing, immediate need for a sustaining fund. Surely, absolutely the most important thing of all, from coast to coast, is to keep the Daily on the map. It combines the duty of an educator, giving the correct lead, ‘ with a clarion call to battle in each and every issue. “As a worker who has followed its growth since those Januray days in Chic&go and at times helped increase its range, even when de- nied the use of its pages (due to the stone wall set up by Lovestone’s - leadership against self-criticism), 1 can assure you now it is a real joy each day to open. But this is done and now any worker with burning injustice rankling within him, always of interest to the toiling mass, can get the ear of our Daily to broadcast his wrongs, the country wide, and catch the eye and react on the feelings of our class as in no other way. “Then just why is it hard up? Seems to me most of the active comrades are concentrating on some special branch of the movement to the extent that they are just a bit into the rut of taking the appear- ance of the Daily Worker as a matter of course and leaving its worries to its full time workers, few in number. This must not be, let us leap out on the high ground and look straight at facts. What, that is worth while, have we got from the Daily the past year, let each reader put that to himself. Form a good habit by making it a daily pleasure of carrying some in the: pocket for constant sale and use when chance occurs. No more of leaving piles of them in the room (as I haye seen from Boston to Seattle). Get them into the factories, the homes, the street cars and then watch the Daily Worker draw workers nearer to us. So for the first time let us put this drive for the Daily over a hundred per cent and better, using the lever of revolutionary competi- tion. This will raise our morale and lead to a higher stage of activity.” FILLMORE, Vancouver, B. C., Canada, L. = New York City # Fakers Preach Peace! republican ma- | Today hosiery men still sit | (Vare henchman) the officials tried | s FINA r everywhere excepting ™ countries, there $5 FROM NEW “ClTY EDITION hattan year. n to July 4 HOSIERY FAKERS “CONTINUE THE FIGHT” CONDONE KILLING SAYS LETTER | aay D> WRITTEN ig PRISON by Businessmen’sJury;| Great Throng Cheers Madison § Seventh National Cont vention | of Prisoners on Pres Thaelmann; Browder ered in Madison Square. class war prisoners in “socialist” | NEW YORK. \capitalist court which yesterda \the N. Y. Unemployed Committee to three years of | mendous cheering greeted the dium With Stalin | NEW YORK.—It was estimated last night bef was present that there were between 10,000 Greetings were r Parties in Germany, Mexico and Cuba. Valley prisoners sent up for 42 years for organizir * * * As response to the class ven }and Raymond from prison to the Seventh National Conve * Reports STIN. and ad from the 000 wor Communist Greetings were read also from Milwaukee from the Imperial ng vegetable workers. ay affirmed the letter of Foster, Minor, A of the Communist Party as it Pen at Madison Square Garden last night. The huge throng grew silent listening to the words from be- hind penitentiary walls of the leaders of the 110,000 Union Square demonstrating workers of March 6, addressed to the meet- ing and to the Communist Party. It read, in full, as follows: Letter from Prisoners. greetings Seventh ‘to the Conven- meeting and the tion of our Party. “American capitalism has sunk into a morass 0! economic cri This means for the workers, 8,- 600,000 unemployed, hunger, wage slashes, w®rsening conditions. World capitalism has forced .000,000 to go without work and suffer misery and starvation. It feverishly prepares for a new war. At the same time, the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are building up socialism and thereby dealing a mortal blow at the capitalist system. “This achievement of the Rus- sian workers and peasants under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union is an inspiration to the workers and peasants the world over and they will defend the Soviet Union against all its enemii “The Chinese Soviet Republic ing in the East, and the Indian revolution, together with the re- volutionary upsurge in Indo- China, Haiti, Nicaragua, the Phi- lippines, South Africa, show the colonial peoples in struggle against world imperialism. “The workers in the industrial countries are gathering their for- ces against world reaction—the imperialist pOwers, aided by the fas , social-fascists and rene- | Bades. “All these struggles are taking place under the banner and !ead- ership of the World Party of Le- nin, the Communist International. “The workers of the United States will continue the fight be- vun with such tremendous force on March 6 and May 1 and, under the leadership of our Party, ‘vill go forward to the final struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Work- ers and Farmers Government in the United States. “We call on all workers in pathy with the ,rogram of the Party to join its ranks and fight for the realization of its aims.” Hono: Absent Fighters. Central C.mmittee, as Chairman c* | the meeting, declared the Conven- |tion oper., and called for the election ot an Honorary Presidium in tribute |to leaders of Communism absent overseas or in the capitalist prisons. The following were elected: Stalin, Molotov, Kuusinen, of the Soviet | | Union; Thaelmann of Germany; Pollitt of England; Foster, Minor, Raymond and Amter, in New York prisons; Newton (Negro) and Pow- | ers, facing the electrie chair in At-| ‘Janta, Georgia, for organizing South- | ern workers. Loud cheers greeted the parade jinto and through the auditorium. | | The Young Communist League, the Young Pioneers of America, th Japanese, Chinese and Latin Amer- ican sections, the workers’ frater- nal organizations, like Internationai Labor Defense, Workers Interna tional Relief, and others, and the iilitant industrial unions: food, | needle, shoe, n wine and gathers, were ‘ord, Negro member of the | |NEEDLE WORKERS PICK DELEGATES 'Representative of Jeb Many Meetings Be NEW YORK Th Worker: a series of r \wates for th ment Conver and 5 will be elected, employe ganization of and unen: ployed workers in New York pushed along. All workers are , invited, whether organized or unorganized. There will be three open forums , at which the unemy nised. The: Sunda ; ment question will be are: |288 East Broadway at 11 a. m. with B. Kaplan as speaker; Cr a Park, 1 p. m.; Claremont at 1 p.m Monday at 11 a. m. tt are three meetings of men’s clothing workers: Irving Plaza Hall, Man- jhattan; Royal Palace, 16 Manha \tan Ave., Brookl 105 Thatford | Ave., Brownsville. in line, each with special placards | and banners. | After the parade marched, and the | workers in it took seats, the lights and went off, above the speake: stand, presiding: over the whole ga- thering, appeared an illuminated picture of Lenin, with a great red star over "The Ww and st flaunted slo- gans il the Seventh Conven- tion of the Communist Party of U. S. A.,” “Read and Build the Daily | Worker, Which ghts for You,’ “Hail the Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union—Hail the Five- ar Plan,” “Fight Imperialist War |__Defend the Soviet Union,” “Long Live the Communist International,” \“All Join the Communist Election Campaign,” “Build the Revolution- ary Unions,” “Work or Wages for |the Unemployed.” The main speaker, Earl R. Brow- jder, in the name of the Central Committee, reported to the assemb- led workers, stressing the meaning of the Communist Party Convention to workers not yet members of the Party. Following this report, there were a series of four minute speeches of greetings to the Convention; led by a representative of the New York District, then six workers, some of them not members of the Commun- ist Party, greeted the Convention in the name of their shopmates. Two Negro workers, Lewis, a steel worker |from Birmingham, Ala., and Com- rade Amis of Chicago, saluted the Convention in the name of gro proletariat. Jorge Vivo, a Latin- American worker; Comrade Mo, a Shines worker, and Comrade Esaki, }a Japanese member of the Seattle delegation; and a Young Pioneer, all lgave greetings to the Communist Party Convention. Chairman Ford answered all greetings in the name of the Convention, A feature of the opening was the | ovation given the greetings from |the Communist Parties of other jlands. The business sessions of the Con- vention opening this morning, will |see in attendance, 102 regular dele- gates, 64 alternate delegates, two \fraternal delegates from the Com- st Party of Canada, and a large yumber of consultative members, making up a wo body of some |306. Of the 102 ar delegates, (12 are Negro workers.