The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1930, Page 1

ef Less than two weeks left to July 4! Even the bosses now admit unemployment grows every day. Forward to the July 4-5 Unemployment Conven- tion in Chicago. J] ws matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. under the act ef March 3. 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VIL, No. 151 dally Poblishing ork City N. ¥. 21 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1930 and Bronx, New York National Mi ners’ Union Rallies All Forces tor Great Struggles Preparing for Struggle (COMMUNIST GALL Gyeat Ovation Greets HE Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is in i deliberations are of the utmost im- portance to the entire working cla: The 106-regular delegates, and the more than 160 delegates having a consultative vote repr: section of the country and ali important industries. Work ent from the steel and textile centers of the South, from the coal min- ing regions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, from the iron miming areas of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, from the heavy industries of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago, from the lumber camps of the far Northwest, from California and ‘Washington—in short this Seventh National Convention is the broadest and most representative convention which the C.P.U.S.A. has ever held. It meets at the moment of the development of the sharpest class struggle. The delegates, coming from the highly rationalized indus- tries, themselves subjected to the brutal and vicious speed-up system, and wage-cuts, and to intense suffering as a result of unemployment, reflect the growing spirit of the masses for struggle. The enthu- siasm of the delegates, the determination, fighting spirit and serious- ness shown in their speeches, reflect both the closer connection which the Party has established with the broad sections of the working masses, and the leading role which the Party must play in the class battles of this period. The reaction of the convention to the news of the strike of 16,000 anthracite coal miners graphically reflects the fighting spirit of the con- vention. A telegram was received from this front in the class war announc- ing that the persistant work carried on in the anthracite for months by the revolutionary National Miners Union and the organizers of our Party had borne fruit. Fifteen thousand miners struck, unable longer to stand the miserable conditions in the mines and the daily efforts of the bosses, with the aid of the Lewis strikebreaking machine of the U.M.W.A., to further worsen their conditions. This announcement in the convention was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm. The proposal of the presidium to send immediately five organizers into the field from among the convention delegates, to aid in the organization of the miners, the spreading of the strike, and the development of a broad, successful struggle against the coal operators and the fascist U.M.W.A leadership was unanimously adopted. This action of the convention indicates clearly the consciousness of the convention delegates of their independent leading role in the fight of the workers against wage cuts, unemployment, speed-up, and the efforts of the capitalists generally to force the workers to bear the burden of economic cri: Comrade Bedacht, reporting to the convention for the Central | The | Committee, established a perspective of sharper class struggles. development of the economic crisis in the United States and through- out the capitalist world, at a time when world capitalism is already fn the throes of a general crisis; the “¥evival of the revolutionary struggle of the workers and peasants in China against both their native oppressors and the foreign it.perialists, and the setting up Soviets over a wide area; the development of the revolutionary inde- pendence movement in India in which the Indian workers and peasants are to an increasing extent playing a leading role; the rapid growth of Socialism in the Soviet Union, as shown by the carrying through of the Five-Year plan for the industrialization of the country and the collectivization of agriculture and resulting in the liquidation of the kulaks and nepmen—the last inner class basis for the restoration of capitalism;—these new factors sharpening al! of contradictions -and antagonisms of the present period must inevitably lead to still more feverish preparations for imperialist war especially against the Soviet Union, to still sharper attacks against the working and living eonditions of the workers, and to still greater pressure on the coloniai masses. The toiling masses of both the imperialist and colonial coun- tries, already manifesting deep discontent and readiness to struggle, will be aroused to still sharper resistance and more determined strug- gles as a result of these developments. This was the main line of the Central Committee report. Starting from this perspective the keynote of the convention is the preparation of the Party for the fulfillment of its role as the or- ganizer and leader of the working class. Here the sharpest self- criticism of all our past mistakes and weaknesses is practised. The struggle against all opportunist conceptions and practices, both of the “right” and “left” variety, is intensified. The struggle against the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L. and the social fascists of the socialist party and the Muste group is put in the foreground. The building of the T.U.U.L. and the new revolutionary unions and the establishment and strengthening of Party nuclei in the basic and war industries is the principal task. new cadres for leadership in the emphasized. These are the major working National Convention of our Party. mittee and the discussion from the The bringing forth and training of | Party and revolutionary unions is ¢ . class problems before the Seventh The reports of the Central Com- floor already show that the conven- tion will seriously deal with and solve its many problems. The conven- tion is meeting in a period of struggles. The Party following this convention will be able to much more successfully step forward as the leader in these struggles. from these deliberations. The working class as a whole will benefit TO DEMONSTRATE FOR INDIA, SAT. Workers to March in Front of British Consuls Office Prepare Bombay Strike Simon CommissionPlan for More Autocracy BULLETIN. “Ultimate and unbounded Brit- ish authority, exercised through reserved,” says the capitalist press report on the proposed “new gov- second volume of the Simon re- port, made public today. The | changes suggested include the ex- tending of the franchise to more of the upper class of India, the complete repudiation of the par- liamentary system, establishment of a federal government in which the native princes, loyal to im- perialism, can have some slight voice, and division of the prov- | inces into smaller bodies, automa- tically increasing the power of the central government. It is a thor- | oughly reactionary proposition, and the labor party members of the commission signed it with the rest. | A general strike threatens in | Bombay. | * * * | The New York District of .the |Communist Party has called upon | the workers of New York to de- | monstrate their solidarity with the |rising of the Indian workers and jpeasants by demonstrating in |masses, Saturday, June 28, 2:30 p.m. before the British Consulate in | Whitehall Street. All workers or- ganizations are called upon to parti- cipate in this mass demonstration | for the complete independence of |India, against the British imperialist “labor” government, against Ghandi and the treacherous Indian bourgeo- jisie, for the agrarian revolution under the leadership of the indus- | trial workers, and for the complete ing’ependence of the Philippines, the | West Indian and other colonies of ‘gnerican imperialism. In calling is demonstration, the Communist arty points out that the interests of the American workers are inse- | parable from those of the revolu- tionary Indian toilers. | While representatives of the In- |dian bourgeoisie are preparing to jattend the betraying London Round |Table Conference arranged by the British imperialists for the coming October, British police continue to club demonstrating Indian workers. Wedgewood Benn, MacDonald’s “Socialistic” Secretary for India, |imperialist masters. Speaking be- fore the House of Commons yester- day, Benn said that the peasant “Red Shirt” movement on the North- the Viceroy in time of crisis, is | ernment for India” outlined in the | Burlak in New York NEW YORK.—Anna Burlak, 19-year-old organizer of the International Labor Defense, who is facing a death penalty on charges of insurrection in Atlanta, arrived at the Pennsylvania station yesterday morning from Atlanta, where she was re- leased Friday, on $4,000 bail, granted after she had been in Fulton Tower prison a month.¢ She was met at the Pennsyl- vania station by demonstrating workers under the leadership of the International Labor De- fense who greeted her with cheers and_ enthusiastic singing of the “In- ternationale.” She brought a ™" special greeting, from the remain-| ing five prisoners! to the Seventh Na- tional Communist Party Convention meeting at Irving) of their participation in unemploy- | ment meetings. “We must get them out!” she said. “And we will not be fright- ened away by terrorism from the | South and our task of organizing workers there, Negro and white to- \gether, against the intolerable work- jing conditions that prevail!” Parade Thro City With Burlak at their head, a par- ade was formed which marched, from the Pennsylvania Station through 28th Street, where they were cheered by memebers of the | Needle Trades Industrial Workers; |through 21st Street where the Food ne Workers Industrial Union and the haaaeBubleks Dinea, Independent Shoe Workers Union members leaned from windows and At the station, surrounded by en-| doors to add their shouts of wel- | thusiastic crowds, photographers, and | come; through 17th Street, past the [reporters from all the New York} local office of the Trade Union ress, Burlak made a ringing speech,| Unity League, and from there to greeting the workers on behalf of | Union Square. Additional workers |the other five prisoners also under | joined the parade all along the line threat of death sentence: Mary of March which ended at Irving Dalton, H. M. Powers, Joseph Carr, | Plaza. The Communist Party Con- Herbert Newton, and Henry Storey. | vention gave her the floor at once She told the gathering that the| and a great ovation. other five prisoners must also be| Plans are being drawn up. for a jreleased immediately. The Ku Klux | series of talks to bring her story | | se |the prison, and rumors are thick in| met in the South to the broad Atlanta of threats of lynching the | masses of workers in the North | six workers who were jailed because | and South, Burlak Greeted As 7th Party _Convention Hears Reports On Rooting Party in Shops NEW YORK.—Tremendous applause greeted the appear- ance of Anna Burlak at the Seventh National Convention of the | Communist Party, who has just been released on bail in At- \lanta, Georgia. The other five workers facing death in the electric chair are still imprisoned in the Fulton County jail. | They sent their greetings to’ oe | the convention through Com- SOLIDARITY DAY SATUR, JUNE 28 |rade Burlak. She told of the) |To Aid Struggles of the | daily demonstrations of the | Ku Klux Klan and other bosses’ | organizations against the impris- | oned workers because of their ac- tivity in organizing white and Ne- | gro workers, = . oe Klan of Atlanta has paraded before | of the arrests and the conditions she | continues to “out-imperialist” his | west Indian frontier is not supported | Party Cleansing. Following the report of the Cen- |for the Central Control Commission | (C.C.C.). | functions of the C. C. C. been de- fined and its work organized. Elected last year, the C. C. C. was faced with the following tasks: 1. Establishing rules of proce- | dure for itself and district control commissions. 2. Prompt and cor- | tral Committee, made by Comrade} | Bedacht, Comrade Dirba reported | Only recently have the; Jobless Fifteen thousand Pennsylvania miners are striking against unem- | ployment. And many more thou- | sands of workers of every trade are now in the midst of a great soli- | darity campaign to help the strug- gles of the miners and all unem- | ployed workers. This will reach its | high point this Saturday, June 28, |which has been set aside as Na- | tional Unemployed Solidarity Day. PLOYED CONVENTION © [POLICE SMASH MEET OF N. MU, AT OLD FORGE Another Thursday on Pittston Streets to Spread Strike \Cop Advises Sell Out Penowa Men Reject) Boss Offer of “Terms” .SCRANTON, Pa., June 23.—To- day, the first Monday of the strike of 15,000 anthracite coal miners against unemployment and bad con- ditions of work, finds. the whole United Mine Workers machine and the local police and state troopers united in the attempt to crush it. The National Miners Union is} sending more organizers into the} strike region, and following the dis- tribution there last week of 15,000 leaflets, continues its agitation. There will be a mass meeting, called | by the N.M.U., in the streets of | Pittston, the strike center, on Thurs: day. | Spread The Strike | The N. M. U. urges spreading of the strike, control of the strike by broad strike committees elected from | the strikers, and more demands | jthan just equalization of the work. | The miners correctly understand the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s scheme of shutting down part of the mines, throwing thousands out | to starve, and running its other mines, as a wage cutting trick. But the N.M.U, points out that the min- ers should also fight against the vicious contractor system that has (since it was started) sapped their strength in Pittston, and that the miners must struggle also for un- employment relief, paid for by t bosses’ state and distributed by the miners. The N.M.U. warns against the old ganster leader Cappellini, president of District 1 of the U.M.W. before the present Boylan clique got in. Cappellini is trying to re-enter the miners’ movement through an alli- ance with the grievance committee which called the strike over the heads of the Lewis-Boylan machine. | Cappellini based his strength on the | contractors, wiped out the militant local leaders and sold out the men just as badly as Boylan or Lewis. Police Attack Meeting The National Miners Union meet- ing called at Old Forge was broken up Sunday by the Burgess’ police. At Dunmore, the police, allied with the U.M.W.A. machine pre- vented Freeman Thompson, national |president of the N.M.U. from speak- ing. The police chief of Dunmore recommended to the miners that they take a secret ballot at the U.M.W. meeting on the question of strike. The Lewis men adopted-the proposal, for they are old hands at. counting ballots the way they want them to go, and a secret, ballot with | the Lewis gang in charge means a BUBStRIPTION RATES 86 @ year everywhere excepting Manbattan ce 3 Cents ‘ity and foreign countries. there $ a year, Pri CAPITALIST PRESS, COPS “DISCOVER” JOBLESS 10 MEET FROM DANZIG YARN Crazy Story With Mythical Names and “Mos- cow Gold” Based on July 4 Chicago Convention Milwaukee Elects Delegation; Coal Fields to Have Demonstration; Jobless Organize CHICAGO, Ill., June 2 At the same time the capitalist ss and Lieutenant Mike Mills of the police “industrial squad” -ver, unearth, and dig up through the means of a royalist stool-pigeon in Danzig, Germany, the fact that there is to be a great mass National Convention of Unemployment here, July NEGRO LYNCHED IN BEAUFORT I. L. D. Investigating; Workers Will Protest BEAUFORT, N. C., June 23.—A Negro worker whose name is at p' ent unknown was lynched here hy a gang of about 1,000 white men led by local business and landlord elements. This act of terrorism in- tended to choke out the protest of Negro and white workerg alike a the increased unemployment and general lowering of living standards of the workers, was based on the} usual alibi of “attacks on white women.” The crowd went out looking for a victim, and one Negro worker chased.into a corner,.cantured, and riddled with bullets and shot. sve LL.D. Investigates. NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense yesterday wired to its district organizer in Wi gation of the murder of a Negro in Beaufort, and to arrange for mass protegt demonstrations against lynching. National Miners Union rejected this | and stated that the miners are de- termined not to go back to work unless the wage cut is revoked and the old scale established. In addi- tion, %he miners demand a check weighman, recognition of the mine committee, a scale for dead work, etc. Dut. to the fact that the mine worked only two days a month, the pangs of hunger were felt the first day. The N.M.U. local has selected a committee of five to go into the Pittsburgh area and appeal for food °4 d ston | job. Salem, to make a thorough investi- s , word is received from many istricts throughout the coun- try that the workers of Amer- ica are sending big delegations to the convention. Whatever the necessity of the capitalist press and the police to pretend that this convention was a dark secret, and had to be found out through secret service channels, the millions of jobless in U.S.A. know enough about it to st a great campaign for Building Councils of the Unemployed and electing delega- tions to the convention. Delegates from Milwaukee. Reports are coming from Mil- waukee that a delega was chosen at th ~ y The Milwaukee has had distributed te it thousands of leaflets ing the workers posing the socialist fakers wh ‘ol the city administration there. The workers are being mobilized for the unem- ployed march. ‘Lhouss of posters are dis- played throughout the Illinois sec- tion. From Coal Fields The coal fields, too, are on the There will be a huge demon- ion July 2 in Springfield, the state capital, with del tions pres- ent from St. Louis and the many mining towns of the southern part of the state, In Peoria a Council of the Unem- ployed being organized among 1,500 workers laid off at one of the steel mills. In Lake County (steel center) and in Chicago itself 60,000 leaflets are being distributed now, especially among the Negro workers of the South Side in Chicago. The Negro workers and jobless are very ac- tive in building this movement. Distribution takes place at factory gates and in employment agencies. Strange Yarn. The Danzig revelations, which brought a comment from Police Lieutenant Mills, are very fanciful. They speak of “1,000,000 gold rubles sent by Moscow for a Com . ist drive in the United State: Prepare Convention teense ; ‘ é eu | evidently some white guard emi- pena ay joe hae | grees embroidery on the already ex- he national office of the National | pioded yarn of the former Police Miners Union, 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- | Commissioner Whalen of New York, burgh, has sent instructions to all | that $1,250,000 hag been sent to Fos- locals, committees and committees | ter for revolution in the United of action, and all sympathizers for | States” and they give a list of the speeding of preparations for the | names of seven supposed American great national miners convention to| Communists at a mythical confer- be held here July 26. |ence in Danzig—all the names be and funds, All workers must sup- port the striking Penowa miners. +s 4% from the outside, and that its red | rect handling of disciplinary cases. Unemployed Solidarity Day, which gallant) NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity League calls upon all: work- Committee of Actions Springing Up erg in the revolutionary trade NEW YORK.—Seething with dis- content under the double oppression | of the Zausner clique and the bosses attack upon them in form of speed up, ete. the painters are becoming aroused to the need for determined struggle. The Zausner clique anxious to get its fingers into the pie of Brindle’s Building Trades Council, were over- whelmingly voted down when a ref- erendum vote to affiliate was taken and lost by 6 to 1. It was then that Zausner got hig heavy batteries into position, with the general president issuing a ukase that affiliation is compulsory under penalty of revoca- tion of charters. At the Painters Council the vote for affiliation was 27 for and 23 against. The 27 rep- resented the miscellaneous locals, and do not represent the bulk of the membership. Three locals held meetings last Friday and elected committees of ac- tion to fight Zausner’s ukase, But in Local 261 and 1011 the commit- tees were appointed and packed by fake progressives, prominent Muste- \ unions, all workers supporting the Election Program of the Communist Party to rally at the Red election campaign rally and picnic at Pleas- ant Bay Park. This affair will be the actual opening of the campaign in New York City. The various | Communist Party candidates will | be present, to place before the work- ers in New York the issues in the present campaign. Preparations are going ahead full swing to make this affair a means of rallying thousands of workers to this affair. Demand the release of Fos- | ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. ites and “socialists” among them, whose platform is not struggle but carrying the issue into capitalist courts, However, the rank and file com- mittee of action elected by Local 905 has plunged into the campaign to fight the bosses agents in the paint- e13 union, to fight speed-up, and the great unemployment affecting vhe painters, | uniforms and Communist emblems directed.” This is a direct admission that the peasants are really in- spired by the achievements of the revolutionary masses in the Soviet Union, and that they intend to achieve the same results as their are “probably .imitative rather than | | of Party offices and institutions. | Since the Sixth Convention, the | 3. Financial control and improve- ments. 4. General investigations fight on the organized Right Wing was made, While the Lovestone (Continued on Page Three) is being conducted by the Workers’ International Relief and the Trade Union Unity Leegse, aims to unite all sections of the working class behind the struggles of the 8,000,000 unemployed werbers of this coun- try and to raise funds to finance and maintain the. great National -_* * Reject Company’s Terms PENOWA, Pa. June 23.—The 180 miners on strike here for over a week against a ten per cent open wage cut and a further reduction through swindling and trickery, re- fellow toilers in the Soviet Union. — iikihe’ 8! Tenlchen thee: eke Sina in Niagara Falls by the chamber of commerce, with the backing of the Associated Industries. Appren- tices will be taken at 16 and given a four-year training, SCAB TRAINING SCHOOLS. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y—A plan to manufacture skilled metal trades mechanics immune to the jected last Thursday the terms of- fered by the employers. The company proposed 50 cents | “yardage,” 4 cents an inch for thick slate, a bonus to the day men. Against Wage Cut The meeting of Local 105 of the Unemployed Convention in Chicago July 4. The thousands of delegates that will attend this historic, con- vention will be fed by the Workers’ International Relief, which has taken over the Ukrainian Labor Home as a feeding station, Our “Daily” Makes a Report | - A report is due to all Party members, our readers and all workers and organizations that have given support. What is most important, however, is to report to those who have not yet helped the Daily Worker out of its critical financial situation. oo . About $11,000 has been contributed to the $25,000 fighting fund which we said was an absolute minimum to keep our paper going, This $11,000 has enabled us to meet a number of our most pressing obliga- tions. Instead of facing danger from a dozen directions, we now have only six pressing, demands to meet—pressing demands because for quite a number of months our comrades in the field failed to support their paper. It is wrong to assume that because we have collected $11,000 toward our emergency fund that now all danger is at an end. At this very moment, while writing this and because we have not been able to re- establish credit as yet for the purchase of paper, we face an outlay of $600 with only $350 in the bank. This $600 must be in our hands for payment by 4 p. m. It is now 3 p. m. and we are hoping that the mails will bring in a sum of money from some comrades active some place to save the day for ur If we do not secure the $600 by 4 p. m. then there may be no Daily Worker tomorrow. This is how the situation concretely presents itself. And while we are from day to day facing these difficulties, comrades at the-national convention of our Party report to us that in one district the Daily Worker has only been considered one time by the Party district buro in the last seven weeks, and from another district we hear that the Daily Worker campaign lists upon which the Party members are to get donations and subscriptions, were only distributed to the members of the Party two weeks ago. We face the slow summer months of July, August and September. The additional $14,000 we still must secure to complete the $25,000 fight- ing fund is needed to meet payments upon pressing bills and to help carry us through these summer months. We face the “investigating” committee of the big busines. representatives at Washington, D. C., who, it is reported, will arrive in New York City in two weeks to invade our offices in an attack, Your answer is needed to our call for assistance, Your answer will organ, “The Militant Mine Worker” will appear before the convention, and that indications from the dis- | tricts are that there will be at least | 1,000 delegates at the convention. Tours are planned for all national organizers and board members, ad- ditional organizers are being put in- to the field, and all forces are being mobilized, not only for the conven- anthracite and western Pennsyl- vania, and Illinois, There are being distributed 150,000 calls for the con- vention, and 50,000 leaflets are be- ing distrbuted in the strike regions of Ohio, West Virginia and Penn- sylvania. Outside of the anthracite, whole areas are seething with re- volt against wage cuts, and spon- taneous strikes are breaking out daily. The wage cuts were forced upon the miners by the Standard Qil- controlled Consolidation Coal Co., Bethlehem Steel, United States Steel, Pittsburgh Terminal. In the Anth- racite coal regions the U.M.W.A. agreed, with the Pennsylvania Coal Co., to cut wages of its 15,000 min- ers,*In Illinois, Kansas, etc., the Peabody-controlled “re-organized” U.M.W.A. led by Farrington, Fish- wick,, Howat, permits the bosses to lower the standard of living by var- ious methods. Everywhere in the mining fields, wage cuts, unem- be given immediately van maka » finat atan taward going everywhere and collecting all you can Bier ee ployment end starvation are facing | the miners tion, but for the struggles in the) The letter states that the national | ing purely fictitious. * Foster Appeal Up. NEW YORK.—The next legal steps in the attempt to free Foster. Minor, Amter and Raymond, the leaders of the New York jobless. will be taken today when Attorney | Carol Weiss King appears before | Benjamin N. Cardoza, chief judge jot the New York state court of ap- peals. She will “ask leave” to file the appeal, which is a point Cardozz will personally decide. I£ he di- rects the appeal to be filed the case will come on the calendar for argu: ment in Albany in the autumn. Ii he refuses to hear the appeal be- fore this court, the next step is t appeal to the U. S. supreme court. FOOD UNIONISTS JAILED; 5 SHOPS ON STRIKE YET NEW YORK.—M. Teitelbaum, Brooklyn organizer of the Food Workers Industrial Union and two other workers were arrested on the Brighton Beach picket line yester- day, and are held on $500 bail. The exact charge is not known yet. The union has 5 shops on strike in this territory, and has recently settled, with union conditions, 17 Brighton Beach food shops. There is militant picketing, which will continue. Yesterday some of the bosses began to attack the pickets % 4