The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1930, Page 1

‘VER 1,250,000 WORKERS ON MARCH 6 FOUGHT FOR “WORK OR WAGES”; BF. de. Scene of the brutal beatings in the N. Y. March 6 demonstration when 110,000 demanded “Work or Wages!” Unemployment Grows, Admits the Fed- eral Reserve Bank, Tens of Thousands Are Being Thrown on the Streets. On With the Fight for “Work or Wages.” Mobilize fur the Un- employed Convention in Chi- cago, July 4-5! 2 Many of these Negro workers will come to the Chicago Jobless Convention. | Greenville, S. C., on March 6. z | Thousands of jobless listen to Pat Devine in Pittsburgh, March 6, in the tremendous “Work or Wage” demonstration! | ON TO CHICAGO JULY 4, 5. Police beating some of the 100 000 Detroit March 6 fighters, FINAL CITY EDI TION Company 2 plished daily except Sunduy by Union he Comprodaily Vablishing New York City, N.Y. ar I | -* A Flock of Swallows :JT TAKES more than one swallow to make a summer, says the old adage. The preparations for war against the Soviet Union are coming thick and fast. We will not here recite all-of them which we have referred to before, such as the recent prohibition by Hoover of a con- tract for air-planes to be bought by the Soviet Union from an Amer- Jean firm. No, as the delegates are gathering for the Congress of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, a flurry of lies appears in the cap- italist press. Some Russian czarist ew » according ta a Berlin dispatch, report that “secret meetings” were held between American Communists and “agents of Moscow” at Danzig. one knows. It is also said that huge sums ($500,000) is to be given by some Santa Claus for “propaganda in America.” A number of “American Communists” are named, names which nobody ever heard of before in this or any other Communist Part: is doing their stuff at Danzig and starting to America. The Russian white guards have even had Chicago on July 4, a fact the Daily Worker has been shouting in head- lines for months. They are wise fellows, these white guards! In the N. ¥. Times another wise guy, who is anonymously spoken of as an | “expert” on “Moscow Gold,” sagely observes that the Berlin white guards ‘plate the figure too high. According to this jackass, the sum to be given for Communists in “Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia” is not $500,000 but only $125,000. We feel cheated a bit, but then we would sell the claim to that $125,000 for $12.50 spot cash. The fact is, that the czarist emigres and their “socialist” collabo- rators have been pained because their hopes of counter-revolution have gone awry. They based these hopes on the kulak, and the kulak is fading out as socialization of agriculture advances triumphantly. This causes these white guard outbursts of “discoveries” of im- “revealing” the great Unemployed Convention to be held in Chicago on July 4, a convention that must mark the-start of real and wide organization of the unemployed and the recruiting of members for the Trade Union Unity League. As to funds for propaganda. serve thé purpose of any propagandist against capiti It is clear that this new crop of fairy tales are dangerous. It is clear they are released just at this moment when reports of victorious socialist construction are being made at the Congress of the Commu- nist Party of the Soviet Union, to offset this favorable news, to pro- vide new weapons for the capitalist attack against the workers here in the United States, and as further preparations for war against the Soviet Union. One swallow don’t make a summer, but the swallows are coming in flocks now. And it is up to all workers, everywhere, to understand that their defense of the Soviet Union is a defense of their own in- terests, literally, and to organize in their own shops to defend their own interests is the first step in the organization of the working class against war. Is Your Campaign List Busy? We address this especially to all Daily Worker readers and all members of the Communist Party. We issued 20,000 Daily Worker contribution and subscription lists. Many who received these campaign lists did put them to use at once, went to shops, workers’ meetings, workers’ homes and collected for our fighting fund. i However, most of our readers and Party members have not yet responded. The campaign list we sent them lies tucked away at home, or in their pockets, and to now they have not approached a single work- er or workers’ organization for a contribution. Today we appeal to you to take your campaign list out of hiding, take it to the workers, show it to them, talk to them about the Daily Worker, show them a copy of the Daily Worker, prove to them that our paper is their paper, that it fights for them, that they must fight for it. Party members have been called upon to report to their Party units at once. If the 20,000 readers and Party members to whom we sent cam- paign lists would each send in $5 for contributions and subscriptions secured, we would raise a fund totalling $100,000. 4 ‘All we asked from you was a fund of $25,000. We wanted this amount quickly. We still need it, not next month, but right now. For this reason we earnestly request you to put your campaign list to use right now, today. ‘ Youngstown Branch 76 of the Inter- Youngstown, 0., TLD {pationai Labor Defense on Sunday, Picnic on June 29th |sune 29 at Meridan Rd. at the end oe of the Mahoning Ave. car line. A Hoover “prosperity” is enough to ism. A i Why at Danzig, no | the brilliance to “discover” that a meeting 1s going to be held in | aginary meetings of mythical persons, and their marvelous acumen in | IBROACH ORDERS ‘WAGE SLASH FOR ELECTRICIANS \Members of Local 3) | Told, “Work for Less Than the Scale” 15,000 Were Excluded T.U.U.L. Has Program| of Real Demands | By JACK TAYLOR. | NEW YORK.—Conditions of the members of Local No. 3 Interna- | tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are constantly growing worse. Out of a | ditions on the job are unbearable. Business agents refuse to enforce union rules. Speed-up upon the workers to the limit. Groups of workers are fired from | their jobs daily. Building trades workers of other crafts, carpenters, painters, layers, plumbers, etc., suffer from | the same conditions that confront the electrical workers. Due to the A. F, of L. policy of | “the industry first and not the | union” which means “the bosses | (Continued on Page Two) TAUSNER GANG | ISSUES UKASE gard of the expressed wishes of the | membership, the Zausner machine \in the Painters’ Union, through iti general executive board, has arbi- | trarily decided on affiliation to the Building Trades Council of the fas- | cist Brindell. | Coming at this time it is part of the furious drive the Zausner gang is making upon the painters, 75 per cent of whom are looking for work, while the rest suffer from |intense speed-up and disguised | wage-cuts. Feeling that closer con- tact with Brindell will help him in suppressing the rising reyolt of the | painters, Zausner made ‘little ef- fort to show his purpose in affilia- tion to the Building Trades Council. Obedient to the ukase of the gen- eral executive board, the district council docilely voted to accept the order for affiliation. The ferment among the painters has already given rise to action committees for fight against the general executive board and the Zausner clique. The latest locals electing committees of action of this kind are 490, 848 and 892. The fighting program of the gen- uine rapk and file committees of action is the fight of the member- ship against the Zausner machine, for rank and file control of the | local unions, against speed-up and wage-cuts, prohibition of overtime, for the 7-hour day and 5-day week, for unemployment insurance, etc. membership of | 7,500, 3,500 are unemployed. Con- | is forced | | NEW YORK.—With utter disre- | brick- | | Don’t Starve! Fight! | | | \ "a | ea | —By FRED ELLIS| Convention Stresses Need for Negro, Colonial Work NEW YORK.—The fact brought | forth at the Seventh Convention of |the Communist Party by Comrade | Otto Hall, that four more Negroes |have been lynched in the South | Since the beginning of the conven- tion, accented the need for a united |fight of both white and Negro | workers against lynching as | stressed by numerous delegates. Delegates Gomez, Moreau and | Harrison George spoke upon the anti-imperialist work of the Party. Gomez told of how the Latin Amer- ican workers in this country are exploited, the great numbers em- | ployed in basic and heavy industry. | The Party must yot neglect these workers, also subject to racial op- pression, . | Comrade Moreau set forth the conditions of the workers in Latin America and how they are extreme- | (Continued on Page Three) | FIGHT SLANDER OF THE LATINS NEW YORK. — The Spanish Workers’ Club held an open air meeting Tuesday, June 24, before the Regun Theatre in protest of the exhibition of the “Under A Texas against Latin American workers, and especially pictures Mexican women as being prostitutes. The meeting was one of the series of open air meetings which ave being held by Latin American workers protesting against racial discrimin- ation under which they suffer. More than 1,000 Latin American workers gathered around the plat- form cheering the speakers. The police tried at first to break | the meeting. But before the mass of workers who resisted the at- tempts .of the police to throw the | speakers off the platform movr2 re- serves and detectives were called. The police began swinging their sticks. This aroused the workers Moon,” a film which discriminates | who repeatedly applauded the speakers, The case came before the court yesterday. The capitalist judge | postponed the case for July 1st put- | ting the workers under $600 bail} each, charging them with “assault.” _ At the mass meeting for the sup- port of the Indian Revolution to be held under the auspices of the Anti- | Imperialist League on Friday, June!| | 27th, at 8 p. m, New Harlem Ca- sino, 100 West 116th St., the work- ers arrésted and who are out on | bail. will speak, TRADE UNION UNITY * COUNCIL, TONIGHT NEW YORK.—The Trade Union| Unity Council, the new revolution- | ary center established through the Trade Union Unity League for the militant unions of New York, will have its next meeting today at) 8 p. m. sharp at 13 W. 17th St. All organizations affiliated should send their full quota of delegates, and the delegates should be officially notified by all organizations to be at the meeting tomorrow. | roristie tactics. 2 everywhere excepting Manhatinn New York Clty and foreign countries there # m year POLICE FIRE ON CROWD OF THOUSAND WHO RALLY AT CALL OF COUACIL 1) RESIST EV.CTION OF ITALIAN WORKER Child Slaves To Be Represented at July Fourth Convention; General Line Is to Build Gigantic Organization Around Working Places Capitalist Government Agencies Admit Worst Is Still to Come, Only Farcical Remedies Provided by Hoover Administration ANY WORKERS JOIN STRUGGLE; POLICE THE TEN Won’t Allow Landlords to Victimize Jobless CHICAGO, IIL, June 25—Unem- ployed Council, No. 3, on the West | Side, arranged a demonstration when an Italian worker, by the} name of C. Ganbio was evicted. The police bomb squad were on the job. They knew that the workers on the West Side would not meekly give in to evictions, but would fight against them and remain in the house. At about 6:30, when the worker | came back and found his furniture | in the alley, the whole unemployed } council came there and about a thousand workers gathered, Mem- bers of the unemployed council | spoke against evictions and unem- ployment. The detectives tried to terrorize | the workers, telling them “we will | send you back to Italy and Musso- lini will have you hanged.” The ranks of the workers kept on swelling, however, and the po- lice had to slow down on their ter- The workers were | militant, ready to defend the speak- | ers. The police were so vicious sud enraged, that they fired three shots at the crowd. None were wounded, | however. The comrades took the furniture away. Attempts were made to stop them several times, but the workers did not give in. They continued, and held another meeting in front of the house where the furniture was stored. After the meeting was over and the workers disbanded, the police succeeded in arresting about a dozen, one by the name of P. Consiglio and another by the name of Mike Monno. Segond Demonstration. The Italian workers in this sec- tion of the city and the unemployed council, led by the Italian fraction, are a real militant bunch of work- | ers. This is the second demonstra- tion they have arranged lately. All the workers are sympathetic and support the unemployed council and its activities, jous drop in the price of wheat is | Reserve Bank Admits Jobless Army Increases Unemployment is growing in the factories as production keeps drop- ping, according to the Federal Re- serve Board’s latest monthly an- alysis of business conditions, issued yesterday. Industrial production declined about 2 per cent in May, the Reserve Board’s index shows. “The decrease in factory employ- ment in May was larger than usual,” the board said, “and there was also a decline in factory pay- rolls.” This follows a continuous sharp decline in employment since last August. Car loadings of freight, which are a good barometer of business con- ditions, fell 7,893 cars in the week ending June 14 below the preceding week. This is a reduction of 143,491 cars below the same week in 1929. The announcement of the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad, made last Tuegday, is typical of the growing crisis and the increasing army of unemployed. This announcement stated that 5,300 B. & QO. shop workers would be laid off “for three weeks,” beginning next Wednesday. Two thousand eight hundred of these workers are in Baltimore alone. In agriculture, the continu- | leading to virtual disaster for the | poor farmers. .A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, states that, accord- ing to Governor Reed, Kansas, the largest wheat producing state in | the country, “is facing a catas- trophe because of an unduly de- pressed wheat price.” Unemployment in state, as elsewhere, continues to |grow. New building projects inthe 23 leading cities of the state for the first four months of the year | dropped more than 75 per cent be- low last year. Many auto and steel plants have shut down for July and August. No one still at work is certain whether he will be at his job very long. Employed. and unemployed must organize against unemploy- ment immediately. On July 4 the | Unemployed Conference called by ‘the Unemployed Councils of the | Trade Union Unity League will lay | the basis for an intensified struggle New York JULY 4 TO BEGIN CIT CAMPAIGN Electing Delegates in Industrial Cities NEW YORK.—More and more unions and unemployed councils in every industrial center are re- ported as electing delegates at meetings, mass meetings and city conferences for the National Un- employed Convention, July 4 and 5, in Chicago, now only eight days away. The latest to rally in New York are the Young Pioneers, who will have delegates from among the child slaves in the factories and unemployed child workers, Philadelphia Conference Today. From Philadelphia word is re- ceived that the big general city conference on unemployment to make final arrangements is assured for today at 8 p. m. at 39 N. Tenth St., Philadelphia. There is to be a (Continued on Page Three.) TO REPORT ON METAL CONFER, Overgaard to Tell of Big Drive NEW YORK.—Coming from the recently concluded Metal Workers? Industrial League National Confer- ence, held at Youngstown, Andrew Overgaard, national secretary, will present a graphic picture of the conditions of the steel, auto and metal workers at a meeting to be held Friday, June 27, at 18 W. 17th St. Reporting on the conference, Overgaard will also tell of the im- mediate perspective of the League in organizing the many millions of unorganized metal workers. The metal workers’ contingent to the National Convention of the Un- against unemployment. employed in Chicago, July 4 and 5, will be elected at this meeting, YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 25, | truck will await visitors and con- A\ picnic will be given by the!duct them to the picnic grounds, that many brokers would fail and The rising tide of revolution in| would thereby be unable to meet the India is being given a mighty im-|settlements. The textile industry is petus by the economic crisis which is | the most important among the small worsening in India also. Yesterday,| number of Indian manufacturers, Economic Crisis Grows Worse bourgeois nationalists, however, ex- posed their treachery and betrayal of the Indian struggle for indepen- dence by referring to the London | “round-table” conference next Octo- in India; MacDonald Praises British Imperialism to these recommendations, in view of the fact that the decisions are in the hands of the London confer- ence and his majesty’s government and finally of the British Parlia- the Bombay cotton market suffered not devoted to the production of |ber as the place where Indian free-| ment.” an admittedly serious break. Indian | food or raw materials, cotton prices dropped heavily, result-| The “recommendations” of the ing in a panic among the botton, Simon Commission, in which the British Labor Party took part, were A dispatch from Bombay states| universally rejected in India. The ¥ ay | dom was to be “decided.” | M. A. Jinnah, leader of the Inde- | pendent Party in the legislative as- mbly, for,example, stated that he lis “not dispbsed to attack importance The meaning of this is very clear. | Not even the British imperialists | expected to get any support from the worker and peasant masses for the Simon Commission proposals. The Indian bourgeoisie and landlords, therefore, would hardly dare to ac- cep the Simon report directly and openly. Instead, they are playing |up the coming London round-table ‘conference. This shows most clearly | that they have given up any idea \of waging a revolutionary struggle for emancipation from the British imperialists, and that they are be- traying the masses and th} revolu- se’ves which they hope to bargain frem the imperialists at the round- table. Meanwhile, Ramsay MacDonald continues to expose his bloody role as the agent and organizer of Brit- ish imperialism. “Empire is a love- ly word,” he told the delegates to the Foutth Imperial Press Confer- ence in London on June 8. Thesa| editor,” in short, on the entire trite | Ji a a me all the ecstasy of an imperialist pig | wallowing in the bloody mire of super-profits which have been ex- torted from the oppressed masses | of the colonies. | This “leading socialist” butcher of Indian workers and peasants called on tne “politician and the pressman, the statesman and the tion for a few concessions to them-| “lovely words” were uttered with | of imperialist luckeys, “to enter a holy conspiracy tc insist on the cir culation of good, sound coinage in opinion, ideas and ideals.” he oly,” oily words of imperialism simply ooze from this pious, “so- cialist’” hypocrite. Forward to Mass Conference Against Unemployment, AY uly 4th & CONVENTION ON —— -