The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1930, Page 1

a ony —_ Pf oc ¢ a ieee ia | to long terms in jail. They fear the growing militancy of the jobless. The workers’ answer must be: “On to the Chicago July 4-5 Convention of Unemployed! Worker ‘snc: interes up second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. X. ander the act of March 3. 1879. a = - = NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930 Price 3 Cec BUBSCKIPTION RATES 86 a yenr everywhere excepting Manhattan and Bronx, New York City and foreign countries, there 8 nm year Wublished daily except Vol.¥Il., No. 155 Gemeente tae, Sean SUSE TO Answer This Outrage! HE bosses, the Matthew Wolls, Easleys and Whalens who dabble in forgery and fascism, the whole stinking tribe of flag-waving | patriots and profiteers who live on the sweat and blood of the work- | ers, are ever ranting about “our glorious Constitution.” But the fact that the government is a class government, that the laws are class laws, that the capitalist class does as it pleases regard- less of laws and constitutions, proves that these hypocrites only gabble about “our Constitution” to delude the workers into thinking that it means anything in a society divided into classes, into exploiters and } exploited. “Millionaires as well as beggars are forbidden by law to sleep under bridges or beg on the streets,” is the way Anatole France put it. On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States met at New York City and adopted amendments to the Constitution, the First Amendment prohibiting any law against—“the right of the day by The Comprodaily Publishing Union Square New York City, N. ¥.<@22™2, CONSIDER RETRIAL OF JOBLESS LEADERS BATTLE POLICE ON WATERFRONT Resist Police Ban On Election Campaign of Communists CHIEF JUSTICE FLOUTS HUNGRY AS THEY BUILD UNEMPLOYED CONVENTION NEW YORK. — As an open denial of any rights for the 8,000,000 unemployed workers in the United States, as a slap in the face to On to the National Unemployment Convention people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” But what has September 25, 1789, got to do with March 6, 1930? Nothing at all, arid we are obliged to the Court of Appeals of the State of New York for openly proving it. The court has sustained the three year sentences against the Unemployed Delegation elected by 110,000 workers at Union Square on March 6 to present demands for Work or Wages, for unemployment insurance, to Mayor Walker. The millions of jobless and starving workers should take due note that these same judges get, in salary alone, $22,000 a year. If they got only 22 cents they would still be capitalist judges, agents of the dictatorship of the capitalist class. As the equally obsolete Declara- tion of Independence said of King George the Third: “He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.” The Constitution provides that if property to the value of $20 is at stake, the issue shall be tried by a jury, but the Unemployed Delega- tion was sentenced to three years prison without a jury and the sen- tence is sustained as constitutional. But capitalism rules juries as well as juéges, as may be seen in the 42 year sentences against seven work- ers in Imperial Valley, to cite one case alone among thousands. Let no worker be fooled into thinking that constitutions, laws, juries or any other capitalist trickery really protects his interests as a worker. The only thing that will protect working class interests is the organized fighting force of the working class against its ex- ploiters, the robber ruling class of capitalists who own the government. The mockery of capitalist class justice stinks to heaven! What must be the answer of the workers? With tens of thousands being thrown onto the street to starve every week, with about 8,000,000 jobless workers and their families already desperate from privation, with wage cuts everywhere and the speed-up wrecking the lives of those employed, the answer to the New York Court of Appeals is a despotic insult to the whole working class of this country. Let the workers in the shops and those outside looking for jobs organize together. Form Shop Committees and join them to the Trade Union Unity League and its revolutionary trade unions. Organize Un- employed Councils. Refuse to acvept mass layoffs, wage cuts, speed- ups! Demand immediate relief for the jobless, unemployment insur- ance at the bosses’ expense for all workers! Prevent evictions of job- less workers for non-payment of rent! 5-day week! It is “Starve or Fight!”—for the whole working class. And the way to begin to fight is right in your shop, at the shop gates demand- ing jobs or wages from your former boss if laid off, and all together demanding relief from the capitalist government. It is “Starve or Fight!” And everywhere workers are gathered, delegates should be elected to the National Unemployment Conference at Chicago on July 4. Organization, fighting organization, is the order of the day! This will be the best answer to the outrageous attack on the work- ers made by the N. Y. capitalist courts. An Anniversary VERY worker who sees the rising wave of struggles of his cla will realize the importance of an organization to defend workir class fighters from the class vengeance of the bosses. Hence all should support the celebration of the Internation: Labor Defense of its Fifth Anniversary. While it roused the whole world against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and saved the Gastonic Party Defies Decree Calls More Meetings; Also in Camden the starving thousands who elected Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond to represent them and lay their demands of wor PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 27.— The efforts of the bosses to stop by police violence the election cam- | paign of the Communist Party was defied by the election rally held this | morning on the waterfront at the {corner of Christian and Delaware Sts., to mobilize’ for the Communist Party Ratification Convention at | Reading, Pa., on Sunday, July 138, and the Unemployed Convention at Chicago on July 4. The rally of the Communist Party was assisted by the Trade Union Unity League, the Unemployed Council and the Marine Workers’. | Industrial Union. The meeting went on for an hour, attended by over a thousand work- ers, when two police came to stop it, but they were simply brushed | aside by the crowd. Then a patrol wagon came with seven police, but hey were forced to retire with | drawn guns and blackjacks, due to | the militancy of the workers. A | Negro longshoreman disarmed one cop by holding his arm in a ham- |merlock. The meeting went on | with a crowd swollen to 4,000. Unable to cope with the situation, \the police sent in a riot call, and | five patrol wagons of police, about fifteen armored motorcycles with a marine detachment on a truck finally broke up the meeting | after it went on for over an hour, —By FRED ELLIS CLERKS’ BANK Officers Arrested As Institution Fails CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 27. Sudden revelation that the officials |of the Brotherhood of Railway Demand the 7-hour day and | tear bombs and machine guns and | Clerks National Bank here were |under arrest charged with con | spiracy to violate the banking act. and that they had taken in $1,000.. BIG SWINDLE IN 16th Congress jot Party in | USSR Opens (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, June 272-The Six- teenth Congress of the Communist Party, U. S. S. R., opened yester- day afternoon at the Bolchei The- atre. Comrade Kalinin, the chair- man, reviewed the important stages of Party development. A presidium of forty was elected, including JOBLESS LEADERS SCORE 6. §. CASE ip Must Free El Centro Boys” NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter and Harry Raymond, four |members of the committee elected | by the 110,000 unemployed demon- | | strating in Union Square March 6, | yesterday issued a statement con- | or wages before the Tammany * ALREADY ARRIVE court of appeals in New York} state refuses even to consider the) demand for a new trial for these}! leders of the jobless. | Nothing is left in a legal way but the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. But the jobless, mobilizing for the greatest demonstration of all, the National Unemployment|F inal Instructions for Convention, July 4 and 5, and the Chicago Convention demonstrations in all industrial} cities on that date, will have some| | words to say yet. i jcenters are already on the way to Cardoza Denies, ____|the National Unemployment Con- Yesterday Chief Judge Benjamin | vention, to be held July 4 and 5 in Cardoza, of the Court of Appeals: | Chicago, the National Office of the denied the application for appeal) qrade Union Unity League and of made by Foster, Minor, Amter, andthe Councils of the Unemployed Raymond, now serving indetermin-| tated yesterday. ; ; ;a|the Unemployed are active - which aut es pe ete Geter) bering! for great demonstrations of le ie poe ae |the jobless and militant workers in emp k ‘i rge industrial cit; Tul; ‘Thus the final state authority |°”eTY large industrial city,'on July " a . 4, simultaneously with the great continues the consistent policy ern of the conysntion by.» dem- denying even the so-called legal} iat 5 rights to these outstanding Com- | stration: in Uskion Park, Chicago, munist and working class leaders. and in solidarity with it. Backs Whalen Ukase. The court cut the hearing of the cases short to announce that it up- held Police Commissioner Whalen in denying workers the right to as- semble and present grievances and Delegations from some industria! Negroes Arrive First. A delegation of five Negro work- ers elected in Birmingham, Ala., are |already in Chicago. Fifteen mor2 Negro and white delegates, elected at Birmingham and Chattanooga, Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovitch, Voro- | beating up the workers and arrest- | 999 worth of forged paper issued by | ing six, including Comrades Soder- berg, Thompson, Suni and two Ne- gro longshoremen who defended the | speakers. All are held under $800 bail each. The International Labor Defense is handling the case. Will Defy Police Ban. The Communist Party at once is- sued a statement exposing the ef- | |forts to paralyze its election cam- paign, stating that all meetings ‘vill be held in defiance of the po- ce ban. The Party calls upon the orkers to be at the Pennsylvania | ation Saturday noon to welcome \nna Burlak, released on bail from \tlanta, Georgia, under charges A. W. Shafer, exposed in a wide swindle operation which ran up a shortage in his accounts of $623,000 in another bank, caused the failure of the clerks’ bank yesterday. The depositors got wind of the crooked dealing, and drew out $1. 000,000 during the last week or so |and one of the largest labor bank- | ing institutions closed its doors. | Latest of Several. | This marks the third crash, on 2/ gigantic scale of the much touted “labor invasion of capitalism,” “la- | ber buying out the industries,” ete. | The first grest crash was the Con-! |sumers and Producers Bank, owned | |by the Central Labor Union of! | shiloy. Honorary members were demning the railroading to 42 year sentences of the Imperial Valley or- | | workers, Thaelmann, Thorez, Ercoli, Pollitt, | ganizers. Kilarov, ete. “The courts of this country, act A large number of delegations of | ing as brutal servants of their capi peasants and _ soldiers | talist masters are grinding out sav- brought greetings and described the ,2%¢ sentences against Communists progress of Socialist upbuilding and | and revolutionary workers. This is | demanded that the Congress deal being done with all promptness on | energetically with the right wing- °'ders from the capitalists who are ers, as it did with the Trotskyites. | W2ging @ brutal campaign against | Bluecher, commandant of the Far | the 8,000,000 hungry unemployed | Eastern Division of the Red Army, (Continued on Page Five} was greeted by tremendous ap-! ea = vex JAIL 4 LEADERS Two thousand delegates, senting 2,000,000 Party members and candidates, were present. The proceedings were broadcasted. Out- | incited the crowd to take part in demands, The decision handed) down yesterday by Judge Cardoza curtly declared, “The assembly be- came unlawful when the defendants an unlawful parade after the warn- ing by the police that the parade would be broken up.” Why was the parade unlawful? | Because Whalen said so? What of | the alleged constitutional right! which the law says can never be| abrogated? Mass Protest. The only hope now as before is! for all workers to rally in great) masses to demand the liberation of both steel and mining centers are ‘on the way. A delegation of 30 from Phila- delphia is on the way, with more to follow. From the Michigan district, em- bracing the unemployment ridden Detroit and Flint auto centers, 100 delegates are on the way. Many of them are representatives sent by the thousands of jobless auto work- ers, some are furniture workers, and some are from other industries. Travelling overland from the far Picific coast, a delegation of seven is making its way from San Fran- cisco. Five delegates elected at a mass | its best fighters. Such hope can/ meeting of jobless marine workers, : ; ; is y i x e { i ly by the pressure the|called by the Marine Workers In- defendants from outright legal lynching, the innumerable “small with five other workers of “insur- | Philadelphia, followed by another side of the hall mass demonstra- IN FLINT STRIKE | sizer ons je force the Auteiel sce aed the Umavlon cases it has defended are of equal importance. ection” for organizing the workers |crash of a Pittsburgh labor union | tions of workers took place despite authorities by its mass protest. led ‘Connell in. tha wasties iaiineey: The I, L. D. has made itself indispensable to the workers. In the of Georgia. benk. That was in 1925. Then fol- Sa % ¢ |the pouring rain. lowed the spectacular collapse of the | diverted Brotherhood of Locomotive En-| All traffic was | coming great struggles it must be the shield of hundreds of workers i eintagat opt” thadasn ia’. of Petitions and letters and tele-|in New York are beating their way who will fight in the front line. The I. L. D. is more than a means The Communist Party calls the Strikers Stand Firm;| grams should be poured into the|by rail to Chicago. Five more elect- | workers to attend, right after wel- Conspiracy to Suppress ‘Daily’ for paying lawyers. It exposes the hypocrisy of capitalist “justice,” it rallies wide masses to struggle for their class and rouses their class consciousness. The I. L. D. even now has many cases of major importance, among which must be mentioned the outrageous sentences of 42 years against | the Agricultural Workers’ organizers of Imperial Valley, the charge | of “insurrection” against six workers at Atlanta, Georgia, who face the electric chair, the case of the Unemployed Delegation railroaded by Whalen—scores of cases. Such work should be supported by all workers and workers’ or- | ganizations, and their becoming members of the I. L. D. on its Fifth | Anniversary on June 28, is an excellent way of pledging support to the present and future battles of our class. Still On You must not think that the conspiracy to attack the Daily Worker has been dropped or postponed by capitalism's business agents in coming Comrade Burlak, an unem- ployment demonstration to demand work or wages at City Hall Plaza, where a farewell will be given to the delegates leaving for the Chi- cago Unemployment Convention on July 4. Workers are appealed to for to elect delegates from their shops sto the Reading Ratification Convention of the Communist Party on July 13, Camden Case to Be Fought. At the trial of four workers ar- rested yesterday at the Victor Plant at Camden, N. J., Comrade Smith of the Young Communist League was sentenced to 90 days, Hoffman to 60 days and Swaine and Walker dismissed. The case will be ap- pealed and other meetings are | planned. gineers banks and investment com- panies, with a loss of $30,000,000 to the workers, though some of these banks are artificially stimulated by $10 assessments on the members of the union, ahd still survive in a crippled and expensive fashion. 1923, and had a year ago $4,307,998 deposits of wage earners in it. They are now wondering what part if to get back. Though other failures have been | less spectacular, there is a total of | 15 during the years since 1925, with many still born institutions which collected money but never opened The clerks bank was the third to} p | TT § T 0 N SUN be formed, came into existence in} 1 any of their money they are going | Hear N. M U Speakers) | leaflets and pamphlets were dis- | ‘tributed dealing with the Congress. MINERS MEET IN Whole Plant Tied Up DETROIT, Mich., June 27.—The police of Flint tried today to break the strike led by the Auto Workers’ Union of 500 metal finishers in the Fisher Body plant, by arresting Clarence Killit and four other union organizers. The arrested men are held in- ° communicado, The charge against Strikers Assemble to} them is not known. The whole Fisher plant, with 5,000 workers, is tied up by this strike in the finishing department. PITTSTON, Pa. June 27.—Thou-|mho strikers refuse to be fooled by dattg tanec the) the fake promises of the bosses. ne racite min- gi ; ers called by, the National Miners’| 7° employers is tyme: tne sane their dors for business. the beginning exposed and fought | The Communist Party has from through the coal fields here. + Rae | trick used in 1928, when there was Ra a va ac sen aaa aa similar strike, and is attempting meeting will assemble, in defiance fo ctiae) iaarenie) and Weal bie Parole Board offices from now on|ed from the same industry in New in such numbers that the cases of | Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond | become a major issue and their re- lease is fixed for an early date. Work for the release of the lead-| ers of the unemployed. Every} workers’ organization and every) individual must add his voice to this | ery. The International Labor De- fense is continuing its campaign} for the release of the delegation, and fi- with resolutions, letters, nances. YARD WORKER KILLED. NEW YORK.—Joe Gafney, 35, yard laborer, address unknown, was killed while at work in the New York Central yards. York, are going with the caravan which will start Sunday. Autos and trucks, decorated with signs and slogans, bearing the de- mands of the unemployed for work or wages, unemployment relief and insurance, seven hour day and five day week, release of the representa- tives of the unemployed, no speed- up, ete., will mobilize at 13 West 17th St. the headquarters of the and appeals to all workers to aid) New york Councils of the Unem- ployed at 10 a. m. Sunday. The co-ncils request that all money col- lected for the trip be rushed in at once. From Many Industries. Election of delegates is still go- ing on, but the local councils an- nounce that 60 have already been | elected. | * *« « Demand the release of Fos. |the labor banking movement as a. of the prohibition of the mayor of! Washington, D, C. It has been impossible to get news regarding the steps being taken by Ham Fish and his coterie of snoopers and there- fore we have had no news to print. We not fools and you are not a fool and therefore we both know that in the dark chambers of the White House, the planning and deciding as to how to suppress the Daily Worker is steadily going on. | All of which means that we must steadily continue all our efforts | to strengthen our pape: We must in fact increase our activity. The Daily Worker is a foremost instrument for the creation of working class solidarity. A larger and better paper and an immense circulation among large sections of workers in the important industries is . prerequisite to uniting the workers into a strong army to fight low wages, speed-up, unemployment; to fight capitalism here and im- perialism the world over. i This is the reason for our campaign for the $25,000 emergency fond. It is a fighting fund, a fund that will help increase our contact with’ masses of workers and improve it as an instrument of struggle We feel confident that in face of the attempt to sunmress the Daily Worker, all our readers, all Party members, all workers’ organizations thousands of workers in the shops, mines and mills, will come to our aid. There is another matter which we feel very confident about. That is that workers and workers’ organizations will help strengthen the Daily Worker in face of the attack by the bosses’ business agents if we will go to them and ask for funds. That workers will give if ap- proached has been proven hundred of times during the course of. our campaign. What we are trying to do is to convince you to hecome active, to go to workers, to ask them to help. Do this ard it will he »n easy task bo raise the $12,500 still needed to make our fund compleic. | ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- |mond, in prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance. NEW YORK.—-That the children born in the Soviet Union are the | most fortunate in getting the atten tion and care making for their full est health, development and happ' hess was the verdict of Doctors 4 Salkind and Léo Rosenstein, Russia: psychologists and mental specialist. after they had visited many medica ‘and other institutions in this coun- | try. 9 . | Professors Salkind and Rosenstein were delegates from the U.S.S.R. to the first internetional congress of ul hygiene held in Washington 5 to 10. Soviet Children Luckiest, Get Best Attention, Care | scheme of the union bureaucracies to | swindle the members, and to tie up | the money so it can not be used for struggle. Pittston who is a loyal agent of the| | Pennsylvania Coal Co., at 2 p. m.,| Sunday in the City Park on Broad} Street. Freeman Thompson, national 1of the care given the children and youth in developing their abilities and powers in a social direction. They showed the fallacy of the intelligence” tests prevalent in th‘ vuntry. “All is changing,” said Dr tostenstein, “life flows like a river aothing stands still. The child is ¢ bundle of dynamic potentialities o: | ric’: emotional manifestations. Thes: cannot be tested by a static intel ligence test,” The individuality of the child } not suppressed, the phycholog’ said, but rather developed to con form to the social life of the Soviet The men‘al health specialists told | Union, i president of the N. M. U., will ex- | pose the sell-out agreement being cooked up by Lewis and the oper- New York, N. Y. j ators, the rotten conditions in the To the Daily Worker, mines where mass unemployment | Comrades: deliberately instituted by the com-| Louis mittee, now aligned with the old| rent collector. faker, Cappellini, tries to betray; Under capitalism when a worker, | down, his strike. ; jobless and penniless, can no longer | Other speakers will be Phil paz his rent i. is perfectly legal to ‘vankfeld and Joe Tash. Frankfeld, Dan Slinger and Little | into the street. “ddvessed hundreds of miners in| the wash house of the Independent | But in the Cherry ther Mine at Old Forge this morning, | evicted still another rotten phase of Vide him with a job. ‘vith a good response, The state, coal and fron police, vho have established a govern The houses are old and miserable Jobless Painter Evicted By Tammany Politician Fidelstein, a painter hy | nceding some cash, poses as a rent | pany has driven thousands to strike | trade, living at 358 Cherry St., who | collector and splits the rents with | ranged. | against the orders of their United! has been out of work for the last|a certain judge. Mine Workers district leaders, and/ eight months, was thrown out of his | pay are thrown out as Welsh wishes will shew how the grievance com-| dingy quarters yesterday by a fake|to rent the tenements as much as |throw him, his family and furniture | it. district where Eidelstein and | : jobless workers are being | rupt union hed, was unable to pro- | the bosses’ system comes into view. | tenements, scarcely fit for human | Activity in Chicago. CHICAGO, Ill, June 27.—Dele- ‘gates are beginning to pour in to | the Chicago Unemployed Convention. Lake County is waking up. Many | unemployed n.eetings are being held daily in front of the big steel and street. As the city owns these tene-|oil plants. Workers are very mili- ments no landlord is connected with tant Some steel workers said that them. But J. Velsh, Tammany man, | the” would lay off the job when another eviction demonstration is ar Milwaulee reports that 75 delegates are already elected. Rockford reports they are having a conference on Sunday at which de'egates will be elected. Mobilization is in full swing. Ne- gro w 's are very militant and ing leading parts in councils. ributing Hterature, collecting y to § ort the unemployed convention, Those who can’t he possibly can before they are torn | | Eidelstein and the painters in h | neighborhood belong to Council No. | 4; 9 of the A. F, of L. Painters Union. | \.on | For over eight months Zausner, cor- Zausner is y Y WORKERS KILLED, | working hand in glove with city of-) aay Las BROCKVILLE, Ont.—Thirty workers were killed on the St. Law- rence River when lightning struck | ficials, the bosses, A. F. of L. fakers | jand Musteites, His last betrayal of | ment of their own in this coal field abitation, They have been bought | the Painters was in connection with | their boat and ran down steel tam- made more arrests on the picket|by the. city and are to be torn down line at the Butler Colliexy. \ tor the purpose of widening the the Brindell Building Trades. pers exploding dynamite which they —PAINTER», had packed in shoals below them. ‘