The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1930, Page 1

Greetings to the Sixteenth \' Two T.U.U.L. workers were murdered last ; week, One, a Negro worker, was a delegate to the July 4-5 Unemploy- ment Conference. The boss terror will not stop the growing fight for “Work or Wages!” Worker Unter+¢ an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y~ under the act of Marck 8, 1878. NATIONAL EDITION Company tne. 26-26 4 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Union Square New York City. N. ¥. Gay New York City and foreign countries, there $% SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 86 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan Price 3 Cent: a year NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930 AGO A. F. OF L. THUGS KILL RED of the Bosses HICAGO gang murders have now been extended to include revo- lutionary workers. This is the meaning of the vicious murder of Herzel Weizenberg, member of the Trade Union Unity League, by gangsters of the Chicago Painters’ Union, affiliated to the A. F. of L—and to the Chicago underworld. According to press dispatches he was killed for distributing leaflets. But in reality the murder of Comrade Weizenberg is designed to terrorize the representatives of the millions of unemployed workers who will gather in Chicago on July 4-5. The challenge of fascism in Chicago is great. There the alliance ‘of the city government, finance capital, the underworld, and the A. F. of L. is complete. The big industrialists and bankers control the city government. The city officials, by direct affiliation and through graft, are allied with the Capone and Moran gangs which in turn con- trol the A. F. of L. trade unions. Through Oscar Nelson the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor are directly linked up with the corrupt finance capital controlled Thompson city administration. The trade union gangsters, maintained by all of the large unions, are in- tegrally bound up with the kangsters and beer runners of the under- world. Until now this combination has contented themselves with raids on the headquarters of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and other revolutionary organizations, the brutal beating and slugging of workers, and the breaking up of workers’ meetings. Now, after these methods have failed, they resort to open murder. But even murder will not accomplish their aim. They have tried to prevent the masses of workers, har d by unemployment, wage cuts and speed-up, by growing poverty and misery, from breaking with the reactionary, strikebreaking leaders of the A. F. of L. and adopting a policy of revolutionary class struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party and the T. U. U. L. They havé failed to terrorize the workers by raids and beatings. They will fail to terrorize the workers by murders. The offensive of the bosses, of which the at- tacks of the police, the gangsters and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats part, will be met by the ever growing counter attacks of the workers. The fight of the workers against wage cuts, the speed-up and unemployment will continue and gain momentum. The vicious mur- derous attacks of the bosses ‘and their agents will arouse more work- ers to action. Strikes and street demonstrations will become more numerous and will gain in intensity. The workers will gain exper- iene and become steeled in the struggle. They will become conscious of their enemies and of their own power, They will be prepared in the course of the struggles of today for the revolutionary struggles for power tomorrow. The workers have everything before them. In- spired by the victory of the Russian workers, long oppressed and mur- dered by the czars, they cannot be defeated. Neither can they be ter- rorized by raids, beatings or gang murders. The murder of Katovis in New York, of Alfred Levy, the revolu- tonary Negro workers of Harlern, and of Herzel Weizenberg in Chi- vago must arouse the workers of the United States to action. The struggle must be sharpened. The issue is now “class against class.” Our enemies are now exposed. The full force of the revolutionary workers must be brought into action. Strikes and demonstrations against wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment, and against the fa t attacks of the bosses’ states and their F. of L. and gangster agents must be increased. Above all, in all sections of the country, wi defense corps must: be built to turn back these attacks, and to aid in developing and broadening the workers’ counter offensive. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union HE Sixteenth Cong of the Party of the Soviet Union is in se: n. It meets at a moment of greatest importance for the world revolutionary movement. Within the Soviet Union since the last Party Congress the greatest progress has been made in the building of socialism. The 5-year plan is being carried through at such a tempo that its completion in 4 years is now assured. The country is being industrialized at a tremendous rate. The program for the development of heavy industry, most. important for the Soviet Union, is being far exceeded. In the agrarian field the program for the setting up of state farms will be reached in three years and for collective farms in two years. 4 All this means a tremendous strengthening of the economy of the country and simultaneously an improvement in the conditions of the masses. It means higher wages, the universal 7-hour day, 4-day work- ing week, and the extension of social insurance, vacations, educational and cultural advances, Above all the offensive which is now being waged under the lead- ership of the Communist Party, means the complete liquidation of the kulaks and nepmen—the last inner class basis for the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union. It strengthens the alliance between the workers and the poor peasantry, by improving thé conditions of both, and strengthens the proletarian state. The great progress made since the last congress is the best an- swer to the Trotsky renegades and to the right wing elements, proving conclusively their complete political bankruptcy. Their leadership has been completely rejected; the Party in opening its present congress is completely united under the leadership of its Central Committee led by Comrade Stalin. The Daily Worker, in the name of the revolutionary workers of the United States, greets the sixteenth congress of the C. PS. U. At the same time we call up the workers of the United States to organize their forces, fight against unemployment, wage cuts, and the speed-up, develop the sharpest struggle inst the capitalists, their govern- ment, and social fascist agents—in this way developing the revolu- tionary strength and experience which will be needed to fight effec- tively against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The great progress being made within the Soviet Union at a time of deepening crisis, intensified antagonisms, and feverish war prepara- tions in the capitalist world, places the danger of war immediately before us. The workers of the Soviet Union, through the realization of the 5-year plan and the strengthening of the Red Army, are prepared. We must prepare to do our share in the defense of the workers’ fatherland by building the revolutionary unions, by organizing the unemployed at, Chicago on July 4th and 5th, by strengthening the Communist Party. We Are Waiting for Your Revort The Party made a decision. Decisions made must be carried out. We sent this decision to all district organizers, all Daily Worker repre- sentatives, all Party sections and units. rail decision made by the Party demanded that during the week of J 22, every Party member was to be called upon, at his unit meeting, to report upon the Daily Worker campaign list in his posses- . Every Party member was to turn over to his Party unit all ‘had collected. If the total collected amounted to the quota each Party member, namely $5, then the Party member was to ily Worker Merit Siamp. If (he Pariy merher had not yet this minimum quota, then he was to receive a receint fm + / Communist e Murderous Attack STALIN REPORTS | SOVIET ADVANCE TO SOCTALISM |Production Flourishes, While Depression | Grips Capitalism Real Wages Increasing | 11,585,000 in Unions; 1,852,000 in Party (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, June 30.—At the sec- }ond session of the Sixteenth Con- | gress of the Communist Party of} | the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin made his political report as follows: The period since the Fifteenth |Congress witnessed many events |bringing progress to the Soviet Union and decay to capitalist coun- tries. The world economic crisis has embraced all branches of industry, commerce, agriculture, except the production of war materials. The partial stabilization of capi- talism is approaching its end in the |developing economic and_ political | crisis. Fascism is advancing in the | | capital countries, and the bour-| geoisie is mobilizing all reactionary forces, including “socialists,” against the workers. The bourgeoisie is seeking a so- lution of the eri in war, while (Continued on Page Three) PLOT ARRESTS OF JULY 4DELEGATES |Bosses Afraid of Big Jobless Convention CHICAGO, June 30.—The police jhave been ordered to clean out the “hoboes.” They will arrest the ho- | boes as they come into the city, they | will clean them dut of the employ- |ment agencies and the cheap lode ing houses. So runs the orders of Acting Chief Alcock to the police force of Chicago Jas reported in the Daily News on | Wednesday, June 25. This is the way that the Thomp- son administration in Chicago would Ive the unemployment problem— | drive them out of town. However, the real purpose of this |erder to the police is a preparation for the arrival of the delegates to the delegates to the National Unem- ployment Convention to be held ir Chicago on July 4 and 5. To the Unemployed Convention on July 4 and 5 there will come dele- gates from the mines, the shops, from the South and North, the East and the West. Many of these dele- Cnisis Worse, More Jobless, AllFactsShow Without exception, all the finan- cial papers issued today admit a deepening of the crisis, more un- employment and sharpening of the world economic crisis of capitalism. “The counity is suffermg from business depression as severe as any in the country’s history,’ says the Commercial and Financial Chronicle (June 28). Another Wall Street spokesman, Benjamin Baker, in the latest issue of the Annalist, comments: “For some weeks, the indications, and this writer’s reasoning from them, have pointed to a period of depression, or a long bottom to the present valley of depression in 1921-22.” That increased unemployment. and starvation stares the workers in the face is not now denied by the most blatant sheets of the big bank- ers. “Recent developments, more- over,” says the Guaranty Survey, issued by the Guaranty Trust Co. Guly 1), “do not brighten the out- look for a marked upturn in the early future. Commodity prices continue to move consistently down- ward, Employment is still on the decline. . . . With few exceptions, current reports continue to point to further recession in industrial out- put and trade volume.” All of Hoover's hooey about re- cuperation of American imperialist economy did not fool the exploiters. It was meant for mass consumption. However, says the National City Bank Bulletin: “The pas onth has witnessed a decided ¢ g of the feeling of discour out, bus’ ness, ang probab., since the stock st fall has the been more in- ais traditional of market ct lays: average busines clined ‘9 questi faith ‘. the recuperativ~ the country.” Yet they want the masses to starve on promises. More and more unemployment i: now admitted by the most reactionary bosses. Only the most determined fight for “work or wages” will ward off star- vation for millions. gates will be unemployed workers. They will not carry large sums of money, in fact, they will have very little, if any, money. It is the in- tention of the Thompson regime to | thus break up the Unemployment Convention. It will be the task of the Interna tional Labor Defense to protect these workers and to see to it that their convention, called to combat unem ployment and its companion evils, the speed-ups and rationalization will be unmolested. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. amount collected and the campaign further collections, decision. We are now waiting for list was to be returned to him for We have the right to expect that every district carried out this a report from each district. We id, imporidtitts and their want to know whether our Party members are collecting funds to bid va paper going, whether they are putting their campaign lists 0 use? The Party demands this report from you because the Party and the Daily Worker must know at once how effectively the Party mem- bers have functioned and responded to our call to aid our paper. This report from you will tell whether we did secure action or whether we still face resistance to mass work, by which alone we can build our Party and the Daily Worker. We again say: At the outset of this campaign for our $25,000 emergency fund the Daily Worker sent_out 20,000 campaign lists. Where are these lists in action? How many of the 20,600 lists were | taken to the workers in the shops, into working class neighborhoods, to workers’ meetings and organizations? We hold that every list must be accounted for, We are waiting for your report. Wheat at 75 Cents Ruining Mid Western Wheat Farmers Minot, D. C. The Daily Worker: Number one northern wheat—-the best grade—is down to 75 and 74 cents per bushel and it is very likely it will go still lower. At this price many farmers say it will hardly pay to cut it. | The capitalist government has| | handed the farmers a lot of bunk} | before, but the Farm Board plan ‘of “helping” the poor farmers is} the biggest bunk of all. Today we! ) are told that if it were not for the| | Farm Board the price of wheat! would be still lower, | When the Farm Board came into eistence last summer the price of out here. and cure! The farmers are losing faith in the Farm Board and along with this goes a loss of faith in such organ- izations as the Farmers’ Union, Cotton Growers’ Association, which are tied up with the Farm Board. The deck is. being cleared for real action and I hope the Daily Worker and the Communist Party will place themselves at the head of @ real farmers’ movement and a real farmers’ press that will rouse all workers on the land to fight in their own behalf and sweep aside the Farm Board, the Hoover ad- ministration and the whole capital- This is some prevention , wheat was ebeut $1.25 and now it cece the primary markets! ist system, —Dakota Farmer, DHARALAS TRIBE ‘REVOLTS AGAINST BRITISH RULE Indian Revolution Accelerates! World | Economic Crisis Indian Trade Drops} Worker Witness Greets N. Y. Demonstration The Dharalas Indians, a fighting people in the. Kaira district, 300 miles north of Bombay, have risen against British exploitation. These fighting Dharalas are not fooled by Gandhi’s “non-violence.” Organized into groups of 500, and armed with long poles with knives attached at the end and old-fash- ioned guns, the Dharalas carry out raids, The British and American boss’ press call these raids “cam- paigns of robbery and murder.” Class-conscious workers, of course, know what that means. The British authorities have mob- ilized 1,000 armed police at Poona for action against the Dharalas. Trade Drops Sharply. British trade in India is falling rapidly, according to a detailed an- alysis of British India’s trade re- turns for May, issued by the Depart- ment of Commercial Intelligence and statistics. The figures published show that the visible balance of trade in May was only $3,300,000 in favor of India, as against $13,300,000 in April and $9,000,000 in India’s fa- vor in May last year. The British quite alarmed. The B Bombay News says,, hysterically, that “if the trade declines continue. owing to the political situation, In- dia is heading for a big economic crash.” x American and Japanese trade with India is also “hard hit.” Japan’s cotton trade with India is also great- ly reduced recently. This will neces- sarily has its effect on the alrea very serious crisis in the cajitalist countries. v The Daily Worker received a let- ter, signed “A Witness,” which quite indicative of the effect of the demonstrating in support of the In dian Revolution of the masses, held | Saturday, in New York, before the | British consulate. The letter starts by greeting the “fellow workers who participated in the demonstration . . . esnecially the Young Communist League and the revolutionary trade unions for their courage and revolutionary idea and for showing up “the British | bourgeoisie and their tool, the Mac-| Donald Labor Party gang, oppress | the Indian people.” | In regard to police brutality, the | letter says, “I also want to tell you how I, with my own eyes, witne: ed | once more the brutality of the Ci Mad Dogs (police) chasing the pa rade with clubs without any provo- cation whatsoever. “The writer also “congratulates The Daily Worker of its guidine principles toward its readers, the masses, who are the sole owners, de- ciding factors and judge of their destinies.” | | | “| with certain well-known A. mist s, SPOKE AT VICTOR Philadelphia Cops On a} Terror Rampage PHILADELPHIA (By Mail) Smith, Swane, Walker and Hoff- | man, arrested while addressing 40,-| 000 unemployed who were applyine | for a job at the Victor Talking Ma- | chine Co., and who were released on | $3,500 bail, were tried on Saturday | morning in Philadelphia. Swane! and Walker was dismissed, while Smith was sentenced to 90 deys and Hoffman to 60 days, or $50 fine, A meeting arranged on the morn- ing of the trial by the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union and the Com- munist Party at the water front, to protest the arrests was the object of more police brutality. The de- termination of the crowd to prevent the police from breaking up the meeting was met by the uniformed cossacks with a call for reinforce- ments, and it was not until reserves and a truckload of U. S. marines went into action that the meeting was finally broken up and six more workers arrested. UNION MEMBER Murder Weizenberg for Distribution of T. U. U. L. Leaflets WALLACE, DURKIN GANGSTERS UNITE WITH CITY HALL SLUGGERS AGAINST JULY 4-5 UNEMPLOYMENT CONVENTION Almost at the same time that New York gate to the Chicago Unemployed Convention police, guided by lead- lers of the Garvey movement, murdered Alfred Levy, a Negro dele- on July 4-5, gangsters of the American Federation of Labor in Chicago attacked and mur- dered Harzel Weizenberg, a member of the Unemployed Council No. 1 of the Trade Union Unity League. leaflets containing the T.U.U.L. program for Weizenberg was distributing painters at Painters’ Local 147, when the attack took place. The fascist A. F. of L. gang- FISHER BODY 'hossed directly by the secre- ltary of the Painters’ District Council, Wallace. | This murderous attack) | against members of the Trade} Union Unity League is the answer of the fascist A. F. of \L. on the eve of the nation- STRIKE STRONG Bosses Send Thugs to) v. 1. Murder is the method of the! ei ee eS A. F. of L, bureaucrats used to Slug Workers combat the determined activity of the revolutionary workers in put-| ting forward the program of the} of dicks and police made a savage | Trade Union Unity League among attack upon the picket line of the | the rank and file members of the Fisher Body strikers here early to-| A. F, of L. day, beating up several strikers and’! The alliance of the trade union arresting 15, including Philip Ray-| bureaucrats with the gangsters of mond, organizer of the Auto Work-| Chicago’s underworld and the | ers Union, and Steve Miller, Red In-| Thompson administration is notor-| FLINT, Mich.—Several auto lo: ternational Labor Union delegate | ious. Every important A. F. of L.| and member of the National Execu-| union maintains an organized gang tive Committee. The police sudden-| with which the union bureaucrats| ly changed their tact which had} consisted heretofore chiefly of un-| derhandedly trying in co-op ion of L. } operate. In the building trades, | the Trade Union Unity League has} been unable to hold open meetings because of the attacks of the armed fakers, to create divisions in the| gangsters of the A. F. of L. The ranks of the strikers. attack against Weizenberg vas | At a mass meeting packed to the] made because the Trade Union , the striking | d the size of doors, b id last n auto Ww inet the strike committee, so that it now| represents every department in the | plant, and made plans for further | Unity League is putting up its own slate in the painters’ union. The distribution of the T. U. U. L. pro-} gram, in which Weizenberg took part, enraged the bureaucrats, and spreading of the strike to every de-| they therefore employed their usual) partment of Fisher's and to every) methods of murder and gangster| other auto factory in’ Flint, manv| attacks to combat it. | et hav- readiness workers at Buick and Chevr ing already stated for a general walk A set of dema The A. F, of L. gangsters enjoy | the full protection of the police. Up to the present not a single ef-| fort has been made to indict Wal-| their ut. proposed by the ke committee ‘ being dis-| Jace and his gangsters for the de- cussed by the strikers, and these,| e and cold-blooded murder of | when ratified by the nd fil ank nberg. Instead of proceeding will be presented to the Fisher Body | against these fascist A. F. of L. as- bosses. Chief among th Propose sins, the police have joined them demands, which include better hours, n attack against the T.U.U.L.| wages and conditions for all Fisher igh Ghiahiot Police Alcock tae) Body workers, are “recognition of | red his armed cossacks to ar-| all delegates to the Unem- ployed Convention on July 4-5 as “hoboes” and “bums.” Durkin of the building trade, and an associate of Wallace, openly lined up with uto Worke: mination a: ve in the si union activit nd “no! yes worker any or in any other orderly conduct, were sed on] the police in calling on them to| bail, the sixth wo being dis-) erush the July 4th demonstration. missed. The cases are set for July 1.) ‘The city authorities, through the So great is the determination of the police to suppress all wor demonstrations, that when , Lou police, are trying to use the excuse | of “traffie congestion” as a pre- | text to stop the workers of Chi- ®sters who did the killing were >———— DELEGATES OF JOBLESS T0 MASS UNION PARK, CHL Will Hold Huge Meet Before Convention CHICAGO, Ill, June 30.—Afraid of the rising militancy of the mass of unemployed, the West Side Park Commissioners reluctantly granted permission to a committee of tie Unemployed Councils of Chicago to hold a mass demonstration of Chi- cago jobless workers and delegates to the National Convention of the Unemployed to be held here July 4-6. The meeting, itself a mass dem- onstration that will thunder the ery of the jobless for “Work or Wages” will be held Friday, July 4 at 3 p. m. at Union Park, Wash- ington and Ashland. Ave. WEST FRANKFORT, Ill.—Prep- arations for the National Conven- tion of the Unemployed to be held in Chicago, are now in full swing | in the Illinois coal fields. On Saturday a meeting was held in Harrisburgh, where a strike is brewing, with many Negro miners in attendance. A mass meeting in Springfield was also called for mob- ilization for the July 2 mass dem- onstration in front of the court house for “work or wages” before leaving for the National Conven- tion. A delegation of unemployed work- ers will present the demands of the jobless before the State Legislature on July 2. In Sparta, where the National Miners Union led a strike against unemployment in March, a meeting is being arranged for Monday with Ray Groves, District Secretary N. M. U. and Leo Broux, youth organ- izer. A delegation of jobless miners wil} leave for Chicago from Saline and | Franklin Counties, it has been re- ported. | the A. F, of L. bureaucrats joined with the underworld gangsters and Scott, Philadelnhia organizer of the| caro from carrying out a mass| With the underwor Hn International Labor Defense, with| demonstration neainst this murder-| Pelee. in ed airplane Lae another worker, Mogull, went to the| ous attack of the A. F. of L. fas-| Chicago They alo ook pact in nolice station to investigate the cists and their gangsters. But the the raids on the headquarters f charges, they were arrested at the| T. U. U. L. is fiehting to hold a) 4. Communist Party prior to eration) end fined: Shu aninep pte, ‘ar funeral for Weizenberg. | March 6, during which desks, type- five days. his is not the first time’ that) writers and other office fixtures were smashed and hundreds of 25,000 Mill Workers in Fall River, Mass. Jobless, Starving races ASS. workers arrested. The latest attack on Weizenberg as a member of the revolutionary T.U.U.L. adds one more bloody | proof of the ist role of the A. F. of L, bureaucrats. The fascist development which has been has- ing Co, the|tened by the economic crisis is es- Faitoy 0 looms in the | pecially marked in Chicazo, Here Fall Riv the concentration of basic it ing terri 5 industries, the complete .aterloc » and mass unc ing of finance capital, the state anu city ther ° 25,¢ | city government, the racketeers, the unemployed. The 2 st re working on the night shift ers and the lead- claim y 9,400 workers are ts a week, receive only $1) | » A. F, of L. makes the receiving wages. According to these | to $12 a week, The same conditions; bosses particularly vicious in their statistics it means that there are| are prevailing in all departments in 25,600 workers unemployed. This] all the mills of this city. Last week report was before the closing down hd o* ten textile mills. Liberty 2% > American Prints Co. Let, 509 worker , while the gest tile mill in the c’ f of police ef his thugs closed down until further rs without Also» -ny small mills have closed down. ‘the closing down of these my is called on Fri- mills have thrown cut into the , June 27, at 7 p. m., in the streets over 6,000 workers. s Liberty Lot, to protest against un- While the textile bosses are clos- employment, under the auspices of J. Soderberg, Thompson, R. Suny, Scott and Euhall, charged with dis- ing down the mills they are giving | speed-ups and wage cuts to the workers that are employed. In the | the Trade Union Unity League and the National Textile Workers Union. MANUEL PERRY. efforts to crush the revolutionary workers’ organizations. Detrait Children’s Camp Open June 28 DETROIT. | Childves ~The Workers’ 1p ef Detroit will open day, June 28, at the Worke 1p, situated on Twelve- Mile Road, near Halstead Road. Registration for camp now going on at the camp office, 8242 Wood- ward Avenue. os