The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1930, Page 1

Pa i / , '§,000 WORKERS JOIN FISHER AGE- CUTS | Police Thugs Have Murdered Two Dele- gates to the National Convention of the FINAL CITY EDITION ga. poy Unemployed, Chicago, July 4-5. The Jobless Masses Will Hurl Their Cry “Work or Wages” into the Face of the Bosses’ Government! * ae second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. of March 3 INT ander the act NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1930 | everywhere ex: reixn countries, pting Manhattan ere $m yenr daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaliy *. 24-2N Union Square New York | Vol. VIL, No. 158 Price 3 Cents PROTEST BOSS MURDERS AT GONZALEZ FUNERAL FRIDAY 1 0,000 Workers March in Protest at Funeral of Murdered Negro Worker, Alfred Levy Spread Strike Under Leadership of the Auto Workers Union Oe eae STRIKERS ELECT BROAD STRIKE COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNEMPLOYED AUTO WORKERS FLINT, Mich., July 1—The Fisher Motor Body Department strikes that started a week ago, have swept into a complete strike today of the entire five thousand workers in the plant here. Militantly leading the first departmental strikes of 500 work- ers, the Auto Workers Union has thrown its forces into the strike and immediately set into motion the necessary strike machinery. Starting last week when the metal finishers received a wage We Pledge to Continue the Struggle! New York Workers Swept by Anger at Murder Government BODY OF ALFRED LEVY, NEGRO WORKER, LAID NEAR THAT OF STEVE KATOVIS, ALSO KILLED BY TAMMANY GUNMEN Pouring out from New York’s shops, factories and offices, more than 10,000 workers today marched behind their murdered comrade, Alfred Levy, Negro worker, to demonstrate their revolutionary de- termination to carry on the fight for which Levy died, undying struggle against the capitalist system of hunger, war, and murder. Levy was buried near the body of Steve Katovis, likewise mur- dered by Tammany thugs while in the line of revolutionary duty. cut, and decided to strike under l-adership of the Auto Workers 2 eat 4 sm" *Union, the remaining workers saw through the fake prom- ises of the bosses to raise “qvaveaee OF rammany ORS vite LEADER Hardly had the workers of New York prepared to lay to rest = 3 “their murdered comrade, Levy,® Beh GS when again Tammany laid its| he, 28 er Sharper Mass Struggle Is the Answer REE brutal miidets of working class fighters in three day: This is a challenge to every worker—to every workers’ organiza- tion. This is the answer of the bosses, their government, and their gangsters to the growing militancy of the workers in their struggle against wage cuts, speed-up and unemployment. This is their answer to the increasing resistance of the workers to the murderous attacks of the police on workers’ demonstrations. This is a phase of their war preparations, especially for war against the Soviet Union. With the daily deepening of the economic crisis, the efforts of the bosses to place the burden of this crisis on the backs of the work- ers are intensified. Hundreds of thousands of workers were first thrown into the streets, jobless. The ruthless slashing of wages fol- lowed. These measures were accompanied by the inhuman speding up of\the workers in the factories, causing additional thousands to loose their jobs. Poverty and privation became the lot of millions of workers. As the workers answered with strikes and demonstrations, strong- er and more murderous repressive measures were used. Picket lines were smashed by gunmen and uniformed thugs. Workers were vicious- {0,000 WORKERS wages, and came out. A broad strike committee | already elected, the auto work- jers show determination to fight the wage-cutting, speed-up program that General Motors tried to put over department by depart- ment. Realizing the need for unity be-| tween the unemployed and employed auto workers, meetings have been arranged for the jobless and three unemployed auto workers elected to the general strike committee. Nipping the treacherous plot of (Continued on Page Five) TOMSKY ATTACKS -By FRED ELLIS IN MASS FUNERAL | |Workers Fake “Grievance Committee” Sells Out Striking Miners SCRANTON, Pa.—Open betrayals again mark the strike of the miners fighting against the Pittston Coal Company in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania. The Grievance Com- mittee, which has posed as a committee of the rank and file, but actually a committee under the domination of the district { worker and de Carry on Fight NEW YOR ling, but grin { ing themselves to | of their fallen com | workers paid their ary tribute to the work out 10,000 volution- Convention of the murdered last Friday night by “FOR ALFRED LEVY murderous hand on a second| revolutionary worker, when Gonzalo Gonzalez, a Mexican worker, was shot down in cold blood last night by the Tam- many thug, Edmund O’Brien. Again thousands of workers Pledge to) will shake the streets in their revolutionary march in honor- ing their fallen comrade, Gon- zalez, when they will demon- strate Friday, July 3, at 9:30 a. m. at 308 Lenox Ave. near |125th St., against the murder em of Wall Street. | Hold Gonzalez Mass ® MASS FUNERAL | FOR GONZALEZ. FRIDAY, JULY 3 Second Comrade Killed By Boss Thugs NEW YORK, July 1.—Swept by a second wave of mass anger at the murder of Gonzalo Gonzalez, a Latin-American worker, last night {at the hands of a Tammany gun- man, the revolutionary workers of New York are preparing to stage a huge funeral demonstration that j will hurl the mass hatred of thou- i " 1 Protest || sands of workers at the hunge ~ Bae : officials, has called off the #—-—-—-- -. | thugs at an open-air meet Funera Be ce oe ee ee ly clubbed and beaten. The police hirelings of the Tammany-boss-con- atts : ‘ continuati re i | Harle ida j tem and its killers, trolled administration murdered Steve Katovis, ‘Then came the 3 Sree es elspa LUG Uee GUGt | See iat Wrkaes ta eee (ilses| Bata past allenhly, waseeands | Friday, July 4th) “open, cold-blooded murder is now bloody attacks on the March 6th demonstrations, accompanied by the | | ing them back to work. The KE : | | arrest and conviction of Foster, Miner, Amter and Raymond, and hun- dreds of others throughout the country. All of these acts were in- dications of the ever sharper class struggle between the workers and the bosses. All of these measures having failed to quench the fires of revolt among the workers, the bosses have now set up a murder regime. Word has been passed down to shoot to kill. The bloody murder of Comrades Levy, Weizenberg, and now Gonzalez is their answer. Along | with wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment, poverty and misery for the masses, they expect us to accept the outright murder of our comrades— workers who have been in the forefront of the growing workers’ counter offensive. The answer of the workers must be a categorical—No! Our or- ganizations—the Communist Party, the revolutionary T. U. U. L. unions, workers’ defense corps, unemployed councils—must be strength- _ ened, Our activities in the shops and factories must be increased. Greater masses must be mobilized for the struggle. The murder regime of the bosses must be ended by the revolutionary mass activities of ‘an angered working class determined to avenge the death of its fight- ers by more determinedly meeting the bosses’ offensive and by over- throwing the bloody capitalist regime and establishing a government of workers and poor farmers in the United States, ~ Fight for Unemployment Insurance Right Opposition Aids Soviet Foes (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, July 1—At the dis- cussion at the Party Congress on June 29, Tomsky admitted the com- plete correctness of the Party atti- tude and declared that the Right Wingers formed no faction. They merely sought to represent their views within the framework of Party discipline. However, the logic of the struggle led to breaches of discipline which were exploited by the enemies of the Soviet Union. He regretted his own errors and subordinated himself to’ the Party. He also condemned his impermis- sible resignation from the chair- manship of the Central Council of the Soviet Labor Unions. He de- clared that the struggle of the op- position damaged socialist construc- tion. Any opposition against the Party policy inevitably developed - ‘© throughou’ the anthracite are now struggle against mass lay-offs lectin: delegates to the N. M. U. and for equal division of work | convention which will be held in is entirely given up. | Whether the men will return to| work under these conditions is ex tremely doubtful. Already 1,400 men employed in the Underwood) mine, who refused to accept the bosses’ terms, have been locked out. The officials of the Dunmore mine attempted to force a yellow dog contract, repudiating all unions, on the men with the result that there also the 1,200 men voted to} continue the struggle. Under these circumstances the} National Miners’ Union is intensi-| fying its activities, calling upon the miners to continue and spread the strike, to fight against the yellow Pittsburgh on July 26th, and where plans will be made for developing a strike of all anthracite miners on September 1st at the expiration of the present agreement and for spreading this into a national min- ers strike in both the anthracite! | and bituminous fields. * a) ve PITTSBURGH, Pa, — Eighteen hundred miners struck in Cassville, West Virginia today against 13 per cent wage cut. The strike is being led by the Pittsburgh district of the National Miners’ Union, with | District President Note directly in charge. Simultaneously 250 miners in the Versailles, Pa., mine struck dog contract and the lockout, for the 6-hour day, 5-day week, and the other demands of the miners. The betrayals of the Grievance Committee, occurring simultaneous- ly with reports from New York that the Lewis-Boylan forces are conducting negotiations with the mine owners behind closed doors against a 10 per cent wage cut, also under the leadership of the N.M.U. Representatives of the Workers International Relief, one of them a striking Penowa miner, who ha-e been raising strike relief for the strikers, were arrested in Pitts- burgh. This open collaboration be- tween the coal operators and the workers viewed the body of Com- rade Levy lying in state Harlem section headquarter: Communist Party, at 144th Si Lenox Ave. From sweatsho: the factories and office steady outpouring of wo: ious to demonstrate their anc struggle against th that has its thugs mur for daring to protest. Police Thugs Afraid. Afraid of the flaming anger of the workers, the police around corners and alleys not dare come near t ssembly point of the mass funeral. It was not until the demonstration had formed and started up 143rd St. that the uniformed thugs formed a sullen “escort.” Gathered at the coffin of Com- rade Levy, speakers of the Commu- nist Party, American Negro Labor at. the of the and , from a S$ anx- hatred worke but did Congress and the Marine Workers | defying the threats of the police Industrial Union and other organ-|@nd American Federation of Labor izations called upon the workers to fascist leaders, the capitalist papers avenge the death of their comrade | #nd the murders of three workers in by fiercer struggle in building the | the last three days by police and hy | revolutionary trade union move- | sulked | || The mass funeral demonstra- |tion for Comrade Gonzalo Gon- zalez, Communist worker mur- | |dered by a Tammany policeman, | | will be held Friday, July 4th, at | | 9:30 a. m. sharp. | | The funeral demonstration | |leaves section headquarters of | ||the Communist Party at 308 | Lenox Ave. near 125th St. at | | the above time. | The body of our fallen com-| | rade will lie in state at the above \ address today. 1G CONVENTION TO OPEN JULY 4th ® shown to be the policy of Tammany and its Wall St. masters in beating down the workers and jobless who dare take up the struggle for or- ganization, bread and the right to jlive, in the murder of Gonzalez, a | member of the Communist Party. Blazing from the hand of the uni- ‘formed thug, Edmund O’Brien, bul- ,lets were emptied into the breast ;of the unarmed worker. Then, shoved into a cab, the dying work- |er was taken to prison instead of a hospital, and within an hour was dead. On Friday, July 4th, the revolu- tionary workers of New York will pay their last respects to their fallen comrade, and demonstrate against the system that starves, ex-| ploits and murders workers. Start- ing 9:30 a. m. sharp, from Commu- nist Party section headquarters at 308 Lenox Ave., near 125th St., the mass procession will proceed up 126th, down Lenox Ave., over to 115th St., down to Fifth Ave. and over to 110th St. where speakers j will address the demonstration. The Spanish Workers’Club stated: CHICAGO, July 1,—Resolutely A. F, of L. gangsters, the Trade into a struggle against the Party ‘The Spanish Workers Club (of 5 h for a new long term agreement! police make it necessary to a VER 8,000,000 are unemployed. If part time workers, and those | and the proletarian revolution. The ment, the Communist Party and} Union Unity League is set for the | which Gonzalez was a member) has which will still further worsen the| strengthen and broaden the relief other organizations of the workers. | Seat Unemployed Convention open-| laid off “temporarily” are counted the number is still greater. With the deepening of the economic crisis, grudgingly admitted by even the bourgeois economists, the number of unemployed will become still greater. The coming fall and winter will see the number increased _to well above the 10,000,000 mark. “s The suffering and misery among the toiling masses, already evi- dent on every hand, will b2 increased many fold. The meager reserves of the masses are already exhausted; savings are used up; supplies of clothes purchased in more prosperous times are worn out; the workers’ credit is cut off. Evictions, now taking place in all large cities at a rapid rate, will be still further increased with the growth of unem- ployment and the further impoverishment of the masses. This faces the masses with the need for an immediate decision. It is either starve or fight. Starvation and further misery for the work- ers and their families is unthinkable. Sharp, determined struggle for “work or wages,” for unemployment insurance, can be the workers’ only answer. This must be the answer, in behalf of the millions of ~ unemployed, given by the Chicago convention of the unemployed ers, ~The struggle for unemployment insurance must be placed in the foreground. By means of hunger marches and mass demonstrations, by struggle against evictions, by demonstrative demands on govern- ment officials for work or wages—for immediate relief, by giving full and energetic support to the Communist Party—the only Party that fights for the workers—in the election campaign, the struggle for ‘social insurance must be developed. Through the mass power of the <workers the government must be forced to pay full wages to the “workers during periods of unemployment, the funds to be secured by “* taxing the rich, and to be administered by the workers’ organizations. This struggle for social insurance must be the central’ demand put . © forth at the Chicago convention. right wing is the chief danger and Tomsky declared he would assist conditions of the miners, is creating | drive. in defeating it. work of the N. M. U. and for the Some Lame Excuses Smashed We advise you to read this short report. We have received a few letters from Daily Worker supporters and a Party member in Pater- son, N. J., said that times are so hard and workers are so backward that it is impossible to collect funds to keep our paper going and grow- ing. It is true that times are hard. There is much unemployment, wages are going down and down, exploitation through speed-up is in- creasing. But when anyone tells us that the workers are backward and that it is impossible to collect funds to save the Daily Worker, we have a ready answer. Our answer is that the comrade who holds this opinion is backward, is making excuses for his own resistance to mass work, is so far away from the workers in his shop, neighborhood and a more favorable situation for the| quests that all funds be sent direct- organization that he does not feel the surge of the employed and un- employed workers everywhere towards our red banner, our leader- ship, who are coming our way just because times are hard. What others do you can do, And what are others doing? Mid- night performance Freiheit Singing Society, Allerton Theatre, New York, workers present contributed $50. Farewell party for. Comrade Green of the Cooperative Bakery, New York, $27.50 for the Daily ; Worker and an equal amount for the Freiheit. Detroit Workmen's Cooperative sends $50. In dimes and quarters from the unemployed | and starving miners of Staunton, Ill, $5. The Benton, Ill, National The relief committee re- ly to 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. (Continued on Page Two) Miners’ Union Local 519, $3. From Slovak workers and their organ- ization in Endicott, N. Y., $10, From a farmer in Little Falls, Minn., who writes, “We farmers are going bankrupt and more of us will soon be knocking on the factory gates,” $1. From Madison, Ill, comes a letter with $50. “Let this sum be a document for the Fish investigating committee so that they may know that it is the Bolshevized American workers who are supporting and fighting for the Daily Worker. American imperialism is manuring the soil in which Communism is growing very fast,” the comrade writes. An ex-service man from Davenport, Ia., writes: “I am in sympathy with the Communist Party and believe the majority of ex-service men have similar views. I think the ex-service men ought to be organized into an organization to fight for the Communist Party. My buddy and me are sending $2 to help you.” We have many campaign lists on hand filled with contributions made by workers in the steel mills, in the auto shops, in textile mills, in the mines. Space does not allow mentioning all of them. Workers may not be able to give as generously as formerly, but there are tens of thousands of workers more ready to give than ever before. Take that campaign list you have and collect. Help complete the $25,000 emergency fund our Daily needs speedily Showing the meaning of recent | ing here July 4, prepared to strug- murders of three workers in Chi-| Sle for the right to demonstrate at Union Park and to go through with the convention at Ashland Audi- torium, to struggle for full family support for the unemployed at the cost of the bosses and the govern- ment. | A deep anger exists among the workers at the wave of governnsft by murder, the murder in New York Convention, the Negro worker Al- fred Levy, the second New York | murder of Gonzalo Gonzalez, an un- employed worker, and the murder here of Herzel Weizenberg, member of the T. U. U. L. group in the Painters’ Union by the A. F. of L. gangsters. The open fascist character of the of a delegate to the Unemployed been one of the leading working class organizations in Harlem to initiate a campaign against racial |discrimination of Latin American | workers and for the defense of the five Latin American comrades ar- rested last week at an open air | meeting. | “The Spanish Workers Club as well as the Association of Porto Rican Revolutionary Workers, which participated in the open air meet- ing Monday night, vehemently pro- tests against the brutal murder of Gonzales, We pledge to continue the struggle for social and political equality of Latin American work- }ers and solida~i!; with Negro and | white workers.” | Gonzalez, an active revolutionary worker, was of Mexican birth and |a baker by occupation. Unemployed \derelicts” and urges “the police | should be on hand to keep the mob/ murder of her husband, Comrade A. F. of L. leaders is shown not) for seven months he had beer only by the murder of Weizenberg elected to the National Convention by the Painters’ Union leaders, {of the Unemployed. He leaves ¢ Durkin terms the Unemployed wife, Dolores Gonzalez, a foot Convention delegates “bums and! worker. Though grief-stricken by the from alighting from freight trains ; on their arrival.” The fascist Durkin, whose inti- (Continued om Page Five) Gonzalez declared that all she coul say was that she stood ready tc take up the fight left off by Gon Py zalo Gonzalez.