The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1930, Page 1

“WORK OR WAGES” The Flint auto workers are fighting the Wall Street General Motors Co. wage- cutting, speed-up and lay-off pro- gram, the bosses, police and state troopers! All workers must rally to the support of the Flint strikers! = a + — a ae st Vol. VII., No. 160 it a sone Company tn 2 pt Sunday by The ¢ ~ Union Square New York City wprodaily _ NEW YOR MARCH TODAY TO PROTEST MURDER OF GO Assemble 9:30 at 308 Lenox Ave., Procession to Mass Meeting Place ‘MURDER PART OF GENERAL ATTACK ON WORKERS, COMMUNIST PARTY AND | ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE PLEDGE TO FIGHT UNCEASINGLY AGAINST IT We, Too, Must Prepare! AY obscure note in yesterday, papers stated that the government of Finland has resigned, the parliament on Wednesday having passed a law proposed by the government to suppress the Communist press. The anti-Communist law. was passed with the understanding that the government (the cabinet) would resign and leave the way clear for a fascist coalition government, that is—a coalition of the fascists with the “socialists.” In short, the fascist regime of capitalist Finland is throwing off its cloak of pretense and is revealed in its true form as a naked fascist dictatorship. Why does this development take place at this moment? We call attention to the statement published on the last page of this paper on the situation in Finland, issued by the Finnish Bureau of the Com- munist Party of the United States. The establishment of a fascist dictatorship in Finland is one more proof of the preparations being rushed by the capitalist world for war against the Soviet Union. Finnish industry is ruled by American and British imperialist investors. The counter-revolutionary “Kemmerer Commission” which quietly is working in Finland, as well as in China, Latin America, Poland, Rumania and many other countries, has its finger in the fascist pie of Finland. Without the consent, without the express order of the imperialist government of the United States, which gives official authority to these Kemmerer spies as “financial agents,” the Finnish capitalists and capitalist politicians would not dare to move a finger. Therefore, the establishment of an open fascist dictatorship in Finland, to try to crush the working class that will resist an armed attack on the Soviet Union, is definitely a move toward war not only by Finland, but by American imperialism, upon the Soviet Union. War is in the air, workers! And all who heed this must prepare. Organize committees in all shops, mines, factories, to fight for the daily interests of all the workers, one of the main interests being to prevent imperialist war, throwing the masses into a new world slaughter. Organize everywhere to come out on the streets on August First, to demonstrate in protest against the feverish preparations for war being carried on by the United States government! Cops, Kings and Wretches HOSE “kind, gentle and courteous” Irish cops which go hither and yon to club unemployed workers and shoot down Communists, should fee) allswelled up-# the compliments given them by the British king—also known as the king of Ireland. To be exact, his moniker is “George V, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Do- minions Beyond the Seas—King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.” It is nice that King George Fifth of Ireland derives his authority from God, since this gives Ramsay MacDonald, who derives his author- ity from the king, a bit of divinity that mixes nicely with his leader- ship of the “socialist” supporters of monarchy, and is even reflected in the “socialist” support of capitalism in this country, the Most Rev- erend Norman Thomas. It was field day for the supporters of King George last Saturday, and the British Consul General in New York gave due recognition to the part the Irish cops played in it. We are sure that the, King’s constabulary in Ireland, who have clubbed, shot and jailed Irish workers and peasants for the greater | glory of British kings and the greater profit of British landlords, would | have enthusiastically cheered the “kind and gentle” offspring of their victims for trying to club demonstrators against the “King of Ireland and Emperor of India.” While the Irjsh workers and peasants in the old country can chew their finger nails and curse the British king, they will be delighted to know that the British consul in New York is handing out bouquets to their brethren for “maintaining the best traditions of the force” in fighting against freedom for India. “Traditions” are the chief stock in trade of British imperialist bu- reaucrats, but if the cops had maintained the traditions of the Irish masses, of the brave “Molly Maguires” and the heroic James Connelly, the traditions of the fighters for Irish liberty who fell in the Easter | rising of 1916, they would have joined with the demonstrators for free- | dom for India, and the British consul would have sung another tune. After the police brutality of March 6, the “An Phoblacht,” a paper, but not a Communist paper, published in Ireland, denounced as rene- gade Irish the barbarous clubbers of unemployed workers on Union ware, a Of course, those who join the police force are no longer Irish, or Jewish, or Negro, but just cops; and as cops they are defenders of the ruling class, the hireling dogs of exploiters and oppressors, whether these be British or American. They are part of the apparatus to sus- tain the “tradition” of oppression, the “tradition” of wage slavery and - hunger and submission for the masses, and legalized robbery and luxury for the few. The half-witted consul general has a whole boxfull of “traditions,” and also expressed pleasure that “the Indians resident in this city have maintained the high standards of their peoples,” because the few eurio merchants and students of Indian capitalist origin in New York didn’t show up at the demonstration. But he was a bit blind to the considerable number of Hindu work- ers present, Hindu workers among whom, by the way, there.have been some agents of British imperialism busy recently assassinating, in the manner of the best British tradition, the heroic and best of their revo- lutionary leaders. Incidentally, what are the “high standards” of the Indian peoples? They are the “standards” of famine, incredible poverty, involuntary ignorance, slavery and death, due to the oppression of British imperial- + ism, the robbery by profits and taxes that fatten British lords and native Indian princes, while the Indian people slave and die under the ‘heel of British soldiery. 3¢ is such “high standard” of servile submission to tyranny which the Indian masses are changing into a standard of revolt, a standard on which is borne the Hammer and Sickle of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolution. And the Daily Worker, which the poisonous agent of British im- perialism in New York terms “a wretched paper,” is proud to defend and encourage the revolutionary masses of India in their effort to overthrow the murderous oppression of King George and Ramsay Mac- Donald’s “labor” party. Let cops and kings take due note: “the wretched of the earth” are rising! DAWES RETURNS TO WALL ST. WASHINGTON. —Gen, Charles G. Dawes returned here from the Court of St. James, where he rep- resented American imperialism in the “race for arms” convention at London. Under the guise of being here on a two months’ vacation, Dawes, Hoover and Wall Street will discuss new tactics for the fight with Great Britain in the competi- for raw material sourees and The discussion of preparation will take no small of their time, GERMAN COMMUNISTS CLASH WITH POLICE. BERLIN.—As German patriots wildly celebrated the French evacu- ation of the Rhine, Communists militantly demonstrated against such a display of nationalism. They told workers to fight capitalism, fraternize with the French work- ers and to organize for the estab- lishment of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. Thousands of Communists and fascists clashed. Nine people were seriously injured and one ish rk arrests were made, CONVENTION OP II RS Feaaens Hmm Tp Office at New York. N. Y. ander the act of March 3. 187% , FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930 UNEMPLOYED 1S. CHIEF DEMAND Nation-Wide Struggle) To Be Organized for Social Insurance Don’t Starve — Fight! Millions Will Force| Bosses to Yield CHICAGO, July 3.—Delegates to the great Unemployed Convention are pouring into the ¢ Many from out of town are arriving early |to take part today in the mass fu- neral of Comrade Weizenberg, mur- ; dered by A. F, of L. gangsters hired | by the officials of the Painters’ | Union. | The delegates are coming in on | old auto trucks, by horse and wagon, on freight trains and hitch-hiking, | to participate in the Naticnal Un- |employment Convention that will] organize a nation-wide and pe ent struggle for “work or wages,” for social insurance, the fight ! against wage cuts and speed ups, |for the sever-hour, five-day week. | The convention is scheduled to open July 4 with a great demonstra- |tion at Union Park, Ashland and Washington, in spite of police | threats “to smash both demonstra- ~ TEND DISCUSS! —By FRED ELLIS tion and convention. Wires received from Springfield, Worker FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 46 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan and Brons New York City and foreign countries, there $* a year, Price 3 Cents BULLETIN. * * * headquarters at 308 Lenox; Ave., near 125th St., and then in masses, with banners and NZALEZ! At a late hour last night a large crowd of workers, constantly changing, were as- ;sembled in front of the Communist section headquarters at 308 Lenox Ave. 0 | stream of workers left the crowd, passed inside of the room to view the body of their dead | comrade, and made way for others, A constant Denunciation and defiance for the murderous capitalists of New York, seat of the American empire, and for their police assas- sin who killed Genzalo Gonzalez will be voiced today by a mass pro- test meeting and parade of his fellow workers. Yesterday the Communist Party, the Anti-Imperialist League, ithe Spanish Workers Club, and numerous unions and workers’ organ- izations condemned the murder of this worker. Today at 9.30 a. m. the workers of New York will assemble at = ae ~~ ‘the Communist Party sectiony’ % i? 200 BRICKYARD TOILERS STRIKE AT 10 P. C. CUT. BEACON, N. Y., July 3.—Refus- Jentire St. Louis delegation, includ Illinois, state that 500 workers dem- onstrated at the Courthouse. Eight- een were arrested, including Her- shey, organizer of the National Miners’ Union, and Gray, organizer of the Young Communist League, both being dragged down while Raid Communist Offices, Charge 5 With Sedition Sip Ve SESE | SCRANTON, Pa., July 3.—The headquarters of the Com-| T slogans, with handbills to tell t the workers the story of Gonzales’ 4 poise | murder by the Tammany police,| ing to acept a wage-cut of 10 per * . and with hundreds distributing the| cent, more than 200 brick workers Right Policy L ea d Ss Daily Worker to the crowds along} in the Penings: one one a itali th , they will march in pro-| pany’s yard, walked out on st . Back to Capitalism eas enor the dead comrade. | Due to the slept byesde vi oh | i Y struction and a falling demand for (Wireless by Inprecorr) The procession will move up 126th | str T MOSCOW, July 3—At the Party | St, down Lenox Ave., 115th St.,| bricks, the bosses are seeking to Congress discussion on July 1, Yar-,and Fifth Ave. to the circle at 110th| Place the burden of the crisis upon speaking. munist Party in Scranton were raided yesterday. Ethel Baran; Comrade Foss, sec- TS Were arrested and charged with sedition. Five work-| Among them | tion organizer of the Communist! are those most active in the organization of miners in the an-| Party; Comrade Stevens, organizer of the Party in St. Louis, and th ing seven Negro workers, were |rounded up after the demonstration | tN ake 3 s and jailed. Many were threatened|mine strikers by the United inves and beaten in jail. The workers | protested and resisted these out-| rages at the demonstration. Those arrested were ,bailed out | and driven out of town by the po- | lice, though their trial is set for next week. The entire southern Illinois coal | | field’s delegation is en route to Chi- cago on auto trucks. The Gary workers have organized Shop Committees in both: the Illi- nois Steel and American Sheet and Tin Plate company, carrying on} daily work inside the shop and are | building Unemployed Councils. | Many Gary delegates will attend the Unemployed Convention here. Chicago workers are giving the | delegates comradely welcome. They | are assigned to workers’ houses to | sleep and eats are being arranged. | The Bakers have already guaran- thracite. tional Miners’ Union, which is leading the struggle against the sell-out of the Pittston Mine Workers of America of- ficials and the treacherous griev- ance board, which has just called| foff the strike there. near Scranton, Another arrested is Joe Tash, youth organizer of the N. M. U. With these are jailed and charged with sedition John Little, youth or- ganizer of the Trade Union Unity League, and Sylvan Pollack, rep- resentative of the International La- bor Defense. Each of the workers’ leaders is held on $1,000 bail. The Interna- Pittston is tional Labor Defense is trying to| raise the money and will defend them when they appear Saturday for their first hearing. In the raid the police carried off literature, dues stamps and mem- bership books. One of the arrested, Dan Slinger, is organizer of the | Pravda, of a million and a half was | whose ® | , Little, national youth organizer of | the Trade Union Unity League | Ivan A. Pollack was “held for! igation” when he went to the| ‘police station to arrange bail for | those who had been arrested. | Slinger, Little and Pollack were released after their -arrest Sunday | in time to be arrested again yes- terday. Between arrests, Pollack had issued the following statement for the International Labor De- fense: “Every mining town must have its I. L. D. branch. In it must be found all militant, left wing work- ers who toil in the mines, as well as sympathizers with the building! of a working-class defense organ- | ization. | The mine owners’ terror is de-| veloping. More workers will be ar- rested, more working-class meet- | ings will be broken up in the near future. This means that the I. L.| D. will have increased respon- sibility. ! oslavsky condemned the rights and, St. and Fifth Ave., where will be| dealt with the question of the press, |hx’’ the mass open air demonstra- declaring that the circulation of the | tion against American imperialism, victim Gonzalez is, and| insufficient. Mikoyan followed and against the murder of workers by discussed the urban food supply. He pol Gonzalez is the third vi declared that the grain difficulties tim within a week of the capitali were solved, that vegetable andj|thugs. He is the second to fall sugar supplics were improving and, before their guns and clubs in New that only meat fat offered difficulty., York within that length of time. The solution provided will be social- Who They Kill ized cattle breeding. — 3 At the open air meeting speak- After the speech, Voroshiloy and ‘ey will tell of the meaning of this Stalin closed the discussion, declar-|yiting of workers in’ the North, ing that a reiteration of points was coming at the same time as @ wave unecessary as the congress was|of Iynching in the South, and. the unanimous, They demanded that the Great unemployment movement rights admit the fundamental dif-|yith its national convention open- ferences between their program and ing today in Chicago. th. Party program and that the | “Sam Darcy, for the New York dis- former led to the restoration of capi- talism. The rights must fight Communist Party, will be the chair- against deviation, otherwise the/man on the 110th Street meeting. Party would keep hammering at The speaker for the Communist them. The resolution was unani- party will be Baker, district organ- | mously adopted. > itriet executive committee of the izer; for the American Negro La- | 7—® bor Congress, Newton, who faces | Report to Sell Daily | slesteeation on pcueray eae . rection” at Atlanta; for the Anti-Im- Workers in Parade | jeriatist' League, Paz, one of those assailed by American imperialism in teed enough bread, and enough milk Arrested 3 Days Before. _ has been pledged by the Milk There have been previous raids Wien: Drivers. ; and arrests, though none before re- A telegram from the coal fields | Suited in sedition charges. Meet- of northern ‘West Virginia states | iN&S arranged by the Communist | that their delegation has been de- | Party, N. M. U. and I. L. D. have | layed by a strike of the coal miners, Pee" smashed, | many mines joining the strike. | 4 National Miners’ Union mass | meeting arranged in Pittstowy on Sunday was prevented by a dis- play of police force and the arrest A 7 of the speakers. Those jailed in- gualy il at Gouvernor's Hospital. | cluded Freeman Thompson, national i undergo an operation| president of the N. M. U. shortly. Malkin was poisoned two Frankfeld, Communis years ago. ganizer; Dan Slinger MALKIN SERIOUSLY ILL. Comrade Naumoff Malkin is seri-| or- John and The New York District Com- mittee of the Communist Party calls all unit Daily Worker rep- resentatives to report Friday at | “Workers in Pennsylvania should help build up the I. L. D. in the anthracite. The district office is lo-| cated at 315 Ad-Lin Building, Scran- ton, Pa., where funds to defend the | |9 # ™ at the very latest, at 308 workers arrested should be sent.” Lenox Ave. where committees | ce SEL will be formed to sell the Daily | MEXICAN SILVER MINES To | {Worker along the line of the funeral march of Comrade Gon- SHUT DOWN as MEXICO CITY.—Mexiean silver | | jes, 4 Gots of Daily Workers mines will soon shut down, throwing | | tin, Every unit Daily Worker cyee + (0) auiners Out of york There | ls rsentative-id’ responsible for is no demand for silver because of getting at least 5 members of puss ride toseket slumps: Obie | Fie unit to-eall these pavers on metal industries here are slowing the line of march. down to unprecedented low levels. bie The Flint Strike and the “Daily” Flint, Mich., is today the center of an historic struggle, a struggle against one of the most powerful corporations of the country, the Gen- eral Motors Co. ‘This big strike is historic because, led by the Revolu- tionary Auto Workers’ Union, it already symbolizes to workers in all industries a militant offensive against the bosses which flows from a revolutionary T. U. U. L. leadership, strikers’ control of the strike, rank and file strike committees and mass picketing. The Daily Worker is in this strike. It serves the valuable pur- pose of informing the strikers every day regarding strike tactics and strategy, of uniting the workers in the struggle upon the basis of a common policy. The second day of the strike 1,000 Daily Workers were disposed of, The third day of the strike 5,000 were sent to Flint and 5,000 to Detroit, to help call the auto workers in Detroit into united Struggle with their fellow-workers in Flint. News of this big strike must spread rapidly among all auto work- ers. Toledo, Cleveland and every city where General Motors and Ford are operating, every shop where auto workers are sweating and bleed- ing must be flooded with Daily Workers at once. Shop committees must be established, thousands must immediately be taken into the Auto Workers U1 intensive organiz And workers in the steel mills, in all industries, must be informed about this strike. We must reach them with the Daily Worker also, to tell. them, day by day, how the strike is developing under the leader- ship of our revolutionary trade union center, the Trade Union Unity League. This places a task upon every Party unit, section and district which must be carried through with dispatch and efficiency, A great strike is on in Flint! The whole working class must learn about it, draw lessons from it. If this is done (and why should we say “if’—it must be done) then we will at once broaden our base for Daily Worker support. Work- ers who read the Daily will give to help keep our Daily going and growing. Right now, today, broad mass collections should be organized in Flint and Detroit, part of which should go to place the Daily Worker into the hands of all auto workers and all other workers. Other cities containing auto shops must follow suit. Everything pos- sible must be done to strengthen the Daily Worker, to complete its $25,000 fighting fund, yo that we can flood all industries with Daily Workers now, while the big Flint strike is still in progress, ion. The Daily Worker will break the ground for an co ation campaign and will help broaden the struggle. | jing attended by four to five thou- Mexico; for the International La- bor Defense, Beatrice Siskind, its |New York secretary, and for the Trade Union Unity League, Cyril Hope, Negro organizer of the Nee- dle Trades Workers Industrial Union. | The meeting will start at 11 A.M. jand will adjourn at 12:30. Widow Joins Party “At the bier of my husband, mur- ‘dered by the police, I, as a working woman toiling for fourteen hours a day, always near starvation, make application to join the Communist Party, the Party of the workers. I appeal to all workers, especially the Latin American workers, to avenge the murderous act of the bosses’ police by joining the Communist’ Party and fighting against the bosses and their police.” These were the words of Dolores Gonzales, wife of the Communist worker, Gonzales. Many Join Party The rising indignation and bit- | terness of the workers over the ter- ror campaign of the Tammany po- lice is expressed in the hundreds of applications that are coming in dai- ly from Negro and white workers for membership in the Communist Party. At the funeral demonstra- tion of Alfred Levy, martyred Ne- |gro worker, hundreds joined the |Party, On Wednesday night, a con- jtinuous stream of workers number- ing into thousands passed through \the Section headquarters of the | |Communist Party at 308 Lenox Av- enue, to pay their respects to Com- the brick workers. Brickyards is Roseton, Jova, and Haverstraw aré reported to be affected by the ac- centuated depression in building materials, sand workers at 114th Street, show- ed their readiness to struggle un- der the leadership of the Communist Party against the whole system of capitalist exploitation and oppres- sion. Over 100 Latin American workers joined the Communist Par- ty at this meeting. Party Pledges Struggle In concluding arrangements for the funeral demonstration on Fri- day, the Communist Party in a statement, again pledged itself to intensify the struggle against unem- ployment and starvation, wage cuts, speed-up, mass lay-offs and police terror. The Communist Party calls upon the working class to smash the ruthless Tammany Hall murder jcampaign against the workers by joining the ranks of the Party, by building the revolutionary unions, the Trade Union Unity League, by forming workers’ defense corps.’ The Communist Party has an- nounced that its candidates, among i whom are William Z. Foster, who is the Communist nominee for Gov- ernor, will make the murder of the workers, and police brutality against the workers, an outstanding issue in the present election campaign. ee es “Build Anti-Imperialist League” The Anti-Imperialist League. of the United States vehemently pro- tests against the murder of Gon- zalo Gonzales, one of its active members, by Policeman O’Brien. It states: “We condemn the white-washing of this murder by the police depart- ment. Comrade G, Gonzales was killed because of his anti-imperialist activities, especially in the last few days, in connection with the cam- paign of the League against racial discrimination of Latin Americans in Harlem, the killing of Alfred Levy, and in protest of the savage killing of twenty Mexican workers in Matamorros by the Mexican government, tool of American im- perialism. “These police terrors’ have been intensified of late in Harlem be- cause of the Anti-Imperislist activi- ties of the colonial masses organiz- ing themselves in support of the independence of the eol-~ies ¢ American imperialism and age its national tools. oat “We call’ upon all workchat especially Latin Americasically to join ovr Leorue, thr the cause for which ¢ All members of the Ay League are called w rade Gonzales, a huge mass t= the mass funeral d day,” : |