The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1930, Page 1

M Unemployed Workers! Organize in Coun- cils Under the Leadership of the Chi- cago National Convention and the Trade Union Unity League! Fight For Work or Wages! Defeat the Bosses’ Plan to Make You Pay For the Crisis! gon aS Feasts aT TS ooney, Billings Doomed to Prison for Li —— Kutereé an secoud-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. under the act of Marek 8, 1878, Vol. VII., 2-26 No. 161 Company ine, CHICAGO COPS CLUB DOWN 25,000 Workers March in Mas Hoover Becomes “Firm” HE capitalist press is patting Hoover on the back for being “firm” with Congress. However. it is not with Congress that Hoover showed “firmness,” but with the disabled veterans of the last im- perialist war. The capitalist congressmen want the veterans’ votes, that’s why they made a noise for a whide over the Veterans’ Pension Bill. But they are capitalist congressmen, and that is why they quit even the @emagogical noise, and voted the way the chief executive of American capitalism ordered them—against the veterans. Hoover is opposed even to his own recommendations. He said, at first, that he was opposed to giving the veterans a cent, let alone a real pension. The upshot of it is, that after finding out that the hundreds of thousands of working class veterans are talking against the capitalist system of unemployment, starvation and war, that they are talking about revolution and the Communist Party, Hoover was willing to compromise—on a cent. What is the result? A war veteran who is 100 per cent disabled, who cannot earn anything because of disability, will get “a maximum” of forty miserable dollars a month—if he is lucky, and anything below. that down to nothing at all, if he is unlucky—that is, if he doesn’t lick somebody’s boots, if he don’t hire the “proper” pension attorney at the “proper” fee. Any veteran who can look without anger at this shameless (capi- talist) treatment of the ex-service men is either a crook or a simple minded supporter of the bosses and the bosses’ government. In the first classification, that of crooks, we must certainly set down the officials of the American Legion and the Veterans of For- eign Wars. They helped Hoover be “firm” against the veterans, and the jellyfish got a backbone at once, using these fascist anti-working * class officials of these organizations to make the capitalist congress- men get over their fright about votes by telling them that the Legion and the V. F. W. would keep the ex-service men in line for capitalism ! and its candidates in the next election. Will Mr. Hoover, or any of these legislative agents of the bosses, be willing to try to live, in a totally disabled condition and with no other income, on the maximum, mind you, of $40 a month? They will not! Moreover, they could not, and it is an insult and an outrage on the workers who were roped into the war to back up the billions of dollars loaned to the Allies by the Morgan bank, for the capitalist profiteers who fattened on the world slaughter, to offer such a despicable sum to a worker veteran. Besides, passing the bill and actually giving the pension are two different things—the govern- ment dares them to try to get it. The veterans should learn something about all this. One fright- ened senator quoted a letter from a worker, who said: “We made the rich, and we will not starve!” \ But they will starve unless they do something more than to write letters to capitalist politicians, It is clear that the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are controlled by capitalists and capi- talist politicians who are in favor of letting working class veterans starve. Such veterans must first of all realize their position as a part of the working class, with interests in common with the workers against the capitalist class. As veterans they should join and support the League of Work- ing Class War Veterans. As workers they should ally themselves with other workers in the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League and sup- port the Communist Party, the vanguard of the whole working class in all its struggles. As part of the struggles against capitalism is the struggle against capitalist war, the ex-service men who are workers should rally to the support of the world-wide working class demonstration against the danger of war which will be held on August 1. They should find out, if they do not know, how much better the Published daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily Puliishing _ ion Square New York City NY ® WORKERS HONOR MARTYR, JOIN IN THE STRUGGLE Hundreds Apply for Membership in the Communist Party Latin Workers Active Intensify Fight on Police Terror | mGO NEW YORK, July 4.—Rehind the ome casket containing their slain com- rade, Gonzalo Gonzalez, murdered by a Tammany policeman last Mon day evening, 25,000 workers march- ed in mass protest against the mur. der campaign insituted by the | bosses against the revolutionary | workers of New York and the en- | tire country. ‘Vhile 15,000 marched |in the organized parade about 10,000 jmore followed along the sidewalks. A continuo’s stream of workers viewed the body of Gonzalez lying in state at the Harlem Communist Party section headquarters, at 308, Lenox Ave., from 4 o’clock in the} morning until the mass parade swung into line at 10:25 a. m. Starting at Lenox and 125th St., the various workers’ organizations in their assigned places, the mass demonstration wound up in the | streets of upper Harlem amid great crowds that thronged the sidewalks, roofs and windows of the Harlem tenements. Booes and catcalls for) the police, and cheers for the Com- | munist Party and other workers or- ganizations greeted the marchers. Revolutionary songs were sung. Numerous squads mobilized to sell | the Daily Worker, found a ready | Tesponse from the onlooking work- | lers. Ten thousand copies of the} today: Spanish Communist paper, “Vide 4 Obrera,” were sold. The mass funeral demonstration “lint Strike LINT, Mich., July 4.—The arrested. tion, | "NEW YORK, SATURDA ce & SAN tose Forces Bosses to Shut Down; Jail Leaders BULLETIN. The “4th” 8,000.060 Jobless Will Hear Day BLAM an -—By FRED ELLIS auto strikers are holding a mass picnic Sunday, July 6, and inviting all Flint workers. The auto strikers paraded the streets today. Two more were Hearing that the Fisher strikers had joined the Auto Workers’ Union, Chief of Police Scavarda made the following threat Last night most of the strikers joined a Communist organiza- From now on they will receive no more consideration here than (Continuea on Page Five) | tion of the Soviet Union, won gi- reds do any place in the country.” * * FLINT, Mich., July 4.—It has been announced here that the Fisher Body Co. plant, where 5,000 workers are on strike gantic successes in the industrial since Tuesday against wage cuts, and where a mass picket field, unified the peoples of the demonstration was broken up after heroic resistance yesterday, | Soviet Union under Lenin’s nation-| would remain closed “until Monday.” Only about 300 scabs \alities’ policy, carried out the first | ‘two years of the Five-Year Plan| turned out yesterday at the? Soviet Union treats its Red Arm y veterans and their families than capitalist America. And they should come out with the rest of the American class-conscious workers on August 1, to raise their voice | against the preparations for war against the Soviet Union now being made by the U. S. government at dollars while they, who fought it the devil. the cost of hundreds of millions of in the last war, are told to go to The working class war veterans should show Hoover and his kind that they, too, n be “firm.” ARREST BURLACK AT CAMDEN MEET 8 Held on $1,000 Bail} Protested Terror CAMDEN, N. J., July 4.—Anna Burlak was arrested today in this city at an International Labor De- fense meeting to protest the assault on the great crowd of unemploye’ before the R. C. A.-Victor Co. here on June 26, and against the at- tempt of the capitalist courts of | Atlanta to railroad Burlak hersel‘ and five other workers to the elec trie chair. The meeting was held in Benson Hall. Burlak, Arthur Brown and Charles Miller were arrested and have been released on $1,000 bail each, provided through the I. L. D They go on trial tomorrow and an- other meeting has been arranged. Attacked Terror. The meting at which the arresis took place was to call acivntion oi of the workers to the growing ter ror by which the bosses hope to force the working class to pay for the industrial crisis through unem- ployment, speed-up, wage-cuts, ete. ‘The Victor Co. last week advertises for 20,000 men, evidently just to look over the slave market. for when about that number applied for jons only 41 were hired and on two suc- ‘cessive days the police smashed the . Three workers, Smith Wal- and Swain, member of the Trade fon { 16TH CONEPESS OK'S PARTY LINE Central Committee Fully Approved (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, July 4.—-The resolu- | tion of the Sixteenth Congress of ;the Communist Party of the Soviet | Union expresses complete approval jof the policy of the Central Com- ; mittee, declaring that the latter jconsolidated the international posi- | Union Unity League, organizing the | jobless into Unemployed Councils, were arrested in the Victor affair, two other unemployed workers were | jailed and th Daily Worker agent | Hoffman, was arrested. Death Charge. In the Atlanta case, which wiii come up this fall, Burlak, represen | tative of the I. L. D.: Mary Dalton | district organizer of the Netiona! | Textile Workers’ Union; Atlanta; Newton, representative of the American Negro Labor Con- | gress; Joe Carr, Young Communist League district organizer, and M. H. Powers, Communist Party dis- trict organizer, are to be tried for “incitement to insurrection,” which carries the death penalty in Georgia. Their crime consisted in calling or- ganization meetings of Negro and white workers, splendidly, and won the masses of call of the company. the middle peasants to Socialism.) The A vark 9 permitting the raising of the slo- | ; hae é : how agent plant |gan of liquidation of the kulak class |S» 1¢ 18 Stated by the manage- on the basis of compact collectiviza- | ment, also to shut down “until tion. Monday.” Three hundred girls at It expresses special approval of | this plant streamed from its doors the organizational measures against | Wednesday and joined the parade of the right wingers, and warns the| the Fisher Co. strikers.’ The strike Party that the latter are carrying | committee elected from the ranks out a maneuver under cover of pre-| and representing all departments, tended submission. ete connections with other auto At the Wednesday evening ses- shops near by, is fighting to spread sion, Orjonnekidze commenced the ‘he struggle. All other General Mo- report of the Central Control Com-| ‘TS workers are urged to come out mission, describing the work to| °° The workers fight for: maintain the unity of the Party, to| “Rescinding of wage cuts; clean its ranks, to defeat the right! “A piece work rate averaging | wing deviation, to rose in lustrial errors, to fight bureaucracy, to clean the state apparatus, to im- prove the work, to rally unused re- serves under socialist competition. Discussion took place Thursday. Briuchanov announced that the So- $1.15 per hour for men and 75 cents for women; “A day rate of $1 per hour when | there is not enough piece work for | men, and 60 cents for women; “Improved sanitary conditions in the plant; Henry | Storey, a Negro textile worker of | viet Union budget showed a sur-| “Recognition by the management plus, being equal to the planned of shop commit of workers to budget for the fourth year. Yen- settle disputes.” ukidse, Yaroslavsky, Krylenko, etc.,! They are led by the Auto Workers spoke. | Union, part of the Metal Workers Yesterday we addressed ourselves to the members of the Commu- nist Party. We placed before them the definite task of immediately establishing circulation and sales of the Daily Worker in front of all auto shops throughout the country, in front of all steel mil We de- manded that every Party member enlist at once in helping to reach all metal workers with the news about the big Flint strike, led by the Auto Workers’ Union and the Trade Union Unity League. ‘Today we issue a call to all readers of the Daily Worker who work in the metal industry. You, individually, must also be an or- ganizer for the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, for the Auto Work- ers’ Union, for the Trade Union Unity Leagu Every reader of the Daily Worker who works in a steel mill, in an auto shop, in any part of the metal industry must help to organize the workers in this industry, You will make a commendable beginning as an organizer by making the workers in your shop regular readers of the Daily Worker. Qur paper is pubiishing daily, not only news reygrding the progress ) Industrial League of the e Union Unity League. The strike has forced the company to arrange negotiations with the workers’ rank and file strike committee, which stands fast for the demands adopt- ed by the strikers themselves in open meeting. Meanwhile 23 workers arrested during the last two days have either out charges from the first. The police try to pick the strike leaders. League Head Held. Among those held incommunicado is Philip Raymond, national organ- izer of the Metal Trades Workers Industrial League. Three picket captains arrested are all held in- communicado, Nydia Barker and two others arrested after the pick- eting were released, and later ar- rested again when they arrived in | Detroit. Louise Morrison, active in | the Auto Workers Union and unem- | ployment organization for a long time, was beaten up and arrested when state troopers attacked the | picket lines. Another girl was also Y, JULY 5, 1930 Worker fe Unless Workers Act FINAL CITY EDITION Aity and foreign countries, there 8% 86 _ year everywhere excepting Manhattan Price 3 Cents @ year. for work or wages. been released on bonds and re-ar- | rested, or held incommunicado with- SUPREME COURT Terrible Failure of Socialist Tactics SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 4.— The California Supreme Court to- day advised Governor Young that in prison for ¢'o rest of his life. The governor has already announced that his decision on the application | for pardon would be based on the | Supreme Court decision. The case of Thomas Mooney was not formally passed upon by ,the court, but a reference to it in the Billings deci- sion indicates that he too is doomed to life imprisonment. | Governor Young has already stat- | ed that the court’s decision for Bill- HOLDS MOONEY; GOVR AGREES Warren K. Billings should remain | | time, DELEGATES OF UNEMPL s Protest Against the Brutal Murder of Gonzalez 12,000 Mass at Union Park; Jail 100; Beat Many in Squad Cars WORKERS MARCH THROUGH STREETS SINGING “INTERNATIONALE”; 1,200 TO 1,500 DELEGATES TO PARTICIPATE IN CONVENTION sioner and Police Chief Alcock. Two hours before the time set, workers were streaming into the park from all sides. The police drove many away and attempted to keep the crowd mov- ing. Over one hundred workers were arrested during the course of the morning. Several workers’ homes were raided and workers ar- rested. The police patrolled all roads leading to Chicago throughout the morning, stopping cars and search- ing workers. The number arrested in this procedure is unknown at this | Steve Rubicki, organizer of the) International Labor Defense, and seven unemployed delegates were| arrested and questioned by a U. S./ army major, relative to the “secret | meeting.” (Recently the capitalist press of America which had been boycotting news of the widely ad-| vertised National Convention of the | (Continued on Page Five) ly appealed to the governor for a new trial or a pardon. OYED CHICAGO, Il, July 4, 5:25 p.m.—-Five thousand police previous: ly mobilized for that purpose viciously clubbed the unemployed dele- gates to the National Unemployment Convention which opens tomor- row at 10 a. m. in Ashland Auditorium. 12,000 “hicago workers and jobless attempted to demonstrate their solidarity with the jobless throughout the country and their demands The attack was made when The demonstration was held in Union Park in defiance of the -—*orders of the Park Commis-¢ os ea ANOTHER RAID ON COMMUNISTS TN x ANTHRACITE CITY . Offices Wrecked by Pa. State Troopers SCRANTON, Pa., July 4.—The | Communist Party has been declareé illegal here, so anxious are the coal barons to prevent its propaganda reaching the thousands of anthra cite coal miners dissatisfied witt the starvation, unemployment worsening of conditions, sell-out by the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, and open anti-labor policy the capitalist government. Following the raid Wednesday a° which five workers and leader: | were arrested and charged with se | dition, came another raid yesterday. |In tris second raid, Peter Thanos. ings he considers binding also for| All ten surviving jurors have|the new district organizer; Bil: Mooney. Only one member of the/| signed statements declaring they Lawrence, Young, and John Little court, Justice W. H. Langdon, made | were tricked in the trial and that | youth organizer of the Trade Unior the usual gesture of “dissenting” | they believe both Mooney and Bill-| Unity League, were arrested, anc in this decision to keep these two | A Frame-Up. Mooney and Billings, with three othera, were arrested after the pre- paredness day bomb explosion in San Francisco in 1916. They were labor leaders, framed for murder by a public utilities administration be- utilities workers. against them has been discredited. have confessed they committed per- police. The fight yesterday was precipi- innocent men in prison for life. | cause they had organized public | Every witness | Most of the prosecution witnesses | jury. The trial judge has repeated- | | Mooney and Billings application for ings innocent. The other three ar- | rested with these two were acquit-! ted, on the same “evidence” that | convicted Mooney and Billings, but after some of the prosecution per- jury in the first two cases had been exposed. “ * Score Labor Traitors. NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense yesterday issued a statement which is, in part, as fol- lows: “The Supreme Court document made public today declaring itself against the release of Warren K.} Billings is obviously aimed to pre- pare the people for the rejection of tated when 35 state troopers, under | pardon by the governor of Califor- the command of Captain A. R.| nia. The hypocritical governor Downing launched a merciless club-| Young can now come before the bing charge against the leading | voters of California with the excuse ranks of the picket demorstration. | that responsibility rests not upon They clubbed three men to the|himself but upon the Supreme | ground within a few seconds, and| Court. Responsibility rests upon continued their assault. armed strikers and fought back, but were finally forced to retreat in good order, to beaten badly by clubs of the state| their headquarter grounds. of this big strike. Metal Workers, Into Action! - It is also explaining to all workers how to strike, A he E fohal by drawing a distinct line between the reactionary bosses’ A. F. of L., | Communists and the International which betrays the workers upon every occasion, and the T. U. U. L. with which the Auto Workers’ Union and the Metal Trades Industrial League is affiliated, which has the revolutionary program of class against class. , Readers of the Daily Worker who work in the auto industry and | confabs with crooked California in metal shops, or in steel mills, should today order ten, fifty, one | hundred copies of the Daily Worker and sell them to their shop mates. You should ask your shop mates to become regular subscribers. You should call a little meeting of your shop mates at your home, and there explain to them the role of the Daily Worker as the workers’ | mass paper. Also, you should ask them to help finance the Daily Worker. They | still believes that Mooney and Bill- will readily understand that a revolutionary organ needs the dimes and dollars of every worker to keep it going. Do this, and our $25,000 fighting fund will receive a boost. This will strengthen the Daily. This will help the klint strikers to victory. The un-|the whole capitalist class, its gov- held their ground | ernment and its social fascist agents. “These last played a particularly treacherous role in the entire case. Both through the Mooney Defence Committee of California as well as directly through its national secre- tary senior, the socialist party, aid- ed by the now utterly reactionary I. W. W., belabored these class war | prisoners with arguments against the class struggle methods of the | Labor Defense in mobilizing the masses to press for the release of these two framed up workers. As | substitute for open war upon the boss class they undertook back-door | capitalist politicians. The respon- sibility lays not only upon the boss class but even mure upon its agents, |who pretend to friendship to the ‘cause of labor’ only to betray us. | “The International Labor Defense ings can be freed. But only if the ordered to leave town. Both raids were made by state police, the Pennsylvania ‘“Cos- sacks.” The police have called in the fed eral authorities for aid, and the capitalists are making a first rate “Red Scare” under cover of which they hope to prevent any organiza- tion of the miners either in the Communist Party, or in their own union, the National Miners’ Union The headquarters has heen com pletely smashed up by the police. During the raids Wednesday, Dar Slinger, district organizer of th: National Miners’ Union here, wa: jailed, along with Joe Tash, yout lorganizer of the N. M. U., Sylvar Pollack, representative of the Inter national Labor Defense, Little, an: another worker. They are held on $1,000 bail, anc Little was released in time to b rearrested yesterday. Tash was sentenced on a mino charge to 30 days, and will then bc held for sedition trial. Frankfeld, Communist Party organ izer in the Scranton district, tc charge him also with sedition. The workers, miners and others are aroused, The situation is tense ‘ GS aS All Out to Section 4 Signature Drive Sun. All Party and Young Com- munist League members of Sec- tion 4 must report for the sig- nature drive Sunday morning, 10 o'clock, July 6, at 308 Lenox Ave. The Negro workers as well as} all other workers are very mutch | aroused on account of the two) great demonstrations held in connection with the murder of Comrades Levy and Gonzalez. The Party must be brought * to the workers in Harlem so that | great mass of American and world’s Lworkers are awakened te struggle for this release.” oo asain they may endorse it politically also. The police are hunting for Phi!