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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, >»AN-AMERICAN LABOR IMPERIALISM TRYING TO GET A CONGRESS lew “Questionnaire” to See If Latin American | Reformists Dare To ’rospects for Next January Congress Not! Be Seen With Green Much Better Than For the One That Failed By HARRISON GEORGE American imperialism and its Ja- | his strike breaking and general cus- | ing it as a “secret meeting of Com- wv lieutenants are again fishing r support in the Latin American ade union movement. A “ques- mnaire” is being sent out by that st of labor imperialists known as e “Pan-American Federation of ibor” to labor organizations in all itin American countries. William Green, head traitor, and s boot-licking aide, Santiago Igle- as of Porto Rico, want to know st whether they can get enough milar traitors together from the atin American labor movement to ve the appearance of a “congress.” Such a congress was due last inuary, but it was called off, the timable Green saying that the A. . of L. was “too busy organizing orkers in the southern states of ¢@ U. S. A” Presumably, that job is now fin- hed, with the stool pigeon work ' Green and the officials of the ederation of Labor in Georgia hav- ig aided the bosses to indict six orkers for “insurrection” in an at- mpt to send them to the electric hair because one of them, a girl, sked Green some questions at a eeting, and all of them were real- ' organizing Negro and white orkers. Another little job was the break- ig up of a meeting of the Trade nion Unity League by the chief f police of Birmingham, who quite ttingly is a member of both the . F. of L. and the Ku Klux Klan. Courting the Undertaker Actually, it was said that Green, glesias and company were surpris- d at the results of a former “ques- ionnaire,” it being shown -hat too ew “labor leaders” of Latin Amer- za dared to risk the anger of the | vatin American workers by partici- ating in a congress of Yankee im- erialists such as that of the Pan- wmerican Federation of Labor. So the congress was postponed. ‘ince then, all the pressure possible vas been used through the Wash- ngton government to wheedle end! ‘orce the Latin American “labor eaders” who are connected with the arious native fascist governments, o come out of their holes and at- end the labor imperialist congress. Something had to be done or the »-A. F. of L. would have passed ito deserved oblivion. So the fas- st “Federation of Labor of Cuba” as subsidized and with the help £ the bloody dictator Machado, is ying to outlaw the trade unions ‘tually supported by the Cuban orkers, the National Confederation Labor, under whose call *00,000 than workers struck on March 20. Had to Earn Their Pay Something had to be done, as in orto Riio, Iglesias’ own home, his pport, and he is head of the “so- | list” party there, is the principal | litical support of Yankee ‘mperi- sm and the Porto Rican workers IORKERS HONOR WARTYR, JOIN IN THE STRUGGLE itensify Fight on Police Terror (Continued fram Page Une) oceeded down 125th and Lenox} ve, to 115th and Lenox Ave., then rned east to Fifth Ave. Organizations in Line, Following the Young Communist ‘ague and the Young Pioneers con- ngents clad in their khaki uni- ‘rms, came the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League bearing a huge banner which read “In the last war re fought for the capitalist class. n the next war we will fight for he working class and for defense of he Soviet Union.” The Spanish Workers Club and the various sec- tions of the Communist Party fol- lowed with placards and banners de- nouncing the murder terror of Tam- many and Wall St. Halting before the Spanish Work- ers Club at 115th St. with hundreds of Spanish speaking workers lean- ing from the windows of the tene- ments, the demonstrators sang the Internationale. Speakers addressed the workers in Spanish from the roof of the Workers Club and urged more mili- tant struggle to carry on the work for which Gonzalez gave his life. Giant Demonstration. At Frawley Circle, 110th St. and Fifth Ave., the long winding parade came to a halt and throneg about the speakers’ stand in a giant mass meeting which started at 11:15 a. m., with ranks swelled to 50,000 work- ers, Sam Darcy, the chairman, opened the meeting by denouncing the po- lice brutality responsible for the death of two workers in one week, Gonzalo Gonzales and Alfred Levy, Negro worker. il Hope, Negro organizer of| the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, spoke amid cheers are getting ready to dump him for sedness. In Mexico, despite all the imagin- ary figures given by the fascist la- bor traitor, Morones and company, of how “big” and how “strong” his organization, the CROM, is, the |Mexican workers are deserting it |wholesale and joining the revolu- tionary unions, organized in the {“CSUM.” | Panamanian workers have been | fully enlightened on the aim of the | Pan-American Federation of Labor |to hold down the battle of Latin | workers to Yankee imperialism, that | robs and oppresses them, and any | scoundrel who attends the Pan- | American Federation of Labor | Congress will be skinned alive by the workers of Panama, Perhaps Green can get a U. S. marine to “represent Nicaragua,” since they are running elections and bossing the country. Honduras is a hot country, but it will be still hotter for any “labor leader” who asso- ciates with Green. Welcome “Delegates” With Machetes. The Colombian workers who were shot down by their government at the orders of the United Fruit Co., only recently, will be sure to wel- come any self-appointed “delegate” to the Pan-American Federation of Labor Congress “back home with newly sharpened machetes. The “president” of Venezuela, who for twenty years has been strangling and shooting trade unionists, may lappoint a delegate to represent | non-existent unions and the clique of Jesuit assassins who rule that country. Maybe the fascist tyrant of Peru, Leguia, can send a doctor, and the Ecuador manage to coax a lawyer to dignify the assembly of “work- ers” such as Green, Iglesias and Morones. Real workers, of course, will be looked on with suspicion by these gentlemen, if they are so ignorant or corrupted as to show | up at all. As to the countries further south, the fascist unions of Chile tend to lean more on British imperialism through Amsterdam than on Yan- kee imperialism. as do the few “‘so- cialist” unions which are unsuccess- fully trying to win support of the Argentine workers. Not So Rosy. So the prospects for any consid- erable support from Latin America are not extra bright for the pro- posed Pan-American traitors con- gress next January. And the Latin American Trade Union Federation, the revolutionary center located at Montevideo, may be depended on to {make any “labor leader” of Latin America who adheres to the Pan- American Federation of Labor be- trayers, decidedly unpopular with Latin-American workers. of Negro and white workers. Youth Pledges, Leo Klinghoffer brought the | greetings of the Young Communist League and pledged continued strug- gle of the young workers against | growing police terror. speaker, Charles Cohen, when he told of how the Pioneers were doing their part in the growing struggles of the workers, Need for Defense Corps. Jack Johnstone, organizer of the New York District Trade Union Unity League, stressed the forms the workers fight against police fascism must take. “We shall or, nize Defense Corps as a measure to fight the murder- ing of our comrades, which is legal- |ized by the corrupt courts of the | bosses,” S. Sanchez, a Spanish worker, de- | clared that Gonzalez had died fight- \ing American imperialism, that now has a strangle-hold upon Mexico, birthplace of the martyred worker. A resolution endorsing the Daily Worker was unanimously carried. R, Baker, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Herbert Newton, recently released from At- lanta jail, were greeted with en- thusiasm as they urged building of the revolutionary movement, Police Beat Negro Workers. While not daring to attack the | great demonstration openly, police | Picked out isolated groups and in- dividual workers to wreak their vengeance on. , At 117th and Lenox Ave. a full score of Tammany slug- gers picked upon a solitary Negro him savagely over the head. Those workers who were nearby and dared protest were turned upon with equal savagery and beaten off. Two women workers, Bella Reid and Anna Rollins, who witnessed this scene of police brutality, ex- pressed their indignation. “The cops were bestial and merciless, With- out being provoked, they piled out of their truck, and without ques- tioning, began slugging a tall Negro worker who was looking on. A few Negro workers that came over to protest the brutal assault were also set upon with the ferocity of beasts.” Latin Workers Aronsed. Announcement was made thal the fr government of feudal landlords of | Great cheers greeted the Pioneer | worker, and in a brutal manner beat i CHICAGO COPS BEAT DELEGATES OF UNEMPLOYED | 12,000 Mass at Union) Park; Many Jailed (Continued From Page One.) | Unemployed in Chicago carried |seare stories from Russian white guard sources in Germany describ- munists to plan a_ revolution in| America.”) Rubicki has been released, and | the others held. Blockade T.U.U.L. | Union Unity League and the Coun- | cils of the Unemployed are sur- | rounded and regularly visited by detectives. All this is an effort to terrorize the delegates and prevent the dem- onstration and the opening of the convention tomorrow. The workers | and unemployed are not terrorized. They show a militant spirit. They| gathered in large masses in Union Park and the vicinity. The police charge came when Joe Dallett, or- ganizer for the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League, the first speaker, had been talking for scarcely five minutes. Charge on Motorcycles. The police rode their motorcycles and automobiles right into the crowd in their first charge. They swung their elubs viciously, beat- ing down to the ground men and women, delegates, and Chicago un- employed and workers. A large number of Negro work- ers were in the demonstration. | At the present moment, the un- |employed and the workers are | marching through the streets in | large numbers, singing “The Inter- national,” “Solidarity,” and “Hold the Fort.” Convention Will Open. After the arrests, the police were) seen savagely beating up their prisoners in police squad cars. The International Labor Defense | is now working to secure the re- | lease of the jailed delegates. The National Unemployment Con- | vention will open as planned in |Ashland Auditorium tomorrow | morning. - 8) (Special to The Daily Worker.) UNEMPLOYMENT CONVEN- | TION HEADQUARTERS, CHI- | CAGO, July 4,2 P. M.—As opposing class forces form their lines on the issue of work or wages, the situa-| | tion here is extremely tense. On the} one hand, freight trains, busses, | | trucks and autos are bringing hun- | dreds of delegates, Over 700 regis tered from out of town at nine o’colck this morning. Preliminary estimates by the arrangements com- | mittee indicate from 1,200 to 1,500 | delegates, Many have been arrested enroute, as they held meetings along | the way. Eighteen were arrested in | Springfield, linois, Their release | was forced by the International La- bor Defense: Eight were jailed on| arrival in Chicago, The I. L. D. | is working on the case. | Delegates have arrived from the striking auto workers in Flint and | big delegations are arriving from! | other auto centers, Jobless vs. Police. There are now present delegates from New York, Massachusetts, California, Minnesota, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, | Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Mary- land, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas and North Dakota. All of them are real proletarians from the shops, mills | and mines, who are now unemployed. On the other hand, the entire po- lice force has been mobilized. After the West Side Park Commissioner hae granted a permit for the Union Park demonstration today, and after many thousands of leaflets, posters and stickers had been put out ad | vertising the demonstration, the per- | mit was deliberately revoked last | night, following the splendid mass ‘urnout to the funeral of Herzel | Weizenberg, who had been murdered by A. F. L. gangsters, Gas and Machine Guns, Acting Chief of Police Alcock after a conference with a committee | of the Unemployed Council, at which | the committee refused to call off the | demonstration, ordered a special! | mobilization of hundreds of reserves and fifteen squad cars armed with tear gas and machine guns, in order | to prevent today’s demonstration, Inj} | addition, regular police forces and | squads of cars with police reserves! | are patroling the streets in order te | prevent twenty preliminary demon- | strations which were planned for | this morning in order to mobilize the | Workers for the central demonstra- | tion at three o’clock this afternoon. | The delegates and the Chicage | workers, under the leadership of the | | Unemployed Council of the Trade | Union Unity League and the Com- | | munist Party, are busily engaged in| final preparations for the demon- ; stration and the convention, They | |are not terrorized by the police threats. Pledge at Funeral. | Many of the representatives of the unemployed came in time to! form part of the 5,000 at the funera' | yesterday of Hergel Weizenberg, Latin-American workers have {ni- tiated a Communist Party recruit- | ment drive among the workers of Spanish Harlem, Over four hundred workers, Ne- | gro and Latin-American workers and white workers, have made ap- | nlica*'on for fo'ning the Cor Pariy within the last few days. 4 viel) The headquarters of the Trade| } | orated in red, with three black Chicago Jobless Convention Fights for eee A crowd of jobless workers, est gates of the River Rouge plant of Jobs in order to live. The workers agery by the police and company guards. The National Convention of the Unemployed, now meeting Chicago, will lay the basis for organization of millions of jobless work- ers for bitter struggle that will wre government that want to starve thom. Philadelphia Activity for “Daily” With the arrival today of a total of $94,19 from the Philadelphia Par- ty district, which will be listed shortly in the Daily, and the remit tance of $233.33 a few days ago, which is listed below, we can now say that many more Philadelphia comrades and Daily Wor'-cr readers are on the job, helping to save our paper and assisting it to mass cir-| culation. However, we still call for more cooperation. Our Daily Worker rep. beaten to death by Wallace gang- sters in the Painters’ Union. The example of this Trade Union Unity League member at the hands of the ruling clique in an A. F, of L. union was a great lesson to the jobless, and they pledged unanimously to carry on from the point where he ) fell. The People’s Auditorium was dec ners, one from the metal workers, one from the progressive group of the painters and the third from the I. L. D. Inseriptions on the walls “Demand work or wag’ “Herzel Weizenberg was a member of Nu cleus 301 of the Communist Pa: “Fight in the struggle agai perialism,” “Protest against grow ing unemployment,” “Be a soldier in the social revolution.” The stage was crowded with flora! tributes, as well the floor near the stage, representatives of numerous working-class organizations, them the Communist Par 8, and dozens of unions and work ers’ clubs, Leaves Wife, Child. In the crowd were sit brothers of Comrade Wei Roscoe, 87 years old, who is work ing here in Chicago in the Interna tional Harvester plant, earning $22 a week, and his brother, Virgir. His young wife was there with their 2-year-old child. She is working in St. Louis, in a bed factory, earning $8 a week, upon which she must support her child. Herzel Weizenberg was 30 y of age, having been unemployed sinee December. He was a hard worker, a die-setter by trade. Negro Presides. B, D. Amis, Negro work direc- ! ter of the Chicago District, was chairman of the funeral. “We are not here to mourn,” he said, “but | to fight. The murder of Comrade Herzel Weizenberg should be an in spiration to our cause of strug: against all forces of gangsterism. police, city administration and cap- ital, merged to crush our move ment.” He then introduced the Freiheit Singing Society, which sang from the balcony, having appropri- ately chosen “A Victim You Fell,” followed by the “International.” 3,000 March. In addition to the main speakers, Nels Kjar of the Trade Union Unity League, B. K. Gebert, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, and J, Louis Engdahl of the I. L. D. (speeches previously reported). Charles Walters, the cand who wa running against Arthur W1l- lace in the painters’ elections, said a few words. He mentioned the fact that it seems that only through sac- rifice can any movement of read justment be carried on in the old unions, and that it seems as if the C+mmunists will gain control of the unions, Every speaker brought out the fact that Weizenberg’s death is not an isolated occurrence. It happene not only because of the position of American capitalism, but of the sit- uation of capitalism all over the werld, which is fascist, imperialist, and doing its utmost to crush the revolutionary uprising of the work- ers, But the militant spirit of the workers themselves likewise grows Three thousand workers marched west on Chicago Ave. to Crawford Ave. Three hundred machines f»l- lowed. At the cemetery, speeches were made by Mother Blor, Lucy Parsons, John Marks and tho nainter who was taken for a ride at the time that Weim “org was Killed, John Heindrickson, the two SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930 SRE Them | acter | imated at 25,000, that stormed the the Ford Motor Co. in search of were beaten back with brutal sav- in st bread from the bosses and their Increases resentative, M. Silver, 1124 Spring} Garden St., should receive the sup port of every Daily Worker reader and we strongly advise our readers to visit him to talk over methods helping him secure more finance support and more subseribers for our paper in Philadelphia and sur rounding cities, Philadelphia contributions Metal Workers’ Industr f A. Schwartz . * Today in History of the Workers July 5, 141 mian reforme n Constance, Cla -Jan Huss, Bohe- burnt at the stake ermany. 185: ra Zetkin, German Commu leader, born in Diderau, 188: Match girls in east end of Lon- don struck for wage raise, start- ing great wave of strikes and unionism for unskilled workers. 19: Workers of Magdenburg, Germany, stormed castle of count which flew royalist flag. 1926— Motormen and switchmen on In- terborough subway in New York City struck for higher pay and recognition of union. | Demand the release of Fos- er, Minor, Amter and Ray-| «aiond, in prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance. | GRAND Page Five HN, avets ELECTION MEET ON JULY 100 Delegates Going to Waterbury f-ERBURy, Conn.—The State Jonvention of the Com. which opens here 6, at 11 a. m. at 103 a Hall, will take} place with about 100 delegates pre ent, according to reports of creden- | in to the election cam- mur Sunday Green tials comi paign committee. The election campaign of the} Communist Party is well uncer | in the state, Calls for the conven- | tion were sent out to trade unions | and other wo organizations, | and special efforts are being made, to get delegates from the Winches- ter ammunition shops, New Haven; | Colts, in Hartford; Remingtons, in| Bridgeport, and the Brass shops in| Waterbury. | Collection of signatures on the | petition lists has begun, election ral- lies and collection of campaign funds are also under way. Comrade Schneiderman will re port on the Party platform and Com rade Orloff will report for the cam- | paign committee at the convention. All workers of Waterbury and vicin- ity are invited to attend the eonven- tion. Troy, N. Y., Election Meeting Successful TROy, N, Y.—When the chief of | police came to the assistance of a “socialist-labor” speaker at City Hall here, who s drawing no crowd because the workers were in- terested in listening to the Commu nist Party speaker, Sadie Van Veen. the crowd of 3800, growing as iv went, moved half a mile to Rivers St., where the meeting was con- | tinued, twenty-five workers apply- }ing for membership in the Party and in the League. Young Communist FARM IN THE PINES Situated in Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German Table, Rates: 816— $18. Swimming and Fishing. M. OBERKIRCH Box 78 KINGSTO R. CAMP Is Overcrowded for the Fourth of July Buses Leave Sunday Morning at 9 P. M. from 1800 7th Ave, There will be plenty of room After July 4th PICNIC for the benefit of the Workers fnternationa! Relet to be TOMO held RROW at EDENWALD am among many others contains the following attrac! 'D ARMY in the Soviet Union and of the March 6 and May 1 New . 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