The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1930, Page 1

ee ee ee ag Unemployment Increases! Prepare Now For Demonstrations on Unemployment Day, September 1! Organize Unem- ployed Councils and Fight For Re- lief, Insurance, Seven-Hour Day and Five-Day Week! Knteres an vond-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. ander the act ef March 8. 1479 Worker FINAL CIT: EDITION Ine, 20-26 daily excep: Sunday by ‘The Comprodatly Union Square New York N. ¥.5CDho BUNS RIPTION RATE and Bronx New ¥ &k City and foreign 36» year everywhere excepting Manhattan vountries, there § a year Price 3 Cents JOBLESS CONVENTION DELEGATES INTENSIFY DRIVE | } | | —__ ————_____—— | | General Motors Co.L Declares Martial Hoover Calls a War Council OOVER has called Congress into special session. He wants spe- cial business handled. And what is that special business? It is the business of preparing for war. Hoover’s message to Con- gress asking for the ratification of the so-called “Naval Treaty” framed up at the London Conference begins and ends on the subject of “peace.” But the guts of it is an argument that the “Naval Treaty” be approved as preparation for war. Hoover deals at the start with the so-called “opposition” to the treaty. Whatever real opposition there is, comes about as a differ- ence in opinion as to the openness with which the preparations for war are carried on. Some of what are called the “big navy people” want still more warships to fight for colonies and markets against England and Japan. Hoover, in the middle of his message, assures all such that the treaty gives U. S, imperialism a better position against England and Japan than it ever had. After saying that the larger tonnage of Britain is due to its smaller vessels with “weaker gun power,” he says: “But the United States has the option to duplicate the exact ton- nage and gun calibre of the British cruiser fleet if we desire to exer- cise it,” and he adds: “The relative improvement in the position of the United States under this treaty is even better than this statement would indicate,” and he goes ahead to prove it by comparing ships and guns with England and Japan. Ships and guns are not talked about just for fun. They are in- struments that serve only one purpose, and that is—war! No one can fail to see that American imperialism, desiring the colonies and mar- kets of its imperialist rivals, England and Japan, is preparing for war as the only means by which it can seize them. The blabber about “peace” and “good relations” will delude only the simple minded. And ninety-nine per cent of the “opposition” is pure fake. Senator Borah, for example, seems to arrange with Hoover in conferences at the White House just when and upon what points he shall “oppose” Hoover's policies. Now he is finally supporting it. All Hoover needs do to get a swarm of addle-pated liberals to falling over themselves in favor of the treaty, is to have a few admirals and so on, to “oppose” it. Let all workers get it clear that war is preparing! And let them clearly realize that this doesn’t mean a war “away off somewhere,” but here—a slaughter of themselves, their wives and children! Let every worker understand that the war preparations of Amer- iean imperialism includes the growing attack on their conditions as workers, more speed-ups, more wage cuts, more unemployment, and a campaign of suppression against the center and head of -working class resistance to war and wage slavery—the Communist Party. Do not be fooled into thinking that the increased danger of war between the robber imperialist powers means any less danger of war against the Soviet Union. On the contrary we see on every hand and especially here in America the growing war propaganda against the Soviet Union and the “reds” which expose this propaganda and rally the workers to defend the First Workers’ and Farmers’ Governmen and the socialist system it is rapidly building. The rivalry between the imperialist powers is not lessened by their agreement, reached at the London Conference, to attack and try to destroy the Soviet Union. On the contrary, the territory which | they intend to seize in war against the Soviet Union is only as ad- ( ditional loot, along with their own colonies and markets, which sharp- ens the antagonisms between these robber powers. Every worker who is cl: conscious, whether he or she be a Com- munist or not, can do something about this. Of course all must rally their fellow workers to come onto the streets in demonstration against war on August First, on Internaticnal Fighting Day against war. But let the workers come organized, marching from their shops and work-places as organized bodies, under the banner of | “Not a penny for warships; but every dollar to the unemployed!” i} The ratification of the “Naval Treaty” means $1,000,000,000 to build warships. Explain this to your shop-mates, to the jobless and the workers arotind you. Don’t wait for somebody to come to your shop to organize. Form a Shop Committee yourselves around this de- mand, and to fight against wage cuts, speed-up and bad conditions! Organize the great tide of working class protest on August First at its source in the shops and factories! Organize Shop Committees to demand unemployment insurance instead of | warships! Organize Shop Committees and rally the masses at the close of ‘the work-day on August First, to march by hundreds of thousands through the streets in protest against imperialist war, in demand for unemployment insurance, for the seven-hour. five-day week! False Friends of Mooney "ARREN BILLINGS and Tom Mooney must stay in prison until they die! That is the decision of the courts, the pardon board and the governor in California, after they acquiesced to the will of the social-fascists, the liberals and the labor fakers to subject the ease to the “due process of (capitalist) law.” Who is responsible for this decision? The bosses and their servants, the government officials, are respon- sible. All those forces which pretended to help Mooney and Billings, but were really aiding the capitalists, are responsible. This goes for those liberals, “socialists,” and labor fakers who for months have been plying the prisoners and the workers generally with arguments against the policy of the militants to mobilize the working class to force release, It goes for these same people who insisted on back door trading with crooked capitalist politicians and who frustrated every effort at militant mass action in order not to “embarrass” these same politicians. It goes for the Mooney Molders Defense Committee of San Fran- cisco, which has been spreading lying statements about the Interna- tional Labor Defense in an effort to paralyze the mobilization of the workers against this horrible and atrocious frame-up. Mooney and Billings are innocent of the charges under which they were sentenced. Judges, attorneys, and even former state’s witnesses admit that. The whole working class is convinced that the bosses are simply determined to murder Mooney and Billings, as they murdered Sacco and Vanzetti and scores of other workers, though by other means, Mooney and Billings can yet be freed! But they will never be free until the working class of the United States and the whole world forces the opening of the doors of Folsom and San Quentin! Back door hobnobbing with politicians whose palms are itching for graft but who invariably get a higher price from capitalists, can only result in such decisi were handed | handed down in the past few days. TAMMANY JUDGE ANGRY |inssiers ot “Len an Gonz mil ‘protesting the brutality against OVER EXPOSURE OF COPS) abate of the Tamany police. he sentence, admitted by the NEW YORK.—Clara Mishkin il punes as unusually severe for a Benjamin Davidoff wore sentenced | Misdemeanor, was excused by him so three days and ten days, respec- | because the pamphlets attacked the tively, in jail by Magistrate M Vinlew in Morrissania Court foc dis: | emplovers. "FLINT IS ARMED CAMP: CO, TRIES TO BREAK STRIKE Call Huge Meet in} Detroit for Monday to Mobilize Fight Over 60 Are Jailed Thousands s Laid Off in Auto Industry FLINT, Mich., July 8.—The reign | of terror against the striking work-| |ers of the Fisher Body Co. has} “DEAD OR ALIVE” | “LIFE FOR BOTH Hiei) Ruling Pretends to “Fair Investigation” Says Board Decided Confessed Lies of the Prosecution Approved SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 8— Governor C. C. Young today form- ally denied the appeal for pardon Law Against Flint Strikers ® YOUNG RETUSES BUILD JOBLESS COUNCILS; MOONEY PARDCN CATL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AUG. 1 AGAINST BOSS’ WAR | Credentials Report Shows Every Industry, Negroes, Women. Youth Had Delegates Metal Workers, With Thousands Out of Jobs Send Most Representatives CHICAGO, Ill, July 6, (By Mail).—Following the huge pienic organized by the Chicago District of the Communist Party today for the entertainment of the delegates to the con- vention of the unemployed which closed Saturday night at been sharpened with the institution | by the General Motors Co. of prac- | | tically martial law. All workers | | passing through the main streets are questioned. Cars are stopped and the occupants quizzed. | All entrances to the city are | | guarded by company thugs, police | and armed national guardsmen. The ‘entire city police force, a large} number of national guards and | deputy sheriffs patrol the entire | county. A large number of gan; | sters have been imported from Chi- cago by the General Motors Co. in. an aitempt to smash the strike. The Fisher plant is guarded by | Police gunmen in armored cars. Als other plants are heavily ded. Dixie Hall, where the strikers met, has been taken over} | by the police and none are al-| lowed near it. This i+ an attempt to prevent a mass meeting of the ‘ikers. Al] meetings are troken up and! arrests have been made. The ist press repoits that 57 are ‘ A me2ring of the In- | Labor Defense was Workers were now i Jail ternational raided last night. arrested as they came to the meet- ing, Thirteen in all were arrested at this’ meeting. Police admit they are holding at | least 60. strikers, and organizers from Detroit. Information of the Auto Workers’ Union is that scores more have been arrested, and many are held for deportation proceed- ings. Powers of the Trade Union Unity | League, and Woods, national secre- | tary of the Auto Workers’ Union, | Raymond, Andanoff, Goetz, -Siroka, | Killip, Flint organizer of the Com- munist Party, are among those held} in jail. Powers, Woods and two! jother workers were arrested last) night at Dixie Hall. All are held on charges of un- lawful assemblage and resisting police, which is a felony wich two years of imprisonment if convicted. | Andonoff was severely beaten by | the General Motors Co. thugs. All others were roughly mishandled. Great fear is expressed for Wcod’s safety. The police have heen} searching for him for days, and) issued open threats against him. Bail has been set at $50 for) | workers from Detroit, and $209 Jor | Flint workers, There is a tendency among a section of the strikers to return to | work because of the betrayal of the | | strike by the company union Icad- | ‘ers, headed by Comstock, in whom | _the workers have no trust, and he- ause of the arrest of the militant strike leaders of the Auto Workers Union. The Auto Workers Union is con- | tinuing to mobilize the strikers for | ‘a fight against the wage cuts and | to spread the strike among the auto |workers in Detroit. A membership | meeting is being called for Wed- | -By FRED ELLIS The eapitaltat governor of the capitalist government of Alabama offers a prize for the murder of Negroes by publishing an offer of $300 for every “nigger” brought in, dead or alive. Finnish Fascists In March On Helsingfors to Attack Workers Communist Deputies Appeal to All Workers to Fight Kidnapping, Murders (Wireless By Inprecorr) HELSINGFORS, July 8.—A fascist march began at four o’clock a. m. today. Truckloads of armed fascists are on their way to the city. First aid posts have been instituted. Fascists who have arrived are quartered in schools and public buildings. Fascists are patrolling the streets. At present everything is quiet. The streets of the® workers’ quarters are deserted. Despite fascist orders to hoist fascist flags, no such flags can be seen in the workers’ sec- tion. The government has closed| Kyhalla, Kalle Merilainen, and Arvo workers’ clubs, ete, The Minister of | Lehto have been violently attacked the Interior has ordered the arrest | by fascist thugs. Some of them of Communist deputies. However,| Were kidnapped after their homes none of the deputies have been ar | Were raided. rested yet. taken from trains while on their way to parliamert, and brought te unknown places. We do not know of their fate at present. Those members of our group who are still free and their fellow workers ave being searched and persecuted by the fascists. We appeal to you to | raise your voice to protest agatnst tui brutal fascist terror. “Group of socialistic workers and small farmers in the Finnish Par- gram is as follow: “HELSINGFORS, Finland, July 8.—Workers of the world, we in- form you that members of our group in parliament, Emil Tabell, Kally | * * 8 In a special cable to the Daily Worker, the Communist Parliament ary group of Finland appeals to the workers of the world to protes: against the fascist terror in Fit land where fascist thugs are kid napping and murdering militant workers day and night. The tele meeting of all auto workers in De- Some of them were | | Mooney and Billings were innocent, of Thomas Mooney, innocent of all crime but held in prison on a life sentence since 1916 because he or- ganized street car men. Governor Young’s statement fairly dripped with hypocritical and sacharine love and affection for “justice.” He said that “although two other governors have denied this appeal,” he “made a careful study of the record” and “was un- able to convince himself that midnight, the 1,320 delegates return journey home where they will take up with renewed determination the organiza- tion of the unemployed work- lers and the struggle against unemployment. Comrade Dunne, in his conclud- ing summary, established clearly the relationship between the con- but did see that if one was guilty|Stantly growing unemployment, the other was,” and that “both should have the same sentence.” Yes, He’s Satisfied | “Accordingly,” the Governor's statement continued, “it was with much satisfaction that I learned that Billings had applied to the Jus- tices of the Supreme Court for a pardon recommendation, for I rea- lized that this would mean an inde- pendent and unbiased study by the highest judicial body of the State.” “I am aware,” the Governor’s de- cision read, “that this decision will be disappointing to many, particu- larly to those who have come to feel | strongly on the subject without having had the opportunity to study the case at first hand, but in a mat- ter like this I must be guided by a conscientious regard for my oath of office rather than a willingness | ele POLIGE KIDNAP FOOD PICKETS This slimy and sickening asser- tion comes after Young had ar- Arrest for Delivery to Gang of ' Sluggers in the factories, and the feverish preparations which the capitalists are now making for war. “Billions of dollars,” he said, “are now an- nually being spent for war, but not one damn cent is made available for the maintenance of the-millions of starving unemployed workers.” For Insurance. He called upon the delegates to fight for unemployment insurance and against imperialist war, espe- cially against the preparations for war against the workers’ father- land—the Soviet Union, under the slogan, “Not one cent for arma- ments, all funds for the main- tenance of the unemployed,” mob- (Continued on Page Three) ranged for the supreme court, a bunch of stand patters put into office by the same traction inter- ests that framed Mooney and Bill- ings in the first place, to decline to |reverse the same court’s previous decision that Mooney and Billings were guilty. The court advanced) ‘the amazing theory that “even if} they did not plant the bomb, they should remain in prison the rest of their lives because they must have known who did plant it, and neither they nor their associates ever told who.” NEW YORK.—The two strikes in jthe Bronx under the leadership of are continuing. One is at McClel- berg’s Bakers, at E. 156th St. There have been 25 arrests in the proceeding as strongly as ever, with The governor had arranged for |the workers more than ever deter- the Mooney pardon appeal to be/ mined, on acount of the attacks of really decided by the state board|the fascist gangsters of Local 164. of pardons. The fairness of this} The gang led by Busch and Hant- body can be understood by their|shuh, agents of Local 164, beat up statement that it did not matter|one of our strikers, Comrade Kam- whether the prosecution stool mermyer, who, although outnum- pigeon John Ma*Donald, who testi-|bered, gave a good account of him- fied against Billings confessed | self. Last Thursday this same mili- afterward that he was lying. Mac-|tant worker, Kamermyer, was ar-| Donald a dope fiend, was the main| rested, as he thought, and taken witness of the prosecution. He jinto the police flivver, driven signed an affidavit after the trial|quite a distance to a lonely spot! that he was forced by fear of the and there forced out of the machine | busses, trucks or autos for the>———~—~ — wage cuts and intensified speed-up} the Food Workers’ Industrial Union | land Ave. Bakery, the other Zaren- | last ten days, but the picketing is| again boarded freight trains, FORD OF TUL, IS CHAIRMAN AT NEGRO CONGRESS Banned by MacDonald Held in Berlin (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 8.—The Interna- tional Conference of Negro Work- ers opened last night in Hamburg. James W. Ford, American Nee worker and National Director of Negro Work in the Trade Union Unity League was chairman. Dele- gates arrived from all parts of the world. The Conference may last ten days. ae ae MacDonald Ban The International Trade Union Congress of Negro workers, with delegates elected from U. S., Africa, and all other countries where | Negroes toil, was scheduled to meet in London July 1, The British Labor Party government issued a |decree prohibiting these Negro workers from assembling on British soil, and made preparations to ar- rest delegates as fast as they ar- rived. The congress was postponed and the place of meeting changed, Elections of delegates aroused intense interest, particularly in British Africa, where the labor | party imperialists have carried on the policies of the capitalist class |} to enslave Negro tribesmen until recently free and independent as well as the Conservative party could j have done. The MacDonald cabinet jfeared to allow these exploited | workers to speak in the presence of the likewise exploited and op- |pressed British workers. MR JULY RAISE \Industrial Union Call to Others to Come Out Sites liament, troit at Danceland Auditorium, ” ” Woodward aid forest Ave., Mon- ALOR Oe eile ay, July 14. Renn ig Bill Dunne and Andrew Over-| _ (Note—Ever since the fascist ter | guard will speak. Detroit workers are being layed off by the tens of thousands. There was a complete shut-down in many plants. Wage cuts in Detroit continue. Monday's meeting will be a mass gathering for the mobilization of the workers to struggle against the growing wage-cuts in the auto ror following the defeat of the Fin nish revolution by allied imperialist troops after the war, the Communist Party has been illegal in Finland However, despite fascist terror, the workers and peasants elected their Communist deputies to the Finnish police to commit perjury. WARLORDS MOVED TO COLONIES, WASHINGTON, D. C. Department here assi, jerals to new posts in the Philippine The War | uniformed gunmen of the New York | jnesday at the Trade Union Center | industry, against speed-up and un- ie Detroit to mobilize a huge mass employment. igns five gen- | |with a parting farewell of -he po-| NEW YORK.—The battle is on jlice: “The gang is waiting for you! nlready tor 2 July increase for |here and you will get your’s.” How-| New York fur workers. Following lever, he made his way back to a/ the enthusiastic n 0 |street car line. \fur workers Monday, a strike has A strike in the Max Rubin food| broken out in the M. D. Spiegel shop, where three workers walked | shop, 159 West 30th St. This is a | shop belonging to the bo as- P-rliament. The signature affixed |Islands and the Panama Canal Ut, was quickly settled. The boss | es’ to the above telegram is the legal|region. The strengthening of stra-|Complied with all the demands of | | sociation, and company unionized the union. | by the International Fur Workers’ name of the Communist group in parliament.—Ed.) to another world war. Build “Daily” In Your District UR Party is confronted with historic tasks and problems. To successfully meet these tasks and problems we must win ever larger masses of workers for our program, enroll them in our day to day activities. We publish the Daily Worker to help win these workers. These workers will be won if we make them readers of our paper. The Comintern, in greeting our Seventh National Convention, spe- fically called the attention of every Party member to the importance of securing mass circulation and mass support for our central organ. The other day the Pravda. organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union said: “In deciding these problems, the Party in the United States is confronted with the task of establishing a collective agitator, propagandist and organizer, which is the central Party press. It is one of the fundamental problems of the Party to convert the Daily Worker into a militant newspaper which will be a builder of the Party and an organizer of the masses.” The Central Committee of our Party has time and again called to } the attention of every Party member and every leading committee that building the Daily Worker is one of the biggest tasks which the Party must give attention to, Upon numerous occasions it has dressed itself to Party district committees and district bureaus, in- forming these leading committees categorically that the campaign to keep the Daily Worker going and growing was a direct responsibility of these leading committees. Now the Central Committee has set August Ist as the date upon which the $25,000 Daily Worker fighting fund must be completed; Daily Worker circulation apparatus firmly established; plans for broad factory gate sales, establishment of car- rier routes, securing of long term mail subscribers, fully completed. This means that in every Party district, the Daily Worker cam- paign must be very near the top of the agenda at all district bureau meetings at all times. In numerous districts, the district bureaus give the Daily Worker campaign no attention at all. If our leader- ship will be constantly mindful of its central organ, then greater activity on the part of the Party members will follow. ‘ tegic points and forces is a prelude | iers will take place The Fruit Bosses’ Association of | the Bronx was approached by the | scab A. F. of L. gang “selling” them their union, collecting dues from the | bosses without questioning the work- ers or taking into consideration their | demands. | Six food clerks, who were arrested in New Utrecht Ave., 41st St. and |13th and 15th Aves., Brooklyn, came jup in court yesterday and were/ ‘given an option of paying a $5 fine | or one day. S. Cohen, P. Weigner, Jaffe, Bigman and Isralowitz ‘re- fused to pay their fine. worker, Goldberg, was dismissed. The Food Workers Industrial Union | is calling an open forum meeting, which will take place at Great Cen- |tral Palace, 96 Clinton St., at 2 p. m. Friday afternoon for all bakers, or- ganized and unorganized. All bak- ers are urged to attend. Discus- sions on the Food Workers’ Indus- | trial Union policy affecting the bak- Another | Union. The company union forbade any strike for the July increase, | and its contract prohibits it. But a section of the workers came out ‘anyway, through their own strike committee, defying their bosses and | the company union. The rank and file building com- mittee of this building has i a bulletin to all the other wo in the building, urging them to | follow the example of the sirikers. |show solidarity, and make it a | building st The N. T. W.1LU supports this call The Needle Trades Workers’ In dustrila Union calls on all to iz nore the company tmion scheme and to go ahead with the plans to win an increase. A mass meeting of all men | clothing and other workers is callec |for Saturday at noon at Union Square and 15th St., to prepare for the great men’s clothing workers’ *meeting in Cooper Union July 15. rf 9