The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1930, Page 2

IOBLESS DELEGATE (|cArvey “riers” wt MET WAG:#-CUTS AND LAY-OFFS ALL THE WAY .; said Workers He Met Are Radicalized and) Ready to Fight Many Workers Took Subscription Blanks to} the Daily Worker Jare trying to get workers in the Denver, Colo. Worke’ r was a delegate to the ed Convention. I few lines to let ing these ou know of conditions along th. m writ oad. On the way to the conven- on, we came from our state (Cali- ornia) in an old Dodge truck and alked to many farmers and work- rs along the road. In San Ber- ardino the railroad shops laid off pproximately one-third of their orce the past month. The railroad vorkers all the way are affected he same way. In Victorville, Calif., the cement orks have been working but half heir force the past year. All along he road to the convention we heard he same story, wage-cuts and lay- vffs. The farmer is waking up to he fact that he is only a worker. Ine farmer at whose farm we stopped to make some repairs to the var, when he heard we were going o the convention, scouted up some ggs and a chicken, took half a lozen subscription blanks to the Daily Worker and told us that he and all the farmers in that neigh- »orhood were with us. His words vere: “Give ’em hell for me, boys. Workers all along the line took sub- scription blanks to the Daily from is. The old Dodge petered out on us | n Chicago, so we are going bac! y, freight, blinds and highways. In| ‘ye wheatfileds of Nebraska they Severe Drop of Japanese Trade in China | SHANGHAI, July 17.—According o an official report issued by the jern country. harvest for three bucks. The rail- road bulls let you in the wheat belt, but try and get out. They are keep- ing the workers there to keep the price down to three bucks or even lower. The workers are holding out, but need organization. We have been talking Agricultural Workers’ Industrial League to them and most of them are eager to join up. In Colorado conditions are rotten. The workers in the beet fields, most of whom are Mexicans, are fighting back the attacks of the boss class. Many of them are joining the Trade Union Unity League and the Party. In Denver young workers are work~ ing in the trunk factory nine hours a day for $6 a week. Will write further on conditions as I go along. | The members of the Young Com- munist League tell me that they have sent several letters trying to get the Young Worker here, but have not even had @ reply. They have a small but active Y. C. L. group here and they need the Young Worker in their task in organizing the youth. They have the core and the opportunity of a strong Y. C. L. group here, as the conditions of the young worker are even worse here than any place in the entrie West- For the Workers’ and the Farm ers’ Government. UNEMPLOYED DELEGATE. Oakland, Calif. | last year. This serious drop in Sino-Japanese trade is a clear re ommercial attache of the Japanese | flection of the severe economir egation in China, Japanese ex- | crisis in China as well as in Japar norts to China in the first five |The drop in silver prices, of course bearers of the Communist Party in nonths this year are $25,744,000 | very greatly accentuates the situa- {the election struggle for work or mex) less than the same period ' tion. 87 Finnish Comrades Jailed in Helsingfors | HELSINGFORS, July 17.—The ; October. innish | division interlocks with a military junit known as the African Legion, SAME STUNT AS POLICE *NEW YORK.—The Negro nation- s movement in Harlem have es- Ba hed a new division known as | the Tiger Division, named after | the symbol of Tammany Hall a di- vision of the democratic patry. The | and all lower ran! The military has “Colonels” down to privates. | unit it is said generally “enters the | hall where the Garvey meetings are held, marches down the righ aisle erect and soldierly every one of them from the fighting colonel to} the newest private.” A “major” talked at one of their recent meetings on “how the black soldiers were forced to fight” their fellow Negro and white workers for profits to the capitalist class, but the major used the following words “black soldiers were forced to fight their blood brothers for the sake of money-madness of the white race.” Another military member stated “The Tigers intend to help as many little Negro children as possible to secure food and shoes during this coming cold weather,” dent that the Tiger division imitating the Tiger police is who threw a few of their graft crums | se to workers’ children last week after beating up unemployed workers who demanded work or wages on Union Square March 6th. A colonel related that he had visited a police chief in Central demonstrations, together with te | America, and found him to be a strong Garveyite. Notify Jobless On Nomination Today (Continued From Page One.) the Communist Party to make the ‘intensified struggle for work or | wages, for unemployment insur- |ance, one of the outstanding issues jin this election campaign,” says the | | election campaign committee. The state nominating convention of the Communist Party, held at Schenectady, May 25, which was! ‘attended by hundreds of delegates from shops and factories, unions and working class organizations, enthusiastically nominated Foster, Minor and Amter, as the standard wages, social insurance, against the imperialist war danger, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Thir- teen thousand workers at the Madi- 'son Square Garden demonstration, Eighty-seven Helsingfo government dissolved the |Communists are held in jails here sichstag elections which began in|and the persecution continues. Vienna Communists Fight Off Police VIENNA, July he Communist Party, at the graves 17.—Last night} Schober government. The revolu- | tionary discipline of the workers f the July victims, held a power-| rendered the attacks of the police | ul demonstration against the | ineffective. “OLIDARITY FOR YORKSHIRE STRIKERS} New York workers will show |SOCIALISTS WEAK IN | ELECTIONS IN POLAND WARSAW, July 17.—There was hejr solidarity with the 100,000 ' a very low poll in the Sunday elec- striking textile workers of York- shire, England, next Wednesday evening when they attend the mags | meeting arranged by the Workers | Thternational Relief and the Nation- al Textile Workers’ will be held at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St. This will be one of the many meetings which with tag days will | be held all over the United States | the week beginning July 19 to rally the American working class to the aid of the British textile workers who have been on strike for the last three months. The workers are not only fighting the mill own- ers but likewise the British labor government which is attempting to drive them back to work at lowered wages. The strikers and the British sec- tion of the Workers International Relief has sent an appeal to the workers of the world to come to) their assistance. So far five food kitchens have been set up in the strike zone but more are needed. Committees of strikers are now in Germany and France mobilizing the workers there to the aid of the strikers, The New York workers will show their solidarity by attending the meeting next Wednesday. speakers will include Dewey Mar- tin, one of the leaders of the Gas- tonia textile strike and a delegate to the Red International of Labor Unions Congress in Moscow; Mar-| cel Sherer, national secretary of the Workers International Relief; Murdoch, general secretary, Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union and others who will be announced later. The meeting is being held under the joint auspices of the Workers International Relief and the Na- ‘ional Textile Workers’ Union. Two Spanish Classes On At Workers School The Workers School announces he formation of two classes in Spanish. One of these will hold its sessions on Wednesday and Friday evenings, from 7 to 8 p. m. The other on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:00 to 8:00 p. m. The first session of the evening class will be held on Wednesday, July 28, at 7 p. m. The afternoon class will hold its first session on Tuesday, July 22nd at 2 p. m. Party comrades who wish to learn Spanish should register for these classes at once. No registrations will be accepted after the classes have started, * Union which | The | Bill | tions in Kovel and Svenciany dis- tricts for the Seym. An average of 22 per cent of the voters took | part in the elections. The workers | |and peasants candidate, at Kovel, | received 28,500 votes. The bour- | geois Jewish Ukrainian block re- ceived 10,000 votes. The White! | Russian workers and peasants list | at Svenciany was declared void, al- though it got 10,000 votes. The so- cialists only got 6,000 votes, UNITY LEAGUE, JULY 20, NEW YORK.—“The results de- veloping out of the deepening e¢on- omic crisis places before our move- ment many new sérious tasks and problems, such as the struggle | against unemployment—in accord- ance with the program adopted at the Chicago convention—the build ing up of strike movements against the increased system of wage cuts, | August Ist; the continuation on a much more organized plan the membership drive of the T. U. U. L., as well as the Fifth World Congress of the R. I. L. U. and the campaign for its tenth anniversary,” says the Trade Union Unity League, an- nouncing a meeting of its Nationa) oxecutive Board. “AN members of the National | Executive Board are therefore in- structed to attend the meeting, | which will open up on Sunday, July 20, 10 a. m. sharp.” | “War in the Air,” Says Europe are talking of war between France and Italy, James W. Gerard, ambassador to Germany under President Wilson, arrival from Budapest. He inferred it was only a question of time be- fore France and Italy will go to and. speed up; the preparations for | Big U.S.A. Diplomat; NEW YORK, July 17.—-Many in|" id today upon June 20, on the occasion of the opening of the national convention of tne Communist Party, endorsed | | the Communist election platform | }with tremendous enthusiasm, and | delegated a committee to officially \inform Comrades Foster, Minor, and Amter of their nomination. The Communist Party declares that the railroading and keeping of the unemployed delegation in jail is part of the entire campaign of the bosses’ government to crush | the growing militancy of the work- ing masses and determined struggle against wage cuts, speed-up, unem ployment, and starvation, and the var PeaparaHons of Wal St. 7) PUSH TAX LAW BY INVOKING ARTICLE (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 17. — Last night je Reichstag rejected article two of the emergency levy whereupon the government announced its in tention to decree proposals unde: a dictatorship, which was declar « by iavoking article 48 of the Wei mar Constitution. The decree for making the emergency levy law is expected Friday. MACHINE DOES WORK OF THOUSANDS. WASHINGTON. — Machinery in the government census bureau, op: erated by 1,000 workers, does work hat would have formerly required 10,000 men. The machinery was in- stalled in 1890. Since then it has andergone steady improvement. Labor and Fraterna Pienie z | Bath Beach Workers Center will July 19 ai have a picnic Saturday, Ulmer Park. | _ Mass meeting be held Wednesd Royal Palace, 16° Ma tan st, Brooklyn. Herbert Newton will speak, } Ses} * Metal Workers Meeting will be held tonight at 13 | W. 17th St. * * * Levy LL.D. Branch will hold a meeting tonizt at Sutter and Penn Aves, eae * Williamst Branch will ho rt Roebling and Gri D Communist Activities Section § Election Campaign Work will be held Friday, f to 9 and Sunday up to 2 p,m. nrades are to report, Dan Held by Unit 2 and 5 of Harler Saturday, July 19, at 8 p.m. at | war. “It is in the air. It is immi- nent,” he said. PROGRAM FOR NEEDLE UNION NEW YORK.—Camp Croton Ave. (located opposite Mohegan Colony, Mohegan, Peekskill, N. Y.) has ar- ranged a special program of revolu- tionary dances and music for the! benefit of the Needle Trade Work- ers Industrial Union, which will be held this Saturday. The program is: Nadya Chilkof- sky, in revolutionary dances; Man- dolin Trio; Gershberg, proletarian songs, K. 108rd St. a emisaion 25 cents. Section 6 Attention! All comrades are to report at se tion headquarters, Saturday, July | at J) a, ma at 68 Whipple St. for im portant work, * Section * 5 Sprakers Conference will be held tonight atl 569 Prospect Ave. v * 6 f Daily worker Agents Section 6 will meet tonight at 8.29 | p.m. at 669 Prospect Ave, Hench tas Of the Qoney Island Y. Pon, unit will be held Sunday, July 20 at the 28th St. Beach, * * Sretion 4 Election compaign will he held this Sunday at 10 a, m. at 308 Tenax Aye All comrades are to atlond, It is evi- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRID/ AY, JULY 18, 1930 BIG ANTI-WAR RANDOLPH GIVES PARADE ose Mas Operatic peri DEMONSTRATION | AT SHANGHAI Martial Law Declared By Kuomintang Gov’t workers of Shanghai, the stronghold of the Chinese prole- tariat, staged three monster dem- onstrations on Wednesday at Nan- king Road, the main thoroughfare of the According to capitalist pr reports, the demonstrations were “organized in protest against the activities of China’s war lords, who are ruining the country.” This, of course, means that they were demonstrations against the militarist war in China, which is a part of the imperialist war moves all over the world. The demon- strators have shown great militancy, despite the white terrorist measures of the police. The crowd stoned tram cars, foreign-owned automo- biles and smashed store windows. The success of the demonstrations 1 the Shanghai authorities panic- stricken and martial law was in- voked yesterday against the work- ers. | Coming at a time of the severest erisfS and rising cost of living, the | The strike struggles of the tram car INSTEAD OF STRUGGLE | NEW YORK.—The fake labor leaders of the Brotherhood of Pull- man Porters, a jim crow company union affair organized by the American Federation of Labor, is planning a_ series of 2 | throughout the northern citie The parades will “protest” against the tipping evil and the deb: ment of the Negro porters who were pre- vented from striking by private ad- vice from the Pullman Co. to Wil- liam Green who later told A, Philip Randolph not to let the workers strike. William Lloyd Imes, Harlem} preacher who was present at a meeting called by the Brotherhood officials to cover up the brutal lynching of a Negro pullman porter, will have charge of the arrange- ments. Two workers, a white and Negro both members of the Inter- national Labor Defense were ar- rested at the lynch meeting after they exposed the lynchers, The Brotherhood prosecuted them, one was sentenced to three months and the other to five days. They were beaten almost to death by the | police called by Randolph, one | served three months in the prison hospital? Demonstrate poneirate ugusy Ist! ILD EXCURSION TO HOOK’ “MTS. TOMORROW 2 P. M, NEWARK POLICE THUGS |and bus workers in the French Con- | | Nent militancy tariat. The demonstrations are excellent preparations for the coming anti- war demonstrations on Aagust 1. Since the militarist war in China is indexes of the growing of the Shanghai prole- but a preliminary skirmish of the | coming imperialist war, the Chinese | workers and peasants can e said to have already carried out in prac- tice the slogan of transferring the imperialist war into a revolution- ary civil war. This fact adds much meaning and importance to the dem- onstration on August 1 this year all over the world. In the midst of world-wide preparations for anti- war demonstrations on that day the Shanghai proletariat has certainly | made a good start in Wednesday’s | successful demonstrations. Demonstrate August Ist! Downtown Workers Club Plan Carnival Sat. BROOKLYN.—A carnival and | ball will be given by the Downtown | Workers Club, Saturday, July 26 at 8 p. m. at Knights of Pythias Hall, 2864 W. 21st St., Coney Island | Proceeds of the ball will go to- wards the strike fund of the Needle rades Workers Industrial Union. An appeal to workers living down town to join the Downtown Work- ers Club, and help in the expansion of the activities of the club and en large the present quarters, is being made. | Tickets may be obtained from members of the Downtown Workers | Club or at the Needle Trades Work ers Industrial Union, 181 W. 28th St. All workers are urged to at tend and help build the strike fund | of the N.T.W.s.U. Demonstrate August Ist! ssions, which is in full swing, are | | tions for | Defense excursion to Hook Mt. Sat- NEW YORK.—With the promise | of a full day’s fun, final ‘prepara- | the International Labor | 19, urday, July have been pleted. com- Hook Mt. MOPR movies will be a feature | that will attract many while sports, | | various games and good food will| ; jhelp round out a day of recreation. | Leaving Pier A South Ferry at |2 p. m. the boat will return with the excursioners at midnight. Tick- | jets are $1.25 in advance and $1.50 the ILD local office, 799 Broadway, Room 410, or at the Workers Book- | shop, 26 Union Square. Full proceets of the will go to the ILD excursion campaigns bosses. Demonstrate August Ist! Office Workers Get Ready for August 1 NEW YORK.—The Office Work- ers Union is rallying its forces be- hind the August First Demonstra- tion against Imperialist War. On July 23, an educational meeting will be held at which there will be aj discussion on “The War Danger.” Delegates to the anti-war confer- ence on July 24 will be elected at this time, and the delegates who attended the Chicago unemployment confrence will give their report. The union is holding its annual outing on this coming Sunday, July | 20, at Tibbetts Brook Park. Mem- |bers of the union and their fellow | office workers will assemble at Van | Cortland Station at 10:30 a.m. A program of sports, singing, bathing and rowing has been planned, and the union is anticipating a big turn out. TOMORROW |} 17 Excursion | l. L. D. JULY 19 STEAMER: “MYLES STANDISH” Leaves Pier A South Ferry Saturday 2 p. m. Tickets $1.25 Now; Save 25c Picnic and Carniva’ Picnic and Carniva’ | | Given i DANCE and ENTERTAINMENTS MOPR MOVIES Get Tickets at I. L. D., 799 Broadway, Room 410 Phone: STUYVESANT 3752 Moining Fretheit QEWISH DAILY) SATURDAY. AUGUST 2. 1930 ULMER PARK, 25th Avenue (BATH BEACH) Lickets: 40¢ at Morning Freiheit, 30 Union Square, New York City by the Jes | which opens at the Cameo Theatre | |Freda Hempal | tonio Moreno portrays the villainous | “HELL'S | play the chief roles in a new locale jin Columbia’s |“Hell’s Island,” which is scheduled The steamer “Miles Stand- | Defense and Civil Liberties Union ish” has been chartered to carry the | “@S broken up by the police, While workers up the Hudson River to|Stanting the use of the corner of | | its nature and whether it would be at the pier, and may be obtained at | held indoors or on the streets, against the growing terror of the | called at the same corner, with the in New Film at the Cameo Don Majice grand opera tenor, Jose TOUng: Latin | ] “THREE LITTLE GIRLS makes his audible sereen debut in “One Mad Kiss,” | today. Majica for eight years has | been a of the Chicago Grand Opera Co., singing leading roles op- posite Mary Garden, Galli Curci, and other famous divas, and he also has appeared fre- quently in concert throughout the | North American continent. | Mona Maris, former UFA star, has the role of Rosario, while An- Estrada. Tom Patricola, America’s eccentric dancer, has a role as Jose’s right-hand man. Harry Puck, who has an important role in “Three Little Girls,” the | Viennese operetta now current at | the Shubert Theatre. POLICE GIVE UP BEFORE | ISLAND” OPENS GLOBE THEATRE TODAY. Jack Holt and Ralph Graves will AT dramatic offering, to open at the Globe Theatre today for its New York premiere.. The Sahara Desert forms the background for the drama. Other players include Dorothy | Sebastian, Richard Kramer, Harry Bue Lionel Belmore and Otto Lang. NEW YORK.—Two enthusiastic open air meetings were held terday by the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. Thousands gathered in the fur market, and | other thousands in the dress and cloak market. meetings, but did not have force enough. They called up the station, but by that time had decided not to try. Speakers received an enthusiastic reception from the work The fur workers are following the lead of the union and fighting for July increases, Stoppages prevalent in the garment tr now, the industrial union dri SMASH TEST MEETING NEWARK, July 17.—A test meet- ing held here last night under the auspices of the International Labor are ng ; Broome St. and Springfield to the Salvation Army and the socialist | party, the police heve continved to} break up Communist Party meet- ings at this corner. The police captain declared that no workers’ meetings will be al- lowed in his precinct. regardiess of | union condionay as! TROOPS AGAIN FIRE ON WORKERS IN EGYPT Troops of British imperialism again fired on a crowd of Egyptians this evening on the streets of Alexan- | dria. One person was reported to be wounded. Mohammed Ali Square, the center of the business section A Negro worker, selling the La-| bor Defender, was arrested and| searched and later released on $100 for trial. Another meeting will soon be an armed camp. The two battleships which were sent to Egypt on Wednesday still remain in Alexandria harbor, ready International Labor Defense rally- ing the workers for a fight for the streets. : - for action. MacDonald announced Strike against wage cuts! De- | in the House of Commons that warn- mand unemployment insurance! |i?& had been given to his lackeys Rally against imperialist war, in the Egyptian government, that and for the defense of the Soviet Union on August Ist! suppression of revolutionary acti ties of the masses, ‘A Theatre Guild Production™"" RKO ATR O | LOBE "253329 Daily from THE NEW & 46th (10:30 A.M GARRICK GATETIES GUILD W. 52a. Bve, Mts.Th &Sat.2:30 HELL'S ISLAND” with Jack Holt, Ratph Graves and Dorothy Sebastian Broadway and AMEO “tna iest “ONE MAD KISS” with Jose Majiea, Antonio Moreno, Mona Maris and Tom Patricola ARTISTS AND MODELS Paris-Riviera Edition of 1930 MAJESTIC hse, ath St. W my Eves, at 8:30 a Sat. COOLED | Mats. en THEATRE FOR BETTER VALUES IN MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S SUITS go to PARK CLOTHING STORE 93 Avenue A, Cor Sixth St. We Meet at the— COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE FRESH FRUIT SODAS AND ICE CREAM U. S. S. R. CANDIES CIGARETTES Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty Biggest and Best Workers’ Outing of the Season! Our Build the « ea, a. Baily 245 Worker Picnic—Carnival Held in Co-operation with —All Revolutionary and Sympathetic Workers’ Organizations; —All Party Communist Papers; —All Daily Worker Readers; —All Workers from the Shops That We Can Reach. REMEMBER THE DATE * SUNDAY, AUG. 17 PLEASANT BAY PARK of the city, has been turned into| he will hold them responsible for the | of | | | | fortunately, by the time 19: | ahead, organizing shops and winning | (CRISIS STIRRING. POLITICS AND THE POOR FARMERS Must Join Workers in Sharp Struggle NEW YORK.—Citing the un- doubted fact that “Hoover prosper- a standing joke in the West,” lly among the farmers, who s are getting 40 and 45 cents a bushel for wheat, Raymond R. Angell, evidently speaking for the National Committee of the dem- ocratic party of which he has been a prominent member, says that the West has “considerable sentiment” | for Owen D. Young. Owen D. Young, one of the old line silk stocking Tammanyites, and chairman of the board of the Gener- al Electric Company, is one of the BIG NEEDLE MEETINGS | outstanding spokesmen of great banking capital. A lot of laurels have been laid upon his brow for putting over the “Young Plan” to starve the German workers at low wages for the benefit of allied rep- arations—and Morgan’s bank. Un- 2 rolls around the Young Plan is likely to b2 as unmentionable politically as The police tried to break up the| the Dawes Plan, and the laurels on (Continued on Page Five) UNEMPLOYED, SUICIDE NEW YOR Howard F. Hass, actor, whose savings of 15 years on the stage were lost in Wall St. and who couldn’t get work because of the movie substitution for acting, killed himself yesterday. Other workers who are unemployed scorn to eliminate one of the bosses? troubles, and organize to figHt him. “For All Kinds of Insurance” (CARL BRODSKY ‘Yelephone: Murray HUI) 555: ALEXANDRIA, E Egypt, July 17.— 17 Kast 42nd Street, New York | [DR. J. MINDEL Cooperators! 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Eldridge St. NEW YORK SUKCGHUN DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE Kcom 808— Phone: Algonquin 8182 Not connected unth any other office Advertwe your Union Meetings here For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising vept 26-28 Union ©. few York City | FOOD WORKERS INDUS’ UNION OF NEW YORK 16 W. Bist St. Chelsea 2279 AR Bronx Headauarters, 2994 Thira Avenue, Melrose 0128, Brooklyn | Headauarters, 16 Graham Avenue | Pulasky 0634 ‘The Shop Delegates Councti meets | the first Tuesday of every month — at 8 P. M. at 16 West 21st St The Shop Basic Unit