The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1930, Page 1

The Supreme Court decision confirming the conviction of the Gastonia defendants, simul- taneously with the the dismissal of the the U. T. W. organi: of capitalist class strate August 22! announcement of of Hoffman, case x, is another example Demon- justice. Dail Central Orga Entered a, Vol. VIL, No. 201 second-class matter at New York. N. Y.. under the he Post Uffice t of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, THU RSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930 Stop Lynching! HRIEKS of horror against lynching are meaningless. crite can on occasion mouth suitable hysterical ph against white mobs and murderous attacks on Negroes. All could join with Governor Max Gardner of North Carolina in saying: Any hypo- “I am horrified. It is a black blot on a fine record which the state has made for nearly a decade. The state will do every- thing in its power to find the guilty parties.” But, frankly, all this is bunk—plain, unadulterated, sentimental bunk, which is designed to give a free hand to the lynching mobs while at the same time appeasing those horror-stricken “enemies” of lynch- ing who would like to find some more cultured method of maintaining white supremacy. This hypocricy must be exposed. The murder of Oliver Moore in rth Carolina, immediately following the murder of two Negro work- ers in Indiana, making a total of 21 lynchings already this year, must arouse the masses to set a new standard in judging the opponents of lynching. Hysterical phrase-mongering must be rejected; readiness action—organized action—to stop.lynching must be made the test. In every city and town throughout the country, in the North as well as in the South, the masses of workers, white and black, must be organized to fight against the lynching terror and for full social, economic and political equality and the right of self determination for the Negro masses in those sections of the country where they constitute a ma- jority of the population. This fight cannot be mere lip service against lynching and for equality. The fight must be carried on through the medium of organ- ized workers’ defense corps which are prepared to actually prevent lynchings from taking place by repelling the attacks of the white mobs. The anti-lynching campaign of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, which has for its purpose the setting up of such defense groups, for which a national center will be created in St. Louis on November 15, must receive the full support of every Communist and every white worker. In the day to day work in preparation for September 1st and in the election campaign of the Communist Party steps will be taken to organize the masses in support of the efforts of the A.N.L.C. and to arouse them to struggle against these atrocious murders and in defense of the Negroes. for Demonstrate September Firs HILADELPHIA furnishes an interesting example of the fakery of the bosses and their agents in dealing with unemployment sta- tisties. A representative of the census bureau innocently blurted out somewhere near the truth when he declared in the local press that 11 per cent of the entire population of the city was unemployed. In-other words he admitted that a minimum of 220,000 Philadelphia workers were jobless. Now the city boosters are busy trying to cover up. One celebrity after another comes forth with his estimate. One says 50,000; another becomes very liberal and places the number at 80,000; a third maintains the average however by emphatically declaring that there are less than 30,000. And so the battle rages in an effort to cover up the true facts —the real suffering of many thousands of workers. These lying evasions are characteristic of every city But to show up their fakery let us stick to Philadelphia. The little seasonal pick-up some branches of the textile indus- try has been played up a great deal, although the reopening of the hosiery mills on the basis of the new agreement (one man doing the job of two by running two machines) will further increase the army” of permanently unemployed. Other branches of the textile industry, like carpet-weaving, employing tens of thousands of men, have already decreased production more than 50 per cent. As to the metal industry, some factories, like those manufacturing tools, are closed altogether.” The Budds auto-body plant, which just reopened with 25 per cent of the force, put over an average wage cut of 15 per cent upon those who returned. Thousands are daily looking for jobs at the Metal Association Employment Office. The bosses are using all kinds of tricks to cover up the fact that capitalism in Philadelphia, just as in other sections of the country, is unable to feed the workers. The demagogic move of the fascist injunction-judge, McDevitt, who gave $100 to a jobless worker who committed robbery to get food for his family, exposes two things: the actual state of “prosperity” and the fact that we are before elections and that the capitalist parties want to keep the workers’ vote. The “liberal” Record is erying about prohibition and the Blue Laws, as responsible for unemployment. The faker Pinchot speaks of spending millions for road building and for the development of the port of Philadelphia, “after he gets elected” when the Public Service Commission “controlled by the monopolies” will be replaced with his “Fair Rate” Board, controlled by the “people” —that is, by Mr. Pinchot’s allies, Grundy and Co. The workers in Philadelphia as well as elsewhere throughout the country are beginning to see through this fakery and to realize that they cannot get anything from the capitalists and are responding to the election campaign of the Communist Party an the call of the Trade Union Unity League for the September 1st demonstrations for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill. Remember Sacco, Vanzetti! APITALIST class justice on August 22nd, three years ago, was C clearly demonstrated in the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Despite all of the efforts of the Massachusetts’ authorities to conceal the real motives for their act behind charges of robbery and murder, the working class of the United States today know that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti went to their death only because they were conscious working-class revolutionaries, fighting daily against capital- ism in behalf of the workers. Today, three years after their brutal electrocution, other workers are about to meet the same fate. In Georgia the now famous Atlanta cases are pending; there also the bosses are gleefully calling for the death penalty, thinking that by killing working-class fighters that the | struggle for decent conditions by the working masses will stop, fl But the murder of ihe Atlanta defendants will be more difficult than the murder of Sacco and Vanzeiti. The masses today are more { conscious of the role of the cavitslist state’s murder machine. The masses today are much more ready to fight, and with the lessons of the Sacco-Vanzetti electrocution learned, they will fight more deter- minedly for the release of their class fighters. At the call of the International Labor Defense, which is whole- heartedly echoed by the Daily Worker, the masses in all cities will rally on August 22 to commemorate the vicious murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and to demand the release of the Atlanta defendants and all other workers imprisoned for their part in the working-class struggle against capitalism, Remember Sacco and Vanze' Raliy August 22nd! Demand the release of the Atlanta defendants! ——_< tm Commemorate Sacco- UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR Van DEMONSTRATION IN MANY CITIES Meets On Aug. 22 to Fight Against Death Threats in Atlanta Defend Foreign Born ‘Latin American Meets to Remember Sacco To commemorate the murder of | Sacco and Vanzetti, by the bosses of Massachusetts, on August 22, the third anniversary of their being | |burned to death on framed-up ‘charges, the International Labor | Defense will hold mass demonstra- | | tions throughout the i An electric chair, a replica of the | ‘one used for the electrocution of | |Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachv- | setts three, years ago, in being pre- |pared at the offices of the Inter- | national Labor Defense in New| York, to be used on Friday, August 2, at the Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial | | Demonstration at Union Square in| |New York, to bring home vividly | to the masses at the demonstration the threat of death which hangs | over the six Atlanta defen:ants. who come to trial in September. In Latin America. { Similar demonstrations will oc- cur on a national scale in this coun- try, in Latin America, and through- jout Europe, organized by the In- | ternatioal Labor Defense and affil- |iated sympathetic groups on Aug- ust 22, to make this third anniver- sary of the death of the Sacco and Vanzetti an occasion for world wide protest against political persecu- tions, Reports received by the National | (Continued on Page Three) HEGKERT TALKS AT RILUMEET ON CONCRETE TASKS ‘Italian Federation Is in | Red International (Wireless by Inprecorr) | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 20.— |Heckert, a delegate to the Fifth} | World Congress of the Red Inter. national of Labor Unions from thi ‘powerful left wing opposition in the German trade unions spoke to- day on concrete trade union prob- lems. | (The Red International the world center of revolutionary unions and militant minorities in’ reform- | ist unions, At its Fifth World Con-| gress, which went into session in | Moscow Aug. 15, and still continues, 55 countries are represented. There are 80 delegates from U. S.—Ed.) | Heckert’s discussion was made in | the light of Bolshevist, Leninist self |criticism. He pointed out that the International Federation of Trade Unions (The Yellow, or Amsterdam International) fails to recognize | ;that there is a world economic | crisis.. Some comrades also, Heck lert states, believe in the possibility | of organized capital. The Red In ternational of Labor Unions must banish this error. | Correct Slogan, Discussing the problem of the workers’ attitude to reformist lead - ‘ers in countries without Red trade ‘unions, Heckert states that the cor- | rect slogan is not “Compel the lead- | ‘ers to fight the bosses,” but “Or-! |ganize independent struggles.” | Strike experience in recent years, | Heckert proved, has shown the re- formists side with the employers, | but the workers recognize the neces- | Sity of revolutionary tacties against the bosses without, and a struggle against the reformist leaders from within the unions, Economie strikes are becoming ore political and revolutionary. | The Italian delegation declared [that the Italian Labor Federation jjoins the R, 1. L. Us | | Delegate Mirzah of India told of {the growing revolutionary move- {ment there despite national reform- ist treachery, | m Vanzelit Murder Tomorrow, August 22 SACCO-VANZETTI The “Socialists” and Gy WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. Under the pressure of the terrific unemployment, slashing wage cuts and inhuman speed-up a storm of working class struggle is brewing in the United States. The gigantic March 6 unemployment demonstra- tion and the growing wave of strikes against wage cuts are signals \ of the coming upheavals. | *The employers, keenly aware of the danger to them, are using extra- ordinary means to avert it. The first front in their strategy is to utilize their fascist and social-fas- cist agents of the A. F. of L. and the socialist party to hinder the growing solidarity of the workers. Their aim is to prevent the Com- munist Party and the Trade Union Unity League from developing ef- fective mass organization and lead- ership among the wakening work- ers. Be Tools. The capitalists are now rigorously using their reliable tool, the A. F. 7 yy ¥ }L. leaders. These fakers are busier Wm, Z. Foster than ever minimizing the extent of wee the inc crisis, supporting] Hoover's unemployment re- medies, ing across Ww cut for the employers, support re- publican and democratic ates, | leading the war attacks again:’ the | Soviet Union, openly fighting the “Red Menace,” and ete. They are the fait!ful servants of their mast- ers, the bosses. But the t significant feature of the situati: ; the int use the employers are ng of the so- eialist Party. before seen To an in this cc extent try are supporting it. In the New York| elections, for example, such reac- |tionary pa the New York] Times and the Telegram ari nly i supporting Norman Thomas and jspeaking highly of the socialist |ticket generally. And the ish | Commission,” “Red” hunters par ex-} jcellence, placed the government| | stamp of approval upon the ocial- (Continued on Page Three) Jailed by Tammany with Minor, | Amter and Raymond, members of | the Unemployed Delegation, CHINA RED ARMY TAKES PORT IN YANGTZE RIVER U. S. Sends Munitions to Chiang Kai-shek HANKOW, Aug. 20.—The Work- ers and Peasants Red Armies which have been gaining in strength and influence in the Yangtze River Valley, have captured another im- | portant river port, Wusueh. The port is situated between Kiukiang and Hankow and is of great strate- gical importance. A Japanese gunboat has already been rushed to Wusueh to intervene. It has become a regular practice for the imperialist gunboats to inter- vene as soon as the armed workers and peasants capture a city or score a big victory from the counter- revolutionary troops. coe oe WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Upon the humble “request” by the Chin- ese legation in Washington, the State Department gave ‘‘permission” to the Du Pont powder ‘nterests to send a shipment of munitions to Chiang Kai-shek to be used by the latter in fighting against the revo- lution as well as its northern mili- tarist rivals. TEXTILE INDUSTRY LOW. LONDON.—-Because of the sharp conflicts for markets, ecoonmic de- iression, the British textile indus- try is almost at a standstill. One oi the largest textile concerns has ‘orned no profits in the last six months. BRITISH Vote Communist! DEMAND PAY IN JAILS R L. D. Scores Island Barbarity NEW YORK.—“Promised investi gation of conditions at the New ‘ork City penitentiary on Welfare «sand seem to have been quickly ‘orgotten by State Commissioner of Correction Walter N. Thayer,” de- clared J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary, in a statement issued by the International Labor Defense re- ferring to Thayer’s declaration that the revelations brought out in the affidavit of the released inniate, Harry Repprecht, would be thor- oughly gone into, “Instead of the promised investi- gation, which was to have been taken up last week following the admissions of Commissioner Richard C. Patterson, Jr., of the ‘barbarous’ conditions on ‘the Island,’ Commis- sioner Patterson orders the removal of Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, from the Welfare Island prison to Riker’s Island on numerous silly charges, and with- draw vileges from other pris- one! he savage prison regime at State Supreme Court Upholds. 117 Year Gastonia Sentence NTRALIA HERO DIES IN PRISON BULLETIN. | | RALEIGH, N.C, Aug. 20.— ‘The supreme court of North Caro- lina showed its favoritism for the United Textile Workers while confirming sentences on National Textile Workers’ Union organ- | izers, It oyerruled the conyiction | E | of Alfred Hoffman, organizer of Sacco-Vanzetti Meets: the U. T, W. at Marion, where : i strikers were shot down by. the Make Demands | NEW YORK.—Following news of | sheriff and his men. | “2 8 RALEIGH, N. ©, Aug. 20 the death of James McInerney, one | new strike struggles of the textile} ee eon pies Web ineton | workers in Neth Carolina the | Walla. Walla Prison, Washington, State Supreme Court, suppeted to | the International Labor Deferise an- Renee aero mead eis sud. |Rounces that it will throw its full I s r recess, has sud- |, P anon into ater denly handed down its long delayed | TSources and strength into a wic lecisi in the’ f, Gastonts ; Spread campaign to rescue the r [decision in ‘the famous Gastonia | maining seven workers from a liv. asad " ing death in the Walla Wa and organizers, Fred Beal, Clarence | prison, McInerney died from tuber- culosis contracted in prison, a| | Miller, Louis McLaughlin, George Carter, William McGinnis, Joseph Harrison and K. Y, Hendricks, de- claring that these workers must serve a total of 117 years in prison. An attempt by the American Mills Co. to operate their Mills No. 1 and 2 at Bessemer City, ended yesterday with a walk out of the rest of the workers, and those en- ticed into the mills after the strike started. The mills were completely closed down today. It is not true, as previously stated, that the National Textile ‘Workers’ Union is leading the strike. The workers came out fight- ing determinedly against a wage- cut of from 20 to 30 per cent. The National Textile Workers’ Union is favored by many as a Jeader. They desire to follow the policy of mili- calls upon the workers to rally to| the drive for the release of the: class war victims. “James Me- | Inerney, who had served 11 years} in prison was martyred by | ber barons of the Pacific Northwest |because he fought to build a union | |for the lumber workers,” said the [International Labor Defense. “He, | |together with ten others, were ar-| jrested for defending themselves | |against a mob of Legionnaires who attempted to raid and destroy the! junion hall and drive the workers’ | ar- | Day, November 11, 1919, McInerney’s funeral will be held| in Centralia, Washington, Aug. 20,| |where the American Legionnaires inspired by the lumbermen of the | |tant strike action, and of spreading dhe reas ‘ | the strike to the company’s mills in| jpe.qrorkers and, the brutal mob (Contnuedionfage Three) | Senttle District of theEL.D. willl participate in the mass funeral JOBLESS CALLED TO DEMONSTRATE | Speakers at nemployed Council BI and Nabisco Idg. Trades Market yranny,” said Engdahl, “The In-| New YORK—At 7:30 in. the | | ternational Labor Defense does not! morning speakers of the press for an investigation. | We Trades Unemployed Council, came | Ve toual alec ina “ofthe ison | into the job market for building | atficialdona.t e Prison | wo) at Southern Boulevard and Mes 4;,,| Freeman St. and conducted a meet- Engdahl declared thatiin addition|;... distributing leaflets and urging | to ng widespri ici to! Walrad ie thas Sahand ‘| the many unemployed in the build-. Welfare Island, but - in all other |™& trades to organize and fight for | the Workers’ Soc penal institutions in the state, the | ial Insurance Bill, International Labor Defense raises | |the demands for work for all prison-| Unemployment Day, and August 22 ers at trade union wages and under | S8co-Vanzetti. Speakers were Sam trade union conditions and hours, | Nessin, secretary of the Unem- part of the wages to be made avail. | Ployed Councils of New York, and| able for prisoners’ families or other | J°¢ Harris, an unemployed painter. | dependents; recognition of political) At noon the Food Workers’ Un- |prisoners as distinct from prisoners! ¢™Ployed Council held a meeting | charged with social crimes, permit- | in front of the National Biscuit Co. jting them special privileges insofar| Speakers were Nessin, Corey, or- | as correspondence, reading matter} £anizer of the youth section of the and receiving visitors are con-| Trade Union Unity League and Ed. | |cerned; supervision of prison con-| Schwartz, an organizer of the Food |ditions, food, recreation by prison- Workers’ Industrial Union, | jers’ committees, Several contacts were made for | | “Failure to put these meager de-|future organization work, mands into effect will result in the| building of shop commit ees and of jcoming winter in new outbreaks of | the industrial union were discussed Well Island does not even con-/ prisoners in the various jails and| with the workers. Here, also, the duct usual investigation to| penitentiaries over the country,| workers were urged to particip: whi iiself, but instead inten-| many more than last winter,” de-| in’ the Unemployment Day and \sifies the rigidity of its unbearable |clared Engd: Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration | ly frunist Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) FINAL CITY nd 8.000,00 thé lum- | det WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! TION EDI e 3 Pric Cents ANCE IS SEPTEMBER 1st SLOGAN aca 0 JOBLESS FACE the Elections STARVATION; FIGHT IN VAIN FOR LYNCHED BY BO; MOB Lynchers, As Usual, Not ‘Known’ TABORO, N. C., Aug. 20.—Al- though more of the 200 fiends who Oliver Negro farm laborer, were unmasked lynched Moore, 29-year-old when they were permitted to enter the Edgecombe County jail here to get their victim, capitalist authori- | ties “investigating” this latest out- port today the usual “no progress.” In the meantime, so clear is the collusion between the lynchers and the capitalist jail uthorities that the coroner’s jury feels constrained to delay for a few the usual verdict of “lynched a mob of per unknown.” Gov. O. Max Gardner, who is still by The International Labor Defense | vacationing in the northern part of | the state, and was yesterday re- ported to have promised a Mate “investigation” of the crime b: reports reaching here today, “un- mined whether the state would an investigation.” mak The lynching occurred early Tues- day morning when a mob of 200 that travelled in expensive auto- mobiles entered, unchallenged and with the connivance of the prison authorities, the Edgecombe County ail and took Moore out of his cell. city and strung up, his body riddled spokesmen «ut of town on Armistice | He was taken fifteen miles from the | TOUR THE STATE with more than 200 bullets. He was accused of attacking the two es,| daughters of a white planter on/ whose farm he worked. Accusation | Northwest, led the attack against |0f rape, followed by lynching, is the | usual answer of the southern bosses to © workers demanding their wages. aes | INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20.—In a huge mass meeting held here last night at ‘Tomlinsgn Hall, under the leadership of the"Communist Party, Negro and white workers of this city denounced the lynching terror of the bosses and called upon the revolutionary struggle against the against the working class. DAILY WORKER REPS MEET AUG. 21 A special meeting of all Section and Unity Daily Worker represen- Aug. Workers Center, 26. Union Square, New York City. A number of very important questions will be taken up. Make no other arrangements for Thurs. evening. At the last meeting; there was only a 50 per cent attendance. We must have a better attendance this time. MACHINE OUST CANADIAN WORKERS, Machines are being rapidly sub- and the stituted for men on western Can- adian farms nipeg Elect 10 per cent of the residents of Western Canada will be on farms. An official of the Win- Vole Communist! EMPLOYMENT COMMUNIST BILL PROVIDES REAL JOBLESS RELIEF |Boston AFL Fakers to | Dine With Bosses As “Unemployment Day,’ Sept. jist, the day of the mass demonstra- |tions for the passage of the Work- Social Insurance Bill, draws near reports from all over the coun- |try show how much worse the un- | employment situation is becoming. In New York 10,000 jobless up for blocks in front of the re , Employment Agency, where jobs are the last thing obtainable. These are not the same men who were here yesterday or the day before. | Only a few return. The others learn |that jobs do not exist here. The frantie appeal for work is answered lined ;by clubbings. There are over 800,- 000 unemployed in the New York metropolitan area. The unemployed, most of them face starvation, must ha’ relief. The Workers’ Social Insurance Bill is the only measure put before the | Workers that provides adequate re- |lief. It can be obtained only by a |fight on the part of the workers ;against the bosses and their gov- ernment, who are responsible for unemployment. | Shelbyville Jobless Desperate. | A worker writing in from Shelby- | ville, Ill, tells of the desperate at- jtempt of the unemployed to get work or food. He quotes an item from the Shelbyville Daily Union, | which says: | “Joe White of this city, who has | acres of broom corn planted jthis year is being besieged with men wanting to work. says that at | least 150 have applied for jobs. | “U. S. Grant, who has 40 acres jnear Windsor, has applications | from 175 men.” | Of course, none of the men got | jobs. In Chicago an unemployed worker, who kas four children, has built himself a little wagon to col (Continued on Page Three) | | ENGDAHL WILL ‘Communist Candidate For Lieut. Governor | NEW YORK.—Three weeks of up-state campaigning are being {planned by the Communist Party Election Campaign Headquarters for J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for lieutenant-governor, who will tow the state in place of William Z Foster, Communist candidate for governor, still being held at the | Hart’s Island prison following his | workers of all races to unite in| conviction as leader of the March |6th Unemployment Demonstration the Building | System which breeds such outrages |in Union Square. Engdahl’s up-state tours will in elude the weeks of September 8. | September 22-28, and October }1 st of the time will be taken The r |up with campaign activities in New | York City and the immediate vi- | cinity, avery activity of the Communist | and to demonstrate on September 1,/ tatives will be held on Thursday, | Election Campaign will stress the at, 7 p. m. sharp, in the| demand for the liberation not only | of Foster, but also of Robert Minor Israel Amter and Harry Raymond. sent to prison with Foster as mem bers of the March Sixth Unem | ployed Delegation that” sought to place the demands of the jobl | before Mayor Walker at the | Hall,” declared Engdahl. “The parole board has said the prisoners must serve six months with ten months for Raymond. This | means that Foster, Minor, and Am | ter, all of whom are candidates of | the Communist Party for various | offices, will not be turned loose j until the election campaign is prac ic Co. predicts that only| tically over. There is every indica. tion that they will be held follow ing their release on the framed uw) felonious assault charge that stil | stands against them.”