The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1930, Page 1

Y e n se ne rt dd ad ie Detroit Workers! Only Phillip Raymond, the candidate of the Communist Party for Mayor, will fight for your interes’ The other candidates represent the bosses. Vote Communist Tuesday! Daily Central the—-Comaunict ee NO Watered a, second-class at New York N 2 Vol. 16 atter at the Post Office der the act of March 8. 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930 Norker f Party U.S.A. (section vojoche, Communist International ) FINAL CITY EDITION WORKERS ~ OF THE WORLD, UNITE! NEGRO COMMUNIST CANDIDATE MURDERED IN CHICAGO The Seventh Murder Victim KE MASOD the candidate of the Communist Party for Congress on Chicago’s South Side, has died as a result of a murderous assault by the Chicago police. On June 14th he was ar- rested and badly beaten at an anti-lynching rally organized by the American Negro Labor Congress. Since that time he has been in bed , a Negro worker, suffering from the injuries he received. Saturday he died—a victim of Mayor Thompson’s murder regime. Lee Mason’s name must be added to the list of those other work- ing cl martyrs who recently ve been murdered by the police or their fascist agents. Gonzal Gonzalez, Stev Albert W nberg, Steve Katovis, Alfred Levy, Mina, George Harkeoff, and now Lee Mason, have all given their lives in the workers struggle against a brutal, despotic, capitalist regime which is determined to live as leeches on the workers’ blood. But these lives will be avenged. The working class will not for- Move workers will rally around the revolutionary banner. The truggle will go forw: Forces will be gathered. Experience will gained, Until finally, like a mighty avalanche, the organized mass power of the workers will sweep the bloody capitalists, their hirelings, and their state power to one side. A workers’ state will be established. The murderers and hangmen of the capitalists will pay. Every work- “vs? life will be avenged. Chieago workers must vow, over the dead body of Mason, to econ- inue the fight. The election campaign of the Communist Party, in which Mason a congressional candidate, must be pushed with even more vigor, e ally among the Negro workers on'Chicago’s South A great “Vote Communist” movement must be aroused at Mason’s funeral as the first step in rallying the masses for the revo- lutionary struggle for power which must be the workers’ final answer to the capitalists’ murder regime. le side. Detroit Workers! Support Raymond for Mayor! HILLIP RAYMOND, the fighting leader of the Detroit automobile workers, is the only workers’ candidate in the Detroit mayor- ality elections to be held on Tuesday. Because he had demonstrated his courage and fighting ability in many bitter battles against the powerful automobile corporations he was chosen as the standard bearer of the Communist Party, the revolutionary Party of the workers. The other candidates on Tuesday are all candidates of the bosses. The present mayor, who was ousted on July 22nd but still holds office, Charles Bowles, has consistently shown his support for the pow- erful corporations and the booze-running underworld, Former Mayor John W. Smith, now ‘a candidate for re-election, ertainly demonstrated while in office that he also was a ready tool of the bos City controller, George Engel, the third bosses’ candidate, while supposedly representing the city’s “better elements,” actually repre- sents only more polished and therefore more effective methods of fleecing the workers; by making the alliance between the city admin- istration and the underworld less open he plans to mobilize wider support for the bosses’ war on the workers. The fourth candidate of the bosses, Judge Frank Murphy, how- ever, is the most dangerous of all. He parades before the workers one interested in their problems. He demigogically talks about ‘solving the unemployment problem” in the hopes of rallying the worke votes. But behind all this talk stands the American Legion and the Hearst newspapers, which vigorously support his candidacy. Such support betrays the man. The American Legion and the Hearst papers are the most outspoken proponents of fascism—of ruthless bloody attacks against the workers—in the United States. It is they who are in the forefront’ in the war against all militant workers organizations and in the preparations for imperialist war against America’s rivals, against the oppressed colonial peoples, and against the U. S. S. R., the workers’ fatherland. With such support, Judge Frank Murph; talk about “solving unemployment” can clearly be seen as merely the smoke screen behind which murderous attacks will be prepared against the Detroit workers. All of these candidates—Bowles, Smith, Engel, and Murphy— represent the policies of the big automobile manufacturers, the other big Detroit factory owners, and the bankers. Their program in office will be one of support for the bosses’ program of mass lay-offs, speed- up and wage cuts. In strikes or mass workers’ demonstrations they will utilize the city’s police, calling out the state troops when necessary. to club and beat workers, to smash picket lines, to jail leaders, to even resort to murder to smash the workers’ resistance to the bosses’ program. The candidate of the Communist Party, Phillip Raymond, on the other hand, represents and fights only for the program of the workers. As his past record has shown, he will support the fighting program of the Communist Party, which leads the struggle against unemploy- ment, against wage cuts and the speed-up, for the Unemployment Insurance Bill, for the 7-hour day, 5-day week, against injunctions, against evictions, against imperialist war, and for the defense of the workers’ Soviet Union. Vote for Raymond on Tuesday! Vote Communist! ! | killed probably amounted to several | BRITISH ADMIT | times that number, | British reports blame the failure | to have Gandhi call off, insofar as he is able, the anti-imperialist cam- paign, upon the two Nehrus, Motilal | It is undeniable that a split in the leading ranks of | movement developed during the negotiations over divi- and Jawaharlal. ‘LOSS IN INDIA News of Fierce Battle’ Suppressed For Week _ sion of the price of treason, offic ete, themselves the Gandhi A capitalist press news dis held up almost a week by Brit censorship has revealed that seven members of the Anglo-Indian im- list army and three militiamen killed in the fighting with Indian peasant rebels at Kharlachi, ten miles southwest of Parachinar, in the northwestern districts. The dispatch admits there ‘was hot fighting last week at many other points, and boasts of Indian peas- ants and their villages being sprayed with shrapnel and volleys of rifle bullets by the British forces, but gives little detail. It admits that in this fighting the “British losses were the most severe in many days.” British dispatches claim that the tribes of revolting peasants were defeated, but little credence can be put in them because of the censorship. Since they always minimize Brit~ ish losses, the ten men admittedly h correctly gauged |Gandhi it is strongly | would have been willing. | published demanded dominion status Gandhi's own demands present.” peasants, But apparently the British) the temper of the Indian masses, and | decided Gandhi would be more use- ful to them if they did not destroy all his remaining influence by hav- | ing him lead a peace party just now. intimated, correspondence between | Gandhi and the government nego- tiations, Tej Bahadur Sapru and) | Jayakar, is that the Gandhi chiefs with right to secede at any future time. published some weeks ago asked only a vague promise of dominion status from the MacDonald government, and agreed that “it could not be granted at In neither case did Gandhi make any demands to aid the miserable condition of the, Indian workers and vietim Call on All Celebrate International REVOLT SWEEPS Youth Day Today; Mar- GOVERNMENT OF ARRESTS ONLY —AROUSE TUL, BOX STRIKERS /Marine Workers Back $100,000 Strike Fund MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 7.— | Eight arrests on Thursday and Fri- ‘| day only intensifies the determina- tion to win already shown by the |50 Northwestern Box Co. workers who struck Wednesday against a 10 per cent wage-cut. Twenty police are constantly on duty at the factory to intimidate the strikers and try to prevent mass picketing. In spite of this, mass meetings are held every night be- fore the factory gates, with Karl Reeve, Communist Party district or- ganizer and candidate for governor, |as one of the speakers. Another {frequent speaker is Hurwitz, Trade | Union Unity League district organ- | izer. Of the pickets arrested four have been sentenced to $10 fines on |framed-up charges. Joe Roberts, idistrict organizer of the Young Communist League, was arrested Friday, charged ith though he has a responsible posi- | |tion in the League. If convicted, he | |faces a 90-day sentence. He was} larrested at a factory gate meeting | before the Strutwear Knitting Mills. The entire neighborhood is sup- | | porting the box strike. All the strik- | jers have joined the T. U. U. L. It is the first strike ever called by the T. U. U. L. in Minneapolis and is (Continued on Page Three) RALLY 10 THE ATLANTA SIX Remember Ella May! Stop Bosses’ Murder By CAROLINE DREW. | Ella May, Southern mill worker, mother of five, sacrificed through cold-blooded murder to the mill | barons’ greed for ever greater prof- its, always said she and the other | workers must suffer, sacrifice and struggle so that her children and all Southern children could have a better chance and a better life. Less than a year after Ella May was killed we find the workers in Bessemer City walking out of the American Spinning Co. Mills No. 1 and 2 (owned by Goldberg Bros., where Ella May slaved 50 to 65 hours a week on the night-shift for $9 a week) in protest against new wage-cuts. We find the revolutionary trade union and political movement has spread through the Carolinas, Geor- gia, Alabama and other Southern state Everywhere the Negro and white workers and farmers look to this movement for leadership in their struggles against starvation, misery and disease. The establish- ment of the Southern Worker, the Communist weekly newspaper, gives | the Southern Negro and white \workers and farmers an opportu- The reason given in the just now | "ty to speak te each other and have a collective leader and organizer. Worker is to organize all Negro and white workers and farmers to stop the attempt. of legal murder through death in the electric chair of six leaders of the Communist Party in Atlanta, Georgia. The working class, as a whole, all over he country must rally to the sup- port of the six comrades and the International ‘abor Defense, which is fighting the case. Let us uot forget our working- class martyr, Ell May, and carry on the work in the South she so [heroically starte? vagrancy, | Police Smash Cleveland Meeting; More Meet- _ings to Take Place | As the young workers of the | United States, under the leadership | of the Young Communist League, are preparing for monster demon- | strations on International Youth | Day, September 8, throughout the country, militant young workers in | China, despite unprecedented white | terror, are also rallying the work- ling class for a demonstration of strength and open support of the | advancing Red armies on this his- | Under the circumstances of a {rapidly developing revolutionary | Situation the imperialists and native militarists and bourgeosie in Shanghai, the stronghold of the Chinese proletariat, have reason to be seared. As thousands of hand- bills are distributed by the Young Communist League of China, call- ing on the workers of Shanghai for a general strike, the imperialists and their native tools are mobilizing their black forces of reaction against the workers. Martial law was declared both in the International Settlement and the French concession and armed for- eign guards and Chinese police are patrolling the streets. Searching parties are stopping cars and ped- estrians without the slightest pro- vocation, thus trying to terrorize the population. In Hankow, terrorist measures ! (Continued on Page Three) | torical day. | |Irigoyen, Friend | England, Ousted | By Rebellion | fae Washington Overjoyed Imperialist Rivalry Nears Open War NEW YORK.—Dispatches from Argentina show that, upon the basis | of mass discontent, due to the sharp | economic crisis, a part of the world | \erisis, the native allies of American | imperialism have succeeded in over- |throwing the government of Presi |dent Irigoyen, a partisan of British | imperialism, | is comes as a counter-attack to tary revolts in Bolivia and} | Peru; maneuvered by British inter- jests, which overthrew the dictators, | and Leguia, who were openly the servants of Wall Street. Trigoyen, who ruled practically as | a dictator, ignoring the “democratic” arliament, was supported by much wider masses than Siles or Leguia. | He had, for example, the support in | parliament of the numerically strong | fraction of the “socialist” party, sec- | tion of the Second International. It | controls also the federation of smal! ; farmers, which thus was behind Iri- | Zoyen. | “Socialists” Supported Strike Breaker Irigoyen ruled as a personal die- jtator, but with a heavy mask of demagogic #hatting about the | of the country will celebrate the | 16th International Youth Day Outdoor Meets Monday | Lead to Friday Meet NEW YORK.—Today the young) 4§ workers of New York and the rest | broke strikes ruthlessly. 0 N STR A Tl 0 N § 2 governors of provinces, gain- mercantile and financial bourgeoisie, protest against the coming imper-| UNEMPLOYMENT And the rapid penetration of | ing control of the great daily paper (Continued on Page Three) i ialist war, against unemployment, | people,” a patronizing attitude of =| the “benevolent despot.” But he American capital, gaining allies in “La Nacion,” and sections of the LU) | q | to long hours, low wages, rotten con-| |ditions and for the release of all) TUUL Calls For Sept. class war prisoners. These demon-| strations are held under the leader- | ship of the political leader of the! Se i ‘ young workers, the Young Commu-| Pointing out that unemployment nist League. The New York Dis-|and wage cuts are proceeding at a 28 Conferences | The first duty of the Southern | ternational Labor Defense endorses these demonstrations and calls upon allpyoung workers to join in these demonstrations, Each should come to the nearest | demonstration. The demonstrations | today are at 120th St. and Lenox Ave. 7 p. m.; Battery Park, 6:30 p. m.; | Brooklyn, 5:30 p. m., and 138th St. | and Southern Boulevard, 5:30 p. m. } The New York District Youth | Committee of the I. L. D. also calls | upon the young and adult workers | to attend the indoor demonstration jon Friday, Sept, 12, at 8 p. m. at | COLD SPRINGS, N, Y., Sept. —A Musteite section of the social- ist party was in conference here | yesterday at “Camp Eden” a social- ist institution. This section con- | sists of socialist party leaders, still | in the minority, who see in the rising | revolt of the workers a sign that | left phrases must be used from now |on to effectively mislead them. They see that the official socialist position of support for MacDonald’s murder regime in India and of class collaboration and strike breaking in America is cutting the socialist party off from the working-class. | They read a warning in the cap-| italist press criticism last year | directed at the A.F.L. as being “too! | reactionary” even to the useful as) a shield for capitalism against the| rising struggle of the oppressed and unemployed workers. Louis Stanley, chairman of the| confererce, Harry Laidler director) of the League for Industrial De-| trict Youth Committee of the In-| frightful rate, the Labor Bureaa, Incorporated, a statistical organiza- tion very friendly to the fascist lea ership of the American Federation, , calls . attention to the alarming {growth in the number, of jobles | workers in this country. Their latest | statement emphasizes the fact that! Adis Pande Mite Ave | unemployment increased during July |“ | and August, and during July wages | were cut for all workers on average of 9 jer cent. They go on | (Continued on Page Three) the the Central Opera House, 67th St. ‘and Third Ave. | “Socialist” Exploiters | | “Abe Kahn runs the Forwad, and in his building the Russian white guard Chonin, manager of exploitation and rationalization in socialist party camps, maintains his office. Hilquit is big chief of the socialist party, so far to th right that a conference of Mus- teites at Camp Eden complains ho | can't fool the workers any more. | \ rotten ty | lamented to have no city platfor he after, but to have only state and ‘national platforms. Lifts Workers In Detroit to Vote Communist Tuesday DIES OF SAVAGE POLICE Philip Raymond Is the Only Working Class | Candidate Fight Wage Cut Drive Demand Unemployed | Insurance Bill DETROIT, Sept. 7.—Tuesday the mayoralty election ‘“kes place in| Detroit, with Phillip Raymond, the | | first Communist candidate ever to run for mayor in this city appeal-| ing to all workers to vote Commu-| nist, | In its ,election campaign, Communist Party in Detroit has ex posed the growing unemployment. | the wage-cutting campaign of the| bosses, and has pointed out to the| workers that they must mobilize to force through the Unemployment Insurance Bill advocated by the Communist Part the} Raymond received 20,000 signa- tures to place him on the ballot. The Communist Party has carried on a wide campaign, among the masses of workers, at factory gate} and huge mass meetings. They have pointed out that the boss par-| and | ties put forward fake issu that Raymond is the only wor class candidate running for mayor. | It has especially exposed the tac- | ties of Frank Murphy, the boss | candidate for mayor, who puts for- ward phrases about “solving the un-| employment” situation. Murphy i supported by the American Legion | and Hearst, chief capitalist dema-_| gogue, He is angling for workers’ votes trying to utilize the growing | mass discontent. A statement issued by the Com-} munist Party of Detroit to all work- | ers, urging them to “Vote Commu- | nist!” : “Unemploy: t in Detroit grows | worse from day to day. The auto| plants are closing up. The bosses are attempting to put the burden of | the is on the workers. Wage-| cuts are handed out to those w 0} still remain on the job. The Com-| munist Party in this election has} exposed the boss candidates and their alliance with the automobile interests, the gangsters and the administration. The Communist Party has put forward | the only real bill providing unem- ent insurance for all workers. ‘ade Union Unity ague, of | h Raymond is an active leader, | if a campaign among all | to “Organize and Strike Wage-Cuts” The Commu-! fights for full social and} political equality of Negroes, ‘against police terror and for the protection of all foreign-born work- evs. Every worker should vote for! the only working-class party in De-! troit, ‘MUSTE SOCIALISTS IN LUXURY CAMP moeracy and a correspondent of the Democratic Press Siegfried Lipschitz were, with Raymond S. Hofses of the socialist school board in Read-, ing, Pa., the principal speakers. Stanley said he wanted the social- ist party to cease supporting op-! portunism and reformism. Laidler | said kind words for MacDonald, but its unemployment and to stop talking about} problems because when | they got in office, as at Readng, they did just what the capitalist governments did. His remedy w % wor- ried over the charge that the er. man social-democratie arty parts “only democratic and not and forms coalitions with the black- est: reactionary groups. No prac- (Continued on Page Three) HIGH COURT OX. } in, Hofses wanted the! g tial Law in Shanghai argentina oT BEATING; WORKERS OF “ DETROIT VOTE TUESDAY “Vote Communist!” | Candidate Beaten B mae | Cops At Lynching Protest Plan Mass Funeral | ANLC Denounces Mur- | derous System CHICAGO, pt. —A wave of | flaming mass anger swept the work- | ing class sections of this city today | as workers learned of the death yes- | terday, as the result of a vicious | | | police beating of Lee Mason, Negro candidate for Congress on the Com- munist ticket. A militant fighter and one of the | leading speakers at the lynching | protest meeting held in this city on | June 14 by the American Negro La- | bo. Congress, Comrade Mason was singled out by the sadistic police Phillip Raymond, Communist | of Chicago for a brutal beating that candidate for mayor in Detroit, |1 him up for weeks. From this where election takes place Tues- | beating he never fully vecoyered and day. Raymond is the only work- | yesterday, to the burning grief of ing-class candidate 1ined up| thousands of Negro and white work- against the auto bosses’ tools who |ers who knew him as a militant are being supported by the A. F. | fighter for the cause of the prole- 0, L. fascist officialdom. Detroit | tariat, black and white, Mason sue- wor Vote Communist! jsumbed to the injuries received at nD the hands of the police, faithful |to the last to the class struggle. The Chicago riect of the Com- munist Party, supported by the American Negro Labor Congress and other class struggle organiza- tions will hold a mass funeral for Comrade Mason, rallying the work- ing class in a huge protest demon- stration against police brutality and | the lynching terror of the bosses against the Negro workers. At the same meeting at which Comrade Mason was beaten up by | the police, Romaine Ferguson, mili- ON JOBLESS CASE Won't Hear It; Labor Demands Release NEW YORK.—Speaking at the! Solidarity Demonstration of the In- ternational Labor Defense Sunday, J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary, | tant Negro woman worker, was ar- announced that Justice Harlan P.| Tested. Her case comes up tomor- Stan eee UAE Sinise, Suc[zOW. Walle Comrade Mason lies preme Court, had refused the de.| dead from the results of the pclice mand for an appeal against the in-| beating he received, the capitalist famous prison sentences meted out | Courts will have the impudence to o the New York Unemployed Dele- | Prosecute this Negro woman worker gation, William Z. Foster, Robert, for daring, along with Comrade | Minor, Israel Amter and Harry! Mason and others, to call upon the Negro and white workers of Chicago “This means that the highest) te fight against lynching and other court in the land, without giving| boss terrorism against the working the representatives of the Interna-| Class. Raymond. tional Labor Defense a hearing, has In a statement issued today, the upheld the vicious decisions of the; American Negro Labor Congress Tammany Hall judges in New York calls upon its members and the City,” declared Engdahl. workers generally to turn out to the | Republicans Unite With Tammany.) mass funeral planned for Comrade “Nothing shows better the al-| Mason “to honor his revolutionary liance between the democrats and | fighting spirit and to protest against republicans in political office th» bosses’ police terror which against the jobless workers of the! caused his death. The A.N.L.C. will nation.” r ‘not idly mourn the death of Com- Justice Stone recently returned|rzde Mason, but will answer the to the United States from a Euro-! bosses’ attacks with more and more pean tour, While in New refused to consider the ca Unemployed Delegation, rushing to his summer home in Maine, saying he would consider the case by correspondence. This he has done by dismissing all de- mands for an appeal to the U. S. York he organization against their lynching se of the’ and persecution. instead | Vote Communist! Workers, Led By the LL.D., Win Freedom preme Court without offering any reasons for his decis For Leonard Doherty PROTEST FASCISM IN POLAND ATR WOMMASE AI BETINGS The worker the United States SPPT, 12TH and Canada scored a tremendous ‘ victory today when the Interna- NEW YORK.—Two mass meet-, tional Labor Defense completely de- ept. 12, ) protest against 's are scheduled for 8:00 p. m., sm in Polan’ feated the attempts of the boss governments of both countries to ' railroad a militant worker to death One meeting will be held at Man-! on a murder charge. scum, 06-68, Kast ath St.) Doherty, a member of the Marine ing will take place) workers ustrial Union and the » 16 West 126th St.) Trade Union Unity League, was ac- » | tive in the ton needle workers’ PIT Ww rp rpepyy | strike in February, 1930, and was Fol- an attempt was Jian authorities sault” charges. rest Cani MEFY HIM TODAY! by the Meei il! 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