The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1931, Page 1

Two Thousand Workers Have Made Application to Join the Unemploved Council of Salt Lake Sity. Are You Winning Members for Your Council? WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Daily, Worker (Section of International) the Communist Vol. VIII, No. 65 <=" NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents (By a Worker Correspondent) | be large, the inexorable law of over-production cycles will return you | portation and the insane asylum on| 2ccrding to the most conservative “arbitrator” of at New York, N. Y. onder the act of March 3, 1979 HE “progressive” conference at Washington was not progressive at all. A Jobless in Conn. . Hunger March of the workers can assure progress. The “progressives” are against rev- But the N. Y. “World- | Forward Demands —‘“most decidedly not!” idea of “revolution” had not been adrift among the masses. The heart- Britain hunger march, arrested last | Stand Firm Against “Red Bait Baiters” and Do Not! 13 Workers of Klan, Which Kidnapped and Flogged and italism survive?” | leased on bail furnished by the In- petal At i TO EXPOSE PLOTS | OLNEYVILLE, R. I. (National TI Poli _ The demonstration and march or-| e r , zi & system of cooncmnie slavery.” fi ibe Veaees eee peed area | Headquarters N. T. W.), March 18 iree Police ood by ist anarchy which produces mass misery of the workers they would | will receive a dose of capitalist jus-| Nearly three thousand workers | week of their strike against a| Yet, gentlemen, after all, capitalists will still be capitalists, and labor |" walker was the district organizer| electing an unemployed delegation last week by the Blumenthal Co., (By Special Correspondent) gentlemen, and with you all society, to exactly where you are starting | charges of criminal syndicalism, va-| estimates. The capitalist news-! military intervention in the Soviet| Entered as secend class matter at the Post Office Under False Colors =| 5 Face Jail for Leading 8,000 . , > Its every effort is directed to saving capitalism from the revolution- ary seizure of power by the working class. Only the revolutionary power olution. ——___—__—_— It is true that they didn’t openly say so. = | Workers ‘Battle Cops’ ‘Telegram,” which supports them 100 per cent, says so for them. “Do We | a iB id. b i, Sh 1 St Re Want Revolution?” it asks in the headline of an editorial. And—again | In Effort to Put 11 Le] Or é ton VURCYS speaking for those so-called “progressives,” the World-Telegram answers | | Pi kh y a | Prepare New Mass FPicketing' Now it is a fact, a hard, cold and ruthless fact, that this “progres- Bosses Pr epare to Rail-| NEW BRITAIN, Conn., March 15 sive” conference would not have taken place at all if the word and the i |The five leaders of the New) Dallas Mayor, Prosecutor, Chief of Police, All Members road Second of throbs of these “progressives” would not have quickened a single beat, Friday—Jackson, Forster, Prebo: had it not been a fact that they were faced by the question: “Can cap- Tucks and Benda—have been re.| Let Department of Labor Agent Into Meet; | ‘The World-Telegram freely admits that question. It says: PORTLAND, Ore., Barch 15.—Mon- ternational Labor Defense and will} Welcome National Textile Union Tried to Kill the Workers “The alternative is revolution. Free men will not starve in the day, March 16 will taps the beginning be tried on Wednesday. H : While ['rize Fighter ganized by the Unemployed Council | ern ne eal - FS a Let all workers understand, then, that the “progressives” have, as the | 93, second of 13 Portland workers to| Was one of the largest and most he 800 weavers, in Bridgeport ani | Beat Up Coder and Hurst in Jail first concern of their hearts, the preservation of capitalism. The capital- | go on trial for criminal syndicalism! militant ever held in the district. FOR INT ERVENTION. Shelton, Conn., are now in the third} transform into “organized capitalism,” with a “permanent organized | tice, similar to that which Ben Boloff | marched Sueahes starting point A dounbling up of looms from one to| Flogger Waited at Police Station Desk to Notify the economic council, representative of capital and labor and (again that | received here a few weeks ago; ten| the demonstration, Winter, Star and) Do nig Commune Meet} two and a simultaneous 45 per cent | Lynch Gang When Tao Were i Be Place d will still be labor; namely, capitalists as a class will still take profits from | of the Young Communist League at | Of six to present their demands to the values produced by the workers as a class, and whether—as the “pro- | tre time of the raids last September | the mayor. In the square beforethe| ‘The trial of the 14 Mensheviks in| whose mills are struck, to break up Moscow at which they made full con-/ the ranks of the strikers have failed. | pia ave crate, oe Cant ot tre ream Ys | papers reported: “As fare as the eye| Unien ‘had or the time boing hin, | te Department of Labor, _ DALLAS, Texas, March 15.—The kidnap- But we give these “progressive” capitalists too much credit in imply- | boss tools who are trying to smash | ‘Ud reach the square and streets! dered the further work of these coun-| {fused admittance by the workers to ping and flogging of Charles Coder and Lewis midst of wealth. They will destroy the government which protects of another farce known as a trial | mysterious being which toils not nor profits not—yet lives!) the public.” i i | Hartfofd Ave. to the city hall, after iy! is Pp yt Pl | years in the Oregon penitentiary. Wednesday Night wage-cut. Pranic tempts tmade| On Steps at Their Disposal gressives” pretend to wish—the degree of profit will be small, or if they | which netted over 30 workers for de- | City hall, 8,000 workers were gathered. fession of their part in the plot for! , 1.4 ‘Wellistock, the ing their actions to ignorance. They, at least their mouthpieces, know | the growing revolutionary Snneeenk | were jammed with people.” ter-revolutionaries against the Soviet | allestrike meetings. The local papers was re- ; f | Ty... 3 7 . : that capitalism cannot be Naiag s jaa a Sparano it. Geen of the Pacific Coast and the North-| When the delegation and the] Union. The part played by the So-|iast week gave wide publicity to red Hur st, Trade Union Unity League and Com “progressives” chiefly voice the complaints 0! ie pinched purses an west. cial Democrats of the entire world! : : po 2 Hla is discontent of the small businessmen, the professional groups and richer Workers everywhere! © Fight for | ‘CONTINUED oN PAGE THREE) | OF tne Social International was ex-|P&itine attacks on the National Tex- munist Party local secretar ies her ec, by a gang farmers, hit by the crisis and angered at big finance capital. But small capitalists, the petty-bourgeoisie, is the most anarchist section of the whole class of exploiters and—remembering that not they but big capital will shape the policy of the bourgeoisie as a whole, they will be hit nearly as hard as the workers by any attempt to “organize capitalism.” protest resolutions on the floor of posed. The part taken by Hillguit,| tile Workers’ Union by Kamp, a pro-|gof armed klansmen and the dramatic rescue your organizations for Fred Walker through the black | fessional strike-breaker of the so-| of the two workers who had been left for dead by their abduce far amis fee eons” DRESS STRIKERS "me, th, and the other Portland defendants! | j counter-revolutionary Abramovich is|called “Constitutional - Educational | tors, continues to be the burning issue here. So TEA GHEE eine cesst” RIGHT IN. UNCTION| seule He a ees wit League.” * In spite of this the repre- | District Attorney McGraw has gone to Kansas City by Hence it is also a demagogic deception of the petty-bourgeois masses | ing the attack of the bosses cc But the war plot goes on! Mr. Wil-| sentatives of the N. T. W. U. were airplane to bring back the two escaped victims. as well as of the proletariat, this stuff put out by the “progressive” con- | working clas sorganizations! ‘Their OHO alicced ropes the creation | enthustastically received at all strike | The Dallas News,. a local paper, declares that martial law ference about “organizing capitalism.” Indeed, under these false colors | S ANEWS;. » ‘eee | Ohio Railroad proposes the creation | meetings. | ‘ yey | fight is your fight! . are : | Bidueay eer An F ay Sli Gerdeciad (tye eee seuniie the “progressive” conference brought forward one step the big capitalist . ri i ee | Picket Garry Shop This) vl se at ee ee Oe Martin ‘Russak, representative of : program of fascism. | 7 s 7 et % any Comr ist meetings are) | i war. It is clear that the United/ii— National Executive Board of the |,‘ 3"y Communis RALLY TO FIGHT ‘Who can dowbt-it when the World-Telegram, deliberately putting the | _Wolker.and Boloff are two. of those | Morning Te et the Aneoican nat |N: TeW. U, spoke at the strike meet-| Dense te tis he eee ae i question a8 if there were three choices—either “democracy,” or fascism, | *'Tested during widespread raids on / = ee ee 80-| ings in Bridgeport and Shelton on} Guarters in this pat of the South.| or Communism—advances precisely the fascist proposal of “organized | Workers’ organizations, on the unem- | NEW YORK.—The Needle’ Trades| cialist party ore now fully known. quarters in this p . LYNC L AW AND The workers of New York will dem- ! demagog who gabbles about a six-hour day while preventing the workers |POrtation. All the native born in | ditions in the dress industry has call- j tempts at military intervention in | Chief of Police Claude W. Trammel, | from striking for an eight-hour day, not to speak of the seven-hour day, |the net were charged with criminal | eq for mass picketing this morning | the Soyiet Union at the meeting are all members of the KKK. Not} i re S sti st branch-is located here. capitalism” as the central aim of the conference? Ployed especially, during a regular | workers’ Industrial Union, which is| | Its strongest branch: is located F - . Avi . i 7 f th an be trusted with the | } rker: s mas auch Gk eben ih HS Bcviat Dilon Have: syndicalism. ‘The revival of crim-| at 7 a.m. at the Garry Dress shop,| Called by the Communist Party at one of them can s Workers Must Smash b THRER) | (CONTINUED ON PAG Kill Young Worker In California for}: Being Unemployed i | i | a | trate their solidarity to the work- The local leader is a certain Dr. Evans | Who can doubt the fascist and reactionary character of the confer- /T¢i8n of terror set up by the police ons y ence where, in the name of a “progressive,” there sat William Green, who | here during the decnt months. Twelve pang tae (be deals or ee: arene ers and peasants of the Soviet Union of Dallas, J. Waddy Tate, | protested at the very mention of recognition of the Soviet Union? The |°f those arrested are held for de- | dressmakers against the rotten con-| against these intrigues and the at- District. Attorney William McGraw, | | Koa tbah i i ith Si lives of these two militants. , What hypocrisy, for Robertson of the railroad “brotherhoods” to pre- | ‘al syndicalistn persecution here is | i junc-| Central Opera House, 67th St. and | S "Ss - tend to be interested and even excited about unemployed railroad werk. significant, as no trials have been | 900 Seventh Ave., against the injune-| 3rq aye, on Wednesday, March 18th,|| (By a Worker Correspondent) More facts continue to’ come to Boss Per secu ers, when—instead of rousing these workers to-strike against mass dis- | "eld since the immediate post var | tion with which the bosses of this|g p, m. at which Foster wili be the|] HONDO, Cal., March 15.—Morris }/ light, showing still more clearly that tion period. principle speaker. ieqgnciie This day is also the anniversary | of the Paris Commune. The heroes} of the Commune will be commem- | Debrian, 25-year-old worker, of 115 South Clarence St., Los An- geles, Cal., was arrested in a pri- vate house, last Feb. 22 and badly shop, supported by the coyrts, have tried to break the strike. Later in the day, at one o'clock, | | the whole leading officialdom of nl |city of nearly 300,000 was involevd | NEW YORK —In the work of mob- | in the dastardly crime, which so near- | ilizing the masses for March 28, Na- |ly became murder, which was so missals—he “boldly” declares that if the great railroad merger goes through and tens of thousands are thrown into unemployment, he “will not hesitate”’—to do what?—‘to appeal to federal authority’—the very WANT STATE SCAB HERDERS. Se eenseeen baits tenn ceeeeeenammmmmnccmmnniaientl See capitalist authority pressing the merger for the benefit of the companies! | Laying aside the grand noise made by these “progressives” at the mass misery inherent in capitalism—a misery the masses discovered long be- fore they did—the net outcome is a program of fascist character propa- gandized as a bulwark against fascism! It was, possibly, not on the agenda for Father Ryan of the Catholic church to remind everybody that all the pretty things about “compelling industry to grant shorter hours, higher wages and stabilized employment with social insurance” could not be obtained by law, and that the “U. S. Constitution prevents” them. His idea being that the Constitution would have to be changed—a matter of a century or so! We can ass.z< these “progressives” that the working class will not wait that long. Even the petty-bourgeois masses will find that their very physical existence depends upon them joining the fight against cap- italism under leadership of the revolutionary workers—and not that of fascist “progressives.” No new party comes out of the conference, though it stirs ambitions of various. demagogs, including the social-fascist “socialist,” Norman ‘Thomas, who reserves judgment on the outcome. In this, as in program, the “progressive” conference represents futility where it does not repre- sent fascism. What would be the position of these “progressives” should tomorrow yess he freed himself and ran home ] and tald af the murder of his father war, the most ghastly form of capitalist misery for the masses, their most NEW YORK.—The American Bank- | ers Ascn., urges its members to carry on a campaign for state police in every state where such an agency does not exist, on the plea that a state force cuts down bank robberies. The fact that state police are more often used as strike breakers is not mentioned in the publicity. Bankers know that. there will be a meeting of unemploy- ed dressmakers at Bryant Hall to consider the struggle against unem- ployment and for relief and insurance | and for support of the strike. In the evening, there will be a meeting of the General Strike Com- mittee at 7 o'clock at the office of the union. Harvard Prof. Sees Capitalism ‘Dying; Calls Fascism to Rescue Not only will the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union succeed, but the capitalists must take for granted that. a ten and fifteen year plan will be can wholly eliminate unemployment and the parasites, he shows what the workers are faced with under capi- | unemployment insurance, against wage orated at this meeting. The savage attacks upon Negro and white workers, the most recent one the attack of the sheriff's mob on} Comrades Code and Hurst in Dallas, | Texas; the deportation threats that | hang over the heads of Comrades} Devine, Murdock, Yokinen, Serio, etc.,| will be denounced and fully exposed as a part of the plan of the Amer-| ican bosses to divide the American} workers by carrying on a campaign | of terrorism against the foreign born | and Negro worlors. This is due to the fact that the American workers | are being mobilized by the Commu- | nist Party and TUUL to fight for! cuts, and speed-up, for Negro rights, | against discrimination and against | persecution of foreign born. | Negro and white workers! Workers | beaten up by “peace” officers. The charge aginst him was drunk- enness and resisting arrest. .But he could not have been very drunk —because officers claim that Deb- rian knocked two of them out be- fore they got the bast of him. Debrian was first sent to jail, and when nearly dead from the terrific beating, someone swore out an insanity charge aginst him and sent him to Norwalk state hospital for the insane. There he died 15 hours after he had been admitted to the asylum. The police victom’s father tes- tified in court that his son was “neither a drunkrad nor a mad- man.” But, according to a posi mortem examination completed on March 5th, under the supervision | clearly intended to be murder, that it | was common talk here for six days | that the men had been killed after | | torture. It is now known that the beating of | Coder and Hurst in the jail, which the jlocal papers try to represent as the] }result of the indignation of other) | prisoners because of the preaching of | race equality by the two militants, was not done by the other prisoners jat all. The victims were first sepa-| | rated by the police, then three po- | | licemen stood by and watched while | each man separately was. beaten to a} pulp by the prize fighter Holland, who| | was brought in for that purpose, and | | was only nominally, by means of a | fiction, a “prisoner.” | Besides this, it has been learned | | that there was one policeman in the | gang of twelve which took Coder and} tional Day of Struggle Against Lynth- ing and Deportations, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights is holding |a mass meeting at Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) at 2.30 o'clock. The League is also holding a mass meeting in Yonkers at the same hour. The Yonkers meeting will be held at Workers Center, 252 Warburton Ave, Richard B. Moore, national Negro director of the International Labor Defense, will be the principal speaker at the Yonkers meeting. Milton Weich, organizer of the Yonkers Un- employed Council will act as chair- man. Other speakers, prominent in the fight for Negro rights, will be present, At the Harlem meeting, Herbert Newton, national secretary of the ee ve - of Coroner Frank Nance, “Acute 7 rapid destruction, confront them? They would be supporters of war, yes, successful, says Wallace Brett Don- pei eins pee vlad | still supporting the socialist party! | maniacal delerium and resulta Hurst from the steps of the jail,|LSNR, J. Louis Engdahl, national particularly war against the Soviet Union, whose mere shadow has so | 28, Professor of business economics ployment: ia xiot solved. Old age ig| Workers in the shops, unions and) ‘aghmuntinn comused? tae death where they had been placed a mo-| secretary of the ILD, H. Gellert, of alarmed them as forecasting the end of capitalism that they meet in con- |!" the graduate school of business |" : fraternal organizations, unemployed |} worris Debrian.” ‘ |ment before with their volunteer at-| the National Committee for the Pro~ ference to conjure against it! Can these be, then, spokesmen for prog- ress? Never! And the toiling masses have nothing in common with them, but do have a common class interest in exposing and fighting against them! Machado’s Terror Grows; Shoot, Hang and Exile Reds (¥ ecial to the Daily Worker.) 7ANA, Cuba. — Machado's ter- ror aj ainst. the workers and peasants moun daily. His latest act of ter- ror was that of empowering a corps of 60 picked thugss to roam the city with machine guns and shoot upon sight any worker suspected as “bomb. throwers.” Mass arrests, hanging, shooting and throwing of workers into the shark- infested bay continues. A few days ago a ‘report appeared telling of a strangled. worker near the Spanish embassy here. The corpse was recog- nized as that of a worke rtaken out of jail. . , Kill Peasants. While it is difficult to get news of what is taking place in the interior ‘the little that leaks out indicates the terror in the provinces. In Yateritas on the plantation “Ya- | guaranas” near Guantamano two peasants, father and son were tied to a treet and shot. The child, 10 years of age was only shot in the hand and was left, for dead when he’ fainted. Upon regaining conscious- by soldiers of the 14th Reg. of ther- Fed to Sharks. * Peasants are being beaten daily in @ savage attempt to représs their mounting determination to fight starvation and misery that Machado, Wall St. butcher puppet, is Arrests average 20 to 30 daily as Machado continues his bloody drive to make the workers and shoulder the burden of the great Lae! shaking the Wall St. sugar co- lony forcing During the first nine days of the month two severed heads have been found washed on the beach, probably of workers thrown into the bay. A Lithuanian worker was shot in the back when he demanded his back wages in the neighborhood of Ha- vana Central Park. Large numbers of political prison- ers are being exiled to the Isle of Pines. Though students and other Opposition element are included, this | move is directly aimed against the workers and their revolutionary or- ganizations, especially the Communist ts administration of Harvard Univer- sity, in a special and sensational article in the New York Times, Sun- day, March 15th. Professor Donham He sees the rise of socialism in the | Soviet Union raising the standard of | living of the workers, planning eco- nomy and outstripping the capitalist countries. He insists that American capitalism must take the leadership to save world capitalism—if neces- sary by war against the workers’ republic. Professor Donham starts out by admitting the handwriting on the wall spells the end of capitalism. “The recurrence of serious business depressions and unemployment emer- gencies, such as we face today, con- stitutes a challenge to capitalism. Un- less greater stability is achieved, it is doubtful whether capitalistic civ- ilization can long endure.” In short, capitalism is dying and the most drastic measures must be taken by the capitalists to save their decaying civlization. What must they do? War against the Soviet Union is one of the measures; fascism at home, an attack against the workers is an- other, Donham admits that “the Soviet government has a stifficiently good chance to maintain itself to bring its five, ten and fifteen year plans to some degree of actual success. We cannot with reasonable safety assume it will fail, but must, as a safer busi- ness policy, assume its success for this limited period.” But while he sees Socialism rapidly advancing with thoy assurance that the Soyicts (CONTINUED O* PAGE THREE) and employed, attend this meeting. | aitg'nin fara A. F.of L. in Move to Help Southern Bosses Crush Struggles of Negroes CHICAGO, March 15. — The Chicago Defender, leading organ of the Negro bourgeoisie, carries an ar- ticle in its current issue, exposing the efforts of the Alabama Federation of Labor, which it terms “the left wing of the industrial and political oligarchy in con- trol of that state”, to use the Communist Party for a smoke screen to cover up a campaign to beat down the rising resistance of Alabama’s Negro workers and farmers against the appalling conditions under which they are forced to exist. Says the Defender article: “E. C, Reeves, secretary of the white federation has been in constant conference with Storrs (state com- missioner of agriculture and industries) recently, ad- vising him that it would be easier to stop the race’s source of information by picking on the Communist Crowd than by any other means.” A-F.L, ALLIES OF BOSSES The article reveals that the southern bosses and their allies the Alabama Federation of Labor (A. F’. of L.) have appealed to fascist Fish for aid in fighting the campaign of the Communists to cussion and then finishing touch, report that ‘the ing to them.” “The Alabama 31, will be asked it denounc ment. unite Negro and Defender article shows the white oppressors in frantic fear before these demands: “A few days ago ‘social equality’ got into the dis- the Race knew the scheme had its A white woman, a Mrs. Overton, rushed breathlessly to the attorney general wit: the Negroes are rising and talking of ‘rights. I heard they wanted to burn buildings. Why, they are planning a war on my farm for ‘social equality.’ Investigation showed that she possessed only a few geres not far from this town (Montgomery) and her ‘hands’ thought they were not getting what was com- LEGISLATURE TAKES HAND legislature, which convenes March to draw a new black law, one that will define all printed matter as inflamatory when * lynchings, burnings at the stake, prison scandals and opposes Jim Crow can and disfranchise- “All agitation for equality in labor conditions, in white workers in common struggle and to combat the | school appropriations, will be put down as aspiration boss poison of race hatred and prejudice which has so far kept them apart and in hostile camps: “The oligarchy spokesmen have gone so far as to ask Congressman Hamilton Fish if there is not some way by which the government can come in and help to scare the race into submitting to the schemes and plans of the die-hards.” The Communist Party is blamed by the white bos- ses for the growing resistance of the Negro workers and their demands for Negro rights. : aha es labor will become The editors of slaved Negroes of The Chicago pressing ‘bad literatur end trust and give battle by word of moult” for ‘social equatity’ and the Alabama Federation of chief of police for the state in sup- the Chicago Defender who, along with the rest of the Negro bourgeoisie have betrayed the struggle for unconditional equality in surrender- ing to the resistance of the white bosses on the de- mand for social equality, tells the oppressed and en- Alabama that they can “only hope | torney, George Clifton Edwards. | One of the flogging party stood by the desk in the station house, and rushed out ahead of Coder and Hurst | to tell the lynch gang that their vic- tims were coming. This small, armed gang took the (CONTINUED 03 PAGE THREE) EX-SERVICEMEN OPEN CAMPAIGN National Headquarters Are Established | The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s | League is opening a campaign to mobilize the ex-servicemen to fight against the bonus steal. At the last meeting of the Work- | ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League a reso- lution was pass™1 pledging solidarity with the worki«; class and calling | upon all ex-so. ‘vrs, sailors and ma- rines to join in as a body with the May 1 demonstrations of the work- ers. The campaign will be conducted through open-air meetings, visiting of workers’ organizations and reach- | ing ex-servicemen in the Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and all other places where ex-servicemen | | tection of Foreign Born, Sadie Van Veen, and August Yokinen will speak. Yokinen is one of many foreign born militants facing deportation ¢° the hands of the bosses’ government. Yokinen’s crime in the eyes of the white ruling class is that he rejected the boss poison of race prejudice and has pledged solidarity with the: Ne- gro workers, thus completely repu- diating his former attitude of white chauvinism for which he was ex- pelled from the Communist Party at a mass trial of workers in New York City. Buffalo Orders District Page District 4 Buffalo, announces its intentions to order a dis- trict page every week, begin- ning April 17, “It is still five weeks away, but it will take time to prepare the ground for the task in our district,” writes Karlo Imont, Daily Worker representative. “The units are to assign quotas at their next meetings and prepare for the most effective mass distribution of the papers.” The Buffalo district will find the unit apparatus tightened as can be found. Permanent headquarters have been established at 79 E. Tenth St. in New York City, The cam will be carried on nationally with this head- Ghastake as its ee these weekly editions go into effect, and will increase its clr- culation tremendously. (Sixty thousand tips on page 3.)