The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 1

| ae i es. es “ERSEE 9a5 Two Thousand Workers Have Made Application to Join the Unemployed Council of Salt Lake City. Are You Winning Menibers for Your Council? International) orker —-Ed x unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second class at New York, N. Y., und Protest Wall Street-Machado Terror in Cuba! Tt toiling masses of Cuba, and their leader, the Communist Party of Cuba, struggling against American imperialism and native capitalism, are now enduring a veritable hell of governmental persecution, torture and assassination. The fascist dictator, Gerardo Machado, who upon taking power in 1925 openly promised the Wall Street bankers that “while I am president no strike will last more than 48 hours”—has unleashed the wildest terror against the force he fears most, the revolutionary leadership of the work- ers and peasants. Not satisfied with the oppression which for six years has forced the Communist Party of Cuba to exist illegally; not satisfied with the “normal” terror of capitalist “democracy” against any workers who dared to strike against exploitation by American and native overlords; not satisfied with the occasional murder of leaders of revolutionary trade unions—Machado has now jaunched a campaign of wholesale assassination, of a physical ex- termination of every worker who opens his mouth or raises a finger in be- half of the working class. With the crisis in sugar production and the raising of American tariff, the whole burden is unloaded upon the working class, affected generally by the miseries borne by the workers in sugar, the principal product. In a working class of less than 1,000,000 nearly 500,000 are'reckoned unemployed; yet in the provincial towns the police round up all workers not in the cane “Yields, and by armed force compel them to work 14 hours a day in the tropic heat for 30 cents a day, Those who refuse this forced labor are shot down like, dogs. ‘The picket lines of striking textile workers and striking fishermen in Havana are not only broken up, but the individual strikers are carriede off, never to appear again—thrown to the sharks in Havana Bay, perhaps, a Vol. VIII, No. 67 matter at the Post Office ler the act of March 3, 1979 Indian Commu For the first time in the history of | | India, Gandhi, the tool of British | imperiali§in, was publicly exposed to thousands of Indians in a Bombay mass meeting, as the willing instru+ | ment of the British exploiters and an | enemy of the laboring masses of the | | laboring masses of India. | An Associated Press dispatch from | Bombay, India, tells of the startling | exposure of Gandhi by Indian Com- | | munists who leaped onto the platform | from which Gandhi was to speak “Down with Gandhi, down with th: | Indian National Congress and British | imperialism,” shouted the Commun- ists when Gandhi came forward tc tell the masses to submit to the Brit- Sa favorite method of murder with Machado. ish masters. The Associated press In the hall of the Central Labor Union of Havana, a peaceful union audience is suddenly interrupted! Police and soldiery fill the doors and windows and open fire upon the workers! Fake “Nationalists.” ~ Osher would-be dictators, seeking to take Machado’s place, try to take advantage of the hatred of the masses for American imperialism’s lackey, Machado, but fearful of their own capitalist class interests and them- selves linked with a section of American capitalism, they compromise their pretended “nationalism.” They fear the masses more than they fear Machado. Machado has only to cry out “Communism!” and the so-called “nation- alist” leaders lay down, leaving their earnest but mistaken followers to the desperate futility of individual violence, to bombings and burnings having no connection with the struggle of the masses, but which, falsely ascribed to “Communists” by Machado, covers up still more intense terror against the workers. These “Nationalist” scoundrels, pretending to be against American im- perialism, nevertheless intrigue with imperialism, even setting up a “Cuban Patriotic League” at Washington to urge armed ‘American intervention to help them into power in place of Machado. ‘The Cuban workers, led by the Commuunist Party, are the only fore; really fighting for national independence from American imperialism, It is for this reason that Machado turns loose soldiery in the streets with orders to shoot down workers who “look suspicious.” Nero could be no more savage and murderous than Machado, the agent of Hoover and the National City Bank! The workers of the United States have a duty to aid the Cuban work- ing class, swea‘ and bled by the same multi-millionaires of Wall Street, shot down by Mathado’s fascist bands by advice of the U. S. ambassador, Mr. Guuggenheim! 2 The workers of the United States must come forward to protest at the capitalist imperialist barbarities being inflicted on the Cuban work- ers. Throughout the United States meetings must be held to expose the terror in Cuba, resolutions must be adopted, to rouse a protest that will be heard and heer=d! All aid-te “ie Cuban working class and its brave Communist Party! Rally in masses to protest the murders in Cuba that are ordered by the White House in Washington! Long live the unity of the American and Cuban workers! Central Committee, Communist Party of U. S. A. The Paris Commune FROM the birth of capitalism out of feudalism, the wage workers, the proletariat, had—until 1871—shed their blood in war after war for the sole benefit. of their “natural superiors,” the capitalists. But sixty years ago today the workers of Paris, for a large part armed in the National Guard to defend the city against Bismarck's Prussian invaders, took an independent position, a class position, against both the Prussians and against their “own” capitalists and capitalist government. They were forced by the illimitable greed of their own French ex- ploiters. The capitalist government, the Assembly, disregarding the bitter poverty of the toiling masses of the besieged city, revoked, for the obvious benefit of the landlord and merchant class, the moratorium upon all rents and bills. The entire mass of workers and small bourgeoisie was faced with instant ruin. Ignoring the siege and the sacrifices already borne by the workers, the capitalists insisted on their own profit. Capitalism had become unbearable, and the Parisian workers rose in insurrection. They formed “The Commune,” which Karl Marx called: “Essentially a working class government, the product of the struggle of | the producing against the appropriating class, the political form at last discovered under which to work out the economical emancipation of Labor.” It is well to remember, in these days of Fish Committees, that the Soviet Government is the heir of the Paris Commune of 1871, and is not, as the “100 percenters” and their apes among the “socialists” imply, some- thing “Russian” or “Asiatic.” The Soviet Government, just as the Paris Commune, is a “working-class government,” the “political form at last \ discovered under which to work out the economical emancipation of The Paris Commune held power only 70 days. The Soviet Govern- ent has held power for 13 years. And under the guidance of the Com= unist Party—-an advantage the Commune did not have—the Soviet overnment is, today, working out and accomplishing the tasks of work- infg class emancipation which the Paris Commune could but touch. In ther pages will be found a more detailed treatment of the lessons of the Paris Commune. But here, today, in America, the working class faces the need of learning from the experiences of the Paris workers in 1871; it will be forced to give the same answer. Here are millions upon millions of workers, jobless, slowly starving, being kicked in the face by the multimillionaire class of big capitalists. Mr. Woods, appointed by Hoover, comes out perio- dically like a cuckoo clock to croak, “Things are better! Things are better!” But things are NOT better!’ Starvation, disease and death hover over the homes of the workers and poor toiling farmers! And there, standing across the dawn, is the great FACT of the Soviet Power! There, where there is no unemployment! There, where workers rule! There, where the workers of old Russia, answering the same question as did the Paris workers: of 1871—“How can we live?”—answered it in 1917, in the same way by revolutionary overthrowal of capitalist. government! Here in America, the ,haunting hell of misery and insecurity most assuredly poses the same question to every one of the million masses. How can we live? And the only answer capitalism gives to its slaves is a Fish Committee! A new attack upon the workers, more wage cuts, more unemployment, a scheme to war upon and destroy the fortress of liberation and security for the world’s workers represented by the Soviet Union! The old tricks do not work, gentlemen! ‘You, yourselves, admit that history has posed the question: Capitalism or Communism! You may ° | deport and be damned, but you cannot deport nor kill the working class nor its leader, the Comriunist Party of the United States! The Communist Party wilf stand like a beacon of light, guiding the American working class in their daily. struggles, for unemployment in- surance, against the hellish speed-up, against wage cuts, against war and misery and evictions and all the other crimes capitalism inflicts daily upon the workers, : And ultimately, when the masses can no longer tolerate even for A day the sufferings capitalism thrusts upon them, the Communist Party ‘Will Tead them to throw tt off, and set up a Workers’ and Farmers’ govern- i, ii dispatch then goes on to tell of the stirring event. “Gandhi seemed in a daze as ‘the Communists rushed the platform, rip- ping the Congress tricolor from its staff. This had never happened to him before in a lifetime of peaceful fighting for Indian independance (?). “A Communist clambered on the platform and harangued the crowd, abusing Gandhi for ‘betraying the workers’ by failure to provide for the release from prison of labor agitators under his truce with the Viceroy. There was the utmost confusion as Gandhi's men hauled the speaker | down, tore from his hands the red flag which he would have placed at the staff, and restored their own ban- | ner of red, green and white.” | When attacking the Communists, andhi’s foHowers forgot their | “peaceful” methods. Gandhi's confusion was indeed great when his real role was exposed before the masses. He was forced to spend ‘great portion of his “speech to “explaining” why he did not de- mand the release of the Meerut pris- oners who have rotting in jail for nearly two years for organizing the Indian workers. Gandhi tried to say that he did not make this a condi- tion with the Viceroy because it did not seem to be “in the interest of in- dependence.” The exposure of Gandhi by the In- dian Communists will have its echo throughout the length and breadth of India. JOBLESS COUNCIL LOWERS THE RENT Fight Evictions in Both ‘Ends of Town NEW YORK.—The Down Town | Unemployed Council has don, through organization of the Tenant’s League, a reduction of $5 a mont in the rent of a number of poor families pre- viously threatened with evictions. Last week the council came down, returned the furniture of a family being evicted at 96 Orchard St., and began to organize the rest of the tenants into a league, wit hthe object of a rent strike unless the landlord ‘ceases his policy of evictions. This landlord, being wise enough to see what he was up against, then cut the rent all around. Stop Bronx Eviction The Upper Bronx Unemployed Council. with the splendid co-opera- tion of the Bathgate Ave. Council, has succeeded in replacing the fur- niture of an evicted starving family named Schreiber, at 1973 Bryant Ave., Bronx. , An open air meeting was held in the block, with a sympathetic crowd eagerly listening. Neighborhood ten- ants were inspired and gave much assistance, Dressmakers’ Strike Committee to Continue Struggle for Union Conditions With Intensified Organization Drive NEW YORK—Announcing the win-! ning of victories in four more shops in ‘addition to those previously won, the dressmakers’ big commit- tee ‘transforms itself into an organ- ization committee, to spread the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union throughout the rest of the shops. . Twenty-two shops which were struck and still refuse to settle with the industrial union on its terms which are necesary to end sweatshop conditions, will still be picketed to the limit. The fight to smash the injunction at the “Jerry Dress” Co., goes on. | All workers are called to meet at 7 a. m. of Bsyent Leil today to take part in the picketing, © oy Sg wari Nl: NEW YORK, WEDN™SDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 CITY EDITION Rally at Central. Opera Meet Tonight Against “Socialist” Wreckers nists Stagger Gandhi by Exbosing Fakery Tool of British Imperialism PROTEST TODAY SUN INJUNCTION 69 Pickets on Trial!) Come to the Court! | tionary activity of the Mensheviks in Foster, Amter, Olgin to Speak; Commem- orate Commune Central Opera House at 67 Street and 3rd Avenue will be the scene to- night of a demonstration of thou- sands of New York workers in protest against the sinister counter-revolu- Socialists Prev the Soviet Union, and of Morris Hill- | ent Workers’ | | Jobl : together with Czarist emigres wreck- quit and Norman Thomas in plotting ing activities in the Soviet Union, and armed intervention of the imperialist powers. William Z. Foster, M. J. Ol- gin and I. Amter, as the main speak- ers, will expose the leaders of the American socialist party as collabor- ators with Abramowitch, and the whole crew of Menshevik enemies of | the Soviet Union and the revolution- ary working class, for their inter- | vention plots, Morris Hillquit, as re- presentative of the American Men- Protest of Fascist Murders Rote Fahne Says Fascism Must Die If Working Class Is to Live to Build Socialism (Cable by Inprecorz.) BERLIN, March 17.—The socialist- led Hamburg city senate prohibited two Communist dailies and the fas- cist daily from appearing today. All sheviks, signed the infamous mani- | indoor and open-air.Communist and festo passed by the second socialist | fascist meetings and demonstrations international, which called for impe-| }jkewise were prohibited until fur- rialist war against the Soviet Union | “J, Louis Engdahl, national secretary | of the International Labor Defense, will be the chairman representing the I. L. D. at this mass demonstration, | which will also commemorate the first Proletarian Revolution, the historic | Paris Commune. The brav munards will be remembered as the forerunners of the successful prole- tarian revolution in the Soviet Union NEW YORK.—Smash the injunc- tion at Sun Market! The Smash-the- Injunction-Committee of the Trade | Union Unity Council has called all} workers to come out and protest the arrest of 69 workers arrested for pick- eting in violation of a general in- junction obtained by the Sun Market and the A. F. of L, These arrested workers will be on trial this morning at 10 a.m. at the magistrate’s court, 151 St. and Ams: terdam Ave. Employed and unem- ployed workers, men and women, must ‘be in front of the court-house to voice their protest against these ar- rests and to demand the liberation of those arrested. a* The workers of the fhree Sun Mar- kets (184 St. and St. Nicholas; 188 St. and St. Nicholas and 178 St. and Riverton) struck against long hours and low wages. They struck under the leadership of the Food Workers Industrial Union. The A.F. of L. then came in, without & single worker in the shops at the time of the strike, and made an agreement with the employers to provide scabs, thugs to keep them at work, all at low wages and long hours. The strikers pick- eted, and the AF. of L. and boss got the injunction. A.F. of L. leaders come down to point out the pickets they want arrested. : JAIL COMMUNISTS IN CHATTANOOGA CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 17. ;~Mack Coads, Negro worker and Communist candidate for judge was arrested last night. Dave Doran, Communist organizer was also arres- ted. Both were seized when the po- lice raided a Communist Party elec- tion rally in Union Hall. ‘The two workers are being held incommunicado, “for investigation.” ‘Thursday the trial of Mary Dalton, H. Gordon, and Elsie Larson starts. These three leaders of the unem- ployed here were arrested for their part in the unemployed demonstra- tion February 10, * The charges against all three are: vagrancy, loitering and blocking traf- fic, and inciting to riot. In addition, there is a frame-up charge, intended to prejudice the jury, against Dalton and Gordon for “lewdness.” of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and the great Canton uprising. Inj the names of the Communards and the proletarian fighters of all coun- tries the New York workers will ex- | press their determinaticn to defend the Soviet Union, to smash the coun- ter revolutionist wrec! activity of | the socialist party leaders, Hillquit Thomas and. Co., and to put a stop | to the new wave oi terror against the oreign born, Negro and native work- ers, | Rally to the demonstration! Smash | the counter revolutionary intervention | | plots of the Menshevik agents of Im- | | perialism! Greet the memory of the Paris Commune! Protest the attempt com- |4 ther notice. \'This action is taken exclusively against the workers be- cause the present furious indigna- tion woulud not permii the fascists meetings anyway. | | | | organizations de- The revolutionary cided on a general strike in Hamburg on the day of the fureral of the Communist city councillor, Henning i who was murdered in cold blood at the order of the fascist leaders. Yesterday ‘noon’s Reichstag ses- sions ended in general disorder when the Hamburg murder was discussed. The Com ts propesed to legal- ize the Red ch the bourgeois and socialist deputies ROLLS - * ae aS | The socialists presented a bei | law “against political murder.” 1 speakers declared that the law was Call Police to Help intended against both sides, that is. : ees murderers and the murdered- Ex-| Club 300 Unemployed | perience shows that such laws are| applied exclusively against the work- | ers, as, for example, the Republican | ployed. tailors.cla, defense law. a NEW YORK.— When 300 unem-!| mored for work in| u of the Amalga- Today’s Rote Fahne, Communist | mated Clothing Workers of America | to deport Yokinen, Bebrics, Serio and | Lit | daily newspaper in Berlin, publishes Jas its leading article a declaration showing that fascism is proceeding from general terrorism to particular (COPS ARREST TWO izes. = ra JOBLESS WORKERS “arn es ctim. For months the fascist press has been inciting the murder — | workers’ leaders Tried to Stop Eviction, To Stop It Tonight thout interference NEW YORK.—A janitor, A. Coes- ton, was evicted without notice from | his home yesterday, March 17, at 162} ial Belmont Ave., Brooklyn, A member | Socialism. of the Bronxville Unemployed Coun- The Anti-Fascist League issued an cil, hearing of the case, reported it appeal for a special Hamburg re- to his fellow workers who immediately | cruitment of thousands of new fight- went to the place and found the) ers and new factory and labor ex- litical bankruptcy of fascism. The | Rote Fahne then appeals to the | workers to mobilize to settle accounts | with fascism. Fascism must die if murder is an expression of the per} muurder is an expression of the po- the working class is to live to build| }o nWest 15 Street, Hillman strong | | arm men were rushed into the place | | and after a sharp battle beat the job- less workers and evicted them from |the room. Knives, blackjacks and | other weapons e used to disperse | the tailors and drive them from the | building. Several were injured and | |then the Hillman misleaders called | the police to finish the job. “Clear out or you'll be in the grave” | was the brutal reply of the Hillman henchmen, Bartoni, one of the busi- | | ness’ agents, to the demands of work- | ers for work or unemployment relief A group of tailors who came to the | | Daily Worker office told of being un-| |employed as long as 3 years, Oc-| | casionally they would get a pass to | work and would work only 2 or 3 | hours and b2 sent off the job. No Relief; Only Sell-Out furniture in the street. They broke | Change and district groups. down the door of ihe house and put| the furniture back. | They went back in the morning to} see if everything was allright, when | they were encountered by the janitor who informed them that the furni- ture was thrown out of the house again and that policemen were placed on guard to see that no one touches the furniture. { The Bronxville Unemployed Coun- | cil together with the janitor held a meeting, and they decided that they were determined to put the furniture | back in the house.’ They went to the | home and spoke to the landlord next | door and organized the tenants there. When they did so, some policemen, | fearing the tenants would be aroused | at this injustice inflicted upon the janitor, arrested two of the members of the Unemployed Council. How- ever, the tenants did not fear this procedure, since they held a meeting of their own together with the rest of Bail on these two is $7,200, and bail on Larson is $2,300. 4 More Shops At a meeting of the dressmakers general strike committee held “at the union headquarters March 16th, a report of the strike situation was given by Irving Potash, secretary of the general strike committee. He recommended that the strike be ter- minated and turned into an inten- sive organization drive. He urged t . ‘a'* On an winniaa the | strike, Loge Opals 31 in 22 shops still on f sey Won; Will Intensify Picketing in: 22 Shops Still Out; Fight to Smash ‘Jerry’ Injunction; Strike Committee Now _ Organization Drive Apparatus the Bronxville Unemployed Council and the janitor. which will still go on with more militant picketing. ‘There was also a special report of the Settlement Committee, given by Comrade Weisburg, who reported that the following four more shops settled Monday: Alow Dress Co., Panama Dress Co., Weiss and Brown, Futerensky and Son. Adcpied Unanimously After a discussion in which many of the rank and file members of the de-verehincsctca:t x 7 : The relief that Hillman boasted he | They are going topolicemen are guarding it. Workers everywhere are adopting | protest resolutions against the fas- | cist murderers. Indignation against fascism extends far beyond the work- ers. Examination of one of the} murderers exposed the lie that the | murder was committeed without pre- meditation. | his deed was planned and described | the instructions he received. The Workers International Re- lief calls on you to show your solidarity with the injured of the historic Albany Hunger March! Who need immediate medical attention and rest for their re- covery from state trooper’s clubs! Send money immediately to na- tional W.LR., 131 West 28th St., N.Y. ©. put the furniture back again at six o'clock regardless of the fact that Strike Committee participated, the recommendations of the Strike Com- mittee was approved unanimously. ‘The Strike Committee also decided to disolve ang to turn into an organ- ization apparatus for the carrying on of a militant organization drive in the dress trade, during the ‘entire season. Judge McCook has granted the de- mand of the Jerry Dress Co. for an injunction against mass picketing. The injunction was granted on Tues- day and was served on Louis Hyman at the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The union calls on all workers to smash the injunction, to continue mass The murderer admitted | ,, get a few hours work. was giving the tailors never material- s. The conditions of thousands of men’s tailors continues to grow worse daily. Hillman had reached an agreement | with the Tammany agency not to| place any tailors at the 3-day work | relief jobs, since he said he was giv- ing relief. His relief consisted of giving a sel- ect number of henchmen $10 or so at infrequent. intervals. The majority of workers get nothing. Hillman officials pull down $50 or $70 a week regulerly, and may get! ten times as much more in graft. The Amalgamated has a system of check-off dues on those workers who It is done without the consent of the workers. Usually the gang takes 50 cents. Starving, Jobless Man Pleads to Be Shot to! End His Miserable Life NEW YORK—"Why don't you take out your gun and shoot me,” a | Starving unemployed worker thus | pleaded with Patrolman Doeble of the West 47th Street police station after a fruitless hunt for work or bread. The ragged worker was then ar- rested on the charge of “vagrancy” for pleading to be killed because he did not want to die of starvation. In the West Side court he said his name was Christopher Mario, 53 years old. He said his family was broken up when he was out-of work for. over a year. His wife disappeared taking $2.11 for 108 HOURS WORK. (By A Worker Correspondent.) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Times are mighty hard here. I recently saw the pay check of a piece worker who worked in'the shop two weeks (108 hours), ‘The check was for $2.11. His car fare was $2.00 so you can plekcting, until the swike ezainst the Jerry Dress Co, will ke won see he and his family had 11 cents to live op Price 3 Cents HIO, PENNSYLVANIA JOBLESS TO MARCH ON THEIR STATE CAPITALS ess Form Defense Corps In Dallas; Will Demonstrate More Cuts, Overtime Girls Worked Without -ay; More Joble BULLETIN DALLAS, Tex., March 17. —The Unemployed Council here has announced that it will hold a demonstration and parade and is organizing a defense corps to protect Co- der and Hurst when these two arrive in Dallas. News has just come to light that several weeks ago a member of the Trade Union Unity League was kidnapped by five men armed with re- volvers. He was just about to enter a restaurant near the City Hall. He was carried away in an automobile and told-not to return to Dallas. Before he was released he was whipped. A law was passed in Texas bout three years ego which practically forces Mexican workers to remain in the state and work for starvation wages. When eznployment agencies began shipping workers out of Texas to other states, the Texas farm bosses got the law put over, but the law was finally de- clared unconstitutional by the courts. But in its place a license fee was put on these agencies, which made it im- possible for them to operate, thus forcing the Mexican workers to become practic- ally forced laborers at $1 a day or less under the most terrible conditions of ex- ploitation. ie HARRISBURG, Pa., March 17.— From all parts of this intensely in- dustrial state, where miners, «steel workers, ship builders, and textile workers are alike suffering from ter- rific unemployment, wage cuts and Speed-up, there will be a state-wide hunger march on Harrisburg, the state capital. The march is to take place April 10 to 14, A mass meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. at 3640 Eastwick Ave. Phila- delphia, to prepare that end of the march. The jobless will demand immediate relief, on a cash weekly basis, and appropriation of a sum of money to insure the regular payments of this insurance. ! Oey ava Ohio March April 16, CLEVELAND, O.. March 11.—A state conference of unemployed work- ers was held here March 14. It was attended by 46 delegates from many {Industrial centers of the state and a few from the Finnish Workers (CONTINUED O03 PAGE THREE) ——— ——— MOONEY EXPOSURE TO BE CON- TINUED TOMORROW. Owing to lack of space Tom Moo- ney’s article on his betrayal by the A. F. of L. leaders had to be left out today. It will be continued tomor- row. Saturday Page of Features Bright A French worker, recently deported from the United States, writes, “But They Can't Deport Communism”; Myra Page tells a story of a Paw- Harrison tucket girl weaver; George reviews “The Kaiser's Coolies”; John Peterson begins his sea story, “The Holy Bed- bug”—in next Saturday's fea- ture page. 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