The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1931, Page 1

| | | Two Thousand Workers Have Made Application to Join the Unemployed Council of Salt Lake City. Are You Winning Members for Your Council? Dail GCS:ect tion? oF Yfunict as the See. + Mis Norker Porty U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 72 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879 << NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 19. 31 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents FISH CALLS FOR INCREASED ATTACKS ON FOREIGN BORN Answer Kassay Frar rame-Up ip and Growing Arrests on March 28 All Out March 28th! MONG the flood of anti-Soviet war propaganda, the case of Paul Kassay, arrested at Akron, Ohio, stands out as one of the rottenest now filling the columns of the capitalist press. All that we know of Kassay is that he is not a Communist Party mem- ber, that he was a worker at the Goodyear-Zeppelin Plant in Ohio where the U. S. Navy is building the dirigible “Akron,” and that he is apparently the object of a deliberate frame-up by the company officials and the federal Department of (so-called) Justice. The reasons for such a frame-up are clear. First, the company is putting over a wage cut—and the capitalist government is very obligingly lending the terrorization of its authority to the company to frighten the workers into submitting without a struggle. And a sensational charge against a foreign-born worker comes in extremely handy. Secondly, the resentment among Ohio workers against the infamous “criminal syndicalism” law has forced a movement to repeal this vicious anti-working class law, and in order to keep it in force, some sensational accusation of sabotage had to be cooked up to give some “reason” why the law should be continued. Thirdly, there is nothing better for the anti-Soviet war campaign of ‘the Fish Committee, than to have capitalist newspaper headlines scream~ ing about “Soviet agents” supposedly ~‘uncovered” damaging some precious death-dealing device of the American navy. Indeed, Mr. Fish’ let no grass grow under him in rushing to the nearest radio broadcasting station ang filling the air with alarm. This is old stuff for those who witnessed the “atrocity” tales and “German spy” yarns of the past war, when they were used then, as now to terrorize the workers, especially the foreign born workers, for the benefit cf the 1,700 new millionaires created by the war and those who increased their millions many fold. The cock-and-bull yarn of Department of (so-called) Justice agents, about Kassay ‘spitting between the sections” of the metal covering of the dirigible, and that “His saliva, freezing in the low temperature of the mammoth Zeppelin dock, could not be distinguished from the silvery metal of the frame work’”—this preposterous fairy tale is enough to show | how absurd is the whole frame-up. t But the hue and cry is kept up, and with serious intent. The Kassay case is being used as an excuse to “justify” Secretary of Labor Doak in the hundreds of arbitrary deportations he is carrying out daily, the out- rageous “round ups” of foreign born workers and the herding of them into Ellis Island without trial, and forcible deportation, from the country. ‘The attack on the foreign-born is deliberately intensified at this moment precisely because the employing class has opened up a savage wage-cutddeaialentiten. and the capitalists and their government ex- pect-—by terrorizing all foreign born workers with wholesale deprotations— to break down the united resistance of native and foreign born workers to wage cuts, to prevent strikes if possible, and to break the strikes by practically forcing the foreign born to scab for fear that if they strike they will be deported. , . This general assault on foreign born workers is to try to compel all workers, native as well as foreign born, to submit to starvation and to cease the growing struggle for unemployment insurance. In ‘spite of all the hullabaloo about Kassay, the naval inspector at , the Ohio plant, T. G. W. Settle, declares that the dirigible “was not * harmed.” But the capitalist press flaunts the case in sensational head- lines as if it were important. And it is important in furnishing excuses for the government depor- tation of Yokinen, the Finnish worker who is. being deported solely be- cause he forsook race prejudice against Negroes and declared he would fight against the barbarous lynching of Negroes! It is important, because, behind the furore about “Soviet agents,” Mr. Fish’s campaign for war against the Soviet Union advances! It is important because it is being used to maintain the attack on all workers, native and foreign born alike, under the “criminal syndicalism” laws! It is important because in the very plant where Kassay worked, this frame-up is being used to make foreign born and native workers both swallow a wage cut! It is against the whole nefarious tribe of plotters against the workers, that the Council for Protection of the Foreign Born, the League of Strug- "| gle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense are arranging nation-wide demonstrations on March 28th. Native American and foreign born workers alike, resenting this cam- paign of lynching, deportation and terrorism that is aimed to crush and break up their united resistance to wage cuts, should give enthusiastic mass support to the March 28th demonstrations! For class solidarity of all workers! All out March 28th! Comrade Jakira IN the death of Comrade Jakira, the Communist Party has lost one of its most devoted members, and the workers, a valiant fighter for their cause. Comrade Jakira was one of the-leaders in the fight against the reactionary socialist party officials who are today openly social-fascists, * and was one of the organizers of the Communist Party. From the inception of the Communist Party he was most active in 's ranks. During the days of the Palmer raids when the Party faced treme hardships he was the secretary of the Communist Party. Later was organizer of the Party in Pittsburgh where he was a tireless worker ittee which later-developed into the National Miners Union, At the first convention of the union, when the delegates had to face ice, thugs, gangsters of the Léwis machine and the whole city force, comrade Jakira, as head of the district mobilized all of the forces so that the convention could be held. In the more recent period, Comrade Jakira was associated: with the International Labér Defense and at the time of his death was Organization Secretary of this organization. Comrade Jakira was one of the most loyal and devoted members of the Party and as a leader set an example which the younger members may well follow. Comrade Jakira thought of nothing else but the revor lutionary movement and although handicapped by ill-health which some- times limited his activities, nevertheless, he possessed all the qualities which are necessary to build up organization and establist. working class power. The Central Committee calls upon our members of the Party, on the death of Comrade Jakira to renew their energy in building up the Party so that the Party may be better able to carry on the struggle for the im- mediate demands of the working class and for its ultimate aims. Espe- ci@ily the younger members of the Party and the Young Communist League must take an example from Comrade Jakira and learn from his life that nothing comes before the biulding of the mass Communist Party as the leader of the mass struggles of the workers of this country. 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TRIAL IN 3,000 Filipinos in Calif Strike Against Pay Cuts Unorganized Workers in Spontaneous Walk-Out Against P 0 R T L A ND Continuous Cuts; Agricultural Workers Union to Workers Must Rally to, Save Militants From Boss Prisons ; PORTLAND, Ore., March 23.—‘If I spend ten years in the peniten- tiary, if the workers in Centralia and San Quentin rot in their dungeons, if Communists are hunted and shot) down, that will not stop the advent} All are out against wage cuts. of Communism.” With these,ringing | words, a challenge to the forces of | the boss state, Fred Walker, Port- land worker on “trial” for criminal syndicalism, concluded his address to the jury on March 19, the fourth day of the criminal syndicalism trial here. It was later that the verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury and when the courtroom crowded with workers greeted the release of their comrade with shouts. Irving Goodman, the International | Labor Defense attorney, finished the concluding argument of the defense after Walker had spoken. Eleven other workers still face trial and the mass protest of the working class will save them as it did Walker. This victory will have a bearing on the conviction of Ben Boloff, first tried and sentenced to ten years. District Attorney Dillard spoke next. “The defense, instead of an- swering the charges in this indict- ment, in a desperate attempt to pro- vide a defense, tells you of a pri- vate individual calling out the army to slaughter strikers at at Ludlow, Colo.; that has no bearing on the case, (CONTINUED STRIKERS IN MASS PICKETING TODAY Workers “Must Smash Injunction NEW YORK.—Mass picketing in a drive to smash the injunction gotten out by the Jerry Dress Shop against the striking needle trades workers, under the leadership of the Needle Workers’ Industrial Union, will take place today. All workers are urged to come to the office of the union at 131 West 28th Street. = On Wednesday night at 7 p. m, there will be a meeting of the shop delegates council of the union at the union hally On Thursday there will be a mem- bership meeting at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., to which not only all merhbers are urged to be present, but all workers in the trade whether unorganized, or now in the company union. At this meeting a full report of the strike will be given, and plans laid down for further ac- tivity in the trade. On Sunday 60 delegatés in the knit goods trade, representing 48 large shops, met at a conference. Two resolutions were adopted. One of them outlining the situation in the knit goods industry called on the workers immediately to organize shop oO” PA THREE) Organize Strikers to Fight for Victory SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 23.—Mor than 3,000 agricultural workers mainly Fil, pinos, are out on strikes in Watsonville, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Hollister and Salinas. More than 500 Filipinos are striking under, the leadership of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union.) Most of the strikes are spon-! taneous, against the miserable conditions and the continuous} wage cuts. | cuts. They are unorganized. The Agricultural W orkers | The defense, in its desperate | MANY AT FUNERAL OF COM. JAKIRA Weinstone and Dunne Cable Regrets NEW YORK.—The memorial meet- ing for Comrade Jakira, assistant secretary of the International Labor Defense, who died last Friday, was yesterday and attended by several hundred workers... Brief, and impres-, sive addresses honoring’ the heroi¢ devotion of Comrade Jakira in the revolutionary movement were made | by Comrades Maurer, Foster, Stachel, Haywood, Trachtenberg and Amter, the latter acting as chairman. + The funeral march, which started from the center at 2 o'clock sharp, was participated in by over 500 work- | ers. The line of march was through | 12th Street to 4th Ave. down 4th Ave. to Union Square and 16th St. The following telegram was re- | stone and Dunne: “Sorry to learn of death of our old co-worker, Comrade Jakira. In his untimely death the Party loses a re- liable, experienced worker and a de- voted, loyal revolutionary.” At the convention of Section Four on Sunday, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: “The Section Conyention of Sec. 4, Dist. 2, expresses its deep regret over the death of Comrade Jakira. Com- rade Jakira was not only a pioneer of the‘ Communist Party, but during the whole existence of the Party was one of the most active and capable leaders. Comrade Jakirg was a mem- ber of this section and was very ac- tive in its work. “The Party loses a very active, loyal, devoted member in the death of Comrade Jakira, and every mem- | ber of the Party must determine to} build up the Party by mass work and recruitment of new members to re-| place this active worker.” committees to fight against wage cuts and against speed-up. The .resolu- tion also points out that in a num- ber of shops the industrial union has organized shop committees which have improved their conditions, and in some instances resisted wage cuts. Another resolution unanimously adopted protested against the depor- tation of foreign born workers, against lynching and discrimination of Ne- groes' and pledged support for the March 28 demonstrations. 17,000 Binghamton Shoe Workers Given 5% Pay Cut ENDIOOTT, N..Y., March 23.—A 5 per cent wage-cut, effecting the entire force of 17,000 workers in the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Co. plant, was announced today. The bosses tried to explain that the cut was necessary in order to cover the ex- penses of the “medical services” which the workers are supposed to get. The company has always used the so-called welfare work as an excuse against any demands for increased wages in the it, and now it is using it to cover up the wage-cuts. A statement issued by the bosses ap- peals to the “loyalty” of the work- ers to stand by the company and see that the investors are guaran- teed their dividends at the expense of the workers’ wages. ee Most of the workers do not get more than two or three days’ work a week, and their wages before the cut averaged from $10 to $12. The present wage-cut follows a whole series of cuts in nearly every de- partment. ‘There is growing discontent among the workers, and the recent wage- cut has intensified this discontent. Up to now there has been no definite organization. The immediate eed of the workers in this plant is the crganization of a shop committee to prepare organizational steps for a strike against the wage-cut. There are bound to be other wage-cuts, and the bosses openly state that the workers must suffer so that the parasites’ dividends can be protected. held in the Workers Center at noon | ceived today from Comrades | ‘Industrial Union is carrying on ac- tivity to organize these workers for a determined and organized struggle. In the San Juan Valley and Ausay- mas district, 500 Filipinos in the let- tuce fields are on strike. The capi-| talist newspapers are carrying on a/ | vicious lying campaign against these | | workers. In San Luis Obispo 500) more Filipinos are striking against a! cut of from 35 cents to 30 cents an| hour. POLICE PROTECT GERMAN FASCISTS \Red Meetings Raided; | Arrest ‘Many, Kill | BERLIN. — A_ Stahlhelm fascist | | demonstration occurred yesterday in| | the Lustgarten under police protec- | | tion. There were workers’ counter- | | demonstrations in many places in| Berlin. | The murdered Communist deputy, | Henning, was buried Saturday in| | Hamburg. Thousands of workers marched in the procession, Follow- ing the burial, police attacked the workers, shooting and clubbing them. One worker Was killed, many were wounded. In protest demonstrations in the | evening, there were further clashes between the police and workers. The anti-fascist congress at Wu- erzburg was raided yesterday. Po- lice report that Seventy-eight were arrested in the Stahlhelm demon- stration. CHICAGO, March 23.—After using | all sorts of tricks to gover up their attack on the working class, the Election Board has carried out the orders of Big Business, to rule the Communist Party off the ballot. However, this fascist attack will not remain unanswered, The Communist | Party more energetically than ever | before will mobilize thousands of | workers to vote Communist on April) 7, despite the bosses fascist attacks. | The hearings at the Election Board clearly exposed the corrupt capitalist character of this commission. The two lawyers, Harrington and Tyrell, who signed the complaint to rule the Communist Party off the ballot are officially lawyers for the Republican and Democratic party, thus showing the unity of the bankers and manu- facturers against the working class, clearly exposing that their purpose was to hold back the growing sup- port of the masses for the Commun- ist Party. ‘ “Legal” Reasons ‘Tyrell, explained that the Con- stitution ordained that there should be only two parties in this country, the democratic and republican par- ties. They further declared that all parties, with the exception of these two would be ruled off the ballot, and they were especially anxious to bar the Communist Party. The Com- munist candidates exposed this fas- cist attack and showed that the Communist Party was the only Par- ty that had obtained 20,758 signa- tures, of workers who had declared their intention of placing the Com- munist Party on the ballot. The bosses agents became a little scared and began to maneuver. After a few days they got the Chi. Workers Fight Attempt To Ban Party from Ballot ATTACK WORKERS FOR FIGHT AGAINST WAGE CUTS, UNEMPLOYMENT ‘Pat Devine Tells of Drive On Foreign-Born Workers Arrest Without _Any) Formalities © Workers Must Answer This Persecution; Demonstrate | On March 28! anti-working-class “An drive of the U. S. government is sig- energetic | nified by the deportation campaign sponsored by President Hoover, Sec- retary of Labor Doak and Represen- tive Fish against the foreign-born workers,” said Pat Devine, in’a state- | ment issued for the National Textile Workers’. Union_today. | t the same time that Devine’s | statement was given to the Daily} Worker a report was received from| Allentown, Pa., that Ray West and | | Louis Borno were arrested by Beth- | | lehem police as they were walking | cut of a restaurant. No charges| were preferred against them, but they were held for 72 hours for in-| vestigation. Finally, they were held! under the Flynn sedition law. Their | arrest was ordered by the big steel corporations for»their work in or- ganizing the Metal Workers’ Indus- | trial League. Continuing with his statement, | Comrade Devine pointed out the} necessity for a broad, mass demon-| stration on March 28, to answer the) attacks against the workers. foreign-born | “No evidence of unlawful entry, | “radical” activity, ete. is required for action by the Immigration De- partment, as can be seen from the following news item from the Bos- | (CONT! D ON PAGE THREE) | fluky excuse that the signatures were | of non-registered voters and that they had not signed their full names | and other such technical reasons, | and they ruled the Communist Par- ty off the ballot. Only two parties remain on ‘the ballot, the Repub- lican and Democratic. However, this will not keep back the activities of the Communist Party in the Elec- tion campaign. Through a sticker | campaign and writing in “I Vote) Communist” on the ballot on April 7, the Communist Party will rally thousands of workers for its program of struggle and against the attacks of the Insulls, McCormicks and other Chicago exploiters. Vote for: Mayor, Otto H. Wanger- in; City Clerk, Lydia Bennet; Treas- urer, August Poansjoe. Jobless Mother, Starving, Kills Self and Sick Child NEW YORK.—Out of work and living with her sick 5-year old son in a cold, dingy Brooklyn tenement, Mrs. Mary Baldwin killed her son and herself early yesterday morning following a night of futile attempts to get medical aid for the sick child. Neighbors found them lying hand in band on the floor of a gas-filled recom, Having no money io call in a’doc- tor, Mrs. Baldwin had taken her sick child to several hospitals where his illness was diagnosed as acute ton- silitis. The hospitals, however, were Short of charity beds and the offi- Bi Denial” in Md. ‘Communist Party Exposes For the Workers BALTIMORE, Ma, So severe is the question of relief of the unemployed becoming that Justice *| March 21 admits that the unemployed the charity organizations admit they are taxed to the limit in handing out a few crumbs to the unemployed. So they haye worked | up a new scheme which they call |) establishing a “self-denial” day. Next Friday has ben set aside for “self-denial” day. Who is they want to partici- pate in this? Only the workers. | ‘They call on the employed work- || ers not to eat and to turn the |] money over to the unemployed. }/ ‘They want the rich parasites not | to deny themselves anything; they || want to throw the whole burden }} on the employed workers whose || wages have been cut and many |} of whom are supporting members ot their nily who are unem- ployed. This is another example of the need of employed and un- employed workers fighting for.un- employment insurance by the fed- eral government and administered by the workers. DALLAS TERROR REIGN GREATER Boss Press Admits; Phila. Jobless Grow DALLAS, Texas, March 23.—Twenty | armed cops and Ku Kluxers raided | a Workers Club meeting here looking for Papeun, Trade Union — Unity League organizer, and the Daily Worker correspondent. This is the sequel to the flogging of Coder and| Hurst and the increased terror) against all militant workers.: Every militant worker is being fol- | lowed by Klansmen. The white ter- ror openly reigns. Behind it is the entire capitalist officialdom, backed by the local business men and the Klan organization. The reign of terror is particularly. due to the fact that headway was being made in organizing the unem- ployed workers, most of whom are Negroes, in a struggle for unemploy- ment relief. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 23.— Unemployment is increasing rapidly here. The Philadelphia Record on are suffering severely. “Philadelphia is much harder hit than anyone here had estimated,” they say. “This is revealed by the Official Unemployment Estimate given out by the Department of Commerce in Washington yesterday. The govern- ment figures show that 246,724 of the Philadelphians who want work were idle in January. Of these 212,051 had no jobs at all, while 34,673 had been laid off without pay. These figures compared with the 889,837 gainful workers in this city, show a per- centage of 23.8 idle.” cials refused to take the boy in. They gave her a prescription and sent her away. Not having any money to have the prescription filled, it was useless to her, She had tried both the Greenpoint Hospital and St. John’s. After her futile attempt to get aid ‘for her boy, the mother and son re- turned to their unheated flat. Neigh- bors heard them moving about for 4 while.” In the morning one of the neighbors, knowing the plight of the family, took them up some break- fast. Receiving no reply to her knocks, she opened the door and saw the mother and child lying on the kitchen floor, dead, Os tall ira! t, ta ¢ seta a | the Department of |Use Akron Frame-up to Spur War Blind the Workers to Put Over Wage Cut; Justify Syndicalism Law AKRON, Ohio, March 23.—A viciout attack against all foreign born work- ers has been signalized by the ar- rest and apparent framing up of the Hungarian worker Paul Kassay through open admission by the Dee partment of Justice who put stool- pigeons ‘to work near Kassay in the Goodyear ~- Zeppelin Rubber plant, where a huge dirigible, the Akron, is under construction for the Navy De- partment. Congressman Ham Fish’s hands are right in the midst of this | frame-up. He and other government officials are using the affair for an attack against the Soviet Union and the foreign born workers. The arrest and framing up cf Kas- say is a counter-attack of the bosses to the nation-wide demonstration for March 28th by the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, the Committed for the Protection of Foreign born, and the international Labor Defe The March 28th demonstrations are receiving mass support in struggle against the Fish proposals for depor- tation of foreign born workers, in- creased discrimination against Ne- groes, finger printing of foreign-born (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MANY MEETINGS PREPARE MAR. 28 Main City Demonstra- tion in Harlem NEW YORK.—March 28th will be a day of militant mass struggle and protest against the increased fury. of white ruling attacks and lynching of Negro workers, and the wholesale de- portations, and increased persecution of foreign born workers. Throughout greater New York and New Jersey the masses of workers will pour out into the streets in militant demonstra- tions. The workers of Harlem, Negro and white, will demonstrate through the heart of the Jim Crow district in a huge mass parade that will begin at 145th St. and Lenox Ave. at 2:30 p. m. and will march after a prelim- inary demonstration at this strect along 7th Ave. to 114th St. east to Sth Ave., down 5th Ave. to 110th St., where the march will end with a monster open alr demonstration. In the Bronx preparations are going ahead for a huge demonstration at Washington Ave. and Claremont Parkway at 3 a.m. A number of street meetings and factory gate meetings will be held in the down- town and midtown sections of New York, In Williamsburgh there will be a demonstration at Court and Fulton Sts. at 1:30 p.m, South Brooklyn wilk have a mass parade and demonstration beginning at 40tri St. and 9th Ave., which will march along 5th Ave. to 50th St. where a monster demonstration will be held. There will be demonstrations at Long Island City and Astoria. All industrial cities in New Jersey and up-state will have demonstrations of thousands of workers. Newark has arranged 5 street meetings at 2 p,m. Linden, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Paterson and Passaic are speeding up arrangements for large open air meet- ings and demonstrations. Yonkers will hold two, nase gy yard at i dal