The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1931, Page 1

TES A 8 ee smn Let your protests against lynching, de- portations, discrimination and perse- cution of the working class re- i; sound from coast to coast on March 28, All out! } Dai Central (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD} ~ UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 73 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office gmpp21 at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents RUSH KASSAY FRAME-UP AS MARCH 28 PROTESTS NEAR e e Warning of Suspension Again we must warn all workers interested in the Daily Worker that the continued failure of comrades in the districts to remit payment for debts due us, especially on current bills, is threatening the Daily Worker with immediate suspension. Unless we receive $2,000 by Wednesday afternoon (March 25), the Daily Worker will suspend. Past warnings have gone " unheeded. Even answers are not given by some districts. The response which the districts will give to this warn- ing and appeal will be a test of their seriousness and their attitude toward the Daily Worker and the Party. ’ Bill Green’s Mock Heroics HE capitalist newspapers on Monday carried a statement by President T Green of the A. F. of L. supposedly “against” wage cuts. On the same day we heard that the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company at Bimghamton, New York cut wages five per cent. But workers must not conclude from these two facts that the A. F. of L, bureaucracy is really going to lead strikes against wage cuts. On the contrary, the statement of Green is intended, first, to cover up the fact that wages of the American working class already were cut in 1930 fully | one-third, or/33 1-3 per cent. Secondly, it is the purpose of Bill Green, who has steadily concealed this enormous wage cut and who has done everything in his power to pre- vent the workers from struggling against it, to aid the capitalists in their plans to intensify the wage cut campaign and put the American Nrorkers on “coolie wages.” It is not because he was ignorant of the facts that up to yesterday Green, in his public speeches, flagrantly lied about the “maintenance of high wages” and praised Président Hoover for “helping maintain” them. Green was fully aware of the fact that in the mines and shops of this country, millions of workers were being robbed of the wages neces- { sary to keep the blush of health in the cheeks of their babies. What damnable hypocrisy it is, then, for this scoundrel president of the A F. of L. to strut forth upon the stage and claim that the A. F. of L. is going to “resist with all the influence and power at its command any attempt on the part of the employers to reduce wages.” This despicable hypocrite does not say that the A. F. of L. leadership will support strikes against wage cuts. It it only Communists who sup- port strikes against wage cuts and it is only these Communists and the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League who will lead strikes against wage cuts. Green and his kind have done their damnedest to disarm the workers and divide them up in hostile groups. He-has tried=to-engender hostility of the. employed and the unem- ployed by putting over his scabbing system. He-has actually incited the campaign of terror ag~inst foreign born workers designed to frighten this great section of the American working class into submission—amounting to forced Iabor—rather than risk de- portation by striking along with the native born workers against wage cuts already carried out and those which are to come. He has resisted with all the influence at his command the demand of the Unemployed Councils and the millions of workers who endorse their position for unemployment insurance at the cost of the capitalists. And how, faced with the fact that a rising tide of wage strikes against swage cuts are appearing in spite of him; now confronting the fact that the Trade Union Unity League is leading striking workers to victory against wage cuts even in his own unions in spite of the treacherous leadership, he comes forward with weasel words about “resisting” wage cuts, but carefully stating that only when “favorable conditions permit” will the A. F. of L. think about getting past wage cuts restored. This evident hypocrisy of the A. F. of L. will be understood by every intelligent worker, whether he be in a trade union or not. Every worker who is jobless and starving will understand that the A. F. of L. fascist bureaucracy, which has defended the capitalists against the demand for unemployment insurance, expects him to scab on the employed workers in case they strike against wage cuts. Every employed worker will understand that these A. F. of L. leaders, who serve the bosses by attempting to manufacture scabs against him and his shop-mates, will not only refuse to support strikes against wage-cuts, past present or future, but will do everything possible to break such strikes. More than ever it is necessary for every revolutionary worker to stand guard in the shops, mines and mills of this country in defense of the workers’ standards; to bend every effort to organize shop committecs against wage cuts, and to support with these committees, and all organ- ized forces, the demand for unemployment insurance. More than ever it is necessary to fight every attempt at speed-up (a form of wage cut), to create definite shop organizations around every de- mand vital to the interests of the workers and to center this whole or- ganized movement under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. Defeat the A. F. of L. efforts to divide the employed and unemployed! Organize shop committees of the T. U. U. L.! Build the Unemployed Councils! Unite all working class forces in the fight for unemployment in- surance and against wage cuts! PREPARE MAY 1 IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK. — The Provisional Committee for the United Front on May Day has decided to hold a dem- onstration on May Day at Union has thrown a million workers com- pletely out of work, with hundreds of thousands working part time, with wage slashes in every industry, with intensified persecution of the foreign ‘orn and added burdens of discrim- ination against Negro workers, are determined to fight militantly for their immediate needs. Conference March 30. The conference will be held on Square from 1:30 p. m. to 6 p. m. Meetings will be held in all parts of the city during the morning, at factory gates, unemployment agen- cies, bread lines, flop agencies, bread lines, flop houses, etc. in order to mobilize the workers for marches to Union Square, where the mass demonstration will take place. This year the May Day Demonstra- tion will be one of the largest on record in New York City. The re- sponse to the May Day Conference, «which has been called by the Com- munist Party, Trade Union. Unity League, the Unemployed Councils, is} excellent and shows that the work- ers of New York City, who have been seriously hit by the crisis, which Monday, March 34, at 7:30 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., N. Y., and all working class organiza- tions, unions, unemployed councils, shop committees, shop groups, fra- ternal and cultural crganizations that have not yet elected their delegates should noi fail te do so, ‘The march-routes from the vari- ous secticns of the city have not yet been mapped out. However, the piens for the demonstration at Union Square have heen agreed to by the Pelice depa:tment. In the evening there will be a Monster Indoor Demonstration at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and West Farms Road, Bronx, N. ¥. LABOR GOV'T EXECUTES 3 INDIA REBELS Frame-up Revolution- | ists For British Imperialism (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, March 24—The three Lahore prisoners, Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukh Dev, fighters for the independence of India, have been executed by the British labor government in the interest of British imperialism. This is one of. the | bloodiest deeds ever undertaken by | the British labor government, under the leadership of MacDonald. The Indian National Congress } opens at Karachi on Thursday. In- dignation against the executions is causing mass opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin agreement. The Pun- | jab members of the legislature pro- pose an adjournment and censure of the government for the execution. | The London press declares the Kara- chi congress is the supreme test of (CONTI » o> — THREE) PROTEST CUBAN RROR FRIDAY! Cuban Workers Call - Harlem Meeting NEW YORK.—American and Latin American workers will protest with Cuban worker on Friday against the white terror in Cuba. The meeting, which is being held in the Harlem Casino at 116 Street and Lenox Ave., at 8 p.m., is arranged by the Cuban Revolutionary Emigrants Association. The speakers are Alberto Moreau, Secretary of the U. S. Anti-Imperial- ist League, Robert Dunn, chairman of the Anti-Imperialist League, O. Ro- driguez, a Cuban revolutionary work- er, and Harry Gannes, author of “Yankee Colonies.” The chairman is F, Ibanez, The Anti-Imperialist League ap- peals to all workers to attend this meeting. The bosses that are mur- dering workers in Cuba are the same bosses that force millions to starve here, that lynch Negroes, that deport foreign-born workers to mect death in fascist countries. Workers, show your solidarity with the Cuban workers! Hoover has arrived in Porto Rico, where the Governor-General, Roose- yelt, admits more than 60 per cent of the workers and peasants are un- employed, where the majority of the people are suffering from starvation and where more than half of the people are diseased—thanks to Amer- ican imperialist domination. In reporting the arrival of Hoover on the American battleship at San Juan, and his “parade” through the streets, nearly all of the capitalist newspapers deliberately cut out the fact that a large portion of the peo- ple hissed the representative of Wall Street. Only one New York boss sheet mentioned this, in a guarded way, and that was the New York Evening Post, a supporter of the Hoover regime. The greeting to Hoover was de- liberately staged. .The thin and peaked school children, most of whom have tuberculosis or hook- worm, who never get enough to eat, were drilled to greet “their Presi- dent.” The streets were lined with troops and the lackeys of imperial- ism in Porto Rico scraped ‘he floor with their bellies cow-towing to the imperialist president. But despite Five-Year Plan | Achieved in Oil || That the Soviet Five Year Plan has been achieved and surpassed in the oil industry in two and a half years is admitted by the capitalist press. This is an indication of the gi- gantic strides being made all along the line in pushing the Five Year Plan to success. It explains the growing nervousness of the bosses and their intensified prep- arations for intervention against the Soviet Union and its success- ful socialist construction. > HELD IN MURDER FRAMEUP CHARGE Patterson W orkers| Rally to Defense PATERSON, N, J., March 24.—Five workers haye been framed-up on a murder charge here, and have been arraigned before Recorder Harry Joelson in the police court. They are being held without bail, after a plea of nat guilty. were in the court-room, and outside of police headquarters on the street. The murder frame-up charge grows out of the death of Max Urban, boss of the silk mill at 36 Madison Ave. Urban, who was on the outs with many bootleggers and gangsters, was | attacked by # group of men. The reason for the arrest of the five work- ers is due to the fact that a strike} was on at the Urban mill at the time he was killed, though his mur- der was committed by non-strikers and had nothing to do with the strike, A mass protest meeting is being called by the National Textile Work- ers Union for Friday, 8 p.m., at 56 Van Houten Street, Carpenters Hall. William Z. Foster will be the ma) speaker. On Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m, there will be a defense conference, called by the International Labor De- fense and the National Textile Work- ers Union, to which all workingclass organizations are urged to send dele- gates to arrange for a mass defense of these five workers who face rail- roading to jail or worse. The con- ference will be held at Union Hall, 205 Peterson St. Those arrested are Helen Gershono- witz, Benjamin Lieb, Albert Katzhuk, Louis Harris and Louis Bart. The likelihood is that they will be charged with manslaughter and murder in the first degree, involving the death sen- tence, as part of the efforts of the bosses to terrorize and punish all mil- itant workers and rob the working class of its best fighters. Thousands Boo, Hiss Hoover In Slave Colony of Porto Rico all this thousands booed and hissed Hoover. Hoover has an army of secret ser- vice men following him, and the Porto Rican petty-bourgeoisie see that no “discontented” elements are allowed to demonstrate against the Wall Street president. Hoover was greeted by Iglesias, the socialist and trade union faker in the island. His next stop will be the Virgin Islands, the strongest fort of Wall Street in the Caribbean Islands. Here Hoover will inspect the Negro workers who are forced to work un- der contract for the imperialists, where discrimination against Ne- groes was imported with American rule. The real object of the im- Perialist president is to get away from the demands of the great mass ot workers and farmers in the United States for farm and unemployment relief, and to look over. the posses- sidns of Wall Street in preparation for the coming war. THREATEN MASS DEPORTATION One hundred thousand foreign- bron seamen are threatened with de- portation, as the Hoover hunger-gov- ernment is preparing a mass deporta- tion drive. Hundreds of workers} o ‘Commerce Dep 1931, Now Tries to ures on unemployment. The that in January, according to the faked figures of the gov- ernment, over 300,000 workers lost their jobs. In issuing a “correction” of this, the government now says some of | these workers are not really “‘laid- off” but work on part time. How- ever, a detailed survey by the De- partment of Commerce in Duluth and Birmingham “showed this to be the percentage of all persons laid off without pay.” That means these| workers were actually fired.’ The} government's figures, counting those “laid off” and the others who were| given the same treatment, only told} they were “fired,” shows over 500,000 workers were added to the ranks of the unemployed army in January. oe A more detailed picture of-how fac- tories are firing the biggest share of their workers is shown by a commu- nication sent to the Daily Worker from Perth Amboy, N. J. “General Ceramics Co., of Keas- | bey, N. J., a pottery factory, normally | employes from 80 to 100 workers. Gradually all but 14 workers were laid off! We all got a 10 per cent wage cut about three weeks ago. Time and a half for overtime cut out about two weeks ago. Only five men in the shipping gang work steady; all the rest. work part time, as little as one or two days per week.” A comrade writing from Chicago, tells of the unemployment among} women in that city. From figures is- sued by the Chicago Association of Commerce, it is estimated there are| about 100,000 women out of work in Chicago. This worker writes further that from her personal experience of con- ditions “at relief stations and char- ity centers they prove one thing: the women are today the most militant| workers to be found at the charity centers. Negro and white women at these and in the hospital clinics are! making common cause in their pro- test from time to time. “May Ist, 1931 should be a tre- mendous mass turn-out for imme- diate relief and social insurance.” TUNNEL CAVE-IN KILLS 5 WORKERS, {By a Worker (¢ KEDDIE, Calif., March 24.—Cali- fornia tunnel workers sacrificed again. This time five workers were crushed to death and several in- jured in the Western Pacific Rail- road tunnel cave-in near Keddie, | Loosened by heavy rains the moun- tain side into which the crew was tunneling slid into the shaft. Speed-up and carelessness through faulty inspection was the cause of the disaster. Men were to quit in ten minutes, and though they knew that another load could not be made they were told to start loading up. Just then the slide occurred. No proper props in the tunnel or engi- neering inspection had been held to see how safe it was after rains to work exacted a toll of five lives. ‘Western Pacific has been laying off men continually on the railroad, introducing various speed-up meth- ods, speeding up also this tunneling. —A.A., Worcorr of Oakland. White Unemployed Women Militant WASHINGTON, March 24.—An attempt is being made) by the Department of Commerce to explain away its own fig-| unemployment figures for January, 1931, said there were be- tween 250,000 to 300,000 persons “laid off” in January alone. What is actually meant by this® | judge got angry and threatened to fine them $10 and costs. Back Out; Negro, Census Bureau tabulation of STOP EVICTION; JOBLESS MEET Open Air Meet Today at Fake Agency NEW YORK.—A mass unemployed meeting was held in front of the fake city employment agency at 59 Leon- ard Street, where thousands of un- employed look vainly for jobs. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Downtown Unemployed Coun- | cil. At the close of the meeting hun- dreds of the unemployed marched over to the Council headquarters at 27 E, 4th Street, where many joined up. A member of the Council, C. Sikovski, of 723 East 6th Ave., was evicted. He has three children. The Downtown Unemployed Council put the furniture back into the house, on the fourth floor. They afterwards held an open air meeting to organize a tenants league to prevent further evictions, A worker by the name of Mary Tressor of 159 East 4th St., who was before the judge of the Madison St. Municipal Court, on an eviction case, | was not given a chance to speak, but a, committee of the Unemployed Council spoke to the judge. The A meeting will be held this morn- ing at 11 a.m. in front of the City Employment Agency at 59 Leonard Street. DETROIT BANK ABOUT TO BREAK. DETROIT, Mich—Enclosed De- | troit News clippings of March 18th. The American State Bank, a Federal Reserve Bank, with many branches here, was ready to collapse and was taken over by the Wayne County Bank to avoid a crash. Also two Call for “Smash Injunction” Struggle at Jerry Dress Fri. | Throughout the country workers are NEW YORK, — A special mobili- zation of all workers to join in the “Smash the Injunction” struggle at the Jerry Dress Go. shop at 500 7th Ave., is being carried on by the Smash | the Injunction Committee, for Friday at 5 p.m. At the Sun Market food strike 69 workers were arrested for violating the injunction. Fourteen . were brought up on this charge in special | sessions court. After some argument they were dismissed yesterday. Al- though there were three or four charges against these workers they went back to the picket line. The 69 were charged with contempt of court. | This maneuvering. of the bosses is not stopping the Smash the Injunc- tion fight. All workers are urged to rally for the struggle on Friday at 5 p. m. Not only needle trades workers, but unemployed and employed workers, should rally to this important fight to smash the vicious“ injunction got- ten out by the bosses against the striking needle workers. All Out Sat. To Answer Attack on Foreign-Born and Negroes ’t Now Fakes Its Own Figures On Jobless First Admitted 300,000 Were Laid Off in Jan., Boston Workers to Protest Lawrence Bosses’ Jailing and Deportation Threat Against Militant Strike Leaders Rally Negro and Foreign-Born in St. Louis On March 28 Mass Meeting Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Calls for Fight to Demand the Right of Political “¢ Refugee Which Bosses Deny 4 AKRON, Ohio, March 24.—As the March! 2&th demonstrations for the protection of the foreign-born and against disrimination of the, Negro workers draws near, the boss courts are rushing through the frame- up of Paulak. Kassay, a Hungarian worker. Kassay who was arrested only| a few days ago at the plant of the Goodyear-Zepplin Rubber, Company plant, charged with “sabotage” on the Navy dirigible “Akron,” has already been indicted and arraigned on the charge of criminal syndicalism before Judge Lionel S. Pardee, | —> MASS MEET THURS. AT LABOR TEMPLE Smash Lynching and! Deportations! NEW YORK. — Under auspices of the Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born a big mass meeting will be held tomorrow night, 8 o'clock at the Labor Temple, 234 E. 84th St., to prepare the March 28 demonstra- tions against the persecution of the Negro and Foreign-Born workers. Other meetings are being held thru- out the city during the entire week, leading up to the huge demonstra- tions here on Saturday. The City Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign-Born calls upon alt workers, white and Negro, native and foreign-born, employed and un- | employed, to participate in all these mass meetings and to evince their irresistible class solidarity which is absolutely necessary of the vicious campaign against the workers ‘stand- ards of living is to be defeated. Out on March 28. Demonstrate against deportations and lynchings! banks in Pontiac, and Berkely, Mich., collapsed. And on top of it we have | some more bunk, “business on the up | grade” by J. Klein in a speech here to the Board of Commmerce. —F. Ss. ers report that two important settle- ments have been concluded. These settlements were made with the Rose Dress Co., 251 W. 39th St., and Fried- man and Winoker, 356 W. 36th St. On Wednesday night, at 7 p. m., there will be a meeting of the Exec- utive Council of the N. T. W. I. U., at 131 W. 28th St. Thursday night at 7 p. m,, there will be a general membership meet- ing at Webster Hall, 11th St. near Third Ave. All needle trades work- ers are invited, whether members ot | the N. T. W. I. U. or not. Picketing is still being carried on | at the following shops: Jerry Dress, The government is rushing the case| through with lightening speed. The trial has already been set for Wed-! nesday. From all facts coming to the Daily Worker the arrest of Kassay is a frame-up of the rawest kind, The, Department of Justice deliberately | Put stool-pigeons to work with Kas-' say, “felling him to sabotage the building of the dirigible, and when: he refused, had him arrested and’ framed him. Congressman Hamilton Fish used Kassay’s arrest to direct further persecutions against foreign | born workefs, The District Attorney also used the occasion for furthering the war pre~! pararations against the Soviet Union. On March 28th, throughout the country demonstrations will be held}! under the leadership of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Council for the Protection of Foreign Born, and the International Labor Defense, Protesting the Fish Committee’s de~ mand for stronger deportation laws, they will fight against mass arrests and exiling of foreign born workers, and for Negro rights, against lynche ing and discrimination. 1 The Boston workers, through theig organizations, the International Law bor Defense, the League of: Struggle for Negro Rights, the Council for Protection of the Foreign Born are’ preparing to demonstrate their pro= test against the terrific persecutiong on the part of the bosses against the workers. In Lawrence the bosses attempted to break the strike by trying te de+ port the strike leaders; in Boston, the Unemployed Council head, B, Saul, was arrested and deportation charges placed against him for his activity in the Unemployed Council, being persecuted and arrested, Negro ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) One Hr. to Spare? Visit the “Daily” The response for volunteer help in the national office of the Daily Worker has been very encouraging (more about this in tomorrow’s circulation column). Should there be oth- ers who wish to join the ranks of life-savers, and who can | 500 7th Ave.; Paterson, 25 W. 3ist | St.; Lawrence, 156 W. 34th St.; Ing- | erman, 120 W. 3ist St.; M. & A,, 245 | W. 27th St.; Prominent N. & N., 134! W. 26th St.; Ecnomist, 245 W. 27th | St.; Shell, 223 W. 38th St. | « Two picketers are out on bail, Paul | Damico and John Lobatti, after they | were taken to the Jefferson Market | court, 10th St. and 6th Ave. They Meanwhile, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union headquart- were framed on charges of felonious assault. spare an hour or two during the day for typing, addressing envelopes, inserting, etc. we would appreciate their help as well. The address is 35 E. 12th St, on the 8th floor, cireula- tion department, and an eleva- tor is at the disposal of those not inclined to hike. (Sixty thousand circulation reports on page 3.) ON MARCH 28 PROTEST AGAINST DEPORTATIONS AND LYNCHINGS! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BOSS TERROR! Ui iu qr. foe OW YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH NEGRO AND FOREIGN BORN! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BOSS RACE HATREDS! SUPPORT O RIGHTS! DEFEND THE FOREIGN BORN! STOP DEPORTATIONS! FIGHT AGAINST STARVATION AND EVICTIONS! ”