The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1931, Page 4

rublished by the Comprodatly Publishing Co., Inc., daily except Sunday, at 50 East 13th Street, New York City. N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7: Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street. New York. N ¥ Page Four Cable: “DAIWORK.” Daily, orker Porty USA SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy. Foreign: one year, $8+ six months. $4.50. Dictatorship of German Bour- geoisie By DAVID. The Emergency Decree HE first fruit of the disbandonment of the Reichstag for six months is the special emer- gency decree signed by the Chancellor and Min- ister Wirth, aimed and decreed with the sole intention of suppressing the revolutionary or- ganizations and their political leader the Com- munist Party of Germany. It makes null and void for the duration of the decree the pro- visions of the Weimar constitution and places full power in the hands of Bruning and police. The decree make it possible to dissolve any meeting of the workers no matter under what or whose auspices. It obligates owners of halls and meeting places to give notification 24 hours in advance to the police, under threat of prison sentence and fine. Mass meetings and demon- strations are automatically subject to dissolution if “public security” is considered in danger. Naturally, the police authorities are the only ones who can judge whether “public peace” is disturbed or not, The decree makes illegal any party that violates the provisions of the decree. It makes impossible the distribution of litera- ture and the posting of placards, by compelling the political party to notify the police 24 hours ce of all details of the meeting, place, and the nature of the literature or cards. Not only is it a political attack against revolutionary workers and their political ns, but it is also an attack against jan culture, against cultural mass organ- of the working class, such as the Free inkers, Red Sports; and the particularly ef- rective Agit-prop troups. The decree was im- mediately applied at a mass meeting and youth confirmation of workers’ children who left school entered the ranks of the workers, called by Free Thinkers of Germany. A giant puppet show staged by a young workers Agit-prop group, in which the reactionary figures of the pope, and his papal and political representatives were the chief characters was suspended in the middle, nd the meeting dissolved This followed the i on the Karl Liebknecht house, the day the arrest of functionaries and their ids on the homes of three er, The Role of the Social Democrats If the emergency decree was signed by Brun- , it was ushered into existence ig and the social democrats. What s left undone when they vacated the onalism almost the equal rty of Nationalists, they ; all measures of the reactionary Cent- oalition from the Panzerkreuzer B. (cruiser) to the increase of taxes and tariff on They voted down the motion of the fraction to continue the sessicn of : they voted for the increase of the police budgets for Thuringia and Brunswick they voted against the increase of unemploy- ment and crisis insurance; they voted against the abolition of paragraph 218, which makes it crim- inal to perform an abortion; they voted for subsidies to the rich landowners in East Prussia In short, their politics from the time the fas- the social democrats completed. With ‘| cists left the Reichstag until the Reichstag ad- journed was one not only of coalition but of initiative, of shielding the bourgeoisie from the power of the combined vote of the social demo- crats and the Communists in the Reichstag. Their capitalist politics was immediately felt in the ranks of social democracy. Hundreds of workers became immediately disgusted with the tactics of the social democrats; hundreds have entered the Communist Party. A special meet~ ing was called by some functionaries of the S. P. at which Communist speakers were in- vited and enthusiastically received. The bour- geois press reports today (March 30), that a number of S.P.D, locals have resigned in a body from the S. P. * With Hugenberg and Bruning they cry: “We must destroy the left.” With the rest of the capitalist financiers and industrialists, they cry: “We must save capitalism from destruction, and do it by destroying the Soviet Union.” Their Vorwarts carried lengthy slanderous articles that Stalin was feasting the German indus- trialists on their recent trip to Moscow, in @ hungry effort to get some of the Soviet or- ders. With Bruning they reiterated, the emer- gency decree is necessary in the name of public safety. The Next Six Months The “crisis policy” of the German bourgeoisie is clear. The first item in the policy is the attack on workers’ wages. This attack already. began last year on the Ruhr miners must be extended along the entire industrial line. The second item is the attack on the Communist Party and the revolutionary working class or- ganizations. For this the emergency decres was promulgated. The third is an attempt to cap- ture the European industrial market, and the first step in this direction is the proposed tariff union between Germany and Austria. The Bruning dictatorship is consequently the logical effort of the bourgeoisie in a last form of des- peration to overcome the crisis. It is 2Jso ob- vious to see now, why the fascists withdrew from the Rei:nstag—namely in order to make i easy by being absert. iso he seen that Germany is in tne grip of insoluble contradictions; contradictions that are tearing her to pieces and paving the way for a Soviet Germany. The best cuege | for the extent of the influence of the Commu- nist Party just now, are the returns fur the factory councils, which shows the R.G.O. Unity lists in most cases victurious syer the lists of the social demccrats and national socialists. Even where the R.G.O. did not get the majority. it showed larze vains, mostly at the expense of the social democrats With May Firs: forbidden, with political dic- tatorship in full force the next six months will be decisive-ones for the revolutionary working class of Germany. Even if they do not show the beginning of the decisive struggle, they will | show~how soon this decisive struggle will take | place, for even as the slogan of “All Power to the Soviets” became the slogan of the Russian | workers and peasants in 1917, so the slogan of “Mass Revolution and Soviet Germany” is becoming the cry of the German proletariat, Away With the Coal and Iron Police! Statement of Representatives of Labor Organ- izations On the Penn State Administration— Coal and Iron Police Bill For years the working masses in the State of Pennsylvania were terrorized, beaten and kill- ed by the private army of gangsters and thug- men of the various corporations known as the Coal and Iron Police. The criminal deeds ot the Pennsylyania Coal and Iron Police are known throughout the entire world, This armed force privately controlled by the capitalist class was always used as a strike breaking force depriving the workers of their right to strike, to organize, and to fight for better conditions, With the iyll knowledge and cooperation of the state and county administrations many workers were kill- ed, wounded, and thrown into jails. These crim- inal acts were always let go unpunished while workers who dared to organize and fight for decent living conditions are now rotting in jail under the Flynn Sedition Law and other anti- labor laws on the statute books of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. We declare that Governor Pinchot does not want to abolish the strike breaking Coal and Iron Police. He wants to retain this armed force only under a different name—the Industrial Po- lice. To the working class of this state this change of name does not change the strike breaking criminal activities of this armed force; nor is there any difference for the workers if this army of gangsters and thugmen are on the direct payroll of corporations or these cor- porations use the state administration as their paymaster. In fact, what Governor Pinchot aims to do through this bill is to officially legalize the Coal and Iron Police, and make possible to carry on its strike breaking activities against the workers of all industries in the state of Pennsylvania. ‘This will actually lighten the financial expenses of the corporations using this police force as provided by the administration bill, by paying only for the service period of actual strike breaking, while previously the cor- poration had to stand all the expenses of up- keep of this private army. Governor Pinchot refuses to tax the big corporations to relieve the starvation of the hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania unemployed workers, but he is ready to help the rich bosses to economize in their expenses of strike breaking and the low- ering of the standards of living of the workers. We demand the immediate and unconditional abolition of the Coal and Iron Police no mat- ter what name it bears—Coal and Iron Police, Industrial Police or Private Guards. We de- clare that the bill of Representative Musmanno only changes the name of the Coal and Iron Police, while the strike breaking institution re- mains in fact, We further demand that the money previously ippropriated by corporations for the mainten- ance of this force and the money to be ap- propriated by the state for same purposes be, given towards relief of the unemployed. ‘The fact that the officials of the United Mine Ae Workers of America, the American Federation of Labor, and the Civil Liberties Union give their approval to the administration Coal and Iron Police Bill only shows that they too are only interested to perpetuate the existance of the strike breaking institution of the Coal and Iron Police only under a different name. Only the organized mass struggle of all workers of this state will force the abolition of this police force. The sham battle that was put up on this bill by the administration in the House of Repre- sentatives on March 18th only further exposes the insincerity of Governor Pinchot to abolish this Coal and Iron Bolice force. This confer- ence and the debates in the House of Represen- tatives was only a smoke screen to’ make pos- sible for Governor Pinchot not to carry out his election promises he made to the voters on this question. The workers will no doubt see that the moment the capitalist representatives elect themselves into office they immediately forget of the promises they make to the working people. ‘The legalization of the Coal and Iron Police is part of the measures now being prepared by the Federal and State governments against the working class, It is the machinery prepared by the bosses and their government, fearing the growing re- sistance of the masses against the campaign of wage cuts and starvation. It aims to crush the rapid developing struggle of the workers under the militant leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party against wage cuts and for unemployment insurance, The workers cannot be fooled by words and prom- ises; they see the deeds of the bosses ,their government and their agents, the reactionary officials of the American Federation of Labor. Trade Union Unity League Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union Metal Workers Industrial League Communist Party. Negro Jobless Discriminated Against Reports from many cities give the information that the families of Negro unemployed workers are discriminated against by the city governments and charity institutions. The relief distributed is always inadequate, but Negro families in many instances get nothing or much less than. amounts given to white families. Starvation and sickness among Negro fam- ilies is much more severe. Fight dis- crimination, unite Negro and white un- employed workers into neighborhood branches for common struggle for On Guard Against the Spanish Masses By LA. 'HE coming elections in New Jersey, both muni- cipal, county and state, are of the greatest significance to the working class of that state. Mass hunger, starvation, evictions, wage cuts, speed-up, lay-offs, persecution of the foreign born and attempted lynching of the Negroes, in addition to the vile discrimination from which they suffer, are among the questions that face the workers. As usual, the politicians talk about returning prosperity. They tell about the need cf to- operation to overcome the “depression” (not dar- ing to call it by its real name—a fearful eco- nomic crisis). They tell the workers about the maintenance of wages (as Hoover babbles) and that only by voting the same blood-suckers into office to allow them to pocket graft out of the public funds—for the benefit of the capitalists— will the welfare of New Jersey be helped. They speak little about unemployment relief, for it has all been in the form of the most mis- erable charity to a few of the unemployed, while the great majority have been left to starve. They say nothing about relief particularly to the Ne- groes, who, even in this vile form of keeping | the workers from starvation, have been shame- fully discriminated against. They say nothing about evictions—about the thousands of working class families who have been thrown out into the cold—and were stopped only by the Unem- ployed Councils of Negro and white workers, who fought against evictions, and prevented many families from being served with dispossesses. They say nothing about wage cuts and speed- up, which have gone on in a mad drive, in spite of Hoover’s nonsense about “wages having been maintained,” in which he was seconded by the fascist labor traitor, William Green. They tell the workers nothing about strikes to maintain conditions, which have been sold out by the New Jersey Federation of Labor, against which the workers have fought. They say nothing about the mass lay-offs in important factories in the State, except to admit that they have taken place. They say nothing about the persecution of the foreign-born, the raids on halls and the arrest of seamen in Hoboken and their immediate transfer to Ellis Island for deportation. They say nothing about the attempted lynching of a Negro near Roselle, which was prevented by a group of white and Negro workers of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The “ins” tell the people about how they have conducted a “healthy” administration, pre- served “law and order” by clubbing and arrest- ing the unemployed and’ employed workers who have demanded unemployment relief and insur- | ance. They do not say a word about the hunger | march of the unemployed to Trenton to demand ; unemployment insurance, and the turning down | of their demands by the gentlemen in the Gen- eral Assembly. They ask to be reelected in the cities, counties and state—because they have eR Coming Municipal Elections in New Jersey done nothing for the workers but let them starve —and have done everything for the bosses to keep up their tremendous profits. The “outs” talk about the need of a “clean” administration—promising that when they get into office, they will think of nothing -but the “welfare of the people.” But the “people” in their mind are the self-sarhe capitalists, who have been fleecing and exploiting the workers, and will continue to do so as long as they, the bosses, control. The socialists talk the same boss language, “promising” some things to the workers. But the workers should not be fooled, for in cities where the socialists control, they act in the Same manner as the bosses. Only look at Read- ing, Pa., or Milwaukee, where the workers are starving, where they get clubbed by the socialist police; where evictions take place every day, and the demands of the unemployed for retief are ignored. In these cities the socialists keep the masses of the workers from organizing, and those who are organized and go into strikes to prevent wage cuts, have their strikes sold out by the socialist fakers and the strikers sent to jail as in all other cities. The strikes of the textile workers in Reading and Milwaukee, in Phila- delphia, Danville, ete., show the real face of these traitors of the working class, the third capitalist party of this country. The workers must continue the fight for their daily needs. They must demand: Immediate unemployment relief and insurance. No evictions—reduction of rent. Free food and clothing for the children. Orgahization and strike against wage euts and speed-up. Equal pay for equal work. Seven hour day with no wage reductions, Struggle against persecution of the foreign born, Against discrimination and jim-crowism of the Negroes. Against lynching. For equal rights, self-determination and the right of the Negroes to a state in the blackbelt of the South, if they so wish. Against imperialist war. Against intervention in the Soviet Union. ‘The only party that represents and fights for these demands is the Communist Party, which is organizing the Unemployed Councils and the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Only a program of struggle and fight will help the workers in this crisis, which is hitting every working class family. The situation is becoming worse, and only the building up of fighting organizations will help the workers. Vote for Communist candidates in the coming elections! Vote for the program and platform of your working class party—the Communist Party! Join the Communist Party and help in the struggle of the working class for the over- throw of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government of the United States! Resolution on Fascist Attack Against Workers Conference of the Lumber Workers held at Eben Junction on the 5th day of April, 1931; Considering the danger of the social fascists, known as the right wingers, or Halonenites in the cooperative movement, American Federation of Labor, and the social fascist farmer laborites, etc,, whereas all of these elements are lining themselves together with the bosses, and bosses’ governments, into an at- tack against the militant working class organ- izations and the workers, especially mentioned, the attack made by the farmer laborites, by the leadership of Mr. Olson, the Governor otf Minnesota, and Mr. Kunze, the Mayor of Minne- apolis, where on Feb. 25, the workers were dem- onstrating for the relief of unemployed, de- manding the city government to relieve all the unemployed and their families from starvation, and reactionary | and whereas the city government by the order of Governor Olson brutally broke up the dem- onstration and arrested several of the comrades, where Comrades Carl Reeve and George Powers were placed under the indictment law by lead- ing the workers into the struggle to demand the right to live, and whereas others were given heavy sentences for taking a part in the demon- stration and whereas the right-wing elements, the misleaders of the working class, around this part of the country as well as throughout the country, are spreading poisonous propaganda to the workers on organizing the unorganized workers, and are making attacks against the real militant organizations and the leaders of the militant organizations such as the Commu- nist Party, the T.U.U.L., cils, which have proven organiza~_ By BURCK. PARTY LIFE Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. Concentrate the Unemployed Work! By THOMAS DOHERTY. (Brooklyn, N. ¥.) IN Brooklyn, we brought in about bers into the Party from the Borough Hall eight mem- Unemployed Council, if not more. There are plenty more good elements but they must be gone after. The Party units did not render any help with the drive for membership. They did not send comrades into the ranks of the Coun- cil to help bring them in. Instead they came down only to “talk Party,” and when it came to giving out leaflets, they found they had an important date and left. And many thousand leaflets never left the place. While the unem- Ployed did their share, the Party just left every- thing to them. The unemploy workers are willing, but where is the leadership? There is a neglect on the part of the Party, or should I say, the Section. The women were asking us to organize the women, I asked them to send a committee down and I would get a committee and go from house to house with them to organize the Their answer was; they were short of forcc Council had only 25 wom¥h in it. , their I told them if Penna. Sedition Law Claims New Victim BY LAWRENCE of Philadelphia was sen- tenced by Judge Smith of the Quarter Ses- sions Court on April llth, to 4 years in the Eastern Penitentiary and not less than 2 years and $250 fine under the Flynn Sedition Law of Pennsylvania, The I. L. D. of Philadetphia, which is defena> ing Bill Lawrence, immediately filed a motion for an appeal. The bail was set at $2,000, which was supplied by the I. L, D. This makes the third worker who has been convicted in Phila~ delphia, under this vicious anti-labor law this year. The case of Bill Lawrence has been dragging on for many months. He was arrested during the last presidential election campaign for speaking at an open air meeting on behalf of Comrade W. Z. Foster, who was then running for president on the Communist ticket. The state claims he made utterances that were sedi- tious. The fact is that this conviction and vi- cious sentence is another attempt to muzzle the right of free speech for workers, and to outlaw, the Communist Party in this state. When Bill Lawrence came before Judge Smith _ for sentence, immediately an investigation took place by the Federal Department, who made every effort to revoke the citizenship of this | worker so as to be able to deport him to Ru- mania and death. This investigation took the form of a second trial, the judge himself mak- ing every effort to force Bill Lawrence to admit he was a member of the Communist Party at the time he became a citizen, and to make him / denounce the government. The judge, a reactionary tool of the bosses in Pennsylvania, worked himself up into a rage when this worker refused to answer questions which would place him in the hands of the federal authorities for deportation, The other convictions this year were two young members of the Y. C. L., Tess Ryder and Anna Lynn, who were tried and convicted, and are now awaiting sentence for distributing leaf- | lets to the National Guardsmen, asking them not to shoot down workers in the event of an- other imperialist war. These convictions and the bitter attack on the workers of this state, along with the na- tion-wide attack on the working class and the | attempts now being put through to railroad workers to jail under this anti-labor law, and, wherever possible, to deport them to certain death, even using the measure of revoking citi- | zenship papers for this purpose, also the whole= | sale murder of Negro workers in the South, the women. | I had 25 men I could call on all the time to | really go out organizing, I wou!d consider it a miracle. You see they want new members but are not willing to go out after them. It is not right for me to complain without sug- gesting a remedy. I therefore say you should set a real Brooklyn Branch working by combining all the old Brooklyn councils into one, and branch- ing out later. Have all eviction cases handled through this branch, Build up this branch, and then step by step we can build up new ones, at the same time developing speakers from our new forces. Each Industrial League should as- sign at least one comrade to help the branch, as the Unemployed Branches are very useful to the Leagues. The Women's Council should help also, as there are just as many womién out of work and ripe for organization, but lacking leader- ship. The Negro question can be easily solved by forming a committee and directly going in among them and talking directly to them instead of the old practice of a leaflet that half of them can’t read, A house-to-house can’ is only means of a foundation, and the rest is easy There have been meetings held on corners for them ,without results because speakers talking to them are not trusted by them, and most of these talks are on Political Line instead of high cost of living and unemployment, which is most im- portant to the average person. In Borough Hall Section the Negroes live in the filthiest places and pay high rents, and a reduction in. rent the right organizer got among them it would be a cinch to organize. I have spoken to several myself and they told me I would have to prove I was sincere, and as to being equal, one wanted me to go to a preach- er; she told me I spoke like he speaks, and I had a tough time convincing her that this preacher is not sincere. This shows words are not enough. Just the same we are not going to get anywhere with dreams or rubbing Aladdin's lamp or talking. It means hard work and it’s up to us to throw all our forces into one spot and then spread out accordingly. Have all our units around here give their unemployed to func- tion with this branch, and by this way you will bring in new forces and spread out; otherwise we will stay stagnated for many moons and grow grey beards like Rip Van Winkel. | New York City. would appeal to most of them, and sure if the | latest of which is the attempt at wholesale murder of nine young Negro workers in Scotts- boro, will spur the ILD of this district to greater and more strenuous mass campaigns { against these murderous attacks of the bosses | on the working class, It is well to note that the so-called liberal governor Pinchot refused to meet the delega- tion of workers from Philadelphia who were elected to meet with the governor and take up the question of the repeal of the Flynn Sedi- tion Law. However, the ILD will not be bought to these tactics of this capitalist tool, Governor Pinchot in refusing to see workers’ delegations on the protest that he has no power to take up the question of the repeal of the law, but only sharpens and strengthens our determination to go to Harrisburg in June with at least 50,000 demands and a mass delegation to force the issue upon the state legislature to repeal the sedition law and grant amnesty for all political prisoners. Therefore, we call upon all workers and work- ers’ organizations to rally to our amnesty cam- paign now going on, and to do their utmost to collect as many signatures as possible for this campaign. Come to our headquarters, room 315, Washington Square Building, Seventh and Chestnut Sts., and we will supply you or your organization with as many petitions as you require for this purpose. Correction In the issue of Wednesday, April 15, the article “Organize the Struggle Against Depor- tations, Lynchings” was signed “National” Committee for Deportation of Foreign Born.” This is a typographical error. It should have heen “National Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born,” x Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. P.O. Box 87 Station D. Please send me more information on the Cum munist Party. Name Address Creer Pn ie Se eae am fre CHY -srsssseceseereeeseceeres BUMte seccccevooamm Ar da int OCCUPAHON .iiisesescesereceecesees ABO coocegam in ad -Mail this to the Central Office, em Party, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York bi ‘ te bosses and their lackeys, . 1., Be it resolved that we in the Conference of the Lumber Workers in Upper Michigan, demand immediate relie¢ for all workers and leaders of the working class, the unconditional release trom their sentences immediately, that the charge against Comrades Karl Reeve and’George Powers must be withdrawn and immediate release given to the other workers who were arrested in con- nection with the 25th demonstration or in any other time in staging a demonstration demand- ing the bettering of the conditions of the work- ing class. 2. Be it resolved, that all the attacks made -by, the right-wingers against the militant. work. ing class, we the workers at the Lumber We ers’ Conference, ask the class conscious to do their utmost to crush the ideologis the right-wing social fagcist tendencies and lead the workers into the struggle against bosses by the leadership of the Communist and the T.U.U.L, Adopted at the Lumber Workers’ Conferen at the Workers’ Hall in Eben, Mich. on 5th day of April, 1931. P. S.—A copy of this will be sent to sagg5sg — gee ‘he mn