The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1931, Page 4

pcmace e:: #ublished by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Imc., daily except Sund: 23th Street, New York City. N. Address and mail all check Page Four ¥. Telephone Algonquin -7956- © the Daily Worker, 50 East {3th Street, New York, N. ¥. at 50 East 1.” Cable: “DAIWORK.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Otly. Foreign: one year, $8- six months. $4.50. xcepting Boroughs HOW TO ORGANIZE A MAY DAY PARADE e, on our prole- fighting days, ed with demonstra- her than just sta- A parade, marching in line, with a band t of the work- han a stationary ing its route through a parade carries the s, and adds numbers it marches. t have the most thorough, merely to show our numerical how our organized and dis- ngth, Therefore, a parade monstrations and mass e made up not of individuals, Every individual starting e his place with the mass which he is active (Industrial ed Council, L. S, N.. R., etc.). t have its own banner, specific slogans besides the possible, its own band. each organization must come and the band to the defi- ne place of mobilization which ned to them, If possible, the or- ld hold a very short meeting in et corner, and then come in of mobilization, in trucks if it possible to se- must use its own connec- s to rally its own sympa- its members to the parade. hous -house canvass in its own ets and letters to its own contacts, tion must have a Steering Com- e, consisting of the best mass lead- ion, who shall carry out the he General Steering Committee, nes necessary, act on their own e marchers must be instructed that Committee are the ones they must of an emergency. All organiza- ke up the question of strict ob- an order and discipline in ‘ation and meetings. should apply for a per- id find out. the regulations as to flag must be carried and other general, they should avoid inical details. ee should mimeograph a march beforehand, and dis- nizations, so that the work- The line of march should be and working class districts. should be 4 or 6 abreast. All rehers keep in step. Keep a distance of 4 feet between each line. Keep several yards between each large organization. For every 10 lines there should be a captain, who marches singly at the in front of the first line. Workers Defense Corps members should be dis- tributc@ strategically throughout the parade. They should march at the right or left end of their és Where the Defense Corps is too weak, ization should have its own Workers autos and trucks as possible with and decorationseshould be spaced through- the parade. Floats, with actors represent- mime various phases of the class ynching, strikes, defense, war, etc.) d on the trucks. Sympathizing ions (John Reed Club, etc.) can 1 parade constantly increases in numbers. Keeping at least two blocks ahead of the parade, squad of workers (or possibly pioneers) should go through the workers on the sidewalks, distributing a short leaflet which can be read in 1 minute, urging them to join the parade. As the parade passes factories and workers’ homes, the marchers should wave and call them to come down and join. (There should however, be no shoutifig “Scab!” or otherwise antagonizing the workers who cannot be per- suaded). Workers who join should be absorbed x form of demonstration, | | Should be subjected later to the severest dis- without disrupting the scheme of organization— that is, make new ranks instead of letting the rank get too long. Marchers should adopt the worker who jumps in next to them, lead him in the cheering and singing, propagandize him a little in the rest periods (not with long argu- ments), stick with him in the meeting later on, and finally get his name and address with all other facts and hand it on to your leading com- mittee afterward. (As for any Party members who may be seen standing on the sidewalk and enjoying the show instead of taking part in the action, their names should be noted, and they cipline.) A parade that does not sing and cheer is dead. In their preparatory meetings, the organizations should gather as big a list of proletarian songs as they can and practice them with the mem- bership. The singing in the parade must be or- ganized; the songs must be selected by the Steer- ing Committee, and started by the band. Dif- ferent ranks must not be singing different songs at the same time. Special detachments of Pioneers may be used as song and cheer leaders. Besides the singing, fife and drum corps should be organized from Pioneers and Young Workers, as well as accordion players and groups of mouth-organ players. If possible, loud-speaking phonographs, which operate from the generator of a car, should be used with records of the International, etc. In general, when the Inter- national is played, it should be sung by the en- tire parade at one time with all the vigor and respect due to our international revolutionary anthem. Right hand with the fist clenched should be raised when singing the International. Slogans from a list prepared beforehand should be shouted en masse, in response to a loud speak- er if one is available. The parade should be headed by big red flags. Signs and flags should be distributed throughout the ranks of the organizations, not all bunched in front. Each organization should have at least one streamer sign with two poles, carried at the front, as well as the single-pole signs. There should also be individual letter signs in which each marcher in a column carries one letter of the sign or slogan. All signs should be double- sided so they can be read from behind as well as from the front. All signs should be in English. The leader of the whole parade should be the General Steering Committee (3 members). They must be the strongest committee it is possible to obtain. They must march at the head of the parade. Immediately behind the General Steering Committee should come a row of 6 Pioneers on decorated bicycles, who shall serve as ‘couriers. Their task is to carry instructions to the Organ- ization Steering Committees and bring back re- ports. Each of the latter committees should also have one Pioneer assigned as couriet to carry messages to the General Stééring Com- mittee. Every courier must return to his post immediately after delivering his message. Cour- iers may wear red arm-bands marked “Courier.” This system of couriers is essential. Captains and members of Steering Committees must not leave their own forces under any conditions. The couriers may also be organized on a basis of relays, each one passing the message along to the next, and then returning to his post. Literature as well as May Day buttons, pen- nants, etc., must be sold in an organized fashion, by a large force assigned by the leading commit- tee, which shall cover the sidewalks as the par- ade goes-past. The number of workers assigned to sell each publication shall depend on the main Political questions at the time, and the composi- tion of the workers in the city. The Daily Work- er, of course, comes first. Every parade must have a definite objective. It should not just go on until it fades away. It should proceed to a definite square or hall, where a meeting should be held. The scheme of or- ganization must-not-be broken at the meeting, the marchers becoming an unorganized mass, On the contrary, the Same organized groups, captains, steering committees, organized cheer- ing, etc., must be kept up. (This article will be followed by directives on how to organize outdoor demonstrations and indoor meetings.) Chinese Workers’ Struggle In California By T. H. LL 0° the 13th of April, about 300 Chinese laundry workers in San Francisco went on strike pre- cipitated by the attempts of the Tung Ching Tong (employers association) introducing wage cuts and dismissing union workers replaced by cheap unorganized labor. The strike was de- cided and demands formulated by a general shop delegates meeting. Also a strike commit- tee of 70 was elected to prepare the strike about two weeks ago. The strikers are very militant and enthusiastic. The strike is developing and will embrace the city of Oakland and the neigh- boring territories. The Unemployment Demonstration. Prior to this strike, the unemployed Chinese workers there have been carrying on an active struggle for immediate relief. A Club of Chinese Unemployed Workers, affiliated to the Unem- ployment Council of the T. U. U. L. was organ- ized. Beside participating in the general unem- ployment struggles, they put forward special demands before the Chinese Six Companies, the ‘Civil Government in Chinatown,” and com- posed mostly of leading merchants. They de- mand: (1) establishment of relief stations of food and shelter and free employment agencies at the expenses of the Six Companies and a special appropriation of $1,500,000 from the city funds, managed by the workers; (2) free medi~ tal services for the unemployed by the Tung “wa Hospital; (3) free school for the children of the unemployed by the Chinese Schools, A ouge demonstration was staged before the Six Dompanies on March 28 and on April 3 with the presentation of these demands. The struggle is toing on and developing. Significance of These Struggles. ‘Under the present conditions, these struggles, hough on a small scale, are of great signifi- «nee and instructive in the general struggles of American working class, Its significance n the fact: 1. That the unemployment demonstrations eke a very militant form for particular concrete local demands by a small isolated section of the working class, 2. That the strike takes place in spite of un- employment situation. It repudiates the oppor- tunist theory of impossibility of strike struggles in the period of severe unemployment. 3. That the strike takes an offensive charac- ter; the demands of reduction of working hours from 15 to 12, Sunday off, for raising wages of apprentices from $150 to $180 for five months, for accident insurance, etc, 4. That these struggles also take place in the present intensive persecutions against foreign born workers particularly the Chinese workers by the boss government. Thus, these struggles clearly refute the dangerous assumption that at present time it is very hard to develop strug- gles among the foreign born workers. 5. That the strike and unemployment strug- gles, taking place simultaneously, demonstrate the possibility and necessity of linking up the struggles of the unemployed and the employed. 6. Lastly that taking the consideration of the fact that the T. U. U, L, begins to play a con- siderable part in leading the struggles, and also taking place amidst strike struggles of the Phili- Pino, Mexican. and Japanese workers in Cali- fornia, these struggles will greatly help break down the isolation of the Chinese workers from the general life and struggles of the American working class, and organize all workers for a means of intimidation and terror to break these struggles of the workers. Not only the powerful instrument of immigration Jaws, but also the family Tongs, the fighting Tongs, district organ- izations (clannish) and all other forces of semi-\ feudalist and capitalist reaction will be employed against the struggling workers. About a hundred police were mobilized during the unemployment demonstrations.. Deportations against the lead- ers of the delegation were planned. Now four of. They must have their tactics pre- | pared for any emergency that can be foreseen. | have picked outstanding capitalists as their By J. S. | Te election campaign of New Jersey is on. The Republican and Democratic Parties are already grooming their standard bearers. Both standard bearers. The Republican Party is grooming for governor, David Baird, who filled the unexpired term of Walter E, Edge in the Senate when he was chosen Ambassador to France. David Baird is an outstandjng figure in the Baird Lumber Co, of Camden, N. J., one of the biggest lumber companies of New Jersey. Baird is also one of the big bankers of the state and a leading member of the Public Service Cor- poration. The Democtatic Party has as its standard bearer for governor, A. Harry Moore of the Hague Machiné, who was governor during the Passaic strike a few years ago and sent armed deputies to break the strike. It is interesting to know that practically all governors or senators of New Jersey are bank- ers. There is Morgan F. Larson, member of the Board of Directors of banks in Perth Amboy _and other cities in New Jersey, also a partner Dwight W. Morrow and Hamilton F. Kean, the two Unjted States senators of New Jersey, are both big bankers of New Jersey. There was Edge, a banker, now ambassador to France, and there was former Senator Frelinghuysen, also a banker. Election Issues. There are many outstanding issues in the coming elections. Half a million workers are unemployed in the state. Most of these workers are without any relief whatever. What little relief was being given to a very small fractjon of these workers by the city and state government through part time work, road construction, etc., is being taken away. Wage-cuts are sweeping the length and breadth of the state. Wage cuts have taken place in practically every city from Trenton to Paterson, Jersey City, and all other cities. Lay-offs are taking place daily. A few days ago several hundred workers were lajd off in Standard Oil in Bayway, Singer Sewing Machine Co. of Elizabeth, Western Electric, Ford’s Edgewater plant, etc. One bank has closed in Elizabeth and two in Linden and thousands of workers have lost their life-time savings as a result. A New Sacco-Vanzetti Case. The bosses of the state are attempting to the strike leaders are arrested already. Reformists, Enemy of All Workers. The Chinese employers also find very active agents, the “Left” wingers of the Kuomintang in the states. Just as their leaders in China are systematically selling the interests of work- ers in the yellow unions, the followers ct the “Left” wingers or the “Reorganizationists,” are in the forefront to break the struggles of the Chinese workers here. Their organs, the Chinese Nationalist Daily both in San Francisco and in New York, are the first ones to attack any form of struggle of workers. (On the protection of foreign born meetings of Chinese workers in N. Y., the unemployment demonstrations and. the present strike in San Francisco, etc.) But, in spite of the terrors and threats of the Chinese employers, the imperialist government, and the Chinese reformists, the Chinese workers have struck and will continue, with the help of all workers, to carry.on the fight to the very end. Our Tasks. The TUUL and the militant workers in Cali- fornia must pay special attention to these strug- gles.. They must give daily detailed guidance and assistance to the strike. They must coordinate the strike with the unemployment struggle. The mobilization of American workers, especially the Japanese, Philipino and Negro workers to the help of the laundry workers is an important jon for. the developing, broadening and maintaining the strike. Strengthening the lead- ership of the Si Fu Tong (the Association of Chinese Laundry Workers) by drawing in capable and active rank and file workers is also The revolutionary Chinese workers in other sections of the country must rally to help the strike. Connecting up with the local problems, these struggles can be stimulus to develop local, struggles of the unemployed and employed Chin- in Public Service of the present governor. | The Coming New Jersey Elections make a Sacco-Vanzetti case in New Jersey by | ; framing up five textile workers in Paterson for | fighting against wage-cuts. The persecution of | the foreign-born workers is being intensified as witnessed by the wholesale arrest jn Hoboken and a short while ago in Hackensack. The at- tacks of the bosses against the Negro workers is sharpening as proven by the attempted lynching | in Kennilworth and Perth Amboy a short while ago and in the discrinunation practiced against the Negroes jn the state. To cripple the struggle of the workers for unemployment insurance and immediate relief, the State Legislature in Trenton recently passed an “Old Age Pension,” giving $1.00 a day relief to anyone who is at least 70 years old. What fakery! But even this is forced through be- cause of the militant: Trenton Hunger March recently held demanding Unemployment In- | surance, The Communjst Party and Trade Union Unity League dramatized the fight of the unemployed | for Unemployment Insurance through the many | demonstrations held in the cities throughout the | state. and through the successful Trenton Hun- ger March, which proved that the state gov- ernment will do nothing for the jobless. The Communist Party is leading the workers in | struggle for Unemployment Insurance and for Immediate Relief; agajnst wage-cuts, speed-up and part-time work. Party’s Influence Grows With these conditions the elections give the Party a splendid opportunity to mobilize wide sections of the workers behind its banners in the coming electiors. Through the struggles led by the Party and the Trenton Hunger March the influence of the Party has spread to many small industrial towns in the state, such as Kearney, Harrison, Carteret, Milltown, etc., and in this election campaign we intend to penetrate the small towns as well as the big cities to rally the workers behind our candidates. In this campaign we will expose the bankers and bosses, the “59” behind the republican and democratic parties. We will tear the mask off the socialist party and the A. F. of L.; the third party of the bosses and the labor lieuten- ants of the bosses in labor’s ranks. We will rally the workers to fight the frame-up in Pater- son; the attempt to make a Sacco-Vanzetti case in New Jersey. We will rally the worker depositors of the closed banks in Elizabeth and Linden to demand full payment of their deposits. The fight against the Fish’ Committee and its proposals to deport the foreign-born workers; and the struggle for the protection of the for- eign-born will be a feature of the campaign, as a very large part of the workers in New Jersey, especially in the small towns are for- eign-born. The struggle for equal rights for Negro workers, against lynching, and for the self-determination of Negroes in the black belt of the South if they wish will be in the forefront of the campaign. The fake old age pension bill just passed by the State Legislature will be exposed before the eyes of the workers, The struggle against evic- tions, for lower rents, equal pay for equal work, against wage-cuts will be emphasized in the campaign, Candidates in Many Cities This year the Communist Party is entering the election campaign on a bigger scale than ever before. We have candidates in city elec- tions in New Brunswick, Trenton, Passaic and Linden, “in the counties of Middlesex, Mercer, Union, Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Bergen for General Assembly and Freeholder. We have as standard bearer,and candidate for governor of New Jersey, John J. Ballam, well known in the struggles of the workers. We are preparing a huge state nomination and ratification convention in Newark for June 7 that will dramatize the struggles of the work- ers and the Communist Party campaign. We must have a convention of 400 delegates, with representation from every nook and corner of the state. The farmers and wage laborers of Northern and Southern New Jersey must be represented. _ Collett. Signatures! ‘The main ‘task now i the collection of the necessary signatures to insure the placing of our candidates on the ballot. Everybody to work, Collect signatures; prepare a mass State Nomination and Ratification Convention for June 7, Conduct such a successful Communist, Party Election Campaign in New Jersey as has never been seen before in this state The Anthracite Strikes By TOM MYERSCOUGH. ‘CARCELY half of the Anthracite miners are at work. Thousands of them are locked out while many thousands more are striking against the attempts of the operators to impose new wage cutting conditions upon them, North East- ern Pennsylvania presents i= anew as a place | where fierce class battles will be fought. Heroic struggles resulted in the establish- | ment of the union in this region, and who hasn’t heard of the Latimer and many other viciously fought battles in which valient miners gave their liyes for the right of their fellow workers to organize. And in spite of the efforts of the | fake leaders and fake progressives to prevent it, more struggles, will soon be fought, When newspaper headlines read—11,000 Miners Strike at Shamokin—Pittston Miners Fight Wage Cut— 25,000 Glen Alden Miners Strike, ete—they do not tell half of the story. The whole region is seething with dissatisfied miners who are bent on raising that kind of hell that demands notice and satisfactory remedial action. Slaving under the worst agreement ever written for them and which they properly describe as the “Slave Agreement,” the hard coal miners are now able to see who their worst enemies are. Not that they have developed a new liking for the greedy operators, nor that they are disposed to be any more fond of the operators best “Stock- in-trade” John L. Lewis and John Boylan, but they have learned that the reason for the re- peated defeats they suffer at the hands of these already known enemies, lies-in the unlimited faith they have placed in fake progressives. Lesson of Glen Alden The best lesson they ever received in this connection was in the recent strike against the Glen Alden Coal Company. In this strike when victory would have been easy, they found the new Messiahs of “Progressivism,” Maloney, Davis and Tomicheck spouting radical speeches only to treat them later to ne of the worst sell-orte in the history of the Anthracite. But it re- mained for the National Miners Union to expose this fact to them. This was done when the misleaders’ “leadership” was not yet evident to the miners. To the leaders of the NMU who were present the empty efforts to repeat radical phrases made by Maloney, Davis and Tomichek were so evident that immediately they exposed them as covered agents of Lewis and the op- erators and told the miners to beware of a coming betrayal. And, although not willing to accept active NMU leadership at the time, the miners nevertheless began to strengthen their chances of ultimate victory by agreeing to our intensified demand that the strike be spread by mass picketing. They did not, however, heed our advice and take the leadership of the strike out of the fakers’ hands and place it in the safe keeping of a broad rank ant file committee, so-the results were disastrous. Reaching the stage when total bankruptcy had set it, Maloney, Davis and Tomichek de- cided to unload the strike on the shoulders of District President Boylan but without success and then with frantic gesture made an attempt to have Lewis intercede. But John L. not only refused to help them out, of their difficulty, he wired them a vicious insult and ordered their immediate return to work, Lewis then arrived in the Anthracite, sum- moned the “progressives’ to a meeting with himself, Baylan and the operators and now the Glen Alden men are back at work under worse “conditions than those prevailing before the strike. Election Struggle But the spirit of rebellion is still there and the miners are girding themselves for more battles. Now it is within the UMWA itself. Elections are coming and an attempt will be made to clean house from top to bottom and vice versa. New and better elements are be- ing found and trained for leadership. The National Miners Union is on the job and will be folind leading the Anthracite miners in a series of revolts that will speil “Finis” for Lewis before he does in the Anthracite the kind of a job he at bareaniqetc pide inn abt > operators. oN ear === By JORGE ee Ain’t Nature Wonderful? “The men who bind you in chains can hardly be expected to release you voluntarily. The workers must do it thermselves or it will never be done.” Thus spake—not Zarathustra—but C. B. Ellis, the Seattle Solomon of the LW.W. at a meeting in that burg, supposedly to discuss something about unemployment. Unfortunately, the I.W.W. paper which re- ported the speech, the “Industrial Worker” of which Ellis is editor, also reported that to help him “release” the working class, Ellis had called in the able support of two other “able speakers” who “pounded consistently and courageously at fundamental causes and effects (Yes, dear read- er, the ‘effects’ also are ‘fundamental!’—Jorge) pertaining to unemployment.” And who were these other St. George's who were slaying the dragon of unemployment while Cc. B. Ellis was holding it firmly by the tail? Were they the “workers” who must do it them- selves”? Let the wobbly paper tell us: “Flanking Ellis, the key speaker of the eve- ning, were the Rev. George Ashley, Unitarian minister, and Dr. Edwin J. Brown (A retired Methodist as we recall—Jorge), former mayor of Seattle, both of whom acquitted themselves nobly in the tasks they undertook.” And what did these noble gentlemen, whose lives have been spent in “binding you in chains” undertake? Why, to second the heroic efforts of C, B. Ellis in slaying the dragon of unem- ployment, of course! But still we are puzzled. For in this same paper edited by Mr. Ellis, who on the.front page (issue of April 4th) is pounding the very devil out of unemployment, we find on page four, the announcement of this same editor, who states flatly that: “The end of the panic is near and in the resumption of work that is near at hand... .” ete, What the dickens! But then, just. above this Jast piece of wobbly wisdom, is-an attack on the Communists, written by some: other: khowing wobbly from New York, City and signing him- self, P. Kikke. It purports to report the re- sults of a meeting held bya Hungarian fascist named Fishbein who finds himself right at home among the I.W.W. Fishbein’s present purpose in life is to take up the cry of the Fish Committee and devote his speeches to attacking Communists. When he did so on this occasion, it appears that some work- ers protested, among them an editor of the “Uj Elore,” & Communist paper in Hungarian language. Not being either a Unitarian preacher or an ex-mayor of Seattle, he was hit over the head with a hammer by wobblies who reject the dictatorship of the proletariat on principle. But who would recognize this event in the follow- ing, taken from the wobbly paper: “This disruption was arranged previously by one of theit leaders, Uj Elore, editor of one of their papers, and who, according to reports, is going to take over the Daily Worker. Uj Elore, it was published, had his head broken by a ham- mer and is seriously hurt.” We pass! All we can say is—ain’t nature wonderful! It produces a fascist Fish, and furnishes social fascist wobbly sauce! * 8 Nice Management— We Don’t Think “Red Sparks:—We, the Unemployed ‘Counc of Council Bluffs, Iowa, have written to the Daily Worker several times, for Daily Workers. Yet, we never were able to get same. We want 10 copies daily, then we might order more. “We also wrote to the T.U.U.L. for 255 Labor Unities, and have never received same, though it was about three months ago. We also ask for any other kind of literature you.may have. We don’t seem to be able to get any answer from the National Office of the District Office of the T.U.U.L. “We have a mertnbership of 350. You had an organizer here who promised us a lot, but he left a couple of months ago, and we never heard from him any more. “We are doing good work. There is no Com- munist Party member here. But a lot of fel- lows would join if you guys would help us get some action from proper authorities, “We also ordered 200 membership cards from the T.U.U.L. and paid for them. That was about two months ago, Please see what you can do to rush same. As everyone is getting disgusted if we don’t get action. “We want 100 Dailies for May First. We are having a May Day Parade from Ninth and ’ Broadway to City Hall, then an open air meet- ing, then in the evening we have a meeting, dance and box supper. We would like to get some stuff to read in order to know what we are doing. Something simple, so we won't have to get a dictionary, “A lot of people like to know about. our movement in this town, but we can’t tell them much, only that we want to fight for something to eat. So you see, if we knew more we could do better. “We have read your column several times, when we got hold of old copies of the Daily Worker, and understand that you cay fix things up. So please try to tend to the above as soon as possible, and dont let us lose faith in you.” ‘This, We say, is about the limit! One could not blame these comrades if they made a de- tour while Hunger Marching, and “Anger March- ed’ to headquarters demanding some attention. And we suggest to the District Organizer in Kansas City that he go to Council Biuffs, even if he has to walk and carry his shoes, “Masters” Are Slaves Since this is “Be kind to Animals Week,” the N. Y. Society for the Prevention of Cruclty to Animals, Nas issued the following: “If you know of an animal which is starving because of the poverty of its master, report the matter to the S.P.C.A, We shall be glad to care for it through the period of distress.” As for the “‘master”—let him starve! ent f