The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1931, Page 1

(Neem onsen ann ee "4 BRINGING ===] THe Manone 0 LOOK AT Vol. VIII, No. 103 Entered a» second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 Dail @, “A 4 (Section of the Communist International) SP SS NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1931 orker unist Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ORGANIZATIONS RALLY FOR MAY 1 DEMONSTRATION . | A Warning to Every Worker! 'ORKERS, you who celebrate May Day, who strike and demonstrate on May Day as a day of challenge to and struggle against capitalism, | be warned against the vile deceit and demagogy of those who call them- | selves “socialists”! | Last May Day, in New York City, there were two demonstrations in Union Square. One was a great and enthusiastic working class demon- stration, led by the Communist Party; a demonstration that the anti- Soviet Police Commissioner, Grover (Forgery) Whalen, admitted was “the largest, Red demonstration in recent years.” The other demonstration, weak in numbers and spiritless, was against | the workers, against the Communists, a fascist demonstration under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At this fascist meeting, Matthew Woll and Congressman Fish who later headed the infamous Fish Committee, spoke, openly advocating fascist terror against the workers who later filed Union Square in a singing, marching flood. The capitalists were alarmed. The tens of thousands of workers fol- lowing the banners: of the Communist Party and cheering for the Soviet Union, hissing and booing the names of the fascist leaders, Fish and Woll, made them think. They did not want that to happen again. Since it was hard to get any workers to support such stinking anti-working class leaders as Fish, Woll and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the capitalists needed somebody who might attract the workers away from the “Reds.” The capitalists found a tool for this purpose in the so-called ‘‘socialist” party, which is one of those particular sections of the fascist movement that operates in the name of “labor” among the workers and are there- fore known as “‘social fascists.” Last May Day, the “socialist” party held no street demonstration. But this year, in an effort to serve capitalism, to prevent the workers from following the Communists and demonstrating against the fascists, the so- cial fascist “socialists” are calling the workers to a demonstration on May Day at Union Square. They are favored by the capitalist Police, who re- voked the permit to the Square first given to the United Front May Day Conference for a specified hour and gave it to the social fascist “socialists,” who are to follow the fascist Veterans of Foreign Wars in possession of the Square—in ‘hope that the workers would be confused, attend the “socialist” meeting of the social fascists, and not gather with the Com- munists and other revolutionary workers who are compelled to meet at Madison Square at noon and not march into Union Square until four o'clock, Workers, this is a small sample of social fascism, which among the workers pretends to be “opposed to fascism” but in practice helps it; which in words pretends to be “opposed to capitalism,” but in practice supports it. These social fascist “socialist” demagogs will no doubt talk against the fascists on May Day. But they will only talk. They will also talk about how the workers should demonstrate on May Day. They will pretend to be “different” from Fish and Woll, But, workers, the fascist Matthew Wall is a dear ally of theirs against the Soviet Union. He spoke at the banquet called to honor such a “so- cialist” leader as Abe Cahan, editor of the “‘socialist” daily “Forward.” And the fascist Congressman Fish openly compliments the social fascist “socialist” party. As well he might, because it is a foe of the Soviet Union and an enemy of the Communist Party, the only reliable leadership the workers have in their struggles against wage cuts, for unemployment in- surance and capitalist rule. The social fascist “socialists,” part of the Second “socialist” Interna- tional, pretends now to be in favor of workers demonstrating on May Day, in the streets. Last May.Day they saw no necessity for it in New York. The year before, in Berlin, the “socialist” who was head of the Berlin police forbid May Day demonstration of workers and shot to death 30 workers among the tens of thousands who defied the “socialist” order against May Day demonstration! The New-York “socialists” pretend to believe in May Day demonstra- tions—this year. But this year in Spain, the “socialist” party is part of the capitalist government which has prohibitéd May Day demonstrations because they fear the workers will feel themselves strong enough to march forward from the popular revolution which overthrew the monarchy to a really socialist revolution which may overthrow capitalism. The social fascist “socialists” thus, clearly, are concerned first with saving capitalism, just as are the fascists. Only they do it in the name of “labor” and by keeping workers deceived by their demagogy. Just as Phillip Scheidermann, leader of the “socialists” of Germany, admits, in his autobiography, that the German “socialist” party in 1918, when the German workers were entering a revolutionary general strike, took over the leadership of the strike in order to “prevent a revolution!” . Workers, it is for the very same reason that the social fascist “so- cialists” in New York are entering the May Day demonstrations! ‘They want to get a following among the workers in order to betray the work- ers to capitalism, to keep the workers from demonstrating against capi- talism with the Communist Party on May Day, and keep the workers from fighting under Communist leadership against wage cuts, for defense of the Soviet Union, for the seven-hour day without pay cuts, for unem- ployment insurance, against lynching and fascist terror and the establish- men of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government in the United States! Workers, beware of the social fascist “socialists”! Out on the streets May Day, under the banner of the United Front May Day Conference, to demonstrate against capitalism and its fascist and social-fascist supporters! BOSS COURT HELPS FRAME 1 Trial of Three Put Off to Thursday NEW YORK.—Before a court pack- ed with workers, the International Labor Defense yesterday led the de- fense to stop the railroadng to jail of three white workers who partici- pated in the Harlem parade Satur- day, which demanded the release of the nine Negro boys framed up by an Alabama boss court which sen- tenced eight to burn in the electric chair on July 10, - 7 | | | Red Vote, 89 Out of Total 300 In Hancock HANHOCK, Mich, April 28.—In the municipal elections held here in April, the Communist candid- | ates received 89 out of about 300 votes, doubling the Communist vote of the previous election. Han- cock is in the copper and fron ter- ritory of upper Michigan. RACKETEERING A MAJOR INDUS- TRY IN CHICAGO. Mr. Macoy, president of the Chi- cago Employers Association boasted the other day that out of 89 various rackets, 36 have been eradicated in 4 years, While Mr. Macoy fails to FIGHT T0 FREE 9 CONTINUES; BOSS PAPER MAKES ATTACK ON RIGHTS OF NEGRO MASSES Scottsboro Paper Calls Demand for Colored Jurors—“Arrogant”—Openly Threatens Carry Thru Massacre of 9 Innocent Children to| Ku Klux Klan in Attack on I L D—Bosses In- crease Pressure on Parents of Boys in Frantic Attempt to Eliminate I L D from Defense (By Telegraph to Daily Worker) As the International Labor Defense continues. to expose the murderous frame-up against these boys, the workers’ de- fense organization becomes more obnoxious to southern land- lords and capitalists who are exerting every effort to eliminate All to Madison eae ' |DIRECTIONS FOR LOCATION OF ORGANIZATIONS AT| | MADISON SQUARE ON MAY FIRST | Needle Industrial Union Calls Square at 12:30 Parade Tonight Starts At 6:15 From 64 West 22nd St., Will Mobilize Masses of Central Manhattan For Demonstration On Friday “Do Not Work On May First” Call of Militant Union to Organized and Unorganized Mass Meetings and Leaflets Rally Masses to Fight Against Starvation; May First Demands Are for The ILD successfully demanded the reduction of the enormous bail set for the three defendants, Demetries Poulos, John Tseronis and Philip Spector, and had the bail reduced from $1,500 each to $500. ‘The trial was held in the 151st St. and Amsterdam Avenue court. | The TLD exposed the brutal attacks by the police on , workers demonstrating against the Scottsboro court lynch verdict. When the court stated that the policeman supposed to have been injured by the defendants could not appear because of his “injuries,” the ILD attorney produced a photograph run in one of the Sunday papers showing this same cop standing up after the demonstration in perfect heaith, ‘The case was put off until Thurs- day, the court rejecting the demand ofthe ILD for an immeriate trial - x speak about consolidation and trusti- fication in this major industry, as a reason of his “achievement,” at the same time he admits that these rack- ets cost 136 million dollars a year to Chicago. COTE 5 BREAD RMSE DESO 2 SE In the same court, the case of 14 members of the Unemployed Council, who had put back the furniture of an evicted unemployed worker at 477 Ninth Ave., came up. The boss judge found all guilty. Boss Court Help Frame 14 Workers Twelve of the 14 defendants were given suspended sentences with a jong lecture by the judge against the Unemployed Councils which he said were striking at the very roots of capitalist law and order. ‘Two of the leaders, Columbus Zann, @ Negro worker, and August Bar- thian, a white worker, were singled out for sentences of 3.days in jail, the I. L. D. from the defense. The attacks on the I. L. D. are increasing, both from the boss} press, Ku Klux Klan elements and from misguided and weak- kneed elements in the colored Minis- ters Alliance of Chattanooga. Ku Klux. SKlan Gets Busy. The Chattanooga Ku Klux Klan has threatened to drive the I. L. D. out of town. Ku Klux business men with their offices in the same building as the I. L. D. are using pressure on the owners of the building to evict the I. L. D. Klan elements through- out Chattanooga and the entire South are threatening a reign of terror against the I. L. D. and the militant white and Negro workers who have rallied to the defense of the nine in- nocent victims of the Scéttshoro court lyneh verdict. Boss Press In Vicious Attacks The latest issue of the Jackson County Sentinel, published in Scotts- boro, Ala., contins the following vi- ciously inciting editorial: “The plot thickens. We have no editorial this week on the ‘Negro Trial’ matter. We just couldn’t do one without getting mad as hell. And why? We refer you to the statement by the New York De- fenders (by this is meant the In- ternational Labor Defense—Editor Daily Worker) appearing in the Chattanooga Times and the Sen- tinel today. Its arrogance is most astounding. It smacks of trouble. It is the most dangerous movement launched in the South in many years. It brands Jackson County citizenry little short of being cold- blooded murderers. After we for- get ‘the rope’ to pick up ‘the Code’ for the safety and benefit of the Negroes we are told that we must have Negro jurors 0 nany jury try- ing the blacks if they are to get ‘their rights. A Negro juror in Jackson County would be a curios- ity—and some curiosities are em- balmed, you know.” Workers Must Answer On May Day. This editorial is typical of the bloodthirsty attitutude of the south- ern landlords and capitalists who view any interference with their sav- age oppression and terror against the Negro people as “arrogant” and “adn- gerous,” and who are coming out in open threats to carry through the burning of these nine innocent col- ored children and to murder, as well, all who come to their defense, and any Negro worker who should dare (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Cleveland Workers To March From All Parts Of City On May Day In Huge De CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Combina- tion of the May Day plans with the start fo the state-wide Hunger March on Columbus, will make possible one of the biggest working-class demon- strations that Cleveland has ever seen Final plans have now been drawn up by a United Front Conference repre- senting 60. local workers’ organiza- tions. They call for marches from all parts of the city on the morning of May 1, leading to a mass demon- stration on the Public Square at 12 noon. At 1 p. m. the big May Day parade will start eastward on St Clair Avenue, ending in a mass send- off for Clevelandés 75 hunger march delegates at East 55th and St. Clair.| Workers will start marching to the Public Square early in the morn- ing from the remoter sections, stop- MRS. PATTERSON SPEAKS IN BRONX Will Also Be Present At Brooklyn Meet NEW YORK.—Council No. 11 of the Bronx Coperative House will have a lecture on “The importance of May First,” by Richard B. Moore, and as an added attraction Mrs. Janie Pat- terson, the mother of one of the nine boys railroaded to the electric chair in the Scottsboro, Alabama case, will be present. The lecture will be held in the Auditorium of the Cooperative houses, on Wednesday evening, April 29th, at 8:30 pm. Council 20 will have @ lecture on the importance of May First, at 962 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening, April 29th, at 8:30 p. m., with Tillie Littinsky. Councils 7, 16, 20, and 21 will have @ protest meeting on Thursday even- ing, April 30th, at 8:30 p. m. at 105 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, to voice their protest against the legal lynch- ing of the nine Negro boys in Scotts- boro, Alabama. All Brooklyn com- rades are urged to attend this im- portant meeting. Mrs. Janie Patter- son, the mother of one of the sen- tenced boys will be present, besides other good speakers, Kansas City Business Men Try to Start Raid On Militant Workers KANSAS CITY, April 28.—A reso- lution urging Federal, State and local officials to “investigate” Commu- nistic operations in Kansas City” was passed last week by the Ernestine Schuman Heink chapter of the Dis- abled American Veterans of the World War. The resolution declares that “operations of agents of the Communists here are dangerous.” It is clear that this fascist resolu- tion was inspired by reactionary busi- ness elements who control the chap- ter and who are led by Dr. Ernst Cavaness. The local reactionaries are alarmed at the growing activity of the Com- munist Party, TUUL, LSNR among the factory workers, the unemployed workers and the Negro workers. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! Unemployment Insurance, Relief BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The Food Workers Industrial Union has declared a one day general strike on May First, and will participate in a body In the Madison Square demonstration and the march on Union Square. The union calls a membership meeting tonight at 8 p. m. in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., to make all plans for the demonstration. NEW YORK.—A special meeting of all men’s clothing workers is called by the Tailor’s Rank and File Committee tonight at 7 p. m. at 83 East 10th Street, to prepare for the May Day demonstration. . * ; NEW YORK.—AIl out on Madison Square at 12:30 May First! All workers, employed and unemployed, men, women and children, col- ‘ored and white, will mobilize at the call of the |May First United Front Committee, and with |banners, slogans and speakers will demonstrate against star- vation and for unemployment relief, against war on the Soviet Union, against imperialist war, against the long work day and against wage cuts, against evictions and the rest of the mis- SQUARE PARK- Find the name of your organization or industry and the corresponding number. Next turn to the map. Locate your number.on the gap. The place where the number of your organization appears, is the corner where your organization will gather. For instance: the number of textile workers is 10. The number 10 on the map is placed on the corner of 25th Street and Madison Avenue. That is the corner, therefore, where the textile workers will gather. i eh re D. Park. a Lithuanian Workers 29 May Day United Front Committee 1| workers Clubs 30 Ex-Servicemen’s League 2) So, Slavic & other Language Org. 31 Youth 3 Pioneers 4 26th St—Sth Avenue—Madison Ave N J DEFENSE CON- Needle Trades 5 leo De International Labor Defense 5 i League of Struggle for Negro Rights 6 FERENC M AY 10 Marine Workers 7 Metal Workers ‘3 8 Building mn Ave ard St—26tR St |) EWARK, N. J., April 27—The Textile Workers 10| New Jersey sub-district of the In- Workers International Relief 11| ternational Labor Defense has is- Office Workers 12] sued a call for Defense Conference Laundry Workers 13 | to be held Sunday, May 10, at 10 a.m. A. Park. at 90 Ferry St., this city. Food Workers 14] The call points out the rapid de- Shoe, Leather & Suitcase Workers 15| velopment Of the boss terror against | Furniture and Upholsterers 16|the working class, 4,600 militant | Printing 17| workers imprisoned during 1930 baal T. U. U. L. Groups 18| their working class activities, 43 Ne- B. Park. gro and white workers lynched during Unemployed 19| the same year, and 22 already this ‘Women's Council 20 year, hundreds of frame-ups of mili- John Reed Club 21 | tant workers, five silk workers fac- Artef 22/| ing death in New Jersen, nine Negro) C. Park. youths sentenced to ms isan oa ‘ ’ if | in Alabama on a murderous framé- ation Miss Ei up charge. Thousands being de- Finnish Workers 25 | Ported. | Ukrainian Workers 26| All organizations are urged to) Czech Workers 27 | elect delegates and otherwise sup- Russian Workers 28| port the defense conference. monstration Tacoma Workers Out May 1 Tacoma, Washington, Plans March; Fight De- portations; Rockford Workers to Hold Out- door Meet, Parade and Indoor Mass Meet Hall, Detroit and W. 58th St.; Lor- ain and W. 46th; Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1051 Auburn Ave. On the East side: Youth Center, 152nd and Holmes in Collinwood; East Side, Hungarian Hall, E. 111th and Buck- eye; 87th and Buckeye; Workers Cénter, E. 141st. and Kinsman; 83rd and Kinsman; and Pulaski Hall, E. 66t': and Chamhers. After a rousing send-off demon- stration at East 55th and St. Clair, the hunger marchers will start their long trek to Columbus, to carry the ping at different points for meetings| demands of Cleveland's jobless for to, rally «more marchers. Following| unemployment insurance and imme- are the rallying points from Finnish} diate relief to the state legislature. | Scovill Ave. (3rd floor, side entrance.)-| Carlquirt, They will proceed south on E, 55th to Broadway, and then out on Broad- way to the city limits. Unemployed and employed will ac- company them through the different working-class sections to cheer them on their way, In the evening, indoor demonstra- | tions will be held, with musical pro- grams and prominent speakers, in | the following halls: Ukrainian Labor ‘Temple, 1051 Auburn Ave.; Hungari- an Workers Home, 11123 Buckeye Rd. Youth Center, 16810 Holmes Av. Collinwood; and at Spira’s Hall) 3804 TACOMA, Wash.—A leaflet dis- tributed in thousands of copies to the workers here calls on them to join in the May Day demonstration to be held at 12 noon at 15th and Commerce Sts. A special attack is eries of the capitalist system. | The demonstrators will march in¢———— | Solid ranks from Madison Square to Union Square. Parade Tonight. Tonight a parade through the cen- tral Manhattan district will start at 6:15 p. m. at 64 West 22nd Street, and mobilize all the workers for the May Day demonstration at Madison Sq. | Friday. All workers’ organizations are hold- ing open air mass meetings all this week to prepare for the demonstra- | tion May 1. Tens of thousands of leaflets are being distributed. One! after another the militant unions and | militant locals of the reactionary | unions call the workers in their trades |s and ‘industries to rally to the May First demonstration. Needle Union Call. “Do not work on May First,” is the | call of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union to all workers, organ- ized, unorganized, or misorganized into company unions. The N.T.W.I.U. calls them to pour out in masses on May 1 in one united powerful dem- | onstration against unemployment, and | against hunger that is facing 10,000,- | 000 workers in this country. The call of the union points out that where organization in the in- dustrial union is weakest, wage cuts are worst, and that the dressmakers’ strikes of New York and Philadel- phia are the only cases of militant! leadership against the series of wage | cuts that have crushed the whole working population in the industry. These strikes checked the wage cuts which the A. F. of L. unions and the Amalagamated are not only not fighting, but actually promoting. The N.T.W.L.U, adds to the slogans of May First, “Demonstrate against company unionism!” Against Deportations, It calls particular attention to the campaign to deport foreign born workers and the attacks today by the capitalists and their henchmen, the continuous propaganda, against the Negro workers, Demonstrate May First for the de- fense of the Soviet Union and against imperialist war! made on deportations. “Charity tastes bitter in the mouths of the workers,” says the leaflet, “when they are herded from the breadlines to the immigration station at Seattle.” a lee will start at 7 p. m. and will take the following route: | 432: Elm 1st. ROCKFORD, Ill—The May Day| front conferente has been organized demonstration in Rockford will start| in Brighton Beach, with delegates | at 6.30 p. m. at First Avenue and 71st | from eight working class organiza- | | St., with a short meeting. The parade | tions. Seventh and| demonstrations is being carried out. Charles St. to State St.; State St. Leaflets calling upon the workers to and Court St., to Elm St., winding up | Down Tools and Demonstrate on May in a huge meeting at Unique Hall, | Day have been issued. Meetings are - Spoakers;+ Dallet. and | being held. to help: in. the: mobiliza- Mn oor omonads 4 lon, of the workers, Brighton Beach United Front Comm. Pushes May 1 Plans NEW YORK.—A May Day united Preparatory work for the May Day BIG PROGRAM FOR MAY DAY NIGHT After Demonstration in Square NEW YORK.—At the May Day mass meeting in the Bronx Coliseum on Friday, 7:30 p. m. following the big demonstration from Madison Sq. Park the New York workers will have for the first time the opportunity to style of the Members of the Workers’ Labora- tory Theatre, the German Prolet- Buhne, the W. I. R. Band, the Unem- ployed Council and of other workers’ organizations participate in the play. The “Prolet-Buhne,” the German Agitprop-Troupe, the first and only Workers’ Theatre group in America practicing methods of the “Blue Blouses,” is the author of the play and is also in charge of the direc- tion, All workers who did not have the time to come to the first rehearsals, have still a chance to participate in this most interesting performance, when they come to the last rehearsal on Thursday, April 30, 8:30 p, m. sharp, at the W I. R., 131 West 28th Street. Scottscboro Case Draws Readers From Kansas City, Mo., comes @ request to increase the bundle order, “A Negro — fellow-worker, with whom we made contacts through our protest meetings on the Scottsboro case, is sell- ing every day from 40 to 50 Dailies in the Negro sections. PLEASE INCREASE OUR BUNDLE IMMEDIATELY, AS THE NEGRO WORKERS ARE TAKING TO THE PAPER AND WE DON’T WANT TO DISAPPOINT THEM.” Here's a splendid opportunity to reach the Negro masses with our revolutionary press, and to convince them that the leader in their struggles for Negro rights and against lyneh- ings is the Daily Worker. Or- der extra bundles and strength- en the campaign to save from the claws of capitalist justice the nine Scottsboro defen- dants! corer (Sixty thonsand circulation reports on page 3.)