The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 11

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931 Page Three Socialist Police Hunt Down Workers In Berlin On Mav First 1929 | | | Milhons Marched Last May By HARRISON GEORGE é E greatest outpouring of the |A day of struggle and challenge! ; working class throughout the | And in Berlin, where a year before world ever seen in the history of May Day!” ‘Thi$ was the summary of May Day given by the Daily Worker last year, when—over the world—millions marched! Millions marched! Not merely in Killing A Worker The German cop is replacing his gun after murdering one of the May Day demonstrators in Berlin, 1929. celebration or on holiday, but in warning to the capitalist class that not forever will the toiling masses endure capitalism, with its starva- tion, misery and war! Millions marched! In New York alone, it was estimated that 150,000 downed tools, struck work, and tried —unsuccessfully—to break the police cordon of maghine guns and mounted sluggers that barred their uniting with the 25,000 organized workers who poured into Union Square, singing and shouting under hundreds of banners! Savage Terror in Chicago In Chicago, 25,000 marched in de- fiance of savage police terror, end- ing the march with a great meet- ing at which Lucy Parsons, widow cf one of the 1886 martyrs to the “eight-hour day” movement which started May Day, spoke to the work- ers on the historic meaning of the day. In New York the day ended with a great meeting at Coney Island Stadium despite a pouring rain. In all great cities and many smaller towns, for the first time in the industrial cities of the South, tens of thousands demonstrated. That the American workers dem- onstrated in challenge to capital- ism, was proven by the 300 arrests made throughout the United States, 87 of these being inNew York be- cause the workers defied the Tam- many police, then commanded by Grover “Forgery” Whalen, in call- ing their shop mates everywhere to down tools and march with the 25,000 which, forming at Rutgers Square, marched to Union Square, oan an’ tide Sale me 6 pass given poirit. | * EEN Whalen himself adthftted that it was the “largest Communist demon- stration the city has seen,” and con- teded that 70,000 were at Union Square. But [t’ay Day is international! © the hounds of the “socialist” police chief, Zorgiebel, had massacred the | workers in pitched battle in the streets, 200,000 massed in the Lust- garten after marching in review past the famed Communist leader, Thaelman. Shanghai was an armed camp last year on May Day, as Chiang Kai-shek, counter - revolutionary butcher of the workers and peas- ants, shivered in fear of an up- rising in the cities to unite with the growing Soviet movement in the interior. Despite the general arrest of the Communist leaders in France, 300,- 000 struck in Paris, although the French capitalist government, fol- lowing its habit of lying brazenly about demonstrations, declared that nothing at all happened. In Prague tens of thousands marched, while in Warsaw, defying the savage fas- cist regime of Pilsudski, masses turned against the murderous police. in an entire day of street fighting. The same was true all over Poland. In Latin America, especially in Ar- gentina, Mexico and Cuba, industry was paralyzed while the working class took over the streets. Where Workers Rule In the Soviet Union, the day opened with a parade of the Red Army, followed by a tremendous demonstration of a million work- ers! To build up socialism! To complete the Five-Year Plan in four! To defend the fatherland of the workers of all the world from attack by world imperialism! This defense, too, the fighting l unemployed! Unemployment in- slogan of May Day the world | i surance! We will organize and strike j against wage cuts! Down with ter- over! Let this May Day of 1931, work- | ers of America, eclipse that of 1930! |This May Day, let your challenge | to capitalist rule declare: We de- mand food, clothnig, shelter, for the | sabotage! MAY DAY AS 50,000 JAM SQUARE d’ One Guess! Who Is It? | The NEWS 7 SOV “a — Headline in N. Y. a newspaper, May 1, 1930. End Starvation By A lynchings and deportations! Down with imperialist war! All workers will defend the Soviet Union from jimperialist attack and “socialist” lesson. Apples and Unemployment (Continued from Page One) tions this year. It is a class day Take the case, for example, of —a revolutionary holiday. the apple sellers of New York. At It should not be hard to convince | the time When the capitalist class a@ worker that his place is on the | had first to openly admit there was streets May 1. Especially it should|an unemployment crisis and mil- not be hard t6 convince an un- | j ions starving they declared with employed worker who has taken | high glee that all these lives would part in the struggle for relief dur- | be saved, the jobless could sell ap- ing the past year that he is an | ples to business men. Then the enemy of the capitalist system. All | price was raised to the sellers, until the events have been howling the |the wholesalers got all the profit. W. here the Labor Party Rules for British aap exialinin i FIRE For WAY ony RERES Day against the hangmen Ata sOweR Othe Wome: SF FE wort when thousands marched under the red banner of the revolutionary the Communist Party of Britain will rally hundreds of thousands to of the Indian revolution, the MacDonald Labor Government, and sponsored by these Isckeps of British imperialism. ror against the workers! Down with } Mass F sight of Workers Just. when it became apparent thai each apple seller was becoming dan- gerously disgusted, Police Commis- sioner Mulrooney practically wiped out the whole affair by eliminating apple sellers from the busy streets, where alone they could have pos- sibly made a living. Will it be hard to convince them that something is wrong with the system? Or that | the government is their enemy? Rainy Days Take the case of a worker who all through the boom period of 1928- 1929 heeded those “Save Your Pen- nies for a Rainy Day” signs and put his money in the Bank of United States (or any one of hundreds ot other banks that failed). Now he is out of a job, the rainy day is here, but he is out his pennies too. And he finds that the state bank superintendent let the thing run on for months, while directors loaned themselves his money. Will it be hard to convince him? Take the case of the “Pittsburgh Plan” or any one of dozens in other cities more or less like it, where the part time starving workers on the jobs are taxed to *pay wages, very poor wages, of the starving unemployed who will now be used to take the workers’ job, when he is fired to make room for them. Can’t be he con- vinced something is wrong? Some-| thing he should protest againsi? And change? Take the case of the jobless man wiih a starving family who reads that Willard, head of the | B. and O, R.R. says that if he j was hungry he would stea]l. So he does steal some food—and gets ten years. Gets life, if he is a New Yorker and is caught four times. Take the case of the Negro and white workers in Chicago who were sentenced for putting back the fur niture of an evicted family-on] 1 Negro got twice as heavy a sentence as the white worker. Won't that convince some Negro workers, even if the lynchings and Jim Crowing have not yet convinced them that there is a government conspirdty against them especially? At the end of March the big cor- porations whose workers starve both in the street and on the job an- nounce dividends of half a billion dollars. Over 10,000,000 jobless hut - ger, and neither government n¢r business does anything for them— instead, relief, such as it is steadily cutting off, and measures are taken to see that those who did get two bowls of soup get either one or none. And meanwhile Hoover in- sults them with continued declara- tions that everything is getting bet- ter! The day by day struggle of the jobless worker for a chance to live © bring him into head-on collision with the capitalist system as a system with the courts, police, jails,» government; |.A little more | organization, a little hioré*explan- ation, will bring big’ resutts~tnis | year. Organize for moss demon- strations on May First—against unemployment and against cap- italism!