The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1931, Page 1

Pet ecat FEsebs BST et. sath oseens* Continue the May First Fight Against Starvation, Wage Cuts, Lynching, De- portations, for Defense of the Soviet Union, for Amnesty for all Class War Prisoners, and to Smash the Scottsboro and Paterson Frame- ups. & at New York, N. Vol. VIII, No. 106 Entered an second-class matier at the Fost Office (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 28 ¥., under the act of Alarch 3, 1879 NEW/YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931 CITY EDITION 12.4 Price 3 Cents 100,000 RALLY TO MAY 1 CALL OF COMMUNISTS IN N. Y. Who Will Bear the Burden?) GAIN. we must warn the workers that the speech of Secretary Lamont to the U. 8; Chamber of Commerce at Atlantic City, supposedly “against” wage cuts, and the flood of hypocritical editorial comment by the capitalist press is only a disguise behind which the American capi- talists are advancing in wide-spread attack against the wage standards of the workers, It is just so much mealy-mouthed hooey for Secretary Lamont to pretend that his “warning” that wage cuts will “bring about a great loss of buying power.” It was under this same hypocritical banner of “no wage cuts” raised by Hoover in November, 1929, that the employers pro- ceeded to cut $12,000,000,000 of the wages of the American workers in 1930! Workers must understand, therefore, that all speeches and edi- torials “against” wage cuts not only are no assurance against wage cuts, but have been and-are a concealment of wage cuts. Anarchy is an essential and inherent part of capitalist production. ‘And however many beautiful speeches the manufacturer of tooth paste may hear, concerning how the wage cuts he may make against “his” workers would “reduce the consuming power” so that “his” workers could not buy as many shoes, radios, etc., as before; nevertheless, he himself is not selling shoes or radios, but tooth paste—and he demands that the workers, in order to allow him to “compete with my competitors,” must accept a wage reduction, ‘What each and every one of these scoundrels do. not tell the workers, is that they are asked to take a wage cut—not because “competition” re- quires it—but because what is taken from the wages of the workers is required by the employer and the capitalist class as a whole, to maintain a profit that allows these capitalists to live their accustomed lives of luxury and {dleness. In other words, the employer tries to make the workers bear the burden of the crisis, by pretending that some supernatural power demands that the workers reduce their standard of living and that he, the employer, | By arguing wage cuts as ‘‘a necessity” the capitalist | “cannot help it.” makes it appear to the workers that it is their necessity, if they “want to keep their jobs,” rather than the fact that it is a “necessity” for the capitalist if he wants to keep his profits. Workers must understand that the capitalists have no ‘divine right” to profits. Workers must understand that it is no business of theirs to “help the company against competition.” Workers must understand that here is nothing “inevitable” about wage cuts. Most of all, must workers understand that by organizing and striking against wage cuts, that they can defeat the belly-robbing schemes of the employers to maintain their profits at the expense of the workers, their wives and children! If there is anything required more than anything else, at the present time, by the workers of the United States, it is resistance! Again resis- tance! And still more resistance! ‘The hypocritical speech of Secretary Lamont, ‘gabbling about the necessity of “sustaining the buying power,” will not stop even one wage cut in.one factory. The workers can depend only upom their own organ- ized strike action to.defeat the wholesale attack against wages. And they can @epend upon only one leadership to direct their struggle, and that is the leadership of the Communist Party and the revolutionary’ unions of the Trade Union Unity League! Expose the hypocrisy of the capitalists to your shop mates! Organize a Shop Committee to defend your wage standards! Follow the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League! Sex An Example from White Earth pee many workers never heard of White Hatth, North Dakota; but the farmers of that town have set an example in defense of the press of the toiling masses that many city workers would do well to emulate, 'To the Daily Worker office has come a resolution of protest, signed by thirty-six farmers of White Earth, expressing their resentment of the arbitrary withdrawal by the Post Office Department, of the second-class mailing “privilege” of the “United Farmer,” organ of the militant United Farmers League. ‘The “United Farmer,” championing the cause of the poor and middle farmer from the little town of New York Mills, Minnesota, was regarded as so “dangerous” by American finance capitalism, that the “privilege” of second class postal rates, without which any paper can hardly exist, was withdrawn without even giving a reason. , “We realize,” say the White Earth farmers, “that this is done by the authorities on account of the Fish Committee, which has no other back- ground than to try to stamp out and crush the spreading radicalism amongst the toiling masses of ‘this country. We see plainly that this capitalist form of government, has got no solution for the miseries of the starving farmers and unemployed workers, and is trying to keep us from getting united.” Without. splitting hairs with these militant farmers, we simply wish to call attention to the fact that this capitalist government does have a “solution” for the appalling crisis gripping all capitalist society. ‘But it is a capitalist solution which will discharge the entire burden of the crisis onto the workers and poor farmers, and these White Earth farmers are correct in pointing out that it is no solution of the misery of the toiling ‘masses. And a part of this capitalist solution—namely a part of the plan to unload the crisis upon the toilers, by an intensified robbery of the poor and middle farmer, by wage cuts and unemployment without unemploy- ment insurance against the workers—is to prevent the masses fighting back and rallying wider masses to the struggle by means of their press. ‘The profound truth of the Communist assertion that capitalist “demo- cracy” is really capitalist dictatorship, can be seen in the fact that while literally thousands of capitalist. dope sheets, swindle magazines, sexual sewers and all manner of simple advertising publications, are given the second class “privilege,” a studied, deliberate and systematic attack is being made on the newspapers of the workers and farmers which cham- pion the toiling maSses in struggle against capitalist robbery and starvation. Thus we see one after another, the Young Pioneer, the Young Work- er, the Vida Obrera, and now the Uited Farmer, denied the “privilege” necessary to inform and organize the workers and farmers in the struggle for bread and for emancipation. No working class publication is secure from this Czarist autocracy of the Post Office Department which is carrying out the policy of the Fish Committee. Therefore, it becomes the duty of every worker and poor farmer to defend their press as they would defend the bread of their children and their organizations of struggle, We welcome the action of the farmers of White Earth in defense of the United Farmer, which because of this persecution has removed to Superior, Wisconsin, Box 94, and we urge all farmers and workers as well, to rally to its support. Likewise we call all workers and farmers to aid in the maintenance of the other papers fighting against suppression and be ever ready to come to the aid of the Daily Worker in case it, too, meets with attack, Jobless Council Now - Tn Gardner, Mass. GARDNER, Mass., (By Mail).—A harp struggle against unemployment s looming in Gardner. Unemploy- nent is increasing in ever greater vumbers, gvhile the city, government emains (risfied in condemning un- tion. Hundreds of unemployed are pacing the streets looking. for work in vain, The city’s fake emergency employment council, has closed its doors to the unemployed on the pre- tense that the city no longer has funds, An unemployed council has been organized, and called a meeting for 100,000 IN N. Y. MAY 1 DEMONSTRATION DEMAND Cheer Speakers’ Denunciation of Horrible Frame-Up and Planned Massacre of Innocent Colored Children Banners and Placards Scream Angry Protests of Working-Class AY] Along Line of March As Masses on Sidewalk Applaud | NEW YORK.—Revolutionary white demands of scores of gigantic May | and Negro workers made the fight| Day demonstrations throughout the to save the lives of the nine Negro} country yesterday, Scottsboro boys one of the central} tm New York City, where tens of thousands marched in an almost W k , R iI} t | endless stream from Madison Square or ers a y: 0 | Park to Union Square where they | held a gigantic demonstration, huge D f dN B banners on automobile trucks liter- € en egro OYS | ally screamed out the angry denun- ciations of the working class against aa ae ae" pe the horrible frame-up and planned | 1B 1 ttsb ur gh Distr ict | legal massacre of the nine sande Has Many Meets | colored boys, two of whom are only Satis | 14 years old, 6 only 18, and only one PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 1.—The | even 20 years, | United Front Campaign against the | | Scottsboro, Alabama, frame-up vic-| each organization swung by, addi- tims is growig rapidly in the Pitts-| tional banners and placards yoiced burgh district. | the demand for the freedom of the A mass protest meeting held in| nine Scottsboro victims. Some of the | Carnegia, an important steel town, | slogans read: “Save Nine Negro Boys | passed a resolution protesting against | in Scottsboro from Legal Lynching,” this outrage against the Negro peo- ple and the working class. A copy ot the resolution has meen sent to Gov ; B.M, Miller, of Alabama, at Mont- | gomery, Ala, 9, Goren land Lynching,” “Negro and White Mass meetings of white and Negro Workers, Unite! Fight Lynching,” workers in New Washington, Am-| “Death To the Lynchers,” | bridge, Avélla and other mining and | against Jim Crowism and Discrim- | steel centers have already protested | ination Against Negroes,” “Smash | the Scottsboro court lynch verdict. | Jim Crow Laws,” “We Demand the A large mass meeting in Pythian | Right of Negro Dressmakers to. Work Temple, Pittsburgh, passed a reso-|in Every Shop,” “Equal Pay for lution demanding a new trial for the | Equal Work for Negro Workers,” | youths with a jury of workers at At Union Square, the speakers all | least “half.of them colored. | dwelt on the Scottsboro case, expos- The International Labor Defense | ing its vicious frame-up nature and | has issued lists in a signature cam- | calling upen the workers to join the paign for the defense. (| fight to save the boys from the elec- | tric chair and to demand the uncon- Ae rece : OHICAGO, May 11.—Three hun-| peace eee | dred Negro and white workers as- | Many Negro workers marched in ‘ sembled at .Forum Hall, Wednesday | the ranks of the various organiza- night, greeted enthusiastically the | tions participating in the parade and speakers of the League of Struggle | demonstration, for Negro Rights, the International | Poet Lalor Defense and the Young Lib-|, OAKLAND, Calif, May 1—A reso- erators, When Comrade Browder,| lution denouncing the Scottsboro the chairman, read the resolution! “trial” and the planned legal massa- denouncin gthe Alabama lynch ver- cre of the nine young Negro boys was dict against nine Negro youths, the unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Godless Society of Oakland | Boys in Scottsboro,” “Demonstrate FREEING OF 9 NEGRO BOYS The workers marched with their | : | | planned legal lynching of the nine | organizations, and as the members of | “Stop the Legal Lynching of 9 Negro | gainst the Murderers of Negro and White Workers,” “Fight, Deportation. “Fight workers showed that they heartily endorsed the resolution that will be sent to the governor of Alabama and to Judge Hawkins of Scottsboro, Ala. Calgary Unemployed |Parade Through Town | Demanding Insurance CALGARY, Alta. May 1.—-A dem- | onstration of 700 unemployed and militant employed workers was held | here April 15 to back up the demands | presented then to the Canadian) premier in Ottawa. Banners carrying the slogans of the jobless, and mak- ing demands for relief, free nieals for school children, etc. were carried, While the demonstration was too loosely planned, it is the first great outpouring of the workers here, and Capitalist news services state that a million and a half workers joined the May First parade in Moscow. Fifty thousand Red Army soldiers, with the latest mechanized units, in- cluding tanks, paraded for two hours through the Red Square, with the masses following after that. Six squadrons of airplanes, each with five biplanes followed by one five-motored bomber flenked by two tri-motored ships and three biplanes, put on a spectacular air show over- head and showered down leaflets all over the city. Before the parade the Red Army took the annual pledge of loyalty to the Soviet Union and to the working clers of the world. On this day world-wide proadcast- cialis) demonstrations were held in \ Party and the revolutionary trade! outburst of applause from apes | more will follow. , \ May First Demonstrations Sweep the World; | 1,500,000 in Moscow; 150,000 held last Saturday and attended by over 200 workers. Several members of the Society | took the floor and denounced the | attempt by the landlords and capi- | talists of Alabama to legally lynch these nine children, The members pledged themselves to carry’on a de~ termined fight against the persecu- tion of the Negro masses and to struggle for the solidarity of all workers, regardless of race or color. A copy of the resolution was or- dered sent to the governor of Ala- for unemployment insurance being | bama. . WATERBURY, -Conn., May 1.— | Over 250 workers last night demon- strated in this city against the Scottsboro legal lynching and in preparation for the greater May Day demonstration, oie (Additional news on page 5) ing was started by the Noginsk radio Station at Moscow. ‘The parade was reviewed from the terrace of the Lenin mausoleum by Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Kalinen, chairman of the Central Committee, and other government and Commu- nist Party officials. e ‘4 oe (Cable By Inprecorr.) BEDLIN, Moy 1.--Uniea and so- Many Cities; workers demonstrated in Grand The parade of the workers Mooney Greets Labor On May First Thru the Communist Party Tom Mooney, framed up in 1916 by the big capitalists of San Fran- cisco and serving life in ‘prison, has wired the following May Day greetings to the working class through the “Workers Party care of LL.D.” The “Workers Party” is the Communist Party now. “Through the workers’ party fraternal greetings to all the toil- ers, It is to the worker masses who vision the coming day of la- bor’s triumph that I transmit a message of sincere appreciation for their efforts in. my. behalf al! through the fifteen long years of my imprisonment. In their hands I Ieave my fate. I know the worlds’ workers will fight on to a victorious finish In. this my strug- gle as in the still greater struggles they are fighting for the rights of Labor.” | | WEAVERS STRIKE OVER STRETCHOUT 18 Out in Passaic; Try Spread Strike PASSAIC, N. J., May 1—Bighteen | weayers of the night shift of the) Dundee Textile Co., a silk mill em- ploying about 250 workers, went on strike last week. ‘The weavers walked out in protest against the introduction of two extra | looms. Up till now they have been | working on four Jooms, for $2.25 per | 100,000 pick, Now the boss is giving the weavers six looms, and only $1.75 per 100,000 pick. This is the third | wage cut in a period of two months. Yesterday the night weavers had a meeting. A strike committee was elected, ‘They decided to issue a leaflet in Polish and English appeal- ing to the day. weavers to come out because already the boss is doing the very same thing with the day shift. But instead of giving all the weav- ers six looms at once, he started with | only two women. He did that to avoid a strike of the day shift. A meeting for all Dundee workers has been called to take up the ques- tion of striking for the day shift. ‘The demands of the night shift are for four looms at $2.25 per 100,000 pick, The National Textile Workers Union is closely working with the | strikers. All leaflets are issued in the name of the strike committee and the union. | Lisbon Dictator Turns Machine Gun on Crowd Demanding His Removal; Strike in Paris; 3,000 Bombay Strikers Parade Red Flags the Lustgarten in the morning. The masses were without fire or enthusi- asm, Speakers were interrupted with questions concerning the reac- tionary policy of the leaders. ‘This was the smallest socialist May Day demonstration in many years, Officials of the petty-bourgeoisie placed their own stamp on the dem- ovs‘retion. ‘ | Z1 the sfteoneon the Com ‘ Great Demonstrations in 35,000 Detroit ; | Biggest May Day Demonstration Ever Seen In | Most Reports Not Received Yet; 12,000 in Bos-| ton; 800 Out in Hartford; 1,000 Marched in Minnesota Steel Trust Town; 10,000 In Philadelphia DETROIT, Mich—Thiry-five thousand Negro and white biggest May Day demonstrations held in this city. marched five miles through th | the marchers with cheers | | that wanted to come out of school | | were prevented by Boy Scouts. More | | throngs. | Signs, | white played during the march. | Circus Park here in one of the} stretched over five blocks and} hoods. parade, The crowd began to gather| at the Ferry Workers Home at! 10 a, m. and by noon three} thousand workers were present. The | parade started with about 13,000 and } continually increased in size and} when it reached the park there were five thousand additional workers, Cheer Marchers. Workers along the route greeted | Children | Ex-servicemen led the} than one-third of the marchers wer Negro workers. Ten thousand w | ers awaited when the parade swung | into the park, amid the cheers of the | Sixteen. red streamers, 14 feet long and 24 inches wide, with revolution- ery slogans, 150 caricatures and 150 A mixed band of Negro and Speeches lasted two hours from four stands, hitting American capi- talism. Resolutions and telegrams, de- manding freedom of the nine | Scottsboro Negro boys, were adopt- ed. The State Hunger March to | Lansing for May 27 was wildly | cheered. | * May 1 . PATERSON, N. Be- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ARREST CHILDREN CALLING STRIKE Jail Six for Leaflets at! Publie School NEW YORK.—A fourteen year old girl, and five boys, all under 19, were arrested yesterday at Public School 19 in Coney Island for distributing circulars calling out the school chil- dren to a May Day strike and urg- ing them to join the demonstration. The police were called by John J.| Esposito, principal of the school, after he had assaulted the young workers, and got the worst of it. Charges against the girl worker are “juvenile delinquency” and against the boys is “disorderly conduct.” Those arrested are: Ethel Zamos. 14° 291 Neptune Ave. Jack Kleid, 19, 2,944 W. 27th St, Leo Denzeloff, 17, 2,119 68th St. Solomon Leofrowitz, 18, 3,024 Con- ey Island Ave. David Perisley, 17, 3,171 Coney Is- | land Ave. Jacob Cooper, 16, 2,011 Lafontaine Ave., the Bronx, in Madrid union opposition filled the Lustgar- ten to overflowing. Workers marched, in six tremendous processions to the Lustgarten, carrying thousands of banners, flags, placards, slogans and caricatures, singing | revolutionary songs and shouting slogans. It was an enormous demonstration, with magnificent fighting spirit. Obser- vation of both demonstrations showed which party. leads the Berlin work- ers. At 5 p.m. Thaelmann and oth- ers’ addressed the masses from many platforms, whilst the square and side streets were crowded and big col- | umns were still marching up. Py sty | groups, revolutionary unions, sort; organizations, the Red Aid, woren workers, defens2 corps and Young | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVED Call for Fight on Hunger, Wage Cuts and Lynchings |3,200 Worker Ex-Servicemen March ~ More Than In Entire Fascist Parade; Union Square A Sea of Red Any City in the United States “Takes Line One Hour and Fifty Minutes to Enter Square; Workers Hold Perfect Discipline Throughout March BULLETIN, NEW YORK.—Crowds were po uring into the Bronx Coliseum lasi nights by thousands as the Daily Worker went to press, to attend the mas: meeting called by the Communist Party. Foster, Amter and others were e Negro proletarian neighbor- | to speak including Mrs. Patterson, mother of a Scottsboro defendant. May Day saw the mightiest demonstration of workers in New York City ever held in any city in the United States. It took one hour and fifty minutes for the ranks of the paraders to enter Union Square. Union Square was a ving sea of red banners. Thirty five thousand workers par- jaded and fifty thousand demonstrated in the Square proper. | Altogether, including those in the south side of Union Square park and on he side streets trying to get into the demonstra- tion but prevented by the police, 100,000 workers demonstrated. LONGSHOREMEN STRIKE IN DULUTH, 1,200 AT MEETING Led By MWIU, With Wobs, AFL Seabbing DULUTH, Minn., May 1—Twelve hundred strikers and sympathizers met on the docks of Sixth Ave., and pledged to carry on the struggle un- til the longshoremen’s victory was achieved, The men are determined that the 15 per cent wage cut that was imposed upon them shall be re- sented. The police at first forbade the workers from meeting, but. when over a thousand workers got together | they did not dare to interfere. ‘The men are sticking together un- der the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, in spite of all efforts of the police, the IWW, and the AFL to disrupt the ranks of the strikers. All three have been busy spreading rumors against the Trade Union Unity League to the effect that it was only a Communist organization, and was uninterested in winning higher wages for the work- ers, AFL Tries Strikebreaking ‘The A. F, of L. is seeking to get a foot-hold in order to betray the strike at the first, opportunity, They have resurrected the Freight Handlers Union No. 64 which came to an in- glorious death about six years ago. ‘The spokesman for this dead union claims that the AFL is organizing the. picket lines; when as a matter | of fact, no member-of the AFL can be found on the whole water front. Philip Raymond, Minneapolis iDs- trict Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, addressed the meeting. He denounced the TWW for its co- operation with the police, in their at- tempt to disrupt the ranks of the strikers, He called upon all the work- ers to carry on a united struggle with militant mass picketing as the only way to insure victory. He point- ed out the need of agreeing upon a set of demands and, also, of electing a rank and file strike committee to direct the struggle. The results of the meeting were soon apparent. The workers went on a picket line in fighting spirit, especially the young workers, are giv- ing a good account of themselves. ‘The day before there were about 25 scabs working. About half of them have been persuaded to quit. ‘The bosses maintain that they are paying the same wages that the be- ing paid to workers in Cleveland, Buffalo, and other ports. The strik- ers have been getting word that the workers in these ports are getting ready to fight shoulder to shoulder with the workers of Duluth and Su- perior, , GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! Only the organized power of the) working class can saye the political prisoners! Never had! such an’ ‘enthusiastic and militant demonstration and | march ever beeh seen’ itr New York Starting at 12:30 the woSkers formed | their ranks in Madisoni’ Square. It | took several hours forthe workers to arrive spl get ready {or tie long March Up 2HtEBtesOver to Seventy | Ave., then on to 388th St. and Eighth. | Ave. and down 16th St. to Unior Square, ‘ | Perfect discipline marked the for | mation of the parade. + The marc! was led by the United Front May Day Committee, followed by ths Young Communist League and, the» 30 other working-class ovganizations. | Fourteen bands took part in the march. There were thousands of banners with militant slogans against unemployment, against wage-cuts, lynching, against the imperialist war preparations; for the defense of the Soviet Union; for unity of Negro and white workers; for the’ immediate liberty ‘of the nine Negro. youths threatened with Jegal, lynching’ in Scottsboro 2 ‘ The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League had 3,200 ex-servicemen, in their ranks. Every organization tak- ing part showed splendid spirit Every worker: stuck in ‘the rariks. When. the march reached © Union Square .the streets were lined with tens of thousands of workers ‘The Young Pioneers Stood int line. since into Union Square after ing and cheering. While the social- ist parade. took five minutes to enter the square, tha mareh under the leadership ‘of the Communist Party lasted neatly two houts. é Not only was this the largest May. Day demonstration ever reen’ in, the United States, it was the most color- ful. working-class demonstration ever seen. ’ i As the workers marched ‘through the garment district and the work- ing-clags section of the West Side thousands cheered. “Long. live the Commiunist Party!” was heard from Scores of houses and windows. All the’ Workers taking part in the demonstration participated in the one-day strike. They afswered the call of the United Front May Day Committee to “Down Tools and Dem~- onstrate May Day!” When tens of thousands: of the marchers reached Union. Square the side streets were black with masses | of people. The police strove to hold them back, Despite this, thousands broke through the lines and joined the marchers. After this firs. sally of the spectators the police’ tightened their. lines and kept out the others who were pressing to enter the square, | The Needle Workers marched in singing, with solid ranks and many. Placards and banners. They had started their May First action at 7 a, m., with hundreds in as mass picket line at Needleman & Bremmer. dress shop, where the employer and the A. F. L. have an injunction against picketing. The gorillas could do nothing with so many. After picketing, the parade mareh- ed, growing block by block, through, the needle trades market all fore- | noon, and then on down to Madisor Square, still ready to march some | more. About 4 p.m the Union Square yconniNemn ON RAG SIVeS i é