The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1933, Page 1

Ea ee a ee = Afier May First the Saturday Daily will appear in6 PAGES. Special articles, fea- tures and exposures reviewing present struggles in every Saturday issue! matter at e Act @ ail Central Org (Section of the Communist International ) NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 1, 19 orker nist Party U.S.A. of —=2 Down with capitalism! Long live the proletarian revolution! Down with fascist dictatorship! Long live proletarian dictatorship! Long live Communism! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MAY DAY PARADE, DEMONSTRATION ON UNION SQUARE: TODAY! COLISEUM, ARCADIA HALL MEETS TONIGHT! Make Fables Insurance TWO NEW YORK MAY DAY le Central Slogan of May Day | No single great demonstration should take place without raising as the central point, the problems of the miliions of unemployed. Certainly, the May Day demonstrations throughout the country must have before | them this problem. The central slogan, therefore, on May Day is—Federal Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Insurance is a daily need of the American workers. What father has not been faced every morning with the worries of feeding his family, What mother has not been forced to watch her chil- dren go hungry many a day. What young man and woman who pace the aireets every day, forced to sleep on a park bench or flop house at night has not faced the problem of some security in the crisis. The answer to all these needs is to wrest from the capitalist class a means to live in the form of Unemployment Insurance. ‘The tremendous demonstrations of March 6, 1930, brought this issue forward before the masses throughout the country. A million and a quarter workers were then on the streets shouting their demand for Un- employment Insurance. Since then two National hunger marches have taken place. These delegations to Washington representing millions of unemployed have placed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill before Congress. But the government has received it with utter disregard, ignoring the welfare of the working class. It knows full well that the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill aims to gain for the workers a means to live at the expense of the bosses and the government. In place of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, other mea- sures are proposed with the intention of destroying a unified movement tor federal unemployment insurance. From some of the state governments, to the American Federation of Labor down to the Socialists, all have found a new sudden interest in “unemployment insurance.” With what purpose? To destroy a unified movement of the working class for the demand of federal unemployment insurance—for the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. The Unemployed Councils and other militant organizations have in recent struggles, not brought forward sufficiently this central point. On the contrary, it must be recorded that in many militant struggles in- yolving thousands of workers, the question. of. Unemployment: Insurance has been of secondary importance. The May Day demonstrations in every city must bring forward as a central slogan—Federal Unemployment Insurance. In the demonstrations, in the meetings, in the remarks of the speakers, the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill must be made popular. The May Day demonstrations must add new incentive towards de- veloping a wide struggle involving millions of unemployed. The working class is determined to fight against the hunger program of Roosevelt— to fight for Federal Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government. 1919-1933: The Fight for Tom Mooney’s Liberation ‘HE “Free Tom Mooney Congress” which opened in Chicago yesterday is a milestone in the fight to free Tom Mooney and all the class war prisoners. Congress convenes almost immediately after the abortive “new trial” for Mooney which the California jailers called off, fearing the effect that an inevitable acquittal on the unused indictment against Mooney would have on the movement to free the famous labor prisoner now serving his seventeenth year in San Quentin penitentiary. “The ‘Mooney Congress’ will be a great step in the fight for my freedom,” Mooney declared when, over his own signature, he issued the call for a united front struggle on his behalf. Judging by early reports of the credentials committee, the composition of the Congress shows to what an extraordinary extent a GENUINE UNITED FRONT of labor has de- veloped on this issue. Hundreds of unions, labor and fraternal organiza- tions from scores of centers throughout the U. 8. have elected delegates to the Congress. The notorious nature of the frame-up against Mooney— now known to workers in every corner of the world—coupled with the increasing radicalization of the masses has resulted in this impressive united front action. In this connection, one must not lose sight of the important fact that this unity of the workers on the Mooney issue was achieved in spite of conscious and systematic sabotage by the leadership of both the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party. ‘HE action of the A. F. of L. officialdom in seeking to wreck united front action of their members justifies every charge against the A. F. of L. bureaucracy contained in Tom Mooney’s devastating pamphlet, “Labor Leaders Betray Tom Mooney.” So obvious has the treachery of these offi- cials become to the rank-and-file, however, that some of t#e most con- servative local unions of the A: F. of L. have elected delegates to the Mooney Congress. The Socialist Party leadership has even a blacker record than the A, F. of L. officialdom—if that is possible. First rejecting the bid for unity in the fight for Mooney on the ancient charge that it is “a Comnitnist maneuver”, the national secretary of the S. P., Clarence Senior, makes his contribution to the fight for Mooney by declaring that Mooney was “expelled from the Socialist Party because of his use of violence”, and concludes by repeating with approval the frame-up charges of the Cali- fornia untility interests that “Mooney is a dynamiter”. The best answer to the vile treachery of the Socialist Party leader- ship is the presence of scores of rank and file delegates at theMooney | Congress. The wave of anger and contempt which swept over the work- ets upon the publication of Senior’s police charges should stir the rank and file delegates from working class organizations at the “Continental Congress” due to convene in Washington soon under 8. P.-A. F. L. lead- ership to demand the repudiation of this contemptible alliance with the murderous California frame-up crew. ‘These delegates, at the same time, should fight for affiliation with the Mooney Congress—to be a perma- nent body—as the only effective national force in the fight for Mooney’s ‘Mberation. * | asian phot years ago—in 1940—in Congress. Facing then the same criminal sabotage of the Socialist Party— A. F. L. leadership, the Congress nevertheless mobilized masses of workers in the struggle which was decisive in saving Mooney from the hangman’s noose in San Quentin. Today—while millions of workers throughout the world are denion- strating against the system of hunger,and war which breeds frame-ups— the Mooney Congress In Chicago opens the wey for = mess campaign Chicago, was heli the first Mooney | | York and chairman of the Coliseum | CELEBRATIONS TONIGHT FOLLOWING BIG PARADES | NEW YORK.—Workers’ clubs, fraternal organizations and trade unions | are calljng on their membership to attend en masse the’ May First celebra- | tions arranged by the New York District of the Communist Party for tonight | at 7:30 p. m,, at the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th St., and at the Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey St. (near Broadway), Brooklyn. | All Brooklyn workers’ organizations have directed their membership to attend the meeting at Arcadia Hall ¢— | and in Manhattan and the Bronx| Candidate for vice-president on the} organizations are calling upon their} Comunist ticket during the last elec- members to go to the Bronx Coli-| tions. Henry Shepard of the Trade| seum. Union Unity Council will be chair- | Carl Winter, Secretary of the Un-| an. Nell Carrol will speak for the) s 7 ear ,| Young Communi ague. employed Councils of Greater New Colorful Program at Both Meetings | meeting, yesterday issued a call to|, The program arranged for tonight's all Councils to attend this celebration | 0 Celebrations is unusually attrac- as a “testimonial to the Communist| tive. Variety in costumes and light- Party that the Unemployed Councils | 198 effects will make the presentation accept the leadership of the Com-|® treat to the audience. The Artef munists in the fight against Roose-|D@nce Group will perform, with the velt's starvation program and for|SSsistance of the Red Front Band Unemployment and Social Insur-|8%d the cooperation of the Workers | ance.” | Music apres wie is eigen’ aoe . . |@ Mass chorus. le pageant at the News of World Demonstrations | Bronx Coliseum will include hundreds News of the demonstrations in all|of dancers of various dance groups | parts of the country and throughout | affiliated to the Workers Dance the world wil be given at both the|League. Tt will depict the struggles | Brooklyn and the Bronx meetings. | of the American and German workers M. Olgin, editor of the “Morning |against terror, Fascism, Hunger and | Freiheit,” and Charles Alexander, di-|War and on the other hand the rector of Agitation and Propaganda|achieverents of the Proletariat of| of the New York District of the Com-|the Soviet Union under the first and | munist Party, will speak at the Bronx| second Five Year Plans. A mass nae WORKERS! CLOSE RANKS IN UNITED STRUGGLE ON HUNGER, WAR, FASCISM NEW YORK.—Under pressure of the united masses, the | Police Department was compelled to grant a permit yesterday | for the May Day parade and demonstration to the United Front |May Day Committee. | But the Police Department in cooperation with the Socialist \leaders is attempting to disorganize the united front demon- | stration by issuing the permit for the parade for 2 p. m. from | uptown, 6th Avenue and 39th St., instead of 12 o'clock as ap- plied for by the Committee, ¢ re st {and agreed to by Chief In- | spector O’Brien. The May Day! Committee realizes this at- | |tempt to keep the parade from | marching through the Needle Trades | market during lunch hour when ; those workers who are compelled to | work on May First will have their | opportunity to greet the army of marching revolutionary workers. The committee sent the following tele- | gram to Chief Inspector O'Brien: | “United Front May Day Commit- tee finds permit form for uptown division parade in error. Our appli- cation calls for startng at noon not 2 p.m. We insist marching thru | needle trades. market during lunch | | hour, We will arrive at reviewing | stand 15th steet and Fourth Ave., 2 The Front J Com- is an a plane along and to circle ng from the this his- will have a r on each amittee the chairman of | meeting will be M Every marcher is unde: tion and order of the ¢ unit, every captain under the column Union Square cherer. the direce Coliseum, The key note of the meet- ing, however, will be struck by Jack Stachel; Assistant Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, who will sneak in the name of the Central|Band will furnish the music for the Committee of fhe Communist Party.| pageant. The main speaker at Arcadia Hall’ will be James W. Ford, Negro worker, 30 cents. chorus of 400 voices will be furnished by the Workers Music League, in.co- operation with various singing groups. The Workers International Relief Admission to both meetings will be May Day Mobilization MOBILIZE, 11 A.M. MARCH AT NOON. UPTOWN DIVISION—Bryant Pk. from 4th to 6th Avenues. COLUMN 1—All Needle Trades, 89th Street. Column 2—All Other Trades, Unit 1—Food Workers (AF. F.W.LU.) 2—Buillding Trades 3—Shoe and Leather 4—Metal 5—Offieo 6—Furniture 7—Medical Groups 8—Printers Laundry 10—Building Maintenance 11—Barbers and Hairdressers 12—Jewelers 13—Papermakers 14—Transport Workers 15—Dollmakers 16—Cleaners and Dyers 17—Tobacco Workers 18—Teachers 19—Miscellaneous COLUMN: 3—Fraternal Organizations, 37th Street Unit 1—1. w. 0. 2—Workmen’s Circle Branches COLUMN 4—Youth and Cultural Organiza- tions, 36th Street Unit 1—Sports 2—¥PSL, YCL, ete. 8—German Youth 4—John Reed Clubs Federation 5—Pen and Hammer 6—Workers Laboratory Theatre | | | COLUMN 5—1. Mari | COLUMN 6—Language Organizations, Gou- verneur and Jones Lane | DOWNTOWN DIV.: SOUTH STREET COLUMN 2 oeeberee Comneils, Cuylers Alley ‘Unit 1—Manhattan and Harlem 2—Bronx | 3—Brooklyn COLUMN 2—Marine and Transport Workers Union of the I.W.W., Coenties Slip gem 3—Broad Street int it 1—Conf, for Progressive Labor rea 2—Lndustrial Workers of the World 3—Vanguard COLUMN 4—Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Old Si ‘Union, Moore Street %. Waterfront Unemployed | Council 3. Anti-Imperialist League. Unit 1—Italian Anti-Faseist Aetion Com- mittee and other ItaHan Grouys Anti-Fascist and other organizations Russians and Potish 3—Finns 4—Ukrainians, 5—Lithuanians 6—Hungarians 7—Icor and Paclie Zion ‘Turks and Remanians 10—Crecho-Sl 11—Armenians 12—Fsthonians 18—Lettish iP | Workers Industrial I—Professional Groups 8—Artef COLUMN 5—85th Street Unit 1—Socialist Party Branches 2—Scottsboro Auxiliaries, Depeyster and Pine Streets COLUMN &—Jobn Street, Fletcher Street and Maiden Lane Unit 1—Workers School 2—Cooperative 3—Opposition Groups 4—Jewish Workers Clubs 5—English Workers Ciabs | | F—Irish Groups | 3—Miscellaneous oF. 8. U. PUBLIC WORKS CUT BY | ROOSEVELT; SALES TAX; NEW ATTACKS ON TOILERS ‘WASHINGTON, April 30.—In rapid succession the Roosevelt pre-clec- tion “promises” are being thrown to the winds. As late as March 4, in his inaugural speech, with the usual Roosevelt bombast, he said, “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.” Following 2 White House conference yesterday it was disclosed that the president intends to disregard his “public works program.” To cut it down to a minimum, ‘This is done in order to balance the budget. But to do this a sales tax on such needs as coffee and tea 1s proposed. Lewis W. Douglass, Dir- ector of the Budget suggests further reduction in government expenses. ‘This will involve, firstly increased taxation to burden the workers, Sec- ondly, department cuts involving a further attack on salaries of the poorly paid federal employees and completely eliminate many who still PRE O RESCRTNSG V ETNI labor hating National Association of Manufacturers. The manufacturers want to abolish the anti-trust law. ‘Though this law never meant any- thing in practice, they want to abol- ish it officially. This is done with the pretense of helping to “stimulate What it really amounts to, is fur- ther concentration of industry which can make more attacks on workers’ wages and conditions, This announcement is another card in the “new deal.” A deal and Mike Pesul. $2,000 bail each. Their trials are to come up in the next term of the county Toilers! Establish With Your Own Hands the Revolutionary Unity of the Working Class The proletariat will restore revolutionary junity as a class by extensive mass strikes against wage cuts and for increased pay by the struggle for the 7 hour day without wage- cuts, for immediate aid for unemployed, for social insurance at the expense of the capital- ists. The proletariat will strengthen and ex- tend its unity in the political arena by its po-| litical actions against fascist terror and in de-| fense of its press, its political rights and class organization. The proletariat will widen its revolution- ary front and include basic masses of the farm- ers by its valiant defense of the demands of ruined farmers, by a struggle for immediate assistance for them at the expense of the large landholders and capitalists, by the struggle for the annulment of debts and for the exemption of farmers from taxation. | The Communist International operly an- nounces to the millions of workers of the whole world that there cannot be genuine working class unity without a struggle for the violent overthrow of the whole existing capitalist ord- er, i the establishment of proletarian dictat- orship. ; * * * Go into the streets. Demonstrate against capitalism, against fascism and war! —FROM THE MAY ist MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL, Win at Monaca Mine for two weeks returned victorious. They elected their own checkweighman. Four strike leaders were arrested on the Cedar Grove picket line last Friday. They, are Jack Stuart, Avella District organizer of the National Miners Union and secretary of the strike committee, Frank Hurtz, Harry Boswell, who. was released only a - - short time ago after serving an 18 is helping the coal operators to break months’ sentence from the 1931 strike, | the strike. The arrest of the militant leaders was caused as a result of their participation in the mass picket lines. These picket lines turned back teabs who were brought to work by the union officials and mine bosses. The reactionary trade union offi- ‘They are framed up on charges of “malicious mischief” and held on ‘work. against the workers, to starve them But the government which olubs| and maintain the big. profits of the ‘workers’ hes befoze % a] bosses who own amd enevtwel flee gov- mneesuve for ection by the! ernment, Bort vane) aA of the U.M.W.A. are - court. ©. Mind a, ie Te is 1 a | blocks from Union Square meeting after its adjournment at 3:30 Stop We agree to halt at this point (15th | St. and 4th Ave.) in event of earlier arrival. All plans are made in ac- cordance with this prior agreement. United Front May Day Committee.” | marshalls and the column marshalis | under the field marshall, and the vhole demons’ parade un- ‘der the direct ion and in- | structions of the Committee of ‘nine of the United Front May Day Com- } mittee. 1,200 AT ‘FR EE MOONEY CONGRESS’ MAP CAMPAIGN TO FORCE HIS RELEASE Delegates Cheer Plea to Fight for Mooney’s Freedom at United Front Chicago Meet CHICAGO, April 30.—Amidst rousing cheers by 1,200 dele- gates from all parts of the Unit Tom Mooney Congress was open ed States and Canada, the Free ed here yesterday by John Wer- | lick, Chairman of the Chicago Mooney Conference. Concluding his opening remarks, Werlick appealed to the Mooney Congress to smashing blows against the| Mooney frame-up. Tremendous applause greet-| ed Louis B. Scott, Mooney’s personal representative, who reported his per- sistent invitations to the leaders of strike®- Minor, Communist Party; William L, Patterson, International Labor De- jfense; Robert Morss Lovett, League | for Industrial Democracy . B. Mat- thews, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Roger Baldwin, American Civil Liber~ ties Union; A. J. Muste, Conference for Progressive Labor Action; George PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 30.—In Monaca the miners who were on strike | responsible breaking the strte in tive Atlas Smirk, National Secretary YPS.1L.; Louis B, Scott, Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee; Ralph Chaplin, < |L.W.W.; John Werlick, Chairman es ay eke dee oe acta Se | Chicago Mooney Conference, member sade rine bert : | Metal Polishers Union; Benjamin El- | Stressing the need for unity with | isberg, Plasterers Union, San Fran- jall honest elements in the fight to | cisco; Charles Blome, Molders Union |free Mooney, Scott placed the blame | of gt. Louis; Alex Praser, Progressive ; the Socialist Party and the Ameri- | can Federation of Labor to send del- egates, but who again betrayed Moo- |for the absence of A. F. of L. and | Miners of America; Mrs. Celina Bur- Socialist Party delegates squarely on | rel], Women’s Auxiliary, P, M. A. the shoulders of the leaders of these | Johnstone, Trade Union Unity Leas organizations. | gue; Wm, Leader, Full Fashion Hos- The following were proposed for the | iery, Philadelphia; Farley, Vice Presi- Congress Presiding Committee, and|dent Brotherhood Firemen and En were unanimously elected: ginemen; Moore, N.A.A.C.P., of Chi~ Clarence Hathaway and Robert | cago. Scottsboro Boys’ Own Story of Jail Abuse BULLETIN, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 30.—Negro and white workers fought off attacks of police here today and held a mass meeting im front of the Standard Theatre to demand release of the Scottsboro boys. 3,000 held = | second meeting in the South Side following the first struggle, (Special to the Daily Worker.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 30.—The first authentic report of what actually oceurred in the Jefferson County jail in connection with what the capttalist press maliciously described as the “Soottshoro Mutiny” on Thar dey and Friday became available today, when Irving Schwab, attorney for the International Labor Defense, visited the Negro boys i thelr cage @m the eighth floor of the prison, oe ---- | Abused in Prison, , Thursday afternoon when the boyw | fhe framed-up Scottsboro defend-| learned that visitors had been | | 2 ; | ants told Schwab that they had been! barred and that their mail wes not | receiving particular abuse at the| being turned over to them, hands of a guard named Dement.) Scores of Negro and white ‘They had objected to the use of the HE seg ae J to the word im referring to them | vist and Sar ae a NE }