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Empty Phrases and Reactionary Deeds Once again the Socialist leaders reveal themselves as misleaders who cover up reactionary actions with Socialist words. The May Day Manifesto of the Socialist Party says, “We must join with our brothers in all parts of the world, fighting the vicious attacks against the working class.” The deeds and actions of the Socialist Party have demonstrated that this call for unity is a sham. It replies to the call for a united May Day demonstration with a let- ter from Julius Gerber to the Tammany police to “keep the Communists from Union Squéfe.” It replies to a call for united struggle against fascism by being proud of the “defiance of Otto Wels,” the German Social-Democratic leader who boasted in the Reichstag that German capitalism never could have been restored after the war if it were not for the Social-Democratic Party. It replies to a call for united struggle to free Tom Mooney with « determined sabotage of the Mooney Congress, called by Tom Mooney him- self, and it expels rank and file Socialist members who dare to answer the call for unity. With hypocritical effrontery, Clarence Senior declares in one breath “We had to expel Tom Mooney from the Socialist Party because he ad- voeated violence and the.use of dynamite,” and then affixes his name to the May Day Manifesto of the Socialist Party which says, “We send our greetings to Tom Mooney and call on all workers to fight for his freedom.” ‘The May Day Manifesto of ihe Socialist Party has not one word to sey about the first Workers Government in the world. It ignores the Soviet Union completely. Capitalist preparations for intervention against the Soviet Union grow fiercer every day. ‘The sinister provocation of. British wreckers, the anti-Soviet provocations of French and Japanese imperialism, all point to the ever-growing threat of capitalist intervention. Yet the Socialist Party in its May Day Manifesto refuses to issue a call for the defense of the Soviet Union. But this silence on their part cannot cover their hatred for the Soviet | Union. The real attitude of the Socialist Party towards the Soviet Union ie expressed in an editorial published in the April 30 issue of the “for- ward.” It says: “The Berlin correspondent of the well-known English liberal paper, the “Manchester Guardian,” reports that the radical workers of Germany who hate war as death itself, are anxious for a new war because they think that war would weaken the Hitler dictatorship. Weapons would fall into the hands of the workers and they would use hese weapons against their present oppressors. “A similar mood prevails also among a large section of the Rus- ian workers, especially among the masses of the Russian peasants whom Stalin has turned into slaves.” ‘Thus, in the opinion of the Forward, the Soviet Government op- presses the Russian workers in the same manner that Hitler's. fascism oppresses the German masses. When the Forward says that the work- ers and peasants of the Soviet Union are enslaved and ready with arms to overthrow the Soviet Government, it is a call to world imperialism for intervention against the Soviet Union. ‘The Communist International in its May Day Manifesto, correcily ealied the attention of the workers of the world to the role of the Second International as an “organizer of armed intervention against the Soviet Union.” ‘The May Day Manifesto of the Socialist Party calls upon the workers to fight against the “menace of dictatorship.” This Socialist Party, whose leaders, Thomas and Hillquit, congratulated Roosevelt for his swift action in the interest of the bankers—those Socialist leaders who hailed Hinden- burg as the great Democrat—those Socialist leaders.who-are proud of the German Social-Democratic leaders who have completely surrendered to fascism—speak of the “menace of dictatorship.” When they speak of the menace of dictatorship, they do not speak of the menace of the fascist dictatorship, they speak of the menace to the bourgeoisie coming from the proletarian dictatorship. It is against this “menace” which the Socialist leaders fight. - < The Socialist leaders issue a call “For Socialism,” but the Socialist leaders do not in their May Day Manifesto tell the workers that in order to build Socialism they must first overthrow capitalism. The Communist International, in its May Day Manifesto, openly declares to, the, millions of workers of thé world, “That there’ cannot be genuine working class unity without a struggle for the violent overthrow of the whole existing capitalist order, for the establishment of the proletarian dictatorship.” Socialist workers! We invite you to compare the May Day Manifesto of the Communist International with the May Day Manifesto of the So- cialist Party. Your own struggles against capitalist misery will show you which is the right road. va ues - Police Bombs On May Day LICE provocation! This is the only possible explanation for the bomb explosions re- ported yesterday from Chicago, where an army of police was mobilized to terrorize the gigantic May Day parade and demonstration in the city where the “Free Tom Mooney Congress” is now meeting. With sensational streamers the size of box-car type and scare-heads, fase capitalist press of the entire country joined eagerly,in the police con- wpiracy against the workers demonstrating on May Day. Police agents planted the bombs in Chicago. Of this there can be no doubt. (Did not a planted bomb put Tom Mooney out of the way for the California utility interests in 1916?) Through this they hope to justify iny possible murderous attack on the May Day demonstration. Machine guns, rifles, tear gas and all the terror-apparatus of the capitalist govern- ment were not only on hand, but were ostentatiously displayed in every big center of the United States. The capitalists, through their police agents, strive to discredit the Communist Party which organized the huge demonstrations against hunger, war and for Unemployment Insurance throughout the country yesterday. . * * Chicago bombs could easily have been predicted. There is no doubt that newspapermen were “tipped off” about the bombs long before they ‘.ere due to explode or be “discovered.” These May Day activities | of the police are an inevitable feature in connection with workers’ mass H demonstrations. Just recall: 1. The Wail Street explosion several years ago. Nobody was ever ap- prehended or convicted for this outrage. 2. During the height of the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation bombs were “found” in New York subways. Details were significantly missing. 3. Former Police Commissioner Whalen of the anti-Soviet forged document fame—during the preparations for the famous March 6 Union Square demonstration in 1930—discovered something on his own when he announced that a box of dynamite was missing from the Eighth Avenue subway construction. Curiously enough, the dynamite failed to explode as per schedule. 4. More recently, New York police announced they had found bombs wrapped in newspapers featuring the Scottsboro case. Here, too, details were absent. These stupid devices of the police will deceive no one! . ° . we see that police “discoveries” of bombs follow a well-established routine. As in Chicago yesterday, the bombs go off and several persons ave at once arrested as “suspects.” The whole incident is soon forgotten after the event which made it necessary has passed—until the next oeeasion. Meanwhile, of course, the capitalist press takes full advantage of the mtwation to whip wp a frenzy against the workers demonstrating in the mercets. Police in the United States “discover” bombs on May Day. Police in the hire of the German Nazis “discover” fires in the Reichsteg. which they try to lay to the Communists. Recent events and revelations by the Manchester Guardian and other publications have proved conclusively that the Nazis deliberately set fire to the Reichstag for the purpose of discrediting the Communist Party of Germany. It is well-known that the Communists are unalterably opposed to in- @ividual violence. No effort—however frenzied—on the part of the bosses’ potiee and their prostitute press will succeed in linking these dastardly bomb provocations with the Communist Party, militant leader of the American working class. Attention all Party Members|ncedle industry will take working in the Needle| place Wednesday at 8 P.M. at Trades: Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. An emergency general frac-| Fourth Street. All Party tion meeting of all Party;members are requested to at- members working im thejtend, by order of the district. \ “a Daily Central O (Section of the ist Party U.S. Communist International ) orker A. Y TWO SECTIONS SECT ION ONE Vol. X, No. 105 <g> MeNew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 2, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933 wn. Scottsboro March Committee at the White House Today Call to Arrange Presentation of Bill of Civil Rights to Roosevelt April 8 | NEW YORK.—A committee will call at the White House today for the purpose of making an appointment with President Roosevelt to meet rep- resentatives of the Scottsboro Marchers on May 8, who will present the Bill of Civil Rights demanding the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amend- ments, at the same time calling for boro boys. | The cotmmittee which will call upon Louis Howe, secretary to Roosevelt, is composed of Frank Spector, as- sistant secretary of the International Labor Defense; Maud White, of the Tfaue Union Unity Council of New York; Samuel Patterson of the Car- ribean Union; Rey. James W. Brown Brodsky At Meet To Protest Jail Terror NEW YORK. — A mass protest meeting against the brutal treatment of the Scottsboro Boys by the Alabama prison guards will be held tomorrow night in Harlem at the Mother Zion AM.E. Church, 140 West 137th St., at 8 pm. The main speaker will be Joseph Brodsky, Chief of the International Labor Defense Legal Staff and one of the attorneys at the Decatur trial. Other speakers at the meeting, which is under the auspices of the Harlem Liberator, aré Rev. S. W. Brown of the Mother Zion Church; Herman McKawain of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Maud White of the Harlem Liberator Staff and Wil- liam Fitzgerald, organizer of the Har- lem Branch of the International Labor Defense. the immediate release of the Scotts- se : |of Grand United Order of Odd Fel- lows; Rev. J. W. Brown of. the Mother Zion Church and treasurer of the National Scottsboro Action Committee; William N. Jones, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American, and Elinor Mish, of Hagerstown, Md. In connection with the Scottsboro march, the program of action in- cludes: 1. Telegrams to pastors of lead- ing Negro churches, asking them to | urge their congregations to join the march. The telegrams declare*that “attacks upon the Scottsboro boys in- their cells, covered by a false charge of ‘mutiny’, make quick ac- tion essential.” 2. Designation of May 2 and 3 as “Scottsboro days”. A house to house canvass will be made in Har. lem and other sections «to recruit marchers and secure food and sup- plies for the trek. 3, Sending a fle tala of promi- nent Negro and: white 1 to Washington, D. C., early this week to arrange with President Roosevelt for an appointment with representa- tives of the marchers on May 8. 4, Securing marchers and support from the hundred odd organizations represented in the National Scotts- boro Action Committee, Rank-and-File United Actions to Force Police Threaten “Free — Tom Mooney Congress” Front Meet Considers Mooney’s Release CHICAGO, May 1.—Using the bomb plot provocations as an excuse, Chicago police today threatened to interfere with the “Free Tom Mooney Congress” now being held here with more than 1,000 delegates in attendance. Among proposals considered to further the fight to free Mooney was a CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents May Day Demonstrations Circle the World WOR re LV) MA, NEWS FLASHES The following cable has just been received from Moscow, _USSR,: “Proletarian May Day Greetings to the Communist Party of U.S.A. and to the Food Workers Indusirial Union, organizer of the united front of the workers for the struggle against capitalism and fascist terror. Greetings to our com- rade food workers. “(Signed) THE CAFETERIA WORKERS GROUP IN THE FIRST BALL BEARING PLANT IN MOSCOW.” = * * BERLIN, May 1.—Revolutionary workers defied the Nazi effort to stifle May Day as the symbol of proletarian solidarity and class struggle; the fascist police arrested more than 2,000 workers. SAMPLE’ TOILERS O'BRIEN SPEECH BERLIN, May 1.—All the resources of Nazi propaganda were mobilized) to stage a huge circus in Berlin to-| |day. Hitler addressed a huge crowd) NEW YORK.—The “President Day” meeting in Prospect Park w: addressed by Mayor O'Brien. the airport,! More than 100,000 worker 100,000 DEMONSTRATE IN UNION SQUARE; TENS OF THOUSANDS IN 2 HUGE PARADES PART OF WORLDWIDE MEETS: SOCIALIST WORKERS REMAIN IN SQ. FOR UNITED FRONT rs were jammed in and around Union Square early* yesterday evening, as the Daily Worker went to press, in one of the greatest May Day demonstrations in the history of New York labor. Tens of thousands lined the streets through the working Using the occasion for an attack on the Moonéy” Clubs in hundreds of cities, and marches and demonstrations. Mooney, who was framed in connec- tion with the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco in 1916, in which ten persons were killed, 's serving a life sentence in San Quen- tin Prison, California. Delegates of the Congress marched in-the huge Ilay Day parades and will join in the mass meeting tonight in the Chicago Stadium. Speakers listed included Robert Minor, Com- 15000 IN RACTOAN DvuViviy MAY DAY MEET '300 Hunger Marchers Are Greeted BOSTON Mass., May 1.—Fifteen thousand workers poured into Boston Common in an uproarious May Day greeting to the 300 Hunger March- ers who arrived here today. Con- verging on Boston Common from all parts of the state three columns of Hunger Marchers joined the May Day demonstration of the Boston workers. The workers endorsed the demands of the Hunger Marchers and elected a delegation to proceed with the marchers to the State House to present the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insrance Bill and demands for immediate relief. As we go to press the May, Day demonstration on Boston Common is} still in progress. Chairman of the demonstration is J. McCarthy, secre- tary of the Trade Union . Unity League. The speakers are Ludfelt, leader of the Quincy Unemployed; Thompson, of the Boston Unem- ployed Council; Sparks, of the Com- munist Party; Weber, of the Hunger March Committeé, and speakers from the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and the Young Communist League. Resolutions were adopted demand- ing the freedom of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys and a telegram national strike of all werkers for one hour. Organization of “Free Tom © munist Party; William L. Patterson, national secretary of the Interna- tional Labor Defense; Roger Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union; “Mother” Bloor, of the United Farmers League; Prof. Robert Morse Lovett, of the University of Chicag faculty. in Tempelhofer Field, while “ai army of Nazis marched} through the streets behind Swastika | flags. “Sample” workers were! brought to Berlin by eight airplanes) from various ports of the Reich, and put up in swanky hotels, while noth- ing is done to keep the masses from starving. Bonfires and torchlight parades fillsd the streets. workers, he said that “there will be| organized just a grand army of patri- otic men and women.” This army the mayor wants to help his Tammany sluggers to break demonstrations and beat up workers. The meeting was attended by the American Legion. The mayor de- plored that every student has not yet received military training By JOHN L. SPIVAK NEW YORK.—The more than 20,- 000 who had listened to the Social- | ist speakers in Union Square refused |to disperse at the conclusion of the addresses. Thirty mounted police drove their horses into the crowds, but the thickly packed men and women only overflowed onto the side- walks, driving’ the patrolmen against the walls of the police inspection stand on the north side of the square. With the coming of the Communist. paraders sixty mounted police drove into the orderly crowd and took their Sept in a circle to hem in the spec- ators. 3 4 All around the Square: thousands of men and women. sought to ap- proach near enough to hear the speakers, but couid not break through the dense crowd. Police on horse- back and on foot completely sur- rounded. the Square. © f Windows of the buildings surround- ing the Square were black with spee- tators. ; The marching columns, with red flags and banners waving and bands blaring the “International,” moved in orderly fashion towards Union Square. From the heart. of the millinery and furrier districts ‘south and from the waterfronts on South: Street north, traffic was completely. tied up in the line of march. Ten thousand times the number of those who marched lined. the streets and the curbs to watch them, and thousands of others leaned out of windows staring at the men and women—-and in some columns, chil- of greeting was. sent to the Tom Mooney Congress in Chicago by the demonstratorr » dren—swinging along, singing their “Marching Columns---Red F lags FE lying” play of working class power. Thousands lined the streets around Union Square. The slogans of the demonstrators were: For Federal Unemployment | Insurance; for Freedom of Scotts- | bero Boys and Tom Mooney; | Against Hunger, Fascism and War; | for the Defense of the Soviet Union; for the Proletarian Revolu- tion; for the Classless Socialist So- | ciety! | Some 5,000 Socialist workers and union members remained in Union _|Square for the United Front demon- stration. As the banner of the United Front May Day Committee was car- ried into the square to the strains of the “Internationale” hundreds of Socialist workers raised their clenched fists in the “Red Front” salute. | As we go to press news of many | actions of Socialist and A. F. of L.| workers joining the United Front demonstration at Union Square, de- | spite the Socialist leaders attempts to prevent, is coming in, Members of the | Union, an A. F. of L. union, joined with the Food Workers Industrial Union, marching together to the Square. Three locals of the International Bakers Union, No. 507, 505 and-7 after having been in the socialist pa- rade joined in the united front dem- onstration as the parade came by. | Members of three A. F. L. building trades locals also joined in with the united front demonstration. A red velvet banner with the-por- trait of Lenin was unfurled behind the speakers’ stand, with five workers | in the gray uniforms of the Red Front Fighters holding giant red flags to! the left of the stand. AT NAZI MAY DAY ATTACKS TOILERS 4 ces! sit" ats s massed in front of the speakers’ | stand stretching from Fourth Avenue to Broadway. | The Red airplane of. Col. Julian, the Negro aviator, circled over the square in salute to May Day. Marcel Scherer, chairman of the May Day demonstration, opened the meeting by outlining the political significance of May Day for the work- ing class. “If the workers of America continue their fight, we shall have | with us at our next May Day dem- |onstration Tom Mooney.” This was greeted with thunderous applause. Thousands of marching workers |surround Union Square on all sides, 's between ‘Fifth and Sixth Avenues the thousands between the two ave-| office windows to stare at them. the scheduled hour. They were | adjoining streets they heard the cry smiling, gay groups. A holiday’spirit) and more thousands picked up the pervaded all of the side streets, yet) words. over all of the laughter there was a| The clattering of the elevated was grimness, a determination. Periodi-| qrowned in the song. Com- cally groups would burst into songs, | Fall in line, “Close ranks! raising their fists. “Taken Over the Streets” I “Jeez, what a mob,” one patrolmen jin the hot sun, relaxing, wai rades!” ‘The thousands who had stood about sure taken over these streets.” trained soldiers. On-the sidewalks where the march-| Fists clenched, with set, grim faces, ers congregated black and white spec- they moved out of the hedged in taters in some areas stood ten deep.|area. Mounted patrolmen pulled on It was almost impossible to walk along the reins to get their horses out of to the half vacant. stores. Busines: | the way. in these areas hich kept open de-| Where the Seamen Were spite the holiday was forced to a| Down where the seamen were, standstill by the crowds. | under the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge, At precisely one o'clock, while police | with the tenement h s of the East Side visible in the cands upon thou the hour to merch, and pushed sidewalk spectators back to | low the curb to kee them from overflow- | tan ing into the vtrests, and the windows | waited fo were biack with those poering upon | they, too, with the band playing “the the gay streets brilliant with banners, | International” and fists upraised, flags, armbands and red blouses, the | started towards the Square. y band in the first of the sections struck} It seemed like a tidal wave, inex- | up the International. The sea of |orable, moving onward. The police | painted slogans swept forward: stood on the sidelines, redfaced and | “Demand Unemployment Insur- | perspiring. ance!” Right Up Breadway “Free the Scottsboro boys!” Up Broadway they came, and the | “Free Tom Mooney!” deep canyons lined by the towerlng “Defend the Soviet Union; Agginst | office buildings se ed to have b Fascist Terror.” completely taken “The International” ers, Street cars and auton ‘An elevated train thundered on the |tied up. As far es the ej Se Sixth Avenue “L.” A roar of voices|there was a sitaight, broad line of raised in song: banners and flags, and the brilile “Arise, ye prisoners of staryation—-” | red blouses of women marchers. Their The song rese as it gathered mo- | voices thunslered in their songs, revolutionary songs. Pe The paraders were hedged ini mentum, It spread up the strects as » from 36th to 39th’Streets; waiting for | nues picked up the words. In the! jraised their voices as they passed | Amalgamated Food Workers | | class sections, joining with the marchers in the militant dis- stretching along Broadw: Avenue and reaching west on Four- teenth Street further than the eye can see. The whole region is dom- inated by Red May Day, by the spirit of solidarity in proletarian struggle. A rank and file contingent of the A. F. L. in the Socialist parade, con- sisting of two bakers locals, Local 505 and 79 and Mineral Waters Union 131, shouted, “We want a United Front, “Long Live the Communist Party,” and “Defend the Soviet Union.” The marshal at the head of this contin- gent was Comrade Sunshine, a mili- tant rank and file worker. The con- tingent marched past 15th Street towards 16th Street, shouting again, “We want a United Front.” They were, however, stopped by Socialist officials, who, with the aid ofthe police, backed them into 15th Street lin the Socialist parade, over the. pro- tests of the rank and file, who wanted to join the United Front at Bryant Park. Some of the signs carried by mem- bers of Local 505 read, “We bake bread, but we suffer starvation,” and “We demand the freeing of Tom Mocney @fid the Scottsboro boys.” | Local 79 followed immediately after, and the heads of this section of the | contingent, when interviewed, agreed | with Loeal.505.as to a United Front. | Local 13t of the Mineral Waters Union followed, with the band playing “The International,” although the neral march hymn was the Mar- seillaise.” Other Socialist bands felt |inspired to play “Columbia, the Gem | of the Ocean.” The workers in the Socialist parade eagerly took the leafi handed to them by the United Front May Day Committee. Following the adjournment of the | Socialist meeting, mounted police began to ride into the mass of the workers driving them off the Square, |when suddenly Carl Winter took the {microphone and said, “Hold your | places in the Square.” It came like a |bolt of lightning, and a great cheer went up. Then he said, “I greet this gathering in the name of the United Front May Day Committee.” diately a tremendous cheer went up. Then Winter declare ‘The United |Front May Day Committee does not | want any police interfererice.” Following the attempt of the Sociafe ist leaders, in cooperation with police, |to disperse the crowd, the workera | resisted. The majority of them Te= | meined on the Square. | The meeting was immediately opened at 3:30 and not at 4 o'clock as the police wished During the Socialist demonstration, {the marchers were kept moving |through the Square and were not allowed to remain in the Square, in |order to keep them from remaining | there afterwards. On the square knots of Socialist Imme- Past City Hall they came. Fat poli-| and Communist workers gathered-in ticians, scrubbing their rough beards | animated discus: i with their palms, leaned heavily on|peing the qu the window sills and stared at them. | pront, the fight for Mooney and the “Arise, ye prisoners of starvation—” | socjal-democratic betrayal in Géfe A section of women without a band | many. August Claessens, chairman, closed | City Hall. Tt swept through the long | tne socialist meeting with the impu- for | said, and wiped his forehead. “They've | word to start, closed ranks like well- | ‘was inscribed, “The true administra- | | contingent | halls of justice. jthe while | compelled to s men and Women leaned out of the! the speakers’ rostrum, een mente worere |dent lie that the Socialists had the Along the line of march to the | Ponmit for use Of Uno petri | teeming East Side they passed the | enough” to let the Communists hat County Courthouse. It seemed that | the square when they were tl there was nothing else in these streets | inished, sey but upraised fists and marching feet. | rece itis sarecsnrg ee on the On the marble of the halls of justice | shoulders of others and called to Se 7 . workers to remain in the square ag. tion of justice is the firmest pillar of demonstration of the United Prorik good government,” and as the first | ‘ 9 moving north to the | Sore eee greeted with storms of i o <t roar it, a tremendous roa: The eine ap sh only arrests at the May Dey stretion reported as we go #0 ‘cols place at Thirty-seventh a 4 when two rker carrying a heavy placard atte to cross the strect against Along the sweatshop canyon .of | Seventh Ave. swung the United Front eid vey. Committee esr backed ay nel re the crowds on | With the banners of thirty-five Trade the’ Sidewalks grew thicker, until | Union and other organisations: par pessers-by were stopped. eo eatin ee ig ag ‘The marchers arrived at the square,| From 80vh St. to 27th St. on 7th “Free the Scotstboro boys!” Officers and clerks rushed to tie windows staring. at the crowd de- manding justice as they pased the Through the East Side the long, seemingly unending line marched. As Psy een only to find thet the Socialists were Ave. the: congnnal storm ot still speaking. They paraded around| torn © te ed down on fo: fifteen minutes, singing. The |e ™ 1 the workers in © huild!: On the corner bn rt ice ret the | mounted police tried to order od by defunct bank crowds to disperse, but they refused | Zoxmerly and remained, with the result that a| the Unite great many of the marchers were | bankbook a block a j fly e- ~~ and over Baer, vanty aut Pani a