The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1933, Page 1

q | | & REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS TO THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WHO DEMONSTRATED ON MAY DAY THROUGHOUT UNITED STATES; CLOSE YOUR RANKS; CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR THE DEMANDS FOR WHICH YOU DEMONSTRATED ON INTERNATIONAL LABOR DAY Cable Describing May 1 Demonstration ‘in Moscow on Page § Sn a a ail Org Central ‘(Section of the Communist International) rker nist Party U.S.A. Full Page of May 1 Demonstration Pictures on Page 6 Ri reerorrime sare Ae >> Butered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. RECORD | Vol. X, No. 106 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933 MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS THROUGHO A Histo / Demonstration The historic Union Square rang yesterday with the mightiest May Dlay demonstration this country has ever seen. Beginning in the morn- ifmg, thousands upon thousands of workers marched through the streets nd converged on the Square whose name is now identified with the lemonstrations of the working class. What did this overwhelming dem- onstration mean? What did it mean that thousands of workers laid down their tools, that thousands of women and children came from all parts direct answer to the Roosevelt hunger drive. / of the city to take their places in the march? This massing of the workers means that they will not accept the wage-cuts, the evictions, the starvation, and the misery which the capital- ist class is imposing upon them. This gathering of the workers is a It is a portent of a still mightier challenge to the rule of the exploiters and their government. What did these thousands of workers demand on their day of inter- national solidarity and struggle? ‘They demanded federal unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the bosses and the state, increased wages, increased relief. They demanded the release of the nine Scotts- boro boys from the\hands of the Southern lynchers. They demanded the release of Tom Mooney from the California dungeon where the ruling class has confined him for 16 years. They demanded the release of Thaelmann, the leader of the German Communist Party. These thousands of workers sent up a shout which the capitalist rulers cannot escape, that the workers of America pledge their prole- tarian solidarity with the workers of the world. * * alist. workers, These workers demonstrated that they will set themselves like granite against the monstrous reaction of fascism. They sent their pledge of revolutionary unity with the working class of Germany which is now in- battle against the onslaughts of the fascist murderers. ‘These workers declared that they will not accept the treacherous surrender of German Social-Democracy to fascism. These workers declared to the ruling class that if guns are placed in their hands for the next imperialist slaughter, they will turn these guns against their oppressors. These workers declared that they will die in defense of the Workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Union. They pledged their devotion to the Soviet Union and to the building of socialism. The most significant and inspiring aspect of the demonstration was the working class comradeship and unity between Communist and Soci- Thousands of socialist workers refused to budge before the attempts of the police to clear them out of the Square. They were de- termtined to clasp the hands of their working class comrades in one United May Day demonstration. This irresistible surge of the socialist workers towards their fellow-workers demonstrates to the world that they will let no one break their unity with the working class. * * * spring-day picnic. from such consolation. means. The workers of New York have shown the way. The call of the Com- munist Party for working class unity has been answered. The Commu- nist Party will go forward on this road of working class unity upon the basis of determined struggle against hunger, against fascism, against imperialist war, and for the overthrow of capitalism. The revolutionary initiative of the Communist Party in building this working class unity must be followed by similar welding of working class forces all over the country. The capitalist press consoles itself with the thought that the May Day demonstration was not a serious political action, but rather a The capitalist press will derive only sorry comfort They know what yesterday’s demonstration ‘They know that it was a mighty political demonstration which is part of the preparations for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Defeat the Machine-Gun ernment. Rule in Iowa Military rule, a state of seige, the forced sale of farms while bayonets, machine-guns, tear gas holds off the aroused farm population; drum-head courts-martial for those known to play leading roles in the fight against wholesale expropriation, censoring of mail, tapping of telephones, a wide- spread espionage system—such is the fruit of the “New Deal” in Iowa. More than 70 farmers are held in military prison barracks and county jails under control of the National Guard because their attempts to hold on. to their land, their only means of existence, is decreed as crimi- nal by Governor Clyde Herring, staunch supporter of President Roose- velt. In the face of this exercise of military might in behalf of the bankers, the insurance trusts and other mortgage-sharks, the militant movement. of the farmers surges forward. It is one of the signs of the times char- acterized by growing militancy of the oppressed masses. The fight of the farmers is a part of the common fight of ajl the oppressed against the hunger and war program of the Wall Street gov- This fight must be supported by the masses of unemployed and part-time workers in the cities, by the farmers in all the rest of the country, by the city and suburban dwellers whose homes are under at- tack by the mortgage and real estate vultures. All proposals of the Roosevelt gang to cut down farm mortgages and © chain the farming masses to further slavery and impose greater desti- tution upon them must be swept aside and repudiated by the mass action of the farmers supported by other impoverished sections of the popula- tion, There is only one adequate demand that can be put forward in’ this situation and that is immediate and complete canqzllation of all farm mortgages and farm debts; No degree of military oppression can prevail to stop this movement if it gets the support it merits. There must be such a roar of protest- that the puppet governor of the mortgage-sharks, Clyde Herring at Des Moines, will be compelled to withdraw the military forces, release the im- prisoned farmers and stop the sheriffs and their deputized thugs from further attacks on the farmers. . Every working class organization, every farmers’ organization, groups of impoverished professionals, intellectuals and defense organizations should flood Des Moines and Washington with protests that will spur on to more widespread and militant action the impoverished farmers and compel the authorities to retreat, Supported by workers and farmers all over the United States the fight goes forward under the following demands: 1—Withdrawal of troops and rescinding of martial law. 2—Immediate release of all arrested farmers, 3—Abolition of courts martial. 4—Cancellation of all debts, mortgages and taxes of impoverished farmers, 5—Stop all foreclosures. 6—The right of farmers to organise properties against foreclosures, $ defense corps to protect their ric May Day “Unite All Forces for My Release,” Mooney Wires to |Delegates Cheer Messa: in Action Is Aim, | which was wildly applauded by the in Masonic Hall on Sunday. the basis of the every-day needs of | the workers.” The message was | thunderously applauded by the del- egates as they rose and burst into | the singing of the “Internationale”. | Cheer Foster Message. | Just before Mooney’s telegram was liam Z. Foster, ill at home in New York, calling for a “united struggle of Negro and white workers for the freedom of Mooney and the Scotts- boro boys.” Foster condemned the leaders of the Socialist Party and the A. F. of L. for their failure to partici- pate in the united front Mooney Con- gress, declaring that they are sabo- taging the Mooney campaign. Foster's wire was the signal for stormy ap- plause—a tribute to the Communist of the fight for Mooney’s release from the very beginning. Want “Unity in Action.” Bill Gebert, of Chicago, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, ap- pealed for unity on the basis’ of a united front of workers in steel, min- | the read, a wire was received from Wil- | leader who has been in the forefront | Roosevelt’s New Deal in Mooney Congress in Chicago ge from Foster; “Unity ” Declares Gebert CHICAGO, May 2.—The reading of a telegram from Tom Mooney, more than 1,000 delegates assembled, featured the closing of the “Free Tom Mooney Congress” which opened Mooney in his wire called upon the Congress to “unite all the forces | for the freedom of Tom Mooney on —————————— ing and packing, the Negro masses and the impoverished farmers. “The united front action is what we are jaiming at,” he said. “This Congress | must prepare the way for joint action by the International Labor Defense, General Defense Committee (I.W.W.), the Mooney Molders’ De- fense Comrhittee and all other work- ers’ bodies in the fight for workers’ | rights. | “The A. F. of L. and Socialist Par- ty leaders are not here because they are not for action. Our aim is to national executive bodies; but this \fight must not be understood to mean that we will wait until the leaders join the fight to move the workers from whom they profess to speak, into action.” Concluding, Gebert declared that “dt is necessary that in the cities and industrial areas Mooney-Scottsboro Workers’ Rights Committees should be set up by the .workers in the shops jand mines, and also other working jclass organizations.” Corn Belt Perris swat Militia Hu Iowa Farmers LEMARS, Iowa, May 2.—All of western Iowa is being terrorized by gangs nts Down bring into the united front all the} question of forcing the leaders to} of militia who are hunting farmers said to have rough-housed Judge C. C. Bradley at Lemars last Thursday. Machine guns bristle in the streets of small towns. Farmers are being searched on their own land at the point of the bayonet. Twelve Plymouth County farmers have been arrested here. ‘Thirty-one farmers have been ar- rested in O'Brien County. Troops quartered in Dennison are being sent into all the adjacent counties. They have jailed twenty more farmers. Troopers have ordered all Primghair telephone operators to stop all rural calls thereby forestalling warnings to farmers. The military forces are in full con- trol in Plymouth and Crawford Coun- ties where much of the recent mili- tant action of the farmers has taken place. Governor Herring has closed all civil courts. The troopers are both police and judge in these two coun- ties. Military commissions are to be established to deal with legal cases during the period in which courts re- main ciosed, The Governor states that it was not intended that, military bodies should hold the trials growing out of the uprising of the farmers in Judge Bradley’s court. But so long as ‘yoops remain in this area all civil courts will remain suspended and new enses of farmer resistance against SA RE SITE AE Sy et IRL RO being driven off their land will prob- ably be courtmartialed. In the meantime all the forces of “law and order” are out in a wolf pack to crush the resistance of the farmers against forced sales. The executive committee of the American Bar Association at a meeting in Washington, D. C., wrote a letter praising the “courage” of Judge Brad- ley in the face of an “Iowa mob.” In- surance companies and land banks are starting action May 3 to test the validity of the new Iowa mortgage Jaw. Capitalist Press Yelps for Blood The capitalist papers here are whipping up a wave of hysteria to help the guardsmen arrest all “sus- pects.” By doing so many of the most militant of the farmers in the fight against evictions and mortgage fore- closures will be kangarooed in a mili- tary court. They are working fever- ishly to break the backbone of the farmers’ masss resistance by having the farmers mobbed by troopers at every sheriff sale, | | Scottsboro Committee Tells ‘Why We March’ Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, Star Witnesses) at Trial, Speak at N. Y. Meet Friday Eve. BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, of the National Committee for the Louls Howe, secretary to President appointment with the president. Howe refused to promise an appoint- ment stating that he would decide the matter on the president's yacht Sunday and inform the committee the Bill of Rights. NEW YORK.—‘The struggle for the freedom of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys has spurred the fight for all the rights of the Negro peo- | ple, the violation of which the Scottsboro case is one of the most drastic expressions.” This is the keynote of a statement just issued by the National Scotts- boro Action Committee, contained in a leaflet now being distributed by | the hundreds of thousands in Harlem and other centers of the country. The statement cpntinues: “On Saturday, the 6th of May, the great Scottsboro March to Wash- The marchers of New Jersey, Philadel- phia and Baltimore will join the New York contingent and unite in the mighty conference with the delegations from the South and West in ington will start from New York. Washington. TO PRESENT DEMANDS. “The marchers assembled in Washington will convene in a conference te send a delegation to present to the President of the United States and to Congress the demands of the Negro people, the demands of the millions and Negro workers of the U. S. .—Immediate unconditional release “2.—The immediate release of Angelo Herndon, the five Tallapoosa share-croppers and Mooney and Billings. | “3.—The real enforcement of the rights of the Negro people, as guar- anteed by the 13th, 14th and 15th Ammendments to the U. S. Constitution; abolition of Jim Crowism, of discrimination, peonage, lynching; the ex- ercising of the right to vote, the right to sit on juries. 1 Eat “LET US MARCH.” | of white % “Let us march! Let us build a dom of the Scottsboro boys and at the same time strike a blow for the full rights of the Negro people! “All those who are ready to take up the struggle for these demands and save the lives of these nine innocent Scottsboro boys, shall register as marchers at one of the following stations: Ti W. 131st St.; 15 W. 126th St.; 1413 Fifth Ave.; 2249 Seventh Ave. “All those who do not register through organizations, or at the above mentioned stations and who wish to join the march, paying the $3 fare, ving offices: Internation-1 Labor Defense, District Office, Room 338; 799 Broad- shall register at the fol!. way (at 11th Street). National Scottsboro Aution Committee, 119 West 135th Street, Harlem. May 2.—A delegation composed of S. Patterson of Carribean Union, F. Spector and R. Moore of the Int'l Labor Defense William N. Jones of the Baltimore Afro-American, Dr. Aibert Blumberg of John Hopkins, Elinor Mish of Hagerstown, Md., and Louis Colman Defense of Political Prisoners, saw Roosevelt, today and requested an Monday. The committee presented the Scottsboro boys. tremendous movement for the free- 119 W. 135th St.; 114 W. 135th St.; Ali Harlem marchers shall assemble on Saturday, May 6th, at 7 a. m., at 114 W. 135th St., where the buses will be stationed. This column will unite at Union Square with the other New York columns. All organizations—churches, lodges, unions, etc.—participating in the Scottsboro march should immediately notify the National Action Committee, 119 W. 135th St., and should see that their delegates are on hand at the Harlem assembling point at 114 W. 135th St., Satur- day, May 6, at 7a. m. All organizations are to take sire of the trans- portation and food of their marchers. Scottsboro Those collecting contributions for the Scottsboro march are urged | by the Scottsboro National Action Committee to turn them in at once at the headquarters of the Committee. Hundreds of cans, containing donations, have not yet been turned in, it is pointed out, and funds are urgent to defray the expenses of the march. | Troopers Put Negro. Boy in Coffin to Force “Confession” | SALEM, N. J., May 2.—A varia- tion on the sadistic third-degree practices of the police was achieved here today when five New Jersey state troopers locked @ young Negro boy into a coffin in a morgue in an attempt to ex- tract a “confession” from him. The boy, Richard Fisher, de- clared that although he had re- peatedly told the troopers he knew nothing of robberies they accused him of, they took him to a morgue and laid him out on the cold marble. Then, he said, they thrust him into a coffin and clamped the lid down. He was “paralyzed” when they decided to “exhume” Earl Giles, another prisoner, said he had been so severly beaten in jail that he had to be taken to a hospital. The five troopers, Sol Polowitz, Edgar Smith, Hugh Boyle, J. J. Molner and Alexander Bolan, were held in bail ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 for a second hearing Mon- day on charges of assault before Justice of the Peace William S. Miller. es seh Le | Ruby Bates To Speak NEW YORK,—Ruby Bates, South- ern white girl whose dramatic repu- diation of her previous charges of} rape caused a sensation at the recent retrial of the nine Scottsbro boys in| the Scottsboro case at Dectaur, Ala., will address the send-off mass meet- ing for the “Scottsboro marchers to Washington” next Friday evening at the new St. Nicholas Arena, 66th street and Columbus Avenue, the Na- tional Scottsboro Action Committes announced today. Carter Also Speaks | The Committee which is sponsoring the meeting also reported that among the other speakers at the meeting would be Lester Carter, who was with Ruby Bates and Victoria Price on the Alabama freight train two years ago which carried the Negro boys whom the girls later accused of as- sault. Carter testified at the recent trial that the Negro boys had not molested either girl during the ride. Joseph Brodsky and Gen. George) W. Chamlee, attorneys for the In-| ternational Labor Defense, which} handled the defense of the boys, will tell the meeting the details of the trial which led to the convic- | tion and death sentence of Haywood) Patterson, first of the nine youths to be retried, and he will also outline! the next steps to be taken in the case. CHICAGO BOMBS GANGSTERS’ JOB CHICAGO, Ill, May 2—Now that May Day is over, Chicago police ad- mit that the bomb explosions which occurred at five plants on May Day were the work of Chicago gangsters and racketeers in the International Brotherhood cf Teamsters, Chauf- feurs and Helpers, and that “no Communist plot” was involved. That. the police knew that the Communists had nothing to do with the bomb explosions, but were deliberately spreading this lie to: terrorize the workers and discourage their attend- ance at the May Day demonstrations and the “Free Tom Mooney” Con- gress, was pointed out clearly in the editorial of the Daily Worker of May 2nd. } The police now reveal the fact that | protection against the gangsters was | sought by a group of union officials who are not “in” on the gangster) racket in the trucking industry. The) bombing revives an old feud existing) between two rival groups, both of) which are racketeers anxious to fleece the union members of their dues and | receive their reward for driving down the conditions of the workers4 | pated in the greatest May Day dem-| | ing their ranks in fifteen places all] | for Negro Rights, | workers as a result of the bomb- ia. 6S CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents %. UT U.S. 30,000 OUT IN CHICAGO DESPITE POLICE TERROR; 65,000 AT DETROIT MEET Raid Pittsburgh Office on May Day; 16 Held Incommunicado; 2,000 at Demonstration Detroit Demonstration Delegates to Mooney Endorses Ford Hunger, Congress Head Parade, | March for June Fifth) Huge Stadium Meeting y DETROIT, Mich. May 2.— Over CHICAGO, Ill, May 2.—Pifty thou- sixty-five thousand workers partic and in Union Park, this was the answer the Chicago workers gave to the police provocations. Thirty-five thousand were in the line of march, headed by the delegates to the Tom Mooney Congress. The police expected to stop. the May Day demonstration by bombings for which they and the gangsters were responsible. But, despite all the ance,” “Freedom for the Scottsboro| tetTor and provocations, a tremendous Freedom for Tom Mooney,”| 7¢Sponse was given by Chicago work- Fascism and Imperialist| °S this May Day. onstration in Detroit's history. Form-| over the city, they marched to Grand| Circus Park. This mighty demon-} stration was organized by the United| Front May Day conference. From all sides banners were raised| demanding “Unemployment Insur- War.” | The Scottsboro March to Washing- : | ton was endorsed by the demonstra- The parades went through pro-| tion. letarian districts, marching to the| The stadium meeting in the evening neighborhoods populated by Negro| arranged by the United Front Tom workers. Along the side walks, Mooney committee was one of the nds cheered, large numbers! greatest expressions of workingelass joining the march. unity. Speakers from a number of In Dearborn, where Ford work- | °'@@nizations were reecived with great ers live, the parade was headed by | “™*husiasm. the Ford local of the Auto Work-| 4 * ers Union. Police Attack in Pgh. Max Saltzman was chairman at} Aimed at Breaking the demonstration. * The main speaker was Join May 1 Demonstration Schmies, district organizer of the = Communist Party and chairman of| PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 2.—After the United Front May Day confer-| numerous protests the police were ence. The speakers stressed the| forced to grant a permit for » dem- struggle against hunger, against| onstration in East Park on May First fascism and imperialist war. at two in the afternoon. sg Other speakers were Paul Kirk,| Two hours before the demonstra- unemployed young Negro worker, | tion, police swooped down on the John Pace, veterans’ leader, Joseph | Communist Party office and arrested Billips for the League of Struggle| Sixteen. Most of them leaders of the Nydia’ Barker, workers in Ke city. They are held . . ry iy ’| incommunicado. Cisse Be ae pti Young! ‘The demonstration took place in Communist League, Alfred Goetz! past Park, with 2,000 workers attend= of the Auto Workers Union, Schif-| ing itz of the University of Michigan,| ‘Those known arrested are Lena and Harris for the Unemployed] Davis, District Organization Secre- Councils. | tary of the Communist Party, Ben i jastic.| Careathers, Negro worker and an nee demonstration enthusiastic. | COO Neader of Pittsburgh y voted to support the Ford . Mt Hunger March on June Fifth. | workers, Phil Frankfeld, secretary ot Resoluti 2 dopted against |e Unemployed Councils, Ernést esolutions were adopted against | Careathers, Jack Stone, George Kurtz, the attempt to frame-up Chicago | J, Romango, Mary Subina, J. Stark 2 . . | However the police have not suc- ings for which the police and gang-| ceeded as the workers were mobilizing sters are responsible. Protests were| for the demonstration in the atfer- made against the vicious attack on| noon. the Hamtramck unemployed. ' (More May 1 News on Page 4) LATEST FIGURES SHOW 150,000 DEMONSTRATING IN N. Y. MAY DAY United May Day Committee Statement Hails the Demonstration for Unity at Union Sq. NEW YORK.—Below we print the statement of the United Front May Day Committee. When the “DAILY WORKER” went to press last night thousands of workers were still marching along Union Square, The final reports of the committee estimates that 150,000 workers partici- pated in the huge demonstration. There is no doubt that this was the greatest May Day demonstration ever held in New York. The tremendous turn-out at Union Square of 150,000 workers and the tens of thousands of additional workers who lined the streets along the line of march, is a fitting answer to the program of action of our United Front May Day Committee. The workers have answered our call im | greater numbers then they have ever responded before, to join in @ united struggle for the vital interests of the working class. The tremendots demonstration on Union Square is proof of the fact that the great mass of workers of New York City are determined te struggle against hunger, fascism and war and fer the defense of the only working class government, the Soviet Union. All the attempts of splitting the ranks of the working clase and keeping the socialist workers away from the main stream of the workers of New York who demonstrated under the United Front banner, was de+ feated both by the workers who followed our leadership and by the workers of the Socialist Party who showed in Union Square that they wanted to be together with all other militant workers. . The police attempted to force these workers out of the Square, as one united mass they protested and cheered a representative of \ committee, Carl Winter, when he tock over the platform at Union Square and called upon the workers to remain there—to unite their numbers with the oncoming marchers and to make this May Day another step in forging the unity of the working class on the basis of a class struggle program. All workers whe participated on May Day, all other workers of New York, should follow the example of Red May Day this year and im every shop, in every neighborhood, in every trade union and working class or- ganization, knit together the power of the working class by building from below a united front of struggle, Carry on the struggle against hunger and for unemployment. im- suranca! Smash the terror of fascism and lynch justice! Defeat the imperialist war preparations and war provocations against the Soviet Unton—organize for the defense of the workers’ fatheriand, the U,S.S.Rit