The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1933, Page 2

‘ e Vage wo ArvaAd, MAL 6, 1935 Continue the BARRICADE on of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 BY KLAUS NEWKRANTZ BY WALTER QUIRT Avenue, New York City. { Ali Workers ere urged to ILLUSTRATED read thie book and spread THE STORY THUS FAR—The Wedding, in Berlin, are preparing to the ban issued by the Socialist Police are Zimmerman, worker, Kurt discovered that the owner t among their friends. workers of the proletarian district, demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite Chief, Zoergiebel. Anna, wife of the etive member of the Communist Party, f{ an ice-cream store on their street is a police spy. Meanwhile, preparations are being made at the police-station to erush the coming demonstration. The workers’ demonstration is attacked by the potice. ined alone at The r was quite emp- the heard y;. from Black Willi 5 would have preferred to go out at once with the others, but he did not want to 1 Paul passive let sit there like that. He had to have a quick you understand now, Paul? The Empire State Biggest Flop. NEW YORK, May 5.—The big rid hes the mr of any ° the Empir te ng enough in interest on the Met- est rentals to p ropolitan Li first mortga posed to p: mith, Pierre S. DuPont and John J. Ras- kob. The munitions manufacturers an Motors staked Al. Smith to his sheve in the building. If Smith gets the jcb as Mayor of New ple to make end fashion. More Gold for Bank of England. LONDON, May 5.—The_ weekly statement of the Bank of England shows a further increase in gold holdings. The bank holdings in gold | there on the revolution does not come, as if Stalin said, ‘when I press a button today x ned insurrection in Ger. it must grow gradually, with every action, with every econ mic struggle, with every political mass strike—and that’s what the Ist of May is, It’s no holiday, Pauli, out reets! Why don’t the j are the largest in history, exceeding by 10,342,158 pounds the gold hold- ings of September 12, 1928, which registered the previous high point. Reichswehr Defies Nazis BERLIN, May 5.—The Nazi leader of Brunswick and a group of soldiers tried to enforce the fascist govern- word with him, The matter was too | workers sit still any longer, now they | tmportant. |are being shot down and batoned?” | | | | He banged his flat hand on the paper | Paul slowly lifted his head and/| : Bap ment order about displaying the swastika flag against the wishes of the Reichswehr garrison here. When looked at Kurt. His face was quite | changed, Then he began to speak | with.a low voice trembling with ex- citement: “Kurt—do you know what you have done? For what follows} now I refuse to take any responsibil- | ity. You know that I have been in the movement for twenty years. I/ am not a coward, do you hear?” His | yoice was raised threateningly. ‘Ij am not a coward, but I won't take part in that!” His face was colorless. Kurt looked | at him in surprise. Why did Paul speak in such a strange manner? He | bent down slightly towards him and placed a hand on his shoulder. in front of him. “The growing in- | the Nazis threatened to use force the dignation of the masses! And if we of the Party don't see this, then we are lagging behind and they will lose confidence in us. But we ere the leaders and must always be at their | head.” And as if he wanted to sum- | marize all he had said, he continued: | of the Returned Soldiers’ League de- “Self defense—Paul—is not armed in- | cided yesterday to boycott the cere- surrection !—but only in this way will|mony when officers of the German we grow in strength, until one day | cruiser, Koln, are to lay a wreath we shall be able to give up the de-|0n the war cenotaph here. This ac- tensive and go over to the attack!” |tion was influenced by the~ present Kurt. wha sient: whe: loomed .acit= political situation in Germany. The icin: ote of thie Ge. tt Communist Party issued a statement consciously out of the window after | urging the sailors to fight against ordered his men to load their rifles, whereupon the Nazis left. Australian Vets Scorn Hitler. SYDNEY May 5.—The local branch round. Paul was still looking at the paper in front of him. In large, bold |/nected with cenotaph ceremonies, commanding officer of the garrison) his long speech. Presently he turned | rascism and calling for fraternization | | with workers against everything con-| type five letters headed the Leah stigmatizing them as glorification of | the matter with] LENIN! He saw the masses on the | imperialist war. Hows sscton | streets, the batoning, shooting police, | «8 ~ Sea, |the red flags shot down, the worker | Two War Planes Crack Up. sa xtsi ae: 6 | Heider lying in the dark passage on! PITTSBURGH, May 5—Two army pores, Coe - | the floor with his torn open belly . ‘ay. We in this e only ones, everywhere e been acting think, Paul, e S. P. D. lead- Social Democratic let the police loose the order to g at Paul. He oulders with earth, Paul? by t both s. “Why Because we Co are today the only leade:s 0: evolutionary workers, Don’t you understand, Paul; on ukoelin just | |He saw stones in the hands of the | proletarians. | LENIN SAID IT! Paul was a functionary of the old social democratic school, raised in the long-past revolutionary days of So- cial-Democracy. His thoughts and the old accustomed methods of agi- tation and struggle. | that they were out of date today, that pletely new tactics. system of today with its intensified exploitation was putting the youth struggle than those who had gone | before. Perhaps Kurt was right, after day they Ww to smash us, so that|an! He did not grasp it all quite as the masses away from us, leaving | quickly, But, it was true. There on us complet olated, like a general | the page it was printed in- plain who suddenly finds himself without |language, language everyone could an emmy! They are beating down | understand. And then—Lenin had women and children and all the time | said it! they mean the Communist Party. ‘The Reichswehr, the police, all are brought into action against the Com- munists, who are ‘inciting’ and mob- ilizing the masses against the starva- tion government of the social fas- cists.” THE ROTE FAHNE Suddenly he was si: he searched his pocket ack by an idea; excitedly and finally took a few printed pages from | the many papers and cuttings that filled them. He smoothed a crumpled newspaper page on the table. Across the page ran the headline: Lenin and the May Day Celebration! It was today’s May Day number of the Rote Fahne. He had marked a passage printed in display type in the top left-hand corner with a thick pencil mark when he read the article early in the morn- ing. He now pointed his broad finger to this passage. “Here! here it is, Paul!” He read aloud, slowly: “Events of this kind show clearly how armed insurrection against a despotic gov- ernment does not merely develop as an idea in the heads and programmes of revolutionaries, but as the .. .” he made a short pause and continued with emphasis: the natural, the practical and the inevitable next step of the movement itself, as a result of the growing indignation, the grow- ing experience, the growing courage of the masses. The courage of the masses,” he repeated with force, em- | phasizing every word by tapping his finger on the table, “And who wrote that, Paul? Com- rade Lenin wrote that for the work- ers of Moscow when he commented on 4. political mass strike in 1902. Do 3,500 Workers Out in Lowell Shoe Shops; Face Police Terror) LOWELL, Mass. May 5.—Nearly 8,500 shoe workers are reported on strike here. They are putting up a militant struggle to prevent scabs from taking their jobs in the fac- tories. Police provocation is indicated in a sport that a scab was wounded when a shot was fired at an automobile tarrying strikebreakers. The auto had opped at a filling station. A.F.L. City Workers Strike in Cleveland at '5 Per Cent Wage Cut) CLEVELAND, O., May 5.—A. F. of & workers employed by the city ad- ministration here are out on_ strike igainst a 25 per cent wage reduction About 300 workers are involved. The wage cut was previously put into ef- ‘ect against the unorganized workers m the city’s payroll. Since Mayor Miller came into office early in 1932, vages of union labor have been cut He rose and went with Kurt into | the street in silence... | (Continued Tomorrow) feelings moved within the limits of | He felt himself | what he saw outside required com- | The capitalist | .|planes flying from Mitchell Field, Y., to California, to participate ‘in the war games, cracked up as they | started to take off at an airport here ltoday. Both were badly damaged, | but no one was injured. Hordes Protect Mussolini. BALTIMORE, May 5—Wm. H. Simpson, sculptor, recently returned from Rome, relates that Mussolini visited an academy in Rome where he was working. For more than & day before the visit the place swarmed with detectives, disguised as peasants, | business men and usual passers-by, to |make sure no ohe was going to take @ pot shot at the head of the butcher through a harder training in the class |re2ime of Ttalian fascism. stnpaos | the Decatur courtroom against Hay- related that his place was under ob- |servation and that hours before the arrival of Mussolini streets were | Clearer. Five New York Firemen Hurt. | NEW YORK, May 5.—Five firemen | were severely injured early this morn- |ing as the roof of a flaming building into the street. They fell with the roof, which broke their fall. Flags Instead of Bread Re Mother's Day The p precedently cause has issued the rge number of mot lack of employment or m cessities of What does Roosevelt propose to do about these conditions? Does he ose Federal relief for their mothers and their children, or Federal Un- nt. Insurance? He does not ad, his inflation program } ready raised the price of milk, exe clothing for the mothers and children of America. has i the wages of the Federal employees. And for hat the R.F.C. under Roo Ss and bank How do and childre Out o! America to messages our affection for our mother * to boundle kir hang flags on all publi welfare agencies for the relief need of the x ssities of life.” On the s President, we read the following announcement: “Clasped in each other's arms, Thomas Lindbe found dead yesterday with a tube of been jobless for two years suffered enough’, The other da; drs. Vasil Smolik, old and a mother of five children, slashed her throat with a razor. left a note saying she was unable to slow starvation of her children. Only a few da: from weeks of fruitl tion and his young wife a spicide. ustomary mation reads, “There 's, and to do all that we can through of mo page which announces this overflowing bounty of the A note addressed to ago, in New York City, a young worker came home Workers’ May Day Solidarity in Fight on Hunger, War proclamation for the annual are, throughout the lAnd, an un- s and dependent children who, be- vf thelr breadwinners, are lacking s for relief, yments ¢ e the it gives $9 to nds. he urges the people of to show by tokens and i his ¢ buildings, ers and children who may be in rg and his wife, were mou » OL berg had viends said, ‘We have gas in thet: , of Whithey,- Pennsylvania, 35 years She endure any longer the sight of the ss search for work, to find his child dying of starva- These are not isolated examples of the misery of working class moth- ers. ica who face hunger every day, There are millions upon millions of working class mothers in Amer- who see the bony fingers of hunger clutching the throats of their children, and who cannot heed the cries of their children for milk and food. There are hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of working class mothers in the factories and textile mills of American capitalism, toiling | ten to twelve hours a day at starvation wages. | There are millions of American six up, tolling in the cotton fields, beet fields and textile mills of American children from the ages of five and | capitalism. At this very moment hundreds of children of Allentown, Pa., | are striking against $1 a week wages year because poverty prevents them birth. Day. relief and Unemployment Insurance. them to starvation. Hundreds of thousands of American mothers and children die every Roosevelt wants us to hang flags and send telegrams on Mother's When the American workers demonstrate for relief, they are met with the armed fist of the state, with clubs and machine guns, The workers, the mothers and children of America need immediate timonious hypocrisy of a Roosevelt who feeds them words while he dooms and the 10-16 hour work day, i} from having proper care at child- They will trample upon the sanc- | | THE SCOTTSBORO CASE AND | | THE NEGRO QUESTION | | The verdict “guilty as charged,” with |the punishment fixed at the electric | chair’? which was handed down in the first of the) wood Patterson, | Scottsboro boys to be retried, has |electrified the world. The storm of protest was immediate and sponta- | neous. | The issues raised so dramatically |at the trial in Decatur, Ala., are dealt | | with the Negro question. These are | collapsed and hurled them six stories | With the Negro suestion. These are | |THE AMERICAN NEGRO and NEG- | RO LIBERATION, both written by ' BOOK NOTES |cents a copy. THE CHAIN GANG, James 8. Allen, special Daily Worker correspondent at the Decatur trial, | and selling at 10 cents a co) . | There are two additional pamph- | lets dealing with specific aspects of Negro oppression. LYNCHING, by/ Harry Haywood and Milton Howard, | . traces the causes of lynching and suggests how to fight it. It sells at 5 by John L. Spivak, describes the con- | ditions he found on personal investi- | gation of the chain gangs and road stockades in Georgia. | These pamphlets are obtainable at | workers’ bookshops or may be ordered | from Workers’ Library Publishers, Box | 148, Station D, New York. : | sults.” | LESTER CARTER |Party Life Broader Leadership Vital Need in Party The “Party Life’ column which appeared in the Wednesday, April 26| issue of the Daily Worker is not only | - useful, but is of utmost importance. Now that the field of activities for the Party is increasing daily such an} outlet in the Party press for discus- sions and clarifications of Party life and policies will be most valuable. While at formal meetings the major) campaigns of the Party are discussed | and decisions for activities made, at informal discussions among Party} members the organizational weak- nesses of the Party are discussed with great seriousness. | ‘The major weakness which occupies | the minds of many serious and de-) voted Party members is the “narrow leadership” that prevails in all phases | of Party organizational activities. | As one comrade expressed himself: ) “The narrowness of leadership in the | Party is almost reaching a choking point.” At one instance a comrade re-| marked to me: “Look how he is try- ing to do everything himself, trying to work himself to death rather than to involve more comrades to help him} out in his work and bring better re- “I think,” he continued, “a good leader is the one who gathers around himself a group of actives and de-| velops a broad leadership.” I think this question of “broader | ~d-rshin” should be discussed in the Party Life column and experience of! = cases where broad leadership was ap- | plied should be brought to light. | CHB. | The bourgeois’e has torn away from the family its sentimental | veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money rela- tion—Communist Manifesto. We are printing a partial | reports have not come in as workingcelass. monstrations. Banners were | Union. summary of the May Day de- monstrations. From many cities, especially from the West, yet. Even this partial report indicates a record May Day in the history of the American | In every part of the country was witnessed militant de- raised high with the slogans: | against hunger; for immediate adequate cash relief and for federal unemployment insurance; against fascism and im- perialist war preparations; and for the defense of the Soviet Through the country the May Day demonstrations were a sign of the growing unity | ship. | PENNSYLVANIA | PHILADELPHIA — Approximately | 20,000 workers answered the call of \the United Front May Day committee. | PITTSBURGH — Two thousand in the demonstration. Police raided Communist Party offices and arrested |16 in an effort to break demonstra- tion. | JEANNETTE — Twelve hundred | workers from Westmoreland County | a majority of them miners marched |on May Day here. SCRANTON Four hundred workers in the May Day meeting. | WILKES BARRE — Two thousand at the May Day demonstration. BETHLEHEM — Five hundred at the meeting, BRADDOCK — Three hundred workers defied the police in this steel town and participated in the May Day demonstration. It was the first one held here. NORTH BRADDOCK — The work- ers demonstrated here on May Day by stopping the eviction of fourteen families scheduled for May 1. EASTON—About 800 were at the May Day demonstration. ALLENTOWN — A parade to Cen- ter Square followed by a demonstra- | tion of 1,500 workers was held in this city of sweat shops where young children are on strike against wages of 15 cents to 2 dollars for a sixty hour week. TURTLE CREEK — Three thous- and from all parts of the valley were in the line of march on May first. MOKEES ROOKS — Over @ thous- and in the demonstration. ras hae NEW JERSEY NEWARK—Over 4,000 in the de- monstration in Military Park which lasted for three hours. Socialist Party meeting held in other side of Park of all toilers in the struggle | against the capitalist offensive. This united front was built despite the opposition of the Socialist and A. F. of L. leader- CAMDEN—Fifteen hundred work- ers at Court Plaza. PATTERSON Seven hundred workers turned out to Governor and Bridge Streets in the May Day de- monstration. | | participated in the parade and de- |monstration. Many joined the Party at the evening meeting NEW BRUNSWICK—Two hundred |in the May Ist demonstration. caer net NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY—One hundred and fifty thousand workers partici- pated in the greatest May Day de- monstration ever held in this city. JAMESTOWN Four hundred workers participated in the May Day demonstration. PORTCHESTER — Three hundred at the meeting. ITHACA—The police arrested Fred Berkowitz, a student of Cornell Uni- versity and broke up the May first meeting attended by 400 at Dewitt Park. SCHENECTADY —Three hundred at the meeting. ROCHESTER One thousand marched through the streets and were joined by another thousand in the demonstration at Washington Square. YONKERS — Three hundred at the meeting. GLOVERSVILLE — Three hundred at the meeting, ALBANY — Police broke up the meeting by chasing the workers away from the speakers stand. ee . ILLINOIS CHICAGO — Fifty thousand in Union Park and 35,000 participated in the parade. ROCKFORD — A parade started '8 per cent. This is the first strug~ le of the union, against it. rejected a proposal to make it a united front demonstration. from Northwestern Park and pro- ceeded to Fairground Park where # PASSAIC—Three hundred workers | demonstration of a thousand work- ers was held. CASHYVILLE — The May Day munist Justice of the Peace who was elected recently, It was held in the Township Hall. EAST ST. LOUIS — Five workers arvested despite the fact that the | police gave a permit for the metting. MICHIGAN DETROIT — Sixty-five thousand participated in the greatest May Day demonstration in this city. HANCOCK—Six hundred marched in this copper mine town. pt ay OHIO OLEVELAND — Fifteen thousand workers jammed Public Square. TOLEDO — Two thousand workers from all parts of Lucas County part- icipated in the May ist demonstra- tion in this city. COLUMBUS — Over 500 in the | |of the largest rubber centers in the meeting was addressed by the Com- | UNITY AGAINST FASCISM AND HUNGER SIGNALIZES MAY DAY May Day demonstration. | AKRON — This city which is one | world had a demonstration of 1,500 on May Day. | whee | WISCONSIN | MILWAUKEE — About 10,00 in the | demonstration in Red Arrow Park. RACINE—Over 4,000 demonstrated on Monument Square. | OSHKOSH—Two thousand mareh- | ed through the heart of the city. BELOIT — Two hundred work- ers came to the meeting KENOSHA—One thousand at the demonstration. FOND DE LAC—A May Day meet- ing held here for the first time was attended by 100. LA CROSSE — The demonstration was in Cameron Park. Two thousand workers were present. RACINE—Thirty-five hundred were at the demonstration in Monument Square. The Socialist Party which rejected the united front proposal on- ly had about 200 present. ee whe | ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM —Twenty-five hun- dred Negro and white workers were in Ingram Park, in this important in- dustrial center of the South. ae ee DELAWARE WILMINGTON — The police force which used tear gas and clubs on the National Hunger March delegates last December, this time broke up the May first meeting. Cry air MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON — ‘Twenty thousond Joined together with the state hun- ger marchers in the May first de- monstration on Boston Common. ae aaa MINNESOTA. MINNEAPOLIS — Five thousand in bad demonstration despite cold and in. CROSBY — May first was proc- laimed 48 an official holiday by the Communist Mayor. . 8 6 CONNECTICUT NEW HAVEN — More than 1,500 at the May Day demonstration. NORWICH — One hundred at the May Day meeting, NEW LONDON — One hundred workers at the May Day meeting. BRIDGEPO! the RT — Over 600 in demonstration. STAMFORD-—Five hundred work- ers at Town Hall Plaza on May Day. Cepbae | demonstration | Socialist workers who were meeting City Council meeting and demanded that R. F. C. funds be used for re- lief and not for forced labor. PORTLAND — Over 200 workers | attended the May Day meeting. In the United front committee there was | the Communist Party, Socialist Par- ty, Unemployed Counells, I. L. D. and } many other organizations MARYLAND BALTIMORE — Over 5,000 in the on May Day. The Socialist leader, Dr. Neistadt, con- nived with the police to stop the demonstration from joining with the hearby. | MISSOURI ST. LOUIS—Three thousand part- icipated in the march, It is estimated that about a thousand were young workers. At the mass meeting twelve joined the Communist Party and 15 the Young Communist League. PSM eT | NEW HAMPSHIRE MANCHESTER—The police closed the hall on the workers. Small meet- ings had to be prepared the last minute. A protest meeting against this action is being arranged. EMAUS — Two hundred workers at the May Day celebration. Pig nae" INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS A thousand eee in the May Day demonstra- ion. Pei cies 9 LOUISIANA 6 Cops Call Help When Angry Workers Act in Eviction Case NEW YORK.—Six policemen phoned for re-inforcements when they saw they vould be unable to stop hundreds of indignant workers answer- jing the cail of Sam Stein of the International Labor Defense to restore! the furniture of an evicted widow, Mrs, Barkin to her home at 206 Broome St. Tuesday night. ee was on his way to a meeting when he saw the eviction and decided to help. Oo ——— Cops Arrive | tee of 3 to go to the police station Four radio cars, two packards filled with detectives and a gun squad rushed to the scene. But faced by hundreds of workers they did not resort to their usual brutal methods at first but aft tening the Heme TE DS ‘Why don’t | you get the crowd to help this wom- | an?” meaning to take a collection from the starving workers, Exposed by Speaker Stein exposed this arid was cheered two blocks away and demand thet the evicted widow be cared for ai once, It was now 11 p. m, ‘The speaker exposed Berman, the Democratic captain of that district and said: “I see Berman in the crowd, he made a lot of promises during the election, here’s an opportunity to keep them.” Berman kept silent and in order to prevent further exposure before the workers, many of whom voted for him, ordered the police to | when he proposed instead a commit-| disperse the meeting. WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM JOHN MARKS National Committee, Young Communist League | | | The “NEW DEAL” and THE YOUTH | n \ | SUNDAY, MAY Tth at 8 P. 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Greenshpan 300 SINGERS Assisted by Symphony Orchestra —Also— Selection of New Soviet Songe Tickets—50c, 75¢ and $1.00 NEW ORLEANS — Over 10,000 in line of march, demonstrating against @ 25 per cent wage cut on relief jobs. 5 wee TENNESSEE MEMPHIS — The first revolution- ary May Day meeting was held here. About 175 workers were at the meet~ ing. All jim crow bars of this south- ern city were broken down. Cay eae ARKANSAS GREENWOOD—Fifty workers and farmers participated in a May Day meeting in the County Court House. A play the “Forgotten Mah” was pre- sented by the Commonwealth Labor Theatre group. ae ee CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES—The “red squad” broke up the demonstration. Two workers were beaten severely, En ae ‘kers partici L PAWTUCKET — Five hundred on | Annem, Bes | x From 8 am. to 7 pm. Union Square. Mike Urin 05) Greeting $0,710) ee od Hardware 110 THIRD AVENUD Near 14th St ‘Tompkins Se. G17 Received Late CITY OFFICE of the DAILY WORKER Needs a number of bicycles Communicate with F. 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