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Ent«rTrade Union Unity League Portland, Ore., March 22. workers against foreign-born workers and a policy of self-segregation PLANS, Amid the had TERROR thunderous cheers of 200 workers who timed to monopolize the exploitation of Negro workers for the Negro Representatives Out By bourgeoisie. Thrown Governor crowded into the courtroom here, a verdict of not guilty was The increased activity of the Communist Party is revealing much Pinchot When They Expose Scheme returned by the jury in the case of Fred Walker, young Com- Smash Growing Terror hitherto dormant white chauvinism among mass organizations of work- munist chaged with criminal syndicalism. This is a victory PUSH PLANS FOR ers, and even within our Party. If the whole cause of the entire work- ing class, for the Northwestern workers as the state rested their hopes Against Working w’hite as well as Negro, is not to be injured, our Party must Prepare Hunger March to Ffarrisburgh, April take decisive measures to clear away the confusion about and under- on convicting Walker. The International Labor Defense calls MARCH2B MEETS estimation of the importance of the struggle for Negro rights and to 14 to Demand Immediate Relief for a wider mass support of the workers on the Pacific Coast. Class eliminate white chauvinism not only from our Party ranks but also from Thanks were extended to Defense Attorney Goodman for his among Boston ond Detroit the masses of white workers. courageous fight. the It is a fact, proven by of cases, that the white workers U. Frames thousands Governor Pinchot Puts Up Bill lo Pay • • • Latest to Report S. Worker defeat their own struggles when in conflict with the capitalists, by re- Have the State maining under the spell of chauvinist teachings of these same capitalists PORTLAND, Oregon.—On the second day of the trial of At the same time that the working and standing aloof from or in hostility towards struggle Negro For the Strikebreaking Police to Replace the for Fred Walker and Paul Munter, young workers, charged with is preparing to make 28 Hold Kassay On Criminal rights. class March criminal syndicalism for their Communist activities, the state day of national protest strug- The effort of the Communist Party to enlighten the white workers State a and Coal and Iron Police against lynching and deportations, Syndicalism in mass organizations and in general, and to clarify its own ranks, has, a completed its case and the defense witnesses were prepared to gle bosses are feverishly trying to as noted, encountered much confusion and gross opportunist tendencies. take the stand the next day. the smash the growing unity Negro One is the tendency to view the League of Struggle for Negro Rights HARRISBURG, Pa, March 22.—While The same witnesses used by the of and white workers, foreign From the report com- (L. S. N. R.) as a substitute for or a department of the Party, forfeiting state in rairoading Ben Boloff to the native and widespread plans are being made the state LIBBY SAYS WAR born. In the Sou-h, the vicious pic- the leading role of the Party and really withdrawing it from this field. for penitentiary last month were used ing to Daily Work- ture. “The a Nation,” being the Equally pernicious is the view that the L. S. N. R. has no function with one addition, stool-pigeon Jen- Birth of is hunger march, scheduled to arrive here, the revived on an extensive scale. because—according to this view—white workers who see the need for ON SOVIETS IS nings of the Seattle police depart- er from Akron, Ohio, united action of both white and Negro workers is denied, the program str.te capitol of Pennsylvania, April 14th, ment. The defense did not cross- Throughout the country, the whole- on of it is clear that the Fed- of the L. S. N. R., which is broader than that of the Party, is limited, examine either Jennings or O'Dale sale raids and arrests militant the revolutionary leadership foreign workers being pushed and the work in this field given up for a sectarian pose. unions, under the BEING who is Bacon’s chief as they thoroly bom is eral Government, thru of Trade Unity League and the PREPARED by the bosses’ government agencies. These and other errors have contributed to a failure to make a suf- the Union Communist Party exposed themselves to the workers by its secret service department, foreign white work- ficiently energetic fight against white tendencies in the is exposing the fake maneuvers of Pinchot in con- their own testimony. Native born and is up war chauvinistic Governor Negro workers are being working propaganda that they came to light, particularly in mass organizations and But Pacifist Does Not M. R. Bacon, gave his usual con- ers and measure nection with the coal and iron police. for their activities in organ- and furthering the attack in simultaneously clearing them from the Party. An artificial separation tradictory statements and on cross- framed of the issues on Want Workers to Act ize" the for struggle against against the foreign work- of the two was made, injurious to the carrying out of a complete cam- One which Governor Pinchot ran in the examination admitted that he had masses born system of national hatred paign on all fronts, necessary to the end desired of unity of white and last state election was the coal and iron police. He promised WASHINGTON, March 22.—War is been arrested for bootlegging in 1927. the boss ers through what appears to be and Negro workers both inside and outside the Party against capitalism. dining campaign that when being prepared internationally against s This gave the workers a good idea starvation. one of the worst frame-ups the 1 The workers will these at- In another page of this paper will be found the resolution of the elected he see to it that the the Soviet Union, declared Frederick i of just what type of man the bosses answer would tacks against their struggle for exist- ever manufactured by the Central Committee clarifying the tasks and detailing the steps to correct coal and iron police, for so long J. Libby, executive secretary of the ¦ use to trap militant workers. Despite A’LROAD ence, their demands for unemploy- bosses. present shortcomings. As in all Communist work, ‘‘Negro work” is not TRY R used by the coal operators and iron National Council for the Prevention : the fact of “his being the most valu- ment relief and insurance, by pouring secret to be conceived of as merely recruiting Negro members to the Party, but companies to break strikes and in- of War, a pacifist organization, whose ! able witness ever found in Com- Federal service men have (Ham Fish onto the streets on March 28. North a Hungarian worker, in developing mass struggles for Negrt) rights. timidate the workers, would be done purpose it is to hide the war prep- i munist cases jn 1930) arrested Paul F. FIVE MILITANTS I and South, Negro and white, native Kassay, on the framed up Mass struggles, agaiw-fcf-thferwHtr other-fields, are impossible without -iway with. This was swallowed, pacifism. ; i Bacon stil showed lack cf intelligence charge of arations behind the mask of foreign born, they will demon- sabotage concrete issues and partial demands; and likewise make imperative the hook, line and sinker, by the reac- i and could not define revolution, the and of the construction of the After pointing that the strate Saturday against boss ter- navy dirigible inclusion of white as well as Negro workers. tionary labor officials, and, accord- out war: | subject of his study! on “Akron” at the Good- N. J. Workers Facing drive against Union ror and In these struggles, and in those aghinst lynching, for equal rights ingly, they endorsed him. As a re- the Soviet “is Immigration Fascist Called starvation. year-Zeppelin Co. plant, Akron, Ohio. (in internationally directed,’’ Libby goes In every city and town preparations and the Southern "black belt”) for confiscation of the landlords’ land Death Sentence sult of that and other fake prom- The state hurried through things The secret service agents are al- Negro on to say. “IfFrance or a Tory gov- are on foot to make March 28 a day ready for the tenants and croppers and for self-determination, the Com- ises used in the election campaign and left out much of the lies about beginning to cook up all sorts task is to PATERSON, ernment in Great were j of militant struggle and protest. of munist show the white workers and farmers that their own March 22.—With the Pinchot carried the coal districts, Britain to | Party members they used "evidence.” This is part of the against that before, struggles cannot be won unless they join in supporting the struggle for death Saturday night of Max Urban, both the anthracite and the bitumin- take action Russia even to | In Detroit, the International Labor Fish Committee campaign to Jail and declaring war, the ground Negro rights, unless they defend Negro equality on the trade union Held, boss of the silk mill at 36 Madison ous, by an overwhelming majority. has been ¦ (CONTINUED ON DACE THREE) Defense has arranged two mass deport foreign born workers. It Is a and prepared for calling a ‘holy’ war.” for March 28, and rally to the L. S. N. R. and give united class solidarity to the demand Ave., as a result of blows received Pinchot, faithful agent of the it j meetings Saturday, counter-attack by the capitalists to Sunday, meetings for Negro rights. on February 18, the police are try- j bosses, could see in view of the He absolves the Labor Party and ! March 29. These the nation-wide demonstrations on The Central Committee of our Party has outlined all organizational ing to railroad five militant workers sharpening crisis and the worsened the American government from their will also commemorate the heroic March 28, called by the League of steps to carry through a correct policy. And not the least of these is to death. conditions of the workers that strikes foremost shade in preparing this war. j SPECIAL ISSUE OF Paris Communards of 1871. j Struggle for Negro Rights, the Com- to aid in the paper, Gross Misheff, editor of the Bui- | establishment of the L. S. N. R. the "Liberator,” as On February 18 while the workers will take place in other industries Instead of admitting that Hoover, j i mittee for the Protection of Foreign an organ of and as well, garian Communist paper, and Born, mass circulation and influence among both white Negro of this mill were on strike and were and it would be necessary to Stimson and the other capitalist lead- j Steve and the International Labor masses. LIBERATOR ON 28th Cojeron, section organizer of the against picketing the mill, the boss's wife, extend the use of a police force with ers are driving to war he throws the ; Defense to protest the perse- power Communist Party, who beaten cution Every revolutionary worker, every worker conscious of his class, will Mrs. Urban, engaged herself In an more and on a large field. whole blame on Matthew Woll of the 1 were of Negro and foreign born by the police and jailed by the bosses join with the members of the Communist Party in execution of the tasks altercation with Mrs. Helen Gershon- Sc h thought he could kill two birds Civic Federation and Ham Fish. “The : : workers and against all proposed laws by atrocity Orders Must be Rushed for 60 days because they lead a dem- fingerprinting, laid down the Central Committee of the Communist Party, in daily owitz, a strike leader. Urban was with one stone. He introduced a stories, on which war against J for deportation, etc. fight against bourgeois bill Germany onstration against a Jim Crow res- the barbarism inflicted upon the Negro masses, standing nearby and was attacked by in the legislature providing for was fought, have been dup- ! in At Once The story peddled by the capitalist struggle for the taurant, will be speakers at both in mass Negro rights—a necessary and integral part of the some other men, non-strikers, who setting up of an industrial police. licated against Russia, at times with j newspapers is that Kassay “con- struggle of the This meetings. These two comrades were working class as a whole for the overthrowal of capitalist came up while the altercation was industrial police would be forged documents. A war mind has | NEW YORK.—The Liberator, organ fessed” that he sabotaged the build- class rule. extended to railroaded ts> jail because of their on. Urban had many enemies among many more industries been created and is being fostered by j of the Negro and white masses in the ing of the dirigible because he did and at the same organized and highly fight lor Negro rights, just as August the bootleggers and gangsters with time would appa- financed prop- ] j struggle for Negro rights, will have not want to see it go up. rently do away aganda Yokinen has been ordered deported which .element he carried on a con- with the notorious both in our country and j another issue out in time for the At the first opportunity given him name of the Coal and abroad,” says. because at the mass trial in New siderable traffic. Iron Police. he | March 28th demonstrations against to make any public expression, Kas- This police would be paid by But in concluding York at which he was expelled from the he asks faith in j deportations and lynchings. say declared that the whole affair JAKIRA MEMORIAL Urban had been confined to the state and it would take peace pacts, particularly the Communist Party for white j | MEETING AT the burden the Kellogg | This issue should be given a wide was a frame-up; that all the stories hospital since the attack. The police off of the coal companies of keeping Pact, j chauvinism, he repudiated his chauv- which Stimson used in trying circulation among the masses com- j ! peddled about him are lies, concocted made no attempt to find out who had up a special police force. to a war inistic tendencies and pledged solidar- start against the Soviet ing out on the streets on March 28. purely by the government dicks be- WORKERS TODAY •(truck him down, but immediately ar- Wishing to whitewash himself in Union. The pacifists, ity with the Negro masses and to j CENTER AT 1 while admitting Orders should be sent in immediately cause he is a militant foreign-born rested the most militant of the view of the promise that he war is growing nearer, fight for Negro rights. made try to keep to tl)e Liberator office, 799 Broadway, i worker and a reader of radical liter- NEW YORK.—A memorial meet- strikers. The International Labor during the election campaign, Pin- back the revolutionary These evening and all day Sunday a steady fighting spirit room 338, New York Til meetings will welcome backl ! ature. ing Defense took up their defense. The chot brought into City. orders for Comrade Abram Jakira will stream of his comrades and revolu- play the dema- of the working class, the only force must on bond be aoccompaiied by cash, at the Kassay is now in jail on $25,000 bail be held at one o’clock today in the tionary w’orkers have viewed the workers were released sl*loo gogic use of a conference which was able to stop war by an of (CONTINUED ON overthrow rate of 2 cents per copy on hundle PAGE THREE I on the charge of criminal syndical- Workers’ Center. body and paid their last honors to each. to discuss the two bills. This con- capitalism, and who if breaks out war orders of 35 and more. The paper ism. When asked by newspaper Comrade Jakira, assistant secret- this self-sacrificing revolutionist. Following Urban's death Saturday ference was called for Friday, March can end the system which creates re- 20, at will go to press on Wednesday night porters about the charge against him ary Labor De- Following the memorial meeting, night, 3:30 p. m. in the governor’s it. of the International the police at once rearrested and be in th emails early Thursday he said, "It a dirty at which Foster, office. He had invited to this con- CIGAR STRIKERS is frame-up.” He fense and long active in the work- Tratchenberg, Mau- the strike leaders and are holding morning, in time to reach most of ; said that he knew government ing-class movement and in the Com- rer and Amtcr will speak, there will ference some misleaders of the A. OKGA N1 Z E TO ENI) the them without bail “for further in- the districts. You must have the had a stool-pigeon by munist Party of which he was one be a funeral march from the Cen- F. of L. and the coal operators, the name of vestigation.” Those arrested are STARVATION; DEMAND Liberator for the March 28 “Petro” founders, ter at 12th demon- CALL MASS PICKET working at the bench next of the died last Friday af- 35 East Street to 59th Helen Gershonowitz, Benjamin Lieb, (CONTINUED 0> I>(GZ THREE! RELIEF! strations. Rush your order in now. to him. The federal authorities ter many months of illness, suffer- Street. Albert Katzhuk, Louis Harris and ad- mit that Petro was in their employ. ing from a cancer in the throat. The International Red Aid, ad- Louis Bart. The likelihood that De Luxe Cigar Factory is "Petro” suggested that Kassay The body lies in state on the sec- vised by cable of the death of Com- they will be charged with man- ( do This Morning j some sabotage and that the federal nd floor of the Workers Center, rade Jakira, has sent the following slaughter and murder in the first authorities would pay his wife $3,00Q, - cable to the Payrolls . here all Saturday afternoon and 1.L.D.: degree, involving the death sentence, Cut 21 Pc: Cent In Jan NEW YORK,—The striking cigar There are many '‘lntel-national Red Aid feels as part of the efforts of the bosses workers of tlie Blum De Luxe Cigar other obscure deeply angles to the case about the loss of brave fighter Jak- to terrorize and punish all militant Factory at 40 East End Ave stage which the will Daily Worker does not ira. Trusts thousand workers will workers and rob the working class of Mass a mass picketing before the ‘actory have clear re- 10RRIS WHITE IN fill his place.” Wage Cut Drive by Bosses ! lor,s - An investigation is being / today at l made its best tightens. 7 o'clock. Picketing will so Immediately following the news of continue j that all the facts can be presented The International Labor Defense is NEW YORK, March 22.—Prelimin- 1931. Cuts in January were three kept up in spite of throughout the day until 3 to Jakira’s death, the International the decline in o clock, j the readers of the Daily Worker, handling the case and calls upon the ary estimates by the Standard Corp- times as numerous in manufacturing earnings? The crisis of 1921 and will be repeated everv MASS DISMISSAL Labor Defense issued to all districts left real day iAccording to the Akron-Times Press workers to register mass protests oration of Chicago that of as during any quarter of 1930. The wages higher until the boss is forced to settle and sub-districts of the organization incomes than ever. During the | Kassay is reported to have said: “I against this frame-up as the most ef- u^ge-earners in all but the stead- number of wage-cuts said to have present panic prices the strike on the demands of the NEW YORK. —ln his first open as well as to the International Red retail food have «as trying to do something to help fective way of forcing the bosses iest lines would be cut an average been reported in manufacturing fol- up strikers. j attempt to throw the 165 workers of Aid the following statement: to held rather better than wage ! and now everything has sen free these of one-third during lows: rates. A The strike resulted in the failure 1 turned the White Luggage Co., Inc., into "Comrade Abram Jakira, assistant workers. 1930 have not committee of the U. S. ! against me. It is a frame-up.” been completely Senate recently reported of the boss to live up to the agree- the streets and then reorganize the secretary of the International Labor confirmed, but an 1930first quart., aver, monthly. 25 that the Many average ” ” ment which was other rumors are being print- and cut unweighted for 24 major in- ” "stability” of retail food prices made following the shop with reduced forces Defense is now dead. His loss to the second 60 was J ed in capitalist press ” ” ” successful strike of the to make wages, Morris White, the boss, had dustries compiled by the Standard due to the activities of certain large a short time ago. the I.L.D. and to the revolutionary move- third no whole thing appear as a Statistics ” protest against deep to the HOLD MEET THIS Co. shows for January a ” ” food corporations; yet a resolution In this breach of con- laid letters sent workers telling ment is a great one. His every con- fourth ioo plot by 12-month decrease of per offered by tract a shop committee the Communists, while it is them to call for their tools. This is cern even while he was sick has 13.9 cent 1931 January 335 socialist representatives In was elected in the number and 21.3 the and instructed by to very clear from the facts printed even tantamount to dismissal and is the been for the growth and strengthen- employed, a Pennsylvania House asking an the workers call per cent in aggregate pay- Railroad transportation is not in- investigation on by tlie capitalist press that the culmination of a whole series of ma- ing of the class struggle. The spread- A.M., LEONARD ST. decline of food prices, was pas- the boss. so- rolls. showing cluded in the above figures. Official sed only promised rted sabotage, if any, was the plan neuvers to reorganize the shop. ing of the struggle throughout the For the industries on the third trial. The boss to see the com- NEW YORK.—A large number of the sharpest declines, the drop in statistics of the Interstate Commerce According to mittee at 4 o’clock on of “Petro,” the agent of the L S. This attack comes after four world gave him courage while he was the Standard Statis- Friday. When unemployed workers disgusted aggregate payrolls as Commission show that during 1930 Co., Secret Service, in an endeavor to months of unemployment for the on his death bed, and he hoped very with was follows: tics wholesale prices have de- the committee appeared, they were fakery of party dem- the number of wage-earners of Class clined 17 per by frame up other workers. workers when the bosses thought the much to be able to return to work. the the socialist Textiles 26.7 per cent cent, but no compar- met the boss together with a ser- on Square Satur- I railroads dropped by 196 000, from able in geant and two cops. The capitalist press throughout men were sufficiently starved and He gave his life to the revolutionary onstration Union Iron and Steel 35.6 per cent retail prices has the Unem- 1 438,000 to 1,242.208, or 14 per cent. occurred.reductionRetail workers entire would not struggle. The policy of movement. day lollowed the powntown Lumber 39.7 per cent food prices have The seeing the cops re- country has already picked up ployed Council a march to 27 But payrolls fell 19 per cent, due down 13 per fused this apparent the right wing officials of the Suit His memory and a tribute to his in E. Leather 29.0 per cent come cent, clothing 5.1 to negotiate. The boss then frame-up in a drive largely to the decrease in the amount per cent, Case, Bag and Portfolio Makers Un- services must be at every Fourth St., where a militant meeting Stone, clay 30.6 per rents only 3.5 per cent, and called in ten of the militant workers against the Communist Party and in raised cent of overtime and in the ion. Local 22, is that of sympathy meeting was held, the “socialist” fakers ex- Autos, car rate paid for sue. and light 2.1 per cent. The im- who led the previous strike and told Communists. within the next few weeks, building .... 37.7 per cent the overtime work. At the same time, portant miscellaneous of hem?, them before cops with Morris White’s reorganization especially at the March 28 meetings. posed and a real strug- | Miscellaneous .. 30.8 per eent group the that they were furthering their war preparations. gle unemployment ! nranuf. the number of executive official and in retail expenditure, schemes, with the elimination of left His great devotion to our cause must for relief and in- Bituminous coalmining, 27.7 per cent which includes Communists and were fired. The The Akron frame-up is part of the staff assistants was reduced by 5 stieet-car fares, wing workers fitjnig in with their bn hailed as an example, and a call surance explained to the workers. Metal mining 40.7 per cent motion picture ad- workers then decided unanimously to as to demand the execution of all per cent; but the average monthly missions, go on plans. Their action in overthrowing made on all workers and especially Many joined the Council. newspapers, medical fees, strike The New York “Mirror” goes so far Standard Statistics points out that salary of the remainder rose from medicine, the militant shop committee and to all I.L.D. functionaries to make The Council will a hospital care, laundry, bar- Following the mass picketing, in war to speed hold meeting the "philosophy of high wages” is $473 in January to propaganda started up putting up a former shop chairman recruiting $483 in Decem- ber service, toilet articles, telephone which all workers are more than good his loss, today at 10.30 a. m. In front of the not standing tire very well. urged to co- war preparations by the War Policies the way for strain ber. 1030. rates and tobacco, actually costs .1 -perate, prepared this wholesale I ninny hundreds of workers into mem- ty's fake employment agency at 59 there will be a meeting at Commission, headed by Secretary of j begin slashing " dismissal Business men did not Have ’real wages"—tlie amount of j pe cent the bership. Leonard SL wages more on average than Hungarian Home, at 350 E: ¦ | War Hurley. which has right and left, however, until goods rather than money received— j a year agv Just concluded nisi stnrf its hearings in Waslungtoa. 1