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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
DEMAND J0pLESS
LEADERS RELEASE
Mass Meet Plans May
Day Demonstration

| SEVERAL LlOuSdllQ WOfkeIS itill!illCH
Central Opera House yesterday in a
mass demonstration to demand the
release of the unemployed delega-
ton, sentenced to three years I'M
prisonment by the boss-controlled
Tammany court. Tremendous en-
thusiasm greeted the call for wide
mobilization for a mass political
strike on May Day to demand the
freedom of Foster, Minor, Amter,
Raymond and Lesten, and to push
the fight for "Work or Wages"
The meeting was opened by Sam
Nessin, chairman, and was held I'M
der the auspices Of the Communist
Party, Trade Union Unity League
and International Labor Defense.
When William Shifrin, recently
acquitted on the charge of killing
company thug, was introduced to
the assembled workers he was
given an enthusiastic ovation.
"The workers have to fight for
the liberation of their delegation"
said Fred Beal, one of the Casio
MIA defendants, who spoke at the
meeting. Only the organization
and mass demand of the workers
will free our leaders. This must
be a fight for their release and
against unemployment and capital
ism, which breeds it.
"Do not have any illusions about
the boss judges in Gastonia. They
are planning to Jail the seven of us
but they want to bury US in prison
without at the same time arousinG
the working class. This we will
not let them do. May Day will be
a tremendous demonstration for the
release of all class-war prisoners
and for the slogans Of the Commu-
mist Party"
"The New York ruling class has
put in prison the spokesman of the
working class-the spokesman Of
the Communist Party and of the
100000 unemployed in this coun-
try" said ]. Louis Engdahl of the
International Labor Defense. "0nly
mass mobilization of the working
class will free them"
c. Hope, Negro member of the
Labor Jury, said that Whalen and
his cossacks were guilty of the
crime of beating the unemployed,
but the jobless leaders were sent
to jail This is blow against ali
workers."
Pat Devine, secretary of the Ma
tional Bureau of the Councils Of
Unemployed, called on a wide Or
ganization of the unemployed for
the July 4 Convention in Chicago
as an answer to the falling of the
leaders of the unemployed move
ment. "May Day will show that
the workers are not cowed by the
arrest of their leaders; they will
carry on the fight against unem-
ployment and for Work or Wages
with more fire, demanding the re-
lease of their leaders"
Herbert Benjamin, representative
of the District Committee of the
Communist Party, stressed mobiliza-
ton among the workers in the shops
for May Day. He pointed out the
victory won by the workers in the
fight for Union Square, despite the
unity Of social-fasciIs, the Love
stone renegades and all the enemies
of the working class with the cos
sack, Whalen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

WARREN, Ohio, April o.
Chances to get work are rotten"
in Warren, important steel town of
the Mahoning Valley, any worker
down in the ugly working class dis
tricts will tell you. LUCKY if l
get in two or three days a week."
says one steel worker, while others
look admiringly at him. They
haven't had work for weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Whalen to Quit at Bosses Blowout

which resulted in the falling of Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter and Raymond for
three years, and Lesten for 80 days.
Who will replace Whalen as head
slugger of the working class has
not been announced. Whalen's res
ignation does not change matters a
great deal for the workers in New
York. The bosses, together with
their Tammany grafters, will pick
out another enemy of the workers
to direct the 10000 police in their
attacks on workers meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Hoover Issues Hurry
Call for Morgan Man
Morrow as Senator

WASHINGTON, April 22.-When
Dwight W. Morrow, of the firm of
Morgan & Co., returns from the
arms race in London he will i'm
mediately go to the senate as SEN
ator from New Jersey. Morrow is
one of the leading spokesman Of
Wall Street and with the growing
crisis Hoover sent out hurry-up
call for this Wall Street boss to
come to Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

senate, with indications that as a
vote-catching measure he will be re-
jected, In spite of this, Hoover per-
sists in his nomination. Hoover is
being advised to withdraw the yell
low-dog contract judge and put in
mis- place one equally as vicious, but
whose record can be more success
fully hid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Vote-C atchers Reject YelIow-Dog Parker

WASHINGTON, April 22.-The
senators on the senate judiciary
committee, facing elections in No
vember, rejected Hoover's nomina-
ton of the yellow-dog contract
Judge Parker, enemy of Negro and
white workers, for the supreme
court yesterday by vote of 10 to 6.
The matter now comes before the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Religious Dopester Protects Murderer

The Right Rev. James Matthew
Maxon, Episcopal bishop coadjutor
of Tennessee who on more than one
occasion has spouted Shiny filth
against the Soviet Union, under the
guise of religion, arrived in New
York yesterday to save his son from
jail on murder charge. Young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
CAR STRIKERS
STICK
Vote For Wage Rise.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, April o.
BY vote Of 1919 to 112 the street
car strikers are standing pat on
their demand for scent increase
on oman cars and a lucent boost
for Imam car operators on the
Pittsburgh Railways Co. The in
creases would mean 3 cents an hour
on the larger cars and 90 cents on
the smaller. They are also seek
ing six days work with seven days
Jay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

Maxon, booze-hound, brutally
murdered an aged printer when he
attempted to stop the young para
site who had been nutured on the
best brand of religious opium from
attacking a woman in her bed.
Maxon's excuse is that he partooll
to much Of liquor instead of his
usual diet of religious opium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations

Comrades who Can House Delegates
To the Marine Workers League
Convention April 26-S so write or tele-
phone immediately. to George Mink,
i4O Broad St, Whitehall 747S. Give
number of how many you can take
care of and how many nights.
Nat Turner LID. Anti-Lyneh Meet.
Wednesday, April %, 1856 Lenox
Ave. Comrades must report in eve
nings before for leaflett distribution
Mass Meeting. schools and May /.
Wednesday. 1872 Boston Rd., Bronx,
auspices Workers Club. No. and
Cloakmakers, No, j.
ProIetnriam Festival and Play.
Given by Proletbuehne, SATURDAY,
April 20. at Labor Temple, 243 Z. saith
ST Tickets IS cents, in advance so
cents at "Arbeiter' Office, 26 Union
Suare.
Gastonia LID.
Wednesday, $50 p. m, lli9 Broad
way.
vetcherinka and Concert.
OF Council s. Saturday, 1622 Bath
gate Ave.
Drug Clerks Union.
Thursday, l25 v. 45th st
brownsville Workers School.
ABC of Communism Class and Eng
lish will be held Thursday instead
Of Wednesday.
w.I.R. Camp.
Parents who had children there,
meeting tonight at 10 =. nth St
wI.R. City Membership Meet
Thursday. 70 E, 18th st.
Building and Construction T.U.uL.
Ball.
Saturday, 2s Union So, p. M SOC
Downtown Workers Club.
Membership meeting. Friday. 9 >,
m 1874 e. 18th st. Speaker on May
Day.
womens Council Lecture.
Thursday, s p. m, 26 Union 81.
Mark off on Anarchism. Socialism,
Communism. rs cents, proceeds for
Workers School Campaign
Eurriers Councn Is.
Tonight, $50, 727 bllerton Ave:
Bronx, Louis A. Baum on Origin OF
May Day.
De Leon Lecture.
Prospect Workers club $40 West
chester Ave, Bronx, Friday. April p.
$50 D. M Comrade De Leon viii
| lecture on "The A. F. of L. and the
| Trade Union Unity League" All
workers should attend.
II
Worker School Benefit.
| Grand concert and dance given by
| Unity Cooperative, 1900 18th Ave, Sun
day, April ~, at p. M. for the hen"-
fit of the Workers School. Admis-
| sion rs cents.
Women Council Meet.
! The central body delegates of the
! United Council of Working Class
! women. and the chairman of the May
Dav Committee of the local council
will meet on Friday night. April 25
n the Workers Center. 26 Union So
at $50 p. m. sharp.
Mnrkcff Lecture.
The United Council of Working
Glass Women will haze lecture with
Comrade Markoff. on the topic. So
cialism, Anarchism. Communism. on
Thursday night. April "a, at the
Workers Center, 90 Union ST.. at s
u. m. All the proceeds to the Workers
school drive. for funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

The May 6 dinner planned for
Whalen by the leading Wall Street
bankers and exploiters of the Amer
lean workers is to be testimonial
to the chief slugger of the work
ers at the close of his career as
head cossack of New York City,
according to latest announcements.
Whalen will officially resign on
May I, two months after he led
the attack on the mass unemployed
demonstration in Union Square,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

GRAFTON. Tie games were planned
to take place in South Wales, York
shire, Tyneside and Glasgow.
Monster demonstrations through
out the country, protesting against
this outrageous act of the social
fascist government, are arranged by
the British Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Communist Activities

Sec. 2 Daily Worker Campaign Dance
Saturday, May 10, &c Union Sd,
jazz band, international dance music.
Il
Special German Fraction Meeting.
OF all Germans speaking comrades
in District =, called by c. c.. Friday,
April 25, at $50 p. m. &c Union So,
9Th floor. Reports of Buro and C. c.
Init 81, section ..
This week on Wednesday, instead
of Tuesday.
Section z.
Agitprop and literature agents,
Thursday, $50 p. m, 1876 18th St
District rep. will be present.
Unit 3, Section 4.
Tonight, u. M, 1886 Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
MEMBERSHIP MEET OF WIR.

A membership meeting of the
Workers International Relief in this
city will take place this Thursday
April Gath, at 10S East 14th St.
The Executive Committee will
present a report on the growth of
the organization. Recommendations
and plans for the Children's Camp
for this summer will be taken up,
as we'll as questions Of May First.
the organization of branches, the
opening of new schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Macdonald Bars U.S.S.R. Football Team

LONDON, April 22.-The social
fascist labor" government of Eng
land has refused to grant visas to
Soviet workers football team.
Members of the team applied for
visas to go to England to take
part in games which were arranged
by the British Workers Sport Fed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Send-Off for Delegates
to M. w. L. Convention

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April %.
"A house-warming and send-off
to the delegates from the port of
Philadelphia to the Marine Work.
ers' National Convention in New
York will be given in the headquar-
ters Of the Marine Workers League,
III Walnut ST., Friday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
MAY FIRST MOBILIZATION.

The significance of May l, 1880,
will be discussed at the Downtown
Workers Club meeting, Friday, at
their headquarters, 1874 East 7th st.
Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

Our own age. the bourgeois age.
IL distinguished BY thts-thnt u
has sfmp claas antngoaixms
Move and mOrr. nOctety IL SPLITTING
M into tive great hostile camps.
into two great and directly contra
ps'sed classes, bOurgeOisie aud pro.
letarints-Marx,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
RESCUED BY WORKERS

BURLINGTON, N. C. - Lucien
Barnes, Negro worker, who was bur-
led under several tons of coal he
was unloading from a car, was res
cued by fellow workers and may live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
REFORMISTS AID BOSSES.

LANCASHIRE, England.--Local
labor takers are holding back strike
action against the recent introduce
ton Of the 4-loom system, effecting
about 200 artificial silk weavers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

Tell the Advertiser--"I Saw
Your Ad in The Daily Worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

The United Council of Working
Glass Women will haze lecture with
Comrade Markoff. on the topic. So
cialism, Anarchism. Communism. on
Thursday night. April "a. at the
Workers Center. 90 Union ST., at s
~ m. All the proceeds to the Workers
School drive. for funds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
- AOO4 Lands

G1NCLAIR LEWIS who for some strange reason
- received the Nobel prize for literature went to
stockholm and did exactly what those who have read
his books expected him to do he made fun of his own
country, It's people and its tendencies.
1t may be possible to do cheaper trick than this,
but if SO. one not imagine it.
1tS all right Tor Americans to lambaste each other
here at home but he who goes to foreign land to do
1t writes himself down as hopelessly shoddy.
Our people go in for this cheap treason more than
the people of any other country and to the sickenng
outbursts OF American tourists is much of the
tempt which Europe has for us.
Europeans coming here, are silent respecting the
nperfections of their fellow countrymen we ad-
mire them for it.
L strange to his Swedish hearers, for in America
they long have seen the land of promise.
Here their people have come in multitudes and
reached a success which to the land of their birth
seemed little short of fabulous
They have seen their penness immigrants attain
eminence in finance. in the arts and in politics.
They have seen those who left Sweden in the steer
age climb to nlustrious stations and to them this
Sardonic writer must have seemed one cursed with
liver complaint, rather than gifted with genius.
4 think of Lewis and his biting sketches of the
n lives of common people, think of another
who took the same subjects and presented them to
the world as quaint and lovable.
We think Of James Whitcomb Riley.
Riley found lasting charm in the 'Raggedy Man .
the town band the speln school, the country doctor
the small store. the small talk OF the countryside the
quaint customs and prejudices of everyday life but
In all these Lewis found only irritation and oense.
We wish Lewis given sufficient logic to remain
away from the land which is so unworthy of him; we
wish he might arrange to remain in Sweden
immigrant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Protecting Authors


With so many voices clamoring to congress for
relief this winter it is hard for writer's whose con-
clifton is chronic rather than spectacular, to make
their plant heard.
They have complaint, nevertheless, and just
one, against the copyright law. Congress need take
only little time to correct that law.
The Vestal copyright bill, now on the house CAL
endar would give an automatic copyright to an
author upon completion of his work, without wait
ing for its publication
1t would permit Invisible copyright; that is, it
would permit an author to sell magazine, book the
atrca and motion picture rights separately At pres
ent only one person can hold copyright, and fire.
quently this is not the author.
In practice. an author attempts now to sell his
rights separately but the law puts many difficulties
IN his path.
Finally the vestal bill would enable American
authors to secure copyright throughout all countries
of the world, a privilege they now enjoy only by
having their works printed in London and even this
roundabout method of protection may be withdrawn.
/ The Vestal bill has been considered for years.
There is serious opposition to it. There is rea
why authors should not be granted speedily the
protection which is the right creators, right
stronger than that of the holders OF property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Selling Alfonso Short

If we are to believe the news dispatches from
Spain, the revolution there is all washed UP. and
Alfonso is lolng on his throne with nary totter.
We doubt that.
These Spanish revolts are repeaters. They arrive
with surprising frequency. Each develops more
strength than the last Unless the law of averages
fas some of these days Spanish: revolution is going
to succeed.
If the Spanish rulers wise enough to take
a few pounds of the backs of the people, probably
there would not be another revolt But rulers not
made that way Instead they go on making
'dtons worse.
The Spanish dictatorship is a medieval model,
-four headed thing OF monarchy, church, army and
landed arstocracy. It's survival depended upon
the isolation Of Spain from the modern world. That
Isolation is breaking down rapidly.
Now its survival depends almost entirely upon the
army crushing by force republican movement which
.grows by contact with the outside world. But
the loyalty Of the army Is cracking. This week the
dictatorship had to bring in the foreign legion to
defend it.
With a little more patience and little better
planning this revolution might have succeeded Which
nfans that it may not be long before the hfy boys
gin to sell Alfonso shortA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Uniform Air Laws

The commerce departments recent conference in
Washington on uniform aeronautical laws had one
very brigh spect. 1t did not let aviation enthusiasm
run away with its common sense.
The conference was called as a school for state
delegates; school to impress upon them the need
for introducing into their state Legislatures air laws
in conformity with federal regulations.
Among the delegates from thirtytwo states attend
ing there was virtual unanmity of opinion that uni
form laws are necessary to insure the smooth progress
Of aviation But there was q marked difference Of
opinion in the manner Of arriving at uniformity.
Attorneys verGed in constitutional law threw
doubt the legality of state laws covering sub
iect already covered by federal laws The arguments
resulted in question being planted in the minds of
the delegates-a question that will insure complete
study of state and federal constitutions aid of the
needs of aviation before further state legislation is
proposed.
BY study before acting, costly mistakes will be
avoided. It was healthy conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Effect on Weather

NNE of the great aims OF modern
" exploration, according to DR..
Bowman, is to amass data in the
polar regions which will facilitate
the forecasting of weather, oceanic
conditions, and the like.
In ever-increaSing degree the
polar explorer is besought by sci
ence to obtain exact records in
increasing number in high lati-
tudes." he said. LESS attention
was paid to this feature because
the dynamics of the atmosphere
were until recently so little known,
1.-THE science of meteorology is a
quite recent development. Weather
probabilities were issued by Able
at Cincinnati for the first time in
1869, and the first official weather
forecasts were those of November
and December, 1870.
The word probabilities was dis
placed by indications in 1876, and
the term forecast was adopted iii
April, 1889, only forty-one years ago.
THE part that the polar regions
had to play in the terrestrial wind
system only was limited at by the
earliest observations, and theory
took little account of the influence
of great shifts of air from out of
the polar regions to lower ATTITUDES.
DR.. Bowman believes that out OF
studies of this nature in the near
future will come information Of
great value to the whole world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
The Only Way

< Unless the people of this city are ready
10 mortgage themselves for all time they
must own the city transportation system.
Private ownership has demonstrated its
failure. After years of generous treatment,
high finance and political intrigue, the street
car system is in the hands of receiver.
Those who bought its bonds and stock are
looking for more than Christmas present
from the people
The proponents Of the insult plan say
that the lines are worn out, that the cars are
almost useless, that it will require millions
to put the system into running order.
These proponents declare that if the
system is sold by receiver, it will not bring
enough to pay anything on so-called junior
securities.
Yet they have the ternerity to ask the
people to pay dividends and interest on a
value which they admit no longer exists.
It is fortunate that at present the city
government is not lined up for every cor
.poration scheme that is proposed. The adj
ADMINISTRATION has not joined the lobby for
the plan to make people pay those who lost
their money by trusting to the private opera
lion of street car lines.
The one alternative to private failure is
public ownership and efficiency.
There is no difficulty in framing law
which would protect the operation of these
lines from partisan political control. Such
a law was framed for the management of
the gas company.
There is no certainty that street cars
will be the system of city transportation for
a very much longer period. Everything is
being changed by new inventions.
George Marott, veteran merchant, be-
leves that the present system is even now
obsolete and that bus lines on broad streets
should replace the tracks and the trolley.
The fact that the company does operate
bus lines in competition with it's own cars
suggests that he is right and that if the city
is to grow to million population, the tracks
must go.
His plan includes public ownership and
nonpolitical operation.
Whatever happens to the lines, the time
is here when public ownership should be &C
complished.
The threat of interested bankers that no
investor would put his money into city
owned lines sounds hollow when the fate of
investors in the private lines is considered.
The one real solution of the problem is
public ownership now, not at the end of an
indefinite period when the city will be called
upon to pay for values which do not exist.
Transportation is too important to be
trusted to the hands of private interests.
The real value is the right to use the streets
and the ability of patrons to pay fares. The
city owns the streets. The people will pay
for service. They ought not to be forced to
pay for dead horses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
He Likes Work

II ONG'S refusal to resign the
IL governorship and take his
seat in the senate, as he easily
could, and as most people thought
he would, has made a profound i'm
preston.
Evidently the man is interested In
something besides climbing from
one position to another.
He says that he intends to serve
out his term as Governor because he
wants to complete the program of
expansion and improvement which
he has mapped out, and for which
he considers himself responsible
He says that he can do Louisiana
more good by staying on the job
as chief executive than by running
off to washington.
The surprise of the thing Is win
ming a deal of favor. Most poll
ticians would have been quick to
seize such an excellent excuse fol
sidestepping the hard work.
Not Huey P. Long. Work is his
middle name. He not only likes it
but believes in it. He would be
first to tell you that work. and
work alone, got him where he is;
that speaking acquaintance with
thousands upon thousands of voters
explains his political power! And
that tramping the highways and
byways of the state in tireless eff
fort to succeed in business explains
that speaking acquaintance.