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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
A Prophet Without Honor

81 convinced have passed the
the U. Chamber of May
crisis And the which his speech
ported that while Hoover talking stocs declined violently"
to IS points
eve attained recovery
of the N Y Times of May and the back
forth 2O stock issues down $1237671 last
month most numerous recorded for April"
eve succeeded maintaining confidence said
Thursday selling market
before Friday the of Saturday morning
dumping history the Exchange
There Continuously unemployment said Hoover,
with substantial
ducon wages Unfortunately this by statement of Gov
Roosevelt of New York saying that Unemployment has in
decreased the middle of January adding
that Unemployment will increase May rather than decline This,
while hundreds of thousands those remaining work recognize
lie the that there have been reductions
the beginning show
talking what hot air;
he queting the discomfort resent
full that the ladies out 0000000 in three
the capitalists reductions and tariff protection while
100000 unemployed the least relief and
administers policy of bakacks and as to
the unemployed.
working Hoovers prophetic hokum for
will follow the lead of the Communist Party build
ing revolutionary Trade Union Unity League,
the unemployed around its de-
Chicago Convention of july persistent
subscribers and for the Daily Worker the
official of the Communist Party leader OF the working class on
of struggle against capitalist exploitation.
Hoovers les the increased attack
Prepare the
will overthrow capitalism and all its mis-
cry hunger and war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
5000 MARCH IN
San FRANCISCO
(BN Special Wire)

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May s.
Three thousand workers, strikers
and unemployed, attended the May
Day demonstration here at the Civic
Center at l p. m. Speakers assail-
ed Mayer Rolph's lying promises
made IT, the March 6 unerll, loyment
demonstI alton that he would do
something for them.
After the meeting, the demon
stration marched in parade down
Market St., and other streets, pass
ing lnaiy factories.
A. TIE evening meeting in Civic
Auditorium, 600 attended, and 10
new members of the Communist
Party were secured.
The evening mass me ting of the
MAY Day Federation" mixed
body Of socialists and labor takers
with some reneg ldes fror' the Com
munist Party, was failure. This
federation" had refused to accept
the Communist Party program of
str s gle, and the workers would
have nothing to do with it.
May Day is established now in
San Francisco as the revolutionary
day of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
Defend the John Browns of
Today

g. 1859, fighter against chattel
the Negro slaves by Instruction hung
Charestown, Virginia attack the United States
arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
1861 the State Georgia. then armed rebellion against the
the and slavery passed
making punishable by death "ncng to Instruction
Tomorrow that which enacted by the Southern slave
their slaves from breaking their chains will be IN
voked before the capitalist Atlanta Georgia. demand that
Communist H. NJ Powers Joe Carr be sent to
death the electric chair for "ncing Instruction.
The State of through Solicitor General Hudson demands
the death penalty Powers and Carr because these proetarn
boonsts of slavery spoke at meeting of both Negro and
white workers distributed leaflets the of the Communist
Party This the Southern capitalists nctng to Instruction
Meanwhile each
the textile workers Gstona slavery and the Georgia
capitalists invoke the law 1861 the preventing their
slaves from breaking their chains.
Sevenone have passed since John Brown hung for
fighting chate slavery which wiped incident the
capitalist development of Today the Communist Party
fighting slavery Powers with the
Gastona prisoners the historic symbols of the forces of freedom
fully significant John Brown.
Powers and Carr the proearan John today
the American working candeed the whole world proletara
approaching the political their
defend freedom against slavery demand
tie demand that Powers
slave-drvng capitalist
Remember Gastona! Rush to defend Powers and Carr!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
NAY | MEETINGS
IN ANTHRACITE
(By Special Wire)

SCRANTON, Pa, May Meet
ings at Scranton and Wilkes Barre
in the anthracite coal region were
attacked by he police and speakers
arrested.
Over 800 miners at Scranton met
to demonstrate on May Day. in
Scranton Square. When Phil Frank
field was arrested, they followed him
as he was taken away and demanded
his release and right to address
them. He was later released en-
bond.
John Pershing and Dan Singer
Of the National Miners Union were
arrested in Wilkes Barre when
they spoke to 800 gathered in the
Square. They are held for hearing
today.
Indoor meetings were held in Han
over and Luerne.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
CHIAnC BRIDES
more WARL0RD
Prepares War Against
Yen and Feng

Shanghai reports recently show
that Chang Kai-Shek is again
ready to use "silver bullets" which
are partly squeezed from the Chi
nese workers and peasants and part
ly supplied by his American imperi-
alist masters. By bribing, he seeks
to win" over as many northern
war lords for American Imperialism
as he can before actual fighting
starts.
In the meantime, Chang Kai-Shek
is making feverish preparations for
the inevitable war with Yen Hsi-
Shan and Feng Yu-Hsiang. the
agents of Japanese and British i'm
perialism in China.
A Hongkong Chinese newspaper
reports that the imperialist diplo-
matte corp in Peking called spe-
cial meeting April l, discussing the
question of the formation of a new
government by Yen and Feng in
Picking. A certain diplomat (pre-
sumably the Japanese Ambassador
in China strongly supported the
idea of forming new government
in Picking. But on account of the
opposition from the American Am
bassador and another representative
from European country, they de-
cided to postpone the discussion and
wait for further developments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
Get Into Line.
With the Drive.
For The Daily

An organization without a publ
cation is like a man who has lost
his voice. The Communist Party
has advanced in tremendous strides
recently on all fields precisely be-
cause it has used the Daily Worker
to rally great masses of workers to
its program of revolutionary class
struggle.
Continuously, the Communist Par
ty has been called upon to rush to
the defense of workers under at
tack and to drain every resource
of the Daily Worker to send out,
without regard to the fact that they
could not be paid for, hundreds of
thousands, even millions, of Daily
Workers to aid the striking miners,
to defend the Gastonia prisoners, to
help Powers and Carr, to rally great
masses on March s and to mobilize
the workers for May Day.
No worker, recognizing the great
service the Daily Worker has al
ready rendered to the working class,
will remain Indifferent now that the
paper which has been the clarion
voice of Communism in so many
great fights, calls each and every
worker to rally to it's support, to
make it a personal duty to sub
scribe to the Daily, to get subscrip-
tions from his fellow workers, to
take contribution list and go
among his shop-mates and solicit
donations to the fighting Daily, to
build up group of subscribers that
will take the daily in bundles for
factory distribution.
Everywhere the workers are real
ly anxious to learn more of the
Communist Party. Everywhere the
worker who approaches his class
brothers finds a response to the call
of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
DEFEND SOVIET UNION
DAY" ANSWERS FORGERY

The friends of the Soviet Union,
IT'S Fifth Ave-, yesterday joined in
branding the documents made pub
tic by Commissioner Whalen, i'm
plicating the Amtorg Trading Cor
poration with alleged activities Of
the Communist International, as
forgeries, and denounced their pub
LEGATION as part of the international
campaign to injure and foment war
against the Soviet Union.
The statement of the Friends of
the Soviet Union declares:
"The recent holy crusade was a
miserable flop. The Whalen 'docu-
ments' are a new device intended
to delude the masses, but what the
Pope, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Bishop Manning and Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise could not do, Grover
Wbalen will not be able to do.
"The Friends of the Soviet Union,
which is organized for recognition
and defence of the Soviet Union.
calls upon all workers and sympa-
tbizers to reply to Whalen's for
geries by redoubling their efforts
in behalf of the Soviet Union and of
the Five-Y Year Plan. We have set
aside May 81 as Defend the Soviet
Union Day and we call upon all
friends of the u. S. S. R. to cele-
brate the progress of the Five-Year
Plan at our outing at Ulmer Park,
Brooklyn, on that day."
The Friends of the Soviet Union
also announces that it is arrang-
ing the first Five-Year Plan exhi-
bition ever held in this country,
to open some time this month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
LEAVE SICK WAR VETS
Die WITHOUT ANY CARE

That sick and disabled war vet
Grams are left to die because of lack
of medical treatment was the forced
admission made Saturday night by
o. l.. Bodenhamer, national conf
mandor of the American Legion, az
dinner given at the Hotel Astor.
GAS conditions are now" reluc-
family admitted the fascist officer,
"the veteran is lucky to get neces-
sary care within two or three years
of the time that urgent need is
made apparent. Meanwhile, the
disabled veteran has been waiting
as best he could, if he still lives"
Yet the American Legion is one
of the leading organizations work
ing with the governments -.-sinst
the ex-servicemen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

is an acute situation. The
plumbers and truck drivers
have struck, against the wishes
of their A. F. L. leaders, and
are fighting for the five-day
week and for unemployment insur-
ance. Many strikers attended the
May Day meeting called here by the
Communist Party.
There is a general feeling, that
only by united front of the strikers
and the thousands of jobless, can
progress be made.
Struck May 1.
The rank and file members of the
plumbers union, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor,
called strike on May First for the
5-day week and for relief for all
unemployed plumbers. The most
militant of the members know that
their leaders are anxious for them
to go back to work and would sell
them out in a minute, and the rank
and file is determined to fight for
their demands. These plumbers are
from the largest shops in Dayton
and will put up strong fight in
spite of their leaders.
The truck drivers also declared
strike beginning on May First and
intend to stick to their battle
against their bosses.
10 Cents an Hour.
This is in the fair city of Dayton
where the chief of police stated that
everyone is satisfied and the work
ers' conditions are the best in the
country and that no one was going
to come in to tell them any differ
Continued on Page Three.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
.ITAL-IAN-FR
rivalry mounts
Hasten Navy Building;
Others Must Follow

Official admission of a naval
arms race between France and Italy
was made in Paris yesterday. This,
in turn, will intensity the arms
competition between the two leading
imperialist powers, Great Britain
and the United States.
The fascist government has made
plans for laying down 20 new bat
tIeships this year for war purposes.
The first step for the actual build
ing of these ships was made imme
diately after the close Of the Lon
don conference.
At the same time plans were made
public at Toulon last Thursday for
huge French naval maneuvers off
the coast of Algeria in connection
with the French presidents official
visit to that country. These maneu-
vers, which are viewed as an open
demonstration against their Italian
rivals, is scheduled for May 13 and
will be the largest staged in the
Mediterranean in years. A dispatch
to yesterdays New York Herald
Tribune states:
"Another incident stressing what
may be termed Franco Italian naval
rivalry, as given impetus by the
London conference, is the Italian an
nouncement made yesterday of
prompt naval building program
which will increase Rome's smaller
vessels. 1t is certain, however
amicable the French Mediterranean
naval display may be in intent, it
will attract much comment on the
Italian peninsula"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
4 R N { D PRISON
GUARDS ON MAY |
Minor Is III in Jail
Hospital

Double shifts of armed guards
patrolled Welfare Island on May /,
The International Labor Defense, 80
East 18th St., New York City,
learned yesterday. The five leaders
of the March unemployment dem
onstration-William Z Foster, Rob-
ert Minor, Israel Amter, Harry
Raymond and Joseph Lesten arc
confined on this islard, and appar-
emily the authorities feared that
the message of May Day solidarity
would reach the spokesman of the
unemployed, resulting in the guard
being established. Probably the
prison authorities feared the May
Day Parade might turn in that di-
rection.
A decision on the demand to re-
lease the imprisoned workers on bail
while their case is appealed to the
Appellate Division may be given
Monday. Last week Joseph r. Brod-
sky and Robert H. Elder, Interna-
tional Labor Defense attorneys ap-
peared before the Supreme Court
and requested that they be granted
bail pending the appeal. The plea
was " taken under advisement," but
it was limited that the decision would
be handed down shortly after May
l. If the Supreme Court refuses
to allow the prisoners out on bail
they will have to stay on Welfare
Island until the Appellate Division
acts on the appeal.
Attorney Brodsky visited the pri-
soners on the Island yesterday and
told them about the plans being
made to appeal the case.
Minor is still in the prison hospi-
tai and is quite i'll with chronic
appendicitis. Foster, Amter and
Raymond are in their cells most
of the day.
When the imprisoned workers
heard of the successful May Day
parade and demonstrations held in
New York City and other sections
of the country, they expressed their
satisfaction on the militant work
ingclass spirit displayed, which they
view as fitting answer to thei-
failing for leading 10000 workers
on March 6. They point out that
even more workers turned out on
May l, at least 100000 being massed
in and around Union Square. Re-
ports on the huge demonstrations
held in other sections of the coun-
try were received very enthusiast
tically.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

day. If convicted the two workers
will be sent to the electric chair.
While at first many workers did
not understand the seriousness of
the charges against the Communist
organizers, with the day of trial
almost at hand, they now realize
that unless the workers of the coun-
try rally to the defense, they will
be convicted and sentenced to death.
Powers and Carr were arrested
at a mass meeting in Atlanta ar
ranged by the Communist Party
and Young Communist League,
which was attended by Negro and
white workers. They are charged
with "inciting to instruction"
which carries with it the death pen
atty, according to a state law passed
in 1861 and made more deadly in
1866. This law has never been used
up until the present time. They are
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
Today in History of
the Workers

May 5, 1SlS-karl Marx, found
err Of scientific socialism and
leader of First International, born
at Treves, Germany. 1S21--Or-
der issued by authorities of wy
comb, England, for whipping of
all unemployed. 1S71-Rosa Lux
emburg, German Communist lead
er and one of founders of Spar
tacus group, born in Samost, Rus
sian Poland. 1920--Workers of
General Electric Co. at Science
tady, n. Y, struck. 1920--Sacco
and Vanzetti arrested on framed
up murder charge. 1923---Na-
tional =. Conference of Needle
Trades Workers met under aus
pieces. of Trade Union Educational
League in New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
WORKERS WON'T AGREE
ROCKEFELLER is SQUARE

SILVER SPRINGS, Md, May A.
Mother Jones, 100 years old May
Day, is in the grip of her enemies
at last. Surrounded in her feeble
old age by none but the class col
laborationist liberals and A F. L..
leaders, she has been led, according
to reports in the capitalist press, to
send the following telegram to
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.:
"Your good wishes and hopes for
continued long life on my one hun
dredth birthday was a happy sur
prise and among those messages
most appreciated by me. Knowing
all the responsibilities on your
shoulders, it was a human act to
think kindly of me at this time and
your message was the expression
of a Christian heart"
Does 1t Square Things?"
She is also reported as saying,
"Hes damn good sport" and
"this telegram (from Rockefeller)
rather squares things"
Workers who remember the
slaughter by bullets and by burning
to death Of men, women and chill
drep in the Ludlow massacre, and
the strikebreaking by armed force
of the Rockefellers throughout their
career, will not follow the aged for
mer militant in her statement Cif
she is correctly quoted) that few
good wishes squares things" for all
the workers blood that has been
shed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
WHAL-EN FALTERS
on FORGERIES
VOL and Others Aid
Enemies of USSR

Fearful of complete exposure of
his collaboration with Russian white
guardist forgers, Chief Cossack
Whalen, in a letter written Satur-
day to Peter A. Bogdanov. chairman
of the board of directors of the AM
torg Trading Corporation, refused
to permit an examination of the
original forgeries.
Whalen's letter was in reply to
a demand by Bogdanov that he SUBJ
nit his scurrilous and obvious for
geries to public examination.
Bogdanov's letter points out that
the publication of the letters is de.
signed to injure the trade between
the Soviet Union and the United
States.
A statement iss'sed by the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party of the United States of Amer
lea clearly showed the crude forger-
les of all the documents issued bv
Whalen, which he undoubtedly OBJ
tanned from czarist forgers who have
been attempting to peddle the faker-
les in other countries.
Whalen's latest letter says moth
ing about the genuineness of the
documents which he handed to the
capitalist dope sheets, showing that
even his skull may have been pene-
trated with the fact that they are
the baldest forgeries ever to be pub
lished by czarist enemies of the Sow
let Union to stir up war moves
against the Workers Republic.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Repre-
sentatives Fish and Hamilton both
said they would push their resolu-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
Arrest Los Angeles
Defense Organizer

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Frank
Spector, International Labor De-
Tense district organizer, arrested
several days ago, has been taken to
the Imperial Valley where he is
lodged in Jail. The charge is under
the sedition law. No bail has been
set as yet. He was arrested as a
result of the I. L. D. activity in
behalf of the II Imperial Valley
workers who are held in $4,000 bail
each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
ZIONIST FAKERS ASK FUNDS

To aid the imperialist-supported
Zionist movement in Palestine,
campaign has been started in New
York for the collection of $2,500,000.
Funds raised in this drive will be
handled by the Joint Distribution
Committee and its Palestine jewish
Agency, whici works hand in glove
with British Imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
200 MEN RUN INDUSTRY
Banker, Politician, Boast of Czaylsm

Concentration of power over the
living conditions of 100 millions of
people in the hands of less than
200 men was admitted by Senator
Burton X. Wheeler, Democrat, in a
speech before the National Demo
cratic Club booming Gov. Roosevelt
for president on the power issue.
Senator Wheeler quoted banker as
saying:
''In my estimation about so or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

90 large companies in this country,
each controlled by two or three men,
do about 80 per cent through their
various subsidiaries, of the indus
trial business of this country. There
are hundreds of thousands of snail
corporations and individual usiness
men in this country, but taken alto
gether they do only about 20 per
cent of the country's industrial
business" 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
Pershing Speaks May
Day, Gets 80 Days

WILKES-BARRE. Pa, May A.
George Pershing, who was arrested
ut the May Day meeting for speak
ing without a permit, has been sem
fenced to five days in Jail or to pay
a fine of 500. Phil Frankfeld, who
was also arrested, was given a thir-
" days Jail term, or fine of $500.
krankfcld is still in jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

the bosses in this wage cut, and has
fully agreed to it.
Youngstown win be the scene OF
the Metal Workers League National
Convention, aturday, July ID, to
start a great dive for national or
ganization of steel and othe rmetal
workers on an Industrial scale. The
Metal Wo kcrs League he, ngs to
lie Trade Uricr Unity Lea...ts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
CUT WAGES IN STEEL
A.F.NL. Union HELPS Bosses Slash

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May g.
All puddlers and finishing mill crews
were cut rs cents per ton OH First
of May. About $500 men are af-
fected by this latest reduction. The
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin workers, the organi%a-
tion that first betrayed the great
steel strike Of 1919, is a partner with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
SEND GREETINGS TO
POWERS AND CARR

All workers and workingclass
organizations are urged to send
solidarity messages to M. H.
Powers and Joe Carr, now in
Fulton County Jail. The case of
Powers and Carr goes on Tues
day, and they are threatened
with death in the electric chair
for their militant workingclass
activities. Send kilograms to
Powers and Carr, Fulton County
Court House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
KILL 4 IN QUARRY.

UPTON, KY, May AT least
four workers were killed and nearly
a score injured in an explosion in a
rock quarry near here yesterday.
The quarry is owned by the Consoli-
dated Stone Co. Carelessness on
behalf of the bosses caused the
daath Of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
CARR co
TO TRIAL MAY 6;
FACE DEATH
Crime" Is Organizing
Workers and Giving
Out Leaflets
Held Without B a i !
Only Might of Toilers
Will Save Them

ATLANTA, Ca, May 4.-Keen
interest is being displayed by the
Negro and white workers of the
South, especially those in and around
Atlanta, Ga, in the trial of M. H..
Powers and Joe Carr, Communist
organizers, which starts here Tues
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
CLOSE ASIATIC EXPEDITION

MOSCOW, May 4.--The Modern
Graves North Asiatic Expedition for
the American Academy of Natural
Science has discontinued its work in
the Soviet Union for this year, it
was announced today. Unfavorable
climatic conditions caused the step.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
JOBLESS ARE FACTOR In
DAYTON PLUMBER STRIKE;
INSURANCE DEMAND MADE
Plumbers Walk Out May l, Demand Five-Day
Week and Provision for the Unemployed
Truck Drivers Also Out; Many Demonstrate;
Organize for Chicago July Convention

DAYTON, Ohio, May 4.-Every effort is to be made to
organize unemployed in this city around the demand
of work or wages the fveday week and seyenhour day.
The matter is merely of general preparation for the
national unempoy convention in Chcago July 4 There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

south, but also all along the north
ern frontier.
The European Association at Bonn
bay has urged "firmer attitude"
on the British governor, and de-
manded that professions be prohi-
bited.